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Raymond Nasher, Duke ’43 and founder of the Nasher Museum of Art, died suddenly in a Dallas hospital Friday, University officials confirmed this weekend.

Nasher—whose lifelong involvement with the University culminated in his financial and institutional support for the creation of the Nasher Museum—is known worldwide as one of the greatest

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Raymond Nasher supported Duke with numerous philanthropic efforts.

collectors of contemporary and modem art, especially sculpture.

Although the circumstances of Nasher’s ailment have not been released, he reportedly became ill on a return flight from Paris following travels in Europe.

“His passing is a tremendous loss,” said Kimerly Rorschach, Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans director of the Nasher Museum. “He was legendary as an art collector and discerning gallery [patron]... it was just an honor to work with him to get the museum work off the ground.”

Speaking from Dallas—where she had traveled to attend Nasher’s memorial and funeral—Rorschach said the renowned supporter of the arts had continued to be closely involved with the Nasher Museum up until his death.

“He was very visionary in seeing that [the museum] could make a tremendous impact,” she said.

Wendy Hower Livingston, manager of marketing and communications for the museum, said Nasher was known to visit the University every two to three months and consistendy provided valuable guidance and connections.

Last month, he was on campus to introduce the Nasher Museum’s annual Semans Lecture, given by Thomas Krens, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. Greg Paulus fell to the floor, his head in his hands as Virginia Commonwealth’s players stormed the court. Paulus and many of his fellow Blue Devils were unable to look at the celebratory scene, unable to believe the final score.

Eric Maynor’s 17-foot jump shot from the top of the key with 1.8 seconds remaining culminated a furious final two minutes as llth-seeded VCU (28-6) defeated sixth-seeded Duke 79-77 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at HSBC Arena in Buffalo Thursday.

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Maynor had a virtuoso performance, particularly in the game’s deciding moments. He scored six of his 22 points in the final 85 seconds, with his dramatic game-winner giving VCU SEE M. BBALL ON SW PAGE 8

Loop to deliver late Rapper XL set to headline Cameron Rocks! concert

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Students bored with Domino’s and Papa John’s can now enjoy a pizza from The Loop delivered straight to their dorm-room doors.

The Loop plans to launch a new after-hours delivery service, which will begin tonight and operate from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. Monday through Saturday and from 9 p in. to 2 a.m. Sunday.

Students can use food points or cash to order from the eatery’s full menu. Runners will bring food to West Campus dwellers, with drivers delivering orders to students on East Campus and off campus, said junior Ryan Tolkin, CEO of Devil’s Delivery Service.

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“The students love the food there,” Wulforst said. “If any student asks, ‘Why don’t we have The Loop delivering?’ I don’t have a good answer for them.”

He added that Duke has been planning The Loop’s delivery service for at least a year.

“It sounds like it’s an easy thing, but it’s from an operational standpoint,” he SEE LOOP ON PAGE 5

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Though basketball stars may typically hold claim to the title of Duke royalty, the

“King of the South” will reign over Cameron Indoor Stadium April 7.

Grammy-winning Atlanta-based rapper T.I. —whose 2006 album “King” reached the top of the Billboard 200—will headline' this year’s Cameron Rocks! concert, Duke University Union officials confirmed Sunday.

“T.I. is huge on the rap scene,” said sophomore Chamindra Goonewardene, SEE T.I. ON PAGE 5

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U.S. deaths show Sunni resilience by

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Sunni insurgents, reBAGHDAD silient despite the five-week security crackdown in the capital, killed at least six more U.S. troops over the weekend. A Sunni car bomber hit a largely Shiite district in the capital Sunday, killing at least eight people.

The American military said four U.S. soldiers died and one was wounded when the unit was struck by a roadside bomb in western

Baghdad.

During the ongoing security sweep in the capital and surrounding regions, the soldiers’ battalion had found eight weapons caches and two roadside bombs

and helped rescue a kidnap victim, the military said.

A fifth soldier was killed in an explosion in Diyala, an increasingly volatile province just northeast of the capital. A Marine died in fighting the same day in Anbar province, the vast, largely desert region that sprawls west of Baghdad to the Saudi Arabian, Jordanian and Syrian borders. The regions are controlled by the Sunni insurgency.

All of the U.S. victims were killed on Saturday, the military said in a series of statements that also reported that a seventh soldier died from non-combat injuries but gave no other details. While U.S. and Iraqi troops have flooded the Baghdad streets

and a heavily armored American column was sent north to adjacent Diyala province, attacks on American and Iraqi forces have been robust.

On CBS’s “Face the Nation”, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, “The issue that we’re all trying to figure out is how best do you get the Iraqis to reconcile their differences—because after all, this is not going to be solved by the military. It has to involve political reconciliation in Iraq, among Iraqis.”

“We’re basically buying them time,” he said.

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Sen.Leahy presses for subpoenas

by Hope Yen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman said Sunday he intends to subpoena White House officials involved in ousting federal prosecutors and is dismissing anything short of their testimony in public.

The Bush White House was expected to announce early this week whether it will let political strategist Karl Rove, former White House counsel Harriet Miers and other officials testify or will seek to assert executive privilege in preventing their appearance.

The chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.,

last week delayed a vote on the subpoenas until Thursday as the president's counsel, Fred Fielding, sought to negotiate terms.

But Sunday, Leahy said he had not met Fielding nor was he particularly open to any compromises, such as a private briefing by the administration officials.

“I want testimony under oath. I am sick and tired of getting half-truths on this,” Leahy said. “I do not believe in this, we’ll have a private briefing for you where we’ll, tell you everything, and they don’t.”

Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, the top Republican on the committee, said he had a long talk with Fielding Friday and

was reserving judgment. Specter said he would like to see Rove and Miers’ open testimony because there were numerous precedents for it.

“I want to see exacdy what the White House response is,” Specter said. “Maybe the White House will come back and say, ‘We’ll permit them to be interviewed and we’ll give them all the records.’”

White House spokeswoman Emily Lawrimore declined to comment Sunday as to whether Rove and Miers would testify.

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Search teams combed mountain terrain Sunday for a 12-year-old Boy Scout who disappeared during an outing in Stone Mountain State Park, N.C. The troop had gone on a hike early Saturday, and noticed that the boy had gone missing between 12:30 p.m.and 1 p.m.

3 days later, many still stuck Thousands of weary travelers faced a third day waiting to reach their destinations Sunday as US Airways struggled to recover from the ice and snow storm that paralyzed airports in the Northeast. The airline is still trying to find seats for 100,000 passengers systemwide whose flights were grounded.

Army contract was delayed An Army contract to privatize maintenance at Walter Reed Medical Center was delayed more than three years amid bureaucratic bickering that led to staff shortages and a hospital in disarray as the number of wounded soldiers was rising rapidly.

Man freed by DNA convicted A man who spent 18 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit was convicted Sunday of murdering a photographer, whose charred bones were found in a burn pit outside his home.

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Imagine hospitals where doctors would use imaging tools with the same frequency that is used for typical patients’ digital cameras—regularly producing images as small as a millionth of a meter on surface.

Such images would be used to prevent and track the progression of diseases at unprecedented speeds.

And scientists from Duke and around the nation discussed these topics and

more at the first research conference ever held in the University’s new French Family Science Center. “Seeing is Believing: The Future of Molecular and Biomolecular Imaging,” ran from Sunday, March 11 to Tuesday, March 13.

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Scientists from Duke and around the nation met over the break to discuss new disease-tracking technology.

aging methods dictate the pace of scientific and medical progress,” said Warren Warren, James B. Duke professor of chemistry, radiology and biomedical engineering. “They embody and enhance our understanding of molecular and

cellular structure and function, and refleet the work of over 100 of the Nobel laureates in chemistry and physics.’

The conference, sponsored by Duke’s Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Imaging—which Warren directs —and the Office of the Provost, brought together clinicians and physicists to discuss topics ranging from personalized medicine to the quick deployment of pharmaceuticals, Unlike conventional tools, which measure qualities such as density or water content, molecular imaging directly measures changes through the use ofbiomarkers—substances in the blood measured to determine the prevalence of a disease. These new modes of imaging often include the use of lasers, magnets, radio waves and radioactive nuclei.

Warren said the advancement of medicine in these areas will require intensified collaborations between the generally exclusive spheres of physicists and clinicians.

“Capturing the interaction of the environment and genomics—important for the prevention and early detection of disease —will require the frequent use of minimally invasive tools,” said Daniel Sullivan, associate director of the Division ofCancer Treatment and Diagnosis of the National Institutes ofHealth.

Sullivan said advances in imaging should be used to further classify images as “systems of data,” namely through the use of biomarkers.

He pointed to recent successes in early responses to cancer treatment using SEE IMAGING ON PAGE 6

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Snow blanketed the Duke quad in January, a rare fall in typically temperate central North Carolina.

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As students prepared for their return trips to Duke in the prime of a new spring

season, the weather seemed to have different plans, causing delays on the roads and in the air.

Delays and cancellations in northeastern airports affected students flying in from locations across the country, and even some from abroad. Sophomore Chris Perry, for example, said his flight back to North Carolina was delayed in Montego Bay, Jamaica, as a result of delays at the Philadelphia International Airport.

Still, the National Climatic Data Center announced findings last week indicating the warmest winter globally since tempera-

first recorded in 1880 “I wouldn’t put too much in the cold weather on the East Coast the past few weeks,” said William Schlesinger, James B. Duke professor of biogeochemistry and dean of the Nicholas School. “Every year has spots on Earth that are warmer or colder than average.”

In February, much of the Midwest and the East Coast recorded below-normal temperatures, with parts of New England reaching near record-setting lows, according to weather.com.

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Nasher Museum’s opening in October 2005. “This museum is a contribution both to this University and to this city.”

Museum officials emphasized that Nasher’s involvement with the museum extended well beyond the sizable donations that made its creation possible. One of the inaugural exhibits included many works that hung on the walls of Nasher’s home, including portraits of the four Nasher women by Andy Warhol.

The museum continues to receive periodic loans from Nasher’s varying collections, including pieces of sculpture from the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. One such loaned piece, a sculpture by Mark di Suvero, currently sits on the museum’s front lawn, Hower Livingston said.

As a venue on campus, the Nasher Museum has meant much more to the University than sifnply a location to showcase art. Since its opening, the museum has hosted some of the largest and best-attended events on campus.

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cess,” Hower Livingston said.

Rorschach said she does not expect Nasher’s passing to affect the museum’s relationship with the Nasher family or his beneficiaries, including the Nasher Foundation.

She added that she hopes to maintain a strong relationship with the Nasher family through his daughter, Nancy Nasher Haemisegger, Law ’79 and a member of Duke’s Board ofTrustees.

“He was a rare individual of tremendous intelligence, spirit, energy and talent,” Haemisegger told The Dallas Morning News Saturday. “He was an incredible parent and father and mentor. He was just the greatest person in our lives.”

After he graduated from Duke and served temporarily in World War 11, Nasher achieved great success in Texas real estate, and he used his fortune to collect artwork and support public arts projects.

Along with his wife Patsy, Nasher amassed to undergraduates, delighted Nasher, one of the most well-respected private collections of contemporary art, particularly Hower Livingston and Rorschach said.

“He loved meeting with students, loved in sculpture, in the world.

During his time at Duke, Nasher re- seeing them make use of the space,” gretted the absence of a major venue for Rorschach added. art on campus. In the early ’9os, Nasher Hower Livingston said Nasher was “parapproached the University with the idea ticularly charmed” by the student parties of creating an art museum that rivaled thrown at the museum, and that he was exthose at other elite universities around cited to hear of the success of last fall’s the country.

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In 2001, he donated $7.5 million to cre“He was just thrilled that the students ate a new art museum, and the Nasher loved this building so much, that they Foundation subsequently followed with a used the museum and have adopted it as $2.5-million donation in his honor. The their own,” she said. “He was a student at Duke, 60-some years ago, and he felt [an new museum replaced the small and outdated art facility on East Campus, which art museum] was something missing on was founded in 1969. campus, felt it was missing from the stu“Every person here owns a part of this dent experience. This was a dream come place,” Nasher told an audience at the true for him.”

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2007 DEPARTMENT OF THEATER STUDIES AWARDS All Duke undergraduates are eligible Application deadline: Friday, March 23 Alex Cohen Awards

These awards, funded by the Alex Cohen Endowment and the Department of Theater Studies, support students’ individual or group projects that have both educational value and artistic merit. Submit (1) an application form, (2) a letter of recommendation from theater faculty, and (3) a project description and statement of goals. Application online at http://www.duke.edu/web/theaterstudies/aprogram/awards.html

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last year’s concert, which featured indie rock bands Death Cab for Cutie and Franz Ferdinand.

“We thought we would go with somehead of production for the Major Attractions committee and next year’s chair of thing different this year,” he said. the group. “It’s going to be an amazing Reduced ticket prices mark another concert because he’s known as an awechange from last year’s show, Carlson said.

Tickets—which will go on sale some performer.”

Opening act Clap Your Hands Say Wednesday—will cost $2O for Duke students, compared to last year’s $25 price Yeah, an indie rock group out of Brooklyn and Philadelphia, will also perform tag. At $25, ticket prices for non-Duke at the show. college students have also been lowered, Current Major Attractions Chair Rob and Carlson added that he hopes to see students from a range of local schools at Carlson, a sophomore, said the combination of rap and indie acts will make the the event, including the University of concert a hit for fans of a wide range of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University and North Carmusical genres. one artist isn’t that appealing, “If I olina Central University. think the other will be more appealing,” “It will be good to have mingling of he said. “Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is an students from the area,” Carlson said.

Incoming Union President Katelyn up-and-coming artist, and we [wanted] to introduce the student body to some vari- Donnelly, a junior, praised the work of ety, not necessarily bands that have the Major Attractions committee and said she looks forward to the concert. passed their prime as has been a com“They’re going to put together a really plaint in recent years.”

Goonewardene added that XL, who is good show,” she said. “Bringing a concert best known for hits “Bring Em Out” and to campus is one of the great events in “U Don’t Know Me,” will offer students a one’s Duke career that I hope everyone musical experience quite distinctive from has a chance to experience.”

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The Luce Scholars Program honors 15

students every year with the award, which enables the students to work and live in

Asia for a year to increase awareness of Asia in future American leaders.

Forwand, who will graduate in May, said she will be stationed in Southeast Asia and will use the opportunity to hone her skills in community-based forest management because many villages in the area depend on forestry to sustain their economies.

At Duke, Forwand co-taught a graduate-level course on community-based environmental management and helped organize a seminar on Native American land management issues. She graduated from Stanford University in 2002.

Five students win cash for peace projects Five Duke students have won two of the 100Projects for Peace awards, contest officials announced last week. Each group will receive $lO,OOO to support its international peace project proposal, to be carried out this summer.

Senior Priscilla Back won for her project, “Beyond the Border: Reconciling Relations Among College-Aged South Koreans and North Korean Refugees.”

Juniors Andrew Cunningham and Claire Lauterbach and sophomores Chetan Jhaveri and Katie Mikush received an award for their proposal for “Women’s Institute for Secondary Education and Research” in Kenya.

The winners competed with students at 76 other American universities.

The competition aims to “encourage and support today’s motivated youth to create and try out their own ideas for building peace.” The contest is sponsored by philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis, who chose to celebrate her upcoming 100th birthday by committing $1 million to the 100 projects.

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The three-day conference included topics regarding the development of both personalized medicine and pharmaceuticals.

the early stages of diseases.

Warren, who helped organize the conference, noted the importance of advances in imaging for the introducmolecular imaging as one example of the advantages of motion of medicines. “Nowhere is the need for such capalecular imaging over conventional bilities more dramatic... than in the pharmaceutical indusimaging methods, such as X-rays.

Several speakers noted the try,” he wrote in an e-mail.

“Nowhere is the need for “The basic issue is that for importance of molecular imaging in the development of pharevery successful drug brought such capabilities more drato market, many thousands of maceuticals owing to its precimatic... than in the pharmaother candidates had to be sion and specificity.

Susanta Sarkar, a representamanufactured or extracted ceutical industry,” tive for GlaxoSmithKline, spoke and screened.” about the role of imaging in the Warren added that adWarren Warren in imaging are pivotal vances development of personalized Professor, Chemistry to early detection of side efpharmaceuticals Personalized medicine means fects and efficacy in order to to a wider of range prevent costly setbacks during responding the late stages in drug trials, when differences between medical reactions, and noting these trends more accurately in the development of drugs, she said. As an example, animals’ and humans’ reactions to drugs are noted and she pointed to drugs that prompt varying responses during drugs are approved or rejected.

WEATHER from page 3 near average temperatures Parts of the West Coast joined the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Germany and other regions on the other end of the scale in reaching above normal temperatures, Stu Ostro, senior meteorologist for weather.com, wrote in a Feb. 2 blog post.

Amid heavy debate regarding trends behind global warming, this year’s record-setting high temperatures have been used by some experts to support a trend of increasing global temperatures.

The global warming hypothesis suggests that an increase in the release of greenhouse gases has resulted in higher global temperatures over time. These gases are said to work like the walls of a greenhouse, allowing sunlight to enter the atmosphere, but not allowing heat radiation to leave the atmosphere again.

Many researchers and meteorologists consider heightened global temperatures to be indicators of the greenhouse phenomenon, despite regional discrepancies.

“The past few decades have most of the warmest years of the past century, and the averages tend to be getting progressively higher,” Schlesinger said. “What matters is the long-term average trend, and that is clearly up—as measured by the average of weather stations, NASA’s satellite coverage of the Earth, the melting point of ice in polar regions and other records.”

In addition to these long-term trends, evidence of global warming may be observed on a day-to-day basis, Ostro said.

“The challenge is to figure out to what extent and in what ways changes in climate are manifesting themselves as changes in weather,” he said.

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SUNNIS from page 2 The latest deaths raised the American military death toll in Iraq to 3,217 since the war began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

In Shiite-controlled eastern Baghdad, a U.S. Bradley fighting vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb Saturday evening, set afire and destroyed, spokesman Maj. Steven F. Lamb said. There were no casualties.

Across Iraq, at least 20 people died Sunday, a sign that violence continued to abate as U.S. and Iraqi forces press ahead with what many view as a last-chance bid to quell the sectarian violence in Baghdad and central regions of the country.

At least 12 of those killed died in Baghdad and eight of them were slain in the car bombing in a predominantly Shiite district, police said. The attack targeted people grilling meat along the street to offer as charity on a Shiite Muslim holiday marking the death of the Prophet Muhammad. Police said 28 people were wounded.

Police said the bodies of 16 people, most shot in the head and showing signs of torture, were found dumped nationwide, just five of them in Baghdad.

A U.S. official, meanwhile, blamed al-Qaida in Iraq for chlorine bomb attacks that struck villagers in Anbar province earlier this week but said tight Iraqi security measures prevented a higher number of casualties.

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The attacks killed at least two people and sickened 350 Iraqi civilians and six U.S. troops, the U.S. military said Saturday.

U.S. military spokesman Rear Adm. Mark Fox said at least one of the attackers detonated his explosives after he was blocked by an Iraqi police checkpoint in Amiriyah, just south of Fallujah, killing only himself. Fox conceded that many Iraqis were exposed to the chemical fumes but insisted that steps Iraqi security forces were increasingly effective.

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championed service-learning through publications, lectures, workshops, and service on national boards. In the ten years she worked at Duke, service-learning evolved under her leadership from an obscure pedagogy used by a handful of faculty to a vibrant cross-disciplinary practice.

Sponsored by the Office of Service-Learning at Duke, this award recognizes one graduating senior for outstanding commitment to the ideals of service-learning.

SUBPOENAS from page 2 review the matter “given the importance of the issues under consideration and the presidential principles involved,” she said.

At issue is the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, dismissals that Democrats say were politically motivated. Such prosecutors serve at the pleasure of the president.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales initially had asserted the firings were performance-related, not based on political considerations.

But e-mails released last week between the Justice Department and the White House contradicted that assertion and led to a public apology from Gonzales over the handling of the matter.

The e-mails showed that Rove, as early as Jan. 6, 2005, questioned whether the U.S. attorneys should all be replaced at the start ofBush’s second term, and to some degree worked with Miers and former Gonzales chief of staff Kyle Sampson to get some prosecutors dismissed.

Additional e-mails are expected to be released this week to the Senate and House Judiciary committees. Each committee planned votes on subpoenas for Rove and Miers.

The Senate committee already has approved using subpoenas, if necessary, for Justice Department officials and J. Scott Jennings, deputy to White House political director Sara Taylor, who works for Rove.

Lawmakers also were scheduled Thursday to quiz Gonzales about his agency’s budget request in a hearing that was expected to focus in part on the prosecutor scandal.

Several Democrats and a few Republicans, including Sen. John Sununu of New Hampshire, have called for Gonzales to resign, saying he had lost the support and confidence of Congress and the nation.

Sampson, Gonzales’ chief of staff until he resigned last week, released a statement making clear that senior Justice officials were aware that the department and the White House “had been discussing the subject since the election” of 2004. Gonzales has said he was kept in the dark about the communications.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y, said Sunday that Sampson’s attorney told the committee that the former Gonzales aide wants to testify.

“The stories keep changing from so many people,” Schumer said. “A good lawyer will tell you when the witnesses keep changing their stories, they’re usually not telling the truth and they have something to hide.”

Bud Cummins of Arkansas, one of the fired U.S. attorneys, said Gonzales should step down if it is proved that he was involved in the firings.

“They need to go around the room and say, ‘Who knew about the bases for these decisions as they went along?

Who knew that the White House had this much input, was able to inject this much improper political consideration into these decisions?”

“Because each of those people really don’t need to be at the Department of Justice anymore. If he’s one of them, then maybe he does need to resign,” Cummins said.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, cautioned against a “political witch hunt” and said Democrats “think Karl Rove is lurking behind every bush in Washington.” But he said Gonzales needs to get his story straight—quickly.

Leahy and Comyn appeared on ABC’s “This Week,” Cummins and Specter spoke on “Fox News Sunday,” and Schumer was on “Meet the Press” on NBC.

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Although it is understandprotests on campus quads durable that we do not Vietnam boling have the answers to ster the assertion editorial the Iraq War, it is But four that we inhabit also deplorable after the War years Iraq began, a system that enters war as a pothe Duke Chapel Quad remains unsettlingly peaceful. litical decision, not a social conThe crucial difference for stusensus. Our wartime adminisdents is the lack of a draft that tration touts the absence of brings the war close to home. shared sacrifices—lack of heavier taxes, the absence of a draft This is a war strangely removed from dying youth and and a reasonably healthy economy —while asking citizens to families losing loved ones. at Looking Duke, it is diffi- “support our troops.”

Although the lack of shared cult to conceive that we are four years into a war that has sacrifices proves that we can claimed more than 3,000 fight abroad while maintaining American soldiers. From a safe—and distant—homeMarch 2003 until now, the war land, we have become far too has morphed from a search detached from the war. The hundreds of unseen flagfor weapons of mass destruction, to a quest for Iraqi liberdraped caskets returning from

Iraq symbolize this detachment We know of their presence, but we have difficulty comprehending the human loss they imply.

Discussion has often centered on how long to stay in Iraq and how many soldiers to send. These are short-term questions that reflect an attitude toward the war in Iraq that is often political.

But war—and the deaths that result—is not a political game. Too many politicians frame their stance on the war in terms of election results in 2008. Too many political leaders are asking citizens to do nothing about the war. And too many students feel that the topic of war in Iraq is suited only for political debates.

There is something wrong with a system that focuses on politics and elections when there are lives at stake.

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relations nightmare: It have distanced us so far from the war that even students have nothing invested in it The public-relations machine that dominates our political scene has made the war more fit for the realm of video game than reality.

Part of the reason why we as students and'citizens have trouble grasping the gravity of the situation in Iraq is because we cannot fully comprehend it and the systemic problems it implies thanks to the administration’s actions or inactions.

But as the youngest generation to grow up in this new sort of global crisis—a clash of cultures combined with the globalization of terrorism—it is also our responsibility to think in the long-term about the system that fed the war with Iraq. Our gen-

eration—not only American college students, but also Iraqi youth and American soldiers acutely aware of the war—must examine a system in which war has become a political game.

This board admits that we too are guilty of a lack of great political action and protest many have called for from college students. But solving the problems ofIraq does not solve the issues that create wars like Iraq. It is no longer enough to speak solely about Iraq or solely through the ballot. There’s something wrong with a system that could allow Iraq —and we need to fix that system.

As students on all sides of the issue, we should speak louder when it comes to Iraq.

Four years after the Iraq War began, we need to create something better than what we now have.

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Va. Having escaped from Duke alumni to show off their useless knowledge, all Kansas, I’m now back in the equally strange while being graded and drinking. (If you’re ever in town, our group—Team Steve Holt!—competes world of metro-riding, happy hour aficionados known as Duke-in-D.C. Or, as I like to think of it, every Tuesday at Madam’s Organ in Adams Morgan.) the “Gothic Bureaucracy.”

House parties are still pretty common, but it’s harder to find Beirut or anything similarly rambuncD.C.—more accutious. Sports coats pop up more and more often, and rately, an amalgamathere’s as much discussion of work on the Hill as anytion ofcities in Northelse. But Duke students are a crafty lot, and thing ern Virginia (NoVa), real political discussion is conspicuously absent. In a MontMaryland’s city as incestuous as D.C., you never really know who gomery County is running secrets for which party. and the (MoCo) The Duke Club of Washington has suckered most northwest quadrant of us into joining, and it’s not a bad deal. Stars and of the district proper—is a tantalizing Stripes, the anointed Duke bar out in Arlington, shows all the Duke games and ostensibly has a loyal place for a Duke grad. courage It’s close enough youthful following. But unfortunately, most of the alumni at the first UNC game looked old enough to to Durham for a be our parents. The latest buzz has centered around weekend jaunt, brimming with idealistic young people, and gentrified enough to feel like Main West. the Duke-Georgetown lacrosse game and tailgate, And just as much of Duke has its sights on Yale, D.C. which is coming up this Saturday. sometimes likes to think of itself as New York with Georgetown, in fact, feels a lot like Duke’s cousin.

The same sorts of students go there, and the archibetter weather. tecture is strikingly simMost of the recent Duke grads ilar—though Georgetown is a lot smaller I’ve encountered as much of Duke has its on and set in a nicer area here work in one of town. Walking into of the following Yale, D.C. sometimes likes to think of itThe Tombs feels like a IT capacities; self as New York with better weather. night at Satty’s, and consultants for with a little imagination Accenture, paraM Street could almost legals for the Department ofJustice or lab researchers at the National feel as cosmopolitan as Ninth. (Right.)

Institutes of Health.

But it seems like everyone in D.C. went to the UniSince even the private consulting firms here priversity of Virginia or Virginia Tech. A handful of marily do federal jobs, it’s government hours for the Maryland, George Washington and George Mason most part; nine-to-five, Monday through Friday. As a students frequent the same haunts, but it’s the big “V” stickers that are everywhere. We’re all getting result, too many weekends end up exacdy the same happy hours on Thursday, clubbing on Friday and a sick of hearing about Sean Singletary.

Like Duke’s nook in North Carolina, the Washchill bar on Saturday.

Duke kids tend to grow up following rules. This ington area has some beautiful nature around it.

A lot of young alumni end up hiking in Great explains why so many thrive in the rigid bureaucracy here. Much of Duke-in-D.C. feels like a second Falls Park, camping out in the Shenandoahs or childhood. One of the most popular spring activipoking around Rock Creek Park, D.C.’s answer to ties is the World Adult Kickball Association. It’s a Central Park.

All in all, D.C. has been a pretty good place to perfect combination: a tediously organized league for a juvenile sport. Think Playfair. With a lot more transition out of college. We all miss our undergrad days—but so does the rest of the city. flipcup afterwards.

Dillo-esque pub trivia is also big among D.C. Andrew Gerst, former managing editor of Toweruiew, Dukies. As my friend, teammate and former Chronicle columnist Rob Goodman ’O5 points out, it’s angraduated from Duke in 2006 and now lives and works in other perfect match: a chance for overeducated Washington, D.C. His column runs every other Monday.

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Talk it out the fact, when asked about the March 6 Duke Student Government Town Hall meeting regarding the Campus Culture Initiative, I believe DSC Chief of Staff Paul Slattery, a junior, put it best: “It was productive that we at least had a meeting.”

The agenda was rather simple: “Welcome from Chief of Staff Paul Slattery; Brief comments from President Elliott Wolf; Address from Provost Peter Lange; Discussion.”

And so the evening went.

I’ll admit I was skeptical at first.

The meeting was supposed to be the previous Thursday then was apparently rescheduled at the last minute for the following Tuesday. A blast e-mail from Wolf to the undergraduate student body was the only main form of advertisement.

When I showed up at the allie verqotz-, meeting, however, I was down and dirty wit j dsg pleased to see a significant number of students were taking the time out of their evening amid studying for midterms to discuss the CCI Report.

Wolf explained that Slattery would be monitoring the meeting, and Lange took the time to introduce his role in evaluating what CCI recommendations should be applied on campus. Lange then began to explain the “Four Hot Issues,” as he called them: selective housing, athletics, alcohol and diversity. He sat on the stage, notebook in hand, prepared to lead the discussion regarding these topics.

Slattery and Wolf, however, added a few more words before Lange could continue, and Slattery then immediately opened the floor to discussion, noting that the meeting would follow the format explained on the handy-dandy agenda handout.

Lange looked slightly surprised.

Nonetheless, the meeting continued, addressing issues from the advising program to kegs on the quad to renovating the West Union. Some topics encouraged more discussion than others, and Slattery joked, “We deliberately selected a room where everything was bolted down.”

But his wit was misguided.

There was no real intense debate nor did anyone get up in arms regarding the high-profile topic of selective housing. Overall, the dialogue was respectful.

And that was one of my biggest problems with the meeting.

Rather than a debate in which students actively exchanged ideas with other students, it became a case of students simply making statements or asking questions for Lange or Wolf to answer.

Unfortunately, I think the format of the meeting did not encourage anything but relaxed repartee.

Because of this design, my greatest worry is that Lange was not able to take from the meeting what he needs to make accurate judgments regarding the CGl’s recommendations.

In the earlier e-mail sent to the student body, Wolf explained that Lange is “leading the effort to determine if and to what degree each recommendation should be implemented.”

Wolf later commented, “I have far more faith in the process Peter Lange set up than the CCI process,” explaining, “a lot of the recommendations were ill-informed.”

Then, the DSG meeting left Lange, in my opinion, with little to work with.

For this reason, I feel the need to pose two challenges First, I challenge the student body to not only continue to have conversations regarding the CCI Report but also to relay the thoughts, feelings and conclusions you and your friends discuss to Lange. He’s the guy in charge right now; let him know what you think.

Second, and more importantly, I challenge Lange. I’ve been impressed by him when he’s spoken in front of DSG this year and by how well he seems to respond to student comments. He’s identified the “Four Hot Topics,” but I think he should put those flashcards away. At this point, he must listen to all input concerning every campus culture issue that concerns students.

At this stage in the process, all ideas need to be on the table for review. There will be a time once the necessary debate has taken place to focus on the most talked-about, the most obviously crucial issues; right now, we just need to talk about the issues.

MONDAY, MARCH 19,

Dear Joyce, Everyone is leaving. Of course, I am stuck here in Durham for the ENTIRE break. I don’t know what I was thinking when I thought it would be a good idea to stay here and get work done. “I’m gonna find a job! And write my thesis! And *gasp!* get ahead in my classes!”— That’s not SB2K7! I’m a senior! I’m supposed to be running game on a cruise around the Bahamas and getting on with my mantan

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Save me. Now. Please.

—James

Aloha, James!

I am so sorry to hear that Durham is treating you shabbily, though I suppose I am not entirely surprised. I must admit, I prepared wonderfully for this trip ofmine.

I look fab, and I seem smart thanks to the small stack of New Yorkers I keep at hand for precisely this reason. Can we say effordess perfection? lam loving this immersion experience—l had no idea the locals here were so eager to please. Someone suggested that perhaps the behavior is restricted to hotel staff working for tips, but I think that’s blasphemy. I’d like to think that this is the very essence of human kindness and dignity. By the way, the piha colada in one hand and the Cosmo mag in the other (perfect blend of regional kitsch with timeless sophistication, don’t you think?) prevents me from actually penning these letters, so the handwriting you’re seeing is actually... umm... what’s your name? Oh yes, Dora’s.

Hope there’s something I can do to make the Durham experience go better—a spoonful of sugar (by which I mean rum) perhaps to make that terrible, terrible medicine go down. Coconut Kisses, Joyce.

Joyce,

James, Darling!

I have just landed in sunny, beautiful Kaua’i, Hawai’i, a place as paradisiacal and exotic as its odd punctuation suggests, I am so glad I am finally getting a chance to leave Durham for a bit. Not that I have anything against it, but any place whose perpetual soundtrack is the one from Shaft can wear on your spirit (tell me you haven’t driven down parts of Erwin and thought to yourself “Shaft!”). I’m most remorseful that you’re still there.

Just think of it as an adventure! A Samuel L. Jacksonthemed escapade!

More later, I have just realized that madly alcoholic fruity drinks (with that adorable little umbrella) are but a finger snap away—the Help here is nothing short of marvelous. Toodles!

Dear Joyce, Glad to hear that you’re having fun, but no, this is not Shaft territory. First because I have become an old man and I go to bed at midnight. And second, I spend most of my time in the gardens. Shaft doesn’t do gardens.

I made the required trip home to Raleigh to do my laundry and prove that not all of our conversations include “can I borrow some money?” It quickly became apparent that home is not the place to get work done though —Father requested that I help him beat Need for Speed on the Game Cube, and I cannot back down from a challenge. Five hours and hundreds of totaled cars later, I have sore thumbs and no future. And I think I’m coming down with Ricketts.

Rock, James.

Spent the entire day in the gardens today. Just relaxed on the grass and realized that I cannot even think about moving above the Mason-Dixon Line after graduation or I risk freezing to death.

And honestly, I don’t think staying here would be that bad. After all, the majority of jobs expect you to have a master’s degree. But to get the master’s degree, I need to have had a job—typical.

But overall, it’s been so peaceful here. No wait for the ellipticals, empty lanes at the pool, no lines at Alpine. And with the roommate being gone for the week there’s no one to complain if I stay in my towel all day. It’s beautiful.

Not Ready for People to Return, James.

Dear James, In an attempt to complete the cultural experience I was, for lack of a better word, experiencing, I eschewed sun block to gamer the golden hue that complements these natives. What a terrible mistake! I am now completely red and all the aloe in Texas cannot save me.

James, it shames my jet-setting soul to admit this, but I long for the stunningly simple comforts of Durham.

Give me a Cosmic burrito, throw in a beer at the Joyce, cap it all with some temperate North Carolina clime and I am a happy girl. Culture and beauty be damned, Shaft is where home is.

Has ta, Joyce.

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Heading into spring break, the Blue Devils seemingly had just about everything going right for them.

Duke had scrapped its way to a 15-1 record, and the pitching staff had only allowed double-digit runs twice.

Despite having played relatively weak competition, the team had already matched its 2006 win total and looked forward to improving on last year’s 6-24 conference record.

But Duke (17-7, 0-6 ACC) ran into a road block once conference play began at the beginning of spring break, even as the Blue Devils continued to win non-league games. Duke lost 6-4, 7-2 and 9-6 to No. 6 Clemson (14-4, 3-0) to conclude the eightgame stretch over the one-week break.

In the other games, the Blue Devils were swept by Boston College 3-1,10-5 and 10-2 but defeated Fairleigh Dickinson 15-4 and 10-5 in between the two ACC series.

“In all three stages in the game we haven’t put together a complete game,” head coach Sean McNally said after the Clemson series. “We were competitive in all three games.”

After rolling through theirnon-conference slate, the Blue Devils could not pull out a win in theirfirst sixACC games.

Spring Break Recap March 9 Boston College 3, Duke 1 March 10— Boston College 10, Duke 5 March 11 March 13

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Against Boston College at home, the Blue Devils only gave up one run in the first seven innings in the first game. In the second game, however, Duke allowed five runs in the first two innings.

“I thinkwe’ve played well in spurts,” Me-

Nally said. “In some games we’ve pitched wellbut haven’t swung the bats well.”

Their competitiveness did, however, put them in position to win several games over the break. This was especially apparent in the first game against Clemson Friday.

After jumping out to a 6-0 lead, Clemson appeared to have things wrapped up as the Blue Devils stepped into the batter’s box in the eighth inning. Two outs later, everything still seemed fine for the Tigers until freshman Alexander Hassan reached base on an error.

Jonathan Anderson bunted safely to first base, and after a wild throw by the fielder, Hassan scored and Anderson advanced to second.

Duke added two more runs in the inning, and the three runs scored in the frame ended Clemson’s run of 20 straight innings over three games without allowing a run.

Ultimately, however, the Blue Devils could not complete the comeback in the ninth inning, as the inability to finish out games came back to haunt them like it did in the first game against Boston College.

In that contest, the score was tied 1-1 going until Duke gave up two runs in the eighth inning to allow the Eagles to pull away with the 3-1 victory.

Against the Tigers, Duke never came closer to winning than after the first-game rally. Even with Duke holding a 6-4 lead in the third inning Sunday at Clemson, the Tigers never panicked, scoring five more runs to defeat the Blue Devils again.

“It’s a process we’re learning from in all these games,” McNally said. “Our guys know they’ve got to play better.”

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After a failed comeback against Loyola resulted in the team’s first loss of the season a week earlier in San Diego, No. 4 Duke returned to North Carolina and successfully rallied to defeat No. 13 North Carolina 9-7 Saturday in Chapel Hill.

The Blue Devils (5-1, 2-0 in the ACC) looked disorgan-9 ized early against DUKE ~j~ the Tar Heels (6-2, UNC 0-1), but they were able to regroup DUKE and execute late 8 in the game in LOYOLA order to defeat | their rivals for the fourth straight time.

“This is a good win over a good team,” head coach John Danowski said after the game. “We didn’t play particularly well in the first half, but we hung in there and made some plays after halftime.”

The Blue Devils took their first lead of the contest on Matt Danowski’s third goal of the game 42 seconds into the fourth quarter, putting them up 8-7. Duke rounded out the day’s scoring with an insurance goal from Ned Grotty with 2:56 left. After the Blue Devils scored just once in the game’s first 23 minutes, Grotty’s goal capped off a 7-1 scoring streak that allowed them to complete their comeback bid.

“We were more patient in the second half offensively,” John Danowski said.

“Even though we were down, we were more patient. Hopefully, that will hold us in good stead down the line.”

Much like their first-half performance against Loyola in which the Blue Devils trailed 5-1, Duke fell behind UNC 6-1 with less than seven minutes to play before the break. The Blue Devils racked up five and a half of their six penalty minutes, lost eight of 10 face-offs and gave up 18 shots in the first half, allowing the Tar Heels to jump out to their early lead.

“We didn’t play very well,” Danowski said. “I’m not sure we could have started off any worse. We were thankful it was only 6-1. It could have been much worse.”

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Senior Matt Danowski scored three goals in Duke's win over North Carolina at Fetzer Field in Chapel Hill.

After a Matt Danowski goal brought the score to 6-2, freshman Max Quinzani scooped in a goal after UNC goalie Grant Zimmerman deflected another Matt Danowski shot with 38 seconds remaining in the half.

Following an unforced Tar Heel error, Duke quickly took to the offensive again as the period drew to a close. Danowski passed the ball across the face of the cage to a streaking Zack Greer, who dumped the ball into die net with only one second left. When Brad Ross won the opening face-off of the second halfand scored within six seconds, Duke finally felt comfortable and setded down, only trailing &-5.

After a rough start, John Danowski believed the three-goal streak was indicative

ofhis players’ more balanced approach.

“There’s a difference between playing emotional and enthusiastic,” John Danowski said. “Maybe the guys played too emotional because it was the DukeNorth Carolina game, and they wanted to win the game in the first two minutes.”

After squandering a late lead against Loyola, the Blue Devils not only defeated UNC with stoic play but also with stingy defense. Goalie Dan Loftus allowed two Greyhound goals in the final 1:13 of the Blue Devils’ first loss, but prevented the Tar Heels from scoring in the last 27 minutes of Saturday’s game.

Duke will attempt to build momentum when it plays at home against No. 1 Cornell Tuesday at 7 p.m.

Spring break was no break for Duke and its winning ways.

Led by Amanda Blumenherst’s tournament-best 9-under-par 207, the Blue Devils won the LSU Golf Classic at the University Club in Baton Rouge, La., finishing six shots ahead No. 7 Vanderbilt. The tournament win is the second consecutive for the the team, which had previously won the UCF Challenge March 6.

Each of the five Duke golfers recorded at least one round at 1-over-par or better, and four of the five turned in at least one below-par scorecard.

“Everyone shined in the tournament,” head coach Dan Brooks said. “That’s my favorite kind of tournament, when not only everyone contributes, but when everyone plays well and contributes.”

Blumenherst carried her hot streak to Louisiana as well, leading the tournament wire-to-wire and finishing eight strokes ahead of the three golfers who tied for second place. The reigning National Player of the Year also notched the tournament’s best overall loop, shooting an openinground 68 on Friday. The individual win is the third in a row for the sophomore, who is currendy ranked as the No. 1 collegiate golfer in the nation.

“You’d have to say that she’s just playing great right now,” Brooks said of Blumenherst. “She’s got a really, really good long game, but what she is experiencing now is that her putts are falling. There have been tournaments where she has hit it well but the putts haven’t fallen, but now she is being rewarded with those putts falling.”

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pressure in having to fend off the field after establishing an opening-round lead, as Blumenherst did in Baton Rouge, the sophomore said she does not feel any pressure when attempting to stay on top of the leaderboard.

“Starting off well definitely helps my confidence, but I don’t feed off how others are playing,” Blumenherst said. “Even if I were down, I would go out and play my best.”

Not to be lost in the efforts of Blumenherst were the performances from her teammates. Sophomore Jennie Lee and freshman Alison Whitaker both rebounded from an opening round score of 78 to record under-par performances Sunday.

Lee scored a 2-under-par 70 in her final round, while Whitaker notched a 1under-par 71. Junior Jennifer Pandolfi also rebounded nicely from a tough opening round, as she carded a 1-underpar 71 Saturday after a tough 11-over-par 83 Friday.

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After victories over then-No. 5 Princeton and No. 16 Vanderbilt last week, Duke capped off its week with a win over Georgetown Sunday in Washington, D.C. The No. 4 Blue Devils (7-1) took down the No. 10 Hoyas (3-2) with a 1211 victory to put the finishing touches on a perfect break.

“Even though we were in Durham, we had a very good DUKE 12 spring break,” head coach KerG-TOWN stin Kimel said.

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Georgetown’s a great team and I thinkit was a great win for us.”

Although Duke jumped out to an early 3-2 lead, the Hoyas battled back to knot the score at four before scoring three straight goals en route to an 8-5 halftime lead.

The Blue Devils did not panic, instead using halftime to find their groove and improve on their nine first-half turnovers.

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“Halftime was good for us to just kind of catch our breath and realize we just weren’t taking good care of the ball at all,” Kimel said. “We can’t expect our defense to play a good series and then turn the ball over and expect them to play again and again. It felt like we really got ourselves together at halftime and in the second we really played more our game.”

Duke emerged strong from the locker room to start the second half off with four straight goals to regain the lead 9-8.

Senior attacker Kristen Waagbo sparked the offensive run with the two goals and an important assist to fellow attacker Caroline Cryer’s go-ahead goal.

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Senior Kristen Waagbo led Duke in scoring, netting a hat trick in the team'swin Sundayafternoon at Georgetown.

The Hoyas responded with two straight goals before Cryer once again found the back of the net with a shot in traffic to knot the score at 10.

Defensively, Duke held Georgetown to six shots in the second half—an improvement from the Hoyas’ 14 in the first period.

One of these six shots came with 5:30 left, when goalkeeper Kim Imbesi stopped Georgetown’s Coco Stanwick right in front of the net.

“They had a really powerful offense, and I think our defense did such a good job limiting their shots,” Waagbo said.

“Kim really came up so huge with that save at the end and got us all fired up.”

The Duke offense funneled the defensive momentum into a go-ahead goal by Waagbo, who ended the game with a hat trick and two assists.

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“It was really exciting—everyone keeps making fun of me because I guess I did a twirl or something,” Waagbo said of scoring the 11-10 go-ahead shot. “We showed a lot of character and a lot of poise the way we made that comeback.”

Midfielder Rachel Sanford added another goal, which proved to be vital as the Hoyas notched a desperation score with 16 seconds left. The Blue Devils, however, were able to hold on to secure the final draw control and ultimately the game.

“It was just a really well-fought game on both ends,” Waagbo said. “That’s a really good win for us and it gives us a lot of momentum going into the next stretch of our season.”

Duke plays next when it returns to its ACC schedule on Friday with a game against Virginia Tech at home at 7 p.m.

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Holy Cross head coach RALEIGH Bill Gibbons had expected that his team’s NCAA Tournament first round matchup

Sunday with No. 1 Duke would be a blowout.

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Coming off its first loss of the season to N.C. State March 3 in the semi-finals of the ACC TournaH, CROSS ment, the Blue (31-1) 81 Devils DUKE showed no ill effects, defeating the Crusaders 81-44 in the RBC Center.

The Blue Devils never trailed Holy Cross (15-18), and an 11-0 Abby Waner run starting at the 14:35 mark of the first half gave Duke a 22-7 lead and essentially put the game out of reach for the Crusaders.

“I wasn’t worried about overlooking anybody, because we know it’s one and done,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “We know what happened to Ohio State [Saturday] as well. We have great respect for the Holy Cross program, and we were just anxious to play.”

The fourth-seeded Buckeyes lost to Marist in their Tournament opener 67-63.

The Blue Devils, though, avoided a similar fate by turning 22 Crusader turnovers into 29 points. Duke benefitted from a balanced scoring attack, led by Waner’s 26 points—20 of which came in the first half.

Carrem Gay and Joy Cheek added 10 points apiece, and Alison Bales chipped in with 13 points, eight rebounds and five blocks.

Before the Waner scoring run, Duke had started out slow offensively and played like a team that hadn’t seen game action in 15 days.

“Once you don’t play for almost two weeks, everything’s a little bit rusty,” Bales said. “Your passing’s not as crisp, your defense isn’t quite as perfect as you’d like it to be.”

Duke’s defense struggled initially, as Holy Cross freshman Bethany O’Dell torched the Blue Devils for 13 points in the first 12 minutes—including three three-pointers. At the next timeout, Goestenkors instructed Duke to pick up its

play defensively.

Her team responded by only allowing five more points before halftime—none from O’Dell. Holy Cross, which had been shooting 47-percent from the field, was

just 2-for-9 in the last eight minutes of the first period.

“We depend on our defense, and we rely on it and we take great pride in it,” Goestenkors said. “So when a team is shooting 47-percent and they’ve got one player in particular who has 13 of the 17 points, you’re not setting the tone. You’re allowing other teams to lick their chops and say, ‘Oh, Duke’s defense isn’t that good.’”

When it was clear the game had gotten out of reach, the big story became Holy Cross senior Brittany Keil—who entered the contest needing seven points to reach 1,000 for her career.

She went scoreless for the first 35 minutes of play. Gibbons had discussed the situation with Goestenkors before the game—he wanted his senior star to reach

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Duke switched to a zone, and Keil took advantage. She nailed two three-pointers

and hit a free throw in the last five minutes to hit the milestone, “I always had respect for Gail, but today it went like tenfold for what she did,” Gibbons said. “I am rooting for Duke to win it all, because of the class Gail displayed.”

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Sophomore Abby Waner led Duke with 26 points in the team's first-round game against Holy Cross Sunday in the RBC Center in Raleigh.The guard only played 26 minutes as the Blue Devils coasted to an easy win.

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scoring. Waner’s six three pointers also tied her career high from beyond the arc.

“Abby’s the best we’ve had,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said of the sophomore’s shooting ability. “We’ve had some real good shooters.... But with Abby’s range, she gets it off just as quick

RALEIGH Any pre-game anxiety Abby Waner may have had going into Sunday night’s matchup certainly didn’t show on the court.

Despite Duke’s ACC Tournament loss in the semifinal round as anybody.” two weeks ago in Waner’s fire on offense was not her QdFVIG Greensboro, Waner only contribution in Duke’s game Sunday <3tldfySfs made it clear that Duke night. was not going to let Holy Following Waner’s block, the Blue Cross get off that easy.

Devils were visibly energized, swarming She would make sure ofit. her with high fives and chest bumps. The After nailing two consecutive threesophomore’s streak on the court—in adpointers five minutes into the first half, the dition to her team-leading four steals—sophomore used her momentum to get effectively pumped up the Blue Devils to back on defense and halt Holy Cross’ shake off any dust they may have gathChristy Cushnie in her tracks. As Cushnie ered during their two week stretch withwent up for a shot from downtown, Waher out a game following the ACC Tournajumped up and slammed the ball into a ment. thrilled crowd.

“I wouldn’t say that our energy was “I felt like Alison Bales for a little bit,” lacking, because we’ve been so anxious to Waner said, speaking about her teammate, get orrthe floor,” Waner said. “It was just who is the nation’s leading shot-blocker. a matter of channeling it in the right di“It’s nice to be in her spotlight for once.” rection.”

Waner, however, held a spotlight of her With Waner’s hot streak providing a own. And the fans were not the only ones cushion, Goestenkors was able to switch up awed by the play.

Duke’s lineup frequendy. Eight Blue Devils Bales—who had five blocks herself saw more than 15 minutes of play while against the Crusaders—was impressed by Duke practiced different rotations.

Waner’s showing, calling it a “perfect 10” Duke’s go-to seniors, Bales and Lindon her scale. sey Harding, played solidly despite seeing The sophomore totaled 26 points—20 less playing time than usual—the pair of them in the first half—to lead Duke in played fewer than 30 minutes apiece.

Bales contributed 13 points for the Blue Devils’ second-highest point total on the night, while Harding recorded seven points and three steals.

Although Goestenkors said she was not particularly happy with the team’s defensive performance, Duke was able to use its momentum to knock off its first round opponent.

“It had been a good long while after our last game,” Goestenkors said. “I didn’t think we played particularly well but I think we did what we needed to do, and as the game went along, I felt like we got a little bit better on both ends of the floor, which was the purpose of this game—just to get the kinks out and get our legs back r under us.”

During the team’s 15-day break, Waner said she frequently hit the gym to shoot around and get ready for the upcoming game. The minor thumb injury she sustained during one shootaround between tournaments clearly did not bother her in

Sunday night’s play.

“I’d be a little bit worried coming into the Tournament if I felt I was rusty,” Waner said. “Even though we had 15 days off, that doesn’t mean you can’t get in the gym and shoot.”

With their first game behind them, the Blue Devils will use their energy boost to propel them through the NCAA Tournament, particularly as the competition gets more fierce.

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As Waner continues to find her stride and set the tone for Duke in the backcourt, the top-ranked Blue Devils will continue to feed offher energy.

“We’re going to ride it as long as we can,” Goestenkors said.

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BUFFALO, N.Y For the first time all season, Duke had two players score at least 20 points in a game. Although Josh

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Unfortunately for Duke, it came at the worst possible time, ending its season before the second weekend of the NCAA Toura, ; nament for the first S time in a decade.

Balanced scoring has been a theme for the Blue Devils all year, as the team has only had a 20-point scorer on 12 occasions throughout the season.

But Thursday in Buffalo, outside of Mcßoberts and Paulus, no other player even reached double-figures.

DeMarcus Nelson, who led the Blue Devils in scoring during the season, was absent from Duke’s offensive flow. Aside from his coast-to-coast layup to tie the contest at 77 with 12 seconds left and a three-point play early in the first frame, the junior had trouble reaching the paint against VCU’s defense. Nelson picked up his fourth foul on a reach-in with 11:13 remaining in the game and was sloppy with the ball, turning it over five times.

Jon Scheyer was almost non-existent for Duke in the first half, as the freshman attempted only one shot. Scheyer did not fare much better in the second period either, as he hit only 2-of-6 from the field and missed all three of his three-point attempts.

Both Nelson and Scheyer also struggled defending VCU point guard Eric Maynor who scored eight ofhis team-high 22 points down the stretch, including the game-winning jumper over Scheyer’s outstretched arm with 1.8 seconds remaining.

“We just gave up the ball a lot in the half-court, and we gave them a lot of points off of turnovers,” Nelson said. “We just didn’t do the tough things down the stretch.”

Last year, J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams dominated the stat sheet throughout the season for Duke while the team struggled all year to find a third scoring option. That was not a problem this season for the Blue Devils, as five different players have led the team in scoring in a game. But in their final game of the season, with Paulus and Mcßoberts resembling the old Redick and Williams duo from a year ago, the Blue Devils could not take advantage.

Mcßoberts was unimpressed by his own outing, despite the fact that he led the team with 12 rebounds, five blocks and tied Paulus for the team lead with four assists. The forward missed a key free throw with 21 seconds left that would have tied the game at 76.

“I’m never happy with my performance when we lose because that means I did not do enough to win the game,” he said.

All season long Mcßoberts has been criticized for not being assertive enough offensively, but Thursday the forward JIANGHAI HO/THE CHRONICLE showed signs of the dominant player many have expected him to be. Early in Throughout Duke's loss to VCU, sophomore point guard Greg Paulus proved to be the Blue Devils' most effective scoring option,pouring in a career-high 25 points. the second half, when Duke started to separate itself from VCU, the sophomore said. “He’s a guy that is very talented, big wards combined for only four points and began to deny the ball from Mcßoberts constantly demanded the ball in the post and physical, and probably without ques- four rebounds, and they each picked up and ultimately the Blue Devils could not and scored seven points in Duke’s 21-12 tion the most talented guy we’ve played four fouls. Because the two struggled with find away to keep VCU at bay. run to start the frame. this year in the frontcourt.” foul trouble throughout the contest, And ironically for Duke, in a game in “He reminds me of a guy I coached at Duke’s other frontcourt players, Lance Mcßoberts was forced to play all but 27 sec- which its two sophomore stars played perthe University of Florida named David Thomas and David McClure, provided lit- onds of the game. haps their best games as Blue Devils, their Lee,” VCU head coach Anthony Grant tie help to Mcßoberts in the post. The forIn the game’s final minutes, the Rams efforts were still not enough.

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A Look Back The last time the men's basketball team exited from the NCAA Tournament in the first round was in 1996, when the Blue Devils were 18-13 and 8-8 in ACC play.

That year, Duke lost to Eastern Michigan in the Big Dance's first round on March 14.

The Chronicle's Greg Beaton compiled a list of facts to put into perspective how long Duke's NCAA Tournament reign has been. The last time the Blue Devils were out this early...

Josh Mcßoberts and Greg Paulus were in the third grade.

Duke's athletics department had only won three national championships, and

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Sophomore forward Josh Mcßoberts' career-high 22 points were not enough to push the Blue Devils to a victory in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

M. BBALL from TC page 1 its first NCAA Tournament win since 1985.

The loss was even more difficult to swallow for the Blue Devils considering they seemed to be in control after building an 11-point lead midway through the second half. But the Rams responded with an 18-6 spurt to grab a 68-67 lead—their first since the game’s opening minutes.

VCU hit 4-of-5 three-pointers during the stretch, part of a 9-for-16 night from beyond the arc. Reserve guard Jamal Shuler hit two of his four trifectas in that run en route to 14 points for the game.

“They’re a scrappy team,” junior DeMarcus Nelson said. “They played extremely hard the whole way. And a team that can shoot the ball as well as they can, a 13-point lead is only a four-possession game.”

From that point on, the Blue Devils and Rams went toe-to-toe, with neither team having a lead larger than two in the final 6:32.

Maynor and Paulus epitomized that battle, as the opposing point guards matched each other on both ends of the court while occasionally needing to be separated by the officials.

“It was a physical game,” Paulus said. “[Maynor and I] were just trying to get as

close as possible without giving an inch sometimes trying to deny the ball, sometimes just fighting for position.”

Maynor got the last laugh, however, as he scored eight of VCU’s final 11 points.

While the first six of those points came on drives to the basket, the last two came on the pull-up jumper that caught Scheyer —

off-guard.

“I was just trying to keep him in front of me,” Scheyer said. “I saw there was about 10 seconds left, and I gave him a little too much space. He was going right a lot. So I was just trying to keep him from going right, just trying to make him hit a jump shot—he didn’t hit one all game—but he

pulled up.”

Paulus’ desperation three at the buzzer bricked off the backboard, and the loss overshadowed his career-high 25 points.

Josh Mcßoberts also reached a career high with 22 points, but the sophomore duo did not receive much help from its supporting cast. No otherBlue Devils scored in double figures.

Duke appeared in control for much of the game, as the Blue Devils had double digit leads in each half. Missed free throws and turnovers, however, proved costly down the stretch. For the game, the Blue Devils made just 20-of-32 from the charity stripe and committed 17 turnovers.

Duke’s turnovers did not come against the Rams’ full-court pressure but rather when VCU trapped in the half-court. The Rams counteracted Mcßoberts’ presence on the high post by sending a big man to trap the Blue Devils’ guard near the midcourt line, leading to turnovers and transition buckets.

But all that merely set the stage for Maynor’s last-second heroics.

“If you’re in this tournament long enough, you’re going to go down,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “It hurts.

When you lose in the last few seconds, after playing so hard all game, that’s not an easy thing to forget.”

NOTES: Duke had won 67 tournament games since VCD’s last tourney victory.... It was the first time Duke had two players score 20 points or more since the first round of last year’s NCAA Tournament.... Paulus reached double figures for the 12th straight game.... Maynor had been the hero for the Rams in their last game, as he scored their final nine points and came up with two pivotal steals to lead a late comeback victory over George Mason in the Colonial Athletic Association title game....

VCU lost to third-seeded Pittsburgh 84-79 Saturday in overtime.

the women's basketball team had yet to reach a single Final Four.

Stamps cost 32 cents.

The una bomber was still at large. Ted Kazynski would be arrested two weeks later on April 3 at his home in Montana.

The reigning Grammy winner for Song of the Year was Seal, for his hit single "-Kiss from a Rose."

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Maynor’s clutch bucket caps whirlwind finish VCU head coach Anthony Grant to ask for a timeout.

BUFFALO, N.Y. “I had looked over at Coach Grant and Greg Paulus and Eric Maynor had been battling each other I was trying to signal for him not to call a all game—each No. 3 leading his team in timeout,” Maynor said. “I knew that when it got in my hands, I was going to try to scoring.

But in the final moments Thursday bring my man down and make him play. It night, Maynor looked more like No. 23, just happened the way it happened.” doing his best Michael Jordan impression Scheyer picked Maynor up as he by hitting a foul-line jump shot with 1.8 crossed the half-court line. The sophomore started to his right—the same direcseconds left to knock off Duke. tion he had driven for his three previous Maynor’s final shot capped a wild backand-forth finish to the game. With the baskets. But with time ticking down, game tied at 72, two floaters from Maynor Maynor cut quickly to his left, creating just sandwiched a Paulus layup to give VCU a enough separation to launch the game76-74 lead. After Josh Mcßoberts and Jesse winner from 17 feet away.

Pellot-Rosa each hit one-of-two free “The whole game, [Maynor] was trying throws, DeMarcus Nelson flew down the to get to the bucket,” Scheyer said. “Decourt and made an uncontested layup to Marcus scored and all of a sudden I was on tie the game at 77 with 12 seconds to play. my heels running back, and I was just try“When I hit that layup, the only thing ing to keep him in front of me and make that was going through my mind was I him pull up and hit a jump shot.... He was knew they had a lot of time on the clock to trying to go right the whole game, so I was get the ball down and get off a shot,” Neltrying to make him go left, and he pulled son said. “We were just trying to match up up—which he didn’t do for awhile—but it and stop the ball.” was a tough shot. Obviously when I look back, I wouldn’t have given him as much Neither team called a timeoutafter Nelson’s bucket. VCU was content to let space. But it all happened so quickly.”

The Blue Devils did not run a second Maynor improvise while Duke felt comfortable with Jon Scheyer—instead of Neldefender at Maynor as time was running son—checking the sophomore guard. out, wary of allowing the Rams an open Head coach Mike Krzyzewski defended look at a three. VCU had made 9-of-16 his decision not to call timeout to set his from beyond the arc. defense.

“It’s a lot of different things you say you “There were double digit seconds left,” could’ve done,” Nelson said. “But when Krzyzewski said. “There was more than you’re going through it at the time, all you enough time for them to run something. can do is react and go offinstincts. But you We drill those things. I don’t question the got to give them credit, they fought the decision.” whole game, they were scrappy, and they At the same time, Maynor did not want never died.” by

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Duke finished off its non-conference schedule during spring break, recording two wins and a loss during a week-long trip to Texas.

The No. 19 Blue Devils (7-5) fell to Texas, the highest-ranked of the three teams they competed against, in a difficult opener to the road trip, but they left the Lone Star State in high spirits after morale boosting wins against Texas A&M and TCU. “The fact that we finished the trip really strong made a difference,” freshman Dylan Arnould said. “It makes it feel like we’re building some momentum heading into ACC season.”

Duke’s match against the No. 13 Longhorns (12-5) March 10 gave the Blue Devils little cause for optimism. Nearly every match was close and most came down to the final set, but Texas was able to claim both the doubles point and the first three singles matches contested. Duke’s Peter Rodrigues and Kiril Dimitrov made the score a respectable 5-2.

The Blue Devils’ win over the 35thranked Aggies (10-5) was Duke’s first win of the season away from the Sheffield In-

door Tennis Center. In a thrilling match, Duke again dropped the doubles point, putting the team in a hole right from the start. The two squads alternated wins in singles, though, and the score was tied at three apiece before Arnould, playing at the fifth position, pulled out a three set win to secure the 4-3 victory.

“This was an outstanding win for us over a great team on the road,” said Duke head coach Jay Lapidus “I was really proud of all of our guys across the board. Our two seniors really stepped it up for us and for a freshman to come up huge like Dylan did, was great to see.”

The final test on the road trip was TCU (3-8), who at No. 72 were the lowest ranked team the Blue Devils had faced the entire season. Despite the grueling match against the Aggies just two days earlier, Duke cruised to a 5-0 win.

“TCU was kind of better than their rank, but we won pretty handily, which is important for our confidence,” Arnould said.

The Blue Devils remain on the road this weekend, taking on Clemson and Georgia Tech March 24 and 25, respectively, before returning home for six straight matches.

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The Blue Devils finished a solid week by recording three victories, but just missed out on the opportunity to capture their biggest win of the season.

No. 23 Duke deliveredwins over Princeton, Tennessee and Virginia but stumbled against No. 2 Notre Dame in a hard-fought

Senior Daniela Bercek helped theBlue Devils secure three victories during their spring break action.

4-3 match.

“We beat who we were supposed to beat ranking-wise,” said head coach Jamie Ashworth. “We couldn’t beat the one team that we had a great opportunity to. We did a great job of giving ourselves a chance with Notre Dame, and it was the best fight we had all year.”

Freshman Amanda Granson and sophomore Melissa Mang were perfect on the week at the fourth and second singles spots, respectively. Mang improved her singles record to 9-1 in dual matches this season.

In the March 10 match against No. 49

Virginia at Ambler Tennis Stadium, Duke claimed the doubles point to set the pace.

Sophomore Jessi Robinson and freshman

Elizabeth Plotkin combined for an 8-3 victory at the No. 2 doubles spot, and senior Daniela Bercek and Mang posted an 8-2 win at the top position to secure the point.

A three-match singles sweep clinched Duke its 6-1 victory. Bercek won 6-1, 64 at the top spot, while Mang swept her opponent at the second position. Granson put up a 64, 6-0 win to secure the comfortable victory for the Blue Devils.

Duke then traveled to California for its next three matches.

In Wednesday’s contest, the Blue Devils again clinched the doubles point on their way to a 6-1 win over No. 19 Tennessee at the Barnes Tennis Center; In singles action, Duke took five out of six matches.

The Blue Devils met a hitch in their streak Thursday at the Bames Tennis Center against the Fighting Irish.

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“That was our biggest win,” Mang said.

“We just played really smart and aggressive.”

The Blue Devils responded by taking three of the first five singles matches to knot the match at three. But Notre Dame’s Cosmina Ciobanu, the 31 st-ranked player in the nation, pulled out a 7-5 third set to take down Tory Zawacki at the fifth singles position to close out the victory for the Fighting Irish.

The Blue Devils took out any frustration they had over the missed opportunity on their next opponent, shutting down No. 60 Princeton Saturday at the Barnes Tennis Center to improve to 7-3 on the season.

The Blue Devils cleaned out the Tigers with a sweep of the doulbes matches and six straight singles wins to notch a 7-0 victory.

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Men’s Sweet 16 Seed, team and scores of first-and-second-round games (seeds in bold)

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In one of the deepest fields in which they have competed all season, the Blue Devils finished fourth at the General Jim Hackler Championship Mar. 12 at the TPC of Myrtle Beach in Murrells Inlet, SC. The 18-team field featured 14squads that qualified for last year’s NCAA Regionals, seven of which had advanced to the 2006 NCAA Championship.

With the team’s strong showing, Duke moved into 20th place in the Golf World/Nike Golf Coaches’ Poll.

Freshman Adam Long paced the Blue Devils, shooting a 2-under 214 over his three rounds to finish in a four-way tie for 13thplace, seven strokes behind leader Rhys Davies of East Tennessee State.

After going 2-over-par in the first round of the tournament, Long came back firing in his next two rounds, carding a 3-under 69 in his second round March 11 and al- 71 in the final round the next day.

The freshman shot five birdies and 10 pars in his third round, before double-bogeying the last hole to drop him back to 1-under. The final-round scorecard read very similarly for senior Jake Grodzinsky, who also carded five birdies and 10 pars before double-bogeying the 18th hole to finish with a 1-under 71 on the day.

Grodzinsky went even-par over the course of the tournament, landing him in a tie for 18th-place.

The team’s roster was rounded-out by freshman Jeff Edelman, junior Michael Schachner and sophomore Clark Klaasen.

With a 7-over 223, Schachner ended up in a tie for 47th. Klaasen’s effort left him in a tie for 62nd, shooting a 10-over 226 over his three rounds. Edelman, however, had the best finish of his career—a tie for 23rd place after going under-par in his last two rounds, the final of which included two birdies and two eagles.

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