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Voting for the Duke Student Government executive elections opened a few hours late Thursday, and infighting ensued among DSG leadership over who is to blame for the software glitches in the voting Web site that prompted the election’s near postponement.

After some DSG members expressed concern about the sustainability of the old system, DSG hired CollegiateLink Corporation in January to design the new software for the presidential elections' which began shortly after 12:30 p.m. Thursday. The old system was written by former DSG president Elliott Wolf, a senior, and was used in previous elections, including September’s freshman Senator election.

“I was not the one who recommended [CollegiateLink] as an organization,” said DSG Attorney General Paul Zarian, a sophomore. “I recommended a different firm first semester [that was not used].... This was the only option given to me.”

He declined to say who recommended the software.

Current President Paul Slattery, a senior, said Executive Vice President Jordan

Anxious students will open their mailboxes this week to find large envelopes—invitations to Duke’s Class of 2012.

A total of 3,814 acceptance letters were mailed out earlier this week to the 20,337 high school seniors that applied to Duke in the Fall, resulting in a record-low regular decision acceptance rate of 18.8 percent Of the applicants, 2,933 were accepted to the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and 881 were admitted to the Pratt School of Engineering.

“We’re Christoph extremely Guttentag happy with our applicant pool,” Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag said. “I’m very pleased with who we admitted and I could tell just in the early-decision applicants that these were some really interesting and very talented students.”

With the 472 students who were accepted under the early-decision process, a total of 4,286 applicants have been invited to be a part of Duke’s Class of 2012. The University

Stella by Starlight, along with two other Duke bands, performed at Alivia's Durham Bistro Thursday night. The event, which was put on by SmallTown Records, was meant to increase interest in the Duke music scene. See story on PAGE 4.

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By the end of tonight, students will have picked the next Duke Student Government president of four candidates who hope to forward, improve and perhaps change the ways of the organization.

During a campaign period three days shorter than previous years, juniors Lawrence Chen, Jordan Giordano, Kevin Troy and Andrew Tutt have been hanging flyers, posting on Web sites and creating Facebook groups to promote their candidacies.

The campaign period was shortened to allow losing candidates to run for Senate or class officer and give candidates an extra week to choose a cabinet before the semester ends, said Attorney General Paul Zarian, a sophomore.

As the NCAA Tournament moves to its second weekend, third-seeded Duke finds itself in almost unchartered territory. The Blue Devils play in Oklahoma City, where they have never played a Tournament game, against Texas A&M, who they have not played since 1995.

And for the first time since 1999, Duke (25-9) will be the underdog in its Sweet 16 matchup Sunday at 7 p.m. against the second-seeded Aggies (28-7) in the Ford Center. For a team that buckled under the pressure of a No. 1 seed the last two seasons, coasting into the second weekend with fewer expectations might be exactly what’s necessary to finally peak in March and April.

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The self-proclaimed “Cure for the Common Label,” Small Town Records, released its first compilation CD at a party at Alivia’s Durham Bistro Thursday night as part ofits effort to reshape the Duke music scene.

Senior Steven Sunmonu, compilation album coordinator for Small Town Records—the University’s studentrun record label/recording studio and a subsidiary of the Duke University Union—said he saw the event as an opportunity to showcase the album he put together with Duke student talent.

“This isn’t to promote Small Town Records per se, but to promote Duke musicians,” said Sunmonu, who is looking to go into the music industry. “We want to be a tool and a resource for Duke students.”

He said he feels that with bands such as Stella by Starlight and Smooch and the Big Hug, the Duke music scene has too much talent to do anything but flourish.

Sunmonu added that he hopes Small Town Records will grow into a media group in the future and encourage not only Duke musicians but the entrepreneurial spirit of the University.

“The Duke music scene as a whole is whacker than other schools I’ve been to,” said sophomore Mike Posner, a Duke student musician who performed what he called his “Jack Johnson meets hip-hop” songs at the record release party.

Already a well-known artist in Michigan after releasing an album, he said he has visited colleges where there

were parties packed with people listening to his record.

He added that he is thankful to Small Town Records for giving him the opportunity to showcase himself and make a similar impact at Duke.

“This event is crazy, a thousand free CDs, open bar,” Posner said, “Small Town is amazing.”

Posner added that he hopes with his performance and the release of his track on the compilation album, students will know who he is.

He said he is currently writing songs with his guitar player, freshman Jeff Oh, recording with Small Town Records this Spring and is trying to release something before the summer.

The students who attended the release party said they were excited about the growing music scene in the area.

Senior Sean Murnane, who attended Duke’s Battle of the Bands Saturday, said he was glad to have another opportunity to listen to local music and take home a free sample.

“I like the Duke music scene,” Murnane said. “I woke up just to see Stella play last week, and I’m happy to see them again.”

Sunmonu said he hopes the record release will become an annual occurrence and that Small Town Records will become a permanent fixture in Duke student media.

But some students like senior Paul Verheggen said the event did not live up to their expectations.

“It seems cool from the outside, but then I got there and the open bar was over,” he said.

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ADMISSIONS from page 1 expects to admit an additional 50 to 75 students Off the waidist in May, Guttentag said.

“It turns out that applicants to elite institutions seem to be on the rise in general, but I think that our acceptance rate going down is really the key statistic,” Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki said. “And that’s evidence that we’re very much on the rise— Duke still hasn’t hit a plateau of excellence, we’re still getting betterand better.”

The record-low acceptance rate is an indicator of the University’s record-high selectivity, Provost Peter Lange said.

This year’s applicant pool also had a record number of international applicants, applicants from North Carolina and children of alumni, as well as more students from a wider range of income levels and geographic locationsawayfrom the east coast. Guttentag said this shift in concentration reflects the size and quality of the applicant pool.

“The west coast is interesting because nationally it’s the farthest away, so really getting recognition out there is another indicator of how important Duke is,” Nowicki said. “Let’s not forget that one ofou’r biggest competitors is out there, so if we’re stealing some students from Stanford [University], that’s great” Still, Guttentag said a certain level of uncertainty exists regarding who will actually make up next year’s freshman class.

Peer institutions such as Harvard University, Princeton University and the University of Virginia discontinued their early decision and early action programs, and the effects of that change are hard to predict, he said.

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The admitted Class of 2012 also boasts one of the most diverse groups of students in recent years as a record number have already signed up for the Black Student Alliance invitational and Latin student orientation, Guttentag said.

“We can actually demonstrate that diversity matters,” Nowicki said. “For students to be interacting with others who are not like themselves... that really matters in the long run in terms of the education of our students because students who encounter other peo-

pie who are not Tike them simply do better.”

Guttentag said the admitted students have already produced a record-high number ofregistrants for Blue Devil Days, indicating that interest in Duke is on the rise.

“Even if it’s hard to quantify, this feels like an interesting, fun class—a class where the students are really going to enjoy each other’s company and learn from each other,” he said. “It just feels like a lot of great, nice, talented, smart students. And we’ll find out for sure in August.”

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The proposal is part of Duke Student Government presidential candidate Andrew Tutt’s platform and suggests creating a central funding organization where students can apply for money from DSC, Campus Council and the Duke University Union Tutt, a junior, was not Ryan Todd present at the meeting.

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groups or other student groups holding events in residential spaces,” he said.

Members also noted that the council was designed to cater specifically to residential issues on campus and the formation of a unified application may lead the council to allocate funds to non-residential needs.

Treasurer Molly Bierman, ajunior, said the council’s budget comes from residential fees, not the student activities fee, and should only be given to students living on campus.

Currently, any individual or student group is eligible to receive Campus Council funding for residential-related needs, she added.

Although some members said placing limitations on funding may decrease the council’s presence on campus, others embraced it as a means to improve residential activities.

“It would behoove us to help bigger residential projects and funds and encourage students to be more involved in their communities,” said Bierman, the council’s president elect.

The council did not vote on a resolution, but a majority of the members agreed to discuss limiting the council’s funding in some form to residential experiences.

Nehemiah said he also plans to build a community family-life center and expand the church’s existing computer center to provide space for job development and computer training classes, Davis said.

Reconciliation has also promoted education in the community. The church recently started a tutoring center at Lakewood United Methodist Church Wednesday evenings.

“We have had kids come in from first grade up through high school—we even had some people come in who spoke Spanish and needed help with their English,” Baker said.

Reconciliation is a member of Durham Congregations in Action, a ministry organization that also runs the Durham Urban Shelter, Meals on Wheels and the Welfare to Work project.

Both Reconciliation and Nehemiah are members of Durham Congregations, Associations and Neighborhoods, a citizens’ organization dedicated to finding innovative solutions to benefit the whole community.

In other business: The council shared ideas about the process by which new fraternities, selective living groups and elective living groups can be created. They also discussed the inherent differences among the three titles.

Eddie Hull, dean ofresidence life and executive director of housing services, said the term “selective living group” has been used genetically over time to identify all three groups. He added that selective living groups are primarily social in nature but elective living groups—or themedlearning communities—are organized by an idea thatis more topical in nature. “[Elective living houses] need to have a degree of structure, but not so rigid that it no longer becomes useful,” Hull said.

The council did not reach a conclusion but hopes to issue a preliminary document regarding new living communities by May. “All groups should be judged by the same criteria—what benefit do you bring to members and what benefit do you bring to the surrounding community,” said Vice President Kevin Thompson, a junior.

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Presidential candidates addressed students at a DSG debate in the Great Hall Wednesday night.

Giordano, who is running for president, took up the task of finding software for the election.

Zarian wrote in a March 4 e-mail obtained by The Chronicle that although he had reservations about the switch, he had been told through the course of the year that the software would be ready. He also expressed concern about reactions if DSG were forced to use the old system.

“The last thing I want is Jordan saying that the election was rigged if he doesn’t win,” he wrote in a March 4 e-mail.

In an e-mail to candidates and election commissioners at 12:42 a.m. Thursday, Zarian wrote that because of problems in the program, elections were postponed until Friday. But approximately 12 hours later, an e-mail from DSG to the undergraduate student body indicated that the polls were open and voting would continue until 9 p.m. Friday.

Although voting was opened Thursday afternoon because the site was functional, Slattery said the Web site is not ideal because the system requires several clicks.

“It’s frustrating to me that [Giordano] was that insistent

about the software, repeatedly ignored the concerns of members of exec and declared he had it worked out only to leave us in a last-minute sramble a situation where we have potentially depressed voter turnout,” Slattery said. “DSG, as an institution is embarrassed,” He added that as of 7 p.m. Thursday, 1,200 students had voted.

CollegiateLink President Aaron Severs wrote in an email to The Chronicle that he had been in contact with DSG and was not aware of any problems.

Giordano, a junior, expressed concern earlier in the year that election results using Wolf’s software could not be verified by a third party. He noted that, as the software’s creator, Wolf was the only person who could verify election results.

He said he considered it a conflict ofinterest with Wolf running last year’s software because of Wolfs association with Slattery.

“It would be like the Republican party running the election software,” he said. ‘You would never let [Vice President] Dick Cheney run the election.”

Giordano said select people were given live updates withWolfs program, which was problematic because those individuals could use that information to rally supporters and alter the course of the election.

Members of the DSG executive board contacted the University and the Office of Information Technology to explore the option ofan outside party verifying Wolfs software, but they were not interested, Giordano said.

Chris Roby, director of the Office of Student Activities and Facilities, said OSAF had been looking for a better organization management system and decided to incorporate election elements into its search. A contract was signed with CollegiateLink in January.

“Once I could see there were some political challenges within different factions of DSG, my role was to work with the person responsible for the election. I chose to work specifically and directly with [Zarian],” he said.

Giordano wrote in a March 3 e-mail to members ofDSG suggesting that a different program, Views Flash, could be used in elections, but other DSG members expressed concern about security.

In a series ofe-mails sent to The Chronicle from a highranking member ofDSG’s executive board, Giordanolater encouraged members to vote in test elections and provided links to the CollegiateLink site.

In an interview with The Chronicle, Giordano said he worked with Roby on the site holistically.

“I really didn’t want to be involved with [the election portion of the site] because I didn’t think that would be fair,” he said. He noted, however, that he was not sure whether the site would be used for future elections.

Zarian declined to comment on the politics of the issue “I’m still running the election, and I’m still trying to make it as fair as possible,” he said. “I don’t want [to] get involved in any drama that might distract me from my job right now.”

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“Giordano is really a grassroots campaigner,” he said. “Tutt is actually relying-on a group of people [to lead his campaign].”

Chen has taken a different approach by not having a Web site or posting any flyers. Instead, his campaign is limited to one comedic video of less than 30 seconds.

Chen, who calls himself “this year’s candidate for the average student,” said he receives daily recognition from supporters despite his lack of institutional experience.

“The experience [of other candidates] may or may not be cultural experiences,” he said. “I have a pretty broad understanding not only as to why [cultural] events are run, but also as to the type of audiences they attract.”

Chen said other candidates may confuse his campaign style for apathy, but he prefers to run a “word of mouth” campaign.

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both Tutt and Troy have asked him to drop out of the race.

“They’ve asked me to throw my support to them,” Chen said.

“For some reason, they believe it will support their campaign.”

Unlike Chen, Giordano uses institutional experience to highlight his campaign. As DSG’s current executive vice president, Giordano has received formal endorsements from every group that has issued one. He said he understands the strengths and weaknesses of the past presidents from working with them more than any of the other candidates.

“It is important to have experience in DSG because, once elected, the president needs to hit the ground running on implementing new initiatives,” he said.

Similar to Giordano, both Troy and Tutt have created a personal Web site to let students view their platforms and biographies. But the two pages differ in style.

The lead photo on Troy’s site—which features DSG’s current executive chief of staff holding a tall glass of beer—is not necessarily typical of a politician.

“For whatever it’s worth, the picture was taken in England,” he said, noting that he is only 18 years old.

“There was no grand strategy session filiation to be a potential concern. legacy is DSG does not exist. as to whatpicture I could present. It’s “From what I’ve seen this year, I “I’m certainly not running as one of the few pictures of me smiling think [Giordano] is really good at an A.B. Duke,” Troy said. “I’m without my eyes half-closed.” managing,” he said. “[Greek affilia- running as a Duke student.”

Colored with words like “audaction] would influence my decision, Wolf said he feels most comfortity, tenaciousness and vitality,” Tutt’s but it wouldn’t be the biggest issue.” able putting his support behind Web site reflects the popular moniGiordano said although he has Troy but denied the existence of an ker ofchange surrounding thisyear’s worked with the greek community A.B. Duke scholar legacy in DSG. “The fact that we are on the campaign. But students like junior in the past, the majority of his exMacßae Linton said Tutt’s site—with perience come from working with same scholarship doesn’t seem para blue banner running behind the independents and cultural groups. ticularly relevant. You don’t want candidate’s pensive stance—bears “I have been working hard for ‘yes’ men all around you,” he said. a notable resemblance to that of non-greeks for the past three years, “Ifanyone’s responsible for putting national candidate for change Sen. and no one has ever been contwo A.B. scholars in a row for presiBarack Obama, D-111. cerned about the issue,” he added. dent, it’s the student electorate.”

Sophomore Haylee Schwartz, Although largely a supporter Despite lacking the executive exof Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., director of public relations for the perience of other DSG candidates, Tutt, who is the current DSG webPanhellenic Association, said it is Tutt said heis the most qualified to set master, acknowledged that he was common to cite commonalities with an agenda and see it accomplished. a specific group when campaigning.

“Anyone who has sat on the exinspired by Obama’s image.

Some students expressed con“Greeks aren’t the only ones who ecutive board can tell you that holdcerns about Giordano’s and Troy’s do it, and we definitely don’t do it ing thatposition doesn’t qualify you affiliations outside of DSG. Giorwith ill intent,” she said. “In the same to be DSG president,” he said. dano, who is a member of Alpha respect, I’m sure that the members of Despite losing last year’s presiTao Omega fraternity, will be execMaxwell House will vote forKevin.” dential election to Slattery, Tutt said utive vice president of the InterfraTroy, DSG’s current executive he feels confident about his new imtemity Council next year, and Troy chief ofstaff, said his qualifications age. In his second year running, the is an Angier B. Duke scholar and a center around executive expericurrent DSG webmaster said he feels member of Maxwell House. ence. He noted that he has hoped his campaign is “big and bold.”

“I didn’t think my opponent Sophomore Benjamin Wolf, to engage the Duke community in who is unaffiliated and lives in the discussions during his campaign. last year would really change Craven Quadrangle hall where Although the past two DSG DSG, and he didn’t,” Tutt said. “I Giordanois a resident assistant, said presidents have been A.B. scholdon’t think my opponents [this he considers a candidate’s greek af- ars like-Troy, he said an A.B. Duke year] will change DSG.”

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Hurricanes (19-2, 7-1 ACC) are one of the nation’s top programs, but VS (21-5, 4-5) has proved that it can compete with top competition this seaFR| sun son. All three of the jack Coombs Field Blue Devils’ conference opponents this year —North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia Tech—were ranked in the top 25 at the time of the series, and Duke has captured a victory against all three.

“This is why the conference is so exciting,” head coach Sean McNally said. “We have great respect for Miami, but we’ve had success this season and held our own against the nation’s best.”

In the Blue Devils’ series against the Cavaliers, Duke not only took two of three, but scored six runs in three innings offVirginia ace Jacob Thompson in the opening 9-8 win. Thompson finished the 2007 campaign with an 11-0 record and 1.50 ERA, and the Cavaliers lost only one of his starts—2-1 to Georgia Tech in

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The Hurricanes will bring a pair of infielders that figure to join Thompson as Major League Baseball first-round draft picks to Durham this weekend.

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When No. 3 Duke travels to Uniondale, N.Y. to play Dartmouth Saturday, it obviously won’t be a home game.

But for some of the Blue Devils, it might as well be.

With a whopping 18 members of the team hailing from the ■ state ofNew York, Duke J ■ (9-1) is looking forward to quite a reception in VS. first trip to the Empire State since a 2005 visit to face Army.

“We’ll have a sick SATURDAY, 4 p.m. home crowd because Uniondale, N.Y. some of the guys are from Long Island, so that will be fun for them,” midfielder Sam Payton said. Payton, who hails from Cos Cob, Conn., is one of 29 Blue Devils not from New York.

In comparison, only eight of the Big Green’s 43 players come from New York.

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It was the largest comeback victory in the history of the NCAA tournament —a stunning 14-13 win for Virginia, which overcame a ten-goal deficit in the final 20 minutes of play to beat Duke in the final four May 25.

It was the last time the No. 5 Blue Devils (7-2, 1-1 in the ACC) took on the fourthranked Cavaliers (7-2, 2-1). But despite the crushing nature oflast spring’s defeat, this Duke squad holds that game’s importance with little regard as it prepares to take on Virginia tomorrow at Koskinen Stadium at 1 p.m.

“We don’t want there to be any focus on Virginia beyond our preparation because there’s no point,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “If we spend energy focusing on last year’s game and other things to do with Virginia, it’s taking our focus and our emphasis and our energy away from preparing ourselves to play our game.... We haven’t even thought about that [game].”

Perhaps as a team, the Blue Devils’ focus is set solely on their own strategy, but for at least one individual, this contest means something more.

Last year, midfielder Carolyn Davis was carted off Franklin Field in Philadelphia with a tom left ACL in the final stretch of the Virginia game. The junior had to watch from the sidelines as her team’s ten-goal lead dissipated.

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“We have a lot ofLong Island guys, and one of the challenges this week presents is thatsometimes when you go back to Long Island, you want to play great and you want to do too much as opposed to letting the game come to you,” said Danowski.

“That’s something we’re going to have to watch out for.”

Danowski, himself a Long Island native, coached 21 years at Hofstra in nearby Hempstead, N.Y. Duke will also have to watch out for Dartmouth’s attackmen, undoubtedly the strength of the squad. The Big Green are led in scoring by Ari Sussman and Brian Koch, who have scored 15 and 14 goals, respectively. In its most recent outing against Holy Cross, Dartmouth scored 21 goals en route to an easy victory.

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a target on our back,” senior captain Wanisha Smith said. “I think any team would prefer to be the underdog.”

“We think that we have as reasonable a chance of winning this Tournament as anybody else does,” junior captain Abby Waner said. “Especially once you come down to the Sweet 16, numbers—they’re just numbers, they don’t mean much. Weird things happen in tournaments, and whether w e were picked initially or not doesn’t matter at this point.”

Waner’s message is a lesson the veteran Blue Devils have come to understand the hard way. Last March, they lost in the Sweet 16 to fourth-seeded Rutgers, a team they beat by 40 points in December. The previous April, they lost in the National Championship game to Maryland, a team they beat twice in the regular season.

Now, the Blue Devils have a chance to flip their fortune—to upset a higher-seeded team to play for an unexpected Final Four, rather than sit stunned in a locker room after a lower-seeded team snatched away an expected Tournament run.

In some ways, though, the regional semifinal is a pairing of two upstarts—TexasA&M isn’t much of a favorite, especially considering its paltry Tournament experience.

The Aggies have not played in the Sweet 16 since 1994, whereas Duke has advanced to the Tournament’s second weekend in 11 consecutive seasons. The Aggies were ranked No. 17 in the last regular-season poll, and Duke, the underdog, was voted No. 12. A Big 12 tournament championship, though, bumped TexasA&M up in the poll and into perhaps the last No. 2 seed.

While Duke has far more Tournament experience than the Aggies, Texas A&M does play five seniors while Duke has only one in Smith. Some of Duke’s greener players,

the age of nine, led the conference last season with 18 home runs and tied for the lead in RBIs with 74. This season, Alonso is eighth in the conference with a .397 batting average and has twice as many walks as strikeouts.

Miami’s other marquee player, second baseman Jemile Weeks, is the younger brother of Milwaukee Brewers second baseman Rickie Weeks. As just a junior, Weeks is already tied for the all-time lead on the Hurricanes list for career triples with 17. In the 2008 season, Weeks is hitting at a .425 clip, good for second in the ACC, and has hit six home runs while knocking in 26 runs.

“They have a terrific lineup,” McNally said. “We know we have to play very well to beat them.”

Duke’s Alex Hassan is at the top of the conferences offensive charts this season along with Weeks and Alonso, but as a whole, the Hurricanes offense has been more productive this season, averaging 9.5 runs per game to Duke’s 7.6.

On the pitching end, however, the Blue Devils have compiled a staff ERA over a half-run better than Miami. During his three-year tenure at Duke, McNally has stressed the importance of pitching and defense to his team’s success. And with Duke’s staff currently sporting a 2.97 ERA and the defense having the top fielding percentage in the conference, there is good reason to think that Duke can continue its successful season.

“Miami plays a lot like us and does the little things well,” sophomore Gabriel Saade said. “We always come out ready to play, and we’re coming out this weekend

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though, have been its best this postseason.

Redshirt junior Chante Black, who was sidelined for last season’s disappointing finish, was brilliant in Duke’s secondround win over Arizona State Tuesday, tallying a career-high 26 points and 13 re-

bounds. More impressive—and potentially dangerous to opponents—than her gaudy statistics was her desire to touch the ball on every possession. Black demanded the ball, her teammates obliged, and the Blue Devils were on to the next round.

“It’s not so much that she has to get huge numbers night in and out—which would be great—but she doesn’t have to do that,” first-year head coach Joanne R McCallie said. “She simply has to be dominant.... If she does that, she’s already guaranteeing that there will be a lot of people concerned about her defensively.

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If Black asks for the ball sufficiently and draws consistent double-teams, opposing defenses will be less able to contain Duke’s outside shooters. Black’s force down low could provide more open looks for Waner and Smith, the Blue Devils with the most 3-pointers.

“That’d be nice,” Waner said. “I would take ‘em.”

And should she make them, Duke might be able to repeat its performance from the last time it was the lower-seeded team in a Sweet 16. That time, the Blue Devils knocked off second-seeded Old Dominion and then made the Final Four by topping No. 1 Tennessee—the team that just so happens to be on the other side of the Oklahoma City regional.

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er this year versus last year when she was the defensive side,” junior midfielder Jess Adam said. “She’s stepping into a role where not only is she putting up big numbers being our top attacker, but helping to facilitate and lead the attack down there as well.”

Duke will need all the help and leadership it can muster to beat Virginia, whose offense Kimel called a “well-oiled machine.” The Cavaliers’ biggest statistical strength, however, is their defensive unit, which ranks as the seventh best in the nation.

Led by junior goalkeeper Kendall Mcßrearty, the Cavaliers are giving up just 7.5 goals per game and have allowed just one opponent to record double-digit goals this season.

“They have a tremendous goalie—[McBrearty is] probably the best goalie in our conference right now,” Kimel said.

“They’re just a great team, but they have two losses as well...which just speaks to the parity there is in our game.”

Duke has plenty of tough games to look forward to beyond this one against ACC foe Virginia. Games against teams like No. 1 Northwestern and 13thranked Notre Dame are just around the corner for the Blue Devils, who hope to avoid losing their first home game since April 2006 and to evade their first pair of back-to-back defeats since March 2005.

But Davis and the Blue Devils still believe that this game—and their past defeats—have little to do with their ultimate aspirations and overall success.

“There’s something to prove but not necessarily to [Virginia],” Davis said. “This season we want to get to [the final four] and further, to the National Championship, and whether that has to do with UVa or not, it’s still our end goal.” more on

said. “But when I went down, as hard as it was to-lose, it was just as hard to hurt my knee.”

But Davis has recovered from her traumatic injury and has emerged this season as Duke’s premier attacking threat. She leads the team with 28 goals and has also notched 10 assists, all while wearing a protective knee brace.

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“I don’tthink [the rainy weather] changes the game at all,” Payton said. “The weather is supposed to drop here anyway, so we just take everything in stride as it comes.”

With 10 games already gone this season, theBlue Devils have just four contests remaining before ACC tournament play begins.

After the matchup with Dartmouth, Duke will take on two of the nation’s best in No. 8 Johns Hopkins and top-ranked Virginia.

Before getting to those games with national title implications, though, Danowski said there is much his team can do better.

“We’re like a ‘B’ so far,” Danowski said.

“We’re a good team, not a great team yet.

We have to get better man down, we have to play better team defense, be more consistent. We have to develop that second midfield, and we can’t run that first midfield into the ground, so there are areas we need to improve.”

defensive frailties.

The Blue Devils recovered from a defeat of their own last week, blowing past Harvard 10-3 Tuesday. Duke lost its only game of the season at Georgetown last Saturday, but responded well in the victory over the Crimson.

“Our team defense was terrific [against Harvard],” Danowski said. “We communicated better, we were in better position on the field, we slid, we recovered, we helped each other.

We limited their shots and we played some more people, and I think that helped us.”

That type of defensive intensity will be important Saturday, when the weather is expected to be cold and rainy in Uniondale.

Thursday, Durham was sunny and breezy, but Payton said weather will not be an issue.

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For quad councils, a small step forward Council recently cannot dominate elections announced several im- by voting as a group, as they and on the sursometimes have in the past. face very positive changes to the The quad councils themselves will elect some of their West Campus quad councils. own members Among to executive other things, editorial the changpositions, ines include a plan for more cluding a position representrepresentative elections and ing the quad on the Campus shorter terms for executive Council. Under the new plan, officers and will do much to moreoever, these executive ensure that next year’s quad officers must be reelected councils are both more repevery semester. This will help to combat the apathy that has resentative and more effective. And it’s difficult to say tended to characterize past anything negative about that. quad councils, especially toUnder the new plan, quad ward the end of the year. council members will be electOf course, the officer ed “regionally,” instead of by election plan is not without its potential drawbacks. the dorm as a whole. Each Resident Advisor section will elect On the one hand, giving ofa representative to the quad ficers thefreedom to step down and forcing them to seek reeleccouncil, ensuring that members of selective living groups tion will keep them motivated

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and indifferent quad councils cannot realize this goal.

To this end, it is unfortunate that the elections will be held during the first week of school. Quad residents will not have time to meet their neighbors and potential candidates, nor will they have a chance to settle in and notice the issues or opportunities they want addressed by their council.

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At my age, my parents were plucked from the path to university by China’s Cultural Revolution. The luxury of academia was delayed by years of peasant labor in Communist reeducation camps. The slightest whisper of capitalist doctrine, Western literature, cultural and artistic

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sense of accountability to the residents they represent.

Quad councils can function as advocacy groups, and furthermore receive significant sums—sl9 for every quad resident—which give them considerable budgets for discretionary spending.

Councils can use this budget to benefit their quads, but

Council members will be elected only by their neighbors, and candidates campaigning among friends or neighbors they know better may feel more accountable.

At the same time, campaigning candidates will have more meaningful platforms (such as they are) once they and their neighbors better understand their new residence and community.

In the long term, quad councils must be both more accountable and more closely tied to their communities if they are to become effective bodies. The new council member and officer election plan is a significant step towards this goal.

Austin Boehm recused himselffrom this editorial.

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and fresh throughout the year.

At the same time, however, one of the officers will represent the entire quad to the Campus Council, without directly receiving the mandate of thestudents living in that quad.

While the influenceof selective living groups might reduce the fairness of intra-quad elections, it is less likely that this influence would result in the election of a representative less responsive to the needs and desires of the quad as a whole.

The new plan will not revolutionize the quad councils overnight, but it will improve their responsiveness and productivity to some degree. In the long term, quad residents need to come to see their quads as potentially effective bodies, and council members need to gain a

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three-and-a-half years mixed up in classic texts, textual postmodernism, postmodern cinema at a premium pricey American university (thanks, Mom and Dad).

Here I am editorializing and poeticizing overseas—because I can.

For me, that is America. And every overused, Texas-drawled noun that falls along the lines of “opportunity” and “freedom” still sucker-punches me with feeling every time I think how awfully lucky I am to be an American.

But something happens abroad that muffles the Lee Greenwood swell. It is an influx of self-consciousness that comes from being associated with that American—that loud ignoramus with the Dixieland t-shirt/fanny pack/ supersize combo meal.

It is an unspoken external pressure to muffle whatever patriotism you might have and offer criticisms ofyour people, your president, your culture because any pride or pretentiousness on your part could be taken as a whiff of imperialism.

Blame news media, blame generalizations, blame inarticulateness; it’s a commonly known fact that we Americans are internationally regarded with distaste. When every U.S. market shudder or foreign policy slip is a blast felt round the world, there’s no mystery behind the low global esteem.

But I’m only now discovering the more secreted source behind our lack of citizenly legitimacy.

Of course we’re appraised for our election and reelection of President Bush. It’s the sheepish elephant in the room come conversations abroad. But the real embedded perceptions of us—non-Bush Americans that is—derive from the media distributed by our very own Hollywood moneymakers.

We are “American Pie” and Joey Tribbiani;

we are “Laguna Beach” and Meredith Grey.

We the people are every regrettable teen movie ever made—with a hint of New York City mafia tossed in.

Every numbing chick flick or phallic-doting, coming-of-age summer hit is a methodology of understanding. Every jock-dates-cheerleader, beatsup-band-geek yam is a road map to Americanism.

(Then again, it’s a two way street, since I pictured New Zealand as a Hobbiton inhabited by Jermaine Clements and Bret McKenzies.)

Thanks to the accessibility and popular appeal of genre-specific (read: often bad) American film and television shipped abroad, America has morphed beyond its power-hungry, money-hungry, justplain hungry image into a nation of loud, whiny, awkward idiots.

Each of those adjectives was in fact used at some point these past few weeks in polite description of my American brethren. It doesn’t help that the cinematic stupids sometimes skirt uneasily close to truth.

But it’s never fun and giggles to be the object of stereotyping, polite and forgiving though it may be. As an Asian who can’t do calculus in her head, I’ve parried a few prejudices in my time. But as a cultured environmentalist liberal, the sting offoreign generalizadon feels something new.

The film student in me laments the possibility that an effort to become acquainted with American “culture” now requires a three-day rental involving Will Ferrell. The film student in me prays to the movie Gods after hearing a Swedish friend grunt, “Let’s get wasted!” and explaining she acquired it from “some American movie.”

(The nerd in me wonders whether it would be better to be known for Middle Earth than Middle America.)

Good or bad or blockbuster, Hollywood & Co. remains the shiny colossus founded by American immigrants as a common language when the spoken type fell short. Ours is a history of diverse and momentous filmmaking that, if now lacking the chic and avant garde of France or spark and jiggle of Bollywood, is nevertheless boldly and distinctly American.

So what do you do if you can’t make the world believe that America still has good ol’ honest everymen waging idealism against political corruption for the sake of our democracy?

Well, I suppose the best you can do is make your Swedish friend watch “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.”

Janet Wu is a Trinity junior and formerfilm editor of The Chronicle. Her column runs every otherFriday.

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in a name?In the case of a building on Duke’s campus; one of those giant novelty checks with a large number to the right of the dollar sign.

The names Rostock, Mo:Clendon and von der Hi to list just a few, are as familiar as the campus landmarks that bear those monikers. They are the mega-donors that put cash in the University’s pocket, while leaving their mark all over camjordan rice pus with plaques in their honor and buildings in sexual chocolate their names.

Further down the totem poll of high-yield donors, there are the fortunate occupants of the seats in Cameron IndoorStadium. Although there are a numberof waysyou can score tickets to a Duke home game (perhaps you are the Navy SEAL that trained DeMarcus Nelson), the only surefire entrance-pass is a substantial yearly donation.

At one of the home games this year, an obnoxious student near me asked one of thefans above the Cameron Crazies’ section whathe paid for his seats. The man, despite being taken aback by the socially tactless question of some kid he does not know, told thestudentthateach ticket in his season ticket package cost about $6O. That price sounds like quite the bargain until he added thathe earned the right to purchase his tickets bypaying for a student-athlete’slull scholarship—his membership fee for the Iron Dukes, the athletic department’s branch responsible for alumni relations and donations.

According to the Iron Dukes’ Web site, a minimum yearly gift of $7,000 may grant a donor the opportunity to buy season tickets; there is no guarantee of availability because ticket priority is determined by one’s annual giving level and cumulative donationrecord.

Still further down the line of donors, there are the alumwho ni give a more modest amount—a few hundreddollars each year, perhaps. These are the vast majority of donors that make the percentage of Duke alumni who donate the second highest of all American universities, according to US News and World Report.

Clearly, Duke alums, from those with tens of millions in the bank to those with tens of thousands, are willing to send cash over to their alma mater. But are these donations made in the name of altruism as we would like to believe?

Surely, when alums write checks made out to- Duke, their actions are not completely devoid ofcharitable intentions, but they are by no means simply giving money away.

Donations to Duke are purchases. When alumni generously give an enormous sum of money to construct a building, they are buying themselves a legacy and a status symbol—a building in your name at one of the world’s foremost universities is far more visible a symbol of success and power than any mansion, car or R. Kelly-style fur coat.

Iron Dukes without a doubt are pleased to support student athletes, but the access to seats in Cameron more than likely is their primary motive to donate.

Paying the way of a member of the golf team or the field hockey team is of course a lovely gesture, but at the end of the day, those scholarships are the cost of season tickets.

It is less clear what the vast majority of donors those that give a modest sum to Duke—purchase when they donate. Sending $lB in the mail to the University like it just had a bar mitzvah is not going to get your name carved into the door of a stall in a Jarvis bathroom, let alone on a building.

Alumni give back to Duke, no doubt, partially out of love of their alma mater. There is, however, a less charitable side to these donations.

A friend of mine best explained the logic of these smaller donors. “After I graduate, I’ll send a few hundred to Duke each year, just so they don’t forget about me if my kids apply here. And if they turn out to be really dumb, I’ll send more.”

Perhaps, a few dollars will bring the good favor of Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag or his successors when an alumnus’ hypothetical child applies. Even charity has its rewards.

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Jordan Rice is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Friday.

DSG campaign Web site in no way constitutes “plagiarism” The March 27 letter to the editor “Andrew Tutt’s Web site resembles Obama’s” is really wrong. I was wondering why no one on The Chronicle contacted me.

Considering its esoteric nature, I can see why it would be difficult for someone not well versed in Web design to understand that thisclaim is simply untrue and complete rumor. The two Web sites use a navigation system that involves a complex variant of the “sliding doors” technique and an innovative use of CSS to slide a background image around.

Nothing about that is copyrightable, and indeed itis akin to something like “swap” in regular programming—such a common function you will find it in nearly every program.

To say that using similar typography (making the text look a certain way) is plagiarism is to say that all works that are meant to clearly or closely resemble another are plagiarism, which goes well beyond the definition of the word. The goal of the Web site is to invoke that spirit of hope and optimism in Obama’s campaign, and using Georgiafont rather than Verdana or Arial for certain aspects is not plagiarism in any way.

In regards to background elements, it’s relatively clear that the header image on the Web site uses a Blue background. Other than that, there is no legitimate reason to believe that anything about it is taken from Obama’s Web site. And that’s simple: it’s because it’s not Simply looking at http://www.andrewtutt.com and the Obama Web sites, and looking at the CSS files themselves, should be enough to put this to rest Andrew Tutt Trinity ’O9 Alumni Affairshas done nobody wrong I recently read Elizabeth Dixon’s March 24 letter “Alumni Affairs ‘done us wrong’” and believe it important to shed some light on NCAA ticket distribution. In this case Duke Alumni Affairs and DukeAthletics have not “wronged” anyone.

To start, the NCAAallocates 550 ticketsforall ofthe eightparticipating institutions at each sub-regional location. Each block of 550 ticketsis equal in its proximity to the court and the numberoflower level tickets vs. upper level tickets. Because the NCAA’s goal is to have a sellout crowdfor every game, the remaining tickets in each

R.I.P. Blue Devils basketball dominance

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But this year seemed different We seemed psyched to play. We were sprinting up and down the court We were suffocating opponents with the double' team, effortlessly shifting on defense and making big steals. We were spreading the ball around the perimeter, always looking to make die extra pass to set up the open three and leaving the paint fairly open to give anyone who chose to penetrate some room tom segal to breathe. We were getting morning wood: dominated on the boards and part deux still spanking teams like a British if It was as Mike D’Antoni nanny. had died his hair black and moved to Durham; we were the Phoenix Suns. Not only were we winning, but it was damn fun to watch.

And then Brian Zoubek came back from injury, and it all went to crap.

With Big Z in the game, our entire strategy changed. He can’t run, so the fast break took a hit He’s lost on defense, so the double team wasn’t as effective. He is the definition of a lane-dogger on offense, so our cuts to the hoop were greatly cut down.

He seems to be good at only a few things. Holding the ball below his waist after a rebound, for instance. He’s great at that, often giving the opponent ample opportunity to strip the ball.

The wide-open fade-away bank lay-up, he’s got that guy down pat I know what you’re thinking-he’s 7-foot-l, shouldn’t he be dunking the ball if he’s wide open? Well, you see, even at such an imposing height, one must jump in order to dunk, and as we all know, Zoubie was bom without the ability to jump.

And let’s not forget his specialty; The Big Z Shuffle. This season, Zoubek broke his own ACC record for travels per second ofpossession. He also broke Nick Horvath’s record for most times a player has been called a “piece of dog poop” by me during the season; another impressive feat considering he onlyaveraged 10 minutes a game and missed nine of them. Just imagine those numbers projected over a full season at 2(>plus minutes a game....

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Duke attempts to purchase more tickets whenever possible. We were able to acquire 10extra ticketsfrom theVerizonCenter in Washington, D.C., for a total allotment0f560 tickets. One couldargue that the NCAA shouldhold more tickets aside for each school; however, I wouldsay thatafter nearly 20 years in the business, this numberis fair.

We couldhave used more tickets in D.C., however, lastyear inBuffalo, we were unable to use our entire allotment.

Duke then allocates the available tickets in the following order (1) Players’ and coaches’ families and friends; (2) Current undergraduate and graduate students (personal use only); (3) Iron Dukes members; (4) Duke University alums; and (5) Duke fans.

After taking care of the first two groups above, there were approximately 240 tickets remaining to sell. These were sold at a maximum of two per member to the top 120 Iron Dukes members who requested tickets. More than 100 other Iron Dukes members who requested tickets were turned away.

Our No. 1 goal is to get as many Blue Devil fens in the stadium as possible. However, when an arena is sold out, there’s not much Duke can do save from getting tickets from an outsideinflated market It’s important to note thateach location and each round of the NCAATournament is different regarding our supply and demand.

For instance, last year in Buffalo, all area alums were contacted via e-mail with an opportunity to purchase tickets. All who responded were able to buy up to six tickets each. More than 40 alums did so.

Our ticket supply was the same as last week in Washington, D.C., but the demandwas much greater this year.

As a team advances each week, the NCAA ticket distribution increases. The regional ticket allotmentis 1,250tickets per school, and the Final Four ticket allotment is3,500 per school.

Duke does all within its power to ensure that the team plays in front of as many Blue Devil fans as possible. There will always be situations when our supply of tickets falls far short of meeting our demand. Unfortunately these scenarios are out ofDuke’s control as was the case last week in Washington, D.C. Jack Winters Director, Iron Dukes

Though these stats are not currently recorded by the NCAA, I’m officially starting a campaign to have this changed. Zoubek deserves his recognition.

In all seriousness, it is somewhat remarkable to me how he can’t seem to move his feet on defense, and yet he can’t seem to keep them from moving on offense. Are we even sure he knows the difference between the two? Perhaps someone should check this out before next season starts.

There are many things to point to in terms ofhow this season went so awry. For instance, DeMarc absolutely fell apart to end his Final Four-less Duke career, denting the rims of Cameron along the way with his oft-short line-drive free throws.

Or how about young Kyle Singler’s love for the deep shot (he hit only 34 percent ofhis threes despite often being pretty open) when he was easily our best interior offensive player? And then there’s his love for committing unnecessary fouls 40 feet from the basket I was at my buddy’s apartment the other day and he told me Singler would be coming over later to pick up some paint for an art class. I was amazed. Given that he spent the last monthof the season on the perimeter, I could’ve sworn he was terrified of paint Let’s not foiget Taylor King, the guy who ESPN loves to tell us “never met a shot he didn’t like” and “has no conscience” when it comes to shooting. They always say this as if it’s a good thing. It’s not Especially when Taylor was riding one of the coldest streaksI’ve ever seen. Did hehit a single three afterJanuary? Tough to remember.

In the end, there’s really only one person to put the blame on for this season, and it isn’t Brian Zoubek. It’s not his fault he’s in the game. In fact, he seems to do just about everything he can to stay out of the game.

Ilie person to blame is... oooh boy this is hard to say... Mike Krzyzewski (covering my head for fear of lightning bolts striking me).

We had a great opportunity this year. We had a great team. We were one gamefrom being the topranked team in the country, and it all fell apart All those high school All-Americans, all that talent, and we weren’t even the top private school in North Carolina (that’d be Davidson) . Thatblame has to be placed on the man in charge.

And this is what our basketball program has come to: me, a Blue Devilfor life, publicly skewering a man I’ve idolized since my youth.

I will now go cry myself to sleep. Hide the whiskey.

Tom Segalis a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Friday.

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20 FRIDAY, MARCH 28,2008

THE CHRONICLE