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And although in reweeks charges in the case have been lessened to kidnapping and sexual offense and the alleged victim’s credibility has been called increasingly into question, newspaper editors continue to say they will keep silent on the woman’s identity. “We, along with most American newspapers, don’t print the names of women who say they were sexually assaulted,” said John Drescher, M.A. ’BB and managing editor of The Raleigh News and Observer. “When a sexual assault does occur, the nature of the crime is more personal than most other violent crime.” Ever since the off-campus party occurred March 13, the alleged victim’s real name has never been used in the mainstream press. The closest a media oudet has come to naming her was in a “60 Minutes” segment aired in October, during which the alleged victim was referred to as “Precious”—a name she used to identify herself. “We haven’t named victims of sexual assault for many years,” said Bob Ashley, cent
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DurhamCity Council approved the University's plans for overhauling Central Campus at its meeting Tuesday, whichincluded a presentationby ProvostPeter Lange.
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Durham City Council unanimously approved Duke’s plans to rezone and renovate Central Campus Tuesday night, which will now allow the University to push forward with tangible plans for the new campus. The vote comes after years of planning and months of negotiation and compromise with members of the community who were concerned about campus construction and its possible impact on local businesses. To placate fears, University officials agreed that total retail space open to
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both University and local customers would not exceed 50,000 square feet, and that no single retail or restaurant space would exceed 20,000 square feet. Restrictions on the height of new buildings, buffer space adjacent to nonUniversity-owned properties and protection for historic buildings were also guaranteed by University officials. “How can it be that a city so maligned in the national press as a cauldron of conflict can produce an agreement so important and difficult?” Provost Peter Lange said.
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Durham City Council member Howard Clement witnessed history in the making as he watched his friend and hero Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver the words that inspired a generation. Clement stood within arm’s reach ofKing when he delivered his now-famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in 1963. Although Clement was only five years younger than King, he recalled how he was captivated by the young reverend’s charisma and courage that day. “I was 29 years old and then I came back that night and couldn’t sleep,” Clement said. “It was Just electric.” Clement said he was most taken by King’s unfailing humility and tremendous ability to motivate crowds. “When we met in Washington, one ofhis favorite expressions SEE CIVIL RIGHTS ON PAGE 8
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common-sense way,” Obama said in a video posted on his Web site. “Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can’t tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that’s what we have to change first.” Obama filed paperwork forming a presidential exploratory committee that allows him to raise money and put together a campaign structure. He is expected to announce a full-fledged candidacy on Feb. 10 in Springfield, 111, where he can tout his experience in the state legislature and tap into the legacy of hometown hero Abraham Lincoln.
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WASHINGTON Sen. Barack Obama launched a presidential campaign Tuesday that would make him the first black to occupy the White House, and immediately tried to turn his political inexperience into an asset with voters seeking change. The freshman Illinois senator—and top contender for the Democratic nomination—said the past six years have left the country in a precarious place and he promoted himself as the standard-bearerfor a new kind of politics. “Our leaders in Washington seem incapable of working together in a practical,
In a brief interview on Capitol Hill, Obama said the reaction has been positive and added, “we wouldn’t have gone forward this far if it hadn’t been this positive.” Obama’s soft-spoken appeal on the stump, his unique background, his opposition to the Iraq war and his fresh face set him apart in a competitive race that also is expected to include front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. Obama has uncommon political talents, drawing adoring crowds even among the studious voters in New Hampshire during a much-hyped visit there last month. His star SEE OBAMA ON PAGE 7
Bush chides Iraq about executions by
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WASHINGTON President George W. Bush said Tuesday the unruly execution of Saddam Hussein “looked like it was kind of a revenge killing,” making it harder to persuade a skeptical United States public that Iraq’s government will keep promises central to Bush’s plan for a troop increase. In his toughest assessment yet, Bush criticized the circumstances of Saddam’s hanging last month, as well as Monday’s execution of two top aides, including Saddam’s halfbrother. “I was disappointed and felt like they
fumbled the—particularly the Saddam Hussein execution,” the president said in an interview with PBS’ Jim Lehrer. A cell phone video of Saddam’s Dec. 30 hanging showed the deposed Iraqi leader being taunted as he stood on the gallows with a noose around his neck. An official video of the execution of Saddam’s half brother showed that the hangman’s noose decapitated him. Both hangings provoked outrage around the world, but particularly among Saddam’s fellow Sunnis in Iraq. Bush said he had expressed his displeasure about the way Saddam’s execution was
handled to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri alMaliki. The president announced what he called a new strategy for the war last week, with much of it hinging on his trust in alMaliki’s government to make radical changes. “It basically says to people, ‘Look, you conducted a trial and gave Saddam justice that he didn’t give to others. But then, when it came to execute him, it looked like it was kind of a revenge killing,’” the president said. “It makes it harder for me to make the SEE
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Israel army Comm, resigns Israeli army commander It. Gen. Dan Halutz, under fire for failures in last summer's war in Lebanon, has resigned, the Defense Ministry said early Wednesday. Halutz has been under pressure to step down ever since the end of the 34-day war.
Urban out of alcohol rehab Keith Urban has completed his treatment for alcohol abuse and will ease back onto the stage with a short run of club shows in the United Kingdom and Germany in April, his spokesman said Tuesday.
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dents in the state. Fourteen middle school teachers will obtain their licensure to teach AIG children upon completion of the program. The curriculum includes four courses to be taken at the University, including a practicum during Duke Talent Identification Program’s summer session. The program, which is being funded by Durham Public Schools, Duke’s Program in Education, TIP and the North Carolina Model Teacher Education Consortium, is innovative in a number of ways, said Jan Rigsbee, the program’s codeveloper. “Only 2 percent of the colleges in the nation offer such a program,” said Rigsbee, who is also associate professor of the practice in the Program in Education. “The AIG program represents a true collaboration between departments at Duke. TIP, which offers gifted high school students across the country the opportunity to participate in summer study, was a natural partner for the program, said Kristen Stephens, co-developer and a TIP gifted educational specialist. Both co-developers of the program said its creation was in response to a new mandate made by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction requirtake a 2 hours k at the I before certified h gifted “When it became evident hat the tate was oing to
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change the way teachers obtain gifted licensure.... We knew that we wanted to become involved with that,” Stephens said. The program is also helping to satisfy a high demand for gifted teachers by
Durham Public Schools for the benefit of the student population as a whole as well as the 4,631 children identified as AIG in the district, according to the SEE AIG ON PAGE 7
Discover Magazine recently mentioned Dr. Anil Potti, assistant professor of medicine in the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, in its list of the “top six genetics stories of 2006.” Potti was honored for a study he led to develop genetic predictors that analyze the likely responses of individual cancer patients to different forms of chemotherapy. The list, which appears in theJanuary issue of Discover, features “the most interesting, amazing and important science news” of 2006—including advances in nutrition and new breakthroughs in understanding the genome. “Over 400,000 patients in the United States are treated with chemotherapy each year, without a firm basis for which drug they receive,” said Dr. Joseph Nevins, a senior investigator in the study and director of the IGSP’s Center for Applied Genomics and Technology, in a statement last November. “We believe these genomic tests have the potential to revolutionize cancer care by identifying the right drug for each individual patient,” he added. The tests will use data from large patient groups that will allow the scientists to more accurately correlate types of tumors to ideal treatment options, Potti said. When researchers applied the tests in hopes ofkilling cells extracted from the tumors of cancer patients, they found that the tests were 80-percent accurate in predicting SEE CHEMO ON PAGE 9
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I'iWWIiI.IJWI Duke Nursing students aid homeless Gov't plan to cut health care aid Many rural WASHINGTON hospitals and nursing homes would get fewer federal dollars under a proposal to save Medicaid almost $4 billion over the next five years. The Bush administration acknowledged that the change would have "a significant economic impact on a substantial number" of health care providers. In many states,financing arrangements between health care providers and the state result in the federal government paying more than the law says it should.
N.C. microbe may be poisonous RALEIGH, N.C-A North Carolina researcher sometimes at odds with colleagues skeptical of her claim of a toxic marine microbe that killed fish along the East Coast has gotten some vindication. The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration agency said Thursday that two species of the microbes, called Pfiesteria, can transform into toxic organisms that can kill fish. The microbe, which starts out harmless, shut down some North Carolina and Maryland waters in the mid-19905. Shoe delays tie up passengers New airport ORLANDO, Fla. screening technology that was trotted out Tuesday was supposed to let passengers keep their footwear on while passing through security. But several travelers complained they had to kick loafers or heels off anyway, even after standing in a kiosk that reads their biometric information and uses radio waves to test for explosives and metal. The scanners are part of a new program at Orlando International Airport that promises shorter screening lines for thosewho pass a federal background check and pay a $lOO annual fee.
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With topics ranging from dental care to cooking lessons, “Raising Health, Raising Hope” is a burgeoning program led by School of Nursing students that offers workshops on health at Genesis Home, which houses homeless families and children in Durham. Following a chance meeting at a party for the Duke medical community, Ryan Fehrman, executive director of Genesis Home, and Dorothy Powell, director of the Global and Community Health Initiative in the School of Nursing, combined their efforts to address what they saw as a need for both a health promotion curriculum among Genesis Home residents and community-based service opportunities for nursing students. “It was conceptualized initially as a service-learning experience that later also took on the additional potential of meeting clinical objectives for a required community health course,” Powell wrote in an e-mail. Currently, the curriculum of “Raising Health, Raising Hope” revolves around six monthly hour-hong workshops. The first cycle began during the second half of 2006, offering courses about topics such as nutrition, exercise and adolescent health. Nursing students—who had to attend a workshop themselves and then complete an online training course in order to participate in the program—have taught all six workshops and will
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In the new program "Raising Health, Raising Hope," School of Nursing students are helping homelessfamilies address health issues. continue to offer them on rotation, said Laura Bax, student cochair of the Genesis Home planning commission. Students working in the program also earn credit toward their required hours of clinical work. “We want to really provide the resources that are available for [Genesis Home residents] in the community, so that they can go and receive health care and just get support for health-related issues,” Bax said. “For us too, it’s good for students to promote health within a community setting outside of a hospital setting.” Fehrman said he had to give a lot of credit to the Duke nursing students because they “directly asked low-income clients what
they needed and created a curriculum based on that.” And because one of the longterm goals of Genesis Home, which serves up to 12 families at a time, is always to move into permanent housing, Powell said that nursing students will continue to reassess the topics of interest to account for residential turnover and adjust the workshop curriculum accordingly. Bax said the biggest challenge to the program is evaluating how effective it has been as a community health center, but that the response from both nursing students and Genesis Home residents has been very positive. “[Students are] very much engaged with our parents and are
forming relationships,” Fehrman said. “I know some of the students and parents are on a firstname basis.” Fehrman also added, however, that there is a need for students to work as weekly volunteer tutors for the children of Genesis Home, who often double the adult population. Powell said other future expansions of the program include a health fair for the homeless. “The exceptionally positive relationship with the Genesis Home staff and board provides an opportunity to dream and strategize together on ways and avenues for helping people to regain control of their lives,” she said.
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thoughtfulness.” Kelly Mcßride, ethics group leader at the Poynter Institute, said that publishing the name of the alleged victim in the lacrosse case would be harmful. There may be circumstances, however, under which the name would be published, she added. “If she were to file a civil lawsuit, many media outlets would name her,” Mcßride said. “However, barring some sort of case being filed against her or a civil suit by her, the harm you do to your community by naming her outweighs
Driver found with false identification Last Thursday around 11:04 p.m., an officer pulled over an individual on Swift Avenue for failure to stop at a red light. When the officer investigated, it was found that the driver had no valid license, a false ID and outstanding warrants for his arrest in the city of Durham. The driver was arrested for identity theft and driving while license revoked. False alarm sounds on West In responding to a fire alarm in a West Campus dormitory last Thursday at approximately 2:30 a.m., a police officer found that a fire extinguisher had been tampered with and discharged, causing the alarm to activate.
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John Drescher, managing editor ofThe Raleigh N&O, weighs in on the lacrosse case at Duke this past October. any good that could come.” But though Drescher and Ashley abide by the longstanding rule that alleged victims in sexual assault cases remain unnamed, Mcßride said the rule is not written in stone. “A lot of journalists default to a rule that we don’t name women who report they have been raped,” Mcßride said. “Research shows that rape is severely underreported—many women are resistant to reporting sexual assault be-
cause of the stigma that accompanies the report.” Drescher recalled a time in the mid-1970s when newspapers did print victims’ names. He emphasized that there is nothing illegal about reporting the names of sexual assault victims. “There should not be a stigma attached to sexual assault,” Drescher said. “However, as long as newspapers don’t report names [of sexual assault victims], the stigma will continue.”
In North Carolina, falsely activating a fire alarm is considered a misdemeanor charge.
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WASHINGTON Cuban President Fidel Castro, ailing and out of sight, has been meeting with a trickle of international guests in recent months, a United States government official said Tuesday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive situation with Cuba, declined to say with whom Castro was meeting. But the meetings, generally with visitors from Latin America, suggest he may be setting the stage for a transition of power that he hopes will protect the government he has built over four decades. In a review of global threats last week, National Intelligence Director John Negroponte said that Castro and his brother Raul, who has taken over as Cuba’s temporary leader, are trying to create a “soft landing” during the transfer ofcontrol. “From the point of the United States policy, we don’t want to see that happen,” Negroponte said. “We want to see the prospects for freedom in that country enhanced as a result of the transition [from Fidel Castro.]” Negroponte also said Castro’s days “seem to be numbered,” a view supported Tuesday by the U.S. government official. That official said U.S. intelligence believes that Castro is likely to die within a month or two, although analysts don’t yet know the precise nature of his illness. That assessment narrowed the life-expectancy estimate of U.S. intelligence agencies, which previously had said Castro was not expected to make it through the end of this year. The Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Tuesday that Castro has had at least three failed operations and is suffering SEE CASTRO ON PAGE 10
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“This is a win-win situation for the comHe noted the importance of the momunity and Duke,” said council member ment, not only for the Central Campus Eugene Brown. plans, but also in light of the ever-present During public discussion, however, the spectre of the lacrosse scandal. plan received some opposition. Communi“In this year, when so much that has ty activist Victoria Peterson criticized what been so unfair, inaccurate and at times she characterized as the criminal downright false aboiu \b' t behavior of Duke Ir.ow Durham supstudents. “Today we celebrate a victory “I’m very emposedly is difor Durham.... We have been vided against itbarrassed, and self, overcome Durham should able to help Duke help itself be embarrassed by community become a better neighbor.” tensions and how Duke has driven by supput shame on Schelp this community townposed Old West Durham Assoc. president, gown conflicts, nationally and worldwide,” she it is noteworthy that we can said. “This camcome to you with this consensus propospus needs to get some kind of control al, the product of numerous productive before they reach out further into the meetings, a great deal of thoughtful discommunity.” cussion on all sides and compromise on With the Council’s approval, the adissues small and large, some of them ministration is now able to take more contechnical and others with major policy crete steps toward implementing the plan. and financial implications,” Lange said. “We’re very pleased, of course,” Lange John Schelp, president of the Old West told The Chronicle after the vote was Durham Neighborhood Association, recorded. “It’s always nice to come to a echoed the conciliatory tone that characstony and positive result.” terized the evening. Though he praised the final product, Schelp frequently had In other news: voiced his frustrations with and opposition City Council discussed at length the to components of the proposal throughproblem of affordable housing in Durham. out much of the planning phase. The council voted to give non-profit or“Today we celebrate a victory for ganizations the first opportunity to buy an Durham,” he said. “We have been able to allotted 30 percent of the city’s surplus real help Duke help itself become a better estate to be used for affordable housing. Victoria Ward contributed to the reporting of neighbor.” Several City Council members said this story.
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AIG from page 3 Durham Public Schools’ web site “Teachers, principals and administrators know that strategies that work for gifted children are also great for everyone else,” said Beth Cross, the district AIG lead teacher. “[Superintendent] Dr. [Carl] Harris really wants everyone in Durham Public Schools to be challenged and to be
pushed,” she added.
In a press release last week, Harris lauded the Universiits efforts. for ty “Duke University is demonstrating an unparalleled level of support for public education by offering the licensure program,” Harris said. “This, along with the similar program at North Carolina Central University, is making it easier than ever for our teachers to receive training that will support our efforts in boosting academic rigor for our students,” he
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OBAMA from page 2 has risen on the force of his personality and message of hope—helped along by celebrity endorsements from the likes of Oprah Winfrey, billionaire investor Warren Buffett and actors Matt Damon and Edward Norton. “I certainly didn’t expect to find myself in this position a year ago,” said Obama, who added that as he talked to Americans about a possible presidential campaign, “I’ve been struck by how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics.” The 45-year-old has few accomplishments on the national stage after serving little more than two years in the Senate. But at a time when many voters say they are unhappy with the direction of the country, a lack of experience in the nation’s capital may not be a liability. “The decisions that have been made in Washington these past six years, and the problems that have been ignored, have put our country in a precarious place,” Obama said. He said people are struggling financially, dependence on foreign oil threatens the environment and national security and “we’re still mired in a tragic and cosdy war that should have never been waged.” Clinton is expected to announce her presidential campaign within days, but her spokesman said there would be no comment on Obama’s decision from the Clinton camp. Back from Iraq, she abruptly canceled a Capitol Hill news conference minutes after word of Obama’s announcement, citing the unavailability of a New York congressman to participate. Other Democrats who have announced a campaign or exploratory committee are 2004 vice presidential nominee John Edwards, former lowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd and Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich. Sens. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Joe Biden ofDelaware and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson also are considering a run. Obama’s decision was relatively low-key after months of hype, with no speech or media appearance to accompany his online announcement. He said he will discuss a presidential campaign with people around the country before his Feb. 10 event, and he wasted no time calling key activists Tuesday. New Hampshire lobbyist Jim Demers talked with Obama for about five minutes. “He is extremely pumped and excited that this campaign is coming together,” said Demers, who accompanied Obama on his visit to the state last month.
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CHEMO from page 3 the most effective form of chemotherapy. Potti said he hopes the use of such tests will counter a stigma of chemotherapy treatments as toxic agents that cause damage to healthy cells. “Even if we could develop new drugs effective in treating lung cancer, for example, it still would not identify individual responses to minimalize unnecessary damages,” Potti said. “This is personalized medicine at its best.” Clinical trials in the next six months to a year will apply the genetic tests to actual patients. In a series of eight to nine clinical trials, patients will receive a “drug of choice based on their clinical profiles” determined by point values based on their distinct molecular features, Potti said. Potti said he hopes the completion of the trials will not only contribute to advances in the treatment of cancer, but will also be used to enhance treatments for an array of other medical conditions. “The completion of those clinical trials will be a critical juncture in research into genetic predictors,” Potti said. “They could one day help guide treatments for infectious diseases, .cardiovascular diseases and many more.” —
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case to the American people that this is a government that does want to unify the country and move forward,” Bush said. “And it just goes to show that this is a government that has still got some maturation to do.” Bush agreed to the interview, to be telecast Tuesday evening on PBS’ “NewsHour With Jim Lehrer,” as well as one last weekend on CBS’ “60 Minutes” to help sell his revised war plan to the public. Polls show that Americans are unhappy with Bush’s Iraq policy. Seventy percent oppose sending more troops to Iraq, as he intends to do, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll last week.
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Bush said if a pollster asked for his to begin next week—around the time opinion about Iraq, “I would be one of Bush delivers his State of the Union those that said, ‘No, I don’t approve of speech on Jan. 23. what’s taking place in Iraq.’” The bill, by not eliminating funding He said that keeping his old policies in for either current troops or the additions, place in the war would lead to “a slow fail- would be merely an expression of Conure,” but withdrawing from Iraq, as some gress’ position. critics suggest, would result in an “expeBut it would help Democrats gauge dited failure.” Republican support for more aggres“I am frustrated with the progress,” the sive legislative tactics, as well as embar-
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rass Bush. On Tuesday, Democrats were reaching out to potential Republican co-sponsors. Several GOP senators have spoken out against sending more troops. “The hope is to introduce a bill that would be a bipartisan resolution,” said Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
good about the situation. I felt like we were achieving our objective, which is a
country that can govern, sustain, and defend itself. No question, 2006 was a lousy year for Iraq.” Senate Democrats plan by Thursday to introduce a resolution denouncing the president’s plan, with floor debate
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At the tail end of a recent Duke practice, a scrum of blue and white jerseys fought for a rebound under the basket. Neither Alison Bales nor Wanisha Smith emerged with the basketball— Jason Jacobs did. Just a few minutes later, Carrem Gay made a nifty post move and beat her defender. She elevated for the easy deuce, but the ball was swatted in mid-air—by Leonard Medlock. These male practice players —two of about a dozen male Duke students who each attend a few women’s practices each week—do the on-court dirty work for the top-ranked Blue Devils. They simulate opposing players, execute the other team’s plays and run the floor during full-court scrimmages. In mid-December, however, the NCAA committee on women’s athletics issued a position statement calling for the ban of Jacobs, Medlock and their counterparts at other schools across the country from practicing with the women
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potential scholarships. The proposal has not been received well, with the biggest complaints coming from basketball coaches. At Duke, the women’s basketball team is the only female team to regularly practice against men. “It would be a travesty for the game of women’s basketball if they ban male practice players,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “They’ve become an integral part of what we do on a day-to-day basis.... They make us better because they’re quicker, faster and stronger in most cases.” Even if most coaches agreed with the recommendation in theory, they would be hard pressed to follow it in practicality. While the majority of Division I women’s teams use male practice players, they are especially treasured at top programs like Duke. One of the Blue Devils’ greatest assets is Bales, a 6-foot-7 c,enter. SEE PRACTICE PLAYERS ON PAGE 16
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Entering offseason workouts as the owner of the longest losing streak in the nation, Duke’s football team decided to bring in some people who have seen it all before—and even some who remember the glory days. More than 200 Duke Football alumni attended the first
Duke Football Summit last Saturday, which coincided with the team’s annual banquet. The summit, which was held at the Washington Duke Inn, consisted of presentations from President Richard Brodhead, Director ofAthletics Joe Alieva and head coach Ted Roof, among others. The group ofalumni represented seven decades of the program’s history. “It’s the old saying, ‘Actions speak louder than words,’” said Billy Granville, a linebacker on Duke’s last bowl team in the 1994 season. “When you see 200 men who come back, and have invested their time and their resources to come back here for two days, that’s evidence of commitment.” The presentations and discussions covered all aspects of the program’s operation—from game preparation and practices to recruiting and finances. While no formal ac-
tions were decided upon, a number of suggestions were offered, including the need for facility upgrades. The coaches even asked the alumni to help in the recruiting process by alerting the Duke staff to potential
prospects in their home locales. “I believe we entered unchartered territory in the SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE
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Alumni are hoping head coach Ted Roof can turn around the Duke 14 football program, which holds the nation's longest losing streak.
Last Friday, I wrote the following; “This Duke team is in trouble.... If I’m not eating these words on Sunday, it’s going to be a long season.” Thanks to a few packets of ketchup and the barbeque sauce at Tommy’s (along with a side of the best potato salad on campus), my own words actually went down pretty easily. I still stand by some of what I said. The Duke team that played in Coral Gables seemed like a different group than the one that lost to Virginia alex Tech and Georgia Tech. The Blue lost those games were acm £-I roff Devils inthattrouble. IdlldlUll Coach K said it tually himselfafter the loss to the Hokies: “We’re not that Duke.” The fact that they beat Miami—and that they looked that day as if they were on their way to becoming “that Duke” again—is a credit to Coach K. When he said “that Duke,” Krzyzewski was likely referring to last year’s team, which actually played a very similar style to the one employed by this year’s model up until the Miami game. Last year, that scheme made sense (even though it may have come back to bite the Blue Devils against LSU). JJ. Redick and Shelden Williams were two of the best half-court scorers in the nation, able to beat their defendersalmost at will. This year, that type ofapproach seems suicidal. No Blue Devil is even close to the caliber ofhalf-court player that Redick or Williams was. But even last year’s team wasn’t “that Duke”—at least not the way I remember. “That Duke” is the best Duke teams, SEE FANAROFF ON PAGE 14
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Until last Saturday, the only undefeated Division I team in the country called the ACC home. But for once, that team did not have a trace of blue—ofany shade—on its uniforms. This year, neither Duke nor North Carolina could claim to be the last undefeated team standing and in first place in the ACC this late in the season —that honor belonged to Clemson. Even the though Tigers’ perfect record was dented with a loss to Maryland Jan. 13, Clemson has let the rest of the college basketball community know that it will be a force in the conference this year. Behind No. 23 Virginia Tech and unranked Boston College, No. 19 Clemson is still tied with No. 4 North Carolina for second place in the ACC, and it boasts a better conference record than the No. 14 Blue Devils. “Being undefeated helped us achieve short-term goals,” Clemson junior forward James Mays said. “We can concentrate on long-term goals now like the NCAA Tournament.” Often a cellar dweller in the ACC, Clemson’s early success has come as a surprise to some. But despite their numerous victories, the team has not been fully recognized—even with their 17-0 record, the Tigers were never ranked in the top 10. “We have to show teams that we are for real,” senior point guard Vernon Hamilton said. “We have to go out every game and prove the point that we’re a team to look out for. That’s how we attack.” After Maryland handed the Tigers their *
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“They’re a very good team,” Williams said. “Mays is a force inside, and they’re an outstanding offensive rebounding
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ton is one of the better point guards in the ACC. [K.C.] Rivers does a great job of finding open looks. The whole team is unselfish, and I don’t know how anyone could say Clemson is overrated.”
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CLEMSON from page 12 Despite falling in College Park, the Tigers’ hot 17-0 start has them poised to easily exceed the ninth-place finish projected at the ACC’s preseason media day. Clemson, though, is not accustomed to losing, and the team is eager to bounce back. “It hurts,” said Mays, who had not expe-
rienced a loss in 28 games as Clemson won its first 11 last year before he was declared academically ineligible. “I’d rather it happen now, though. It’s a tough loss, but the lesson is learned.” Mays has been a major boost for Clemson this year. After missing the second half of last season, the junior is averaging 13.4 points per game and 7.7 rebounds per game. He has given the Tigers an important inside presence to complement consis-
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coach Roy Williams, whose Tar Heels will play Clemson this Saturday. “Their perimeter play has always been good.” The two biggest contributors on the perimeter have been Rivers and Hamilton. In the loss to Maryland, Hamilton became just the seventh point guard in Clemson history to reach 1,000 points. Rivers, meanwhile, leads the team in scoring despite having come off the bench in every single game this season. The sophomore has scored in double figures every game this season and averages 15.2 points per game. The inside-outside combination played a large role in the Tigers’ unbeaten streak. With the loss to the Terrapins, however, the team has to learn how to overcome defeat for the first time. “We’re disappointed we didn’t get the win,” Clemson head coach Oliver Purnell said. “We have to channel that disappointment into work and practice to get ready for UNC.” And the Tigers can prove themselves even further with a win against the fourthranked Tar Heels. When Clemson hosts North Carolina Jan. 20, it will have more than just another conference win to play for—the Tigers will have the chance to prove they belong at the top of the ACC.
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world of college athletics this weekend,” Alieva said. “I have never heard of a school hosting a group of former players this large in any sport for the purpose of discussing details about the program. Hearing the feedback and thoughts from the former players regarding Duke football tells me this was an excellent idea and that there is a great deal of alumni support for the program.” The summit came on the heels of the program’s fourth winless record in 11 seasons. During the year, several alumni, calling themselves Concerned Duke Footballers, started a website to voice their concern over the program’s performance. Alumni who attended the summit said that while there was some airing offrustrations over the team’s struggles in this and recent years, the event was primarily constructive. “Coach Roof did a great job of outlining what all of his plans are,” former New York Giants and Duke quarterback Dave Brown said. “A lot of us came in skeptical, and I think a lot of us walked out much more optimistic than we
had come in.” While many of the alumni said Roof has fairly widespread support among them, they noted the need for a vastly improved performance next year. The Blue Devils came close to capturing a win on at least three occasions this season, but they also lost six games by 21 points or more. In addition, Duke’s average home attendance was less than 20,000 for the second straight year—a mark that was one of the worst in Division I-A. Several alumni, however, acknowledged that the program’s issues go far beyond any one coach and need to be addressed from the top of the University. “If you had the medical school or the law school performing to the level which Duke [football] has for the period of time for which it has —the last 30 years there has two or three winning seasons —it would be unacceptable,” said Tim Curran, a defensive lineman from 1989-1991. “The University would never allow that. The trustees would never allow that to go on. It’s been allowed to go on in football. So it’s not to say they haven’t had the support, but I don’t know if they have been proactive in seek-
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the ones that opponents (and opponents’ fans) truly feared. “That Duke” pushed the ball upcourt, scored in transition and played stifling defense. “That Duke” seemed to get an awful lot of easy baskets. “That Duke” broke opponents’ backs with monster runs, especially at the beginning of the second halfand the end of the first. In 2001, “that Duke” averaged nearly 80 possessions per game, a pace that would have been the fastest in almost any recent year. After the Georgia Tech game, this season’s Blue Devils were one of the slowest-paced teams in the ACC. They were averaging 65.7 possessions per game—only Virginia Tech was slower. For at least two years (up until the Miami game), it had seemed like the Blue Devils were forced to grind out every bucket they made. They weren’t running and getting easy baskets after turnovers, instead they were walking upcourt and running their offense. The Miami game showed that the only way this year’s Duke team will win consistendy is to play at a faster tempo to create easy baskets in transition. Anyone who watched the Miami game saw the Blue Devils come out with a renewed devotion to pushing the tempo. Through the first 10:09, they had 19 possessions—they were on pace for a 76-possession game. (For perspective, no ACC team has played at that kind of pace this season, not even North Carolina.) They turned steals into high percentage looks at the basket (dunks and layups, mosdy) and pushed the ball upcourt even after made baskets. The effect of Duke’s increased pace was more open looks at the basket than they had all season—and the Blue Devil players knocked down more than 80 percent of those shots in the first half. Duke’s pace slowed down over the last 10 minutes of the first period, and Miami cut the deficit to nine at the half. The Blue Devils still led by nine with 17:57 to play, but a 17-3 run absolutely crushed the Hurricanes. “That Duke” was back. During that run, the Blue Devils had 11 possessions in just over six minutes, which works out to 73.3 possessions over 40 minutes, which, again, would be among the fastest paces in the ACC and the country. Though the game’s final numbers don’t show it (thanks largely to the fact that Duke stalled for the last 10 minutes), the Blue Devils beat Miami at least partly because of their commitment to playing at a faster pace. Even in its half-court offense, Duke attacked the basket, rather than working the ball around the perimeter. North Carolina coach Dean Smith is often credited with making the point that a faster tempo favors the more talented team. His successor at Carolina, Roy Williams, drove that point home in 2005 by winning a National Championship with a talented but flawed team that played at a very fast pace—winning the tide game, incidentally, over a walk-it-up-and-bang-it-out Illinois team that very nearly went undefeated. This year, the Blue Devils are also talented but flawed. A faster pace—like we saw in spurts against Miami—is going to give Duke the best chance to win game in and game out. So I’ll amend what I said on Friday. If the changes we saw against Miami take root, it could be a special season.
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Six-foot-7 Alison Bales benefits from going up against the tall and physical male practice players that assist theBlue Devils each day.
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“The coaches have spoken out about it,” Jacobs said. “Everyone has spoken out about it, and they are not for it. It just doesn’t make too much sense.” The recommendation is currendy going through the NCAA’s regular legislative process, and NCAASenior Vice President Joni Comstock said the governing body will work to form a consensus on the issue. The only legislation scheduled to be voted on this year is for Division 111. For now, the male players continue to play on. And for them, the fruits of their labor—evident in Duke’s 19-point win over Maryland Saturday—are reward enough. “You sit in the stands watching the game, and the opposing team’s player does the move that you simulated,” Medlock said. “And we stop them just like they stopped me—you feel like you’ve done your job.”
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tivities or the desire to visit the library, gym or dining facilities on campus will find it much more difficult and timeconsuming to do so. Also, because Parking Services oversold the passes, students who currendy have access to the Blue Zone may even come across instances in which they cannot find an empty space in the lot. As much as Duke touts its high study abroad rate and encourages students to partake in such an experience, the University is vastly unprepared for the logisdcs of such a large returning student population. With the current level of participation in these programs and a growing student body each year, Parking and Transportation Services should have not only expected this scenario, but they shouldalso have
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to recent statements by the administration for the University to discourage students to explore the community and support local businesses. It seems as if the only viable solution to this issue is additional parking. Whether spaces are added by extending the lots surrounding the Blue Zone or a garage is added, students deserve the option of having a car on campus and convenient access to classes and facilities. With the recent resignation of Director of Parking and Transportation Services Cathy Reeve, now is the time to truly re-evaluate parking on campus. Another year cannot pass without some steps in the right direo tion toward solutions to the current parking crunch. If not, as Duke continues to grow, these problems will only get worse.
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packed full of sports, extracurriculars and the other unique eccentricities that made us interesting enough to get into Duke in the first place. Hence, being on the pre-professional track, when I arrived here I decided it was time to cut down on my laundry list of extracurriculars and focus simply on grades and enjoying college. This materialized into the following; MondayWednesday: procrastinate. Thursday-Saturday: Go out. Sunday: Study. As for the going-out nights, things were pretty typical: pre-game with your dorm friends, consume as much free alcohol as possible on West while pretending to care which frat you were in, stumble to the club that was “on” for the night in hopes that the cutie you met in sociology might be there, and finally recap the ridiculousness of the night at the Marketplace during brunch the next morning. As fun as this occasionally was, it still felt like something was missing. Unfortunately, it took me nearly three years to figure out exactly what that was. As much as I wanted to think my routine was every bit as passionate and diverse as it was in high school, my life really came down to three things: ladies, liquor and the letters on my report card. Don’t get me wrong, grades are important for all of us, alcohol CAN make for some incredible nights, and there are few things better than a beautiful woman that has her eye on you. Hence, it was not that these concerns were bad in themselves, but
rather that they were taking up SO much room that all the things that used to make my life vibrant, rich and spirited were getting displaced. I know what many of you are thinking. “Maybe the stereotypical frat boys and sorority girls define their lives by such narrow categories, but not me. I am involved with and care about a lot of things outside the bubble ofDuke.” For those with this sentiment, I have a very timely response (as both fraternities and sororities are in the middle ofrush): though greek stereotypes may subsist at a certain school to the south of us (thank you Borat), few to none actually exist here. The backwards-hat-wearing guys slamming beer cans against their heads on Saturday might be co-authoring a new economic theory on Sunday, and the dolled-up girl in pearls across the bar may have spent her summer in Africa working on AIDS prevention. Thus, I believe our unbalanced campus culture is not a result of a few extreme meatheads and bimbos, but rather the willingness of us all to occasionally act like idiots. Therefore, my goal for the column is to help all of us (including myself) to try and look outside of our standard concerns—to move outside of our daily college lives and look beyond the bubble. For those that are perfecdy happy staying inside, I challenge you to read the column every other Wednesday and tell me why you disagree. For those that have been living outside from the very beginning, I hope you .
My g0a1... is to help all of us (including myself)... look beyond the bubble. might contact me and share your experiences. But finally, for those of you that sense things are not quite right, that there seems to be something missing and occasionally feel isolated by your dream that life could somehow be more, it is mainly for you that I write. My simple hope is that you might know that you are not alone and that you find your own “home” here at Duke faster than the three years it took me.
Mark Stoltenberg is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.
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road to Hell is paved with good intentions. scathing invective was to see how many “Hell” cliches I Such as, for instance, the pathological good incould use to abuse this overblown establishment. tention to seem like a smart, diligent student at We asked the bouncer what exactly was required to all times. Honorable though it may be, it can lead to become members of Hell, because, frankly, each of us the most grave of graduate student diseases: Graduate- was pretty sure she had earned a spot sometime in high school. He replied that we would need only five dolStudentus Pompousitis. lars, but that we would have to wait three days, just The disease most enough time that we would have to miss the party that commonly strikes durnight. Apparently premeditation is Hell’s only real reing the first meeting with one’s mentor, durquirement. How appropriate. So we loitered around the entrance, dejected, as a ing which the student must appear pensive lumpy woman who wouldn’t stand a snowball’s chance in Hell of getting into a single club on South Beach and more dedicated to strolled right in wearing a bleach-stained t-shirt, sunspending 80 hours a week researching arglasses and hair so unusually shaped that it was potenjacqui detwiler tially cane topics than she was a wig/hat. It was obvious this club was unconplease hire, desperate. scionably pretentious. The entire night was quickly just a few months ago going to Hell in a handbasket. in some cases—when she was an undergraduate Soon enough we scrapped the project, and shot out In those who are genetically predisposed it can of there like bats out of Hell, informing the doorman strike even earlier, sometimes as early as the due date on the way that there would be Hell to pay for his insofor the payment of graduate level fees for classes. (As lence and that we’d be back on the very day that Hell in: By God! $3OO a credit hour? That’s it Muffy, I told freezes over to beat the Hell out of him. It was then that I realized I was succumbing to the you these bourgeois clods wouldn’t last a wicket in our polo circuit.) very disease I was witnessing in othThis weekend I had a run-in with ers. It was time for the more-chronic The highfalutin’ schmoozing I have to do all an intervention. version of the disI slapped myweek when prospective professors come to ease, which we’ll self across the face, pulled mycall Member’s Only town leaves my willpower so depleted that I self up by my Pompousitis, that scared me straight. seldom have enough left by Friday to be bootstraps, and On Saturday, got the Hell out pleasant to people without contracting while taking a of dodge—and across the street night offfrom worPompousitis. To combat this veritable grad to Players. rying about my student cancer, on weekends I fully intend to thesis, I attempted The highfaattend the to lutin’ schmoozing I I roof houses for a living and don’t pretend dance have to do all week monthly know a brain from a box of rocks. when prospective party at club Hell in Chapel Hill with professors come to a few of my town leaves my friends. We arrived willpower so deat Hell around eleven, reasonably well dressed and of pleted that I seldom have enough left by Friday to be pleasconsiderable age, only to be turned away because we ant to people without contracting Pompousitis. To combat weren’t members of the club. this veritable grad student cancer, on weekends I fully intend A members-only club that doesn’t let you scribble in to pretend I roof houses for a living and don’tknow a brain from a box of rocks. your e-mail address at the door? In Chapel Hill? From now on, I’m sticking to Blue Motorcycles at I just spent four days on South Beach and it wasn’t this exclusive. Players and words that everybody knows, like “rocks,” I was furious. We wear heels. We use big words. We are come Hell or high water. (I couldn’t resist.) not the kind of people who get turned away from nightclubs for not being “members.” I was so angry, in fact, Jacqui Detwiler is a graduate student in psychology and that my original aim when I began today’s column-cum- neuroscience. Her column runs every Wednesday. —
letterstotheeditor Policy for Duke vs. Wake Forest game The men’s basketball team plays Wake Forest Thursday, Jan. 18. The policy for this game is a wristband distribution. Wristbands will be distributedfrom 12 a.m. until 2 a.m. on the night of Wednesday, Jan. 17. Registration will begin as the line forms; it is every man for himself (and woman for herself). Go Duke! Mara Schultz Trinity ’O7 HeadLine Monitor Saturday Night; Untold Stories of Sexual Assault In October of 2003, a student at Duke was sexually assaulted by a stranger. In an effort to extend the dialogue about sexual assault, the survivor wrote a piece in The Chronicle asking for students’ stories and opinions. The founders of Saturday Night: Untold Stories of Sexual Assault at Duke then compiled those narratives and commentaries into a publication that was distributed to the Duke community. In the three years that have passed, groups of students and administrators have worked assiduously to increase awareness about sexual assault and Duke’s policies. However, the number of sexual assaults on Duke’s campus—and in society at large—is still unacceptable. For that reason, we write again. We ask those of
you who have been affected by this form of violence to send us your stories and opinions. We want and welcome submissions from survivors, friends of survivors, anyone with opinions or ideas about solutions, and also from those who have perspectives differing from the existing dialogue. And, if you’re a survivor, we re-offer the definition provided by Duke’s official sexual misconduct policy: Sexual assault is any sex act (oral, vaginal or anal) against your will, without your consent, or when you are unable to freely give consent. Whatever the circumstances, there is a place for you in the fourth edition of Saturday Night. The dialogues that the first three editions ofSaturday Night started are vital. We hope that the new perspectives in the fourth edition will not only continue these dialogues but also start moving people from words to actions. We have to hold each other accountable in order to make Duke a community where sexual assault is unacceptable. If you would like to share your stories and opinions, please send them to saturdaynightduke@gmail.com. We will be accepting submissions through Jan. 28. Please indicate in your e-mail ifyou’re willing to allow your contribution to appear in the next edition ofSaturday Night. All submissions that appear in the actual publication will be anonymous, and the only person who will know your identity is our Submissions Editor. The Editors of Saturday Night
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old high school hasn’t been doing so well since I left. A coincidence, of course.) Our graduating class thought we’d left our alma mater in decent shape. We championed a referendum that stopped the district from cutting sports and reducing afterschool activities to Scrabble Club and yearbook. We left educational and extracurricular opportunities intact to be seized by future generations. Like our little brothers and sisters; I have one of each. Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. Aldous Huxley probably would have agreed that with a little cutting and pasting, togas are easily converted into the kind of cheap cotton T-shirts high school administrators distribute to naive schoolchildren. So postireferendum, homeowners in my district were jane chong milked for more than their the short shot worth. Salaries stayed afloat and speech team survived. And last I heard before summer’s end, the school district was making excellent use ofits resources, hiring handwriting experts to protect the reputations of high-ranking officials. Or more specifically, to analyze one anonymous letter defaming the science department chair—despite the fact that hundreds of anonymous letters are received and disregarded (as a matter of principle) by the district every year. The letter in question was typed. This posed no real ethical or technical problem. A couple of words on the envelope were handwritten. A teacher with a motive and a spotty history with the administration was hauled in and permanently hauled out. Now there’s a real coincidence. Scandals don’t end. They are merely replaced, as we at Duke wellknow. I flew home for winter break and was greeted by the latest calamity. My brother, a page editor, came home with a grim look on his face and a copy of the school paper in hand. I stared at the seemingly innocuous poll: What is the worst thing about the holidays ? “Getting jewed out of presents,” responded one long-haired, sleepy-eyed freshman. Indeed, the anti-Semitic/more accurately idiotic comment was pasted next to a picture. A handy mugshot to service the public mayhem to follow. At least one reporter, one page editor, two editor-in-chiefs and two faculty advisors had fallen asleep at the wheel. They somehow “missed” the chance to excise the quote, set in bold, smack in the middle of the 100-percent recyclable rag, of which 3,000 copies were probably confiscated and burned in effigy. As a former high-ranking official of this particular newspaper, I figured had it happened two years ago, I would accept responsibility. It is, or should be, a student newspaper after all. That wasn’t happening, however, and all hell was breaking loose. I scratched my head, I shook my head and goodness forbid—l laughed. Not at the kid or at the unfunny attempt at a joke that would follow him well into his movie-making career. But at the Chicago Tribune, the Jewish Defense League and the smooth machinations of the superintendent. Action was necessary, but its sanctimonious tone was unfortunate. Formal apologies were demanded, ceremonial apologies were issued, veins throbbed, dissertations were written and conciliatory letters were printed off by the thousands to oblivious parents everywhere. The Chicago Chapter of the JDL equated referring to the incident as a learning experience with calling “an alcohol-related traffic death of a teen driver a ‘learning experience.’” And the Daily Herald, that great bastion of good taste, set the news right underneath a perfectly lovely, perfectly enormous picture of some adorable child lighting a menorah. Best of all, the school’s fledgling principal, current chum of the superintendent, allegedly responsible for attempting to censor the newspaper’s coverage on an unfairly fired/grudgingly reinstated teacher, declared a state of emergency—or the equivalent, anyway —naming himself overseer of future publications. I came back to Duke, having learned very little, apart from the reality that scandal in general has ceased to depend on even the pretense of suspense. There are no morals to present in the end, just a stunning lack thereof. I guess the the JDL was right This was no learning experience. Only twisted little truths come to mind. Sometimes life works out remarkably well for the puppeteers standing a safe distance away. A comedy of errors is more often a comedy ofcalculations. And kids may say the damdest things, but they aren’t always guilty of doing the dumbest ”
Jane Chong is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Wednesday.
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