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Rapper T.l.’s shorter-than-expected performance at the Cameron Rocks! concert Saturday night left many students dissatisfied and may prompt negotiations and possible legal acdon by the Duke University Union.

Although Office of Student Activities and Facilities officials told DUU they gave T.L the full $70,000 compensation for his performance, DUU officials said Sunday that the headliner violated his contract by walking off stage after a 40minute performance.

“We said that he had to play for at least 60 minutes,” said DUU President Katelyn

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And that conversation is quickly moving from the Internet to bookstores worldwide, with at least two books being written about the scandal slated to be released in the coming months.

Former men’s lacrosse head coach Mike Pressler joined forces with Sports Illustrated’s Don Yaeger on a project and blogger KC Johnson is collaborating on a book with Stuart Taylor, a reporter and columnist for National Journal Magazine.

“For a long time I have been outraged to

Donnelly, a junior.

T.L arrived late and then left abruptly, neglecting the special accommodations he requested in order to attend a dinner at P.F. Chang’s China Bistro instead, DUU officials said.

DUU Executive Vice President Lauren Maisel, a sophomore, said she specifically asked OSAF not to pay T.L in full for the

performance.

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performer at Cameron Rocks! Saturday night, but he was on stage for about 40 minutes—2o minutes shorter than his contract required, event planners said.

T.l, was the headline Blogger KC Johnson (left) plans to have a book about the Duke Lacrosse case in stores in September.

DUU officials said they were unsure about the actual exchange between OSAF and T.l.’s agents and were not present for the transfer ofmoney, but Maisel said she was surprised to discover that OSAF had already compensated the performer.

“As far as OSAF is structured, that was what they were supposed to do,” Maisel said, “life' are trying to figure out how to' get legally reimbursed and what sort of recourse options we have. A lot of explanatory work will go about later this week.”

The Chronicle was unable to reach members of OSAF and representatives for T.L for comment Sunday evening..

Duke Student Government President Elliott Wolf, a junior, said the problem was SEE XL ON PAGE

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Council sees surge in Econ faculty by

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The Academic Council, the University’s primary forum for faculty governance, released Friday the results ofits recent elections, for which ballots were due March 20.

Five members of the economics department are among those joining the council, which formerly included only one member with a secondary appointment in economics.

“That [shift], I would say, is basically the only thing that’s pretty unusual,” said Paul Haagen, chair of the council and professor of law.

Fifty-four of die 95 spots on the 2007-2008 council were open; die other 41 representatives were elected last year to two-year terms.

Economics professors now make up half of the 10 representatives allotted to the social sciences and fill five of the six open slots in that division On the ballot sent to social sciences faculty— SEE ACAD. COUNCIL ON PAGE 8

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10 die in a bloody weekend in Iraq by

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BAGHDAD, Iraq The powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his militiamen Sunday to redouble their battle to oust American forces and argued that Iraq’s army and police should join him in defeating “your archenemy.” The U. S. military announced the weekend deaths of 10 American soldiers, including six killed Sunday.

Security remained so tenuous in the capital on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the U.S. capture of Baghdad that Iraq’s military declared a 24-hour ban on all vehicles in the capital from 5 a.m. Monday. The

government quickly reinstated Monday as a holiday, just a day after it had decreed that April 9 no longer would be a day off.

Among the 10 U.S. deaths announced Sunday were three soldiers killed by a roadside bomb while patrolling south of Baghdad; one killed in an attack south of the capital; and two who died of combat wounds sustained north of the capital, in Diyala and Salahuddin provinces. Saturday, the military said, four U.S. soldiers were killed in an explosion near their vehicle in Diyala.

At least 3,280 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an

Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians.

South of Baghdad, a truck bomb exploded near the Mahmoudiya General Hospital, killing at least 18 people and wounding 23. The pickup truck loaded with artillery shells blew apart several buildings in a warren of auto repair shops.

Violence in Iraq remained as relendess as the deepening debate in the United States about the way forward in the war four years after Marines and the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division swept into the Iraqi capital 20 days into the American invasion.

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Easter holiday aligns for 2 faiths by

Frances D’Emilio

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ROME From Moscow to Washington, Rome to Jerusalem, Christians of the Orthodox and Western faiths celebrated Easter on Sunday, prayed for a better future and relished their ancient rituals.

The alignment of the two faiths’ Easter calendars, based on equinox and moon phases, occurs every few years, and this year’s overlap made the narrow streets in the Holy Land especially crowded.

At the Vatican, the Eastern Christian celebrations of Easter resounded across the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica when

black-robed clerics intoned a long chant from the Byzantine liturgy during Pope Benedict XVT’s outdoor Mass for tens of thousands of faithful. St. Peter’s Square was ablaze with color from tulips, tiger lilies, hyacinths and azaleas from the Netherlands.

Benedict, head of the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics, tempered his message about Easter joy with a litany of suffering in the world today, including what he decried as “continual slaughter” in Iraq and bloodshed in parts of Africa and Asia.

In Washington, a dawn crowd gathered for an Easter service at the Lincoln Memo-

rial. Bundled up in blankets, scarves and hats, the worshippers sang “God Bless America” as the sun's rays glimmered on the reflecting pool.

President George W. Bush worshipped at the chapel at Fort Hood, an Army post 50 miles southwest from his ranch in Crawford, Texas. The sprawling post has sent thousands of soldiers to the war in Iraq.

“I had a chance to reflect on the great sacrifice that our military and their families are making,” Bush said after the service. “I prayed for their safety, I prayed for their strength and comfort, and I pray for peace.”

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Roadside bombs in southern Afghanistan on Sunday left seven NATO soldiers dead, the alliance said, as its forces continued an anti-Taliban offensive. It appeared to be the biggest combat loss for foreign troops in Afghanistan since 2005.

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Cold snap hits East Coast

Across much of the eastern two-thirds of the nation, Easter celebrants swapped frills, bonnets and sandals for coats, scarves and heavy socks. Baseball fans huddled in blankets and, instead of spring planting, backyard gardeners were bundling their crops.

'B.C/ cartoonist dead at 76 Cartoonist Johnny Hart, whose award-winning "8.C." comic strip appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers worldwide, has died. He was 76."He had a stroke,"his wife, |Bobby, said Sunday. "He died at his story-

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DUMC brings medical advice to Internet site by

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The Duke University Medical Center is expanding again—this time, over the Internet.

DUMC is participating in a new website called RealHealth.tv, a collection of videos featuring patients’ questions and experiences and doctors’ responses to medical

concerns.

RealHealth.tv and ABC News asked the Medical Center to suggest doctors who could answer patients’ questions through video recordings on the website, said Christopher DiFrancesco, deputy director

of DUMC’s News Office.

“We are providing medical experts from Duke who talk for three to four minutes on different medical conditions,” he said.

DiFrancesco added that “dozens” of Duke doctors from a wide variety of specialties have been featured on the website.

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Duke Medical Center is taking part in an onlineproject that provides answers to patients' questions.

“There are close to 100 patient videos, in which a patient talks about their experience with a particular disease or medical condition and then an expert from a top medical center gives his opinion on the issue,” he said.

The website’s content is separated into two sections—“Healthy Living and Lifestyles,” which highlights topics ranging from relationships to aging and beauty, and “Conditions and Procedures,” which includes segments on treatment for diseases like HIV/AIDS and cancer.

Dr. Redford Williams, professor of behavioral psychology and director of the Behavioral Medicine Research Center, said RealHealth.tv offers a valuable service in supplying the public with expert information on a wide variety ofmedical topics.

“It’s away to provide the expertise from people like myself at Duke to share our knowledge with a wider public,” he said. “I think that RealHealth.tv is a useful way of being able to communicate to a large number of people who might log onto the website to learn about stress, cancer or even genetic tests to see if you need chemotherapy for cancer.”

Williams said ABC News provided him with background information before he went on air, including relevant and current articles about stress, the subject on which he gave advice.

“I have nothing but good things to say about it,” he said. “It’s good commentary, and RealHealth.tv fits into the types of things I do every day about exercise, anger and women.”

DiFrancesco said DUMC also recommended various patients who would fit into the health categories on RealHealth.tv, adding that several Duke doctors have even commented on their own patients. “[The website] reflects a trend in SEE MED SITE ON PAGE 6

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Jed Rose (right) conducted a study that connected genetic indicators to the ability to quit cigarette smoking.

Study says genes affect ability to quit smoking by

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A new study conducted by Duke University Medical Center and the National Institute on Drug Abuse may present another reason why smokers can’t kick the habit—their genes.

The study, which was published April 2 in the online version of the journal BMC Genetics, identified genes responsible for physical and behavioral predispositions to smoking addiction. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and Phillip Morris USA. Researchers collected blood samples from 134 smokers intending to quit.

Six weeks later, they compared the DNA of those who had actually stopped with that of those who had failed, and discovered 221 gene variants present only in those who had successfully stopped.

“We can now calculate a genetic liability score for a smoker and tailor treatment based on the level of difficulty they will

have in quitting,” said Jed Rose, director of Duke’s Center for Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Research.

Rose described the study as the first to examine the impact of genetic markers on a smoker’s ability to quit.

Of the 221 genes identified in the study, at least 30 have been linked to dependence on nicotine and other addictive drugs, Rose said.

“We now have further evidence that there is a biological basis not only for an addiction, but for a smoker’s ability to successfully beat the addiction,” George Uhl, a neuroscientist at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said in a press release.

In addition to discovering a link between genes and tobacco addiction, the scientists also discovered a link connecting certain genes with memory and habit formation processes—which could also contribute to addiction, Uhl said.

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BSA, BGPSA dole out annual awards The Black Graduate and Professional Student Association and the Black Student Alliance announced the 2007 Julian Abele Awards at a reception Saturday.

The awards, which were presented at Duke’s Searle Conference Center, are meant to honor the achievements of black community members at Duke.

This year’s recipients of the Abele Award included: third-year law student Paul Robeson July.

Venroy Scholar/Athlete of the Year; junior Ikee Gardner, Paul Robeson Scholar/Artist of the Year; graduate student Eugene Walton, “Life of the Mind” award; the Future Is Now student group, “Lifting As We Climb” Project of the Year; Chandra Guinn, director of the Mary Lou Williams Center, Mentor of the Year;

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The name of the awards is taken after Julian Abele, the architect ofWest Campus who was black.

Organized by the Black Graduate and Professional Student Association, the first award ceremony was held in 1987.

At the initial awards ceremony, a portrait ofAbele was commissioned and unveiled. The portrait currendy hangs in the foyer of the Allen Building.

Lawn supplies stolen from truck A Duke University Medical Center employeee reported the theft of a weedeater and leaf blower from his pickup truck at the Upper H lot on Anderson Street and Erwin Road March 30.

The window of the truck was slightly ajar, and there were no signs of forced entry into the vehicle.

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Students cited with possession ofweapons Four students were cited with misdemeanor possession of weapons on campus March 31 after they were heard shooting pellet guns in an apartment at 312 Anderson St. The students also had a number of wallets, keys and cellular phones that did not belong to them and for which they offered no explanation.

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ing, admitted that the allegation was not true when questioned by employees and left the area on a blue bicycle.

Fire alarm activated in Edens Officers responded to a fire alarm activation to a dorm room in Edens Quadrangle April 6. Upon arrival, the officers determined that the activation was caused by the misuse of a fire extinguisher discharged into a room. In North Carolina, it is a misdemeanor to activate an air alarm falsely.

Student reports theft of wallet A student told police March 6 that his wallet and its contents had gone missing from his dormitory room. The wallet’s contents are valued at $l2O. The student said he left his dorm room door open for approximately 20 to 30 minutes, and when he returned the wallet was missing.

Researchers at Duke Medical Center identified products that either improve or worsen the taste of cigarettes.

SMOKING from page 3 In a separate study conducted at Duke’s Center for Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Research, researchers reported that smokers’ diets may influence the taste of cigarettes.

Researchers asked 209 smokers to identify foods and beverages that enhanced or worsened the taste of cigarettes.

Nineteen percent of respondents reported non-caffeinated beverages such as water and juice worsened cigarette taste, and 16 percent identified fruits and vegetables as making cigarettes less palatable.

“If I eat fruit and smoke a cigarette right after, it makes the smoke leave a nasty taste in my mouth,” said Dominique Edwards, an employee at Alpine Atrium, Certain foods and beverages were found to improve cigarette taste as well.

In total, 44 percent of survey partici-

pants said alcoholic beverages improved cigarette taste, while 45 percent reported caffeinated beverages such as coffee, tea and soda enhanced tobacco taste.

Sophomore Tommy McGraw said that although he has not noticed that drinking alcohol improves the taste of cigarettes, he enjoys the combination because it gives him “a better buzz.”

Joseph McClemon, director of Duke’s Tobacco Neuroscience Research Lab, said he hopes the findings will augment traditional smoking cessation treatments with the development of a specialized diet to help smokers quit.

“We know that taste and other sensory effects of smoking are really important in maintaining the habit,” McClernon said.

The researchers are now exploring the possibility of developing smoking cessation gums and lozenges incorporating the chemical silver acetate, which is known to

negatively impact cigarette taste.

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As a result, Yaeger’s book will have preby a certain type of media sensationalism, viously untold details from Pressler’s perparticularly politically correct sensational- sonal diary, the author said. ism,” said Taylor, whose book is titled “This is a case that has everything for those that want to think the worst of stu“Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the dent-athletes,” Yaeger said. “It’s pretty Duke Lacrosse Rape Case.” amazing, it really does touch just about “This book will try to persuade readevery sensitivity that our society has.”

Several other authors are rumored to ers to have the same opinions we do,” be working on their own lacrosse books, Taylor added.

Johnson, a history professor at Brook- but none have set release dates yet. lyn College who ;h so much availhas written huncommentary “For a long time I have dreds of thouable online for free, sands of words it remains to be seen been outraged by a certain about the case on if people will fork type of media sensationalhis Durham-inover the cash for the Wonderland books in print. ism, particularly politically blog, said he is Taylor, at least, is correct sensationalism.” not afraid of going looking forward up against the analyto reaching more Stuart Taylor sis available from his people once the Duke Lacrosse book author, book hits stores own co-author. :em “One thing that is a little foreboding “I don’t think any of the arguments would be unfamiliar about it is that it’s so much,” Taylor said of to people who have read the blog,” JohnJohnson’s blog. “For the vast majority of readers, a book is a lot more accessible son said.

In contrast, Yaeger is structuring his than a blog.” book as a narrative tale.

Kenneth Rogerson, research director He is no stranger to controversial for Duke’s DeWitt Wallace Center for sports issues, having authored the 1998 Media and Democracy, noted that Taylor book “Pros and Cons: The Criminals andYaeger’s backgrounds as reporters who play in the NFL,” which blasted the make them particularly well suited to league because 21 percent of its players write about the lacrosse case. had been arrested or indicted for seri“Journalists can be some of the best ous crimes. people to write books because they take “I’m not trying to tell a legal tale, I’m all of the information that they have gathtelling a story of the people,” Yaeger ered and put it all in one place,” Rogersaid. son explained.

One of those people, Pressler, was planBooks aren’t going away simply because ning his own book until Yaeger presented of the Internet, he said. him with an opportunity to combine ef“Does the medium make a difference?” forts on “It’s NotAbout the Truth: The Un- Rogerson said. “Not quite yet.”

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Rapper T.l. left some fans wanting more Saturday night after performing for approximately 40 minutes.

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not with DUU student organizers but rather with OSAF officials.

“OSAF people are grossly underqualified for what they do and do not listen to student authority,” Wolf said.

After more than 5,300 people attended last year’s Cameron Rocks! concert, many members of the sparse audience at this year’s event—composed of slightly more than 3,000 people —said they were surprised by T.l.’s abrupt exit.

“It was like XL pulled a vanishing act,” freshman Ella Kirby said. “Waiting felt long, the first band felt longer and XL felt really short.”

Booking XL managed to draw in students from surrounding states, yet many skipped the opener.

Driving six hours from the University of West Georgia, junior Shaunte Cook was one of the many concertgoers who arrived late to Cameron In-

door Stadium Saturday night.

“I wasn’t very interested in ‘Satan Said Dance,’” Cook said, using her nickname for the opening indie rock act, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

Cook added that she lost interest in the band after previewing its music on MySpace.

Throughout Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s performance, students were seen covering their ears. Many said the loudest applause the group received came when band members announced they had one song left to go.

“A guy behind me was very upset [and] he started screaming at the band to ‘get off the stage,’” Kirby said.

Despite several issues with the artists booked for Cameron Rocks!, Maisel said the event was well organized by DUU. “From the Union’s perspective, the show went off without a hitch,” Maisel said. “With the exception of [XL] leaving early, we were very happy with how the show worked.”

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mass communication movement toward the Internet and platforms that really target health, specifically,” DiFrancesco said. “Increasingly, we are looking for opportunities to showcase our people on the web because it reaches people who specifically look for health information.”

Besides DUMC doctors regularly giving advice to major media sources, DiFrancesco said the partnership with RealHealth.tv is a first for the Medical Center.

“If you look at some of the larger news websites, you’ll see they have a very large health sections,” he said. “We look for opportunities every day to give our experts broad experience across the media of print, broadcast, and now, more and more, the web.”

At least 47 people were killed or found dead in violence Sunday, including 17 execution victims dumped in the capital.

Al-Sadr commands an enormous following among Iraq’s majority Shiites and has close allies in the Shiite-dominated government. The statement Sunday carried his seal and was distributed in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, where the cleric called for an enormous demonstration to mark the fourth anniversary of Baghdad’s fall.

U.S. officials have said al-Sadr left Iraq for neighboring Iran after the start of a U.S. and Iraqi security crackdown. His followers say he is in Iraq.

‘You, the Iraqi army and police forces, don’t walk alongside the occupiers, because they are your archenemy,” the alSadr statement said.

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Nechyba explained that a member of the department, acting individually and without any official departmental support, had reached out to colleagues, urging them to nominate a slate of economics professors. As a result, economics professors with last names that appear early in the alphabet unexpectedly faced the prospect of serving on the council.

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Man a.k.a. the King of the But that’s exacdy what hapSouth showed up late to his took pened when rapper T.L the stage for Cameron Rocks! own concert following an extended sojourn to RF. Chang’s this past Saturday night.

China Bistro.

During the past few weeks, Although the time he did Duke University Union’s Major Attractions Committee spend in Cameron was enjoyable (singing many of his hits), has come under some criticism. After the firing of the the performance was also far chair and the loss of eight too brief.

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blinked. In a nod to the resurrection of Christ, we did wear our “Jesus is my homeboy” T-shirts all through Easter, but that is the and Joyce only leeway we’ll give monday, Monday to religious credo. Evolution it is.

This week at Duke offers the rare opportunity to witness all stages of the Dukie life cycle present on campus, and we ask that you use the following taxonomy to track your way through these stages.

Stage 1: P-ffosh, Acadette Nervosa The p-frosh is an annual species, germinating, flowering and dying in one short year. P-froshes can be found peeking around campus about the same time the tulips come out, often with their parent plant in tow. One can tell a p-ffosh from the perennial upperclass students by their tendency to be small and white, sorry. At clean and bright, you look happy to any rate, p-ffosh are small, clean and have a distinct inability to tell where the Bryan Center is even when standing right in front of it.

Some need constant watering with increasing amounts offermented barley and exposure to fraternal radiation. Others wilt at the very thought of such aggressive care and would rather bask in the reflected glow of the perennial students. Most perennials enjoy this form of worship, though the incessant questions about their favorite memory at Duke can drive some of the current students to reject their p-froshes.

The females ought to watch out for excessive attention from the older (though not wiser) male students.

Failure to do so may result in unwanted pollination.

Stage 2: Senior, Academe Apatheticus Behold the senior, Academe Apatheticus in its natural habitat as it feeds on Cook Out, $4 big-beers at Satis and the food points of underclassmen.

Tragically, a horrible disease known as thesis is making its way through the senior class, rendering most immobile, anxious and self-loathing. Treatment includes a constant supply ofRed Bull, IBM tech support and a reassurance that their cunning research on “Deists and

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some reimbursement for the T.L show. In addition, DUU executives deserve praise for their efforts and for actively pursuing this end.

The bottom line is that Cameron is made for basketball, not music. Itis made to be loud—no padding on seats, no panels on ceilings—and while such a design makes the Crazies that much crazier, it also drowns out performers.

Furthermore, Cameron is Coach K’s house and, as we all know, Coach K makes the rules.

By only opening Cameron for one particular night, Duke Athletics gready limited the scope of available performers. Under such pressure, the Union did well to

origin of the Duke studentis a highly debated one. Some argue that they climbed out half-blue, half-devil, from the primordial ooze of high school seniors. Others firmly debunk this theory of evolution and maintain

We are trying to figure out how to get legally reimbursed and what sort ofrecourse options we have. A lot of explanatory work will go about later this week.

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Letters should not exceed 325 words.

The Chronicle will not publish anonymous or form letters or letters that are promodonal in nature. The Chronicle reserves the right to edit letters and guest columns for length, clarity and style and the right to withhold letters based on the discretion of the editorial page editor.

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hour set at Last Day of Classes three years ago and the financial losses caused by Ludacris’ Cameron show in 2003, T.l.’s Cameron Rocks! show appears to be another example of a subpar rap performance witnessed on Duke’s campus.

But the King of the South may not be done with Duke yet.

While Kanye’s 40-minute performance still satisfied his contractual obligation, T.l.’s 40-minute appearance did not. Although the Office of Student Activities and Facilities apparentiy paid T.L prior to his quick escape, DUU officials said Sunday that T.L was slated to perform for 60 minutes and thus violated his contract with the group.

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assemble a concert that appealed to a relatively wide range of students, even if the seats didn’t quite sell.

Ultimately, faced with a difficult challenge and a variety of obstacles, Cameron Rocks! organizers did well to foster a show everyone could enjoy. In the end, XL is to blame for a bad concert and the rapper and his agents should have to pay the University back.

Even though three failed hip hop concerts is certainly cause for some concern, there have been successful past performances by artists such as Rahzel and Little Brother and we hope to see successful shows in the future. The light now shines special for Common and his Last Day of Classes show.

Let’s just hope it lasts more than 40 minutes.

Dukie

the Damned Deities They Debunked” will get them into a top-tiered grad school. (Note: Further inquiry has discovered that 1-800-IBM-HELP features a panting, moaning female who does not help fix computers.)

Those free of disease can be most easily identified by their clean clothes and their occasional lapses into schadenfreude (Schadenfreude! People taking pleasure in your pain!).

Yet, smack in the middle of theses-completion, exam preparation, job finalization, operation: gettingthe-hell-out-of-here, Duke decides to throw a week-long sextravaganza just for the seniors. But how can any creature expect to succeed academically when such temptations abound? That is the true test of the Apatheticus—to emerge from SeniorWeek ready to graduate into being alumni/ae! Failure in this regard will lead to the dreaded limbo stage—fifth year senior, and an extra 40K in loans.

Stage 3: Grad Student, Academes Masochistic Grad students are a rare and elusive species. Like sightings of the Blue Footed Booby, catching a glimpse of a graduate student leaves one with a faint sense of exhilaration (look, I found one!) and a desperate fear of scaring it off (I promise not to ask about your dissertation!). To prevent being approached by lesser species, the graduate studentoften shieldsitselfwith arcane language and esoteric trivia. (Wildlife Watch: you can observe flocks of them flexing their trivia muscle on Tuesdays at theJoyce.)

The Masochistia(ae) eschew nutrition in favor of Ramen noodles, Spam and the occasional graze at Whole Foods. They prefer to nourish their soul and intellect with the savory General Tso’s of complex ideas and the sweet yet tart key lime pie of vague theories.

Washing it all down with the crisp, refreshing taste of Lacanian Post-structuralism Lite Stage 4: Alumni/ ae As typically nomadic creatures, they can be found only once a year in their respective niches being fed white wine and petits fours in return for large donations. Observe the younger alumni shamelessly hitting on the unattainable co-eds, thinking they can still run game. The older alumni are slightly more respectable, too busy being irrationally excited about Duke (come on, Crowell Quad was never THAT great) to engage in any serious debauchery. Endangered species watch: Rumor has it that the elusive septuagenarians are back for their 50-year reunion!

James and Joycerecently discovered ‘Animal Crime Scene” an Animal Planet. Jessica Ballou and Supama Salil knew that it was the cheetah who dunnit all along.

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A smoker’s plea

As

you may have heard, the University, under pressure from the Medical Center, may stop selling cigarettes on campus next year.

The University has already banned smoking in indoor locations, and I think it’s likely it won’t be too long before Duke joins the growing collegiate trend (and its own Medical Center) and bans smoking on campus altogether.

This would be a grievous error.

With countless dollars and the awesome force of political correctness behind it, the anti-smoking crusade is nearly impervious to truth or reason.

Stephen miller

But I shall nonetheless make an effort to dismantle miller time a few of the major lies that have brought our society to its knees before the unrelenting health fascists.

So let’s begin...

A study in the British Medical Journal reports that men who quit smoking before the age of 30 live just as long as those who never smoked. Indeed, it is safer for college kids to smoke than to drive.

But what of the people who don’t quit? As the renowned Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, reports, even if one uses the government’s own dubious figures, the majority of smoking deaths occur at age 70 or above. Moreover, almost half occur at age 75 or above and almost 20 percent occur at age 85 or above. A great many smokers who die of tobaccorelated causes are still outliving non-smokers.

Again, the actual figures are probably even more optimistic for smokers because the anti-smoking studies are so biased. In these studies, smoking-related deaths are defined as anything that kills smokers at a higher rate than non-smokers, even if negligibly so. Thus, a smoker whose obesity kills him through heart disease still gets tallied as a smoking death. Even deaths by fire are counted as smoking-related. I kid you not.

In “Lies, Damned Lies, and 400,000 Smoking Related Deaths,” the authors show that if one even lightly firms up the standards for smoking-related deaths, the number immediately drops by 65 percent.

And get this —if one applies the same methodology the Centers for Disease Control uses to calculate smoking-related deaths to lack-of-exercise related deaths, failure to exercise kills over 100,000 more people than smoking. And bad dietary habits? Over 200,000 more people. Using the CDC’s standards, smoking is healthier than getting too little exercise or eating poorly.

So is the University going to shut down McDonald’s?

In fact, if one compares smokers who live a healthy lifestyle to non-smokers who live a very unhealthy lifestyle, smokers will in fact turn out to be “healthier and die less often by a factor of three than the never-smokers.”

And what of second-hand smoking, you say? Even if the risk of smoking is grossly exaggerated, don’t non-smokers have a right to avoid the grave hazards of second-hand smoking? They would, if only second-hand smoking were in fact a grave hazard.

As the Cato Institute Reports in “The Case Against Smoking Bans,” a forgotten study from the New England Journal of Medicine in 1975 found that, “one would have to breathe smoke-filled air for 4,000 hours in order to inhale as much tobacco smoke as a smoker inhales in a single cigarette.”

How does this translate to cancer risks?

A 2003 study of 35,000 never-smoking Californians who were married to smokers, based on data collected for 39 years, found “no heightened lung cancer risk among study subjects.” And that’s people living with smokers—not those who happen to dine in a restaurant or walk on a boulevard where someone is lighting up.

What does this all mean? First and foremost, second-hand smoking cannot be used to justify efforts to restrict and ban smoking. Secondly, smoking, while risky and potentially lethal, is not nearly as dangerous as special interest groups and their cohorts in government have made it out to be. It is instead an issue with tremendous political capital that preys on people’s fears.

The real risks are the fascistic tendencies that prohibit smoking in even private establishments, violating our liberties and setting the groundwork for a future where any personal habit can be regulated when it is politically expedient.

So, to all smokers and people who value their freedom, I say it is time to draw a line in the ash and defend our right to light up.

Washington Duke wouldn’t have it any other way.

Stephen Miller is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other

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have this fear. It’s two years down the road, and I’m interviewing for a job. I’m an English major, so it’ll be at someplace like Chili’s. I’ll sit down, coiffed and prepared, and my interviewer will see AB, Duke University on my application. He’ll have some vague recollection of an old Rolling Stone expose and wonder to himself if I’m a coke-snorting sexual deviant.

Maybe this fear is unfounded. I clean up nice and it’s possible that, two years from now, the bad associations and dark cloud th aat seems to hiave settled over Duke will be a distant memory. But right now, it’s hard to shake the feeling that we’re at a university that has lost some of its luster. It’s a little less lindsay white glamorous than it was a year or two ago. The biweekiy sass prestige of Duke and the job offers and esteem that should come with it—which I’ve been banking on for a good two years—are no longer so infallible, so completely certain.

Last fall, our undergraduate program dropped from number five to eight. We’ve lost Coach G and no one knows what happened to men’s basketball. We’ve wrestled a few scandals and one recent drug bust. It’s all starting to pile up and, as the hard-knocks mingle with the failing reputation of the student body, a faculty member, in response to my last column, proclaimed, “There are many post-graduate jobs that require unquestioned honorable behavior. For many of these opportunities one could now never confidently recommend a Duke student.”

It stings. And it seems out of our control.

The dwindling prestige and fading sparkle could be the paranoia of a student body obsessed with perfection. We see headlines and hear gossip every day that seem calculated to undermine our confidence in ourselves and our university. But there could be some truth to the fear that Duke is no longer the universal currency that it used to be, the automatic leg-up.

So, much like a spoiled kid who has gotten an eagerly anticipated toy for Christmas only to find that it breaks without much use the next day, students get angry. We point fingers, with relative ease, at whoever

we suppose to be responsible. Richard Brodhead, Larry Moneta, Joe Alieva. All fair game. Because maybe, if we make enough noise, these guys will stop doing whatever it is they’re doing wrong and restore Duke to its rightful place in the hierarchy of it’s-in-the-name colleges. It seems that these figureheads are the gatekeepers to what makes Duke great, what makes it Duke, and they’re not letting us in. The prestige that so many of us were banking on when we scraped our way in here, and now feel entitled to, is being chipped away at, and we just want to find someone to blame.

As long as it’s not us.

We worry about prestige and defend it to the friend raising her eyebrow or the guy at the party leering at the mention of Duke, but I don’t think we’ve quite realized that if, in fact, the ship is sinking, we do have some responsibility and power to stop it. The reputation of our university is not something that will sustain itself naturally as we frolic around hoarding grades and trafficking staggeringly large quantities of weed. If we want to continue to impress and spend our post-college years riding on the momentum of a coveted degree, we need to uphold the momentum that existed before we came.

It’s not what many bargained for. I expect many of us came here with the intent to draw what we could out of the University, to get the tools for whatever career we choose and the benefits of a degree that speaks for itself. But now that we’re here, immersed in the experience and living the life, we see the cracks and faults, the stuff that, if it goes unchecked, could really hurt Duke and our individual reputations. So we have to take some of the responsibility on our own shoulders and understand that pointing fingers and scapegoating will get us nowhere. Just like there is no one event, scandal or unsavory article that can define Duke as a school, there is no one man or woman who holds the keys to our success and prestige.

Lest the outside world, abundant with skeptics anxious to see the mighty fall, start to write us off, it’s time for a united front not so much entitled as proactive.

Yes, we got ourselves into this university and we’re paying through the nose for it, but there’s work to be done and pieces to put back together, and no one to accomplish that except us.

Lindsay White is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Monday.

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With a throw of 162 feet, junior Daina Pucurs won the javelinfor the third straight Duke Invitational.

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Duke’s track and field team experienced disappointment mixed in with success at this weekend’s Duke Invitational.

Senior Debra Vento fell just short ofbecoming the first student-athlete to win four Invite titles. The senior tied Kristina Bolterstein of Miami (Ohio) with a high jump of 5-foot-8.75. Vento, however, took more tries, which allowed Bolterstein to claim the title. The mark was good enough to qualify Vento for the NCAA Eastern Regional for the third week in a row.

Junior Lara Jones won Duke’s first title of the meet Friday with a personal-best performance in the pole vault. Her mark of 12-11.50 also qualified her for the NCAA eastern regionals.

Junior Daina Pucurs followed Vento’s footsteps into the Invite record books with her winning performance in the javelin. Her 162-00 throw continued her undefeated streak in Invite competition. Pucurs is only the fourth student-athlete in Duke Invite history to earn three titles and has a chance to become the first student-athlete to win four.

Only former Duke studentand Olympian Jillian Schwartz has racked up four Invite wins.

Sophomore Michelle Seibart continued her success in the 800-meters from last weekend’s UNC Invitational with another win.

Her time of time of 2:10.88 Saturday qualified her for the ECACs for the second week in a row and was the track squad’s lone title.

Senior Kelly Reynolds was unable to de-

fend her title in the hammer throw but still threw and ECAC qualifying mark of 175-08.

In one of the most anticipated races for Duke, senior Keith Krieger turned in a solid, IC4A-qualifying time of 14:17.77 in the 5000-meter race. Krieger and junior Chris Spooner ran the majority of the race together, but Spooner was forced to drop out two miles into the race.

Krieger’s time was a personal best and is within five seconds of qualifying for the NCAA eastern regionals.

Several Duke athletes qualified for the postseason for the first time over the weekend. Freshman Michael Schallmo placed third in the discus with a throw of 154-08 which qualified for the IC4As and placed him fifth on Duke’s all-time list. Sophomore Kevin McDermott qualified for the IC4As with his time of 9:15.91 in the 3,000meter

steeplechase.

made a triumphant reInvite after tearing hisAchilles in the same event last year. Ellis, who won the longjump tide as a freshman and was one of the best jumpers in the ACC, placed fourth in the triple jump with a mark of 47-01.00.

“We breathed a sigh of relief after he jumped,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said.

“In a few more meets he should be back to old form.”

Junior Peter Lewellen finished fifth in the 400-meters followed by senior Dan King.

Lewellen’s time of 48.35 seconds was the fifth fastest in Duke history. King finished just behindLewellen with a time of 48.41.

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Former assistant Jackson takes Huskies job

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The Washington pep SEATTLE band played its fight song as cheerleaders waved purple pompoms near Tiajackson’s face. It was the beginning of the buzz that school administrators want back in their women’s basketball program.

Then there’s this: Washington is now the first major college to have blacks coaching each of the three biggest sports programs.

Amid Friday’s pep-rally setting, the Huskies’ new women’s basketball coach caught the eye of an old friend, Tyrone Willingham.

delivered a smile and a coy wave to Washington’s football coach, her pal from when she was an assistant at Stanford. Then she walked past and was announced as Washington’s third women’s basketball coach in 22 years.

One night earlier, Jackson met with Willingham and Lorenzo Romar, her new colleague as men’s basketball coach.

It was an unprecedented gathering.

“No question, it’s unprecedented,” Willingham said over the band’s music about Washington’s new coaching triumvirate. “But in Tia, the number one thing is we have an outstanding person with an un-

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“The quality of the people here outweigh the situation with us being minorities.”

That quality was worth Washington giving the 34-year-old Jackson, who has never been a head coach, a five-year contract that

athletic director Todd Turner said will have an annual base salary of $lBO,OOO. The deal includes incentives based on performance, academics and administrative goals that could push the pay above $300,000 per year for the former assistant at Virginia Commonwealth, Stanford, UCLA and Duke.

“The salary is very competitive in the Pac-10, and exceptional for a first-time head coach,” Turner said.

Turner said he wanted to put “buzz” back into Washington women’s basketball when he fired June Daugherty and her entire staff on March 18. Friday, there was

Tia Jackson, an an assistant on Gail Goestenkors' staff at Duke for the past two seasons, was introduced Friday at a press conference on Washington's campus.

plenty of that.

Turner and Jackson both mentioned the new coach will be at more camps, clinics and public appearances around Seatde than Daugherty was in her 11 seasons at Washington. Daugherty’s leadership could not reverse a steep decline in attendance at Hec Edmundson Pavilion over recent seasons, despite six NCAA tournament appearances during her tenure.

Jackson said her Huskies will play a popular, up-tempo style with an emphasis on pressing defense. That is what Romar likes to do with Washington’s men, who sell out almost every game.

The former Duke assistant has been tutored by some of the biggest names in women’s basketball. The Maryland native played at lowa for Hall of Fame coach C. Vivian Stringer. She played in the WNBA for the Phoenix Mercury and former AllAmerican player Cheryl Miller. As an assistant at Stanford, Jackson learned strategies from coach Tara VanDerveer.

Jackson, known as a recruiting whiz, then went from UCLA to Duke. She has followed former Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors out of the Blue Devils’ program. Goestenkors left this week to become the coach at Texas.

“Tia is destined to be a superstar,” Goestenkors said. “She has it all. She’s outgoing, she’s an incredible recruiter and she’s great with people.... She’s an impact coach.

And Washington is one fortunate university.”

Jackson inherits a team that went 18-12 last season and finished fourth in the Pac-10 before lowa State routed it in the first round of the NCAA tournament. She will have an incoming class of Daugherty’s final recruits that is considered among the nation’s best.

“She’s fun, laid-back, easy to talk to, but at the same time you know what she wants—discipline,” Huskies point guard Emily Florence said.

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The last time Duke and Johns Hopkins met, the Blue Jacks came back in thesecond half to win the National Championship in Philadelphia. This time (above) the Blue Devils' offense powered them to an 11-9 victory.

Blue Devils avenge 2005 championship loss by

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Matt Danowski (above) dished out all four of his assists to junior Zack Greer in Duke's win over Johns Hopkins Saturday afternoon in Baltimore.

Not even the unseasonably cold weather could put a chill on Duke’s attack combo of Matt Danowski and Zach Greer.

Led by Greer’s six goals and Danowski’s four assists, all of which were to Greer, the No. 4 Blue Devils (9-2) registered their fourth consecutive win with an 11-9 tri. umph over No. 9 Johns Hopkins PUKE [ I*l (4-4) Saturday in Baltimore. The JHU 9 victory avenged a 9-8 loss to the Blue Jays in the 2005 National Championship game and was Duke’s first win over Johns Hopkins since 1997.

“It felt good, no doubt about that,” senior Tony McDevitt said. “In my three years at Duke, we were 0-3 against them. It’s always good to beat a team like Johns Hopkins that’s got tradition when it comes to lacrosse. And it’s always good to do it on their home field.”

Following a back-and-forth first half that ended with the Blue Devils holding onto a 6-5 advantage, Duke separated itself from the Blue Jays in the opening minutes of the third period.

Just 37 seconds into the second half, defenseman Casey Carroll scored the second goal ofhis career and his first of the season to give the Blue Devils a two-score lead. Duke struck again less than a minute later as sophomore Gibbs Forgarty scooped up a loose ball in front of the Blue Jays’ cage to put the Blue Devils up 8-5 at the 13:32 mark.

Greer capped off the scoring outburst 59 seconds later, putting a cross-field pass from Danowski into the

back of the net from 10 yards out to give Duke the four-

goal advantage.

“We’ve been emphasizing all season to break the game up into little pieces—three, five-minute segments,” McDevitt said. “When we were in the huddle right before the second half, we told each other to concentrate on the next three minutes. We went out and made some big plays, won face-offs and next thing you know we scored three goals in the next five minutes. And that lifted us eventually for the victory.”

Unlike the 2005 title game, in which Duke saw its third quarter lead slowly disappear to the Blue Jays, the Blue Devils did not give Johns Hopkins the opportunity to come back and tie the game. After Danowsld set up Greer for the fourth and final time of the afternoon to put Duke up 10-6with 5:37 to go in the third quarter, the Blue Devils did not let their lead dip below two goals for the remainder of the contest.

“They’re definitely a lethal combination,” McDevitt said of Greer and Danowski. “Playing with each other for three years, it’s almost like Matt knows where Zack’s going to be, and vice versa. God bless the defense that goes against them because it’s tough to stop those two.”

Despite being out-shot 25-12 in the second half, Duke goalie Dan Loftus allowed in only four goals in the final two periods and finished the day with 13 saves.

The Blue Devils will next take the field in arguably their most important game of the regular season as they face off against defending national champion and No. 2 Virginia Saturday. The contest will determine the ACC regular-season title.

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Wildcats hand Duke worst loss in 5 years by

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Saturday afternoon was a humbling experience for the Blue Devils.

As No. 4 Duke (10-2) plodded off the field and into the locker room after being trounced 17-5 by No. 1 Northwestern (8-1) in Evanston, 111., the team knew head coach Kerstin Kimel was not happy with its

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ly did not say anything at all. She reminded her team of the one thing that can sting more than being chastised.

“After the game, silence was our punishment,” senior attack Kristen Waagbo said.

“She knew we were all disappointed in ourselves and embarrassed by the game.”

Coming off impressive wins on the road against then-No. 4 Virginia and No. 10 Notre Dame, Duke had every reason to be confident going into the contest against the perennially-dominant Wildcats.

After losing to Duke 16-10 in the regular season in 2006, Northwestern took away Duke’s shot at a National Championship, prevailing in an 11-10 overtime win in an incredibly close Final Four contest.

But Northwestern simply blindsided the Blue Devils in Saturday’s match.

“This was our worst game all year,” Waagbo said.

In all facets of the game, the Blue Dev-

ils were manhandled by Northwestern, which out-shot Duke 28-13 throughout the contest and forced 20 turnovers. Before Saturday, Duke was averaging more than 37 shots and only 14 turnovers per game.

The first goal of the game came just 38 seconds in, when Blue Devil attack Caroline Cryer tucked the ball in the net for her 42nd goal of the season. Considering that Duke has had trouble this season with playing at a high level from the beginning of the game, Cryer’s goal seemed like the start of something positive.

But Duke registered only five more shots on net in the first half and went into halftime down 9-4. Last weekend against Virginia, the Blue Devils also finished the opening period with a five-goal deficit but were able to come back and secure a win.

So there was reason to believe that Duke could respond similarly to such adversity against the Wildcats.

Northwestern wasted no time in erasing that hope, however. Two goals in the opening 2:02 of the second half put the game out of the Blue Devils’ reach.

“It kind of just snowballed and it was just hard to come back from it, just not playing hard, not playing like we know how to play,” junior Allie Johnson said. “[Northwestern] set the pace of the

game.”

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After splitting theirgames a season ago, the Blue Devils were unable to come away from Evanston with a win. fense. But when the Wildcat defense pressed Duke’s players behind the goal, the Blue Devils struggled to keep the offense in sync and maintain possession.

“The whole game on the offensive end they were pressuring us out, and we weren’t handling the ball with confidence, which forced a lot of turnovers,” Waagbo said. “We weren’t able to get into our offense or get into a groove.”

After halftime, Duke’s answer to North-

western’s consistently productive offense was just a single goal, and the game ended with a 6-0 Wildcat run.

For Duke, a team with legitimate national championship aspirations, Saturday’s loss was certainly humbling, but the players maintained it was an anomaly.

“We just have to hold ourselves to the standard that this will never, ever happen to us ever again,” Waagbo said. “I’m glad we got it out of our system.”

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Offense clicks to take game from No. 3 Virginia by

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Duke pitcher Tony Bajoczky is quickly establishing himself as a giant killer.

Last weekend, he led the way as the Blue Devils slayed No. 1 Florida State 8-5.

Bajoczky went back to work Saturday,

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“Tony went up there and really competed,” head coach Sean McNally said. “He didn’t have his best stuff, but we know that he’s going to find away to get people out, and he did that this weekend.”

Bajoczky threw six strong innings, surrendering four runs on six hits. All four of those runs came in the third inning, as the Cavaliers bounced back from a 2-0 deficit to take a 4-2 lead.

Duke responded immediately, though, scoring four in the fourth inning and seven more in the fifth and sixth to blow the game open.

“That said a lot about the resiliency of our guys—the fact that we kept swinging the bats and we got a lot of momentum there,” McNally said.

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Brett Bartles led theBlue Devils' offense with three hits and five RBIs in the team's win over No. 3 Virginia.

(29-7, 10-5 in the Once ACC). again, his strong

deficit with an offensive explosion. Against Davidson April 3, the Blue Devils knocked home 11 runs in the fifth and sixth innings to recover from a 7-5 deficit and lift themselves to a 17-12 win. Those responses were signs of life from the dormant Duke offense, which had been hitting .241 in conference play prior to the Virginia series.

But Duke hit .395 and notched 17 hits Saturday, which—along with Bajoczky’s solid pitching—-was a large reason for the upset.

Brett Baltics was 3-for-6 with five RBls—including a three-run triple in the fifth inning.

Even though the Blue Devils hit well Saturday, they still struggled at other points in the series. Duke had just four hits in Friday’s 4-0 loss, as Virginia’s Jacob Thompson threw a complete game shutout. The Blue Devils managed only four hits Sunday as well, failing to bring home a run after the first inning in an 8-1 loss.

Yet Saturday’s output demonstrated what the Blue Devils are capable of when they are playing their best.

“We have very, very capable hitters,” McNally said. “[Saturday’s game] was again tangible evidence that we can swing the bats against arguably the best pitching staff in the country on a given day.”

Duke will need its best offensive effort to survive another slugfest with Davidson in its next game, Wednesday —and if it hopes to tackle fifth-ranked North Carolina this weekend.

“To have success against both Florida State and Virginia certainly is encouraging,” McNally said. “There’s a growing confidence in our club and a growing expectation of not just winning one game in an ACC series, but continuing to strive and do better.”

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Blue Devils dominate in final home matches by

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Duke wrapped up its home schedule for the season in style this weekend, recording two dominating 7-0 wins against ACC rivals Boston College and Maryland.

“It makes us feel good to win 7-0 because we’ve had tons of close matches,” senior Joey Atas said. “Especially BC our match against

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The No. 16Blue Devils (13-7, 6-2 in the ACC) controlled both matches—held in the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center because of cold weather—from start to finish, and were never really threatened by either opponent.

“It was great to get two wins this weekend before hitting the road to end the regular season,” Duke head coach Jay Lapidus said. “This should give us some good momentum going into the final week before the ACC tournament.”

The Blue Devils opened the weekend against the unranked Eagles (4-15, 0-8 in the ACC) Friday and cruised to victory against perhaps the weakest team on their

schedule In doubles play, Duke won all three matches by 8-5 scores to jump out to an early lead. The Blue Devils’ singles play went similarly, with all six players defeating their opponents in straight sets. In fact, only fourth-seeded Dylan Arnould was even taken to a tiebreak, and he won that handily by a score of 7-0.

Saturday’s match against No. 55 Maryland (10-7, 2-6 in the ACC) figured to be tougher, as the Terrapins had played well in the early part of the season. The Terps, however, had lost five straight dual matches before traveling to Durham, and the Blue Devils made sure that streak continued.

The fifth-ranked doubles team ofDavid Goulet and Joey Atas set the tone early, controlling nearly every game in their match en route to an 8-3 victory as the top seed.

“Our games match really well together,” Atas said of his partnership with Goulet.

“We are both just doubles players with good serves and volleys, and we have good chemistry on the court, so it’s easy and fun for us to play together.”

Dominating their doubles play, though, was not as simple a task for the Blue Devils as it had been Friday, as Arnould and partner Ned Samuelson lost the only match of the weekend for Duke.

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Senior JoeyAtas helped Duke finish its weekend sweep with a 6-0,6-3 win in singles against Maryland. the third seed, won 8-5 to earn the doubles point for the Blue Devils.

After the break, Duke played some of its best singles of the season in its rout of the Terrapins. While Arnould simply overpowered his opponent, Atas and Goulet both attacked the net constantly and volleyed their ways to victories. Rodrigues and Dimitrov also recorded straight set singles wins, and Alex Stone won his match in

a third set tiebreaker.

Duke next takes on No. 5 North Carolina Wednesday in Chapel Hill.

“We were able to stay focused this weekend since UNC is a couple of days from now, but we’re going to have to play them tough,” Atas said. “Every spot is important, and we are just focusing on a good practice and hopefully everything will click on

Wednesday.”

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Down 4-1 in the third set in Friday’s tiebreaking match against No. 9 Miami, freshman Amanda Granson dug into her reserves and fought back Gina Sabatino to win 7-6, and then 7-2 in the tiebreaker, to snag a 4-3 victory for No. 21 Duke.

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Freshman Amanda Granson led theBlue Devils in their upset of Miamiwith a comeback victory in singles.

momentum.”

Assistant coach Stephanie Nickitas said the win over Miami was one that the team really needed heading into the last stretch of its schedule.

Granson helped the Blue Devils (16-6, 5-3 in the ACC) end a two-match losing streak and won both her singles matches Saturday in Duke’s 4-3 loss to No. 17 Florida State (12-6, 5-2).

“I feel like things have been going really well recendy,” Granson said. “In my mind something just clicked, and I feel really tough.”

Nickitas said she was very pleased with the team's doubles performances over the weekend.

The fifth-ranked tandem of senior Daniela Bercek and sophomore Melissa Mang and the duo of Granson and sophomore Jessi Robinson came away with a pair of 8-5 victories over the Hurricanes to give Duke the doubles point Friday at Ambler Stadium.

“That was really exciting,” Mang said. “I played that team three times before and have never beaten them. Daniela and I just

really made them play a lot and executed it really well.”

Against Florida State, senior Tory

Zawacki and freshman Elizabeth Plotkin put up an 8-6 victory over Ania Rynarzewska and Lauren Macfarlane, and Granson and Robinson shut down Miranda Foley and Jessica Wente, 8-2, for the doubles point at Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center.

Singles play went back-and-forth in both matches, as Duke and Miami split 3-3, and the Blue Devils lost four of six tight matches against the Seminoles.

“We played really well, but they just got us in a couple points here and there,” Nickitas said. “We would have liked to win, but it was still a great weekend. They’re re-

ally improving things.”

Senior Clelia Deltour, Plotkin and Granson posted Duke’s three wins Friday.

In Saturday’s play, Deltour and Granson were the only Blue Devils to clinch points.

“Saturday was just disappointing,”

Mang said. “We fought so hard all the way down the line. I think it really came down to bad luck. We won the doubles, and we just got unlucky in singles. We all had some big chances, but it didn’t go

our way.”

Next, Duke heads back on the road this week to play No. 15 Wake Forest, No. 45 N.C. State and No. 14 North Carolina.

Mang said the team will be polishing up their game in preparation for the match against the Demon Deacons Wednesday.

“We’ve been competing really well,” she said. “We just need to execute better in big moments. We’re just going to work on finishing shots and trying to cut down on unforced errors.”

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As the Blue Devils learned this weekend, sometimes the winds do not blow your way.

Faced with the challenge of windy con-

ditions and temperatures hovering in the low 40s, the No. 1 Blue Devils struggled through the final two days of play at the Bryan National Collegiate in Browns Summit, N.C., placing fourth overall behind No. 15 Purdue, No. 7 Florida and No. 20 North Carolina, respectively. Duke had won its past two tournaments.

“The weather was bad, and I think that when it is cold and windy like that, it becomes a little bit of an endurance contest,” Duke head coach Dan Brooks said. “You’re a little more subject to breaks when you’re playing in conditions like that, and some things didn’t go our way.”

The Blue Devils opened the tournament strong Friday, finishing with a score of 292 that put them one shot behind opening-round leader North Carolina.

Led by junior Jennifer Pandolfi’s even-par 72, none of Duke’s golfers finished above 2-over par on Day 1.

Saturday’s weather conditions were not kind to the Blue Devils or their scorecards, however, as the bitter cold and wind helped contribute to a team score of 301. Still, the elements affected most of the field and Duke was perched in second place, one shot behindFlorida going into the final round of the tournament. Blumenherst notched the team’s only sub-par round with a one-under 71 on Saturday, while seniorAnna Grzebien recorded a one-over 73.

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The Blue Devils returned to Lake Monticello in Charlottesville, Va. this weekend to compete in two dual regattas against Central Florida and No. 20 Michigan State.

Duke battled against the Golden Knights Saturday morning in four races the varsity eight, second varsity eight, varsity four and the novice eight.

The Blue Devils were unable to pull away from Central Florida in any of the races, but came the closest in the varsity four and eight, which they lost by less than five seconds each. In those two races, Duke clocked times of 7:48.5 and 6:41.9, respectively In the afternoon, Duke took to the water again to face the Spartans in four races Although the Blue Devils could not best Michigan State in any of the events, the varsity eight squad again gave its opponent a scare, coming in with a time of 6:33.l—just three seconds behind the Spartans squad The Duke second varsity eight boat finished in a time of 6:56.56, trailing Michigan State by over 15 seconds.

Duke next heads to Clemson, S.C. for the ACC Championships, when the boats hit the water April 21.

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Senior Anna Grzebien was Duke's second-highest finisher for the tournament, coming in in ninth place.

“It was tough because you can only swing in so many layers,” Grzebien said.

‘You just have to be patient and know that you are going to give up shots with the conditions out there.”

The rough conditions continued through Sunday, as a cold wind continued to blow at the lakeside Bryan Park Champions Course. The Blue Devils scored a

305 in their final round, placing them in fourth for the tournament.

“That round for us certainly isn’t our kind of round, but it’s certainly not something to be embarrassed about,” Brooks said. “We happened to have a day where people all had their bad day on the same day. When that happens, you’re going to have a number like that.”

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