According to a draft of the 2006-2007 tenting policy, the Feb. 7 home men's basketball game against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be the only tenting game of the season.
The draft, which is available on the Duke Student Government website, also lays out changes to the pre-blue tenting policy, although blue tenting and white tenting rules remain largely the same.
"This year we have some great competition in the ACC but based on our school and based on talking to students... the line monitor committee decided only tenting for the UNC game will be the best choice for this school year," said Head Line Monitor Mara Schultz, a senior.
She does not expect any changes to the policy before it is submitted to DSG for approval Nov. 15, Schultz added.
"The decision to only tent for UNC was based solely on the specifics of the schedule," said DSG President Elliott Wolf, a junior. "It shouldn't be perceived as a permanent thing."
UNC and Duke play each other twice each season, with the timing of the home games alternating every year.
In years when the second tenting game occurred after the UNC game-as it would have this season-attendance was very poor, said senior David Snider, DSG vice president of athletics and campus services.
The absence of worthy opponents in the ACC also contributed to the decision, he added.
"It's always an issue of picking the right opponent. Everything we do gets such publicity, you give too much credence to certain teams if you tent for them," he said. "There's a whole psychology."
Traditionally, the University of Maryland has been the second tenting game, but for the past two years, Wake Forest University was chosen instead.
"I think if there's enough competition in the ACC to have two legitimate games that everyone's going to want to come out and watch they should," said freshman Richard Murphey.
But line monitor Alec Macaulay, a senior, said he favors the new policy.
"If we're having a second tenting game that means we are forcing the tenters to be out for weeks for a game they'd normally just be out for 48 hours for," he said.
The draft also states that students who wish to secure an early spot in line this year will not be allowed to set up tents before Jan. 7-the day blue tenting starts.
Only daytime tenting will be allowed before Jan. 7, with at least two members present in Krzyzewskiville between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
"They're not allowed to erect tents because they're not allowed to sleep out there, so they'd have to remain on chairs on the sidewalk," Schultz said, adding that local line monitors may perform random, unannounced line checks.
This policy is intended to prevent self-regulation during pre-blue tenting, she explained.
Security on campus during winter break and weather conditions were also concerns, Snider said.
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