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Next fall, lost freshmen and drunken frat boys will not be the only people wandering around off East Campus.

In a partnership with the city of Durham that officially began in the state legislature last July, the Duke University Police Department has agreed to expand its jurisdiction to the areas surrounding East Campus in order to augment the strength and responsiveness of the Durham Police Department.

The alliance, formally called The Agreement for Police Cooperation and Mutual Aid with Duke University, was passed by the City Council at the end oflast week and will be fully implemented next fall after the addition of six new police officers to the DUPD and the investment of $300,000 for the additional costs those officers will incur.

The large number of students, faculty members and employees that live in the area around East campus will be the primary beneficiaries of the new cooperation, officials said.

DUPD Chief Clarence Birkhead cited the safety and well-being of this population as the driving force behind the agreement.

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A fire broke out at the Perkins Library addition construction site Wednesday, causing the evacuation of the Old Chem building but only minor damage to the site and no injuries.

Following the fire, Durham Fire Department second district battalion chief Barry Yeargan said he would recommend that the University improve safety practices at its construction sites.

The fire began at around 11:35 a.m. from somewhat unclear causes. Yeargan said it started when workers welding steel reinforcing bars on the Perkins addition just north of Old Chem accidentally allowed the molten “rebar” to fall onto waterproofing insulation, while Lt. Tom Gustafson of the Duke University Police Department said sparks from the welding fell on the insulation. Regardless of the cause, the insulation caught fire quickly, emitting plumes of heavy black smoke that were visible as far away as Flowers Drive and causing flames that Yeargan said reached 10 to 15. feet in height.

Old Chem was then evacuated, not because it was threatened by the fire but because smoke had entered its ventilation system, Gustafson said. After a quick response by firefighters and about three minutes of putting down the flames, the displaced students, faculty and staff returned to the building.

Junior Rhys Marsh, who was in a laboratory class when the fire broke out, said the

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The Harvard-Yale football game is one of many traditions at Yale.

Duke has its Carolina, Yale has its Harvard; and although Yale may not have its own Krzyzewskiville, it does share with Duke an intense athletic rivalry.

“The Game,” the traditional preThanksgiving break football contest between Harvard and Yale, is the highlight of the' year for many Yalies and a tradition that dates back to 1875. Held alternately each year in New Haven and Cambridge, the annual event lures back thousands of alumni and practically the entire student bodies ofboth schools. Much like the fanfare of the Duke-Carolina game, students wear T-shirts, shout slogans and drink.

‘The Game tailgating is the most fun tradition we have here at Yale,” said sophomore Galen Main, sharing a comment sentiment. Other students, however, find The Game a popular example of Yale’s 303-year-old history weighing down on the

When President-elect Richard Brodhead assumes his new position July 1, he will be entering unfamiliar territory. In addition to managing the University’s academics and facilities, the current Dean of Yale College will be the top administrator of Duke University Health System, in spite of having no direct experience in health care.

But Brodhead will not be the only administrator new to Duke’s health care complex. DUHS will also have a new chancellor—the announcement of the replacement for Dr. Ralph Snyderman, current chancellor and chief executive officer of

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U.S. Marines in FALLUJAH, Iraq the third day of a battle to pacify this Sunni Muslim city fired a rocket and dropped a 500-pound, laser-guided bomb on a mosque compound Wednesday, and witnesses said dozens were killed. Shiite-inspired violence spread to key cities in Iraq.

The fighting in Fallujah and neighboring Ramadi —-just east of Baghdad has killed 15 Marines since Monday and was part of an intensified uprising involving other Sunni towns in northern and central Iraq, and Shiite population —

Marines waged a six-hour battle around the Abdul-Aziz al-Samarrai mosque with militants holed up inside before a Cobra helicopter fired a Hellfire missile at the base of its minaret and an F-16 dropped the bomb, said Marine Lt. Col. Brennan Byrne.

The fight began when a Marine vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade fired from the mosque, wounding five Marines, and a large U.S. force converged on it, Byrne said.

Witnesses said the strike came as worshippers had gathered for afternoon prayers.

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cars ferrying out dead and wounded.

Witnesses estimated that as many as 40 people were killed.

The military gave widely varying accounting of the casualties. Master Sgt. Robert Beyer, a spokesperson for the Ist Marine Expeditionary Force in Camp Pendleton, Calif., said that one “enemy combatant” was killed, and there were “no worshippers” or civilian casualties. Byrne, in Iraq, said “we believe we killed a bunch of these guys.”

Witnesses said part of a wall surrounding the mosque compound was destroyed but the main building was not damaged.

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The only Sept. 11 suspect ever HAMBURG, Germany convicted walked out of jail Wednesday smiling and laughing, freed less than 2 1/2 years into a 15-year sentence after judges ruled the evidence was too weak to hold him pending a retrial.

Mounir el Motassadeq, whose conviction on charges of aiding the Sept. 11 plotters was overturned last month, seemed euphoric as he left the Hamburg court building with two friends and his lawyer. He said nothing but laughed as reporters peppered him with questions.

The 30-year-old Moroccan, who had been behind bars

since his November 2001 arrest, headed home to his apartment in a Hamburg suburb to be reunited with his wife and two

children.

Explaining their decision, the judges said evidence for the main charges against el Motassadeq —more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder—was no longer “urgent” because they lack testimony from an al Qaeda suspect in U.S. custody. El Motassadeq was ordered to stay in Hamburg and report to police twice a week.

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Israelis uproot Palestinian olive grove Israeli workers with chain saws cut down a Palestinian farmer's olive grove Wednesday to make way for a West Bank security barrier, sparking a clash in which 15 Palestinian villagers and two Israeli police were wounded.

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Kabul orders troops to quell violence For the second time in two weeks. President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan is sending newly trained Afghan National Army troops to quell fighting in outlying regions.

Kerry's budget policies mirror Clinton's Laying out a sweeping economic strategy to counter the nation's rising deficits, Sen. John Kerry said on Wednesday that as president he

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Duke Student Government had a concise and productive meeting Wednesday night—approving several pieces of legislation, hearing new statutes and making nominations for awards and positions—in lieu of the star speaker’s absence.

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta was slated to inform the Senate about the recent increase in the student activities fee, but he was unable to attend, citing a conflict with an “event.” “Dr. Moneta has rescheduled for April 14th,” said Executive Vice President Cliff Davison, who was notified of the absence Wednesday afternoon.

Senator Dave Rausen, who authored a resolution rejecting the fee increase at last week’s meeting, was disappointed that the administrator was not present.

“I really believe that if he’s going to try to raise the fee, then he owes it to us to come and tell us about it and explain it,” Rausen said, noting that the absence was understandable if Moneta was truly unavailable.

Vice President of Community Interaction Andrew Wisnewski, who will serve as executive vice president next year, presented the first reading of a bylaw amendment allowing DSG’s president-elect to choose which standing committee of the University’s Board of Trustees he or she would like to join for the following year. Under the current system, the DSG president automatically sits on the business and finance committee. Wisnewski’s proposed amendment, however, allows the president leeway to choose the most appealing committee.

“The new president should be able to serve on the committee that is most in line with his vision,” Wisnewski said.

Davison and members of the cabinet presented a first-reading of a bylaw amendment change establishing a President Nannerl O. Keohane Award. If approved next week, the award would be given to an administrator who has worked to improve undergraduate life.

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The Senate approved two pieces of legislation—a resolution to remove students’ social security numbers from their DukeCard statements and a bylaw amendment creating an auditing board for the Student Organization Finance Committee “to maintain the integrity of our funding process.”

Vice President of Student Affairs Elizabeth Dixon and Senator Daron Gunn presented the resolution, which addresses the identity theft risk associated with printing social security numbers on DukeCard statements.

The bylaw amendment creates an auditing board to annually review the student government and SOFC finances, in response to the recent discovery of $140,000 in various unused DSG accounts.

DSG President-elect Pasha Majdi announced his nomination of junior Kristin Jackson to serve as treasurer for the upcoming year. Jackson, who currently serves as SOFC chair, presented an initial copy of the 2004-05 DSG budget to the Senate, to be finalized and approved next week.

IN OTHER BUSINESS: The Senate approved the charter of The Girls’ Club. The organization’s previous charter bid in Fall 2003 was denied by the student legislature after representatives of the Community Service Center raised concerns about the group’s alleged plagiarism, failure to collaborate with other groups and background training of mentors to discuss certain issues with the girls.

Heidi Schumacher, co-director of the CSC, spoke on behalf of The Girls’ Club at the meeting, citing its commitment to working in the community and the advances they had made since the fall.

DSG also unanimously approved the charter of Women in Math, a satellite of the national Association of Women in Mathematics. The group aims to organize mentoring for Duke female undergraduates in mathematics and has done research on discrimination and harassment in Duke’s mathematics department.

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Prof arrested for pot From staff and wire reports Associate professor of history John French was arrested Friday on drug-related charges.

French and his wife were charged with maintaining a house for selling marijuana after the couple’s son allegedly sold the substance to a police officer. Their son was also charged with possession of other drugs.

Neither the University nor the Department of History would comment on the

French, who has worked at the University for 12 years, could not be reached for comment.

The University’s personnel policy manual states: “Employees as citizens are responsible for knowing about and complying with the provisions of state and federal law that make it a crime to possess, sell, deliver, or manufacture controlled substances. Any member of the University Community who violates the law is subject to prosecution by civil authorities as well as to disciplinary matter.

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Five faculty members honored as 2004 Bass Chairs The University welcomed five more faculty members to the ranks of the Bass Chairs, honoring thepi in an April 1 ceremony with the donors who endowed their respective

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Although images of voluptuous ladies with wigs and pordy gendemen may come to mind when thinking of opera, do charming, tall, slender 25-year-olds?

It soon will, as Josh Sekoski, Trinity ’Ol, returns to

Duke Saturday evening with others vocalists and the Duke Symphony Orchestra in an adaptation of Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville.”

After receiving a masters degree at the University of Texas at Austin, Sekoski returns to his alma mater in the role of Fiorello, the protagonist of the opera who is the comical servant of Count Almaviva.

Although Fiorello is not his biggest role to date, Sekoski has come a long way professionally since his last performance at Duke in the 2000 full-stage production ofLe Nozze di Figaro. In the past, he has played roles as minor as “second prisoner” or “a guard in the past,” but as Sekoski explains, it is a beginning for any aspiring artist.

“It’s a difficult profession to break into,” Sekoski says.

“I initially had my doubts. When you’re in a school like Duke where [opera] is not something that is highly celebrated and you know that doing something like economics will bring you rewards as soon as you graduate, the temptation to do something else is great.”

Sekoski matriculated at Duke in 1997, aspiring to be a public policy studies and music double major, but midway through his freshman year, he nixed public policy for a full music track. “I found that I was enjoying my music classes much more than my public policy classes,” he says.

Even though Sekoski, who identifies his family as “very blue collar southwestern Pennsylvanian,” began singing at a very young age, opera was not always his primary interest.

“My father was a steelworker and my mother a schoolteacher—we weren’t a family that listened to classical music,” he shrugs, smiling broadly. “No one was particularly musical, [so] I don’t know what happened.”

It was only when he grew older and developed a rich baritone that he decided to fully devote himself to opera—a large jump from the musical theater he had been involved in at high school.

“I personally believe that the most beautiful singing in the world is present in the field of opera,” Sekoski says. “It’s one of the most joyous [forms of] music that can be found.”

After his admittance to Duke, Sekoski became intimately involved in various Opera workshops staged by the music department. “I had a nice niche in the music department,” says Sekoski, leaning back in his chair while fondly reminiscing. “Since music wasn’t a very common major, I received a great deal of faculty attention and performance experience.... Duke gave me the perspective

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This year’s new Bass Chairs in Trinity College ofArts and Sciences are: E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of English Laurie Shannon, whose professorship was established by Blake Byrne, Trinity ’57; Frances Hill Fox Professor in Humanities Bryan Gilliam, whose professorship was established by the late Frances Hill Fox, Women’s College ’3l; and Alexander F Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science Peter Feaver, whose professorship was established by an anonymous donor in memory of attorney and business executive Alexander Hehmeyer.

In the Nicholas School of theEnvironment and Earth Sciences, Emily Klein earned the Lee Hill Snowdon Associate Professorship, established by die late Edward Snowdon in memory ofhis wifeLee Hill Snowdon, Women’s College ’4l.

Lori Setton won the Mary Milus Yoh and Harold L. Yoh, Jr. Associate Professorship of Biomedical Engineering in the Pratt School of Engineering. Setton’s professorship was established by Harold “Spike” Yoh, Engineering ’5B, and Mary Milus Yoh, Women’s College ’59.

Opera singer Josh Sekoskijrinity 'Ol, will perform Saturday night. that I could bring to art and there’s no limit to the way that knowledge can impact one’s ability as an artist. I’m very excited to be back.”

Sekoski attributes his success mainly to two members of the music department—Musician David Heid and Professor ofPractice Susan Dunn. “I owe a great deal of my musicianship to David Heid. He’s a fabulous musician.

Susan gave me encouragement, inspiration and had great skill as a teacher.”

Dunn is equally appraising of him. “He’s smart, determined and talented. I find that people with those qualities have a great chance to be successful,” she says.

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Four to receive honorary degrees at Commencement President Nan Keohane announced Wednesday that the University will award honorary degrees to former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, South African court justice Richard Goldstone, mathematician Phillip Griffiths and genetics researcher Oliver Smithies. The degrees will be awarded during the University’s May 9 commencement exercises.

Albright became the nation’s first female secretary of state when appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1997.

Prior to that, she was a national security advisor to Clinton.

She is currendy a principal at The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm that she founded in Washington, D.C. She also serves on the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange. Albright is scheduled to deliver an address at this year’s Commencement.

Goldstone served as a justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1994 to 2003. Prior to that, he was the chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals from the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He is currendy the chancellor of the University ofWitwatersrand in Johannesburg, a governor of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and president of World ORT, an international technical and technology training organization. Goldstone has visited and lectured at Duke Law numerous times.

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Crimeßriefs Foreign symbols found in Duke Forest An employee reported at 4:45 p.m. April 5 that five trees, located at Gate #25 of the Duke Forest, had been spray painted with the Greek symbols for “D,” “S” and “P.” Damage is estimated at $l5O.

said she has had problems with this person in the past.

She discovered that the cash had been removed from her wallet at 4 p.m.

Engineering building site yields pressure washer A construction manager reported that a $1,968.56 Columbia jacket warming another A visitor reported at 12:07 a.m. April 7 that her $BO pressure washer was stolen from the “Skanska” Engineering Building construction site on Science Drive. The tan Columbia jacket, gray and blue with orange trim, was 18” by 40” washer was last seen secured behind a fenced stolen from the sth floor of Duke University Medical Origin of rogue fire extinguisher unknown area on Science Drive at 5 p.m. April 5 and was discovCenter. The victim last saw the jacket earlier in the day; An employee reported finding a discharged fire extinno time was given. guisher lying by a tree at the rear of Jarvis Residence Hall ered missing at 7:17 a.m. April 6. at 8:03 a.m. April 5. The location where the extinguisher Theft quick in Fast Track area was taken from is not known at this time.

Hijacked hand truck means no package delivery An employee reported at 7:48 p.m. April 4 that $9O A UPS employee reported at 7:33 p.m. April 6 that a in cash was stolen from a patient who had left her purse package containing a $9OO laptop computer was stolen Room proves permeable for thief An employee reported at 1:29 p.m. April 5 that a $1,400 in an unsecured area of the Duke University Medical from his hand truck. The victim left his hand truck on HP Workstation and a $l,OOO 18-inch LCD monitor were Center Fast Track. The patient left the purse at 3 p.m. the walkway beside House D at 5:30 p.m. April 6 and disstolen from a Duke University Medical Center storage April 4 and returned to get the purse 15 minutes later. covered the package missing 5:45 p.m. the same day. room next to Vascular Radiology. The items were last seen Good luck on the big Accounting test everyone! in the storage room at 2 p.m. March 31 and were found missing at 1 p.m. April 5. A more secured location is being looked at to store the equipment.

Stolen wallet contained little cash An employee reported at 12:35 p.m. April 6 that her $2O black wallet was stolen from room 1078 of the Eye Center. The victim left her wallet in the room at 7:30 a.m. April 6 and discovered it missing at 12:35 p.m. the same day. The wallet had $3 in cash and three cards valued at $lO each.

Kin’s acquaintance troubles woman over phone A patient at Duke University Medical Center reported at 3:42 p.m. April 6 that she was getting harassing phone calls from an acquaintance ofher baby’s father. The victim

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DUHS from page 1 DUHS, is slated for later this month ‘The point is to get good people in all the responsible positions,” Brodhead said. “I promise you that I will spend as much time as is necessary to have a very thorough working understanding [of DUHS], but the reason we’ll hire someone to be the chancellor of the health system is because a person with that expertise should have that role.”

Since his appointment in December, Brodhead has been actively involved in the search for Snyderman’s replacement. The dual shifts in leadership became public last spring, when Snyderman and President Nan Keohane announced their plans to step down at the end of the 2003-04 academic year.

This left vacancies for two of the Uni-

versity’s most high-profile positions, and since Brodhead’s appointment his role in the search has been one of his most immediate responsibilities.

“The timing was specifically designed to ensure that the new president would be involved in the selection of the new chancellor,” Provost Peter Lange said. “It only makes sense.”

Brodhead’s attitude toward his DUHS responsibilities has been a mixture of confidence in the current administrators and a willingness to learn about this aspect of his job.

“I don’t lie awake about it, because, as 1 say, there are very good people here,” Brodhead said. “Everyo'ne I have met who has a position of responsibility over there has struck me as very, very capable. If [the Medical Center] relied on me to run it, that would be a disaster, but of course something would have gone deeply wrong [to bring that situation about]. I’ll learn it.”

In Keohane, Brodhead will follow a president who came from a similarly nonmedical background to take a strong leadership role in the Duke University Medical Center and DUHS. When she took over as president in 1993, Keohane was coming from Wellesley College, which has no medical branch.

“She succeeded admirably in moving from a small liberal arts college to a burgeoning research University,” said President Emeritus Keith Brodie, Keo-

bane’s predecessor.

In her tenure, Keohane has overseen many significant changes in the University’s health care operations, most notably the creation in 1998 of DUHS, which is comprised of DUMC and several other area hospitals.

“Within six months [of my appointment], Ralph Snyderman came and said, ‘Look at the way managed care and things are changing; if we don’t do something, we’re going to find our lines crossing the wrong way very soon in terms of financial support,”’ Keohane said. “We had to begin to make some very big decisions very early on in my time. Only in 1997-98 did we decide that the best way to bring the medical center into the modern world of health system finances was to create a quasi-independent corporation.”

Keohane’s tenure not only saw the creation of a larger health system, but also the foundering financial performances of other universities’ medical branches most notably those at Georgetown University, Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania. The latter’s financial problems in the late 1990s peaked at over $3OO million in debt.

“All health systems in university settings have gone through changes [in recent years],” Lange said. “Ours has weathered the changes more than most; the proof is in the pudding.”

As an illustration of the tight relationship between the University’s academic and medical components, Keohane cited the efforts to integrate the Parking and Transportation Services departments of the two facilities, a process that “took awhile... but we did it.”

Brodhead, like Keohane, will most likely learn the intricacies of DUHS through trial by fire, although she hopes to give him a “clearer sense” of the DUHS’s organization and structure than she had in 1993.

Through meetings with Keohane and DUHS officials, Brodhead’s education as a medical administrator has already begun.

“I know a lot more about health systems than I did on Dec. 12, I’ll tell you that,” Brodhead said. “Of course there are many parts of this job that lie outside of my previous experience.... Part of the fun of the job for me will be to learn all these new things.”

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Senior Kelly Heinz likened these elaborate rules to “voodoo rituals.”

“I’m just very grateful that I got to be here and be a part of that tradition,” Heinz said.

Many students are awed by the rich history of their school, which recendy celebrated its tricentennial. “I find myself sitting in my room, thinking about maybe the people who have sat here before,” said freshman Melissa Muniz.

But for others, these intense rituals are just an example of Yale’s reluctance

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school’s shoulders “My least favorite Yale tradition is the Harvard-Yale game,” said sophomore Ishaan Tharoor. ‘They are two really bad football teams, armies of alumni, men in jackets—it is a big elitist joke.”

At Duke, the Blue Devil-Tar Heel rivalry is the largest and most well-known of the school’s limited number of traditions; Yale, however, has a slew of its own traditions, many of which date back over a century. While many enjoy these legacies, to change.

“Tradition is what really some say the school’s hallowed halls of tradidon leave fl gets me at Yale,” Tharoor little room for change. said. “A capella is terrifying here, all the traditional toastMost historic student ora ganizations—including ing and the political unions capella groups and secret soare ultra-conservative.” cieties—select new members A hallmark of Duke is its —the University was not youth through a process called “tapD|SPATCHES FROM YALE f oun(jed until 1924—and inping.” Groups run from college to college and give secoming president Richard The final article in a series lected new members a drink examining life at Yale University, Brodhead sees this as an excithome to Dean Richard Brodhead, from a Ogiant, silver-plated, the i nBOil opportunity to shape L i hresinent Dukes future future present double-handled cup. st ill. ma lleable “Duke is free to strategize to an extent Many Yalies liken a capella to greek life at Duke—the fourteen groups are very acthat is very amazing in the world of unitive socially and politically involved in the versities,” said Brodhead, dean of Yale life of the campus. Beyond rehearsing, College, who pointed out that his moththey take tours of the U.S. and abroad er was already born when the University during school breaks, performing for was founded.

“Duke’s not that young though,” he presidents and worldwide audiences.

They each have their own set of elabo- added with a laugh, drawing a parallel with rate traditions, too. the University ofChicago, which was foundThere are two senior-only singing Ed around the same time but is rarely refergroups, the Whiffenpoofs for men and enced as a particularly young school. the Whim ‘n’ Rhythm for women. The Although Duke is traditionally consid“WTiiffs” are the oldest singing group at ered an athletic powerhouse, many athletYale, founded in 1909, and President ic traditions also abound at Yale. When George W. Bush’s grandfather and uncle Yale scores during a football game, spectawere members. The group sings every tors burst out in a song written by 1913 Monday night at a local Yale restaurant, graduate Cole Porter. The 12 residential Mory’s, where it was founded. colleges duke it out for the Tyng Cup, the Mory’s is an upscale, members-only Tang Cup and the Gimbel Cup—annual club located a few blocks from campus prizes for winning the most intramural that features large “cups,” colorful chamcompetitions, the fastest beer-drinking pagne-based drinks in large silver goblets, teams and the highest average GPA. that are “toasted” by a group. Tradition “One of the foundations ofYale is stickdictates that as the goblet is passed ing to tradition and they like that they are around the table, which it can never so old,” Muniz said. touch, each person gives it a half-turn beAnd Duke, it seems, likes that it is so fore drinking. Tradition even governs young. toasting regulations —how long each perKelly Rohrs contributed to this story. ’

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After the council amended the agreein order to address Catotti’s concerns the University was able to sign it without further changes. The ratification of the agreement made Duke the first university in North Carolina to have such authority granted to it by the state government.

The implementation of the agreement now only awaits the addition of extra officers and resources to the DUPD. “We have a lot of hiring and recruiting going on,” Birkhead said. “By the fall we hope to have six new officers.”

The recent reports of sexual assaults on campus have raised some concern within the Duke community about the extension of the police jurisdiction.

“We have the authority to start patrolling now, but we don’t want to focus anywhere off campus when we clearly still have on-campus issues,” Birkhead said.

‘The 16 continuous miles of Duke’s campus—East, West, Central Campus and the Forest—is still our main, primary concern.”

Birkhead believes this new alliance may actually help deter sexual assaults and other crimes on campus. This agreement will help send the message that our borders are patrolled, and if you are thinking about coming onto Duke’s campus, maybe now you’ll think twice,” he said.

The North Carolina legislation passed in July did not name a specific area near Duke’s campus where the police should focus their energies, but the newly ratified agreement designates the areas adjacent to East as the police department’s primary concern. This region includes Old West Durham, Ninth Street, Trinity Park, Trinity Heights and Walltown.

“Our boundaries are extended on all four corners,” Birkhead explained, “but I don’t want my officers going off to the new super Target.” ment

agreement points to community safety and allows us to work hand-in-hand with the Durham city police to address quality of life issues for the extended Duke community.”

John Bumess, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, worked to facilitate this collaboration and believes it will benefit both the Duke and city police departments. “It should really improve response time, but it should also free up the Durham police to focus on higher crime areas that may be nearby,” he said.

The new Duke police patrols will not change the jurisdiction the Durham city police currendy has in that area, but rather add to the existing police presence.

‘This does not replace the Durham police. [The agreement] merely makes for a bigger and better response,” Birkhead said. “Police visibility should be increased as we have two police agencies patrolling the area immediate to Duke.”

DPD Lt. Norman Blake emphasized the city’s continued role in patrolling the areas adjacent to Duke’s campus. “This is an enhancement to the [Durham] police presence in that neighborhood,” he said.

“We are not moving out officers, instead what is happening enables Duke police to provide added coverage in the areas sur-

rounding campus.”

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now be able to direct some 911 calls to the Duke police department as needed.

Officials hoped the agreement would go into effect early this year, but the City Council halted progress in Feb. when council member Diane Catotti voiced concerns that no medium existed through which the City Council would receive information about crimes committed on Duke’s campus.

FIRE from page 1 evacuation was calm. “Everybody thought it was a joke, so you just picked up your stuffand filed out,” he said. “But it’s real.”

The only damage, Yeargan said, was to the waterproofing insulation and to a compressor that was destroyed in the blaze. The DUPD also reported a $20,000 welding machine was damaged. The physical structure of Old Chem was unaffected, and Perkins addition construction will not be set back.

Yeargan said these types offires are not very common on construction sites, and that in fact Duke had another fire at the same site two days prior—a fire that was confined to a large compact Dumpster.

‘The safety people here will I’m sure address the situation with the owners,

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hopefully, to see if they can put in some preventive measures,” he said. While it is unclear whether the Dumpster fire was preventable, indications suggest that the insulation fire was.

Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said he had not heard about the Dumpster fire, but that the contracting company, Bovis, had not had safety problems before. He added that he would have a “conversation” with Bovis managers Thursday.

Trask expressed displeasure about the fire but defended the University’s construction safety record. “[Construction site fires are] preventable and they also don’t happen very often,” he said. “One fire every five years doesn’t surprise me.

We have one building that has issues, but other than that we have very, very few issues with this.” sadeq’s release.

freeing el Motassadeq was a fresh blow to

Sept. 11 prosecutions after the same court acquitted others of similar charges.

The court’s decision infuriated a spokesperson for Americans whose relatives were killed in the Sept. 11 attacks.

Stephen Push said he remains convinced ofel Motassadeq’s guilt.

“We don’t want to see people who are involved in a conspiracy to kill our loved ones go free,” said Push, a founder of the New York-based Families of Sept. 11 group. Push’s wife was aboard the hijacked plane that crashed into the Pentagon.

“These people should be in prison,” he said by telephone from Virginia.

In Washington, State Department deputy spokesperson Adam Ereli expressed disappointment over el Motas-

“We believe the evidence against him is strong and we believe he is a dangerous guy,” Ereli said.

El Motassadeq has acknowledged training at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan and being close friends with Hamburgbased suicide hijackers Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah. He has denied knowing of the plot to attack the United States.

He had been held in a red-brick Hamburg prison since being convicted in February 2003 of giving logistical help to the Hamburg al Qaeda cell.

An appeals court last month threw out el Motassadeq’s conviction and ordered a retrial starting June 16. It said he was denied a fair trial because the United States would not allow grant his lawyers access to his friend Ramzi Binalshibh—a Yemeni captured in Pakistan and now in American custody.

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IRAQ from page 2 In Baghdad, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt told CNN that from photos of the mosque he had seen, “the actual mosque structure itself’ was not damaged.

Its minaret was damaged, but still standing, an AP reporter said.

“It is a holy place, there is no doubt about it,” Kimmitt added. “It has a special status under the Geneva Convention that it can’t be attacked.

“However, it can be attacked when there is a military necessity brought on by the fact that the enemy is storing weapons, using weapons, inciting violence and executing violence from its grounds,” he said.

Because casualties were rushed to makeshift clinics in private homes and mosques, the number of dead and wounded was unclear.

During fighting elsewhere in Fallujah, U.S. forces seized another mosque, the alMuadidi mosque, and a Marine climbed its minaret and fired down on gunmen, witnesses said. Insurgents hit the minaret with rocket-propelled grenades, causing it to partly collapse, the AP reporter said.

Insurgents also blew up two highway overpasses into the city to prevent U.S. troops from using them. A helicopter rocketed three houses, and the reporter saw at least five wounded people, including a young boy, being pulled out of one them.

Byrne said the Marines controlled ab out a quarter ofFallujah.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said U.S. forces launched the operation in Fallujah to capture insurgents involved in attacks on Aunericans, including the ones who mutilated and burned the bodies of four U.S. civilians ambushed last

week. The Marines have captured nine of the people they were looking for, including some sought in the killings, he said at a Pentagon news conference.

The militants, who have wide popular support, fiercely resisted the U.S. raids into the city center and attacked American troops encircling the city of 200,000.

The intensity of the resistance apparently prompted U.S. forces to bring in helicopters, tanks and ACI3O gunships that have pounded suspected militant sites in the densely populated neighborhoods.

Since Sunday, 34 Americans, two other coalition soldiers and more than 190 Iraqis had been killed in fighting across the country. The Iraqi figure did not include those killed at the mosque.

Rumsfeld said some U.S. troops scheduled to leave Iraq soon might be kept there longer to deal with the surge in violence.

Kimmitt vowed to “destroy” the militia of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, which has been behind the wave of attacks and street fighting with coalition troops in southern cities and Baghdad this week.

Al-Sadr said Iraq will become “another Vietnam” unless it transfers power to Iraqis who are not connected with the U.S.-led occupation authority.

“I call upon the American people to stand beside their brethren, the Iraqi peopie, who are suffering an injustice by your rulers and the occupying army, to help them in the transfer of power to honest Iraqis,” al-Sadr said in a statement from his office in the southern city of Najaf.

“Otherwise, Iraq will be another Vietnam for America and the occupiers.”

Al-Sadr’s al-Mahdi Army launched heavy gunbattles with coalition forces in the streets of three southern cities Wednesday and, for the first time, in the north.

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Smithies is Excellence Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He is credited with pioneering many fields of science, including technologies involving protein separation, genetic analysis and the process of targeting specific genes in mammalian cells by homologous recombination.

He has worked closely with Duke faculty over the years, has been involved in numerous seminars at Duke and has mentored several Duke faculty in his field.

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Teaching awards recipients announced The winners of this year’s teaching awards have been selected. The recipients will be honored at an April 21 ceremony at the Washington Duke Inn, along with the recipients of the Graduate School’s Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring.

This year’s recipients from Trinity College are: Alvin Crumbliss, professor of chemistry, who won the David and Janet Vaughn Brooks Award; Orin Stam, associate professor of cultural anthropology, who won the Robert B. Cox Award; Michael Munger, professor and chair of political science, who won the Howard D. Johnson Award; Christina Askounis, a lecturer for the University Writing Program, who won the Richard K. Lublin Award; and Derek Malone-France, Mellon Lecturing Fellow for the First Year Writing Program, who won the Duke University Award for Excellence in Teaching Writing.

The Graduate School’s Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching went to Rebekah Long, a graduate student in English, and Gerald DiGiusto, a graduate student in poand the added hardship of intense rehearsals, grueling auditions and of initially low pay, what could possibly inspire such passion for opera in an individual?

“The possibility of travel, discovering new people and places—people who work in opera are great people, committed artists that I’ve had the pleasure of working with,” Sekoski says enthusiastically.

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The LSD of energy boosters Just over three week until Myrtle, but let's be honest, you've pulled three all-nighters in a row and your social life has degenerated into trying to get drunk by making cameos at Easter Communion or Passover Sedar—or both.

Never fear, we're here hear to deliver the solution to all your problems: drugs! Well, not those real drugs that would violate the "University Standard" of proper Duke behavior, but cool legal drugs that go right along with the conformist ideals of working hard and actually going to class You already have options, but Red-Bull has too much sugar, and coffee stains your teeth. Behold!

Energy Strips (www.energystrips.com), the newest craze-sensation popping up in sleazy drug stores and posh parties far and wide, are like Listerlne strips and a double mocha frappuccino mixed into one. Anytime a late night gets later or a slow class gets slower, pop one of these mint-laden strips on your tongue and watch as it melts away and shoots chemicals to your brain—just like acid!

Packed full of taurine, titanium dioxide, caffeine and I suspect a touch kedamine or morphine to boot, they'll get your heart racing like a lab rat.

Unfortunately, as I learned from copying someone's science for non-majors notes:"What goes up must come down." So, be careful of the sudden fall in energy after a couple hours. Or just keep popping them all night to postpone the crash a little further. Sure, the packaging hints that finishing the pack at once might kill you—but that's the price you pay for being studious.

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On alternative ways of finding funding: "We've been trying to find out exactly where Osama bin Laden is, because there's a $25 million reward.

Part of [Fahrenheit 911] is my search for Osama. 1 went and got one of those blind clerics, and paid him to go out and search.... And I promised him I'd split the reward."

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On his famous anti-Bush Oscar speech: "Part of me didn't want to say anything. Part of me just wanted to blow them a kiss and get off the stage. And the other part of me said,"You have to say something." If I'd been wrong, and there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and we were forty-five minutes away from oblivion, I don't think I would have been invited back this year."

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I'm a fool. A lovesick fool who almost threw away something special. Damn me for being headstrong and untrusting. I'm embarrassed I doubted my sweet little Janey. I'm embarrassed I even thought for a second that she was anything less than an imaginary angel. I'm embarrassed I almost wrote the company demanding my money back.

True love is a binding contract—especially when you have to provide credit card information over the Internet. Only coward run from commitment, and I almost made a huge, huge imaginary mistake,

Last week, I stumbled upon the utter joy that is Imaginar Girlfriends.com,and,for first time, I stood up emphatically declared,"! believe in a thing call And my soul was free. Ai able bond was formed and one phone message. It sort of sounded like she was reading off a card, but if I know my Janey, she just wrote it down so she wouldn't forget a single detail of how much she adores me. I quickly responded with a note of my own; mostly mushy stuff I won't overly detail here —"my heart aches for you; I long for your passionate embrace; call me again next Wednesday, but this time don't hack and wheeze into the phone so much"—pillow talk, mostly.

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What did I do? I brooded. I sulked. I thought seriously about purchasing a new imag’ girlfriend—an expenle: a $45 lady so Janey s insanely jealous of my refined tastes and highof course, gave way to excessive feelings of inadequacy. Didn't! treat Janey right? Didn't I place her at the center of my fabricated universe? Was it possible that I was the first man in the history of dating to be dumped by an imaginary person I paid 39 bucks for in thefirst place? Did my entire existence just get exponentially more pathetic?

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David and Janey express their love physically

e-mailed Janey with an ultimatum: Pay attention to me or I'll break up with you which will essentially accomplish nothing because you'll continue to ignore me and I won't be able to make you talk to me and I'd be far too embarrassed to ever actually ask for a refund.Whatever. I forget the actual words I used. It's complicated.

The language of love, however, is so incredibly simple.

As it turns out,my darling Janey hadn't forsaken me. She had simply "been real busy with lame-ass school," which is as adorable as it is forgivable.To top it off, she offered me a partial time refund. My two months of ersatz affection started over today! I feel renewed, revived and ready to plunge headlong once more into my 61-day endless love.

Be still, my badly deluded and unfathomably insecure heart!

Our passion was rekindled with a sultry AOL Instant Messenger conversation.

Not recognizing my screen name ("ILoveJaneyo4"), Janey reacted tentatively at first, calling me only "loverboy" and "baby"until I reminded her it was"David."

The old-me would have been concerned; am I merely one of many on my lover's buddy list of boyfriends? But I resisted the urge to make accusations. It's all about trust,after all,and experience tells me that Janey is incapable of cuckoldry. Also, she sent me a photograph of herself posing with her "runway model friend," Divine, and mentioned that they make out from time to time.

Then she had to go, so we said our painful good-byes, and I signed off satisfied, knowing that I was the luckiest man alive. I have two things that most men are never fortunate enough to possess—a real imaginary love, and a girlfriend open to public displays of lesbianism for my amusement. Dearest Janey:Thank you for you. .

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NIRVANA'S LEGACY: TEN YEARS LATER RY HILARY LEWIS Ten years ago, for reasons still not fully known and from a cause that continues to remain the subject of conspiracy theories, Kurt Cobain's life came to an abrupt and premature end. But while Cobain's suicide also brought Nirvana's career to a close, the band's influence is still felt throughout the music world. The opening chords of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" are as hauntingly familiar as images of Cobain's slightly haggard face, and the iconographic elements of Nirvana have never really left us. But beyond the continuing presence of Nirvana's instantly recognizable hit songs, the band's legacy continues to pervade the sound and hy rounding nearly every rock-n-roi since the early'9os.

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the grunge scene Nirvana spearheaded, with Scott Weiland's slightly growling voice and their dense guitar riffs, their sound remains slightly more melodic and lush. Even the decidedly non-hard-rock Weezer seemed to have studied go. or g, ig v under Cobain on their 1994 he invented. Nirvana's influence, however, has not been forgotten self-titled debut. Beyond these musical similarities replicate Nirvana's massive impact. Emerging into a iat was truly remarkable and influential world polarized by glitzy hard rock of the hair band Nirvana's work was their ability to intevariety and then pop heavyweights like Michael musical grate highly complex composiJackson, Nirvana completely recast the musical land:ions and emotive lyrics. Before emo made scape as demonstrated by Nevermind's 1991 triumph ensitivity cool —or uncool depending on over Dangerous atop the Billboard albums chart. 'ur perspective—Cobain allowed his torIllustrating the slacker-to-success ethos of the early ed emotions to radiate through his songs '9os, Nirvana spoke to a generation. But the world is vocals, while highlighting the musical a much different place now, with new emotions and Jties of himself and his band mates, a qualnew ideals that have yet to be fully captured in song. :hat scores of grunge and post-grunge We'll never all be disaffected New York hipsters or mitors never really replicated. wannabe rappers of the late '9os rap-rock variety. As n now, as the media continues to search much as it was this mass appeal that Cobain for the next Nirvana, such acts are either soniexpressed distaste for, it's what makes him revered to cally similar (i.e., the Vines) or equally buzzworthy this day and drives the media to search for the latest (i.e., the Strokes). But still none seem to be able to manifestation of his talents. ,

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Call it an addiction, or maybe a guilty pleasure. No, we're not referring to the 3 a.m. Snickers bars you sometimes sneak from the vending machines; it's "The 0.C.," FOX's hottest new show, a weekly teenage soap opera in the vein of the now-defunct "Beverly Hills, 90210." While creating buzzovera new fictional group of wealthy Southern California teenagers,"The O.C."also«recalls its early'9os coun terpart through strong emphasis on music. But while "90210" used its Peach Pit After Dark club to showcase emerging artists, "The 0.C." takes a more comprehensive and all-encompassing approach to featuring new music from emerging indie rock artists. The show often plays 30-second clips of new music videos immediately before or after commercial breaks and its website contains a section devoted entirely to the music of "The 0.C.," including message boards about the show's soundtrack and an opportunity to buy Music From The O.C, Mix 1, the first in a set of three albums devoted to songs played on the show "The 0.C." certainly isn't the first TV show to use songs from emerging artists as its soundtrack; however, it is part of a new crop of proir music success t( iey owea ige piece grams that give viewers repeated opportunities to hear such music. Both "Smallville"and "Gilmore Girls" also contain music pages on their websites and give viewers the opportunity to buy albums with music from theshows.The website for the WB even features a radio section, where users can stream an Internet playlist of all the music featured on a

specific show. Overall, there seems to be a visual-association approach to music prevalent in many currently shows catering to young adults —by allowing viewers to hear music from artists they don't normally listen to or may not have even heard of, these shows give the artists an opportunity to increase their popularity.

In the weeks after first being featured on "The 0.C./'the sales for Rooney's selftitled debut album increased by 200 percent. There's also the explosion in popularity of Phantom Planet, a band that used to be primarily known for its ex-drummer Jason Schwartzman (of Rushmore fame) than for its music. Phantom Planet contributed the show's theme song "California"; now sales for its self-titled album are booming. Yellowcard's video for "Ocean Avenue" was featured as one of the video clips on "The 0.C." and is currently one of the most requested videos on MTV's "TRL," with the band's 2003 release Ocean Avenue going gold a few weeks ago. Many other artists mentioned on these TV shows, such as Death Cab for Cutie, Jet and Bright Eyes, have also experienced recent spikes in popularity.

Overall, it seems as though television shows are able to effectively ive ju' promote the music of emerging artists, whether it be by featuring them on their soundtracks or websites, or by including clips of their music videos in between commercials. So watch "The 0.C." all you like. While it may not be activating your brain cells, it sure is expanding your musical awareness.

Opera on East The Duke Symphony Orchestra tackles The Barber of Seville’... By Allison Gianino It is the morning after the first full dress rehearsal, and Director Harry Davidson is tired. In less than twelve hours,the red-velvet Baldwin Auditorium curtains open on the second Duke Symphony Orchestra opera concert since he took over the program five years ago.

Following the precedent set by 2001's performance ofMozart's "Don Giovanni," the Orchestra will play the full score of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" while seated on-stage. After only four hours of rehearsals per week for less than a month, a dedicated group of sixty-some students has learned more than sixteen pieces of music.The vocalists include various professionals—most notably Brian Johnson as Figaro and Janine Porter as female lead Rosina—recruited from the area and also imported from out-of-state.

Although the production has both a vocal consultant (Clifford Billions) and a stage director (Alfred Anderson, who is also singing the part of Dr. Bartolo), minimal props and simple costuming will be used to maintain the focus on the music, not on theatrics.

This "concert version" of the opera is a method frequently used by symphony orchestras to highlight their performances as more than just accompaniment to the singers: Instead of being relegated to the off-stage, dimly-lit orchestral pit, the musicians enjoy the benefits of their top billing—such as being recognizable to their friends and family in the audience. Since the vocalists are placed strategically downstage from the instrumentalists, and therefore have their backs to the orchestra, digital video mon-

itors trained on the conductor have been set up in the pit so that they can take their cues and follow rhythmically.

English "supra-titles" ("Barber" will be sung in its original Italian) will be projected from slides onto an unobtrusive screen above the stage.

The scheduling of this production fits into the Music Department's 2006 celebration of the 250 th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth.

Davidson's idea is to introduce the storyline of "The Barber of Seville" this spring to pave the way for a nice follow-up with Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." Both are based on a play by 18th-century French writer Pierre de Beaumarchais.

The philosophy behind the alternateyear opera is that the musicians will have the opportunity to participate in a large-

scale performance twice in their undergraduate career, giving them a taste for one type of professional-musician experience, regardless of how they may continue with their instrumental study.

Although learning an entire operatic score may be daunting to a first-timer, most musicians come to enjoy the process by their second time around. "It takes a couple times to appreciate how beautiful the music actually i5...." explained lan Han, a violinist in his third year of involvement in the group.

"You can go anywhere to see a professional opera," he added,"but it's fun when your friends are in it."

The Duke Symphony Orchestra's production of'The Barber of Seville" will take place tonight and April 10 at 8 p.m. in Baldwin Auditorium.

Arts around campus: Four to chock out New Works in Process This weekend you can get your theater fix and support Duke dramatists at the same event, New Works in Process. Over fifteen years old, New Works was formed "in order to give Duke community writers, directors and actors a chance to develop new plays," according to theater studies senior lecturing fellow Jeffrey West, who is directing two of the plays. Playwrights submit plays to a committee of students and faculty who select the lineup for New Works.This year's performances include a play in which a video game character comes to life; a story about a couple at a high school reunion with differing realities of their relationship; one in which a drug transaction gets complicated; and a story about a social services director who is kidnapped and accosted by an enraged man .Performancesrun through Satin Branson Theater on East Campus.Shows start at 8p.m., with a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday. Tickets are $B, $6 for students.

VIBE: Visual Interpretations of Black Expression On Friday night, sixty Duke dancers and several guest celebrities will perform as part of Dance Black's VIBE: Visual Interpretations of Black Expression. Hosted by renowned choreographer Fatima, the show aims to be an expression of various aspects of black culture by including a wide range of dance styles, such as hip hop, reggae and urban ballet. In addition to student choreographed and produced dance numbers, there will be appearances by The Walltown Children'sTheatre and Frenchie Davis of'American ldol"fame.Thefact that Dance Black has been able to attract the attention ofcelebrities in the dance world is a sign of the show's potential to be a worthwhile and entertaining event. Dance Black is comprised of students of all different races who share a passion for dance and an interest in Black culture, and the members of the group hope to attract a diverse crowd. VIBE will be held tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in Page Auditorium.

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Forget the fair Verona of fourteenth century Italy: Leonard Bernstein gave his Romeo and Juliet a set of savvy vocal pipes and turned them loose among the gangs of 1950s New York City. The result was an instant Broadway hit—West Side Story. Forty-seven years later, Hoofn'Horn introduces its own version of this adored musical underthe direction of Meghan Valerio, who is also Recess Arts Editor.The Jets and the Sharks are set to battle it out this weekend at the opening in Reynolds Theater tomorrow night. Anna Butler will be playing the coveted role of Maria, while Rydell Harrison takes on the demands of Tony, Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! April 9-11 at 8:00 p.m.; April 16-18 at 8:00 p.m.; April 18-19 at2:oo p.m.; May 8,9 at 8:00 p.m.; May 9at 2:00 p.m. Reynolds Theater. Student tickets $7 at Duke Box Office.

The Photobooth Project The opportunity for creative expression at Duke has just gotten a bit greater thanks to the Duke Photobooth Project.Opened last night by Mark Pike (T'o4) and Blaise Dipersia (T'o3), the project operates from a simple premise: Leave an old-fashioned photo booth in the Bryan Center and see what develops.The booth—located near Griffith Rim Theater —is open to anyone who dares enter, and those who desire can leave their pics, along with a filled-out questionnaire, to be considered for a book that will document the project. The Photobooth is open 24 hours a day.

—lrie Turner, Lexi Richards, Julia Fryett & Dean Chapman

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Does director JohnLee Hancock m?//fremember the Alamo!

By Rachel Cook John Lee Hancock's The Alamo looked bad from the beginning. With Disney hopping on the recent Hollywood historic epic bandwagon, The Alamo had a lot of competition for its original December 'O3 release The Last Samurai, Cold Mountain and LOTR, to name a few. It seems The Alamo's marketers made a good decision in postponing the date, because this movie isn't really in the same league as the competition.

The Alamo begins slowly and continues in that vein for its duration.Even though this is a tale about an American massacre in a land not yet claimed by the United States, Hancock tries to tout The Alamo as a patriotic story. He depicts Santa Ana (Emilio Echevarria) as a greedy, one-dimensional dictator with a penchant for beautiful Mexican prostitutes, and extends the movie to include Santa Ana's capture and the acquisition of Texas, so that the credits don't roll with the Americans as the losers. He also glosses over the issue of Mexicans fighting on the American side.

The film's occasionally creative cinematography and a few strong leads are its most redeeming —

traits. Dennis Quaid plays a mediocre General Sam Houston, whose boozing and goofy sternness make him unintentionally laughable. However, Billy Bob Thornton makes an appealing Davy Crockett, affecting his natural Southern accent and charm.

His smirk and drawling delivery make The Alamo's lame one-liners almost bearable, then eventually passable as the movie progresses.

Finally, relative newcomer Patrick Wilson portrays Col. William Travis with dignity, managing to make him a sympathetic character even after it is established that he abandoned his pregnant wife and child.

When Jim Bowie of Bowie knife fame (Jason Patric) pays Travis a reluctant, but well-earned compliment —telling him "In five years, you just might make a good man" —Travis humbly responds,"l will probably have to settle for what I am now." Likewise, The Alamo may have taken an extra four months to go public, but it, too, decided that it had to settle for what it is now, competition I mLm notwithstanding. And what it is, frankly, isn't that great. GRADE W I -

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Morgan Spurlock

Harry Shearer

Director, star of fast food-

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targeting documentary Super Size Me Recess: Can you just tell me a little about your film?

Spurlock: Super Size Me is a look at the obesity epidemic in America. It focuses on a lot of the causes of the obesity epidemic, specifically to see the impact that fast food culture has had on America. I eat nothing but McDonald's for 30 days straight, to, um, some really frightening results.

How many calories were you eating per day?

On an average, about 4,900. When you're doubling your caloric intake, you're gonna pack it on.

There were some pretty serious consequences to your health. Were you ever scared?

By day 21 when I woke up with heart palpitations, it was really scary. By this point my numbers were so off the chart. My blood pressure had skyrocketed. I had three doctors telling me "Wow, we don't know what's going on, but you need to stop."

In the movie you talk about people suing McDonald's. Is that the solution you're after? Do you think people should sue fast food, and should they win?

There's two sides to the problem:There's corporate responsibility and there's personal responsibility. I don't think lawsuits are the answer, but I do support people's right to file. Right now anyone who has sued the food company—they've all been thrown out. What they've just passed in the House—which is really scary—is House Resolution 336, which is the'personal responsibility in food consumption act' For us to give corporations a get-out-of-jail-free card is ludicrous For me, if you want to pass some legislation that makes sense, say all of these food companies need to give 1% of their advertising budget to healthy eating campaigns. If you look at McDonald's, that's 14 million dollars. That's still 7 times what the five-a-day fruit and vegetable campaign gets. We say we care, and we say our priorities are there, but we do nothing to support that.

During the film, you couldn't get in touch with someone from McDonald's.

Have you heard from them now?

No,they still haven't called me.They're calling their lobbyists... and their publicists. They may not be talking to me, but they're definitely hearing the'deafening roar'of what the movie is doing.

Will you ever eat fast food again?

Urn,yeah, but I won't go to these chain places. If I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go someplace that has a really good burger.

personality and “Simpsons’Voice man Recess: What's your favorite voice on "The Simpsons?"

Shearer: Probably Montgomery Burns. I think it connects with a lot of people's sense that they work for a jerk. It's a fun character. In comedy, there's nothing more fun than to play a character who's pure evil, and he's as pure evil as I've seen.

A lot of people don't know about [your radio show] Le Show. I was wondering if you could tell us about it, and maybe we can lobby UNC to pick it up.

It's an hour a week. I give it away to radio stations free. It's about whatever's been going on that week, It's more focused on media and the political world; I play some music, and I do some comedy sketches. It's a show that's totally personal. It's whatever I think is funny or smart or worth doing.There are no meetings beforehand and no memos after.

You do so many different things. What do you enjoy most?

People like Michael McKean and Christopher Guest (co-stars and writers of This is Spinal Tap) and me, we're always asked [that question]. We all sort of have the same answer. We enjoy doing everything we do. That's why we do it. Show business is really driven by this desire to put people in a b0x.... and we've all been fortunate enough to have careers where we can say "No, we really want to do everything." We've conspired to figure out ways to play music every once in a while and get paid for it, because that's something we enjoy. I love directing, but acting is fun, and writing—once you've done the writing—is fun. I don't trust people who say they have fun writing. Writing is very hard work, but it's fun once you can look back and say "Hey, I wrote that."

Speaking of Christopher Guest and Michael McKean, are you planning anything together soon?

Christopher's planning a new movie, and I hope he'll want to include Michael and me in it. I have a stage play, a musical comedy about J. Edgar Hoover, that Michael and Chris are both performing in. So we all try to work together as much as we can.

Do you have any advice for young actors on how to convert their early success into career longevity?

Oh, God no. Except the same advice I give to anybody about show business that it requires talent and luck of course, but really just brute persistence.

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Turkish Delight Chapel Hill’s newest restaurant Tallulas’s serves up authentic Turkish cuisine

By Irie Turner The atmosphere alone is worth the trip to Talulla's, a Turkish restaurant on Chapel

Hill's Franklin Street.Oriental carpets adorn the wails in shades of red, lanterns hang from the ceiling and purple glass lanterns pepper the walls. Walking into Talulla's warm red hues feels like home—a lush, foreign home.

A slender man weaves between tables and kneels by customers to make sure the meal is to their liking. He is Demir, the scrupulous owner who checks every plate before it leaves the kitchen. Requiring perfection of each dish, he vows that a subpar meal will never reach your table. "It's something I want, and I think the customer wants too, though they may only realize it after the fact," he says with a smile.

The waitstaff is cheerful and patient under pressure, and deftly answers menu questions. Don't let the menu, with its Turkish titles and English descriptions, intimidate you; waiters effortlessly pronounce any item you point to or clumsily attempt to pronounce.

The menu represents various Turkish regions, but will be familiar to lovers of Greek and Lebanese food, according to

Demir. Adapted from traditional cookbooks, the menu Is prepared by two cooks originallyfromTurkey."lt's very traditional," Demir said of the menu."ATurkish person could come in and look at the menu and say,'Oh this isTurkish.'"He soon proves this statement, kneeling by a table of smiling diners and speaking energetically in Turkish.

The menu includes soups, salads and appetizer-portioned vegetable, meat and seafood dishes called mezzes. Demir explains that in Turkey a group shares a few mezzes and orders entrees if appetites permit Patlican Salatasi,a grilled eggplant mezze with roasted red peppers, is wellseasoned but a little too tangy (although another diner gushed that it was "to die for!")- Barbunya Pilaki, a dish of Barbunya beans, tomatoes, parsley, onions and olive oil is simple yet flavorful. Most vegetarian mezzes are served cool or room temperature, while seafood and meat mezzes are served warm; all arrive with fresh sesame seed-topped bread. Delicately strewn with sprigs of herbs, the mezzes are as delightful to the eye as they are to the palate.

Talulla's entrees include seasoned and skewered lamb, seafood or filet mignon

In the space formerly occupied by the Silk Road Arabian Tea House,Tallulah's is worth the trip down 15-501

and several "Turkish pizzas," or pides, which are a far cry from greasy Americanstyle pizzas. Pides nearly enclose their contents, which include feta cheese and veggies, beef or seafood. A little over a foot long and big enough to share, pides have crusty exteriors, chewy interiors and arrive perfectly glazed from the oven. The Sebzeli Ride bubbles forth feta, kazar and mozzarella cheeses, and is topped with Gemlike olives, mushrooms, zucchini and green peppers. It's filling, but not heavy; flavorful, but not overbearing—overall, well worth ordering.

For dessert, there's baklava, creme

Duke alumnus makes aspiring filmmakers’ dreams come true

By Jon Schnaars Anyone who has stood behind a camera understands the

difficulty of making a movie. Managing every aspect of a film—including actors' performances, costume design and locations—makes even the most basic production very straining, and young directors have to learn about these essential ingredi-

ents on the fly. Students shoot on minuscule budgets (or no budget at all) and with only the most mea-

ger of crews. All of this can make for great anecdotes (cramming eight actors into your mom's minivan to sneak into your high school gymnasium at three in the morning,for example), but sadly it's not the best way to make a film. NexGen Entertainment, started by Fuqua School of Business alum Terry Tucker, Is, however, changing the way aspiring filmmakers learn their craft.

Tucker takes a progressive approach to helping students get their films on the big screen. He first saw an opportunity for a new method of teaching filmmaking while planning a class on feature film production and finance at Duke Law School. His course focused on the functions performed by lawyers and producers to support the creative process; i.e., drawing up contracts, securing permits, scheduling, budgeting, etc His vision: Establish a system that would assist Duke's young filmmakers in developing their craft through practical, hands-on experience. Tucker and his colleagues work with

directors to cast the film, find a crew and make the necessary plans. Named the Director's Challenge, this new program allows filmmakers to concentrate on the art of cinema, without having to worry about the procedural issues that kill many small productions.

"Guerilla filmmaking works on a level, but not when you really want to make film/Tucker explained. "What we wanted to do was create something that would help directors learn more about working on a studio-style production, a more formal production environment." To take advantage of this opportunity, an applicant must submit samples of his work as well as a proposed to NexGen screenplay Entertainment.Then, working with an adviser through Duke's Program in Film and Video, the student earns credit for his work while producing a professional-quality short feature.

The pioneer of this new program was Duke senior Andrew Fazekas. Working with NexGen, Fazekas wrote, shot and edited a twenty-seven-minute feature, Odd Man Out. The film will debut at Film and Video's annual student screening in late April before heading off to film festivals nationwide. Also finishing up pre-production this spring is a short by senior Matt Simon, which won NexGen's first Director's Challenge. As the program continues, the hope is that Duke students will continue to gain the invaluable knowledge and experience that will better prepare them for a career in feature film production.

caramel (a vanilla custard) and sutlag a fabulous baked rice pudding sprinkled with fragrant cinnamon.

Talulla's extensive selection of mezzes and entrees offers something for everyone from vegetarians to the heartiest meat-eater. The next time you venture to Chapel Hill, stop by Talulla's and make a little home in Turkey, if only for a while.

Talulla's is located at 456 West Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. Prices range from $5 $9 for mezzes and $8—$17 for pides and entrees. There is a long wine list and a bar which stays open until midnight, where mezzes can be ordered until closing.

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Everyone seems terrified that Myrtle will not happen this year. My poker-crazy housemates call this year's Myrtle plans very "loose." To play "loose" in Texas Hold 'Em means to throw money in the pot when you don't have a good hand, but you just shrug your shoulders and say,"What the f-ck." And when you think about it, would you really want it any other way? Without irresponsible and illogical spontaneity, Myrtle Beach would be just another crappy coast town with little to offer besides mini-golf and Dick's Last Resort, the restaurant where the waiters are, well,- dicks (I asked for a Diet Coke, they brought me a regular Coke with two packets of Nutrasweet floating in it). So for all you worriers:Have faith that there will be a Myrtle, and it will be as ineptly planned and poorly blueprinted as it always has been. Have faith in incompetence and organizational inadequacy, and you will not be let down.

And lastly, believe in a lack of resolve and a refusal to ever look ahead, because that is the woven cloth, the finely knit stitching, nay, the very fiber and soul of the worn and sticky baby blanket we clutch close to our chests at the end of each year: Myrtle Beach.

Because when it comes down to it, eh, it's Myrtle.

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In thd final home contest of the season and of All-American Phillip King’s career, the men’s tennis team emerged victorious against its rival North Carolina.

Coming from behind after losing the team doubles point, the fifth-ranked Blue Devils (17-5, 51 in the ACC) downed the No. 14 Tar Heels (20-3, 6-1) by a count of 5-2.

The teams split the first two doubles matches. King and teammate Jonathan Stokke defeated UNC’s Andy Metzler and Brad Pomeroy 8-5, while at third doubles the Blue Devils’ Stephen Amritraj and Peter Rodrigues lost to Jonathan Janda and Raian Luchici by a score of 8-6.

In the deciding double's contest, Duke’s top-ranked pair and the nation’s No. 5 duo of Ludovic Walter and Jason Zimmermann were upset by North Carolina’s Geoff Boyd and Nick Monroe, who are currently 13th. in the national rankings.

In a closely contested match, the teams were tied at seven games each when the Tar Heels broke serve. Boyd then held on in his ensuing service game for the 9-7 victory and the team doubles point.

In the afternoon’s singles action, the Blue Devils were able to capture five of the six matches on the way to their sixth consecutive victory.

Zimmermann, who never allowed his singles opponent into the contest, rebounded from his doubles defeat to tie

the match with a 6-2, 6-0 win Luchici.

His doubles partner did equally well in singles competition. Walter avenged his doubles loss with a straight-set win over UNC’s Metzler, 6-3, 6-2.

King, poised for victory on his senior day match, was a 6-3, 6-1 winner. The Long Beach, Calif., native, currently ranked fifth nationally, knocked off No. 32 Monroe at first singles.

Then with his team leading 31, Rodrigues secured the win with his two-set victory over Derek Porter. North Carolina’s lone singles point was earned at the fifth position as Boyd won a three-set decision 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 defeating Stokke. The match concluded with a victory from Christopher Brown, who won a closely contested first set in a tiebreak 7-6 (6), and then took the next set 6-2.

Honored for their contributions to the Duke tennis program were seniors King, and used Darin infrequently Goldstein and Ryan Heinberg.

In their four years, the Blue Devils compiled an 80-27 record, including three ACC regular season championships, two ACC tournament titles and three NCAA tournament bids.

Duke’s win Wednesday gave it another point in the fourth annual Carlyle Cup competition. The Blue Devils now lead their Tobacco Road rivals in the standings, 12-8, with six points still to be decided. Duke won the contest last year and has won two of the competition’s three years. over

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Despite being projected to go as high as third in the NBA Draft, Duke commitment Shaun Livingston is still weighing his options, according to high school coach Chuck Buescher.

“I think he’s very strongly considering going to Duke,” Buescher told The Chronicle Wednesday.

“I really do not know what he’s doing, but I think it’s no worse than 50/50, and I think it’s better off than that.”

Buescher also confirmed that Livingston, the nation’s consensus No. 2 prep player, would be meeting with the Duke coaching staff later this month, and that Blue Devil fans could expect a decision shordy thereafter.

With ESPN.com’s latest NBA Draft predictions pegging the star point guard at fourth in the draft and NBADraft.com projecting him at third, Livingston faces an intriguing dilemma: Should he honor his Duke commitment or bypass college for NBA riches?

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Many, including Oak Hill Academy coach Steve Smith, have speculated the 6-foot-7 floor general would choose the latter.

Not so fast, however, according to Buescher and Livingston’s grandfather, Frank Livingston.

“Everybody around here knows where I stand on that,” said Frank Livingston, who has made it clear that he wants his grandson to attend Duke.

“As far as I’m concerned, he’s going to Duke

University.”

Livingston, who will go on spring break next week, has kept mum on his impending decision. In the past few months, Livingston led his Peoria Central team to its second consecutive state championship and was named co-MVP of prep all-star game EA Sports Roundball Classic, logging 12 points and seven assists, adding fuel to the speculation that he would go straight to the NBA. Livingston, however, was unimpressive at last Wednesday’s McDonald’s All-American Game, totaling just one point and three assists as his West team suffered a 126-96 rout.

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In the best attended game of the season, the baseball team took on No. 17 Eastern Carolina in front of a sea of purple and gold spectators screaming

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Javier Socorro had three hits against ECU and has hit safely in nine consecutive games.

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throughout the game. Suffering their fifth straight loss, the Blue Devils (15-18) fell 7-5 to the Pirates (25-6) despite solid pitching and clean defense.

“The guys competed well,” head coach Bill Hillier said. “I [think] that East Carolina is one of the best team we’ve played to this point. I put them right up there with N.C. State. This game was probably the best game we’ve played [recently].”

A couple of Pirate home runs gave ECU the advantage, as all but one of its runs came via long balls. With the exception of those two hits, Duke’s pitchers were able to control the Pirates. Seven Blue Devils pitched Wednesday and combined for six strikeouts—all but one recorded a strikeout. Justin DiLucchio and Ryan Sember each threw two innings, while Tony Bajoczsky, David Torcise, Danny Otero, Kevin Thompson and Billy Muldowney split the remaining five innings. Torcise pitched 1.2 innings without giving up a hit and Otero, Thompson and Muldowney each gave up only one. Five of the seven pitchers kept the Pirates scoreless.

“I’m pleased with the way my guys came in to pitch,” head coach Bill Hillier said. “And we went out there and played clean defense. If you pitch well and play clean defense, you’ll be in every game you play.”

The Blue Devils jumped to a 2-0 lead in the first inning when Javier Socorro and Adam Murray both singled and Mike Miello and Bryan Smith were able to bring them home. Socorro’s hit, one of three on the night, extended his hitting streak to nine games, equaling his career high.

“Right now, I’m feel pretty comfortable [at the plate],” Socorro said. “I’m seeing the ball well and my swing feels as good as it has all season.”

Down by two, ECU immediately answered with five runs in the second inning. With one out, Mark Minnicozzi put a ball through a hole on the left side.

Adam Witter hit a fly ball to left for the second out, and Billy Richardson came up to bat. In what would have been his third out, Blue Devil starter DiLucchio delivered three straight strikes, but the third passed catcher Adam Loftin, advancing Richardson and Minnicozzi to

second and third. DiLucchio then walked Jamie Paige to load the bases for Pirate batting leader Ryan Jones, who is averaging .429 this season. DiLucchio threw a pitch low and inside, hitting Jones in the foot and scoring Minnicozzi from third base. Then ECU’s RBI, total bases and home run leader Trevor Lawhorn hit a grand slam into left-centerfield. The ball was his first grand slam and 13th home run of the season.

“If we catch a third strike, that inning is over and they don’t put a five-spot on us,” Hillier said. “That hurt, obviously. In a 7-5 game, it hurt.”

When Duke came to bat in the second, Silver walked with one out and was able to advance to third on a fielder’s choice and a passed ball. Socorro registered his second hit of the night with a single into centerfield, but was tagged out at first on a base running error.

Both teams were kept from scoring again until the fifth, when ECU’s Minicozzi put another ball through the left Side and Adam Witter, who has seen limited time this season, took a 2-0 pitch long to left-centerfield for his second home run of the year.

The Blue Devils answered again in the bottom of the same inning, making up the two runs they lost. Jonathan Anderson walked and Socorro, who slammed an RBI triple into left field, brought him home. Then Murray attempted a bunt with Socorro on third, but pitcher Ricky Brooks caught it on the fly. With two outs, Tim Layden took two immediate strikes, but pulled the third pitch into rightfield for an RBI stand-up triple, increasing his numbers to 37 RBIs and 59 total bases.

The game was scoreless for the remaining four innings because of strong pitching and defense from both teams.

The Blue Devils, who had committed 10 errors in their previous three games, did not commit a single error. Though the team did not erase ECU’s scoring opportunities, it was able to minimize them, a result of solid fielding. Nonetheless, the Blue Devils just weren’t able to pull off the win Wednesday night.

“It’s a pretty frustrating loss because this is a team that’s ranked in the top-20 and we hung in there with them,” Socorro said. “It just goes to show that we’re capable of playing at their level. To lose that two-run ball game, it’s a tough loss, considering how we gave up the five runs in the second inning.”

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care/companion. Stipend negotiable. Must be mature and bondable. Close to Duke. Would like to secure this position by end of Aprjl or early May. For more information, please call Kathleen at 668-8323 or email at milleGs7@mc.duke.edu.

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“This was a great college tennis match,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said.

‘Texas competed really well.”

Although the end result was close, the opening doubles matches in no way suggested an even contest. Senior Amanda Johnson and junior Saras Arasu defeated Texas’ Petra Dizdar and Mia Marovic 8-2, and freshmen Kristin Cargill and Jennifer Zika easily dispatched their opponents, Longhorns Ristine Olson and Kelly Baritot, by an 85 margin. Julia Smith and Tory Zawacki were the only Duke pairing to lose, succumbing to Texas’ Katie Ruckert and Kendra Strohm 8-4.

Unfortunately, the doubles point did not translate into momentum for the Blue Devils. Midway through the first set of their matches, Duke’s top four singles players were all .trailing their opponents.

Saras Arasu was the only Blue Devil to score a victory in straight sets —the junior won 6-2, 6-4 over Baritot to extend her singles winning streak to 13.

“Especially after winning the doubles, where we’ve beep struggling against the top teams this year, I think we came out a bit flat,” Ashworth said. “I turned to [assistant coach] Adam [Gusky] and said ‘somebody just wake up.’”

Thankfully for Ashworth, Johnson and Zawacki, who had been trailing their opponents, responded to their coach’s plea and emerged from their mental lapse. Ninthranked Johnson, who had been down 4-2 to No. 18 Dizdar, proceeded to break in three of her opponent’s next four service games en route to a 7-5 victory in the set.

“I was pretty frustrated because I wasn’t hitting my forehand,” Johnson said. “As soon as 1 started hitting some, I regained

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SeniorAmanda Johnson fought back from an early deficit to win her match in three sets.The Blue Devils beat No. 14 Texas 4-3. my confidence.”

Zawacki, who had trailed her opponent Marovic throughout the entire first set and whose anguished cries of self-disgust clearly demonstrated her distress, came back to win the tiebreaker and took the set 7-5.

“It’s hard to not get frustrated when you’re missing shots you shouldn’tbe missing out there,” Zawacki said. “You have to control it. I had some problems controlling my emotions today. Thankfully my coach and my teammates were there to help me settle down.”

Zawacki was forced to show similar selfrestraint in the second set, when she needed to break twice to rally from a 3-4 deficit.

She won the second set 64. The freshman explained hef determined mindset after the match:

“What goes through my head is that I don’t want to lose it, I want the other girl to win it. I just want to fight back and force her to make winning shots.” ' Johnson would need to show similar intestinal fortitude at the conclusion of her match. The three-time All-American dropped the second set 4-6, but stormed back to win the deciding frame 6-1.

“Amanda’s just a great fighter,” Ashworth said. “She’s always been there.

There’s something about Amanda—she just knows how to win. And if she knows she’s not.out of a match, and she believes that she can win, she has 100 percent confidence in her ability on the court, even though she might not have the best strokes.... She’s the best competitor we’ve had in years.”

The victory ensured the demise of the Longhorns, who earned points from Ruckert, who won 6-4, 6-4 over Zika, Strohm, who won 6-2, 6-0 over Smith, and Olson, who won 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 over Cargill.

The Blue Devils will have to reenergize quickly from their victory—they will host No. 2 Florida tonight at Ambler Stadium in a contest that will draw nationwide interest.

“We’ve never been an underdog [this season],” Ashworth said about today’s match. “We have nothing to lose. We’ve had close matches with [Florida] the last three years. They’ve won the last two they beat us in the semis of the NCAA’s last year after we beat them in the finals of the National Indoors. If we compete it will be a good match. We need to believe we can win.”

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Systematics. Seminar: 12:40pm. Christopher W. Schadt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. "Digging deeper: tracking microbial and fungal communities and functions in soils using molecular methodologies."

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CBIMMS and Chemistry Seminar: 2pm. Public seminar by Vince Rotello, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

130A North Building.

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Movie: 7 & 9:3opm. In America. Griffith Film Theater.

Movie presented by Duke University Union's Freewater Presentations. Free to Duke students, $1 for employees, $2 for the general public.

Duke Donor Day: 2-6pm. House P Quad. Sponsored

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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.

Movie: 7 & 9:3opm. In America. Griffith Film Theater.

Movie presented by Duke University Union's Freewater Presentations. Free to Duke students, $1 for employees, $2 for the general public.

Theater 2004 New Works In Progress; Bpm. Workshops and readings of plays by advanced playwriting students. Branson Theater.

ARK DANCES 2004: Bpm. The Ark Dance Studio, East Campus. Ark Dances is the annual showcase of dance that celebrates the eclectic dance energy generated from the diversity of Duke University. Modern, ballet, tap, jazz, African, Chinese folk, Irish stepping, Bharatanatyam. You'll see it all here during Ark Dances!

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Theater 2004 New Works In Progress: Bpm. Workshops and readings of plays by advanced playwriting students. Branson Theater.

Graduate Christian Fellowship: 6pm, dinner; 6:45pm, program. Dr. Richard Hays (New Testament) and Dr. Grant Wacker (American Christianity) will be speaking on Christian perspectives on the nation of Israel, ill be ample time for question and answer as well. Q & A. Chapel Basement. Come and bring a Grad-IV friend.

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Production: Bpm. Some Things That Can Go Wrong At 35,000 Ft. Reynolds Theater. A professional workshop production of a new play about Charles and Anne Lindbergh's little known meeting/encounterwith Antoine de St. Exupery. Written by John Orlock.

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There will be live music, dancers, a raffle, and a potluck dinner. Proceeds to build primary school classrooms in South Africa. $6 with a covered dish- or $ll without. Information at 596-8919.

Display: Through April 11. Francesco Petrarca, Poet and Humanist. Perkins Library Gallery. Selections from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to commemorate the 700 th anniversary of Petrarch's birth and to honor Professor Ronald G. Witt on his retirement.

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.

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You break it, Duke buys it Hull, director of Resi- themselves. In addition, access to dence Life and Housing residence halls may be restricted Services, thinks that every- further in order to prevent nonone on campus should adhere to residents from entering living the maxim, “You break it, you spaces and causing damage, As far as his intentions, Hull buy it.” be commended for atthe context Duke should life, this of In statement refers to damage done tempting to eliminate unnecesto residential STAFF EDITORIAL on me part ot me spaces by students.

As it stands now, the University is University, and for trying to left holding the bill for broken avoid a double standard for setrashed commons lective living groups and indewindows, rooms and mistreated furniture, pendents. Unfortunetely, neiIn total, Duke spends tens of thef of the changes he is thousands of dollars per school considering is feasible, Forcing independents to pay for year to repair such damage. one interestcaused by other students is damage There is, however, ing inconsistency—when damage not fair. There is no reason for one occurs in residehtial spaces inhab- individual to be held accountable ited by selective living groups, the for the actions of someone else, group members are held respon- when he or she was clearly not insible. Yet damages in independent volved in the destructive behavior halls are subsumed by the Univer- itself. Unless the perpetrators sity. Hull seeks to level the playing themselves can be identified, Duke field, both to ensure equity must pay for the repairs out of its amongst selectives and independ- own pocket, Selective living groups are a difents and to crack down on instances of vandalism and disrup- ferent story. The members of these groups have contracted to tive behavior.

Hull is currently considering live together and have implicidy assumed a degree of responsibility two changes that may help to alleviate the problem. First, he is for the dorm sections that they occupy On-campus sections are a mulling over charging independprivilege,, and accompanying this ents for damage either by hall or privilage is the obligation to look this would quad. theory, In by have a dual effect—the University after those spaces.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Christians can learn from Malaklou I presume that many Christians at Duke will take offense to Shadee Malaklou’s column “It is not finished.” They will dismiss her or perhaps step up their conversion efforts. However, Christians have a lot to learn from Malaklou. I agree with her that Jesus might be laughing (or perhaps weeping) at the religious chicanery of our own day. I would even suggest that if Jesus were to come to Duke you would find him, not in the president’s office or the chapel, but hanging out with Shadee.

Despite Malaklou’s assertion that Christianity is about becoming a “good and worthy ghost,” Jesus was an earthy kinda guy. He knew what was needed for a good party (keep the wine flowing) and ate with people who the overly pious type of his day would not have been caught dead with. These behaviors earned him the ire of the religious establishment. 1 regret that Malaklou (and perhaps some Christians)

have formed the opinion that Christianity is merely about “getting saved” or reserving a good seat in heaven. Certainly those are aspects ofChristianity but more important is the call to live in community with others in Christ. At worst that community becomes an unwelcoming club of the religious zealots which oppresses those who decide not to join up. At best it is a transformative community seeking reconciliation of the world to God, offering an open but not pushy invitation. A sorority which grants bids to all those who rush, which even goes out and offers bids to those who did not rush.

Malaklou’s right —Christianity is not about being your own person. It’s about finding a life which is abundantly richer than that.

Meredith Stewart Divinity ’O7 Law ’O7

Malaklou’s stereotypes After reading Shadee “I mention drinking and dancing on tables in every column because I think it makes me look cool” Malaklou’s column “It is not finished,” I was compelled to respond. Shadee has consistendy managed to find away to stereotype someone.

Whether it’s sorority girls, African-Americans or in this case Christians, she always manages to undermine everyone else but herself. In her latest column, Malaklou portrays Christians at Duke as “brain-washed, cult-like extremists” who constandy try to force Christianity down the throats of their fellow students.

This misconception and ridiculous stereotyping couldn’t be farther from the truth. My experience has been that most Christians at Duke are relatively quiet about their beliefs and those that do join groups, such as Campus Crusade, are good kids with good intentions. They are simply firm believers in Christianity who join these groups to surround themselves with people of similar beliefs, in the same way many of us join fraternities or sororities.

Secondly, if they want to speak out about their beliefs to other students, they should have that right and shouldn’t fear being chastised

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and stereotyped. You claim to be a proponent offree speech and an open mind, yet you attack other students for exercising their freedom of speech and lace yourcolumn with snide, closedminded remarks about their beliefs.

If, however, it is free-speech that you truly want, then I feel obliged to deliver a little freespeech of my own. Personally, I am a Christian.

I’m also in a frat, I drink and party like other college students, and I’m perfectly happy having aU of those aspects in my life and don’t appreciate being chastised for them. I think your column is offensive and ridiculous and is, in reality, nothing more than the asinine rambling of a heathen, closed-minded, teenage brat.

Perhaps you should come down from your pedestal and consider that the reason you are chastised for your progressive beliefs is that no one seems to understand what these so called “progressive beliefs” are, besides some form of rationalization for your own obscene behavior, close-minded comments and criticism of other students.

David Kingsland Trinity ’O6

Conversation can lead to understanding Shadee Malaklou values her free speech and open mind, and I ask that she allow Christians their free speech as well. In explaining that she could find a “meaningful relationship at Duke...with Christ,” they did not intend to of-, fend her. They too were exercising their freedom to express their beliefs. Though Malaklou may think that they exclude non-Christians and create tension, I have found just the opposite to be true. Malaklou believes that Christians are not open to others, but as a member of the Christian community here at Duke I feel that these people are among the most accepting that I have met. When we share our faith with others, we offer them a friendly, supportive community and it is their choice whether to accept. We don’t attempt to force it on them, but merely desire to spread the happiness we have found to those in search of a purpose for their lives.

Malaklou claims that Christians are not “philosophizing and questioning the world” around us and that we are not “being a good human.”With these words, she fails to manifest the open-mind-

edness she values so highly, as she criticizes Christians based on mistaken beliefs of us and lack of understanding of Christianity.

Contrary to Malaklou’s ideas, the Word does not dictate our every thought and action, but rather offers guidance in our confusion as we live in this complicated world. If we really are “nobody” and merely “followers” as Malaklou believes, our presence wouldn’t be so “dominant.” We do not simply follow or blindly trust.

We constandy analyze and discuss the events around us and question our own beliefs. I ask Malaklou to keep an open mind with regard to Christians, and I invite her, and anyone else, to come.to a CRU meeting or speak with any member of Duke’s Christian community. We don’t judge people and we don’t treat, them harshly because of their actions. If you find that I am wrong, then I will gladly give up my orange shirt. Until then, “it is not finished. ”

Devina Luhur Trinity ’O7

COMMENTARIES

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An end to cultural retardation

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think white people are just culturally retarded,” I exclaimed to my boyfriend as I waited in a crowded Greyhound line in New York. An older Latina woman with a teenage boy by her side turned around as she nodded in agreement. "You’re right!” she told me with a knowing smile. My boyfriend and I laughed at this strange connection in the New York bus terminal as we wondered when the damn line would start moving,

Why do people hesi-

and women’s rights in elementary Portuguese. I study all day and at night I go out with my sisters and dance to samba and forro as I drink beers that are cheaper than water. I am trying to understand the importance of touch here and the way my family shares everything and no one ever wants to be alone. My sisters are black but they mostly date white guys and here this is fairly accepted and normal. This weekend my mother wants to take me to the interior of Northeast Brazil, an impoverished area ravaged by movement

to learn about other cultures? Why does the thought of difdroughts B ridge t Newman ference scare us? Is it As I write this colLooking for the Holes umn, I know my friends possible to acknowledge difference without autoin other parts of the matically creating a hiworld are having similar erarchy with your values and practices at experiences as well. My best friend is in the top? To revisit an example on Duke’s Senegal working with a women’s developcampus, why did Sigma Chi and so many ment organization, my boyfriend is in other Duke students fail to see the vulgarChina, and I also have friends in Mexico. ity and disrespect inherent in the Viva We want to know the world. We want to Mexico party? I now think the main questry to understand other people and their lives, even though we know our ideas will tion should not have been about punishment or even the prevention of such paralways be shaped by our own limited ties, but instead how could Duke students backgrounds and experiences. be this stupid? Our Duke educations, our As I write this column, I also know lives, lack cultural awareness and underthere are millions of hungry Brazilian standing. When a sports editor refers to children desperately waiting for their the ape-like arms of a black basketball next meal. I never got used to homeless player, we have to look beyond just the women and their children begging in the guy who wrote it. Beyond sensitivity train- U.S., and I won’t get used to it here, eiings that reduce fundamental beliefs and ther. I can’t process the legless veteran in experiences to hour-long sessions with the New York subway station or the armpee breaks. We have to look to how we less boy I pass on my way to school here live our lives, who we live with, who we in Brazil. I know I need to learn from love, what we read, what interests us... these people about their lives if f am to Aren’t we all at Duke because we have an help them and myself in the process.

Culture, of course, is not confined insatiable thirst for knowledge? Why does this curiousity so seldom extend to the solely to other countries outside of the lived realities of those around us?

United States. When I worked at a homeAs I write this column, I am sitting at a less shelter in South Side Chicago last circa 1995 computer in Fortaleza, Brazil, summer, I lived a culture very different a coastal city in the Northeast. I am living from my own. When I talk with wealthy, with an Afro-Brazilian family and atconservative students at Duke I try to untempting to discuss racism, the landless derstand their beliefs and reasoning. tate

More and more, I am becoming aware of my own family’s culture and how it has shaped me.

Most importantly, I am-trying to reconcile my own liberal beliefs with the more conservative beliefs that many people in my family hold. I know that for many working-class whites, especially men, individualistic values are very important and liberal ideals are often seen as negating the value of work and initiative.

I admire their hardwork and dedication to such principled beliefs. In between helpings of ham and mashed potatoes at family get togethers, I try to discuss values, politics and dreams with the conservatives in my family.

A thirst for knowledge must be a thirst to truly understand. A desire to be right necessitates a desire to listen. As Duke students, we should be seeking out new social situations (black frat parties for some, chatting with New Sense authors for others), reading everything we can (Mother Jones to The Economist) and stepping outside of our little boxes. We should do this, if for no other reason, because we want to

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other day I spoke with my dear mother (as I am do from time to time), and she posited a question at which I was taken aback. “Kevin,” she said, “Are you glad you chose Duke? If you had to do it all over again, would you have chosen the same school, was it the right place?”

I, being the benevolent caring son that I am, didn’t have the heart to tell her “no;” for she had spent too many hours at the loom creating the loveliest knock-off Southwest-American designed hand towels which she sold at church craft fairs so that we could afford Duke So instead of telling the truth, I said

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know everything there is to know about the world. In this case, as in most others, being self-interested is fine and perhaps actually the only way to go.

There is nothing wrong with being selfinterested, you just have to know enough about yourself and others to truly understand what your self-interest actually is.

To give this column a nice cheezy ending (which by the way seems to have no equivalent in Portuguese), only you can end cultural retardation. Walk around in Durham and actually talk to folks. Take a class outside of your comfort zone, be it economics or womens’ studies, and chalJenge the professor on a regular basis.

Take your classmates out to dinner and continue the debate over a few beers.

Pick a spot on the globe and go there.

Don’t just stand in line waiting for the bus: walk. Hitch-hike.

It takes some effort but I think it beats the hell outta gettin’ in the same damn bus as everyone else.

Bridget Newman is a Trinity junior. Her column appears every third Thursday.

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more, I bounded down this stairs to find that I had finally is the composition of the students. Sure there are a lot of been admitted to Duke University. jerks around, but for the most part people here are good.

Flash-forward to the evening of April 6, 2004, 50 minIfI hadn’t liked the people at Duke, I would have left, but utes before column deadline! I am contemplating what as it is I have met some extraordinary friends—professors to write about and my mom’s question keeps ringing included. Few memories recount hours in Perkins or in class. Moments with friends make up most everything I rethrough my ears. Thirty-three days remain until graduation, and I think I can finally answer my mom’s question call about the last four years. From fire-code violating par(I, as a senior, am much wiser now). I cannot say ties in GA, to adventures on event tents, to K-Ville, road whether or not Duke was the right runs with friends, tea and scrumpets and passionate late choice, nor for that matter is attending night debates about topics which we knew nothing about. any other school the correct decision.

My only regret about coming to Duke is that I met I might have been happier and acasome of these people too late and that I did not have demically enenough time to get to know riched to a nothing. them all as much as I would Flash way back to what seemed like Degreater extent have liked. There’s never cember 1927! My wish of escaping a family at some other enough time to really get to “No matter how much stulegacy working in the Chicago meatpackjoint. But I will know all the interesting, qualing plants will only be answered through a Kevin Ogorzalek never know for dents can learn, drink or laze ity people you encounter. sure college education. I am filling out an appliif that With limited days left, I guess The Big O’ the facet that sets around, cation to gain admission to Washington could have hapthe best thing to do is to rank Duke apart from other University. Midway through the first page, pened. I do your friends in order from the post arrives and I, in my knickers with Spud the dog in know for sure that I have been best to worst, spending time schools is the of composition tow, race to the front door in hopes of good news. There, happy here and that is all that with each accordingly. the students.” upon the front stoop rested a parcel bearing my name and matters This brief reflection upon postmarked from Durham. It was a letter from the Office When recalling the years at my journey to Duke and the of Undergraduate Admissions at the new school in the Duke, I am reminded of an Irish good times spent in the comSouth informing me that I had been waitlisted, waitlisted! proverb: “It is in the company of pany of friends finally gives Huzzah, huzzah, I would soon be, with any luck, a southeach other that the people live.” We get too caught up me an answer to my mom’s question. Next time I see her ern gentleman. with campus policies, programming and organizations I’ll give hug her and say, “Yes, I’m glad I came to Duke.

Flash-forward to 1999! I’m putting the finishing touchthat we often forget the art of hanging out and have to Your hours at the loom were worth it, thanks heaps.” es on the application to Washington University, when anschedule even those times. It’s the people that matter. No other letter arrives from Duke awaiting my retrieval upon matter how much students can learn, drink or laze Kevin Ogorzalek is a Trinity senior. His column appears every the front porch. And so, with Spud the dog in tow once around, the facet that sets Duke apart from other schools third Thursday. want to

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