Dook students get tricked in self-mockery..CLASSIC

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A great read for the non-dookies out there.

 

HOW DUKE GOT PUNK'D

 

Blue Devils fans tricked into chant of self-mockery

By Brendan Lowe

 

January 28, 2005

 

DURHAM, N.C.  The Cameron Crazies, Duke University’s famous student

fan section, were bamboozled into chanting about a Duke scandal

involving a former crack cocaine dealer instead of criticizing

Terrapin forward Nik Caner-Medley as they had intended during

Wednesday’s night’s nationally televised Duke-Maryland basketball

game.

 

Upon entering Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke students received a cheer

sheet full of “The Dirt on Our Opponent - University of Maryland

Terrapins.†In the section on Caner-Medley, in addition to details

of his summer arrest in Maine, was a statement about his girlfriend â€â€Â

“NCM’s girlfriend is named Myra, and her pet name for him

is ‘Piggy.’â€ÂÂ

 

The Duke fans made oink noises and chanted “Piggy†not only while

Caner-Medley was attempting free throws but also throughout the game.

 

But the information about his girlfriend and her pet name for him

was false, planted by a person who wished for the Cameron Crazies to

embarrass themselves. If the Cameron Crazies had chanted “Myra

Piggy,†it would have sounded like “Myron Piggie,†the name of a

former basketball coach and crack cocaine dealer who pleaded guilty

to giving money to college basketball players, including former Blue

Devil Corey Maggette, in one of Duke’s scandals.

 

The prank worked, conceded Duke senior Stephen Rawson, the student

in charge of controlling student admission to games and passing out

the cheer sheets.

 

“We got hoodwinked on that,†he said. “Somebody pulled a fast one on

us.â€ÂÂ

 

A person claiming responsibility for the false information called

The Diamondback Thursday night. The caller, a 23-year-old male from

North Carolina who operated under the pseudonym “Lance Nichols,â€ÂÂ

said he received an e-mail copy of the cheer sheet for Duke’s last

home game against Virginia. At the bottom of the sheet is a screen

name, CheerSheets, that students can instant message to “contribute

for the next game.â€ÂÂ

 

“Nichols†made up a false screen name  JerseyKidatDuke  and by

answering several trivia questions about Duke campus life with the

help of his friend, a Duke graduate student, he was able to convince

the student monitoring the CheerSheets screen name that he was a

Duke student.

 

“Nichols†sent a copy of the alleged conversation to The

Diamondback, but it was not independently verified that the

conversation was legitimate.

 

The cheer sheets are not produced just for the Maryland game. Prior

to every Duke home game, a select group of students brainstorm and

solicit information from the Blue Devil community that the Cameron

Crazies can use against the opponent, Rawson said. Cheer sheets are

produced from this information and distributed to the students .

 

Aside from the bogus information, the cheer sheet for Wednesday

night’s game contained a lot of material for the Cameron Crazies’

creative juices.

 

From details on Caner-Medley’s summer arrest in Maine came pregame

chants of “Alcoholic!†During the game, while he was attempting a

free throw, Caner-Medley was treated to different bleacher sections

alternately bellowing “I’m from Maryland†and “Nobody can beat me†â€â€Â

the phrase he was heard shouting prior to his arrest.

 

After contemplating handing out bags of flour last year to replicate

the cocaine Terp guard D.J. Strawberry’s father, Darryl, once used,

the Cameron Crazies gave the injured sophomore a reprieve.

 

“D.J. Strawberry is entirely off limits, NO EXCEPTIONS,†the cheer

sheet read. “Just don’t go there. We’re classier than that.â€ÂÂ

 

While the Duke fans may not have used vulgarity against the Terps â€â€Â

as this university’s students did when the Blue Devils played in

College Park last January  the Cameron Crazies did not shy away

from ridiculing the Terps.

 

Williams, who is known to perspire heavily during games, was the

target of multiple “Sweat, Gary, Sweat!†chants, the same cheer that

provoked the coach to flick off the Cameron Crazies two years ago.

 

Duke sophomore Emily Bruckner suggested the differences between Terp

fans and her fellow Cameron Crazies.

 

“We try to keep the cheers classier,†she said. “We just try to

think of things that are more clever and funny and not just mean.â€ÂÂ

 

Given their repeated references to the bogus information on Caner-

Medley, the Cameron Crazies seemed to think they had a golden nugget

of information that fit Bruckner’s criteria. Rawson suggested the

students will use a thicker comb in the future to weed out false

facts.

 

“It’s a lesson to be learned,†he said. “We were enthusiastic about

getting something on Nik and maybe we got a little overzealous and

we’ll have to be a little more careful.â€ÂÂ