THEO HUXTABLE'S PROTEGE returns from spring break
A hearty welcome back to the Bull City of Durham, though, considering how many Duke undergraduates begin desperately counting the days to spring break by the beginning of February, I'm not sure how gleeful everyone is to be back. There are many reasons to be thrilled about returning to Duke, definitely, but then you do come back, only to find that "Duke Rocks" is still the men's basketball team's slogan for this year. My gosh! "Duke Rocks?" Is this 1997? What? Really, atop the list of People Who Should Be Fired, you'd have to put the guy who does the Duke basketball poster slogans. Other gems of his include "United," the Duke women's basketball slogan in 2001-2002, which turned out to be quite appropriate until two players transferred from the team a couple weeks after the posters came out. It still worked, but you had to cut their faces out of the picture like some bitter ex-girlfriend to make it make any sense. Maybe they should have gone with "Confederated" instead. Speaking of the Confederacy, another awesome Duke poster, from a few years ago, depicted the basketball players standing in front of a plantation house, with the caption, "Tradition." Umm--wow. But this guy's had some other recent hits as well. While "Deja Blue" was just a lame dud, the highlight has certainly been the one, the only, "Netrageous." It was the women's basketball slogan for 2000-2001. I have no idea what it means.