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Building Monday, remembering Creason for her enthusiasm,

warmth and faith.

“It will be as a teacher of physics that Mary will be remembered, but she didn’t teach me any physics,” said William Ebenstein, a research associate. “She taught me a lot about life, and I hope I can come to see the world in the same way Mary did.”

The physics department has created a scholarship fund in her name to honor a graduate student who shows excellence in lab instruction.

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Longtime German professor Frank Borchardt passed away at Duke Hospice at the Meadowlands in Hillsborough May 14 at the age of 68 m Borchardt came to the University in 1971 after teaching at Northwestern University and Queens College of the City University of New York. He served as chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature from 1982 to 1991.

Ann Marie Rasmussen, chair of the department of Germanic Languages and Literature, said she remembers Borchardt as an “incredibly vibrant, larger-than-life person.”

Paul Slattery, a senior and Duke Student Government president, took Borchardt’s German 63 class. He said Borchardt would often integrate anecdotes

Physics Lecturer Mary Creason died Saturday, May 12, in an automobile accident in Stokes County, N.C. She was 46.

Creason, who was also the introductory Physics laboratory director, had been on the faculty for 10 years and served as secretary of the N.C. Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers.

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Duke advanced to the final fourafter defeating North Carolina in a comeback 19-11 victory Sunday.

Most of the Fuqua School of Business students charged with cheating on a takehome exam April 27 are Asian, the students’ lawyer said.

“There is something else going on here, something that needs to be explained before we go forward with this, because it doesn’t look right,” lawyer Robert Ekstrand, who filed appeals last week on behalf of 16 students, told The Raleigh News & Observer Tuesday.

The Universityjudicial Board charged 34 first-year masters of business administration program candidates in a class of 400 with collaborating on a take-home exam.

Nine students face expulsion from the school. Fifteen students will receive a oneyear suspension and a failing grade in the course, nine will receive a failing grade and one will receive a zero on the assignment, according to an e-mail sent to the Fuqua community last month.

International students who are expelled will lose their student visas and be forced to leave the country within a designated period.

“Fuqua has a very well-establishedprocess by which it reviews violations of its honor code,” said John Bumess, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations. “That process is being carried out.”

Ekstrand, who is also a lecturing fellow at the School of Law, said most of the students SEE

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Following up on criticism of Durham Police Chief Steven Chalmers’ May 11 report on the department’s role in the Duke lacrosse investigation, City Council supported plans to pursue an external investigation of the Durham Police Department

Monday.

A decision about who will be charged with leading the effort has been postponed until today’s work session.

“I feel very strongly that the citizens of Durham have for 13 months been embedded in lies and we’ve got to get to the truth as much as it hurts,” council member Eugene Brown told The Chronicle.

“The public needs to know what happened in one of the worst chapters of Durham’s judicial history.”

The office of state Attorney General Roy Cooper will not be involved in the investigation because a review of the police

department is not a criminal case. Cooper, however, met with Mayor Bill Bell and will release a list of potential candidates for the job, Brown said.

He added that the council will likely be looking for retired police administrators from North Carolina who are familiar with police investigation protocols and who can be “unbiased, objective and candid.”

Brown said Chalmers’ repoi t failed to address the central question of where the responsibility for the investigation lies.

“A very fundamental question was asked and wasn’t answered in the report,” Bell said at Monday night’s meeting. “Was the [district attorney] heading the investigation, or was the police department leading the investigation?”

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WASHINGTON A former Justice Department official told House investigators Wednesday that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales tried to review his version of the prosecutor firings with her at a time when lawmakers were homing in on conflicting accounts.

“It made me a little uncomfortable,” Monica Goodling, Gonzales’ former White House liaison, said of her conversation with the attorney general just before she took a leave of absence in March. “I just did not know if it was appropriate for us to both be discussing our recollections of

what had happened.”

In a daylong appearance before the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee, Goodling, 33, also acknowledged crossing a legal line herself by considering the party affiliations of candidates for career prosecutor jobs—a violation of law.

And she said that Gonzales’ number two, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, knew more than he let on when he did not disclose to Congress the extent of White House involvement in deciding which prosecutors to fire. McNulty strongly denied that he withheld information, saying Goodling did not fully brief him about the White House’s involvement.

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Goodling’s dramatic story about her final conversation with Gonzales brought questions from panel members about whether he had tried to align her story with his and whether he was truthful in his own congressional testimony.

Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee last month that he did not know the answers to some questions about the firings because he was steering clear of aides—such as Goodling—who were likely to be questioned.

“I haven’t talked to witnesses because of the fact that I haven’t wanted to interfere with this investigation and department investigations,” Gonzales told the panel.

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Moderate Palestinian President MahmoudAbbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas made a new push Wednesday to restore a cease-fire with Israel that had collapsed under a barrage ofHamas rocket fire.

The two leaders met for the first time since Hamas-Fatah fighting broke out two weeks ago and killed more than 50 Palestinians. The two sides reached a truce over the weekend, but tensions remain high because the key dispute over the security forces remains unresolved.

In a challenge to that shaky internal truce, gunmen opened fire from a passing car late Wednesday on the Gaza City home of a prominent Fatah official in Gaza, Maher Miqdad, injuring at least two of his bodyguards. Miqdad, who was away from his home at the time at a meeting on how to shore up the cease-fire, blamed Hamas for the attack.

Intensified Hamas rocket fire accompanying the Palestinian infighting touched off a week of Israeli airstrikes that have killed more than 40 Palestinians, most of them militants. Six rockets landed in Israel Wednesday, and Israeli aircraft attacked sites in the

President George W. Bush portrayed the Iraq war as a battle between the U.S.and alQaida on Wednesday and shared nuggets of intelligence to contend Osama bin Laden was setting up a terrorist cell in Iraq to strike targets in America.

Gaza City area throughout the day.

A Haniyeh aide, Ahmed Yousef, said a cease-fire with Israel would have to be comprehensive, and include the West Bank in addition to Gaza. The previous truce, brokered in November, applied only to the Gaza-Israel border, and Israel rejected repeated Palestinian demands that it also halt arrest raids in the West Bank.

“If it is going to be for Gaza only, then no one will be able to convince the Palestinian resistance factions to commit to that,” Yousef said.

The meeting ended with the two sides agreeing their factions would meet again.

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The Senate passed a proposal Wednesday to slash the number of foreign workers who could come to the U.S. on temporary visas as part of a broad bipartisan immigration bill. A new guest workerprogram would be capped at 200,000 worker a year under the proposal.

Fidel: Recovery is going well A statement signed by Cuban leader Fidel Castro Wednesday said his weight was stable and he was eating solid foods after months of intravenous feeding that followed several operations, including an initial surgery that did not go well.

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A body recovered by Iraqi police from the Euphrates River south of Baghdad Wednesday was identified as one of three American soldiers abducted in an ambush claimed by al-Qaida, relatives and officials said. A second, unidentified body was also found.

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A Nobel Science laureate has never served in the United States Senate.

But that fact did not stop Dr. Peter Agre from forming an exploratory committee last week to evaluate a possible 2008 Senate run in his home state of Minnesota.

Agre, vice chancellor for science and technology and James B. Duke professor of cell biology, received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of water channel proteins called aquaporins. He will take a leave ofabsence to prepare for what would be his first attempt to run for public office.

“Everybody who knows me well knows that Minnesota is and always has been close to my heart,” Agre said in a statement. “Although it will be difficult to take a leave from my duties at Duke, I simply can’t pass up this chance to perhaps pursue my long interest in public service for a state that is home to me in many ways.”

John Burness, senior vice president for

Agre said his extensive contacts withpublic affairs and government relations, said Agre feels strongly about his foray in academia could help formulate sensiinto politics and could bring a wealth of ble government policy relating to scien-

information about science and technology issues to Washington. “[Agre] has made important contributions while he’s been at Duke, but he may have important contributions to make elsewhere, and I think the nation would benefit from that,” Burness said.

Agre is a founding member of Scientists and Engineers for America, an organization formed in September 2006 to promote the use of science in politics and support candidates who understand science and its applications, according to its website.

He appeared on “The Colbert Report” in October 2006 to raise awareness about SEA and issues of science in politics but was not identified as a Duke faculty member. In an interview with The Chronicle, Agre said his Duke affiliation was not mentioned because the organization wanted to avoid discussion of the lacrosse case and focus on science.

tific issues.

“Those in government have great power to make bad decisions,” he said, citing the Food and Drug Administration’s refusal to make emergency contraception available over the counter as an example.

Agre said he would like government to focus more on issues like stem cell research than on the Iraq war and cited universal healthcare as his primary concern.

“In the post-Iraq era, we will be dealing with the same issues we didn’t figure out at the millennium,” he said. “The United States is the only developed country that does not provide healthcare to all of its citizens, and that’s a problem.”

Agre said universal healthcare is important because when companies can no longer afford the cost of their workers’ healthcare, they will lay off employees.

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Although the University is on track with preparations for its December 2009 reaccreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the new requirements set forth by the organization may make the process more troublesome than past years, officials said.

“We’re doing a great job, but just being on track doesn’t mean it’s easy,” Provost Peter Lange said.

Colleges and universities in the 11 states under SACS’s domain must be reaccredited every 10 years, according to the regulations outlined by the organization’s Commission on Colleges.

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings’ September 2006 Commission on the Future of Higher Education pushed for institutions of higher education to be more accountable, which will affect the requirements of the SACS reaccreditation, officials said.

“Each time the reaccreditation happens, the rules change,” Lange said.

“We’re not pleased with the direction this is taking. In a sense, we feel that the way the rules have so far been laid out does not accommodate different types of universities and colleges.”

The requirements for how an institution of higher education can be accountable is very vague, said Judith Ruderman, accreditation director and vice provost for academic and administrative services.

“The Spellings Commission set in motion a huge brouhaha,” Ruderman said. “All these bureaucratic initiatives will not really help higher education or increase accountability, but take away a good portion of what makes American higher education unique and effective. We don’t want all this intrusion.”

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The Office of Judicial Affairs has come under criticism from the Duke Student Government for its evidentiary standards, raising questions about the University’s relationship with the Durham Police Department following the lacrosse case.

Former DSG President Elliott Wolf requested in a March 28 memo to Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of judicial affairs, to not pursue action against students based on evidence that was illegally obtained or would otherwise not stand up in criminal court.

“It gives police officers an incentive to issue criminal citations to students... because the University will adjudicate the student involved regardless of the strength or nature of the evidence,” senior Wolf wrote.

In a memo to Wolf sent April 17, Bryan said a blanket policy against questionable evidence would be “irresponsible,” but “thoughtful consideration will be given to how the information was obtained.”

After the DPD lacrosse report was released May 11, Wolf raised concerns about

SACS from page 3 education,” and the new push for accountability appears to standardize assessment for institutions.

“We believe we’re doing a lot to be accountable,” Lange said. “There is a push from some quarters to standardize metric and tools of assessment. I’m not at all convinced those tools can capture the differences between institutions.”

There are two separate components to the reaccreditation process: a Compliance Certificadon document and a Quality Enhancement Plan, a self-study topic of choice regarding student learning.

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the integrity of the police department in light of its conduct during the case in a May 16 memo to Bryan.

“In the current environment, neither the Durham Police Department nor the [Office of the District Attorney] can be considered credible organizations,” Wolf wrote in the May 16 memo.

In response to DSG’s concerns, Bryan explained the reasons why the Office of Judicial Affairs responds to all incident reports it receives, noting that most reports are sent by the Duke University Police Department.

“For all practical purposes, because I deal with [DPD] so infrequendy, I don’t see a major change in how we operate,” he told The Chronicle.

Bryan said he was worried, however, by reports that DPD have unfairly targeted Duke students in their citations.

“Anytime there are reports of disparate treatments is cause for concern,” Bryan said.

“My experience has been that students come forward and accept responsibility for their behaviors and our focus has been, ‘Let’s talk about what you can learn from it.”’

Wolf said he believes the pertinent issue at hand is DPD’s biased approach to dealing with students.

“The question is, will people want to come here if the institution is possibly supporting this,” he said.

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The University formed three commitmerit Plan in meetings later this week and next week, she said. leadership team, a compliance certification team and an assessment working “Hopefully we will emerge with a mangroup—to work on the reaccreditation. ageable but compelling topic for selfDuke must demonstrate how it fulfills study,” she said. “It’s not to be a philosophthe 76 requirements outlined by SACS in ical approach but an action plan for some the Compliance Certification document thing or things that we will actually impleand submit a report of its findings off-site ment and devote resources to.” review committee by Dec. 10, 2008.

The final decision regarding the study SACS will review the documentand detertopic will be decided before July, Rudermine the areas where Duke has not demonman added. strated sufficient compliance. The University David Jamieson-Drake, director of the will then write a focus report on each of the Office of Institutional Research and counmet requirements, Ruderman said. convener of the assessment working The committees will refine the current group, said the new push for accountabilitopic of “Educating Students for the World ty makes universities responsible for of the Future” for the Quality Enhancewhether students are learning or not. This tees —a

does not take into account students’ own initiative to learn, he added.

Officials said they are not opposed to the University being held accountable, but do not want to see a uniform assessment for higher education institutions.

Jamieson-Drake said the direction of accountability pushed by the federal government will also increase education costs, which is counter to the government’s goal.

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PAID ADVERTISEMENT We are listening to our classmates. We are also listening to other faculty, alumni, and people around the world who love and care about Duke University What is apparent every day now is the shame brought upon our school by the actions of a few; actions of hasty judgment, false accusation, needless discord, and social and political exploitation during an already-volatile time. We know that it isn’t just the actions or statements of a group of 88 professors.

But it is a disaster nonetheless.

We are particularly distressed by statements such as the following, all by then-Duke professors: Houston Baker: “How soon will confidence be restored to our university as a place where minds, souls, and bodies can feel safefrom agents, perpetrators, and abettors of white privilege, irresponsibility, debauchery and violence? Surely the answer to the question must come in the form of immediate dismissals of those principally responsible for the horrors of this spring moment at Duke. Coaches of the lacrosse team, the team itself and its players, and any other agents who silenced or lied about the real nature of events at 610 Buchanan on the evening of March 13,2006. 99

■ http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/mmedia/features/lacrosse_incident/lange_baker.html Grant Farred: “What Duke students becoming Durham citizens does is displace the problem of racism from the lacrosse team and the university to Durham’s political system.”

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Karla Holloway: 66At Duke University this past spring, the bodies left to the trauma of a campus brought to its knees by members ofDuke University’s lacrosse team wereAfrican-American and women ■ http://www.hamard.columbia.edu/sfonline/sport/printkho.htm ”

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William Chafe: “So sex and race have always interacted in a vicious chemistry of power, privilege, and control. Emmett Till was brutalized and lynched in Mississippi in 1954 [sic] for allegedly speaking with too easy familiarity to a white woman storekeeper... What has all this to do with America today, and with Duke?

Among other things, it helps to put into context what occurred in Durham two weeks ago [at the lacrosse party].”

-Chronicle, 31 March 2006 Statement signed by 88 Duke professors (April 6,2006): “These students are shouting and whispering about what happened to this young woman and to themselves.

“We’re turning up the volume in a moment when some of the most vulnerable among us are being asked to quiet down while we wait. To the students speaking individually and to the protestors making collective noise thank you for not waiting and for making yourselves heard. 99 ■ http://listening.nfshost.com/listening.htm ”

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This is a social disaster. We know that this disaster did not begin with the regrettable statements above or the “What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like” Chronicle advertisement of April 6,2006. Like all disasters, this one has a history; a history of radical professors rashly exploiting troubled situations for the advancement of their own political and social agendas. Left strewn in the wake of their misguided words and actions were the lives and reputations of not only three innocent young men but an entire team, the trust placed in the Duke faculty by the student body, and the national reputation of Duke University as a place that supports its students and the principles of justice and intellectual integrity. To the students, faculty, alumni, and conservative bloggers who have turned up the volume on this issue, thank you for making yourselves heard.

How does this disaster begin to be fixed? As Roy Cooper, Attorney General of the State of North Carolina, said, “I think a lot of people owe alot of apologies to alot ofpeople” (http://news.yahoo.eom/s/ap/20070411/ap_on_re_us/duke_lacrosse).

So, to the 88 professors and IS departments orprograms responsible for the “What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like statement ofApril 6,2006, we say: ”

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was not the only agency to receive criticism.

Council member Thomas Stith proposed Monday that the council request the resignation of Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong.

“We received bad advice from a rogue DA,” Stith said. “We need to stand up and say that, and as a part of that process we need to call for that person to resign.”

Brown, however, said it is not within the scope of the council to ask an elected official to resign.

Although the council is not responsible for actions of the district attorney, the police department reports to City Manager Patrick Baker and the council, Brown said.

Nifong, Baker and representatives of DPD could not be reached for comment for this story.

In other news: Bell contacted University administrators about a proposed ceremony to honor the 2006-2007 men’s lacrosse team for its play on the field.

“No matter what you do, people are always going to be suspect to a certain amount and wonder what your ulterior motive is,” he told WRAL. “But I can tell you there is no ulterior motive.”

Eugene Brown, along with all but two City Council members, voted in favor of an external review of Durham Police Department practices during the investigation of the lacrosse case.

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from his life into his lectures, holding the attention of the entire class.

“He’s had an incredible wealth ofexperience,” Slattery said. “He would be on a particular tangent, and 20 minutes later, class would be over. But it was incredibly worth your time.”

Borchardt’s primary area of research was early modem German culture, but he also wrote extensively on the role of technology in education. He helped to create the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium and edited its journal from 1991 to 1997.

Marc Reibold, a graduate student working on his Ph.D. in German, kept in touch with Borchardt after taking a course of his in 2003. “He would tell everyone, ‘Be brilliant,’” Reibold said. “It was his way of saying goodbye.”

charged have been in America for less than a year and do not completely understand the Honor Code or judicial proceedings.

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“The students who have received the penalties of expulsion or a oneyear suspension come from three continents and represent both foreign and domestic students,” Michael Hemmerich, associate dean for marketing and communications of Fuqua, wrote in an e-mail.

He said the Honor Code policy restricts him from revealing the identities of the students charged and the number of students who submitted appeals.

“The appeals board is acting in the strictest confidentiality that the process requires and the students deserve,” he said.

Ekstrand, however, claimed that cultural differences contributed to the case.

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Ekstrand said any violations made by his clients were minor and unintentional.

Many international students, he said, wrote lettersofconfession when pressured by faculty, prompting a swift trial process that left them little time to defend themselves.

“I believe when [the members of the Judicial Board] look closely at this and learn all the facts, I have faith that they will do the right thing,” Ekstrand said.

In a memo to Fuqua Dean Douglas Breeden sent prior to the announcement of the charges, Bill Boulding, Fuqua associate dean for the Daytime MBA Program, outlined the steps Fuqua takes in informing its international students of the Honor Code.

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Agre said that fundraising and gathering support within Minnesota’s Democratic party, known as the Democratic Farmer Labor Party, will be critical in mounting a serious campaign.

Bill Flannigan, retired professor of political science at the University ofMinnesota, said it may be hard for Agre to form a support organization since he has not lived in Minnesota or been active in DFL for much of his time at Duke. He joined the University in 2005 after more than 25 years at Johns Hopkins University.

Other Democratic candidates for the seat held by Republican Norm Coleman include comedian A1 Franken and trial lawyer Mike Ciresi. Ciresi gained fame in 1998 by helping to secure a $6-billion setdement for Minnesota in its case against the tobacco industry.

Franken, like Agre, has spent much of the past few years outside Minnesota.

None of the three candidates has prior experience in office.

MBA experience is our Honor Code,” the memo read. “Because of its critical role, we highlight its importance from our first interactions with potential students during the application process through their entire experience after they join us.”

The memo also detailed several steps and events Fuqua has taken to ensure its incoming students are aware of the Honor Code and its requirements.

“Fuqua is taking its honor code seriously and did well in treating this case seriously,” Noah Pickus, directorof theKenan Institute for Ethics at Duke, wrote in an e-mail.

Pickus said cheating is a common problem among business schools and other graduate and professional schools.

He cited a recent study conducted by Don McCabe, founder and past president of the Center for Academic Integrity, in which approximately 56 percent of graduate business students in America admitted to “having bent the rules.”

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. When Matt Danowski hit fellow attackman Zack Greer to strike first at North Carolina six minutes into Sunday’s game, the topseeded Blue Devils looked like a team with a championship swagger.

But 10 minutes and six unanswered Tar Heel goals later, Duke was a completely different team, UNC confused by a DUKE 19 North Carolina (10-6) squad it already had beaten twice this season.

The Blue Devils went into the locker room calmly, they said, but in need of some answers—and then came out as that confident crew again, firing 14goals and decisively ending No. 8-seed UNC’s season, 19-11.

With the win, Duke advanced to face fourth-seeded Cornell (15-0) at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.

“It was obviously a tale of two halves,” North Carolina head coach John Haus said.

“In the second half, they just blew us up.”

And for a team that has been through the best of times and the worst of times together, the Blue Devils were more than impressive Sunday en route to a second final four in three years.

Driving Duke’s explosive comeback was the powerful attackmen duo of Matt Danowski and Zack Greer, who have been at the heart of this team all season. The two combinedfor seven of Duke’s 13 second-half goals in the team’s dominating comeback.

With seven goals and three assists in the game, Greer tallied a career-high in points, set the program single-game record for goals and ranks second in single-game scoring in

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Two days into the four-day NCAA

championships, No. 2 Duke sits in the >est possible position to win its third con-

ecutive national title. The back-to-back lefending champions are currently in irst place and sophomore Amanda Blunenherst is tied for third individually at he International Legends Course in Dayona Beach, Fla. The Blue Devils lead UCLA by seven trokes after posting a two-day total of 587.

IDuke sat in fifth place and five strokes >ff the lead after battling high winds in Tuesday's first round, but the team soared ip the leaderboard Wednesday by carding I I287—the best team score of the ournament and the only under-par ound recorded this week.

"I was very impressed by their patience oday," head coach Dan Brooks said. "We lad some hiccups yesterday.... [But] they /ere mentally a litde bit stronger today ind probably less affected by the mishaps."

After posting five double-bogeys and wo triple-bogeys on Day One, the Blue )evils began the second round with even birdies in the first five holes to ake the outright lead.

Once again, Blumenherst led the :harge for Duke. The country's No. 1 golfer ecorded rounds of 70 and 73, just two trokes behind Purdue’s Christel Boeljon.

Last year's runner-up Jennie Lee is curently tied for 10th and freshman Alison /Vhitaker is tied for 14th.

The four-time National Champion Hue Devils have never led before the third ound in any of their previous NCAA titles, ind now sit comfortably ahead of the comretition with two days remaining.

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Senior Matt Danowski led Duke's 19-11 winning effortSunday with 10 points—four goals and sixassists.

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Third time’s a charm—at least that is what junior defender Aiyana Newton said with a wishful smile following her team’s 12-7 romping over John Hopkins last Saturday afternoon.

With their NCAA quarterfinal victory at Koskinen Stadium, the the No. 2 seed Blue Devils (16-3) advanced to JHU Z_ the final four for the third consecutive seaDUKE -12 son. But, in the past two years, the Blue Devils have failed to make it further than that, and Northwestern in 2005 and 2006, respectively. to falling Virginia Now, Duke again must battle conference-rival third-seeded Virginia (18-3) —which advanced by defeating North Carolina—in the national semifinals at Franklin Field in Philadelphia at 8:30 p.ra. Friday.

“Each year we’ve gone to the final four, we’ve taken an additional step,” said senior midfielder Rachel Sanford. “I think our sophomore year when we were there, we were like, ‘We made it!’. Then last year, we really competed. And this year, we really want to get to the final game and win the national championship.”

Although Duke cruised through the second half of last weekend’s contest, never allowing No. 6 seed John Hopkins (12-8) to get within four goals, the victory was not a forgone conclusion late in the first.

After the Blue Devils built a 4-1 lead in the early going off goals

by Allie Johnson, Rachel Sanford and Jessica Adam, the Blue Jays climbed back into the game with a pair of their own.

Playing on their own defensive end for most of the game, John Hopkins took advantage of some open field opportunities to advance the ball up the field quickly. With 9:33 remaining before halftime and Junior Caroline Cryer and the Blue Devils celebrate after a 12-7 victory over Johns SEE W. LAX ON PAGE 10 Hopkins Saturday, which sent them to their third consecutive final four.

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CORAL GABLES, Fla. Duke has made some giant strides on the baseball diamond this season, winning games against Florida State and Virginia, two of best teams in the naDUKE tion. The Blue 9 Devils were unMIAMI able to end their season on a high -j DUKE note, however, losMIAMI -5 all three ing games to a surging Miami team last g.

DUKE weekend at Mark MIAMI 14 Light Stadium.

The Hurricanes (35-20, 17-13 in the ACC) came into the series on a tear, having won seven of their last eight games. Conversely, Duke (29-25, 8-22) entered the three-game set having lost five of its last eight contests.

“I thought their pitchers, especially the first two days, just did a goodjob of coming at us, being aggressive and keeping us off balance,” head coach Sean McNally said. “I knew we would come out ready to play, but we just couldn't get our bats going.”

Saturday's game summed up the series, showcasing some of the problems that have doomed the Blue Devils in conference play. Behind smart hitting from shortstop Gabriel Saade and right fielder Jonathan Anderson, Duke managed to drive home four runs in the top of the first inning. Pitcher Alexander Hassan kept the Hurricanes' bats silent for the first two innings, but then Miami blew the game wide open in the third.

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The Hurricanes scored an astounding nine runs, chasing Hassan out of the game.

Miami’s success was keyed by two of its best players, Roger Tomas and Yonder Alonzo, who each batted twice in the inning. Trailing 4-1 near the beginning of the frame, Alonzo was able to turn on a pitch and hit a three-run homer over the right field wall to tie the score. When the Blue Devils finally collected the third out of the inning, Miami had amassed a 10-4 lead that it never relinquished, winning 14-5.

“I wasn't surprised we came out and put four runs up,” McNally said. “But Miami has a talented group ofhitters and even with two outs, they kept putting together quality at-bats.”

Even second-team all-ACC selection Tony Bajoczky, whose 9-3 record and 3.22 ERA led the team, could not pitch them past Miami in a 5-1 loss Friday, like he had done for the Blue Devils against so many other top teams throughout the ACC slate.

Duke’s defense held the Hurricanes to just one run in each of the first three innings, but the team could not generate any offense against first-team all-ACC ace Eric Erickson.

He lasted seven and two-thirds innings while surrendering just one run on seven hits.

“He just did a great job of mixing his pitches and hitting his spots,” McNally said.

Despite the difficult ending to the season, McNally and the rest of the staff engineered a 14-win improvement over last season and expect continued success next year.

“I'm very proud of what we did in 2007 and excited about the future,” McNally said. “Our goal was to be better in all phases of the game, and we did that across the board this year.”

With three goals, Tewaarton Trophy finalist CarolineCryer led theBlue Devils' offense against Johns Hopkins.

W.LAX from page 9 the Blue Devils up three, Imbesi deflected Blue Jay Kadie Stamper’s shot, but the ball dropped to the ground off of the deflection and dribbled into the back of the net. Less than four minutes later, John Hopkins midfielder Kirby Houck fired low, and the shot skipped off the ground into the goal, closing Duke’s lead to one, 4r3.

With their lead diminishing, the Blue Devils, though, played nearly perfect for the remainder of the half.

Kimel said she has told her team that there three big things in the postseason they need to do in order to advance: win the draw control, work over a defense and take good shots.

For the final five minutes before halftime, the Blue Devils did exactly what their

coach asked them to do, controlling the ball and netting four goals before the break.

One of the keys for holding John Hopkins offense at bay was shutting Tewaarton Trophy Finalist Mary Key. Kimel assigned Newton to the job. The junior held Key, who led the nation coming into the game with 119 points on 65 goals and 54 assists, scoreless until the closing minutes of the game, when the contest was all but decided.

“I felt like every time she was coming at us, we knew exactly what we were going to do,” Newton said. “I was really ready.”

Since the win, the Blue Devils have had five days to plan for their match tomorrow night against Virginia, whom they beat 19-18 in triple-overtime comeback win April 2.

“Just because we are going to see a familiar opponent, doesn’t mean we can take it relaxed,” Kimel said. “We need to make sure we are continuing to sharpen up our game.”

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“Coming into the game, we knew they were probably the two best attackmen in the country,” UNC attackman Fletcher Gregory said. “We knew they were going to get their points, but it’s tough to see them beat us like that.”

The pairing of Greer and Danowski is now sixth all-time in NCAA Tournament points scored.

When asked whose line score was more impressive, Danowski said, “For me, four and six, I like to feed, that’s my style. For [Greer], seven and three, ‘cause he likes the glory. I just like to dish it.”

The Blue Devils will need their stars to fire on all cylinders again Saturday, as they take on one of the only two opponents that defeated them this season.

When Duke and Cornell met March 20 at Koskinen Stadium, the Big Red barely eked by with 7-6 victory. Danowski had a clean look at the goal with

under 50 seconds remaining in the game that would have thrown the match into overtime. Now he and his teammates get a second chance at Cornell—and at that elusive national title.

Johns Hopkins and Delaware face off in the other semifinal at noon, with the winners playing on Memorial Day at 1 p.m. for the championship.

Duke, however, remains unfazed as it prepares for a rematch with the nation’s only undefeated team.

“It’s a completely different Duke team,” Danowski said. “Where we were at the beginning of the season was still an adjustment period for us—still trying to get used to the new coaching style, the new style ofoffense and defense—now we’re definitely a much better team, a completely different team in the way we play and our confidence level.”

And as for the new head coach this time around, the younger Danowski has an opinion on that, too.

“I was kind of busting his chops,” Matt Danowski said. “This is his first final four. It’s my second. So I’m the veteran here—he’s the new guy to the whole experience, so I’ll help him along.”

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Bell, and the City of Medicine, it’s safe to say, is in the active pursuit of convalescence, The push for an independent investigation is absolutely staffeditorial necessary and comes on the heels of a poorly crafted and hotly contested internal report on the DPD’s conduct, which was released by DPD Chief Steven Chalmers May 11. In total, that report was six pages long and, to steal a line from Council member Eugene Brown, there was even less in those six pages than meets the eye.

In many ways, Durham City Council is taking initiative where the Chalmers report failed miserably, It’s reassuring to know that the

no secret that the lacrosse case raised serious concerns about Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong and the Durham Police Department— and City Council is now taking muchneeded steps to address both.

At its meeting this week, Mayor Bill Bell and the Council pushed forward with plans to carry out an independent investigation of the DPD’s handling of the lacrosse case. And although it doesn’t look like the Council will call for the outright resignation of Nifong any time soon, Bell assured Council members Monday that the embattled DA will have his day in court.

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right direction and should be applauded for that. But a major question remains; Why didn’t the City Council push for an independent investigation earlier, when it could have had a real impact on the outcome of the lacrosse case?

Ethics charges were first brought against Nifong in December and serious concerns about Sgt. Mark Gottlieb and other members of the DPD surfaced even earlier, in September 2006. A decisive call for accountability in December or January could have helped to turn the tide in the lacrosse case sooner.

Hindsight is 20/20, in the words of Eugene Brown, but it’s now clear that a stronger stance should have been taken by Durham City Council sooner.

Although not too little, the call for an independent investigation of DPD and Nifong comes too late.

Surviving summer unemployment

ontherecord There's something else going on here, something that needs to he explained before we go forward with this because it doesn't look right.

the past year, many students have lost faith in the conduct —and at times antics—of many of DPD’s finest. Fact of the matter is that students don’t have the best opinion of the DPD right now.

If the University and the city are to find some silver lining to the year of lacrosse, an independent investigation of DPD and Nifong must be conducted in full. The Council knows this.

Hopefully it also knows that the current system needs to see some changes. The weakness of the Chalmers internal investigation into the Durham police force elucidates the weaknesses of Chalmers and City Manager Patrick Baker.

Right now, the DPD reports to Baker alone—and that, for one, needs to be changed in order to make city government more transparent and more efficient.

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it be an internship somewhere across the country, or a job busing tables somewhere close to home, everyone I know already seems to be employed and happily working away. the Being rebel that I am, however, I have decided to stay away from the workforce this summer; partly by choice, partly because my resume nick consists of little more than a 1.25 stay hungry, stay foolish GPA, work experience consisting solely of rolling tortillas in back of the Dusty Armadillofor nine and a half hours a day and a recommendation from my seventh grade art teacher (I was a magician with oil pastels).

And although to the untrained eye it may seem like a lot of fun, games and “The People’s Court,” sitting on your ass all summer long can be actually be somewhat of a chore. And so even though we’re only a few weeks into summer as I speak, I’d like to offer some advice that I’ve found useful to others that may be in my shoes for the next few months.

The first obstacle that you’re going to have to get around is answering an assortment of variations on the question that I hear all the time: “Hey, Nick, what are you doing this summer?”

Although this question may seem simple enough, there is definitely a right and a wrong answer; and the answer you have is the wrong answer. The best way to approach this is to tell a bald-faced lie. Because while not working for a summer may not seem like a big deal to you, to others (especially adults/relatives) letting them know that you don’t have (and don’t plan on looking for) a job will only lead to disappointment, pity and scorn. Thus, your best bet is to stay as far away from the truth as possible. And since you’ll be telling a lie anyway, shoot for die stars. Tell them that you’re working with large-cap asset management at some big-shot firm that

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doesn’t exist Make up a story about being appointed to a small research team funded by the NIH to put the finishing touches on a new vaccine for hereditary baldness.

And don’tfeel tied down to sticking with one job for the entire summer. Try out a few different stories until you find one that really strikes a chord with people.

But no matter how much you lie, inevitably someone somewhere is bound to get wind of the truth that you’re not working, and when that happens, it spreads like wildfire. Job offers will start rolling in left and right. You’d be amazed at how easy it is to find a job when you’re not looking for one. The Whole Foods down the street will start hiring cashiers. Aunt Peggy will find the need for someone to mow her lawn three to four times a week. Someone might even anonymously take out a classified ad in the paper for you.

But no matter how much the pressure grows for you to become a productive, upstanding and tax-paying member of society, stay strong to your values.

Don’t give in to something as menial as a pay check every other week (plus tips, in some circumstances).

Because who has time to work when you’re living off the fat of the land? Instead of worrying yourself with getting to work by 8 a.m. every morning, you’re letting yourselfwake naturally with the birds (barring that the birds don’t wake up before 1:30 p.m.). Instead of learning new life skills like how to copy huge reams of paper efficiendy or how to keep the office coffee pot continuously filled, you’re learning life survival skills like how to live offof the Wendy’s dollar menu and why it’s a bad idea to go seven weeks in between laundry cycles. Instead of deciding between check and direct deposit, you’re surfing the Internet for get-rich-quick schemes just in case your parents follow through on the threat to kick you out of the house if you don’t have a job by Thursday.

But after all of this, is there actually any good that can come out of staying unemployed for the summer?

Well for my sake, I hope so. Read some good books.

Try out some exciting ventures. Pick up a new trade.

Take advantage of the opportunity to do things differendy full time, so that the next time someone asks you what you’re doing this summer, you can say, with complete honesty, “Oh, I’m employed... self-employed.”

Nick Alexander is a Pratt junior. His column runs every other Thursday during the summer.

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out your white sandals and French pedicures to match. With commencement ceremonies complete, belongings successfully relocated and farewells until fall behind us, the long-awaited arrival of summer has, well, arrived. Sure, we anticipate the Memorial Day weekend to fully inaugurate our sunny freedom, but signs of the season are already evident in preparation for cookouts, pool parties and vacation. For most o: the student body, amey adkins summer is a time to in medias res leave the books (and sometimes the brain), transcripts and reading lists behind without guilt—though I note some students are able to do this year-round. But unless you hail from the North Pole, the taste of Summer Break is as sweet as a ripe watermelonand as refreshing as a water fight on a humid Durham day. Who wouldn’t want to kick back, relax and leave the lessons, trials and triumphs of the past year behind?

I found myself with this mindset as I flew into the Toronto airport last week. As a graduate Divinity student, my summers are occupied with field education placements. Although I expected to be placed in middle-of-nowhere North Carolina in a rural parish setting, all summer plans went out the window when I found that I would be living in Ontario, Canada for the next 10 weeks, working with profoundly disabled adults. As overwhelmed as I felt by this challenge in life, much less ministry, the one thing I was excited about was getting away from the dim hallways and musty library stacks that had been my home for the past few weeks. It was time to leave studying, Duke and Durham behind. I was ready for change.

How interesting then that, upon my arrival, I was called to celebrate the Canadian version of Memorial Day. They call it Victoria Day. In fact, it is likely listed in your daily planner with a cute Canada in parentheses beside it This concept of Victoria Day intrigued me—it seemed a bit strange to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s great-great-grandmother.

The puzzled expression on my face must have caught the attention of the mother of my host family, as she carefully explained the holiday. “Most people don’treally know what it is for,” she said. She continued to inform me that the weekend, celebrated before or on May 24 (Victoria’s birthday), is known colloquially as May Two-Four weekend. I must have looked uninterested, because host mom laughed before kindly correcting my ignorance of Canadian culture. A twofour is what they call a 24-pack of beer in Canada. Victoria Day is notorious for hailing the queen, literally.

The point? As I enjoyed my day off and basked in the glow of multiple fireworks displays, I could not help but consider the irony. The season associated with being carefree is denoted in both Canada and the State by poignant long weekends dedicated to memory, and yet, they become little more in popular culture than opportunities to kick back and relax. Even on our Memorial Day, which intends to respect and honor those who have faithfully served our nation, the mainstream trend isn’t to spend too much of the weekend—if any—remembering. We’ve got burgers on the grill.

And so, as we escape to our places of respite and rejuvenation, perhaps we should dedicate ourselves to spending a bit more time in honest reflection and consideration. It seems that our academic calendar may provide too easy an escape from the things we might remember about Duke as well as Durham. From simply wanting to leave here for a big city, or dissociating from the remnants of the lacrosse controversy, it is easy to leave behind the pain and brokenness of a city. However, as I serve those in Canada who have also been left behind by society, and who even I will leave come the end of summer, I can’t help but think of the lessons learned about our campus and our community this past semester. And I realize that it isn’t enough for me to just think about it, but to be more proactive in thinking how I will take part in affecting healing and change when we return in the fall.

Hopefully in the midst of an all-consuming summer, we will find time to remember well this place that is our home, and think of ways we will contribute to the new memories, legacy and ftiture of our campus.

Arney Adkins is a graduate student in the Divinity School.

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the third time in just over a year, President Richard Brodhead is orchestrating a major shake-up in die Allen Building. Two weeks ago, Brodhead announced that he is spinning off a large chunk ofVice President for Public Affairs and GovernmentRelations John Bumess’job into a new position, which will be called the vice president for Durham and regional affairs. By focusing exclusively on Duke’s community outreach programs and regional collaborations, the new VP will be tasked with rehabilitating our deeply dysfunctional relationship with kristin butler the Bull City. with ail deliberate speed That won’t be easy.

But Brodhead has found the right man for the job in Phail Wynn, outgoing president of Durham Technical Community College.

Wynn used his 30 years at Durham Tech to build the institution into a regional and national standout, and it is now one of the best community colleges in the state. Between his proven administrative skills, local contacts and community-wide respect, if anyone can save Duke’s relationship with Durham, it’s Phail Wynn.

Unfortunately, his appointment has already been marred by an above-average level of incompetence from the Allen Building. Consider administrators’ decision to release this story to The Raleigh News & Observer and The Durham Herald-Sun for publication on May 2. Because May 2 fell in the middle of undergraduates’ exam week, the announcement could not immediately be printed in The Chronicle, which had suspended publication just two days earlier.

Given that less than 20 percent of the Duke community subscribes to either The N&O or The Herald-Sun, the timing of this announcement virtually ensures that only a small fraction of our campus will know we have a new vice president when classes resume next fall.

Equally bizarre is administrators’ perplexing (some would call it maddening) reluctance to be honest about how, when and why this position was created. When speaking to The N&O, Burness noted that Wynn’s position was “established as part of a five-year plan Duke officials put into place last year to look at growth in Durham and the region.” Burness later clarified to me that this “five-year plan” is actually the University’s strategic plan, “Making a Difference But I’ve read “Making a Difference” front to back, and I can assure you that nowhere does the report call for the appointment of a new vice president. The closest the report comes is where it acknowledges a generic need to “reconceptualize our approach and organize ourselves administratively... to take best advantages of opportunities in a deliberate and effective manner.” This is a far cry from endorsing a vice presidential appointment.

Why is this important? For one thing, citing phantom rationales like this one has become a nasty habit for too many Duke administrators. We saw this same subterfuge in March, when officials insinuated the new dean for undergraduate education position “flowed from” the Campus Culture Initiative. Similarly, Provost Peter Lange mistakenly ascribed Duke’s admissions quota for students from North and South Carolina to James B. Duke’s original Indenture ofTrust last fall.

Of course, the CCI never endorsed a new dean and ”

the Indenture doesn’t even come close to requiring that 15 percent of Dukies hail from the Carolinas. But claiming otherwise saves administrators from having to share the real justifications for their decisions, which often aren’t as compelling.

In Wynn’s case, I suspect that the less glamorous truth may be this: President Brodhead has been looking to increase diversity among senior administrators since last May’s Bowen-Chambers Report, which studied the administration’s response to the lacrosse case. That report noted that early meetings of Brodhead’s lacrosse crisis group included just five white males.

With the need for what Bowen and Chambers called a “wider array of life histories and perspectives” in mind, administrators must have jumped at the opportunity to hire Wynn, a black man who adds welcome diversity along with his urgently needed expertise. In fact, Wynn’s appointment was so spur of the moment that Burness said the University invoked special “provisions for making appointments without a search if a qualified person exists” —another reason to doubt this appointment dates back to “Making a Difference.”

These twin gaffes are forgivable, and they’ll probably be forgotten before long. What is entirely unacceptable, though, is officials’ third sin: the decision to withhold Wynn’s salary information. As administrators are well aware, tax laws dictate that this information eventually be made public in 2009. But they also know that important questions have been raised about the compensation ofVice President for Institutional Equity Benjamin Reese, who is paid $35,000 less than any other vice president and makes just 72 percent of what Larry Moneta (tied for the third lowest-paid VP) does.

Given those questions, Wynn’s compensation should not remain “private” for another year and a half. Public universities routinely release this information without injury, and it would be really nice to know (sooner rather than later) whether Brodhead shortchanges all of his senior black administrators, or just some of them.

And whatever Duke is paying Wynn, I sure hope it’s a lot. We’ve set some miserable precedents to overcome.

Recall that just within the last 12 months, Duke paid (read: bribed) Durham officials $2 million for municipal considerations that should have been free. Administrators then sold out future students’ needs by agreeing to unreasonable limits on retail space for the new Central Campus.

More spectacularly, Duke officials openly tolerated the Durham Police Department’s stated policy of encouraging officers to “arrest students and take them to jail, rather than issue warnings and tickets, because experience showed lesser measures lacked deterrent value.” That’s unconstitutional.

Now I could probably go on and on (we haven’t even gotten to the lacrosse case yet), but the point is this; If in the past some Durhamites have had unrealistic expectations about how they can treat Duke University and its students, it is now up to Wynn to end that. Some have worried that Wynn may spend his time glad-handing at the Rotary Club, ignoring the real issues.

But I have faith that someone, somewhere in the Brodhead Administration will someday care about students’ needs and rights. Let’s all hope that Phail Wynn is our man.

Kristin Butler is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Thursday during the summer.

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