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TIDE TURNS IN LAX CASE Rape charges dropped, Dukereinstates 2 players

Dec. 15 DNA expert admits he withheld potentially exculpatory evidence for three indicted f lacrosse players.

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In a statement released Dec. 22, Brodhead explicitly criticized Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong for the first time.

“The district attorney should now put this case in the hands of an independent party, who can restore confidence in the fairness of the process. Furthermore, Mr. Nifong has an obligation to explain to all of us his conduct in this matter,” Brodhead said.

Monday’s letter re-affirmed the need to continue examining campus culture, while confirming the University’s offer to reinstate Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann.

Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann will not be on campus when classes begin today, and it is unlikely they will return for the spring semester, a number of sources close to the situation confirmed Tuesday.

University officials decided to reinstate the two early last week. The offer—which came nearly two weeks after rape charges against all three indicted members of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team were dropped—could allow Finnerty and Seligmann to graduate with their class and make them eligible for the upcoming lacrosse season.

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said family members of the players have said Finnerty and Seligmann will not return to Duke until charges against them of kidnapping and sexual offense have been resolved.

“I have heard that Collin is pretty likely to wait,” Moneta said. “I think Reade is leaning in the same direction, but I have received no confirmation.”

Finnerty’s father, Kevin Finnerty, said Tuesday he could not confirm any plans.

“He is considering all options but nothing until we resolve the charges,” Kevin Finnerty said.

Speculation is thatFinnerty will work this spring, study abroad in the fall and return to Duke to play lacrosse in Spring 2008.

Kevin Finnerty said his family is “pleased about the reinstatement” but must direct its attention to legal matters for the time being.

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It remains uncertain, however, whether Brodhead’s actions will pacify his vocal critics, who have assailed the president for his actions in recent months. ments

disbarment.

•Jan. 5 Former lacrosse player Kyle Dowd sues Duke and his professor—a member of the so-called Group of 88—after receiving a failing grade he said he did not

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CollinFinnerty (left) and David Evans meet outsideafter what wouldprove to be a pivotal Dec. 15 court hearing.

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Sophomore Claire Crowley passed away the evening of Dec. 23 after she was struck by a car earlier in the day.

Crowley was riding her bicycle when a moving vehicle hit her at approximately 5:15 p.m. near her home in Clemmons, N.C., Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said.

Crowley died five hours later. Wasiolek Wk said that to her knowledge no charges have been filed in the case.

Crowley’s friends praised the sophomore as a loving, devoted friend Claire Crowley who always had a great sense of

David Levi, chief U.S. district judge of the Eastern District of California, has been selected as the new dean of the School of Law, University officials announced Jan. 3.

“We looked for someone who could give outstanding intellectual and educational leadership to the school and inspire it with a deep sense of the meaning of the law,” President Richard Brodhead wrote in an e-mail. ‘Judge Levi has won the highest respect in his distinguished career and will make a great leader for Duke Law.” Renowned as a national figure in legal reform and civil procedure, Levi, 55, will take on the position July 1 and will succeed outgoing Dean Katharine Bartlett upon approval by the Board of Trustees later this month.

“I’m thrilled to be here,” Levi said. “[Duke] is a wonderful place to be a scholar and to be a teacher

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Gwynn, Ripken elected to Hall

Baseball greats Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken were elected to the sport's Hall of Fame Tuesday. Slugger Mark McGwire, however, tainted by allegations of steroid use, fell far short of the required 75 percent.

50 insurgents killed in Baghdad strife by

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BAGHDAD, Iraq U.S. jets screamed low over the capital and helicopter gunships swooped in to pound a central Baghdad battleground Tuesday, supporting Iraqi and American troops in a daylong fight that officials said killed 50 insurgents in a militant Sunni Arab stronghold.

The battle raged on Haifa Street about 11/2 miles north of the heavily fortified Green Zone—home to the U.S. Embassy and other facilities—on the eve of President George W. Bush’s expected announcement that he would send 20,000 more soldiers to Iraq despite growing op-

position on Capitol Hill.

It was the second major confrontation on Haifa Street in the four days since Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced a new drive to rid Baghdad of sectarian fighters.

The U.S. military said about 1,000 Iraqi and U.S. soldiers carried out “targeted raids to capture multiple targets, disrupt insurgent activity and restore Iraqi Security Forces control of North Haifa Street.”

“This area has been subject to insurgent activity which has repeatedly disrupted Iraqi Security Force operations in central Baghdad,” said a statement quoting Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl,. spokesman for

Multi-National Division Baghdad.

He said the U.S. jets buzzing the city did not conduct any airstrikes, but “attack helicopters were used to engage targets in support of the ground forces.”

Bleichwehl said no American or Iraqi soldiers were killed. He did not address the number of militants killed, while the Iraqi Defense Ministry reported 50 deaths among insurgents.

Elsewhere on Tuesday, Iraqi police reported finding 52 bodies dumped in three cities, 41 of them in Baghdad, all apparent victims of sectarian reprisal killings.

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Apple rolls out iPhone, new name by

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SAN FRANCISCO Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs announced Tuesday the iPod maker’s long-awaited leap into the mobile phone business and renamed the companyjust “Apple Inc.,” reflecting its increased focus on consumer electronics.

The iPhone, which will start at $499 when it launches in June, is controlled by touch, plays music, surfs the Internet and runs the Macintosh computer operating system. Jobs said it will “reinvent” wireless communications and “leapfrog” past the current generadon of smart phones.

“Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything,” he said during his keynote address the annual Macworld Conference and Expo. “It’s very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career....

Apple’s been very fortunate in that it’s introduced a few of these.”

He said the company’s name change is meant to reflect Apple’s transformation from a computer manufacturer to a full-fledged consumer electronics company.

During his speech, Jobs also unveiled a TV set-top box that allows people to send video from their computers and anat

nounced the number of songs sold on its iTunes Music Store has topped 2 billion.

Apple shares jumped more than 8 percent on the announcements, while the stock ofrival smart-phone makers plunged.

The run on Apple stock created about $6 billion in shareholder wealth.

While Jobs noted the explosive growth of the cell phone market, it’s not clear that a device as alluring as the iPhone poses a threat to mainstream handset makers due to the price, said Avi Greengart, mobile device analyst for the research firm Current Analysis.

Copters target Somali fighters Attack helicopters strafed suspected alQaeda fighters in southern Somalia on Tuesday, witnesses said, following two days of airstrikes by U.S. forces—the first U.S. offensives in the African country since 18 American soldiers were killed there in 1993.

House passes terror cargo bill Anti-terror legislation sped toward passage in the House Tuesday, the first in a string of measures designed to fulfill Democrats' campaign promises. The far-reaching measure includes commitments for inspection of all cargo carried aboard passenger aircraft and on ships bound for the United States.

Army private was diagnosed An Army private charged with the slaughter of an Iraqi family was diagnosed as a homicidal threat team three months before the attack. Pfc. Steven Green was found to have "homicidal ideations"after seeking help from an Army Combat Stress Team in Iraq.

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The vandalism affected Bell Tower, Blackwell, Gilbert-Addoms, Jarvis and Randolph dormitories, along with many East Campus benches and Duke’s property at 705 Broad St. “The graffiti extended across the entire backyard quad and into the Ninth Street area,” said Officer David Dyson of the Duke University Police Department.

Dyson said that during his time patrolling Duke, he has never seen another case' of vandalism as bad as the current graffiti on East Campus.

“We currently have no leads on the case, but if the artists would like to come forward and identify themselves, we would appreciate it,” Dyson joked.

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Benches, windows and other areas on East Campus were grafittied at some point during Winter Break.

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Students began setting up their tents before Christmas to secure entry to the Duke-UNC gameFeb. 7.

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A week before Christmas, when most students were returning home for Winter Break, the men and women of tent one were beginning their long campaign against winter—and the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“We got out here the day after exams ended,” senior Cameron Harrison said.

The blue tenters are warriors of a different breed—the sixth man, now nearly 700 strong, competing not for the win in the men’s basketball matchup Jan. 7—but for a small berth upon the bleachers from which to witness it.

During winter break, only a few tents dotted the hallowed ground—christened “Krzyzewskiville” in 2002. Three weeks later, the makeshift village is crowded with Dukies awaiting admission to the contest between Duke and its lighter-blue-wearing rivals.

Prior to tenting season, many lamented “Crazie” vacancies in the student section at basketball games.

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table exceptions, undergraduate attendance at many men’s basketball games has been less than stellar,” Duke Student Government President Elliott Wolf, a junior, wrote in a Dec. 15 e-mail to undergraduates. “Freshman turnout has been especially low compared to previous freshman classes.”

Despite lackluster freshman presence at other games, freshman KC Steedle of tent two insists this won’t be the case for the matchup against UNC. “I think there are a lot of freshmen tenting, so I’m pleased. Tent four has several, tent five, and [Gilbert-Addoms second floor] is in tent 11.”

The short tenting season has attracted a considerable number of students willing to forgo a dormitory bed, said Head Line Monitor Mara Schultz, a senior.

“We’ve about hit the cap for blue tents,” she said. “If you blue tent, you’re guaranteed a spot—white is more of a gamble.”

10.4-percent increase over applications three years ago. The University expects to admit 1,665 students, including the 475 students admitted early in December.

“Anytime we have a pool this close to being a record, I’m going to be pleased,” said Christoph Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions.

He added that there was more uncertainty about prospective applicants than in previous years, due in part to the media attention the University has received in the wake of the lacrosse scandal.

“We didn’t really know what to expect this year... but I expect that we’ll find out that it’s a really talented pool,” he said.

“Our applicants are knowledgeable and they’re pretty sophisticated in their thinking about colleges, and I think that in the end they thought about Duke as a whole and what the overall meaning and opportunity of a Duke education are.”

Among this year’s applicants, a record 1,756 students applied from North and South Carolina.

The number of minority applicants also increased from last year, Guttentag said, with this year’s pool including 1,252

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Genetest guides chemotherapy TAIPEI Scientists in Taiwan have developed a simple, five-gene test aimed at showing which lung cancer patients most need chemotherapy, as similar tests now do for people with breast cancer and lymphoma. Widespread use is still a few years away, however, it's already winning praise for its possible use in everyday hospital settings. "[This is] further proof that understanding genetic signatures may be helpful in how we treat patients.lt may even allow us to avoid treating some patients," said Dr. David Johnson, a lung cancer expert at Vanderbilt University.

Hospital staff sanitation urged Hospitals WINSTON-SALEM around the country are paying more attention to the simple act of handwashing, pushed by increasing awareness of hospital-contracted infections and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Fifteen states now require hospitals to disclose their infection rates, including Virginia, Tennessee and South Carolina, A bill that would have required North Carolina hospitals to do the same died in the General Assembly last year.

find success,” Olson said The study aims to apply genetics trends among hundreds ofpaMarcom and a Dr. P. Kelly tients treated for breast cancer in team of researchers from the Duke Comprehensive Cancer the past to individual patients, Center, Duke Institute for Marcom said. Such an approach Genome Sciences and Policy and represents “quantum leap” in the personalized nature of breast the Multidisciplinary Breast CanDuke were awardcancer therapy. cer Program at “We firmly believe that a globed a $6.8-million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to al assessment of a patient’s breast cancer biology can revolutionize explore personalized chemotherearly stage breast cancer treattreatment options guided by apy ment by allowing the design of ingenetic qualities, officials andividualized therapy directed by nounced Monday. chemotherapy gene expression signatures,” MarCurrently, com said. treatment options are primarily Currently, such patients are chosen based on physical features of tumors, including their sizes, often treated using various forms locations and trends of growth, of chemotherapies, Olson said.

In the study, about 120 pasaid Dr. John Olson, a surgical of tients will be treated using geand oncologist co-investigator nomic-guided chemotherapies. the study.

The grant money will be used Marcom said researchers will later over roughly the next five years to compare these outcomes to the success of traditional strategies. allow oncologists, surgeons, geThe use of more efficient neticists, pathologists and biostatisticians to work to assess the treatments during the early stages worth of ‘genetic signatures’ in of chemotherapy would not only improve the odds of a woman surchoosing treatment options, researchers said. These signatures, viving her cancer, but it would or distinct groupings of genes in also reduce the need for masteca tumor, will be used to guide tomies, Olson said.

If successful, the test could be chemotherapy options. available to patients in four to five Scientists will study how particular genetic signatures react to a years, Marcom said.

“The development of gene exspecific chemotherapy. Once they identify ideal matches, scientists pression-based predictive biocan then immediately begin the markers represents an exciting best course of treatment, said next step to better identify and Marcom, clinical director of the apply cancer treatments,” Olson Multidisciplinary Breast Program. said. “This study is one of the “This information can be used very first examples where gene to guide the choice of therapy expression will be been applied to the clinical management of rather than having to apply opto cancer.”

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Edwards’ Dec. 27 video, titled “Tomorrow Begins Today” previewed his announcement to run for the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nomination.

“Tomorrow morning, from this place, I will announce that I am a candidate for president of the United States,” he said, addressing viewers around the country. “I will ask millions of Americans, including you, to join me in taking action and taking

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responsibility.”

Posing with volunteers working to rebuild a home in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward, Edwards urged supporters to “take action now” in his video.

Since the 2004 election, the former North Carolina senator and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law graduate has served as director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at his alma mater.

He has simultaneously traveled around the world, promoting awareness for a number of issues ranging from genocide in Darfur to poverty at home.

Since releasing “Tomorrow Begins Today,” Edwards has posted videos of several other events to keep tech-sawy supporters up to date on the progress of the campaign.

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John Edwards, a former N.C. senator and vice presidential candidate, will run for president in 2008. has expanded to include profiles on Facebook, flickr.com and myspace.com.

long time,” Edwards wrote in a note on his Facebook profile Dec. 28. “But even His interests listed on his Facebook pro- more important, no place better demonfile include “fighting poverty, raising strates the power people have when the minimum wage and stopping geno- they—not Washington—take responsibilcide in Darfur.” ity and take action to build the America “I’m announcing [in New Orleans] we believe in.” because no place better demonstrates the two Americas I’ve talked about for a

nounced this month.

The city has reported a total of 14 homicides for 2006 and five additional killings, which were declared to be in self-defense and not included in the total annual homicide count. In 2005, 35 homicides were recorded in Durham.

At the beginning of 2006, Durham Mayor Bill Bell stressed that the city needed to focus on homicides, outlining illegal guns, drugs and economics as issues affecting the homicide rate.

Durham Deputy Police Chief Ron Hodge said some people in the community have attributed the lower homicide rate to community outreach programs that focus on teaching youth better dispute-setdement methods.

He added, however, that the trend couldn’t be attributed to one source.

“Murder rate is difficult to project or control, especially because most of the time there was some sort of prior relationship between the victim and the assailant,” he said.

Bell said that the efforts of schools, civic organizations and the police department in Durham helped to reduce the

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Two researchers have been heralded by several magazines for their development of an "invisibility cloak."

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An invisibility cloak designed by Duke researchers has attracted national attention in several top science magazines.

In its December issue, Science Magazine recognized the invisibility cloak, which uses metamaterials to reflect electromagnetic light waves around an object, as the fifth most influential discovery of 2006.

To make the list, a new scientific advancement must make a strong contribution in its particular subfield, said Donald Kennedy, editor-in-chief ofScience. “[We ask] is it likely to change the focus of research in the field,” Kennedy

Irving Alexander, professor emeritus of psychology, died Jan. 3 of a heart attack in Cameron Indoor Stadium just before the start of the Duke-Miami women’s basketball game. He was 84.

Alexander spent seven years as the chair of the psychology department and served on the Academic Council, in addition to teaching, counseling and training clinicians.

He also worked as a consulting psychologist at the Durham VA Hospital and in Halifax County schools.

He served as the president ofthe Amer-

icanAssociation for Gifted Children, an affiliate of the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy, and worked closely with the organization until his death.

He was also a member of the American Psychological Association and a cofounder of the Society of Personology.

He is survived by his brother Philip, son David and daughter Kay Robin.

Alexander was buried Jan. 5 in Putnam Valley, N.Y. Memorial contributions may be made to the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy.

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Apple currendy commands about 75 percent of the market for downloaded music and portable music players. But it’s expected to lose market share on both fronts as rivals introduce their own gadgets and music stores.

Jobs said Apple expects to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008, die first full year in which they’ll be available. That’s about 1 percent of the global market for mobile phones; 957 million were sold worldwide in 2006.

The Apple phones, which will operate exclusively on AT&T Inc.’s Cingular Wireless network, will start shipping in June. A 4-gigabyte model will cost $499, while an 8-gigabyte iPhone will be $599. While wireless carriers typically offer discounts and rebates on new devices when they agree to sign a two-year service contact, Cingular said it was unclear whether this would be the case with the iPhone.

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said. “Is it a kind of breakthrough that represents a new insight into a process of human importance?”

The invisibility cloak, primarily researched by Duke scientists David Schurig and David Smith, was included in the list of influential breakthroughs because there is a serious prospect for creating cloaks that could actually hide an object from visible light, Kennedy said.

“There is a lot of potential promise in that [area] right now,” he said.

The creation of the invisibility technology is even more important because optics and electromagnetics are very old fields

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such as Palm Inc. Tim Bajarin, principal analyst with Creative Strategies, said the iPhone could revolutionize the way cell phones are designed and sold.

“This goes beyond smart phones and should be given its own category called ‘brilliant’ phones,” he said. “Cell phones are on track to become the largest platform for digital music playback and Apple needed to make this move to help defend their iPod franchise as well as extend it be-

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REINSTATEMENT from page 1 “Collin’s view is that he can’t reinstate proceedings are over,” Kevin Finnerty said. “If things get dropped... I think there is a good chance he might be back.”

Seligmann was not available to speak about whether he will re-enroll at Duke, but he has expressed a desire to return to campus eventually.

“We are also glad that Duke University has now made it clear that Reade is welcome to return to the University and look forward to the day that he can return to living a normal life and continuing his education as a full-time student,” the Seligmann family said in a Jan. 3 statement. “By now it should be plain to any person who has any objectivity that the charges against Reade are transparently false.”

Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong dropped rape charges Dec. 22 against Finnerty, Seligmann and David Evans, who graduated with his class last May. All three indicted players still face charges of kidnapping and sexual offense.

Assault charges against Finnerty, who was sentenced to six months probation in July in connection with a November 2005 attack on two bar patrons, were recently dismissed.

Administrators attributed Finnerty’s and Seligmann’s reinstatements to recent shifts in the tide of the case.

“We have decided that the right and fair thing to do is to welcome back Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty to resume their studies at Duke for the spring semester,” President Richard Brodhead said in a statement. “Although the students still face serious charges and larger issues require Duke’s collective attention, the circumstances in this case have changed substantially, and it is appropriate that -the students have an opportunity to continue their education.”

In a memo to Brodhead Jan. 2, Moneta said that although the charges against the two are still unresolved and very serious, the “totality of circumstances” has changed in such away that the University now feels the two should have the chance to resume as students in good standing.

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Defense lawyers have called for the two remaining charges against three lacrosse players to be dropped. the gravity of legal charges with the presumption of innocence, and concern for the well-being of the community with the students’ needs to continue their education,” Moneta said in the report. “Circumstances have clearly changed. At this point, further extension of the students’ leaves would do unwarranted harm to their educational progress.”

Should they ultimately choose to return this semester, Finnerty and Seligmann would be eligible to compete for the Blue Devils this spring, members of the Department of Athletics confirmed last month.

“There would be no question as to their eligibility,” said Chris Kennedy, senior associate director of athletics.

After their interim suspension ended this past August, Finnerty and Seligmann were placed on administrative leave until they were reinstated.

Throughout the ongoing legal case, men’s lacrosse head coach John Danowski has maintained his stance that the indicted underclassmen would be eagerly welcomed back to the team once they were reinstated to the University. He reiterated his desire for the players to return in an interview with The Chronicle last month.

Though the complete schedule has not been released, Duke begins its 2007 campaign at home against Dartmouth Feb. 24.

Greg Beaton and Ryan McCartney contributed to this story.

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The lawsuit filed in Durham County Court states that Kim Curtis, a visiting political science associate professor, originally failed Kyle Dowd, Trinity ’O6, because he was a member of the team that became embroiled in the national controversy after an exotic dancer accused several men of assaulting her at an offcampus party.

According to court papers, Dowd had received ‘C’s on his work up to that point in the semester—work that would have counted for 50 percent of his overall grade. After the March 13 party, Dowd said he received ‘F’s for his class participation and final assignment, causing Curtis to issue a failing grade for the course.

The University ultimately allowed Dowd to graduate, counting extra transfer credits from Johns Hopkins University, which Dowd had attended for two years. Over the summer, Duke changed the grade from an ‘F’ to a ‘D,’ citing a calculation error. Had his original two grades been averaged with the two failing grades, it would have resulted in a ‘D.’ Because of the circumstances, however, the lawsuit asks for the grade to be changed from a TV to a ‘P’ for “passing.”

It also asks for $60,000 in damages.

Dowd could not be reached for comment. Dowd’s younger brother was one of four lacrosse recruits who chose to commit elsewhere while Duke’s program was suspended last spring. He is now at Georgetown University. Curtis could not be reached for comment. Messages left at her home and at the number provided by the Department of Political Science were not returned.

Curtis was one of 88 professors who signed the controversial ad entitled “What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?” in an issue of The Chronicle last spring. John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, said the University’s lawyers are reviewing the lawsuit.

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BRODHEAD from page 1 “We still have work to do on this campus,” Brodhead wrote. ‘We must work together to restore the fabric of mutual respect”

Kevin Finnerty, Collin’s father, told The Chronicle last week that he approves of the University’s evolving attitude toward the case.

“I’m very pleased that Duke has made theiroffer and that they have reconsidered their position,” Kevin Finnerty said. “We were disappointed with how they handled Collin and the case up until now but we’re pleased that they’ve gotten to this point.”

Some ofBrodhead’s critics offered tempered praise for the president’s actions.

“In the short term, Brodhead’s position is very good, though it’s a better-late-thannever sort of approach,” said KC Johnson, a professor at Brooklyn College who publishes the blog “Durham-in-Wonderland.” is still ignorJohnson said Brodhead issues. some important ing “He doesn’t address the longer-term problems in the case, the rush-to-judgement attitude by some of the faculty and the administration’s unwillingness to stand up against Nifong even long after the depth of his improprieties had become revealed,” Johnson said.

Brodhead did not respond immediately Tuesday night to a request for comment.

Another frequent critic, “Friends of Duke University,” said it was disappointed by the president’s “rationalizations and justifications” expressed in the letter.

“We’re hoping that in the future there will be some inquiry to look into the administration’s handling of the case,” said Jason Trumpbour, the group’s

spokesperson.

“I also think it was unnecessary for him in the letter to try and defend the Group

of 88.... It’s very disappointing to see him try to defend that ad,” Trumpbour said, referring to an advertisement placed in The Chronicle April 6, which was signed by 88 professors and asked “What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?”

In his letter, Brodhead alluded to “vile abuse” that some professors have suffered in past months.

“A group of Duke faculty members (including a number of African-American faculty) have been widely attacked in blogs and emails—and in some cases personally attacked in highly repugnant and vicious terms—based on caricatured accounts of their statements,” Brodhead wrote.

Trumpbour rejected that analysis, noting that much of the criticism has been polite and that some professors have responded with “intemperate responses.”

“It’s grossly unfair for President Brodhead to try and paint us with a broad brush,” Trumpbour said.

Johnson echoed that sentiment.

“Brodhead’s statements in the letter [Monday] were a step backwards,” he said. “I don’t think treating all students with respect is an unreasonable demand for a president to make of his faculty there are things Brodhead could have done other than censorship.”

Trumpbour said his group is generally pleased with Brodhead’s recent actions.

“It took him a while to do the right thing, but now we’re happy,” Trumpbour said. “In the past few weeks, he’s done exactly what we’ve asked him to do.”

Toward the end of his letter, Brodhead called for civility on both sides.

“We need to be less quick to take offense at the words of others, and work harder to understand what others are actually trying to say—even if we disagree with it,” he wrote.

Ryan McCartney contributed to this story.

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Sophomore Claire Crowley was killed in her hometown of Clemmons, N.C., in a bicycle accident Dec. 23.

CROWLEY from page 1 humor and a smile on her face “Claire honesdy was one of the most beautiful and amazing people that I’ve known in my life,” said sophomore Laura Cannon, who became friends with Crowley after they lived together in the same freshman dormitory.

“I think the thing that I appreciated most about Claire was the way that she was always genuine, she was always completely herself and very at ease with herself—very proud and confident in everything that she did,” she added.

On campus, Crowley was vice president of the women’s ultimate team, Chakra, and was also active in the Women’s Institute for Secondary Education and Research, a Duke program that aims to create a boarding school for girls in Kenya.

Crowley’s biology professor, Sherryl Broverman, said Crowley developed a strong interest in gender inequality in Kenya when she took a class taught by

Broverman on AIDS and emerging disease last fall.

“Of her own accord, she definitely took on a leadership role,” Broverman said.

Through WISER, Crowley was working to create a summer program on adolescent health and leadership and had planned to work at the camp in Kenya next summer.

“She was really excited. She was really getting pumped up about going this summer,” Broverman said. “She put a lot of energy above and beyond the class into the

project.”

Crowley’s funeral was held Thursday, Dec. 28 at Clemmons Presbyterian Church. Wasiolek said several students, faculty and other members of the Duke community were in attendance.

In honor of the sophomore, a Claire Crowley Memorial Fund at the Duke University Women’s Institute for Secondary Education for Muhuru Bay, Kenya, has been established.

The fund is currently accepting donations at Box 90338, Durham, N.C.,

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Hispanics, 2,037 black and 4,995 Asian and Asian-American students. Guttentag added that Duke now has one of the most diverse student bodies in the country.

“For the last half a dozen years, Duke has been a more diverse place than people have understood or given us credit for,” he said.

“What we’re starting to see is perception catching up with reality and students and families understanding that this is a place [at which] a lot of different people can be comfortable,” Guttentag added.

Though the 3.3-percent decrease in regular-decision applicants is within a normal range of fluctuation, Guttentag said, the number of students who applied early to the Class of 2011 declined by nearly 20 percent.

Duke admitted 475 students early from a pool of 1,198 applicants, who were notified Dec. 15. The number of accepted students is in line with last year’s 467, though the Class of 2010 had a record-setting 1,496 early applicants.

Guttentag said the decline in the number of early applications could be attributed to a combination of reasons, but cited media coverage of the lacrosse case as a likely contributing factor.

“We all would have been surprised if there had been no effect from any of the publicity,” he said.

The recent decisions of Harvard College, Princeton University and the University of Virginia to eliminate early application in 2007 may have also created a lesser sense of urgency nationwide to apply early to college, he added.

“The students who apply early decision are typically plugged into national conversation,” said David Hawkins, director of public policy for the National Association for College Admission Counseling. “Maybe students are looking at it and reassessing that it’s the best thing for them.”

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According to data collected by NACAC, the number of early applications has been increasing at selective colleges across the country for the past five years.

Last year, more than 75 percent ofcolleges and universities reported having more early decision applications than in previous years, he added.

“Based on past performance, Duke’s numbers seem to be different [this year] than the national trend,” Hawkins said.

“It could very well have something to do with the [current] image of the institution in some people’s eyes.”

The quality of students accepted early this year, however—based on six factors including standardized test scores, academic performance and letters of recommendation—remains as strong as those accepted early last year, Guttentag said.

He added that admissions officers do not aim to fill a certain number of spots in a class through early decision, but instead base acceptance on applicant

quality.

“The fact that we admitted the same number was not by design,” Guttentag said. “What we planned to do was just admit the most compelling applicants... and in that respect there’s no difference between this year’s early-decision admits and last year’s early-decision admits.”

He added that he spent more time this year than last year reviewing decisions.

“I wanted to be careful this year with the decisions that we were making,” he said. “I wanted to make sure as well as we could that we’ve gotten all the decisions as right as we could get them.”

Of the students admitted early, 25 percent are students of color—a recordhigh for early decision. Fifty-two percent of the students are women, 14 percent were admitted into the Pratt School of Engineering and 36 percent of the students applied for financial aid—up from last year’s 34 percent.

The most highly represented states were North Carolina, New York, Florida and Massachusetts.

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LEVI from page 1 be a student.... I’m looking forward to being loyal to and being part of, an institution that cares about excellence and providing wonderful training to new lawyers and scholarship that will advance our understanding and improvement of legal instruction.”

Levi was chosen after an eight-month national search composed of more than 200 candidates. He was selected from among three finalists as the University’s first choice, Provost Peter Lange said.

“We were looking for strong intellectual leadership, strong preparation for leading a professional school and a person of vision and energy, and [Levi] has all of those qualities,” Lange said. “I think he’s going to be super.”

After graduating from Stanford Law School in 1980, Levi clerked in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell. He became a prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California in 1983 and was appointed the U.S. Attorney for the district in 1986.

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EDWARDS from page 5 Allan Kornberg, Norb F. Schaefer professor of political science, said Edwards’ use of the Internet is both an attempt to harness the support of young Americans and to win free publicity —something Edwards will need. “[Edwards’] big problem is a lack of money,” Kornberg said, adding that if Edwards had funding comparable to that of other potential candidates including Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y, or Barack Obama, D-IIL, he would be a formidable opponent. “[Howard Dean] pioneered the use of the Internet to raise funds,” Kornberg said. “It’s not a bad strategy if you’re looking for volunteers.”

Despite others’ criticisms about Edwards’ performance in 2004, Kornberg said Edwards will be able to relate to the average American better than other members of the Democratic Party.

“He’s good looking and has a great family and a great story,” Kornberg said. “Other than being a trial lawyer, he has no negatives.”

Kornberg attributed the failure of the 2004 campaign to Kerry, rather than to Edwards.

“Kerry made two big mistakes,” Kornberg said. [He] ran a terrible campaign and instead of letting Edwards speak, he shuffled him off to the boondocks.”

Still, the road to Pennsylvania Avenue for Edwards is likely to be a bumpy one, Kornberg said.

With potential competition including a number of well known politicians such as Obama, Clinton and John McCain, R-Ariz., Edwards will have to work to earn the attention of the American public.

“He doesn’t have the same kind of visibility [as the other likely candidates],” Kornberg said, noting that Edwards lacks funding available to some of his potential opponents. “If you want to get on television, you’ve got to pay for it.” “

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Levi said he had always considered teaching law and readily accepted the deanship at Duke, though leaving the bench will be a change “of some magnitude.”

Thirty-eight judges have left the federal bench in the past six years, including 17 in the past two years, according to a year-end report released by John Roberts, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Roberts also noted that full-time U.S. District Court judges are paid about half that of deans and senior law professors, leading many to leave the public sector for higher-paying private jobs.

Levi said he intends to build further on the law school’s current momentum in the legal and academic worlds.

“I want to take it in the direction that it’s already moving,” he said. “It’s a very distinguished law school faculty that wants to become even more distinguished—that’s the goal.”

Although previous deans have joined the law school from the realm of academia, Lange said Levi has an “academic temperament” and his expertise and judicial experience will benefit the law school.

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“We feel pretty confident that he brings outstanding leadership and academic experience from a legal practice side and a judicial side,” Lange said. “A highly innovative appointment, he fits very well the distinctive niche that the Duke law school has come to occupy.”

In 1994, Levi was appointed by Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist to the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and was appointed chair of that committee in 2000.

In 2003, Rehnquist appointed Levi to chair the Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, which oversees all federal rule-making conducted by the Judicial Conference, the body charged with revising and crafting rules and practice for approval by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Levi graduated from Harvard College and also received a master’s degree in history from Harvard before pursuing law at Stanford. He is married to Nancy Ranney, who manages a grass-fed cattle ranch, and they have two adult sons. Levi is the son of Edward Levi, who served as dean of the University of Chicago Law School and was appointed U.S. Attorney General by former President GeraldFord in 1975.

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CLOAK from page 6 and a breakthrough in an old field is not only surprising but very dramatic, Schurig said.

“I think that these tools that enabled us to make a cloak are generally useful and they could have some significant long-term impacts as a design method,” he added.

The invisibility cloak was also named one of the top six physics stories of 2006 by Discover Magazine in its January issue.

“These awards are exciting because it is kind of nice to be able to work on something in science and engineering that sparks the interest of the general public enough to be recognized in a popular science journal,” Schurig said.

“I never expected to be so honored for hiding something,” he said.

Many of the scientists who worked to create the invisibility cloak plan to research further advancements in the field of electromagnetics and possibly improve

on the invisibility cloak.

“We’re looking to perhaps research away to mask an object from sound waves just as the invisibility cloak does for electromagnetic waves,” wrote Sir John Pendry, a professor of physics at Imperial College in London and one of the original theorists of the invisibility technology, in an e-mail.

Schurig said he hopes to continue his research on the invisibility cloak to design a better cloak that will work with differentforms of light.

“It will be interesting to affect the different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum such as infrared and visible light,” he said.

Schurig added that he plans to use the basic technology of the invisibility cloak to create other kinds of practical devices.

“The applications for this technology could potentially be boundless and are going to be useful in a wide range of devices to control electromagnetic waves,” he said. “We could use it in energy harvesting or beaming wireless communication around objects.”

Carolina Astiganaga contributed to this story.

IRAQ from page 2 At a Saturday ceremony marking the 85 th anniversary of the founding of the Iraqi army, al-Maliki again vowed to strike at the Shiite Muslim and Sunni Arab extremists behind the sectarian warfare that has bloodied the country over the past year.

Al-Maliki issued the new plan after lengthy consultations with Bush, who has been preparing a new Iraq policy in recent weeks after the Democrats won control of both houses of Congress in the November elections.

Bush was to deliver a major policy address to the nation Wednesday night, outlining his new plan —widely reported to include the dispatch of thousands more troops to the increasingly violent capital. A senior official, speaking anonymously Tuesday, said plan calls for the first soldiers to move into Iraq before the end of the month.

Within hours of al-Maliki’s speech Saturday, the Iraqi military said 30 suspected militants were killed in the Haifa Street area after police discovered 27 bodies dumped there, most of them with gunshot wounds in the head and signs of torture. U.S. forces also joined that battle after the Iraqi army called for backup.

Al-Maliki—who draws major support from radical, anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of the dangerous Mahdi Army militia—appeared to have ordered the stepped-up fight with Sunni Arab fighters to put an Iraqi face on the latest bid to tame the capital.

Several al-Maliki aides and confidants have told The Associated Press that the prime minister plans to focus his troops, with American backing, on Sunni insurgents in western Baghdad at the outset of the drive. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the details of the plan had not been disclosed.

Al-Maliki, the associates said, then plans to challenge al-Sadr to disarm and disband his militia because there would no longer be a reason for them to roam the streets with Sunni Arab insurgent forces crippled.

Such a strategy assumes a successful operation against the insurgents, which is not at all assured.

The latest plan to curb the sectarian fighting is at least the fourth, all of which have failed or led only to a temporary easing of violence in Baghdad, where Sunni insurgents and Shiite militiamen have been killing each other and civilians at a frightening pace.

In an interview with Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television Tuesday night, al-Maliki predicted Bush would oudine measures aimed “to speed up the building and arming of Iraqi forces, increase Baghdad’s security in order to stabilize it and support the government in the economic field to improve services.”

He did not mention Bush’s expected setting out of benchmarks for the Iraqi government to institute measures for the fair sharing of the country’s oil wealth among all sects and ethnic groups, a restoration of members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party to their jobs and constitutional reforms.

Al-Maliki rejected similar U.S. demands late last year, leading to a serious breach between Baghdad and Washington. The prime minister also has routinely ignored U.S. calls for him to oudaw Shiite militias and move against them with his army.

So the test of U.S.-Iraqi agreement on the way forward could stand or fall on al-Maliki’s willingness to confront his main political backer—al-Sadr.

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Despite the positive results, Hodge said the low homicide rates of 2006 could not be interpreted as the start of a long-term trend.

“I would like to see the homicide rate stay low or go down to zero, but if you are going to make projections based on die past, I can’t see that happening,” Hodge said.

Bell also said homicide rates were too tough to predict.

Hodge added that the overall violent crime rate which includes rape, robbery, aggravated assault and homicide —is at a five-year high, and that increases and decreases in homicides have very little effect on the overall crime rate.

Senior Ifeoma Aguanunu said the low homicide rate did not make her feel any safer in Durham.

“I’ve heard of a lot of break-ins and violent crimes in Durham, even on campus, especially Central Campus,” she said. “Homicides may be down, but I don’t know about overall crimes.”

Hodge cautioned against using a high or low crime rate to determine whether or not a city is safe and whether the police department is doing a good job without taking all the outside factors into account.

“Oftentimes it is a person’s lifestyle that makes them a victim or a person who goes out and commits a violent crime,” Hodge said.

Bell said he hopes that violent crimes as a whole can be reduced in the years to come.

“I feel that the community effort on homicides paid off, and if we form efforts to bring down other violent crimes we can be successful,” Bell said. “We need to have a plan that people can throw their support behind—that they understand and can get involved in.”

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“I’m not sure what the symbols mean,” Dyson said.

‘You’d have to ask the artist what they are.”

Using a stencil template, the artists spray painted the symbols everywhere from the windows of the GA Down Under to the Bell Tower archway.

The graffiti artists also repainted several benches, blocking out the first two letters of Aycock on the dormitory’s bench and writing “Spread Random Art... It’s Fun!!” on Jarvis’ bench.

“Our bench always seems to be targeted because the dorm is so close to the bus stop,” said freshman Lucia Melby, a resident of Jarvis. “First there were the bench wars, and now it’s some graffiti artists who had a fun time one night. These benches don’t seem to get a break.”

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Other freshmen thought the graffiti was amusing, and were impressed that the perpetrators were able to cover so much ground.

“We don’t recognize the bench as ours anymore,” said freshman Leila Dal Santo, also a resident of Janas.

Dyson said a combination of housekeeping and facilities staff will help perform the cleanup, which will commence soon after the start of the semester.

Dyson added that the vandalism will continue to be investigated until all avenues of inquiry have been exhausted.

“I don’t think you can ever put a timetable on these types of things,” he said. “We really don’t push an investigation —it varies from case to case.”

Dyson said at least one DUPD officer is on call on East Campus at all times during the year, even during breaks. Duke also contracts out security duties to AlliedBarton Security Sendees, whose guards do the majority of patrolling on East Campus.

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Sophomore David Bryska is in one of the last blue tents of the season.

“I don’t even know what tent I’m in—probably like 55,” he said. “We’re still setting up. Although we’re at the very end of blue, it’s worth it. It’s just too hard to white tent. I tried last year and didn’t get it, I was around the 110th spot. It’s just really competitive.”

Despite the security of gaining admission to the game, some blue tenters find that blankets provide little protection against the erratic winter weather.

“It’s been freezing—last night it dropped to like 30 degrees,” Steedle said.

“It’s weird because the first night I slept out there it was pretty nice, not bad at all.

It’s cold, but it’s fun.”

Another hardship tenters face is the megaphone sirens that frequently call

them into early-morning consciousness.

“They’ve done a lot of really late checks—3 a.m., 2:30 a.m.,” Steedle said.

“That’s not too fun, unless you’re already awake. And it can get a little boring unless everyone’s out there. But it’s been fun talking to people, partying. Spades is definitely a pastime out in K-ville. You know, the card game.”

Although some tenters brought their own collapsible beirut tables, the fun has been low-key, or at least quiet enough to avoid incurring line monitor intervention.

“I have not heard of any disciplinary infractions—no one’s been kicked out,” Schultz said. “It’s a really great way to start the year.”

And as winter of 2007 falls upon Duke, ringing in the new year and, for devout Cameron Crazies, the new tenting season, their resolution is clear—as residents of Kville, they dream of hot cocoa, a stout tent and maybe a shot on ESPN. —

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The young Blue Devils were dealt a harsh dose of reality in their ACC opener Saturday as an upset-minded and vengeful Virginia Tech squad came into Cameron Indoor Stadium and knocked off the thenNo. 5 Blue Devils.

Now, after falling to No. 11 in this week’s Associated Press following the loss, Duke (13-2, 0-1 in the ACC) hopes its first true road game of the year—at 7 p.m. tonight at Georgia /Sk-Tech (11-4, 0-2) —is the heal the TONIGHT, 7 p.m. elixir to hel P wounds exposed by SaturAtlanta, Ga. day’s loss.

“We’re real hungry,” freshman guard Jon Scheyer said. “Losing is not something that’s acceptable.... We’ve come back and had two really good days of practice, and we’re going to come out focused and ready

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Halfway through its season, the youngest Duke team in decades has gone 13-2 against the fifth toughest schedule in

the nation, but, fair or not, those two L’s have gotten more attention than any of the W’s.

With four freshmen playing significant minutes and Greg Paulus recovering from a preseason foot injury, the Duke coaches spent much of the first half of the season trying to determine just what they have to work with. So far, they seem to possess a strong defensive squad that has been inconsistent on the offensive end and lacks a go-to scorer.

Duke’s coaches will likely have an even better idea of their team in the coming weeks. The Blue Devils play their first true road game tonight at Georgia Tech and the ACC continues to be one of the most competitive conferences from top to bottom. Six of the 10 conference games so far have been decided by five points or fewer, including Duke’s opening overtime loss to Virginia Tech Saturday.

“We’ve done well up to this point, but obviously after the last game, it shows we have a lot to improve on,” sophomore Josh Mcßoberts said.

The majority of that improvement will likely come on the offensive end, where the Blue Devils are on pace to be the lowest scoring team in Mike Krzyzewski’s 27-

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and three in neutral venues. In Kansas City, Duke beat Air Force Nov. 20 before dropping its first game of the year in the semifinals and finals of the CBE Classic the next day. On Dec. 21, Duke pulled away from Gonzaga at Madison Square Garden, although the crowd was markedly in support of the Blue Devils.

Both of these trips helped the Blue Devils get used to travelling and preparing for games away from their home locker room, but neither really simulated the harsh atmospeheres teams encounter on the road

Jon Scheyer and theBlue Devil freshmen play theirfirst true road game of the season tonight at GeorgiaTech.

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Duke may have won its last game by 32 points, but head coach Gail Goestenkors doesn’t care. She called her team’s effort against Virginia Tech Jan. /S7 disappointing, as the Hokies put up 54 points more than any other team vs. scored on the No. 3 Blue Devils (16-0, 2-0 ACC) this season.

TONIGHT, 7 p.m.

Another similar perIndoor formance could spell Cameroni Stadium major trouble tonight against surging Georgia Tech (10-5, 1-1), which its coming off its first conference victory—and first conference road win in two years—Jan. 7 at Clemson.

In preparation for the 7 p.m. matchup against the Yellow Jackets in Cameron Indoor Stadium, Goestenkors emphasized basic defense in practice and is looking for

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“We don’t want to have to take a loss to understand how important the little things are,” Goestenkors said. “Against a more skilled team, we could have lost that

game.”

Georgia Tech features a more productive offense than many of Duke’s opponents so far, averaging 72.7 points per game.

Additionally, the Yellow Jackets are the second-best team in the ACC in shooting from behind the arc, with an average slightly lower than No. 1 Maryland.

Consistent with its quality long-distance shooting, the guards for Georgia Tech could menace the Duke defense.

Stephanie Higgs, the fourth-highest scorer in the ACC, and Chioma Nnamaka account for over 43 percent of the Yellow SEE W. BBALL ON PAGE 24

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helped Goestenkors get the message through to her team, it also helps to have players who not only prioritize, but execute on the defensive end of the floor.

Three ACC teams —Maryland, North Carolina and Duke—hold the top three spots in the Associated Press women’s basThe statistics reveal Just how successful ketball poll. and efficient the team has become, from Two of those three teams, the Tar Heels averaging more than 13 steals to pulling and Blue Devils, also rank among the top down more than 29 rebounds on the dethree in another, very important categofensive glass per contest. ry —scoring defense.

But the real strength of this Blue Devil Duke is the toughest defensive team in squad is in its attitude and in the players’ the ACC, relinquishing a meager 45.6 comfort level with each other. points per game, second nationally only to “Trust makes our defense go,” Harding No. 5 LSU, which gives up 43.6. said.

And in what is arguably the most talentIt’s easy to trust in your teammates ed conference in the country, the Blue when Harding is at half-court and 6-foot-7 Devils will need to continue their solid play Alison Bales—Duke’s all-time leading shot on defense in order to win throughout blocker—is under the basket. their rigorous ACC schedule.

“It starts with Lindsey and ends with Ali,” “We don’t want a team to come in with Goestenkors said. “I think we’ve got two of confidence,” point guard Lindsey Harding the best defensive players in the country, said. “We want teams to be indmidated, and they really set the tone for us.” and so we focus on our defense and our Harding has been one of the players pressure.” who has stepped up the most since The focus on defense—which has been Monique Currie and Mistie Williams left at the heart ofDuke’s success this season—for WNBA last year and has really emhas been instilled into each player by head braced her role as a captain. coach Gail Goestenkors.

She said she sets an example when an “We spend more time on defense than opposing point guard comes up the floor. offense, and we always start our practices “What I do well is pressuring the ball,” with defensive break-down drills,” Harding said. “I am active... so my other Goestenkors said. “By what I say and what I teammates can actually see, ‘Oh she’s presdo, they understand how important is, and suring, so if my person gets the ball, I’m it’s become important to them as well.” going to do that, too.’”

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Q&A: Brodhead discusses state of athletics In his three years at Duke, President Richard Brodhead has seen the highs and lows of Duke athletics. The same athletics program that achieved the University’s highest-ever finish in the 2003 Director’s Cup has come under increased scrutiny following last spring’s men’s lacrosse scandal. Before winter break, Brodhead sat down with The Chronicle’s Greg Beaton to

I was at an Ivy league institution before, and now I’m at a different kind of institution with many, many things in common between them. At both of them, athletics was part of the health and vitality and community of the university.

Duke competes at a different level athletically, and I knew that perfectly well when I came here and I embraced that. At the same time, I came here party because I knew that the equation here involved both academics and athletics.

discuss the state of athletics at Duke.

You spoke last spring of improving communication between athletics and the rest of the University. Have the changes made

been effective so far?

Of the lessons in last spring, the most practical was our need to have clearer lines of communication from the world of student conduct to that ofcoaches. People sat right down to that last spring and in the early summer and created a much clearer expectation of who would be informed of what and what kinds of steps would be taken in response.

I have to say this has been a significant success. It was an issue last spring; there were things coaches did not know about that everybody assumed they did know about. So we’ve just been trying to make sure the flow of information is consistent. I think that’s been both successful and important.

The truth of the matter is that finding out about bad behavior so that you can punish it is an important part of the problem but the least interesting part of it.

Much more important is trying to clarify the norms that student-athletes—and students in general—rare expected to live by.

What has your interaction been like with the men’s lacrosse team?

I met with the lacrosse team on a number of occasions lastyear. I met with its captains once, I met with the whole team for an extended meeting at the beginning of May, and of course I had interactions at the time the program was restarted. This fall, I visited one of their practices. It’s funny, because they practice very early in the morning. So I met with them at about a quarter of eight in the morning one time—that was fun.

But I like to drop in at lots of sports events. I like to watch the life of the Univer-

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I’m in my third year as president. I met I met many others before I became president, because I spent six months here in my transition. I really have almost three full years of working with Joe as with everyone else here.

I think it would be fair to say athletics has thrived at Duke in the time that I’ve been here. Look how many teams have gone so far in postseason championship play. I’m also going to take note of Duke leading the pack in graduation rates of schools with strong sports programs. That’s

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ally try to take the student-athlete concept seriously here and not just have students who are great athletes who do not participate in the academic life of the school.

Our one Rhodes scholar this year was a varsity athlete and a captain of a team.

That’s great. One of the things that’s very much to Joe’s credit is the evenness of attention that’s been given to lots of sports.

There are some schools where only a couple sports are taken seriously. I think Joe takes them all seriously, which is a very good thing. To be sure, last spring was a challenging time for him and his department as it was for the rest of the university.

Joe Alieva is the athletic director of this place, and he’s our athletic director going forward.

Coming from Yale, has the transition been hard coming to a place where a greater emphasis is placed on athletics?

What do you believe the role of athletics should be at a great university?

Here’s a fact: There aren’t university systems in the world that don’t have anything to do with athletics. If you go to European universities, you’ll find that to be so for the most part. America has the leading university system in the world, and the compounding of athletics and academics, it’s hard to explain to foreigners, but it no doubt has something to do with the vitality and vibrancy of American universities. It doesn’t mean that athletics are a value by themselves. They shouldn’t be. But that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have an important role as part of the equation. And when I ask myself, what is that role, here is my answer: Athletics have something to do with the pursuit of excellence that has important symbolic meaning in a university setting.

They have something to do with teamwork at a time when teamwork has more to do than ever with the skills needed for success in the future. They have something to do with community formation. When I go to Duke sports events, I don’t just see sports junkies. I see everybody brought into a community by those events. That’s a profound experience.

This is a time when it’s important to understand what are the positive values of athletics in a university setting and to make sure we’re always reinforcing those values.

There are a thousand ways to abuse the role of athletics at a university. The best way to abuse it is to act as if athletics is a supreme value by itselfand to detach it from the other things a university cares about.

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M.BBALL from page 17 in the ACC For Scheyer and the rest ofDuke’s heralded freshman class, tonight’s matchup will be their first taste of the road and the antagonism an opposing team’s fans.

“It’s kind of crazy how our first [true road game] is in January,” Scheyer said.

“We’ve played away games before, Just not

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Josh Mcßoberts scored 16points and pulled down 10 rebounds in 44 minutesof play against the Hokies.

in a hostile arena like we’re going to play in [tonight]. It doesn’t bother me—people yelling or chanting at me. We’re just going to have to stay real tight as a team and not let anyone get into our heads.”

Last year, road crowds focused their attention on JJ. Redick and Shelden Williams. It remains to be seen how Duke will be received this year, but the Blue Devils know they must block out the distractions if they expect to win their first league game of the year.

“You can’t get caught up in being home or away,” Josh Mcßoberts said. “All these younger guys have played in big games away from home. We haven’t played a true road game, but we have played three games on the road. So I expect it to be fine.

‘You have to be more focused on Georgia Tech—they’re a really good team. We have to go down there and do what we have to do to get a win and not worry about those outside things,” Mcßoberts added.

In the Yellow Jackets, the Blue Devils will face a squad that has a bevy of young talent but has yet to fully gel. Georgia Tech has one of the strongest freshman classes in the country, led by 6-foot-8 forward Thaddeus Young and 6-foot-5 point guard Javaris Crittenton.

The Yellow Jackets began the season strong, reaching the finals of the Maui Invitational before losing to No. 3 UCLA. More recently, however, they lost their first two conference matchups to Miami and Clemson, the last remaining undefeated team in Division I. Despite the setbacks, Georgia Tech’s size in the backcourt and athleticism on the front line will challenge a Duke team that is also still trying to find its identity.

“Just knowing our team, I don’t think anybody is going to go down there scared,” Mcßoberts said. “We’re all going to be excited to go.”

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year tenure. Duke has been able to largely mask this fact by holding its opponents to 38 percent shooting.

The Blue Devils are also still searching for a primary scoring option —a deficiency that has been particularly glaring late in close games against Indiana and Virginia Tech. DeMarcus Nelson has enjoyed an injury-free season for the first time in his collegiate career and leads the Blue Devils in scoring, but at times he has disappeared from the offense for long stretches.

After a slow start to the season, Mcßoberts has begun to play up to the expectations that have him as a potential lottery pick. Mcßoberts has averaged 16.4 points and 10.6 rebounds per game over his last five contests.

But the Blue Devils’ fortunes have been undeniably linked to the play ofPaulus. Paulus has performed particularly well in Duke’s biggest victories, including a 20point, four assist, one turnover showing against Gonzaga.

But the sophomore has struggled mightily in the team’s two losses—he was held scoreless and committed six turnovers in 18 minutes against Virginia Tech.

Both losses saw Paulus pestered by athletic guards, something he’s likely to encounter throughout the ACC slate. But head coach Mike Krzyzewski is not panicking over his point guard situation.

“We believe in Greg, and we believe he’s a good player, and he’s shown that and he’ll do that in future,” Krzyzewski said Monday. “The best thing that a good player can have is amnesia—you forget about who you were the last game, whether it be good or bad, and you become who you re supposed to be in the next game. That’s part of being tough and that’s part of being a good player.”

Duke’s turnover problems, however, have not been limited to Paulus. As a team, the Blue Devils have 38 more (turnovers than assists so far this year and the second-worst assist-to-turnover ratio in the ACC. In Duke’s two losses, the team has tallied at least twice as many turnovers as as-

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sportsbriefs Myers to undergo chemotherapy Men’s golf head coach Rod Myers is temporarily leaving the team to undergo chemotherapy for an undisclosed form of cancer. Myers began treatment Jan. 5 and is expected to return after the scheduled treatments.

Associate head coach Brad Sparling will take over the program until Myers’ return.

“I look forward to returning to the team,” said Myers. “While I am out I have complete confidence in Coach Sparling’s abilities. I am confident that our team will carry on the tradition of excellence we have established.”

Myers, who is in his 34th year at Duke, was named the 2005 national Coach of the Year as he led the Blue Devils to the ACC title and an eighth-place finish at the NCAA Championships.

The Blue Devils’ next event is the Puerto Rico Classic Feb. 24.

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Wrestling achieves mixed results over winter break The wrestling team split its first home match of the season Jan. 6. The Blue Devils dominated Princeton, 44-0, but fell in a close match to Davidson, 18-17.

Against Davidson, Duke lost the opening four matches before winning on a forfeit at the heavyweight class to trail 12-6.

Then, Kellan McKeon lost on a 2-1 decision at the 125-pound weight class, and immediately following the match Duke was penalized a team point for unsportsmanlike conduct.

The Blue Devils won three of the four remaining matches but were unable to secure a major decision or pin and the penalty point was the final margin in the defeat.

from staff reports Duke countered the disappointing loss by blowing out Princeton in the other matchup. The Blue Devils won every match, including pins at the 174-pound and heavyweight classes and two major decisions at the 165- and 184-pound classes.

The Duke grapplers also competed in

the Southern Scuffle and the Reno Tourof Champions over the break. The Blue Devils finished 26th of 32 teams and 23rd of 30 teams, respectively, in the two nament

tournaments.

Women’s lax schedule released The women’s lacrosse team released its schedule Tuesday and was ranked third in the Lacrosse Magazine’s preseason poll, which was announced Monday.

Duke’s schedule features 11 ranked oppponents in its 16 regular season games, including eight of the top 10 preseason teams. The team begins the season on the road at Denver Feb. 16.

The Blue Devils have a chance to exact some revenge when they take on Northwestern in Evanston, 111., April 7. Duke lost to the Wildcats, 11-10, in double overtime in the national semifinals last season. The Blue Devils also tangled with Northwestern during last regular season.

“We have always taken enormous pride in the quality and competitiveness of our schedule, and 2007 is no different,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “My staff, the team and I look forward to preparing for the challenges we will face both in conference play and against our traditional rivals.”

Four ACC teams are ranked in the preseason top 10—Duke, No. 2 Virginia, No. 7 Maryland and No. 10 North Carolina.

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As a result of Bales’ strong presence in the middle, Harding has been able to be more aggressive on defense, knowing that if she gets beat when going for the steal, her center will be there to make a stop.

Additionally, a more versatile interior defense has contributed to the improvement of this year’s team versus last year’s Final Four squad With Williams’ departure, sophomore forward Carrem Gay has gotten considerably more playing time and is better than Williams at defending post players that are more guard-like, Goestenkors said.

As the Blue Devils continue to play through their conference schedule, and eventually into the postseason, they will also continue to rely on their defense, which Goestenkors said is what makes her team great.

And, as the cliche goes, defense wins championships.

SAM HILL/THE CHRONICLE “Scoring will come, we can score on anybody,” Harding to said. “But if we can stop a great team from scoring, then Sophomore Carrem Gay has provided a new aspect theBlue Devils defense in her ability to guard quicker power forwards. the games can be a lot easier for us.”

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Harding said she feels as if she is now leading not only with words, but also her performance on the court.

“When Coach is like T need focus and you to work hard,’ that’s my main thing is I’m going to show her [and] I’m going to work hard,” Harding said.

This need to focus and work hard is particularly true for the Blue Devils in tonight’s contest. Harding said the Yellow Jackets do not back down from anyone, and they showed that grit last year, when the unranked Georgia Tech team nearly knocked off the second-ranked Blue Devils before falling, 67-59, in Atlanta.

Perhaps the largest concern for the Duke in this matchup, however, is its lack of depth in the post. Chante Black remains out indefinitely with a knee injury, and Alison Bales can only anchor the middle for so long, Goestenkors said.

“Without Chante in there, we’re missing someone who had great experience and great size,” Goestenkors said. “Our only subs in the post off the bench are freshmen, and they’re still learning and growing.”

The team’s youth, which was especially glaring against the Hokies, is evident in its tendency to commit turnovers. The Blue Devils had 19 in their game in Blacksburg, Va., and average 16 per contest.

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by Ralph Russo THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

the BCS championship game would be out of their reach. Urban Meyer and the Gators made it known, loud and clear, that they believed they deserved a shot at the national title.

The first weekend of December, the Gators got their wish with the help of a major upset. UCLA knocked off USC and Florida jumped Michigan, a loser to Ohio State, in the polls and the BCS standings.

Florida proved more than worthy of its chance at the title by blowing out Ohio State.

No. 6 Louisville was followed by Ohio State’s Big Ten rivals Wisconsin and Michigan. Auburn, the third Southeastern Conference team in the rankings, and West Virginia finished off the top 10.

For the second consecutive season, No. 2 beat No. 1 in the national title game and kept a team from going wire-to-wire as No. 1. Texas and Vince Young upset USC in the Rose Bowl last season, but this season No. 2 hasn’t been a great place in the rankings.

STEVE GRAYSON/WIREIMAGE Six teams held the second spot in the poll before the bowls—including Florida Florida quarterback Chris Leak hoists the BCS Coaches Trophy after the Gators' win over OhioState Monday. twice—and the Buckeyes won two 1 vs. 2 games. They beat Texas and Michigan. in the Top 25 by five other league rivals. No ing Irish were ninth in the final poll last Notre Dame, Auburn and USC also other conference finished with more in the season. reached No. 2 then lost.

Three Atlantic Coast Conference teams top 25 Florida was the first No. 2 to break Oklahoma, which lost a 4342 overtime rounded out the top 20 with No. 18 Wake through. classic to Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl, fin- Forest, No. 19 Virginia Tech and No. 20 The Gators’ last AP national title was in ished 11th. No. 12 Rutgers has its highest Boston College.

1996 with coach Steve Spurrier and Heisfinal ranking and finished ahead of Texas, Oregon State, TCU, Georgia, Penn man Trophy winner Danny Wuerffel.

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The Gators finished atop The Associated Press Top 25 after upsetting Ohio State 41-14 in the BCS national championship game Monday night, a matchup Florida lobbied hard for late in the regular season when it looked as if the Gators would be left out.

The Buckeyes had been No. 1 since August and were looking to become the third team to hold the top spot in the media poll from preseason through the bowls. Florida State was the first in 1999 and Southern California did it in 2004.

Instead, Ohio State finished No. 2. LSU was third, and Southern California and Boise State rounded out the top five.

Florida received all but one of the 65 first-place votes. Boise State, 13-0, got the other from Greg Archuleta of the Albuquerque Journal in New Mexico.

“This is the greatest feeling in the world,” Florida senior quarterback Chris Leak said. “All the hard work and sacrifice that we have gone through the last two years to get where we are today makes this unbelievable.”

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP No. 17 Clemson 87, N.C. State 76 Vernon Hamilton scored 21 points and Clemson matched the best start in school history and remained the only unbeaten team in Division I. The Tigers (17-0, 3-0 in the ACC) shot nearly 56 percent and used a 15-3 run which bridged halftime to equal the school records for best start and longest winning streak.

K.C. Rivers and James Mays both added 16 points for Clemson, which also started 17-0 in 1986-87.Gavin Grant had 22 points and Ben McCauley added 15 for outmanned N.C. State (10-6, 0-3), which lost its second straight since a three-game winning streak against non-conference foes.

No. 2 Florida 79, Arkansas 72 Taurean Green scored 17 points and Corey Brewer added 13 to lead No. 2 Florida to a 79-72 victory over Arkansas on Tuesday night.

At halftime, the sellout crowd at the O’Connell Center welcomed the Gators football team, which beat Ohio State 41-14 on Monday night in the BCS championship game. That made Florida the first school to hold the national championships in Division I football and basketball at the same time.

The Gators (15-2, 2-0 in the SEC) built an early 12-point lead, then spent the rest of the night holding off the Razorbacks (12-4, 1-1), who briefly took the lead before faltering over the last 10 minutes.

Joakim Noah and A1 Horford both scored 11 points for Florida. Darian Townes led Arkansas with 18 points and 10 rebounds.

No. 3 Wisconsin 72, No. 5 Ohio State 69 Kammron Taylor scored 25 points and No. 3 Wisconsin survived a late charge by Greg Oden and No. 5 Ohio State to hold on for a 72-69 victory Tuesday night.

The Badgers (16-1, 2-0 in the Big Ten) used a 14-0 run midway through the second half to apparendy take control in an early season matchup of conference favorites.

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Joe Krabbenhoft hit one of two free throws for Wisconsin, and Oden again scored on a dunk with 8.9 seconds left to cut the lead to 71-69. After Taylor again hit one of two free throws, Jamar Butler missed a potential game-tying 3-pointer at the buzzer.

No. 8 Texas A&M 61, Baylor 51 Acie Law IV had 20 points to lead Texas

A&M to its seventh straight victory.

Joseph Jones had six points and three rebounds in the stretch that finally put the Aggies (14-2, 2-0 in the Big 12) ahead for good with 10 minutes left.

Texas A&M’s second seven-game winning streak of the season has come since consecutive losses to No. 13LSU and No. 4 UCLA. The Aggies are off to their best start since opening 16-2 in 1959-60. Kevin Rogers had 19 points and nine rebounds to lead Baylor (10-5, 0-2).

No. 22 Notre Dame 61, No. 21 West Virginia 58 Russell Carter scored 19 points and Notre Dame rebounded from its biggest loss in seven seasons under coach Mike Brey.

Luke Harangody made two free throws for the Irish (14-2, 2-1 in the Big East) and Carter scored on a 10-footbaseline jumper for a 59-53 lead. The Mountaineers (13-2, 3-1) cut the lead to 61-58 on a three-pointer by Frank Young with 5 seconds left.

But after Rob Kurz missed the front end of a 1-and-l, Young raced up the right side of the court with Carter beside him and couldn’t get the shot off as the Mountaineers saw their eight-game winning streak end.

Alex Ruoff led West Virginia with 14 points and Young added 13 for the Mountaineers, who shot 37.7 percent, their second-worst outing this season. (AP)

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Two charges still stand; team Dec. 22.

The case seemed to have kidnapping and sexual ofbeen falling apart in Nifong’s fense. We have yet to see hands in the preceding whether or not these will be months for myriad reasons: found to hold any truth. But two negative DNA tests, evithere is one other aspect of the case that now must go, dence from the defense indicating that at least one of the and that’s Nifong.

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consciously. Not only did he brazenly condemn the lacrosse players as “hooligans” in the media and proclaim their guilt even before DNA tests or any other thorough investigation had been conducted, but also, as the testimony of Dr. Brian Meehan in early December showed, Nifong also took steps to keep exculpatory evidence from the defense.

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new prosecutor. If this is not the case, we will soon see that Nifong may have performed more poorly than we even now think.

But outcomes have yet to be determined. The crucial move now is that of taking Nifong away from Duke lacrosse, out of the fray. Only then can this case move forward in an honest light.

Mr. Nifong, have you no decency? If you do, take the first good stand you have thus far in the case, and pass it on to a party more objective, fair and just than yourself.

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physical chemistry (my subject) but also on such issues as race, gender relations and inequality.

When faculty appropriately guide such discussions, we fulfill our deepest responsibilities.

In this vein, we at Duke might view John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke professor emeritus of history, as a model for his thoughtful but firm push to understand our history, good and bad, so we can move beyond it. Respectfully acknowledging dif-

my lab, ferences on issues does not weaken our communicheering with the Cameron Crazies, and working alongside students ty; indeed, it is the critical first step toward underand staff to build a better Durham. I have found standing and healing divisions.

At a time of inflamed passion, the quality of dissomething remarkable about Duke: the great heart of the Duke Community. course can degrade. I trust Duke can, going forThis heart is manifest in the many positive ways ward, provide a model for civil discourse. I believe our students, facthat our ongoing ulty and staff purcampus dialogue sue service opporshould reflect tunities what my in colOur vision and dialogue should stand in Durham and beleague Greg stark contrast to the distortions too often Jones, dean of the yond. This heart is equally manifest Divinity School, found in politically charged reporting. in the passion of calls “interpretive our students for charity”: the asParochial interests may seek to foment that, learning and the sumption discord through pandering stereotypes: I while individuals commitment of our faculty to supmay hold substantrust we and others will find that Duke port our students different tially can avoid stereotyping within our own in that learning. It views, those views is in the context of honest community, whether of faculty or athletes reflect this remarkable and charitable motives community that I or pre-meds or greeks. have reflected on Our vision th e current state and dialogue of our messages to should stand in one another and to those beyond our gothic gates. stark contrast to the distortions too often found Recent developments are bringing welcome in politically charged reporting. Parochial interclosure and justice to the legal chapter of last ests may seek to foment discord through panderspring’s events. As the nation again turns its focus ing stereotypes: I trust we and others will find to Duke, what will we share that we have learned? that Duke can avoid stereotyping within our own I trust we will share that Duke has become a community, whether of faculty or athletes or premeds or greeks. great university by becoming an inclusive universiWe are fortunate to have as one of our camty, embracing the differences that enrich the whole: a community whose goals include expandpus landmarks a soaring Chapel. This structure ing diversity through the financial aid initiative. I provides a physical metaphor of Duke’s vision trust that we will share a university community unwhich embraces high aspirations, caring service afraid to discuss difficult issues, in an atmosphere and a sense of shared community where healing of mutual respect. can occur.

The events of the spring revealed underlying Duke has an innate capacity for good which tensions and divisions which already existed at transcends the challenge ofany moment, however Duke and throughout our nation. To insure studifficult. dents’ growth in intellect and leadership, faculty members have a responsibility to challenge our George McLendon is dean of the faculty of arts and students and be challenged not only on issues like sciences. students in

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cusable. From his early accusatory remarks to his handling of DNA tests and the lineup, he has made mistake after mistake, tripping down the ugly path of this case.

In the process, Nifong has fed the fire of an already chaotic media circus and cast a dark shadow over Durham, at least in the national eye.

Now, he must step away from the case—and be forced to do so if he refuses.

It is clear that he cannot be objective, that he cannot be a fair asset in the legal process.

For the sake of all parties involved—the accused, the accusers, Duke and Durham—lt is time for the case to be placed in someone else’s hands, someone the public can trust.

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Cruel intentions and dangerous liaisons Anything you can do I can do better. I can do anyone better than you.

Duke, there’s more to a pre-game than the first shot of the night; and it takes little more than a dry hump on the dance floor to announce to sorority sisters or flat mates, “Let the games begin.”

More dangerous than the gamep we play with alcohol, the socially competitive games we play with each other leave devastating effects.

Men at Duke don’t need to try to win a woman’s affecbecause many tion, women, in an attempt to prove themselves to each other, throw themselves so ardently at men. in the real world, be s hadee malaklou hind every successful man va-va-voom is a woman rolling her Duke, beneath but at eyes; every successful man is a woman who didn’t speak up, and not for fear of the Undergraduate Judicial Board, but because to her, it was worth it. In the minds of many Duke women, the social capital gain of a successfully executed hookup with a “big man on campus” far outweighs the psychological hurt of a hookup gone wrong.

As freshman women, we learn quickly that we must make a choice: We must choose between the social lives (and status) that we want and the respect from men to which we became accustomed pre-Duke. And if the price we pay for climbing the social ladder is one night of sexual exploitation, so be it.

At an off-campus dinner party last weekend, a friend—a bouncer at Parizade—said that he asks every inebriated Duke woman who leaves his club if she knows the men she’s leaving with. Each time, the woman responds: ‘Yes. I know them. They’re my friends.” Surely,the Duke woman knows that a man who buys her drinks is not necessarily her friend. At best, he is her drinking buddy; but more likely, he is the person who will provide her with the social capital for which she’s searching. Despite her drunken stupor, the man that a Duke woman leaves with at the end of the night is meticulously handpicked, as is the time of exit, to maximize how many of the “right” people will see her leave, Delta Sig or Lacrosse Player in tow.

It is no secret that Duke, a school that President Richard Brodhead called in his last mass e-mail, a “great university, one of the greatest in the world,” is more socially competitive than academically competitive. What are secrets are the lengths that many women go through to up their social status—and that the social games they play are not only gendered, but also raced.

No hookup initiated as part of social gain is without racial undertones. The recent hoopla about “white privilege” at Duke is much more than just a hoopla—it’s real, and it’s epitomized in the sexual capital of white men.

Duke women (at least many of them) do not lust after famous black basketball players for social status. Rather, they lust after white preps with celebrity status on campus, but not off. I guess that when it comes to social power, some things, even at a school like Duke, never change, no matter how impressive your Jump shot.

Perhaps the only positive outcome of the lacrosse scandal is that Duke officials have revisited campus gender and race concerns. The initial uproar revealed an assumption that many white Duke men, and not just members of the lacrosse team, have made a habit of sexually abusing women without so much as a hint of remorse, or punishment. This assumption, sadly but surely, is not far from the truth... but Duke women are partially responsible for reeding the beast” of sexual assault culture on campus.

Rolling Stone, in its shocking expose of Duke, forgot something. The truth about the Duke social scene, a la he Duke 500,” is this: For Duke women, the social caplta S a n °f spending one night with a prominent fraternity man or athlete—even if that means going further than intended outweighs the value of bodily integrity. It also means that our hookups are raced and largely predetermined before we ever step foot into a club or bar.

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the first day of a new semester, most students the first class even meets. So much for going to grad school celebrate Syllabus Day, a traditional holiday on to avoid a real job. which classes last 10 minutes apiece and hours So fellow graduate students, this is a call to those ofyou are spent perusing the course catalogue for classes offerwho are feeling a little overwhelmed today. Let’s have our ing the lightest workown Syllabus Day. I hear the bookstore carries really thick load. In recognition of notebooks, so you could pick up a couple. Hell, go all out this delightful day, stuand grab one in your favorite color. Now, as grad students, dents wear their dress you must already have classes picked out, and you likely sweats and buy shiny new don’t have a lot of options about your workload. That’s notebooks full of blank okay. That’s not what we’re about. You undoubtedly have paper promising the your scholastic life planned out already, or you wouldn’t be here in the first place. knowledge to be gained Your social life on the other hand, well, that’s probably in the coming weeks.

J3Ct|UI QCIWIIGr more flexible. Perhaps even nonexistent. And in case Apart from accommodating those who live to you’ve drowned the last few weeks in a jug of Carlo Rossi please hire, desperate Chablis, let me remind you that we’re still in New Year’s drop and add, Syllabus Resolution range.

Day has the added benefit of gradually reacquainting students with the idea of atIf you’re anything like me—and I’m going to assume tending daily classes. you are, because I’m myopic like that—then you probaBut not everybody gets to celebrate Syllabus Day. Some bly get so absorbed in everything you have to get done in of us, who are easily the course of the semesdetected on campus bv ter that you forget to eat, download breathe, our determined mumI, for one, have resolved to stop feeling music, etc. bling and various state So flip open your college hoodies, have bad that I recognize my undergrad campus new notebook to the already been back for a week. The more dedifirst brilliant empty less and less every time I go back to visit cated (and... ahem... page, allow yourself a friends who never left. And (as usual) I’ve minute to remember less sane) of us may have never left. Most the time when the first resolved to lower my stress level, although page of a new notebook of these non-Syllabusmade you excited to this year I elected an easier-to-stick-with Day-celebrants probalearn things (ah, those bly rolled out of bed method than exercise and feng shui. around 8 a.m. and were the days), and grumbled on their way write down some things into the office from you intended to do their $2OO parking after graduating college that you may have lost in the barrage of papers, classes, spaces in East-middle-of-nowhere. Or, at least, I assume that’s what happened, because that’s what I did. lab work and general grad life muckety-muck.

I, for one, have resolved to stop feeling bad that I recogHello all. I am one of your newest columnists, and nize my undergrad campus less and less every time I go I’m also a proud member of Duke University’s illustriback to visit friends who never left. And (as usual) I’ve reous assemblage of graduate students. Like the rest I alfour at an ready spent (at least) years undergraduate solved to lower my stress level, although this year I elected institution elsewhere, I live off-campus in a real honestan easier-to-stick-with method than exercise and feng shui.

A glass of wine a day? Yes please. to-god apartment and my roommates don’t actually live Screw Syllabus Day. The undergrads can have it. I’ve got in my room.

Also like the rest, I don’t get to ease into my semester on plenty those undergrads don’t have, like that jug of Carlo Syllabus Day, because most graduate classes begin before Rossi.,. and a legal ID. the first day of classes. Unfortunately they often begin Jacqui Detwiler is a graduate student in psychology and neurothrough an e-mail received late on a Sunday evening detailing the three or four chapters that ought to be read before science. Her column runs weekly.

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lettertotheeditor Professors call for investigation, welcoming of all students We, the undersigned Economics Department faculty members at Duke University, are cognizant of the fact that, to date, the only collective signed statement by faculty members concerning the events of last March was an advertisement in The Chronicle subsequent to protests and a forum on March 29, 2006. We are aware too that the advertisement was cited as prejudicial to the defendants in the defense motion to change the venue of the trial involving the three Duke lacrosse team members.

We regret that the Duke faculty is now seen as prejudiced against certain of its own students.

In light ofrecent events detailed in court proceedings, it appears that there were a number of irregular acts committed by members of the Durham law enforcement agencies and District Attorney’s Office.

We join with President Richard Brodhead in calling for an investigation of those acts, inimical to students at our university.

We welcome all members of the lacrosse team, and all student athletes, as we do all our students as fellow members of the Duke community, to the classes we

teach and the activities we sponsor.

E. Roy Weintraub, professor of economics, Atila Abdulkadiroglu, associate professor of economics, Charles Becker, research puofessor of economics, Tim Bollersleu, Kreps professor of economics, Vincent Conitzer, assistant professor of computer science and economics, Neil DeMarchi, professor of economics, Bjorn Eraker, assistant professor of economics, Henry Grabowski, professor of economics, Daniel Graham, professor of economics and law, Kevin Hoover, professor of economics and philosophy, Shakeeb Khan, associate professor of economics, Bahar Leventoglu, assistant professor of economics and political science, Thomas Nechyba, Fuchsberg-Levine Family professor of economics and public policy, Pietro Peretto, associate professor of economics, Curtis Taylor, professor of economics, Edward Tower, professor of economics, Huseyin Yildirim, assistant professor of economics Arie Beresteanu, assistant professor of economics T. Dudley Wallace, James B. Duke professor emeritus of economics

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