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Brian Zoubek (left) scored 27 points and pulled down 10rebounds in 30 minutes during hisfirst game action as a Blue Devil Saturday.

Zoubek lights up Cameron during Blue-White scrimmage by

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Brian Zoubek had never seen a game in Cameron Indoor Stadium before stepping out on the court Saturday evening for the annual Blue-White Scrimmage.

The freshman won’t forget his first experience anytime soon.

The 7-footer led all scorers with 27 points, shooting an efficient 11-for-15, and he also added 10 rebounds and three blocks.

“I hadn’t been down here for a game before, so it was unique with the crowd and the atmosphere, but I really loved it,” Zoubek said. “The crowd really helped me out, and I really got pumped up for the game.”

The Haddonfield, NJ. native scored seven points during a 17-2 run that helped the Blue squad come from behind to defeat the SEE BLUE-WHITE ON SW PAGE 5

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Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong said at a Friday hearing that neither he nor any of his assistant district attorneys have interviewed the alleged victim in the lacrosse rape case about the events of the night in question.

In the hour-long pre-trial discovery hearing, defense attorneys requested that Nifong provide statements the woman has made about the case.

Nifong said he met with the alleged victim April 11, but she was “too traumatized” to discuss the incident, adding that he has spoken to her on the phone about other matters.

He said he has left the investigation to police.

“I’ve had conversations with [the alleged victim] about how she’s doing. I’ve had conversations with [the alleged victim] about her seeing her kids,” Nifong said. “I haven’t talked with her about the facts of that night.... We’re not at that stage yet.”

At the hearing he also handed over more than 2,000 pages of documents to the defense teams.

David Evans, Trinity ’O6, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, members of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team,

are charged with raping the alleged victim at a party March 13.

“One of the most interesting things to me of course is Mr. Nifong did admit that he in fact has basically never talked to this woman and has absolutely no idea what her story is, and yet he has chosen to continue to go forward with this case,” Joe Cheshire, an attorney representing Evans, said outside the courtroom. “I believe there’s other stuff coming out about [the alleged victim] at the time that will be interesting.”

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DA Mike Nifong said Friday he has not spoken to the alleged victim in the case about her account ofMarch 13's events.

Newly dedicated Hillel Monks says he or Cheek t mote Jewish life should pull out of race WOJCIECHOWSKA

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A ceremony was held at theFreeman Center Sunday to dedicate the new Rubenstein-Silvers Hillel.

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More than 350 students, parents and staff members attended the dedication of the Rubenstein-Silvers Hillel at the Freeman Center for Jewish Life Sunday afternoon.

The dedication included remarks by President Richard Brodhead, Wayne Firestone, president of the international Hillel, Mitchell Rubenstein, chair of the board of advisors for Jewish Life at Duke, and his wife Laurie Silvers.

Rubenstein and Silvers gave $2 million to the endowment of the UniFebruary in versity’s Hillel—the national organization that supports Jewish life on campus, which SEE RUBENSTEIN-SILVERS ON PAGE

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Durham District Attorney candidate Steve Monks asserted his electability at a press conference Friday, but also committed to withdraw from the race if it would help defeat incumbent Mike Nifong.

Monks, who is running as a write-in candidate, encouraged the other challenger, Lewis Cheek, to withdraw and support his campaign. Cheek has said he would not serve if elected, in which case Gov. Mike Easley would appoint a successor.

“I have concluded that it is improbable that either Lewis Cheek or I will prevail if both of us stay in the race,” Monks said.

Monks said he was unwilling to support Cheek but willing to withdraw if convinced

Cheek could win. He added that he would also withdraw if Cheek agreed to serve, saying that Durham voters wanted to vote for the district attorney, rather than have one appointed by the governor Monks countered a recent poll in the Raleigh News and Observer that gave him 2 percent of the vote with another poll giving him 22 percent.

The second poll was conducted by John L. Barker Strategies of Union County, SEE MONKS ON PAGE 6

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Iraq key issue in next election

Wind KOs electricity in northeast by

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Thousands of homes NEW YORK and businesses had no electricity Sunday from Maryland to Maine as a storm system blasted the region with winds gusting to more than 50 mph, knocking over trees and a construction crane. The storm was blamed for at least two deaths.

Gusts of 70 mph were possible Sunday in northern New York state, the National Weather Service said.

A falling tree killed a motorcyclist in Massachusetts, police said. In New Hampshire, one man was missing after falling off a cruise ship on Lake Winnipesaukee dur-

ing the storm late Saturday, and one man drowned when his kayak overturned on a rain-swollen river, state officials said.

In hard-hit Maine, a 165-foot crane with a wrecking ball attached toppled in one of the most populous neighborhoods of Portland, falling on three houses. No injuries were reported.

The wrecking ball narrowly missed a car.

“The first thing I saw was the ball coming down really fast about 10 feet from us,” said Colleen Mowatt, 48, of Gorham, Maine, whose boyfriend hit the brakes just in time.

“It hit the roadway, and the rest of the crane just fell on the buildings in front of us.”

In all, about 112,000 people throughout

the region, including 44,000 in Maine, were without power Sunday.

New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport, one of three major airports for the New York City region, had delays up to 2 1/2 hours, mostly for incomingflights, authorities said.

Willimantic, Conn., reported 3.54 inches of rain Saturday, and New York City’s Central Park measured 2.54.

The weather observatory atop New Hampshire’s 6,288-foot Mount Washington, famous for severe weather, reported sustained wind of 100 mph and a gust to 114 mph. The peak also got 11 inches of snow overnight, for an October total of39 inches.

Nigerian plane crashes. 104 aboard by

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A Nigerian airliner ABUJA, Nigeria with 104 people on board slammed into the ground moments after takeoff Sunday and aviation authorities said six people survived with the rest feared dead.

It was the third deadly crash of a passenger plane in less than a year in this West African nation known for its troubled air industry.

The Boeing 737 crashed one minute after taking off from Abuja airport, said Sam Adurogboye, an Aviation Ministry spokesman. President Olusegun Obasanjo

ordered an immediate investigation into the cause of the crash, his spokeswoman Remi Oyo said.

Among those killed was the man regarded as the spiritual leader of Nigeria’s Muslims and the sultan ofSokoto state, Muhammadu Maccido. He headed the National Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Nigeria. The panel determines when Muslim fasts should begin and end, and decides policy for Nigeria’s overwhelmingly Sunni Muslims.

Maccido’s body was immediately flown to Sokoto, where thousands of people were at the airport to receive it. He was buried

Sunday according to Islamic custom, and the Sokoto state government declared six

days of mourning.

About half of Nigeria’s 130 million people are Muslims. The country is the most populous in Africa and the continent’s leading oil exporter.

Rescue workers found debris from the smashed plane, body parts and luggage strewn over an area the size of a football field. The plane went down inside the sprawling airport compound about two miles from the runway. Smoke rose from the aircraft’s mangled and smoldering fuselage. Its tail hung from a tree.

Republicans on Sunday said a major voter turnout effort would help them stay in power after the Nov. 7 elections, while Democrats claimed momentum as they seek to tap into voter unhappiness over Iraq.

Brazil's president re-elected President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a second term In a landslide victory Sunday with Brazilians rewarding their first working class leader after he helped ease grinding poverty while improving the economy of Latin America's largest country.

Serbs reassert Kosovo claim Serbian voters have approved a new constitution reasserting Serbia's claim over the breakaway Kosovo province, independent observers and Serbia's prime minister said Sunday. At least 50 percent of the country's 6.6 million voters had to participate for the results to be valid.

STL: most dangerous U.S.city Just days after the St. Louis Cardinals won the top honor in Major League Baseball, their hometown jumped to first place on a list no one wants to lead: the most dangerous cities in the United States. Violent crime surged nearly 20 percent there this year.

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Self-described "pop culture journalist"Chuck Klosterman has worked at Spin, Esquire and ESPN.com.

tarian effort by the United Nations to allevithe suffering of Iraq caused by pre-Gulf War sanctions. The sanctions particularly affected oil, Iraq’s primary export.

“Over time, there was increasing concern and evidence that whatever restraint that [sanctions were] placing on the Iraqi government and Saddam Hussein, there was a considerable risk to the general population of Paul Volcker Iraq —that nutritional standards were declining, medical standards were impaired,” Volcker said. “It was approaching crisis.”

Allegations of corruption involving the program arose, however, and in April ate

The School ofLaw held a panel discussion Friday afternoon featuring members of the Independent Inquiry Committee that investigated the United Nations’ oilfor-food scandal.

During the discussion, the three panel members—all of whom held prominent positions in the committee—said the oilfor-food scandal revealed corruption among the highest officials at the United Nations and the need for structural change at the organization.

The panel consisted of Paul Volcker, former chair of the Federal Reserve and head of the committee; Mark Califano, Law ’BB and the committee’s chief legal counsel; and Jeffrey Meyer, the committee’s senior counsel. The event was sponsored by Duke’s Center for International Comparative Law. The oil-for-food program was a humani-

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What do “Saved by the Bell,” mohawks and Motley Crue have in common? How did Rocky IV contribute to the fall of communism?

Parents and students asked these questions and more of Chuck Klosterman, a journalist and best-selling author who spoke about the state ofAmerican culture in Page Auditorium Saturday.

“I am a pop culture journalist,” Klosterman said. “I write about the popular culture and apply a highly critical process to help people understand and think about the way culture informs their lives.”

After graduating from the University of North Dakota in 1994,Klosterman entered the world of journalism as an expert on Generation Xers who he said “wore their hats backwards and listened to Soundgarden.”

In the mid-90s, Klosterman moved to Akron, Ohio to become an arts critic. His first book—a history of “hair metal” rock—attracted the attention of publishing houses and helped him land a job at Spin magazine and contributing roles at Esquire and ESPN.com.

“What I try to do is find populist ideas—things that people encounter all the time—and then think critically about them,” Klosterman said. “It’s not what you know or what you don’t know, but how you think about it.”

Because his writing examines everything from rock music to the movie Snakes on a Plane, Klosterman said his main audience is 18-to-30 year olds.

Audience members said Klosterman’s broad knowledge of social issues and abili-. ty to find common themes among disparate topics made his tongue-in-cheek

Since 1988, sixty-two Duke students have been recipients of

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Newcomers and patrons alike flocked to Pumpkin Fest this weekend to begin Halloween festivities early with scary stories, ghoulish costumes and friendly faces.

Phoebe Lockley Fox, marketing manager for residential community Fearrington Village, organized this year’s Pumpkin Fest, hosted annually by the Pittsboro subdivision and free to all members of the public.

In addition to hundreds of visitors, Pumpkin Fest boasted intricate jack-olantems carved by the Fearrington gardeners, a Spooky Storytime, a live band and a kids’ hay bale maze.

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People from throughout the Triangle flocked to Pumpkin Fest to celebrate an early Halloween this weekend.

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Continuing their tradition of excellence, a pair ofDuke programming teams snagged two out of the top five spots in the Mid-Adantic regional of the annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Saturday.

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about the prospect of going to Tokyo and competing against the world’s finest programmers, Wetchler said.

This is not the first time Duke has done well at the prestigious programming competition. Since 1994, Duke has qualified a team to the world finals every year except in 1996—a feat schools few have accom-

“We actually had solutions for plished. held at eight The contest sites across the seven of the eight problems. itself lasts five Mid-Atlantic rehours, during The fact that we only got four gion, including which teams of Duke’s own was frustrating.” three have to Levine Science Research Center.

Everett Wetchler design solutions to highly A total of 134 senior, Programming team member teams from 67 com dex program m i n g schools participroblems. pated in what Susan Rodger, associate professor of the While one competitor types on a sinthe science departgle computer computer, the other two strategize practice in ment and the site coordinator for the and write possible code solutions down competition, described as “the NCAA fi- on paper.

There are eight problems, but few nals in computer programming.”

Duke’s three teams placed second, teams ever solve that many, Astrachan said.

The winner of Saturday’s regional anfourth and 16th, overall.

Given the size and competitive nature swered five problems correcdy, both of of the Mid-Atlantic regional, Duke’s secDuke’s top-placing teams answered four ond-place team, Webhashi, is almost as- correcdy, and most teams in the field ansured a place at the world finals in Tokyo swered two or fewer correcdy. this spring, said Owen Astrachan, profes“Every problem is doable, but not easy. sor of the practice of computer science If one team gets all the problems... someand Duke’s programming coach. thing’s not right,” Astrachan said.

Team members junior Kshipra Practice and ability, however, are not Bhawalkar, freshman Peng Shi and senior SEE PROGRAMMING ON PAGE 6 Everett Wetchler said they are excited

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Harvard undergrad survives 9-story fall Steven Snyder, a 25-year-old junior at Harvard University, is in critical condition after falling from the ninth-floor window of a dormitory last Thursday.

Police responded prompdy after the fall was discovered, and officials at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center reported serious injuries and an “improving” condition as of Friday.

The circumstances surrounding the fall are still being investigated.

Gallaudetends president’s appointment The board of trustees at Gallaudet University voted Sunday to terminate the appointment of Jane Fernandes, the former provost whose incoming presidency was subjected to months of student and faculty protests.

Protesters at Gallaudet—the country’s premier school for the deaf—said Fernandes had been an ineffective leader as provost and did not support the deaf community.

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There was campus-wide celebration when the board’s decision was announced this weekend.

NASA probe uses Berkeley instruments Two NASA probes were launched last week that scientists at the University of California at Berkeley helped to

design.

The probes are carrying equipment produced by UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory such as instruments designed to measure magnetic fields, plasma electrons and high-energy particles in the atmosphere.

The probes are attached to a spacecraft that will orbit the sun and attempt to complete the first mission to capture an image of the sun in 3-D. The spacecraft is expected to finish its mission in two years.

New engineering hall dedicated at Penn The University of Pennsylvania unveiled the newest addition to its campus —a new building for the bioengineering program—at a dedication last Friday.

Skirkanich Hall is hailed to potentially be the “best new building in Pennsylvania... [and] one of the best new buildings in the country,” Penn officials said.

The building is sandwiched between two other buildings on campus, and provides expanded laboratory space and meets the needs of the program.

It fits in on the campus because it does not replicate existing architecture but is not of an entirely different style, architect Phillip Ryan said.

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Kevin Finnerty (back) said his son, Collin (front), "would love nothing more" than to rejoin the Duke lacrosse team.

NIFONG from page 1 Although the three indicted players were not at the hearing, numerous friends and family members—including members of this year’s men’s lacrosse team —were in attendance, some sporting badges that read “Innocent until proven innocent.”

“I just had to be here and see what was going on,” said Mary Ellen Finnerty, Collin’s mother, about her first experience at a court appearance in the case. “I think it’s good to be here and see the very formidable defense bench.”

Both of Finnerty’s parents said he would return to the University and rejoin the lacrosse team if the charges are dropped.

“Collin would love nothing more than to be back on the field with his friends and teammates under [men’s lacrosse head] coach [John] Danowski’s leadership,” his father Kevin Finnerty said. “Hopefully he’ll get the chance.... It’s hard to predict how this is going to turn out.”

“If all the pieces fall into place, he would

be proud to be on the field with all his teammates,” Mary Ellen Finnerty added.

Seligmann said in a “60 Minutes” interview that he is uncertain whether he will return to Duke once the legal proceedings are resolved.

“I chose Duke to be my home for four years. And to see your professors... go out and slander you and say these horrible, untrue things about you and to have your... administration just... cut us loose for, for, based on nothing,” Seligmann told CBS News correspondent Ed Bradley. “I can’t imagine representing a school that didn’t want to represent me.”

Kevin Finnerty said he and his family have been let down by the school, but they are hoping things will change.

“We’re disappointed to date, but we’d like to think that the University will come in and save the day,” he said. “That they’ll find their way to support these boys and really announce the presumption of innocence, and we’re patiently waiting.”

The next hearing in the case is scheduled for Dec. 15.

TheAssociated Press contributed to this story ,

Profs support pro-evolution candidate In an unusual move, about 75 science professors at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio have signed a letter endorsing a candidate for the Board of Education.

The professors are in favor of former Congressman Tom Sawyer, a Democrat, who supports the teaching of evolution.

His opponent is Deborah Owens Fink, an advocate of challenging evolution in the classroom.

Lawrence Krauss, a physics professor who first circulated the letter, said almost 90 percent of all science faculty at the university had signed it.

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“It ensures ongoing support for the Jewish community and affirms the positive relationship between Duke’s Jewish community and Hillel-International,” Moneta wrote in has existed for several years but has never been named. an e-mail The February Rubenstein-Silvers gift marked a signifiThe gift and dedication will ensure the continuation of cant step in a fundraising campaign begun in Fall 2005 to the Freeman Center’s programming. raise $5 million over five years to endow the Freeman Cen“Not long ago, the Jewish student community had minimal support at Duke,” Brodhead wrote in an e-mail, noting ter’s programs. To date, the Freeman Center has raised that this has changed in recent years and adding, “The point more than $3 million for the endowment, Moneta said. is not just to give a ‘home’ for Jewish spiritual and cultural “The main purpose of having the endowment is that it experience, but to enrich the whole University as we do so.” provides a certain stability,” Rubenstein said. ‘You keep it The newly dedicated Hillel aims to enhance the profor a rainy day, and it’s just good to have that extra money grams and support Jewish culture within the framework of in the bank as well as for the worthwhile causes.” the Freeman Center, Rubenstein said.

The number of attendees at the dedication was “The way to distinguish between the two is that they’re “record-setting,” Rubenstein said, noting that the attenlike hardware and software,” he said. “The Freeman Center dance was higher than at the High Holidays, due in part is like the hardware... but die programming and the conto the good weather and the coinciding of the dedicatent of the center is like the software, which is the Hillel.” tion with Parents’ and Family Weekend.

He added that only the annual Jewish Baccalaureate Larry Moneta. vice president for student affairs, who also spoke at Sunday’s event, said the Hillel will serve to seService brings more people to the Freeman Center. cure the future of programs such as student trips and “It was much larger than we expected —it was wonderweekly Shabbal dinners. ful,” Moneta said.

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“Just on raw technical ability, MIT should go

to the world finals more than we do, so should Harvard. But that’s not the case,” Astrachan added. “We have a culture [in which] it’s okay to think that programming contests are fun, and the participants hang out together. That gives us an advantage.”

Wetchler said the group was pleased with their performance given that it was their first time working together, but stressed that there is room for improvement if they go to the finals.

“We actually had solutions for seven of the eight problems. The fact that we only got four was frustrating,” he said.

As Webhashi looks ahead to Tokyo, the team will concentrate on improving how well members work together.

“We understood the problems better than our performance reflected,” Wetchler said. “We need to be able to code every problem we know how to solve.”

MONKS from page 1 N.C., he explained.

Poll results were inaccurate, Monks said, because they were conducted before he began his media campaign.

Representatives from the “Recall Nifong, Vote Cheek” campaign said they would continue their efforts, and cancelled a scheduled meeting with Monks after hearing his statement.

Campaign representatives had agreed to the meeting under the expectation that Monks would announce his withdrawal Friday, said Jackie Brown, a consultant for the Cheek campaign. Beth Brewer, spokesperson for the Cheek campaign, said Sunday representatives had not spoken to Monks since Friday and did not intend to do so.

“We are unequivocally not pulling out,” Brewer said Friday following Monks’ statement, adding that they had repeatedly told Monks this was their position.

“Two percent, two weeks before an election? Add the numbers up yourself,” she said. Brewer questioned the validity of the second poll and said that even if Monks had polled 20 percent, he had no chance of winning.

If Monks stayed in the race and received about 2 percent of the vote, Cheek could still win, Brewer said. If Monks did significantly better, she said, the outcome would depend more on the undecided voters —24 percent of the electorate, according to the N&O poll.

Junior Christiane Regelbrugge, a representative of Duke Students for an Ethical Durham, said all indicators of public opinion, including recent polls, suggested Monks is not a viable candidate.

“It is clear that Cheek is the only candidate that can beat Nifong,” Regelbrugge said.

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PUMPKIN from page 3 North Carolina residents from Durham Cary and many other stops along 15-501 came to Fearrington, often with several small children.

The children, dressed as pirates, goblins, fairies and butterflies, roamed through the pumpkins, the maze and a life-sized chess set as their parents tagged along.

Parents and children danced to the down-country beats coming from a bluegrass band playing from the bed of a beat-up pick-up truck, a feature added this year.

Small children sat with bated breath as they watched witchy Fearrington resident Sarah Carr whirl, gesture and clap around a cauldron while reading “The Perfect Pumpkin Pie.” to

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Local children look at jack-o-lanterns this weekend at Pumpkin Fest, located in Fearrington, N.C.

“I don’t work at the bookstore anymore [where Spooky Storytime was held], but I started Spooky Storytime a few years back, so I chose to continue it,” Carr said. “I always see people I recognize in the audience and that just feels good.”

After finishing her readings, Carr held out a basket of candy for all the children present to pick and choose as they pleased. “I do this just to see the looks on these kids’ faces.”

Carr was interrupted when a slew of costumed children swarmed around her to thank her.

Carr explained the strong sense of community let parents relax in the area. “[Pumpkin Fest] is just terrific,” Carr said.

“It’s always friendly and laid-back and I love it. It’s a chance to come out. It’s family friendly and is just great.”

Fearrington resident Beth Davis stood among friends and family—she had a baby

in her arms, and her own mother stood watching her other children play with their friends nearby.

“Our friends from Cary are here this year, and Pumpkin Fest is nice because of the friends that come all this way to see it,” she said.

“Not to mention, the pumpkins are fantastic,” Davis added.

Austin Vonalten, eight, and his brother Hiatt, six, debated which of the pumpkins was best.

Hiatt argued for the “little alien” jack-olantern, while Austin liked the one with the “mad scientist” face.

The two-foot maze presented a quandary for some children, but sheer joy for others.

“My favorite part about tonight is that I’m a ghost,” four-year-old Samuel Sherbum said before quickly running away to finish navigating the maze.

KLOSTERMAN

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commentary both hilarious and thought-provoking.

“There is a desire for discourse about the new American popular culture on a somewhat intellectual level and that’s exacdy the niche that he fills,” said senior Shuhei Yamamoto. “This is how I like to analyze and critique pop culture.”

But Klosterman didn’t just focus on the subtle interconnectedness of pop culture. He cited his own biography as proof that the path to success has many detours and that every person’s career often hinges on seemingly

unimportant events.

“I like that he directed part ofhis speech to college students and on advising them [as to] how he got to where he is,” said Bill Frey, father offreshman Will Frey. “He said it was impossible to follow a career track similar to his and that people should be ready for career opportunities when they are open to them.”

OIL-FOR-FOOD from page 3 2004, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan launched an investigation.

Volcker explained that although the program had promise, and did improve nutrition in Iraq, top officials abused the situation for financial gain.

“The operation was a success, but the patient died,” he said. “The U.N. has not died, but it has exposed grievous weakness in the administrative capacity and the political capacity.”

Volcker said those weaknesses were corruption within the U.N. Security Council and its failure to enforce either the sanctions or the program.

He added that the U.N. Secretariat was also saddled with outright corruption and a lack of disciplinary power.

Finally, he blamed the nine different U.N. agencies involved in the process for their lack of cooperation.

The investigation’s findings also found errors in the core of the program itself. “[lraq] chose from the outset to favor its friends with the award of contracts,” Meyer said. “Most particularly, those countries on the Security Council.”

Iraq also “blacklisted” those who wanted to enforce the sanctions. After these allegations gained media attention, members of the Security Council who benefited from the corruption—most notably Russia, France and China—caused a stalemate with those attempting to address the issues, Meyer said.

A number of businesses have also been charged with corrupt transactions, including Shell Company and Swiss firm Cotecna.

“There were 4,500 [companies] that in one way or another were participants,” Volcker said.

Hired by the U.N. in 1998 to monitor the oil-for-food transactions, Cotecna was involved in bribes and smuggling, Meyer said. Tied to Kofi Annan’s son, Kojo Annan, the company made $6 million in profit in its first year and Kojo Annan benefited similarly. No evidence was found to connect Kofi Annan to the scandal, Meyer added.

Nevertheless, Volcker said the investigation revealed a strong need for structural change at the U.N. “It’s a very protected system, which is going to have to change, too, because it’s part of the culture of the place,” he said.

Califano and Meyer also mentioned their book, “Good Intentions Corrupted; The Oil-for-Food Scandal and the Threat to the U.N.,” which condensed more than 2,500 pages ofpapers from the investigation.

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Are you sure, Mr. Nifong?

This

weekend, media Although prosecutors descended on the aren’t required to—and Durham courthouse often don’t—interview alonce again and pounced on leged victims while an investifact gation is undera new emerging from way. Nifong is editorial a hearing in the certainly able to lacrosse rape case. Follow- do so if he mints to.

In not interviewing the ing the hearing, a slew of stories and TV segments alleged victim, Nifong has were focused on Durham not done anything legally wrong. This part of his prosDistrict Attorney Mike Nifong’s reporting that he had ecutorial conduct has technically followed the law, but never interviewed the althe district attorney’s failure leged victim of a rape allegedly perpetrated by three to interview 7 the alleged vicmembers of the 2005-2006 tim seems to illustrate that men’s lacrosse team at a he demonstrated a significant error in judgment in March 13 party.

To many, this fact seemed the way he handled the case like an egregious oversight in its initial stages.

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If all the pieces fall into place, [Collin Finnerty] would be proud to he on the field with all his teammates.

—Mary Ellen Finnerty on her son’s possible return to the men’s lacrosse team if charges against him are dropped. See story page 1.

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certain he was without ever

spending time to talk to the woman seems questionable.

As evidence in this case keeps seeping out, many students at the University—and in the larger Duke and Durham communities —are beginning to wonder how it is possible that Nifong could have been so sure.

The first-hand information that comes with conducting an interview seems like an integral part in believing someone’s account of events.

Without it, how can one make a logically sound judgment on credibility?

If Nifong wanted to wait for the police investigation to finish before interviewing the alleged victim, that’s fine. But explicity announc-

ing that he was convinced that a rape occurred polarized a community and publicly shamed and stigmatized the lacrosse team immensely.

Unless there’s factual information that Nifong is still holding onto that proves their guilt—which now appears unlikely given that he should have disclosed that information to defense lawyers already—it seems wrong to push forward in a case with only convictions and not facts.

In general, people want to believe that their public officials are telling them the truth. We hope that after this ordeal has finally ended, we will still have the same trust in what our government officials tell us on TV.

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statements that there was a rape, we can look to March 28. Fifteen days after the now-infamous party, Nifong said on Dan Abrams’ nationally televised show that he was “convinced” a rape had occurred.

Nifong cited evidence from a nurse’s report saying there were “injuries consistent with being raped and sexually assaulted vaginally and anally.”

He made the public believe he was sure. And when we hear a publicly elected official tell us that he is sure, our first reaction is to believe him.

But learning that Nifong talked to most every media outlet imaginable during the first few weeks about how

Students for an Ethical Durham supports Lewis will be proud of their actions on Election Day. Cheek for Durham DA. This election is one of historical dimensions. Do This election directly affects you. Durham the right thing. Recall Nifong, restore justice in District Attorney candidate Lewis Cheek is on Durham, vote Cheek. the ballot.

Cheek wants your vote because he strongly Casey Shanley believes that the removal of current District Board Member, Duke Students for an Ethical Attorney Mike Nifong from office is what is Durham best for the Durham community. He wants to This opinion is not authorized by any candidate win. He wants justice. And so should you.

Should Cheek choose not to accept the disStereotypes do not define Duke women trict attorney position when he is elected, it is Every other Thursday Sarah Hostetler is comtrue that the governor would appoint somepletely off base trying to define “life... or someone to fill the position. We do not believe that thing like it.” The only thing she’s done is furan appointment by Gov. Mike Easley will cure ther contribute to the stereotype of Duke all evils. The governor’s appointment will not women in “our comfort zones of J. Crew cardibe the panacea. gans and pearls”—neither of which I own.

What we do believe is that Easley will apIn fact, these assumptions make me want to point someone who will critically examine vomit like a sorority girl after lunch. (Sorry for each of the cases against David Evans, Trinity continuing the onslaught of stereotypes, but ’O6, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, they appear so frequently in The Chronicle, I’m members of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse sure you’ll forgive me.) team, dismiss those charges that do not have Sarah, the 350 word limit on letters to the edimerit and pursue any that do. tor won’t permit me to go into detail here, so I’ll Ethical Durham believes that the governor be brief: I hate to burst your bubble, but this isn’t will appoint someone who will not turn a blind Seventeen Magazine. eye to the discriminating police policy that tarYou create a black-and-white world in which gets Duke students—a policy that encourages you polarize women as either whores or Disney disproportionate arrests, warrantless raids and Princesses. And I think it’s clear what category criminal records for anyone who attends Duke you think most of your peers fall into. Were you University, just because that person is a Duke even paying attention during “Mean Girls”? Bestudent. cause what we learned is that the real culprit of We do not support District Attorney candithe slut stereotype is this girl-on-girl judgment. date Steve Monks. Write-in candidates virtually So this Halloween, maybe you should take an never win. Voting trends tell us that a write-in extra second and re-evaluate your role in this viwould need 25,000 people to handwrite their cious cycle. name on the ballot in this election.

There are so many meaningful, clever and inMonks campaigned hard for the 6,300 signateresting things you could write about! Instead, tures necessary to be on the ballot. He could not you fulfill the stereotype you’re fighting so hard even do that. He cannot hope to get 25,000 to counter by writing these silly columns. votes as a write-in on Election Day. You’re new to this. Therefore I wish you the best In more than 1,300 Senate elections since of luck in your upcoming column and hope that 1913 only one write-in candidate has won you are brave enough to break the mold you are so (Strom Thurman in 1954) and in more than intent on examining. I look forward to reading it.

20,000 House elections since 1900 only five And if you can’t find anything exciting to write write-in candidates have won. In fact, on the about, I’m sure we’d LOVE to read another piece face of it for all we know, Monks is deliberately in The Chronicle about the Plaza! working to split the change vote.

If you need help, the Writing Studio is open It has been suggested in these pages that you from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, should not vote because the administration of or you can call me up and we’ll “share Diet Coke the District Attorney’s office does not directly af- and girl talk.” K, thanks! fect the Duke student community.

When the history of this episode is written, Sophie Lehman we hope that Duke Students, faculty and staff Trinity ’O9

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The real Rick Santorum Every

poll suggests that Rick Santorum will lose his race Senate. That’s probably good news in Pennsylvania’s hobo suburbs, where folks regard Santorum as an ideological misfit and a social blight. to return to the U.S.

But it’s certainly bad for poor people around the world.

For there has been at least one constant in WashI Cl3Vld DTOOKS ington over the past 12 years: Almost every time a guest column serious piece of anti-poverty legislation surfaces in Congress, Rick Santorum is there playing a leadership role.

In the mid-19905, he was a floor manager for welfare reform, the most successful piece of domestic legislation of the past 10 years. He then helped found the Renewal Alliance to help charitable groups with funding and parents with flextime legislation.

More recently, he has pushed through a stream of legislation to help the underprivileged, often with Democratic partners. With Dick Durbin and Joe Biden, Santorum has sponsored a series of laws to fight global AIDS and offer third world debt relief. With Chuck Schumer and Harold Ford, he’s pushed to offer savings accounts to children from low-income families. With John Kerry, he’s proposed homeownership tax credits. With Chris Dodd, he backed legislation authorizing $B6O million for autism research. With Joe Lieberman he pushed legislation to reward savings by low-income families.

In addition, he’s issued a torrent of proposals, many of which have become law: efforts to fight tuberculosis; to provide assistance to orphans and vulnerable children in developing countries; to provide housing for people with AIDS; to increase funding for Social Services Block Grants and organizations like Healthy Start and the Children’s Aid Society; to finance community health centers; to combat genocide in Sudan.

I could fill this column, if not this entire page, with a list of ideas, proposals and laws Santorum has poured out over the past dozen years. It’s hard to think of another politician who has been so active and so productive on these issues.

Like many people who admire his output, I disagree with Santorum on key matters like immigration, abortion, gay marriage. I’m often put off by his unnecessarily slashing style and his culture war rhetoric.

But government is ultimately not about the theater or the light shows of public controversy, it’s about legislation and results. And the substance of Santorum’s work is impressive. Bono, who has worked closely with him over the years, got it right: “I would suggest that Rick Santorum has a kind of Tourette’s disease; he will always say the most unpopular thing. But on our issues, he has been a defender of the most vulnerable.”

Santorum doesn’t have the jocular manner of most politicians. His colleagues’ eyes can glaze over as he lectures them on the need to, say, devote a week of Senate floor time to poverty. He’s not the most social member of the club. Many politicians praise family values and seem to spend as little time as possible with their own families, but Santorum is at home almost constantly. And there is sometimes a humorlessness to his missionary zeal.

But no one can doubt his rigor. Jonathan Rauch of The National Journal wrote the smartest review of Santorum’s book, “It Takes a Family.” Rauch noted that while Goldwaterite conservatives see the individual as the essential unit of society, Santorum sees the family as the essential unit.

Rauch observed, “Where Goldwater denounced collectivism as the enemy of the individual, Santorum denounces individualism as the enemy of the family.” That beliefhas led Santorum in interesting and sometimes problematical directions, but the argument itself is a serious one. His discussion of the philosopher Alasdair Maclntyre, for example, is as sophisticated as anything in Barack Obama’s recent book. If Santorum were pro-choice, he’d be a media star and a campus hero.

The bottom line is this: If serious anti-poverty work is going to be done, it’s going to emerge from a coalition of liberals and religious conservatives. Without Santorum, that s less likely to happen. If senators are going to be honestly appraised, it’s going to require commentators who can look beyond the theater of public controversy and at least pretend to care about actual legislation. Santorum has never gotten a fair shake from the media.

And so after Election Day, the underprivileged will probably have lost one of their least cuddly but most effective

Making Duke not suck so much: Part I I,

like many others, have a plan to make Duke better, and since I don’t have too sexy a vocabulary, I figured I’d just steal someone else’s intro and get to the meaty part.

So, without further ado, MY plan for making Duke not suck as much as it does

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1. Eliminate the

cats.

No one knows where these cats come from, but they’re all over the place. What do they eat? Do they sleep in the water pipes or the tunnels? Is there mo ndaVf ITlOnday an old woman living m the morning wood a shack tucked away deep in the forests performing voodoo magic on unsuspecting Duke students, all the while using these little demons as her minions to do her bidding?

They’re an eyesore and they’re not even friendly. If you were a stray cat barely clinging to an existence, could you really afford to be such a bitch to nice people with warm homes and plentiful food? Guess it’s no wonder they congregate in Edens.

I propose we utilize our greatest advantage over the cats to bring them down: our castle-like architecture. Most buildings seem to possess some of those vertical holes near the roof where archers could fire at will with little danger of being hurt. We could snipe these cats without them even knowing what *

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2. Open an Alcohol Delivery Service on points Now, this might seem like a bad idea at first glance, but give it some more thought. This service would do more good than harm.

First of all, this would eliminate off-campus drinking problems. If kids could get alcohol on points, they’d be way too drunk in their own dorm rooms to be able to drink off campus. There’d be little incentive to do so.

Plus, with alcohol on points, the quality of drinks around campus would drastically improve. Goodbye Aristocrat and Busch, hello Grey Goose and Corona!

Second of all, if we have any prayer of keeping up with the Harvards of the world in terms of recruiting potential applicants, we gotta get creative. Delivery booze is an innovative program that will undoubtedly be copied. Who would pass that up?

3. Take away the ban on having strippers on campus This rule makes absolutely no sense. The whole in-

cident occurred off campus, didn’t it? Why don’t they

Just stick with the rule “no raping girls?” That sounds

reasonable.

Listen, administration. I waited 18 loooong years of my life to be able to pay a girl to strip in front of me as I watch Grey’s Anatomy with a pint of Ben and Jerry’s while fondling myself. I’m an adult, damn it, and I deserve to be treated as such.

And do you know who is being hurt the most by this?

That’s right, the strippers themselves. They don’t deserve this hate. It’s as if the University is associating Adult Entertainment with Evil. That’s not fair. Evil is censoring a man’s right to some naked breasts in his face when he has good, clean money to pay for it.

Believe it or not, not all strippers are drunken liars.

Hard to believe, but true. Didn’t Julia Roberts used to be a hooker? Now look at her.

4. Get rid of RCs. Come on, Duke, you accept us into your institution to study Biochemical Engineering and Chinese and stuff, but you can’t trust us to live on our own. I know that RCs do something, but in reality, they do nothing. There’s no way that one small office couldn’t handle all the work that the RCs do without having to live in the dorms.

Plus, there’s a whole dilemma that the administration doesn’t think about when it comes to RCs. What type of person is willing to live their life running a dorm of college kids. Though these people damn well should be just twentysomething college grads still trying to get funky before joining the real world, they’re usually just bitter middle-aged dudes who take their jobs waaay too seriously and go out of their way to abuse their power over residents that are just trying to have fun.

This is college, right? College? I went to college under the pretenses that it was supposed to be fun. I always thought universities were the centers of liberal thinking, but this place has gotten so lost in politics that it forgot about fun. It should be a prereq, not a privilege. If we don’t have to work to have fun, then we’ll have more time to work on school, right?

Thus completes Part One of my “Making Duke Not Suck So Much” Program. Part Deux will becoming later.

Until then, be easy playas. At least it's almost time for basketball.

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the No 5 Blue Devils’ six-game win streak in a 1-0 contest in Clemson, S.C. Saturday.

The game, postponed from Friday night due to rain, was a defensive battle. Duke’s defense remained strong, allowing just two shots on goal and nine total. The Clemson (12-3-2, 2-3-2 in the ACC) defense, however, was equally formidable, holding the Blue Devils (13-3-1, 5-2-1) to 11 shots, only one of which was on goal.

The lone goal of the match came just over 27 minutes into the game. Clemson junior midfielder Mark Buchholz lofted a throw from the left sideline into the box. From eight yards out, Michael Tiger sophomore Brooks headed the ball into the back of the net for his fourth goal of the season.

“Their field is quite narrow,

and they have a player who can throw the, ball quite far,” Duke, goalkeeper Justin Papadakis said of the goal. “I thought we could have done a little bit better defensively on it, but we’ll work on it in practice this week.”

The only shot on goal of the game for Duke came from senior Chris Loftus, off a corner kick to the near post of the Tigers’ goal.

“It went over the kid’s head I was guarding,” Loftus said. “It came down, and I hit it out of the air with the inside of my foot, low, about a foot off the ground, and the goalie reacted and saved it with his foot.”

Although the Blue Devils tallied seven corner kicks to the Tigers’ one, they were unable to convert in front of the goal and suffered their third shutout of the season.

“Clemson was very good at countering on us,” Loftus said.

“Once we were pushing a lot of guys forward to get that equalizer, they were able to counter us.”

The Blue Devils felt the abof junior Michael sence Videira, who sat out the contest

with an injured ankle. The midfielder suffered the injury in the first few minutes of the UNC game Oct. 20, but he practiced Sunday and should be back at full strength for Wednesday’s first-round game in the ACC Championships.

The game Saturday was a physical battle—32 fouls were called in the contest, 20 against the Tigers and 12 on Duke.

Seven yellow cards were also issued—four to Clemson and three to the Blue Devils, tying the most issued in a Duke game this season.

“They play a very physical game and keep pounding teams and pounding teams,” Papadakis said. “The first half was especially hard, because the wind was quite heavy, and they had the wind.”

After this weekend’s play, Duke clinched a tie for the ACC regular-season tide with Wake Forest, as the Demon Deacon’s defeated Virginia, 2-1, Friday.

The Blue Devils now head to the ACC Championship tournament, which starts Wednesday in College Park, Md.

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progression, we have the potential to place in the top four in the national championship,” Jermyn said.

Strong performances by the senior captains highlighted the men’s and women’s cross country The men’s team also saw imteams’ second and fourth place provement this weekend after its finishes, respectively, at the ACC performance at the NCAA PreCross Country Championships in view two weeks ago.

Charlottesville, Va. Saturday.

The Blue Devils came from beThe 16th ranked women’s hind in the last mile to beat Clemteam finished second to No. 2 son, which they lost to at the PreNorth Carolina State in a field view, and also narrowed the gap on that featured eight nationallythird-place-finishing Virginia, ranked teams. which is ranked 29th in the nation.

“This was our best perform“The goal going into this week ance of the season,” head coach was to rebound off of our perKevin Jermyn said. “We raced formance at the NCAA Preview,” well, and we came out of the senior co-captain Keith Krieger weekend more excited than we’ve said. “Coming into this race, we been all year.” tried to get ourselves excited, to Senior Emily McCabe and reaffirm to ourselves that the end sophomore Maddie McKeever of the season is what we’ve been finished first and second for the training for and peaking for.”

Blue Devils and received All-ACC Krieger did his part to help Honors for their third and sevthe team by finishing 11th and enth place overall finishes. winning All-ACC Honors.

“Keith gave an outstanding ef“Emily and Maddie have been exceptional all year and they con- fort,” head coach Norm Ogilvie tinued to do so this weekend,” said. “He is one of the better distance runners in the country, and Jermyn said.

The biggest breakthrough of he’s on track right now to perthe weekend was the performance haps be an All-American.” of team captain Laura Stanley.

Junior Chris Spooner was the Stanley, a fifth-year senior, hurt second finisher for Duke and her hip at the end of the spring placed 17th overall. track season and was unable to “It was a good effort by everyrun for the entire summer and body,” Ogilvie said. “We’re very most of the fall. She raced for the pleased, and we feel we’re going first time Saturday and finished to peak at the right time.” third for Duke and 22nd overall.

“To place as well as she did has a lot to do with her talent and how tough she is,” Jermyn said.

“We ran better than we have all year, but I think we’ll be even stronger in the weeks to come with [her] back.”

Unfortunately, the return of Stanley was accompanied by the loss of fifth-year senior Natasha Roetter to a foot injury. Roetter has been a key contributor to the team in the past, and her return for the end of the season is yet to be determined.

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With a 70-17 record and three nationaltitle game appearances under its belt, the most successful field hockey senior class in Duke’s history won its final home game Saturday at Williams Field.

Swelling with the emotion of senior day, the No. 4 Blue VIRGINIA JL_ Devils (144. 3-2 in DUKE 3 the ACC) surged out with two firsthalf goals against No. 10 Virginia (12-5, 14) and went on to win 3-1.

Duke outplayed the Cavaliers in every aspect of the game, holding Virginia to just three-shots while taking 18 of its own.

“We were dominant in both halves,” head coach Beth Bozman said. “We’ve been working on a game plan for this team, and we knew that if we executed that plan, we would have an outcome like this.”

The day ultimately belonged to the seniors, not only in the emotional pre-game ceremony but also on the field. The Class of 2007—Liz Floyd, Hilary Linton, CaraLynn Lopresti and Amy Stopford—asserted its will on Virginia early, smothering the Cavaliers on defense and attacking the net.

The defense stifled Virginia so much, in fact, that the Blue Devils did not allow a single shot until the 20th minute.

“Our defense can carry us through,” Stopford said. “I think we’ll be a really hard team to beat.”

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as Duke managed eight shots and five penalty corners in the first half. The seniors scored every Duke goal in their final home game, a fitting home ending for a very meaningful class.

The highlight of the half came on Duke’s first goal of the game, in the 21st minute. Sophomore Laura Suchoski flashed by two converging defenders at midfield, broke toward the right of the net, slid a soft pass toward the middle and, appropriately, Floyd slipped in her first goal of the season to put the Blue Devils up, 1-0.

Duke struck again with eight seconds left in the half, as Stopford fired a successful shot over fallen Cavaliers goalie Katherine Blair. Lopresti scored the Blue Devils’ final goal of the regular season in the 43rd minute.

“We all came in together,” said Bozman, who arrived at Duke in 2003 along with the seniors. “Today we really demonstrated the success we’ve had over the past three years.”

Although Virginia would make a small run late—scoring its lone goal in the 67th minute—it did not matter, as Duke and its seniors capped off a strong regular season in which the Blue Devils defeated eight ranked teams, including No.l Maryland.

Duke will soon face new challenges in the ACC tournament —which begins Nov. 2—as the No. 3 seed before it has a chance at winning the program’s first national title.

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Amy Stopford and two otherBlue Devil seniors scored goals during theirfinal game at Williams Field.

“In the ACC, the teams are so close anyone can win it,” Bozman said.

For now, though, the seniors can celebrate the end of their remarkable home

careers, as President Richard Brodhead came out and thanked them for repre-

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It was a tale of two halves for Duke Saturday, and for die second straight week, the Blue Devils' rally was too little, too late.

Duke (0-8) allowed Vanderbilt (4-5) to jump out to a 28-0 lead—with the Commodores scoring on four of their first five possessions. The Blue Devils rallied for 21 fourth-quarter points but ultimately fell, 45-28.

“We have to learn to come out and play right away,” linebacker Jeramy Edwards said. “It’s unacceptable to go down in the first half—and then come out fired up in the second half.”

Vanderbilt quarterback Chris Nickson was a menace all afternoon to Duke, tallying 400 total yards —250 passing and 150 yards on the ground.

Nickson was a major reason why the Commodores were able to get off to a quick start, rushing for 45 yards and throwing for 120 in the first quarter alone.

“I hope we don’t face another [quarterback] like him,” head coach Ted Roof said.

Trailing 38-7 early in the fourth quarter, Duke was able to quickly put points on the board and keep the outcome of the game in question. Despite facing a 31point deficit with less than 12 minutes to play, the Blue Devils mounted their comeback mainly on the ground. Running back Justin Boyle scored three touchdowns in a span of less than five minutes.

Suddenly, Duke trailed 38-28 and lined up for a two-point conversion. Quarterback Thaddeus Lewis handed off to Re’quan Boyette, but the running back was stopped just short of the end zone.

The ensuing onside kick was recovered by the Commodores, and Duke still trailed Vanderbilt by two scores. Nickson added a late running touchdown for the Commodores to account for the final margin.

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The Demon Deacons (7-1,3-1 in the ACC) have won seven of eight to start the season for thefirst time since 1979 and third time in school history. Wake Forest trailed 17-14 before Sam Swank tied it with a 41-yard field goal on the second play of thefourth quarter.

North Carolina (1-7,0-5) was playing its first game since the firing of coach John Bunting, effective at the end of the season, and the Tar Heels fell to 0-7 against l-A opponents.

GEORGIA TECH 30-MIAMI 23 Georgia Tech got Calvin Johnson back in the offense and took a major step toward reaching the ACC championship game. One week after failing to catch a pass for the first time in his career, Johnson hauled in a tiebreaking, one-yard touchdown with 6:18 remaining.

GeorgiaTech (6-2,4-1) scored 17 straight points to take a seemingly comfortable 30-16 lead, but Kyle Wright hooked up with Greg Olsen on a 41-yard touchdown pass that made it close, Miami (5-3,2-2) couldn't overcome three fumbles and an interception.

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Sam Hollenbach threw three touchdown passes, and the Terrapins beat theSeminoles 27-24 to become bowl eligible. It was only the second time in 17 tries that Maryland (6-2,3-1) defeated Florida State (4-4,2-4).

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Justin Boyle scored a career-high four touchdowns—three in the second half—in Duke's loss to Vanderbilt. down to a one-possession game,” Roof said. “To get down to a one-possession game with under five minutes to go, you have a chance.”

Along with his three fourth-quarter touchdowns, Boyle had a career day on the field for the Blue Devils. The running back matched a career-high with 113 rushing yards on only 14 carries, and he tied a school record with four rushing touchdowns—he rushed for a two-yard score late in the first half.

“I thought he played excellent,” Roof said. “What jumps out at you are the yards that he rushed for, but he was just as good without the ball in pass protection. He’s being more patient waiting for his blocking to develop, and when he sees the hole, he’s hitting it.”

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“The offensive line played a great game,” Boyle said. “The holes were wide open.”

In the first half, the Blue Devils had no answer for the Commodores’ offense, headed by Nickson. The Vanderbilt quarterback directed his team to touchdowns on each of its first three possessions, highlighted by a 77-yard scoring pass to receiver Earl Bennett on the team’s second drive of the game.

Duke punter Alex Feinberg had pinned the Commodores at their own three-yard line, but Nickson scrambled away from the end zone to set up the drive with the scoring strike to Bennett.

“It just came down to making tackles,” Edwards said. “We didn’t execute like we wanted to. It came down to making tackles in the open field, and we didn’t do it.”

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Early in the second quarter Saturday with Duke already trailing 14-0, Vanderbilt quarterback Chris Nickson dropped back to pass, dodged one man in the backfield, and carried two others into the end zone for a five-yard touchdown and a 21-0 lead.

The scramble was emblematic of a day when Nickson and the Commodores sailed through the Blue Devils’ defense, turning Wallace Wade into a sea ofmissed tackles.

Duke was never able to corral Vanderbilt’s agile sophomore quarterback, who amassed 400 yards of total offense—despite sitting part of the second half—in the Commodores’ 45-28 win.

“We couldn’t tackle their quarterback,” head coach Ted Roof said. “We had guys coming free —we just didn’t tackle very well. [Nickson] made us miss, and I thought he was the difference in the ballgame.... When you have a spy on him, you’ve got to be able to tackle him.”

The Commodores capitalized on Duke’s defensive lapses from the very start of the game, using flanker screens and quick slants to give their playmakers opportunities on the outside.

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Duke's defenders had no answer for Vanderbilt quarterback Chris Nickson during Saturday's game.

That strategy was rewarded when a quick slant to Earl Bennett went for 77 yards—Vanderbilt’s second touchdown of the first quarter. Bennett broke through an arm tackle by John Talley on his way into the endzone.

Bennett, who caught nine balls for 184 yards, was given more one-on-one coverage on the outside, though, because of the threat Nickson posed to the Blue Devils’ front seven.

“When you load up the box to try to tackle their quarterback, you isolate your coverage at times,” Roof said. “We did that a couple of times and [Bennett] made us pay.”

Duke’s stacking the box didn’t do much to stifle Nickson, either, as the quarterback threw for 250 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 150 yards and three more

scores. His scrambling around the pocket and his quickness in the open field routinely left the Blue Devils grasping for air.

“We need to execute and tackle in the open field, which we didn’t,” senior linebacker Jeramy Edwards said.

After Duke scored three quick touchdowns in the fourth quarter to cut the Commodores’ lead to 38-28, Nickson put any thoughts of a miracle comeback to rest. On a third-and-three from the Duke 40-yard line, Nickson avoided linebacker Codey Lowe, who came unblocked on a blitz, and scrambled for 39 yards down the right sideline. The run set up the game’s final touchdown—again from Nickson—and sealed the victory for Vanderbilt.

“We had a guy that came free,” Roof said. “He was in a position to make a play.

You just got to find away to get [Nickson] on the ground.”

Poor tackling and a lack of defensive execution represented a step back from last week, when Duke limited Miami to three second-half points and only 30 yards rushing. Vanderbilt ran for 235 yards, many of them coming after contact.

“It’s disappointing certainly,” Roof said.

“This is not how we expect to play. This is not how we prepare to play. We gave up way too many yards after missed tackles....

That game came down to our not tackling very well.”

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Beyond the impressive contributions of this year’s freshman class in Saturday’s Blue-White scrimmage, the future continues to look bright for the Blue Devils.

Six-foot-8 forward Kyle Singler, the fourth-ranked recruit in the Class of 2007 and the top player at his position according to scout.com, announced he would attend Duke next fall at a press conference at his high school Friday afternoon.

“Duke has always been my dream school,” Singler said. “This was a very tough decision for me, but I think going with Duke was the right one. I’m relieved that the recruiting process is over now.”

The Oregon native chose Duke over two other finalists, Kansas and Arizona.

After visiting Kansas on his last official visit two weekends ago, Singler took a little more than a week to evaluate his options before notifying Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski of his decision Wednesday.

“From what I’ve observed he doesn’t normally get too excited about things, but he seemed pretty excited about this,” Singler said of his conversation with Krzyzewski. “It was a good phone call.”

Singler can make the verbal commitment official by signing a letter of intent when the early period opens Nov. 8. He is the third player in his class to give Duke a verbal, joining guard Nolan Smith and wing Taylor King.

Singler played with both Smith and

quarterback at Oregon State in the early

1980s. “At Duke, he could get a great education and be around the people and a program that could help him become the best person he could possibly be.”

Although Kyle Singler did choose Krzyzewski’s program, the decision was not as simple as some have made it out to be.

“Kansas gave him something to think about,” Ed Singler said. “It wasn’t a matter of a good program versus a bad program.

They were all great programs.”

The sweet-shooting Singler, who can play both forward positions, had been Duke’s top remaining target for next season’s incoming class.

“Singler has the whole package—he’s the star that Duke was lacking in this class,” said Jeff Goodman, who covers recruiting for scout.com and is the lead basketball writer for foxsports.com.

“There are very few guys that don’t have any holes in their game or character. In my mind, he’s the guy in his class who will make the biggest impact in the colSOL NEELMAN/THE OREGONIAN

Forward Kyle Singlerannounced his decision at a press conference at South Medford (Ore.) High School Friday.

King —as well as current freshman Lance Thomas—on this summer’s U.S. Men’s Under-18 National Team, which won the gold medal at the FIBA Americas U-18 Championship in July. Singler has also played with freshman Jon Scheyer on a previous national team and knows Gerald Henderson through AAU tournaments.

Singler’s familiarity with his future

teammates and his comfort level with

Duke’s program contributed to his decision, his father said.

“It really boiled down to where he felt most comfortable in the opportunity to grow as person and athlete,” said Kyle’s father, Ed, who was a three-year starting

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The national runner-up 1986 team (right) was honored at halftime of the Blue-White game (left and top).

The Blue Devils are also continuing to recruit 6-foot-8 forward Patrick Patterson out of West Virginia, even though Singler’s verbal commitment would appear to fill the scholarship limit of 13 for next season.

“It’s a foregone conclusion that [Josh] Mcßoberts is gone unless something dramatic happens,” Goodman said. “Duke is one of three legitimate schools in there for Patterson, but from everything I’ve been told, it seems like Kentucky is the leader.”

works himself back into game shape and provides the Blue Devils with an additional ball-handler they would not have develWhite team, 28-23, in the first of two 15- oped had Paulus been healthy. minute scrimmages.

Henderson chipped in eight of his 14 With the game tied at 16, he utilized a points in the second scrimmage, as he led strong drop-step to power his way down the White squad to a dominating 34-17 victhe lane for a right-handed layin. On the tory. In addition to displaying a nice midBlue team’s next possession, Zoubek ran range game and athleticism, Krzyzewski the court, taking a feed from sophomore said he was impressed with Henderson’s David McClure for another easy basket. perimeter defense.

“A real good thing for our freshmen is “The kid who stood out the most obviously was Zoubek,” head coach Mike that they haven’t come in and said, ‘Well Krzyzewski said. “Guys looked to him. I he’s an upperclassman, and I’m not going thought he showed a great spirit. He was to compete against him,”’ Krzyzewski said. demonstrative.”

“They’re not waiting in line. That’s easier Zoubek was not the only freshman to for this freshman class than last year’s beimpress the parent-weekend crowd, cause there aren’t those seniors. All four of though. Gerald Henderson, Lance Thomas those kids can play and will play.”

Overall, Krzyzewski said he was and Jon Scheyer all turned in solid perpleased with what he saw from his young formances in their Cameron debuts.

“We played very poised, especially the team, which is deeper and more athletic freshmen,” said sophomore Jamal Boykin, than recent Blue Devil squads. But who grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds. Krzyzewski added that without Paulus, “They really took their time, they made many players could not take full advangood reads. They didn’t rush plays and tage of their strengths.

“It’s going to be fun trying to see how played pretty good.” half, the first 6-foot-8 forwe put this whole damn thing together,” Thomas, a in ward, scored 10points while showing he can Krzyzewski said. “I’m excited about it.

We haven’t had to do this for a while, play both inside and out. He nailed a number of midrange jumpers, muscled in some and it’s good.” baskets in the post and ran the court well.

NOTES: “The strength of our team right now and it could be our entire season —is our Although there is still no timetable for big guys,” Krzyzewski said. “All four of the return of sophomore point guard Greg Paulus from a left foot injury, Krzyzewski them are good players.” said he is progressing nicely and could Scheyer, who has assumed the ball-handling duties while sophomore point guard play games later in November. “It’s been Greg Paulus recovers from a foot injury, good for him in learning,” Krzyzewski said had five assists while turning the ball over of Paulus’ time off. “He has seen his team, he knows his team. As a point guard, he just twice.

Although Krzyzewski said playing the knows some of their weaknesses and point has detracted from Scheyer’s ability strengths n0w.”... Several of the members of the 1986 Final Four team, including to score—the freshman missed on all five Mark Alarie, Jay Bilas, Johnny Dawkins and of his 3-point attempts —he said the freshman is gaining invaluable experience that David Henderson were in Durham this weekend and were honored at halftime of will help Duke in the long run. It will enable Paulus to play fewer minutes as he Saturday’s game.

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After a 3-0 win against Miami Friday in Coral Gables, Fla., Duke fell to Wake Forest 1-0 in Winston-Salem Sunday to end its regular-season schedule.

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That win was almost a reality 7 MIAMI Oct. 11 On the same field at Spry Stadium, Duke was in the midst of upsetting then-No. 9 Wake Forest 1-0 when lightning delays forced the teams to terminate the match less than 10 minutes into the second half.

The scores of that night were erased and the game was rescheduled to Sunday.

“We knew what we had to do, so I don’t want to use that as an excuse,” head coach Robbie Church said. “It’s unfortunate that we had to come back and do it but we just didn’t get it done.”

The Blue Devils came out strong but failed to capitalize on scoring opportunities. Wake Forest, however, found the net 34 minutes into the first half when Caitlin Farrell scored on a header off a comer kick to score the

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“The first 15 minutes we controlled the pace of the game, but we never got anything out of it,” Church said.

“We were never all that dangerous. They worked really hard. Their will to win was a little bit better than our will to win. I was disappointed in myself. We were outcoached and they were more prepared than us.”

Church said he switched up his lineup to try and jump-start Duke’s offense, leaving goalkeeper Allison Lipsher vulnerable to fend off the Demon Deacon attack. But Wake Forest—which out-shot Duke 12-8 on the night—could not put in another goal. Lipsher had eight saves to keep the Blue Devils in the game.

“Ali played fantastic back there,” Church said. “She saved our butts, as it could have been worse.”

But even with Lipsher’s performance, the Blue Devils could not send the game into overtime.

Although Church said there were several times he thought Duke would tie the game in the second half, the Blue Devils struggled with finishing. Just three minutes into the second half, freshman Kay Anne Gummersall—who also scored Duke’s first goal against Miami Friday—headed a ball just left of the Wake Forest goalpost.

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Although the Blue Devils fell Sunday night to Wake Forest, goalkeeper Allison Lipsher limited the Demon Deacons'attack to just one goal.

“We attacked very well, we just couldn’t get a foot to it,” Church said. “We couldn’t get in front of players.”

Sunday’s game marks the first time Duke has lost to Wake Forest in the last nine matchups between the two teams. The Blue Devils will next compete in the first round of the ACC tournament Wednesday, Nov. 1 in Cary.

Brackets for the tournament will be released Monday morning.

“We are a very good team when everybody brings it,” Church said. “It is frustrating and disappointing, but we will come back. We have had games like this, and we will come back. It puts us on a tougher road now in the ACC tournament, but we are capable of coming back.”

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The Blue Devils could not have come any closer to upsetting No. 1 seed Florida in the Callaway Collegiate Match Play Championship in Ft. Worth, Texas Sunday afternoon.

No. 20 Duke, the nine-seed in the tournament, lost to the No. 2 Gators in a tiebreaker after winning two matches by a total offive holes, losing two by a combined six and halving the other.

Freshman Jeff Edelman, making his first collegiate appearance, had a six-foot birdie putt on the second hole to go 4-up and close out the match with only three holes remaining.

He missed the putt, halved the hole and lost his final three holes to halve his match. “[Edelman] made an unbelievable up-and-down and if he makes anything, the match is over,” head coach Rod Myers said. “On the final green he three-putted —if he just ties one hole, we get the full point.”

The coaching staff substituted Edelman into the Duke line-up for the afternoon’s second round after Jake Grodzinsky was the only Blue Devil to lose his match in the morning’s pairing against the University of Nevada-Las Vegas in the first round.

Junior Michael Schachner, who won his match 1-up against Florida’s Tyson Alexander, also had opportunities to advance Duke to the next round, but he, too, missed deciding putts.

“If either of those guys has a different hole, then the next tiebreaker goes to us,” Myers said. “That’s the fun part about match play, but it’s also the most frustrating part.”

Had the Blue Devils also won their matches by a combined six strokes, they would have advanced to the next round because they would have built their lead in fewer holes than Florida.

Beating the No. 1 seed would have been great for the team, but Sunday was an important day despite the loss, particularly in giving new players like Edelman a chance to compete, Myers said.

Duke will play No. 6 Clemson in today’s consolation bracket matchup. Grodzinsky will return to the lineup and freshman Adam Long is scheduled to sit out the round.

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Before this weekend, the Blue Devils had yet to lose a game in conference play. With the loss to Georgia Tech, Duke still sits in first place and has a 12-1 league record.

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With back-to-back, five-game nailbiters at Georgia Tech and Clemson to begin the second halfof their ACC schedule, the No. 25 Blue Devils returned to Durham with mixed results.

In a hostile environment with more than 1,700 loud Yellow Jacket fans in attendance Friday night, Duke stumbled as Georgia Tech (13-10, 5-8 in the ACC) forced a decisive fifth game, ultimately clinching the match with a dramatic 24-22 victory.

The loss marks the Blue Devils’ (19-3, 12-1) first conference defeat this season and ends a 19 game ACC-win streak dating back to Nov. 4, 2005.

Regrouping from Friday’s DUKE tough loss for Saturday’s match at Clemson (14-7, 9-4), Duke CLEMSON found itself in a very similar fifth-game situation.

DUKE Duke, however, refused to allow similar results as the Blue GA.TECH Devils battled both the Tigers and over 1,000 rowdy Clemson fans to seal the match with a resounding 15-9, fifth-game victory.

“It’s a typical road weekend in the ACC in the fact that they’re not easy trips to make, and they’re very competitive matches in front of very good crowds,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “Our team is playing very we 11.... We had our opportunities and we didn’t capitalize on them, and that’s what makes a difference.”

Going into the fourth game leading the match 2-1 Friday, Duke jumped to an early 14-3 lead. But service errors and missed opportunities plagued the Blue Devils as Georgia Tech steadily climbed back into the game and notched the 30-28 victory.

After trading point-for-point the entire fifth game, the Yellow Jackets managed to knot the score at 22 and then string together two straight points to best the Blue Devils in the intense, back-and-forth batde.

“Everyone was upset, but at the same time, I think we understood that we had our opportunity,” Nagel said.

“But we had to get over that very quickly in the fact we had to play another very big match at Clemson the next night.... I was really pleased how the team handled that and bounced back.”

Saturday night, the Blue Devils came out strong with a 2-0 match lead before dropping two straight games to the Tigers to force a fifth game. Duke, however, regained its momentum in the final game to power past Clemson with the fifth game victory.

Junior Carrie DeMange was all business Saturday night, ending with a career-high 32 kills and a .400 hitting percentage. Junior Ali Hausfeld recorded 135 assists over the weekend. Freshman Rachael Moss earned 39 kills—including a career-high 22 kills against Georgia Tech—and Tealle Hunkus finished with 35 kills.

Libero Jenny Shull anchored the defense with 53 digs over the weekend, while DeMange left her defensive mark with 13 blocks—including a season-high nine against the Yellow Jackets.

Although the Georgia Tech loss ruins the Blue Devils’ shot at an undefeatedACC season, Nagel said the team does not concentrate on winning streaks or the pressures that go along with them.

“We really just try to take the focus off of that by just planning for the next opponent,” Nagel said. “The road is not a friendly place in the ACC, so we have to continue to work very hard to stick together as a team and continue to improve.”

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