OUR HOUSE
FIRST K-VILLE
Today, K-Ville is managed by Line Monitors, governed by a set of bylaws updated annually, and
managed by Duke Student Government. Back then, order was maintained slightly differently!
How did you guys choose where to set up?
At first, we wanted to set up actually under the doorway of Cameron. You know there’s the archway and a roofed
area, and then there’s actually the inside of the building. We wanted to set up there, because the weather was
lousy. It was really cold, we were afraid it was going to rain. But then we thought that if we actually set up that
close, we’re going to get in trouble. So, we set up literally right outside that arch, where the first shrub is outside
the door. Part of our tent was leaning up against the doorway of Cameron.
How did you guys decide on the name “K-Ville”?
I can’t claim credit for that. I frankly don’t know which of the tenters came up with K-Ville. We just started call -
ing it that and we made a sign out of the bottom of a case of beer. Someone probably has that sign today, but I
don’t know where it is. The sign was made on a Saturday morning when the whole student body started getting
in line.
Did you guys get any response or reaction from University officials?
The only response we had from University officials was from Coach K, when he sent out a bunch of pizzas to us
on Friday afternoon. He felt sorry for us because we looked really cold! Later, he came by and brought Alaa (Ab-
delnaby) with him, who I believe was on a recruiting visit. So he brought him by, and here’s us a bunch of crazy
people in tents and I think Alaa just really didn’t know what to make out of it, but we got him so that’s a good
thing.
Did you ever think Krzyzewskiville would ever make it this big?
It’s unbelievable. I rarely talk about it or bring it up, but some of my friends, who know that I was involved in
the first one, will bring it up to mutual friends. The response I get is, you know everything I’ve ever done in my
life doesn’t compare! We didn’t have any expectations at all. All we cared about was getting into the game and
getting a good seat. It never even occurred to us whether this was going to happen again next year or how this
would work in the future. It never occurred to us. In fact, I remember coming back the next year when I was
a first year in law school at UVA, coming back and visiting two of the guys that I had tented with. I was just
amazed that people were doing this again. And now we look at this whole system, line monitors and DSG repre-
sentatives, it’s just astounding to me what it has come to.
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