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Students may legally burn benches following a possible victory over the Tar Heels March 8.

At a Campus Council general body meeting Thursday night, Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, announced that Duke has received abonfire permit for the March 8 game at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

The University submitted documentation to the Durham fire marshal agreeing to be vigilant and ban renegade fires before the game, he added.

But the permit is contingent upon the suspension of a state-wide burning ban reinstated by North Carolina Governor Mike Easley Feb. 14. If the ban remains in effect, the University will seek alternative celebratory options, Moneta said.

“The fire marshal already put us through the ringer about having an illegal fire,” Moneta said regarding the incident in which students burned two benches without a permit following Duke’s Feb. 6 victory over the Tar Heels.

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What a difference a week makes Just seven days ago, Duke was riding high off recent victories over North Carolina and Maryland as well as a 12-game winning streak. The Blue Devils stood at 10-0 in the ACC and were ranked No. 2 in the nation. The talk around Cameron Indoor Stadium—and across the country—was of No. 1 seeds and the Final Four.

But after consecutive losses on the road to unranked Wake Forest and Miami, No. 5 Duke (22-3) has faced a bit of harsh reality. This team

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A recent graduate filed a lawsuit against the University Tuesday citing emotional distress stemming from allegations of academic dishonesty and a subsequent hearing before the Undergraduate Judicial Board.

Tiffany Locus, Trinity ’O7, is suing Charles Thompson, education and curriculum director for the Center for Documentary Studies and the instructor for the class in which

Locus was accused of cheating.

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even a bottom-feeder in the Big East St. John’s (10-15) comes to Cameron Indoor Stadium Saturday at 4 p.m. as one of the weakest teams in its conference, but the Blue Devils know that regardless of the stature of their opponent, they must right the ship.

“We’re going to turn this thing back around,” guard DeMarcus Nelson said. “We’ve been too good all year to have whatever it is holding us back as a team. We’re definitely going to find out what it is and address it. Our SEE M. BBALL ON PAGE

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Nearly 40 unindicted members of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team filed suit Thursday against the University and 28 other defendants, lodging 31 counts of grievances related to the pursuit offalse rape charges in 2006.

The 237-page suit was formally announced at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., by attorney Charles Cooper Thursday afternoon. Although a number of media outlets preempted the legal action with stories Wednesday, the suit was not officially filed until late Thursday evening.

Thirty-eight of the 47 members of the 2006 team are plaintiffs in the suit, leaving only three former players—graduate student Matt Danowski, Trinity ’O7. senior Kevin Mayer and Matt Zash, Trinity ’06—who have not engaged in any litigation. There are 47 plaintiffs listed in the filing including nine parents and 20 current Duke students.

“The players and their families take this historic action with great reluctance,” Cooper said. “They remain united in their determination to insist on the full truth and an accountability from Duke.

This lawsuit is home out of Duke and Durham’s sustained wrongdoing and callous conduct against the players.”

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WASHINGTON Next year's flu vaccine is getting a complete overhaul to provide protection against three new and different influenza strains—hopefully better protection than this year's version.

Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration unanimously backed the new recipe on Thursday, echoing an earlier decision by the World Health Organization.It's a highly unusual move: Seldom are more than one or two strains swapped out from one year to the next.

Dems debate Cuba, health care AUSTIN,Tex. —ln a university auditorium in the heart of Texas, Hillary Clinton accused presidential rival Barack Obama agreed that high-tech surveillance measures are preferable to construction of a fence to curtail il-

legal immigration.

They disagreed on the proper response to a change in government in Cuba in the wake ofFidel Castro's resignation.They also sparred frequently about health care, a core issue

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Angry Serbs broke BELGRADE, Serbia into the U.S. Embassy and set fire to an office Thursday as rioters rampaged through Belgrade's streets, putting an exclamation point of violence to a day of mass protest against Western support for an independent Kosovo.

At least 150,000people rallied in Belgrade, waving Serbian flags and signs proclaiming "Stop USA terror," to denounce the bid by Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority to create their own state out of what Serbs consider the ancient heartland of their culture.

When Consumer Reports posted a blog last week criticizing Miley Cyrus for not wearing her seat belt in a new film, Hannah Montana Nation rallied in her defense.

Before long, the posting had received nearly 200 comments (far more than the typical one or two) and made national news.

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Today Books Without A Future?

Rare Books Room, Perkins Library, 1 p.m.

A symposium exploring books in the digital age, with a concentration on the recycling and reconstruction ofthe book's image.

Ethnomusicology Working Group Franklin Center, Room 130/132,2:30 p.m.

Conversation discussing the role sound recordings play in musical practices and the increased accessibility ofrecordings.

E-Social Events and Competition Engineering Quad, 4 p.m.

Open to both students and faculty. Snacks and free t-shirts for those who compete in events.

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"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

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Richard Rothstein “The Impact of Class in our Classroom "

Tuesday February 26, 2008 Von Canon Room C Bryan Center, Duke University 4:30-6:oopm Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute. From 1999 to 2002 he was the national education columnist of The New York Times. Rothstein’s persuasive analysis of how social class shapes learning outcomes forces us to look at the differences in readiness across students as they enter school for the first time. He causes us to consider the influence of income, health, safety and other gaps affecting students as they proceed through school.

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repository, she said.

Such an initiative would necessitate To open up public access to academic research, Harvard University a discussion within the faculty, across voted February- 13 to move forward units and with the Office of Informaplans to publish its faculty’s papers tion Technology, said McClain, who online for free. added that she often facilitates reThe university’s initiative signals a shift search in arts and sciences.

Currently, Duke University Librarin the distribution of faculty research. Because of rising costs and modest publicaies pays for academic journals that the tion, academic journals currently reach library makes accessible to members of the University comunity. Most acaonly a limited audience.

But Harvard’s demic journals subrequire policy is part of “I would want more people to scnptions to a trend to allow their print or Internet crawlread my work, and I would be online ers across the publications, which surprised if Duke University, globe to dial up for world-wide makes it diffaculty weren’t just as in supficult for the access, and one that may find port of [Harvard posting faculty general public to access them. support at other research online for free] Harvard’s instituions. and reputation cannot “I Steve Nowicki that available fiimagine dean undergraduate education nances make it most [Duke] would the perfect infaculty

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“If Harvard’s move takes, this is where everybody will be eventually,” he said. “I would think most [Harvard] professors are in favor of this policy. I would want more people to

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Director of Athletics Joe Alieva led a discussion regarding the athletics strategic plan, entitled “Unrivaled Ambition,” with the Academic Council at the council’s monthly meeting Thursday.

Members also reviewed campus safety procedures presented by Richard Riddell,

vice president and University secretary.

The athletics strategic plan lays out a series of short-term and long-term priorities for the department, and Alieva fielded questions about the plan regarding admissions standards, facility renovation and athletic financing.

Some council members asked Alieva to explain the department’s stance on the current admissions policy, because the plan requests a reconsideration of the “reaches SEE ACADEMIC COUNCIL ON PAGE

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Based on a recendy devised dieory, the U.S. News & World Report might want to reconsider publishing an updated university rankings list every' year —not because of the list’s lack of accuracy, but because of its improbability to change According to the constructal theory developed by Adrian Bejan, J.A. Jones professor of mechanical engineering, nature has a tendency to travel “down the path of least resistance,” optimizing efficiency and making certain structures more stable—and thus more prevalent—than others.

Bejan said the theory, which has been successful in predicting such diverse configurations as river basins, earth climate, blood circulation and traffic patterns, could also be applied to university rankings.

According to the theory, a university’s ranking is largely determined by its number of renowned researchers, who bring fame to the university through the ideas they devise.

The best indicator of renowned researchers, Bejan said, is the number of citations they have received in others’ works, which reflects the extent of their ideas’ influence.

For each top 50 U.S. graduate engineering school ranked by U.S. News, Bejan counted the number ofresearchers’ names that appeared on the Thomson Scientific’s most-cited list. In general, he found that higherranking schools tended to have more cited researchers.

“If you rank universities in terms of how many names they have on the [most-cited] list, you obtain a ranking that is essentially the same as the U.S. News & World Report’s,” he said.

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“These hierarchical flow designs serve everybody well,” Bejan said. “The highly ranked and the lowly ranked go together. The flow of science improves in time because each school

improves while maintaining the place that it has earned in the global structure.”

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Rothstein, the Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, will discuss the legal and ethical issues raised by epigenetics, including regulatory and liability effects, intergenerational equity, eugenics, environmental justice, privacy and confidentiality, and equitable access to health care.

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Also at the meeting, Moneta conducted an open forum to answer questions from council members regarding West Campus construction, Counseling and Psychological Services and Tailgate policies.

The upcoming Few Quadrangle restoration was the evening’s most popular topic of discussion. Members were primarily concerned about the project’s quality and _

timeliness.

“It will bring us to a first-class facility,” Moneta said. “Somewhere between where it is currently and where Kilgo Quadrandle is at.”

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Campus Council members learned Thursday night that the Duke-UNC bonfire permit was approved.

The renovations will not be very noticeable next fall as the interior demolition will occur this summer, Moneta said.

The University’s goal is to complete the demolition by August and the entire project in time for Spring ’O9.

“Trucks may come into the interior quads [in the fall] to deliver things, but there won’t be anything like what’s happening now on Science Drive,” he added.

“Basically, it will be done [in time].”

Future West renovations in general will aim for multi-purpose spaces, Moneta said, adding that thoughtful building plans will combine housing, dining, cultural centers and co-curricular spaces.

President Ryan Todd, a senior, also brought up recent criticism ofCAPS group programs and waiting times.

“We have no access problem in CAPS,” Moneta responded. “We have open urgent care every day, and the horror stories about waiting lists are not true.”

He added that CAPS never exceeds a two-week waiting period for appointments.

Counselors are expected to see 1,200 to 1,400 students individually over the course of this year in addition to those who have signed up for the newly developed group programs.

Members also addressed predicted Tailgate policies for next Fall, when the football team will play seven home games, four of which are in the first five weeks of school.

Moneta responded in support of safer Tailgate practices and greater student attendance at the games.

“For 90 percent of students, Tailgate is a fun experience,” Moneta said. “When people pre-game and end up in the hospital—that’s not safe for anybody.”

The Department of Athletics and the Office of Student Affairs will be working closely together to ignite interest in the games, he added.

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ZONG from page 1 student body with the Board ofTrustees and a library where Board members can access useful information about graduate perspectives,” said Zong, a fifth-year Ph.D candidate in

physics.

Zong has served as a representative to the Graduateand Professional Student Council for two years, a post he said educated him on the “bread and butter issues” concerning graduate students. “[Xing] has an in-depth understanding of graduate student and international issues, along with a voracious curiosity about all things Duke,” Sheila Curran, Fannie Mitchell executive director of the Career Center, wrote in an e-mail. Curran worked with Zong on a search committee for a new International House director in the Fall.

One of two GPSC representatives to the Board of Trustees’ Institutional Advancement Standing Committee for the current academic year, Zong said he already understands the mechanics behind the Board’s work.

“The Board is a perfect platform where I can integrate my concerns for graduate and professional students and ofDukeChina.org, a Web site designed to improve Duke’s versity even as he has pursued his graduate studies and gotten involved in various activities here on campus,” Jarmul a larger vision of Duke,” Zong said. “My perspective as an reputation in China.

“There is a strong need for Duke to recruit global said. “In my role, I’m especially impressed by how savvy internadonal student would be an added dimension that I Xing is about communitalents and increase can bring to the table.” cations.” said he and campus diversity, If selected as the Young Trustee, Zong “I’d like to become a bridge that Zong is also a memwe have to come up would tackle a wide range of issues, including promotconnects the graduate student body ber of the Graduate entrepreneurial ing a Central Campus environment friendlier toward with School Recruitment graduate and professional students, having a greater ways to attract the best with the Board of Trustees and a Team, which seeks students all around the focus on interdisciplinary studies, tailoring more carecruits for Duke’s globe,” Zong said. library where Board members can reer services toward graduate students and increasDavid Jarmul, assograduate schools, and ing the interaction among graduate and professional access useful information about a freelance writer and ciate vice president of schools. reporter for People’s Zong added that he would like to further promote news and communicagraduate perspectives.”

Daily Online, a Chinese tions, said he although entrepreneurship on campus, whether through Xing Zong news publication for more civic engagement opportunities for graduate did not wish to endorse which Zong covers topa candidate for the and professional students, or through high technolTrustee Young ics Trustee pertaining primarily position, ogy spin-offs that help translate students’ ideas into Young to higher education. he was impressed by real practices.

“Xing Zong would be a wonderful Young Trustee,” In addition to his GPSC roles, Zong was the president Zong’s achievements with his site, which has received Curran said. “He is constandy looking for ways to make than million hits since its debut. of the Duke Chinese Students and Scholars Association in more one “[Xing has] been an unofficial ambassador for the Uni- things better.”

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RESEARCH from page 3 read my work, and I would be surprised if Duke University faculty weren’t just as in support of it.”

Nowicki said he personally appreciates Harvard’s push toward increasing accessibility. Many of his colleagues work in remote or third-world countries where they cannot gain direct access to papers because of restricted library funding and rising costs of journals.

Although Nowicki has delivered his papers to such colleagues, he is aware of possibly breaching the strict copyright agreements of modern academic journals—similar to the copyright infringement possibilities that students face when they download music for free.

“Most of that’s under the radar,” he said. “It’s not like the [Recording Industry Association of America] going out

trolling.”

The scholarly movement for open-access has been prevalent for at least five years, said Vice Provost for Research Jim Siedow. The difficulty has been developing a financial model that would facilitate the transition from library pay to user pay or some combination thereof, he added.

LAWSUIT from page 1 Durham and their officials Steve Henkelman, father of Erik Henkelman, Pratt ’O6, said lie felt the University’s response was inexcusable.

“Duke was in a damage control mode,” he said at the press conference. “They were willing to sacrifice a few our sons—for the good of the institution.”

Pam Bernard, vice president and University counsel, however, said the suit was misdirected at Duke.

“We have now seen the lawsuit and as we said before, if these plaintiffs have a complaint, it is with [former Durham district attorney Mike] Nifong,” Bernard said in a statement. “Their legal strategy —attacking Duke—is misdirected and without merit. To help these families move on, Duke offered to cover the cost of any attorneys’ fees or other out-of-pocket expenses, but they rejected this offer. We will vigorously defend the University against these claims.”

Law professor Thomas Metzloff said he thought it was significant that individual faculty members were not named.

“With the actions of some faculty and how they were interpreted, I think some people were expecting individual faculty to be named as defendants,” he said. “It’s kind of the old move to cast a blanket—at this point, it’s the usual suspects.”

He said it was also surprising that Nifong was not included because his bankruptcy proceedings do not bar him from being listed as a defendant. Metzloff added that this might be a move to highlight other defendants’ involvement.

“So much of the injury and damage... is the direct result of Nifong’s actions,” Metzloff said. “By not naming him, perhaps they’re trying to get more focus on what they think happened.”

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This is the third lawsuit in three months to be filed against the University stemming from the 2005 rape case, and the third lawsuit in the past year to be filed by members of the team.

Wrongly-indicted former players Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and Dave Evans, Trinity ’O6, settled with the University for an undisclosed amount in June, 2007, after filing suit. In December of the same year, a 379-page lawsuit was filed against the University and others by three unindicted players, senior Ryan McFadyen, Matt Wilson, Trinity ’O6, and Breck Archer. Former coach Mike Pressler filed charges of slander against Duke in January.

The suit on behalf of the first unindicted group was filed by Robert Ekstrand, Law ’9B and a lecturing fellow at the School of Law, who said he had been in contact with Cooper previously.

“We were pleased that they’ve looked at the case and found that the case to put forward is nearly identical to ours,” Ekstrand said.

Although Cooper mentioned in the conference that the three cases would likely be tried together, it will be left to a judge to determine when the cases go to trial.

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“The World Wide Web has really changed the landscape of the accessibility of information,” Nowicki said. “Assuming you have access to the Internet, it is now important to evaluate the quality of information.”

The Harvard initiative to make research more available online, however, is not without precedent. In response to a congressional mandate, PubMed Central—the National Institutes of Health digital archive of peer-reviewed journal articles —will start publishing articles based on funding from the NIH for free online in the spring.

Siedow said the NIH policy represents a much larger push toward open-access than Harvard’s initiative. Although Duke currently has no central repository for academic papers, the University is focusing its efforts on helping Duke faculty submit their research to PubMed Central by Congress’ April 7 deadline.

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Alieva emphasized, however, that athletics is not seeking to loosen admissions requirements.

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He added that in the long term, athletics aims to fully endow all of its programs.

Aside from broad issues of financing, Alieva said facilities and scholarships are the two big focus points for the

department.

Renovations for Wallace Wade Stadium, increased scholarships for Olympic sports and restoration of Cameron Indoor Stadium are several of the priorities for athletics.

“As we go forward, I would love to give scholarships to more of our teams and improve our facilities,” Alieva said. “But that depends on our ability to raise the funds to do that.”

Following the question-and-answer session with Alieva, Riddell presented an update on the University’s emergency management plans.

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, and Aaron Graves, associate vice president for campus safety and security, were also present to answer questions.

Riddell explained the infrastructure in place to respond to an emergency.

A management council led by President Richard Brodhead, which also includes deans and administrators, will lead Duke through an emergency, Riddell said.

He also announced plans to install sirens and loudspeaker systems across campus, expand cellular coverage and implement a text-messaging system.

In other business: Council members were also updated on the status of the Quality Enhancement Plan, which is part of the University’s reaccreditation process and is submitted to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools every 10 years. A Compliance Certification document must also be submitted to SACS. Mary Boatwright, co-chair of the QEP committee and a professor of classical studies, presented the plan, entitled “Reimagining Liberal Arts Education in the 21st Century,” and led a discussion regarding the efforts of the committee to understand and enhance the under-

graduate experience.

The council also approved a new Ph.D. program in marine scienceand conservation. The proposal was presented to

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discrepancies in a final paper for the class were due to inaccurate information from a woman she interviewed for the project.

Both Bryan and John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, declined to comment about the case.

The suit alleges that the accusations against Locus caused her to develop uncontrollable crying, severe depression and anxiety attacks. In addition, she was unable to walk in her graduation ceremony and received a failing grade in the class, “Who Cares and Why: Social Activism and its Motivations.”

The lawsuit requests punitive damages of more than $lO,OOO and for Locus’ grade in the class to be changed to passing.

Moneta, Locus and her lawyer, James Locus, did not respond to requests for comment Thursday.

and Nature, Bejan wrote that universities are locked in a relatively stable hierarchy based on the flow of ideas, which, like other natural processes, travel in a manner as to maximize the rate and extent to which they spread.

“Science and education flow on the globe like water in a river basin,” Bejan said.

He added that administrators who attempt to elevate the rank of a university by borrowing a famous name or drastically expanding the university’s size will inevitably fail because such changes are artificial and difficult to maintain. He added that rankings are typically only altered by a “cataclysmic change.”

“Such wishes are analogous to damming, blocking or digging river channels,” he added. “The artificial features of the flow network require constant maintenance, more when the artificial does not resemble the natural.

In the end, the water knows how and where to flow, the dams break, the dug channels dry up and the natural design wins.”

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Duke will spend part ofits weekend looking back on the careers of seniors Wanisha Smith and Emily Waner.

But the No. 12 Blue Devils (19-7, 8-3 in the ACC) will also be looking forward, using games at Virginia Tech (14-12, 1-10) tonight and at home against Virginia (197, 7-3) Sunday as preparation for postseason play.

The contest with the Cavaliers in Cameron Sunday at 12:30 p.m. marks Senior Day for Smith and Waner, who will be honored after the final buzzer. That game comes right on the heels of Friday’s trip to Blacksburg to take on the Hokies at 7 p.m.

‘You’ve got to play games in a row for the ACC Tournament, so I think it’s a great prep,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said of the quick turnaround. “It’s a great opportunity for us to get in a situation that’s a little bit different.... It’s a good prep for postseason any way you look at it.”

Coming off a loss to No. 4 Maryland, the Blue Devils hope to use this weekend and the regular-season finale at North Carolina to gain momentum heading into March. In past years, Duke has tended to peak early, and its trips to the postseason have ended

prematurely.

“It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what a peak is,” junior guard Abby Waner said.

“We have a couple games left, and these are each very critical games for getting prepared for the ACC’s and the NCAA’s.”

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For the Blue Devils, there are Super Seniors and then there are just super seniors.

Much has been made about the returns of 2007 Tewaaraton Trophy winner Matt Danowski, goaltender Dan Loftus and defensemen Nick O’Hara and Tony McDevitt—all of whom exercised their fifth years of eligibility granted last May by the NCAA..

But also taking the field this season for No. 2 Duke (1-0) is a class of standout fourth-year seniors led by preseason allAmerican Zack Greer, who set the ACC single-season scoring record in 2007.

Head coach John Danowski said he has been impressed so far with how his players have

fallen into theirroles—both in practice and in their opening contest of the season, a 164 win over then-No. 17 Bucknell last Saturday.

When the Blue Devils take on Vermont Saturday at 1 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium, they will look to both kinds of seniors to lead them to another nonconference win.

“It’s been better than expected,” Danowski said of his team’s dynamics. “You’re never quite sure—chemistry is always the last thing to develop for the team. And [the returning players] have been extremely sensitive to the seniors’ role on the team.

“There are a lot of traditions here at Duke—from where you eat to where you live... and it’s no different on the team."

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to the foul line six times against Maryland, but she didn’t receive much help in either area from her teammates. The Terrapins outrebounded Duke 43-29 in the contest and shot three times as many free throws, 33 to 11.

Deficits on the glass and at the charity stripe, however, aren’t new to the Blue Devils. Duke has given up more free throws than it has attempted in all seven of its losses—often by margins as wide as the one versus Maryland

Duke. If you look at every other statistic, she’s superb and better than she’s ever been. Maybe now the shooting will take off to new heights.”

Waner has played a lot more point guard this season after the graduation of Lindsey Harding, averaging almost an assist more per game than last year’s 2.7 per game. In the first Furthermore, the meeting with Vir“It’s hard to pinpoint exactly team is 16-1 when ginia Tech Feb it wins the battle I—an 85-50 Blue what a peak is. We have a of the boards and Devil victory Waner recorded couple games left, and these just 3-6 when it five assists without doesn’t. are each very critical games “There are a turnover. constants Center Chante m for getting prepared for the Black these losses, and picked ACC’s and the NCAA’s.” the good thing up the slack for is they’re in our Waner during her Abby Waner control,” Abby slump, but the redshirt Waner said. junior “[With reboundstruggled mightily in the loss to Maryland last Sunday. Black ing], it comes down to heart and wanting finished just 3-of-ll from the field and the ball. It’s not that we don’t want it, but it often rushed her shots against Terrapins’ needs to become more of a focus.... It’s not center Crystal Langhome. where it needs to be, and that’s something “I just want [Black] to be who she is we need to pick up.”

With three regular-season contests left, right now,” McCallie said. “Her game right now is quickness, athleticism and shoot- Waner and the Blue Devils are confident ing.... I don’t want her to think she has to they can do justthat before the start of the be the banger of the century in order to postseason. And even as Smith and Embe productive. What I see is her getting ily Waner are recognized for their accomplishments Sunday afternoon, Duke has its caught into that game a little bit.”

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M.BBALL from page 1 season is not going on a downward spiral.”

Duke faces a familiar foe in the Red Storm, which looks to extend the Blue Devils’ losing streak to three. St. John’s, however, is in the midst of a three-game losing streak of its own and has had little success against Duke in the recent past. Last season, Duke jumped out to a 34-10 halftime lead before holding on for a 67-50 win at Madison Square Garden, its seventh win over the Red Storm in nine seasons.

The last time Duke faced St. John’s, the circumstances were completely different.

The Blue Devils had won three straight ACC games following a four-game conference losing streak. That game would be the last time Duke would win all season, however, as the team would eventually drop its final two ACC games and the first-round games ofboth the ACC and NCAA Tournaments.

This time around, though, Duke hopes to use the non-conference matchup to position itself well for a strong finish in its ACC regular-season slate.

Forward Lance Thomas admitted that the team may have taken a deep breath after two big wins over the Tar Heels and Terrapins, but said that the team spent Thursday’s practice trying to get back on track.

“We’re refocused,” Thomas said. “We have to make sure we come back on strong.”

One Blue Devil who has struggled as of late is guard Gerald Henderson. The sophomore is averaging 12.2 points per game on the season, but has only averaged six over the last four games. Henderson has been playing through a sprained right wrist and only played 19 minutes Wednesday against Miami.

Following his team’s one point loss to the Hurricanes, head coach Mike Krzyzewski wondered whether another team had invaded his players bodies in the past two games.

In uncharacteristic fashion, Krzyzewski’s Blue Devils have given up an average of 91 points per game over their last two contests. Although Duke scored 59 points in the second half in Coral Gables Wednesday, the Hurricanes scored 55 points of their own and shot 57.1 percent from the field for the night.

Luckily for Duke, St. John’s scores only 62.5 points per contest—good for last in the Big East. While the Blue Devils may be able to afford a poor performance against the struggling Red Storm and still come away with a victory, their sense of urgency must return.

Nothing solves problems better than a victory, and perhaps St John’s will provide the best medicine to heal whatever funk Duke has all of a sudden found itself in. And after Wednesday’s loss, there’s only one wayfor the Blue Devils to look at their recent slump.

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—from staff reports Blue Devils leaving major wakes In the ACC Swimming & Diving championships in Atlanta Wednesday, Duke’s Ashley Twichelh finished second in the 500-meter freestyle with an “A” cut time of 4:45.18 to automatically qualify her for the NCAA tournament—the first Blue Devil to achieve this since 2004. Twichell’s time also sets a new Duke school record, breaking former Blue Devil and 1984 Olympian Nancy Hogshead’s time of 4:48.43 which Hogshead set at Duke in 1981.

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Duke embarks on Virginia road trip The No. 3 Blue Devils hit the road this weekend for a two-game stint in Virginia.

Duke travels to No. 18 Richmond for a 3 p.m. start Friday and rounds out the trip

with a 1 p.m. contest against William & Mary Sunday afternoon.

With a 2-0 start to the season, the Blue Devils swept last weekend with wins against No. 16 Denver and Stanford. Duke hopes to notch two more pre-conference wins in Virginia this weekend before its ACC play home opener against Maryland Saturday March 1.

The Blue Devils boast a roster heavy with leadership and game experience, as Duke returns seven of 12 starters and 23 letterwinners from last season. The newest honors for the Blue Devils include Inside Lacrosse naming Caroline Cryer and Carolyn Davis—who is returning after 2007 postseason ACL surgery —to the first and third pre-season all-America teams, respectively, this past week.

Duke takes down Fighting Irish, hosts Princeton and No. 2 Northwestern Closing out a five-game home stretch, No. 8 Duke hosts two matches this weekend against Princeton and No. 2 Northwestern at 6 p.m. Friday evening and noon on Sunday, respectively. Wednesday night, Duke (4-0) took down No. 15 Notre Dame, 4-3, in Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center for its third victory over top-25 ranked teams this season.

As the last pre-conference matches of the season, this weekend’s play against lopcaliber and ranked opponents will focus and prepare the Blue Devils for ACC play.

Duke jumps into the conference slate the following Wednesday with its ACC seasonopener at Maryland Feb. 27.

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Something else that has seemed to remain constant is the one-two punch ofMatt Danowski and Greer—the former, Duke’s all-time leader in points and the latter, the nation’s active leader in goals. In beating the Bison, the duo combined for six goals and seven assists.

In their season opener, the upperclass-laden Blue Devils played with the ease that carried them through to last season’s national title game.

“We’ve got a lot of guys back from last year, so we’ve sort ofjust picked up from where we left off on offense—and you can tell on defense, too,” said Danowski, the reigning national player of the year. “We’ve all got each other’s backs. It’s just the way we play.”

Despite the final score, however, John Danowski said there were some things he had his team tweak in practice this week in preparation for the Catamounts, who have yet to play a game this season. Danowski said the team needed to improve its riding game—or stopping the opponent from clearing the ball from its defensive end.

This will be particularly important considering Danowski expects Vermont to play a zone defense, and Duke had not spent much time before this week working on their zone offense.

But considering how many of these players have been here before—for four years or five—the small adjustments seem minor compared to the bigger picture.

“What I’ve always told the guys is thatit’s your team,” Danowski said. “You decide the conduct and the chemistry.”

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Terry an benstein Hall. The Institute Institute of brings in many of the best guest speakers and visiting T Public Policy becomes the Terry Sanford professors at Duke, including School of Public Policy in New York Times columnists Fall 2009, it Paul Krugwill be more editorial man and Dathan Just a vid Brooks name change within the last year alone.

The Sanford Institute is The public policy major already a standout among is one of the most popular other University majors in among undergraduates, student enrollment, commuand the Public Policy Studnity, interdisciplinarity and ies Majors Union helps form civic engagement. As Sanford the strong community that is moves down the road toward centered around the confusschoolhood, the change to a ing Sanford building. school will allow Sanford to The major also requires become bigger and better students to participate in an internship after their junior able to shape its own future.

The Sanford Institute is year. This, along with public already different from other policy’s focus on interdisciplinary learning and engagedepartments at the University. It has its own buildings, ment with the world, fits with the Sanford Building and Ruthe University’s Strategic en "V A jT^ford

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Steve Henkelman, father of 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team member Erick Henkelman, on Duke’s handling of the lacrosse case. See story page ll

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Plan, “Making a Difference.”

The changes that will come next fall can only enhance this already-outstanding part of the University. Confirming past plans, the faculty size will increase to 42, which will help fill up Rubenstein Hall, opened in November 2005.

The School will be able to hire these professors with money it raised on its own —$27 million to date, with a goal of $4O million by June 30, 2009.

These funds will also allow the School to direct its future with a freer hand.

The name change, though, will also give the School greater recognition and a possibility of more national exposure. Like the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, the Sanford School will be

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able to advertise more easily, both on campus and in national media outlets.

The new School can also use the change to attract the attention of graduate school applicants, and high school students interested in public policy. This can also be a springboard to gaining the kind of national distinction that is now held by places like the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton.

But with all the new buildings, new moneyand new professors, Sanford has to make sure it doesn’t lose focus on what it has done well in the past. The relatively small public policy classes (at least for the size of the major), internship component and impetus to tackle social issues must be

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And Sanford has to ensure that students realize it will still be an excellent—if not even better—home and resource for undergrads. It can do this by publicizing the changes, or lack thereof; there will be no separate application process or any restrictions on non-majors taking classes. Indeed, Director of Undergraduate Studies Ken Rogerson has said the only real impact on undergrads will be greater resources for internships and more opportunities for research.

The Terry Sanford School of Public Policy will enjoy a higher profile from its name change, but this Board hopes it doesn’t change its impressive and high-impact ways.

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Arlen Specter made his debut in the world of politics with his work on the Warren Commission. For all you engineers and art history majors,theWarren Commission investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

He helped author the “single bullet theory,” which declared tom segal that one bullet morning wood: part deux had struck Kennedy and was redirected intojohn Connally.

This theory concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone, an idea that is in fact nuttier than squirrel poop. Take it from me; I went through kind of an Oliver Stone phase for a month last fall. I must’ve watched “JFK” eight or nine times in a week. I can’t even imagine what the response would be to this hoax if it had happened today.

Would anyone buy such a blatant government cover-up? No chance. Not in the age of the Blackberry and the blog. The Blogberry Age, if you will.

Anyway, after engineering the greatest cover-up since Mary claimed to be a virgin, Specter parlayed his early success as a fraud into the most logical next step for his career: district attorney, ironically running on an anti-corruption platform. His campaign slogan: “We need these guys to watch those guys.” Apparently old Arlen has thought pretty highly of himself for quite some time.

After a number of years, Specter decided to hang up the spikes as D.A. Perhaps he was tired, like another former D.A. around here, of being weighed down by all these rules and “laws.”

Being well-versed in both the study of the law and the study of circumventing the law, Specter again set his course into the next logical destination: the U.S. Senate.

His nearly three decades in the Senate have been fairly inconsequential (given that, ya know, he’s had three decades to do stuff). He ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1996, but quickly pulled out when it looked like things were going to get messy (note: that’s what she said).

He did, however, manage to get himselfplaced on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, a group dedicated to overseeing the U.S. intelligence community, and to become te the Senate Judiciary Committe.

It had been years since Specter had gotten involved in a major controversy. Something had to give. He was like a praying mantis perched on a leaf, waiting for a cricket to situate itselfright in front of him, and we all

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And then it happened. A plump, juicy piece of meat parked itself right in front of his mouth (note: that’s what... he said?). Earlier this winter, it was revealed that the CIA had destroyed videotapes of their agents torturing two al-Qaida detainees.

The videos depicted the use of “waterboarding” to gain information. This method is meant to simulate the act of drowning, as the detainees are masked and held upside-down while water is poured over their heads. Thus, they are instilling fear in their enemy in order to get what they want. Personally, I think this tactic sounds totally reasonable and in no way resembles the idea of terrorism. Not one bit Earlier this month, in an interview with The NewYork Times, Specter proclaimed that he was “very concerned about the underlying facts on the taping, the reasons for the judgment on the limited penalties and, most of all, on the inexplicable destruction of the tapes.”

Given his prominence on issues of intelligence, it would seem as if Specter was finally getting his act together and fighting a worthy cause. Unfortunately, he wasn’t talking about attempted CIA cover-up of immoral torture procedures; he was talking about the tapes submitted to the NFL months before by the New England Patriots in wake of “Spygate.” Incidentally, Specter waited until the eve of the Super Bowl to declare his intention to review the tape destruction.

I haven’t seen timing that impeccable sinceLee Harvey Oswald last held a rifle.

HELLO! WAKE UP ARLEN, YOU’RE A UNITED STATES SENATOR FOR CHRIST’S SAKE, GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS! I REALIZE BILL BELICHICK IS A GENIUS, BUT DOES HE REALLY WARRANT INVESTIGATION FROM THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE? DOES OUR GOVERNMENT GIVE A CRAP ABOUT ANYTHING ANYMORE? WHY WON’T MY CAPS GO OFF? Congress would never stand for this kind of tomfoolery. Well, except for the fact that they let a lying former Cy Young winner and his drug-dealing trainer make a mockery of our judicial system (by the way, I hear that if [when] Clemens is found guilty, his old pal George W. is likely to pardon him. You can’t make this stuff up).

This is what it’s come to: the Executive branch is the credible one. That’s like calling Nicky the prude Hilton sister.

In a time of global chaos, where economies are blundering, environments are floundering and border tensions are rapidly growing, it’s important to know that our government has its priorities straight U-S-A! Tom Segal is a Trinity junior. His column runs every otherFriday.

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