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The Blue Devils remember what happened on spring break last year, when their trip to Buffalo and the NCAATournament was abrupdy cut short by Eric Maynor and VCU. This year, Duke spent spring break in the gym, making sure history does not repeat itself.

Head coach Mike Krzyzewski ran some of his hardest practices of the season last week, all in hopes of preparing his team for the NCAA Tournament.

The results of that hard work will be on display tonight, when the second-seeded Blue Devils (27-5) take on No. 15 Belmont (25-8) at 7 p.m. at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. in the first round of the NCAA Tourna-

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Gov. Mike Easley has offered a $lO,OOO reward for any information to the arrest and conviction of individuals responsible for the death of Eve Carson, according to a March 13 governor’s proclamation released Wednesday.

Although Durham residents DemarioAtwater and Laurence Lovette have already been indicted in the killing, Easley wrote in a statement signed last Thursday that there could be additional information tied to the murder.

“It is believed that the issuance of a Governor’s Reward would be beneficial in developing new leads that would help bring anyone associated with this heinous crime to justice,” he wrote in the proclamation.

The University was prepared to offer a reward in the case of engineering graduate student Abhijit Mahato, who was found dead in his apartment Jan. 18, said John Bumess, senior vice president for

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“We’ve got a good plan, and I think a lot of it has to do with how we approached last week,” Krzyzewski said. “We got a lot in last week —a lot in. I think we used our time wisely last week.”

Duke enters the NCAA Tournament with a little bit of extra rest since the Blue Devils did not advance to Sunday’s ACC Championship game. Krzyzewski and his team see that as a beneficial byproduct of the semifinal loss to Clemson.

“Not having played on Sunday helps us,” Krzyzewski said. “If we had played against North Carolina on Sunday, if we had won we might have that adrenaline, but we’d still be knocked back, and we’d almost need [to not play until] Friday. Our team would. Believe me, our team would. We’re not the bodybuilding type team.”

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Senior DeMarcus Nelson is looking to extend his career beyond this weekend in the NCAA Tournament.

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Motivated by the desire to see more diversity in Duke Student Government, Junior Lawrence Chen has not started his week-long campaign for DSC president.

“The word on the street is that Lawrence Chen has made a strategic decision not to start campaigning yet. What does that make him? Different from the other candidates,” Chen said.

The economics major added that he was also different from other candidates in that he was the only break dancer and the only candidate who does improvisational comedy.

“I’m going to be the first break-dancing candidate since Lawrence Chen is one offour candidates for DSG President.

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U.S. Rep. George Butterfield, D-N.C., will get to vote twice before November; once during North Carolina’s May 6 primary with the rest of state’s Democratic voters and again in August at the Democratic National Convention.

With a close run between Sens.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, it may come down to Butterfield and North Carolina’s 18 other Democratic superdelegates to help choose the party’s candidate.

Currently, neither Clinton nor Obama has the required number

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U.S. NEWS WORLD NEWS Bush stands by five-year Iraq war Bin Laden rails on EU in new video WASHINGTON President George W. Bush defiantly defended the Iraq war Wednesday as U.S. troops began a sixth year ofcombat in the long and costly conflict that has dominated his presidency. Bush conceded the war has been harder and more expensive than anticipated but insisted it has all been necessary to keep Americans safe.

Protesters marked the anniversary of the U.S. invasion with demonstrations near the White House and in other cities, though they seemed to lack the fervor of those that preceded the war.

Massive floods in Midwest kill 13 PIEDMONT, Mo.

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ings and evacuated Wednesday after a foot of rain pushed rivers out of their banks in the Midwest. At least 13 deaths had been linked to the weather, and three people were missing.

Flooding was reported in large areas of Arkansas and parts of southern Illinois, southern Indiana, southwestern Ohio and western

CAIRO Osama bin Laden, in a new audio message posted Wednesday, condemned the publication of drawings that he said insulted the Prophet Muhammad and warned Europeans of a "severe" reaction to come.

The message, which appeared on a militant Web site that has carried al-Qaida statements in the past and bore the logo of the extremist group's media wing, showed a still image of bin Laden aiming with an assault rifle.

Bin Laden described the cartoons as appearing in the framework of a "new Crusade" against Islam, in which he said the Pope has played a "large and lengthy role."

State media:Tibet riots spreading BEIJING Chinese state media is saying for first time that Tibet protests have spread to other provinces.

The official Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday on "riots in Tibetan-inhabited areas in the provinces of Sichuan and Gansu, both neighboring Tibet."

Xinhua said late Wednesday that 170 ndered for their role in last Tibet's capital, Lhasa. China were killed, denying Tibetan ms that BOdied.

s path for elections <AD Under strong U.S.pres's presidential council signed Inesday on a measure paving way for provincial elections by fall,a major step toward easing sectarian rifts as the nation marks \e fifth anniversary of the war.

The decision by the counil lays the groundwork for 'oters to choose new leads of Iraq's 18 provinces. The ections open the door to eater Sunni representation.

BUSINESS Stocks fall big after Tuesday'srally Stocks pulled back sharply NEW YORK Wednesday, erasing most of the previous session's big gains as investors grew concerned about the possibility that banks remain vulnerable to further problems from soured debt.The Dow Jones industrial average fell nearly 300 points after rising 420 Tuesday.

Some retrenchment was to be expected after the previous day's huge advance. But the decline also reflects investors'continuing uneasiness about the world's financial system and the U.S. economy.

SCIENCE/TECH Old blood found to increase risk Heart surgery patients were ATLANTA more likely to die or suffer problems if they received transfusions ofblood that are more than two weeks old rather than fresher blood, according to a new study that adds to the debate aboutblood's shelf life.

Although not the final word, the study underscores concerns that blood deteriorates with age and that rules allowing blood to be stored for six weeks may pose a safety risk.

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Dupre found in 'Girls Gone Wild' LOS ANGELES Stop that $1 million check; It turns out the call girl linked to Eliot Spitzer had already shed her clothes for "Girls Gone Wild"as an 18-year-old while partying in Miami, the video company's founder said Tuesday.

Joe Francis had reached out to Ashley Alexandra Dupre, now 22, with an offer of $1 million to appear in a non-nude spread for his company's magazine, plus a chance to join the "Girls Gone Wild"tour bus.

But Francis said someone had a revelation at the Tuesday morning staff meeting: Did anyone think to check the archives?

They did, he said—-and there she was.

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terns. The biggest change to the site is to registration, in which a “Planner” feature will allow students to pull courses directly into their primary bookbag from a comprehensive course catalog.

“The ‘Planner’ replaces the LongRange Plan and your alternate bookbag, and the cool thing is you can use this during registration,” Pfeiffer said.

With the feature, students will be able to revise their Long-Range Plans at any time, search for classes from the whole University catalog and see when classes are typically offered.

In the new ACES platform, the bookbag feature has been changed to hold more than four courses. In the case of a scheduling conflict in a courseload, students can pull alternate classes straight from the primary bookbag rather than through the catalog during registration.

Additionally, a “What If?” page is included to facilitate four-year planning online. Pfeiffer said the page will allow students to see how their potential majors could fit into their schedule based on courses they have taken and plan to take.

Some senators expressed concern that the “What If?” page may not be helpful for Program II majors. Cunningham, however, said the site could be improved upon to be useful to those students.

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This July, students visiting ACES will be greeted with a different layout and new and improved features for longrange planning.

At their meeting Wednesday, Duke Student Government senators critiqued the revamped Web site, which was presented by University Registrar Bruce Cunningham and Kathy Pfeiffer, director of Student Information Services and Sys-

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CHEN from page 1 Calvin Coolidge,” he said Chen has been an memberof Duke University Improv, Sweet and Sour Productions and Defining Movement since his freshman year.

“He’s always been incredibly good about balancing both DUI and DefMo, which is impressive,” said senior Aashna Kircher, president ofDefMo. “He’s very responsible.

It is that creativity and “openness to people” that gives him the ability to listen and bring about change, Chen said.

“I know what people want,” he said. “For example, people want a C-7 bus from Edens to McDonald’s and a C-Food bus from West • Campus to Red Lobster.”

Asked if he was running as a joke, Chen said he was not.

Headded that he makes no empty promises, and can already promise a few things.

“Here is what will definitely happen if I get elected DSC president: Few [Quadrangle] will definitely get renovated. A coffee shop and a Lemongrass will definitely be placed in the Bryan Center,” he said.

As DSG president, Chen said he would release dogs on campus to solve some students’ complaints against wild squirrels and cats.

“Bringing cute dogs on campus is like killing two birds with one stone, if the birds are cats and squirrels,” he said.

Some ofChen’s other plans are to incorporate a reading period before final exams and a “grieving period” after exams into the University’s academic schedule.

Addressing common complaints about Duke’s parking situation, Chen noted that there should be positive reinforcement instead of parking tickets.

“Instead of punishing students who park in the wrong place, we should reward the people who park in the right place,” he said.

During his time at Duke, Chen has traveled to Kenya to film a documentary about women’s education. The experience taught him to make decisions effectively, he said.

He added that he wanted to move quickly to respond to students with his “real solutions that are accomplishable.”

“Duke Improv taught me everything I need to know: improvise.”

Campus Services Review Committee Announcement Duke University conducts periodic administrative reviews for all university officers. Kernel Dawkins is in his fifth year as Vice President for Campus Services, and a review is underway, The review committee includes Professors Nancy Allen, Kerry Haynie, John Staddon and Warren Warren, and administrators Monte Brown and Tim Walsh.

The committee invites all members of the Duke community to provide written comments regarding Kernel’s leadership effectiveness as well as insight into Campus Services operations which include construction & engineering, safety & security, dining, DukeCard and stores. Basic questions are as follows: Services/Kemel’s strengths and accomplishments?

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“We were prepared to put up a reward in Abhijit’s case, kind of like a

In other business: Junior Sunny Kantha, vice president for athletics and campus services, presented to senators a system to encourage carpooling among undergraduates.

The Carpooling Incentive Program would allow students living off-campus to sign up in groups of four or more for a free parking pass to the left lot of the Blue Zone.

The group will receive 10 day passes per semester to park anywhere in the Blue Zone for days students need to travel inde-

Crime Stoppers thing, but the police captured the guys so fast so we never got to the point where we could do it,” Burness said. “I don’t know what additional information the governor’s office has [about Carson’s murder], but I feel the police have done a very good job in their investigation.”

Carson, a senior and student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was found shot to death near UNC’s North Campus early in the morning of March 5.

The governor’s office could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday night.

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SUPERDELEGATES from page 1 of delegates to clinch the majority, leading many to speculate that the superdelegate vote will be crucial in the election.

Of North Carolina’s 19, only one has committed to Clinton, with four supporting the Obama campaign. Twelve of the remaining delegates remain uncommitted and two will be named at the state convention.

Nationally, Clinton is leading Obama in the superdelegate count with 250 delegates to his 213, according to The Associated Press. In the normal delegate count, Obama leads 1,404 to 1,249 as of Wednesday.

Butterfield, who has announced his intent to support Obama, said in past elections presidential hopefuls have not wooed superdelegates, but said he has been contacted by Obama multiple times since he began campaigning.

“I’ve talked with Obama on six occasions—three in person and three on the phone—since he announced,” he wrote in an e-mail. “It’s provided me the opportunity to better understand him and his campaign, and it did play a role in my decision.”

He said Clinton had not contacted him Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C. and a superdelegate, said superdelegates will be a major determining factor in the nomination if neither candidate can gamer the required 2,024 del-

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egates solely from the primary vote.

He added that he has been contacted by both campaigns in recent months but noted that if he does choose to endorse a candidate before the convention, he will make his decision after the North Carolina primary.

Although rumors have circulated about candidates wining and dining superdelegates, Miller said he has not been taken out for dinner or drinks or personally wooed by either candidate like other superdelegates. However, he added that the candidates’ supporters in the capital often seek him out to speak with him.

Miller said his decision will not be based on who has contacted him and that he will instead cast his vote for who he believes will be able to best run their campaign and how well each candidate is received by voters in North Carolina.

“I think most superdelegates would prefer there to be a clear result and not be in this position,” he said.

The superdelegate system was implemented before the 1984 election, but some have questioned the power the delegates wield in close elections like that which the Democratic Party now faces.

“I think that’s a matter for each citizen to pass judgment on: whether having superdelegates is undemocratic or [not],” said David Rohde, Ernestine Friedl professor of political science.

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are unpledged delegates who may vote for any Democratic presidential candidate. Typically, they are members of the Democratic National Committee, Democratic members of Congress, governors or prominent figures in the Democratic Party.

The 796 superdelegates who will attend the National Democratic Convention make up 20 percent of the total delegates. Nineteen superdelegates, two of whom will be named at the convention, will come from North Carolina:

Joyce Brayboy, an at-large member Obama Charlotte Councilwoman Susan Burgess Clinton Rep. G.K. Butterfield of Wilson Obama Dr. Jeannette Council, a DNC member Uncommitted Gov. Mike Easley Uncommitted Uncommitted Rep. Bob Etheridge of Lillington Rep. Mike Mclntyre of Lumberton Uncommitted N.C. Dem. Party Chairperson Jerry Meek Uncommitted Rep. Brad Miller of Raleigh Uncommitted N.C. Dem. Party Vice Chairperson Dannie Montgomery Obama Treasurer of N.C. Democratic Party Muriel K. Offerman Uncommitted David Parker of Statesville, a DNC member Uncommitted Carol Peterson of Buncombe, a DNC member Uncommitted Uncommitted Rep. David Price of Chapel Hill Rep. Heath Shuler of Waynesville Uncommitted Everett Ward of Wake County, a DNC member Obama Rep. Mel Watt of Charlotte Uncommitted He added that one of the main purposes of giving superdelegates an independent vote is to provide the party with a more united front going into the general election.

“They haven’t really mattered in the past,” Rohde said. “Nobody really had to pay attention to them or woo them like they may be doing now.”

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Stacy-Lynn Waddell’s new exhibit, From That Point On, tackles one of the hardest concepts in artistic representation: capturing the essence of someone’s life. And this someone is not just any commoner off the street—the muse at the heart of her works happens to be prominent Civil Rights historian John Hope Franklin, professor emeritus of history.

Crafting a diverse exhibit using the primary medium of heat, Waddell has turned one man’s experiences and philosophies into an intriguing visual dialogue. The showcase succeeds in both shedding light on Franklin’s journey as a humanist and the central elements that has shaped him into who he is today.

Sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, From That Point On is only the second exhibit at the Franklin Center to ever explore the life ofits namesake. Although Franklin himself is renowned for his modesty, Gallery Coordinator Kathy Hudson feels the personal life ofFranklin deserves more attention.

“I don’t think enough people know about him,” Hudson said. “He’s a historian [and] it’s interesting to know what affected him, his childhood and what he did. Not a lot of people know about the bio of a historian. They’re more interested in what they’re writing about.”

Additionally, this is the first time the center has chosen a local artist to display.

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Stella by Starlight member Nate Fowler, also known as Pseudofed, hopes to develop his production skills and relay them into a successful musical career.

The Zen of Nate Fowler: Pseudofed by

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It’s people like Nate Fowler that make you feel the need to participate in more extracurricular activities. For most of us, being the singer and synth player in Stella

by Starlight, a band which recently won MTVu’s award for Best Band on Campus, would be enough. However, senior Nate Fowler’s musical ambitions aim higher than just starring in a successful band, prompting him to launch another production career under the name Pseudofed.

Pseudpfed’s debut album, Timely. Accurate. Compliant. Integrated., which Fowler characterizes as “electronic pop,” was made available on iTunes on Feb. 18. With

a wide range of sounds featured qu the 12track album, Timely is most impressive in the diversity of genres explored and musical influences presented.

When creating a track, Fowler will make use of specific artists or tracks as reference points for his own productions. And because his list of favorite musicians runs from Daft Punk to Phil Collins, Fowler’s work displays a refreshing diversity not usually heard in student music.

For instance, Fowler depicts the infectious “As Good As it Gets,” his personal favorite, as a combination of Paul McCartney’s lyrical style with synth and dance touches that resemble electronica legend LCD Soundsystem. His inspiration for the

pop sound of “The Leak” came from the beats of Daft Punk and the vocals of Michael Jackson, while the slower and more soothing “Better Living Through Chemistry” will remind listeners of a Flaming Lips track. Above all, Pseudofed deftly achieves his goal of creating music he describes as “trying to be both Top 40 and indie pop.”

Those who are most familiar with Fowler’s work praise his ability to successfully mix genres. Sonny Byrd, guitarist and vocalist for Stella by Starlight, describes Pseudofed’s sound as “easily digestible pop music with an edge of rock.” In addition, Scott Lindroth, an associate proSEE FOWLER ON PAGE 5

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Duke might not be the first name in film schools but it has come a long way since 1973. Just ask Ted Bogosian.

After graduating from Duke at a time when the film/video/ digital program did not exist, Bogosian, Trinity ’73, made his way into the film industry. Now, he is back at the University as the inaugural visiting professor in FVD’s filmmaker-in-residency program.

Earlier in the semester, American Psycho director Mary Harron visited for a week as a part of the same program.

Bogosian’s visit lasts for the entire semester. He is teaching the Visiting Filmmaker’s Master Course, a seminar with 15 students.

FVD director David Paletz said the course combines two aspects central to the FVD curriculum.

“There’s two kinds of courses. There’s what we call studies... and production,” Paletz said. “Duke is not USC and it’s not UCLA. It’s important [that] students have some notion of how a film is made.”

Though Bogosian’s class does not specifically send students out with cameras, it focuses more on the production end of the curriculum. The course highlights the process of taking a script and transferring it to the screen.

“I try to make it as faithful as possible to the process,” he said.

Paletz invited Bogosian to Duke as a part of reforms he set out to make during the beginning of tenure as FVD chair.

From ThatPoint On, Stacy-Lynn Waddell's new exhibit, celebrates the historicalprogress ofJohn Hope Franklin.

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Editor’s Note 25: on rap

There is something rotten in the state of hip-hop.

The movement started out as the pulse of the streets—moving from timely dance records to political conscious tracks.

Public Enemy revolutionized the music video and made it a medium that could provide a powerful message. Let us forgive the fact that the success Public Enemy led to three seasons ofFlavor ofLove —who knew a hypeman could become so popular.

When gangster rap came to the forefront it supposedly represented “the truth” of the streets. Rap was away for people to get out of crime-ridden areas and make a name for themselves.

However, the world ofrap is severely disconnected with the rest of the world. There are people who try to remain socially conscious but just come a few steps short. Puffy asked people to vote or die, but I don’tthink he realized that young voter apathy can’t be

cured by idle threats. I didn’t vote last time Puffy and I’m still around... what now?

Really will.i.am? A sparse celebrity-filled video? That is really going to win me over. I hate smug and I hate celebrity opinions and I loathe it when the two come together. Back in the day the political messages had critical thought, now they have Scarlett Johansson.

The worst offender is DMX —and I am not talking about just his music. In a recent interview with XXL, Dark Man X not only admitted to not knowing who Barack Obama is, but proceeded to make fun of the name.

In a world that is more socially conscious and less materialistic than the late ’9os, rappers are still talking about their bank rolls, big pimpin’ and bustin’ all types of caps in all types of respective persons’ derriere. Rap needs to change its tune before I am ready to re-check-check-check out its melody.

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Oscar-winning Lazarus raises poignant issues Margaret Lazarus, an Academy Awardwinning documentary filmmaker, conducted a presentation and discussion of Oscar-winning documentaries last night in Griffith Theater. She agreed to an interview with recess’ Braden Hendricks to share her on being a filmmaker and her experiences in the field. Tonight she will present her own films and answer questions at 7 p.m. in East Duke 209.

What do you do with the documentary arts?

I’m a member of the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The doc branch is relatively new—it was established in 2001—and we basically do a lot of things, like work on rules. We also are the committee that prescreens the entries for the documentary awards. One of things we’ve been talking about is to encourage the screenings of short documentaries. There are some theaters that show short docs but this is one of COURTESY MARGARET LAZARUS the things we want to expand the number Margaret Lazarus has been directing and producing documentaries, such as Rape Is (right), about women's issuesand violence for over thirty years. of people who can see Oscar-winning films.

It’s a really exciting idea, so we’re piloting about what you think about it. You can talk teach [a class called] Producing Films for ence as hundreds of millions of people. It the program now and seeing the people’s about that without getting involved in a Social Change at Tufts University, which is was terrifying and exciting, and we got to reaction. If it’s something they want then polarized situation, and I think that’s absoa very intense course in which students can say a few things about domestic violence.

Who gets that kind of opportunity unless we will expand the program to many more lutely essential. know absolutely nothing about filmmakcities. [Today] I’m showing [at Duke in East How did you get involved in making ing and learn to use the camera, edit and you’re at an amazing event? It’s been reDuke 209] a film I got an Academy Award documentary films? make a film about a social issue that they ally wonderful to watch over the years how much more documentaries are getting out Well, I’ve been doing it for a long time. care about. for [best short documentary] in ’94 called What is it like to win an Academy there, and how the Academy has created Defending our Lives (1993), which is about My first Job out of college was working for a whole branch of awards and been really domestic violence. I’m also showing a newa television station as a producer. I started Award?

It’s really funny. Documentary is a growsupportive. It’s really exciting. er film, one we did in 2003 called Rape Is. out as a researcher, then a writer, then a Who are your major influences?

It’s part of the curriculum for new recruits producer and I just felt deeply dissatisfied ing brand, and it’s growing in importance.

When I was coming up the new thing in the Air Force in response to the sexual by what I was able to do and fitting into the But really, until Michael Moore showed assault situations that have happened. If format, mixing everything up with comthat a documentary could make hundreds was direct cinema and cinema-verite. A lot there is time, the third film I want to show mercials. So my partner and I said, “Let’s of millions of dollars—I mean, Fahrenheit of those older mentors, like the Maysles is Strong at the Broken Places (1998), which is start a non-profit filmmaking organiza9/11 made over 200 million bucks —until Brothers, were masters of it and were so about four people who deal with rape and tion.” What did we know? We quit our jobs that happened, I think it was hard to get influential. They showed you could bring violence. in television, we did bodywork on an old theater owners and the commercial aspects portable and light equipment and spend bathtub type 1962 Porsche and sold it to of the business to take it seriously. Now serious time with your subjects and capture Why rape and women’s rights?

The aim [of these films] is to get people an up-and-coming Boston rock star. With it’s much more of an issue. In any event, only things that are not scripted. That’s talking and expanding the idea of rape. It’s that little bit of money we started making the Oscars are—it’s hard to describe. My been a very important influence on me, but such an important and big topic, and the films. My partner [Renner Wunderlich] is husband said it best when he said he felt I’ve been influenced by many of the different strands within the documentary tradimore we talk about it, the clearer some of interested in unnecessary surgery, and I’m we were like a couple of cats at the Westthe things get about it. A film is a really exinterested in the women’s movement. With minster Dog Show. Everybody else was in tion. You can produce something different than what is on mainstream media and give cellent way of opening up issues because, Rape Culture (1975), we got involved with a dramatic theater. Just being there, and seeunlike a legal case, it doesn’t force you to collective of people who taught us how to ing everybody and getting up there [on the people a voice who may not have a voice in become polarized. It presents the issue in do distribution and we sent it out all over stage] and making the little speech. At that mainstream media, and that has been a very important influence on me as well. away where you can really talk and think the world, and that’s where it began. I also point they estimated the worldwide audi-

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BOGOSIAN from page 1 “It seemed to me that, when I took over FVD that... it could cater more to undergraduates,” Paletz said. “It’s an undergraduate program. It’s not a graduate program. So I thought, ‘How could we do that?’”

Paletz’s changes have come in multiple forms. Paletz said he is constantly looking to bring professional filmmakers to Duke, especially those that are Duke alum.

Through various forms, notably Durham’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Paletz became came aware of Bogosian, which led to the extension of an invitation to teach. Bogosian’s alumni status only sweetened the deal for Paletz.

“Ted, of course, is a Dukie. What could be better?” Paletz said.

The filmmaker-turned-professor’s path to film was unlikely. Bogosian attended Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government after graduating from Duke. While in Cambridge, he took a job at WGBH, Boston’s public television branch. What started as programming research turned into a job at NOVA.

Initially working in documentary pictures, his resume also includes dramas,

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For giants, these guys seem awfully plain, but don’t judge them by their meek appearances.

Paul Scheer, Aziz Ansari and Rob Huebel (stars of MTV’s Human Giant) have some of the largest comic personalities in the land.

Giant is the best sketch comedy show on MTV since David Wain’s The State in the early ’9os.

MTV has a lot of ground to make up in the comedy world after the abominations that were Nick Cannon’s Short Circutz and Snoop Dogg’s Doggy Fizzle Televizzle. If you missed the first season, now is your chance to own the eightepisode set on DVD.

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Imagine two young, more effeminate Patrick Batemans that have a special taste for upper-middleclass families.

Funny Games is a shot-for-shot remake ofwriter and director Mb chad Haneke’s 1997 film of the same name, except set in Airierica. Haneke thought the themes of the film, gratuitous violence and audience culpability, were more pertinent in America than his home country Austria. Ann (Naomi Watts) and George (Tim Roth) along with their son Geor-

notably work on Homicide: Life on the Streets and HBO’s prison drama Oz. Bogosian also holds a membership with the Directors Guild ofAmerica and was elected as an alternate board member.

So far, Bogosian has enjoyed his tenure as a professor.

Bogosian’s role as a professor is not quite as easy as some might think. Splitting most of his time between Boston and New York City, he flies down every week to teach the Monday class. Bogosian said that he likes to stay the night so he can be more involved with his students and the Duke film scene, even if this means just watching a film in Griffith Theatre. In spite of his constant trips through airport security, Bogosian said he is enjoying his time at Duke.

“It’s a wonderful experience,” he said.

“It’s certainly changed a lot since I was there. I’m really impressed with how bright and motivated the students are.”

For the students, many of whom hope to go into directing, Bogosian has been able to provide an inside look into the inner workings of the film and television industry.

“He’s got a lot of insight,” said junior Eric Holljes, one of Bogosian’s students.

“He seems very involved in the television/ film indsutry. He seems like he brings a

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Given the availability of TV shows on the Internet, there is usually not much incentive to own a season DVD. However, the season one DVD manages to pack in more than enough to make the purchase worth it.

The first and most obvious reason to own Human Giant on DVD is the episodes themselves.

The comedy is very brash and straightforward but has subtle tones if you watch very carefully.

Irreverent and often full of non sequiturs and absurdities, the short sketches will either leave you on the floor laughing or silent and awkward after realizing that you almost laughed at a joke about little kids starring in a 9/11 movie. • Although the season is short —a glaring negative

there are more guest stars than a full season of SNL. The threeman crew is often supported by a slew of obscure comedians (Nick Kroll) and indie musicians (Tapes ‘n Tapes).

The first season DVD also has more extras than an episode of The West Wing. Almost every episode has two hilarious commentary tracks that are often as entertaining as the episodes themselves. The second DVD contains highlights from the Human Giant 24-hour marathon, deleted scenes, unaired sketches, outtakes and behindthe-scenes featurettes.

The Giant DVD packs giant comedy and giant extras for a not-so-giant price—cheesy pun aside.

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gie (Devon Gearheart) make up your typical yuppie family. Soon after arriving at their vacation home for a two-week break, the gets paid a visit by Paul (Michael Pitt) and Peter (Brady Gprbert), two 20-somethings straight out of the country club, What follows is meticulously crafted savagery. Paul and Peter, “jaded by the emptiness of existence,” bet the family that they will not be alive by morning and force the family to undergo a series of “games” and tests. Paul and Peter get into petty quarrels. Their inlmaturity contrasted with the fate of the family makes the reality of the situation even more terrifying.

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Haneke’s overall message is pertinentand expressed in an unforgettable fashion. At certain moments throughout the torture, Peterbreaks the fourth wall and asks the audience, “Do you think that is enough?”

The film is a stark, revelatory look at America’s (or humanity’s) obsession with gratuitous violence. Haneke is playing a trick on his audience, intentionally reminding them of their guiltand involvement with the mayhem that occurs.

Funny Games is not exactly entertainment. Impossible to love, difficult not to respect, it’s a film that you won’t be forgetting for a while.

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After starting in documetaries, Bogosian worked on sevearl shows including Oz and The Bedford Diaries. lot of experience to the table so you know you’ll get a great, experienced answer.”

Additionally, Bogosian said he is impressed with the current state of FVD and hopes to remain a part of the program, something Paletz said he would like to see happen. With Bogosian’s role as a board member at the Full Frame Film Festival, it

seems inevitable he will continue his ties with the program and help it grow.

“I think it’s all there for people who want to take advantage of [it] I only wish we had that available to me when I was there, but things turned out well for me,” he said.

“I just want to make sure things turn out well for [the students].”

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When Greg Paulus missed a last-second shot in Duke’s final game last season, all the point guard could do was fall to the floor and bury his head on the hardwood.

With a 79-77 upset loss to Virginia Commonwealth in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, a season full of close losses came crashing down on the team as Duke failed to advance past the opening round for the first time in 11 seasons.

At times this year the current Blue Devils have reversed their late-game fortune.

Other times, the problems of last season have reemerged.

Nailing clutch shots in the final minute will be the key obstacle in Duke’s path to the Final Four.

“Last year’s [loss to VCU] was not the outcome we were hoping for or expected,” Paulus said. “It’s been there all summer and winter.

“Now we have an opportunity to do something else.”

To remedy last season’s late-game woes—which included poor shots, missed free throws and turnovers in the final minutes—head coach Mike Krzyzewski has put more emphasis on simulating those types of scenarios.

“Being at 78-78, how do you close the game? Down four, how do you come back?” senior DeMarcus Nelson said. “That has been key for our success.”

The practice? It’s paid off. Sometimes.

Down 84-79 with two minutes to play at N.C. State March 1, Duke looked as if it might lose for the third time in five games and Krzyzewski, sitting at 799 wins, would have to wait to capture his 800th victory. But after Nelson and Paulus hit back-to-back 3pointers in the last two minutes, Duke had —

a chance to pull off the kind of comeback that would have eluded them a year ago.

A pair of free throws by Nelson was all the Blue Devils needed for the 87-86 win.

“It was a remarkable game,” Krzyzewski said after the win. “I thought N.C. State played superbly, and outplayed us for 32 minutes. I don’t think they played poorly in the last eight minutes, but our guys made remarkable plays.... Every one of our guys hit big shots and free throws.”

But in two of Duke’s last three games, the Blue Devils couldn’t make the most important shot when it mattered. Not surprisingly, both were losses.

On March 8 against North Carolina, with the ACC regular-season championship on the line, Jon Scheyer made a layup with 5:42 left in the second half to boost Duke to a 68-66 lead, its first since the game’s opening minutes.

Then, the Blue Devils went cold, missing their last 11 shots of the game as the No. 1 Tar Heels closed the second half on a 10-0 run to take the league crown.

Scoring droughts plagued last season’s team—in the most important five minutes this year, they reared again.

Facing a similar situation a week later in the ACC Tournament, Duke almost mounted a late-game comeback against Clemson.

But the second-seeded Blue Devils did not convert on two critical possessions in the last minute and failed to reach the finals for the second year in a row—an anomaly for a team that had advanced to nine straight title games before last season.

“You can’t spend too much time talking about [missed shots at the end of games],” Krzyzewski said. “Otherwise, you make them think about it.... We did have shots.

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“And if you miss by taking good shots, then so be it.”

Which side of the streaky Blue Devils emerges in the NCAA Tournament is still unclear. What is almost certain, though, is that Duke will be tested in the final minutes, especially if it makes a run deep into the Tournament. And all of Duke’s late-

game endings—the N.C. State win, and the losses from VCU to Clemson —will be fresh on the players’ minds, In Krzyzewski’s view, that will only help Duke’s chances.

“I think we have a better chance of being good right now than we did 10 days ago,” he said Monday.

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In real time, it looked like an elbow to the face. Inadvertent, perhaps, but definitely an elbow to the face.

The slow-motion replay revealed a much more malicious act, one that probably should have earned the transgressor an intentional, if not flagrant, foul.

The boos cascaded down from all corners of the RBC Center in Raleigh that March afternoon —showering the victim, not the perpetrator.

As Greg Paulus pulled the jersey up from his torso to wipe blood away from the area below his right eye, which had Just been lacerated by a sharp swing from Javier Gonzalez’s right elbow, all he could think about was how he could clean himself up to get back into the game.

All the N.C. State fans could think was another Duke flop. Another Paulus flop.

Gonzalez had actually gotten away with a nearly identical play during the teams’ first matchup of the season in January, but that didn’t matter to the Wolfpack faithful. Neither, for that matter, did the actual truth of what happened on this particular play, which occurred after Gonzalez became frustrated with Paulus’ pesky backcourt defense.

What mattered was that it was Duke, and that it was Paulus.

The N.C. State fans had likely seen the YouTube videos that splice together Paulus’ flops, and they had probably heard the chants that their counterparts at Virginia Tech and Miami had directed at the guard earlier in the season. So they pounced on the opportunity to boo the vaunted target,

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JuniorGreg Paulus has emerged as the most recent target for thewrath offans who despise theBlue Devils.

following a path blazed by fans around the country over the past two decades.

If it wasn’t clear when JJ. Redick predicted it two years ago, then it certainly is now: Greg Paulus has taken over the mantle as The Most Hated Player in College Basketball, the top villain on the most villainous team in all of college basketball.

Fully assuming that unenviable distinction this year, Paulus has taken the brunt of all the Duke hatred that has grown—and continues to do so—out of the program’s success and image under Mike Krzyzewski.

“F— You, Paulus” Paulus isn’t the captain of this year’s Duke team, nor is he the leading scorer.

Both of those honors are heldby DeMarcus Nelson. Paulus isn’t the most talentedBlue Devil, nor is he the one with the brightest future as a professional basketball player.

Those honors can be debated between Kyle Singler and Gerald Henderson.

But outside of Chapel Hill, where Henderson is Public Enemy No. 1 for elbowing Tyler Hansbrough last year, Paulus is the new villain.

The fan reactions at opposing arenas provide all the evidence necessary for proof. At Florida State and Miami, hundreds of fans joined together in “F—You, Paulus” chants.

At Virginia Tech, fans chanted “Teabag Paulus,” a not-so-subtle reference to Deron Washington’s dunk over Paulus from last year that has been virally distributed over the Internet. And at N.C. State, of course, the fans booed Paulus when he left the game bleeding after taking an elbow in the face.

“It’s tough to flop when you’re bleeding,” Paulus said.

It would be easy for Paulus to say he doesn’t hear the fans, that he’s able to block it out and focus on the task at hand. But despite his best attempts to ignore the fans, he’s heard, and hears, just about everything.

When an entire studentsection is yelling a coordinated expletive at a player, which is what happened to Paulus during the first half at Miami Feb. 20, he has two choices: He can succumb to the fans or he can use it as motivation.

“It’s happened a lot of times this year,” Paulus said. “I just try to get up there and knock down the shots and try to think about what we’re going to do next... When people are saying stuff like that it just makes me concentrate more. If I’m at the foul line, the best way to keep them quiet is to hit the free throws.”

“In sports, we need a villain” Fan reactions around the country, specifically in the ACC, have shown who the new villain is. But the question of why Paulus has become The Most Hated Player in College Basketball, and moreover how all

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Paulus said he’ll leave it up to the fans and media to decide why exactly he’s become that guy—“somebody has to be,” he said. But the most obvious reason is his overt displays of emodon: the screams after made threes and the floor-slaps when Duke needs a stop, “It’s because they can see that [Paulus] is the heart and soul of the team,” said Christian Laettner, perhaps the most infamous Duke villain of alHime. “They can see that he’s the one that’s trying to have the intensity rub off on the rest of the team. Opposing fans are very good at deciding who is the

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Fans madeformer National Player of theYear JJ. Redick one of the most hated Duke players ofall-time.

bloodline of the team.... It seems like they love going after the really intense guy on the team. If you pump your fist and get jacked up, they’re going to come after you.”

Some, however, contend that other factors are at play —that there are race and class issues involved, and that the general targets are the pretty boys who are believed to represent the Duke student body. They point to Duke greats like Grant Hill, Elton Brand and Jason Williams and wonder why they weren’t villainized to the same extent as some of their white counterparts.

In an interview lastyear with the Greensboro News-Record, Krzyzewski said that the racial element might not be the “main point” but still a “legitimate” one.

The newest piece of anti-Duke material on the Internet is, a joke application for the “Duke University Flopping Camp.” Among the questions asked on the one-page document are: “Do you lack athletic ability?,” “Does your offensive ‘game’ consist of standing orutside the three-point line?” and “Are you a UP floor-slapper?”

It also asks, “Are. you white?”

“There are misguided issues ofclass and race,” said Will Leitch, editor of the popular sports blog Deadspin. “This is sometimes the price you pay for success —it’s not necessarily a fair price.

“In sports, we need a villain.... The thing I think people attack is the impression that they’re these pretty-boys who never had to work too hard and get away with things.

But there’s a funny irony in that because those are actually the guys that are working the hardest, the scrappers.”

“It comes with the territory” When Redick cast his prophecy about Paulus during his senior season, he was well aware ofDuke’s position in the college basketball landscape.

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record of 22-11 and an NCAA Tournament appearance is considered a successful year.

Not for Coach K and Duke. In Durham, that’s the type of season that sets off alarm bells and has everyone from ESPN analysts to anonymous bloggers sounding off about the decline of Krzyzewski’s program.

It’s that expectation of success—and by and large the Blue Devils’ ability to deliver—that has put Duke on the current pedestal it shares with a select few teams across allof sports.

“The No. 1 reason across the board why people hate Duke is that Duke has been too consistendy good for too long,” Leitch said.

“There are other factors, but the success isNo. 1 through 5, there’s no doubt whatsoever.”

Some have argued over the years, though, that the Duke hatred goes beyond the success.

Not only have the Blue Devils been good, but they’ve been the type of good that frustrates everyone who is not a Duke fan. They shoot well, they take charges, they play with emotion and, yes, with a bit of arrogance.

They’re the type of team everyone wants to beat. Except historically, that hasn’t happened very often.

“It’s respect,” said Duke assistant coach Chris Collins, himself a veteran villain.

“It’s become that when Duke comes to town it’s a big game, and that’s because of what’s happened over the past 25 years.

I view that as a compliment and as respect—that people are excited to play us, that crowds are fired up.”

In books like North Carolina fan Will Blythe’s “To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever” and in essays like the “Anti-Dook Manifesto” on truthaboutduke.com, Duke haters have explained it in other terms. In their rationalization, they say it’s more than just the success. It’s an attitude of unparalleled entitlement, at least in the world of college sports.

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JayBilas surfs over the band at Cameron Indoor Stadium during the Duke gameMarch 8 versus UNC.

The Chronicle’s Meredith Shiner interviewed ESPNanalyst andfarmer Duke starter Jay Bilas the day after the brackets were released to gel his thoughts on the Blue Devils, their draw and theirchances to win it all.

Meredith Shiner: If Duke makes it to the regional final, can it beat UCLA? JayBilas: They’d certainly have to contend with one of the best big guys in the country in Kevin Love. He’s a freshman and he’s die player of the year in the Pac-10. He is a great low-post player diat can pass it, he can step away and shoot it, and he’s a superior rebounder. I’m not sure that as gohd as Tyler Hansbrough is, I thinkthat Love, diough he’s perhaps not as valuable a player as Hansbrough, he’s a better player. Certainly more efficient.

MS: One of the Blue Devils’ perceived weaknesses is their interior game. How can they compensate for that in the Tournament, and who do you see as a threat to them advancing?

JB* If UConn were to make it dial far, and it were a Duke-UConn matchup, that would be a problem. Duke-Arizona in the second round, if Arizona were to win, Arizona’s got a kid named Jordan Hill who’s 6-foot-ll and a really good player. The only way to really combat it, unless there’s some sort of growth spurt between now and the start of the Tournament is to really get out and pressure the ball and force offenses further out on the court, take away their vision of passes inside, turn ’em over and really score offyour defense.

MS: Head coach Mike Krzyzewski made a point of really going to his bench in the ACC Tournament. How could that sort of gameplan be beneficial in the NCAAs? JB: When you’re playing against a team that presses and gets up and down, you can substitute a little more liberally. I think in the NCAA Tournament, you’re not going to face many pressing teams. Clemson is a little bit unique in that regard. It’s hard to press really good teams and do that for 40 minutes without giving up a lot of 3-

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on-2s and 2-on-ls. In the NCAAs, the games tend to be more halfcourt in nature because teams

are pretty proficient in breaking pressure. You’re dealing with the best teams in the country.

MS: Duke has had a newer-look offense, and at dmes, defense, this year. Has Coach K become more flexible in the 20-plus years you have known him?

JB: He’s always been flexible. He’s always changed and adapted based on the personnel he’s got. He’s never really had a quote-en-quote system.

Sometimes he pressures more when he’s got the team to do it, other times he’s not able to bring as much pressure defensively. He’s always played mosdy'man. But, you know, we played zone in the ’Bos. It’s not like that’s some new concept for him.

He’s played it a little more in certain games than perhaps in the past. I think against Virginia, he played it for at least 20 minutes. That was a little bit unusual, but when he put it on, they started jacking up shots and missing them all.

I don’t think that necessarily exhibits some major change in his thinking, but the makeup of this team this year is a bit different So he’s changed their style a little bit and continued to adapt to that 3-point line. The 3-point line is 21 years old now. These kids have grown up with it, and they’ve learned how to play with it. The game has changed. It’s more of a drive and kick and 3-point game than it used to be.

MS: How did you get set up with that bandsurfing gig in Cameron for the UNC game?

JB: Somebody asked me to do it; I guess the guy that does it normally got hurt doing it last time, and I really didn’t know that, otherwise 1 might not have done it myself. I wouldn’t want to tear an ACL doing it. But someone had asked me and I said, “Yeah, I’ll do it, as long as my producer says it’s OK.’ And I figured my producer would say no and I’d be off the hook, but they said yes and Lwent ahead and did it.

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To those outside the Duke program the virulent fans, the competitive coaches, the pestered players—the Blue Devils have more than enough ego.

But for head coach Mike Krzyzewksi, heading into last weekend’s ACC Tournament, Duke did not have enough. Or at least where the veteran coach knew he would need it most—the bench.

The Blue Devils don’t have an established superstar. They don’t have a plethora of veterans. They don’t even have a menacing frontcourt to potentially throw at Kevin Love, UCLA’s 6-foot-10 freshman phenom, who looms at the top of the West Regional bracket.

They do, however, have a wealth of options when it comes to their rotation.

So Krzyzewski and his staff drove into Charlotte with a gameplan. At the threeminute marks of the contests against Georgia Tech and Clemson, they would call for a mass substitution, sending five new players to the scorer’s table to replace the starters.

Jon Scheyer, Brian Zoubek, Nolan Smith, Dave McClure and Taylor King had put in a solid week of practice collectively over Spring Break, and Krzyzewski wanted to put them to the test—together.

“There are many things happening in a game, and some of them go beyond that game when you’re trying to do something in your season or your program. It wasn’t just for that game, it was to make my team better,” Krzyzewski said. “Part of what we did was to put all of them in so it would be good for their ego. And they would have more ego playing with the guys... that they’ve practiced with.”

And it worked. The bench combined for 25 points in an 82-70 win over Georgia Tech and 34 in the 78-74 loss to Clemson.

Although Krzyzewski said the procedure was not one he would use moving forward in the NCAA Tournament, he did say it was effective in enabling Zoubek, McClure and Smith, especially, to play their best basketball of the season.

Zoubek, who recorded eight points, —

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Jon Scheyer, a starter last year, has turned into one of the nation's top reserves and scores 11 points per game. six rebounds and a block in 20 minutes of

play over the interior-oriented Tigers, has emerged as one of Duke’s most pleasant surprises since March began.

The Blue Devils’ only true center has been gaining confidence and momentum since returning from an ankle injury, and that upward trajectory seems to have been sparked by a quiet but strong performance in a 76-68 loss to North Carolina March 8. Zoubek scored six points on 3of-4 shooting and pulled down three offensive rebounds in a mere nine minutes of action against ACC Player of the Year Tyler Hansbrough.

After the game, despite his disappointment with the loss, Zoubek was confident in what teammate Scheyer had called the best game of the center’s career.

“I can hold myself against anybody,”

Zoubek said. “It’s just the intangible stuff that I bring to the table—l think the intensity and just energy. I hope my teammates can feed off it, and I can provide a boost that way, and hopefully a presence inside.

Not that we’ve been lacking, but we need to be a little stronger in there.”

Although Zoubek is building his confidence now, Scheyer has been playing with it all season. The sophomore, who was a starter last year, averages 11.5 points, four rebounds and 2.5 assists per contest off the bench. Racking up 28.3 minutes per game, Scheyer plays more than starters Greg Paulus, Gerald Henderson and Lance Thomas —a statistic that has led Krzyzewski to dub him “the sixth starter.”

And it’s not Just his coach who sees it that way.

“Scheyer is essentially a starter,” ESPN

analyst and former Duke player Jay Bilas said. “He plays so many minutes. Whether he starts or comes off the bench, he’s the same player.... It gives [Duke] a different look and a new energy, and he’s a very wellrounded player.”

The shooting guard, who also shares responsibility at the point with Paulus and Smith, paces the productive bench. And with everyone healthy and finally clicking, the non-starters could prove vital to a Duke run through the bracket.

The ACC Tournament was only a trial run in showcasing their potential.

“It was basically just letting everyone know that they’re equally important, that the players and coaches have confidence in everybody,” captain DeMarcus Nelson said.

“It’s going to take a total team effort—not just from five or six guys—for us to win.”

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With 4:15 remaining in their ACC Tournament semifinal matchup against Clemson, the Blue Devils huddled up for a timeout. Something was noticeably wrong.

Gerald Henderson was doubled over in pain, clutching his right wrist.

Henderson, who originally injured his wrist Feb. 6 at North Carolina, had blocked out to grab a rebound against the Tigers, and his positioning forced his wrist to curl inward. He was X-rayed at Bobcats Arena after the game and although Henderson was in undeniable pain, the X-ray revealed that he hadn’t injured himself any further.

It could have been a lot worse for Henderson, who is already scheduled to have surgery after the season. As it turned out, Duke caught a break.

Duke head coach Mike Kzyzewski said that if Henderson’s wrist had bent in the other direction, he might have incurred a more serious injury.

“He feels pretty good,” Krzyzewski said. “[With] the individual work we’re doing, he’s getting reps and he looks good. I think he’ll be fine.”

The Blue Devils know how important it is for them to have a healthy Henderson.

In the two weeks following his initial injury, the sophomore averaged just , six points per game as Duke dropped two of four in conference play. Henderson then adjusted to his injury, averaging 12.6points over the final seven games while guiding the Blue Devils to five wins in that stretch.

If Duke is going to make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament, it will need the postMiami Henderson, the one who can both

slash to the basket and sink medium- to long-rangejumpers.

In the time he struggled, Henderson’s wrist was sufficiently swollen, which forced him to use his left hand more often than he was used to. Once the swelling went down, though, he was able to go back to using his right hand more frequendy. The wrist even improved to the point that the sophomore proclaimed it was “almost back to normal” before the ACC Tournament.

“It took me a while to get adjusted,” Henderson said then. “Now, I’m perfectly fine. I have my confidence to shoot the ball—not from wherever, but from the 3point line and in, I guess. It feels good.”

Henderson has also picked up his defensive play, registering six blocks in the Blue Devils’ final seven games after not recording any in the four games post-injury.

And while the lingering pain may continue to affect the guard on the offensive end, he should be a significant contributor defensively and in the husde categories.

“It might take away from his ability to shoot the ball and his ability to score a little bit, but it shouldn’t take away from his ability to make plays—play defense, rebound, other plays that still can win games,” senior captain DeMarcus Nelson said. “That’s something that we stress to him, and I think he’s still doing a pretty good job on the offensive end.”

Nelson also said that during Henderson’s recovery period, the swingman has tended to attack the basket more instead of shooting longer-range jumpers. Although the captain said his teammate should not be afraid to take his shot, Nelson added that Henderson’s interior play has helped

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Sophomore Gerald Henderson injured his wristFeb. 6 at North Carolina, but adjusted to playing with the injury. the team’s offense overall More than anything, however, Renderson’s learning experience in those four contests after the injury may prove to be valuable as Duke enters the NCAA Tournament. He has learned to play through a damaged wrist that will not be fully healthy

until after the season “Since he’s already done that—gone through those two weeks—he knows that he can’t get into a game competing against an injury,” Krzyzewski said. “He has to compete against his opponent, so I think he’ll be fine.”

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New-look offense has Duke rolling he tweaked some things.

“What Duke has done this year, it’s To get back to the Final Four for just phenomenal. Their offense has the first time in four seasons, Duke will been great.” have to go through Phoenix.

The key to the offense has been In many ways, it’s what the Blue spacing. The Blue Devils have been Devils have been doing all season. able to spread the floor to exploit their One year after averaging an ACC-low perimeter skills. Wings DeMarcus Nel70.4 points per game, Duke is third in son and Gerald Henderson can drive the nation in scoring at 84.1 points per the lane while guards Greg Paulus and contest. Aside from a deeper bench, the Jon Scheyer, along with forward Kyle largest change in the team’s offense has Singler, can all stroke the three. come from head coach Mike KrzyzewsIn total, Duke has five players who ki’s work on the national team have hit more than 40 3-pointers—led with Phoenix Suns’

by Paulus’ 78—and the team shot 38.4 coach Mike D’Antoni. percent from beyond the arc.

D’Antoni, one “We have a lot more threats assistan Krzyzewski’s on the court at a time,” Scheyer on Team USA, has emsaid. “Pretty much, four or five ployed a fast-paced guys can always shoot the ball perimeter-based ofwhen we’re on the court fense during his four It makes teams not be full seasons with the able to focus on one Suns. The result has guy. For us, any night been three 50-win one guy can step up.” paigns—with a fourth This balance has wins away—and two trips shown up on the stat Western Conference Finals sheet, as five Blue Over the summer, D’Antoni ' Devils average in douand Krzyzewski started discussble figures, and seven ing how to properly space the different players have floor for the national team’s led Duke in singlegame athletes. The byproduct of that scoring this season. conversation has been a more One of die differuptempo style in Cameron ences between this Indoor Stadium that utilizes team and that of a the Blue Devils’ perimeter year ago has been the strengths while masking their Blue Devils’ use of the interior deficiencies. comer. On fast breaks, “That’s what we talked the wings can flare to the comers of the about—concepts in the summertime, seeing how we could court, looking to shoot open up the court for all the ath- J| an open three or just to letes [with the] good players Team create more lanes for USA has and Duke not having | penetration.

Singler and Scheyer, in particuoverwhelming size, and really tak- ] ing advantage of perimeter skills,” S lar, have excelled with D’Antoni said. “We had similar PH comer jump shots. ideas anyway. I watched Duke play “We changed our sysfor years, and [Krzyzewski] does Jjjwfr tern with our floor spaca lot of stuff we did. So we realing, the style with penly just shared ideas and maybe etration and kick, the by

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ballscreens at different spots and angles on the court that we use,” Nelson said.

“It’s been good for us with our strengths with our drivers and shooters.”

Added depth on the bench and a healthy Paulus have allowed Duke to push the pace, something the Blue Devils couldn’t do a season ago. Scheyer, Nolan Smith and Dave McClure have provided quality minutes throughout the season and have eased the burden on the starting unit, as only Nelson averages more than 30 minutes per game.

The quicker pace isn’t without its flaws, however. Duke has run into trouble this season when it has turned the ball over. In the Blue Devils’ five losses, they have averaged 19.4 turnovers per game.

In their 27 wins, that number is just 12.5.

D’Antoni, who benefits from having two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash running his offense, stressed the need for quality point guard play and taking care of the basketball within his scheme.

“In any system that you have, [point guard play] is major,” D’Antoni said.

“You can’t get around it.... When you’re running fast and you’re based on taking quick shots, then it’s even more important to have a good point guard because it’s in his hands a lot, and he has to make good decisions on the floor.”

The best decision, though, seems to be Krzyzewski’s willingness to give free rein to his offense. The fastpaced, wide-open style has resulted in Duke’s highest scoring average since 2001-2002 and helped the Blue Devils bounce back from their worst season in a decade. It’s also allowed the players to have more fun on the court.

“All the guys have been really excited ever since we put it in,” Paulus said.

“It’s been fun to come to practice and learn and find differentways to get better.... It’s been great to play with and great to just find away to get up and down and create shots that way.”

But if Duke wants to cut down the nets at the Final Four, they’ll have to do one thing D’Antoni and the Suns haven’t been able to do: win in San Antonio.

rmnjvtooK LAST SEASON Duke hadlong employed a 3-out, 2-in offensive set, starting the offense through a back-to-the-basket post player such as Carlos Boozer or Shelden Williams. With the ball on the block, guards cut to fill the lane and flare out to the 3-point line.

THIS SEASON Without a reliable interiorpresence this season, the

Blue Devils have spread the floor out by moving the second forward from the block to the corner.

In this play, DeMarcus Nelson uses a screen from Kyle Singler to penetrate and has three shooters waiting on the perimeter for the kickout.

Duke also likes to run a pick-and-pop between Greg Paulus and Kyle Singler. Paulus rubs off the screen at the top ofthe key, and Singler can either step out for a three or roll to the hoop.

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There are many qualities you look for in an NCAA champion; good guards, depth and a star player able to raise his game in the most crucial moments.

And the only team that excels in all those areas is North Carolina.

Do the Tar Heels have the best players?

It’s hard to argue against National Player of the Year candidate Tyler Hansbrough and NBA prospects Wayne Ellington and Ty Lawson. Hansbrough leads the ACC in both scoring and rebounding, with 23 points and 10.4 rebounds per game. Although other players may have higher statistics—see: Michael Beasley ofKansas State—no other player has proven more valuable.

Does UNC have the guards to win a championship? Without the speed of the über-quick Lawson and the coffin-nailing three-pointers of Ellington, it’s highly unlikely Hansbrough could carry his team very far. In fact, this is true North Carolina Iqst in the second round without those productive guards two years ago.

Does this team exhibit balance? Absolutely. Hansbrough-can play ineffectively and the Tar Heels can still win thanks to the wing play of the aforementioned guards along with forwards Danny Green and Marcus Ginyard. In all, six players average more than eight points per game.

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This year, Memphis lost, perhaps the most-hyped matchup of the year at home to in-state rival Tennessee for its only defeat, but trumped Tournament teams Arizona, Gonzaga, USCand UConn. The Tigers’ biggest win of the year came against then-No. 5 Georgetown to earn national respect.

Memphis has not come out of nowhere this season; the Tigers barely lost to the 2006 runner-up UCLA in the Elite Eight and repeated the feat against Greg Oden’s Ohio State squad last season.

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On college basketball’s final weekend the last two seasons, UCLA didn’t feel the love.

The Bruins have two consecutive Final Four appearances with back-to-back losses to two-time champion Florida to show for it.

But UCLA has two things going for it this March. First, the Gators are at home, their former stars toiling away in NBA obscurity.

Second, the Bruins have the post presence they’ve lacked thelast two seasons in freshman phenom Kevin Love—the second straight Bruin to win Pac-10 Player of theYear.

The 6-foot-10 Oregon native has scored in double figures every game this season en route to averaging a double-double with 17.1 points and 10.6 rebounds per contest.

The freshman has saved some of his best performances for the biggest games of the season, pouring in 27 and 10 in an earlyseason showdown with Washington State and 24 and 15 at Arizona.

Love’s best game, though, was in the toughest ofcircumstances. Playing in front of an intensely hostile crowd at Oregon the hometown school he spurned —Love scored 26 points and pulled down 18 rebounds to lead the Bruins to a five-point win. In the process, Love proved he could handle the kind of high-pressure environments the NCAA Tournament will present.

UCLA, however, is about far more than its center. Darren Collison, arguably the nation’s best pure point guard, runs the pick and roll with deadly efficiency while fast becoming a reliable late-game scorer.

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BREAKING DOWN DUKE I THE STANDOUTFIRST-YEARS

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ing headlines this season. Memphis point guard Derrick Rose has dazzled college basketball with his brilliant offensive repertoire on his way to leading the Tigers to a 33-1 record. And out west, UCLA freshman center Kevin Love has been nothing short ofspectacular. Love has averaged 17 points and over 10 rebounds per game on his way to being named Pac-10 Player of theYear.

Love and Singler are already familiar with one another, as they were separated by a 260-mile stretch of Highway 5 attending high school in Oregon. In 2006, Love led Lake Oswego to a state championship, defeating Singler and South Medford 59-57.

Singler exacted revenge the next year by leading his squad to a 58-54 win in the state finals.

If things work out in the West Regional ofthe NCAA Tournament, where UCLA and Duke are the top two seeds, Singler and Love could rekindle their high school rivalry with a Final Four berth on the line.

“He compares favorably to any freshman in the country,” ESPN analystjay Bilas said of Singler. “The ACC was ranked the No. 1 conference in the country, and he was Freshman of the Year in that conference. That’s pretty solid.”

Singler and his fellow freshmen have also handled the jump from high school to college with relative ease. Beasley has remained levelheaded, knowing that despite being constandy praised, he can still improve aspects of his game, such as defense

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After Greg Oden and Kevin Durant departed to the NBA last year, college basketball experts were left abuzz over one of the best freshman classes in recent memory.

That freshman class, however, is already a distant memory after what this year’s crop of newcomers has accomplished. Headlined by National Player of the Year candidate Michael Beasley at Kansas Slate, eight of this year’s current freshmen are projected to be taken in the top 10picks of the NBA draft by ESPN. Duke’s Kyle Singler, the ACC Freshman of the Year, has been as impressive as any youngster, making his presence felt from the very beginning of the season. In his first month on the court, Singler earned MVP honors while leading the Blue Devils to their fourth Maui Invitational title.

Unlike some of the other high-profile newcomers, though, Singler is not a “one-and-done” player with his eye on the NBA draft.

So how does Singler stack up in relation to his peers? While NBA scouts have not given real consideration to the forward, Beasley—who is the current consensus top pick in the upcoming draft—believes Singler is just as dangerous as anyone in the country.

“I’ve played against Kyle so many times,” Beasley said. “He’s inside-out and he’s smart, quick and a tough defender. He’s a great player.”

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It all makes sense, why Duke lost four of its last 11 and two of its last three, why Mike Krzyzewski sat stoically under the guise of letting players coach themselves, why no one seemed crestfallen after Clemson made Duke look like the unranked team in the ACC semifinals, why DeMarcus Nelson promised to raise a championship banner in Cameron this season after the March 8 loss to North Carolina.

Well, DeMarcus, the ACC Tournament has come and gone. So did this Duke team’s penultimate chance to grace Cameron’s rafters with some sort of banner, something to accompany the regular season and conference championship marker from 2006 that still, almost two years later, doesn’t have a more recent companion.

That’s the point: the Blue Devils didn’t want to win the league tournament, not if they knew what was best. The chance to stay in North Carolina before the Final Four? Not important. The opportunity to carry some semblance of momentum into the NCAA Tournament? Also not important. The No. 1 seed in the East Region? Even less important, especially this year. You couldn’t have thought that Duke dropped in the polls because other teams attacked its vapid frontcourt or the Blue Devil sharpshooters, um, dulled.

If the goal of this team was to win the NCAA Tournament, then the Blue Devils did exactly what they needed to do: earn a No. 2 seed.

San Antonio, the site of this year’s Final Four, has hosted two previous national semifinals. Both times, “One Shining Mo-

ment” blasted as No. 2 seeds clipped nets for a less pricey, more priceless sort of bling. Revisionism, then, implies that history favors No. 2 seeds when four squads and their fan bases descend upon the Alamo Dome and flood the Riverwalk.

Other No. 2 seeds are certainly capable of sustaining the historical oddity, but Duke is as good a bet as any (especially at 15-to-l odds, if these pages condoned gambling).

Losing two of three games is not indicting, and neither are any ofDuke’s blemishes this year. The Blue Devils could have come out on top in each of the five games they dropped.

They beat three of the teams that beat them; in the other two, Pittsburgh’s Levance Fields made a cold-blooded three in the waning seconds of overtime and Wake Forest shot the lights out to take advantage of Duke’s worst game of the year. Those losses were simple prerequisites for a national championship, sacrifices for the greater good.

Duke’s unequivocal strength this year lies in the backcourt, with a bevy of guards each capable of taking over single games.

Championship teams require one dominant player, and one of Duke’s stable of guards can fill that role. Greg Paulus might catch fire early, Gerald Henderson could bottle his potential brilliance for one memorable game, Kyle Singler could become the Tournament’s next heroic freshman.

Don’t worry about the recent losses, don’t listen to the professors of bracketology who deride Duke’s chances. This team knew what it was doing all along: accomplishingjust enough (or, not enough) to secure that coveted No. 2 seed, ready to ride it all the way to the serenades on April 7.

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More dian anything else though, Psycho T’s drive to win has pushed this team like no player’s determination has since Shane Battier propelled Duke to the 2001 championship his senioryear. It’s easy to under stand why—his team was six minutes away last March from going to the Final Four.

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He scored 24 and 28, respectively, in two late-season wins over Stanford, and he was second in the Pac-10 in 3-point accuracy at 50.6 percent.

Collison is joined in the backcourt by Josh Shipp and Russell Westbrook, two athletic wings that double as secondary scoring options and shutdown defenders.

Luc Richard Mbah a Moute and Lorenzo Mata-Real are veteran big men who have made significant contributions in their respective careers.

The Bruins’ versatility allows them to play at multiple tempos. UCLA can speed

points in overtime in a 96-84 Elite Eight loss.

Hansbrough’s red eyes at the press conference showed the pain of coming ohso-close to the Final Four and having it snatched away. .ansbrough has always had the mgest motor out on the court. , in the last week, he’s discoved an even higher level, as ihown by his game-winning ofcensive rebound and jump shot to beat Virginia Tech in the ACC semifinals.

A conference tournament title was nice, but Hansbrough las been there and done that bee. There’s only one more step in cementing his Chapel Hill y. And with the talent around he’ll finally take that step and fifth championship banner to an Dome rafters. the game up with Love outletting the ball to Collison on the break, or the Bruins can wear you down in the halfcourt game. UCLA came up just short the last two years because Florida was able to exploit head coach Ben Howland’s aggressive man-to-man defense. With Love guarding the basket, however, the Bruins apply even more pressure on the perimeter, hedging all screens and forcing opponents out of the flow of their offense.

The formula in March is pretty simple; survive and advance by exposing the other team’s weaknesses. UCLA is the only squad that doesn’t have one, and that’s why the Bruins will be bringing another set of nets back to Westwood.

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Singler has been just as mature and poised, something that has not escaped the attention of his teammates.

“Everyone has been impressed,” sophomore center Brian Zoubek said. ‘You can see it every single d#y in practice that he’s really mature and has handled everything really well.”

In other ways, however, these freshmen still display some of the youthfulness expected from first-year players. For example, Beasley discussed how travelling to away games was one of the best things he found about the college experience.

Singler, who rarely displays emotion on the court, was thrilled at the prospect ofbeing a part of March Madness.

“I’ve just had a blast playing with the players, having the opportunity to be coached by such a great coach,” Singler said. “It’s March, we should be the most excited that we’ve ever been. It’s just a new experience for me. Right now, we’re having a great season.”

In March, these freshmen are expected to continue carrying the load, as they have all season long.

That year-long burden may be wearing on Singler, who has struggled down the stretch of the season. In Duke’s ACC Tournament loss to Clemson, the forward was just l-of-9 from the field for a season-low two points. In the previous game against Georgia Tech, the freshman picked up two quick fouls in the opening minutes and spent most of the first half on the bench.

But critics forget that Durant and Oden also had stretches where they struggled. After all, freshmen are susceptible to making mistakes simply out of inexperience.

Nevertheless, Singler’s overall impact on

immense talent throughout separates it from all other champions from one-bid leagues, like Butler or Drake.

Derrick Rose, the Chicago-bom point guard who leads the team in assists, could start for any'squad in the country and is a likely NBA lottery pick. Leading scorer Chris Douglas-Roberts averages more than 17 points per game and is one oi polished wing players in th» Forward Joey Dorsey hauls to 10 rebounds per contest become known for his tena* fense and dunking abilities. . he’s arguably the team’s fifth best player.

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Forward Kyle Singler was named as the ACC Freshman of the Year following a stellarfirst campaign at Duke. this year’s Blue Devil squad has not been diminished. He still has the confidence of analysts, his peers, and most importantly, his coach and teammates.

“Even Laettner had Ferry. Grant Hill had Laettner and Hurley,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “When [Zoubek] had this injury-filled year, it created more pressure on Kyle to produce. And he has.

We’ve had a hell of a year and so much of it is because of Kyle.”

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Many analysts thought Rush was as good as gone to the NBA after the 2007 season. But after a serious knee injury, the junior returned to school and has slowly regained form. Although he averages a modest 12.9points per game, Rush played his best basketball of the season in the conference tournament, scoring a season-high 28 points against Texas A&M in the semifinals. This spells bad news for the Midwest Region and the rest of the 64-team field, as a dangerous Rush gives

and Tournament success, which includes only two Final Four appearances and no national titles in school history. They’ll talk about the Tigers’ proclivity to choke, citing Darius Washington Jr.’s infamous gag job against Louisville in the 2005 Conference USA’s Tournament final.

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the Jayhawks the advantage in the backevery time out.

Like its stud guard, Kansas is also playing its best basketball of the season. After a 20-0 start, the Jayhawks stumbled a bit, losing three times in seven games. Since falling to Oklahoma State 61-60 Feb. 23, the Jayhawks have won seven straight by an average of 18 points per game, avenging earlier losses to both Kansas State and Texas along the way.

The pressure’s been on in Lawrence ever since Self first stepped foot in Allen Fieldhouse. Luckily for Jayhawks fans, the next time Self walks onto his home court, it will be to raise the 2008 National Champion banner. court

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1loveBrian Zoubek. Seriously. He really embodies what we should look he’s an insightful kid that does well in schooland always tries his hardest on the court. With that in mind, I called up myfriendfrom 2028 and asked him what Zoo’sfuture looked like. You know, because I was curious. Anyway, what he told me made my jaw drop.

Iasked myfriend to unite a letterabout it, and this is whathe wrote: Hi. Welcome to the future. Durham, N.C., 2028 and I’m telling you it’s great here. The air is clean. The water’s clean. Even the dirt is clean. Bowling scores are way up.

Mini-golf scores are way down. And we have more excellent water slides than any other planet we communicate with.

I’m telling you this place is great. But it almost wasn’t.

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It started the summer before the Tournament. Zoo traveled all over the world, meeting with the masters —Pete Newell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the Dalai Lama, various feng shui gurus. They worked on his sky hook, honed his shot blocking technique and focused his chi.

Anyway, Zoo had been sand-bagging it all year —Coach K’s orders. The coach didn’t want anyone to find out how much of a force Zoo had become until the Tournament.

Basically, Krzyzewski knew that once the real Zoo came out, it would be the end of basketball as we know it.

So Coach K instructed Zoo to behave like his old self and Zoo obliged—he dove on the floor, played decent defense, traveled only a little. Towards the end of the season, Coach K let out the reins a bit, and told Zoo to give everyone a taste of what was coming. So Zoo gave them a taste.

He’s nothing if not a team player.

But in the Tourney was when Zoo really shined. It was a gradual thing—13 points and seven boards against Belmont, 10 and nine against Arizona, 16 and 14 against Xavier, 10 and 10 against UCLA while holding Kevin Love to a mere six points and three boards.

Then, Duke won its Final Four game and was matched up in the National Championship against Georgetown and Roy Hibbert. And Coach K said to Zoubek, “Go get it, kid. Show everyone whatyou can do.” And Zoo said, “Sure thing, Coach.”

He came out against the Hoyas like a man possessed,

scoring on all 15 of Duke’s first 15 possessions and blocking Hibbert’s shot on all 15 Georgetown possessions. The crowd roared. On the 16th Blue Devil possession, Zoo threw down a windmill-tomahawk-360 dunk for his 32nd point in the first seven minutes. The Hoyas dribbled downcourt and fed Hibbert the ball. And Zoo rejected his shot so hard that all of the air came out of the basketball.

At that moment, every fan in attendance wished so hard for a T-shirt that said, “Brian Zoubek has a posse” that suddenly and miraculously they were all wearing one. In their delight, they started thunderously chanting: “ZOUBEK!

“But Zoubek didn’t care because he’s generally good-natured and, after all, he could cure cancer and heart

disease justby touchingpeople. That’s why we call him Seven-Foot Jesus.”

ZOUBEK! YES HE CAN! ZOUBEK! ZOUBEK! YES HE CAN!” You could hear them in El Paso.

Zoubek did the Dikembe Mutumbo finger waggle, then started high-stepping down the court making noises like a choo-choo train. I know it doesn’t sound like the type of thing Zoo does on a regular basis, but he was taken over by the moment. (Don’t worry, he hasn’t done it since.) Normally Coach K would have been furious, but he knew that Zoo just couldn’t be stopped.

And Taylor King was waving his arms on the bench, and Greg Paulus was fist pumping, and Jon Scheyer was making funny faces, and Chris Collins was doing his “2 Legit 2 Quit” dance, and Marty Pocius was wearing his black-onblack magician outfit and pulling rabbits out ofhis hat, and Chris Duhon was skipping a Chicago Bulls shootaround to be there because “I haven’t been playing a lot anyway.”

And Kyle Singler was bleeding, and Lance Thomas was clapping, and Bob Ryan was immediately regretting his decision to call Zoo a “mediocre player” on television, and at

least 27 students on Duke’s campus were sitting in Bostock entirely oblivious to the fact that Duke Basketball was in the Final Four, and Tyler Hansbrough was searching for his contact lens, and Josh Mcßoberts was sitting in the Red Roof Inn in Tulsa, Okla., the night before the Idaho Stampede played the Tulsa 66ers in the NBA Developmental League, watching the game on a television with an antenna and a fuzzy picture and wondering why he ever left Duke in the first place.

The referees blew their whistles and stopped the game before Zoo hurt someone, and all of the fans rushed the court and lifted Zoo onto their shoulders. And all of them with cancer and heart disease were miraculously cured just by touching Zoo. NBA teams started actively losing games to get Zoo in the draft even more than they did for Greg Oden the year before.

Commissioner David Stern intervened to stop the madness by declaring Zoubek ineligible to play in the NBA for life.

But Zoubek didn’t care because he’s generally good-natured and, after all, he could cure cancer and heart disease just by touching people. That’s why we call him Seven-Foot Jesus.

And knowing there was a market for this type of thing in China, the commissioner of the Chinese Basketball Association signed him up and placed him on the Yunnan Honghe Running Bulls.

All of the NBA players clamored just to step on the same court with Zoo in China, and they all left their teams to sign with Chinese teams. The Yunnan Honghe Running Bulls had their pick ofall the best players in the world and have won the past 20 championships—one for each of Zoo’s years. Having the best basketball league in the world in China tilted the balance of global power towards China and away from the United States.

In the year 2028, the whole world speaks Chinese, and it’s all due to Zoo. On the bright side, his basketball prowess brought about worldwide peace and harmony (kind of like the Wyld Stallions’ music did in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure) when he refused to play as long as there was any war or crime. No one has any diseases, because Zoo can cure them with just his hands. The world is a better place, and it’s all due to Brian Zoubek.

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“I don’t think it’s singular to Duke —it’s the way the league is and the way the culture is,” Virginia Tech head coach Seth Greenberg said. “There’s a fine line you want between passion and ownership in fans. It’s part of our society. People step over the line, people think they can do or say anything. It’s sad but that’s our society.”

Paulus said fans have only crossed the line a few times this year, usually when they direct their taunts at his family. But in general, besides public-address announcements like the cease-and-desist one made at Miami this year, there isn’t much that can or will be done.

“I wish it could be monitored a little more, but you can’t have police sitting in every aisle monitoring fans,” Laettner said.

“That’s part of the game. That’s why people love going to sporting events—to yell, drink some alcohol and let off emotion by screaming a little bit.”

HATED from page 5 school composed of preppy carpetbaggers and the school’s basketball team as the most obvious public representation of this image.

“It comes with the territory,” Laettner said. “It comes with being so good. People think we’re spoiled good ol’ Duke hoys.

Duke in general is a lightning rod, and the basketball team specifically because it’s had so much success.

“If you stunk every year, or even once in a while, you wouldn’t be that team or that person that has the target on their back all the time. That’s just human nature—when you’re successful, people go after you.”

“They’re going to hate you” There was a time when Duke was an underdog, the team most fans cheered for in the late 1980 the Blue Devils challenged contemporary powers like Louisville, UNLV and Michigan for supremacy in the NCAA. That all changed with Laettner—and to some extent Bobby Hurley, the Robin to Laettner’s Batman —as Duke reached four straight Final Fours and won two straight national championships in 1991 and 1992.

The Blue Devils were no longer the lovable upstart. They were the standard-bearers.

Laettner became an easy target for opposing fans, and he did nothing to dispel the image ofprivilege that the Duke haters so despise.

When opposing fans hurled obscenities, slurs and epithets in his direction, Laettner reveled in it He fed off the energy, seemingly teasing the fans with his arrogance. There wasn’t much opposing fans could do; all Laettner and the Blue Devils would have to do is point to the scoreboard at the end of the game.

“You can’t stand up there and cry and say, ‘Why don’t you like me?’” Laettner said.

“It’s not too hard to fathom why they’d be booing and why, if they had arrows, they’d shoot them at you. When I was there we took down a lot of teams. I’m not saying I want [the negative attention]. I would love to be loved by everyone. But if you’re consistendy beadng them, they’re going to hate you.”

When Laettner graduated, the torch was briefly passed to Hurley. Hurley begat Collins, Collins begat Steve Wojciechowski, and a few years later Redick picked up where they left off. Paulus is the most recent reincarnation. guys that get it are the ones who thrive on it the most,” Collins said. “For the

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Maryland fans, in particular, have been the most creative and harsh in taunting infamously hated Duke stars. the guys who have been the targets have been guys who have enjoyed it and have used it to push their games to new levels.”

The top villain isn’t an official title, nor is it really something that’s discussed much between the different generations. But it’s an exclusive club that fans latch onto while the players are at Duke and never let go.

At last year’s ACC Tournament, Laettner was one of a handful ofplayers honored in the 2007 class ofACC Basketball Legends. Fifteen years removed from his college basketball career, and two years after his retirement from the NBA, Laettner strutted onto the court, confident as ever. The Blue Devils had exited the tournament prematurely three days prior, leaving a decidedly anti-Duke crowd in the St Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Fla. Predictably, the boos emanated from every section. Laettner didn’t miss a beat from his days as a Blue Devil, though, giving the crowd exacdy what it wanted. He smiled, touched his lips with two forefingers and blew a kiss to the crowd. most part

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have heard it all. Fans have yelled things about what they think about Laettner and Redick’s sexuality, and their pet name for Collins was “Chrissie.”

While there have been plenty of jeers directed at Duke players that have bordered on inappropriate over the years, the level of vitriol and organization of the fans seems to have increased recently.

‘You always have your different venues that go a little bit more out of bounds than other places,” said Collins, who believes most of things fans say today are the same as a decade or two ago. “What’s changed is the information era with the Internet—more pictures online, more ways to learn more about guys.”

That was precisely the case in Blacksburg, Va. this year. In the past, the Hokie fans might have forgotten the Washington dunk on Paulus, but now they’ve all watched the replay on YouTube over and over. It’s been e-mailed to friends and posted on blogs like Leitch’s, providing ammunition for anyone and everyone who wants to hate Duke.

If they want to generate traffic, blogs and other new media can resort to what Leitch calls “cheap heat.” That is, it’s become easi-

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Some of the cheers even make him laugh. Later in the away N.C. State game this year, several fans close to the Duke bench heckled Paulus about his affinity for drinking Shirley Temples.

“1 thought that was funny,” Paulus said.

“I don’t drink [alcohol]. I like a Shirley Temple. 1 laughed at that one.”

And still, despite Duke not winning a national championship since 2001, the easiest response is simply to succeed in the face of the hate. When the four-letter chants against him peaked at the Miami game, Paulus was just stepping to the free throw line. Shooting into the teeth of the Hurricanes student section, he calmly sank both free throws.

“Winning on the road is a great, great feeling, especially in a hostile environment,” Paulus said.

With a little more than a year left, Paulus has yet to anoint the next Most Hated Player in College Basketball. Without a doubt, though, one will emerge. And some day, he’ll walk into the opposing arena, get elbowed in the face and be booed.

“Paulus is this year’s version,” Leitch said. “In four years, it’ll be someone else.”

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fessor of music who served as the advisor for Fowler’s independent study through Duke’s music department, praises Fowler’s work for having the “accessibility of pop with a sophisticated use of technology.”

Fowler’s work as Pseudofed also drives most of his time spent with Stella By Starlight. As the primary songwriter for Stella, Fowler brings all his songs to the other members of the band.

“Every song I write,” said Fowler, “I want to play,” a desire which has resulted in many of his Pseudofed pieces doubling as features in Stella’s live act. Timely tracks like “What Do You Please” and “Depth Perception” have found their way onto Stella’s own playlist, although Fowler notes the differences between playing songs solo rather than as a band.

“It takes a lot of lime to adapt my electronic productions for Stella, since we use guitar and live drums. We make it work, though.

A lot of times the live versions we play are so different, it is hard to recognize them as the same song,” Fowler said.

His bandmates also acknowledge the bands’ distinct sounds.

“We try to keep a healthy distance between the two groups,” Byrd said.

Fowler credits much of his

growth as a producer to his time spent interacting with the music department. His freshman year, he took a class on electronic music and became hooked on both the production and programming aspects of the genre.

In addition, he credits the ample studio time given to him by Duke over this past summer as a primary reason for the success of Pseudofed. “l,ast year," Fowler said, “I spent all my life in the studio learning production skills," often logging 12-hour days at the Smith Arts Warehouse to find the sound he wanted.

“When you listen to his work from sophomore year as compared to now, he’s light years ahead," Byrd added.

His hard work and long hours in the studio are precisely what prompts Lindroth to admire Fowler’s knowledge of “how to make a song feel like it has the right proportions," his “sophisticated sense of harmony and melody," and his overall growth into “a complete musician."

After graduation,Fowler hopes to further his work with Stella By Starlight while also attempting to make it as an independent producer. He plans on continuing to write music as Pseudofed while also searching for other musicians to independently produce.

Specifically, Fowler cites Nigel Godrich, who has collaborated

with hands like Radiohead, U and R.E.M, as well as David Friedman, who has worked extensively with the Harning Lips, as the two producers whose sounds he most emulates.

For now, Fowler is working on gaining both local and national exposure for his Pseudofed act

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Timrlys launch on iTimes, Pseudofed tracks have recently been featured on XM Radio broadcasts. In Durham, he has appealed at the Duke Coffeehouse and is always looking to D) student parties. Fowler also has just released a track available for download on his MySpace to

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With quality reminiscent of videotape from the ’Bos, or just Snoop’s own adult-themed work in Doggystyle, it perfectly captures the vintage samples and synthy sounds featured prominently in Ego Trippin’.

Now, let’s explore the nuances of Mr. Dogg’s ego trip. Intended originally to feature no guests (as if a rap record could ever do that these days) the album attempts to capture his gangsta life in the narrative “Neva Have 2 Worry” and the R&B retrospective “Can’t Say Goodbye." These, along with the track “WTiy Did You Ijeavc Me," are easily the highlights of the album, as they go beyond the gimmicks (the bling, hos and ‘izzles) and act as good, honest songs Snoop also finds lime to experiment and offers an interesting song in “My Medicine" that features him rapping over a country music beat in a tribute to Johnny Cash. He sings to his heart’s delight as he covers “Cool" by the Time, which—if you don’t know—is a funk and dance-pop group from the ’Bos. Finally, in “life of da Party "... no, wait. It’s a generic club single.

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The majority of the album is devoted to Ross reveling in his affluent lifestyle.

In nearly every song, Ross mentions his undeniable talents at dealing cocaine.

He raps about “bjg cars, big cribs," spending “a million'just in and how in general his “money Is coming 100 fast’ And you know you have real Iv run out of ways to display your wealth when you proclaim “my daughter’s college pre-paid," as Ross does on “Billionaire." But what do you expect from a rapper whose stage name is that of one the most notorious drug traffickers of all time?

Yet, if you take Trilla for what it is—vapid, shallow rapping dependent on

a multitude of cameos and collaborait's really not all that bad.

While the jazzy tones of “This Is The Life" and “Luxury Tax," as well as the slower sounds of “Maybach Music* or “This Me" could all he summarized in one phrase—“Lrn rich and you're not"—they arc nonetheless excellent songs with captivating beats. The album is also infused with impressive appearances by Jay-Z, Young Jeezy, Lit Wayne, T-Pain and Trey Songz, among others.

But the most interesting piece on the album is also the last; "I'm Only Human." It seems like the only song where Ross tries to shed his (hug image and rhyme about his own life. The gospel track finds Ross discussing his troubled childhood, how he turned to rap as a constructive outlet for his frustration and admitting that he “makes mistakes." It s a fascinating, genuine song and a welcome change from the rest of TnUa. Unfortunately. Ross spends too much time claiming that he is insinciblr. when his more honest work is also his best. (ions—then

—Jordan Axi

America's forefathers are commemorated by having their names and laces forever plastered on dollar hills, mountains and of course (heir rock hand, the Presidents of the United Stales of America. Okay, so maylre we'll never know how good Jefferson is on (he bass, hut at least some former Presidents are still around. 7Vw Arr the (iood Ttmr\ PmfAr is the hand's fifth studio alburn, and second since fully reuniting after taking a hiatus in the late *‘K)s.

Things were looking up lor the Presidents' IS years ago, fresh off their debut alburn which spawned the infamous hits “Peachey" and “IJimp." but the four unremarkable albums (hat followed failed to eclipse their early sure esses, and now. Vinr ArrthrdonH Twin isn't likely to c hange their reputation as a *‘K)s throwbac k band.

The opening trac k "Mixed Up 5.0.8." is essentially a faster-paced "I ,ump," driven by lyrics about a rnessed-up girl stressing out the lead singer. “Poor Turtle" and "More Had Times" have the endearing, goofy cpialities—reminiscent erf “Peaches"—that seem to explain how these guys have stayed around for so long. They may be shouting out to their former hits but. to their credit, (hey arc trying out some variety, displayed by some of the album's later tracks. “Flame Is larve" features a trumpet band and Fysah Thomas prosides refreshing guest vocals on “Deleter."

Considering their namesakes. the Presidents* musk is devoid of political banter.

Instead, the Presidents lake pleasure in life's little things. Their simplicity isn't necessarily a bad thing; they come off as unpretentious and self-assured. But they do seem to be stuck in the past —specifically the Hinton era—which, given the current slate of things, may give them the last laugh.

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From the* inc eption of the exhibit'scoiu ept the* continual interchange of idea*, the entire process ha* been daunting because ol lorganic nature, but Hudson feel* that faith and ronuminiraiion hai paid off. “('Phi* exhibit| wa» different lietause ii was more of an idea dial materialized over lime, and Slaty went (o her studio and made work, and I didn’t tee ii until very recently," llnd*»on laid. "We talked constantly about the concept of the show, hut it was an unusual project. Ve», it wav st ary, hut the results are just amazing."

The end product: an eclectic collection that spans from the power of single words to overwhelmingly complex landscapes. All this is accomplished through the unique iechnit|ue whereby Waddell uses lire to hum inscription* onto paper and tomiroses pieces out of i>urnefl material, Hudson was initially captivated liy Waddell’s art because she was able to t onstnict such a witle variety of woiks through just one means of articulation.

"I think one of (hr most radiial things about | Waddrll'*| work in, if you see one or two of her pieces, you might think, ‘Mow far can you go with huining?' And she really does |go lai |," Hudson .Haiti. To me that wotdd Ik* a limiting, crude thing, hut the rcHulu are highly sophisticated and aest helically iKMulilul."

Beyond the beauty, Waddell utilizes heat because of its ability to transform materials. "[The fire) really does a lot of the work lor me," Waddell said. "As an artist, I'm sort t>l deconstructing paper or canvas and reconstituting it into something else." just as lire allows her to restructure the original form of a desired medium, Waddell hersell had to carefully sill through the vast e\pei tent es ol Dr. Franklin and to

led tie what she wanted to highlight in her pieces. For her, this was one of the hardest lasks of the whole artistic process.

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Not everyone may Ik* well-acquainted with Dr. Franklin's life, but the elements (hat Waddell chose to represent draws upon elements (hat arise from a common American backdrop.

"I wanted to use universal symbols that

everyone could approach and kind of jump from there," Waddell said. “There’s no hard and fast meaning to any of the imagery in the show. You can come at it from any direction, from any background, from any place, because his experience has been American anti so anyone who is the very least American should lx? able to have some sort of impulse."

For example, Waddell incorporated the salute of the Boy Scouts in one ofher pieces because Franklin himself was a member during his youth.

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Also, Waddell incorporates a lot of Franklin’s own words into her exhibit.

“Hope," which coincidentally is Franklin’s middle name, appears singularly on three different canvases. Each embodies the struggles that Franklin has faced and simultaneously represents the different meanings of the word, as conveyed through the varied methods of flame application. Waddell feels that words themselves serve great meaning in his contributions to the world. “language is important, [and it] is the way he communicates as a historian," the artist said. “But the verbal expression is how 1 have gotten to know him as well."

Whether it is through words or images, quotes or landscapes, Waddell attempts to capture that which is John Hope Franklin.

She is taking history and injecting her own impressions and value of significance associated with Franklin.

“The work is historically based," Waddell said, “I’m dealing with somebody’s life, but he’s also been a major pari of American history, being a historian and having lived through lots of major social and political eras. For me, coming from a different place, I tried to blend the historical with the emotional and some of the social stuff as well.”

History is the basis for the exhibit, but at the core lies the spirit of a man, and that essence is not forgotten. The exhibit is, through all its complexities, simply an expression ofhis great humanitarianism.

“When you meet him, you don’t meet all the accomplishments—you meet a compassionate person,” Waddell said. “I can’t look at his life lived and not pay homage and not be grateful.”

From That Point On is currently on disof the John Hope Franklin Center.

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The Durham Am Council offers visual am enthusiasts a chance to view quality works ranging from established painters to up and coming artists. Its two newest exhibits feature paintings by three different artists—Nancy McCallum, Mark Brown and Mario Marzan—each of whom focuses on a different theme.

The first exhibit, entitled Atmospheric Disturbances, solely features the work of local artist Nancy McCallum who was chosen through last year’s DAC Call for Artists out of a pool of over 100 local and nationwide artists.

McCallum’s collection focuses on water, clouds and the sky.

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ForceField and Weather Patterns Paintings is the complementary

exhibit and features art by Mark Brown and Mario Mar/.an. The two artists are featured together because they are co-recipients of the annual DAC Emerging Artist Grant.

Brown’s works are without exception abstract and are built upon a peculiar construct of lines and austerity. Modernist in nature, these creations are constrained by sharp edges and are devoid of color. Brown’s goal is not to serve

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Hi own's works arc organized in the same order as they appear in his greater Wmlrrrrneseries—a layout that underscores the desolation and bleakness

hut in this ease it is suggestive of natural phenomena. Horn and raised in Puerto Rico, his work is strongly inspired In hurricanes.

"I create drawings and sculptures depicting an alternative reality, invented and inspired by the cycles of deconstruction and reconstruction produced hy hurricanes," he said.

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WOMEN'S TENNIS The ninth-ranked Blue Devils cruised to their second conference win of the season, beating N.C. State 7-0 at the Sheffield Center.

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Halfway across the world, there’s a classroom ofSaudi Arabian fifth graders who have had little exposure to the English language.

But there’s one thing they do know about: Duke women’s basketball.

Mazie Black, junior center Chante Black’s mother, has been in Taif, Saudi Arabia teaching that fifth grade class since October, and she gave her students Duke media guides as part of their instruction.

“It’s so cool,” junior Abby Wancr said.

“If we can have an impact on children in Saudi Arabia, I think that’s incredible, just like it is here.”

Mazie Black was in the Middle East in 1991 for Operation Desert Storm, and she had wanted to go back overseas ever since. When the chance to teach English to elementary students presented itselflast fall. Black could not pass on the opportunity. And although she has no other family in Saudi Arabia, Black has loved the experience so far. But she has not forgotten about her star daughter at Duke and has made sure her students know all about the Blue Devils.

“She realty enjoys it,” Chante Black said.

“My mom’s always loved to travel and explore the world. She’s always been into different cultures.”

The teacher has had little trouble adjusting to Saudi Arabian society. Black is Muslim, so she already had some familiarity with Arabic, and she says that students there are much more disciplined than they are in the United Stales. As a result, they pick up new information more quickly, a trait that is obviously helpful for a teacher.

But Black’s job has its downsides. She has been abroad for the Blue Devils’ entire season, and she won’t be back until it is over. She has kept up with the team via ACC Select, but it’s difficult with the time difference—a 7:00 p.m. game comes on at 3:00 a.m. in Saudi Arabia.

“I’ll get an e-mail about the games, but it’s always a day later,” Chante Black said. “[She used to come to all the lime. Even

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Duke, she traveled up from Charlotte every game, so it’s different not seeing her."

Her mom’s absence, however, has not seemed to affect Black’s play. The center, who redshirted hist season with a knee injury, has established herself as one of the most dominant post players in women’s basketball. Black leads the Blue Devils in minutes played, points, rebounds and blocks.

The fact that she’s doing all that while her mom is 7,000 miles away makes her season even more impressive.

“She has a supporting cast," senior Wanisha Smith said. “She’s fine, but I’m sure it can be really tough at times for your mom to be so far away.” at

“I don't know if I could handle it the same way that (Chante) has," Waiter said. “She’s shown incredible strength and will. I think that would lx* really hard because I love having my parents here, let alone just Ix-iug able to talk to them right after a game."

But Black has adjusted to her unique situation to become a critical part of Duke's strategy by providing the Blue Devils with an im|K)sing presence in the paint.

The center said adjusting to living v> (at away from her mom was difficult at first, but that she learned a lot about inde|x*ndence growing up in a single-parent home. Ma/ie Black always taught her daughter the importance of being able to rely on herself.

Thai upbringing is paying dividends now (hat Ma/ie hl.uk is overseas for (hr year. And while die teacher tries lo stay away from giving her daughter baskethall-related advice, she in clearly interested in her suet ess. blacks mother will l>e hac k in Durham in time to sec* her graduate in May, Meanwhile. the center has her teammates to give her the immediate support that her morn can't always provide given her location.

“Charlie's a very strong woman and her mom is as well, and I think art experience like that is alrsolutely incredible.* Warier said, “hut we also try and make sure that (Chanlej feels like we're her family, loo."

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Highlighted by a 10-run eighth inning, the Blue Devils (18-3) came from behind for a resounding 11-4 win to sweep their two-game series against Hartford (2-5) Wednesday at Jack Coombs Field.

Trailing 4-0 going into the sixth, Duke notched a spot fin the scoreboard with a ground out RBI from Jonathan Nicolla to score sophomore Jei HARTFORD 4 emy Gould from third. A downDUKE -11 the-line double from Kyle Kreic k the play before liad placed Gould and the senior in scoring position to set up Nicolla*s scoring shot. Kreick, who started behind the plate to rest regular catcher Matt Williams, went 2-for-5 in the bailer’s box with two RBl’s and his first career triple.

Despite taking a break from the field, Williams made his presence known with a pinch-hit two-run double to score the go-ahead run for Duke in the bottom of the eighth. The Blue Devils never looked back as they rallied to send 14 hitters to the plate, stringing together five consecutive base hits to manufacture 10 runs in the inning. Sophomore Rvan Me-

(inch went 2*for4 with two kill *, and sophomore Alex I lav sin. fmhnuii Cram Monroe and Gould all went Nor-3 on the day to (onlrilxiie to thr train's combined at the plate. The ralh (inallv ktux ked out Hartford starter

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On the mound for the blue Devils, starter Jonathan Foreman piuhed six innings (or both six hits and strikeouts while giving up four runs. Freshman reliever Dennis O'Grady came in for two innings with a one hit. two strikeout performance to cam the win for Duke. Sophomore flassan, who had helped his cause on the mound baiting .335 and dnving in a run during the game, pitched a perfect closing inning with two strikeouts to seal the victory.

Hainan was also named to College Baseball Foundation s 'National All-Star lineup* for this week.

Finishing out their two game hiatus from non-conference play, the Blue Devils return to their ACX; schedulewith a three game road series against No. 23 (ieorgia Tech this weekend.

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Duke has talked about tieing one |»ossession away a season ago and how it doesn't want to finish this year with the same empty feeling.

"The whole exjieiieiice of last year is to show up every time and take advantage of the opportunity. It’s the NCAA Tournament. and nothing's given to you,” junior guard dreg Paulas said. "The motivation (hat you gel from that feeling makes you not want to have it again."

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Nelson, in particular, is in danger of becoming the first Blue Devil in 10 years to graduate without having advanced to the Final Four, Duke hasn’t been to college basketball's ultimate weekend since 2004, and the Blue Devils have lost to a lowerseeded team each of the last four seasons.

“DrMaic us and I talk a lot about this is our lime and this is our chance. He’s a senior, and hopefully we have a few more games to play together," Paulas said. "We’re kind of living in the moment now.”

The moment now consists of Belmont, the Atlantic Sun’s regular-season and tournament champions. This is the Bruins' third straight NCAA Tournament and their third straight 15-seed. Belmont lost to eventual runner-up UCI A in 200b and national seinifinalist Georgetown last year.

The Bruins are very similar to Duke in makeup, as they lack si/e and rely heavily On (he 5-|>oinl shot. Belmont made more 5-pointers than any team in the country, knoc king down 540 this season—an average of Io.b pe r game.

“Their style of play is similar to ours in away where they have five guys who can shoot thr hall from the perimeter of the court," sophomore guard Jon Scheycr said. “It’s prohahly the first time all year we've prepared for a team that's similar to us in that way."

The Blue Devils are ready, however, for one of the few teams even more perimeteroriented than themselves. And despite its two losses in the season's final eight days, Duke is as confident as it has been all season heading into the NCAA Tournament.

"We really feel good about where we are," Sc heyer said. “We feel that we’re a dangerous team and that any night out we an l>eat anv team in the country."

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14 students are in the rate for seven of the most influential positions on campus.

Although these student group help define Duke as a university and provide much of die richness of the undergraduate experience, the paucity of candidates for important DSC positions may be an indication that thestudent body is spreading itself thin within all these group, a trend that has been noted in the past.

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A short season favors students who enter the race with high name recognition or visibility on campus—and disadvantages those who need an opportunity to build a presence. Student groups are also lieing denied some of their influence; candidates will find themselves hard-pressed to meet with the groups that traditionally bestow endorsements. F.ven with the limited number of candidates, there is simply

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light hadn’t illuminated her bright blue eyes for weeks. The doctors had to induce a coma after she began to suffer from organ failure. But this wasn’t your ordinary girl. She had survived her first bout with leukemia when she was 14. When the cancer came back three years later, a bone marrow transplant was initially successful.

Then her liver failed. And here she was in a hospital run by UCIA, awaiting a donated organ. It came. elad gross The liver was ready smile to go on Dec. 10, but the money wasn't. CHINA, the company managing the health insurance of the girl’s family, would not authorize funding for the transplant. 150 picketers showed up at the local CIGNA offices. CIGNA finally ended up funding the liver transplant. but it was UK) late for Nataline Sarkysian. Only a few hours after funding was granted, Nataline was taken off of life support. She was 17.

A lawyer for the Sarkysians is suing CIGNA for causing Natalities death. CIGNA, when it finally granted money to pay for the transplant, offered to pay out of its own pocket. But CIGNA was only managing the Sarkysians health insurance account. and if it had authorized funding for the procedure in the first place, it wouldn't have had to pay a dime. So why didn’t CIGNA Just authorize it initially? Why didn't the policy cover the life-saving procedure?

Perhaps most importantly: A liver was available and the UCLA hospital had conducted organ transplants before without insurance payments to cover the procedure. VVhv not this lime?

The sad truth is that it doesn't matter whose fault it is. At least, not to Nataline. There is something wrong with a health can' system that ends up killing those it is supposed to protect.

Hie Sarkvskuw had medical insurance and still couldn't pay lor a procedure tlut may have saved their daughter. Hie ston of ux» many Americans, however, tlut becoming insured is just not feasible.

Fortv-sevrn million Americans are uninsurc'd and an estimated million more possess inadThe insurance. costs are just too high. The equate annual premium employers must pav to cover their workers is climhmg with no end in sight. To dav. the annual premium is estimated at >12.100 for a lamtlv of (bur. A full-tune minimum-wage worker makes $10,700 per vear

As a result, many people Just don’t have insurance. But when they get sick or hurt, they still need treatment. The uninsured, however, do not have the luxury of going to the doctor for minor problems. A gash becomes a deep scratch, a tom ligament becomes a bad strain and pneumonia becomes just another cough. But when the cut won’t stop bleeding, the elbowjust won’t bend and breathing is impossible, a trip to the hospital cannot be avoided.

Deamonte Driver had a toothache, but his mother couldn’t afford the $BO for a dentist to pull out the tooth. On one particularly painful day, he paid a visit to the hospital where doctors found that a bacterial infection from the tooth had spread to his brain. The medical costs ran up to $250,000. Deamonte died last February at the age of 12.

Preventative care is supposed to cut down on overall health costs—as long as patients can actually get it But that’s the way the market is supposed to work, right? People who can’t afford the good simply don’t get the good. But at the root of the health care debate is a fundamental question: Do we have a moral obligation to provide health care for everyone in need?

Nataline Sarkysian was 17 years old when she died. She had insurance, but was not saved. Now imagine 8.7 million other children all without insurance. They don’t even have the chance Nataline had. Almost one in every five poor children is uninsured. Are these children just necessary casualties of the market system, or are they the result of an unnecessary evil?

No system is perfect. Universal health care is susceptible to long waiting periods because of government rationing. A more open market system would have massive informational asymmetries to overcome (how do you know a good doctor other than by word of mouth?) and would still leave some uninsured.

But the current system is atrocious. We spend $2.3 trillion per year on our health care as a nation. No other industrialized nation that actually covers ALL of its citizens even comes close to running that tab. Yet even with all this spending, the United States ranks poorly compared to other developed countries with respect to infant mortality and life expectancy. The United States ranks 67th in immunization coverage internationally, sitting directly underBotswana.

2.3 trillion dollars. The richest nation in the world with a health care problem as had as a 12vear-old’s toothache.

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day hour oflake news, 1 love even more the friendships I’ve made through thisobsession and related fan forums.

That is. 1 met K on the Internet.

The number one question I get after telling people I met ray closest friends via the Web is: “Hm how do yon know they aren’t axe murderers?"

-And the answer is, 1 just know. Take my friends M and A for example.

M and A invited me to see a stand-up show in the' city during Winter Hreak. and after "accidentally* miscalculating the lime the show would end and causing me to miss the last train home, they suggested 1 spend the night on their couch. Yon could hardly find a nicer pair of ladies.

They led me through the subway to their Queens apartment, 1 say led, because 1 was Ivlindfolded. They said they didn’t know for sure whether 1 was some sort of sadistit crazy and didn’t want me to know where the apamnent was.

Fair, I thought, they did meet me on the Internet after all.

Once we arrived, A offered me a soda, fetching it froth the kitchen in a plastic cup. It had a funny taste, but A said it was diet soda. Nice of her, because* it’s not a good idea to have extra calories right before l>ed.

We stayed up watching trashy game shows on TV, hut 1 must have l>cen more tired than I thought as I fell asleep almost right away. I did wake up in the middle of the night to see M looming over me with a kitchen knife. “Uhh. There was a hug on your head," she said.

And 1 fell back asleep.

Well-rested with only a small head wound. I traveled home the next day, arriving safe and sound. There arc a lot of sick, sick people in New York City. I’m lucky 1 had two good friends to take care of me, which is why I resent the stigma attached to meeting people through the Internet. Skeptics tell me 1 can never truly know someone I have met online, but that is just as true for people in your own family (who arc probably crazier than anyone else you know).

Sure, one or two of my friends are probably homicidal maniacs with rage issues and a taste fur human flesh.

That’s just probability. But that is no reason to judge the rest of them, who simply collect medieval torture equipment or enjoy a relaxing weekend of taxidermy.

Lysa Chen is a Trinity sophomore and wire editor of Ihr Chronicle. Her column rum every other Thursday.

letterstotheeditor K-ville aftermath an embarassment I am not a sports-hating professor, and 1 don’t really have a problem with students camping out for basketball games. However, the Cameron Crazies reflect poorly on themselves and Duke when they make a mess and don’t clean it up. Next year, you guys need a plan for cleaning up the tents and the broken glass that inevitably ends up in Card Gymnasium lot after the UNC game. The plan this year was apparently simply to leave and assume someone else would clean up the mess.

I realize that it was Spring Break, but if you can stay in a tent for two months can’t you spend an hour cleaning up after yourself? The state ofK-ville last week was embarrassing. Some people from housekeeping or grounds finally loaded up the remaining tents midweek. And the Card Gym parking lot was still littered with broken glass 10 days after the game. A series ofe-mails finds that parking, housekeeping, grounds and athletics all believe that someone else is responsible for cleaning up the lot The Cameron Crazies should employ some of their renowned creativity and figure out away to clean up the parking lot Don Taylor Assistant professor, public policy studies Live up to Eve Carson’s memory the type of student who is easily inspired by a speaker, ceremony or presentation. Map Angelou proved a nice welcome to the University freshman year, and President Richard Brodhead's musings are always insightful, entertaining and articulate.

However, 1 cannot recall any experience during the past four years at Duke where I haw been truly moved to live each moment more fulh in every wav. more excitedly and excitingly, with more passion and compassion, seeking adventure and friendship and understanding at every opportunity.

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That is,, until Tuesday afternoon, when I attended the memorial service held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in honor of slain student body president Eve Carson. The stories and remembrances of her warmth and exuberance, her joyful smile and love for dance parties, given by friends, student government colleagues, UNC administrators and l)oard of trustees members in the Dean Dome were uniquely heartfelt and

heart-wrenching.

Given that Eve had only- lived 22 yean and liad only spent the last three and a half at Carolina, she touched many more lives much more deeply than I ever thought one person liad the capacity for.

That is why I am writing this letter as several sjreakers at the service noted, we should honor her memory by picking up where she left off, by each of us working just a little bit harder at making our respective comers of the world that much better off because wc laughed, loved, learned and lived there. Though I only knew Eve peripherally at best, the way she lived her life has inspired me to live mine better, and I hope will inspire you to do the same.

Ijet’s greet each day joyfully as full of possibility and take each triumph and failure equally as an opportunity to loam.Let’s dig deeper into our reservoirs of generosity and give more than we thought we could. let’s look each other in the eye and smile in pawing and view the world as full of our friends, and friends we have not met quite yet Let’s make the person we're talking with feel needed, important and cared for.

And finally, let’s continue exploring, undemanding and changing the world together, coflectiveh. in collaboration, as exhorted to do by Eve’s father Along with our Tar Heel neighbors and friends, mayhe we can begin to fill the void left by the low ofEve's oversize presence.

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the Um kdrop of a disastrous wai and a spiraling recession that is nuking even eton major soil their |unts (my condolences to anvone with an offer from Bear Stems), the general |»oputaiion of our gieat U.S.-OFA needs a wonderful slorv to keep its ridit ulouslv simple mind occupied.

Thank God for Kliot Spit/et and his mischievous loins.

For thoseof you who have ha«l vour heads I Mined in the mw hm m vam sand during the last week oi so (engineering majore?), let me do a quick recap—it’s quite an enjoyable story.

In ‘JOO6, Spit/er was eleited to the governor's mansion in Albany after eight >rai* (Jap bclzer corruption (Hi Wall Stict i and uigam/rd tome W.W.J.O. of ;UI sons—pimtituiion in eluded. I am week Ik* was anrsted after arranging a $5,000 meeting with an escort named "Kristen," aka the* now famous Ashley Alexandra Dupre. Although Spit/er piompth resigned in (he shame of his laughable hy))ocris\, his sexually mdusinom Inend lus I »een riding his in klevuiess straight to ministardom.

First came a steamy little spread in the New York Post somewhat (although not in any way completely) explaining the exorbitant price tag for her “services'*—which I'm hoping included some dirty freaky exotit Mull Then she released some mediocre |H»p songs and revealed that she is, and has always been, a (me musician at heart. This was promptly followed liy a $1 million offer from I lustier Magazine's I Airy Flynt to (>ose nude.

And finally the kicker—and my |>ersonal favorite revelaf tion—-Joe Francis of “Girls Gone W ild" lame (ami general douchehaggery) discovered that he in fact has a substantial stockpile of Ms. Dupre engaging in “ghi-on-girl and nude” action from way liack in 2005. As if to add insult to injury, Francis went on to stale (hat he is "glad (he] got to her Irelore Spit/er did—she looked a lot lietter at 18."

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God Thursday.

And by God, I mean Stephen Colbert. Obviously.

In his .first Monday, Monday column, everyone's favorite Duke University Improv member Brandon Curl wrote 720 words describing a beloved and self-defining signed photo of Zach Braff. 1 could fill this entire newspaper with detailed descriptions of the museum of Colbert paraphernalia cluttering my dorm room.

But I’ll spareyou (because you’d only judge me).

Needless to say, last Thursday, when I attended a taping of “The |ysa chen Colbert Report,” was a 111, SOCICty special occasion, second only to that time 1 said hi to someone and she said hi back.

After the taping, friend Kand 1 wailed outside the studio to meet the man himself. Sure, attending the taping itself blessed us with a wonderful night and an amazing and irreplaceable memory.

But I’m a superficial person, and I wanted photographic proof.

Huddled outside the studio in the midst of a cozy New York City wind tunnel, we pretended we could still feel our faces and discussed deep topics like the “Project Runway” finale and the price of MetroCards.

Forty-five minutes later, the studio doors opened, and a ray of sunshine broke through the clouds. (It might have been 9 p.m., but God can do what he wants. He’s all-powerful like that.)

Stephen Colbert was standing before us.

“Wait. You bought a $lO card and got a free $1.50 bonus? That makes no sense. The subway costs $2, and...."

I punched K in the face. And then asked Stephen for a picture.

But pay no attention to the talented and charismatic man who is smiling at me and whose strong and comforting arm is circling my waist as 1 turn around and pose for the camera. (Jealous?) No, instead let’s look at K, who is writhing in pain on the sidewalk and probably plotting her revenge.

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(IVack-of-thc-envelope tabulation; $5,000 per sesh x 4 per week x 45 weeks per year ■ a <m>l ‘HM) C»’s) Wait, oh yes. prostitution is still illegal. Sort of. There is no law against buying someone's lime and valuable companionship. sexual activity is simply a voluntary and spontaneous act of mutual attraction (wink wink).

In all seriousness, keeping (lie wot Id's oldest piofc-NMon illegal dors nothing Imi piomote human traffic king, sexual slavery and cm c astonallv firing down (lie career of a livjkm rilic al crusader.

Speaking of which, I can't help Ink find Spit/er's disgraceful fall from his white horse amusing. If there is one thing dial history lias taught me it is to lie wary of anyone cm a "crusade.” In almost every instance, aggressive moral enforcement is a smokescreen for some sort of hidden fienorial agenda or vice (see Mark Foley and larry Oaig). In Spit/er's case, one of the dragons slain by his sword came liack to swallow his political career up whole. Irony is a lieautilul thing.

What's more, this latest saga into America’s ohsessicm with entering the sex lives of the famous is just the most recent example of an odd twist in gender hypocrisy. While men are usually congratulated or admired for sexual conquest, females are shamefully branded as "sluts” or damaged gcxxis.

However, it seems that in our Internet-fueled generation, famously promise nous women such as Paris Hilton. Kim KarcLesbian and our latest cdeb+lut Ashley Dupre have proved that if you arc hot enough you can transcend the outdated mode of thought that outlaws prostitution and obtain fame, money and even a perverse bit of glory. Meanwhile, their male counterparts are now being burned at the stake.

The real question is why the private sexual lives of our elected officials are even our business in the first place.

Wait, I know the answer. Without crap like this, we would all still be talking about our weakening dollar, failing economy and, oh yeah, that quagmire over in the Middle East <

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