Getting Back Up
(05/16/07 4:00am)
When Lindsey Harding crumpled to the floor after missing the two free throws that would have beaten Rutgers and advanced the Blue Devils to the Elite Eight, anyone could (almost) relate.
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When Lindsey Harding crumpled to the floor after missing the two free throws that would have beaten Rutgers and advanced the Blue Devils to the Elite Eight, anyone could (almost) relate.
After four years here, this is what I have to say: "Thanks, Duke. It's been fun, but I'd really like to go now." While many of my classmates will wax nostalgic in these, our last few weeks in college ("Can you believe this is the last time we'll be at Shooter's as Duke students?" "Aren't you going to miss the Plaza/BC Walkway in the springtime?"), I cannot help but ask myself, "What am I doing still going to Shooter's anyway?" and, "Why the heck did they build this thing again, and is that a glow-in-the-dark statue of Buddha? How very enlightened.."
On March 27th, the front page of The Chronicle screamed, "MEN'S LACROSSE TEAM FACES RAPE ALLEGATIONS."
The Campus Culture Initiative has become a catchphrase of sorts lately-added as a vague explanation for anything and everything. Aside from a couple of letters to the community, little-to-no concrete information has come out of the CCI.
It was the type of story we wanted to write but never thought we could. How could we do justice to "The Black Experience at Duke?"
JOE ALLEVA IS remarkably unremarkable. He's uniquely not unique. He's abnormally normal. And he's exceptionally unexceptional. Now, don't take any of that the wrong way. It's just that he values virtues like hard work, loyalty and kindness. Who doesn't? He speaks in sports clichés so often that it seems that he may be a living, breathing cliché himself. He is extremely rational and eternally optimistic. He lights up when he talks about his family, about gathering around a dinner table for a big holiday meal.
It's only Year One, A.L. (After Lacrosse, duh), and it's already getting hard to remember what we thought about Duke in those ancient B.L. years.
Brian Davis and Christian Laettner aren't the only Duke grads dabbling in the NBA franchise-buying business. In fact, they're not even the first to do it this year.
Some helpful tips:
Spend a little bit of time at Duke-much shorter than four years, a smidge longer than a PFrosh-and you'll meet some interesting people.
He drops a handful of quarters on the back bar at Charlie's Pub and Grille. "Pick out four of 'em," he says, the sleeves of his white T-shirt rolled up to his elbows. "Now, if you see, all of these quarters have eagles on the back. And what do eagles do? "Right. They fly. So, I'm going to lay them here in my left hand like so. One, two, three, four. And hold my other hand over here, and you'll see." He gently shakes his hand, palm face up with the quarters in plain view. What were once four are now three, and he opens his right hand to reveal. "One has flown over here." Incredulous grins can't help but creep on the faces of those assembled at the bar.
Playing in the World Series of Poker may be lucrative enough for some, but being sponsored at the event added a little cushion to Jason Strasser's bank account. Not that the senior needed it. Since 2004, when he began playing online in his Blackwell dorm room, he's earned enough money playing poker to put himself through college.
Hype is a curious thing.
This is just the beginning. Four months after allegations that lacrosse players raped a exotic dancer at an off-campus party surfaced, after three students were indicted by a grand jury, after Duke cancelled the team's season and its coach resigned, this is still just the beginning.
Elliott Wolf has never been much of a take-what-The-Man-tells-you-as-absolute-truth kind of guy. And now that he is The Man, the Duke Student Government president-elect doesn't expect you to, either.
Overheard in Durham
District Attorney Mike Nifong and the Durham Police Department provided details Wednesday that paint a fuller picture of the investigation surrounding the alleged rape involving members of the Duke men's lacrosse team.
Early Thursday morning, sophomore Wes Kuser was arrested by Duke University Police Department officers for first-degree burglary, assault on a government official and resisting arrest, said Lt. Sara-Jane Raines, administrative services executive officer for DUPD.
It seemed like Duke hit its stride at the beginning of the season. Apart from a mid-January stumble against Georgetown, the Blue Devils have been setting the pace at the head of the pack.
It was the last game they'd play at Cameron Indoor Stadium as Blue Devils. It was the last time they'd hear the deafening chants of the Cameron Crazies as they set their feet to shoot.