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Tonight, Duke students will have a chance to make history, engaging in one of the largest battles this campus has ever seen. Combat will be short and sweet, and in the end, either all or none will emerge victorious.
The last home game of the season is against the University of North Carolina Saturday, March 6 at 9 p.m. This is a tenting game, and tenters will receive priority for the game. There are currently around 57 tents lined up for Saturday's game, and there is still time to get into the tenting line. We will be accepting new tent registrations at all tent checks until Thursday at 3 p.m. Personal checks will take place Thursday night from 9 p.m. to 8 a.m. and Friday night from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. Each tenter must make three out of five personal checks called during these times to earn a wristband into the game. Personal checks also count as tent checks, so at least two people must make each of the five checks called during those times.
It's been a rough couple of weeks. First, RAMONA QUIMBY, AGE 38 faced a midterm that was so difficult that the only answer she completed was a crude anatomical diagram with an arrow and the caption "I've got your demand curve right here." She received partial credit. Next, RAMONA had to leave her tent in K-Ville following an unfortunate allergic reaction to body paint. RAMONA'S departure had been a long time coming; there had been whispered hints and cruel innuendoes for months of RAMONA having enjoyed a brief romantic liaison with Brad Daugherty and the consequent possibility of a conflict of interest. In the end, it was probably for the best that she left, as tensions had been running high. There isn't enough room in one Fisher-Price "Lil' Pioneer" tent for 12 headstrong college students. Or, for that matter, two golden retrievers; it's a pretty small tent.
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This Sunday, the men's basketball team takes on the University of Maryland at 4 p.m. in one of the biggest home contests of the year.
Most guys use "game" to attract girls. They play it suave, cool and don't call until Tuesday, Swingers-style. This, of course, is to create the illusion that they are more unattainable and less puppy-dog-esque than they indeed are.
I am writing to rebut Assistant Professor Transue's supposition that (the now legendary) "W" T-shirts were a divisive symbol at Cameron. I was one of the 25 to 30 people that came to the FSU game wearing "W" front and center. I had never attended a Duke game before, and frankly, the time pressures of law school were a strong restraint on my ever making it out to K-ville and Cameron. However, like many others, I was excited about the Duke Students For Bush, and was willing to make the sacrifices necessary to attend.
With the upcoming retirement of Director of Student Health Dr. William Christmas in June, administrators have begun to examine the future of Student Health Services at the University.
This Thursday, Jan. 29 at 9 p.m. the Duke men's basketball team hosts Florida State in a big ACC matchup in Cameron Indoor Stadium. The wristband policy will be in effect for this game. Beginning at 12:01 a.m., the line monitors will distribute wristbands in K-Ville to undergraduate students, and we will do this until 2 a.m. We will then continue wristband distribution from 10am-6pm. Beginning 3 hours before the game, those without wristbands may form a secondary line on the sidewalk heading towards Towerview. Those with wristbands must line up with their color block on the sidewalk next to Card Gym and Wilson Recreation Center.
You can go anywhere on a snow day at Duke. That old burnt-green landscaping melts into shades of white and gray--streaks of brown sand a mere ambulatory suggestion--the no-longer-roped-off distinctions of Path and No Path falling to the whim of a few venturous boots. Today holds the possibility--that grand, overlooked possibility--of walking straight down the grass from Crowell to the main quad, not deigning to choose left or right. Today sends you scrambling to find a new way up the chapel steps, the stone fixtures frozen into a slick ramp emptying on the icy blacktop. Suddenly even old ossified James B. Duke, his cigar's burning embers bearing little grains of ice, wears the countenance of a man ready to get up and go. After all, every once in a blue moon, even a WEL freezes over.
Maryland doesn't get to town for thirty-five more days and yet fourteen tents stand as a testament to the mild insanity afflicting Duke students. This isn't basketball fever, rather a virus known as "collective action failure" that plagues Duke, the U.S. and the world. While most returned ugly, Cosby-esque sweaters on Boxing Day, tent number one decided to set camp and begin to wait for the Terrapins. Shortly thereafter more tents appeared upon the green increasing the K-ville's population to over 140 goofy students. Their rooms sit empty while they inhabit temporary housing reminiscent of some refugee camp, except that refugees would much rather sleep indoors. Tenting is fun and worthwhile but Duke does not have a bed-bug infestation forcing students into tent cities.
This weekend, the Duke men's basketball team plays two big ACC games in Cameron Indoor Stadium against N.C. State and Wake Forest. The NC State game is at 9 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 15, and it is designated as a wristband game. Beginning at 12:01 a.m., the line monitors will distribute wristbands in K-Ville to undergraduate students, and we will do this until 2am. We will then continue wristband distribution from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Beginning three hours before the N.C. State game, those without wristbands may form a secondary line on the sidewalk heading towards Towerview. Those with wristbands must line up with their color block on the sidewalk next to Card Gym and Wilson.
Well another year has come and gone. Spring marks the mass return of most juniors who were abroad, the propping up of tents in K-Ville and quite a few seniors wondering what the heck they are going to do after May. I'm sure most had a good break and quickly forgot mostly all they learned first semester. However, a few things that happened last semester should be remembered and not forgotten. Towards the end of school last semester, the issue of student safety was becoming a hot-button topic for a lot of people (remember?) and hopefully it will remain so. This is something that should not be forgotten because of a long absence from school. This is not something that should be forgotten with the graduation and matriculation of new students. Anyone who enrolls at this school should always remember while we may feel isolated from the real world we are still very close to it.
Dressed in navy athletic shorts and a jersey bearing a Duke No. 10, wet hair tucked behind her ear and sinewy muscles rippling down her arms and legs, Heidi Hollenbeck looks like what she is: a Duke varsity athlete. The sophomore faces challenges every day of her life--and it's not always on the athletic field, where she plays midfield for the women's soccer team. She puts her heart into each practice and game, but she believes her primary mission lies beyond scoring the winning goal--in expressing the love of God and sharing that message with the greater Duke community. Spreading the Word is something she feels she was brought here to do first and foremost, above athletics. Before each game, Hollenbeck wraps athletic tape around her wrist, upon which she scribbles a Biblical verse or a cross. This visible mark serves as a reminder that religion is a part of everything in her life, including soccer.
Jonathan Ross raised excellent points in his column about Cameron Crazies last Wednesday. I disagree with a few, however, especially his concluding suggestion to eliminate tenting, an idea that has been gaining marginal support.
The Cameron Crazies better get ready, because this year the celebration in Krzyzewskiville is starting earlier than ever.
The rules for admission at Duke will soon be changing, and students who don't take the time to learn about them will be left out in the cold--the cold outside Cameron Indoor Stadium in February, that is.
Undergraduates hoping to see the men's basketball team play the University of Maryland and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this season will have to learn a few new rules about tenting before they hammer their stakes in Krzyzewskiville.