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Starting thisyear, the entire room selection process will be conducted online, Residence Life and Housing Services officials announced at Campus Council’s general body meeting Thursday night.

“I’m really excited about it,” said Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services.

“We’ve been trying to move the whole process into an electronic environment for several years now. It’s finally on Eddie Hull our horizon.”

Room Fix ’O7 will run on a platform developed by Residential Management System—a company that has worked with more than 100 schools, said Marijean Williams, director of housing assignments and communications.

“Out-of-the-box products give us a great template, but we had to work with it to make it appear as much like the face-toface [Room Pix] process as we could online,” Williams said, adding that RLHS spent a year and a half developing the

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With four minutes left in the first half, an errant Wanisha Smith lob down the court sailed wide ofits intended target, Alison Bales. But instead of flying out of bounds, the ball was plucked out of midair underneath the basket by freshman Bridgette Mitchell, who took it and scored with a smooth lay up.

That play was emblematic of the freshman’s career night. Mitchell, who shot 10-for-13 from the floor, led No. 1 Duke (27-0, 12-0 in the ACC) to an effortless 73-52 victory over Boston Col-

lege (12-13, 2-9).

“I was in the right place at the right time—a lot of openings were there,” Mitchell said. “My teammates just found me.”

Seeming genuinely surprised with her hot hand, Mitchell gave a big smile after each basket, laughing her way to a career-high 20 points. Paired with 10 rebounds, the freshman forward recorded her third double-double of the season—tied for best on the team. “[Bridgette] did a great job getting to the basket,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. ‘We found her really well when they were in the zone for just layups.”

The Boston College defense struggled all night against Duke’s high-powered and lightning-quick offense, which opened the game with a 13-2 run in the first four minutes.

That run ignited a 46-point first half in which the Blue Devils dominated the Eagles all over the court.

“This was one of our best halves —

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Bridgette Mitchell notched her thirddouble-doubleof the season, with a career-high 20 points and 10rebounds. that first half, offensively,” Goestenkors said. “We shared the ball really well, we were hitting the ball from inside [and] from outside.”

The Eagles switched between zone and man defense throughout the contest, but Duke was able to capitalize

against both schemes.

When Boston College showed man coverage, the Blue Devils tried to penetrate and drive to the basket. The Blue Devils utilized their speed and size to score 40 points SEE W. BBALL ON PAGE 12

Amid scandal, N.C. Speaker resigns Black pleads guilty to corruption charge by

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North Carolina House Speaker Jim Black resigned Wednesday in the wake of political scandal. Thursday, he pleaded guilty to a public corruption charge.

During his four-term, eight-year run as Democratic House speaker, Black acted as one of the most influential men in North Carolina government, along with Governor Mike Easley and State Senate Leader Marc Basnight.

Black came under fire several times during his term, most recently for allegations that he accepted $25,000 in underhanded payments from chiropractors while supporting legislation that would benefit them.

He officially announced his resignation in a letter read to the House on his behalf Wednesday.

“With both sadness and anticipation, I hereby resign from the House of Representatives on Feb. 14, 2007,” he wrote in the letter.

Black’s statement was not specific about his reasons for resigning and made no mention of his intention to

plead guilty Thursday.

“Now it is time for me to move forward with my life and attend to the health and welfare ofmy family,” he said.

Black wrote that it had been an honor to serve the House for the last 25 SEE BLACK ON PAGE 6

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HAMBURG, Pa. National Guardsmen in Humvees ferried food, fuel and baby supplies Thursday to hundreds of motorists stranded on a 50-mile stretch of highway for nearly a day by a monster storm blamed for 15 deaths.

The traffic jam on the icy, hilly section of Interstate 78 in eastern Pennsylvania forced authorities to also shut down portions of 1-81 and 1-80 Thursday afternoon as they struggled to gain ground on the colossal traffic jam.

Drivers were frustrated they were let on the road at all. State police did not close all

the entrance ramps to 1-78 until around 5 p.m., more than 24 hours after vehicles starting getting caught.

“Why would they have that exit open if they were just going to let us sit there?” said a crying Deborah Miller. Her 5-year-old son was trapped in the car with her, running a 103-degree fever from strep throat.

The sprawling storm system hit Wednesday and blew out to sea Thursday, leaving huge snow piles, frigid temperatures and tens of thousands withoutpower across the Midwest and Northeast.

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morning wind chills below zero, and in some areas, the snow was followed by several inches of ice.

A few flights were canceled Thursday after numerous cancelations Wednesday, and many school districts that had canceled classes Wednesday extended the unplanned vacation by an extra day.

“This storm was rare because of the unusual amount of snow and ice,” Pennsylvania Transportation Secretary Allen D. Biehler said. “This series of accidents that blocked our way made it really, really difficult.

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Al-Qaida leader wounded in clash

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BAGHDAD, Iraq United States and Iraqi forces pushed deeper Thursday into Sunni militant strongholds in Baghdad where cars rigged with explosives greeted their advance —while British-led teams in southern Iraq used shipping containers to block suspected weapon smuggling routes from Iran.

Early Friday, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was wounded and an aide was killed in a clash the previous day with Iraqi forces north of Baghdad.

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However, the deputy interior minister said he had no information about such a clash, and two U.S. officials could not immediately confirm the report.

The series of car bomb blasts, which killed at least seven civilians, touched all corners of Baghdad. But it did little to disrupt a security sweep seeking to weaken militia groups’ ability to fight U.S.-allied forces—and each other—as Iraq slips further into factional bloodshed.

The attacks, however, pointed to the critical struggle to gain the upper hand on

vote critical of his troop buildup in Iraq.

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Evidence for water on Mars An orbiting spacecraft has sent back new evidence for the presence of water on Mars.

Scientists long have debated whether water flowed on the red planet, with evidence increasing in recent years. The presence of water would raise the possibility of at least primitive life forms existing there.

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Most of the latest resistance has come from Sunni factions, which perceive their Saddam Hussein-era influence slipping away as the majority Shiites extend their political muscle and bolster ties to powerful Iran.

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University deans hosted a discussion in the Duke Chapel Thursday, which centered on a pending global energy crisis and the need for socially conscious engineering.

The panel, the third in a series entided “Is it possible to do any good?” featured Kristina Johnson, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, and Sam Wells, dean of the Chapel.

The two discussed the role engineering should play in society and the ways in which the discipline can contribute to the solution of global problems.

“It seems to me that what engineers do is solve problems that are important to society,” Johnson said.

Wells questioned, however, the efforts of universities in cultivating this sort of social involvement among engineers.

“In what ways are engineering schools part of the solution?” Wells asked.

Johnson said that in recent years, Pratt has come to emphasize interdisciplinary study in order to graduate engineers who are aware of the issues in the world around them.

“Today, it’s not enough to be an engineer, and it’s not enough to be public policy,” she said. “It takes much more to be part of the solution.”

She added that Pratt students stand out from their peers at more technical institutions largely because so many of them study abroad and double major.

“Duke is one of a handful of institutions that encourage students to learn more outside of their major,” Johnson said.

One of the primary issues facing engineers today is the unfair distribution of energy around the world, she said, adding that concerns with global warming and diminishing energy supply only heighten this debate.

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Although his presidential ambitions have since diminished, Volpe said his strong interest in university administration continues and that he views the Young Trustee position as a “great train-

ing ground.”

Volpe has served as a leader on cam-

pus in a number of ways, from his role as a graduate student representative to President Richard Brodhead’s Inauguration Committee, to sitting in on meetings with student leaders and administrators

regarding plans for Central Campus.

He is also a founding member and student in the computational biology and bioinformatics graduate program.

Volpe said his experience working with the developing program has given him insight into the operations of budding interdisciplinary institutes at the University.

“There are definitely ways that my experience can help mold and frame a lot of the initiatives that are going to be put forth in the development of these new institutes,” he said.

Volpe added that his passion for interdisciplinary programs is one reason why he wants to be on the Board of Trustees.

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supply the world, she added.

“As you look at the globe at night, Africa is dark,” she said. “Where is the fairness in that?”

The real issue, however, is not how much power there is but how certain regions of the globe are using it, she said, adding that Americans and Europeans, for example, have little restricdon on how much energy they use daily.

“Why do I have six lights on in my office? Because I can,” she said. “There’s no penalty for that.”

Though engineers can find ways to increase global energy supply, Johnson said they cannot ignore the problems with the lifestyle of western society.

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ROOM FIX from page 1 new process Williams said a test period will be set up in early March to help students adjust to the new process. She added that “satellite offices” will be set up on campus during the selection period to help students.

Students will be given a user name—their Duke unique ID—a randomly generated password and a lottery group instead of the previous lottery number, Williams said.

Jen Frank, program coordinator for RLHS, said there will be a maximum of 12 students in each lottery group of the same gender, who may or may not be in a block together.

Letter)' group order will be decided according to room type and seniority, and all members of the same group are able to register online for their room assignment at the same time, Frank said.

Groups’ windows will be separated by approximately 10 to 15 minutes, Williams said, noting that RLHS is still working on the exact time frame.

Frank added that once a registration window is open to a lottery group, it will remain open and students can access it any time during Room Fix hours.

Available rooms will be updated live on the website for students to pick from, and once students identify a desired room they may “lock” the room, officials said. Students then have five minutes to decide if they wish to live in the space for the next academic year, after which the room will again be available to everyone.

“Once the students confirm the room, they cannot go back and change it,” Williams said.

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At Campus Council's weekly meetingThursday night, the group ironed out details of the new online Room Fix. process, she added.

Once students “lock” a room, they must also indicate who their roommate is before they are able to confirm the room, Frank said, noting that user IDs and passwords are needed to confirm roommate selection.

“This will solve the problem for people that won’t be free during the registration window,” Williams said.

Frank said all statements, such as the housing agreement, will be signed online.

“There will be no more paper involved,” she said.

Selective living group residents will undergo a different room selection process depending on their group, Williams said.

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weeks, Frank said She noted that to complete the application, students need to have their roommate, room type and blocking information ready.

Williams said this move will reduce the amount of time needed for the process.

“We do have a backup plan in case everything goes wrong,” she said. “We’re hoping that doesn’t happen.”

Students will also be able to pick their dining options for the next year on the same website, Williams said.

The biggest benefit of the move will be an increase in the efficiency of the Room Fix process and prevention of students picking out of order, officials said.

“This will improve everyone’s life here at Duke,” said Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a senior.

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Last fall, Duke Student Health Center began offering vaccines that protect women against the human papillomavirus, after the Federal Drug Administration approved the vaccine in June.

And Lindsey Bickers Bock, Student Health health education specialist, said the vaccine has been popular among Duke students since it was first introduced.

During the fall semester Bickers Bock said that approximately 250 students received the first in a series of three shots, and 150 received a second shot.

Each student who receives the vaccine from Student Health must also attend a clinic about the vaccine, the vaccine’s effects and the disease, which causes cervical cancer and is the second-leading cancer killer of women worldwide.

“Anytime anybody gets a medical procedure, there is a requirement that we do some education,” Bickers Bock said. “For the HPV vaccine it’s an easy way to learn about what human papillomavirus is and what the vaccine is like. And if you decide to, you can get the vaccine right there.”

Bickers Bock added that more women than seen at the Student Health Center have been receiving the shot at home through their pediatricians and doctors.

The vaccine is available at Duke for $l4O per shot.

Recent approval of the HPV vaccine has also led to the introduction of legislation in at least 30 states that will either require education for the public about HPV and its vaccine, or to fund or require the vaccine.

New Hampshire’s health department has a several-million-dollar fund it will use to provide the vaccine free of charge to girls under 18 In February, by mandate of Gov. Rick Perry, Texas became the first state to require all girls entering sixth grade to receive the vaccine.

The vaccine, however, is not currently required in North Carolina.

“There are about five shots that the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] has recommended that we do not have the money to cover with our universal vaccine program,” said Debbie Crane, director of public affairs at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

The HPV vaccine is one of those five “If you’re receiving Medicaid or you’re on a private health plan, the vaccine is covered, but those kids who aren’t wouldn’t be getting the shot,” Crane said.

Despite the lack of legislation regarding the HPV vaccine, the third annual report about state cervical health issued by Women in Government, a bi-partisan, non-profit organization of women state legislators, reports North Carolina as a top-performing state in screening and placing legislative priority on cervical health issues.

Merck & Co., the only company currendy producing the vaccine, is opening a new $3OO-million manufacturing plant in Durham.

In the future, North Carolina may have lower cost options for children not covered by private health insurance or Medicaid.

Though nothing is official yet, Crane said the state is discussing with private insurers—the largest of which is Blue Cross Blue Shield—a concept to allow the state to collect the estimated $35 to $4O million the private companies are already spending on customers covered for the shots.

Crane added that the money would be supplemented by an equal amount of federal funding—a sum that would give the state enough vaccinations for every child.

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calm Baghdad which is key to begin stabilizing the rest of the country. A leader of the main Sunni bloc in parliament, Adnan al-Dulaimi, claimed the U.S.-led sweeps have “started to attack” mosdy Sunni areas. “It should concenSeparately, however, a U.S. Marine was killed in combat in Iraq’s western Anbar province, a Sunni militant trate on those who are perpetrating the violence and terstronghold. The announcement about the wounding of rorist acts in all districts,” he said an apparent reference al-Masri, the al-Qaida in Iraq leader, came from Brig. to the Shiite militia stronghold ofSadr City.

Around the capital, U.S. and Iraqi soldiers set up Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, an Interior Ministry Balad, said the clash occurred dozens of roadway checkpoints and conducted top-tonear a spokesman. He major U.S. base about 50 miles north of the capital, and bottom searches of vehicles and motorbikes. Waiting in a snarl of traffic at one blockade, Mohammed al-Jubouri identified the dead aide as Abu Abdullah al-Majemaai. took the Al-Masri over leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq said people are willing to put up with delays so long as after its charismatic leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was the security sweep shows some results after bombings killed in a U.S. airstrike last June in Diyala province that have killed hundreds of civilians this year. “We are northeast of Baghdad. In October, false reports surfaced fed up with these stalling words,” aljubouri said. “We that al-Masri was killed in a raid, and the U.S. military want only the security and stabilization.”

Mohammed Ali Jassim, a 40-year-old Sunni owner of a performed DNA tests on a slain militant to see if he was spare parts store, was hopeful the security plan will work. the al-Qaida leader.

Al-Zarqawi was widely believed to have fomented sectar- Jassim said he was forced to abandon his business in one ian war through his campaign of brutal suicide attacks of Baghdad’s commercial areas, Sinak, where more than 50 people were kidnapped by gunmen disguised in miliagainst Shiite civilians. The first steps of the security operadon display the sectarian divides complicadng any plan to tary uniforms late last year.

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BLACK from page 1 years and that he was satisfied with his time as leader.

“I am extremely proud of the many accomplishments of the House during the last eight years while I served as speaker,” Black said.

He said his tenure was only the beginning of the progress that will be made in the years to come under the leadership of Rep. Joe Hackney, whom the House selected as the new speaker in January.

Black will be sentenced in May and could face up to 10 years in prison for the corruption charge. As a felon, he will be barred from holding government office in North Carolina.

The corruption charge, however, was only one of several controversies raised during his time in office.

Rep. Michael Decker, who changed parties and supported Black for a third run as speaker, admitted in August 2006 that he had accepted $50,000 from Black as a bribe.

Kenneth Bell, Black’s lawyer, told The Raleigh News & Observer Thursday, however, that Black pleaded guilty to “the only criminal offense he’s committed.”

Black’s most recent term was also tainted by his involvement in the appointment of Kevin Geddings to a seat on the state lottery commission.

The N&O reported in October 2005 that Geddings had kept secret his business relationship with a top executive ofScientific Games, a connection that gave the gaming company an unfair political influence.

Decker faces up to five years in prison, and Geddings was found guilty by a federal jury, although he has yet to receive a sentence.

These controversies have caused Republicans like Sen. Phil Berger to criticize Black’s centralized power, the N&O reported.

In light of Black’s extended time in office, Berger told the N&O that allowing leaders of the House and Senate to retain their positions without term limits fosters conditions for the abuse of power.

“I think the structure invites the sorts of problems we’ve seen in the House,” Berger said.

Duke law professor James Coleman said, however, corruption should be blamed on the individual rather than the system.

“This is corruption, and I think corruption is about people, and certainly more than just the structure,” he said.

Coleman added that many leaders have served in legislatures for extended periods of time without being corrupt.

“This is the case of a corrupt person acquiring power and abusing it,” he said.

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VOLPE from page 3

Volpe said. “You need to get people to believe in your vision for

what you want graduate students “I have a vested interest in to achieve, for how you want the graduate and wanting to see my program sucprofessional ceed,” he said. “My degree from schools to grow in prominence Duke University is only as good as and influence at this school.” the future of that program and “The most important thing the future that a of the Young [Duke InTrustee “He’s not quick to make a stitute for can do is Genome judgment, and he wants to provide Sciences that perconsider all the and Polispeclive,” he cy] and arguments and the entire added. moveSaninformation.” ment of ford Sanford Groff Groff, a interdiscifourthplinary ac4th-year, Divinity ademics year Diat Duke.” vin i t y To enSchool sure the prosperity of academic student, said Volpe’s “holistic” initiatives at the University, Volpe point of view makes him a good said he hopes to help the Board candidate for the position.

“He’s not quick to make a judgimplement the University’s strategic plan, pushing to increase ment, and he wants to consider all the arguments and information,” stipends to attract the best graduate students and faculty. he said. “He is able to take into acHe said it is important that he count complex issues and reasonstand up for the graduate stuably communicate them.” dent body in order to further his Thomas Kepler, division chief agenda, adding that he would be of computational biology and a better representative than a stuprofessor of bioinformatics and dent from one of the professionbiostatistics, said Volpe has high al schools. aspirations to be in an adminis“It’s time now to bring sometrative role. body that has a perspective from Kepler oversees Volpe in a the vast majority of graduate stucomputational immunology labdents, who did not go here to oratory.

Duke [for an undergraduate de“He has his sights set on influential positions where he deals gree] and who are doing scholarly research,” he said. with people,” he said, adding that Volpe added that he would take Volpe frequently demonstrates a “bottom-up” approach to the pothe leadership skills necessary for sition by understanding that the such a position.

Board already has a plan, and acEric Vance, chair of the Young knowledging that his role is to per- Trustee Screening Committee, suade the group to believe his said Volpe has less experience goals are important and should be working with both graduate stuincluded in its agenda. dents and administrators on the “We can’t go in there waving same issue, but his knowledge of our arms and blowing our horns start-up institutes is an advantage.

“He’d be a good voice on the saying, ‘This is what needs to happen for the graduate students,’” Board for guidance,” he said.

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Seniors Chloe Chien, Andrew Longenecker and Joseph Babcock were selected from among 600 students nationwide. The students were chosen based on the depth of their activities and leadership qualities and their abilities to extend academics outside of the classroom.

Chien and Longenecker were among 20 students named to the Second Team, and Babcock was one of 20 students named to the Third Team.

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The project is a collaboration between Duke, Durham and Durham’s sister city, Toyama, Japan. It will open as part of the garden’s Culberson Asiatic Arboretum.

Group looks at lead hazards Members of the Duke University Children’s Environmental Health Initiative and community members and officials have forms the Durham Environmental Lead Collaborative

to examine high lead levels in Durham water.

DELC members began this week to draft an action plan in anticipation of a “Lead Summit” to be held in March. The group will identify and test Durham houses considered at risk.

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Deans Wells and Johnson discuss the opportunity for engineers to make a positive social impact with their postgraduate employment.

“The problem here is that if we talk about engineering social good, we are going to have to learn to live on less power,” Johnson said.

More-developed countries have largely chosen to ignore the lack of power provided to the marginalized people of the world, Wells said.

Focusing solely on harnessing more energy only ignores this disparity, he added.

“Can the idealistic undergraduate engineer go into the business world thinking that they can do more than just push the problem from one side of the table to the other?” Wells asked.

Engineers must deal with the paradox that their efforts often benefit the capitalist, developed countries at the expense of the less-developed world and a widespread “social good,” he said.

“Is it possible to do any good?” he asked.

These sorts of questions often go overlooked in engineering curricula as well as in practice, Johnson said.

“One of the things that surprised a lot of scientists was the backlash toward stem-cell research—l don’t think they expected that,” she said.

She added that it is important for engineers to think about the impact their developments might have on society and the environment.

Gaston Warner, director of university and community relations, noted the importance of bringing these critical issues to the surface in a university setting.

“We have this academic standing, so we have the opportunity to help make the world a better place,” Warner said.

Wells and Johnson said they agreed that fostering this sort of debate at the university level will help students to engineer a better future.

“We can’t make a better world without making better people,” Wells said.

WEATHER from page 2 By early Thursday evening, state police said the logjam was breaking on the highways and traffic was creeping along. Nearly all cars were off the highway, but the trucks were asked to stay on the interstate because side roads were in such bad shape, state police said.

Eugene Coleman, who is hyperglycemic, was trapped for 20 hours while on his way home to Hartford, Conn, from visiting his terminally ill mother in Georgia, along with his girlfriend and pregnant daughter.

“How could you operate a state like this? It’s totally disgusting,” Coleman said. “God forbid somebody gets really stuck on the highway and has a life-threatening emergency. That person would have died.”

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Duke hopes that the third time will ultimately prove to be the charm in its quest for a national championship when it begins its regular season with two away games

this weekend.

After two straight exits in the semifinals of the NCAA tournament, the Blue Devils have new reasons to believe that this will be the magical year. With a breadth of experience and a talented freshman class, Duke may have its best chance to capture the program’s first-ever national tide.

“The experience of playing in the final four should give us more confidence playing under pressure,” senior attacker Kristen Sea'SOr* Waagbo said. “WeTe an older and more experienced team, and we have the knowledge of how hard we need to work.”

The second-ranked Blue Devils start their march toward a national tide at Denver tonight at 7 p.m. and continue their season-opening road trip when they visit No. 18 Stanford at 5 p.m. Sunday.

Eight of Duke’s 12 starters from last season’s squad are back this year, including eight of the top nine scorers.

Even with all the experience, a key ingredient for Duke to make a tide run this year could be its freshman class. The Blue Devils have brought in a potentially outstanding recruiting class of eight freshmen who are starting to find their niche.

“The freshmen are doing a great job,” senior attacker Leigh Jester said. “When they first came in, they fell right into place with the team. We’re really excited about SEE W. LACROSSE ON PAGE 12

When Duke takes the floor against Georgia Tech Sunday, something will be missing.

For the first time in four outings, the cloud of a previous defeat will not be hanging over the Blue Devils—and they certainly will not miss it.

Duke put together one of its most complete games of the season Wednesday in a 78-70 victory at Boston College, VS. snapping a four-game skid that had dropped the team below .500 in conference play. The Blue SUNDAY, 1 p.m. £> ev jj look tx> r s prove Cameron indoor r the can re y P eat the feat Stadium when they take on streaking Georgia Tech at 1 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

“More than ease the pressure, I think the win allowed us to gain some confidence,” assistant coach Chris Collins said.

“We had a few close losses, and it’s human nature to be shaken a little bit in your confidence. It really gave our guys a boost in confidence to go on the road and get a win, especially against a team that is leading our conference.”

The Blue Devils likely will need that confidence against a Georgia Tech team that beat them 74-63 in AUanta Jan. 10 for only the second time in their last 22 meetings.

Since the two teams last met, however, the Yellowjackets have had their own experience in bouncing back from a losing streak. Georgia Tech dropped four in a row to fall to 2-6 in ACC play, but the Ramblin’ Wreck has rattled off four straight wins, in.

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The No. 1 Blue Devils (27-0, 12-0 in the ACC) have two top-10 teams standing in between them and the first undefeated regular season in school history. But before they can make history or start worrying about a looming rematch against 2 North Carolina, Duke must turn its attention to No. 6 Maryland. yg After all, the Terrapins jfmmL (25-3, 9-3) shocked the Blue Devils in last year’s

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ond half. Duke got its revenge Jan. 13 in Cameron Indoor Stadium in the form of an 81-62 rout. The Blue Devils look to sweep the season series Sunday at 6 p.m. in College Park, Md. “It’s going to be another great environment,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “I’m sure they’ve learned a lot from the last game, and we’ve learned a lot as well. We played well, but we didn’t play overall a great game.”

Although the circumstances of this game are decidedly different than the last time the two teams squared off, one thing has remained constant—Duke’s suffocating defense.

Maryland shot just 37.8 percent from

the floor in its last meeting with the Blue Devils. Duke leads the country in field goal defense—holding its opponents to a paltry 32.1 percent clip. In addition, the Blue Devils limited Maryland’s primary offensive weapon, Crystal Langhome, to 14 points.

“They got open shots—they didn’t hit some of their shots,” Goestenkors said.

“So we need to make sure we really tighten things up on the defensive end.”

In the first meeting this year, senior Lindsey Harding was nearly unstoppable, scoring a career-high 28 points. Playing in front of a sold-out crowd, the Blue Devils had vengeance on their mind and home-court advantage on their side.

This time, the atmosphere inside the Comcast Center will be less hospitable, as Maryland, too, expects a sold-out crowd.

The Blue Devils, though, have thrived in hostile environments—they topped No. 4 Tennessee and the Tar Heels on the road.

“We’re looking forward to another great challenge,” Goestenkors said.

Duke does not have the revenge mindset this dme, as the Harding-led squad has been at the top of the polls since Jan. 15. Prior to the first Maryland game, Goestenkors reminded her team that this contest wasn’t last year’s tide game—the Blue Devils could not go back in time and steal a victory.

And although a win Sunday still cannot avenge the national championship defeat or win this year’s tide with a win Sunday, it could go a long way in providing momentum for a this season’s championship run.

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just so exciting to be there,” Fasano said ofher first trip to the ACC championships. “All your teammates are cheering for you. This morning I swam the 500, and I didn’t think I would make it back with my time, but then I found out that I did make it back... and it was really exciting.”

In the 200-meter individual medley bonus finals, freshman Shannon Beall and junior Danielle Spearman clocked in together for Duke season-bests of 2:05.83.

Spearman, Beall, sophomore Emily Kelly and senior Leslie Hartford formed Duke’s 200-meter freestyle relay team, finishing in the season-best time of 1:36.50.

North Carolina, Florida State and Virginia take up the top three places going into today’s events, which include the 100-meter butterfly, 200-meter freestyle, 100-meter breaststroke, 100-meter backstroke, three-meter board and 400-meter medley relay.

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After wrapping up Day Two of the ACC Championships in the Koury Natatorium in Chapel Hill, Duke sits in 10th place. The Blue Devils finished the night with 54 points, in addition to posting several season records.

“We had some really fine performances,” head coach Dan Colella said. “The next two days are really big days for us in terms of scoring potential. Our best events are yet to come.”

Freshman Jackie Fasano and senior Michelle Aristeo posted top-24 finishes in the 500-meter freestyle preliminaries. The two continued on to race in the bonus finals, where Aristeo set a Duke season-best time of 5:00.09, and Fasano touched in for the second-best time of the season.

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in the paint, with Bales chipping in nine points and sophomore Carrem Gay putting up 10.

Against the zone, Duke kicked the ball outside, creating wide open looks for Abby Waner and Wanisha Smith, who hit two treys a piece.

Duke’s transition game also sparked the offense. The speed of the No. 1 team in the nation caught Boston College off guard, as the Blue Devils turned 20 Eagles’ turnovers into 21 points.

“They have one of the best running games I’ve seen, Boston College head coach Cathy Inglese said. “That’s the fastest I’ve seen any team get the ball down the court.”

In addition to the solid offensive effort, the Blue Devils’ ironclad defense—the second best scoring defense in the nation—was as stingy as ever, holding Boston College to a weak 31.7 percent from the field. The Eagles managed a mere 19 field goals in the game—meaning they had more turnovers than made baskets.

With games against rivals Maryland and North Carolina still looming on the schedule, Duke appears poised to continue its unblemished roll through the ACC. “Overall we’re just pleased with the win and ready to move on,” Goestenkors said.

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Kachulis’s speed helped her win two state track titles in Colorado.

“The development of our younger and inexperienced players is extremely important,” Kimel said. “If we play our game and play good defense, we can play our younger kids. Not playing them could stand in the way of us winning a title.”

Duke will need every inch of its bench play to get through yet another brutal schedule. The Blue Devils play eight of the other nine teams ranked in the preseason top 10, and 11 of their 15 matches are against ranked opponents. The highlight of this season’s schedule will likely be a matchup at top-ranked and defending national champion Northwestern April 7. The Wildcats defeated Duke in overtime in the semifinals of the Final Four last season after the Blue Devils took the regular-season matchup.

The tough schedule, however, could be an asset for a Duke team that is hoping to get over the national championship hump. If past years serve as any indication, the Blue Devils have good reason to be optimistic.

“The teams that break through work their way through a couple of final fours,” Kimel said. “Our final four experiences have given us a learning curve as well as a tremendous opportunity.”

For the juniors and seniors on the team, this year is a chance to erase the memories of their two past tournament exits.

“We have a lot of people who played in big games,” Jester said. “They’re returning with experience this year, and it should give us an edge.”

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The switch from ARAMAK creased costs are of concern.

Corp. to Bon Appetit as the Nonetheless, the proposal to augment the board plan next food provider for the Marketplace this year has received an year presents some problems.

For one, increasing the overwhelmingly positive re-

semester plan is fine for freshmen; knowing that most of

their meals are available near their dorms and that their friends will be eating at the same place are good things in those first few months. Second semester, however, is a different story, especially as more freshmen spend time on West taking classes, tenting, rushing, pledging and hanging out.

Therefore, a better meal plan for freshmen might include a more flexible dining schema for second semester.

If Duke offered more than one dining plan for the second semester, freshmen could adjust the number of weekly board meals to fit the needs of their schedule. For instance, students with many morning classes could reduce the number of required

meals, as could students with several evening classes, such that they could spend their food points on West.

This type of system, unlike the new proposal for more board plan meals, would not penalize students for being involved in activities off East.

The freshmen meal plan is an integral part of Duke’s vision for East Campus to become a community, with the Marketplace as a central dining location for freshmen to meet and interact with each other. Nonetheless, the best method of creating community is not to force students who are becoming increasingly involved on campus to bear the brunt of the burden that a beefed up board plan would create.

Allow students who want dining flexibility to have it.

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number of meals at the expense of food points significantly reduces students’ flexibility to order in or eat at locations on West Campus.

Students who have schedules with a lot of morning classes often find it hard to make it to breakfast; even with the new lunch equivalency option, freshmen spending most of their class days on West would probably prefer the option of eating there.

In addition, a decrease in the number of food points likely will hurt other on campus and off campus venues. If the proposed 250 points decrease had been implemented for the Class of 2010, the amount of lost revenue for merchants accepting food points would have been more than $400,000.

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cannot be left to the courtroom.” This sentiment that I watched Duke University’s men’s basketball team fall to its arch-nemesis North Carolionly the intellectual elite have the ability to determine na Tar Heels last week, I could not help but true innocence and guilt was echoed by literature prorecall the sordid affair that unfolded at that gothic fessor Wahneema Lubiano, who termed the accused enclave in Durham “perfect offenders” by virtue of their racial, sexual and economic status. just under a year ago.

Three weeks after the infamous party, 88 members I speak not of the gUe st COlumil the Duke faculty signed a full-page advertisement in drunken lacrosse parbrandon mcginley the student newspaper essentially endorsing the acties or the procurement of exotic entercuser’s account of the “crime” and suggesting campus tainment that held the nation’s media captive. I am protests. The result were displays of self-righteousness by students, the New Black Panther Party and allegedreferring to the disgraceful aftermath: the despicable political maneuverings, the unleashed intellectu- ly some faculty members who “shouted ‘rapists’ and ‘time to confess,’ hurled death threats and distributed al egotism and the eager media that forever tarnished the lives of three young men who, though ‘Wanted’ posters bearing the photographs of all 46 certainly not exemplary, were convincingly shown as white lacrosse players.”

One would hope that now, after the accuser and the not guilty. The disturbing series of events has been retold by Charlotte Allen in her article, “Duke’s prosecutor have been discredited and the allegations Tenured Vigilantes,” in The Weekly Standard. have been all but obliterated, the faculty who encourWithout considering the potential innocence of aged this shameful display would have the humility to their students, the postmodern elite among the faculacknowledge their error. Many of those who signed the ty at Duke sprung into action, unleashing a torrent of original document have endorsed a new letter, pubintellectually stylish buzz words such as “race,” lished only a few weeks ago, which pompously rejects “class,” “gender” and the granddaddy of them all: all requests for apology or retraction. “white male privilege.” It was irrelevant that the case The award, however, for the most childish response against the students deteriorated daily; it was irrele- to the players’ innocence must go to English professor vant that the accused were members of the Duke Cathy Davidson, who absolved all responsibility for the community and, as such, might be entitled to respect disgraceful actions of the faculty, judging, according to and support; and it was irrelevant that the young Allen, “that the real ‘social disaster’ in the Duke case men were innocent until proven guilty. Their status was that ‘lB percent of the American population lives below the poverty line’ and ‘women’s salaries for simias wealthy Caucasian males was enough to pass judgment on their actions and their character. lar jobs are substantially less than men’s.’”

No, Professor Davidson, the real social disaster is Within a few weeks of the allegation, apparently outraged faculty members seized the opportunity to pro- that the Duke faculty appointed themselves the sole arbiters between right and wrong, innocence and guilt. mote their radical leftist ideology of racial, sexual and financial oppression in the local press. Allen makes a The real social disaster is that die intellectual elite decomincing case that the rush judgment by the faculty termined the guilt of the lacrosse players based solely enabled both the district attorney and the national on preconceived notions about their race, gender and media to forge onward with their own crusades against financial situation—prejudices equal to racism and sexthe hapless lacrosse players. ism. The real social disaster is that the postmodern facSome of the statements provided by Allen show the ulty decided that confirming their radical ideology was intellectual arrogance of die faculty who appointed more important than maintaining the humanity of the themselves judge, jury and executioner. English profesaccused. And now three lives are forever altered besor Houston Baker, only two weeks after the incident, cause of their intellectual smugness. when the facts of any criminal case are still in doubt, I can only hope that if, God forbid, such a controdecried the “abhorrent sexual assault, verbal racial vioversy were to develop on this campus, the faculty would lence and drunken white male privilege loosed have the moral courage to support their students amongst us.” In an online article published several rather than assuage their egos. weeks after the events, when the players’ guilt was most Brandon McGinley is a Princeton University freshman in doubt, African-American studies professor Karla Holloway published a disturbing suggestion. She wrote from Pittsburgh, Pa. This column originally ran in The Daily that “judgments about the issues of race and gender... Princetonian Feb. 9.

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The sickest article you’ll ever read IT remember one time during my senior year in high school I when I was playing pickup basketball with some friends. I JLpulled off a fancy cross-over move and made a layup to win the game. During the ensuing celebration, one guy on the opposing team came up to me and said, “Dude, that move was sick.”

My face fell, my shoulders slumped, and I spent the rest of the afternoon wondering why people had to be such Steve brown sore losers all the time. It wasn’t until weeks later, when the the world is yours word “sick” began spreading throughout students’ conversations like an epidemic, that I understood I had been given a compliment. Despite all rational reasoning, being called “sick” was one of the highest praises a teenager could receive.

It was around this time that I started losing my grip on language, and I feel as if I’ve never quite recovered.

When “what’s up” became the official greeting of our generation, I was the last one to know. I took the question quite literally and eagerly began recounting the events of my day.

Unbeknownst to me, the asker of“what’s up” did not require or even expect an actual answer; instead, I was just supposed to say “what’s up” back. It was an art that I was unable to master. Maybe it was because I had always hated people who answered a question with a question of their own: “What do you think?” “I don’t know, what do YOU think?” Most people eventually stopped saying “what’s up” to me, and I’m sure they referred to me behind my back as “that kid who actually tells you what’s up.”

Maybe I sound like a traitor to my generation, but the truth is that I’m just plain stupid when it comes to modern speech. Sometimes I feel like an old man who puts his arm around your shoulders so you can’t get away and tells stories from his past: “Why, I remember when we used to walk 30 miles to school, in the snow, and nobody was complaining that the weather was ‘rugged.’ Yes sir, we used to look each other square in the eye and say ‘hello’; none of this ‘yo’ and slapping hands business.”

I think things would be easier for me if our new language actually followed some sort of coherent pattern. I don’t understand how “sick,” “disgusting,” and “nasty” are now endearing terms. “Hot” and “cool” have become inexplicably synonymous. Completely arbitrary words like “beat” and “whack” have usurped “unfortunate” and “inopportune.”

I’ve become so paranoid that when someone says my English paper was “good,” I narrow my eyes and search for double meanings. My concept of spelling has gone completely to hell, most recently when I erased the second “R” I had included in the word “dirty.”

I’d love to tell myself to just shut up and go with the flow, but it’s so much more complicated than that. If someone refers to my backpack as “mad ill,” it would be nice to be able to respond immediately rather than ask for a moment to sort through the constantly morphing dictionary in my head. I have to remind myself not to fear someone who is “insane” or “out of control.” I guess it’s only a matter of time until I’m casually describing my best friends as “homicidal” or “satanic.”

I also feel sorry for foreigners who must regret spending money on all of those English classes. Sure, they know how to speak to small children or the elderly, but put them on a college campus and they’ll be frantically searching their pocket dictionaries for a translation of “buck wild” or “balleration.” Even worse are the senseless abbreviations; imagine a poor Ukrainian exchange student’s confusion when he asks about your dinner plans and you reply, “I almost made a rez at Cinelli’s but I then I remembered that their zuh made me want to vom.”

My only hope is to find the guy who’s inventing all of these words and get him to make me some kind of cheat sheet. That way, I can bone up on my new vocabulary and I won’t be surprised when new creations hit the streets. In the meantime, maybe everyone can do me a favor and stop inventing words for a few months until I’ve asserted myself as a master of the contemporary tongue. Eventually, I might even become so good that nobody’s going to have any idea what the hell I’m saying. That’s going to be one of the proudest days of my entire life.

Steve Brown is a Trinity junior. His column usually runs every other Friday. This is his final column.

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