THE KILLERS AT CAMERON? Somebody told us, that we had The Killers-well, almost. Rumors are circulating that pop-rock sensation The Killers might be coming to Cameron Indoor Stadium for a spring concert. Senior Elisa Ayarza, the Duke Union's chair of major attractions, claims the band is just one of many potential acts for the spot. But we're hearing an offer was extended to the Las Vegas quartet over indie favorite The Flaming Lips.
Perhaps with knowledge of Ludacris' debacle of a Cameron show in Fall 2003, several reps for The Killers denied the band would grace Duke's vaunted basketball arena, which played host to Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead and Ray Charles back in the day. But after The Rolling Stones' successful stop at Wallace Wade last month, we're holding out hope that Duke's sports venues can return to the music scene.... -Matt Dearborn
PERKIN' UP, LATE NIGHT If things go well, Perkins Library will be staying open until 4 a.m. Sunday through Thursday by the end of the semester. Thomas Wall, director of public services at the libe, says staffing, security and budget are the biggest impediments to a 24-hour service-but that he's looking into it. The brand-new Bostock Library addition, with wireless Internet and computers equipped with Excel and Word, will be open 24 hours.
"I'm not promising, I'm trying," Wall says, noting he's heard more clamoring for 24/7 service in the past two years than ever before. Wall says flyers will be going up shortly petitioning students for input and advertising the experimental extended hours-. -Andrew Gerst
THE TAIL END OF TAILGATE? Administrators promise tailgate won't end this semester, but they're not exactly thrilled about it. In a strongly worded e-mail to campus leaders early last month, V.P. for Student Affairs Larry Moneta took aim at "the 15-20 percent of the students who continue to feel compelled to drink to oblivion." But the rest of the tailgaters aren't off the hook.
"The trash is unbelievable, and I hate the thought that every week, the lowest paid employees at Duke (who are inevitably minority) have to clean up after our privileged students," Moneta wrote.
Moneta also noted that for the second time this semester, a student required ER intubation for tailgate-induced inebriation. To top it off: "Most students leave peacefully, but increasingly, we have groups too drunk to reason with, and this weekend, we came pretty close to having the cops intervene. I know that one of our courageous T-Team members came close to being assaulted as well."
What Moneta also knows is that he personally takes on more fits of student cursing at tailgate than Tony Soprano's minions after a hit gone bad. Another sign of how tough it is to be the bad cop and the purveyor of student safety....
-A.G., with Matt Sullivan
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