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When JJ. Redick and Shelden Williams were leading Duke, wins against an 18thranked opponent at home were not usually a cause for celebration.

This year, however, No. 11 Duke (7-1) acted as if its 61-52 win over Georgetown (4-3) was something special.

Maybe it was because the Blue Devils lost to the Hoyas a season ago, or perhaps because Duke played sloppily a week ago at home against unranked Indiana, but Cameron Indoor Stadium did not have the feel of an early season, nonconference game Saturday night.

“I got kind of emotional at the end of the game—this is a big win,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “A lot of times at Duke when we have a veteran team, winning is taken for granted—the joy of being in a game like this.”

As the final seconds ticked away, Brian Zoubek and fellow freshman Lance Thomas shared an emotional embrace near the bench. Many of the players and coaches—Krzyzewski included—were jubilant on the sidelines and motioning toward the Cameron Crazies, thanking them for their enthusiasm throughout the contest —a game in which Duke struggled on offense in the first half.

“The crowd was great,” Krzyzewski said. “It was just one of those good Saturday nights to be in here, and we were fortunate to win.... It was like an old-time game tonight.”

After shooting only 28.6 percent in the first half, the Blue Devils were indeed fortunate to trail Georgetown by only seven points entering the locker room. Duke was careless with the ball, registering 10 turnovers —many of them unforced. The Blue Devils also allowed the Hoyas 20

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The Board ofTrustees approved several new academic programs and the elevation of the African and African American Studies Program to a department at its meeting this past weekend.

“The evolution of African and African American Studies from a program to a department is really a sign of its maturation,” President Richard Brodhead said. “It’s a sign of our pride and our commitment to going forward.”

The program has already functioned as a department for several years—offering an undergraduate degree and graduate certificate—and the change is mainly in name, Provost Peter Lange said.

“It probably provides a sense of permanency and commitment that we have had for a long time for the department, but which may not have been so evident to outsiders when it was called a program,” he said. Duke’s AAAS department is recognized as one of the four or five best in the country, Brodhead said.

The change—which the Academic Programs Committee approved Oct. 25 reflects the University’s “commitment to the enterprise and the standing and activity of the unit,” Sarah Deutsch, Arts and Sciences dean of the social sciences, said

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Lange said the department was slated for growth before the change and will be adding new faculty to its current core facul-

only three baskets of their own in the post.

DeMarcus Nelson drained two threepointers in the game’s first minute, but after that, Duke went scoreless until Marty Pocius’

ty of 15. The Academic Programs Committee encouraged the department to consider

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Two months ago, Iris Afonso admits she knew next to nothing about Middle Eastern culture. The senior imagined sultans, sand dunes and Aladdin. analysis “I thought that the culture encompassed only what you see in the media: war, terrorists and mosques,” Afonso said. “You don’t know about the daily life of the people.”

Afonso, who is now planning to study Bruce Lawrence, director of theDuke Islamic Studies Center, said he sought to makeIslam studies a major.

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Tony Brown, professor of the practice of public policy and sociology, will become president of the Robertson Scholars Program July 1, 2007.

“The challenge of connecting two great universities and two great programs is very exciting,” Brown said. “It is amazing what the program has accomplished in five years. They’ve gone from nothing to something really strong. The question is how we can make it even better as we move forward.”

Brown will be replacing Eric Mlyn, who is currently executive director of the program. During his three-year appoint-

merit, Brown will be retaining his faculty status in the Sanford Institute for Public

Policy, but will teach primarily within the Robertson program.

The Robertson Scholars Program, founded in 2000, is a merit scholarship program that brings together students from Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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While President WASHINGTON George W. Bush acknowledges the need for major changes in Iraq, he will not use this week’s Iraq Study Group report as political cover for bringing troops home, his national security adviser said Sunday.

“We have not failed in Iraq,” Stephen Hadley said as he made the talk show rounds. “We will fail in Iraq if we pull out our troops before we’re in a position to help the Iraqis succeed.”

But he added: “The president understands that we need to have away forward in Iraq that is more successful.”

ed the recommendations Wednesday from the bipartisan commission.

Yet his administration, hoping to find a new way ahead in Iraq, found itself on the defensive from the second recent leak of an insider’s memo on Iraq in a week.

The latest, first reported in Sunday’s New York Times, showed that Donald H. Rumsfeld called for a “major adjustment” in U.S. tactics on Nov. 6—the day before an election that cost Republicans the

Congress and Rumsfeld his job as defense secretary.

Hadley played down the memo as simply a laundry list ofideas rather than a call for a new course of action.

He said that Bush—just before a pivotal election—was not portraying a different sense of the war to the public than his own defense secretary was giving him in private.

Democrats did not buy that.

“The Rumsfeld memo makes it quite clear that one of the greatest concerns is the political fallout from changing course here in the United States,” said Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., the incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Friend of spy says he can ID killer tional terrorism on our hands. I happen to believe I know who is behind the death of my friend Sasha and the reason for his murder,” Shvets said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press by telephone from the United States, referring to Litvinenko by his Russian nickname.

Shvets, also a former KGB officer, declined to confirm the name of the person he believed was behind Litvinenko’s death because of concern it could disrupt the investigation. He also declined to offer details on a document he said he had given to the British officers.

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LONDON Britain’s senior law enforcement official said Sunday an inquiry into the death of a former KGB agent had expanded overseas, and a U.S.-based friend of the former agent said he told police the name of the person he believes orchestrated the poisoning.

Yuri Shvets said he had known the poisoned ex-spy, Alexander Litvinenko, since 2002 and spoke with him on Nov. 23, the day Litvinenko died following his exposure to a rare radioactive element, polonium-10.

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Administrators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have recently begun discussing a proposal to implement campus-wide tuition hikes for all UNC students, including graduate and professional students.

If the proposal passes in January, tuition and fees would rise next year by $250 for in-state undergraduates and by $5OO for out-of-state undergraduates and all graduate and professional students.

In the past, graduate and professional schools determined tuition changes independently of the undergraduate school.

The Durham Herald-Sun reported that the proposal has come from a concern among UNC administrators about the unity and character of the university.

“It’s important for all parties in the university that take advantage of the communal resources of the school to pay for them,” said Linda Dykstra, dean of the Graduate School at UNC. “Not doing this will cause fragmentation.”

Not all graduate students, however, agree with Dykstra.

“I don’t see how it would create unity,’’said Anshu Verma, first-year UNC medical student and Trinity ’O6. “A big concern is that the money [from campuswide tuition hikes] is going to go to services medical students don’t even use, like facilities on the main campus.”

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Durham community members congregated over jazz, conversation and birthday cake to celebrate the Regulator Bookshop’s 30th anniversary Saturday night.

Attendees called the event a success in honoring the community’s enduring support of the Ninth Street insdtution.

The bookstore was abuzz with activity as local authors, college students and families perused the shelves and the buffet spreads.

Soft jazz music played upstairs, where children sprawled out reading comic books alongside middle-aged women sipping Perrier in the religion section.

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“Most of the changes we have seen in AIDS history have been due to activism,” said Braithwaite, a member of the national AIDS activist group ACT UP. “Government just didn’t say, ‘Let us help these people because they need help.’ We had to put a lighter in their behinds.”

Braithwaite, who tested positive for HIV five years ago, said he acquired the virus during his time as a teenage prostitute and drug addict. He stressed the importance of the community and faith-based organizations reaching out to victims without passingjudgment.

“We need to meet people where they’re at and keep them safe—not condoning high-risk people, not condemning their behavior,” he said.

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In June 2001, the United Nations committed to a plan to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and guarantee treatment for those living with the virus by 2015.

Dec. 1, World AIDS Day, a panel sponsored by the Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life, the Black Student Alliance, and AQUADuke met to discuss whether communities and governments were living up to their obligations five years later.

“This year’s theme is accountability,” Ashley Walker, a junior and an LGBT student assistant, said at the opening of the program. “The theme is designed to inspire citizens around the world to hold their political leaders accountable for the promises that they have made on AIDS.” Panelists Richard Braithwaite, Bob Burwell and Jackie Clements focused on activism, awareness and their own personal experiences with the virus.

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A service organization that provides free tutoring to University employees celebrated its successes at a luncheon in the Old Trinity Room Saturday afternoon.

Sixteen University employees received English as a Second Language tutoring from 10 trained student tutors this fall as part of a program called Partners for Learning. Tutoring takes place both at the Marketplace and in Edens Quadrangle.

“I’m glad that we have this class to improve my English... that way we can have better communication with others and better opportunities,” Marketplace employee Saul Yanez wrote in a letter read aloud at the luncheon.

Senior Shian-Ling Keng and sophomore Jenny Terrell, who now serve as co-administrators of the workplace literacy division, merged two project ideas developed in Professor Tony Brown’s

Learning.

The program will continue to evolve.

Training in computer skills, which will be offered in English, will be available next semester.

Students are also planning to establish an advisory board to oversee the program.

Potential members of the board include Cindy Brodhead, Tony Brown, Kernel Dawkins, vice president of campus services, and Pearl Mason, a housekeeper in Perkins and Bostock libraries.

Lucy Haagen, adjunct lecturer in the Program in Education and former director of the Durham Literacy Council, is already serving as advisor to the program.

Haagen’s education class, to be taught in the spring, will allow students to participate in this and other literacy programs throughout Durham.

At the luncheon, Haagen emphasized

the wider social importance of literacy.

“When you become literate, you are liberated,” she said.

Students also acknowledged that the program’s goals extend far beyond workplace skills.

Those involved in the organization said they hope it will help students and employees get to know each other in a positive and personal way. Haagen said she envisioned employees teaching students language and cooking classes.

“PEL is a program that creates meaningful relationships between students and employees,” Keng said.

Student tutors said they have already gained a lot through the program.

Patricia Agustin, a senior and former Edens resident, said she has learned a number of things by serving as a tutor in her former dormitory.

“Getting to know the employees, getting to know the people who are there, has been incredibly rewarding,” she said.

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Informational events about AIDS Friday enabled students to inform the campus about the global epidemic, while other Duke leaders work to eliminate the need for World AIDS Day. The fight will be a difficult one, however.

“AIDS is an absolute pandemic that affects every continent and is continuing to grow,” said Sherryl Broverman, associate professor of biology.

The length of latency and stigma attached to the disease contribute to its continuation as a pandemic, she said.

Scientists at Duke’s Center for AIDS Research have been developing an AIDS vaccine, searching for therapeutic compounds and investigating opportunistic infections, said Kent Weinhold, GEAR director.

“Vaccine development is a real strength at Duke,” he said. “Duke plays a role in monitoring phase one and phase two clinical trials for two vaccines, which were developed outside of the

University.”

The vaccines will soon enter phase three, the final phase of clinical trials, Weinhold added. “The big hope right now is a vaccine that can prevent infection,” he said.

“Current treatments are expensive and difficult to make available to the third world,” Weinhold added.

Duke researchers have also discovered a new class of compounds called fuzeons, which inhibit cell fusion and are effective in AIDS therapy, Weinhold said. The drugs are fully licensed and being used to treat AIDS patients.

“There are new potentially therapeutic compounds in the lab, and they are looking to enter clinic trials soon,” he said.

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establishing a Ph.D. program as well.

“It acknowledges the achievements of

program for several years. He has served as a faculty partner, leader of first-year colloquium and most recently, faculty

a group ofbrilliantscholars and teachers and, in that few other programs around the country have departmental status, puts Duke at the leading edge of African American Studies Programs nationwide,” Charlie Piot, chair of the AAAS department, wrote in an e-mail.

The trustees also approved two dual-degree programs at the School of Law. The Global Business Law degree program will be in partnership with the University of Paris I and Sciences Po in Paris and available to 20 French students and 10 U.S. students annually.

In the two-year program, students will have, the opportunity to take courses in global business law, economics and French law and will receive aJD degree along with a “diplome d’etudes

superieures specalisees” degree.

“In thoroughly integrating U.S. and European legal studies, the JD/DESS program provides one more vehicle to equip Duke graduates to practice law in the global context,” Law School Dean

Katharine Bartlett said in a statement.

The law school will also establish a JD/Masters of Engineering Management degree program with the Pratt School of Engineering. It will build on the existing partnership that enables students to get aJD degree in conjunction with a master’s in engineering in three years, Bartlett said. The board also approved a jointM.D. program with the National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School and a joint Master of Management Studies degree between the Fuqua School of Business and Seoul National University.

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advisor.

“Tony Brown has served our program successfully in a variety of of roles already and I believe that he will continue to

serve our program well in his new ca-

pacity,” said freshman Robertson scholar Anthony Marzocca. “He has a great wealth of experience to share with us

and his focus on ethics will serve the program’s aims well.”

Brown is currently an active faculty member within the Hart Leadership Program and created the Enterprising Leadership Initiative, which has helped students start a number of self-sustaining organizations, such as the Center for Race Relations, Common Ground and Rival Magazine.

“Tony had a chance to do what he loved with the Hart Leadership Program—to be with students. The natural next step is for him to develop and realize a vision that is larger now,” said Alma Blount, director of the Hart Leadership Program. “He’s going to be doing some teaching, but more importantly, he’s going to be able to dream very big. It is his own ambition to take ideas to a whole new level.”

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arises from the fact that only a portion of the funds from campus-wide tuition hikes go to the individual schools, while money from school-based hikes go direcdy to the school.

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Tony Brown, a public policy professor, will become president of the Robertson Scholars Program July 1,2007.

The Robertson program’s unique rela-

tionship with the two universities and the scholars and resources it attracts, contribute to a promising future for the program that Mlyn helped found, Brown said.

“Dr. Mlyn was an incredible leader. He took a program that was expected to fail because of the school rivalry and brought it to the level of one of the nation’s best scholarship programs,” said junior Robertson scholar Andy Cunningham.

Brown’s new appointment was met with bittersweet sentiment among his colleagues at the Sanford Institute.

“I am thrilled for Tony because he is dents should be subjected to tuition hikes. But graduate schools should be allowed to determine their own prices because graduate students’ situations are usually much different than ours as un-

dergrads.”

UNO’s proposal follows closely behind North Carolina Central University’s deci-

sion in mid-November to significantly raise the tuition for their law school.

so fired up about this. He sees lots ofpossibilities,” Blount said. “It’s a huge loss for me and the Hart Leadership Program, but the predominant emotion is my happiness for him.”

Robertson scholars said they were eagerly anticipating Brown’s leadership of the program.

“I look forward to having Tony Brown as our new director.” said freshman Robertson scholar Winn Seay. “He has been renowned for accomplishing progressive change in the community and he will be be effective in helping our program to grow in the future.”

Duke’s own law students currently pay

$37,985 for tuition each year.

Duke law student YanivAdar said his tuition recently rose by about $3,000. Although he said the tuition hike didn’t bother him, he added that it might affect admissions.

“Duke is already one of the most expensive schools in the country for law, after all,” he said.

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ISLAM STUDIES from page 1 Arabic at the University of Qatar next year, is part of a boom in interest in Arabic and Islamic studies that has led to this spring’s Muslim Cultures Focus program, die development of an Islamic Studies Center and plans for a certificate program.

Since 2000, enrollment in Arabic classes and interest in Islamic studies has mushroomed.

Bruce Lawrence, professor of religion and director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center, said enrollment in Arabic classes has quadrupled from approximately 15 to more than 60.

Although student interest in an Islamic Studies major was significant, a dearth of funding and faculty for a new major-granting department led to the creation of an Islamic Studies certificate program as a compromise, Lawrence said.

Students from Trinity College and The Pratt School of Engineering can complete the six-course certificate, which will involve a two-year Islamic language requirement as well as an Islamic studies-oriented study abroad experience.

“The Islamic Studies certificate will provide both a tool kit and a mark of distinction for Duke undergrads who anticipate engaging the Muslim world and Islam-related issues either at home or abroad," Lawrence added.

University support for expansion George McLendon, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, said growth in the area of Islamic studies is part of a broader set of objectives in trans-cultural studies.

“We would like for all of you to be able to explore some culture beyond Western European civilization with the potential for some depth, because the world that you’re going to live in is going to be a lot more global than the one I grew up in,” McLendon said.

He explained that the University is focusing on Islamic studies because it is an area where Duke can differentiate itself.

“One reason is that we already have top scholars like Bruce Lawrence,” McLendon said. “We knew that we could

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to be conversational—able to bridge linguistic gaps and misunderstandings.

Lawrence said that among ROTC students, there is an intense interest in Arabic, owing to the likelihood that ROTC students will serve in the Middle East or elsewhere in the Islamic world.

“Language and culture are as important as politics, economics and “I think there has been an inpolicy,” Lawrence noted. “ROTC stuinterest that sort of dents especially know that they cancrease in not succeed without immersion in tracks the complex political interthe former as well as the latter.”

Increased student interest is not action that is going on between limited to the ROTC program. Senior the Islamic world and the U.S. Christine Schellack, a Chronicle staff member, said she is studying Arabic in right now.” reaction to the current global climate.

George McLendon of the war and Sept. 11...

“In light Dean, faculty of Arts and Sciences there are so many clips on CNN where there will be some Arab city, Moosa, associate professor of Islamic where there will be all this Arabic written Studies and director of the Center for the on the wall—or clips from Al-Jazeera Study of Muslim Networks, is an imam—- where it’s become this kind of threatena specialist in Islam—a scholar in Islamic ing language, this threatening code,” law and a juridical and legal scholar with Schellack said. “It’s grounding to suddena national reputation, Lawrence said. ly see logic in the code.”

Schellack and Afonso both praised the Money looms as a great impediment to for the Islamic Studies Center. expansion University’s investment in Islamic cultural Lawrence is currently chairing a programming for students. search committee for an endowed profesNasser Isleem, an Arabic instructor at also teaches at the University of Duke, Islam and the social sciences. sorship in “In five years, I would be thrilled if we North Carolina at Chapel Hill and could have five more faculty,” Lawrence Meredith College and brings together said. “If we get less than one [this year], I students from all three universities for an think I’ll resign.” array of programming.

“I’m a fan of integrating culture in Currently, it costs $2.5 million to hire a new faculty member, all of which must teaching languages,” Isleem said.

He also hosts three “coffee hour” come from an outside donor, he added. events, during which students learn about food, music and dance at small Capturing student interest A growth in student interest following restaurants or grocery stores. the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 has also To teach his students about the month played a role in the expansion of Arabic of Ramadan, he opens up his home four and Islamic studies. or five times to 140 students, so they can “I think there has been an increase in experience the rituals associated with interest that sort of tracks the complex breaking the fast in Muslim culture.

Schellack attended a coffee hour political interaction that is going on between the Islamic world and the U.S. event at Durham restaurant Baba Ganoush. She heard from the owner right now,” McLendon said.

Freshman Alex Salloum was motivated about his experience as a Palestinian man to enroll in Arabic because of his cultural raising his family in America.

The program involved dancing and background and involvement in Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. music and die students had an opportuSalloum said he expects to end up in nity to try a hooka pipe at the end of the Iraq or another Arab country, and he evening.

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Lawrence also noted the importance of illustrious faculty.

“The huge difference in Duke has been my colleague Ebrahim Moosa, who brings an extraordinary presence to campus,” Lawrence said.

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REGULATOR from page 3 “Cheese biscuits in the late evening, how great is this?” said Regulator employee Solomon Burnette, who viewed the event as a nod to the store’s regular customers.

“It’s a gathering of people who have always supported the Regulator,” he added.

Duke English Professor James Applewhite, whose poetry books are for sale in the store, commended the diversity of genres and materials available. Like most of the party’s attendees, Applewhite is a regular.

“This is sort ofmy bookstore,” he said.

Local photographer Bill Pope, whose greeting cards are for sale in the store, dubbed the longstanding institution an anchor for cultural development in the Ninth Street area.

“It makes Ninth Street what it is,” Pope said. “Franklin Street doesn’t have any

equivalent.”

Burnette, a senior at North Carolina Central University, said the Regulator differentiates itself from mainstream bookstores because it is geared to the reader interested in “more scholarly in-

quisition.”

“It advances my studies, working here,” Burnette said, adding that he was able to establish relationships with local authors whose work he became interested in through the bookstore.

The Regulator also presents a rare opportunity for area students and townspeople to interact, Pope said. He lamented the scarcity of students present Saturday due to the men’s basketball game versus

Georgetown.

Events like the anniversary party have the potential to greatly improve towngown relations, he said.

Pope’s photography, like the bookstore itself, has local perspective. He began to produce cards centered around Durham scenery when he noticed a lack of local greeting cards for sale in the store.

“There’s a lot of beauty in Durham that people don’t notice,” he said. “My focus is to try to make something local look beautiful.”

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“Nobody gave you that stuff, you laid down and you took it and at the time you was happy to get it. You just didn’t know what else came with it,” she said.

“HIV is preventable. You don’t have to have it,” Clements added.

As a member of President George W. Bush’s advisory council on AIDS, she also addressed a question from the the audience about president’s funding of abstinence-only programs in HIV/AIDS prevention.

“I think when you attack HIV, you have to attack it like an army going to war,” Clements said. ‘You got to do abstinence, you got to do condoms, you got to do whatever, but it all comes together to fight the same war.”

All three panelists emphasized that it is possible to live a productive life with AIDS today.

“I don’t live with HIV. HIV lives with me,” Clements said.

Burwell, who has been working in the physical fitness field for 20 years, said he was in better shape today than he was 23 years ago when he was diagnosed.

“Life with HIV, you have to earn. E-A-R-N. Exercise, attitude, rest and nutrition,” he said.

“Anyone can earn life, but with HIV you really have to work at it,” Burwell added.

Many attendees said they thought the panel was a success.

“I like to hear dialogues like this on campus —it’s a nice break from tailgating,” said junior Norman Underwood, president of AQUADuke. “You learn from discomfort. You learn from wandering into new territory.”

Others said they felt that the discussion might have been better served if it had addressed how the Duke community could directly take part in the fight against

HIV/AIDS.

“I wished I could have learned a little more about what I could do to help out,” freshman Priyanka Chaurasia said.

“They mentioned activism but I would love to find out more how I could get involved.”

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Weinhold added. “We have researchers who are studying the mechanisms by which fungi or bacteria take foothold in AIDS patients,” Weinhold said.

The Center for AIDS Research has extended internationally by establishing a clinical site in Tanzania, he said.

“We hope to translate findings to Moshi, Tanzania to improve clinic care for patients there as well,” Weinhold added.

The Global Health Institute hopes to work closely with groups in the Center for AIDS Research in finding new approaches for the treatment and prevention of AIDS, said Michael Merson, director of the institute.

Prior to taking the directorship at Duke, Merson was the director of a global health AIDS program for the World Health Organization.

“A great amount of momentum has been building up during the last five years in terms of monetary and research contributions to AIDS,” he said.

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comprehensive five-year program involving 15 billion dollars, has seen some early success in treating half a million people, Merson said.

Duke students are also taking an active role in combatting the disease by organizing campaigns to increase HIV awareness on campus.

Know Your Status is a student-run program that offers free and confidential HIV testing in the Bryan Center every Monday.

“We try to reduce the stigma associated with testing by providing a convenient and easy test with results in 20 minutes,” said senior Sarah Rutstein, founder and director ofKnow Your Status.

“At the same time, it is a serious test that is emotionally difficult for many people,” she added.

The program provides pamphlets and free condoms on site to encourage safe and informed sexual behavior.

“Many people seem to have the idea that the Duke bubble somehow protects you from someone who is HIV positive,” Rutstein said. “The next step for any program is to bring HIV home to Duke and inform students that this is a problem for everyone, whether you live in sub-Saharan Africa or not.”

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precedent, potentially placing profit motive ahead of student group well-being.

Despite these flaws, Star-

bucks will be a welcome addition to Duke. At present, those seeking a cup of Starbucks coffee must trek to Twinnie’s in the Fitzpatrick Center. The more central location, which will provide a greater range of the chain’s products, will serve those students who have long lamented the absence of a true Starbucks on campus.

Starbucks is popular throughout the country and the world, and there is little reason to think that this will not be the case among Duke

students as well In addition, the Bryan Center’s architectural layout renders it a less-than-ideal place for students to congregate. The space which Starbucks intends to occupy, however, is one of the few locations in the Bryan Center suited to such a task. Its presence will be both a boon to the Bryan Center’s role as a true student union and the proximate Plaza’s programming efforts.

Though it may be premature to crown the new Stan bucks a “place-to-be-seen space,” as Jim Wulforst has called it (that honor still belongs to Bostock), it will surely be, at minimum, a “place-to-meet” place, in the same vein of a von der Heyden Pavilion.

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of alienating local businesses with the impression, justified or not, that it caters to corporate giants like McDonald’s, and now Starbucks.

Further, the introduction of Starbucks will force two prominent student groups the Duke University Union and the Black Student Alliance —to vacate space they currently use for offices.

Although Duke has declared finding relocation space for these groups a top priority, space is limited on campus and it is unlikely that any solution will provide these organizations with as advantageous accommodations as they currently occupy. The promise of relocation to the rebuilt Central Campus is still years away, and the decision to evict

order to vent about things I’m annoyed with at the moment, in the Morning Wood version of “You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?”

“What kind of hippie am I? Man, I’m a business hippie, I understand the concept of supply and demand.” —H and K Supply and demand, a fairly simple economic concept. I got a B+ in Econ 1, so I’m confident in my knowledge of the theory. Supply goes up, demand goes down, more or less. When I look around campus, I notice a high supply of one commodity, indigenous to the highlands of Ethiopia: coffee.

And yet with all this coffee around, apparendy HOllday, IflOllday there’s still room for a Starbucks in the Bryan Center.

New I’m pretty sure that there are at least a half dozen the morning wood Why not take a places to get coffee IN the Bryan Center already. class taught by Hasn’t anyone who makes these kinds of decisions columnist David Brooks? too. heard the stories of the Starbucks influence?

Enjoy looking at sexy people? They got that, The sexiest, in fact. Professor Erich Jarvis is this Haven’t they ever seen South Park? It’s an f—ing cult. All their global blends are actually just laced year’s Sexiest Researcher, according to the all-knowwith nicotine. That’s why they’re able to charge such ing minds of People Magazine. absurd prices and keep’m coming back. The cusNow, after learning this, I immediately google imaged this guy to get my own feel for him, and you tomers are addicted.

And unlike the uplifting jams at such hotspots as know what? I was a little disappointed. From what I saw, he resembles David Blaine with a short afro. Alpine, I hear the mixes at Starbucks will hauntyour Ironically enough, The Chronicle reports that he dreams. I’m not trying to mess with no demonic noises haunting my dreams. also enjoys “performing magic, songbird vocalizaOne of my friends was telling me stories of worktion research and salsa dancing.” Damn, maybe he is ing on his ranch the other day. He said that one time sexy after all. they had a problem with wild pigs messing with the But of all the exposure we’ve received, all the famous professors and performers and speakers, I vegetation. Instead of heartlessly killing the animals, they decided instead to just simply stop them from would argue that the most significant, most influential presence on this campus is on his way. Today, multiplying. Thus, he was forced to barrel roll out of a Jeep and tackle these wild pigs on the move. He Duke University will play host to one of the great acthen had to flip them and slice away their reproductors/performers of this or any generation: Kumar. star and tive abilities with a giant knife pulled from his sock.

That’s right. The of the epoch Harold The squeals, he said, haunted his dreams for Kumar Go to White Castle and Van Wilder will be here, weeks, and he struggled to sleep. So next time you imparting his wisdom to a very fortunate few, hopefully including yours truly. And you best believe I’ll decide to go to Starbucks, I hope you too hear the be taking notes. squeals of the pigs. I hope you hear the squeals, and then turn and leave In fact, I’ve even scribbled down some prelimi“We’re not low” —H and K nary ideas for potential questions. I don’t want to As first reported by The Chronicle in Thursday’s have them entirely pre-made, as I would prefer to simply let his aura strike my creative juices in the paper, some Duke students to drugs, but not all. heat of the moment, but I’ll probably ask someWho’d a thunk it?

I wish I had some kind of authority figure to ask thing along the lines of, “what inspired your performance for the scene in Harold and Kumar where about this situation. Someone with influence and you shaved your privates to make your junk look grace. Someone with extensive knowledge on the subject. Someone like... Kumar. bigger?” and, “how difficult was it working in a hosAhhh, Duke. You’ve opened the world to me tile environment with an animal co-star, such as the again! scene in Van Wilder where you were forced to pleasure a dog for a prank?”

The Morning Wood misunderstood the term “Semi-forThe possibilities are endless. I’m giddy.

So, in honor of our distinguished speaker, I will mal” over the weekend, and it was quite embarrassing. Tom now use famous quotations from Kumar’s movies in Segal can’t believe how much better the Tarheels are than us.

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thank the sweet lord every morning I go to Duke. It is a privilege to attend such a prestigious University that presents me with access to most anything I could ask for. And I promise that no matter yourinterest, Duke will be a gateway for you too In the mood to watch some first class athletics at no cost? You need only walk down the street for that.

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The case for Christmas

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the most wonderful time ofyear—but you wouldn’t know it looking around Duke’s campus You’d probably find more Christmas decorations at your local mosque, A pretty sad showing for a university that Stephen miller boasts a Divinity School and a Trinity College— it's miller time and which is in the heart of a nation where 96 percent ofcitizens celebrate Christmas, a federal holiday.

There is absolutely no single logical reason why we shouldn’t have a Christmas tree on the quad and a Nativity scene in the Bryan Center. Eighty-five percent of our nation is Christian and every single one of us, Christian or not (I’m a practicing Jew myself), is living in a country settled and founded by Christians and benefitting daily from the principles of Christian philosophy on which our forebears relied.

Christianity is embedded in the very soul of our nation Yet its presence is visibly absent from our campus As a service to its students and staff, Duke should take it upon itself to recognize this crucial American holiday.

Of course, the messiah is likely to come before that happens, so the burden falls on student groups.

I urge every group ofChristian faith on campus to do whatever it can to bring the Christmas spirit publicly and passionately to Duke. There are sure to be many roadblocks, and I know the secular left has tried very hard to make you feel ashamed to broadcast your beliefs (while they so irritatingly broadcast theirs), but bringing ,

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Christmas to our campus is something that desperately needs to be done.

Sadly, there is nothing exceptional about Duke ignoring Christmas. It’s symptomatic of the larger anti-faith movement sweeping across our country. Somehow, a small group ofbitter atheists and secularists have convinced otherwise sane people to call trees that are bought for Christmas, decorated for Christmas and displayed on Christmas, not Christmas, but holiday trees; have purged Nativity scenes from public spaces even as courts have consistently upheld their constitutionality; have removed Christmas songs, Christmas displays and all things Christian from many of our nation’s schools; have scared major national retailers from permitting the words “merry Christmas,” to be shown or spoken on their premises; and have done this while launching no attack on the religious activities or symbols of other faiths.

Now I’m sure some of you are saying, what does it matter? Why is it so important that our society acknowledge and celebrate Christmas?

Christmas has come to represent and embody all that is good and righteous about the people of this country; it celebrates the values of charity, compassion and goodwill.

In contrast to the brutally cold hedonism of the atheist view, Christmas is a time filled with warmth and spirit.

It reminds us of the need to be good and caring, and to look to our creator for strength and courage. From the founding of our country to the earliest abolition movement to civil rights to our recovery and resolve in the wake ofSept. 11, it is faith and religion on which our society has depended to become and to stay the world’s most free and just nation.

As our country celebrates debauchery and debasement more and more, it is vitally important at this time ofyear to celebrate the values that have made our nation great

and call upon everyone in society, whatever their faith, to renew their commitment to uphold in their lives what is just and good.

I’ll let the facts speak for themselves; New polling data shows religious Americans donate four times more than secular Americans, and those who attend church are a staggering 23 times more likely to volunteer.

Atheists may talk about humanism and justice, but when you don’t believe in a soul or the ultimate truth of goodness and morality, then why live your life except in whatever fashion most plainly and immediately benefits you?

No just society can survive which abandons God. It’s of course up to you where you stand on the Christmas issue, so I’ll end with two representative proclamations about what this time ofyear means and you can decide which one speaks for you: The first was placed by the Freedom from Religion foundation in the Wisconsin state capitol as part of the Christmastime displays: “At this season of winter solstice may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world.

Religion is but superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.”

The second is a letter from our 22nd President, Calvin Coolidge; “To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world.”

Where do you think hopes lies?

Stephen Miller is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other

Monday.

letter totheeditor Keep OSAF space for students Wulforst’s comment in the Chronicle’s Dec. 1 article “BC may house new Starbucks” likening the current atmosphere in OSAF to a used-car lot is ridiculous and unwarrented. Mr. Wulforst, have you even stepped foot in OSAF? If you did, you would have felt the power and energy of students (YOUR CUSTOMERS) from every single organization on campus planning events to enrich and improve the campus life of every other Duke student. There will be no scheming people in faded cashmere blazers, just worn-out, bleary-eyed students who care enough about Duke to spend their every last waking moment in the “used-car lot” space that Duke so kindly provides.

Rather than replace what little space we already have, how about upgrading the space so that we can more efficiendy and professionally program events on-campus.

How about removing bureaucratic resistance rather than creating it? How about appreciating the commitment of student organizations to their own culture? How about not sacrificing this distinctive, creative and collaborative environment for a faceless, nameless corporate atmosphere?

How about not selling out? For once?

Please keep all OSAF space for what it is: the Office ofStudent Activities and Facilities (note that it is not called the Office of Corporate Enrichment).

The open glass windows provide premium space for student groups to communicate with campus. By seeing us work—and through us seeing other students walk by—the campus connection remains tight.

Do this, and you will have a lot less to worry about when you talk about fostering community on Duke’s campus.

Jim

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In the men’s basketball locker room, there are sheets of paper hung up next to each player’s locker with words of inspiration from Duke’s head coach. One line reads, “Out of adversity, a winner finds opportunity.”

So far this season, Greg Paulus has faced plenty of adversity, from a preseason foot injury to recent turnover troubles. But QcimG Saturday night against analysis Duke’s Georgetown, point guard heeded his coach’s words, leading the Blue Devils in their second-half comeback.

In doing so, Paulus left no doubt that his game is rounding into shape after a tough stretch and that his progress will be a major factor in this Duke team’s success.

After coming off the bench and playing a total of 43 minutes in Duke’s previous two wins over Davidson and Indiana, Paulus was back in head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s starting lineup against the Hoyas. The move did not immediately pay off, as Paulus turned the ball over three times in the first half, and Duke’s offense produced eight total field goals.

The second half, however, was a different story. Paulus scored all of his 13 points in the period, turning the ball over just once more —the one give-away was on an offensive charge call near Duke’s bench that easily could have gone the other way.

Paulus’ increased efficiency translated directly into better play for the whole team, and the Blue Devils bounced back from a seven-point halftime deficit to win by nine.

Despite experiencing fatigue and appearing to favor his foot at times, Paulus played a season-high 35 minutes.

“Tonight we said, ‘lt’s time to break some limits—you have to play more than

20 minutes and go after it,’” Krzyzewski said. “[Paulus] got off to a little bit of a shaky start, but then he really showed a lot of poise and toughness. He’s still not in the shape that he will be in, but he played with a lot ofcourage tonight.”

With Georgetown up 4947 at the 6:12 mark of the second half, Paulus scored the Blue Devils’ next six points. A minute after

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Krzyzewski said. “It shows how much these kids are together and want to play well. It

three with 11:41 remaining in the half.

The second half was a different story, however, as Georgetown went through a scoring drought of its own. It could not have come at a worse time for the Hoyas, who converted only one field goal in the game’s final 6:27 —a layup by Jeff Green with 44 seconds remaining.

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Greg Paulus started Saturday's gameand played a season-high 35 minutes, scoring 13 points in the second half.

hasn’t translated yet on offense but tonight it did at times.”

Duke picked up its 10th team foul with 6:27 remaining in the game, putting the Hoyas in the double-bonus. But the Blue Devils would only foul Georgetown once more, keeping the Hoyas off the foul line where they could slow Duke’s rally.

“We stopped fouling them,” Krzyzewski said. “Part of that was that we changed our point of pick up... then we added the doubling of the post so they couldn’t get a fluid move into the lane.”

Guards Greg Paulus and Jon Scheyer—both held scoreless in the first half—came up with numerous clutch baskets in the second. The backcourt duo accounted for six of Duke’s nine field goals in the half, including layups on assertive drives to the basket that Krzyzewski called “manly.”

“We just played harder,” Paulus said.

“We were more active defensively, we rebounded the ball a little bit better, and we were more aggressive. When you’re more aggressive and you’re attacking a little bit more, you’re going to make more plays.”

As much as the Hoyas struggled to hit shots throughout the second half, Georgetown was 14-for-18 on two-point field goals in the first and burned Duke on several backdoor cuts. Nonetheless, the Blue Devil defense held the Hoyas to only 26.1 percent shooting and forced 11 turnovers in the second half.

“They’re playing hard —they want to please,” Krzyzewski said of his team.

“They’re just young, and they have this

making two free throws, the sophomore captain tipped a Roy Hibbert miss to himself and took the ball coast-to-coast for the layup.

On Duke’s next possession, Paulus finished over the 7-foot-l Hibbert on a beautiful drive to the basket From there, The Blue Devils would never relinquish their lead.

“He seemed a lot more assertive and a lot more aggressive in the second half,”

Georgetown head coach John Thompson 111 said. “It seemed like the first half, he was trying to get everyone else involved in the game, but in the second half he decided to get himself involved.”

Panins’ play was not perfect Saturday night. Even while leading Duke’s charge, he did not pick up any assists in the second half, and he also air-balled a threepointer. Still, not coincidentally, his improvement mirrored that of the team’s.

With Paulus doing the majority of the ball-handling for Duke, Jon Scheyer and Josh Mcßoberts were freed up to focus on scoring on the offensive end. Scheyer scored all nine of his points in the second half, and Mcßoberts gave what Krzyzewski called a “star” performance. The Blue Devils’ offense may have only scored 61 total points, but its rhythm in the second half picked up, and it displayed some promise for the rest of the season.

More than that, Paulus showed his leadership qualities by fighting through injury and fatigue to lead Duke to the victory.

“I tried to hide it as much as possible, I just wanted to stay in the game,” Paulus said. “In that kind of game, you’re just thinking, ‘What do I have to do to help us—do I have to get a rebound, doubleteam in the post.’ I wasn’t thinking about my foot at all.”

Throughout his tumultuous beginning to the season, some observers have questioned Paulus’ ability to run Duke’s offense.

During halftime of the Georgetown game, one visiting reporter even said the Blue Devils would be better off without him.

Paulus left no doubt during the second half, however, that Duke is certainly better off with him running the point. His ball-handling might still need some work, but the smart plays he made and the way he took charge of the game showcased his potential as the leader of the Blue Devils’ offense.

Sophomoreforward Josh Mcßoberts led the Blue Devils in points, rebounds and assists Saturday night.

thing about being at Duke where people may not want them to be young. They want them to be perfect, and that’s not going to happen. I have to make sure that we enjoy this. It’s like you have teach our culture again.”

NOTES: With the win, Krzyzewski has 760 career victories and is now in sole possession of

10th place in NCAA history for most wins He is third among active coaches...

Georgetown’s 52 points is the most a Duke opponent has scored in Cameron this season. “If the score is 50-50, we know that we can win those close games,” Paulus said. “If we play more up-tempo with a higher score, we can win those games, too.” In six home games, Duke is outscoring its opponents 70.5 to 48.2.

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In the final game Saturday, San Diego (26-5) earned a 15-12 win to send Duke (294) home with a 3-2 match loss. The Toreros advance to the regional semifinal against No. 1 seed Nebraska in Gainesville, Fla. Friday.

“When a match goes to five games, thatkind of a game can go either way,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “Our team did a great job battling, and we played a very good San Diego team. To take that amount of time is tremendous. The season that we had is tremendous.”

The Toreros opened the fifth game with an 8-3 lead, but an 8-5 Blue Devil run brought the game within reach at 13-11. Duke put the pressure on and traded points with San Diego to put the score at 14-12 before the Toreros put the game away.

“We’re all a little down in the fact that when we think about how it was a three-point difference that kept us from advancing and moving on,” Nagel said. “It’s going to take a while for that feeling to leave us.”

After taking the first game of Saturday’s match, 30-27, the Blue

Though the schedule may list the game’s location as away, today’s matchup against Rutgers is more like a homecoming for freshman Bridgette Mitchell.

With the fifth-ranked Blue Devils (6-0) traveling to play the No. 18 Scarlet Knights (2-2) at 7 p.m. tonight, Mitchell will find herself in familiar territory. She attended sch ol Just TONIGHT, 7 p.m. hi Sh 30 minutes away NJ. Piscataway, from the Rutgers campus in Piscataway, N.J., playing basketball at The Peddie School in Highstown.

Rather than worrying about the opposing fans, Mitchell said SEE W. BBALL ON PAGE 4 she is excited about seeing her friends and family in the crowd.

In addition, Rutgers freshmen Rashidat Junaid was Mitchell’s former teammate on an AAU basketball team in New Jersey.

“All of my high school friends are coming out as well as everyone from my neighborhood,” Mitchell said. “I’m excited, just because everyone saw me play in high school, but now that I’m at the college level, it’s different.”

For the rest of the Blue Devils, however, tonight’s matchup, which is Duke’s second road game of the year, will help the team to become comfortable playing in hostile environments on the road.

Rather than be intimidated by the SAM HILL/THE CHRONICLE heckling of the opposing fans, Freshman Bridgette Mitchell returns to head coach Gail Goestenkors said she believes the Blue Devils will her home state ofNew Jersey in tonight's thrive off the energy. game against Rutgers.

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Devils hit a slump and dropped the second and third games, 2530 and 17-30, respectively. A Duke rally in the fourth, however, gave the Blue Devils a 30-27 win, tying the match score and forcing the fifth game.

“We had a bit of a lull in games two and three, but we really turned that around in game four,” Nagel said. “We made a few errors that let them get ahead in the fifth game—in this type of game, the team that makes the least errors wins. Both teams played tremendously. The game we played, it doesn’t get much closer than that.”

Carrie DeMange led Duke with 20 kills in the match, and the junior also had eight digs and four blocks. Senior Tealle Hunkus finished off her career

with 18 kills and 11 digs The team’s loss came on the heels of the first-round win Friday night. The Blue Devils beat the Lady Vols (19-11), 3-1, in the Stokely Athletic center, marking the first time Tennessee—which had reached the Final Four in 2005—had lost at home in the NCAA tournament.

Duke dominated the Lady Vols in the first game, 30-22. Tennessee took the second, 26-30, but the Blue Devils won the third and fourth games, 30-25 and 30-

27, respectively.

“It was a batde,” Nagel said.

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“We love the big-time games and big atmospheres because you pull together as a team,” Goestenkors said. “It has that ‘you-against-the-world’ kind of feel when you have the whole crowd cheering against you.”

The matchup against the Scarlet Knights begins a three-game stretch for Duke against ranked opponents, with Texas and Vanderbilt to follow. After lopsided wins for their first six games—in which their average margin of victory was 40.3 points—the Blue Devils know they are in for their first test of the season.

“We have to remember that we can’t just start the game and be up by 20 because we’ve been doing that,” senior Lindsey Harding said. “Any mistake that

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With such a strenuous non-conference schedule, the Blue Devils are preparing themselves not only for the upcoming ACC schedule but also for the NCAA Tournament.

“This is the kind of competition that we’re going to see in the ACC and in the NCAA Tournament,” senior Alison Bales said. “We need to have all of the challenges we can over the season to get us ready and see how we’re going to work against that type of competition.”

When the two teams meet, Rutgers will be without one of its best players. Junior

Matee Avajon was forced to miss the beginning of the season after having surgery to repair a left tibial stress fracture.

Despite Avajon’s absence from Rutgers’ lineup, Duke knows not to underestimate the ability of its opponent.

“We’re both young and missing key players,” Goestenkors said. “They’re the most athletic team that we’ve played so far, and they’ve got some incredible freshmen.”

Before they begin conference play, the Blue Devils will use these upcoming games to improve different aspects of their play, including rebounding and number of turnovers.

“You know that famous quote, ‘rebounding wins championships,”’ Bales said. “The last few games we’ve only outrebounded our opponents by two or three, and that’s just not good enough for our team.”

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great about it. It’s always encouraging and motivating when you beat a good team. It gave us extra incentive to go out there and try' to win the next game.”

And although Duke did not advance to the regional semifinal round, Nagel said its match against San Diego marked the end of a highly successful season for the Blue Devils, who won the ACC with a nearperfect league record.

“This team has accomplished so much, and we had tremendous leadership and a tremendous effort to challenge such a good team,” Nagel said. “It’s one of those special teams that you can only hope you have again. I know that we’re going to learn a lot from this, but it’s also very painful because we were so close. We have to remember what a great team and season this was.

It was just a tremendous accomplishment.”

sportsbriefs Hilltoppers top men’s swim team The men’s swimming and diving team lost to Western Kentucky, 131-111, Saturday at Taishoff Aquatic Pavilion.

Head coach Dan Colella said the meet was hard-fought, and he was pleased with individual performances in the events.

“Western Kentucky is a good team,” Colella said. “They came out and took first through third in a few events, and there you have the outcome. I was proud of the guys. A few people really stepped up today.”

Freshman Eric Winnard took first place and sophomore Nick Campisano placed second in the one-meter and three-meter diving events.

Freshman Andrew Clark finished second in the 1,000 and 500-meter free events, and freshman Tim McKeever took second in the 200 meter backstroke.

Junior Scott Champagne finished third in the 200 meter backstroke and second in the 200 meter individual r

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Ultimately, the Blue Devils’ experience was an aggravating one, however, filled with injuries and an inability to capitalize on tight matches.

In the 149-pund weight class, freshman Voris Tejada was the sole bright spot for Duke as he demonstrated impressive prowess on the mat, recording a fourthplace finish. His success over the weekend follows a fifth-place finish at the UPenn invitational Nov. 19.

“He competes very well—he has skills, he has strategy and match sense,” head coach ClarAnderson said. “He beat a lot of guys he wasn’t supposed to beat.”

Tejada’s success, which included a handful of one-point-wins, was not mirrored by his teammates, as he was the only Blue Devil to place in the tournament.

Bryan Gibson competed well, going 32 in the tournament, but he had to give up on his chances for placing at the tournament when he suffered a ligament tear in his thumb that will likely require surgery. Likewise, sophomore captain Dan Tulley had to bow out of the first round when he tore rib cartilage.

If the team can learn to take advantage of the bouts that come down to the wire and avoid the injury bug, it will be able to find the success it has expected all season, Anderson said.

“Everyone competed well, but it was just a frustrating tournament,” Anderson said. “They learned an awful lot here —learning how to compete and win those close matches is so critical, especially because everybody was so close.”

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