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Even CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Sean Singletary couldn’t rescue Virginia Wednesday night. Not when Duke built an insurmountable edge with a 15-0 firsthalf run, not when freshman Kyle Singler proved unstoppable early in the second half, not when the Blue Devils shot better than 50 percent from the floor.

And especially not when No. 6 Duke remembered what happened the last time it played in John Paul Jones Arena. In that game, the Blue Devils squandered an eightpoint lead with less than four minutes remaining and lost in overtime.

Not this time.

Gerald Henderson led five Duke players in double figures as the Blue Devils maintained a 12-point halftime edge to beat Virginia, 86-70. The victory gives Duke the opportunity to claim the ACC outright with a win in Saturday’s rivalry game against No. 1 North Carolina.

“It has to be the most excited we’ve been to this point,” said Singler, who scored 13 of his 18 points in the second half. “It’s March, and we realize that each game just gets bigger and bigger. The momentum piece is very important.”

And with a veritable rout of the overmatched Cavaliers (14-14,4-11 in the ACC), the Blue Devils (26-3, 13-2) certainly capitalized on the energy from last Saturday’s come-from-behind 87-86 win over N.C. State and carried it into a second-year building that already housed bitter memories.

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firmed Wednesday.

Dean, who came out of retirement in June 2005 to lead DUPD, is calling it quits after more than 40 years with the department, Aaron Graves, associate vice president for campus safety and security, told The Chronicle.

“He has served Duke faithfully and Bob Dean loyally on two occasions,” Graves said.

“We will now enter a search to replace him and even get the community involved.”

Dean could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

The veteran lawman was lured out of retirement three years ago to serve as head of DUPD while the University began searching for a new associate vice president for campus

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Admins may make Duke responds to Senate inquiry revisions to Dean’s Excuse policy by

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After hearing complaints from leaders of some student organizations, administrators are looking to make revisions to the University’s Dean’s Excuse policy.

Members of academically-based extracurricular organizations said they often face the conundrum of how to obtain excuses from classes in order to attend conferences and tournaments. Although the Dean’s Excuse was created to allow students flexibility in submitting graded work, some students said more needs to be done to ensure that members of academic organizations are able to miss class without suffering the attendance-related consequences.

Duke Student Government President and Duke Debate Co-president Paul Slattery, a senior, said he began working

Duke officials responded to a Jan. 25 letter from Congress members questioning the University’s financial aid and endowment spending with a letter of their own last week.

The 15-page response was sent Feb. 28 and was addressed to Sens. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Chuck Grassley, R-lowa who sent the original letter to 136 wellendowed American colleges.

Included in the University’s letter was a 3-page cover letter from President Richard Brodhead outlining the University’s objectives for the endowment and describing recent changes to financial aid. Additionally, the report contained a smorgasbord of statistics—ranging from the percentage ofstudents who received grants from the University for the 2006-2007academic year to the average annual endowment return over the past 10 years.

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CARACAS, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez charged Wednesday that Colombia and its allies in Washington are responsible for the intensifying crisis in South America—and said perpetual conflict with the United States is inevitable.

"It must be said: They, the empire and its lackeys, are war. We are peace. We are the path to peace," Chavez said in a televised speech, his first since Colombia alleged that documents found in a leftist rebel's computer show the Venezuelan leader has been supporting Colombian guerrillas for years.

Yahoo Inc. has exSUNNYVALE, Calif. tended a deadlinefor nominating candidates to its board, giving the struggling Internet pioneer more time to search for a white knight to help it fight off an unwanted takeover bid from Microsoft Corp.

The announcement Wednesday comes amid published reports that Yahoo has stepped up discussions with Time Warner Inc. about acquiring or forming a joint venture with its AOL online unit to fend off the world's largest software company.

Navy sailor convicted for leak

Talks to resume in Middle East

NEW HAVEN, Conn. A former Navy sailor was convicted Wednesday of leaking details about ship movements to suspected terrorism supporters Jurors convicted Hassan AbuJihaad, 32, an American-born Muslim convert, of providing material support to terrorists and disclosing classified national defense information on the second day of deliberations.

JERUSALEM The moderate Palestinian leadership agreed under heavy U.S. pressure Wednesday to resume peace talks with Israel, dropping a demand that Israel first reach a truce with Islamic Hamas militants acting as spoilers.

The announcement leaves open the question of how both sides will eventually conants in charge of the 1.4 miln the Gaza Strip.

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Twin torrents of water unleashed from a dam coursed through the Grand Canyon Wednesday in a flood meant to mimic the natural ones that used to nourish the ecosystem by spreading sediment.

"This gives you a glimpse of what nature has been doing for millions of years, cutting through and creating this magnificent canyon," Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said.

More than 300,000 gallons of water per second were being released from Lake Powell above the dam near the Arizona-Utah border.

That's enough water to fill the Empire State Building in 20 minutes, Kempthorne said.

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The “Dirty Dancing" actor has a very limited amount of disease and appears to be responding well to treatment, according to Dr. George Fisher, Swayze's physician.

"Patrick is continuing his normal schedule during this time, which includes working on upcoming projects,"the statement said.

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Bush, who defeated McCain in a bitter 2000 primary campaign before winning the presidency, said McCain's "incredible courage and strength ofcharacter and perseverance"carried him to the nomination thistime.

Those characteristics, Bush said, are what the nation needs in a president: "somebody that can handle the tough decisions, somebody who won't flinch in the face of danger."

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Gender committee begins initial work by

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The new Central Campus plan (shown above), released Wednesday, moves thefocus of activity southward toward Campus Drive.

Central plans excite leaders

Five years after the Women’s Initiative report ignited discussion on gender issues, the student-driven Undergraduate Committee on Gender seeks to go beyond the talk and offer broad policy recommendations to the University’s administration based on undergraduate input.

At the committee’s first full meeting Tuesday, the group decided on a list of topics to address and discussed methods of collecting student opinion.

Beginning March 17, the

committee will gather students’ views on gender-related issues using an online forum and a series of focus groups to which all interested students are invited.

Two co-chairs, seniorsjenny Staton and Alex Pratt, have divided the 14-person committee into pairs that will lead seven separate focus groups on how gender factors into lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues; athletics; social atmosphere; the Duke living experience; curricular and extracurricular engagement; race; and SEE GENDER ON PAGE 6

Student leaders sayplan is promising, but parts lackdetails by

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Several student leaders said they are optimistic that the University’s dramatic re-imagining of Central Campus will enhance student life.

They just hope their memories of college are still vivid when the dust from construction finally settles.

“It’s an open question whether I will be alive when Central Campus breaks ground,” joked Duke Student Government President Paul Slattery, a senior.

Although the reinvention is expected to take place during a period of 50 to 75 years, the first stage of construction is slated for

completion in early 2011.

Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki penned “Uniting Old and New,” a document explaining how the first phase will improve housing, dining, academic and social offerings for students, and after reviewing the 20-page proposal, top student leaders said they think the plan is promising.

But they said the sweeping

plan is vague in places, and small-

er decisions yet to be made will determinehow beneficial the new campus is to students.

“The devil is in the details and how space actually gets allocated for things students actually use,” Slattery said. “There’s away to do this that creates a student utopia, and there’s away to do this that creates a lot more office space.”

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Billionaire David Murdoch (left) gave $35 million in Septemberto Duke for biomedicalresearch. Some ofthe fundsfinanced research offices in Kannapolis, N.C. that opened last week.

Kannapolis study gets office,first results by

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When billionaire David Murdock bestowed $35 million on the Duke University School of Medicine last September, he initiated an unprecedented biomedical research study and envisioned sweeping changes in the way clinicians view and treat disease.

The study, which will analyze the genomic factors of several life-threatening diseases, will yield initial results within the year, its leaders said at a conference with the Dole Food Company owner and chair last week.

Duke researchers have recently begun to engage the physicians, patients and citizens of Kannapolis, N.C., where most of the data for the study—dubbed M.U.R.D.0.C.K., for die Measurement to Understand die Reclassification ofDisease of Cabarrus and Kannapolis—will be gathered in later phases. The University opened offices in Kannapolis last week to facilitate inter-

action with the community.

“Everyone’s very excited about it,” said Victoria Christian, operational manager of the study and chief operating officer of the Duke Translational Medicine Institute. “People are clamoring to participate both at the research level and at the individual level.”

The first phase, Horizon One, of the M.U.R.D.O.C.K. Study will concentrate on four diseases: obesity, osteoarthritis, hepatitis C and cardiovascular disease. Using current genomic technology, researchers at DTMI are analyzing existing biological samples to identify genomic linkages across the diseases, said Dr. Robert Califf, principal investigator of the study and director of DTMI. “This will give us a lot of insight into biomarkers that tell us how to subdivide diseases into better categories,” Califf said.

The resulting data will allow clinicians to develop personalized strategies for disease prevention based on individuals’ genet-

ic predispositions “These diseases face millions of Americans,” Andrew Conrad, Murdock’s science adviser, said at the press conference, according to the (Concord and Kannapolis) Independent Tribune. “We’ll be looking at individual markers in people and comparing them to disease states, instead of looking at a crowded room and saying 23 percent ofyou are going to get this disease.”

Although the bulk of Horizon One’s-current research is being conducted at Duke, it will gradually shift to the southwestern town of Kannapolis, where the Murdock-funded North Carolina Research Campus is located.

The campus’ main laboratory, the David H. Murdock Research Institute Core Laboratory, will be completed in December.

The study also aims to involve the Kannapolis community by holding focus group meetings to educate citizens about the study’s potential benefits and welcome participation

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from local physicians. This outreach is to prepare for Horizon 1.5, when research staff will collect data and biological samples from Kannapolis citizens for use in Horizon Two within the next five years.

“The goal is to have a registry ready to enroll patients sometime in July, but we don’t have the infrastructure ready and we haven’t engaged the community,” said Ashley Dunham, the study’s community health project leader.

Duke faculty are also pairing individually with local physicians who share research' interests in order to plan future projects.

“We’re working on a foundation that’s already there, and the study will strengthen the collaboration,” Dunham said, adding that the study will “bring new life” to the Kannapolis area.

Study members are continuing to expand the project’s collaborative nature and will reach out to other universities for researchers and funding in coming months.

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manage and use the endowment to improve and enhance the education of our students,” said Chris Simmons, associate vice president for federal relations.

Baucus and Grassley’s letter pointed to a federal law requiring non-profits to pay at least 5 percent of their assets each year toward their charitable purpose—a requirement that currently does not apply to university endowments. The senators asked universities to specify their spending rates for the past 10 years.

In its response, the University estimated endowment expenditure for the 2007-2008 academic year as $207 million, representing 4 percent of the endowment’s market value at the beginning of the academic year.

“There’s always a balancing act of how much money should be pulled from the endowment to be invested in current activities and how much shouldbe set aside to ensure that future Duke students will have access to the same quality of education that today’s students do,” said John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations.

Last Spring, the University committed to an annual spending rate of 5.5 percent of the endowment’s average market value over the preceding three years, a policy that will go into effect for the 2008-2009 academic year and is subject to a provision capping annual endowment spending growth at 10 percent more than the previous year.

Brodhead’s cover letter said the University’s investments in fields that did not exist a few decades ago require increased spending on facilities and faculty recruitment.

“Duke undergraduates today take courses with the very best researchers in these fields, many of whom teach freshman courses, because Duke’s endowment strategies have helped provide financial flexibility to support new academic initiatives and faculty deepening,” Brodhead wrote.

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DUKE STUDENT GOVERNMENT

'Hunches' program to fund student-professor lunches by

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Students hoping to interact with professors outside of the classroom can now do so on the University’s dollar.

At Wednesday night’s meeting, Duke Student Government discussed a new program, “Flunches,” in which students can invite their teachers to lunch on campus.

“Previously the faculty had funds to take students out to lunch,” said senior Gina Ireland, vice president for academic affairs, “[The new

program] came from John Simon,

vice provost for academic affairs, as away for students to invite faculty to lunch themselves and establish

relationships.”

President Paul Slattery, a senior, said he hopes the program, whose name combines the words “faculty” and “lunches,” will function as a social lubricant between students and faculty.

Flunches—presented with the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Edu-

President Paul Slattery, a senior, presents a new program to fund student-faculty lunches.

cation—has a current budget of $30,000. Individual meals are not capped, but Slattery said applications for funding are reviewed before and after meals.

“If someone is exploiting the program, they will be called out on it,” he said.

To take a faculty member out to lunch, students must sign onto the Flunches Web site and fill out a form, which then will be submitted to the Office ofStudent Activities and Facilities for approval.

Students may take as many as five friends in addition to the invited professor to any of 12 oncampus dining locations. Students are required to hand the vendor a print-out from the Web site and present their DukeCard. The DukeCard will not be charged but acts as a form of identification.

In other business: Junior Sunny Kantha, vice president for athletics and campus services, announced preliminary discussions for a Web site that would track the locations of Duke buses using a global positioning system.

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JuniorSunny Kantha, vice president for athletics and campus services, announced preliminary plans for a Web site to track the location of Duke buses. cations of buses on their laptops or cell phones. The Web page would updated every two seconds.

Though Kantha said he supports the program, he added that he has some concern over the partnership.

“My problem with this is the potential cost, because TransLoc is unwilling to disclose it up front,” Kantha said.

Senators were enthusiastic about the program and suggest-

ed placing display stations at the West Campus bus stop.

A similar bus-tracking proposal was suggested by a student organization in the past but was rejected

by Parking and Transportation Services, which said the organization did not represent the student body, Kantha said.

He also mentioned plans to introduce a resolution next meeting to extend breakfast to 10:15 a.m.

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elected Young Trustee, predicted the allocation of space to selective living groups on West Campus as detailed by the plan could raise the eyebrows of some unaffiliated students.

The plan reserves only 40 percent ofbeds for independents, but Todd added that the programming of theme houses— which are allocated 20 percent ofbeds—could benefit nonmembers as well.

“There’s a lot of emphasis being put on empowering the independents,” he said. “These theme houses will have a lot of overflow programming that will benefit the independent community instead of marginalizing and secluding [it].”

Nowicki said the new plan promotes cross-generational interaction, a development Slattery said could be ideal for freshmen emerging from isolated living on East Campus.

‘You want people to be sharing information as opposed to every class reinventing the wheel on its own accord,” he said.

But Duke University Union President Katelyn Donnelly, a senior, said shared spaces on West might not be enough to motivate students to forge friendships outside their class.

“They’re going to have to put in place a big incentive to get cross-generational interaction,” she said. “That goes beyond just the housing model.”

Regardless of implications for campus culture, some said they are justhappy plans are finally moving forward.

“I’ve been to Central a couple of times, and I think that renovations are long overdue,” sophomore Kimberly Dixon said. “As much money as we’re paying to live here, we shouldn’t have to live in these conditions.”

the first-year experience.

“One of our goals is to design a process to collect student input efficiently,” Pratt said.

Though he and Staton were chosen by Duke Student Government to lead the committee, the group is now completely independent ofDSG. Senior Gina -Ireland, DSG vice president for academic affairs, said the independence of the committee from the current DSG administration is crucial so that the final document can be passed down to future administrations and create “institutional memory.”

“One of the problems [in accomplishing policy changes] is that student governments last a year,” said DSG President Paul Slattery, a senior. “If you can have a committee-drafted document you can have next year’s executive board take it up.”

He said he does not think there has been a similar initiative among students in recent history, adding that future DSG administrations could use the creation of the Committee on Gender as an example for action when they come across complex and long-term issues.

Pratt said he does not anticipate lackluster student attendance for the forums because of an overwhelming response, from more than 200 students, that he and Staton received to their last e-mail soliciting more volunteers for the committee.

“This is a unique opportunity for someone not in DSC to make an impact,” Pratt said.

1 hough the committee will use data collection methods similar to the Women’s Initiative Steering Committee, Staton said the gender committee has taken criticisms of the Women’s Initiative report into account.

Because the steering committee did not include males in its focus groups and made programming recommendations—such as the Baldwin Scholars program—the Committee on Gender hopes to synthesize the views of both genders to make policy recommendations, that will affect more students.

For example, the planning of the new Central Campus may pose an opportunity for the committee to make recommendations related to housing, Staton said.

After the focus groups are held, committee members for each area will bring their notes and personal recommendations back to the rest of the committee, Staton said.

The full committee will make final decisions on recommendations, and the co-chairs will draft the document to be submitted to DSG. This report’s findings will then be distributed to the administration as well as the student body.

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EXCUSE from page 1 with administrators in October to devise a plan that would excuse students in academic organizations from class when there are conflicts with conferences. The initiative stemmed from an instance where a member was not able to obtain an excuse and thus was unable to attend a debate tournament.

“The difficulty, particularly for Mock Trial or the debate team or Model [United Nations], would be that they aren’t systematically excused and they therefore theoredcally have to go to a dean each time a student wanted to go on a trip,” he said, adding that other groups such as Duke University Marching Band or athletic teams are excused systematically.

Academic organizations were always given “a different sort of recognition than athletics,” said Duke Debate Co-president Katelyn Donnelly, a senior, adding that the University should have a stronger commitment to extracurricular activities and intercollegiate competitions.

“1 was in Thailand this past Winter Break and one of our teams got into the top 16 in the world out of about

are University-scheduled. Organization activities are not 400,” she said. “And often these little things seem to go unaccomplishments.” planned by the University, he noted. noticed when they’re really such large “It’s not valuing one activity over another,” he said. “It’s Originally, a Dean’s Excuse was issued by an academic who has control over scheduling.” dean if a student missed class for any reason, but since its inBut although Duke Debate has encountered trouble ception, revisions to the policy have narrowed its scope, Dean with Dean’s Excuses, Model UN of Undergraduate Education Steve Secretary-General Jerry Chen, a Nowicki explained.

“The difficulty, particularly for senior, said his group could ben“Responsibility for class attendance and completing course Mock Trial or the debate team efit from a policy revision but can continue to compete without it. work on time rests with the indiNations], [United Model “We just try to make it easy for at stuor vidual student, and times our members by having our faculty dents may have difficult choices would be that they aren’t sysadviser write the excuses,” he said. to make between fulfilling the obMock Trial President Chetan excused.” tematically ligations of their courses on time Jhaveri, a junior, also said he has and engaging in extra-curricular Paul Slattery never come across a situation activities that conflict with those a student was denied an reads. obligations,” the policy president DSG where excuse from a professor, but said Still, Dean of Trinity College he would support a revision to Bob Thompson said athletes are not given preferential treatment and are granted excuses the Dean’s Excuse policy that included academic teams.

“Most teachers I know don’t have a problem with it, at the beginning of each semester because their activities especially if we explain what Mock Trial does,” he said. “We get some of the people we work with to talk to them and we’ve never had a problem with the current policy because we’re able to work around the official policy.”

Since members of many academic organizations said an updated Dean’s Excuse policy would benefit students, Donnelly said it is in the University’s best interest to make the process easier for students to compete and represent Duke.

Although Slattery said he does not know exactly how the policy will be revised, he said he finds it “bizarre” that changes will not be made until next year.

Nowicki confirmed that academic deans have been asked to examine the issue. He added that Associate Dean of Trinity College NormanKeul will be active in drafting a revision to the policy. Keul could not immediately be reached for comment.

“I don’t think anybody disagrees we need to figure out how to do this,” Nowicki said. “It wasn’t a case of how to cut out the debate team, it was just that it fell through the cracks when the policy was [first] revised.”

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Outstanding Service-Learning Award This award recognizes one graduating senior for her/his outstanding commitment to the ideals of servicelearning. Because this award is named for Dr. Alden, we are particularly interested in recognizing students who demonstrate two qualities that have been essential to the success of service-learning at Duke: leadership and ongoing commitment to community partnership.

Criteria for the award include: Completion of at least one service-learning or research service-learning course Demonstration of leadership, initiative, and commitment related to service-learning or a specific service-learning project Ongoing positive and sustained community impact Bridging of community and university Fostering of communication between community, students, staff, and faculty •

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http://osaf.studentaffairs.duke.edu/leadership/awards/ betsy_alden.html Nomination letters should be sent to Vicki Stocking (vicki.stocking@duke.edu) by 4:00 p.m. on March 17, 2008

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Oh, here it goes again.

It’s that time of the year, when three months of tenting pays off, when Cameron Crazies are at their finest, when the two blues battle it out once and for all—at least for the regular season.

But this year, in addition to the usual madness that overtakes K-ville and the entire campus during the week of Go To Hell Carolina! festivities, the Duke University Union decided to add K-ville Rocks! into the mix this Thursday night.

Headlining the show is Grammy Award-winning band OK Go, best known for their flashy, paisley outfits and lowbudget music videos that feature a wellknown treadmill routine in “Here It Goes Again” and choreographed backyard dance in “A Million Ways.” Duke’s own Stella By Starlight will open for the'band, which got its start in Chicago.

OK Go was a band that the Union had been looking to bring for a while, Major Attractions Director Chamindra Goonewardene said.

“We thought [OK Go] wouldn’t really be a good fit in Page because they are more of an outdoor band,” Goonewardene said.

“So when the K-ville show came up, We thought it would be the perfect fit.”

Since Thursday is also a night ofpersonal checks for tenters, there would already be close to a thousand students out there anyway, said Karen Chen, freshman and Major Attractions Committee member.

A personal OK Go enthusiast, Chen first learned about the band from the teensoap The O.C. She became an “instant fan” after watching the band’s comical parody of a ping pong instructional video. She said the free-spirited vibe of the band will get fans pumped for the game Saturday.

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Although tylasnick enjoys the concept of Thursday’s show, he does not think it should serve as a substitute for the Cameron Rocks! concert.

“I really, really enjoyed Franz Ferdinand and Death Cab For Cutie when they came a couple years back,” Masnick said.

“The Union should continue to bring bigger artists to campus.”

Similarly, freshman Jesse Sun believes the money spent on OK Go could be put to better use. With a $40,000 price tag for the entire show, other options could have been explored.

However, he feels OK Go was a good

In the midst of the afternoon sunsoaked gallery, an artwork entitled “Veronica’s Desire” depicts an undeniably phallic-shaped purple flower that fills the frame of the image, curving at a sensuous angle and urging viewers to make a scintillating connection with the title. On the facing wall, a piece called “Red Passion Flower” features a close-up shot of an exotic, vibrantred flower that stretches across the black background while its twodimensional tendrils seem to palpably spiral into the viewer’s space.

Both works are samples from Kismet, artist Charity Jules Valentine’s digital phonography exhibit on display now through March 16 in the Durham Art Council’s Allenton Gallery. The two photographic prints, with their vivid color and nearly tangible, larger-than-life depictions of plant species, are characteristic of the aesthetic that dominates Valentines’ art. While the works are certainly visually pleasing, their catchy titles and initially arresting appearances ultimately conceal a disappointing conceptual vacuity.

The prints are not photographs in the typical sense, but are called scan-o-grams, the result of a process in which the artist creates an image by putting the subject of the photograph directly on the screen of the scanner.

“You use the scanner as a camera,” Valentine said.

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YouTube hit Ok Go will play K-vilie tonight in a free show sponsored by the Duke University Union. well-suited for a college audience and for the party atmosphere,” Chen said. “It’s quite danceable.”

Instead of having the larger show in Cameron Stadium that usually takes place in the spring, Major Attractions decided to hold more shows in Page Auditorium and Reynolds Theater. Boys Likes Girls, Augustana and Joshua Radin were some of the replacements for the show. K-ville Rocks! also adds to this list, and many people are excited for it.

“It’s cool to have an outdoor show because it’s more of a dynamic experience,” junior Max Masnick said. “People are already standing up and not just sitting down passively.”

Musician Malkmus reviews Dylan, talks Trash Stephen Malkmus has been an incredibly influential figure in music since his legendary band Pavement’s first album, Slanted and Enchanted, released in 1991. Five Pavement albums and three solo LPs later, he is still going strong with his band the Jicks. recess Kevin Lincoln recently took part in a conference call with Malkmus, where they discussedfatherhood, covering Bob Dylan and his latest release, Real Emotional Trash.

Can you tell us anything about the direction you took on the new album?

Well, we’ve got a new drummer.

Her name is Janet Weiss, and some of you might be familiar with her from Sleater-Kinney. Drummer’s are really instrumental to how bands sound, especially our kind ofmusic. Of course, you can just put a quick track on there and the drummer can sound exactly like you want them to sound, if you’re going for a controlled sound, but we are more into, I would call it, performance-oriented rock music, which means it sort of happens in the mo’

COURTESY STEPHEN MALKMUS

Stephen Malkmus got his start as a hipster icon in the cult band Pavement and is now playing with the Jicks after eight albums.

and you play what you play and it can’t exactly be repeated ever again.

That’s kind of where we’re going. Of course we have some strong structures to play within that realm. So it’s going pretty far out in that direction, but with some structures, so it’s not completely like the space section of a Grateful Dead show or something.

You consider yourself a pretty big Bob Dylan fan. What was it like working on the soundtrack for Pm Not There and do you think your experience is going to have any significant influence on your own music?

The experience of singing on that song was after we made this album, but in the future, I suppose it could make me think a little more after having this Bob Dylan, everyone talking about it, and after singing on the song I listened to him again a little closer, and maybe it will rub off on me. But the thing that I sang on it was just vocals on a song that was already recorded so it wasn’t...

I didn’t have that much investment ment

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spiritually in the project, but I was really glad to be a part of something that was with all these A-list movie stars and stuff. It was kind of funny to be vaguely associated with them.

How do you think that illegal downloading has affected the music

industry?

(Laughs) Well, I don’t know, sales

are down for compact discs on the retail side due to people burning CDs and not paying for them, so in that way then illegal downloading or otherwise, if we could just talk about downloading, I think it’s interesting in that it makes music more available for people to just stick their feet in without committing their money, and maybe they can hear about a band that they wouldn’t have heard about otherwise. So there’s more opportunity to hear different stuff that you maybe wouldn’t have paid attention to, so I guess that’s a good thing... and SEE MALKMUS ON PAGE

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Editor’s Note 24; on Politicking Maxim, long-regarded as setting the gold standard for journalistic integrity, took a major hit to its reputation last issue when it made the curious move ofreviewing the new Black Crowes album without actually listening to it. This comes as little surprise to anyone who is familiar with Peter Hammond’s movie reviews for the magazine, but it still caused a bit of a furor in the music world. In honor of this innovative, time-saving new approach to music criticism, ,we charged recess staff writer Kevin Lincoln with the task of reviewing several recent releases, untainted by any exposure to the songs themselves The Black Crowes— Warpaint: Fresh off the success (well, four-years fresh) of their hit

single “Accidentally in Love” the Crows have finally decided to do something else. Warpaint surely picks up where “Mr. Jones” left off, continuing in their tradition of soft, boring, mildly capable rock music. Apparently, they’re scheduled to release another album in late March as we 11... that’s strange. Wait, I’m supposed to be reviewing the Black Crowes? Damn.

Verdict; 2 birds, 1 stone

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Real Emotional Trash Malkmus could record an album of Farsi gangster rap over the soundtrack to Aladdin and I would still bow at his feet. If you made Slanted and Enchanted and Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, you’d have earned yourself a little leeway too. I don’t have to listen to this album, which is likely an hour of hopelessly guitars tangled and his typically nonsensical (read: brilliant) lyrics, to know that I’ll love it like a gift from God. —

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Janet Jackson Discipline. Jackson’s

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brand of countryfolk-metal has revolutionized the music industry. With guitarist Nels Cline and the legendary drumming skills of Keith Moon, who came back from the dead solely for this album, Jackson has made her mark on the culture we live in, and I know I will never be the same. The Velvet Underground meets Public Enemy, with a hint of Johnny Cash, a side of My Bloody Valentine, and Daft Punk for dessert, this album is the four course-meal I like to call a masterpiece. Verdict: 5 unicorns.

—Kevin Lincoln

As you may or may not have noticed —if you are an average Duke student I am going to bet on the latter—recess has unabashedly supported Barack “Hussein in the Membrane” Obama in this current presidential election.

We throw our immense and meaningful political clout behind Obamarama for two very valid and well-formed reasons.

First, Hillary Clinton is kind of mean/ scary and is for censoring violent video games, which really miffs everyone (read: the nerds) in recess.

Secondly, no matter how much experience John McCain has, we firmly believe that electing a zombie to the highest office in the nation sets a bad precedent. Yes, solving the problem of terrorist factions in Iraq through brain-eating sounds awesome at first, but what starts with terrorists ends with innocent Andorran children... delicious, moist Andorran children. Luckily,

no one is sure where Andorra is located However, newspapers and other politicians are not the only ones to endorse candidates. The most important political group

in today’s People magazine, paparazzi-loving society is the ever-elusive celebrity.

Each candidate has their own stable of celebrities. Obama clearly has the edge with his super-large posse that loves him so much as to make music videos for him.

Many people discount the celebrity voice, saying that celebs just need to keep their opinions to themselves. I tend to

disagree.

Celebrities are like good friends to the American populace. We let them into our home, get to know them and eventually love them. We care about what our good friends’ opinions are, so we should be OK with what our celebs say. Except for Sean Penn. Never ever listen to Sean Penn.

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Must-do dining for the soon-to-be graduated by

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would be proud to have. Though the servers sometimes convey cool disinterestedness to the point of pretension—it’s the hipster credo—the food more than makes up for this. The normal menu has its own appeal, but the real action is on the page of daily specials. Expect a bit more creativity applied to a host of eclectic favorites that pair well with the bar’s diverse beer list.

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class In of 2008 will bid Durham and the rest of the Triangle farewell as Duke’s newest alumni head off to new jobs and graduate schools across the country and beyond. Thankfully, however, there’s still time to enjoy much of the area’s most distinctive dining. The list recess presents here is by no means comprehensive nor is it entirely based on culinary excellence. Rather, these are 11 gastronomic experiences not easily found elsewhere.

Each of these selections speak to the terroir, or place, of Durham and its surrounding environs, offering diners a meal that will most likely be memorable.

9) Popsicles at Locopops For those of you living under a rock, is on a path toward world domination. Nearly three years ago recess broke LocoPops’ opening to the Duke community, and now the popsicle empire has spread onto campus, across the Triangle and soon will be expanding even further. The gourmet popsicles feature alluring flavors like white chocolate-kalamata olive and rose petal that are anything but ordinary.

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1) Charcuterie at Piedmont If Chef Andy Magowan left Piedmont and set up shop selling his hearty yet refined cured meats and pates for retail sale he would have much of the area’s dining cognoscenti banging down his doors. For now, however, he features two to three selections on Piedmont’s dailychanging menu. Paired with a glass of wine or craft beer, there’s hardly a better way to start a meal.

2) Sandwiches at Sandwhich This Chapel Hill lunchtime mainstay is not cheap. With some sandwiches eclipsing

the $lO mark, this seemingly humble shop is more an indulgence than an everyday stop. Thankfully, with the relatively high prices comes an unmatched, nearly maniacal devotion to quality that features local produce and fresh meats, fish and cheeses.

3) Barbeque at Allen & Sons The best barbeque in the Triangle, bar none. Allen

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Sons is one of the few

barbeque restaurants that still cooks over wood, and the results show. Here, diners can expect chopped pork that is unapologetically rich and smoky. Ignore the restaurant’s bunker-like appearance and settle in for some quality ’cue.

4) Barbacoa taco at La Vaquita Thanks to Durham’s burgeoning Mexican food scene barbacoa is threatening

10) Chef’s table at Jujube Jujube is one of the Triangle’s most

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The Cookout Tray, a perennial post-party staple, has almost become an unofficial graduation requirement. to

become the “new” North Carolina bar-

beque. Many of the city’s taquerias do tacos, tortas and tamales exceptionally well, but there’s special kitschy appeal in eating barbacoa at a taco stand with a large cow perched atop the roof.

5) Twice-baked grits souffle at Magnolia Grill Magnolia Grill is the restaurant thatput Durham on the culinary map and this grits souffle is one of the menus few constants.

Order this dish along with one of the restaurant’s more seasonal offerings to get a sense of the kitchen’s full range.

6) Sliders at Watts Grocery Available only after 10:30 p.m., these mini-burgers are the perfect late-night

snack. Take a seat at the bar, order the deliciously hoppy Foothills IPA and within a few minutes you’ll have a plate of these

haute burgers with a small heap offries just waiting to be devoured. The only problem?

They’re served in orders of three, making sharing near impossible. Not that you’d want to anyway.

7) Cookout Tray at Cookout When a late-night burger craving strikes after Watts Grocery’s 1 a.m. closing time Cookout is the only answer. Where else can you get a burger, fries, corn dog, chicken nuggets and a milkshake for about $6?

While Cookout’s culinary acumen may be debated, especially when less-than-inebriated, it’s a quintessential spot to end the night. While located just a few minutes from campus by car, finding a friend sober enough is often the most challenging part of a Cookout endeavor.

8) Specials menu at the Federal The Federal is a gastropub that any city

innovative restaurants for its smart amalgamation of Eastern and Western flavors.

This is not contrived “fusion” cooking but the work of a smart kitchen staff well-versed in the classics of both Asian and European cuisines. Nowhere is this clearer than in the calculated excess of Chef Charlie Deal’s Tuesday night chefs table dinners.

Clocking in at around 20 courses, this is a meal that is sure to be remembered.

11) Half-price sushi at Mt. Fuji Let’s get one thing straight, Mt. Fuji’s sushi is not particularly good. In fact, recess panned the restaurant shortly after its opening in 2005. Nevertheless, every Thursday night the restaurant transforms into a madhouse more evocative of a fraternity section party than a trendy eatery. Half-price sushi is the draw, but the hordes of Duke students that fill the restaurant are the real entertainment Young women in tight-fitting cocktail dresses down rounds of “sake bombs” with boisterous ceremony. Dozens crowd at the bar and the hostess stand, greeting friends and struggling to be heard above the din. Even worse, some large groups are forced to eat outside, in the dead of winter, beneath a few heat lamps. It has to be seen to be believed.

Ferrell shows In a recent visit to Chapel Hill, while on the Funny OrDie Comedy Tour, SemiPro star Will Ferrell spoke with recess ’ VarunLeila about sports, growing up and future roles.

Who would win in a one-on-oneon-one game between you and Woody Harrelson and Andre 3000?

Well, I would. Because I got great fundamentals and that’s what wins games, I would think.

You have done soccer and NASCAR and skating, are there any other sports movies you want to do?

This is kind of coincidence that these movies have come out one right after another. That’s kind of been the line of questioning, “Are you obsessed with sports comedies?” I’m not. They are fun to do, but I don’t have a list of 80 sports-related movies I want to do.

Well, in a lot of ways it is more of a parody of the time and place.

Exactly, that’s a good observation and a lot of people don’t get that. It is really a parody of the ’7os and this league, the ABA which a lot of people don’t realize was a real league. It is not a movie about our characters playing bad basketball. It’s more about this insane league. When you read accounts about the ABA you can’t believe the stories or that it was around for nine years.

What were you doing in 1976 when the ABA was cancelled?

Well, I was nine, so I was in the third grade. So just kicking ass in the third grade.

You and Adam McKay ( Anchorman, Talladega Nights) have a good relationship, and you are doing your next movie, Step Brothers, with him. How is this film different than your past work with Adam?

It is pretty different in that it is not based on broad, over-the-top characters. It is pretty grounded, or as grounded as we can get. It’s dealing with family life, it features two characters that are 40 years old and live at

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Semi-Pro is Will Ferrell’s new comedy about a minor league basketball franchise, the Flint Tropics.

Unfortunately, much like the floundering basketball team, this film struggles to find itself and is a disappointing, semi-funny movie.

Ferrell stars as Jackie Moon, a one-hit wonder, who translated his music royalties into a failing ABA basketball team, where he is player, coach and promoter, in addition to the team owner. When the ABA is set to merge with the NBA, Jackie’s team has a shot at making the big time if they can become one of the top four teams in the league.

The cast features a bevy of familiar faces (Rob Corddry, David Koechner), but the best performances are put on by the Tropics’s announcers (Will Arnet and Andrew Daly). Regrettably, the story seems to lose focus and spends an inordinate amount of time on washed-up veteran Monix (Woody Harrelson), almost relegating Ferrell to comic relief status. , The screenplay is written by comedy veteran Scot Armstrong (Old School, The Heartbreak Kid), but this script is surprisingly devoid of jokes. It’s not a tremendous surprise that much of the attempts at humor are recycled from past Ferrell movies. From the wacky sports theme to the 1970 setting and style, it all feels tired and unoriginal.

The movie is a let down from the get go, and the laughs are few and far between. Furthermore, the movie seems to have been put together with astonishing laziness. Instead of a spoof in the vein of Talladega Nights, the film degenerates into the typical sports-underdog formula. Despite the attempts at making a sincere sports movie, the basketball team is never given depth, and the players remain caricatures.

Overall, laughter was more abundant during the preview for the upcoming Harold and Kumar sequel than during the entire film. The funniest moments Semi-Pro provides are not in the movie at all, but rather the Old Spice commercials that feature more typical Ferrell-style comedy.

Simply put, if you like Will Ferrell movies, go rent one of his older features. Don’t waste your time on this one —Caleb Seeley

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home and have to get jobs, but have a laundry list of reasons for not doing so. I think we all know people like that. People who are like, “As soon as I get my welding degree, I am going to go do this... but I can’t do that until I get my car fixed.”

Given the positive reaction from critics to your roles in Stranger than Fiction and Winter Passing, would you consider doing more dramatic roles in the future?

I don’t know, it just depends. I

like not being confined to any sort of master blueprint. I loved those two experiences and especially Stranger Than Fiction, but I never want to be guilty of forcing that issue. I want it to feel like it fits. I am not that comedian that has the agenda of saying, “Please take me seriously.” It’s so much fun to do different movies and take on those challenges, but I love comedies too. Hopefully I get to do more, but I’m just going to take it as it comes.

STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING

NEVER BACK DOWN DIR. J. WADLOW

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����� I’ll be honest. I really thought this movie would suck.

I saw the title and rolled my eyes. When I read the plot synopsis, I sighed because I knew just what was headed my way —another flat, disappointing action flick that would leave me more frustrated than entertained. But against all expectations, Never Back Down was not terrible.

Directed by Jeff Wadlow {Cry Wolf), the film combines the best of The Karate Kid and Rocky but, for the audience’s sake, abandons the musical training montage. While the story relies on cliches, they are fleshed out and actually interesting to watch.

The protagonist, Jake Tyler (Sean Paris), is a headstrong teen with a tendency to think with his fists. He and his family move from lowa to Orlando to support his tennis prodigy brother. Once immersed in this perfect, sunny playground brimming with nice cars, mansions and bikini-clad girls, Jake finds himself at a party with the stun-

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ning and flirtatious Baja Miller (Amber Heard).

The party is straight out of The 0.C., fight and all. Jake is drawn into a fisdcuffs against his will by Baja’s jerk boyfriend, Ryan McCarthy (Cam Gigandet—who, by' the way, wasVolchokon TheO.C.).

It turns out Ryan is a very skilled mixed martial artist (MMA) and completely humiliates Jake.

Jake decides this won’t do and seeks training. With his likeable new friend Max (Evan Peters) as his ever-supportive, constantly video-recording sidekick, Jake begins to learn how to fight from Jean Roquoa (Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond).

Hounsou’s character has his own subplot of redemption and

makes Mr. Miyagi look like a nursing home patient.

I have to give Wadlow credit.

The movie uses stereotypes, cliches and everything that should make a film terrible. Without being gratuitous, however, the film includes hot on-screen chemistry between Paris and Heard, taking the film from potential disaster to surprising success. You find yourself rooting for Jake and engaged in the film. To boot, Never Back Down flexes comedic muscle with a subtle satire of the egregious wealth so prevalent in the movie.

You arrive not expecting much and leave surprisingly satisfied.

—Braden Hendricks

It’s a feeling many college students get; that hopeless, uninspired hole that opens up while staring at a blank document on a laptop screen. That feeling is how directorAndrew Wagner begins his new film, Starting Out in the Evening, except Leonard Schiller exchanges a Red Bull for a cup of tea and a Macßook Pro for a typewriter.

Schiller (Frank Langella) is an out-of-print, 70-something author grudgingly determined to finish his current novel before he dies.

But two main obstacles lie in his path: his poor health from a recent heart attack and the fact he has been writing the novel for the last 10 years.

Bright and eager graduate student Heather Wolfe {Six Feet Under’s Lauren Ambrose) contacts Schiller and communicates her desire to write her thesis on his works. Schiller, at first unwilling to budge from his routine, Upper West Side writer lifestyle, eventually caves, and the two begin to have weekly interviews,

mainly driven by Heather’s belief that her thesis can revitalize Schiller’s career.

Leonard’s daughter, Ariel (Lili Taylor), a yoga and pilates teacher who lives nearby, is nearing forty and dealing with a midlife must-have-children crisis.

Her life gets a jolt when she sees her former lover Casey (Adrian Lester) late one night on the street. The two quickly fall back together, despite Leonard’s warnings and each’s memory of past pain. Taylor and Lester exhibit a strikingly organic chemistry, and the relationship successfully avoids cliche.

The film, though slow and contrived at times, has some provocative scenes that keep the audience’s interest. Wagner, who co-wrote the script, adepdy unwraps each couple, exposing the intricacies of the characters and the boundaries between art and reality.

It features some excellent performances, especially from Frank Langella, whose Leonard is fragile, pitiful and commanding at the same time. Though failing to provide much closure, Starting Out is a heartfelt thesis on, as Leonard likes to put it, the “madness of art.”

—Charlie McSpadden

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Senior starter Wanisha Smith looks to take care of unfinished business in the NCAA Tourney

Assistant coach Al Brown makes a statement from the sideline with his colorful sweaters

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POSTSEASON PREVIEW I THE TEAM

Blue Devils aim to reverse postseason fortunes by

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As Duke heads into the ACC and NCAA

Tournaments, it’s not with the same fanfare

that it has in the past.

When the Blue Devils begin their postseason slate, they won’tbe the ACC regular season champions, won’t be ranked in the topfive and might not even be in the top ten.

But just like its counterparts of recent years, this Duke squad still has the same goal: Win the school’s first national

championship.

Despite finishing on the short end of many tight games, Duke (21-8) believes it is now fully prepared to put the pieces together and play consistently well in the tournaments.

“We have everything on the table,” junior guard Abby Waner said. “Offensively, we know how to look for each other, how to set each other up. We’re in more of a system. We understand our defenses better.... We’ve worked on everything that we need to.

“And because we’re so close, maybe all we just needed was a little more time.”

The Blue Devils have dropped the most regular-season contests of any Duke team since 1997, but they hope to erase the sting of those defeats with a strong postseason run —the part of the puzzle that has been missing the past two seasons.

The team has learned the hard way that wins in January and February don’t neces-

sarily translate to victories in March.

In 2006, after beating Maryland twice during the regular season, Duke fell to the Terrapins in both the ACC and the NCAA Tournaments. In 2007, the Blue Devils were knocked out of the NCAA Tournament by Rutgers, a team they beat by 40 earlier in the season.

This season, though, Duke seeks to avenge losses to Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee and Connecticut.

“Unfortunately, we’ve lost a couple games that have forced us to learn a lot about ourselves and make us better,” senior Wanisha Smith said. “The biggest thing I’ve learned from our team is that we can fight.

Regardless of if we’re down or not...we’re going to be able to fight. Because when we do get into the Tournament, and we’re down, we have the confidence to know that this is not over.”

They demonstrated that resiliency in their last home game Feb. 24, when the Blue Devils erased a nine-point second-half deficit to Virginia to win 78-70.

When Duke needed points, someone scored. When the team needed stops, someone forced a turnover. It was the type of performance the Blue Devils will need come March.

While Duke’s defense has gelled as of late, the offense has stalled at times and limited the team in its biggest games.

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Wanisha Smith is known to her teammates as a strong leader, an easygoing friend and a fiery competitor.

She’s also known as Scrooge.

Smith apparently doesn’t wake up chiming “God bless us, every one,” so her teammates like to poke fun at her morning grumpiness with the Dickensian nickname.

“We have to be at breakfast at a certain time and if people aren’t there on time, she’s the first one to be like, ‘Where are grrr...”’ said junior Chante Black, devolving into an imitation of Smith’s grumbling.

“I’m really not a morning person,” Smith responded. “I just like to keep to myself, and my teammates, being so giddy and happy, are like, ‘Nish, you’re a Scrooge,’ and I’m like, ‘I just don’t want to be up this early in the morning.’”

But Smith has been positive when it counts, particularly in a senior season that has thrown plenty of obstacles her way.

First, there was the coaching change, then an injured hand that kept her out of five games early in the season and slowed her for several more. Now, it’s trying to put a strong closing on a year that featured the most regular-season losses since 1997.

Smith, though, says if she has learned anything during her time at Duke, it’s how to deal with adversity. The Upper Marlboro, Md. product came into Duke as an All-American shooting guard. Her plan was to rim the wing as a scorer, benefitting from the presence of talented point guard Lindsey Harding.

All that changed, however, when Harding was suspended for the 2004-2005 season for violating team rules. Suddenly a green Smith was expected to step in and play a new position for the defending ACC champions. She responded by dishing out more than four assists per game and leading the Blue Devils to a 31-5 record.

“She already started developing those captain qualities [her first year], and being able to play with those other great leaders really makes her one of a kind,” Black said.

That freshman season not only forced her to be a leader from the day she got to campus, but also taught her to anticipate

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In the last three years, senior Wanisha Smith has played in the Elite 8, National Championship and Final Four. the unexpected—something thathas come in handy this past year.

“As a senior, you just have to expect things to happen,” Smith said. “The hand injury was probably the worst thing, since in previous seasons I’ve never had to sit out a game because of injury. But I had to figure out how to turn it into a positive.”

Smith tried to watch the game as a coach during her time on the bench, and she was able to mentor freshman Jasmine Thomas, who is in a similar position as Smith her rookie year—a natural two-guard trying to replace Harding at the point.

This season has also had a great number of highlights as well. Smith’s final home game —a 78-70 victory over Virginia—featured a special fan in the stands for the first time—Wanisha’s mother.

“That’s the first time she’s seen me in person and that was pretty exciting, and having it be senior day made it even more emotional,” Smith said. “It was really good for her to come.”

That win gave Smith 114 in her career.

She also is one of 22 Duke players to hit the 1,000-point mark and ranks fourth in all-time assists. She says, however, she wants

her legacy to go beyond the numbers “To know that when I left I was a team player, and I did everything I could to help my team, whether it was distributing the ball or scoring when I needed to score,” Smith said. “And that I was a fun-loving person, not all just basketball stuff. Off the court, I want people to think that I was very relatable.”

According to her teammates, she has already achieved that legacy—at least after noon.

“Friendly, grouchy and funny—there you go, that’s Nish,” Black said. “But only grouchy in the morning.”

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Last year’s Duke squad was Lindsey Harding’s team. The point guard, the leader and the emotional sparkplug, Harding was the player who could turn the game around with a steal at midcourt and a layup on the other end of the floor.

But the National Player of the Year graduated last May and her departure left a gaping hole at the point guard position.

Although this year’s Blue Devil team does not have a similar go-to player, the next Harding might emerge from this year’s freshman class.

Jasmine Thomas, a 5-foot-9 rookie, could be the Duke floor general of the future.

Thomas has scored in double figures eight times this season—most among the three freshman on the team—and averages 7.4 points and 2.4 assists per game.

“Jas is more of a scorer than Lindsey was when she first came here,” junior Abby Waner said. “Lindsey obviously developed into a huge scorer for us last year, but I think it’s more natural for Jas. I know Lindsey developed her shot here throughout her career, and Jas- already has a great 3point shot.”

When Harding returned to Duke in January for her jersey retirement ceremonies, Thomas had the opportunity to practice with Harding, who instructed her on some of the fundamentals of being a point guard.

“It was really cool,” Thomas said. “I never really got to play with her that much. She was giving me direction, what to do when I got trapped while she was playing defense.

So she was kind of coaching me and playing me at the same time.”

Thomas had enjoyed success even before facing off with the only player in Duke history to record 1,000 points and 500 assists in her career.

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In her fourth game as a Blue Devil, Thomas netted 15 points to help Duke down then-No. 20 Purdue 53-41 on Thanksgiving Day in the Paradise Jam in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. With two-and-a half minutes left in the game, Thomas converted a three-point play after being fouled on a breakaway layup. The play sealed the Blue Devils victory, giving the team a 13point lead.

“I thought Jas gave us a great lift as a freshman with her leadership and with her attack on the basket,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said after the game.

From that point forward, Thomas used her quickness and aggressiveness to boost Duke’s offense during non-conference play.

Her 17 points against Penn State Dec. 2 kept then-No. 10 Duke close in a high-scoring affair that the Blue Devils lost 86-84.

Thomas’ playing time and scoring, though, diminished during the conference slate. Facing staunch ACC competition for the first time, Thomas struggled with her shot and saw less playing time as Waner took on more of the point guard’s responsibilities.

“She thinks through things a little bit too much sometimes,” Waner said. “I tell her to go with her instinct and just play.”

The freshman letdown is not surprising, as Thomas is still adjusting to the speed of the college game.She said, though, that the game has begun to slow down for her—evident in her 12 points, five assists and three critical steals to boost Duke to a 78-70 win over Virginia Feb. 24.

Although Thomas will not likely have the effect on this year’s team in the postseason that Harding had on last year’s squad, the future looks promising for the speedy freshman. After all, Harding needed five years to develop into the player that she became. Thomas is still in year one.

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What looks like a basic 3-2 matchup zone turns into much more given different variations. The Blue Devils pressure the ball, trap corners and, when

most in need, trap everywhere.

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Duke starts every game playing “1,” its trademark man-to-man defense. What the Blue Devils do next is anyone’s guess.

They could go into “23,” their quartercourt, 2-2-1 press. Or “24,” full-court, 1-2-T1 press. Or “23” half. Or “24” half. Maybe they will trap. Or switch. Or hedge. They might revert to a variation on the man set. Perhaps they will trap the wing (“fist”). Or trap everywhere (“doublefist”).

Ifyou’re having trouble catching on, don’t worry. Duke’s defense will change before you figure it out, anyway.

Before migrating south to Duke last April, Joanne P. McCallie, theformer Michigan State head coach, had made her mark by employing an impressive array of defenses. Despite using a seven-player rotation, McCallie led the Spartans to the 2005 Final Four in large part because ofher team’s amorphous pressure.

The only problem? Previous Duke teams haven’t exactly been paragons of defensive confusion. It was clear that no matter the situation, the Blue Devils would usually play a highpressure, in-your-face man-to-man defense. It was former head coach Gail Goestenkors’ signature, and the Duke players relished in shutting down their individual matchups.

Now, though, they’re following McCallie’s personal style, and this shifting of defensive mindset has been one of the adjustments to which the players have adapted best.

Perhaps the most successful, and most used, matchup zone is the 2-2-1. McCallie urges the top two defenders to pick up their assign-

of its rhythm. And that’s exactly the purpose of this defense: cause disrupdon.

Of course, that disturbance can also result in inducing miscues, and that’s fine with the Blue Devils, too. In Duke’S 76-69 loss to Maryland Feb. 17, the Blue Devils stayed in contention with this set, which pressured Terrapin guard Krysti Toliver into 12 turnovers. “[The 2-2-1 zone] might be to force a team to just do what we want them to do,” said Keturah Jackson, whom the Blue Devils say is their best defender.

Then there’s the full-court zone press, which- the team uses when it needs a steal.

Duke immediately traps in the corner and the far-side defender slides to anticipate the reverse pass—it’s called “Greensboro,” in honor of the first team to be decimated by it. When they’re at their best, the Blue Devils effectively block off all passing lanes.

The weak point, however, lies in the middle. If the first guard quickly gets the ball to a taller presence in the paint, the press is effectively broken. And if such a team thrives in transition, as Connecticut and North Carolina do, then “24” is especially chancy.

There are only three prime sets, but the variations on eachof them turn one zone into three or four different looks. On top of that, McCallie hasn’t abandoned the man—far from it. Now, though, opponents know they will have to include zone breakers in their scouting reports to supplement the alreadyexisting man-to-man plays.

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Duke assistant Al Brown has drawn both the praise and criticism of fans for his colorfulduds.

Before this year, there were always fans who admired Duke’s classic blue jerseys.

But now there are those whose eyes wander to the sidelines, who follow the kaleidoscopic patterns with curiosity and make signs critiquing assistant coach A1 Brown’s courtside couture.

“People from home always call and ask, ‘Who’s that guy on the bench with all the crazy sweaters?”’ freshman Jasmine Thomas said.

Brown is a man of many sweaters: 10-yearsor some 350 games-worth, in fact. And in that time, Brown said he’s gotten varying feedback on the technicolor pullovers. When he was an assistant for head coach Joanne P. McCallie at Michigan State, Brown said a fan came to a game with a poster declaring his love for the colorful cashmeres. Channeling his inner Dennis Rodman, Brown gave his sweater to the man after the game.

But the top assistant also has gotten e-mails advising him to “Lose that sweater,” or other wardrobe advice from the team.

“I think it was the Virginia Tech game, that was the first time he wore a boring one,” Thomas said. “It was just plain, cream-colored white, and we were like, ‘What’s going on?’ So I told him, and he said, ‘Well, boring sweater for a boring game.’”

But even though Brown wore what players dubbed the “Crayola crayon box” sweater to the team’s big matchup at Maryland, Brown said his choices are more accidental than that.

“There’s no forethought necessarily...

There’s one [color] that I won’t wear—that’s Carolina blue,” he said.

Brown said he first donned a sweater for an

exhibition game when nessee under Pat Summitt, when several people complimented it, he decided to make it his signature.

Since then, he’s never worn the same sweater twice to a game. But he said it’d be that way if he wore ties or suits,

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comfort and packability.

“I don’t like repeating outfits,” he said.

He’s enlisted the help of his wife, Karen, in finding uniqu ones, naming St. Croix and Tundra among their favorite companies.

“My wife is an expert at picking out marvelous sweaters,” he said, adding that he’s usually pleased with his wife’s selections thereby avoiding tensions or having to tuck away purchases in the back of his closet.

“She’s got a pretty good handle on my taste and her taste.”

Apparently McCallie’s husband has fine taste, too. Brown said two ofhis sweaters were gifts from John McCallie.

Though Brown said he was surprised by the attention the pieces have garnered, the team and fans seem to think the bench needs the bright spot the sweaters provide.

“Everybody says you’ve got to have personality on the court; his are his sweaters,” Black said.

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Standing in their Central Campus apartment Abby Warier and Brittany Mitch admit between laughs that they've watched Wedding Crashers 50 to 60 times. But if you don't think the two take the-movie's famous tagline seriously maybe the "Wedding Crashers Rules" poster hanging prominently in their living room would convince you. If not there's always the 2005 Final Four banner stolen from the Fleet Center in Boston tacked on the adjacent wall. The amply-decorated apartment—which just two years ago belonged to Abby's sister, Emily and All-American Alison Bales—has become the social hub for the team. "It's a revolving door," Mitch says, "Nobody calls. They just show up." In a year following the heartbreak of last postseason, the departure of their head coach and the emotional strain of a coaching search, perhaps the open-door policy and the nights when the Blue Devils gather to watch their favorite ;

Jasmine and Krystal Thomas'dorm room Hoopin' it up Bedroom-door basketball is an art, or at least that's what Jasmine (right) and Krystal (left) would tell you. The pair say that shooting on their modest basket is a lot more difficult than it might seem on the surface—something about not being able to put arc on your shot when you release it. Though they say they're not very good themselves, they divulge a little-known but well-kept secret of who rocks the mini-rim: Nolan Smith, freshman point guard on the men's squad. In fact, the Thomases have had all three freshman basketball guys over, challenging them to games, but the consensus is that Smith is by far the best small-scale sharpshooter.

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Both Thomases, Waner and Mitch have impressive shoe collections.

Waner has by far the most and wonders out loud why she has shoe racks at the top of her closet because they have completely overflown their alotted space and taken over her floor. The Blue Devils tend to share kicks, particularly heels, because shoes in their sizes are hard to come by. Krystal (left), for example, plays in a men's size 15 basketball shoe. Waner shows off a particular pump (right) that has become the communal Duke heel.

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Shooting numbers down, Waner ups floor game of the team changed drastically with the departure of the senior class. Last season, Waner was the primary benefiComparing the statistics of last year’s Duke squad to ciary of All-American point guard Lindsey Harding and All-American center Alison Bales. Harding’s ability to pass this year’s team, one number immediately stands out.

Waner’s and Bales’ propensity to attract numerous defenders ofAbby scoring.

The junior guard, who averaged a team-leading 14.1 ten left Waner unguarded on the perimeter.

After those two stars graduated, Waner was thrust into points per game last season, now only averages 10.4 per filling the mma: contest. In addition, Waner’s 3-point l—scoring void. While shooting has been less consistent. After “Now she’s playing point Duke did have an inscorching the nets from beyond the arc last year at a clip of 36.2 percent, Waner coming point guard guard and looking to call the has made less than 30 percent of in freshman Jasmine shots instead of necessarily Thomas, Waner was 3-pointcrs ason. also asked to run taking all the shots.” the point. The posisketball, ver, is Chante Black, on Abby Waner tion was a dramatic departure from last ch more than a game year, when Waner of mere was a two-guard looktatistics. And though she ing to shoot first and pass second. may not be scoring as many “Stepping into different positions has definitely changed points as she has in the past, her game,” Black said. “Now she’s playing point guard and Waner knows that it’s not just looking to call the shots instead of necessarily taking all the because of a so-called shootshots.”

Another look at the stat sheet shows Waner has eming slump.

We need to take advantage braced her role as point guard this year. Thus far, the e post players we have,” Wanjunior already has 93 assists, which leads the team. Last id. “I think we have some of season, Waner had 93 total assists at the end of the NCAA best post players in the counTournament in March and is easily on pace to surpass that [Chante Black] can score, number with postseason play coming up. we need to get her the ball.”

Waner’s increased proficiency at the point, moreover, Mack’s emergence on the has made the Blue Devils a more complete team. With k has relieved the offensive Waner and Thomas both able to direct the offense, Duke becomes that much more of an offensive threat when i Waner. The redshirt junior ied this season and leads the both are on the floor at the same time. n scoring with 13.8 points per “It is helpful, especially in transition,” Waner said. ‘You Joy Cheek has also nearly have more options of who to make the outlet to. With that iffcnsive production from a on the floor, you’re a much more dangerous team.”

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guard has missed a number of clean looks this year. Waner has already taken steps to try to regain her touch. In the middle of this season, she started going to the gym more to practice her long-range shot and is currently working on her technique with assistantcoach A1 Brown.

At the end of the day, though, Waner remains confident that her shots will drop.

“I’m not worried about it,” Waner said, “I’m not putting any pressure on whether they fall or not. I’m going to keep taking it, and we’ll see what happens in the game. I’m just trying to do whatever my team needs me to produce.”

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Even with numerous foot injuries freshman year and a lack of significant playing time the following season, redshirt sophomore Keturah Jackson knew that she could make a difference.

She just needed the opportunity.

And once new head coach Joanne P. McCallie announced that each player had to earn her playing time, Jackson knew she had her shot, and she ran away with it—literally.

In a preseason endurance test, Jackson finished first in a 1.5-mile run, and the guard feels that played a prime role in establishing herself as a major player on the team.

“Coach P is really big on preseason and preseason tests, especially the mileand-a-half,” Jackson said. “The fact that I made the first time sent her a message that I was serious and working hard for playing time.”

That work ethic continued throughout the preseason, and now, as Duke enters its final stretch, it has finally paid off. Jackson has gonefrom benchwarmer to starter over the course of the season. The role change is a significant upgrade from last year, when she averaged just two points and 1.8 rebounds per game while rarely appearing at key moments under former head coach Gail Goestenkors.

The guard has started only nine of 28 games this season, but that includes the last seven, in which she has established herself as one of the most important defensive stoppers on the team. McCallie often assigns Jackson to defend the opposing team’s point guard, whom Jackson can usually overwhelm with her quickness and height.

“She brings a defensive attitude to the team, and she works really well for us,” senior captain Wanisha Smith said. “For her to contribute how she has has really

helped our team.”

While only fourth on the team with 45 steals, Jackson averages a steal every 10.3 minutes, best on the team. Her ability to shut down opposing point guards was especially evident on Senior Night Feb. 24 against the Cavaliers.

In that game, Jackson held Virginia’s Sharnee Zoll to just l-of-10 shooting and five turnovers in the Blue Devils’ 78-70 win.

Afterwards, McCallie called Jackson the team’s “heart and soul.”

“K.J. has answered the call every single time and has always been on board and ready to go,” McCallie said. “[Sh£’s] a great on-the-ball defender.... She has carried that job all year and earned herself a whole lot of playing time.”

Jackson’s emergence as the team’s best defensive presence comes as no surprise to her teammates, who have dealt with her swarming coverage in practice for the past three years.

“I’ve always known she can play like this—everyone has,” junior Abby Waner said. “She’s always been this kind of player. She attacks the basket better than most people that I know, she’s an excellent rebounder and an excellent defender.”

Waner added that the redshirt sophomore is “one of [her] favorite players ever.”

While her main job is guarding the opposing team’s primary ball handler, Jackson’s natural athleticism has lent itself to her offensive game. In one threegame stretch against Maryland, Virginia Tech and Virginia, Jackson averaged 10 points per contest.

But with Waner, Smith and center Chante Black carrying most of the offensive load, Jackson will continue to focus in on disrupting the opposing team’s floor general.

“I’ve seen most of the guards—quick

guards, shooters, penetrators,” Jackson said. “That’s helped me to learn how to play each guard. I can guard any guard.”

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The Blue Devils know that to be the best, they have to play the best.

Duke’s schedule, ranked as the sixthhardest in the country by RPI guru Ken Pomeroy, has been no walk in the park.

In fact, the Blue Devils hold the distinction as the only team in the top 25 to have played each of the top-five teams: Connecticut, North Carolina, Tennessee, Rutgers and Maryland. Only two teams, LSU and Notre Dame, have played even four of those teams. But home-and-away series against the Terrapins and Tar Heels boosted Duke’s total number of games against top-five teams to seven, making their schedule arguably the toughest in the country.

“There is no way I’d rather have it,” junior Abby Waner said. “We’ve played the top-five teams, some more than once. We didn’t come here to play easy teams during the spason and then lose in the second round of the Tournament.”

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Of Duke’s eight losses, six them have come against these teams, with the only Duke win a 49-44 victory over Rutgers Dec. 6 at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Although Duke’s average margin of defeat in these six losses has been 16.5 points, they have played close in many of the games, most notably in a 67-64 home loss to Tennessee Jan. 28.

“We’ve had a couple of blowouts against those top-five teams, but for a majority of those games we’ve been right there,” center Chante Black said. “We were making immature mistakes, so now that we’ve grown as a team, hopefully we won’t make those immature mistakes and [we] can play right up there with those top-five teams score-wise.”

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“You get in tight situations when you play the top teams [and] they convert on your mistakes,” she said. “So now, with little teams you can make mistakes and we’ll stay the same, but with top teams when you make that mistake, they’re going downcourt, they’re scoring and the lead just extends. We’ve learned from that.”

The real benefits of Duke’s scheduling might become clearer as soon as postseason play begins.

With a newfound understanding of how the team can come from behind, Blue Devil guard Wanisha Smith expressed confidence in Duke’s ability to rebound from a poor start, or an opponent’s scoring run or any other difficulty the team might face.

“We know going into the Tournament that if we’re down, we’re going to be able to fight back,” Smith said. “Not that we want to be in that situation, but we have the confidence that if we’re going to be down, we’ll be fine.”

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North Carolina tops stacked conference field jumper in Maryland’s 97-86 double-overtime loss to North Carolinajan. 26, will look For the 12 teams in the ACC, it’s the for revenge with the rest ofher team as the most wonderful time of the year.

No. 2 seed in this week’s ACC Tournament.

With regular-season play finished, every A potential dark-horse candidate in the team is getting ready to pack their bags for postseason is No. 25 Virginia. The Cavaliers Greensboro to take on some of the most are ranked for the first time in four years and finished fourth in the conference. Head coach elite squads in the ACC —and the nation.

“Tournament time is an important time,” Debbie Ryan, however, thinks her team is on said Sylvia Hatchell, No. 2 North Carolina’s the same level with the Tar Heels, Terrapins head coach. and Blue Dev“That’s what you ils—the league’s gear everything perennial pow[The Tournament] is what you J erhouses. you do through “We’re regear everything you do through the year. We are usually a pretty ally not far away, the year...: We are usually a 11 and we know good tournament that,” Ryan said, team.... We tell pretty good tOUmament team.” them if [what we Tlie dls,anc( .

UNC head coach Sylvia Hatchell 1 are doing] is not between us and the top three going to help us teams in this beat Tennessee, Connecticut, Duke and all these other schools conference right now is razor thin. Our team that are going to be contending for a Final knows that. It’s going to be a neutral floor we Four, then we do not need to be doing it.” play on, and Fm really looking forward to the The Tar Heels are no strangers to the Fifact that we have a chance to step up and realnal Four themselves. They have made it to ly make a showing in the ACC Tournament.” the past two national semifinals and are arGeorgia Tech, Florida State, Boston Colguably the conference’s best hope to make a lege and N.C. State—the other higher-seeded teams in the ACC Tournament—are looking deep run this year. The tandem of seniors Erto make a big splash this week to impress the lana Larkins and LaToya Pringle, both firstteam All-ACC selections, led North Carolina NCAA selection committee. The Wolfpack, to its first-ever ACC unblemished mark. who had the final member of the fust-team All-ACC in Khadijah Whittington, have not Right behind the Tar Heels in the conference and national rankings is Maryland, flown under the radar of the top teams in the the 2006 National Champions. The No. 5 conference by any means and are looking to make a run. For any of the teams though, a Terrapins boast two first-team All-ACC selections of their own in senior Crystal Langsuccessful week in Greensboro would go a horne and juniorKristi Toliver. Toliver, who long way towards securing either a tournamissed a potential game-winning mid-range ment berth or easier road to the Final Four. by

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Sound-off: Will Duke peak in postseason play?

Duke likely to pack its bags early

It could be Duke is suffering a down year after losing Lindsey Harding and Alison Bales, two ofits best players in recent history.

It could be Coach P, like many other head coaches with new teams, needs a couple of seasons to get her program ready to play her way.

It could be the Blue Devils were working out all the kinks in the regular season, so they’ll be ready a postseason push come tournament time.

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er seems to have lost something this season, sporting lower percentages in every statistical shooting category. The junior’s presence from beyond the arc is the most noticeable decline in her game, sinking just 28 percent of her long-distance tries this season compared to 36 percent in 2006-2007.

Another difference from last season’s squad is its cohesiveness and c. rupted by Harding’s and departure. Duke took the lie with the same starting line for each of its 36 games last season, but Coach P has yet to find her favorite set of five. Ten of the Blue Devils’ 12 players have appeared in the starting rotation at least once, making it hard for Duke to settle into a groove.

As if all this wasn’t enough to overcome, the Blue Devils are heading into the postseason with the antithesis of

Just by virtue of the still-lacking parity in women’s basketball, Duke should be able to make it out of the first weekend and into the Sweet Sixteen. Once the Blue Devils have to face a top-25 team, though, expect them to fold. Although it has shown a consistent ability to beat the teams it is supposed to beat, Duke has exhibited an unswerving lack of ability to secure the big victory.

The Blue Devils have played eight games against ranked opponents, and even though all but one has been in the top-five, Duke is a Final-Four-unworthy 1- momentum following the rout at the hands 7 in those contests. In fact, the Blue Devils have barely been close, falling by an of the Tar Heels.

Could it happen? average of more than 14 points in those contests. Their one shining achievement Theoretically, yes. came in a hard-fought (read; ugly) 49-44 Unfortunately win over No. 4 Rutgers, but that was more for this rebuildthan three months ago. ing Duke team McCallie says her team will peak come and its ambithe NCAA Tournament, and, hell, she tious first-year wouldn’t be a good coach if she didn’t coach, though, believe that and try to get her players to it’s destined for believe that. But Duke most likely won’t an early exit. be able to advance out of its own conference tournament’s semifinals, let alone anything else, because of a seemingly imminent matchup against No. 5 Maryland.

And if the Blue Devils did manage to pull it all together, hit their stride and get all the bounces to defeat a team that has beaten them twice this season, they would still have to get through No. 2 North Carolina, which just handed Duke its worst loss in 15 years last Saturday.

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Duke also has had difficulty taking care of the hall in late-game situations.

Turnovers in the final minutes of home games against both Tennessee and Maryland spoiled two furious comeback bids and resulted in two more tallies in the loss column. Even in the Blue Devils' lone win over an elite opponent, a 49-44 victory over Rutgers Dec. 6, Duke struggled to put up points and was bolstered by a physical defensive performance.

“Every time it comes down to crunch time, I feel like we turn it over,” center Chante Black said. “And not a forced turnover, but a little easy turnover.... We have to value the ball.”

With many new faces immediately assuming big roles —including first-year head coach Joanne P. McCallie—the Blue Devils experienced growing pains early in the year that turned into a three-game November losing streak.

But the current squad has been forced

The best for the Blue Devils has yet to come Right now, Duke is struggling. The team just suffered its worst loss in 15 years against archrival UNC, no less—andis quite clearly the third-best team in the ACC. The Blue Devils have only one true quality win, against then-No. 4 Rutgers before Christmas. The person expected to carry the offense, junior preseason All-American guard Abby Waner, has not been able to hit her shooting stride all season.

So, once the NCAA Tournament comes along in March, this team is destined for a secondround exit, right?

Not necessarily.

The Blue Devils don’t boast two All-Americans and a near-flawless record like they did last year, but considering how many changes have gone on at Duke since then—see: new coach, new point guard, and star team center—the looks primed to peak later this month. Think about the following: 1. Sunday’s debacle against the Tar Heels has to be addressed here. Yes, the Blue Devils looked dreadful, and yes, they lost by a stunning 31 points. But Duke also went 0-for-12 from 3-point range, while UNC shot close to 50 percent from beyond the arc. In addition, the Blue Devils played an unchar—

acteristically sloppy Can center Chante Black help to lead the Blue Devils past the NCAA Tournament's first round?

quickly, and ended that skid with the win over the then-No. 4 Scarlet Knights.

A tough schedule that pitted Duke against every top-five team provided the opportunity for the young Blue Devils to garner tournament-type experience.

“You play against the best to prepare and that’s what we’ve done all season long,” said Waner, the team’s secondleading scorer behind Black. “We’ve made some strides. We’ve also regressed in some ways.”

The team’s defensive development has been its most noticeable improvement. As the offense struggled early with the loss of National Player of the Year Lindsey Harding and All-American Alison Bales, Duke emerged as one of the conference’s premier defensive teams.

Opponents shot 36 percent against them—second-lowest in the ACC—and scored only 57. 9 per game,, ranking the Blue Devils ahead of both North Carolina and Maryland.

If McCallie’s team can maintain that defensive pressure, and couple it with a breakthrough on the other end, Duke could find away to do exactly what they haven’t done recently—peak in March.

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2. Speaking of the ACC, Duke has been unable to get over the hump against rivals Maryland and North Carolina, who are both ranked in the top five nationally. But the team has not blown games against the rest of the conference. Maybe this speaks to the lack of quality competition in women’s basketball, but it also shows a certain maturity: taking care of teams you are supposed to beat could make a big difference in March 3. This team is young. Freshman Jasmine Thomas had a tough time adjusting to the point guard position at this level but has grown into the role. Sophomore Joy Cheek and redshirt sophomore Keturah Jackson have become occasional starters and key members of the rotation after being role players last season. Forward Chante Black missed all oflast season, but has become the team’s go-to performer. Game experience becomes particularly key in the postseason, and this team certainly has that.

4. This is more of a technicality, but because Maryland and North Carolina are both in Duke’s conference, the Blue Devils can’t play them until the Sweet 16 at the earliest. That means that Duke will still have to face tough competition at that stage of the Tournament, but it likely won’t have to deal with an opponent it has already lost to twice (or three times, depending on the ACC Tournament).

Although this season hasn’t been quite as much fun for Duke fans, don’t count out the Blue Devils just yet. Remember, last year’s team might have gone 29-0 in the regular season, but they lost in the Sweet 16 to a Rutgers it beat by 40 earlier in the year.

That Scarlet Knights squad also got crushed by the conference’s best (UConn) in the regular season, and finished with four Big East losses. Sound familiar? It should.

It might feel strange for Duke to enter the NCAA Tournament as a sleeper instead of a top seed. But if Rutgers can turn an upset over Duke into an appearance in the national title game, so can these Blue Devils.

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Has being a father changed your approach to the band or your approach to songwriting?

Not too much. Lately I’ve been making an analogy about sports stars, you know, and if people ask if... not that this is like athletics because lyrics, I suppose, you’re supposed to have your personal life leaking into your songs, but, you know, nobody asks... who knows how many children that (laughs) some professional sports guys have and they seem to just go about their business fine, you know what I mean?

They’re still catching touchdowns, they’re still hitting people just as hard. It’s not like when you have a child you soften up, and if you’re a cornerback you don’t want to take somebody’s head off still because you have a new sense of calm, you know? And that’s pretty much how it is. I mean, the music to me, I like kind of shredding rock ‘n’ roll more or less. I like some singer-songwriter things too when I’m cooking or in the morning, but what I like to play live is hard music, so it’s not really gonna change, and the lyrics don’t. You’re not going to have some soft message about breast-feeding or something over the top of that. But those time constraints that come along with it, life becomes more, as you get older you’ll see, it becomes a little more regimented.

That’s for the good generally because, and you know you slow down a little bit. When you’re pushing 40 you don’t want to be out until 3 a.m. taking drugs or whatever, you know, that’s kind of desperate. In college, maybe you want to experiment. Anyway, that’s changed a little bit.

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planet.”Taking one look at the album’s cover creates similar hopes of passionate social commentary, as drawings of weapons, syringes and dollar signs all float above the singer’s pensive head.

Unfortunately, Badu’s work fails to make good on the promises ofher album cover. Not only do most of her tracks seem uninspired and poorly produced, even her best songs fall short of the ardent and relevant discourse she had guaranteed.

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Your songs often feature really great, really weird characters, and I was wondering how you come up with them and their stories.

Well, I think it usually starts with a name and then and the way the sound of the song is, if it’s kind of spooky or if it’s funny. It’s going to be a little bit absurd, it’s going to be not too dramatic or really super-serious, mainly because my singing voice is somewhat limited and I don’t feel like I can really command a certain range of lyrics, a certain kind of story. It will just come off a little bit pretentious or something, based on my voice and the songs I write. If I had a real deep voice, like Nick Cave or Leonard Cohen or something, I might get something more serious, I guess you would say. So it’s-going to be farcical. I don’t know why. It just is.

You’ve lived and worked in Stockton, and now you’ve moved on to Pordand.

How would you compare the vibe of the two places and just the atmosphere for creating music?

I haven’t been in Stockton in a long time, but I went to high school there and I didn’t really work except for painting curbs or something. I worked at a country club flipping burgers or whatever, you know.

Stockton is very flat, it’s like Sacramento, 1 don’t know how to really explain these towns, Fresno, they’re more related to Los Angeles in spirit but they’re closer to San Francisco. People wear Quicksilver shorts and skateboard and they’re into the Offspring, bands like that. When 1 was there it was more heavy metal. There’s football players —they drink Coors Light and Aggies. There’s some farm guys with chewing tobacco in their back pockets and stuff.

That’s the kind of place it is (laughs). From the white perspective, there’s also a lot of

pie beat and perfect vocals, still remains too vague and broad to be taken as a serious treatise on life in America. Badu peripherally mentions “Iraqi fields,” “falling towers” and “broken levees,” simply condemning every controversial political situation without ever giving her own position or solution to the nation’s problems.

Furthermore, some ofBadu’s work is just bubbly pop music—enjoyable, catchy music, but pop music nonetheless. The album’s first single, “Honey”, offers “daring and provocative” lyrics like ‘You’re so sweet/All I gotta do is add a little lemon/ You’re my favorite drink/ You make me think.” In other words, this could easily be a Mariah Carey song (yes, I know Mariah Carey also has a song called

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By attemptmg to create an album that produces a serious dialogue about issues in this country, Badu becomes another example of an artist biting off more than she can chew. Be sure to appreciate New Amerykah for what it is—a nice soul album and not for what it wants to be, a serious and critical approach to modem America.

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immigrants though, it’s diverse. There’s a lot of refugees from Cambodia, not a lot but some, and the Hispanic population and Asian population is quite large. So it’s diverse in that way, to give you a long answer. And then Portland, on the other hand, that’s where I live now, it’s very, very white. It’s very liberal, kind 0f... Whole Foods wannabe, Volvo, recycling. I mean these are all good things but when they add up together it is a little bit lacking in counterpoint, I guess you would say (laughs).

You know, it’s obviously better than living in Gary, Indiana or something, so don’t get me wrong. But it gets to be a little... it’s slightly claustrophobic compared to a

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town like Chicago. It’s small, you know, in away. And so you end up staying inside a lot (laughs).

It’s no Nuevo Chicago?

No, it’s not. But we do get a lot of people moving here from Chicago. It’s quite common that people from the North, the Midwest, Minnesota and Chicago are big feeding grounds. A lot of people from Chicago move out west because they’re tired of the weather. Many people want to leave where they’re from at least once, and so if you decide to go to New York or something that’s one move. But I find it’s more common for a Chicago person to want to go to Los Angeles or Chicago or even Portland.

mingles Malkmus’ signature lyrical whimsy with a more jammy

sound courtesy of the Jicks. The opening lines of “Dragonfly Pie” make us wonder whether Malkmus has become more reflective in his, dare I say, old age: “Of all my stoned digressions/Some have mutated into the truth/Not a spoof.” The title track starts out starkly reminiscent of Pavement —in a good way. “Easy said but less often done/Point me in the direction/Of your reeeeeeal emotional trash”, could easily be lyrics from the “Transport is Arranged,” Brighten the Corners era. But the novelty deteriorates past the four-minute mark into a jammy, droning conclusion,

a fate that more than half the songs on the album seem to suffer. Not enough Malkmus and too much forced improvisation make a lot of even the brighter content seem contrived.

But even in his forties, Malkmus has still retained the wit and charm that elevated Pavement to cult status. No matter what you churn out, Stephen Malkmus—king of quirk, and all that is indie—your fans still bow down to you. We will envy your artist wife, gladly baby-sit your budding hipster children and always consider it a privilege to pick up your Real Emotional Trash—old Pavement records in hand.

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the embarrassing cliches of the era either .1 We have songs about going off the tracks (“Wounded Bird”), corny innuendo (“Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution”), love-as-drugs metaphors (“Oh Josephine”), mawkish minstrelry passing for gospel (“Walk Believer Walk”) and, of course, a folk-mandolin ballad (“Locust Street”). All aesthetic quibbling aside, these ingredients never amount to much more than a generic period piece.

With all the attention paid to emulation, the Black Crowes have neglected their song-writing. Fluent in all the tropes of the genre, the Robinson brothers produce pleasant enough songs, albeit along with the odd groaner.

In fact the only standout song on the album is the rootsy, barebones “God’s Got It,” a smoldering gospel stomp, direct and succinct, and the only song under

four minutes on the album. Tellingly, they didn’t write it. Warpaint stands as bland, inoffensive, if sometimes embarrassing, tribute to a bygone era. It’s only success is perhaps the ease with which it fits seamlessly between the Faces, Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin records on your iPod. —Asher Brown-Pinsky

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KISMET from page 1 The unique method of production results in the uncommonly bright images that stand out impressively against the walls of the exhibit.

“The color isn’t competing with anything else but the black background,” the artist said. “So they Just appear to be more vivid.”

The exhibit is Valentine’s attempt to preserve what her artist statement refers to as “moments of indescribable beauty” she encounters in nature. Kismet features a series of close-up scans of plant and insect specimens, ranging from the artfully arranged and starkly lit twigs that overlap wilh a blue butterfly in “The 2nd Gift” to the immense white, glowing petals of “Saucer Magnolia.”

The process of physically arranging the plants on the scanner surface is evidenced by the sometimes unnatural positioning of the plants’ petals, something that is best exemplified in “Lifted.” The print displays a white flower with the petals visibly and somewhat uncomfortably pulled open to expose the specimen’s soft pink interior.

The petal-edges are wilted and torn, creating an interesting commentary on the ephemeral quality of naturally-occurring beauty, specifically when one attempts to preserve it in photographic form. Unfortunately, Valentine does not directly address this thought-provoking discrepancy that lies at the root of her work. Instead, she focuses on capturing the physical nuances of the flowers and the development of the prints.

“One of the problems I have is that you have to actually pick the flowers in order to do this, and there’s so many things in the North Carolina environment that you can’t pick,” Valentine said. “So I wrote a grant to get a mobile scanner, where I can actually go and document things in their own habitat.”

According to the artist, the title of

COURTESY CHARITY JULES VALENTINE

Valentine's photography focuses on the simplicity of nature while using a unique scanner-based method. the exhibition refers to a gift associated with fate. She chose the title because she began working with this specific method of digital photography shortly after the death of her grandmother, with whom she was very close.

“In our written correspondences I would tell her the flowers I found, and our conversations would revolve around the flora and fauna,” Valentine said. “Once she passed, there were so many things that I couldn’t show her, so this process sort of helped me work through the grief. This has really been a gift for me.”

Indeed, the works have continued to give to Valentine—her collection of photographic prints was one of only twelve submissions chosen by the Durham Arts Council out of an original pool of around 120.

“Her body of work just scored very high above some of the other photography,” said Dara Silver, the Artists Service Coordinator at the Durham Arts Council.

“It’s hard to say exactly what specifically it was, but if you come in and see it, it’s

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Confusion It’s one of the most common reasons people hesitate to view art. But in some cases when the art is so esoteric it keeps people away, pure aesthetics can elicit appreciation with no need for understanding. Nathaniel Quinn’s exhibit, Trails of Cascading Underwater Forests, explores this dichotomy.

Fvery month, the Duke University Union Visual Arts Committee picks a new artist to feature in the Louise Jones Brown Gallery in the Bryan Center.

Quinn was chosen because his art consists of a visually-stimulating body of work that invites viewers to let their minds delve into an alternate world, one dominated by bright color schemes, heavy layering of paint and intricate details.

Quinn’s repertoire has been featured in New York and Los Angeles, and most recently has returned to the states from an exhibition in Barcelona. Additionally, the Durham and Chapel Hill native has taught painting and drawing at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill, Shaw University and Durham Technical Community College when not working as a professional artist.

At first glance, the artists’ pieces are part Jackson Pollock, part LSD trip, part neon explosion. The paintings, mostly acrylic on paper, are overwhelming to the senses—fluorescent colors swirled and scribbled within more colors, creating an almost psychedelic color field effect.

Yet, upon closer examination, viewers can pick up more subtle details that go unnoticed at first.

“My paintings are about disappearing spaces; real and imagined, concrete and abstract, and the pathways used to get there,” Quinn said in a personal statement.

The contrast that he juxtaposes, between the intimate and the expansive, are evident in “River Bed

gorgeous. The quality of the work sort of speaks for itself.”

Although the organisms featured in the images are undoubtedly aesthetically rewarding, they fail to truly stand apart from the variety of nature photography easily accessible at your nearest computer screen.

“I mean, to be honest, I wouldn’t make the trip all the way out there to look at them again, only because they were nothing that spectacular,” freshman Nina Wu said. “They just look like something that would come up on a Google image search, but I mean, they’re very pretty.”

Overall, Valentine’s prints are certainly worth seeing if you feel like consuming the visual equivalent of cotton candy. However, if you crave something more substantial, you may be better off just taking the trip down the street to the Nasher.

The Allenton Gallery is located on the

firstfloor of theDurham Arts Council build-

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choice for the outdoor event, “They’ll get people hyped for the game,” Sun said. “They are the type of band that is fun to listen to and likeable, but they are not amazing musicians.”

Though the band only recently rose to fame these past few years, boosted by the popularity of their homemade music videos, they have been around for close to 10 years. The four-piece band consists of frontman Daminan Kulash, bassist Tim Nordwin, drummer Dan Konopka and keyboard/ guitarist Andy Ross.

Nordwin said that the band is excited to play in a college atmosphere.

“People are more enthusiastic,” Nordwin said. “I can remember when I was in school and De La Soul came. There’s a little bit of that line of thinking, and it’s weird to think that ‘Woah, they are playing in my hall’ or ‘That’s where lectures are held.’”

Although Nordwin found it strange to see popular bands playing on campus, it may be even stranger that he’s on the other side of the stage. One reason OK Go has become so well-known is because of their successful music videos, one of which is among the top 20 most-viewed YouTube clips of all time. The band is thankful for the publicity thattheir videos have brought them, even if people are quick to typecast them as “the band with the treadmills.”

“Videos would not exist without the music,” Nordwin said. “We don’t expect that all 25 million people who watch our videos are going out to buy the record. We just like to make stuff and as well as we can.”

It’s evident that they enjoy what they do. From dressing up for shows because “T-shirts and jeans are boring” to videos that showcase their silly side, audiences will definitely be drawn into OK Go’s charisma.

“We make fun, party music, for the most part, to the extent that people will grab onto upbeat jam,” Nordwin said. “I think, to date, that it’s fun without being stupid.”

set to bring color to Brown

Study in Pink.” What first seems a massive scribbling of various shades of pink turns into a complex

landscape, dotted with ice cream sundaes and playful drawings of turd-shaped silhouettes. Smaller elements weave through the chaotic mixture of lines, both wispy and defined.

Another piece entitled “Amber Sky Pelvis Chamber” can be read many different ways. The fish swimming around an intricate pink cave-like pelvis can be seen as a reference to sex, but the piece does not have to be interpreted as such.

Freshman Antwanette Ross found Quinn’s artwork intriguing but also felt that the complexities of die works highlighted the artist’s strengths and weaknesses.

“I felt like a lot of pieces are overwhelming,” Ross said. “You have to focus on certain parts of the piece and see what’s going on there.”

In particular, “Cave Swirls Perpetuated in the Dark” really captivated Ross’s attention—the unfocused scope of the painting allowed her imagination to run free.

“It’s kind of dark and spoke to me because I could picture objects floating around,” Ross said. “I imagined the Styx Rivers, with souls floating around, reaching out.”

She also found the use of color to be especially unique and a strong point of Quinn’s art. However, she did feel that most people would be turned off by how abstract the pieces were and that they might not take the scribbling effect seriously.

For the most part, viewers don’t take in the layering effects as “a space that suggests tunnels the reaches of outer space” or the surface texture as “tension between restlessness and calm,” as Quinn intended.

But at the very least, the paintings get viewers thinking. “

Trails of Cascading Underwater Forests is currently in the Brmon Gallery until March 8.

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JoshuaLazoff's former career as an actor gives him the skills to be a successful performer while his experiences as an activist lead him to connect his on-stage efforts with aid to Guatemala.

Actor-turned-magician Joshua Lozoff will soon offer Triangle audiences a chance to see some real mind-benders at Durham’s Manbites Dog Theater on March 16.

About a decade ago, Lozoff forsook a budding career in acting to find a more suitable occupation. Ironically, it wasn’t long after doing so that he fell under magic’s spell while volunteering in Bolivia.

“I had just decided to quit the business and totally give up performing and do something a little more simple with my life,” Lozoff said.

As an actor, Lozoff had played the recurring role of Gino Tortelli on the highly successful sitcom Cheers and was also featured in a bit role as Logan in 1995’s Clueless.

Deciding that acting was no longer fulfilling for him, Lozoff then traveled to Latin and South America as a volunteer for charity organizations. It was during this time that he realized what he wanted to do.

“One night about ten years ago in Bolivia, I came across a magician performing in the streets and was really affected by what I saw,” the entertainer said.

Even though he thought he had given up performing entirely, Lozoff discovered he still felt attracted to the stage and to interacting with audiences, an attraction which still drives him today.

Besides being drawn in by the performance of that magician, Lozoff also became very emotionally connected to the impoverished children he encountered during his time volunteering. After learning about Safe Passage, an organization that cares for the children working in the Guatemala City dump, Lozoff decided to use his own magic performances as a venue to raise funds for the organization.

“These moments of joy and wonder are just such a beautiful thing to share with people,” Lozoff said. “Ninety percent of magic is about making a connection with people.”

So how does one go about becoming a magician complete with his own follow-

ing? Having a family friend in the business can help. Lozoff contacted an old friend ofhis parents to help him get started. Now he is an accomplished performer with his own style.

“I do a lot of different types of magic,” Lozoff said. “Some of it’s very traditional, in terms of things with cards and coins and some is more cutting-edge.”

Whatever he does, it works. Last year when Lozoff performed at Manbites, the shows sold out before they opened. It was his first such show, as normally Lozoff makes his living as a more intimate magician. He amazes people five and six at a time at large parties or other private occasions. Also included in this regular schedule is a weekly gig at the Mellow Mushroom in at Durham’s American Tobacco Campus.

“We are very thrilled to have him here,” Managing Director Edward Hunt said.

“He’s such an amazing performer.”

Advertising presents no problem for these shows. There are popular clips of him online, and he has strong following in North Carolina.

“Josh sells himself,” Hunt said. “It makes our job really easy.”

According to LozofF, magic is enjoying a strong resurgence in popularity through such celebrities as Criss Angel and David Blaine. Magicians experience cyclces of ups and downs through generations.

“It’s like Houdini,” Lozoff said. “He did things a common man could appreciate.”

For Lozoff, it is in part, about returning home. Though he moved back out to Los Angeles for a time to receive training in magic and he has dazzled audiences as far away as Japan, Lozoff prefers the audiences here. He was not born in North Carolina but he grew up here from before his first birthday through high school, at which point he departed for L.A. “There’s nothing I like more than performing in Durham,” Lozoff said. “I feel very comfortable here.”

An Evening of Magic with Joshua Lozoff: A Benefit for Safe Passages will lake place at the Manbiles Dog Theater March 16 at Ip.m. Tickets cost $25 each.

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After 13 minutes of back-and-forth basketball, the Blue Devils’ 2-3 zone, nicknamed “orange” after Syracuse’s famed defen-031T16 sive style, stemmed the onslaught of Cavalier analysis buckets for the remainder of the first half, allowing Duke to go on a 15-0 run and wrest control of the game.

“The score opened up when we went zone,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

To start the game, Virginia guard Sean Singletary repeatedly beat Blue Devils off the dribble, either to set up his own shot or kick out to teammates for open threes.

In the first six minutes of the half, he had nine points. He added three assists during the first 13 minutes, including setting up a Mamadi Diane 3-pointer to give the Cavaliers the lead.

By switching to the zone, however, Duke was able to clog the middle and prevent dribble penetration. Virginia, especially Singletary, was forced to pass the ball around the perimeter and hoist contested 3-pointers. During the final seven minutes

of the half, the Cavaliers turned the ball over five times and shot an atrocious 0-for-8 from the field.

“Our problem offensively was that we weren’t getting the ball to the middle of the defense,” Virginia head coach Dave Leitao said. “Part of the reason they went to the zone was to stop Sean from getting to the teeth of the defense.”

Singletary, who finished with 18 points but shot just 6-of-16 from the field, agreed.

“They went to zone, and we couldn’t run and then they had two or three people on me,” he said. “They forced everybody else to try and beat them.”

In the last several games in which Duke has struggled defensively, big men haven’t torn up the Blue Devil post defense. Rather, guards have beaten Duke’s perimeter defenders off the dribble, causing the defense to collapse. The driver has then been able to distribute, finding big men open under the basket for layups or shooters waiting in the corner for threes.

This rang true against Wake Forest, when Ishmael Smith beat Duke off the dribble and found James Johnson underneath. It was true when Miami’s perimeter players consistently fed Dwayne Collins in the paint when his defender would help on penetration; Collins finished with 26 points on 12-of-14 shooting.

In the second half, Duke went away from “orange” after the first few possessions and

the defensive problems present in its two conference losses re-emerged. Laurynas Mikalauskas and Diane had two straight lay-ins off penetration by guard Calvin Baker to cut what had been a 19-point Duke lead back down to just nine.

The zone worked well for a critical stretch Wednesday, but the players still know it is not their primary defensive strength. For the remainder of the season, they will be forced to shore up their defense and prevent dribble penetration.

“We don’t practice [zone] much at all,” senior DeMarcus Nelson said. “We’re a man team. We play man, we pressure the ball, we contest.”

The major question forDuke in the zone is whether the team can block out enough to prevent second-chance points. Thus far this season, the Blue Devils have struggled keeping opponents off the glass. Wednesday, however, Duke outrebounded the Cavaliers and held them to just 10 secondchance points. During the long drought, Virginia was able to recover just two of its eight missed attempts —one of which led to a foul and two made free throws by Diane.

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Playing in the mid-afternoonafter stormy weather postponed its Tuesday night contest with Lehigh, No. 2 Duke came out cold, trailing 3-0 at the end of the first quarter.

The Blue Devils’ offense, however, came to life in the second period as Duke reeled off four straight goals to take the lead. The Blue Devils (4-0) then broke open the game in the third stanza, exploding LEHIGH 5 tor nine goals on DUKE 0 their way to a 165 victory over the Mountain Hawks (2-3) Wednesday afternoon at Koskinen Stadium.

While the vast improvement after halftime looked like the product of an inspiring speech, head coach John Danowski actually said little to his squad.

“To he honest I didn’t really say much,” Danowski said. “We tried to keep an even keel. It was a great opportunity to learn about ourselves. It’s easy to play with a lead and when you’re ahead. But the kind of character you have when things aren’t always going your way is important.”

Coming off an impressive win over thenNo. 4 Maryland, Duke looked lethargic at the start of Wednesday’s contest.

After Lehigh tallied the first point at the 13:03 mark of the first quarter, Mountain Hawks defenseman Richard Bradley took the ball off the ensuing faceoff and sprinted nearly untouched towards the goal, notching a second score for the visitors just 12 seconds later. Lehigh added a third score by taking advantage of a man-down situation due to a Michael Ward slashing penalty with just un-

der four minutes remaining in the quarter.

“They had a good plan,” sophomore atlackman Max Quinzani said. “They held on to the ball for a really long time and got us tired on defense. Once we didn’t get in a rhythm, it was tough for us to get out of that rut.”

At the beginning of the second stanza, Blue Devil attackman Matt Danowski broke through the defense and slammed home a goal. The play appeared to get Duke on the board and reduce their deficit to two.

Danowski, though, was called for an illegal equipment penalty because the ball did not come out when he turned it over on his stick.

Consequendy, the goal was nullified and Danowski was forced to sit out for three minutes.

The Blue Devils, however, played tough defense and did not allow the Mountain Hawks to score during Danowski’s absence.

And immediately after the fifth-year senior sprinted back on to the field, Duke’s offensive barrage began.

Junior Mike Catalino had the first two scores, and midfielderBo Carrington gave the Blue Devils their first lead, running right down the seam of the defense to get a clear shot at the goal.

“I think we were frustrated,” senior Brad Ross said. “Getting a three-minute release is a really frustrating thing. To not allow them to score during that period really calmed us down.”

After Lehigh scored with 1:43 till halftime to tie the contest at four, Duke put away the pesky visitors for good after halftime. Off a steal, Danowski fielded a downfield pass and flipped it to Quinzani, who easily scored with 13:16 left in the third period. Just six seconds later, midfielder Sam Payton controlled the face-off and quickly found Dan-

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Sophomore Max Quinzani had three goals as Duke moved to 4-0 on the season with a 16-5 win over Lehigh. owski, who slammed home his ninth goal of the season. The point gave the Blue Devils a 6-4 lead that they did not relinquish.

While the end result was another large margin of victory, the early test provided by the Mountain Hawks could be valuable

in the future.

“Lehigh was playing hard and dominating the ball on the ground and it wasn’t so easy,” Coach Danowski said. “There’s a lesson to be learned from every game and going forward, I hope this makes us a better team.”

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The undefeated Blue Devils have made a habit of trouncing every opponent they have faced this season. Of their 11 wins coming into Wednesday’s matchup with Valparaiso, only two have been by fewer than four runs.

But playing in front of a crowd at Jack Coombs Field that was decidedly pro-Crusaders due to a throng of Valpo faithful that made their way down from Indiana, Duke (120) needed a three-run ninth-inning rally to escape with a 5-4 win.

VALPO “We’ve said all along that 5 pitching and defense have to be DUKE our constant, and that offense will come and go,” head coach Sean McNally said. “I thought this was an important game for us. Their starter did an excellent job, and we were down late and had to fight and compete. For us to come back and finish it with a win is great for this young club.”

After threatening against Valparaiso (2-6) closer Jarad Miller in the eighth, the Blue Devils broke through with a clutch hit from a familiar face in the ninth. In Duke’s only other nail-biterofthe season, sophomore GabrielSaade sent the home crowd happy with an RBI in the ninth that broke up a 1-1 tie against Columbia last Saturday. In Wednesday’s game, Saade stepped to the plate with the stakes a bit higher as Duke was trailing by a run with the tying and go-ahead runners in scoring position and two outs.

And once again, Saade proved to be one of the Blue Devils’ best clutch hitters, lining Miller’s 0-1 pitch up the middle for a base hit. Pinch-runner Dennis O’Grady scored easily from third on the play to tie the game and shortstop JakeLemmerman slid home safely seconds later with the winning run.

“I went into that bat with the mindset that I just wanted to keep the inning alive,” Saade said. “I just wanted to keep our chances alive. In situations like that, you tend to want to do it all yourself, but I just went up there and wanted to put the ball in play. I got my pitch and hit it up the middle, and Jake was able to score all the way from second.”

Duke got oft' to an early 1-0 lead as Saade led off the bottom of the first with a double and scored on a sacrifice fly by centerfielder Alex Hassan. But with the score knotted at one apiece in the fifth, Duke starting pitcher Chris Manno got into a bases-loaded jam and was relieved by sophomore Michael Ness. The right-hander surrendered back-to-back hits that allowed three runs to cross the plate, but he recovered to strike out the next two batters and limit the damage.

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“I just came in there and tried to keep my team in the game,” Perry said. “Fortunately I was able to do that today, and the hitters took care of the rest to get us a win. It’s one of those games that make you want to keep playing the game ofbaseball.”

With the win Wednesday, Duke enters the ACC season with a perfect 12-0 record. The Blue Devils will take on No. 2 North Carolina (8-1) in a three-game series beginning 3 p.m. Friday at Jack Coombs Field. The Tar Heels have lost to Oregon State each of the last two seasons in the finals of the College World Series, and their only loss this season was in extra innings to Old Dominion.

M. BBALL from page 1 Baffled by Duke’s rarely used but tenacious 2-3 zone defense, Virginia slogged through a seven-minute field-goal drought that spanned halftime, and the Blue Devils took advantage. The visitors turned a 29-28 deficit with 6:45 remaining in the opening period into a 45-31 second-half edge.

Five different players contributed to the game-defining 17-2 run, and no player had more than four points.

Singler, who scored in double figures for the 11th consecutive game, posted only two points in Duke’s surge, but he carried his team as it staved off potential rallies.

The freshman sunk a jumper on Duke’s first second-half possession, made a tough layup after Calvin Baker cut the deficit to 11 and then nailed another jumper to keep the lead at bay.

When Virginia finally brought the Wahoo faithful to its feet by slicing Duke’s lead to nine with 10:39 left, Singler was the one who hit a driving layup to silence the crowd and push the lead back to double digits.

If the freshman wasn’t scoring in the last frame, Henderson was. The sophomore forward, hampered in the middle of the ACC season with a wrist injury that will need surgery, tallied 11 points in the second half in addition to two highlight-reel slams in the first. One was an alley-oop from junior point guard Greg Paulus, who hit four threes to finish with 14 points.

“Gerald really played a heck of a game,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “He’s become accustomed to thatwrist injury that he has. It took him about two weeks to really get acclimated to that—that’s when he was averaging about six points per game, and we weren’t playing real well.”

The return to Charlottesville prompted memories of another time when a Duke team didn’t play well: in the thick of conference play last year. Singletary, Virginia’s dynamic guard who posted 18 Wednesday, sunk a onehanded, off-balanced floater with one second left to give the Cavaliers a 68-66 win Feb. 1, 2007. The loss triggered a four-game ACC losing streak.

More than a year later, the wound was still fresh. ’’The game down here last year really turned our season,” said senior DeMarcus Nelson, who chipped in with 16. “That was something that was in the back of our mind that we were consciously aware of. It was extra motivation.”

The team understood the importance of the win—both for exorcising any lingering demons from last season and for staying on a roll when the Tar Heels drive down 15501 this weekend. It was a message that the captain instilled into the team.

“We have a championship game Saturday, then we have the ACC Tournament playing for a championship, then we have a regional championship and a national championship,” Nelson said. “This is the time of the year when we can come together and be excited about playing.”

They won this one. And now Duke can finally think about winning the rest of them.

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The Blue Devils celebrate their 86-70 victory at Virginia Wednesday night.

ANALYSIS from page 9 be a useful defensive tactic After thegame, sophomore Jon Scheyer said that the team switched to stop Singletary, but also to simply stun the Cavaliers with a new look. Virginia appeared unprepared to attack the zone, not only because Leitao’s squad didn’t expect it, but because few teams practice offenses to counter zones.

“The coaches felt that we could go in there and kind of surprise them a little bit with the zone, and it was effective,” freshman Kyle Singler said.

Tyler Hansbrough and the Tar Heels are strong on the offensive glass and also feature sharpshooters like Wayne Ellington on the perimeter. So will orange come in handy against a lighter shade ofblue?

“I have no idea,” sophomore Jon Scheyer said with a smile. “Ask Coach that one.”

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Indeed, the University’s affirming a commitment to hands-on learning that is a policies have sometimes proven to be very inconsistent. major component of the UniMost recently, members of versity’s strategic plan, “Making A Difference,” as well. major and often academically “We give our students sucentered extracurricular orperb academic training, but ganizations have noted that we also want them to become the current Dean’s Excuse active problem-solvers, using policy for Trinity College their education to make a sometimes makes it very diffi"¥"

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Duke Student Government President Paul Slattery said he is working with the administration to revise the plan. But Trinity deans ought to take it upon themselves to push such revisions through.

Members of organizations like the Duke’s debate or mock trial teams should be able to be excused—on the case-by-case judgment of the deans—from classes in the same way athletes are regularly excused from classes when representing Duke in an official capacity. After all, such organizations offer the same kind of experiential

learning that benefits those students and if they accomplish highly —as they often

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do—the University benefits from the recognition.

In its current state, the Dean’s Excuse policy states that “it is generally best” to contact professors about such absences. That’s fine and good. But the goodwill ofsuch professors only goes so farand some of these instructors are limited by their respective departments in what they can do to accommodate these types of student requests.

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be exact) At first we began with the typical “What’s your stacy chudwin name? How old stage of fools are ou? Do vou know that people actually used to bake cookies from scratch back in our day?” until one little seven-year-old girl engaged us in a fascinating dialogue. It went like this: “Are you teenagers?”

(My friend and I looked at each other.) “No.” “Are you adults?”

(My friend and I looked at each other, horrified.) “No.” “Are you moms?”

(My friend and I were now beyond the point of horror.) “No!” “Well then what are you?!”

It was a damn good question, and we had no way to answer this girl. What were we? Fortunately, she had an answer; “I know! You’re creatures from the underworld!”

Ouch....

After a seven-year old classified me as a demon sent from hell, I went home that night wondering: What was I? What are college students? I returned to my room, listened to Britney Spears’ “I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman” on repeat, and thought long and hard about the issue.

College students exist in a very peculiar limbo between childhood and adulthood. We have been ejected from the parental nest, but have yet to actually spread our wings in the real world. Is this awkward in-between phase good or bad?

On the one hand, this is one of two times in our lives when we have the maximum amount of rights with the minimum amount of responsibilities. The only other time this happens is after retirement when your children are grown and out of the house, but then you also have hip replacements and liver spots.

As college students, we are at the peak of physi-

cal health, and we get to drive, drink, vote, buy porn and basically do whatever our hearts desire.

Furthermore, we are responsible for no one else’s well-being but our own (not that we shouldn’t try to take care of the people in our lives, but it’s not like we have children depending on us.)

The freedom that college students have is astonishing. We can choose to go to class or not, we can stay out all night without answering to anyone, we can eat whatever we want with our Duke Cards, and ifwe have a car, we could literally go on a road trip at the drop of a hat to wherever we damn well please.

It is paradise. The world is our oyster, and we can afford to eat it on food points.

However, what so many people don’t realize is that it can be incredibly hard stuck in this in-between phase. We are old enough to take ourselves seriously, but young enough that others don’t.Furthermore, the amount offreedom we have can be terrifying. The fact that our lives could literally go anywhere from here is sometimes paralyzing.

The smallest decisions we make now will permanently influence the trajectory of our lives. We are like ships launching from the harbor, and if we are even one degree off course, we could end up on the wrong continent. We have to worry about how the majors we haven’t chosen will influence the jobs we haven’t gotten in the cities we haven’t moved to where our future spouses who we haven’t met yet live.

There is imbued in us a constant need to strive and to move on to the next step and the next step.

While it is exciting to hop from high school student to college student to employee to spouse to parent, it is exhausting. Each rung we climb on the ladder only reminds us of how far we have yet to go, and how far we could possibly fall.

While college is the time most people look back on as their fondest years, in away, there is something very bittersweet about it. There is something almost pathetic about the way we live our lives, like watching little children playing house.

We shack up with our boyfriends and girlfriends, but aren’t married to them. We work at internships during the summer, but don’t have careers. We build friendships, but most won’t last past our four years. These are our awkward, half-assed attempts at life that train us for the real thing. And when the real thing hits us, all we want is to have those training wheels back on.

Maybe my seven-year-old friend was right; maybe we are creatures from the underworld. We are damned if we remain children, and we are damned if we grow up too fast.

Stacy Chudwin is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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Last week, it was my cell phone. Actually, two cell phones. The one that my phone insurance sent me decided to stop working -4, the second day I had it.

This week, my laptop’s LCD screen suddenly declared that it no longer wanted to turn on. Conveniently this happened during the one of two weeks this entire semester where dan belzer I have any semblance of w.w.j.d. graded work due. Oh, and an interview. Wonderful As I write, it’s pouring rain, and I am sitting in The Chronicle office attempting to ignore the distractions of the nerdy staffers (yes, I am one as well) chatting away about inane subject nobody really cares about but them. Working in here only beats the library because I feel a little awkward cracking beers under the bright Rostock lights.

(You try pulling BS out of your ass every week, then let’s talk.)

Anyhow, where was I? Oh yes, so electronics hate me.

I’m actually convinced there is something in my body chemistry, some sort of electrical impulse secreted from somewhere within me that works to corrupt, confuse and ultimately destroy every piece of electronic equipment I have ever owned. I have been known to conduct a curious amount of static electricity and shock myself with unusual regularity. CompSci/bio/chem majors, any thoughts?

I’ve gone through four iPods in as many years. I am on my second laptop hard drive. My flat-screen TV broke two days after I bought it. My video camera and digital camera have developed mysterious battery-related problems. I can never, under any circumstance, capture video without some sort of glitch. And, well I guess I can blame myself for my cell phone woes, but still if you count the two abroad I think I have had eight cell phones during my Duke tenure.

(Note: Do not attempt to make a phone call while peeing into the Joyce toilet.)

(Additional note; Fishing it out of your own urine is not going to bring the phone back to life—I learned this the hard way.)

My mom likes to place the blame on my own personal negligence —that I simply do not take care of my possessions. She may have a point, in certain cases, like the adventures of my cell phone.

However, negligence hardly begins to explain my technological woes. The untimely demise of my important gadgets leads me to believe that these supposedly inanimate objects are almost mocking me. It’s like my dog pissing in my sheets before a girl comes over because apparently I haven’t been paying enough attention to him.

Maybe that’s the solution. My computer just needs a little more lovin’. You know, make it feel I appreciate it. Lord knows it’s taken a fair deal of punishment. I mean, it has had to stare at my naked ass one too many times.

OK, so the question is, how?

Hugs? Flowers? An occasional high five/’atta boy?

People, I’m open to suggestions.

Meanwhile, can somebody who has been getting phone calls and e-mails from OIT telling them their laptops are ready for pick up please go pick them up and return their loaners. I NEED ONE, DAMN IT! Thanks.

Dan Belzer is a Trinity senior. His column runs every Tuesday.

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Max, Law ’Ol, could be amusing—as a satirical hyperbole of sketchy men—if he didn’t so clearly believe his own hype. What a terrible role model for Duke men. And what a disturbing choice of speakers for the Duke University Union to sponsor.

On a campus where we blather on about “creating dialogue” and “implementing change” for Duke women, even going so far as Initiative” and a “President on the Status of Women,” seems to be a fundamental disconnect between discussion and action. Even Rolling Stone magazine caugh wind of the dysfunctiona interaction between the se: es in a below-the-belt expo published in the midst of ( lacrosse scandal media ex sion.

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benefit of the opposite sex; they have their own ways of maintaining the distorted sexual hierarchy.

How have we become a school full of smart, accomplished, driven women and men who think nothing of participating in—and perpetuating—this astonishing demonstration of negative gender roles?

The administration constructs Official Capitalized Committees to address a problem so casually, socially ingrained that nothing but a student-fueled movement could start to solve it. A couple of conferences and an “Executive Summary” really aren’t going to make a dent. The earthquake of the lacrosse scandal showed us the sharp fault lines of community division on gender issues. Are we so steeped in this culture that we can’t even see the value of rising above it?

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ATTENTION: BONFIRE GUIDELINES March 6, 2008

We want to remind you about safety guidelines for basketball bonfires at Duke. Three years ago, the Durham Fire Marshal revoked permits following a bonfire that, in his view, had gotten out of control. Students and administrators subsequently agreed on the guidelines outlined below which will help ensure everyone’s safety.

The University has requested a City bonfire permit for March 8 (UNC Men at Duke).

The bonfire site is in front of House P. The bonfire must be contained within a 40-foot marked boundary and everyone should remain outside the boundary.

Do not put dorm furniture in the bonfire.

Periodically, the bonfire must burn down to a safe height. During “burn downs,” no additional fuel may be added to the bonfire.

Bring beverages in plastic bottles or cans.

Do not sit or stand on building roofs.

Do not add fuel to the fire more than two hours following the game.

The use of any accelerant is prohibited.

Bonfires on any other day or at any other location are not permitted. Students who participate in a bonfire on any other day or at any other location may be subject to prosecution.

Celebrating basketball victories with a bonfire is a Duke tradition. Follow these basic safety rules so we can maintain this tradition for years to come.

(^iWSW-s Paul Slattery President Duke Student Government

Tallman Trask 111 Executive Vice President Duke University