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Gay couple file lawsuit against Durham by

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Two Durham residents, Richard Mullinax and Perry Pike, filed a lawsuit Monday night against Durham County after they were denied a marriage license by Register of Deeds Willie Covington. The license request marked the first challenge to North Carolina’s policy, of not recognizing same-sex marriages and added fuel to the fire of what is shaping up to be a state-wide controversy. While the marriage license application explicitly asks about applicants’ ages and family relations, the only gender-specific items are the spaces for the name of the “bride” and “groom,” two tides generally referencing female and male applicants respectively. While the legal batde looms in Durham, Chapel Hill is preparing for a discussion of same-sex marriages of its own. The same day Mullinax and Pike filed their suit, Town Council member Mark Klineschmidt submitted a petition calling for the Town Council to adopt a resolution supporting the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. North Carolina General Statute 51-1 defines marriage as being characterized by the consent of a male and female. In SEE MARRIAGE ON PAGE 10

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Stundents and other Duke community members came together Wednesday afternoon to show their passion about the issue of sexual assaultaround campus.

Scream-in voices make issue audible by

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From a screaming crowd on the steps of the Duke Chapel to intimate discussion circles in McClendon Tower, members of the Duke community gathered-Wednesday to protest recent reports of sexual assault on campus and address the violence-related issues they see threatening the University.

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Pasha Majdi’s Cameron Crazy credentials are better than most. He’s been a member of tent No. 1 and usually has a seat at center court for every game. Already a leader in the stands, he now hopes to become the next leader of Duke Student Government. Although the Vienna, Va., native is an outsider to DSG, he currendy serves as communications coordinator for Campus Council under President Anthony Vitarelli, his opponent for the DSG presidency. Majdi believes, however, that his understanding of die average student is a greater asset than a long student government resume. “I have a really good sense of what people care about,” he said. “I talk to different people, I don’t just hang out in one particular circle Majdi explained that he had two major reasons for running—improving student life in direct response to concerns voiced by students and increasing the presence of the DSG president on campus. ‘There are some changes I need to make, which are simple and will affect students on a daily basis,” Majdi said. Such changes, he added, include removing breakfasts from the freshman board plan, amending the current ”

DSG presidential candidate Pasha Majdi hopes to improve student life in direct response to students' concerns.

Nearly 100 students, faculty members ianni shouted to the crowd, tears and administrators convened in front of streaming down her face. “These are the Chapel Wednesday afternoon for a screams of anger at the pervasiveness of “scream-in” protest —or what freshman orrape and violence towards women at ganizer Alessandra Colaianni called a “vis- Duke. These are the screams you do not ible and audible” manifestation of “the hear often enough.” Bearing white arm bands and waving sickening problem” of sexual assault. “These are the screams of women SEE SCREAM-IN ON PAGE 12 who are being sexually assaulted,” Cola-

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noise policy on Central Campus and allowing unaffiliated students to register and host parties. Majdi said he wants to be a new kind of president, taking on a more active role than those in the position traditionally have. “The DSG president’s other role is to be the leader of the student body, being visible, accessible, friendly and going around talking to people,” Majdi said. ‘That’s something we haven’t had while I’ve been at Duke—a visible leader that people can look to.” The reduced course load taken by DSG presidents, he believes, will provide him with the time he needs to make his goals a reality. By reaching out to his peers, Majdi said he aims to make DSG more responsive to students’ needs and less influenced by administrators. “I will prioritize by what students want the most,” he said. “A DSG president shouldn’t be worried as much about what Larry [Moneta] thinks as what students think.” Majdi, a public policy and philosophy double-major, is the former social chair of the selective living group Maxwell House. During his month-and-a-half tenure «s SEE

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WASHINGTON President George W. Bush’s former counterterrorism chief, Richard Clarke, testified Wednesday to the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks that the Bush administration had largely ignored the threat from al Qaeda prior to the attacks. That prompted members of the commission to divide along sharply partisan lines as they quesdoned Clarke. As Republican members openly questioned Clarke’s truthfulness and Democrats defended an official who helped direct counterterrorism strategy

for nearly a decade, Clarke testified that the Bush administration had not treated counterterrorism as an “urgent issue” before the Sept. 11 attacks. But in a different tone in the hushed hearing room, Clarke began his testimony by telling the victims’ families: “Your government failed you. Those entrusted with protecting you failed you. And I failed you. We tried hard. But that doesn’t matter, because we failed. And for that failure, I would ask, once all the facts are out, for your understanding and for your forgiveness.” Clarke’s appearance before the commission, which is in the final weeks of an investigation of intelligence and law-

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The European Commission issued an antitrust ruling against Microsoft Wednesday that was intended to force the company to change its fundamental business strategy of bundling new products into its Windows operating system, which runs more than 90 percent of all personal computers. The ruling imposed a $603 million fine on the company. It also required Microsoft to offer a version ofWindows without its Media Player and divulge technical information to competitors so that they can create software for business servers that would work well with Windows. The impact on the future of the global software indus-

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Counterterrorism officials in Greece's rough neighborhood are concerned al Qaeda may be plotting attacks on the summer Olympics from elsewhere in the southernBalkans.

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Four battle for academic affairs been shortchanged. “Nobody’s really talking about THE CHRONICLE academics,” he said, adding that Two candidates work on Duke even when students are dissatisfied, there is little emphasis on Student Government committees, one leads Speak of the Devil making changes to academics. Smith, also a freshman, wants and one serves on his dorm’s house council. Despite their varto address academic freedom and ied interests, these candidates political diversity within the Unishare a passion for the improveversity’s faculty. Smith sees herself ment of academic life at Duke. as an intermediary between orChristopher Chin, David ganizations such as the Duke Fiedler, Chase Johnson and Conservative Union and the adMegan Smith are all vying for for ministration to address the probDSC vice president of academic lem of academic freedom. affairs, one of the organization’s “I support a committee of facmost important spots. ulty, staff and students, because Chin, a sophomore, sees stueach has a perspective on how to dent support as crucial to effectfollow through,” Smith said. She ing change with DSC. hopes that the establishment of “When you’re sitting across the such a committee will help to table from Provost [Peter] Lange work through problems of academic freedom at Duke. or [Trinity] Dean [Robert] Each candidate expressed enThompson, how you really get things done is by having the stu- thusiasm for the upcoming elecdents behind you,” he said. By tion and saw the position as away to make a change at the University. mobilizing the student body behind important issues, he hopes As in previous years, the issue to build DSG’s clout. of course evaluations seems to be Fiedler hopes to change the at the forefront of this year’s elecUniversity’s policy on partial credit tion. Currently, course evaluafor labs. He argues that science tions are available on ACES students spend just as much time through an opt-in system in which on outside classwork as humanities they appear if a professor chooses students and should be compento post them. If not, they remain sated for extra time spent in lab. unavailable for students’ use. “When you look at ACES, my “It defeats the purpose and science class has a Monday, their use should be addressed,” Wednesday, Friday lecture just said Chin, expressing a sentiment like a humanities class, but I have shared by all four candidates, who a three hour lab and outside work all prefer an opt-out system infor lecture too,” said Fiedler, a stead in which course evaluations freshman. In his opinion, giving would be posted unless a profespartial credit to lab courses will sor specifically requested them to s compensate science students for be withheld. extra time spent in class. Although the candidates agree Johnson plans to focus on im- on the use of course evaluations, proving students’ perception of they are quite divided over the DSG. The junior hopes to restore issue of experience as crucial to a faith in DSG by changing Universuccessful run as vice president of sity policy to benefit the stu- academic affairs. dents, whom he sees as “conIn this year’s election, both sumers of knowledge” who have Chin and Smith have DSG experiby

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DSG,” Smith said, Fiedler and Johnson, however, said they have confidence in themselves and see their inexperience as a benefit rather than a setback because of the new ideas they hope to bring to the table.

Discussion of the recent reports of sexual assaults on campus echoed throughout Wednesday night’s Duke Student Government meeting as senators passed several resolutions designed to improve campus safety. They also passed an extensive set of recommendations aimed at reforming premajor advising. Alex Niejelow, vice president of facilities and athletics, gave an impassioned speech to the Senate chastising the Duke University Police Department and the University administration for not alerting students to the sexual assaults that reportedly took place last weekend. “The fact that many members of our community learned of this through local media and frantic phone calls from their parents is wrong,” Niejelow said, punctuating his speech with incredulous glances at the crowd. When he criticized the administration for acting quickly to increase student fees while dragging its feet in dealing with safety issues, he drew applause and cheers from the group. “Is that the kind of security you’re asking them to pay for?” he asked. Following Niejelow’s speech, the Senate passed three of his committee’s resolutions—one supporting more campus lighting, one advocating trimming back shrubbery and one regarding the DUPD. The third resolution called for increased professional security officers and urged DUPD not to expand their patrol jurisdiction to off campus until on-campus safety increases. “This is legislation we’ve been working on for the entire year and is not a rash reaction to the weekend’s events,” Niejelow said. SEE DSG ON PAGE 9

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Residents include those who have won a Pulitzer prize or published novels and textbooks. They may have written “The Healing Power of Qi” or “A History of the Modern World,” all books available in the Residents in Print section of The Forest at Duke’s library. They may have even previously been presidents of colleges, heads of departments, or admirals, or even dentists, physicians, and internationally renowned medical researchers. The one thing they all share, however, is the desire for community during the remainder of their lives. To students who will ultimately move beyond Duke, it might seem an incredible commitment to stay in one place. But The Forest at Duke tenants have signed an agreement to reside here until death bids them part. For many, the sense of community helps them evade loneliness and depression from the loss of a loved one. come a “You know these things are coming, and they’re part of the continuum they’re on,” said Corning about the notion of death for the residents. “Most people really celebrate the wonderful memories and lament they won’t have them around to share life with.” The collective experiences of the group with death, she added, make them a “built-in support group.” Paul Bryan, former director of the Duke Wind Symphony and a resident at The Forest at Duke, advises the elderly to consider The Forest at Duke’s community before they anticipate the need. “If it’s possible for you to come into a place like this, then go before you have to,” said Bryan, who has lived in The Forest at Duke for two years with his wife Virginia Bryan, former academic dean of the natural sciences. “Feeling good enough to be a part of the community, I have a couple things I do—I feel like I belong. My wife feels

the same, but there are some other people who have some difficult physical problems, that one of these days might have real trouble. If they had been [here] sooner, they would have had a community they could reach out to.” A resident who recendy passed away, a former lawyer, is a good example ofwhy many believe it is unfortunate to arrive at the home only to pass away so soon. Affectionately remembered, Corning believes this woman could have contributed in an immense way to the intellectual atmosphere of the community. “She had been the first woman to practice law in the state of Georgia, and she practiced until she was 90,” Corning said. But for professor emeritus Paul Bryan and his wife Virginia, they have the chance to remain active and enjoy a community of remarkable people without the usual burdens of the final stretch oflife. “[Before The Forest at Duke] you for to begin to look around and say I can’t live [in my current home] forever because like somebody will have to take care of me,” said Bryan. “One of the things most of you have us recognize is, if we don’t move into a Paul place, our children are going to have to take care of us and that’s not fair for our children.” Their desire to avoid putting a burden on their children factored into their decision to come to The Forest at Duke. Bryan said he realized from personal experience how difficult it had been for his wife to take care ofher parents. “When they died, we had to help clean the place out. It had been up to us to take care of them five days a week. You love people, but it’s nothing you would wish on somebody else,” he said. Bryan, who is 84, and his wife, who is 80, first heard about the intentions to build The Forest at Duke 15 years ago. Since attending an informational meeting about living there, they have come to treasure their part in The

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Tucked away on Pickett Road, just minutes away from Duke’s campus, is a haven for some of the most unexpected basketball fans. At around 6:15 p.m. on a recent Wednesday, the gates of The Forest at Duke open to let out a busload of Blue Devil aficionados depardng for Cameron Stadium. The passengers don’t have their faces painted blue and white. They are not shouting obscene game cheers or remotely thinking about setting up a tent in front of Krzyzewskiville. But these 70-, 80- and 90-year-old Cameron Crazies have been looking forward to watching the basketball team collect another win the entire week. The roots of this tradition began in 1994 when a group of Duke professors came together to plan a meaningful retirement home with daily communal activities for the elderly. ‘They tried to work with the Duke Institute for Aging to develop a cutting edge retirement community,” said Beth Corning, Forest at Duke director of marketing. The idea was to create “a university atmosphere where active seniors who want the benefit of a university atmosphere and resources of a hospital can live.” But what exactly is The Forest at Duke, and what purpose does it serve in the Duke community? Some think of it as a glorified nursing home. For students of Professor Emeritus Robert Ballantyne’s Psychology of Work class, who each year are taken to The Forest at Duke during their “Planning for Retirement” section, the residential complex is a case study. And plenty ofretired University professors and notables from 31 states call it home. One of the things The Forest at Duke provides for people who have achieved great success in their personal and professional lives is the opportunity to continue engaging themselves in learning and growing with the support of others like themselves. ‘There is the opportunity for socialization,” said Coming. “By themselves seniors get depressed because at home they’re eating by themselves or cooking for Fred who can’t hear anymore, and their nutrition suffers. Here, people are gaining weight, and becoming partners in the community.”

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Atheist brings argument to Supreme Court by

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WASHINGTON Michael Newdow stood before the of the justices Supreme Court Wednesday, pointed to one of the courtroom’s two American flags, and declared: “I am an atheist. I don’t believe in God.” With passion and precision, he then proceeded to argue his own case for why the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in his daughter’s public school classroom violates the Constitution as long as the pledge contains the words “under God.” Newdow, a nonpracticing lawyer who makes his living as an emergency-room doctor, may not win his case. In fact, justices across the ideological spectrum appeared to be searching for reasons why he should lose, either on jurisdictional grounds or on the merits.

But no one who managed to get a seat in the courtroom is likely ever to forget his spellbinding performance. That includes the justices, whom Newdow engaged in repartee that, while never disrespectful, bore a closer resemblance to dinner-table one-upsmanship than to formal courtroom discourse. For example, when Newdow described “under God” as a “divisive” addition to the pledge, Chief Justice William Rehnquist asked him what the vote in Congress had been 50 years ago when the phrase was inserted. The vote was unanimous, Newdow said “Well, that doesn’t sound divisive,” the chief justice observed. Newdow shot back, “That’s only because no atheist can get elected to public office.” The courtroom audience broke into applause, an exceedingly rare event that left the chief justice temporarily non-

plussed. He appeared to collect himself for a moment, and then sternly warned the audience that the courtroom would be cleared “if there’s any more clapping.” Earlier, Newdow responded to Justice Stephen Breyer’s suggestion that “under God” had acquired such a broad meaning and “civic context” that “it’s meant to include virtually everybody, and the few whom it doesn’t include don’t have to take the pledge.” “I don’t think that I can include ‘under God’ to mean ‘no God,”’ Newdow replied. “I deny the existence of God.” He added: “Government needs to stay out of this business

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The current Pledge of Allegiance was defended by Solicitor General Theodore Olson and by Terence Cassidy, the lawyer for the Elk Grove school district in California where Newdow’s daughter attends elementary school. Both lawyers were appealing a decision won by Newdow in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, in San Francisco. That court ruled last year that the addition of “under God” turned the pledge into a “profession of religious belief’ and made it constitutionally unsuitable for daily recitation in the public schools. One justice, Antonin Scalia, was sharply critical of the appeals court’s ruling in a speech he gave before the case reached the Supreme Court. As a result, Newdow asked Scalia to recuse himself, and the justice complied, without comment, when the court accepted the case in October. His absence raises the prospect of a 4-4 tie, which would automatically affirm the 9th Circuit’s ruling without setting a binding precedent elsewhere. Olson told the justices that the appeals court misunderstood the pledge. The phrase “under God” did not place the pledge in the category of religious expressions that the Supreme Court has found unconstitutional, he said, for example, “state-sponsored prayers, religious rituals or ceremonies, or the requirement of teaching or not teaching a religious doctrine.”

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HAWARA CHECKPOINT, West Bank A Palestinian teenager, identified as Hussam Abdo, wore an oversized red jersey as he approached Israeli soldiers who had gotten a tip about a suicide bomber at this crowded checkpoint Wednesday. Suddenly the soldiers saw something bulge under his top. The Israelis dashed behind concrete barricades, pointed their guns at the youth and ordered him to stop. On their instructions, he took off his jersey, revealing a bulky, gray bomb vest—and setting off a tense encounter. “He told us he didn’t want to die. He didn’t want to blow up,” said Lt. Tarair Milrad. Members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in the Balata refugee camp next to Nablus claimed responsibility for the latest in a series of foiled attacks on Israel by Palestinian youths. Al-Aqsa is loosely linked to Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement. Abdo’s family saidhe was gullible and easily manipulated. “He doesn’t know anything [about politics], and he has the intelligence of a 12 year old,” said his brother, Hosni. Abdo, though 16, looked far younger, and the Israeli military initially said it believed he was 10. His family said he acted strangely Tuesday, giving candy to them and to neighbors and refusing to explain why. Since the Israeli assassination ofHamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin Monday, Israel has been on high alert. Hamas has killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks in recent years. Wednesday’s confrontation began about 4 p.m. when soldiers at the Hawara checkpoint outside Nablus received intelligence a bomber was there. They shut down the crossing and began searching hundreds of people there, the military said. Suddenly Abdo, wearing the jersey, approached them. ‘We saw that he had something under his shirt,” Milrad said. The soldiers, taking cover behind the barriers, sent a yellow army robot to bring scissors to the teenager so he could cut off the vest. Abdo, visibly frightened and confused, cut off part of the vest and struggled with the rest. T don’t how to get this off,” he said in frustration before successfully removing it. Soldiers ordered him to take off his undershirt and pull down his jeans to make sure he had no other weapons. Then they arrested him. Sappers blew up the vest, which the army said was an 18-pound bomb. The military said Abdo’s mission was to kill soldiers at the crowded checkpoint. “In addition to the fact that he would have harmed my soldiers, he would have also harmed the Palestinians waiting at the checkpoint, and there were 200 to 300 innocent Palestinians there,” said the commander of the checkpoint, who identified himself only as Lt. Col. Guy. Several teenagers have carried out suicide bombings over the past three-and-a-half years, and there has been recent concern that militant groups were turning to younger attackers to elude Israeli security checks. On March 16, Israeli troops stopped an 11-year-old boy allegedly trying to smuggle explosives through the same checkpoint. Israel said militants had given the boy the explosives without his knowledge, either to ferry across the checkpoint or to be blown up by remote control when he got near soldiers. Palestinians and the boy disputed this, claiming the bag he was carrying—which was blown up by army sappers—contained auto parts. Last month, Israeli police arrested three boys, aged 12, 13 and 15, who said they were on their way to carry out a shooting attack in Israel. “No matter how many times Israel learns of the use of children for suicide bombings, it is shocking on each occasion,” said Dore Gold, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. “Israelis do not understand how Palestinians are willing to sacrifice their own children in order to kill ours.” Physicians for Human Rights also condemned the militants’ use of children, calling it “illegal and immoral.” After the incident Wednesday, the army brought out Abdo, who appeared shaken but defiant, to be photographed by the media. Reporters interviewing him were only allowed to ask his name, age and grade. Maj. Sharon Feingold, an army spokesperson, said reporters were not allowed to question Abdo “for intelligence reasons.”

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COMMISSION from page 2 devise a comprehensive framework to deal with al Qaeda,” and he discussed how Bush insisted on having Tenet brief him personally each morning on threats to the United States. Tenet said thousands of people spent years trying to combat the evolving threat from Islamic radicals, but he acknowledged that the intelligence agencies “did not penetrate the plot that led to the murder of 3,000 men and women that Tues-

day morning.”

He described a government that throughout the years leading up to the attacks “raced from threat to threat to threat” without addressing systemic problems in intelligence gathering, law enforcement and domestic security. “It’s not cridcizing anybody,” Tenet said. “But the moral of the story is, if you take in those measures systematically over the course of time and closed seams, you might have had a better chance of succeeding stopping, deterring or disrupting. Clarke’s testimony drew another furious round of denunciations from the White House, which has said Clarke is lying about its counterterrorism record in an effort to sell his newly published memoirs. Administration officials have accused him ofmotivations beyond greed, suggesting that he also wanted to help the presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry, DMass., the presumptive Democratic nominee, by undermining efforts of Bush’s re-election campaign to promote his record in combating terrorism. At a briefing with reporters called specifically to answer Clarke’s testimony, Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, cited past statements in which Clarke had defended the administration’s ”

counterterrorism policies. Clarke was offering “two very different pictures here, and the fact of the matter is, these stories can’t be reconciled,” Rice said. Republican members of the bipartisan 10-member commission joined in the fray, with three pounding Clarke about what they said were discrepancies between what he he had written in his book and was saying now about Bush and what he has said in the past, including what he said in classified interviews with the commission. ‘You have a real credibility problem, and because ofmy genuine real long-term admiration for you, I hope you’ll resolve that credibility problem,” said John Lehman, a Republican member of the panel who was Navy secretary in the Reagan administration. Without detailing the classified testimony, Lehman said that there was “real inconsistency between what your promoters are putting out and what you yourself said” to the panel. Td hate to see you shoved aside during a presidential campaign as an active partisan selling a book,” he said. Clarke insisted that he was telling the truth in his book and that he had told the truth to the commission. He said that in 15 hours of private testimony to the panel, no one had asked him about the U.S. invasion of Iraq, an issue that he said framed his harsh criticism of the Bush administration. “No one asked me what I thought about the president’s invasion of Iraq,” he said. “The reason that I am strident in my criticism of the president of the United States is that by invading Iraq—something I was not asked by the commission—but by invading Iraq, the president of the United States has greatly undermined the war on terrorism.” Elisabeth Bimiller contributed to this article

MICROSOFT from page 2 But the ruling could set profound new ground rules for Microsoft in Europe, and perhaps in other markets around the world, as well. If upheld on appeal, it would leave Microsoft with a regulator in Europe standing over its shoulder, scrutinizing what it puts into future generations of Windows and what it leaves out. The antitrust settlement the company reached with the George W. Bush administration in 2001,

by comparison, merely gives personal computer manufacturers the ability to

place rival software on the Windows desktop, but does not require that Microsoft’s bundled software features be removed from Windows. On its own, the European ruling might be seen largely as a nuisance to Microsoft. Yet it comes as other forces are also weakening Microsoft’s grip on desktop computers. Beyond the moves to open the Windows desktop to rivals, Microsoft faces growing competition from Linux, an operating system that is distributed free. Even more important, a shift in computing from the personal computer to technologies from cell phones to Internetbased services offered by companies like Google threatens Microsoft’s dominance. “The significance of Europe is not the decision itself, but it adds to the other pressures on Microsoft,” said David Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard Business School. Those pressures may be having some effect. There are signs that Microsoft has altered its practices since the settlement with the Bush administration—and the European ruling could provide a further motivation.

Industry analysts note that work on the company’s next generation of Windows, expected in 2006 or 2007, emphasizes programming code as building blocks, or modules, that can be removed and snapped into the larger program. This approach may be paving the way for the day when Microsoft shifts away from its bundling approach. Skeptics, however, note that Microsoft may be adopting this approach simply because it needs to be able to locate and combat security flaws in Windows more easily. Other analysts say that the Microsoft division responsible for MSN Web sites and not the Windows division—is working to develop a Web search service to compete with Google. Of course, ultimately the new search product could still be folded into Windows. Critics and competitors contend that the company, having long used the bundling strategy to protect and extend its Windows monopoly into other software products, will not significantly change its approach. “How do you really deter Microsoft from pursuing this bundling strategy when they have bet the company on it?” asked Andrew Gavil, an antitrust expert at the Howard University law school in Washington. —

Timothy Bresnahan, a professor at Stanford University, was chief economist for the Justice Department’s antitrust division during the Clinton administration. He said, “Microsoft sees a new product and says, ‘We were about to invent that, too,’ comes up with its version and bundles the software into Windows.” The result, he added, is that “the early leader in some promising new technology is bundled out of the market.” “It’s an innovation tax that is a problem for society,” Bresnahan said.

Bhangra may be the most popular South Asian dance form in the U.S., but there are dozens of dance styles, such as the classical Bharatanatyam, that are a strong part of the South Asian culture. Come see both classical and popular dance performances this evening!

Free South Asian dinner and dance performances by Duke South Asian student groups TONIGHT in LSRC Cafe at 7pm The Indian film industry, often termed “Bollywood,” is based in Bombay, or Mumbai. The Indian film industry produces more movies every year than any other country in the world. Come get a taste of Bollywood this evening watching a suspenseful film (120 min, English subtitles) released in 2003.

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Campus Council and other groups, President Tom Kuhn got a sense for the candidate’s organizational style. “I think working with Pasha is mostly an educational experience,” he said. “He learns all the facts... and explains [them] very clearly.” If he is elected the next president of DSC, Majdi’s said his attention to detail will help him address his other priorities, which include using DSC money to foster the oncampus social scene, improving race relations and fighting eating disorders. He claimed many undergraduates consider eating disorders to be one of the biggest campus problems but few know what to do about it. He plans to help work toward a solution by using the approach of getting out of the office and going door to door. “Think how powerful it will be if the leader of the student body is going around talking to people for hours,” Majdi said.

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The resolution also calls for the creation of a oneyear standing University committee—modeled after the Curriculum 2000 Committee—to formally examine the problems in pre-major advising. Avery Reaves, vice president of academic affairs, said that the recommendations came out ofmonths of discussions with deans and other administrators and that they had the support of the University. Freshman Megan Smith, who helped Reaves present the legislation, noted that the recommendations were

comprehensive.

“This resolution does not necessarily confront all the reforms that we may need to make, and some of it may not work,” she said, pointing to the committee as a safeguard to deal with further issues. IN OTHER BUSINESS: Legislators passed a resolution from the Community Interaction Committee calling for the Office ofInformation Technology to set up a website where undergraduates can register to assist graduate students with their research. The website will also include message boards for graduate students to answer questions. Sophomore Russ Ferguson, who proposed the legislation, said he had the support of the Graduate and Professional Student Council but had not yet discussed the proposal with OIT. DSG also approved budgetary statutes for several upcoming events and the charter of a chemistry club.

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His plan reflects his enthusiasm, a quality many who collaborate with Majdi notice most. “I think [Majdi] has incredible spirit and has demonstrated more affection for Duke than any 10 students put together,” said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. “He would equally make a wonderful leader.” Junior Merrill Roller, who was captain of Majdi’s tent last year, described him as the ideal student because of his love of basketball and student life. “Pasha has the greatest enthusiasm of any kid at school,” he said. Enthusiasm, however, is not the only quality Majdi sees as contributing to his credentials as a presidential candidate. “I’m passionate but also savvy,” he said. “I won’t be running into a board room screaming." Majdi hopes his energy and poise will make him a leader in—and out of—the board room. “Leadership is much more than what you can do in a meeting,” he said.

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COULD THIS HAPPEN TO YOU? Two frogs dwelt in the same pool. When the pool dried up under the

summer's heat, they left it and set out together for another home. As they went along they chanced to pass a deep well, amply supplied with water, and when they saw it, one of the Frogs said to the other, “Let us descend and make our abode in this well: it will furnish us with shelter and food.” The other replied with greater caution, “But suppose the water should fail us. How can we get out again from so great a depth?” Do nothing without a regard to the consequences.

THINK NOT? READ IT ONE MORE TIME... Two Dukies were taking the same classes. When tenting started, pledging began, and midterms hit, these classes got more difficult. Thus the two Dukies went out looking for ways to lighten their load. As the semester rolled on, they come across several options, some promising to make the midterm paper a breeze. One of the Dukies was particularly struck by the options available. “Grab-a Paper.com” had plenty of papers, this Dukie thought, just asking to be downloaded and submitted as his own work; after all, he had a demanding second-semester schedule. The other Dukie, however, did not choose to make use of “Grab-a-Paper.com,” thinking that this choice was not worth the risk. What about the consequences of this action?

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THINK ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES: THEY MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE. HERE’S WHAT A FEW DUKIES, CAUGHT IN THIS SITUATION, HAD TO SAY... “There is an honor code, I signed it, and rules are not rules unless...applied and implemented.... Any one who enjoys the luxury of freedom should not hesitate to take responsibility for their actions....That, I feel, is a very great truth, and one I would rather be penalized by than watch slip away slowly beneath the shadow of subjectivity.” “I regretfully admit that I am guilty ofthe alleged violation of ethics [by committing] Academic Dishonesty.. .1 won’t compound this problem by lying or attempting to mitigate the reasons for what I did. I simply chose the easy path.” “I know what I did was wrong. Out ofall the choices I had to complete my work, I chose the worst

possible course of action.” “Yesterday was probably the most degrading and psychologically traumatizing experience of my life. I was incarcerated [for stealing]. While I was in the holding cell, I had all the time to think in the world.. ..I asked myself if what I did was wrong, and my answer was a well-thought out YES. Thereafter I asked myself the question that I needed to know before I could fully explain it to someone else, ‘Why?’” “I made a mistake, there’s no denying that. Anything does not describe how much I would not to rectify this situation. I want my degrees from Duke University more than anything.” Dean of Students Office luke University

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In a floor vote, the body also called for University administration to institutionalize the late night safe ride service from the Blue Zone. The temporary program, which costs about $40,000 per year to maintain, was implemented earlier this academic year as part of increased security measures. Sophomore Paige Sparkman, who presented the resolution on behalf of several members of the Student Affairs Committee, noted that the proposal was in planning stages before the alleged sexual assaults this past weekend. It was presented from the floor rather than through traditional channels in order for DSG to act quickly, she said. “We really wanted to lump the safety stuff together,” Sparkman said, “and show that DSG is being very proactive about safety on this campus and that is really is one of our priorities and one of the students’ priorities.” DSG also unanimously passed a detailed bill from the Academic Affairs Committee that recommended reforms of pre-major advising. Highlights of the plan include increasing the number of pre-major advisors by targeting junior faculty members, requiring more extensive training for advisors and compiling a centralized database of freshman classes and of various major

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ly. Klineschmidt was confident, however that the Chapel Hill Town Council would adopt the resolution.

1995 the General Assembly further clarified the definition of marriage with the “I have a great deal of support on the Defense of Marriage Act, General Statue council and I also have support from our 51-1.2, which explicidy denies legal recoglegislative delegation in Orange County,” nition of same-sex marriages. Klineschmidt said. While Klineschmidt recognizes that Opponents of same-sex marriage are the resolution will not legalize same-sex critical of Klineschmidt’s petition. “[Repealmarriage in North Carolina, he said it ing DOMA] would be detrimental to North Carolina because it might allow individuals who receive would greatly weaken [of marmarriage licenses in “For them to step out is a the institution other states to seek said riage],” John recognition here model of courage for every- Rustin, director of gov“As one of the few ernment relations for one that everyone should all the N.C. Family Policy openly gay elected officials in North learn from and appreciate.” Council. Rustin conCarolina, tended that heterosexupeople Mark Klineschmidt al marriages create the have been contacting me and asking me optimal environment for what can we do raising children. here,” Klineschmidt said. “[lncluding same“The burden from a legal standpoint is sex couples in the definition of marriage] is on the individuals who are challenging the law to prove there is no rational basis for the necessary to make sure that all of my conlaw,” Rustin said. “They are unable to prove stituents have the opportunity to access resources in an equitable way.... [The resoluthat there are overriding societal benefits tion] results in enormous conversation.” from expanding the definitionof marriage.” Klineschmidt said he had not known State legislators may take the state’s curabout Mullinax and Pike’s effort to obtain rent stance on same-sex marriage one step a marriage license Monday when he subfurther: N.C. Sen. Jim Forrester is expected mitted the petition, but said that the timto propose an amendment to the North Carolina constitution banning same-sex ing was “a joyous coincidence.” “For them to step out is a model of marriages. While technically the amendcourage for everyone that we should all ment would likely do nothing more than learn from and appreciate,” Klineschmidt solidify current law, it would be a preempsaid. “It’s unfortunate that the laws are tive move to deter others from challenging such that they are unable to realize their the constitutionality of the state’s position. dream to get married here in North CarKlineschmidt said he was not discourolina. Hopefully one day we’ll be able to aged by the lack of audience at the state make that change. level. ‘Those of us who care about that Klineschmidt said that unless other issue should not refrain from discussing communities adopt similar agenda items them even in the face of enormous chalencouraging the repeal of DOMA, action lenge,” he said. “

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Forest at Duke community. “We liked it, we put a thousand dollars down, and we waited for 10 years,” he said. ‘When a place came open, they called us to let us know we could move in. We came and looked at it, and said now’s the time, now’s the place. So we moved next door to our long-time neighbor and friends.” He enjoys the company of his neighbor, who was once head of the German department, and plays duets with his neighbor’s wife, a piano and organ player. When Bryan is not playing on his euphonium, he finds the time to meet new residents, attend concerts given by the Chamand those ber Music Society, performances special to The Forest at Duke. It isn’t rare for him to know or introduce the acts. “Yesterday, there was a first-class pianist. Absolutely first class,” he said. “And next there is a guy coming who was a former student of mine, who played in the Wind Symphony and went on to a career as a professional trombonist.” Among The Forest at Duke’s many highlights, Bryan has only one complaint. “Sometimes, I lose track of what happens here, when I go over [to campus].” He falls out of the loop because he splits his time between The Forest at Duke and Duke’s music library, for his continuing work in musicology. Most residents, however, do not have many complaints, but rather only positive experiences at The Forest at Duke. Margaret Sanford, wife of former University president Terry Sanford, enjoys chatting with University students performing in The Forest at Duke choral concerts. Carol Oettinger, a nurse who

worked for the Peace Corps in Fiji, especially looks forward to the exciting new ways in which the cafe has prepared the salmon. And Willie May Jones, who suffers from macular degeneration, lives happily in a well-lit apartment that lets in every ray of sunshine. Residents like Bryan, Sanford, Oettinger and Jones can continue living a meaningful life primarily because of the security The Forest at Duke provides. ‘You could literally move to The Forest at Duke, be blind, not able to drive and have everything you need here,” said Corning. “You age in place. People can have the freedom to live their lives to the fullest.” Unfortunately, The Forest at Duke apartments and cottages are available on a very limited basis. Complemented by luxuries like an auditorium, bank, barber shop, aquatics and fitness center, wood refmishing shop, and pond stocked with fish, The Forest at Duke requires significant financial planning. This financial foresight is extremely necessary for anyone who wishes to enjoy the security and provisions of such a residential complex. The problem for many of the Psychology of Work students touring the grounds, however, is that they have rarely expressed concern over retirement planning—these students who expect to earn salaries that dwarf most of their parents only a year after college do not think financing something like The Forest at Duke will be a problem. Coming’s advice to them is to realize the precariousness of life. “Life doesn’t come out the way you expect, so you have to plan for it... especially to live in a place like this. If I had dropped $lO a week into a bucket, instead of a meal at Wendy’s, and put the money into a bank, I wouldn’t be working right now,” she said.

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These were Jesus’ last words on the cross (The Gospel of John 19:30). But what did he mean? What exactly is finished? As those in the Duke community who are followers of Jesus, we believe Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection finished some of the greatest struggles in life. No longer do we i.

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Death is the common human experience— all of us die. Through his resurrection, however, Jesus overcame the finality of death for himself and offers the same for all. Knowing this we no longer fear physical death but instead we look forward with hope to eternity with God in heaven.

3. Live without an ultimate answer for the injustice in the world Despite the great injustice and suffering present in the world, we know that Jesus’ death paved the way for healing. One day all injustices will be made right. Knowing this gives us hope even as we try to right present injustices.

4. Experience separation from the One who made us Though we are created by God and live in his world, each of us is alienated from him. Our “sin” our selfishness, our refusal to honor God as God, our moral failures keeps us from him. Yet because of God’s kindness towards us we can be restored into a loving relationship with our Creator, since Jesus took our deserved punishment on himself when he died. -

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signs, the protesters screamed for five minutes as passerbys stopped to stare and curious students peered out classroom windows. It was exactly the effect protester liana Jacobs had hoped for. “I just want to raise awareness among [people] to tell them this [issue] is something important to us,” said Jacobs, a freshman. “I want to let them know this is important to me.... I walk alone, I jog alone and in a community as small as Duke, more should be put into protecting students.” Many students at the protest expressed anger that there was a four-day lapse between Friday night when the first assault occurred and Tuesday afternoon when the administration sent a mass e-mail to the Duke community reporting the assaults. In response to this complaint, University administrators and Duke University Police Department officials defended and explained their actions to students during back-to-back discussion forums Wednes-

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first because that’s the way we got the word out [to everyone],” he said. “I think a decision that we’ve made today is that we’re no longer going to let the media know something that the community doesn’tknow first.” Moneta also explained that a series of technology failures prolonged the time it took for the e-mail to reach its recipients by almost a day. He initially sent the message Monday afternoon, but its delivery was “somehow interrupted.” “It wasn’t discovered until Tuesday mornJOHN MILLER/THE CHRONICLE ing that it didn’t go out,” Moneta said. “[The Students and University officials discussed safety issues at a forum Wednesday night. Office of Information Technology] responded, fixed it and the e-mail was sent out Tuestransition to a permanent staff.” day... but unfortunately the server then crashed.” Other student demands included better lighting on Frustrations about security also permeated the discuspathways, more police foot patrols and more ID checks at sions. Police officials offered explanations of the various social functions and in University buildings. DUPD Officer security services available to students, and students counAnthony Rush, however, pointed out that increasing camtered them with complaints about failures to publicize pus security involves a community effort. He stressed the these services and establish them as a trusted presence need for students to call if they see suspicious persons on on campus. campus and to take responsibility for their personal secuHer voice hoarse from the scream-in, Colaianni sugrity precautions, such as locking doors and buddying-up gested that the University create a peer safe-escort service before going anywhere at night. in addition to the current Safe Rides program. Moneta “We have to do this together,” he said. “The police can’t called the idea “fabulous” but said there was not enough do it all and the students can’t do it all.” “student energy” to implement it. Moneta also discussed long-term plans to increase UniJunior Ryan Kennedy complimented Birkhead and the versity safety, including installing card-swipes on bathroom DUPD for recendy initiating Operation Silent Night, which doors and creating “major public corridors” between the has placed watches at each campus entrance. He proposed, disparate areas of campus. He also told the group, howevhowever, that it ought to utilize trained security professioner, that no matter what initiatives students or administraals instead of University staff members as it does now. tors take, eradicating campus crime is impossible. Birkhead was quick to respond, both in defense of the “No matter what we do, if people are determined to staff watches and in support of Kennedy’s proposal. do harm they will do harm,” he said. “If people are look“The employees who are involved in Silent Night are as ing for zero incidents, I can’t give it to them, though I dedicated as me and my staff,” he said. ‘That was a quick, wish I could.” easy and immediate short-term solution... but we hope to

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“We did not want to put out incorrect information,” said Clarence Birkhead, chief of DUPD. ‘We wanted to make sure we had all the details.” Sophomore Garver Moore criticized this explanation, arguing that students should have been notified immediately. “When there is a horrendously violent crime, it seems like that places me in imminent danger,” Moore said. “I want to know 10 minutes after it happens that there is a violent person walking around.” Moore and other students said they were angry and confused when they first heard about the assaults from media outlets or phone calls from concerned family members rather than the University. Additionally, several argued that reporting the Friday assault may have heightened awareness and helped prevent the second one that occurred Sunday morning. Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta—while stressing the need to verify the accuracy of information before its release—admitted that the administration and police should have been first to inform the Duke community about the assaults .

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Nasher takes shape With its opening just over 18 months away, Duke's new museum may prove to be its own greatest work of art.

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you ever stopped to wonder why our new parking garage is more aesthetically pleasing and functional than our current art museum?The garage boasts better lighting, design, wall space and accessibility than the DUMA could ever fathom. All things considered, the parking garage would actually provide a better space to exhibit modern art and sculpture than the converted dorm on East we refer to as the museum. And that is not saying much. The parking structure even receives more funding due to high, some would say exorbitant, admission prices, while a ticket to the museum remains free to students. It was highly unlikely that any revenue would be generated to begin plans for a new space until Roy Nasher, Duke '43, entered the dismal scene with a hefty $7.5 million gift in 1998. This gift was completed with another installment of $2.5 million in 2002. In October of 2005, Duke will

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Trying to escape the barrage of corporate sponsorship, I sought out more independently-minded acts. Wednesday night, Division of Laura Lee took the stage at Stubb's. Except for their Swedish sneer, they were instantly forgettable.The next act wasn't however, particularly because the face of The Von Bondies' frontman Jason Stollsteimer was beaten into a grisly and particularly memorable pulp by Jack White. His face is patched-up now, though. And together with two backup singers clothed in space-age, thrift store garb, they've got to be the most stylish band ever. continued on page 6

open the doors of the Nasher Museum of Art —the first time a building devoted to the arts has been constructed on this campus in over thirty years. The striking architecture immediately catches the attention of any observer. "This will be a place of destination, a symbol for the importance of the visual arts at Duke. The current building does not reflect this role," said Anne Schroeder, Associate Curator and Interim Education Director. The Nasher Museum will be a total of 65,767 square feet, requiring a total budget of $23 million.A stunning 13,610 square foot glass roof will join the five separate pavilions that partition each space. Three pavilions are designated for the display of art, along with one for administrative offices and education and one that will house a lecture/performance hall. Display cases will be available for both student and community artists to show their work. The museum will be completed with a cafe and bookstore. Rafael Vinoly, a Uruguayan architect whorelocated to the U.S. in 1978, is the mastermind behind this project. Several of his most well known works are the Kimmel Center in continued on page 5

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Playboy comes to Duke Women ofEnron, move over. The Girls of the ACC are coming to Playboy. Slated for release in October of this year, the issue promises to show off our conference in a whole new light—and turn the Duke girls who make the cut into the most talked about on campus come fall. Playboy has previously done similar school-by-school spreads on the SEC and the Big 10; they'll be here next Monday and Tuesday, the 29th and 30th ofMarch. Recess spoke with several girls planning to try out, none of whom had posed nude before.They said they saw the Playboy shoot as a unique opportunity."! thought it would be fun to at least try out and see what happens,"said one."l like Playboy I think it's a fun magaH zine.... My boyfriend thinks it's fun and exciting." "I'm comfortable with my body —I can handle it," added another. How do we expect Duke to match up against the other ACC institutions? Well, FSU and Miami might be a little out of our league, but there are a few schools we can take.The comp sci ladies of Ga Tech should fold about as fast as Jenny McCarthy's career; ditto to Virginia Tech and N.C.State. Clemson girls, on the other hand, have southern charm—if by southern charm you mean breast implants—which may work to their advantage. Expect our Baptist friends at Wake Forest to skip tryouts in favor of Bible Study, while the ladies of Virginia peal off their sundresses with delight. And as for our big rivals, UNC and Maryland? Without a Sweet 16 game to look forward to, God knows the girls will have time on their hands: Could be yet another photo finish. To enter the competition, send two pics of yourself—a recent full-figure bikini shot and a head-and-shoulders "portrait" —to Playboy at collegegirls@playboy.com. The fair-minded people at Playboy also request a brief statement. Check out the Playboy website for more details. —Dean Chapman

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Durham’s own Butchies are back and ready to take on the world. By Robert Winterode With the increased visibility of vehicles like Bravo's "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," Siberia's t.a.T.u. or President Bush's same-sex marriage ban, it seems that 2004 could emerge as the defining year for the gay movement. This is where the Durham-based group. The Butchies, comes in. With an upcoming fourth album Make Yr Life, the group pumps up its fizzy brand of pop while remaining true to its nerdyfreokyqueer ideals, namely sensitive lyricisms and sweet, sweet melodies. For the past six years, these three out-and-proud butch women—Kaia Wilson, lead vocals and guitar, Melissa York, drums and Alison Martlew, bass have banded together to create riffin' tunes that, at their most saccharine, sound akin to Liz Phair if she still had a shred of indie cred and, at their most rawk, strike a pose similar to Nirvana on a severe pop-punk high. To understand the sound and the songs, however, you have to know the band's dogma.'Tm proud of who I am. I'm no different from anyone else. I love. People love," remarks York."l do love playing as who we are,"echoes Martlew. Wilson sees a particular problem with linking the band too strongly with its sexuality. "You wpuldn't ask this of a straight band: 'Do you think the fact that you're heterosexual is more important than your music, because you sing a whole lot about heterosexuality?"' she says, exasperated. "You know nobody would ask the f—king Rolling Stones that question, so it's like no, that's only their experience." If she sounds like it, Wilson is a veteran of the "sexuality wars"as a member along —

with York of the seminal '9os queercore band Team Dresch. The Butchies themselves arose out of a felt need to express butch culture. "We're not selling lesbian sex/'counters Wilson."We're not even selling butch sex appeal. It's just one those things since we're rock'n'roll,there's a certain amount of sexiness involved." Since TD, they have toured with both Sleater-Kinney and The Indigo Girls.Their song,"The Galaxy Is Gay," was featured in the lesbian kiss episode of "Party of Five" and they recorded on Indigo Girl Amy Ray's solo debut, Stag, as well as opened and backed for Ray while on tour.They've recently recorded their first music video for the leadoff single,"Send Me You." This song is a perfect example of their newly-arrived departure in sonic texture and methodology evidenced on Make Yr Life. As hook-laden as anything in mainstream pop, the sing-along chorus and bouncy reverb scream its radio-readiness. The other tracks all sparkle in that same polished pop presentation way: a direct contrast to the previous three albums, where vocals and instrumentals were more raw."We stopped holding ourselves so seriously," says York."This time around there was a whole lot of pressure tg make the right song,and you really just have to face those challenges. I think we did." To help realize The Butchies' new direction, their longtime producer, mixer and engineer Greg Griffith was enlisted again for the album, but this time his role was expanded."We made a decision in making this record that we were going to make a record that sonically sounded really good," says Wilson. "To that end, we really let [Griffith] produce us in away that we've never really been produced before."

The Butchies kicked off their nationwide tour with shows at SXSW.AMe Yr Lifts release party is April 6 at the Cat's Cradle,

All of this—the identity issues, the modified song production, the video can be seen as their bid for what they tongue-in-cheekily call "world domination." "The new sound is part of it," says York."Before maybe I think there were so many barriers for us to cross, and we did get caught up in that, but now you know we're finally seeing the light at the end of that tunnel." With a new record label (Yep Roc) behind them and newfound access to a publicist, a manager and a booking agent, they've not only completed their fourth album, but also have finalized

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wouldn't have to worry about people ironing your newspapers before you had your tea. Why do you often end up in romantic comedy type roles? Is it of your own volition, or are those the scripts you're typically sent? I see a lot of my roles as different, but I can only speak from my perspective. I think it's very easy to be pigeonholed with a repetition of what was successful.. I'm learning that things sometimes end up different than I expect; I have to keep that in mind when I'm choosing what I'm going to do in the future. Do you feel pressure to be a role model for younger girls and women? Does this affect how you carry yourself? I think of a role model not as a perfect person, but as someone who's honest about themselves. I don't even really choose to think of myself as a role model, but still, I don't think that means I have to change my behavior and be perfect. Do you identify as a feminist? What do you think of feminism in Mona Lisa Smile? I have a different definition offeminism than a lot of people. [lt includes] respect for women, equality, respecting differences.... It's hard to understand why my character in MonaLisa Smile decided not to listen to Julia Roberts, not go to school, get married.... [To play her] I had to stop thinking about abstract ideas, [and realize] that this woman was in love with her husband, and that's just as strong a feminine choice as any other. Are there any co-stars that you'd want to work with, or anyone that you've had a crush on? Are you kidding me? Sure... but if I say who it's embarrassing; then he knows I have a drush on him! Well, I went to see Havana Nights.... [Star Diego Luna] is so painfully handsome, I had to look away! ..

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The softer side of Kevin Smith By Erin Greer Another movie with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez? Don't worry—J-Lo promptly dies within the first ten minutes. Kevin Smith, the director and writer who introduced audiences to Jay and Silent Bob, turns sentimental in his newest film. Jersey Girl tells the story of a widowed father (Affleck) who must reconcile his loneliness, career disappointment and dedication to his daughter (the adorable Raquel Castro). The message of the film is summed up in romantic interest Liv Tyler's challenge to Affleck:"Forget about who you thought you were, and just accept who you are." Jersey Girl oscillates from being another unremarkable sentimental comedy to a clever film of subtle depth. It follows a fairly predictable formula, and some excessively long scenes drag to the point where the viewer idly remembers she is watching a movie. Several of Castro's statements cross the line from precocious to unbelievable, and jokes concerning the musical Cats are too repetitive to be funny. Raquel Castro says;"Ben, seriously, it's time to stop doing The film is elevated beyond the average two-star romantic comedy genre, however, by Smith's ability to sneak humor into small details and surprises that aren't novel, but still creative.

Audiences can expect the typical diaper jokes and the awkward situation of children learning about each other's private parts ("Daddy, do you have what he has?"). The romance is similarly predictable, but fresh.Tyler's character is a brazen and quirky video store clerk-slash-grad student, who initiates a relationship by accosting Affleck with questions about his habits. pornography-renting Later, she confesses to Affleck that she masturbates at least twice a day. The imperfection of Affleck's character, and of his relationship with his daughter, is a refreshing dose of realism. Their fight scenes, uncomfortable in their honesty, embody the real frustration and shame of arguing with a loved one. Affleck finally clues in to the sappy message of the film, but he doesn't have an epiphany —he just learns to suck it up. Jersey Girl succeeds in its mission to be an entertaining, sentiKevin Smith movies." mental comedy about parenthood and identity. It's not a must-see, but ultimately it lives up to its tagline by accepting its own humble identity.

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‘Swank’ at the Franklin Center How a group of South Africans overcame the worst by putting on their best By Corinne Low South African apartheid has ended, but for the migrant laborers of Johannesburg, little has changed. They have not seen their families in months. By day, they operate clanging machinery on the streets of the desolate city. By night, they gather in the basements of the dirty hostels they share t0... show off their clothes? Beneath the filth and menace of Johannesburg, the city's oppressed black population partakes in a ritual known as "Swanking," holding elaborate competitions for the title of best-dressed. Photographer T.J. Lemon has documented this phenomenon in his new exhibit,"Oswenka: the Jeppe Hostel Swankers," debuting at the John Hope Franklin Center. Lemon began photographing the Swankers of"Joburg" in the late nineties, but notes that the tradition has probably existed since the late fifties, when migrant workers would use their fashion sense to win the affections of ladies back home. These same men started holding competitions at the apartheid-era hostels they inhabited in Johannesburg for a chance to win a pooled entry fee, and, as Lemon puts it "feel like number one." The top level of the exhibit displays black and white photographs of the competitions in progress, mounted plainly on the white walls. Playing in the background is the cheerful sound of the South African a cappella music that would round out an evening of Swanking. When you descend the steps to enter the main gallery, though, you find yourself torn from this role of impartial observer and plunged into the Swankers' realities. You're in a crumbling brick basement with exposed metal pipes lining the ceiling. Drowning out the joyous a cappella singing that filled the room upstairs are the heavy, industrial sounds of machinery. Pictures of the country homes that await the Swankers on their few opportunities for vacation form a background to images of the hostile city pro-

Samples of the formal attire that the Johannesburg migrant laborers might wear for a night of swanking are displayed in "Oswenka: the Jeppe Hostel Swankers."

truding into the room on corrugated metal backings. Hung from the ceiling is an assortment of suits and ties, begging to be selected for tonight's competition. The installation of Lemon's exhibit brings into play the political subtext of apartheid that will forever be the undercurrent of cultural norms in South Africa. So much of the lives of Black migrant laborers remains entirely out of their control. They work in the city to provide for their families; they live in the hostels because it is the only affordable option; they defer to the white men because it is what they have been taught to do. In this way, Swanking becomes a means

of defining their own space in a reality designed by external forces. One viewer, Austin, 24, commented that he saw sadness in the effort of the Swankers to "maintain some sense of humanity in an otherwise demeaning environment." Lemon, though, insists the art of Swanking is about finding joy in the face of desolate circumstances. "The city is sad and the hostel is sad, but going to the competition—that's a celebration." of Hostel in Jeppe "Oswenka/Swankers be shown the New Media in Johannesburg" will Space through April 9 in the John Hope Franklin Center.

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Philadelphia, the Princeton University Stadium and the Oslo Opera House. He will also be designing a new addition to the Kennedy Center in D.C. "We went through a very rigorous process to get the best for Duke, and we feel that we commented accomplished that," Schroeder. The architect selection process began in the late 19905, and after more than a year of evaluation, Viholy was selected in March of 2000. As Kelly Dail, Interim Public Affairs Coordinator, described, "He was able to build the caliber of building [we] wanted within the proposed budget. In addition, he was beginning to distinguish himself as a world renowned architect and eagerly accepted the commission." The architecture of the museum displays many of the prominent features of Viholy's work, including extensive use of glass panels and strong lines. The exterior is white, emerging from its environment with an almost neo-classical dominance. Yet Viholy also chose to create a pastoral setting by leaving as many trees as possible on the site. This distances the museum from surrounding structures and Campus Drive. Central to the role of university museums is a commitment to education.

The design of the Nasher Museum will reflect this by incorporating the lecture hall and education wings.Though the museum collection surpasses 13,000 pieces, less than 5% of these can be shown at a time.This is typical of most museums, but what distinguishes Nasher is the accessibility of these pieces. The education wing will have seminar tables where students and professors can meet for class."We plan to use the buildings for greater opportunities for curricular use," explained Schroeder. "We will consult with faculty as to which works they use for teaching, and they can hold classes in these areas where students can handle and study the objects."The museum has also committed to continue their current education outreach programs to local schools. The ability of the university art museum to host more modern and challenging exhibits will be a defining factor in the Nasher Museum's future identity. Schroeder emphasized that because the museum is not public, they are not responsible to strident state agencies for how funding is used. "One of the purposes of a university art museum is to engage critical thinking and chal-

lenge students," she said. "A museum should help form the mind and stimulate discussion," Part of this desire to show modern and contemporary works draws on the resources of the art collection of Ray Nasher, a successful Dallas developer, and his late wife.They began collecting art early on, whenever they had extra funds. The collection quickly amassed to an impressive spectrum of modern

art, complete Deßuffets, Matisses and

Miros.Their collection will be the theme of the opening exhibition at the new museum. The exhibit will focus on the art of collecting, and trace the Nasher's collection beginning with the first piece they acquired and continue up to the present. This show will set the precedent for the museum, and put it right on track for seeking out new and engaging art pioneers.

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Recess Music Lead Writer Robert Winterode reports back from his visit to South by Southwest:

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A unique musical tribute Artist Casey Burns designs posters for bands. By Robert Winterode For a Breeders show, Casey Burns drew a couple of bunnies. For Le Tigre, he drew a haughty tiger with matching mustache and beret. Besides being a member of local band The Nein and a Chapel Hill resident, Burns is a prolific poster artist; he has been for the past 12 years. "It's a great way to mix both my love of art and music

By Robert Winterode Alienation, social anxiety and political paralysis, according to lead singer Emily Haines, are the main themes on Metric's critically-acclaimed debut, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? This four-piece synth-pop band of Toronto and New York ex-pats has made the decade's most political (and wildly melodic) record; Audioslave ain't got nothing on them. Whether singing about the music industry ("All we get is dead disco, dead funk, dead rock 'n' roll, remodeled") or about war ("The War as we knew it was obsolete/ nothing could beat complete denial"), Haines' voice flits across the track with steely conviction. On the phone, she sounds even more sincere. Haines doesn't want to be fed the media's images. (She mentions a special on the History Channel the previous night, in which a U.S. soldier is comparing looting in Baghdad to a red-tag sale at K-Mart). She doesn't want to live in the "romance and the heightened reality" as portrayed

on her TV screen/'l don't want to be turned on. The cradle of civilization is rooted, and it seems that especially now you have to be continually aroused to get any feeling." Indeed, this is the message of Metric and it certainly doesn't hurt that this message is delivered in pixie-sweet vocals and incredibly catchy Smiths-style guitar riffs or that the band brought down the house in three different clubs during SXSW. On stage, Haines exudes her sleek ferociousness as she croons about a lover gone off to combat or the class divide. "I end up writing songs so I don't forget. There's something about the process of writing and playing that helps me make sense of things," she says. Finally, when asked what she hopes will happen in the future, Haines responds:"l'd like to see universal healthcare, a lower military budget and I don't want to see people working in health clinics without any teeth." I meant the band's future, but oh well.

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tographs that I found and, basically, I'm justtrying to capture the spirit of a band. I definitely interact and try to get a feel and a sense of the band." Then, it's just a matter of transferring image from thought to paper. As part of a music industry that all too often prides commercial over aesthetic value, the poster a r t movement is

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An offshoot of the Detroit garage scene, the guitar riffs are surefire fast and the sound of Stollsteimer's voice is a yowl of raw blues heartache.Joan Jett was up next and although she was as glorious as ever, the night thus far went to the Bondies. But, this was also the night when political rockers Ozomatli performed their normally hair-raising, audience-inciting set, a medley of everything between rap, cumbia and rock. The crowd at Exodus, where half of the people weren't able to see the stages, was packed. I left 25 minutes before the set ended, when reportedly the band guided their adoring fans in a conga line out onto the streets, violating the city's outdoor noise ordinance and then skirmishing into the city police.The manager and two bandmembers of Ozomatli were quickly arrested, which is ironic for a band who sang,"coming from a place where these cops get their asses kicked." At least I wasn't in the crowd that was pepper-sprayed. Thursday morning, I saw Little Richard spoke. In his rollick-

ing and rhyme-filled interview, he offered several bits of wisdom, including the following:"The grass may be greener on the other side, but it's just as hard to cut!" Afterwards, I drifted out onto 6th Street, Austin's outlet for college life, and caught a glimpse of an unknown band that sounded like Avril on a Nu-Metal grind. Muffy Nixon â&#x20AC;&#x201D;you read about them here first. Returning to the concert venues, that night I saw discopoppers Junior-Senior perform at a packed Stubb's as the audience moved and sang along to almost every dropped lyric; incidentally, this was probably the best concert experience of the festival. Memorable acts from other nights included Calexico and the Crystal Method. Concerning the former, I admire any band that can bring an accordion onstage as well as a pair of trumpets. With an overflowing assemblage of instruments, the band recreated the mellifluous desert landscape that is a staple theme of their music. Saturday night, the Crystal Method played Austin Music Hall without a single played instrument or set of vocals. The electronic beats thundered through the club, and the next day, I flew home.

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Beard earned, deserved Naismith There is no doubt that Connecticut senior Diana Taurasi is a great basketball player. She will probably be the No. 1 pick in April’s WNBA draft, and if so then the Phoenix Mercury will have themselves a franchise player. In 2003 Taurasi led the Huskies almost single-handedly to their second consecutive national championship, and she was rewarded with college basketball’s greatest individual honor, the Naismith Player of the Year. Tuesday, Taurasi was once again selected as the Naismith recipient, but I can explain in two words why she shouldn’t have won this year: Alana Beard. Quite simply, the numbers don’t lie. Beard, who became only the second three-timemember ofThe Associated Press women’s college basketball All-America team Tuesday, has racked up gaudy stats on both ends of the floor: 20.1 points, 5.3 rebounds, 4.0 assists, 1.3 blocks and 2.3 steals per game. And if Beard’s personal achievements weren’t enough, she has led the Duke women’s program to new heights. The Blue Devils finished the regular season with a 243 record —including a win over then-No. 1 Connecticut in which Beard scored a gamehigh 21 points—and ranked No. 1 in the AP poll for the first time in school history. Although Taurasi’s numbers are certainly impressive (15.6 points, 3.9 rebounds, 5.1 assists, 0.8 blocks and 1.6 steals), they don’t match up to those that Beard has produced on a regular basis for Duke. Taurasi has had four games this year in which she has scored two, four, six and eight points hardly the consistency that garners player of the year recognition. I realize that stats don’t mean everything, and that a player’s value goes far beyond the numbers in a box score. In fact, two years ago when Beard was being considered for the Naismith as a sophomore, I argued that eventual winner Sue Bird, then a senior point guard for UConn, deserved the award, even though her numbers were less impressive than those of the other finalists. Bird’s intangible leadership qualities made her the catalyst on the nation’s best team in 2002, and Beard has grown into the role of ultimate floor general for the Blue Devils this year. Beard has also shown the poise and maturity on the court that Taurasi at times has lacked. In the opening round of the Big East tournament, for example, UConn head coach Geno Auriemma railed at his star for picking up her fourth foul with —

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Outstanding guard play is a common thread between this year’s Sweet 16 teams with backcourts that include St. Joseph’s Jameer Nelson and Delonte West, Oklahoma State’s John Lucas and Tony Allen, Duke’s Chris Duhon andJJ. Redick, and Illinois’ Dee Brown and Deron Williams. The Fighting Illini duo of sophomores Brown and Williams has taken time to learn to play well together, but have starred thus far in the NCAA Tournament in wins over Murray State and Cincinnati. “They complement each other so well,” Illinois head coach Bruce Weber said. “I think when one has a good game, the other one doesn’t seem to get jealous,” For the Blue Devils, that spells trouble, ,as both are averaging better than 17 points a contest in the tournament and contribute in many aspects of the game

not represented in the stat books.

In the opening round, Brown had the hot hand scoring 21 points while Williams dished out eight assists. Then in their second round win, Williams shot an impressive 10-for-13—including six three-pointers—for 31 points as Brown distributed eight assists. The combination has accounted for 26 assists and just two turnovers thus far in the NCAA’s. The teamwork has been a constant for Illinois all season long, even through Brown’s midseason slump and an injury to Williams’ jaw. “A lot of other guys let their egos get in the way, but [Brown]’s ego-less,” Fighting Illini assistant coach Wayne McClain told the Chicago Sun-Times during Brown’s troubles earlier this year. “He’s been one of our most vocal leaders. He’s supported all the other guys. And he’s continued to work hard on his game.” Brown, the preseason favorite for Big

Ten player of the year, supported his teammate even while Williams stole the spotlight midseason. Brown refused to focus on the elusive player ofthe year honor, but rather concentrated on the team’s Matt Heldman Award for inspired play which incorporates intangibles like husde, diving for loose balls and drawing charges. As a result, he has earned even greater admiration from his teammates and coaches. “Everyone talks about how Deron’s the heart and soul of our team, but Dee’s our energy, and he’s very unselfish,” Weber told the Chicago Sun-Times. “He’s bought in to doing the little things that make a difference more than anybody, and that’s not easy to do.” While Brown has consistently impacted games even without always scoring, Williams has gready improved his offense from a year ago. He led the Big Ten in SEE DUO ON PAGE 20

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Duke rebounds from loss with easy ACC win by Ryan Pertz THE CHRONICLE

men’s tennis team The returned to its typical form Wednesday, easily handling 48thranked Wake Forest (8-7, 1-3 in the ACC) 6-1 in ACC match play on the road. The eighth-ranked Blue Devils improve their over all record to 12-5 and their ACC record to 2-1. Duke came off a loss to Florida State Sunday, their first regular season conference defeat in eight years. “Sunday [against Florida State] was one of those days where everything that could go wrong did go wrong,” head coach Jay Lapidus said. “Today we did a good job of rebounding after a tough loss.” Duke’s highly-ranked doubles teams started the competition, claiming two of the three matches to earn the doubles point. Jason Zimmerman and Ludovic Walter, ranked third nationally, pulled out a win over the Demon Deacons’ Brett Ross and Andrew Hamar 8-6. At No. 3 doubles, Duke’s Stephen Armitraj and Peter Rodrigues defeated Andrew Simpson and David Loewenthal, 8-4. However, the seventh-ranked Duke tandem of Phillip King and Jonathan Stokke were unable to pull out its match, losing 8-6 to Wake Forest’s Todd Paul and Derrick Spice in a surprising upset. The Blue Devils’ strongest state-

ment came when the team laid

claim to five of the six singles matches. Stokke rebounded from his doubles loss to set the tone for the singles matches, starting off with a win at No. 5 singles. “[Stokke] won pretty handily to a good player and got us off on the right track,” Lapidus said. Seventh-ranked King also bounced back from his doubles defeat to snag another come-frombehind victory for the team at the No. 1 singles spot after dropping the first set to 37th-ranked Spice. Christopher Brown also lost his first set, but took the second two to claim a victory for the Blue Devils at No. 6 singles. Duke’s 12th-ranked Walter and Jason Zimmerman each cruised to easy singles victories. Wake Forest’s lone singles triumph came from a win by Paul in straight sets over Duke’s Peter Rodrigues, 6-4, 7-5. The win was important for the Blue Devils who showed that their previous loss to Florida State was just an off day. The team, which had sub-par performances Sunday, collectively played very well against the Demon Deacons and appears to be back on track. “Everyone on the team has a lot of pride,” Lapidus said. “We were stunned that we lost a conference match, but came back strong. It’s a statement that we’re still the team to beat in the conference.”

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I DUKE 6,N.C. STATE 1

Johnson loses, but Blue Devils preserve hot streak by Greg Czaja THE CHRONICLE

The good vibrations continued for the women’s tennis Wednesday night at Ambler Stadium. The Blue Devils (11-1, 2-0 in the ACC) dispatched N.C. State (5-7, 0-4 in the ACC) by a 6-1 margin in a victory that extended their overall winning streak to 10, their home winning streak to 23, and their winning streak against the Wolfpack to 43. “We were okay,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said. ‘This was our first night game. It’s a tough thing to get used t0.... The younger players had a tough time picking up the ba11... but they played very well.” Perhaps the biggest story however, is not who did win, but who failed to win—Duke All-American Amanda Johnson. The senior batded Barbara Orlay in her singles match, and the Budapest, Hungary, native clearly was not intimidated by Johnson—the nation’s No. 7 singles player. Johnson jumped out to an early 1-0 lead, using a powerftil two-handed backhand to push her opponent away from the baseline. Orlay quickly responded to Johnson’s power game —using equally formidable ground strokes, she proceeded to win six of the next seven games. Although Johnson had become visibly frustrated, to the point where she threw down her racket in disgust, she batded back in the second set, winning 6-2. Her opponent appeared to be physically drained—at one point Orlay collapsed in the middle of a point with a leg cramp. Because the team outcome was already decided, Johnson and Orlay played a tiebreaker in lieu of a third set. Orlay unexpectedly came back to win the tiebreaker, thereby ending one of the most exciting matches Duke has witnessed this season. “[Orlay,] she’s the best player they’ve had in years,” Ashworth said. “Amanda was great, she came back after being down the first set, even though I think she was a little bit surprised. [Orlay’s] good. She’s a freshman and she doesn’t have a lot of experience, but she’s going to be a great player.” The Blue Devils easily won their other singles matches. Freshman Jennifer Zika and junior Saras Arasu had the most decisive victories of the evening. Zika defeated Nandita Chandrasekar 6-2, 6-0, and Arasu was victorious over Vania Apodaca 6-0, 6-2. Despite the lopsided score, however, Zika maintained that her match was still a challenge. “It wasn’t easy,” Zika said. “It was really cold, and this was the first time we played with the lights on.” Similarly, the margin of victory belies the difficulty behind Arasu’s win. Up 5-0 in the second set, Arasu surrendered two games to her opponent, ruining her shutout. “Yeah, I got a little frustrated,” Arasu said. “She did really well not to give up at that point. She played better in that second set and also forced me to play better. I lost my focus a little bit.” Freshmen Kristen Cagill, Parker Goyer and Tory Zawacki were all victorious Wednesday—they respectively defeated Agustina, Arechevaleta 6-2, 6-2, Danielle Stadleman 6-3, 6-2 and Jennifer Jassawalla 6-3, 6-4. In doubles play, Duke swept the Wolfpack. Johnson and Zawacki easily dispatched Orlay and Chandrasekar 81, and Arasu and sophomore Julia Smith also made short work of their opponents, Virgina Romero and Danielle Stadelmann, defeating them by the same 8-1 margin. Cargill and Zika had a more difficult time subduing their opponents. The pair of Blue Devils traded points with Jennifer Jassawalla and Arechevaleta until the two Wolfpack members began their service down 5-4. At that point, Cargill and Zika were playing for pride alone, since the other two doubles matches had already been decided. The pair won four points in a row to go up 6-4, and then defended against two break points and squandered two potential game points in the next game before Cargill’s serve was returned beyond the baseline, further increasing the margin to 7-4. The Blue Devils went on to win 8-4. “We had already won the doubles point, but we still tried to stay focused,'’ said Zika. “Of course we wanted to win our doubles. In the end it worked out well.” team

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In last night’s game against UNCWilmington (12-10), the baseball team (13-11) finally found away to win a one-run battle.

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Bryan Smith went 1-for-3 in Duke's 4-3 win over UNC-Willmington.

With strong relief pitching, Duke was able to beat the Seahawks 4-3, something it could not do earlier this season when it lost by a run to the same team. “It’s finally good to get a one-run win,” head coach Bill Hillier said. “We’ve gotten better every day pitching-wise, and we’re eliminating little mistakes. I hope we can carry this momentum into Maryland and conference play.” Tim Layden led off the sixth inning with a double to centerfield and subsequendy scored the game-winning run. With no outs, Mike Miello advanced Layden to third on a groundout to the shortstop. Then Brian Hernandez hit a fly ball into shallow leftfield, which was caught by the Seahawks’ Tim Preston. He threw the ball through the cut-off man to catch Layden, who had tagged third, but Layden slid under the tag to give the Blue Devils the lead. “We’re hitting just enough to win games,” Hillier said. “Having four runs off offive hits, we’ve been doing a great job of manufacturing runs. Tim Layden had a couple of big hits and scored a big run. It was good to see him hustle, taking second on a single to center. His aggressiveness on the bases helped us out a lot.” The Blue Devils’ pitching staff kept UNC-W from scoring any runs after the second inning. The starter, Kevin Thompson, pitched 4.2 innings, gave up two homeruns and struck out

four batters. The Seahawks’ only runs came off of the homeruns in the first two innings; but aside from those two hits, Thompson was able to keep UNC-W from scoring. The relief pitchers, Russell Durfee, Tony Bajoczky, Justin DiLucchio and Danny Otero, combined for 4.1 innings and only allowed one hit to the Seahawks. Durfee, who tallied his first career win last night, faced four batters for four outs, and Otero picked up his third save of the season. UNC-W jumped to an early lead as its shortstop, Aaron Smith, took Thompson long in the first inning. Though Layden was able to score Jonathan Anderson in the first, the Blue Devils found themselves down by two after Jon Davis hit a solo homerun in the second inning. Duke came back to tie the game in the third with two runs. Michael Golom, who was 2-for-3, singled and advanced to third when Adam Murray hit a ball down the rightfield line for a double. Anderson collected the RBI off a single through the right side. With no outs, Javier Socorro hit into a double play but scored Murray, the game-tying run. Duke’s excellent pitching and its ability to score the much-needed winning run in the sixth helped the Blue Devils win their third game in a row. “The difference from last year is that our team is scoring runs in the late innings,” Durfee said. “Today proved to us that we can come back when we’re down and win. We have more confidence in our scoring abilities, and I feel really good going into the conference games.”

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THURSDAY. MARCH 25. 2004

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Chris Paul earnedACC Freshman of the Year honors and leads his team into the Sweet 16.

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ. If Chris Paul wants to see his future he needs only to look across the court at Jameer Nelson Thursday night. Paul, the skinny freshman point guard with the quick first step, innate passing sense and solid jump shot, will be running the offense for fourthseeded Wake Forest, as he has from his first game. Nelson, the muscular senior point guard with very similar offensive skills and the benefit of 123 college starts, will handle the ball for top-seeded Saint Joseph’s, as he has for the last four years. All eyes will be on the two stars when they meet in the East Rutherford Regional. “I’m hoping experience and a little bit of size pays off,” Saint Joseph’s coach Phil Martelli said. The 5-foot-11, 190-pound Nelson is an inch shorter but 20 pounds heavier than Paul. “You can’t make it all about them. We all have to guard Paul and they all have to guard Jameer.” Nelson, a unanimous selection for the All-America team, averaged 20.6 points, 4.6 rebounds and 5.2 assists while shooting 49 percent from the field and 80 percent from the free-throw line. Paul was the Atlantic Coast Conference rookie of the year and was selected to the league’s all-defensive team after leading it with 2.7 steals a game. He averaged 14.9 points, 3.4 rebounds and 5.8 assists while shooting 50 percent from the field and 84 percent from the free-throw line. Paul’s most recent games —one in the ACC tournament and the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament—have been his most impressive. He has 81 points, 22 assists and just three turnovers in those games. “He’s done a great job,” Nelson said, referring to Paul. “He seems to be a natural point guard. He’s so calm out there and that’s what a team needs a point guard to do.” Paul, 18, has spent the last few days getting ready for the 22-year-old Nelson. “You can’t just watch one film on Jameer and understand what he wants

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Awesome opportunity with fast growing personal training company. Looking for personal trainers and managers. Great pay. Very flexible hours. Call 384-7460. trainees neede( $250/ day potential. Local position: 1-800-293-3985 ext. 519.

Bartender

NOW HIRING lifeguards, managers, service technicians for summer. FREE TRAINING. Call (919)878-3661 for more information.

BARTENDERS NEEDED!!!

EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION STUDIES (An interdisciplinary certificate). The spring application period is in progress. All who plan to apply should submit applications to 02 Allen. If questions, come by or call

RESPONSIBLE STUDENT (OR PARTNER) to drive home and to activities, and supervise homework of 11-year old after school in

684-2075. Free Web Design Software. Test drive it and it’s yours to keep. Requires no coding. Contact Joseph. Mastri@WebProse.ws. www.WebProse.ws

Durham. M, W 3:00-4:15, T, Th 3:006:00. Own car required. Home and school are near Duke. Good pay. Call 423-1104.

HOLTON PRIZE

SATISFACTION RESTAURANT IS NOW HIRING FOR ALL POSI-

Earn $l5-$3O/hour. Job placement assistance is top priority. Raleigh’s Bartending School. Have fun! Meet people! Make money! Call now for info about our SPRING TUITION SPECIAL. 919-676-0774. www.coctailmixer.com.

TIONS. PLEASE APPLY IN PERSON OR CONTACT GATOR OR TRICIA AT 682-7397.

Summer childcare. 9am-spm. $lO/hr. 3 girls- 6, 3, and infant. Flexible activities. Call 403-3135 or email jmewkill@nc.rr.com.

HUGE moving/yard sale. Sat, 3/27, Bam-12pm. 7 Hampshire Court,

Durham (Woodcroft). Furniture, electronics, clothes (infant, toddler, men’s, women’s), CDs, books, kitchen items, and much, much more. Directions: Hwy 54, turn into Windermere section of Woodcroft on Highgate. Ist right onto Marlborough. 2nd right onto

mbryant@asdean.duke.edu; jrigg@duke.edu; or bcj3@duke.edu.

HOUSE COURSES FALL 2004

Hampshire.

Applications available online at

Help Wanted

www.aas.duke.edu/trinity/house crs or in 04 Allen for people wishing to teach a House Course in Fall 2004. Deadline for submission Monday, April 5, 2004.

‘RESEARCH ASSISTANT NEEDED PSYCHOLOGY*. Several parttime research assistants needed for developmental psychology lab for the summer. Preference for students who can continue in the fall. Assist with project investigating mother-child communication, conversation and memory skills. Data coding, transcribing, some analysis. -

LEARN TO SKYDIVE!

Great experience, competitive salary and flexible hours. Contact: Dr. Sherry Didow, 660-5682 or

Carolina Sky Sports 1-800-SKY-DIVE

email: sdidow@duke.edu.

The Chronicle classified advertising rates

business rate $6.00 for first 15 words private party/N.R $4.50 for first 15 words all ads 100 (per day) additional per word 3 or 4 consecutive insertions -10 % off 5 or more consecutive insertions 20 % off special features (Combinations accepted.) $l.OO extra per day for all Bold Words $1.50 extra per day for a Bold Heading (maximum 15 spaces) -

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Camp New Hope in Chapel Hill seeks summer day camp counselors for arts, nature, bible study, general counselors, lifeguards and water safety instructors. Mid-May July3oth. Call 942-4716 (campnewhope @ bellsouth.net) CHRONICLE BUSINESS OFFICE: Student needed for summer. Beginning April, 6-hrs per week to continue, May-August at 15 hrs per week. Job possibly will continue in fall @ 10-12 hrs per week. Data entry, making deposits, customer service. Call Mary Weaver @ 6840384.

FULL-TIME RESEARCH POSITION Duke Psychology Lab seeks Lab Manager to start June 1, 2004. Lab focus is on human memory. Duties will include scheduling and testing human subjects, preparation of experimental materials, data input and analysis, library research, and general lab management tasks. Applicants with prior research experience in psychology are especially encouraged to apply; fluency with computers is required. This is a fulltime position with benefits. To apply, send resume and reference information to Dr. Elizabeth Marsh at

emarsh@psych.duke.edu. Grayson’s Cafe (2300 Chapel Hill Rd). New restaurant (10 min from West Campus) looking for evening servers. Experience appreciated but not necessary. Call 403 9220 to set up an interview.

IN DURHAM THIS SUMMER? Advertising Assistant -The Chronicle Advertising Department is looking for an Account Assistant to work 3540 per week this summer and then 8-10 per week during the academic year. This is an excellent opportunity to learn about the Newspaper and Advertising business and is a great resume builder. Requires excellent communication skills, professional appearance and a desire to learn. Work study preferred. Apply at The Chronicle, 101 W. Union Bldg., across the hall from the Duke Card Office. Or call 919-684-3811. Duke Students Only.

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Lifeguard(s) needed for up to 10-15 hours per week at the Lenox Baker Children’s Hospital therapeutic pool to guard for children and adults with special needs. Person must be at least 18 years old and hold current lifeguard certification. Hours available immediately. Pay rate is $9.00/hr. If interested contact Catie Shaffer 684-4315.

RESEARCH TECHNICIAN WANTED

Graduating student to work as a full time research technician in an immunology laboratory at Duke University. Research focus is on autoimmune diseases and responsibilities would include analysis of blood samples by flow cytometry and immunoglobulin DNA analysis. Preference given to candidates that could initially work part-time prior to

graduation. Experience preferred but not necessary. Send resume and information to contact mcl2@acpub.duke.edu.

Newly remodeled 3 bedroom ranch on approximately half acre in Orange County. Convenient to Duke, VA and UNC. $98,000 or best offer. Call (919) 621-6772 or (919) 383-6710.

Land/Lots For Sale

1/2 Block from East Campus. Charming unfurnished two-bedroom bungalow just 1/2 block from East Campus at 810 Berkeley Street available 04/01/2004. Big front porch, 1300 square feet of living space, back yard with alley access. Gas heat, central air, washer/dryer hookups, wired for cable TV. Includes stove and refrigerator. Bathroom completely remodeled in 2001. $9OO per month/$9OO security deposit with 12 month lease. Contact Dev Palmer, 919-423-3370, dev.palmer@mindspring.com.

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Misc. For Sale TUXEDOS

Designer Tuxedos. Own your tuxedo for as little as $BO. Formal wear outlet, 415 Millstone Dr, Hillsborough. 644-8243.15 minutes from campus.

2.7 or 4.8 WOODED ACRES Ten minutes west of Chapel Hill in Orange County, one mile off Hwy. 54. Restrictions apply. $20,000 per acre. Call 919-6251073.

Houses For Rent

Holton Prize in Educational Research application deadline is April 2. Open to juniors and seniors, A cash prize of $250 will be awarded for outstanding innovative or investigative research dealing with education. For infori at on m www.duke.edu/web/education/s cholarships/hoitonprize.html or email

Needed Student with Work-Study to do light secretarial responsibilitiescopying, filing, pickup mail from mailroom and x-rays from radiology file room, faxing, etc. Rate: $7.00. Contact: Karen Koening at 6843271.

THURSDAY, MARCH 25,

WANTING TO ADOPT SWF seeks birthmother for inde-

pendent adoption of newborn. Homestudy approved by Nathanson Adoption Svcs on 2-27-04. (919)776-8787.

White Duke notebook found. No

name/phone number/course to identify. Contains math/physics notes. Please claim in Room 063 Physics Bldg. Peggy Hall 660-2530.

Desperate Dallas Duke fan needs one ticket for Final Four. Just one needed! afopusx@yahoo.com.

2 bedrooms, 2 baths. 3 miles to Duke Hospital. Refrigerator, stove, W/D, AC, 2 car garage. Nice neighborhood near Durham Academy High School. $lOOO/negotiable. 919218-3428. 3 bed/2 bath brick ranch w/carpet. All appliances except washer/dryer. Fenced yard, large woodplay swing. Convenient to Duke and Durham Regional Hospital. Available July ‘O4. 732-4369. Close to Duke. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath Carport, W/D, storage building, attic Half acre. Yard work included, $BOO/month. 280-5091 or 933-4223. Duke neighborhood. Newly renovated 2-story duplex. 2 large spacious bedrooms, 1.5 bath. New carpet, new kitchen appliances. Contemporary design and new paint job. $lOOO/month. A graduate student’s dream home. 383-6990.

Family of 4 looking for house to rent in Durham. 3 bedroom minimum, central A/C, ideally with yard in friendly neighborhood, close to hospital, not previously rented to undergraduates. Please call Cindy or Todd 207-712-6436. FOR RENT: CHAPEL HILL large 3 bedroom house between Duke and Chapel Hill. Screened porch and private park. 2 fireplaces. Altered pets welcome with pet deposit. Call soon to pick carpet color. Williams and Bagshawe Attorneys (252) 2574400 or (252) 257-1010 evenings. House for rent. Close to Duke. Lovely 2 bdr., 1 bath brick bungalow. Recently renovated, gorgeous hardwood floors, central air, appliances, W/D available. Deck and detached garage. Great storage space. Safe neighborhood close to park. Yard maintenance included in rent. $750/month. 522-3256.

HOUSE FOR STUDENTS 4 bedroom house, W/D, refrigerator, furnished. 10 min. to Duke. Quiet and safe neighborhood. Call 6207880. Neat, clean, professional male seeking female roommate. Home has ideal roommate floor plan. Located in Durham’s quaint Forest Hills Park. 3 bdrm, 2 bth, LR, DR, FR, W/D. Walk to park, Foster’s, Q-shack, Nana’s, & tennis. Avail. May Ist. $575 plus utilities. Greg 919-7958712.

TRINITY HEIGHTS IBR, one block from East Campus. New construction, W/D, central air, off-street parking, FREE cable TV. Available June 1.$675/month. Call Chris 613-7247.

Houses For Sale Cute and charming cottage.' 2BR/IBA. Private lot, hardwood floors, appliances. Close to I-85, Duke, and Regional Hospital. $93,500. Call Laleh, 402-1281.

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NAISMITH from page 13

POINT GUARDS from page 17

just under eight minutes left in the game. Taurasi shot back at him, and she and her four points rode the pine for the remainder of UConn’s 48-34 victory over Virginia Tech. Although the coach and his fiery guard made amends, it is hard to imagine a similar public spat erupting between Beard and Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors. To Taurasi’s credit, she did not have as strong of a supporting cast as Beard. No disrespect to Barbara Turner, Ann Strother, Jessica Moore and Maria Conlon, but I’d take Duke’s kiss Tillis, Monique Currie, Mistie Bass and Lindsey Harding in my starting lineup any day over those four. Taurasi has also battled admirably through a slew of injuries that may have limited her effectiveness thisyear, but the Naismith is about productivity, not sympathy. Beard has certainly received a significant amount of recognition as the ESPN.com Player of the Year, and with the Wade and Wooden Trophy awards still to be given out, she could soon be adding more hardware to her collection. But the Naismith is the most prestigious, and Beard deserved to join the bevy ofDuke men’s basketball greats who have won the trophy. Ironically, those who know Beard are probably more upset than she is about not receiving the award. She is the consummate team player and one of the few athletes who genuinely values team success over any individual honor. A national championship would undoubtedly have more significance to Beard than the Naismith, and fortunately that is one battle that can still be decided on the court.

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of film because he’s such a great player and he’s so versatile,” Paul said. “I know he’s a senior and one thing Coach always says about seniors is they play with a sense of urgency because it could be their last game.” Last season was almost Nelson’s last in college, but he decided to return for his senior year. He and the Hawks had a special season, losing just one game and reaching No. 1 in The Associated Press poll. What if Nelson hadn’treturned? “I’d be sitting home saying, ‘lsn’t it great Xavier made it from the Atlantic 10 and I hope Jim Thome gets healthy and hits more home runs this year,”’ Martelli said. “He is the best player in college basketball because he is the best leader in college basketball. From the day he came back he has demanded in a very quiet way from his teammates that they pursue excellence.” It’s harder to be a leader as a freshman, but Paul has been able to do it without stepping on the toes or egos of the upperclassmen. “My teammates will never let me not know I’m a freshman,” he said, laughing. “At shootarounds or in the hotels

point guard.”

And that’s what he was with 22

points and seven assists in the opening round against Virginia Commonwealth, and 29 points and six assists in the second round against Manhattan.

“He is TJ. Ford reincarnated,” Martelli said, comparing Paul with Texas’ All-America point guard from last season. Tm amazed at his speed, his calm. He hits big shot after big shot, and not only hits them, he wants to take them. “When I watch him I think, ‘That was what it was like when we had Jameer as a freshman.’ I don’t know all of the freshmen in the country, but if there’s anybody who’s had more of an impact on their team than he has had on this team, God bless him.” Wake Forest coach Skip Prosser played down the one-on-one matchup, but he looks at Nelson and sees what could be Paul’s future. “You look at the difference between Chris and Jameer physically and I think that’s a natural maturation,” Prosser said. “He’ll get stronger as he gets older. He’s going to play, and he’s done pretty well.

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DUO from page 13 assists for the second straight year with 6.2 per contest and increased his scoring average nearly eight points, up to 14.2 points per game this season. In addition to their offensive contributions, the two players are also among the nation’s best defenders. Brown, arguably one of the nation’s quickest players, leads Illinois with 50 steals. “We [come] out every game and we want to guard now,” Williams told the St. Louis PostDispatch. “That’s our main focus, starting on the defensive end. As long as you’ve got that intensity,

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play great.” Fighting Illini

guards playing at the top of their game in the tournament, Duke will need to rely heavily on the defense of Chris Duhon, Daniel Ewing and Sean Dockery to match the speed and intensity Illinois likes to play with. “Their perimeter is one of the best in the country,” Mike Krzyzewski said. “That's going to be the key for us, if we can stay with them.”

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B Mrs. Pan has appeared on Broadway in Rogers’ and Hammerstein’s “The King and I” Mrs. Pan will also give her personal testimony in Chinese with English translation provided. She has toured 16 cities in China including singing at Tiananmen Square.

Saturday, March 27, 2004 7:30 p.m. Main Sanctuary First Baptist Church, 414 Cleveland Street, Durham Transportation Is Available Upon Advance Request For Information Call

(919) 688-7308 ext. 33 (daytime) or (919) 471-3712 (evenings) http://www.fbcdurham.org/ISM or http://www.ccmcnc.org Call for Directions First Baptist Church offers a variety of activities for Chinese including Sunday School, Home Bible Study, Social Activities and Trips.

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Academic THURSDAY, MARCH 25 Systematics Seminar: 12:40pm. Petra Korall, Duke University. "The phytogeny of Selaginellaceae: extreme substitution rates and rate heterogeneity." 144 Biological Sciences. Popßio Seminar: 7pm. Loren Rieseberg, Indiana University. "Hybridization and ecological divergence in annual sunflowers." Note location! 144 Biological Sciences.

FRIDAY, MARCH 26 Biology Super Speaker Program: 2:3opm. Loren Rieseberg, Indiana University. “The cultivated sunflower: origin, domestication and consequences of genetic modification." 111 Biological Sciences. University Program in Ecology: 4pm. Sidney Gauthreaux, Clemson University. "Radar ornithology and the conservation of migratory birds." 144 Biological Sciences.

Religious THURSDAY, MARCH 25 Weekly Eucharist (Holy Communion): s:3opm, Thursdays. Wesley Office (Chapel Basement).

Graduate Christian Fellowship: 6pm, dinner; 6:45pm, program. Dr. Richard Hays (New Testament)

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Christian Fellowship: Thursdays, basement, www.duke.edu/web/icf/ or

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Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship: 79pm. Presents Professor Robert Jensen, Media Critic and Author of Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity. Admission for students is $10.00; $25 for individuals or $35 for a couple. Price includes a copy of Dr. Jensen's book. Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is located at 4907 Garrett Road in Durham. For more information call 968-9184.

Social Programming &

Meetings

THURSDAY, MARCH 25 North Carolina Returned Peace Corps Volunteers: s:3opm. Invite prospective and returned Peace Corps volunteers and their friends and family to join in the monthly Durham gathering at Satisfaction in Brightleaf Square. For more information call 361-9770 or 4032684.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 26 International Coffee Connection: 12noon, Fridays. Basement of the Duke Chapel (entrance opposite the Bryan University Center). A free, light lunch is served. All students are welcome. This is sponsored by the Duke Chapel and Bridges International.

Student Concert: spm. Mary Fulweiler & Andrea Galambos, sopranos. Bone Hall, Biddle Music Building. Student Concert: 7pm. Melissa Berman, soprano. Bone Hall, Biddle Music Building.

Ongoing

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J-1 Visas Inside & Out: 7pm, April 7. Attorney Brian Smith will discuss this often restrictive visa and ways J-1 visaholders successfully enter the U.S. job market. Duke University’s International House (2022 Campus Dr.). Attendees must R.S.V.P. at (919) 863-4169 or www.bdsmithlaw.com.

Upcoming; April 5 & 7. The Communications Certificate program from Duke, open to the community, hosts free information sessions on East Campus. 6pm on the sth or noon on the 7th. To register for free session: 684-6259, course/comm.

www.learnmore.duke.edu/short-

Upcoming: April 6, 7, & 12. The Technical Communication Certificate Program from Duke, open to the community, hosts free information sessions on East Campus. Noon on the 6th or 12th, or 6pm on the

Upcoming; April 7. The Documentary Studies Certificate Program from Duke, open to the community, hosts a free information session at the Center for Documentary Studies, 7pm. To register for free session; 684-6259. Upcoming; Angels Among Us 5K Run and Family Fun Walk. Saturday, April 24, 7am registration. Wallace Wade Stadium, Duke University Campus. Proceeds benefit the Brain Tumor Center at Duke. For more information, visit angelsamongus.org or call 919-667-2616. Exhibit: Through March 28. Sebastiao Salgado's "Migrations: Humanity in Transition." Sebastiao Salgado began a photographic investigation into the phenomenon of mass migration at the end of the twentieth century. Call for exhibit hours, 660-3663. CDS, 1317 W. Pettigrew St.

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grant women and the role of social support in making the transition to a new community and in accessing health services, particularly preventive health services such as prenatal care, immunizations, and cervical cancer screening for women.

Display: Through April 4. Portraits of Members: the Photographs of Michael Francis Blake. Perkins Library, Special Collections Hallway Gallery. Photographs by one of Charleston, S.C.'s first African American studio photographers.

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Longoria for Campus Services ules. That he recognizes this need for interaction is good, and he has the of Campus Services and Athletics, personal characteristics necessary for Although Longoria has experience such interaction to be successful, His major agenda issues are the both as the sophomore class president and on DSC, he needs to think more need for improved campus safety, an carefully about what the job of a vice issue that was again highlighted this week by assaults on campus. He also president entails. He certainly has wants to create a vithe potential, not to DSG ENDORSMENTS sion for what central campus is going to be mention the charisma, to be a good vice president, but he in the future and hopes to improve the facilities at Brodie Gym and Wilson. must first develop a set of priorities All Longoria needs to do to have a and goals for this newly named office. admits that the transition successful year with DSG is to for a Longoria more specific, detailed plan about from Facilities and Athletics to Campus Services and Athletics, along with what needs to be accomplished. He other structural changes in DSC, needs to define his jurisdiction in relamakesit even more importantfor their tionship to Student Affairs, work closeto be interaction between vice presily with the other committees and endents and committees. sure that there are tangible results. The Chronicle formally endorses Longoria must work especially closely with Student Affairs on issues Jesse Longoria for Vice President of such as campus safety and bus sched- Campus Services and Athletics.

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Jesse Longoria is the only candidate for Vice President

Goodwin for Student Affairs

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of the candidates for Vice President of Student Affairs of DSC are strong and would do a good job in the position. Sophomore Brandon Goodwin, junior Adam Katz and sophomore Mark Middaugh all have similar agendas. Goodwin and Middaugh both want to improve student health services by adding online appointments, and all three hope to create a more vibrant on-campus social life without eliminating the greek social scene. However, of the three, sophomore Brandon Goodwin has the most ambitious plan with the greatest number of concrete, comprehensive ideas. Goodwin has experience with DSG’s Student Affairs committee. He wants to make DSG a more proactive organization and better integrate DSG with Campus Council, DUSDAC and the student body. His platform is extensive and covers all the necessary areas. He wants to work with DUSDAC to better student dining servic-

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es, especially by bringing more private vendors, such as Sitar Indian Palace, into the Great Hall and the

Marketplace. Middaugh also has DSG experience and includes DSG reform, increased accountability and transparency in SOFC in his platform. He also includes improving attention to mental health and mentoring in his

agenda.

Katz, who has no previous experience with DSG, focuses entirely on improving social life and improving the flow of ideas between students and DSG. The only apprehension one might have with Goodwin is that he is involved with IFC and is a staunch proponent of Annual Review. However, all three candidates are greek, so it should not effect the outcome of the race. The Chronicle formally endorses Brandon Goodwin for Vice President of Student Affairs.

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RC should interact more, police less I was overcome with nausea when reading the March 22 Reseident Coordinator article, which included statements by the tyrannical David Montag of Edens Quadrangle. I have had little personal interaction with Montag, but I have witnessed so many injustices and so much sketchy behavior that contact with him makes me anticipate my graduation even more. I am an Edens resident who does not live in a selective house but shares the pain of many groups made to appease Montag in my Quad. I have witnessed Montag enter fraternity sections at 2 a.m. (with his dog—what if we were allergic?) only to take keys out of bathroom doors right in front of their owners and require a two page apology and sit down meeting in order to get their key chains back. Maybe it’s just me but in a fraternity section is it really a University concern that keys not be left in the door when the whole floor are males and the keys only work in their bathrooms? I have attended parties where Montag has appeared bellowing charges of over-occupancy saying that there are at least 87 people here and the occupancy is 86 and that the hallways were not reserved. At that same party I saw him outside the section in the bushes peering into windows to find a reason to break up the party. Looks like policing to me. I understand that Montag has rules and

to uphold but how about common courtesy and genuine respect? If someone is always prying and prodding they will eventually find something wrong and then groups face the UJB. I do not fear repercussions from Montag because my sorority does not live on West Campus, but I can understand how groups are afraid to expose Montag for fear that the ridicule and observation will be even more focused on their group should they speak out. There was an Edens petition almost two years ago to remove Montag because of his overbearing treatment, but I’m sure our signatures didn’t go very far because he’s doing exactly what the University wants him to—policing students. Most of the new regulations that Montag is so anal about are linked to efforts to decrease alcoholic consumption on campus. Duke should understand that there will always be alcoholics and people who do not exercise good judgment. But what about me? I am an adult, and I just want to be able to have a drink with my friends on campus. I should be able to relax how I choose. I thought East Campus was the dry campus.

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Freeman Center endorses DSG candidates The Freeman Centerfor Jewish Life student board has spoken with the candidates for Duke Student Government positions and has chosen to endorse the following people. For president, both candidates have the energy and leadership to be fantastic representatives. However, Anthony Vitarelli not only has passion and presence, bust also has the clear vision and concrete agenda to lead Duke and DSG best in the future. All the candidates for Executive Vice President have strong platforms and the energy and experience to structure DSG effectively, and we have chosen not to endorse a specific candidate. Brandon Goodwin’s platform for Vice

President ofStudent Affairs is comprehensive, and we are happy to endorse his candidacy. Although he is running unopposed, Jesse Longoria is a great candidate, and we endorse him for Vice President of Campus Services and Athletics. Joel Kliksberg has extensive grasp of issues facing the Duke community and has proven through his accomplishments that he is the best candidate for Vice President of Community Interaction. We wish all the candidates luck and encourage everyone to vote for their favorite candidates Tuesday March 30. Freeman Center Student Board

DIYA endorses DSG candidates On behalf of the executive board of Diya, Duke’s South Asian-American student association, I would like to announce the Duke Student Government candidates endorsed by our organization. Candidates were chosen based on their responses at a question and answer session on the evening of Tuesday, March 23, with many multicultural groups present. Diya formally endorses junior Anthony Vitarelli for President, both sophomore Russ Ferguson and junior Andrew Wisnewski for Executive Vice President, junior Chase Johnson for Vice President for Academic Affairs, freshman Joel Kliksberg for Vice President for Com-

munity Interaction, sophomore Jesse Longoria for Vice President for Campus Services and Athletics, and sophomore Brandon Goodwin for Vice President for Student Affairs. Diya believes strongly that these candidates are well-prepared to enhance DSG in the coming year and that they are the best choices for the student body because of their visions and enthusiasm. Diya strongly encourages all students to vote in the DSG elections March 30. Hirsh Sandesara Trinity ’O6 The author is political chair ofDiya.

ON THE RECORD Hearing about an attack on women who are similar in age, who go to the same school, who go to the same parites, who are essentially similar targets makes the whole idea more of a personal concern. —Freshman Jenny Feldman, on the concerns raised by two recent sexual assults. See story, page 1.

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other night I came home to my and I still don’t know what to believe. Deapartment on Central and my spite my frustration, the search for deroommate, Jeanne, told me that a tails—not big ones, like names of survivors, DUPD officer had been by Colleen’s and but important ones, like the new Scary that Colleen said that the officer said that Place on Campus I Should Avoid After 6 Sunday night a girl had been full-out p.m.—has been a convenient distraction raped two buildings down; had she heard from actually considering and thinking about the assaults, and anything? Apparently the their implications for girl had come home to her me and my community. apartment in the early Sexual assault tradievening, had left the apartment unlocked, and the guy tionally invites ambivawas waiting.... lent reactions, waving from open doubt to sacBut then another officer had been by Laura’s, and charine pity, from the said that Laura said usual ways in which Jeanne that the officer said that the people react to trauma. Valerio Often, trauma brings girl said she had been sleepout the best in people ing, and the guy had come The F Word into her apartment, which dealing taking the rewas unlocked, in the early sponsibility of co-surmorning and raped her.... vivorship. Death —neighbors make meals But then Tuesday’s Chronicle said that and old friends send cards. Broken leg? the girl hadn’t been raped but assaulted, Flowers and offers to chauffeur. Terminal illness: a donations to the charity of your and it was only being called an assault because ‘“she’d been touched’.” And I began choice. You’d rather have neither, but to wonder if there was just a ton of misinpeople do what they can. It has always anformation, or if these were all separate gered me that sexual assault victims often events don’t get these gestures and that negative Then I looked at my Monday Chronijudgment is so rampant. I noticed something different this time cle and it said a girl had been raped in the forest on Friday, which made me around. I would watch guys open their pathink Duke Forest, off Old Erwin and by pers, widen their eyes at the news and Fuqua, and I wasn’t sure why anyone nudge their friends. would be there at night in the first place, The general refrain: ‘That’s not cool. especially by themselves on a Friday (not This is messed up.” Talking to female that it should matter, but it does), but friends about it. Putting notices about a then it turns out it was between Edens screaming protest in their away message. and the bus stop, or the WEE and the Nothing earth-shattering, but several Women’s Center, or “that path everyone’s worlds better than “she was just asking for been saying is sketchy since forever” it, walking alone/forgetting to lock up.” (whatever you want to call it), but then I Though I don’tknow if, as a sign, it’s betlook at the crime briefs on the DUPD site ter or worse—with stranger rapes hapthat I got from an e-mail from a DSC guy pening every year (in addition to all the which he’d forwarded from another DSC party rapes, which we don’t hear about, which merit an entirely different colguy and that says something else.... Are you still with me? Because I’m not. umn), perhaps the Duke community’s Trying to figure out the weekend’s ungrown inured. Or maybe it’s because the pleasantness actually gave me a headache, assaults over the weekend were so clearly

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attacks: intrusions of property, creepysneakiness, committed by strangers. Whatever happened and however difficult it’s been to find any consistent information, these cases have “victim” spelled out in nice clear letters. There’s an innocent girl and a bad guy: we know how to react. I wrote that trauma brings out the best in people, but it also brings out the worst. In this case, it’s ignorance, for instance guys (and some girls) who don’t understand that knowing about a nearby assault promptly is a big deal to a lot of women. That I didn’t know about an assault that happened on my block for almost two days is inexcusable. E-mails have been flying about the assault, teeming with rage that has no target. I like to think that this is all because as a community, we feel violated, and will do everything we can to prevent it from happening again. I realize that I make some generalizations and presume some truths. While they’re educated conjectures, I can’t know

the real situations, and cannot presume to know the survivors and their network of friends and family, who have all (and again I assume) been rocked by the weekend far more than I have. But I still feel the effects, and I resent them. I resent that when I walk from rehearsal in the BC to my car in Physics I have to hold my keys out, and that the cold metal makes my hand freeze. I resent that when I enter my apartment I have to check all the rooms to make sure they’re empty before putting anything down. I resent that as I write this in my apartment, I half-believe that somebody will creep up behind me and put a hand over my mouth. And most of all, I resent that even as I have this opportunity to make my voice heard, and use it to cry that this is an unacceptable thing to happen on our campus, nothing that I, as a girl, student and citizen, do or say can stop it from happening—in the past, the present or the future.

Meghan Valerio is a Trinity senior. Her column appears every third Thursday.

I am in love with Jack

am in love with Jack. Scrumpy Jack. It’s this garishly green pub down the street from my house in Cape Town, South Africa. During the day, you’ll find a bunch of white male drunks raiding the free popcorn and beer taps, which is probably typical of any pub open at noon. Around dinner time, the clientele drastically changes. The drunks stumble down the road to their quaint Capetonian cottages. A veritable mix of students, young and “mature” adults, and local riff-raff quickly take over the pool table and bar stands. Oh yeah, these new merry-makers are black, white and pu ’|- n ] coloured—South Africans of both Topher’s African and European descent. The first time I entered Scrumpy Jack, I was shocked by the racial and socioeconomic diversity of the clientele. On a typical night at Scrumpy Jack, you’ll find Leo, the coloured bartender, playing pool with some local white students. In the corner, a small group of black urbanites order another round after hearing it’s my American friend’s 21st birthday. Granted, Scrumpy Jack is not the epitome of Capetonian bar dynamics, but it’s certainly typical of the kind of progress South Africa has made in the last ten years. From an era of extreme rights violations to a future of bona fide democracy, South Africa has managed to accomplish the impossible. Its constitution is the most inclusive and progressive in the world, granting protection from discrimination and government intrusion on the basis of multiple grounds, including HIV status, gender expression, religion, disability, race and sexual orientation. It also grants a range of “soft,” or positive rights, which in practice has been difficult to implement, but the foundation "

for a burgeoning democracy couldn’t be stronger. What’s most amazing about the constitution is not the constitution itself, but rather the way the document has been internalized in the South African consciousness. South Africans are vigilant of potential discrimination in business, politics, and everyday social situations. At the same time, they allow space for citizens to express personal views, but that space does not extend into the realm of policy or law. This sort of mentality is tangible in the creation of a special judicial court that deals with issues of discrimination and intiiiiidation. Just last month, a coloured Parade man was awarded a settlement from a downtown club for being denied entrance by the bouncers. This was the first case in the new court, and South Africans applauded the judicial statement that discrimination of any sort will not be tolerated. This case takes on greater significance considering that the coloured man was denied entrance to a prominent gay club. No one seemed to care that this was a “gay” incident. The only concern was that the man had been discriminated against. South Africans hope that the future is grounded in a strong memory of past atrocities. At the writing of the new constitution, black, white and coloured leaders recognized that the only successful post-apartheid South Africa is one that recognizes the equality and dignity of all citizens, not just black Christians. Muslims, Jews, Hindus, sexual minorities, homeless persons, HIY positive persons and every other possible minority in the Rainbow Nation is not only accorded full citizenship (as in the United States), but the respect for their humanity.

Unfortunately, the United States never learned from a history of oppression, from the atrocities of slavery to the indignity of civil rights violations in the last 140 years. Arab South Africans would never be “profiled” at airports; gay South Africans do not have to defend their human worth; Arab South Africans are not inexplicably interned; minority-language speaking South Africans do not have to fight for access to adequate education. A continent away, the United States chooses to deny that a considerable percentage of blacks live in poverty because of a history of brutal oppression. The United States chooses to trust that affirmative action is an adequate band-aid for future improvements. Most remarkably, the United States chooses to believe there are a few racists “out there,” and as long as no one is explicitly racist, we’ve made progress. The United States refuses to call a spade a spade—racism is racism and it’s rampant in our nation’s policies and social hierarchies. And what’s more, the United States—its government and citizens—refuse to believe that discrimination is discrimination, persecution is persecution, regardless of specific issue. No level of discrimination or persecution can be tolerated in a society that values freedom and equality. South Africans value nothing higher than freedom and equality; and their history requires them to talk about discrimination and persecution every day of their lives, regardless ofrace, religion, gender, sexual orientation or ethnicity. How long are we going to pretend that we no longer need these conversations in the United States, a country devoted to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

Christopher Scoville is a Trinity junior. His column appears every third Thursday.

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