Next Generation
(11/10/00 9:00am)
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fter months of hype and anticipation, the Sony PlayStation 2 has finally arrived. And unless you've been living in a cave, you've probably heard how hard it is to find one.
DURHAM - As fall break drew to a close, it was time for the Grid Pickers to return home from their vacations to begin the great debate over who will control stories for the rest of the year.
There's good news for those planning to pitch tents in Krzyzewskiville this basketball season. Duke Student Government has passed a policy hailed as one of the best in history. "My tent policy is the most popularly received thing at Duke since beer-on-points came to the 'Dillo," Head Line Monitor and Chronicle Senior Associate Sports Editor Norm Bradley told the DSG legislature at their second meeting of the year last night. Apparently equally as pleased with the proposal, DSG unanimously voted to enact the senior's policies.
In response to Tuesday's front-page article concerning Duke Student Government's proposal to allow same-sex unions in the Chapel, I would like to offer an analogy between the Chapel and Cameron Indoor Stadium to argue against DSG's proposal. DSG's main argument stems from its logic that the Chapel's prohibition violates the University's non-discrimination policy. DSG stresses that same-sex unions should be treated like any other private ceremony and that "the 'unions' we [DSG] are currently pursuing are not marriage." Vice President for Facilities and Athletics Affairs Emily Grey responded that "there is a non-discrimination policy at Duke that says you can't discriminate on the basis of anything in the use of university facilities, and that's blatantly being violated here."
This year's Duke Student Government tenting policy boasts a new focus on populism and accommodation in Krzyzewskiville, and it seems, in the spirit of populism, most everyone has an opinion on it.
For the first time in many years, the Duke Student Government head line monitor is himself a hard-core tenter. But senior Norm Bradley has also crafted this year's policy focusing more on the interests of what he calls "moderate" tenters than any line monitor in recent history.
The following is an edited text of President Nan Keohane's prepared convocation speech.
Elvis is alive and the government is about to shut down Krzyzewskiville-no foolin'. Unless it happens to be April Fool's Day and you're looking at the University's web site or the Duke Basketball Report.
It has been a sad week here in the Gothic Wonderland. Mike "Silky Smooth" Dunleavy came down with with mono and could be out for the rest of the season. WONDERBOY and NASTYMAN would like to apologize to everyone here for this senseless tragedy. We don't know what came over us. We should have been thinking about the good of the team, but all we thought of was ourselves. And without Mike, Duke lost a scorcher to a cocky young St John's club Saturday afternoon.
A couple of weeks ago, while in K-ville, my friends informed me of something amazing-there's Internet access in the lampposts. Evidently everyone else already knows this, but somehow I missed this piece of knowledge. I guess now those who tent for basketball games can bring their computers along, plug into a lamppost and they won't even have to miss an e-mail. Ah, all the amenities of home. What will they think of next?
Two weeks ago, Recess Senior Editor Norbert Schürer told me that he thought I might replace him as "the most hated man at Duke." What had the two of us done to attract so much Blue Devil bile? I had just written a column in The Chronicle that was critical of some of the attitudes we hold about our basketball rivals, three years after Norbert Schürer enraged the Duke community when he called our "disgusting" Cameron behavior "a large scale exercise in group hysteria and group identification."
At 8 a.m. yesterday, an eager student eyed the front of the Davison Building from afar, shortly after the location was named on the World Wide Web as the Krzyzewskiville registration site. White registration, which allows those who have not yet erected tents to do so, had begun, and the race for the last spots in K-ville was on.
The game this Wednesday at 9 p.m. against Florida State will be this year's Senior Game. The first 1,000 seniors who pick up bracelets between 8 and 10 a.m. will be given priority entrance to the game if they line up before 7:30 p.m. At least 200 bracelets will be given out to underclassmen between 1 and 3 p.m. Tents have no bearing on the line for this game.
Don't you have anything better to do with your time? Why do you want to sleep outside for the better part of a month? Why invest so much time and energy for marginally better seats to a two-hour basketball game? Why do you make such a sacrifice?
For Cameron Crazies expecting a difficult tenting season, this year has been anything but.
It's January, it's cold, it's rainy and sorority rush is in full swing. But there's something missing from the Gothic Winterland... Krzyzewskiville. For the last two years, diehard fans have set up camp in late December or early January to be assured of the best seats in Cameron Indoor Stadium for the two or three big home games of the semester. This year, however, Krzyzewskiville is the same pristine sod garden that existed in November instead of the muddy, alcohol- and urine-soaked shanty town we know and love.
Tuesday's game marks the beginning of the basketball season. For all weekday home games, bracelets will be distributed from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in front of the Cameron Indoor Stadium Student Entrance. Only 1,200 bracelets will be given out for each game. Those who receive bracelets in the morning session will be given priority admittance over individuals with afternoon bracelets. Doors will open an hour and a half before game time, so please be in line and ready to enter at least 15 minutes before that time. If you do not have a bracelet, a walk up line will form. We will try to accommodate everyone who wants to attend the game.
Bracelets for Midnight Practice, the celebration of the opening of the 1999-2000 men's basketball season, will be distributed Friday, Oct. 15.
What a beautiful morning. Nothing can wake a person up like the sound of 50 migrant laborers pounding poles into the ground at the competitive wage of 50 cents a day. Since the University can no longer exploit Third World people working in sweatshops, they must make up the money by hiring a different class of oppressed people. That huge tent in the middle of the quad may lead some people to believe that the Ringling Brothers are coming to town. Actually that wouldn't be that far from the truth, as many interesting parallels can be drawn comparing a circus to homecoming.
Now that Krzyzewskiville's tentative constitution has been made public, the town's tent-dwellers are considering the potential effects of the pre-registration period, the Dave Matthews registration and the number of camp-out games.