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At its meeting Saturday, the Board of Trustees approved Duke’s first athletics strategic plan as well as a $2 billion budget for the 2008-2009 fiscal year to amplify both athletic and academic opportunities.

A strategic plan for the athletics department had been on deck for more than a year, and outgoing Director of ' thletics Joe Alieva first .ve an overview of such Alston to the Trustees lastMay. Alongside culture hanges for football and iprovements to facilities, le plan pitches changes to inances and admissions.

“We’ve been operating on what is an increasingly antiquated funding model,” President Richard Brodhead said in an interview. “Our program has grown and evolved for years. But the initial funding model underwriting it has stayed frozen over time, so this is just an acknowledgment of the fact that athletics in fact requires a differentlevel ofinvestment” That funding model has relied on support for athletics from Duke’s two undergraduate SEE TRUSTEES ON PAGE 5

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Holding out against gloomy skies and persistent rain, hundreds of umbrellas filled Wallace Wade Stadium during the University’s 156th commencement ceremony Sunday.

Friends and family looked on as President Richard Brodhead acknowledged more than 4,000 graduates on a dark

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and chilly Mother’s Day morning.

Commencement speaker Barbara Kingsolver, an author and National Humanities Medal recipient, urged graduates to embrace a sustainable lifestyle and reject common definitions of success.

Her most recent book, “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food

Duke employee Rayford Gofer, 63, died in a steam explosion at the Levine Science Research Center Wednesday afternoon.

Gofer, a master steam fitter and employee in Duke’s Facilities Management Department since 2001, was working in a mechanical room in the LSRC’s basement when a steam line ruptured Just before 3 p.m.

After the explosion, alarms went off and more than 100 Duke employees were evacuated from the building. All of the building’s systems were shut down, but no other injuries were reported.

Officials said those in the area reported a significant amount of water flooding into the building’s basement.

“The water [in the basement] will need to be tested and pumped out before power can be restarted in the building,” Vice President for Campus Services Kernel Dawkins said at a press conference Wednesday evening.

Co-workers said Gofer was known as a friend and team player in the department.

In 2002 and 2004, Gofer was the recipient of the Meritorious Service Award, one of the top employee honors at Duke.

Two students celebrate commencement in therain. Author Barbara Kingsolver delivered the commencement address in-WaUaceWade Stadium Sunday.

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Despite a lopsided 41-point victory in the West Virginia primary Tuesday, Sen. Hillary Clinton’s chances ofwinning the Democratic nominationappear to be slipping away.

Sen. Barack Obama’s commanding victory in the North Carolina primary May 6 gave him 66 of the state’s 115 pledged delegates. The win, coupled with a narrow loss in the Indiana primary, moved him closer to the 2,025 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination in August.

Additionally, former North Carolina senator John Edwards, previously a candidate for the Democratic nomination and the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee, announced his endorsement of Obama Wednesday, a move that may add 19 superdelegate commitments for Obama from superdelegates who formerly supported Edwards.

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SPORTS BUSINESS US home foreclosures increase Tennis star retires at top of game

GRAND RAPIDS,Mich.— Democrat JohnEdwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a move designed to help solidify support for the party's likely presidential nominee even as Hillary Rodham Clinton refuses to give up her long-shot candidacy.

The surprise endorsement came a day after Clinton defeated Obama by more than 2-to-1 in the West Virginia primary, and it helped the Obama campaign steer much of the evening news coverage away from a painful subject.

The West Virginia outcome highlighted Obama's challenge in winning over "Hillary Democrats"—white, working-class voters who also supported Edwards in significant numbers before he exited the race in late January.

LOS ANGELES More U.S. homeowners fell behind on mortgage payments last month, driving the number of homes facing foreclosure up 65 percent versus the same month last year and contributing to a deepening slide in home values, a research company said Tuesday.

Nationwide, 243,353 homes received at least one foreclosure-related filing in April, up 65 percent from 147,708 in the same month last year and up 4 percent since March, RealtyTrac Inc. said.

Nevada, Arizona, California and Florida were among the hardest hit states, with metropolitan areas in California and Florida accounting for nine of the top 10 areas with the highest rate of foreclosure, the company said.

LIMELETTE, Belgium —The determination that helped Justine Henin beat bigger, stronger opponents time and again was fading.

"I decided to stop fooling myself and accept it,"the 25-year-old Belgian said.

Henin retired from tennis Wednesday, an abrupt ending to a career in which she won seven Grand Slam singles titles and spent more than 100 weeks ranked No. I.' She announced her decision at a news conference one-and-a-half weeks before the start of the French Open, where she has won the past three titles and four overall.

Put simply, she realized she was burned out, and became the first woman to quit the sport while atop the WTA rankings.

SCIENCE/TECH Polar bears deemed in danger

ODDS& ENDS Ants attack homes in Houston

WASHINGTON The Interior Departdeclared the polar bear a threatened species Wednesday because of the loss of Arctic sea ice but also cautioned the decision should not be viewed as a path to address global warming.

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne cited dramatic declines in sea ice over the last three decades and projections of continued losses, meaning, he said, that the polar bear is a species likely to be in danger of extinction in the near future.

DALLAS in what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up

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Man arrested for Fla. wildfires

Authorities arrested a PALM BAY, Fla. man they say was seen throwing a Molotov cocktail into the woods Wednesday in this Atlantic coast town, where several homes have been gutted by wildfires this week.

Officials questioned Brian Crowder, who authorities allege set a small blaze that was quickly extinguished. They also asked the 31-year-old about larger wildfires that have found ample fuel in developments in the region, blazes he denied involvement with.

Palm Bay Police Chief Bill Berger said he believed there was a "good possibility" Crowder would be charged with starting a

YANGON, Myanmar The Red Cross estimated Wednesday that the cyclone death toll in Myanmar could be as high as 128,000—a much higherfigure than the government tally.The U.N. warned a second wave of deaths will follow unless the military regime lets in more aid quickly.

The grim forecast came as heavy rains drenched the devastated Irrawaddy River delta, disrupting aid operations already struggling to reach up to 2.5 million people in urgent need of food, water and shelter.

Quake recovery resources scarce Soldiers rushed to HANWANG, China shore up a dam cracked by this week's powerful earthquake, and rescuers came by helicopter and ship Wednesday into the isolated epicenter but still were forced to dig for survivors with their bare hands.

Nearly 26,000 people remained buried in collapsed buildings from Monday's magnitude 7.9 earthquake, and the death toll of almost 15,000 was expected to climb as relief operations spread into the mountains of Sichuan province. The quake triggered landslides that blocked roads to hardesthit areas.

Even as the rescue effort seemed to gather momentum—speeded by clearing weather after two days of rain—caring for tens of thousands of people made homeless across the disaster zone have stretched thin the government's resources.

eace questionable President Bush put an optiading hopes for Mideast peace leclaring that Israel's 60-year 'r war and tragedy shows decan succeed everywhere. But upbeat message was marred ;ket fire from Gaza and threats eavy retaliation by Israel.

Intended as an occasion for ;elebrating Israel's birthday, Bush's visit instead brought bursts of fresh violence, ominous warnings and disputed claims that Israel plans to expand settlement activity in the West Bank, a development that could undermine peace talks with Palestinians.

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ENTERTAINMENT Brangelina expecting twins Database of bite marks started Angelina Jolie is indeed LOS ANGELES expecting twins, and it was Jack Black who let the news slip with a "Brady Bunch" crack.

Long rumored to have two children by Brad Pitt on the way, Jolie confirmed the news during a side-by-side "Today" show interview with Black, her"Kung Fu Panda" co-star.

The twins will be the sth and 6th children for Jolie and Pitt.-She didn't volunteer the information until Black dropped the hint, joking that the couple will "have as many as (the) 'Brady Bunch' when you have these."

Jolie and Black are in Cannes, France, promoting "Kung Fu Panda."

MILWAUKEE Bite marks have sent innocent men to death row, given defense

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Feb. 2007 rape case Michael Jermaine Burch, 21, is next to appear in court June 23 on of second-degree rape for the charges alleged assault of a female Duke student last February.

The 18-year-old student, who was then a freshman, said she was raped at an off-campus party Feb. 11, 2007.

The party, which was held at 405 Gattis. Street, was organized by members of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. The house is less than a mile from Duke’s East Campus.

According to a search warrant released March 8 last year, the alleged suspect followed the student into the bathroom at around 3 a.m. and then assaulted her,

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Burch, who police officials said is college student, was arrested and charged with second-degree rape Feb. 19, 2007, eight days after the alleged not a

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He was released the same day from the Durham County Jail on $50,000 bail.

According to the warrant, two witnesses picked Burch out of two separate photo line-ups as the man they saw either entering or leaving the bathroom at the parly. believed Burch’s Investigators and semen —was saliva —including DNA present on items owned by the student, according to the warrant,

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Wang says admins lagged in response to threats In an interview with CBS News that aired May 10, sophomore Grace Wang complained that the University was slow to help her withstand the international uproar that followed her involvement in a campus protest in April.

Wang said she attempted to act as a mediator between pro-Tibet and proChina demonstrators who gathered April 9 on the Chapel Quadrangle, but some perceived her to be a supporter of the pro-Tibet faction—triggering threats on Wang’s life and vandalism of her parents’ home in China.

The threats placed her under extreme emotional distress and made finishing the semester a struggle, Wang told correspon-

dent Michelle Miller in the interview.

She acknowledged that the University did support her in some ways, but only after she had petitioned administrators.

“After I requested to get the police protection, I got it, and after I requested to have extension of my finals, I also got it,” she said. “I had to push the limit a little bit.”

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, however, said the University did all it could to support Wang following the demonstration.

“We were deeply engaged in trying to provide all the support we could,” he told Miller.

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The proposal adds 548,420 square feet of space and will create as many as 1,000 new jobs, University officials said in a statement.

New facilities will include 16 operating suites, four 24-bed intensive care units and two 32-bed units for intermediate or “step-down” care. The hospital’s current intensive care and “step-down” units are running at capacity.

“In order to keep pace with our responsibility to continue training the to

country’s future leaders in both surgical and non-surgical specialties, we need space and state-of-the-art technology,” said Kevin Sowers, chief operating officer for DUHS. Approval for the renovation was granted after DUHS filed a certificate of need in November 2007.

Such a certificate is necessary for the state to sign off on major medical construction and expansion projects.

DUHS officials said they hope the expansion will improve patient care and amenities for patients and families, as well as help forward its teaching, training and research programs.

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For the incoming Class of 2012, college guides published by the Princeton Review and U.S. News and World Report are familiar bedtime reads. But alter decisions are finalized and flights booked, students may wish they had similar manuals on what to do after fitting their linens onto extralong mattresses.

In their new book on undergraduate life, Professor of Political Science Peter Feaver, Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek and Anne Peter Feaver Crossman, Trinity ’OO, attempt to fill the bookshelf void of post-orientation guidance.

‘Celling the Best Out of College: A Professor, a Dean, and a Student Tell You How to Maximize Your Experience,” which appeared in bookstores nationwide May 1, offers Sue Wasiolek students advice on topics ranging from study skills to building relationships with professors to navigating die oncampus social scene.

“The book is differentfrom other college books on the market because of our three different perspectives,” Crossman said. “I was a recent grad when I started the process, so my perspective was pretty fresh.”

Published by Ten Speed Press, the book is the product of 10 years of both extensive work experience and conveniently timed workouts. Feaver and Wasiolek first discussed collaborating on a publication on the treadmills in the Wilson Recreation Center.

They continued their “slightly oxygen-deprived” talks in Wilson and on jogs along the Duke University Golf Club’s course, eventually taking trips to the bookstore to evaluate their competition, Feaver said.

“We saw row upon row of books about how to get into college and prepare for the SATs and very little about what to do once you got to college,” Feaver said.

“Sue and I had the same basic philosophy, which was that it’s important where you go to college, but it’s way more important what you do at college.”

To combine theirskills and experiences, Feaver wrote mainly about academics and Wasiolek wrote about extracurricular involvement and student life. But their heavy workloads—Feaver acting as special adviser for strategic planning and institutional reform* on the National Security Council staff and Wasiolek overseeing student life at Duke—prevented them from turning out a publication quickly, “I was working at the White House with very little free time,” Feaver said. “I had to go to my family and keep up with graduate students and lingering Duke obligations, so I had very little time to write.”

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Oemario Atwater, whois accused ofkilling UNC-CH student body president Eve Carson, pleaded guilty Thursday to violating before a Wake County judge. He will serve about two to three years in prison.

Atwater pleads guilty to probation violations From Staff Reports THE CHRONICLE

Demario Atwater, the man accused in the March shooting death of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson, pleaded guilty May 8 to probation violations. He will serve 20 to 35 months in prison.

Atwater, 21, will face a hearing the week ofJuly 7 to determine whether he is eligible for the death penalty.

A Wake County judge revoked Atwater’s probation for two charges: a 2005 break-in and a 2007 weapon-possession charge.

Rudy Renfer, an attorney for Atwater said Wake County probation officers failed to contact his client for almost a year be-

fore his arrest for the death of Carson According to a transcript of the June 28,2007 hearing in "which Atwater pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a felon, Atwater also told Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood that he did not think he was on probation anymore.

“I had like three probation officers, and they all left,” Atwater told Hobgood.

Atwater also said that when Wake probation officers did call, they “told me I was good, I was paying all my money,” referring to money he owed as part ofhis probation.

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TRUSTEES from page 1 schools, Trinity College ofArts and Sciences the Pratt School of Engineering. The new plan proposes re-imagining financing to come from a variety of resources, including Duke’s graduate and professional schools.

“To some extent going forward we want to recognize athletics for the common good that it is,” Brodhead said. “As far as charging it to certain schools, it would still be understood as a primarily undergraduate activity, but students in every school participate in athletics.”

While working out strategies to improve the department, the University is searching for a new leader for athletics, one who will likely carry the plan to fruition. Brodhead said Saturday that there was no specific timeline for installing a new director.

Alieva presented the first draft of the plan, “Unrivaled Ambition,” to the Academic Council Feb. 20, at which time he fielded questions regarding proposed modifications to the athletics “reach and stretch” policy, which the report notes has been in place for more than 15 years.

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sign athletes who fall slightly below University admissions standards pending approval from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, but penalizes the team by cutting some scholarship spots.

Some faculty members questioned whether making the policy more flexible would dilute admissions standards, but Alieva said the athletics department was committed to academic excellence.

“There was never anything in the plan that suggested lowering admissions standards for athletics,” Brodhead said after the Board meeting. “That was never in the draft, and it was never requested.”

The council passed a resolution supporting the strategic plan at its meeting Thursday, urging the school and the department to periodically assess the plan in the context of the University’s educational mission.

“We charge the Duke University administration to play a leadership r01e... in setting standards for collegiate athletics that include strict controls on time and travel demands made upon students athletes, on admission exceptions, and on athletic spending,” an Academic Council statement reads.

The strategic plan also suggests increasing

The Pratt School of Engineering reThe latter component will be matched ceived a $5 million gift from an anonyby $2.5 million from the Duke Endowmous donor that will help establish a new ment, as part of the Endowment’s $4O undergraduate curriculum encouraging million gift—announced Jan. 9—to create students across disciplines to think critimore than 30 new undergraduate-oriented cally about real-world problems, President professorships during the next five years.

Richard Brodhead announced May 7.

“We anticipate opportunities for students “Duke’s strategic plan, ‘Making a Difto conduct research with these new faculty • ference,’ calls members,” Pratt for investments Interim Dean “This generous gift will lead in programs that Robert Clark said help students in the statement. to the development of a currealapproach Officials said riculum that challenges stuworld problems the fields in which with creativity, dents to deal effectively with the professorships flexibility and a will be endowed curious mind,” uncertainty in a wide variety are growing more Brodhead said in and more relevant of situations.” a statement. “This to engineers and generous gift will Richard Brodhead, other decision lead to the develmakers. president opment of a cur“The appliriculum that chalcation of statislenges students to tics to problems deal effectively with uncertainty in a wide characterized by uncertainty is critical variety of situations, ranging from housing to all professions,” Clark said. “We hope prices to energy efficiency.” this gift and the resulting curriculum will Half of the gift will help endow a posibridge the historical gap in training betion for a professor of the practice to focus tween engineers and non-engineers, and on teaching and developing courses, and lead to distinctive learning opportunithe other $2.5 million will support two enties for Duke students across all majors.” dowed professorships in statistics, uncer—from staff reports tainty analysis and optimization. the admissions staff to interview “marginal” candidates and handle Olympic sport athletes, carrying admissions spots to other teams when coaches do not use them in a given year and re-evaluating the timing ofoffers.

Brodhead said few substantive changes were made to the first draft, save “tinkering” with finances and expanding the section on health, physical education and recreation facilities. Officials also noted that implementation of the plan will depend on University funds, fundraising and athletics-generated revenue.

The University’s $2 billion budget, which will take effect July 1, accounts for continuing progress on goals laid out in the school’s overall strategic plan, “Making a Difference.”

“The budget does a greatjob of supporting the University’s values and priorities,” Provost Peter Lange said in a statement. “It provides the support needed to continue strengthening our faculty, using innovative hiring processes to attract and retain the finest faculty in areas of strategic priority.”

It projects expense increases by about 8.9percent for salary and benefits from the current fiscal year, with an expected 9.1-percent increase in revenue, similar to increases to last year’s approved budget of $l.B billion.

The budget increase accounts for revenue from income from tuition and fees from Duke’s eight schools and Trinity College, grants and contracts, gifts, investment income and other sources.

The majority of the expense increase will come from increased salary and benefits, which include new hires, a University statement said.

The new budget also includes a 4.8percent increase to tuition, which was approved in March, bringing the total annual cost of a Duke education to $47,985.

It also accounted for a previously announced 18.8-percent increase in undergraduate financial aid, which officials estimated would benefit around 2,500 undergraduates from lower- and middle-income families, according to the statement.

The Trustees also gave the go-ahead Saturday for a $2O million restoration of the steam plant on Campus Drive, phase two of a $l4 million expansion of a data center for storage for the Office of Information Technology and Duke Health Technology Solutions, a $5.8-million renovation of the Clinical and Research Labs building and several departmental name changes.

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EXPLOSION from page 1 He also received multiple departmental awards.

“Rayford is one of a key handful ofFMD employees who keep this place running,” a co-worker said of Gofer in 2004.

A resident of Franklinton, Gofer was regularly involved in the annual steam plant shutdown, during which department members perform maintenance on the system.

The steam plant manufactures steam on campus and pumps it to buildings for heating and cooling. The power has been shut off since the accident.

“It is a sad day for Duke,” Dawkins said, after announcing the fatality of the then-

unidentified employee. “Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this lime.”

Duke University Police allowed employees back into rooms above the basement and without hazardous materials about an hour and a half after the accident to collect their belongings.

As a result of the explosion, the Web site for the Nicholas School of the Environment was out of service as of Wednesday evening and was being redirected to the Duke University emergency Web site until it could be restored.

The LSRC remained closed for the rest of the evening and employees and students were advised to check the Duke University emergency Web site for updates about the accessibility of the building today.

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Students, faculty and community members hold a candlelight vigil on the Chapel steps Tuesday for the thousandsof victims of the May 12 earthquake in China's Sichuan province.

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A steam pipe exploded and killed Duke employee Rayford Cofer Wednesday in the LSRC. Cofer was working in a mechanical room in theLSRC basement when the pipe ruptured.

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PRIMARY from page 1 science, said he does not believe a viable path remains for Clinton to secure the nomination.

“Whether she withdraws now or later it doesn’t really matter,” he said. “One [incentive] for her to continue is to raise money to help repay her debt; another is to look for smaller victories so that she can claim that she accomplished something.”

Rohde added that if Clinton continues to attack Obama it could damage the Democratic Party’s prospects in the general election. He said, however, he believed that the eventual nominee would have the full support of the other candidate.

Buncombe County Commissioner Carol Peterson, one of the five Tar Heel state superdelegates who has not endorsed either candidate, said Clinton and Obama had each personally reassured her that they would support the eventual nominee.

“I take very seriously the notion that we need to look at who is the most electable in November,” she said. “There is a path for both of them right now, and I would be hardpressed to say which one I think will get the nomination.”

Peterson said she would likely not make a commitment until the Democratic National Convention in August. She added that she ultimately hopes to see Obama and Clinton as running mates on the same presidential ticket.

“I’ve talked with both of them and I’ve met with Hillary, and they are more alike than they realize,” she said. “If they could just sit down in a nice cozy room without the press all around them I bet there wouldn’t be a five-percent difference in how they feel.”

Duke Democrats President Ben Bergmann, a sophomore, said he believes Obama will be the nominee, but be

added that he would be excited to see Clinton as the vice Other primary results The May 6 primary also yielded a challenger for incumpresidential running mate. Bergmann said he expects the Democrats to compete in North Carolina in the general bent Republican Elizabeth Dole, Woman’s College 58, in election. the race for U.S. Senate. State Sen. Kay Hagan of Greens“With Barack Obama you are going to see North Carolina boro easily defeated her main opponent, investment bankin play [for Democrats] for the first time in a long time, with er Jim Neal of Chapel Hill, in the Democratic primary.

Rohde said although Dole’s poll numbers have shown high African-American turnout, high turnout in the Triangle only mediocre support, he exand high youth turnout,” he said. it would be difficult for a pected added that he was Bergmann Democrat to defeat her. not concerned about Obama’s “Whether [Hillary Clinton] “It is unlikely but not imposability to win the votes of the white withdraws now or later it sible,” he said. “We know from class because of his working per2006 that the status of congressioformance in other state primaries. doesn’t really matter.” nal elections changes over time “He lost West Virginia [TuesDavid Rohde, and right now it is a long way to day] by a substantial margin, but election.” he won states like Alaska and Kanpolitical science the general professor race, Rethe gubernatorial In sas, and lowa was the first victory of his campaign,” he said. publicans will face a similar uphill battle against decades of DemoThe contest has shown significant divisions along racial lines, with Obama victories comcratic dominance in state politics. Charlotte Mayor Pat Mcing largely on the strength of black voters. In the North Crory received the Republican nomination- despite being Carolina primary, Obama won more than 90 percent of the last candidate to enter the race. He will face Lt. Gov. the black vote. Clinton, however, continues to be successBeverly Perdue, the Democratic nominee, in the general ful in states like West Virginia, which has a much smaller election. Perdue edged State Treasurer Richard Moore, garblack population. nering 56 percent of the vote. amount a has shown a of resilience Srinivasan said he thought Republicans have an opportuin “[Clinton] great number of states,” said College Republicans Chair Vikram nity to win the race by emphasizing recent corruption scanSrinivasan, a junior. “At the beginning of the cycle there dals—such as the imprisonment of former House speaker was the sense that Hillary Clinton would be the better canJim Black for felony corruption and the conviction of fordidate to run against because she has such high negative mer State Rep. Thomas Wright for fraud and obstruction of ratings. At this point though, many ofObama’s weaknesses justice—that have plagued Democrats in state government. have been revealed and Republicans would be happier to “We have seen a lot of the negative consequences of the run against either candidate.” entrenchment of Democrats in state government,” he said.

“There is real potential for running a campaign on reform.”

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1887 otal delegates won by Sen. Barack Obama.

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COLLEGE from page 4 perspective of a recent undergraduates to the book, he invited Crossman, a freelance writer and the wife of one of his former students, to help.

Widi Crossman on board, Feaver and Wasiolek were able to share their experiences and professional anecdotes by phone, oftentimes on commutes home from work. This “novel way to write” translated interviews into coherent chapters and brought out each author’s unique views, Feaver said.

“We had the same basic philosophy, but we didn’t always agree on particulars so we’d have to either hash something out or compromise,” Wasiolek added.

Senior Harley Gould, who researched colleges on the Internet before enrolling at Duke, said she would still appreciate advice on college life despite her three years of

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“I wish thatI had received more information on limemanagement, picking extracurriculars and course advising,” she said.

But freshman Molly Himmelstein was less specific in her expectations of what her and her peers hope to gain from books on college life.

“We rely on the insight ofotherstudents who have been in our place,” Himmelstein said. “By utilizing the advice of our predecessors, these books virtually teach usas incoming freshmen how to fix our mistakes before they happen.”

By compiling anecdotes from Feaver’s academic advising sessions and Wasiolek’s daily interactions with students, Crossman filled the book’s pages with experience and humor and avoided a one-sided perspective, the authors said.

“I imagine some Duke students will recognize themselves in some parts of the book,” Feaver said. “But it’s not just for Duke students. It’s for students going to college anywhere.”

ATWATER from page 4 Atwater’s probation cases were handled by 10 different officers.

The co-defendant for Carson’s murder, Laurence Loyette, 17, was placed on probation in Durham. But Lovette, who also faces murder charges in thejan. 18 shooting death ofDuke graduate student Abhijit Mahato, never met with his probation officer, who had not received formal training. “[The findings] were flat-out embarrassing,” said State Division of Community Corrections Director Robert Guy, North Carolina’s probation chief.

Department officials have asked a federal agency to review the training and practices of probation offices in the state’s urban areas.

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Preceding Kingsolver’s address, student speakers Matt Zafirovski and Kyle Knight presented a comical, conversational speech Life,” recounts her family’s life of producto graduating students. The pair delivered ing and eating their own food. She wrote a dialogue about campus life, recountthe book with her husband, Steven Hopp, ing stories from their first days of college and her daughter, Camille Kingsolver, a as freshman roommates—such as when rising senior.

Knight, who grew up in a small town and “[This] will be the central question ofyour didn’t own a cell phone, first received a adult life: to escape the wild rumpus ofcarbonUniversity-issued iPod. fuel dependency, in the nick of time,” she said.

“I tried not to laugh at the time; I just ‘You’ll make rules that were previously unplugged it into his computer and prothinkable, imposing limits on what we can use grammed iTunes,” Zafirovski said. “I wonand possess. You will radically reconsider the dered whether Kyle was playing a joke on power relationship me. Sometimes I between humans still do.”

“We are an ambitious and and our habitat.”

Zafirovski and dorm From were both Knight driven group, and we should be room to Central active on campus proud of our audacious goals.” and abroad— Campus apartment, Kingsolver traveled Kyle Knight and Knight said to Nepal to study collegiate communal living Matt Zafirovski, social stigma suris a stepping stone disrounding student commencement speakers abilities and Zafto a lifetime of community life. irovski studied She added that in Chicago for a summer, learning about the city’s innerthe “big, lonely house” metaphor for success should be re-evaluated because those city schools. with the most community are happiest.

“We are an ambitious and driven group,and But some students said the speech fell we should be proud of our audacious goals,” short of expectations. they told fellow graduates. “But our success “[Administrators] said they chose her will also be defined by how well we maintain a because she knows a lot about Duke, but healthy perspective on our work, by how well her speech ended up being about the enwe build relationships through support and vironment,” graduate Sruthi Thatchenkery generosity and by how well we remain present said. “I don’t think that was the best speech and aware as we grow and change.” to give to Duke students.”

Anecdotes and jokes aside, Knight and Other students, like graduate Daniel Pu, Zafirovski advised their peers to “be aware said the speech was long and confusing. and be present,” a message graduate Kristina “I think most of the people weren’t payMahoney said was fitting for the occasion. ing attention because it was raining, no mat“I thought the student speakers were ter how good it was,” he said. “The weather amazing and in tune with the Duke comwasn’t really conducive to listening and everymunity,” she said. “They presented great one was justcomplaining most of the time.” messages for the future.”

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It has long been acknowledged that the Blue Devils possess one of the top scoring duos in the nation. Now they have the records to back it up.

One week after Zack Greer became the top goal scorer in NCAA history, Matt Danowski broke the NCAA record -J MBBiBI for career points top-seeded DUKE > 12] in Duke’s 12-7 firstround NCAAtournament win over Loyola in Koskinen Stadium Saturday.

With a two-goal, five-assist performance against the Greyhounds (7-7), Danowski pushed his career tally to 347 points, four more than the previous record, held by Air Force’s Joe Vastafor 22 years.

“It was an awesome feeling,” Danowski said. “It’s just a tribute to my teammates and to Duke University itself.... I got really lucky to play on a lot of good teams here, and without those guys—from the class of ’O5 to the guys who are here now—that record wouldn’t be possible.”

Danowski fed Max Quinzani just outside the crease with five seconds left in the second quarter. Quinzani put the ball past Loyola goalie Jake Hagelin, giving his

Mike Krzyzewski did not have to look to replace former associate head coach Johnny Dawkins on the Duke bench.

Krzyzewski appointed Nate James as Duke’s third assistant coach May 5. James, a key player on Duke’s 2001 national championship team, served as the team’s assistant strengtli and conditioning coach last year.

“Nate is a great addition to the staff,” Krzyzewski said in a statement.

“He was a valuable member of our program as a player and will be an asset as an assistant coach His maturity, toughness Nate James and dedication to Duke will blend well with the current staff we have in place.”

James played for the Blue Devils from 1996 until 2001, and is still the only player in ACC history to bring home five consecutive regular-season conference championships.

He served as a captain twice and led Duke to its third national title in 2001, averaging 12.3 points and 5.2 rebounds per game, “One of the key things [Krzyzewski] and I spoke about was just continue to be who I am,” James said. “As a player, the hard work and dedication I put into being a good basketball player, now I do the same thing as a coach. Working hard, learning all the things that I need to become a coach here that will help these guys, but just all the natural things that I do well; my leadership, my work ethic, my determination.”

In the same Krzyzewski announced the promotions ofassistant coaches Steve Wojciechowski and Chris Collins.

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When the Blue Devils took the field in Washington, D.C. for the first round of the NCAA tournament, the team found itself in an unfamiliarrole: the underdog.

But that didn’t stop Duke from reaching the quarterfinals for the fourth straight year, PUKE >lo| as the Blue Devils defeated No. 6 Georgetown Sunday 10-8. It was the second time Duke (12-7) topped Georgetown (12-7) this year, as the Blue Devils won 12-11 March 15.

Nerves got the best of the Blue Devils early on, as the Hoyas exploited the tentative Duke defense to score backto-back goals 2:30 into the first half. Once the Blue Devils regrouped, however, they responded with their own offensive array, netting four straight goals to take a 4-2 lead.

“At first everyone was a little hesitant on defense,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “We weren’t being aggressive enough. But then we finally got in the groove and really clicked better. We started rotating on our slides and that

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Because of the early setback, the Blue Devils’ defensive adjustments paid off, as Duke clamped down to force eight Georgetown turnovers. The Hoyas were held scoreless for key stretches, including the last 14 minutes of SEE W. LAX ON PAGE 16

Another Plumlee for Duke Duke added 2009 power forward Mason Plumlee Feb. 27. More than two months later, Krzyzewski has landed another Plumlee.

Miles Plumlee, a 2008 power forward, committed to Duke May 1, one week after he was released from his Letter of Intent at Stanford. The 6-foot-10 recruit—ranked the 17th-bestpower forward in his class by scout, com—will join the Blue Devils this year.

“We are fortunate to land a player ofMiles’ caliber this late in the recruiting process,” Krzyzewski said. “He is a versatile player that continues to grow and mature physically. Miles gives us another skilled big man that can be an impactplayer on both ends of the floor.”

Plumlee averaged 15.8 points and 6.9 rebounds in his senior campaign at Christ School in Arden, N.C., leading his team to its second straight state championship.

He will join Elliot Williams and Olek Czyz in Duke’s incoming recruiting class, ranked No. 18 by scout.com.

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The ninth-seeded Blue Devils started strong in their quest for the program’s first national chamiponship as they breezed through their two opening-round opponents last weekend at Ambler Stadium.

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In both matches, Duke came out of the gate strong to take the doubles point before heading into singles play. The Blue Devils are undefeated this season when they take two of the three doubles matches for the match’s all-important first point.

“It is such a big momentum swing after the doubles point,” said junior Melissa Mang, who, along with sophomore Amanda Granson, makes up the seventh-ranked tandem in the country. “As you move further along and play tougher teams, those doubles points become a huge part of it.

William 8c Mary has always had really good doubles, so it was nice that we came out and played really well and got on lop of them in the beginning.”

After defeating William & Mary (18-8) at second and third doubles, Duke junior Jessi Robinson lost 7-5, 6-0 in the sixth singles spot to allow the Tribe to even the match at one. That would prove to be the first and last Blue Devil loss of the weekend as Duke took the first, fourth and fifth singles points to clinch the win.

Mang, who plays in the No. 4-singles spot, only lost three games in four sets.

She disposed of her first-round opponent 6-1, 6-1 and then stayed strong the next /

day to give Duke a 2-1 edge over William & Mary as she pounded Klaudyna Kasztelaniec 6-0, 6-1, “[Kasztelaniec] was a very good player,” said Mang. “She played a lot better in the second set. This was one of my most mentally tough matches that I have had all season. I just didn!t let up at all. -I really stayed focused the entire match. Even when she started playing better in the second set, I didn’t let it bother me. I won a lot of close games that went back and forth to deuce and add and just kept it from getting close.”

Granson finished next at fifth singles, defeating Lauren Sabacinski 6-0,6-4 for her second victory of the weekend. Freshman Reka Zsilinszka provided one of the three victories in the first round at third singles.

“The middle of, our lineup is where we have won a lot of matches, going back to January,” said head coach Jamie Ashworth.

“You win and lose matches in the middle of your lineup. It just shows what kind of depth we have had all year.”

The final win in the second round was one of the biggest upsets Duke has pulled off all season. Top singles Tara Iyer, who entered the contest against William & Mary with a 10-11 individual record, beat No. 12 Megan Moulton-Levy 6-2, 6-4 to put the final nail in the Tribe’s coffin.

“She has been really close to that level,” said Ashworth of Iyer. “One of the things she did today was stay focused, and she stayed aggressive when there was that kind of match pressure on her. The few times before, she didn’t stay as aggressive and got in a mode where she was hoping the other person would miss instead of going out and playing to win. Today, she played to win.”

The Blue Devils continue in the postseason Thursday against No. 8 California.

Should it win, Duke would play the winner of No. 1 Northwestern-Fresno St. Saturday.

Northwestern defeated Duke 5-2 Feb. 24.

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(17-1) a 6-2 lead heading into the break.

That goal was part of a game-changing run for Duke, which got off to a slow start in its postseason opener—falling behind 2-1 early in the second quarter before scoring seven consecutive goals.

“We were ready to go by Thursday,” senior Tony McDevitt said. “That showed a little bit in the first quarter. Plus, you’ve got to give credit to Loyola. I think they executed their game plan to perfection in the first quarter, and then we started to play our game.”

The Blue Devils began their 7-0 run with a Michael Young goal midway through the second quarter, and they didn’t allow the Greyhounds to cut the deficit to less than five for the rest of the contest. One man they couldn’t contain, however, was Loyola attackman Collin Finnerty. The former Blue Devil led the Greyhounds with three goals in his return to Durham, but his team never seriously threatened after the second quarter.

After a tense first period, Duke settled down and became the high-octane offensive machine that it was during the regular season, as six differentBlue Devils contributed to the pivotal run.

“We just relaxed and started playing with more confidence,” Danowski said.

“We weren’t playing not to lose at that point. We were playingjust to have fun and play well.”

But while Duke got back to putting the ball in the net, the team didn’t do it in the way it has all year. The Blue Devils’ attack has thrived on manufacturing goals in transition, but the home team scored 11 of its 12 goals Saturday on six-on-six offensive sets.

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The improved production in its set offense aside, Duke will look to improve on what Matt Danowski called an “average” opening game as it looks ahead to a secondround matchup against Ohio State (11-5) Sunday at 12 p.m. in Ithaca, N.Y. The Buckeyes never trailed as they upset eighth-seeded Cornell 15-7 in the first round Saturday.

Even though the Buckeyes hadn’t recorded an NCAA tournament win before last weekend, the Blue Devils are aware of how dangerous Ohio State is.

“All that counts is this year’s games,” John Danowski said. “And in this year’s games, they’ve got one NCAA tournament win and we’ve got one NCAA tournament win. It’s kind of a function of whatever happened in the past is the past, and this is about now, and as. far as that looks, it’s even. On paper, their win is much better than our win, that’s for sure.”

Some of the individual pressure on the Blue Devils has been relieved, as Greer and Danowski no longer have anybody to catch in the record books. But the team pressure —from being the top seed and No. 1 team in the country to the inherent pressure of a one-and-done tournament remains for Duke, while its next opponent has already exceeded expectations.

“They’re the underdogs—they can come in and just play and not worry about it,” Matt Danowski said. “Wejust have to go in there playing to have fun and playing to win the game, and not play tight and not play not to lose. [We have to] go in there, kind of enjoy it, enjoy the atmosphere, and just play our best lacrosse and not worry about what happens at the end.”

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When starting pitcher Andrew Wolcott gave up two quick runs in the team’s series opener against Wake Forest Friday, Duke could not have imagined it was only the beginning of a disastrous weekend that may have cost the Blue Devils any chance of making the ACC tournament.

Going into the weekend, the Blue Devils carried a half-game lead over the Demon Deacons for the eighth and final spot in the conference tournament into Winston-Salem. But rather than solidify a spot in the tournament for the first time of head coach Sean McNally’s three-year tenure, Duke ran into a formidable foe that might have outfought it for that playoff spot.

Wake Forest (22-27, 11-15 in the ACC) rode strong pitching performances in the first two games and outslugged the Blue Devils in the series finale, sweeping them 7-3, 3-1 and 9-4 at Gene Hooks Stadium.

“We really pressed against Wake Forest,” head coach Sean McNally said. “That’s a product of guys caring a lot and wanting it so much that they get exhausted.”

Duke (35-17-1, 8-17-1) did manage to bounce back Tuesday night, defeating Campbell 10-5 for a perfect 27-0 non-conference record, the first in school history.

Despite the disappointing losses to the Demon Deacons, however, the Blue Devils still control their postseason destiny. If they sweep Virginia Tech this upcoming weekend, they would leapfrog Clemson for the eighth tournament spot.

“We’re very fortunate to have a chance to get in,” McNally said. “Our guys want to keep playing. The sentiment was ‘Let’s extend this season and embrace the weekend.’”

A sweep is not out of the question for Duke—the Hokies have the worst record in the conference with a 5-22 conference mark. Last year, the Blue Devils won two out of three against Virginia Tech, falling

in the series finale. The Hokies, however, have shown they can beat anyone, as they are coming off a stunning 7-6 victory over No. 1 Miami, something that Duke fell just short of in extra innings earlier in the season.

Nevertheless, things would be a lot easier were it not for lackluster offensive performances last weekend.

In the first game, Wake Forest’s Ben Hunter struck out eight Blue Devils in more than seven innings, allowingjust two runs. Hunter, who came into the game with a 2-5 record, retired the first 10 batters he faced. The two runs Wolcott gave up held for Hunter’s entire time at the mound, and once Hunter left, the Demon Deacons burst for four runs to put the game out ofreach.

The second game appeared to be in Duke’s favor. Blue Devil pitcher Chris Manno, sporting an unblemished 6-0 record, looked to have an obvious advantage over Wake Forest’s Charlie Mellie, who also came in with a 2-5 mark. But it was Mellie who pitched like the ace.

The Demon Deacon pitcher threw a complete game, allowingjust one run on four hits for the win. Manno, meanwhile, only gave up three hits in five innings—but two of those hits were out of the park for three runs. The two home runs were only the second and third that Manno has given up this season.

Wake Forest concluded the series with a 9-4 dominant win as Willy Fox and Mike Murray drove in three runs each for the Demon Deacons.

In the Tuesday win over Campbell, junior slugger Nate Freiman went 5-for-5 with two home runs to clinch the'milestone win for Duke. It was Freiman’s first five-hit game ofhis career and third multihomer of the season.

The Blue Devils return to the field with the postseason on the line Thursday in Blacksburg, Va.

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Sometimes it’s not about the end result, but how you get there.

Although Duke advanced to the NCAA Championships for the 11th straight year with a lop-eight finish at the East regionals, the Blue Devils moved ahead in an unDuke-like fashion.

The three-time defending national champion Blue Devils placed second in the tournament at the University of Georgia Golf Club in Athens, Ga. over the weekend. “[We’re] definitely disappointed in coming in second and disappointed in how we played,” senior Jennifer Pandolfi said. “1 don’t think the patience was quite there for this week.”

The poor finish for the Blue Devils spoiled what could have been an impressive win after a strong start gave Duke a five-stroke lead after the first day of competition. The Blue Devils shot a 3-under 285

Thursday.

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Amanda Blumenherst—the two-time reigning National Player of the Year—led the way, recording a 4-under 68 with six birdies. She finished play tied for second in the individual standings, just one shot oft' the pace.

“Thursday was a pretty good day,” head coach Dan Brooks said. “I felt good about Thursday. What we did on Thursday isn’t right where we need to be, but it was a whole lot closer.”

Blumenherst’s success was complemented by the outstanding play of freshman Kim Donovan. She carded her lowest round as a Blue Devil, shooting a 2-under 70, including six birdies of her own to place herself in a tie for fifth individually.

“That 70 was fantastic,” Brooks said.

“She’s been really working on her swing

and it’s hard to play your bets when you’re fixing your swing. I was really proud ofher for having pulled off a 2-under on the first day.”

But after the opening round, the positives were few and far between for Duke.

The Blue Devils saw their advantage disappear on the second day of play as they shot a 15-over 303 and Florida took a threestroke lead with a round of 295. Blumenherst recorded a l-over and knocked in two birdies to remain tied for second, but the rest of the team did not fare as well.

Pandolfi shot an 1l-over, her worst regional round in her four years at Duke, and sophomore Alison Whitaker carded a 5over as both golfers had difficulty putting.

While Pandolfi was able to reverse her fortunes with a 3-under on the final day, Blumenherstfinished tied for second with a 2-over and Whitaker again shot a 5-over 77.

“I had a lot of trouble on the greens [Friday] and I couldn’t seem to shake that off,” Whitaker said. “It’s weary when you don’t make putts.”

And it was especially weary for the Blue Devils to turn in a performance that, in their eyes, was entirely unbefitting ofDuke.

But the sting ofdefeat might have been exactly what these golfers needed to motivate them as they pursue their unprecedented fourth-consecutive national title next week in Albuquerque, N.M. Both Whitaker and Pandolfi noted that this disappointment could the “best thing” for them.

“Coach had mentioned that he almost wished we would end up losing so that it would fire us up,” Pandolfi said. “We’re not down—this only made us angry and fired us up.”

And, after all, in 2005 and 2006, Duke placed second in the east regional and ended up, bringing home the national championship.

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But no one may have been more crucial to Duke’s victory than junior goalkeeper Kim Imbesi.

With the Blue Devils clinging to a 10-8 lead with less than two minutes remaining in the second half, Imbesi shut down Georgetown’s attempts at any late-game heroics. The junior notched four of her nine saves in the final 1:32 to put the Hoyas away. [lmbesi’s] saves and our defense playing tough and forcing poor shots from Georgetown was huge for us,” Kimel said. “[ln the second half], we kept putting them on the eight meter, but our defense pressured, making them take good shots and [lmbesi] had great saves. Our defense has come a long way.”

Senior Aiyana Newton and sophomores Sara Giedgowd and Betsey Sauer rounded out Duke’s defense, shutting down two of the Hoyas’ leading scorers. Only Georgetown midfielder Patty Piotrowicz foiled the Blue Devils, as the senior netted a career-high four goals.

Across the field, Duke’s offense was anchored by junior Carolyn Davis, who added four more goals to her already impressive season total. The attacker now ranks fourth in Blue Devil history with 55 goals.

Sophomore midfielders Lindsay Gilbride and Danielle Kachulis each chipped in two goals for Duke.

With the first round behind them, Duke now travels to familiar territory for the tournament’s quarterfinals. The Blue Devils take on No. 3 Maryland May 17 in College Park, Md. In theirfirst matchup of the year, Duke prevailed 12-11 on March 1 in Durham. Much like they did against Georgetown, the Blue Devils hope to use their previous experience to give them an edge against the Terrapins.

“Our big key is going to be the draw,” Kimel said. “With ACC Player of the Year Dana Dobbie, we know that Maryland is unbelievable at the draw. We’re going to have to make things happen on the defensive end.”

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But the Tar Heels (21-5) won the next three singles matches, which was enough for the win when coupled with the doubles point.

MAX MASNICK/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO Goulet now competes in the NCAA singles championship next week in Tulsa, Okla. David Goulet took one of Duke's two points in —from staffreports theBlue Devils' 4-2, season-ending loss Sunday.

The fourth-seeded Blue Devils tee off in the three-round NCAA East regional Thursday. Duke is looking for its 18th NCAA Championship appearance—its first under first-year head coach O.D. Vincent.

All-ACC golfers Michael Schachner and Clark Klaasen will pace the Blue Devil lineup this week at Council Fire Golf Club in Chattanooga, Tenn. Schachner has the lowest scoring average on the team with a 71.6, followed closely by sophomore Adam Long’s 72.4 and Klaasen’s 72.5.

Freshmen Matthew Pierce and Wes Roach round out the competitive lineup, averaging 73.3 and 74.3, respectively.

“We are, really looking forward to the East regional and the NCAA finals,” Vincent said. “We approach the event as a seven-round tournament focusing on winning the regional, not just qualifying. We need to be fully prepared and execute all we have learned this year.”

If the Blue Devils finish in the region’s top 10, they will advance to play in the NCAA Championships at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex in West Lafayette, Ind. The national tournament begins May 28.

Butters, Hart enter Hall of Fame Former Director of Athletics Tom Butters and legendary quarterback Leo Hart will be inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame Thursdav.

Butters served as athletic director for

20 years from 1978 until 1998, and was inducted into the Duke Sports Hall ofFame in 1999. He also famously hired current men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski.

Hart was a three-time All-ACC selection for football from 1968 until 1970. He was inducted into the Duke Sports Hall of Fame in 1988.

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Duke tries to earn a spot in the NCAAChampionship by placing in the top eight at regionals this weekend.

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Additionally, the department’s long-term goal to create a $l5O million endowment deserves praise, as such a step would help the department become self-sufficient.

The timeline for the plan, however, should have been better structured to reflect the upcoming hire of a new athletics director.

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The department hopes to reconsider its “reaches and stretch” policy, which allows athletes with a lower academic standard to be admitted while

sacrificing scholarship spots.

In explaining the change, however, the plan is vague, and it revisits the policy without providing data on how this will positively affect athletics without lowering academic standards—the only result for which such a change would be acceptable.

The plan also recommends that graduate and professional schools contribute funding to the athletics department Although this restructuring is sensible, as all Duke students do benefit from athletics, the plan is again vague in laying out specifics.

The new strategic plan is an important milestone for the athletics department, but its timing and somewhat broad language could have been improved to produce a more effective vision.

[Administrators] said they chose her because she knows a lot about Duke, but her speech ended up being about the environment. I don 'I think that was the best speech to give to Duke students.

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WallaceWade armed with umbrellas as a steady drizzle fell.

It was reportedly the first time in many years that commencement exercises were affected by rain, and inclement weather is unfortunatebut uncontrollable.

What Duke can do—and must do in future years —is to plan for such eventualities.

Sunday’s back-up plan? Cancellation. Instead, the University should consider seating students in a large venue such as Cameron Indoor Stadium.

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students could not see or hear novelist Barbara Kingsolver because of rain and the forest of umbrellas, and many who could hear were less than impressed with Kingsolver s speech on the evils offossil fuels.

Luckily, diploma distribution and baccalaureate services are some of the most meaningful parts of graduation for students and loved ones, and both were relatively uninterrupted this year. Still, there is no reason not to take steps to ensure that future ceremonies will be more than a damp anticlimax.

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That’s right. While the great mass of the student body is traipsing off home to rest, recover, and resume-build over these months, I’m sticking it out here, just as I have the last two years for one reason or another. And with two Durham summers under my belt, I’m rather more thrilled at ■Kg the prospect than you might expect You see, I’ve come to know Oliver sherouse the unexpected you tell me pleasantries of this place in the summer. First of all, the beauty of the campus is inversely proportional to the number of people on it (so if you’re reading this from home, as is likely, thanks!).

But more importantly, I’ve realized something that might give a little hope to the research fellows and football players I’ll be sharing the campus with, and who might be feeling a bit down about the prospect: In the summer, Durham is a lot more interesting.

OK, that was a lie. There’s nothing magical about either the summer months or the sudden depopulation of Duke that makes this North Carolina town something other Utan what it is. But the truth is, Durham is more compelling than you’d realize over the course of the school year. The difference is that during the school year, it isn’t worth the trouble to figure it out.

Think about it: On a free evening mid-August through mid-May, you have the option of either going out to do something that may or may not be fun around Durham (ifyou’re even aware of such things), or you can pick up whatever is happening on campus.

That could be a party, a movie with your friends, etc., but the point is that it gives you a fairly guaranteed fun factor. Even if the potential gains are higher going out (and admittedly that’s not always the case), you’d be giving up something you already know is some level offun.

I hate to bring economists into a discussion of fun, but that’s what they call an “opportunity cost.”

And guess what? Now there isn’t one. Gone are the play-hard parties and the wild midnight call of the inebriated frat pledge. Your friends aren’t here to watch movies with you, and if they are, it’s only a small subset you’ll hang around so much that you’ll probably come to hate the sight of them. And everybody else has the same idea as you, so the movie’s taken from Lilly already, anyway, and Elliott(.dorm.duke.edu) just graduated.

Suck it up, kiddos, Durham is all you’ve got.

And it turns out that it’s not such a horrible thing.

I know, I know, I was the one who called it “Frontline:Durham,” and the last semester has done little to ease my concerns about crime. But I’ll tell you that now, unlike two years ago, I can walk downtown on Main Street and not only feel safe, but also think how nice the place looks. It’s not a thriving hub of activity just yet, but it does look nice.

The rejuvenation of downtown was the focal point of last year’s Durham- Rising festival, which really changed my view ofDurham. Why? Because for the first time, I saw and felt something I could call the Durham community, coming together as such, and that maybe part of me was part ofit.

So come on out and get yourself a helping of Durham culture. Come hear the Music on the Lawn concerts that the National Public Radio affiliate puts on free every week at the American Tobacco Campus. Check out the annual Festival for the Eno (or, as it’s known this year, the Festival for the Fact ThatWe’re Finally Out of the Drought Because That Was Just Ridiculous). They do a thing at that festival called “wafting.” I’m not sure what “wafting” is, other than not rafting, but I’ll bet you it beats the pants off of watching Cable 13 not work. In fact, pants may very well be optional; with a name like “wafting,” who can say?

Durham isn’t New York or Chicago, Paris or Madrid, and it isn’t ever going to be. But it is a rather pleasant Southern town with an independent streak and more to it tharr meets the eye. If that doesn’t do it for you, that’s fine; takes all kinds. But you won’t really know until you’ve tried.

As for me, all I can say is, “Ah, another sweet summer at Duke.”

Oliver Sherouse is a Trinity senior. His column will run every other Thursday over the summer.

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Summa cum loony

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seems anyone can get a college degree these days—especially ifthey go to North Carolina Central University.

Standards of integrity there have long been dismal; This is, after all, the school that gave violent felon Solomon Burnette a diploma in 2007. Burnette, you may recall, robbed two

Duke students at gunpoint in 1997 After finishing a 13month prison sentence, he had the 'audacity not only to enroll in Arabic classes on our campus in April 2007; Burnette kristin butler also penned a column I guest column and many others interpreted as inciting physical violence against white Dukies in his student newspaper Unfortunately, however, 2008 marks a new 10w... even for NCCU. Just this month, the university graduated Crystal Mangum, the drug-addled, mentally unstable prostitute who falsely accused three lacrosse players ofraping her two years ago.

Mangum is an accomplished liar and criminal, and a credible school shouldn’t have allowed her within 50 miles ofits graduation ceremony.

Indeed, this is a woman who has maintained for more than two years that 20, five, and finally three Duke lacrosse players violated her orally, vaginally and anally in a bathroom the size of a broom closet.

In her final version of the “assault,” Mangum claimed this was possible because she was magically suspended in midair (by hooks and pulleys, perhaps?) as the three men attacked her.

In reality, Mangum —who arrived at the lacrosse players’ party so drunk and high she could barely stand—may have feared another psychiatric commitment the morning ofMarch 14, 2006, and so she accused three men of rape to garner Sympathy.

As an aside, if anyone at NCCU still believes her story, I would invite them to review court records indicating Mangum had DNA from two unidentified men in her rectum; two more in her pubic region; one man in her vagina; and four to five men on her panties—none of whom were lacrosse players (a physical impossibility because Mangum said her attackers wore no condoms during the “rape”).

And although her bold-faced lies ruined three young men’s lives, they were a jackpot for Mangum: Within days, she was already using the “assault” to hustle pain meds from emergency room doctors, claiming “excruciating pain from the... beating.” Sensing a lucrative civil settlement on the horizon, Mangum even bragged to a security guard at her strip club that she was “going to get paid by the white boys.”

Unsurprisingly, those actions constitute flagrant violations of NCCU’s honor code, which prohibits: “lewd, indecent or obscene conduct (whether public

or private)”; “violation of the alcohol policy, including binge drinking, use or personal possession of alcoholic beverages by undergraduate students;” and the real doozie, “knowingly making in public a false [oral or] written or printed statement with the intent to deceive and/or mislead or injure the character or reputation of another.”

NCCU also touts itself as a “drug-free academic community,” a claim that’s hard to take seriously when one of the college’s own students admits to turning tricks and getting high four or five nights per week. In fact, Mangum had overdosed on flexeril and booze when she was first picked up by police the night of March 14.

And that’s what makes Mangum’s latest milestone so infuriating: It demeans the accomplishments of thousands of hard-working, law-abiding Eagles who also graduated this May. A Duke student committing even a fraction of those crimes would have been summarily expelled; being accused of them would be enough for an emergency suspension.

Because of the university’s blatant refusal to enforce its own rules, I will never again take an NCCU degree seriously, and neither should any other self-respecting Dukie. NCCU’s “seal of approval” no longer guarantees good character, and it’s just too hard to tell the thugs and liars (like Burnette and Mangum) apart from the high-

performing majority.

Now to be fair, NCCU is hardly the first public institution to give Mangum a pass. Durham police, prosecutors and even Attorney General Roy Cooper all opted not to indict her for filing false police reports, reasoning that she was too crazy to stand trial. (No word yet on how many legally insane people maintain a 3.0 GPA at a nationally accredited university.)

Still, NCCU’s actions are morally bankrupt and far eneath the dignity of a nationally recognzed university. The damage that NCCU has done to its reputation is very serious, and it insults thousands of upstanding alumni.

With three kids, a nasty drug habit and psychiatric and criminal histories longer than my arm, Crystal Mangum probably needs all the good fortune she can get. But until she owns up to her malicious lies, she deserves no special favors—least of all from a publicly funded university.

Crystal Mangum is not a victim, and her actions meant two other former members of the Class of 2008 (their names are Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty, for the record) didn’t graduate last weekend. Mangum’s lies stole a year of their college careers, and it makes me sick to think of her celebrating her achievement while they (along with millions of legitimate rape victims harmed by her dishonesty) struggle to piece their lives back together.

Crystal Mangum may now have a signed and sealed police psychology degree, but she’ll always be Public Enemy No. 1 in my book.

Kristin Butler, Trinity ’OB, is a former Chronicle columnist.

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Reach out with both hands

In

his Baccalaureate Address May 10, Dean of the Chapel Sam Wells asked graduating Duke seniors a simply phrased yet penetrating question: Do you live a “one-handed” life?

Metaphorically, Dean Wells was referring to the pervasive culture of multitasking present on Duke’s campus and in the world outside of Durham. What things, he ashley dunfee asked, make you stop, guest column drop what you’re doing use As I take my first anti-malarial and ready myself to leave this country, Dean Wells’ question resonates with me.

In less than two weeks, I, along with many other Duke Engage students, will be traveling to another country to give my time, my energy and my service as a social entrepreneur. I will be living with a host family, learning a new trade, and then applying my knowledge immediately in the field. I will be immersed in the culture that I will be serving, with the intent that I come to know that culture as I do my own.

Duke Engage, by its nature, will be a “two-hands” experience; the challenge will be to abandon my “onehanded” ways and grasp it.

This will not be my first service experience in a foreign country. Last summer, I was part of a group of medical missionaries bound for a small mountain community in the Cayambe region of Ecuador. While in Ecuador, it was apparent that the people we were serving were dependent on our service. However, it was also evident that our work would not survive long after we were gone.

This was the fifth year that this team had returned to this same community, and each time the same problems needed to be treated; intestinal parasites, malnutrition, sexually transmitted disease. We were addressing physical manifestations of a deeper social problem, but our brief time there and our one-time distribution of medications was only a treatment, it was not a cure.

This is what is known as “relief work”; it is equivalent to a service band-aid. Though the surface may be clean and covered for a time, beneath it, the wound still festers.

It was in part my experience in Ecuador that led me to DukeEngage in Guatemala.Relief work, though necessary at times, did not seem to be the proper response to the pervasive injustices that I had seen in Ecuador and which I know exist in around the world.

For me, the way to address those injustices in a lasting way lies in development and social entrepreneurship —a relatively new term that refers to the process of changing systems and institutions in order to improve the lives of others.

My favorite explanation came from Bill Drayton, CEO, chair and founder of the Ashoka Foundation, the global organization to unite social entrepreneurs: “Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.”

Through social entrepreneurship, I wish to enable others to depend on their own skills and resources so that even when I am gone, they will continue to succeed and flourish.

This is not something that can be done half-heartedly. Development takes concentration, dedication, and long-term commitment. Marian Wright Edelman, who came to Duke earlier this year, has said that “service...is not something you do in your spare time.”

She is right. As I look toward this summer, and afterward when I will return to Durham, it is evident that DukeEngage in is not intended to be a temporary diversion that I do in my “spare time.”

This is intended to become a life-long process of engaging in the lives of others to make a difference, be it with my next door neighbor or a sick child in a mountain village. Engagement can occur wherever you find yourself in the company of other human beings; the challenge is to stick your hands in and do it with everything that you have. *

Ashley Dunfee is a Trinity senior working in Guatemala through DukeEngage over the summer.

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