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With three very different artists scheduled to perform, there should be something for everyone at the Last Day of Classes concert this spring.

Jason Mraz will headline the April 25 show, with indie rocker Young Love and rapper Common opening, LDOC committee members confirmed Thursday.

“Our goal primarily was to have a lot of variety,” saidLDOC chair Beth Higgins, a senior.

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Singer and guitarist Jason Mraz will be the headlining performer at this year's Last Day of Classes concert April 25.

“We spent a lot of time selecting a diverse group—something for

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A wide range of artists were considered, with campus specula-

tion including names such as the Killers and Journey.

“I thought we were getting the Killers, so I’m kind of disappointed,” said junior Emily Jones.

Higgins, however, said the LDOC committee was pleased with the final lineup.

“We were looking at others, but these were definitely in the original batch,” Higgins said. “If someone doesn’t like Jason, maybe they’ll like Common, and soon.”

Although diversity was the goal,. some students said they would have preferred more mainstream artists.

“Jason Mraz is cool,” said junior Sarah Allen. “But I haven’t even heard of the others.”

The lineup was finalized late Wednesday, when Mraz and Common confirmed their availability, Higgins said.

“We actually didn’t have any issues with artists being picky about who they were onstage with, which was great,” she added. “Jason took a little while to get back with us because he’s actually recording now, so he had to clear it with his studio.”

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Lindsey Harding and Wanisha Smith jump in celebration as time runs out during Duke's 64-53 victory over North Carolina Thursday night at Carmichael Auditorium.

CHAPEL HILL Abby Waner may have been struggling with her long-range shooting, but the Duke sharpshooter wanted the ball when it mattered most Thursday night in Carmichael Auditorium.

With 2:39 remaining in the second half and No. 1 Duke holding onto a 55-50 lead, Waner broke No. 2 North Carolina’s halfcourt pressure, dribbled to the left side of the court and took the biggest shot of the most-hyped game of the season.

She calmly swished the jumper—with her feet on the three-point line.

Waner’s play in the last five minutes, combined with another gritty effort from seniorLindsey Harding and a masterful defensive performance by the whole squad was enough to propel the Blue Devils (25-0, 10-0 in the ACC) to a 64-53 win over the Tar Heels (25-1,8-1).

“That shot was huge,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said.

“That shot was the dagger.”

The victory ended Duke’s five-game losing streak against North Carolina and kept the Blue Devils’ perfect season alive.

After the final horn sounded, Waner grabbed the ball and SEE W. BBALL ON PAGE 16

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The faculty are “at a crossroads,” representatives of the Faculty’s Joint Committee on Student Affairs and Athletics reported at the Arts and Sciences Council’s meeting Thursday afternoon.

Last spring, the Arts and Sciences Council and the Engineering Faculty Council jointly charged the committee with addressing the issue of faculty oversight of admissions, student affairs and athletics.

After meeting regularly last semester, the committee prepared a brief report for presentation to both faculty councils, titled “A Stronger Faculty Voice; Engaged Teachers in Duke’s Community of Learning.”

Peter Wood, professor of history, and William Reichert, professor Of biomedical engineering, co-chairs of the committee,

presented the findings and six specific recommendations that appear in the report.

“We’re at a kind of crossroads,” Wood said.

He explained that faculty can choose either to engage more fully in the extracurricular elements of the University or to restrict their involvement to only academics.

The committee recommended the University increase support for

professorial engagement while balancing demands on the faculty’s time. They also proposed instituting measures to foster athletes’ academic success.

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Iraqi health official arrest

U.S.-backed Iraqi forces stormed the Health Ministry and arrested the No. 2 official Thursday, accusing him of diverting millions of dollars to the biggest Shiite militia and allowing death squads use of ambulances and government hospitals to carry out kidnappings and killings.

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Veterans of Al Gore's past are quietly assembling a campaign to draft the former vice president into the 2008 presidential race despite his repeated statements he's not running. The participants and that Gore's Nashville office both said Gore, who is in London, is not involved.

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BEIJING Talks on North Korea’s nuclear programs resumed on a positive note Thursday, with the Chinese hosts distributing a draft agreement and the North agreeing in principle to initial steps to disarm.

Envoys from six nations are trying to agree on steps to implement a September 2005 deal in which North Korea pledged to disarm in exchange for aid and security guarantees.

The 2005 deal—the only one to emerge since negotiations began in 2003—was a broad statement of principles that did not oudine any concrete steps for dismantling North Korea’s nuclear program.

The main U.S. envoy, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, said the new proposal would be “a set of actions that would have to be taken in a finite amount of time.”

• He declined to give specifics but said moves would occur in a matter of weeks.

Prosecution rests in leaktrial Anna Nicole Smith died Thursday at the age of 39 in a hotel room in Florida.She will undergo an autopsy Friday.

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Anna Nicole HOLLYWOOD, Fla. Smith, the pneumatic blonde whose life played out as an extraordinary tabloid tale—Playboy centerfold, jeans model, bride of an octogenarian oil tycoon, realityshow subject, tragic mother—died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel. She was 39.

She was stricken while staying at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and was rushed to a hospital. Edwina Johnson, chief investigator for the Broward

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Just five months ago, Smith’s 20-yearold son, Daniel, died suddenly in the Bahamas in what was believed to be a drugrelated death.

Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger said a private nurse called 911 after finding Smith unresponsive in her sixth-floor room at the hotel, which is on an Indian reservation. He SEE ANNA NICOLE ON PAGE 7

NBC's Tim Russert deflected criticism of his ethics and credibility as he completed a heated second day of cross-examination Thursday in the trial of formerWhite House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Libby's attorneys will begin calling witnesses Monday.

Marine withdraws guiltyplea A military judge granted a Marine corporal’s request Thursday to withdraw his guilty plea to charges of murdering an unarmed Iraqi civilian who was dragged from his home and shot.

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Prof opens class to UNG, Central students, locals

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For most Duke students, the trip to class includes a walk down the academic quad or sometimes a five-minute bus ride. But for some, getting to class entails a drive down the Durham Freeway.

The 75 Duke students in professor TRn “The Tyson’s class, South in Black and White,” meet at a historic church on Old Fayetteville Street near downtown Durham, along with about 50 students from North Carolina Central University, 75 from the University of North

at Chapel Hill and 150 continuing-education students from Durham.

Tyson, a senior scholar at the Center for

Documentary Studies and a visiting professor in the Divinity School, said he developed

the class in order to combine different types of experiences, opinions and backgrounds to form the environment for the lecture.

“We’re trying to be the quilt, and we bring a lot of different things to the discussion,” Tyson said. “We’re also doing this in terms of the content.”

The course—cross-listed as a documentary studies and African and African-American Studies class—aims to encapsulate the social and cultural tradition in the history of the American SEE TYSON ON PAGE 8

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A discussion panel in the Chapel Thursday night addresses what it's like to be a woman at Duke today.

47 2nd-semester seniors Panel looks at Duke opt for part-time status women's experiences by

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Every semester, students compete to see who can fill their gray ACES schedule with the fewest red class blocks possible.

For part-time seniors, winning this competition is a breeze.

“I have one class every day except Friday, when I have no classes,” said part-time senior Ankur Manvar.

There are currently 47 Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and seven Pratt School of Engineering seniors who are studying at Duke as part-time students, said Gerald Wilson, senior associate dean of Trinity College.

Seniors who have fulfilled or nearly fulfilled their graduation requirements may opt to become part-time students during their final semester. Part-time SEE PART-TIME SENIORS ON PAGE 8

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Senior Jay Ganatrachose to be a part-time student to focus hisenergy on being CampusCouncil president.

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Five women affiliated with different parts of the University community spoke in the Duke Chapel Thursday evening about what it is like to be a female on campus.

The panel discussion, which was sponsored by the Panhellenic Association and targeted new sorority members, focused on female students’ need to take initiative and seek out unique leadership opportunities at the University.

“The female experience at Duke is very multifaceted,” said panel member Alison Perlberg, a junior. “The Women’s Initiative brought to light a lot of the things that aren’t great about Duke, but at the same time a lot of us are here and love it.... It’s time to figure out what you want to do about the issues that women have at Duke.”

Perlberg, Kathryn Laidlaw, Trinity ’O4,

Jacqueline Looney, senior associate dean for graduate programs, senior Jessica Palacios, and Judith Ruderman, vice provost for academic and administrative services, spoke on the panel.

Looney opened the discussion by describing the Duke women with whom she has worked as born leaders who are motivated and comfortable with themselves.

She added that some women on campus still feel the need to achieve “effortless perfection”—a phrase linked with Duke’s current Women’s Initiative.

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CORRECTION The Feb. 8 Recess article about Valentine's Day dinners should have stated that the Nasher Cafe is open only to members with reservations.

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If there’s a best-kept secret about the freshman meal plan, it’s probably the Freeman Center for Jewish Life, where freshmen can opt to dine in place of the Marketplace.

Despite rave reviews from students, both for its food quality and its customer service, the FCJL has drawn a much smaller crowd this year for its Monday-throughThursday dinners than it did last year, when the program was re-introduced.

Saundra Bullock, FCJL food service coordinator, attributed the nearly 66-percent decline to a change in the Marketplace food provider last semester.

During the 2005-2006 academic year, the FCJL was averaging 100 to 150 largely freshman diners a night, Bullock said.

This year, the FCJL has averaged about 50 to 65 students a night.

Bullock said that because the quality of food appears to have improved at the Marketplace this year, non-Jewish students may have less of an incentive to take the C-1 and go to the FCJL. As a result, she said, the center has drawn a somewhat less diverse group of diners than in the past.

“A lot of the students we get, we know them because they come in on Friday night for Shabbat,” Bullock said. “We have more Jewish students coming in than last year, which was more of a mix.”

But even with the change in attendance, diners said the FCJL has retained its homey, community-dining feel.

“When you come to the Freeman Center, it’s like a family environment,” Bullock said. “Everything is fresh; it’s more like home-cooking. It’s kind of personal here. Everybody seems to know

everybody.”

Even for non-Jewish students, who may attend the FCJL less frequently, Bullock said she and her staff try to go out of their way to be friendly.

“If you come in, and we don’tknow you or recognize your face, we’ll say hello,” she said. “We might even bring a chocolate chip cookie to your table.”

Sophomore Erick Rabin, who has been going to the FCJL since last year, agreed.

Stained glass window found damaged An employee reported at 7:32 p.m. Feb. 3 that a stained glass window in the Duke Chapel’s parlor room was found damaged.

Student assaulted in K-ville A student reported an assault in Krzyzewskiville at about 1:25 a.m. Feb. 4.

The assault was allegedly committed by another student following a verbal altercation between the two.

Backpack stolen in K-ville A student reported leaving his backpack in Krzyzewskiville around 3 p.m. Feb. 2. When he returned

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Car vandalized near Cameron An employee reported Feb. 4 that his car had been vandalized. The employee said door mirrors of the car had been found broken off. The car was parked on Whitford Drive near Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Bag stolen from K-ville parking area A student reported a missing canvas bag that was last seen in a parking lot near Krzyzewskiville. The student reported leaving the bag next to her vehicle at around 12:30 a.m. Feb. 3. When she returned at 1:07 a.m., the bag was missing. The bag is said to have contained a wallet, money and a credit card.

Even though Freeman Center dinners are still part ofthe freshman meal plan,fewer students are going thisyear.

Items reported stolen from Card Gym Several employees reported the thefts of laptop computers, money, wallets, cell phones and credit cards that were left unattended in the men’s locker room at the Card Gymnasium between 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Feb. 5.

proved quality this year, freshman John Min said, students occasionally need a break from it.

“The Marketplace has different options, but they’re the same ‘different options’ [night to night],” he said.

With tenting season over, Bullock said, she is hoping for an increase in attendance at the FCJL’s weekly meals.

Money stolen from wallet in bathroom An employee reported a theft ofmoney from his wallet. The employee was using a bathroom in the East Union Feb. 3 and left his wallet unattended on a counter.

Approximately 10 to 15 minutes later, he returned to retrieve his wallet. Although the wallet remained, money was missing.

“I know them by name, and they know me—I think—by name, but they call me ‘sweetie,’” Rabin said. JThey’re all really personable, and they try to help you if you need anything.... Since part of it is a community experience, that’s also reflected in our relationship with the people that work there.”

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Pratt prof wins “Nobel of aerospace” Earl Dowell, professor ofmechanical engineering and materials science, has been awarded the 2007 Walter J. and Angeline H. Crichlow TrustPrize by theAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

The prize—sometimes referred to as the “Nobel Prize of aerospace”—is a prestigious recognition the AIAA presents once every four years. Dowell was recognized for pioneering research in the fields of aeroelasticity, structural dynamics and unsteady aerodynamics.

His work significantly influenced the development of aerospace technology and aerospace engineering. The AIAA will present Dowell with a medal and $lOO,OOO award at an honorarium in Honolulu in April.

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Brodhead said education is only partly about the transmission of knowledge and also entails exposing, stimulating and challenging students. He added that Duke’s recent experience reflects a larger lack of attention to critical work carried out at universities. “Any time we state our mission in lesser terms, we are selling both ourselves and our students short,” he said.

City honors senior for community work Durham Mayor Bill Bell presented senior Daniel Bowes with the Sam Reed Advocacy Award Thursday evening.

Bowes was selected by the Human Relations Department and Commission for his work to improve relationships between Duke students and the Durham community.

He currently serves as the Duke Student Government community liaison and has made significant strides to better interaction between students at Duke and North Carolina Central University.

Bowes is the only member of the Duke community to be honored by the Human Rights Department and receive one of the five awards. NCCU Chancellor James Ammons was also honored with the Carlie B. Sessoms Award for his efforts to create harmony in the community in the midst of challenging issues, including the ongoing lacrosse case.

Brodhead speaks on higher education President Richard Brodhead discussed what he called a widespread misunderstanding or marginalization of American higher education at a conference in Washington, D.C., Monday.

He spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and argued that it is necessary for leaders of colleges and universities to explain to the government and the public why institutions of higher learning are significant for the nation’s future.

Pointing to the lacrosse incident that captured media attention last spring, Brodhead said it was “virtually impossible” to get reporters to look at academic initiatives, research or any other positive aspects of the University.

“We have heard that no news is good news,” he said. “But as far as colleges go, good news is no news.”

Nursing school ships textbooks to Iraq The School of Nursing began an initiative Jan. 8 to send books to Iraq.

Members of the nursing school community organized 38 cartons full of 901 excess medical textbooks and had them sent to the Hawler Medical University in Erbil, Iraq.

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The Brightleaf Square shopping center is home to Dolly's, a vintage store that offers clothing and accessories.

Off East, Dolly’s offers Dukies vintage flavor by

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In the market for patterned flasks, embroidered handkerchiefs, eclectic music and a friendly atmosphere? Look no farther than Dolly’s—a hip vintage store offering clothing, gifts and accessories.

Nestled in the heart of Brightleaf Square, Dolly’s is a perennial favorite of teenage girls, frat boys and crossdressers alike.

“I wanted to cut out a niche that no one else had,” owner Jennifer Donner said. “I like to think that I’m the only store with this setup and affordable prices.”

Donner opened the store in October 2005, naming it after her “Grandma Doll.”

“That’s as long as I’ve liked vintage

clothes,” Donner said. “Since I was six, I always had an interest in costume jewelry and colorful clothing.”

Her store sells a unique mix of merchandise, acquired through years of collecting. Unlike other local thrift stores that buy in bulk, Donner said, she buys everything individually.

“People are always calling to sell me things, so I can pick and choose the things that I love,” she explained.

And Duke students comprise an important segment of Dolly’s business.

“Duke students have been awesome customers,” she said. “I know a lot of them by name. They are super-respectful SEE DOLLY’S ON PAGE 10

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In Washington, State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said, “We’ll see what any final agreement actually looks like, and we’ll have to make an evaluation from there,” addressing whether it meets international demands. “In terms of what the outcome of those discussions look like and whether they meet the Quartet principles, I think we’ll just have to see.”

Shordy after Hamas won elections in January 2006, the so-called Quartet of Middle East peace mediators—the United States, the U.N., the European Union and Russia—said future aid to a new Palestinian government led by the militant group “would be reviewed by donors against that government’s commitment to renounce violence” and recognize Israel and other agreements.

Israeli government spokeswoman Miri Eisin would not say whether Israel believes the guidelines of the new government fulfill those demands.

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Rival Palestinian factions MECCA, Saudi Arabia signed a power-sharing accord aimed at ending months of bloodshed Thursday, agreeing that the Islamic militant group Hamas would head a new coalition government that would “respect” past peace agreements with Israel.

However, Israel and the United States have demanded the new government explicidy renounce violence, recognize Israel and agree to uphold past peace accords. The vague promise to respect past deals—a compromise reached after Hamas rejected pressure for more binding language—did not appear to go far enough.

U.S. and Israeli acceptance is crucial to the deal’s success. Unless they are convinced Hamas has sufficiently moderated its position, the West is unlikely to lift a crippling financial blockade of the Palestinian government, and it will be difficult to advance the peace process.

and accept all three of the international community principles,” Eisin told The Associated Press after the accord was announced.

At stake is roughly $1 billion a year in frozen aid from foreign donors, in addition to approximately $5OO million in withheld tax revenues collected by Israel on behalf of the Palestinians.

Palestinians also hope the agreement will avert an outright civil war. Clashes between Hamas and Fatah gunmen have killed 130 Palestinians since May, and cease-fires have repeatedly broken down.

The latest fragile truce came Sunday, after four days of fighting killed 30 people.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, of Fatah, and Hamas leaderKhaled Mashaal headed two days ofintense negotiations in a Mecca palace overlooking the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine—a venue Saudi Arabia chose to step up the pressure on the two sides to compromise.

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LDOC from page 1 With an estimated final budget ranging from $90,000 $llO,OOO, the committee had hoped from the outset to draw a double-headerfor the celebration, Higgins said.

“It wasn’t so much that we had extra funds, but we thought it would be really great to get this group,” she added.

Despite Mraz’s big-name pull and Common’s Gap ad fame, members said they did not expect many non-Blue Devils to attend the free concert, which will be held on the Main West Quadrangle.

“We’re not going to really advertise the show past the University, but if other people come, I guess that’s fine,” Higgins said. “I don’t really expect that a lot of people will come from Durham or other universities, so it probably won’t be an issue.”

Although some students said they were surprised by the artists slated to perform, they said they still planned on attending the LDOC concert.

“I thought there would be more of a big name—but I’m definitely going,” junior Elizabeth Metzler said. “It’ll be fun.” to

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K-viile closes up for the season

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Nearly 2 months after the first tent went up in Krzyzewskiville, studentsbreak down their temporary homes following Duke's 6-point loss to North Carolina.

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together?” Reichert asked, noting the difficulty of building connections among the University’s many divisions Another member of the committee, Suzanne Shanahan, assistant professor of sociology, opened the discussion by saying that the two things the ten committee members agreed upon “zealously” were their pride in working at Duke and their desire to engage in “the whole under*

Finally, they suggested creating “external review committees” to assess the Athletic Department and the Office of Student Affairs, focusing each year on a different topic, such as scheduling or housing.

“There would be a kind of mutual respect instead of a kind of gap—silence different worlds,” Wood said of the proposed review committees.

Reichert said the University has achieved excellence in both academics and athletics partly through greater specialization, which has divided those dedicated to winning research grants from those devoted to winning national —

championships.

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graduate experience.”

“As a committee, we didn’t agree on

much,” said Shanahan, who was helping to lead the council’s meeting in the ab-

sence of Chair Lee Baker, associate professor ofcultural anthropology.

Several professors asked where the committee’s recommendations would go next. Shanahan assured members that George McLendon, dean of the faculty

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of Arts and Sciences, would receive the report, which the council decided to add to its records.

Members of the committee said Kristina Johnson, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, would also receive a copy, provided that the Engineering Faculty Council also approved the report.

“The report goes to the dean, and the deans are the deciders,” said Stephen Nowicki, dean of the natural sciences.

Nowicki said the report’s very existence demonstrated the faculty’s interest in increased engagement in university governance. He later noted, however, that many faculty members are currently unwilling to serve on University committees, even when asked.

“The faculty have abrogated their responsibility,” he said.

said Smith’s bodyguard administered CPR, but she was declared dead at a hospital.

Dr. Joshua Perper, the Broward County medical examiner who will perform the autopsy, said if her death was from natural causes, the findings would likely be announced quickly.

He cautioned, however, that definitive results could take weeks.

“I am not a prophet, and I cannot tell you before the autopsy what I am going to find,” he said.

Through the ‘9os and into the new century, Smith was famous for being famous, a pop-culture punchline because of her up-and-down weight, her Marilyn Monroe looks, her exaggerated curves, her littlegirl voice, her ditzy-blonde persona, and her over-the-top, revealing outfits.

Recently, she lost a reported 69 pounds and became a spokeswoman for TrimSpa, a weight-loss supplement. On her reality show and other recent TV appearances, her speech was often slurred, and she seemed out of it. Some critics said she seemed drugged-out.

“Undoubtedly, it will be found at the end of the day that drugs featured in her death as they did in the death of poor Daniel,” said a former attorney for Smith in the Bahamas, Michael Scott.

Another former Smith attorney, Lenard Leeds, told the celebrity gossip Web site TMZ that Smith “always had problems with her weight going up and down, and there's no question she used alcohol.”

Leeds said it was no secret that “she had a very troubled life” and had “so many, many problems.”

Smith attorney Ron Rale told The Associated Press that he had talked to her on Tuesday or Wednesday, and she had flu symptoms and a fever and was still grieving over her son.

“Poor Anna Nicole,” he said. “She’s been the underdog. She’s been besieged... and she’s been trying her best, and nobody should have to endure what she's endured.”

The Texas-born Smith was a topless dancer at strip club before she entered a contest and made the cover of Playboy. She became playmate of the year in 1993.

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South by exploring literature, art, poetry and music, Tyson said. Provost Peter Lange said that although it is not uncommon for students to take classes at other universities, to his knowledge, Tyson’s class—with designated enrollment numbers for each university and for continuing education—is the first of its kind at Duke.

“It’s very beneficial to have the opportunity for our students to draw on the resources of other schools in a relatively open and free way,” he said.

Tyson said he is very excited to teach a class full of seemingly contrasting students. “[Duke]’s a private school against a flagship public school, [UNC],” he said. “We’ve got a historically .AfricanAmerican institution, Carolina Central, with what w e have as a historically white institution, Duke.”

Lange said the class is “very unique,” adding that Tyson will evaluate the course at the end of the semester.

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said. “It gets a really interesting mix of students in the classroom discussing issues that they care about.”

Some students in the course said they enjoy the change of pace from more homogenous class settings at Duke.

“I’ve been able to interact with other students from other universities and see what their perspectives are and how they’re different from Duke students,” said freshman Cadene Russell. Russell added that the unique location of the class contributes to the content discussed in it.

“We’re able to feel a Southern, homey feeling while we’re there,” Russell said. “It’s comfortable—we can listen to what the professor says and just absorb it.”

The class became more popular than anticipated and grew from the originally allotted 50 spots per university soon after registration began, Tyson said.

“It’s the most diverse class I’ve ever seen,” he said. “We have people in their late seventies and people in their late teens and all matter of folk in between.... [The average student] is quite different to what we would think of a typical Duke undergraduate.”

Anoop Desai, a junior at UNC who is enrolled in the

course, said the composition of the class was a pleasant surprise.

“It’s definitely different than I thought it would be,” he said. “There’s an 80-year-old guy who asks question and has a walker. Cross-generationally, people have a lot of stories to tell, because these are people, in a lot of cases, who grew up in the South and have a lot of knowledge about politics in the South and first-hand>experiences.”

Duke sophomore Gillet Rosenblith said the diversity of the class essentially blurs university boundaries.

“We don’t really have signs like, T’m from Duke, UNC or NC Central,”’ Rosenblith said. “The people just bring an experience.”

The class also offers an opportunity for students from the South to reconnect with their cultural heritage.

“I think the history is very important and something a lot of North Carolinians don’t know a lot about,” said Duke sophomore Katie Mikush, a native of North Carolina. “I think [the class] is really great, but for me, at least, it’s to get back to my roots.”

Iza Wojciechowska contributed to this article.

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students are allowed to enroll in at most two academic classes per semester.

In previous years, the application was due to the student’s academic dean in the February preceding their senior year.

The deadline, however, was unknown to many students.

“They don’t advertise the option very well,” said partdme senior Ryan Mattison. “And they don’t make it easy by having a deadline only once a year.”

'Wilson said he recognizes that the early deadline has* been a problem in previous years but is optimistic about the effects of the newly instated April 15 deadline.

“We do not anticipate as many people missing the deadline as has been the case in the past,” he said.

Students choose to go part-time for varying reasons, ranging from financial motives to just wanting extra time to relax and hang out with friends.

“Generally speaking, it’s a financial thing,” Wilson said.

“They only need ‘X’ classes to graduate 50... if you take two or fewer you can go part-time.”

Tuition fees for part-time students are dependent on the courses they take—s4,o6o for a full-credit course and $2,030 for a half-credit course.

Full tuition for the current academic year is approximately $16,423 per semester, Many part-time students did not initially plan on only taking two classes in their final semester. They were able to do so, however, because they took more than the required course load during their earlier undergraduate years through either overloading or taking summer classes.

Manvar overloaded three semesters and attended a summer session abroad in 2006, which gave him the option of becoming a part-time student—although it was not his original intent.

“I realized that I could graduate early or take only two classes in my final semester,” Manvar said. “[The opportunity] just kind of fell into my lap.”

The extra time that comes with a reduced class schedule affords part-time seniors the opportunity to explore other interests.

Senior Jay Ganatra, Campus Council President and a member of the Young Trustee Nominating Committee, splits his time between extracurricular responsibilities and personal pursuits.

“I’ve been able to reapply myself to Campus Council, and I’m doing a better job,” Ganatra said. “I’m also a teaching assistant now for PPS 55, and I’ve spent a lot of time working on Young Trustee stuff.”

In addition to school activities, Ganatra also appreciates the extra time he gets to spend with his fellow seniors.

“I can hang out with friends and enjoy it before we all have to go off in different directions,” he said.

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tegration, the Women’s Initiative, handicapped accessibility, performing arts spaces and making Duke a leader in sustainability and environmental issues.

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president of academic affairs He previously served as chair of the Honor Council, co-president of the Duke Political Union

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And the broader your experience, the better “I suppose this is my way of paying it forward. This is my way of giving back to the job you’re going to be able to do of that.”

Off campus, Soni spent one summer people who are going to come after me.” working in Washington, D.C., for U.S. A Program II participant who designed his own major in ethics, Soni did research Rep. Frank Pallone and another researching at the Legal and Human Rights Cenwith Bruce Jentleson, professor of public poltre in Tanzania. icy and political science, for Jentleson’s forth“These experiences have primed me coming book “Profiles in Statesmanship.” pretty well for thinking about Duke as it “I think Jimmy is constantly forwardconnects to everything else going on in looking in everything that he does,” said this wide world of ours,” he said. “I think senior Rachel Wald, who worked with Soni those experiences put Duke in context.” on Jentleson’s research. “I think he will exAs a potential Young Trustee, Soni is inercise that kind of keen foresight in order terested in three main issues concerning to deal with the issues in the long run.”

Duke: the development of financial aid, After graduation, Soni will go to IreCentral Campus and the humanities and land for a year of postgraduate study on social sciences. “If there were two weakestthe Mitchell Scholarship and then work link areas that I would love to contribute for McKinsey & Company in Chicago. to, they would be residential life and aca“I love this place. I cannot get enough of demic advising,” he said. “These are the this place, and when I leave, they’re going to two areas where I think Duke really hasn’t have to drag me away kicking and screamquite found its bearing yet.” ing, because Duke has really been my home Soni said he would also like to deal with for the past four years,” Soni said. “I find myother aspects ofDuke life, such as vertical in- self calling it that, and it really is true.”

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“The delegations are coalescing around some of the themes that we believe should be the basis for a first step in implementing” the 2005 agreement, Hill said. “The first step of a journey is often the most difficult step, and this effort is in fact proving that.”

A South Korean official, speaking early Friday on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing diplomacy, said China circulated a draft proposal. The official gave no details, but other delegates said earlier that the agreement would outline initial steps for implementing the 2005 accord.

Such an agreement would set the stage for the first tangible steps in more than three years of negotiations.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in Washington she was “cautiously optimistic” that the implementation of the agreement could begin.

At the last round of talks in Decem-

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munist nation refused even to talk about its nuclear programs. Instead, Pyongyang demanded the United States lift financial restrictions targeting alleged North Korean counterfeiting and money laundering.

Since then, the United States and North Korean nuclear envoys held an unusual one-on-one meeting in Germany last month, where differences between the sides were apparently discussed,. although no details of any concessions have been made public.

Pyongyang and Washington held separate talks in Beijing in late January on the financial issue, although it has yet to be resolved.

Unlike in the December talks, negotiators Thursday “were able to make progress in discussing denuclearization,” Hill said.

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said. “It gets a really interesting mix of students in the classroom discussing issues that they care about.

Some students in the course said they enjoy the change of pace from more homogenous class settings at Duke.

“I’ve been able to interact with other students from other universities and see what their perspectives are and how they’re different from Duke students,” said freshman Cadene Russell. Russell added that the unique location of the class contributes to the content discussed in it.

“We’re able to feel a Southern, homey feeling while we’re there,” Russell said. “It’s comfortable—we can listen to what the professor says and just absorb it.”

The class became more popular than anticipated and grew from the originally allotted 50 spots per university soon after registration began, Tyson said.

“It’s the most diverse class I’ve ever seen,” he said. “We have people in their late seventies and people in their late teens and all matter of folk in between.... [The average student] is quite different to what we would think of a typical Duke undergraduate Anoop Desai, a junior at UNC who is enrolled in the

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South by exploring literature, art, poetry and music, Tyson said- Provost Peter Lange said that although it is not uncommon for students to take classes at other universities, to his knowledge, Tyson’s class —with designated enrollment numbers for each university and for confirming education—is the first of its kind at Duke.

“It’s very beneficial to have the opportunity for our students to draw on the resources of other schools in a relatively open and free way,” he said.

Tyson said he is very excited to teach a class full of seemingly contrasting students. “[Duke]’s a private school against a flagship public school, [UNC],” he said. “We’ve got a historically AfricanAmerican institution, Carolina Central, with what we have as a historically white institution, Duke.”

Lange said the class is “very unique,” adding that Tyson will evaluate the course at the end of the semester.

“In principle it’s a very cool and dynamic idea,” Lange

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course, said the composition of the class was a pleasant

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“It’s definitely different than I thought it would be,” he said. “There’s an 80-year-old guy who asks question and has a walker. Cross-generationally, people have a lot of stories to tell, because these are people, in a lot of cases, who grew up in the South and have a lot of knowledge about politics in the South and first-hand>experiences.”

Duke sophomore Gillet Rosenblith said the diversity of the class essentially blurs university boundaries.

“We don’t really have signs like, T’m from Duke, UNC or NC Central,’” Rosenblith said. “The people just bring an experience The class also offers an opportunity for students from the South to reconnect with their cultural heritage.

“I think the history is very important and something a lot of North Carolinians don’t know a lot about,” said Duke sophomore Katie Mikush, a native of North Carolina. “I think [the class] is really great, but for me, at least, it’s to get back to my roots ha Wojciechowska contributed to this article. ”

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Charmaine Royal Assistant Professor and Director, GenEthics Unit National Human Genome Center, Howard University Genetic Ancestry Testing in African Americans: Cure for the Identity Crisis?

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6:00 PM

Buffet Dinner

6:30 PM

Karla Holloway William R. Kenan Professor of English and Professor of Law, Duke University Theorizing Genomics: Cultures of Race, Gender, and Privacy

students are allowed to enroll in at most two academic classes per semester.

In previous years, the application was due to the student’s academic dean in the February preceding their senior year.

The deadline, however, was unknown to many students.

“They don’t advertise the option very well,” said parttime senior Ryan Mattison. “And they don’t make it easy by having a deadline only once a year.”

Wilson said he recognizes that the early deadline has been a problem in previous years but is optimistic about the effects of the newly instated April 15 deadline.

“We do not anticipate as many people missing the deadline as has been the case in the past,” he said.

Students choose to go part-time for varying reasons, ranging from financial motives to just wanting extra time to relax and hang out with friends.

“Generally speaking, it’s a financial thing,” Wilson said.

“They only need ‘X’ classes to graduate 50... if you take two or fewer you can go part-time Tuition fees for part-time students are dependent on the courses they take —$4,060 for a full-credit course and $2,030 for a half-credit course.

Full tuition for the current academic year is approximately $16,423 per semester.

Many part-time students did not initially plan on only taking two classes in their final semester. They were able to do so, however, because they took more than the required course load during their earlier undergraduate years through either overloading or taking summer classes.

Manvar overloaded three semesters and attended a summer session abroad in 2006, which gave him the option of becoming a part-time student—although it was not his original intent.

“I .realized that I could graduate early or take only two classes in my final semester,” Manvar said. [The opportunity] just kind of fell into my lap.”

The extra time that comes with a reduced class schedule affords part-time seniors the opportunity to explore other interests.

Senior Jay Ganatra, Campus Council President and a member of the Young Trustee Nominating Committee, splits his time between extracurricular responsibilities and •

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tegration, the Women’s Initiative, handicapped accessibility, performing arts spaces and making Duke a leader in sustainability and environmental issues. president of academic affairs.

He previously served as chair of the “What I’d be interested in doing is reHonor Council, co-president of the Duke ally talking about some things that may Political Union not be on other and political peoples’ radar chair of Diya. he screens,” “The job of the Young Trustee “[My involveadded. ment on camSoni considers is to represent students without from page 1

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And the broader your experience, the better “I suppose this is my way of paying it forward. This is my way of giving back to the job you’re going to be able to do of that.”

Off campus, Soni spent one summer people who are going to come after me.”

A Program II participant who designed working in Washington, D.C., for U.S. his own major in ethics, Soni did research Rep. Frank Pallone and another researchwith Bruce Jentleson, professor of public poling at the Legal and Human Rights Centre in Tanzania. icy and political science, for Jendeson’s forth“These experiences have primed me coming book “Profiles in Statesmanship.”

“I think Jimmy is constantly forwardpretty well for thinking about Duke as it connects to everything else going on in looking in everything that he does,” said this wide world of ours,” he said. “I think senior Rachel Wald, who worked with Soni those experiences put Duke in context.” on Jentleson’s research. “I think he will exAs a potential Young Trustee, Soni is inercise that kind of keen foresight in order terested in three main issues concerning to deal with the issues in the long run.”

Duke: the development of financial aid, After graduation, Soni will go to IreCentral Campus and the humanities and land for a year of postgraduate study on social sciences. “If there were two weakestthe Mitchell Scholarship and then work link areas that I would love to contribute for McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

“I love this place. I cannot get enough of to, they would be residential life and academic advising,” he said. “These are the this place, and when I leave, they’re going to two areas where 1 think Duke really hasn’t have to drag me away kicking and screamquite found its bearing yet.” ing, because Duke has really been my home Soni said he would also like to deal with for the past four years,” Soni said. “I find myother aspects ofDuke life, such as vertical in- self calling it that, and it really is true.”

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“The delegations are coalescing around some of the themes that we believe should be the basis for a first step in implementing” the 2005 agreement, Hill said. “The first step of a journey is often the most difficult step, and this effort is in fact proving that.”

A South Korean official, speaking early Friday on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing diplomacy, said China circulated a draft proposal. The official gave no details, but other delegates said earlier that the agreement would outline initial steps for implementing the 2005 accord.

Such an agreement would set the stage for the first tangible steps in more than three years of negotiations.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in Washington she was “cautiously optimistic” that the implementation of the agreement could begin.

At the last round of talks in December, in the wake of North Korea’s Oct. 9 underground nuclear test, die communist nation refused even to talk about its nuclear programs. Instead, Pyongyang demanded the United States lift financial restrictions targeting alleged North Korean counterfeiting and money laundering.

Since then, the United States and North Korean nuclear envoys held an unusual one-on-one meeting in Germany last month, where differences between the sides were apparently discussed, . although no details of any concessions have been made public.

Pyongyang and Washington held separate talks in Beijing in late January on the financial issue, although it has yet to be resolved.

Unlike in the December talks, negotiators Thursday “were able to make progress in discussing denuclearization,” Hill said.

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DOLLY S from page 5 of my clothing and my time.”

Though Dolly’s currently closes at 6 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, this spring the store will stay open until 11 p.m. on diose days. Donner said she hopes to employ Duke students when that happens.

Many students turn to Dolly’s for themed parties and funky costumes for tailgate season.

“We sort of stumbled upon Dolly’s on a Friday night after going to dinner,” freshman Whitney Lane said.

“After we saw the tutus in the window, we knew that we had to wear them for tailgate.”

Although Dolly’s serves coundess students from local universities, high schools and middle schools, Donner’s clientele is not limited to the young.

Older customers often come in to reminisce about items that remind them of past times, she said. “[Our merchandise] includes remnants of what customers’ mothers wore,” said employee Susan Hidalgo.

“We hear their stories. It’s a little embarrassing, all the details I know.”

The store not only fosters strong ties with customers

“After we saw the tutus in the window, we knew that we had to wear them

for tailgate.”

Whitney Lane freshman, Dolly’s shopper

but also provides support for Durham pride and Downtown Durham’s revitalization efforts, Hidalgo said.

Four years ago, when customers were hesitant to visit Durham and would instead ask for merchandise to be

shipped, Donner and her former business partner Michelle Lee decided to do something to improve Durham’s public image.

In response, they created T-shirts bearing the slogan, “Durham, Love Yourself.”

Costumers can find these $2O T-shirts—along with sweatshirts, bags and bumper stickers—in the shop.

“It’s kind of fun, and it pulls everyone together a little bit,” Donner said. “I get a little bit excited if a car in front of me has my bumper sticker.”

Several storeowners said that Dolly’s is a community favorite and cooperates with neighboring Brightleaf Square merchants.

“I give her music to play in her store all the time,” said “I give her everyJeff Johnson, manager of Offbeat Music. thing under the sun, depending on what mood she’s in.”

At Dolly’s, an enjoyable experience always comes first. Hidalgo tells customers to “kick it a little with something special.”

Her self-proclaimed mantra: “If you don’t want it, you’re not allowed to buy it.”

DUKE FEMALES from page 3 Ruderman, Graduate School ’76, spoke about her undergraduate experience during the social rights movement.

“I expected to find my future husband in college and to get my ‘Mrs.’ degree when I graduated, which I did,”

said Ruderman, who came to Duke as a mother of two.

Ruderman said that although attitudes of the administration toward women today are much different than they were in the past, many of the challenges she faced in the early ’7os are still prevalent for college women today.

Palacios said that female students need to find their own niche at Duke and vision for the future.

“I just accepted a job in corporate America, but I fully intend to have a family and be a wife,” Palacios said.

“That’s my definition of success.”

Laidlaw spoke about her experience as president of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority during her senior year at Duke, noting that many women choose to find leadership opportunities within their sororities instead of other positions on campus.

“One of the best benefits of a sorority is that you’re in an organization that is multi-tiered across Duke,” Laidlaw said.

Senior Zach Bencan, one of a handful of men who attended the discussion, said he has become increasingly interested in women’s issues at Duke over the past few years and that it was a great idea to have the discussion.

“I kind of wish that we had the opportunity to delve further into some questions,” Bencan said. “But I think it was good as an introduction for first-year students.”

Looney encouraged women in the audience to make the Duke experience their own. ‘You have to take ownership. It’s yours,” she said. “This is your university. Ifyou’re here, you belong here and you can always be the force that drives it.”

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Duke's defense shut down Erlana Larkins and UNC's offense, holding theTar Heels to 27.3 percent shooting on the night and just 23.7 percent in the second half.

Blue Devils’ offensive output. As Duke has done in each of its biggest games this season, the team won with defense.

Duke held North Carolina—which was averaging 89. 3 points per game before Thurs§ame jay’s contest—to just 53 points. The effort was analysis the Tar Heels’ worst of the season by 13 points Seniors Lindsey Harding and Alison Bales led the Blue Devils’ staunch defense, which ranks second in the country in both average points against and field goal percentage allowed.

Bales dominated the paint all night, recording seven blocks and altering countless shots from the helpless Tar Heels. Erlana Larkins, who averages 13 points per game on the season, recorded just four points on l-for-8 shooting.

“Offensively, she didn’t score much, but defensively she was a monster,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said of Bales. “I don’t know how many blocks she had, but it doesn’t matter because she changed so many shots, she made them think about the shots they were taking.”

Bales added 12 defensive rebounds and four steals and helped force UNC to shoot just 39 percent in the paint.

Harding, last year’s ACC Defensive Player of the Year, also did her part in shutting down the Tar Heels’ run-and-gun offense. Sharing the effort of guarding Ivory Latta, Harding helped force the stand-out guard into one of her worst SEE ANALYSIS ON PAGE 14

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The last time Duke lost four games in a row, assistant coaches Chris Collins and Steve Wojciechowski sat a bit farther down the Blue Devil bench and wore sweats instead of suits.

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first four ACC games of the season, but they recovered nicely to finish at 8-8 in the conference. This year’s Blue Devil squad will try to make sure that its current losing streak does not reach four as well when the team takes on Mary-

land (17-7, 3-6 in the ACC) at the Comcast Center Sunday at 5 p.m.

“We’ve lost three really tough games that we’ve played winning basketball in all of them,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

‘You cannot get down about losing because then you are not deserving of winning.”

The past three defeats have been nothing short of heartbreaking for No. 16 Duke (18-6, 5-5). The Blue Devils dropped games to Virginia and Florida State that each came down to the final seconds. Although those two defeats were hard to swallow, perhaps the most devastating loss occurred Wednesday when North Carolina came into Cameron Indoor Stadium and won there for the second year in a row.

Against the Tar Heels, Duke led for a majority of the contest but allowed North Carolina to pull away late. The Tar Heels SEE M.BBALL ON PAGE 13

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Jon Scheyer's 26 pointsWednesday against the visiting Tar Heels weren't enough to give Duke the victory.

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In his first season at the helm of Duke baseball, head coach Sean McNally started fresh, wiping the slate clean for a program that had been tarnished by steroid allegations and six consecutive losing seasons.

McNally made sure all his players earned their spot on

through it for a year and understand what their responsibilities are.”

The Blue Devils are counting on those freshmen to fill the holes left by graduation and the transfer of Danny Otero, Duke’s standout pitcher from a year ago.

Otero, who led Duke’s rotation in nearly every statistical category last season, has sev_ team taken his 5-4 record and 2.20 ERA to South cutting season eral holdovers from the Florida for his senior season.

McNally declined to comment on the preview previous regime. The result was the ACC’s pitcher’s reasons for transferring.

Fortunately, the Blue Devils return smallest roster, an llth-place finish in the much of the pop from last year’s lineup, inconference and a seventh straight year cluding the entire heart of their order. Jubelow .500.

McNally, however, said he believes it was niors Jimmy Gallagher and Brett Bartles a necessary step toward restoring the Duke and sophomore Nate Freiman combined standard on the diamond, a process he is for 18 home runs and 100 RBIs a season ago. Freiman’s numbers were particularly anxious to continue this spring. season Saturday impressive considering he missed the first Duke will open its half of the season with an arm injury. when it hosts Mount St. Mary’s in a double“The more guys you have like that, the header at Jack Coombs Field, attempting better it is for your offense,” McNally said field, on the deto show its improvement of the trio.

“If one guy’s hot and one or two transfer of its best from a pitcher the spite guys are swinging the bat well, that can season ago. shirt every make up for a guy when he is struggling.

“We talk about earning your to And if all three guys are swinging the bat and have players really grown our day, great at the same time, that can really proappreciate that,” McNally said. “They realstandard that the pel you to score some runs. We’re excited ize that they carry on a them the about those three guys being in the middle in that have come before guys of the order and feel like they can be cataprogram have set. There’s a lot of responlysts for us.” sibility and accountability, and that’s somework toDuke will need to score a number of that we embrace and we thing CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO runs if it hopes to remain competitive in wards each and every day.” and Jimmy Gallagher (above).

Freiman, Nate Brett Battles including The Blue Devils’ roster is even smaller the ACC —consistendy one of the nation’s The Blue Devils return the core oftheir lineup, toughest conferences. Although the Blue this season, composed of just 23 players McNally expects to use that first month ning game, a lot of things can happen. We 10 of whom are freshmen. Seven of those Devils finished a meager 6-24 in conferWe’ve of the season to experiment with his team freshmen will get opportunities to pitch ence last year, they became increasingly were pretty sound for six or seven. to able all the and find the proper roles for his players, way be to execute while two others—Gabriel Saade and Ryan competitive as the season progressed. got [We to] really get our young playwant able to translate Duke, however, to season as was never through.”

McCurdy—are slated start the Before the Blue Devils begin confer- ers experience playing on the college level, that competitiveness into wins, consistently Duke’s double-play combination. falling short in its attempts to upend the ence play, they will embark on a non-con- spend some time playing on the road and “We’re in a really good position beference schedule highlighted by the three- hopefully look at different combinations elite of the conference. cause we’ve had a year of how we apday East Carolina Invitational the last so going into conference play, we’ve got a made a lot of last year baseball here terms of “We progress in proach playing said.

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“Most of the game we were winning and Three-game losing streaks are unchartwe were in control,” freshman Jon Scheyer ed territory for this squad, but the slide said. “It came down to the last part of the could easily extend if the Blue Devils cansecond half with our execution, and that’s not respond against Maryland after something that in the Maryland game Wednesday’s defeat. In the locker room we’re going to have to do a lot better with.” after the loss, the players all shared the Despite the three straight losses, Duke disappointment but also echoed Krzyzewshas played well during stretches of each ki’s sentiment that the team cannot harp game. The Blue Devils, however, cannot on its recent slide.

“We can’t be down on ourselves—obviafford a hangover Sunday against the ously the loss was hard, but we need to get Terrapins.

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Fencing team hosts home tournament The men’s and women’s fencing squads welcome four of the nation’s top teams this weekend to the Duke Invitational, which will be held Friday and Saturday in Card

Gymnasium.

The men’s team (10-5) will take the floor from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Friday, and the women’s team (10-8) will compete on the same schedule Saturday. The other teams participating in the meet are Air Force, Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame and North Carolina.

Women’s lacrosse kicks off spring schedule The Blue Devils begin their spring schedule this weekend With exhibition games that feature an international flavor. Duke first takes on England’s national team in an exhibition game at 12 p.m. Saturday in Koskinen Stadium. The scrimmage is Duke’s first of the spring season as the team aims to win its First national championship this season.

The Blue Devils will also take the field Sunday, participating in hour-long scrimmages against Ohio State, James Madison, George Washington and Virginia at the Finely Fields in Chapel Hill. The games are part of the annual South of the Border event, in which eight teams will participate this year.

Goestenkors keeps spot on national team USA Basketball announced Thursday that Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors will remain as an assistant coach on the Women’s Senior National Team through the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Working under the Seatde Storm’s Anne Donovan, Goestenkors was an assistant coach last fall as the team travelled to the 2006 World Championships.

“I was so happy and really pleased that we have the opportunity to stay together,” Goestenkors said. “We got along well, we worked well together and we’re willing to go to war for and with each other.”

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ANALYSIS from page 11 nights of the season.

“They’re probably the

two best point guards in the country,” Goestenkors said. “I thought [Lindsey] did a great job defensively.”

Latta, who was the media’s pick as preseason ACC player of the year, shot just 3-for-20 and a dismal 0-for-ll from beyond the arc en route to posting nine points. Entering the game, Latta’s 16.3 points per game led the Tar Heels, and she has posted as many as 32 points in a con-

this season.

In one of the key plays of the game, Latta pushed the ball up the court after an Abby Waner baseline jump shot put the Blue Devils ahead by seven with a little over three minutes on the clock. But Harding was there to meet the speedy Latta, and sticking with her through the lane, Harding forced Latta to travel as she tried to get by for the quick layup.

The Tar Heels never had a chance to come back after Harding’s crucial stop.

“I wanted to make her put it on the floor,” Harding said. “Throughout the game we wanted to keep someone in her face the whole time.”

In all, UNC shot 27.3 percent from the floor as the Blue Devils continued to rise to the occasion in big games.

Against then-No. 1 Maryland, Duke took control of the game and held the talented Terrapins to just 62 points.

Later, against then-No. 4 Tennessee, Duke’s solid defense down the stretch pulled out the close match 74-70.

The outcome of the Blue Devils’ matchup with UNC is more remarkable considering the Tar Heels’ success against other top programs. In its games against Tennessee and Maryland, UNC posted 70 and 84 points, respectively.

“Carolina is an incredible basketball team,” Goestenkors said. “They’ve got so many weapons, and their transition is incredible.” test

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Just like Duke did against Maryland and Tennessee, the Blue Devils shut down the Tar Heels vaunted offense, holding them to just 53points.

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and led at halftime 34-29. The Tar Heels slowly chipped at the deficit, however, in the second, eventually knotting the score at 45 with 10 minutes remaining.

At that point, UNC had the ball with a chance to take the lead, and the raucous, sell-out crowd of 8,010 inside Carmichael applauded the Tar Heels’ effort. For the first time, it looked as if Duke was in danger of losing.

From thereon, the atmosphere of the rivalry game —and matchup of the topranked teams in the country —was electric.

The Blue Devils, though, never faltered.

In fact, they did not even surrender the lead.

With the score tied, Harding nailed a jumper to give Duke a 47-45 advantage.

North Carolina tied the game, but the Blue Devils responded with a brief run to give them a 53-48 lead with 4:39 to go.

Waner then took a fast-break feed from Harding —who had seven assists —for another layup and then made the decisive shot from the corner. The sophomore failed to convert a three-pointer on the night, but the fact that she still scored 16 points is evidence of a more mature game, Goestenkors said. Waner relished taking the game-clinching shot, even though she was 0-5 from behind the arc.

‘You can’t make them if you don’t take them,” Waner said. “I don’t know how much [Goestenkors] likes that saying.”

Although Duke’s offense was clutch in the final minutes, its defensive effort was ultimately responsible for the win. Harding, the Blue Devils’ best defender, hounded North Carolina guard Ivory Latta all night. Latta could not find her rhythm, scoring nine points on 3-for-20 shooting.

She was 0-for-l 1 from behind the arc.

While Harding controlled Latta, Bales masterfully dominated the Tar Heel forwards in the post. Bales finished with seven blocks, but she altered even more shots.

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Judicial Affa irs stats m slead ng Duke students liv- nient over the past year, ing off campus had “There aren’t a lot of infracsome sort of social-life tions, complaints or loud parrevelation? Looking at recent ties,” he said. “If diere were, statistics released by the Of- we’d still be doing enforcement at the same fice of Judicial eve * as n t^ie Affairs, one Gditoricll past.... For whatevwould think students this past fall semester er reason, the activity is just relegated themselves to a so- down.” In the same article, cial diet of Saturday night City Council member Eugene Brown praised the University’s Lifetime movies.

The report states that the supposed increase in discinumber of citations dropped pline and its encouragement almost 80 percent this fall, that students be good neighcompared to Fall 2005. A shift bors as key reasons for the dein Alcohol Law Enforcement cline in infractions.

But from a student’s perfocus, improved relations with the community and the Unispective, there has been no versity’s purchase of houses off perceptible change in offcampus social life. Parties still East Campus were cited as reahappen, and the University sons for the decline. feels no more present. It’s In a recent Herald-Sun article, Durham Police ChiefSteve hard to believe that the deChalmers said his department cline in citations is due to sudhas not become any more ler denly more-subdued behavior

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on the part of students.

The 80 percent drop is mostly attributable to several other factors, many of which were noted in the Judicial Affairs report.

First, Duke did indeed buy many of the historically problematic and frequently cited houses last year. When given the opportunity, many students opted not to honor the leases in those locations, taking their parties to other locales.

Moreover, the “80 percent” number, while seemingly large, compares this past fall with the unusually high citation numbers from 2005 which skyrocketed thanks to a single weekend of parties.

ALE’s crackdown on off-campus underage drinking in 2005 is likely the main cause of such a seemingly huge change.

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incident, for instance, ALE agents cited 75 Duke students in an off-campus house. In subsequent raids at other houses, another 40 students were cited. These three cases alone made up 105 of citations that semester.

Since then, ALE has becoming a less-present governing hand off campus. As such, there have been no citation “blocks” of the sort we saw in 2005. Instead, numbers have returned to “normal,” appearing small in comparison to the hundreds last year but not necessarily representing a significant behavioral change.

It is, however, fair to say that many students are working proactively to keep in check the parties that police responded to so frequently in the past. Students are now more aware of the benefits of

forming relationships with neighbors, thanks largely to the lacrosse debacle. Many give neighbors warning before parties they know may cause disturbances and suggest that they be contacted with complaints before the police.

While this may seem like the time to pat the University on the back for quelling disruptive behavior and thwarting underage drinking, the sharp decline is more realistically related to a number of factors outside of both students’ and Duke’s control.

The fact of the matter is that students are still engaging in such activities—they have just moved them elsewhere, off the curbs of Watts and Urban, and when they are there, they are not under such strict scrutiny by enforcement officials.

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Whole Foods pay these people? Honestly, tedly, it’s heady stuff. Charitable ventures that can turn where do they all come from, individuals a profit? Businesses that save the whales, or the envidressed in that oddly attractive hybrid of ronment, or the children? How cool is that? These students (as well as plenty ofacademics and professionals, urban sophisticate and hippie attire, pleasant and rehere and elsewhere) are pretty well sold that this is the hotally healthy-looking people stuffing $l4 organic wave of the future, that market mechanisms can be house tomatoes into tuned to solve all human ills. hemp multi-use shopAnd that’s precisely what disturbs me. For one ping bags? thing, the free market has proven very adept at cooptIt’s a weird and m ing causes or ideals, draining them of content, and redistinctive clientele Whole selling them as empty lifestyle choices. I mean, hell, at Durham’s even Wal-Mart is selling organic produce these days.

Foods—one you It’s an open question as to whether and how well social won’t see too often entrepreneurial projects will be able to retain their iniin, say, the Food brian kindle tial ethics in the pressure cooker of the market.

Lion off of Main ad astra The real issue is much more fundamental than Street. And that, I however. Most of the problems Whole Foods this, suppose, is the point.

Whole Foods bills itself as something more than wants to address—unsustainable agriculture, food as a mere commodity—are a direct result of acquisjust another supermarket. They’ve got a massive corand and and in- itiveness, over-consumption and good ol’ Amerion on porate philosophy that goes on cludes words like “interdependence” and “entwining.” can consumerism.

Yet the company isn’t really asking us to drastically They stock scads of organic products and support local alter website waxes our buying habits. It isn’t demanding that we propoetic farmers and charities. Their about the “virtuous circle” linking the customer to duce our own food, and purchase less. In fact, it deMother Earth. The place has elevated grocery shoppends on us not doing any of these things. Whole Foods wants and needs us to keep consuming at the ping to an exercise in social morality. same we always have, it just wants us to consume clip successful take some kind of backdo-gooders All lash, and Whole Foods is no exception. Much of the better stuff (provided by Whole Foods, of course).

The same can be said for One World Market, or criticism is fairly accurate: yes, the store caters to the affluent and savvy who have the luxury of affording an Ten Thousand Villages, or any of the numerous fairall-natural lifestyle. Yes, most stores typically sell only a trade coffee vendors. In a sense, this brand of social minuscule amount of local food, while buying the vast entrepreneurship isn’t radical at all, it’s profoundly conservative: we bought and expended our way into majority of organics from the five or six farm conglomerates in California that largely control the industry. this mess, and damned if we won’t buy and expend Yes, “Whole Foods” the marketing image far outstrips our way back out.

Don’t take this the wrong way; I think most of these “Whole Foods” the reality.

But so what? Isn’t this true of every business, ever? businesses are pretty great, and that the products If the worst thing that can be said about the company they’re selling are actually better than the traditional is that rich people like it and its ads stretch the truth, alternatives. Yes, without question buying free trade is doing less harm. But is it doing good? Is it activism? Is is that really a problem?

Yes and no. I like Whole Foods the store; there are it a full solution?

I don’t know. My instinct is that social entrepreplenty of things that are unequivocally good about it (the base pay rate for employees, $13.15 an hour, is neurship is an incomplete response, that it leaves core one of them). At the same time, I think there’s some issues of consumption and waste unaddressed. Either central assumptions lurking behind the company that way, it’s something we need to consider, and now.

As far as I can tell, social entrepreneurship is an are profoundly disturbing, ones that should concern increasingly popular subject in the Public Policy and you even if you’ve never set foot in the store.

Whole Foods is one of a myriad of “cause” businessPolitical Science departments, and if you don’t run es—socially aware companies that represent a set of into it in a classroom, odds are good you’ll find it at ethics beyond the desire for a healthy bottom line. It’s a store or business (the Whole Foods is a safe bet for been tried before; the difference is that this go-round many students). When you do, you’ll need to know many companies have been wildly successful at it. The what to do with it, whether to trust its promise: that official term for it is “social entrepreneurship,” and it’s we can buy a better world. very much in vogue right now.

Brian Kindle is a Trinity senior. His column runs Being a Public Policy major, I can tell you that many every Friday. of my peers are quite excited by this concept. Admit-

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In studying brain activation of people who admit to being “truly, madly and deeply” in love, neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp has found that the neural areas that activate in people who are in romantic relationships are also found in cocaine and opium addicts. Panksepp postulates that romantic relationships are just addictions to another person. In other words, the secretion rate of dopamine (the neurotransmitter most commonly associated with pleasure) is highly similar between people who are simply in love and people who are simply in love with drugs.

Now, I have a friend who could only be called an alcoholic. I also have a friend who has a very serious girlfriend. Often, I have a hard time telling them apart. They seem to spend about an equal amount of time on their passions. My alcoholic friend is constantly apologizing to people that he had insulted or vomited on while drunk, just as my romantic friend seems to be perpetually apologizing to his significant other for not wanting to watch Pretty Woman for the third time this week. My alcoholic friend is always broke, spending all his money on ridiculously priced drinks in bars. My romantic friend is just as poor, spending all his money on nice dinners and pointless gifts. Neither seems to be doing very well in school.

I am sick and tired of watching Duke do nothing to prevent what may be the most destructive addiction of them all: romance. A drastic change is desperately needed. I advocate that while we are enrolled in Duke University, there can be absolutely no romantic involvement with anyone. This would include a ban on Duke’s own specialty: the random hookup. As long as we are intent on producing the most impressive, efficient students possible, romance is forbidden. A prohibition on love would only elevate the rank and status of this university. Monks, I remind you, get a lot of work done.

Before you completely disregard my proposal, let me outline the advantages to outlawing love. I, for one, would completely disregard any interest in my own appearance. Within a week, I would make the permanent move to sweatpants. Going to the gym would also be out of the question. Ice cream and Doritos would become my main source for nourishment.

Also, without the possibility of romance, schoolwork would definitely become my top priority. 1 imagine that without women, I would soon be an expert in quantum physics, master molecular genetics and write the Great American Novel. Within five years, I would be named Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” (again).

Just like alcohol and other drugs, love is a dangerous, dangerous obsession. One minute you think that you are just talking to a nice girl, the next minute you’re turning off ESPN to discuss Grey’s Anatomy. Before you know it, you’re skipping class to plant flowers and spending your Saturday nights at ballroom dancing lessons. All around me, I see people falling victim to love’s powerful grasp. It’s time that we end romance at Duke before this problem gets even more out of control.

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First was Duke’s last minute loss to FSU on Sunday. Then, a mere few hours later, my beloved Bears suffered a mm rain-soaked defeat at the hands (or hooves) of the Colts And finally, after a S taCV Chudwlll month full of mud, ice shenanigans and tripping over tent cords in K-ville, we lost to Carolina at home for the second year in a row. '

Oooohhaaargh.

I feel like one of those blow-up clowns that gets knocked down and then bounces back up for more abuse. The Bears haven’t won the Super Bowl since I was in the womb and may not until my own great-grandbabies are. My pillows are forever stained with beer and Kville mud. My face still bums from the acrylic paint I used for the game, as well as my own shame.

But you know what? There must be some good that can come of this. There must be some silver lining to the cloud of disappointment and loserdom that has followed every team I rooted for. Because sometimes, you can learn more from defeat than from winning.

Thus, in the hopes of gaining from defeat, I have listed the lessons I learned over the past month: 1) Win or lose, the Super Bowl is the greatest American holiday there is. Not a holiday, you say? IfParty City sells decorations for it, then it’s a holiday in my book.

The Super Bowl is a glorious time ofyear when we gather around with friends and family to celebrate three of the most American things of all: football, hot wings and blatant commercialism.

2) I learned thatevery car advertisement inevitably involves a hard-core industrial scene of a car being welded together in a factory. Sparks fly and metal screeches as futuristic robots construct the ultimate vehicle. Then, at last, the beast is released from the cage, and the automobile does something bad-ass with no basis in reality, like driving up a giant crane, or barreling off-road around dangerous mountain curves.

Come on, all I really need to know is that the car can fit all my luggage when I come home from school, and that the sound system can effectively blast “Smack That” as I tool around town. Everything else is just details.

3) I learned why Prince was chosen out of all other

artists to be the sole performer at the 2007 Super Bowl half-time show... oh, wait, no I didn’t.

4) As far as K-ville, the greatest lesson I learned was this: YOU CAN HEAR THROUGH TENT WALLS. I know this may be hard to believe. You feel like you are in your own nylon cocoon of safety and privacy. But no, my friends, sound travels right through mesh. As a result of people’s failure to understand this, I was privy to such priceless sound bites as: “Dude, she’s just some girl I suck face with on occasion.”

“Sonuvabitch, I think I Just sat in vomit!”

Ajid, that age-old question we all grapple with: “Hey guys, would you rather be stranded three miles out in the ocean knowing that no one is coming to rescue you, or be bom with only three fingers on each hand?”

Oh, K-ville.

5) I learned that the experience of tenting and then standing side-by-side (or ass-by-crotch) at the Carolina game is the best way to bond with friends. You never feel closer with your fellow Dukie than when you later find their blue body paint all over the back of your shirt.

6) And finally, after a month of sleeping out in the cold, throwing hot wings at the TV set, and screaming

my lungs out at the Carolina game, the greatest lesson I learned is this: the way that a person, a team, or a university handles defeat is the most revealing aspect of their character.

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It is inspiring when a team of athletes plays their hearts out after two crushing defeats, refusing to accept that their opponent is ranked higher.

And it is inspiring when fans lose their voices cheering for their school before, during and especially after one of the most painful kinds oflosses.

What did a sports disaster sound like Wednesday night?

Not like the pitiful moan I let out at the beginning of this column, but rather, like the undefeatable roar of “Leeet’s gooo Duuuke!” even when it was long after the clock had already run out.

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