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One out of four Duke undergraduate women will be sexually assaulted during her lifetime.

That’s the type of sobering statistic the organizers of Sexual Assault Prevention Week would like the Duke community to understand.

The week, which is coordinated by the Sexual Assault Support Services division of the Women’s Center in conjunction with numerous other campus organizations, is designed to raise awareness about issues of sexual assault and spark dialogue, said senior Avery Resor, a SASS staff member.

Events include panel discussions, a jazz concert and Take Back the Night—a rally Thursday night on the steps of the Duke Chapel during which both men and women are invited to speak out against sexual assault.

In many ways, Take Back the Night, with its often passionate testimonials, embodies the goals of the week, said SASS Coordinator Sheila Broderick.

“For lots of complex, dynamic reasons sexual assault is some-

thing people primarily keep quiet about,” Broderick said. “[Take Back the Night] gives people an opportunity... to say what they need to say about it.”

Broderick said she hopes that this week’s events encourage people to talk about sexual assault and see it as a public health crisis.

“Sexual assault is a vastly un-

sexual assault RLHS pulls plug on online Room Pix

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This year’s Room Pix will be conducted in person due to difficulties with the online selection system, representatives of Residence Life and Housing Services said Monday.

After issues this past weekend with room registration, representatives of RLHS emailed students to inform them that the selection process will take place face to face because the online server had glitches that could not be fixed.

The process will begin tonight with the selection of singles, Marijean Williams, director of housing assignments and communications said.

It will continue Wednesday with current juniors choosing doubles and mixed sophomore and junior blocking groups. Thursday and Friday, sophomores remaining on West Campus will select rooms. The process will conclude Saturday and Sunday with freshman selection.

Williams said all selections will take place in Gilbert-Addoms Down Under. Students will select rooms from maps of the floor plans, as in previous years.

Williams said Residential Management System, the developer of the software, was unsure what slowed down the

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As part of Sexual Assault Prevention Week, groupshave set up shirts and pinwheels on the quad to raise awareness.

derreported crime,” Broderick said. “If 25 percent of people had hepatitis or the flu, people would be in shock.”

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system. “[The root of the problem] is some process behind the scenes that’s causing the server to work very sluggishly,” Williams said. “Until that’s resolved, I don’t feel comfortable using it.”

Junior Ryan Todd, Few Quadrangle representative and president-elect of Campus Council, said he does not foresee the change having negadve effects on the process.

“This was the first year we’ve ever done [online Room Fix], and there were expected to be a SEE ROOM FIX ON PAGE 6

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In past years, Blue Devil Days have offered admitted prospective students a taste of the University through panel discussions with faculty, administrators and some students.

But this year, current undergraduates will be doing a lot more of the selling.

This year’s Blue Devil Days program —an annual Office of Undergraduate Admissions-sponsored event that invites admitted students to campus to experience Duke academics and social life first hand—will emphasize oneon-one interaction between

prospective and current students.

The changes reflect negative media coverage of the University as well as evaluation of last Blue year’s Devil Days prosaid gram, Christoph Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions.

“Obviously, there’s been a lot of press .about Duke in the last year, and much ofit wasn’t ®

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Students of all backgrounds can find common ground at Duke—and not just at the fall retreat that bears that name.

That is the message officers of the Center for Race Relations hope to get out through a series of events the group is hosting this week. CRR Week kicked off with Monday's annual Unity Through Diversity dinner, presented by the Multicultural Center.

“We as an organization are just trying to be as publicized as possible,” said junior Ben Adams, CRR co-president. “We don’t want to be seen just as the group that appears for Common Ground.”

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Multicultural Center Director Julian Sanchez speaks at the annual Unity Through Diversity Dinner Monday night, the first event in CRR Week.

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The BELFAST, Northern Ireland leaders ofNorthern Ireland’s major Protestant and Catholic parties, sitting side by side for the first time in history, announced a stunning deal Monday to forge a coalition of archenemies within six weeks.

“We all saw something today that people never, ever thought would happen,” said British Secretary of State Peter Hain, who expects to hand power May 8 to a coalition led by the polar opposites of provincial politics: lan Paisley’s Democratic Unionists and Gerry Adams’ Sinn Fein.

Paisley, a Protestant evangelist who for

decades sought to thwart compromise with Roman Catholics, sat at a table beside Adams, a reputed Irish Republican Army veteran whom Paisley long denounced as a “man of blood.” Throughout the tortuous 14-year course of Northern Ireland’s peace process, Paisley had never before agreed to negotiate directly with Adams.

Their agreement, after barely an hour of discussions in the lawmakers’ dining hall in Stormont Parliamentary Building in Belfast, called for Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionists to work directly together on a detailed program for government.

Britain, in turn, promised to pass emer-

gency legislation Tuesday that would extend its deadline for a working powersharing government from Monday to May 8. On that date, the Northern Ireland Assembly would elect a 12-member administration with Paisley at its head and Sinn Fein deputy leader Martin McGuinness in the No. 2 post.

Paisley andAdams largely looked at their scripts, not each other, as they addressed live TV audiences across the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Both agreed they must leave behind Northern Ireland’s bitter divisions and forge a unity government, the SEE IRELAND ON PAGE 9

Justice dept, official to take Fifth by

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WASHINGTON Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ liaison with the White House will refuse to answer questions at upcoming Senate hearings about the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, citing her Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, her lawyer said Monday.

“I have decided to follow my lawyer’s advice and respectfully invoke my constitutional right,” Monica Goodling, Gonzales’ counsel and White House liaison, said in a statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The revelation complicated the outlook for Gonzales, who is traveling out of town this week even as he fights to keep his job.

In an interview with NBC News, Gonzales said Monday he was “really pained” by Republicans and Democrats alike who widely say the attorney general has lost his

credibility.

Asked why he would want to remain as attorney general amid so many calls for his ouster, Gonzales said he’s been asking himself lately whether it’s appropriate for him to stay in his job.

But, he said, “at the end of the day, it’s

not about Alberto Gonzales. It’s about

this great Department of Justice that does so many wonderful things for the American people.”

Nonetheless, the news was not good for Gonzales.

The House voted 329-78 to strip the attorney general of his power to indefinitely appoint federal prosecutors, approving a bill similar to one passed in the Senate.

President George W. Bush, who is standing

by Gonzales, has signaled that he will not veto the legislation.

Meanwhile, another Republican added his criticism to the growing chorus.

Under U.S. pressure to answer increasing Arab flexibility on Mideast peace, Israel has agreed to resume face-to-face talks with a moderate, Western-backed Palestinian leader who is sharing power with Islamic Hamas militants, a U.S. official said Monday.

Errors made in Tillman death Nine high-ranking Army officers, including four generals, made critical errors in reporting the friendly fire death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman in Afghanistan, but there was no criminal wrongdoing in the shooting of the former NFL player, the military concluded Monday.

Anna Nicole ODed, tests show Anna Nicole Smith accidentally overdosed on at least nine prescription drugs—including a powerful sleep syrup she was known to swig right out of the bottle—after a miserable last few days, an autopsy said.

EU renews nuke talks with Iran A top European envoy on Monday renewed an offer from six world powers to talk with Tehran over its nuclear ambitions, and a senior Iranian negotiator agreed to stay in contact in an effort to find common ground.

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It’s not every day that students can take classes with a former special advisor to the Bush administration and a member of the National Security Council.

But this fall, Peter Feaver will return to Duke to teach Political Science 93D: Introduction to International Reflations, after spending two years on leave advising the White House on issues such as Iraq policy and global terrorism.

Feaver, a professor of political science, said he was asked to join the NaPeter Feaver tional Security Council in early 2005 when Steve Hadley took over for Condoleezza Rice as national security advisor and reorganized the NSC. Hadley brought in Feaver and other university professors to meet with senior administration officials and brainstorm new policies.

“One of the great things about the • United States’ system of government is that it allows outsiders to have policymaking authority and contribute fresh ideas,” Feaver said.

Feaver, who also served in a lesser role under former President Bill Clinton’s administration, said that although he has enjoyed his time in Washington, he is excited about returning to Duke because it will allow him to spend more time with his family and provide him with more flexibility in his research.

He said his time in Washington would shape his teaching and benefit students, specifically when it comes to writing.

“President [George W.] Bush takes writing extremely seriously,” Feaver said.

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Frederick Wiseman, independent filmmaker and general manager of Zipporah Films, Inc., addressed issues of privacy in documentary film Monday in the last installment of this year’s. Provost’s Lecture Series, “Privacy at Risk?”

Speaking to approximately 200 students, faculty and local community members, he analyzed the legal rrOVOSiS and ethical issues lecture series by focusing on specific clips from his own work.

Wiseman has erePrivacy at ated more than 30 Risk? films about American institutions such as prisons, hospitals and schools. “I don’t like much discussing privacy in the abstract,” he said.

He showed controversial scenes from a few of his films and analyzed the concerns raised by each clip.

The first sequence he analyzed focused on a suicidal prisoner named Jim, who was kept naked for 17 years in a public prison and was treated poorly by the guards.

Wiseman said the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled in 1967 that he had invaded Jim’s privacy but reversed its decision in 1989 on the grounds that the piece was protected by the First Amendment.

He said the sequence had been the only cause for legal trouble in his career.

“If you say the sequence can’t be shown because it’s offensive... then the argument for showing it is, if the public wants to do anything about conditions in the prison and wants to help Jim, then they have to know what’s going on,” Wiseman said.

He also discussed the meaning of consent in documentary filmmaking.

He said subjects may give their consent to be used in the film without “understanding the material will be edited, placed in a context and shown to a public audience.”

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Frederick Wiseman, an independent filmmaker, addresses questions of privacy in documentaries Monday night.

He emphasized that it is not the filmmaker’s explicit duty to ensure the subject fully understands the implications of his or her consent.

“The filmmaker has to assume a degree of rationality exists [in the person giving consent], but there is no alternative,” Wiseman said.

Many of the questions from the audience were geared toward Wiseman’s personal experience with consent. One member questioned why Wiseman did not more often get approval from the subjects before filming rather than afterward.

Wiseman responded that it is difficult get prior consent because the filmmaker does not know what is going to happen.

‘You risk intervening [in the current situation] too much when you get consent before,” he said.

He also emphasized that issues of privacy should be dealt with in away that most benefits the documentary.

“The position I take is always a self-serving one,” he said.

Wiseman’s lecture was preceded by free screenings offour of his films at the Nastier Museum of Art last week. to

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About 75 demonstrators staged a vigil Saturday morning in Butner, N.C., to

UNC and a member of Solidarity with Palestine through Education and Action at Carolina, a UNC student group.

The protesters also wore orange jumpsuits and held up a large cardboard cutout of the Statue of Liberty emblazoned with the phrase “Bush, Free Dr. Sami.” “[The purpose of the protest] was two-

protest the imprisonment of a former university professor accused of aiding Palestinian terrorists.

Sami Al-Arian, a former professor of fold—one, to computer science at the Uni—show solidarity with die “He’s lost about 45 pounds.... yersity ol South r said Joan Walsh, Florida and a He Was OH a full hunger Strike co-chair of the North Carolina Durham Bill of State University r wprp n j We Were ana ex days Rights Defense is graduate, Committee. being held at tremely concerned for him.”

The other pur the Federal ' ~,i|u A1 A Abdullah Al-Arian p Gse was just to Medical Facility get the word out near Butner for AUArian’s son, Trinity ’O2 that this is haprefusing to testihere.” pening a terrorismfy in related case before a Virginia grand jury.

Al-Arian was initially arrested in FebruTo protest his imprisonment, Al-Arian ary 2003 in Tampa, Fla., for allegedly aidembarked on a two-month hunger strike ing Palestinian terrorist organizations.

Jan. 22 in a Virginia prison and was After a two-year trial, he was acquitted of moved to the medical facility after he coleight charges.

The jury was hung on nine other lapsed Feb. 13.

At the urging of his family, Al-Arian, a charges, with 10 jurors in favor of acquittal diabetic, ended his hunger strike on Friday and two in favor of conviction.

“The decision to prosecute came down and is currently taking liquid nutrients, said his son Abdullah Al-Arian, Trinity ’O2. from [former U.S. Attorney General “He’s lost about 45 pounds,” said AbJohn] Ashcroft and from the administradullah Al-Arian, a former Chronicle tion targeting Muslim activists in the columnist. “He was on a full hunger strike U. 5.,” Abdullah Al-Arian said. “When polfor 60 days and we were extremely conitics enters into the justice system, it can cerned for him.” easily be corrupted.”

The vigil was organized by the In May 2005, Al-Arian agreed to a plea Durham Bill of Rights Defense Commitbargain in which he admitted to helping individuals with ties to terrorist organizatee, the Orange County Bill of Rights Defense Committee, North Carolina Mustions. The agreement also stipulated that American Freedom he would be deported after an 18-month lim Society Foundation, North Carolina Stop Torprison sentence. ture Now and the Al-Arian family.

“There is absolutely not a shred of eviSeveral protesters, including a handful dence against him,” said miriam cooke, a ofmembers from the Duke faculty, student professor of Asian and African languages and literature at Duke and a demonstrator groups from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and area residents, at the vigil.

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being detained indefinitely after refusing testify in another case in Virginia and being held in contempt of court.

“I think he will not be released until the situation in the Middle East is settled,” said to

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Pinwheels, to represent Duke students who will be assaulted, are part ofSexual Assault Prevention Week.

ASSAULT from page 1 logue can be started about sexual assault, however, it’s on a college campus, Resor said.

“I think it’s most important to approach this issue on a college campus because college is a time when people are thinking and able to change,” Resor said. “This is an ideal time for people to think about sexual assault.”

And Broderick said that in the period of reflection brought on by the Campus Culture Initiative’s recently released report, Duke is able now, more than ever, to talk about issues of sexual assault.

“This is a [campus] environment that encourages critical thinking and thoughtful analysis,” Broderick said.

Although the week’s activities are targeted at the entire Duke community, the event’s organizers hope that men in particular participate, Resor said.

Broderick said that because 98 percent

of sexual violence is committed by men, the key to fighting the problem is engaging men in the solution.

For this reason, the student-organized Men Acting for Change is important, she added.

Founded in 2004, MAC was established to promote the respectful treatment of women by men.

This week MAC will be giving away white ribbons to men who pledge not to commit, condone or remain silent about violence against women. The effort is designed to inform men that sexual assault isn’t just a women’s issue, said MAC member Prabhat Mishra, a junior.

Broderick said she viewed MAC as a step in the right direction toward preventing sexual assault.

“I think MAC [members] act primarily as role models who can pave the way for the way most men want to think about women and act toward women,” Broderick said.

NCAA tournament game. He was 21.

Ray died Monday morning, said Steve Kirschner, the university’s associate athletic director for communications.

Ray had been in critical condition at Hackensack University Medical Center since the accident Friday afternoon. He was hit from behind while walking on a highway shoulder near his hotel in Fort Lee after going to a nearby convenience store.

Ray performed as UNC’s ram mascot, Rameses. He was scheduled to graduate in May with a major in business administration and a minor in religion.

“Jason was a wonderful son, brother and friend,” Ray’s brother, Allen, said in a statement released by the university.

“He leaves behind a legacy of friendship, laughter, excitement for life and a genuine love for all the people he touched during his all-too-short life.”

Ray had played the part of the Ram mascot for the past three seasons and was in New Jersey for Friday’s game between North Carolina and Southern California.

The Tar Heels defeated the Trojans 74-64 but lost to Georgetown 96-84 in overtime in Sunday’s regional final.

“He was an engaging young man and a friend to a number of our players and

the driver of the sport utility vehicle. Police said the driver stopped immediately to try to help Ray and called 911.

Police also said the driver had a valid driver’s license and did not appear to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs. More than two dozen family members and friends held a bedside vigil for Ray Sunday.

About 40 people attended a prayer session for him on the UNC campus Sunday afternoon, said Laura Ely, 22, a UNC senior who met Ray early in their freshman year.

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few glitches,” Todd said. “I’m glad they had this backup plan, and I just hope it will be a smooth process.”

Todd added that the backup plan eliminates the possibility of another major error, which is a significant improvement.

“We had to remove some rooms, which we really don’t like to do because some people selected a room that they wanted and were upset when it was taken back,” Todd said.

The majority of students, however, had not yet had the opportunity to choose their dorm rooms when the system malfunctioned March 23.

Some students said the in-person process is inefficient and prefer to have updated information on room availability.

“It would’ve been a lot more convenient to pick rooms online, but clearly it doesn’t work,” freshman Katie Gorman

said. “It’s going to make it harder to monitor what rooms are available.”

Sophomore Hanif Champion said he prefers the face-to-face process, however, and was unsure why the move to the online system was implemented.

“I wasn’t sure exactly how they were going to do it online, but I know last year it helped a lot having this huge piece of paper where you can see [all the available rooms] at the same time,” Champion said.

Williams said she expects the system to be functional for next year’s Room Fix. “After we get through with the Room Fix process we will meet with our vendor to fix it and ensure that this doesn’t happen again,” Williams said.

Todd also said the online process is a much-needed replacement for the current one. “[The new system] is definitely where we’re headed,” he said. “The inperson-picking process is arduous. It’s difficult, and it creates problems.”

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tured time with undergraduates.

“The idea behind that is to have a place where all day, every Blue Devil Days, admitpositive,” Guttentag said. “We felt that it was ted students and their families can ask current students some of those picky quesappropriate to make sure that people understood what Duke was about, separate from tions they don’t want to ask faculty how the media might have presented Duke.” members and staff,” said sophomore AnAs part of its new strategy, the Office of drew Keaton, the Admissions Ambassadors Undergraduate Admissions will step up its Executive Board member in charge pf Blue Devil Days daytime events. hosting capacity and the number of volunteers available to have lunch with prospecIn the past, admissions ambassadors weren’t always afforded the opportunity to tive freshmen, increase the size of its student activities fair and have admissions directly interact with admitted students as ambassadors available all day in the Bryan they volunteered, Keaton added.

Center lobby to welcome visitors and an“Prospective students wanted more interaction with current students, and curswer questions individually.

Although the University has not been rent students wanted more interaction able to host more than 50 to 75 admitted with prospective students,” he said. students per Blue Devil Day in the past, the Recruitment programs like Blue Devil admissions'office has increased hosting caDays have the potential to sell the school pacity to 100 students per night, said Susan better than few other events if they encourCoon, the admissions officer in charge of age these interactions, Guttentag explained.

Blue Devil Days programming.

“By bringing students and their parents “We were not able to respond to all the to campus, and showing them different hosting requests,” Coon said. “We just facets of life at Duke, we feel that the instiknew that [hosting] gives a real first-hand tution reveals itself to students and familook at what it’s like to be a Duke student, lies [in a way] that is incredibly positive and we want students to have that immediand is much more viscerally important ate experience, unfiltered as it were.” than [admissions officers] just talking Freshman Maxine Mitchell, Admissions about it,” he said.

Ambassadors Executive Board member in To increase this exposure, the capstone charge of student hosting, said past evalu- event of each Blue Devil Day will be a stuations have indicated that for many student activities fair designed to introduce dents, visiting campus is the deciding facstudents to the student groups that charactor in enrolling at Duke. terize day-to-day life at the University, “Since students will be coming in and Coon said. living on East Campus in their first year, we Guttentag said Duke has been presentwould like them to get the first year expeed with a chance to critically reexamine its rience,” Mitchell said. recruitment strategy.

The admissions office is also making an “[Media coverage] did present the opeffort to match prospective students with portunity for us to look more closely at current undergraduates based on their dewhat we were doing and ask ourselves what clared academic and extracurricular interwe were doing that was working particularests to make the experience more meanly well, what can we try, what can we ingful on both sides. change... and I think we’ve taken advanCoon said the creation of a “meettage of it,” Guttentag said. “It’s important and-greet lounge” in the Bryan Center to us that people understand that, ‘This is lobby addresses a desire of past Blue the real Duke student. And don’t you want Devil Days participants for more unstructo be one of them?”’ from page 1

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Less than a month ago, the report of the Campus Culture Initiative recommended that the University “raise the low end of the admissions requirements for athletes” and “ensure full participation of student-athletes in campus academic and social life by decreasing practice and travel time demands.”

Upon hearing these recommendations, I (and I’m sure a lot of other people) said, ‘Yeah, right. Like that’ll happen.”

Hello, Coach K. This is Provost Lange. Yeah, —about that trip to Hawaii for the Maui Invitational next year l’d f| 3 really prefer ifyou guys don’t go. I know that it’s been scheduled for a while and that ESPN might not be happy if you’re not there, but we’re trying to reduce travel time demands on our student-athletes and, you know, Hawaii is really far. Oh by the way, it would be fantastic ifyou only practiced three days a week next year.

Hey, Coach K. It’s me again, Provost Lange.

Could you just call up that top-10 recruit and tell him we’re gonna need another 200 points on his SAT? Yeah, we’re raising the low end of the admissions requirements for athletes and, quite frankly, he doesn’t cut the mustard.

I’m sure the CCI had noble goals.

After all, who wouldn’t want to see a campus in which athletes had the time to be more active participants? I’ve said in the past that athletes bring something of great value to this campus.

But more important people than me agree. That’s right. I’m talking about J.J Redick.

I was talking to Redick last year about

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Lindsey Harding led Duke to an undefeated regular season while winning ACC Player of the Year honors.

After missing the two biggest free throws of her career, Lindsey Harding collapsed to the floor.

She was disappointed that her shots rimmed out, depressed that her career was suddenly over and shocked that she failed in the clutch. It was a sucker punch of emotion that no one saw coming.

Head coach Gail Goestenkors maintained that two free throws should not—and will not—define Harding and fellow senior Alison Bales’ career.

It may not reflect the impact the veteran duo had on the program, but Harding’s crumpling to the floor and Duke’s subsequent huddle around its fallen leader will be the lasting image of this season—the one that got away. Again.

For as much as last year’s 78-75 overtime loss to Maryland in the National Championship pained and haunted the Blue Devils, their 53-52 loss to Rutgers in the Sweet 16 may hurt even more.

“It’s going to be difficult,” Goestenkors said after the game. “This is going to be a game they’ll remember—especially the seniors, this is going to be a game they will remember for the rest of their lives. I will do my very best to help them understand what a tremendous year this was.”

Through the regular season, Duke (322) looked invincible —unstoppable, even.

Behind Harding’s 28 points and Bales’ 18 points, 12 rebounds and seven blocks, the Blue Devils beat the Terrapins in a rematch of last year’s title game Jan. 13.

They perched atop of the national rankings for the rest of the year, solidifying their status with an away victory at TenSEE W. BBALL ON PAGE 14

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Battling windy conditions from the opening tee, Duke played consistendy and sits in eighth place after the second round of the Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate

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Gerald Henderson was one offour scholarship freshmen to earn time for theBlue Devils this season.

in Awendaw, S.C. The 20th-ranked Blue Devils shot 7over par, finishing 21 shots behind firstplace Central Florida.

While the constant wind could have been detrimental to the Blue Devils’ performance early on, Duke was able to overcome the nagging weather and retain its position on the leaderboard.

“From the first hole, we were fighting the wind,” interim head coach Brad Sparling said. “But we played really well during stretches and finished much stronger

than yesterday.”

Leading the way for Duke was senior Jake Grodzinsky, who fought back after struggling for most of the first two rounds to move up 19 places and finish tied for 21st with fellow Blue Devil'Jeff Edelman.

Grodzinsky recorded three birdies in the final five holes to erase his two bogeys earlier in the day, shooting a 1-under-par 70.

Edelman was also able to improve on the second day, shooting six birdies and six bogeys to finish at even par. In the first round, Edelman registered an eagle and two birdies, although he ended the day with a double bogey.

In the first round of the tournament, freshman Adam Long proved reliable for SEE M. GOLF ON PAGE

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JeffEdelman had six birdies Monday in an even-par round to move into a tie for 21st after two rounds.

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TRACK AND FIELD

Duke sets records in year’s Ist outdoor meet by

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The men’s and women’s track and field the runcountry and indoor seasons.

This weekend, they demonstrated their strength in the field events at the Wake Forest Open in Winston-Salem.

The throwers and jumpers set two school records and had seven individuals qualify for the postseason in the first meet teams have shown their depth in ning events with successful cross

of the outdoor season Daina Pucurs won the javelin and broke her own school record at the same facility where she won the 2006 ACC Championships. Her throw of 168 feet, 11 inches was nearly 20 feet better than the effort of runner-up Vanessa Roelefson of Buffalo, who beat Pucurs at the NCAA East Regional last year.

“We’re really happy,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said. “We think Daina can defend her ACC title and also can be a strong favorite for the NCAA East regional and can score for Duke at the national level.”

With the first throw of her Duke career, freshman Alexa Revord beat the former school record in the discus by more than 10 feet. She went on to finish fourth in both the discus and the shotput.

Debra Vento made a mark this weekend as well, establishing a new meet and facility record in winning the high jump with a leap of 5-11.25.

On the men’s side, freshman John Austin had the most surprising performance of the weekend by securing a thirdplace finish in the javelin. His throw of 207-8 was 15 feet better than his previous best and also qualified him for the NCAA

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Daina Pucurs broke her own school record in the Blue Devils'first outdoor meet of the season.

Next weekend the teams will split up.

Some athletes will travel to the Stanford Invitational in Stanford, Calif, while others will remain closer to home and compete at the UNC Invitational in Chapel Hill.

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Jake Grodzinsky fired a 1-under-par70 as theBlue Devils remained in eighth place with one round to play.

M.GOLF from page 11 Duke, finishing the day at even-par with four birdies. Unable to match his previous success, Long carded three bogeys and a double bogey to shoot a 5-over 76 and end the day in 40th place.

Despite a consistent showing on the

leaderboard, Sparling believes the Blue Devils have not reached their fullest potential for the tournament.

“We have an unbelievable amount of talent,” Sparling said. “We just haven’t had a round where everyone is working on all

cylinders.”

The final round of the tournament tees off tomorrow morning at 9 a.m.

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Durant, Oden highlight All-America picks by

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If Kevin Durant and Greg Oden play only one season of college basketball, it will have been as All-Americans.

The freshmen were voted to The Associated Press’ All-America team Monday, the first members of their class so honored since 1990.

The 6-foot-9 Durant, who led Texas to the Big 12 title game, was the only unanimous choice of the 72-member national media panel thatselects the weekly Top 25.

Oden, the 7-footer who helped Ohio State to its first No. 1 ranking in 45 years, was joined on the team by seniors Aland© Tucker of Wisconsin and Acie Law IV of Texas A&M and junior Arron Afflalo of UCLA. The voting was conducted before the NCAA tournament.

Since freshmen became eligible to play in 1972, the only ones selected to the first team had been Wayman Tisdale of Oklahoma in 1983 and Chris Jackson of LSU in 1989.

Durant, the first Texas All-American since TJ. Ford in 2003, averaged 25.6 points and 11.3 rebounds, but it was his allaround game and penchant for big shots in the clutch that had people ranking him as one of the best freshmen ever.

“There’s no question Kevin deserves every individual accolade that he will receive,” Texas coach Rick Barnes said, “but the one thing I respect most about Kevin is that he is the ultimate team player. He really doesn’t care about the individual numbers and awards. All he cares about is the success of his team. When you’re around a guy like that, it makes coaching him a joy.”

Durant, the Big 12 player of the year, backed up his coach’s sentiments.

“I am not very big on individual honors, but I am very humbled to be included on the Associated Press All-America team,” he said. “When you look at the otherfour guys who are on the team, I am honored to be

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eyes, averaging 15.5 points, 9.7 rebounds and 3.5 blocks while shooting 61.4 percent from the field.

“I’m very surprised,” Oden said of being selected. “Just with how things went, I didn’t really play a whole season, and I know there are a lot of other guys with better numbers than me. I’m just surprised, but I’m honored and the best I can do is keep on playing.”

His Buckeyes face Georgetown Saturday in the Final Four.

Oden had a quick answer when asked about the success of himselfand Durant in their first seasons in college.

“It’s just younger guys coming in and just playing basketball, not worried about age or anything,” he said.

Both played in college in large part because of the new rule that prohibits the NBA from drafting players until they turn 19 and are out of high school for one year.

“I’m not sold that the rule is right or wrong, but I think it shows you the impact and the influx of how many great players are out there,” said Ohio State coach Thad Matta. “I think that’s why there’s so much parity nowadays in college basketball.”

Tucker and Law were Wisconsin’s and Texas A&M’s first All-America selections, while Afflalo was UCLA’s first since Ed O’Bannon in 1995.

The 6-foot-6 Tucker, the Big Ten player of the year who helped the Badgers to their first No. 1 ranking, averaged 19.9 points and 5.4 rebounds.

Law led the Aggies’ resurgence from an 0-16 Big 12 record in 2003-04 to this season, when they ranked as high as sixth in the country. The 6-foot-3 guard averaged 17.9 points and 5.3 assists while shooting 51 percent from the field.

“It doesn’t get any bigger than that as far as individual accolades,” he said. “Your team can do more, but first-team AP AllAmerican? That’s unbelievable. I’m very excited and happy.”

Afflalo submitted his name to the NBA draft last season after leading the Bruins to the national championship game, but returned and averaged 16.7 points and was selected Pac-10 player of the year.

“First and foremost team goals are always most important, but when it comes to the All-America team it’s a positive thing,” Afflalo said. “It shows that other people who know the game ofbasketball understand my contributions and importance to my team.”

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W. BBALL tan page 11 nessee, another win against Maryland, and two triumphs over North Carolina.

The Blue Devils did not simply beat their opponents.

They routed the competition, winning by an average mar-

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The Blue Devils hope their disappointing season-ending loss to Rutgers in the Sweet 16 does not mar an otherwise memorable campaign.

gin of 24.1 points.

Duke’s balance was its strength all year. If Harding could not penetrate, sophomore sharpshooter Abby Waner buried a three-pointer. If Waner had an off night, junior Wanisha Smith stepped up. If Bales was doubleteamed, sophomore forward Carrem Gay compensated for her frontcourt mate.

Duke completed the first perfect regular season in school and ACC history, completing the feat and sparking a bonfire with its Feb. 25 win over the Tar Heels. The irony of Duke’s unprecedented success was its unexpectedness. After losing Monique Currie, Mistie Williams and Jessica Foley to graduation, Goestenkors’ squad was tabbed third in the preseason ACC poll. The Blue Devils did not garner even one first-place vote. As the season progressed, though, their confidence grew exponentially, eventually reaching the point that the team’s motto “what is delayed is not denied”—looked prophetic.

In the ACC Tournament in Greensboro, however, the Blue Devils never found their rhythm, despite the fact that Waner was 11-for-18 from behind the arc. They lost to upstart N.C. State 70-65 in the semifinals, after missing one shot to give them the lead and one shot to tie the ballgame in the last 10 seconds.

Still, Duke was awarded the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, a decision that was approved by any relevant basketball analyst. At the very least, the Blue Devils were expected to waltz to the Final Four.

But then Harding, Duke’s national player of the year candidate, missed those two shots. The dream ended not with the bang offireworks in Cleveland, but with the thud ofher falling to the hardwood in Greensboro.

“We’ve had a tremendous season and I told the team afterwards that one game does not define a season or the type of season that they have had,” Goestenkors said. “I don’t think anybody in the country anticipated that we would have such a remarkable year. I am very proud of each and every one of them.”

In the aftershock of both defeats, Duke struggled with the obvious question. What went wrong?

The Blue Devils led by double digits in their two losses but surrendered the advantage in both. In the last minute of their losses, the Blue Devils played from behind and simply could not sink the decisive shot. The losses, though, were triggered by lapses during the entire second half, rather than solely in the last minute. In both games, Duke’s sterling defense—its trademark all season long showed stretches of vulnerability. Its rebounding —which Goestenkors worried about all season long—was suspect.

In the end, the Blue Devils could not overcome their biggest shortcomings. In the last minute of the Rutgers loss, the Scarlet Knights grabbed an offensive rebound that led to a three-pointer that cut Duke’s lead to one.

After securing a defensive rebound, Rutgers freshman Epiphanny Price went coast-to-coast for a short jumper that gave the Scarlet Knights their first lead of the second half with less than 10 seconds remaining. The Blue Devils never regained the lead.

At the post-game press conference, Waner sobbed, Bales wept and Goestenkors showed signs of previous tears—another season ending with sorrow.

Next year, Harding and Bales—who each won more than 120 games in their four years—will be conspicuously absent from Cameron Indoor Stadium. Goestenkors, confirmed to be the target of Texas’ coaching search, might be gone, as well.

Although the face of the team will be drastically different, Duke will survive. The Blue Devils have more than enough talent to make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament every year, no matter who their point guard or coach is.

And even though Saturday’s loss is still fresh in its memory, Duke will undoubtedly look forward to the hopeful prospects of “next year”—the one when it might finally capture that elusive National Championship.

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what it’s like to be a student-athlete specifically what it’s like to be a studentathlete in a high-profile sport. He said that he considered himself an “athlete-student,” since being an athlete took up so much of his time. He said that he only took one class during his four years at Duke in which he did not have to miss one class meeting due to a basketball commitment, So I asked him what he would do if he could get a do-over on his Duke experience. He told me that h£ would have gotten more involved in campus activities. He said he would have gotten involved in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes during his freshman year, but that there was so much going on then, and he didn’t have time.

I thought that wasn’t fair. After all, Redick shouldn’t have to have a lesser Duke experience just because he has a nice jump shot. So I came up with a plan—make every scholarship athlete ineligible for his or her freshman year.

This isn’t exactly a new concept. Before 1972, all freshmen were ineligible for intercollegiate athletics. In 1999, there was a proposal for the NCAA to consider reinstating the rule for men’s (and possibly women’s) basketball. But those plans were scrapped because of the potential —

for lawsuits. Still, that doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t be a good idea for Duke.

Call it a school-wide mandatory redshirt year. The student-athletes (if that’s what we’re going to call them) still have four years of eligibility, plus they get something that might be even more valuable: a year to just be a college student.

Duke’s freshman year experience (praised by the CCI report) is outstanding. And the fact that world-famous basketball players, 330-pound offensive tackles and four-minute-milers live next door to average Dukies demonstrates a strong commitment to that experience.

But that commitment could always be made stronger. When the average Dukies are doing those things that make freshman year so special—things like joining a dozen different clubs, taking classes in ancient philosophy and meeting people from all over the country—the athletes are often practicing, traveling or playing games.

As the name implies, student-athletes are only part-time students. From Day One, their priorities are split. Instead of just adjusting to being college students (living on their own and taking personal responsibility for all of their social and academic decisions), student-athletes also have to adjust to being big-time athletes.

Giving them only one role to get acclimated to would almost definitely make the

adjustment easier.

Given an extra year to focus exclusively on academics, some of the athletes who came in at the “low end” of admissions might be able to work themselves up to the same level as their classmates. They might find time to join a club or take a time-consuming class. There’s no doubt that they would have the time to integrate themselves more extensively into campus life. And when they take on full-time varsity status during their sophomore years, being involved on campus would already be a habit.

Sure, coaches would have to give their players more space to be students. Sure, some of these athletes might decide that they would rather be plain old college students than student-athletes. And sure, there’s a good chance that some high-profile athletes wouldn’t want to go to Duke if they had to sit out one year. But isn’t that kind of the point?

College is a time for personal growth and development. Shunting our scholarship athletes into a Student-Athlete Track from the moment they step on campus (or, worse, allowing them to shunt themselves into a Pre-Professional Athlete Track) is counterproductive to that mission.

Let’s allow every athlete at Duke a shot at the full Duke Experience —let’s give the student-athletes a chance to be students before they’re athletes.

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Mesele for VP of Academic Affairs is the responsibility of the who has been a columnist for Duke Student Government The Chronicle, took the role of Vice President of Academic Academic Affairs Chair of the Affairs to identify and help solve Black Student Alliance and sucissues for students that range cessfully created discussion and dialogue among from everyday inthe Duke commuconveniences editorial nity regarding dislike empty stacrimination and the racial acato finansuggesting new plers cial structures to improve facul- demic divide by sponsoring tire ty-student interaction. Given forum “Black Like Me.” Although in his most recent the breadth of experience, enhis leadership has and icleas that position sophomore ergy Samson Mesele presents, he is been more focused on one the best candidate for the job segment of Duke students, and will see to it that our needs, Mesele demonstrates a strong ability to form relationships large and small, are met. with faculty and administrators for the AcademAs a senator ic Affairs Committee his fresh- and to follow through with his man year, Mesele helped to im- goals, which will serve him well prove many of our academic when advocating for the resources. The committee greater student population.

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While his other opponents suggested some of these changes, Mesele displayed greater knowledge about the function and feasibility of each.

Furthermore, he is the most up to date on recent events that relate to academics, such as die Campus Culture Initiative. Mesele displays superior

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Richard Brodhead, why are you and your administrators actively supporting and defending racial prejudice in our midst? Why are your most senior employees refusing to remove racially restrictive covenants from deeds in the Duke faculty homesites?

And why isyour administration covering up evidence of whites-only restrictions in the University’s endowment?

I wrote about these twin issues in my very first column of the semester, demanding action and asking why after four decades of |#rictin DUllcl hntlor KllSXin stonewalling—administrators continued to with ail deliberate speed dratig their fteet. Ten weeks later, John Burness, seniorvice president for public affairs and government relations, has just now informed me of the Brodhead Administration’s final decision on the homesite issue: Although the “very existence [of racially restrictive covenants] has been of concern” to the University, Duke will paradoxically refuse to pursue legal action that could remove them.

These racially restrictive covenants, issued between 1930 and 1969, prohibit homeowners from selling their properties to persons of “Negro blood.” This was fairly common in the 1930 and 19405-era South. But Duke’s version is unique—not to mention doubly opprobrious —in that it bars blacks from even sleeping on the property unless they are domestic workers.

It is also worth noting that this disgraceful practice carried on for six years after the University was integrated, and for five years after former President Douglas Knight formally declared that there was “no discrimination at Duke.” Even more importantly, the University continued issuing the covenants for 21 years after the Supreme Court ruled them unlawful in 1948.

Although the clauses could almost certainly not be enforced, they remain present and legally active in the deeds of at least 270, and probably 369, homes owned by faculty members and senior staff to this very day.

This issue has been pending before the Brodhead Administration since 2004, when former University Counsel David Adcock said “...a specific judicial declaration as to the Duke covenants may be desirable. Toward that end, we are researching the process by which a formal decree may be obtained by Duke.” There is no indication that Adcock ever followed through.

Current Counsel Pam Bernard, by contrast, this week rejected Adcock’s unfulfilled plan to pursue a judicial decree—which would have actually deleted the covenants—in favor of filing as-yet undefined “legal documents” with the Durham County Register ofDeeds. Although University officials have declined to let me view these “legal documents,” we can say —

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Many of the other candidates bring strong enthusiasm but lack Mesele’s potential effectiveness.

Sophomore Natalie Barber, the only other candidate with DSC experience, is articulate and informed but lacks fresh ideas and offers minimal insight regarding unique improvements to academic life.

On the other hand, junior Gina Ireland makes interesting observations of academic life and addresses many academic hot topics but lacks a plan of action. For example, she raises concerns about classroom diversity but does not hypothesize as to why this occurs or if it is problematic. Her failure to provide possible solutions

weakens her overall platform.

Finally, junior Joshua Kazdin provided passionate suggestions to improve faculty-student interaction. However, his platform is based heavily on One issue and fails to address many other important academic areas. He is rentable to the student body, but he may lack the ability to fulfill rather lofty goals.

Mesele will work hard to promote positive academic changes and is the candidate most likely to be successful in meeting the goals he has set.

He has the experience necessary to maneuver through the bureaucratic red tape and will bring new, fresh ideas and perspective to this role.

The Chronicle formally endorses Samson Mesele for vice president of academic affairs.

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with reasonable certainty that the filing will not remove the covenants from the deeds, which was the whole point of this process in the first place.

Rather, Bernard’s action will simply “reaffirm to property owners” what the University has previously stated in both 1970 and 1989: “that Duke regrets the initialinclusion of the racially restrictive covenants, and will stipulate that it is not only legally impossible for the university to consider enforcing them, but that the university will not do so under any circumstances.” Importantiy, this action neglects to address the possibility, which Duke enabled when it issued the deeds, that one property owner can seek to enforce the restrictive covenant against other residents in affected homes.

The situation becomes even more critical when we turn our attention to the whites-only development funds. For the first time, Bumess has admitted to me that Duke’s endowment contains two funds with active whites-only restrictions, which he says the University does not observe. However, Brodhead Administration policy prevents Bumess from telling me who donated the money, what the terms of the donations were, what the funds are used for or how much money is contained in the funds. We also cannot know when those restrictions were last observed, or why the University stopped recognizing them.

Some of that information, like the name of the donor, may well be a matter of confidential contract.

The rest, like how much money remains restricted and what it funds, seems more like an institutional coverup. So why is our collective right to know less important to the University than the needs ofracist donors?

And why is the information that has been released of such dubious credibility? Bumess claimed in a Dec. 1 e-mail that whites-only development funds “are from an earlier time in Duke’s history, and have not been functional for several years.”

Today he says there are two, although he has declined to tell me how extensively administrators have searched the 13,000 “units” that comprise the University’s endowment. My source information, which comes from former Provost R. Taylor Cole and former Dean of the Graduate School Allan Cartter, indicates that there were many more than two.

Similarly, in December Bumess claimed the restrictive covenants had been “officially rescinded by at least two-thirds of property owners” in 1970. But today he says that 270 of 369 homes stillretain the covenants in their deeds. The numbers just do not add up.

Before I close, perhaps it’s worth saying that it is certainly not Brodhead’s fault that six previous presidents did not end these racist practices when they had the opportunity. But it is Brodhead’s job to extinguish them today, and to do so in an open and forthright way. On that account, his administration has failed miserably.

Kristin Butler is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every Tuesday.

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between the platitudes we have come to expect from commentators on campus culture (sex and alcohol, oh my!), there was a brief moment of genius in the Campus Culture Initiative report. Though it made no attempt to substantiate what is, I believe, a radically new distinction to this debate, the report did suggest that the “actual norm” might not in fact be the “purported norm.”

For those reading The Chronicle for the first time, the “purported norm” of Duke social life runs something along the following lines: All Duke students are gifted, independent, self-motivated individuals. Each weekend, they have no choice but to go, sheep-like, to fraternity parties. At these parties, they again have no choice but to consume vast quantities of cheap alcohol.

At this point, gender difdavid rademeyer ference rears its ugly head.

Men wait for women to forty-two throw themselves at them, at which point they “hook up,” orgasm and fall asleep. Women, meanwhile, again have no choice but to throw themselves at men, whose sexual desires they service until the men have had their orgasm, at which point they too fall asleep.

Of course there is a kernel of truth to this narrative. Some Duke students are indeed gifted, independent or self-motivated. Duke is, after all, a selective institution.

Many do go to fraternity parties on weekends. The reason should be obvious; fraternities give away alcohol to complete strangers. For free. I’m a beer snob, and have only very rarely attended frat parties (Busch Light?), but this doesn’t prevent me from understanding the many Duke students who, over the years, have returned from a frat party with four cans of beer in their coats to put in the fridge.

Again, many binge drink, but this particular instantiation of the problem is designed by the American drinking laws and compounded by the dormitory residential environment. When drinking in your bedroom becomes the norm, it’s no wonder so many college students are at risk of alcoholism.

And there are certainly students who participate in the hook-up culture. That’s right: Teenagers are having sex. To this new, terrifying and bizarre phenomenon I can offer no

explanation.

The absurd shell to the kernel of truth in the purported norm, though, is made up of the notions of necessity and of totality. Yes, many Duke students participate in this lifestyle, more or less frequently. However, none are so obligated, and certainly many choose not to participate at all.

I only know two people at Duke who have participated with any sort of regularity in the “Duke hook-up culture.”

One of them, though, has done so within a social network completely separate from greek life, and the other hasn’t participated in it at all since the fall of freshman year.

There are, in fact, many alternatives to the greek-centered social world. Part of the reason they slip under the radar is that they are not quite so big, nor so visible. Many people make friends as freshmen in their dorms, theirBible studies, their extracurricular activities and still more make friends in their classes.

Blocking is not only used by off-campus fraternities and sororities as away of enforcing group cohesion. Many people use it as away of living near their friends and, remarkably, find ways of socializing with them. Central Campus is the center of dozens of micro-communities.

The fact that these parties aren’t advertised, open or large enough to alert the entire quad to their presence in no way diminishes the fact that they exist.

In fact, I have a rather subversive belief that there is no norm at Duke, no Campus Culture, just many different people living many different lives. There are people who think that all there is at Duke is what they’ve sought and found and, if they’re happy, more power to them!

For those who are not happy, though, I would suggest to keep looking. Just stop pretending the rest of us don’t exist.

David Rademeyer is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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In fact, the only time I had ever even ridden in one ement. Numbers, dials and knobs everywhere. If I could was on my 12 th birthday when Uncle Seymour drove just get it started, maybe it would drive itself. Strapped to me into the city to buy my first pair of shoes. The car he the inside of my jacket was my laptop. I pulled it out, drove had one horsepower... and that horse had three opened up Google and searched “how to start a Hummer.”

The screen started to fill with pop-ups uncontrollably legs. Still, you’d be surprised how fast Skippy could get none ofwhich were even remotely close to what I was lookgoing with a little help from a tailwind ing for. Out of disgust, I wanted to slam the laptop shut.

I always wanted to learn how to drive, so I jumped But for some reason, I couldn’t look away. After at the opportunity when I about 20 minutes of browsing the various websites, there was suddenly a pounding on the driver’s side winsaw the sign “Now Hiring dow. The bald guy was back, and he did not look happy.

Valet Parking Assistants” As he was screaming profanities and gesturing for hanging outside the Washme to open the door, my mind started racing. What ington Duke Inn. During should I do? What could I do? There was really only one the interview, I managed to avoid revealing my lack I rolled down the window, looked the bald guy nick alexander option. square in the eye and dropped him like a bad habit. of qualifications. When stay hungry, stay foolish I didn’t punch him hard enough, however, because he asked what experience I got back up and tried to jump into the car. I quickly rolled had working with automobiles, I mentioned that I had spent several years working up the window so that his upper torso got stuck inside the for my dad who was a mechanic—which is true. car and his legs were stuck outside, flailing around violendy.

Then out of complete instinct from what I’d seen in the What I failed to mention was that in Portage County, Ohio, a mechanic is another word for a guy who spends movies, I jammed the key into the ignition, pulled back on the majority ofhis day with the shifter and gave it some gas. We started his hand up a horse’s ass. flying around the parkA couple hours before I always wanted to learn how to drive, so I first on the it my ing lot in reverse, with night job jumped at the opportunity when I saw the sign the bald man kicking hit me that I was in over my head. What was I thinking? people in the face as “Now Hiring Valet Parking Assistants” hanging This had to be the dumbwe drove by. outside the Washington Duke Inn. At the time, takest thing I had ever done ing the valet job (using my roommate’s seemed liked it curry-flavored Listerine before a semiformal was a close second). I didn’t even know would be something way out ofmy league. However, if I how to start a car, let alone park one. Nevertheless, somehad let myself be convinced that I couldn’t handle it, down was me that this was chance to things would not have worked out as well as they had. telling my thing deep You see, while I was fired on the spot after I eventufinally learn how to drive. I decided to follow my heart.

Standing at my post, waiting for the first patron to roll ally ran the Hummer onto the golf course and into a lake offof the 12th tee, the bald guy with the Hummer up, I started to shake out of nervousness. From the dishad tipped me in advance and never bothered to ask tance I could see a yellow behemoth of a car—a Hummer—drive into the hotel parking lot. It stopped right in for his money back. It was the easiest $lO I’d made front of me. The door opened, and a bald man with a since the time I helped a nice Columbian man return long handlebar mustache got out and tossed me the keys. a lost brief case to his nephew at RDU. “Keep her safe,” he said as he handed me a $lO bill Nick Alexander is a Pratt sophomore. His column runs every and delivered a swift slap to my rear end. My only reother Tuesday. sponse was a stern nod of confirmation.

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lettertotheeditor Goestenkors deserves University support The women’s basketball team’s loss to Rutgers Saturday was heart-breaking, but no single loss could possibly hurt as much as losing head coach Gail Goestenkors to another university.

Amid an unprecedented seven straight 30-win seasons that have included three trips to the Final Four, Goestenkors has demonstrated class and courage—turning foes to fans as she recently did against Holy Cross and suspending her team’s only point guard in what could have been another Final Four season. She also has graduated players to NASA and medical school and fostered important ties to local schools and the Ronald McDonald House of Durham.

Athletics Director Joe Alieva’s statements last week (“Would Coach G leave Duke?,” March 20) sadly indicated that Duke could lose Goestenkors to schools

to offer “significantly” more money for her services. Although Alieva fairly contrasted the program’s current (lack of) profitability to its rivals at Connecticut and Tennessee, he did not explain how at least four Big Twelve schools —Baylor, Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma—guaranteed their coaches total compensation between $540,000 and $BOO,OOO this season.

Fifteen years ago, after wrangling over salaries and a $lO,OOO recruiting budget led to the ouster of the longtime women’s basketball coach, Alieva’s predecessor promised the University’s financial support to Goestenkors.

Is Duke prepared for Joe Alieva to break that promise?

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Brody Greenwald Trinity VI

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