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Questions surrounding how iPods will play into Duke’s future were answered Wednesday as officials announced that the University will continue to distribute the devices to freshmen and will extend the opportunity to all other classes.

The caveat, however, is only those students who enroll in classes that use the technology will receive the iPods and sophomores will be expected to use the iPods they received as freshmen.

Provost Peter Lange said the decision was propelled by innovative uses of the iPods as demonstrated by both faculty and students.

“We’ve been focusing on iPods and other mobile computing,” he said in a statement, “but our wider goal is to integrate technology broadly into the teaching and learning process. The iPods have helped jump-start this process, and we plan to keep pushing ahead.”

The Center for Instructional Technology will continue to coordinate the distribution and use of iPods for all students. Those students who receive iPods through CIT will be able to keep SEE IPOD ON PAGE 6

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JuniorJesse Longoria won the DSG presidential race by a 19.2 percent marginWednesday night.

In the culmination of a long election process marred by controversy, junior Jesse Longoria won the position of Duke Student Government president by a 19.2 percent margin in Wednesday’s runoff vote.

Longoria garnered 54.6 percent of the 2,852 votes cast. His opponent, junior Russ Ferguson, received 35.4 percent.

Longoria thanked his supporters Wednesday night and expressed enthusiasm for taking over the reins ofDSG from current president senior Pasha Majdi on the Last Day of Classes April 27.

“I’m excited to be working with the Executive Committee that was elected last week,” he said. “I think they have a clear vision of what we need to do so we can start producing tangible results for the student body.”

Though Longoria received the most votes in the initial election March 31, he did not receive a majority nor did he distance himself from runner-up, junior Emily Aviki, by more than 10 percent —the margin mandated for victory by DSG bylaws. The runoff Wednesday was held between Longoria and Ferguson after the SEE ELECTION ON PAGE 5

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Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani was chosen for the largely ceremonial job of president, while Adel Abdul-Mahdi, a Shiite, and current interim President Ghazi al-Yawer, a Sunni Arab, were elected vice presidents.

Talabani’s selection and the expected choice of Ibrahim al-Jaafari as prime minister further consolidate the power shift in Iraq, where both the Shiite Arab majority and the Kurdish minority were oppressed, often brutally, under Saddam’s Sunni-dominated regime.

Talabani, 71, reached out to all sectors of the country, appealing for them to join with fellow Iraqis who are working “to found a new Iraq, free of sectarian and

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Two months after elecBAGHDAD tions, Iraq’s new government finally began to take shape Wednesday as lawmakers elected as president a Kurdish leader who promised to represent all ethnic and religious groups in a session broadcast across the country—and shown to Saddam Hussein in his jail cell.

A prominent Shiite Arab was expected to be named Thursday as prime minister, the most powerful post in what will be Iraq’s first democratically elected government in 50 years. That would open the way to picking a Cabinet.

ethnic persecution, free of hegemony and oppression.”

He also urged Iraqi insurgents, who are believed to be mosdy Sunni Arabs, to sit down and talk with the new government.

President George W. Bush called Wednesday’s session a “momentous step forward in Iraq’s transition to democracy.”

“The Iraqi people have shown their commitment to democracy and we, in turn, are committed to Iraq,” the president said in a statement. “We look forward to working with this new government, and we congratulate all Iraqis on this historic day.”

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Using a special entrance for VIPs, President George W. Bush viewed the body with his wife, Laura, along with his father, former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. They knelt in a pew in front of the remains, bowing their heads in prayer.

Seeking to clear the basilica by Thursday evening to prepare for John Paul’s funeral the following day, police announced they were closing the line at 10 p.m. Text messages were sent over Italian cellular phone lines. Those at the back would wait 24 hours before entering the basilica.

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VATICAN CITY After electronic and cell highway signs phone text messages failed to staunch the flow of pilgrims, police stepped in Wednesday to turn back mourners hoping to join the 24-hour line to view the body of Pope John Paul 11, on a day that brought almost 1 million people to the Vatican.

The crowd control problems developed hours after the College of Cardinals set April 18 as the start of its conclave in the Sistine Chapel to choose a successor to John Paul, a papal election with new rules

“We’re just hoping the order can be reversed,” said Federica Bruni, a student who came from northern Italy and was one of the first to be told to go away.

It took more than an hour after the deadline to set up the barricades and establish the cutoff point.

The Vatican is a keeper of secrets without parallel, but there were questions Wednesday about whether the deliberations in the conclave—and the name of the new pope—could be kept within the frescoed walls in an era ofcell phones and now that the cardinals will be allowed to roam freely around the Vatican.

Monaco mourned the death of Europe's longest-reigning monarch, Prince Rainier 111, who worked to overcome this tiny principality's reputation as a "sunny place for shady people." The throne goes to Prince Albert 11, Rainier's only son with actress Grace Kelly.

16 killed in Afghanistan A U.S. military helicopter returning from a mission smashed into the Afghan desert, killing at least 16 people in the deadliest military crash since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001. An Afghan official said most of

the dead appeared to be Americans.

Nuclear facilities vulnerable Fuel storage pools at nuclear power plants in 31 states may be vulnerable to attacks'that could unleash fires and radiation, scientists advised the government.

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A mix-up involving elevator hydraulic fluid that occurred at two hospitals within Duke University Health System late last year has produced its first lawsuit. So far, Duke is not a target.

Bennie Holland, a resident of Coats, N.C., filed a suit against Automatic Elevator Co. of Durham and Cardinal Health, an Ohio-based medical supplies company. Holland said the suit is not aimed at Duke Health Raleigh, where he was originally treated, because the hospital is still working to help him recover.

Holland claims he developed severe complications following back surgery at Duke Health Raleigh Nov. 10. For the last two months of 2004, employees at Duke Health Raleigh and Durham Regional Hospital —both part ofDUHS—used surgical tools that had been washed with elevator hydraulic fluid instead of detergent.

An Automatic Elevator employee drained hydraulic fluid from an elevator at Duke Health Raleigh into empty drums labeled as detergent in September. These drums were mistakenly sent back to Cardinal Health, which then cleaned the outside of the drums and, without checking the contents, returned the drums to the two hospitals, according to the lawsuit. Automatic Elevator or Cardinal Health officials could not be reached for comment.

Holland seeks compensation for actual damages of at least $lO,OOO and additional punitive damages.

According to the suit, Holland developed a fever, aches throughout the body and swelling in his feet, legs, abdomen and testicles shortly after being discharged from the hospital Nov. 12. He was readmitted later that day with a fever SEE LAWSUIT ON PAGE 8

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Grossman, who lives in Jerusalem, described the insanity of daily life surrounded by conflict. He recalled the comments of one woman when a foreign correspondent asked her why she planned to have three children. She replied, “So that if one of them dies, we will still have two left.”

The insanity even penetrated his own life, he said. After trying to work out a route to school for his children that stayed clear of any recently bombed place, he realized there was no safe way

New doctoral programs arise once in a blue moon—which makes this year’s expansion of the Graduate School’s offerings remarkable.

Three new graduate programs have moved through the lengthy approval process this year: a doctoral program in nursing, masters of science and Ph.D. programs in medical physics and a doctorate in public policy. The first two programs won the Board of Trustees’ support Dec. 3. For the program in public policy, which the Academic Council approved March 24, a vote at the Trustees’ meeting in May is the last remaining hurdle.

“For all three of them, the timing was perfect,” said Leigh DeNeef, associate dean of the Graduate School. “We have a very active group of faculty.”

Over the past couple of decades, the Graduate School has added more interdisciplinary certificates than degreegranting programs. Although developing disciplines are opening the door to new degrees, DeNeef explained, three is still an unusually high number of new programs for a single year, not matched since the late 1980s.

Now, the nascent programs face the challenge of getting up and running.

Medical physics is off to the fastest start, and its first masters of science and doctoral candidates will enroll in Fall 2005.

Organizers of the program foresee a successful future.

“Our goal is to be in the top four in terms of quality within the first three years of our existence,” said James Dobbins, director of the program and associate professor of radiology.

Before the semester begins, arrange-

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Author and journalist David Grossman speaks about how fiction can help people cope during war.

Author reflects of Middle East by

Benjamin Perahia THE CHRONICLE

Israeli author and journalist David Grossman told Duke community members Wednesday that most Israelis and Palestinians are no longer human beings.

“They are victims,” he said, “of their own

tragic history.”

Grossman, whose fictional and political books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, told a captivated audience ofabout 100 how writing fiction in a time of war helped him preserve his humanity and individuality.

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Duke students are known for their academics and their athletics—soon they may also become known for their altruism.

President Richard Brodhead and Dean of Trinity College Robert Thompson are developing a website to serve as an organized, searchable database listing all community and research service opportunities available to Duke undergraduates.

The site—tentatively titled “Learning to Make a Difference”—arose from the founders’ desire to integrate students’ curricular activities with the sur-

rounding community.

Brodhead discussed the possibilities for “mutual enablement of classroom and real-world elements” in his talk with undergraduates March 22.

“It’s my intention to make these chances to connect academic inquiry with real-world practice and service even more numerous at Duke and to put these opportunities in plain sight for every student,” he said in the speech.

Service learning is an integral component of 12 currently offered classes, and administrators

aim to develop even more programs that align research, service and academics.

Thompson explained that students may leam about global health, for example, and then apply their “translational knowledge” while they study abroad or do field research.

Brodhead and Thompson are currently working in collaboration with University departments to compile the list ofall available service opportunities before giving it to a web development team. They hope to implement the website this summer.

The site will be an amalgam of community service and research prospects to offer students as much as possible.

Thompson said many students are already involved in community service. But if easily accessible information were available, he hopes more students could become interested and tailor it to their own intentions.

“My expectations are that each student would be aware of these opportunities and how they would fit in with their own educational plan,” he said. “I never think that one size fits all SEE WEBSITE ON PAGE 9

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Duke Student Government’s 2005-2006 budget passed without a peep from the assembled Senate Wednesday night, gamering no questions or dissenting votes.

Compiled by the Student Organization Financial Committee, next year’s overall programming allocation amounts to $576,674.53—around a $3,000

increase from the 2004-2005 budget. Drawn annually from student activities fees, the budget is divided into 12 categories ofcampus organizations, including cultural, academic, religious, publication and common interest groups.

More than one-third of the budget is slated for 15 magazines and journals in the publication category. The Chanticleer alone

absorbs more than 20 percent of the full budget. The Asian Students Association, Diya, the Black Student Alliance and the Community Service Center are among the other highly-funded groups.

A few major groups saw significant increases, including the Center for Race Relations. The organization will receive nearly SEE BUDGET ON PAGE 9

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Duke checks Microfridges for defects after fire by

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“Man, that Microfridge is on fire!” is

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would like to hear—but March 29, it was all too applicable.

Last week, a Microfridge—a mini-refrigerator and microwave combination unit rented on campus—caught fire while being tested for a cooling problem in the Duke University Stores vending services surplus warehouse. The accident prompted Duke Stores, which rents the product out to students, to initiate safety checks of all 166 units on campus.

Of the 135 that have been inspected so far, none have been found defective.

Duke Stores called in a technician from Collegeboxes, the contractor for Microfridges, to conduct room-by-room

ELECTION

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DSG Election Commission disqualified Aviki Tuesday night for illegal campaign activities.

“I’m glad in the end everything worked out fairly,” Ferguson said. “Jesse won fairly and I congratulate him for that.”

Senior Elizabeth Ladner, DSG attorney general and chair of the Election Commission, said despite the problems encountered earlier in the election process, Wednesday’s vote went off without a hitch.

“Unfortunately, the overall election dragged on, but the runoff went very

inspections. The technician began the day after a problem in the electrical system of one microwave was detected, said Patricia Walker, operations manager for Duke Stores.

Despite ongoing investigation of the unit with the problem and the electrical outlet to which it was connected, the cause of the fire remains a mystery.

“We’re not quite sure what happened, to tell the truth,” Walker said.

The potential problem was the first of its kind ever reported for the product.

“Microfridges are not only on college campuses all over the country. They’re in various hotels and other places, and they’ve never had a problem,” Walker said.

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smoothly,” she said. “I’m very pleased that people got out today and expressed

their opinions.”

Ladner also cited the turnout of 45.2 percent of students as very high for a runoff election.

“Voter turnout was much better than expected,” she said. “Obviously students are interested in the process, and I also think it’s a credit to both candidates to be able to get voters to turnout after days and days of delaying the election.”

Though Longoria said he tried to stay out of the election’s controversies, he noted that election reform will be an important issue next year.

was discovered in the unit at the warehouse when a housekeeper at the facility plugged a vacuum cleaner into the same oudet as the Microfridge. The microwave part of the unit began to smoke and caught fire, said Fidelia Thomason, director of facilities operations. When initially examined by Duke Fire Safety, the control panel of the microwave was found to be destroyed, she said.

Residential Life and Housing Services notified all student customers, resident advisors and residential coordinators of the potential issue on the night the defect was discovered, Thomason said. RLHS gave notice that a technician would examine each rented Microfridge on campus and either leave a note verifying the unit as safe or replace any problematic units with one that had already passed inspection.

The checks should be completed within the week, said Walker, after which both the technician and Collegeboxes will issue their reports on the units.

Although all of the Microfridges inspected so far have been deemed safe, some students say that they regret the decision to rent the Microfridge for other reasons, such as cost-effectiveness.

“They’re just not the best products,” freshman Alyx Rosen said. “I think it would have been more beneficial to just buy one in the first place. It would have been financially worth it.”

Freshman Elizabeth Duke said in the long run, the convenience offered by the Duke Stores program was not worth the Microfridge rental price of $175 per year.

“I definitely think it’s going to be important to step back and look at the system, to benchmark where our system is and to make any changes we can to make sure our elections run as smoothly as possible in the future,” he said.

One possible solution would be the implementation of an instant voter runoff system, Ladner said. The technology, which is called for in the current election bylaws, would allow voters to rank each of the candidates, negating the need to hold runoff elections.

“We don’t own the capabilities because it’s very expensive technology. This election certainly has proven the necessity of

such a system,” Ladner said.

Longoria’s victory marks the end of a tumultuous election cycle. After being found guilty Sunday of violating election bylaws by posting a live link to the DSG voting wel> site on her AOL Instant Messenger profile, Aviki was punished by being prohibited from campaigning for the runoff elections.

Ferguson appealed the decision, arid the DSG Judiciary then declared the ruling unconstitutional early Tuesday morning, forcing a delay of the runoff vote. The Election Commission reconvened Tuesday night and voted to disqualify Aviki, allowing Ferguson to take her spot on the runoff ballot.

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Freshmen unwrap theirfree iPods at a kick-off event in August. After evaluating the program's inaugural year, the University has decided to continue it on a course-by-course basis.

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the devices for their own use and any future courses using iPods.

Duke will fund next year’s program

using money that has been allotted for technology initiatives, rather than with student or operational funds, Lange said. Although students from three classes will now be eligible to receive iPods, costs for the expanded iPod use are expected to be lower than last year, because fewer students will actually receive them. The University distributed 1,600 devices to incoming freshmen last fall.

Representatives from Apple Computer, Inc., the company sponsoring the University initiative, could not be reached for comment.

Yvonne Belanger, a CIT research analyst, said one of the most surprising elements about this year’s iPod implementation program has been how iPods have been incorporated into disciplines beyond the expected areas of foreign languages and music.

“It was interesting to see how faculty and students were able to use them outside

of the obvious applications [by] capturing data in the field and doing field reporting,” she said.

Belanger noted that new functions, such as “podcasting” —recording audio information and posting it on the Internet—will be possible using tools on the new iPods that were not available in the iPods distributed last year. She also added that a group of students was developing an application to add a calendar to the iPod system.

“Student-driven innovation is very important and interesting,” she said. “We hope to create more opportunities for students to bring the outside world into the classroom and take the classroom into the outside world. Technology is the vehicle to make that happen, and I think

that’s great.”

Last fall, 11 courses integrated iPods into the curriculum; this semester, there were 17 courses. Since Lange’s announcement that iPod distribution will continue, CIT has already received eight applications from faculty requesting to coordinate iPod use with their courses,. Office of Information Technology and CIT officials said.

Although professors who made use of

the program this year sang its praises as a learning “accessory”—using it to share lecture notes

or as recording devices—Be-

langer hopes some elements of the iPods will be improved for next year.

“Delivering content to students was

harder than it should have been. We also want to find additional ways to record lectures so that they are better quality,” she said, although she noted that current iPod recording technology is relatively “easy to use.”

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“Faculty from different parts of the University talk about how they are using iPods with faculty that they usually don’t [interact with]Belanger said.

“Clearly, this project generated a lot of publicity for Duke, and we’ve made a lot of connections with people at other schools,” she said. “Communication and collaboration for different units on campus is definitely a positive outcome for any project.”

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GROSSMAN from page 3 for them to make the journey; “In the end I just told them: ‘Just walk as fast as you can.’ And and I will never forget the look on their faces.”

When a society exists among conflict, Grossman said, its population becomes obsessed with survival and forgets about living.

“You are preoccupied with with preparing yourself for the next disaster,” he said.

‘You are so frightened of death that you restrict your life.

“Now you are just surviving so that later you can live. To be a more efficient survivor, a person needs to kill parts of his soul,” he said.

The individual, he said, expects to return to his soul at a time of peace.

“He persuades himself that when peace and serenity arrive, he will be able to re-

deem the part of his soul that fear took away from him,” Grossman said. But, in fact, this part of him becomes lost and does not return automatically.

The fiction writer, on the other hand, fights the instinct to forget about real life by exploring and understanding the lives and complications of his characters. He compared his position as a writer to a person who shelters a dozen people in a cellar during war. He is responsible for feeding them, checking on them and cleaning up behind them.

“We fight sometimes for years to understand every aspect of a certain human character,” he said. “We live within the bodies of each character.”

As such, Grossman finds himself unable to write fiction about the current IsraeliPalestinian conflict. His recent novel, composed during the first three years of the Second Intifada, avoids any mention of the

political situation. The book delves into a relationship between a man and a woman in a car travelling from Jerusalem to the desert.

“When I wrote this story in the most horrible days of the Intifada, I drove deep into the souls of two people,” he said.

Doing so allowed Grossman to involve himself in the complexities oflife that have nothing to do with war and thus to preserve his own individuality. “When we infuse a character with the humanity within us, we demand this individuality,” he said.

The ficdon author thus redeems his human side and can begin to reclaim himself. “I have created for myself a kind of freedom of movement. I am no longer a victim,” Grossman said.

The same phenomenon can occur to a certain extent when an author attempts to write about an enemy.

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enemy sees in us all the things that we always direct towards the enemy,” Grossman said.

He finished saying he knew there were many others, both Israelis and Palestinians, who thought the same way. “Sometimes I felt that we are two groups of miners, digging a tunnel from different sides of the same mountain,” he said.

Freshman Claire Lauterbach said Grossman’s view of the conflict from an artistic perspective was very insightful.

“His comments about seeing the conflict from the enemy’s perspective [are] a good starting point,” she said.

Grossman also penned a No. 1 Israeli hip-hop song. When asked about it, Grossman described how he collected political slogans from bumper stickers over nine years and arranged them in rhyming patterns. Set to music by the Israeli band Hadag Nahash, “The Poetry of the Sticker” was a best-seller in Israel.

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Recruitment of students has already begun. More than 60 people applied, taking advantage of the application deadline’s extension to Feb. 28. The Graduate School’s usual closing date is Dec. 31. Accepted students do not have to report their decisions until April 15, but Dobbins estimated that four to six doctoral candidates would enroll, in addition to 10 to 12 masters of science students.

“We’re all ecstatic about the fact that we’ve had so many applicants and that the quality of the applicants has just been excellent,” Dobbins said. “Recruitment, for us, was our first priority.”

LAWSUIT from page 3 “so high that his body was packed in ice,” the lawsuit said. He was diagnosed with a severe infection at the surgical site. During five days of “intensive treatment,” Holland temporarily lost function of his kidneys and bowels.

After the fluid mix-up was announced at the end of December, Holland’s surgeon called him and asked that he come in for further tests. A few days later Holland said he received a letter from Dr. James Knight, chief executive officer of

numbers could be even higher after the program gets more national attention, she added.

“We’re going to be, I think, able to take the very, very top students,” Clipp said.

For now, there is still plenty to do. Faculty involved in organizing the program spend hours each week in planning meetings. Nevertheless, the preparations ahead have not dampened Clipp’s enthusiasm.

“This is a tremendous thing. I don’t even know how to put it into words,” Clipp said.

“Our school has turned a major comer toward the upper tier of nursing science.”

Excitement about the potential Ph D. in public policy is also high, said Frederick Mayer, director of graduate studies for public policy, even though the program has not yet come before the Board of Trustees.

“We had a long discussion in the department about whether we wanted to do this,”

Duke Health Raleigh In the letter, which went to about 2,300 patients at Duke Health Raleigh, Knight said the hospital believed there was little risk, but he asked patients to “report any signs of infection such as fever, pain and/or redness or drainage at the site of the incision.” A similar letter went to about 1,600 patients who had been treated at Durham Regional.

Holland said he still feels perpetually achy and blood tests are still coming back abnormal.

[My back] is not healing properly,” he said, adding that there are no studies avail-

able about the effect of hydraulic fluid in the body. “We are all guinea pigs.”

Holland said other patients have experienced similar problems, but he refused to name specific individuals. He added that he thought other suits would be filed.

At the time of the incident, Duke officials said they were unconcerned about the health hazards associated with the accidental mix-up. Dr. Keith Kaye, Duke physician and co-chair of the Duke Infection Control Network, said in January, “This incident did not compromise patient safety.” He said local experts assured the hospital that hydraulic fluid is a low-level toxic sub-

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IRAQ from page 2 Saddam and 11 of his top aides were given the choice of watching a tape of the National Assembly session in their prison and all chose to do so, said Bakhtiar Amin, human rights minister in the outgoing interim government.

Amin said Saddam watched by himself, while the others viewed it as a group at their undisclosed detention center, which is believed to be near Baghdad’s airport.

“I imagine he was upset,” Amin said. “He must have realized that the era of his government was over, and that there was no way he was returning to office.”

Iraq’s new presidential council, made up of the president and his two deputies, is to be sworn in Thursday. The three are then expected to immediately name the prime minister.

Mayer said. Now, he noted, faculty have become increasingly engaged even amidst the distractions of March Madness.

Public policy has the advantage of an established recruiting organization for its masters programs, an obvious aid for publicizing the new doctorate. Mayer anticipated that the Internet would also be vital to attracting students for the Ph.D. “Much of this will be predicated on people searching for us on the web,” Mayer said. “We’ll also, of course, have a more retail approach, sending out letters and information to people in the field.”

In fall 2006, the program plans to welcome the first cohort of six to eight doctoral candidates—enough to make them feel part of a group—Mayer explained.

Approval from the Trustees has to come first, cautioned DeNeef, but he was

Clipp, professor of nursing. Applicant

Faculty advertised the new degrees on the Internet and communicated directly with the physics departments at Duke, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University.

“We’ve had a phenomenal response to our website,” Dobbins noted. “We get about 200 web hits a day.”

Technology also has a major role in promoting the University’s new Ph.D. in nursing. Even though students will not enroll until Fall 2006 and cannot even apply until this August, many are already requesting information.

“We’ve had a deluge of people interested,” said Marti Doyle, assistant to the directors for graduate studies. The resulting e-mail list includes well over 100 addresses. She described the Internet as the “primary source for potential students.”

Since the program will take only four students in the first year, selectivity will be high from the start, said co-director Jody

Lawmakers can then start to draft a permanent constitution, which is supposed to be finished by Aug. 15.

Among the touchiest issues thatremain are whether the oil city of Kirkuk should be part of the autonomous Kurdish region, what role Islam should play in Iraq’s governmental system and who will be named defense minister.

Negotiators had agreed on Talabani for the president’s job weeks ago, but news of his formal election was greeted with dancing in the streets of the Kurdish north.

“Today Jalal Talabani made it to the seat ofpower, while Saddam Hussein is sitting in jail,” said Mohammed Saleh, a 42-year-old Kurd in Kirkuk. “Who would have thought!”

When the results were announced, legislators swarmed around Talabani, hugging and kissing him. Members gave him a standing ovation, and tears welled up in the eyes of some Kurdish lawmakers and Talabani’s relatives attending.

optimistic.

“I wouldn’t see why they wouldn’t approve it,” DeNeef said. stance and is in a similar toxicology category as the detergent.

Kaye said Tuesday that infection following surgery is a complication that occurs in 1 to 3 percent of all procedures. He also said the hospitals did not find a higherthan-normal incidence of infection during the period when the tools were exposed to contamination. He noted that Holland’s symptoms were slightly abnormal for infections following surgeries.

“I wouldn’t say these are common symptoms of infection but are on the curve for potential ways patients might present with infection after surgery,” Kaye said.

MICROFRIDGE from page 5 “I think it was the ease factor that made us buy it,” Duke said.

Other students were not satisfied with the quality of their rented Microffidge, citing noise and grunginess as two problems. “I think mine is about 10 years old, and it’s just kind of disgusting in general,” freshman Regina Bell said. “[The investigation] just reinforces my opinion that it would have been better to buy one in the beginning.”

Duke Stores will continue to rent out Microfridges in the future, said Walker, but they will insist that Collegeboxes provide new units for renters next year.

Microfridge Corporation, the manufacturer, declined to comment on the incident.

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BUDGET from page 4 $9,000 for next year, up from about $1,400 in 2004-2005.

SOFC Chair David Rausen, a senior, said the change was budgeted with both long-term growth and immediate funding requests in mind. “[The Center for Race Relations] is a very big group, they are also a very new group—they’ve proven how well they can perform,” Rausen said. He added that the group received more money than usual because it lost a significant portion ofits funding from other sources.

Other groups saw sizable dips. The Arab Students Organization will receive $l5O in 2005-2006, a nearly 90 percent decrease in their current subsidy.

Rausen said the group simply asked for less money. “We allocated what the groups requested,” he explained. “We don’t really make judgement calls.”

In other business: Last night marked the second installment of a three-

meeting retrospective look at DSG’s 2004-2005 accomplishments. Vice President of Athletics and Campus Services Jesse Longoria gave a presentation highlighting his committee’s work, including updating gym equipment, increasing Duke University Police Department’s relations with undergraduates and improving campus dining options.

At the meeting, Longoria—who became the DSC president-elect later that night—said he hopes to implement DUPD “office hours” to broaden campus-safety promotion.

Outgoing DSC President Pasha Majdi and Head Line Monitor Steve Rawson, both seniors, also presented an overview of Krzyzewskiville during the review. Though Majdi described the recently implemented Black Tenting period as “wildly successful,” he said he hopes future DSC administrations will consider revising K-ville policy.

Other game-admission policies—including a “points” system that would let students amass admissions points for basketball games by attending athletic events —may come up in future meetings, Majdi added. “Making sure that people are filling the stands is the most important thing,” he said. •

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WEBSITE from page 4 and everybody ought to do X, Y or Z, but I think they ought to think about it.”

Duke students said a website would be an advantageous tool for the student body. They agreed that a database could open more doors and offer more diverse possibilities.

“It’s easier to look online than go to the Community Service Center because it feels like there’s less of an obligation, and you can take part in what you’re interested in,” juniorLauren Phillips-Thoryn said.

The website will also be a resource for prospective students who want to evaluate the breadth of opportunities potentially available to them. Brodhead and Thompson hope the site and its results will become a distinctive aspect of the University.

“It’s authentic,” Thompson said. “This is who we are and this is what we’re doing, and by bringing this information together, it shows really what our values are.”

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Matthew Dearborn a kind of meek acknowledgement to other rappers, Litde recess Brother has remained humble despite their music becoming Morrisville, N.C. isn’t known for its hip-hop scene. increasingly well-known.

This modest town of just, 10,000 residents is the quintes“In the game of hip-hop music, we’re all litde brothers of the sential southern suburb. Hotels, businesses and strip malls artists who came before us,” Phonte says. “When we were young, we line the roads of the downtown area, and southern homes looked up to the rappers at that time. They were like our brothers, with large front porches and sprawling yards are juxtaposed you know? Litde Brother is kind of a tribute to those cats.” with newer apartment complexes in the residential areas of Almost immediately after forming, the group began to place the city. It’s a prime example of the collision between the old their finished songs on the Internet, gamering themselves a and new South. great amount of well-earned attention; such attention was ultiBecause of this, then, it’s only fitting that Morrisville housmately the driving factor for their success. es the headquarters of Hall of Justus, an umbrella manageABB Records, the West Coast underground hip-hop mainstay, ment and distribution downloaded a few of Little Brother’s company for local rap artists (and one from songs after they the Netherlands), began releasing which include hipthem. “Apparently, like outfits after the people at hop L.E.G.A.C.Y and Lit[ABB Records] tle Brother. The latter liked our stuff that group, which has mathey heard,” Pooh terialized as a revoluexplains. “They tionary force for got over to us in North Carolina as 2003 and asked us well as national hipto make a single for them.We were hop, has recently like, ‘We already signed with Atlantic Records got a finished album.’ And that Inside the Hall of was that.”

Justus’ doors, Maya In February, Jackson, the polite and SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE 2003 ABB soft-spoken director of From left to right: Big Pooh, 9th Wonder and Phonte business affairs, is workRecords released ing on her computer. After a few moments pass, a black Lexus Litde Brother’s well-received debut, The Listening. The name of the album was, again, named as a tribute to the past. pulls into the parking lot, and Maya looks up.

“Pooh’s here,” she sings.

“Back in the day, people used to buy records, go home and out take off the wrapping, read the credits and just sit and listen,” Pooh ofLitde Brother of the car.

He is Rapper Big steps greeted warmly by 9th Wonder, the group’s producer, and the Phonte explains. “Now, people are just making one song and two men saunter into the building, each greeting Maya with a that’s it. Listening to music used to be an event. The art of acfriendly hug. After 20 minutes of discussing the debauchery of tually listening to an album is dying these days. We’re trying to Franklin Street after UNC’s NCAA win the night before, the get that back with our record.” With this approach to changing other MC and third member of Little Brother, Phonte, wanders the art of hip-hop, The Listening won Little Brother national attention and paved the way for their future in hip-hop music. in. In his hands are checks from Big Dho, the CEO and managTo attribute Little Brother’s success solely to the production er of the group. skills ofits resident beatmaker 9th Wonder would be incorrect; “Good God!” 9th Wonder exclaims. “This is nice.”

After meeting at North Carolina Central University in late the album is a result of the chemistry of the group’s efforts.

1998, Phonte, Pooh and 9th Wonder became close friends see BROTHER on page 7 quickly and formed Litde Brother in August of 2001. Named as by

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Creators of digital art similarly run Arts Symposium held in Winston-Salem, the gamut—computer programmers, are sprouting up, and many colleges and recess artists trained in traditional or digital universities—including Duke—are beWe live in a digital world. From our media, bored teenagers and Photoshop ginning to offer courses in digital media iPods, little the digmovies to our toyish studies. Some schools, like the University amateurs are all creators of digital art. ital has become a part of the everyday.

Despite its increasing presence, digi- of Southern California, are even offering But somewhere along the road, tal digital art as a specialization within fine of art is not a movement in the tradiamong the geometrical simplicity like Dadaism arts or media programs. chartion ofartistic movements movies’ computer-generated Pong, One concept that these symposiums, acters and the digitally altered photos of or Cubism. “Art movements are based courses and programs emphasize is the magazine covers, “art” affixed itself to on an ideology or come with a manifesto,” explained Peter Lasch, a Duke interdisciplinary potential of digital art. that technology-laden word, “digital.”

“The large bulk of contemporary art The definitionof digital art seems imvisiting assistant professor of the pracin an interdisciplinary way,” drawing, arts, of visual painting, happens be as tice spepossibly broad. Digital art can and multimedia. “Media are rarely a Lasch explained. Digital art, he added, is cific as a work created solely using comin constant conversation with this interputer programs, or as freeform as a piece movement.” art is movement, not a digital disciplinary tradition and has “deeply Though that comments on society’s relationship —and more promoted” interdisciplinary artwork that a phenomenon certainly maSo, digitally to digital technology. notice. refuses be web surfers are to taking placed in a single genre or nipulated photographs, busty video- than just the state and fuaddressing all fall Symposiums game vixens and web-animation see DIGITAL on page 7 ture of digital art, like last week’s Digital under the large umbrella of digital art. by

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sandbox Realitywood, N.C, 27708 In the years since Durham Mayor Bill Bell popped out of his mother’s womb like a rebound squirting from Shavlik Randolph's hands, little has happened of much import. Now, as his hair first begins to gray, the city he loves remains in flux.

Last night, at the stroke of midnight, the city of Durham officially was no longer. Tonight, 24 hours later, Durham will come roaring back with the ferocity of an untamed mountain beast on the scent of a delicate blond-haired princess. That's because today, April 7 of the Lord’s 2005, Durham is magically transformed into Realitywood, N.C. Perhaps inspired by the namechanging fad started by The Artist formally Known as Prince/Prince/Strange squiggly symbol, Bell and the City Council of Durham announced Monday that Realitywood was born.

The name-change is supposedly made as a tribute to the creepily important Full Frame Documentary Festival, but it’s really grounded in an attempt to get New Hampshire to rename Durham, N.H, (that pesky Durham, N.C. Mapquest-rival) in honor of Tom Selleck’s world-famous moustache (Hotstache, N.H. anyone?). God, what a moustache, so full, so brown, it couldn’t have been Just for Men., .or could it? But I digress. Bell’s proclamation urged his citizens to “take note” of the name change—presumably so that while participating in Googling (that’s a registered trademark), residents of temporary Realitywood wouldn’t be thrown off and accidentally think Dockside Dolls was in fact a lovely family-owned toy shop smack-dab in the middle of New Hampshire.

But of course, maybe it isn’t all bad. Imagine the beauty of a place based in reality: Star Jones accepts her true calling as a Food TV journalist, Roy Williams finally understands that blue tie/suit combination makes him look like Marshmallow Peep and Anthony Vitarelli realizes frankly, he’d rather package frozen meats than take on task of representing the undergraduate class as a Young Mistrustee.

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4. Baseball’s Back All the prognosticating amounts to a hill ofbeans as Major League Baseball kicks off the marathon of all sports seasons this week. Whether youVe pulling for an underdog or cheering for the Darth Vader ofall sports franchises (you know who you are), there’s no denying that baseball stands for everything that’s good about summer and being an American.

3. Over-30 and Dancing Gwen Stefani’s a “Hollaback Girl,” Mariah Carey’s told us "It’s Like That," and Rob Thomas is “Lonely No More.” All these thirty-somethings are'back in the spodight, only this dme they came to dance. And they hope you all will be ready to break it down too.

2. Summer Tours Summer isn’t just a time for sipping margaritas by the pool, it’s also the concert season, and all the big names are warming up the tour bus. U 2 took to the road last week for their Vertigo, while Lollapalooza hopes to make a strong comeback with a single festival this July. Anger Management 3 will also be making the rounds with names like Eminem, 50 Cent and Lil’ John and the East Side Boyz. The barnburner recess is most excited for? Meatioafs return to the States.

1. Closer and Sideways on DVD Some of last year’s most talked-about films are now this year’s most ownable DVD’s. Closer and Sideways both make their small screen debuts this week and recess couldn’t be more excited to add them to the office collection.

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Muse lights a fuse on stage Varun Lf.i t.a recess Devon, England, the home ofyoung R&B diva Joss Stone and Coldplay’s Chris Martin, yields yet another unique and likable sound in the form of rock trio Muse.

Led by guitarist, pianist, singer, songwriter Matt Bellamy, Muse made major splashes overseas in 1999 with their first album Showbiz, which sold more than 700,000 copies worldwide. Touring off of the one-year critical and popular success of Absolution, Muse is making an appearance in Raleigh as part of the MTVU tour at Disco Rodeo April 13.

For 15 bucks, you can see one of the best live acts touring, and that is no understatement. Muse has won the Brit Award and NME award for best British live act beating out Franz Ferdinand and joining the ranks of other electric performers such as The Darkness and Coldplay. Muse is playing with the support of Razorlight, another breakout band, which has the same classic, simplistic rock quality of The Strokes, Libertines, The Stranglers, The Cure and so on.

Muse has been called by many an updated version of Radiohead. It’s no surprise that their longtime producer was John Leicke, the brains behind Radiohead’s breakthrough album The Bends. While Muse relies mostly on similar-sounding eerie vocals and a dynamic mix of guitar, piano and electronic noise, they have a sound that distinctly separated them from Radiohead. Muse has a heavier, more classic rock-leaning

sound that distinguishes them from the often guitar-sparse, Radiohead. electronic-heavy Their powerful three-part electronic guitar melodies are much more comparable to metal rock than alternative rock at times and provide for emotionally

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songs. Muse’s lyrics have a sense of desperate longing and searching that feel alternately religious or sexual depending on the listener’s mood.

While Muse uses heavy guitars on the album, nothing compares to their raw energy and sound during their live act. Bellamy has swaggering attitude and wild emotion that is reminiscent of the ‘7os rock gods as he belts out lyrics while hysterically banging the piano or thrashing his electric guitar. Chris Wolstenholme provides driving bass that glues the live act together through steady, melodic riffs, creating a foundation for each special to the chronicle song in the set. Dom Howard's technically amazing and awe-inspiring drumming adds the final touch that has earned Muse the moniker of “best live act” by several magazines. While separately each member of the trio is talented, together their ability to play off each other and energize each other creates an unforgettable

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Times: The Children’s March

Deep in the throes of the civil rights movement, Birmingham, Alabama was the epicenter ofracial violence and unrest. In 1963, there were so many bombings that people began to refer to the city as “Bombingham.” Black leaders made the decision to fill thejails-a move that could not be ignored. However, parents hesitated to volunteer themselves for fear of losing their jobs at white owned businesses. Their elementary and high school-aged children volunteered to go in their place, but their parents worried that they would be hurt and forbade them to go. As one participant put it, “We were born black in Birmingham.

We were going to get hurt either way.”

The children did not heed their parents and skipped school in droves to go protest, pouring out the school's windows and walking up to 18 miles.

Mighty Times; The Children's March is the ebullient retelling of this remarkable story. Far from being didactic or dry, the film captures the joyous feeling of the children's civil disobedience and the wonderfully brave thing they did. The 5,000 children sang and laughed in jail; for them, trying to get arrested became a game. Even special to the chronicle die fire hoses couldn't keep the children down: diey figured out how to play in the powerful streams. The photographs of the incident are set to the tune of “Splish Splash,” melting away the tension of what could otherwise have been a frightening situation.

The now grown-up children recall their story with great humor and panache. The film reminds the viewer of how revolutionary and exciting the integration movement was.

Mighty Times won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short this year, but is now in danger of having die Oscar revoked after coming under fire for including recreated scenes without distinguishing between this and the authentic footage. Partially staged or not, Mighty Times tells an amazing, exhilarating story diat deserves to be widely told.

Mighty Times: The Children's March is playing at 9:45 a.m, on Friday.

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This year’s opening night film, Bearing Witness will be making its world premiere at the Full Frame festival.

Filmmakers Barbara Kopple and Marijana Wotton follow five female journalists working in the Iraqi war zone as they examine the issues that each must face not only as a journalist in a dangerous situation, but also a woman. These stories put a new face on what it means to be a journalist working on the front line. Several of the journalists featured in the film will be at the festival to answer questions.

Bearing Witness is playing at 6:30 p.m. tonight.

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Murderball Murderball is the appropriate alternate name for quadriplegic rugby, a full-contact, violent sport played with great intensity by incredibly muscular and athletic wheelchair-bo- -d Murderball foil the U.S. Paralym Special CM on its path to against their vals, the Canadians, coached by a disgruntied mer U.S. teammate. The film examines the members' lives before their injuries, how learned to cope afterwards, and also the their wives and girlfriends. The most touching ments come when the team recruits newly paralyzed American soldiers at an army base.

Murderball is playing at 12:30p.m. on Sata V

Hardwood A nominee for this year's Best Docum Short Oscar, Hardwood tells the engrossing of director Hubert Davis, the biracial son of Globetrotter Mel Davis. Throughout the early part white mother in Canada, never knowing his father, who had family of his own. Upon his 10th birth-

FESTIVAL from Chronicle 1 Biurski said. She used her connections within the industry to found a film festival devoted entirely to documentary films. Since then, Biurski’s brainchild has developed into a star-studded gem of the intellectual community. Perhaps the most surprising thing about this festival is that it happens in our oft-ignored backyard.

Every year.

“We are a very singular event here, with same diversity as New York City, but it’s a concentrated intelligentsia... an escape from New York City where they can immerse themselves in film.” A huge high-five for Biurski for filling the void and props to the townies for giving her project the attention it deserved.

For those Duke isolationists who think of Durham as a seedy, blue-colobstacle Standing in between Cafe and Parizade Shooters, Full Frame offers an opportunity to explore the burgeoning

full of outstanding films Paletz has been chair of the selection committee since the festival’s inception.

He proudly reports that this year is even bigger and better than previous years and the “range here is astonishing.” He said he watched over 400 films this year—roughly 35 per week—and deliberated every Sunday for five hours with the selection committee over which films were going to make it into the festival.

Paletz said while no film is coming into the festival with as much buzz as last year’s Grand Jury Prize winner, Super Size Me, that doesn’t mean featured films won't be making their mark on the box office. A little-known film, Born into Brothels, entered Full Frame quietly and closed out last year with the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

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Full Frame is an excellent chance for Duke students to venture the outside dorm and get a refreshing, rewarding whiff of one of the annual highlights of our underappreciated Triangle—it’s like stepping into the Down Under Pub, with brilliant documentaries from around the world instead of just beer.

Here’s how the festival works; Full Frame’s film schedule is divided into two parts. The first is “New Docs: Films in Competition.” The second section consists of special events like the Curated Programs that pool together new and old documentaries for a series with a particular theme.

Both sections combined bring the grand total to 106 screenings of new and old documentary films.

This year features the “Why War?” series, a collection of documentaries engaged in understanding the causes of war, featuring discussions with Chileanborn author and activist Ariel Dorfman (and Duke professor of Literature and Latin American studies) and novelist Walter Mosley, author of Devil in a Blue Dress. Another special segment is the “Southern Sidebar,” an annual grouping of three films that form an intimate discourse on what it means to be “Southern.” This year’s Sidebar includes Time Indefinite, a new documentary by worldrenowned North Carolina native Ross McElwee.

Whittled down from 920 hopefuls, Full Frame’s New Docs portion offers 78 new films that survived an intense selection process. According to selection committee co-chair, Duke Professor of Political Science David Paletz, this year’s New Docs portion of the Full Frame programming is

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“The great thing about the festival is discovering films that don't have a lot of buzz,” he said.

Paletz expects Children of Leningradsky, Phantom of the Operator and opening night’s Bearing Witness to garner well-deserved praise, but he also expressed enthusiasm for a short Polish film about a pilgrimage to Lourdes called For a Miracle as well as one of his personal favorites Shape of the Moon, about a family in Indonesia, which he called “a no-brainer selection.”

Also look out for Murderball, about wheelchair-bound rugby players, and 39 Pounds ofLove, the story of man with a rare form ofmuscular dystrophy.

Biurski said this year is the best batch of New Docs they’ve had yet. She hopes that people will experiment with films and “see something [they] might never ever see.”

In addition to the New Docs and special programming, the festival will also include two evening presentations. Friday night will feature documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Ric Burns, who are receiving lifetime achievement awards.

Martin Scorsese will be talking about his career in film and work in film preservation the following night. Prior to his presentation, Scorsese will present a tribute to documentary pioneer Vittorio de Seta.

Go to www.fullframefest.orgfor more information.

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Southern flavor adds zest Brian McGinn recess There is something about the South that feels beautiful and old, a weariness of soul and mind ground into its society by 200 years of a slow-simmer lifestyle. This week, as the documentary world again migrates south to celebrate the wonder of reality, it will take time off from the hustle and bustle of celebrating the best in new docs to take a close look at important Southern films in a series entitled “Going Home: Southern family and the longing to belong.”

Full Macky Alston, Frame’s chosen curator for the 2005 “Southern Sidebar,” an annual feature of the festival, has chosen three films to be screened this year; Family Name, Alston’s own journey into the meaning and the history of his family’s last name; Southern Comfort, a glorious exploration of life focusing on one transsexual southerner; and Time Indefinite, a narrated hodgepodge of home movies that somehow meshes perfectly to produce truths of life, love,and family. Each film is different, yet similar. Below the surface they each bear the insignia of southern life.

Alston says the selection process was prolonged but relatively easy. He originally sought a film with a strong feeling of black heritage that dealt with the concepts of family and home but had trouble finding anything he thought merited inclusion in the festival. Not wanting to abandon the encompassing theme of family, Alston eventually stumbled upon Southern Comfort, by filmmaker Kate Davis. He says it was “like a revelation; its themes [were] so central to southern family life.” Soon he noticed the similar themes recurring in both his and Davis’ by

work, and- realized that Ross McElwee’s Time Indefinite, the film that originally inspired Alston to work in documentary, would make a natural third selection.

Given the southern focus of their films, it seems counterintuitive that all three directors are residents of the Northeast. While McElwee and Alston have North Carolina lineages to draw upon, Davis feels that having no emotional connection to the South actually helped her capture the idiosyncrasies of the region.

“It really helps as a filmmaker to be one step outside your subjects [and] your subjects’ environment—it feels like I have a certain [amount of] respect to tell the story,”

she says.

Though Davis’ film focuses on one man’s struggle in rural Georgia, she is quick to note that to her surprise Southern Comfort has ended up being regarded as a more universal “portrait of the South.”

What shouldn’t be so surprising, given her status as visitor instead of resident, is the degree to which the lifestyle of the south shines through her film. Every minutia of culture seems to be bottled and fronted; each aspect of southern lifestyle dutifully recorded. ' McElwee’s relationship with the South is significantly more personal and therefore feels more complex.

His film, Time Indefinite, sees the region taking on a personality all its own, helping him through a tremendously emotional period marked with death and tragedy. It is never quite obvious what southern, perhaps because of McElwee’s work are parts his own history doesn’t lead him to focus on the tiny details so immediately apparent to Davis’ camera.

“Everybody's South is different,” remarked Alston, “and it's a critical player in the formation of our identities.” This weekend, three unique southern identities will flicker from projection rooms, each bearing the soulful drawl of a history grown in cotton fields and ripened under decades of searing sunlight.

For more information about the Southern Sidebar and the entireFull Frame Festival, visit http://www.fullframefest.org.

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recess The fairly recent phenomenon of web based animation has been thriving in large part because of an underground buzz. It has slowly been gaining popularity among bored people ofall ages. Whether your dred of fighting over the remote, or sitting

in the back of a torturous lecture, web animation offers the opportunity for easily digestable entertainment.

Creators of these diversions are not random, jobless members of society—for many animation is their passion and their job. Amy Winfrey, the creator of Muffin Films, Making Fiends and Big Bunny, is a perfect example. After working with South Park as an animator, she decided to branch out and become an independent creator of these much-loved Internet toons. While professional free-lance artists run many such animation websites, a large part of their revenue comes from merchandising items printed with logos and characters that die-hard fans can purchase (most people will recognize the extremely popular Homestammner.com gear). What better way to show your style than by sporting shirts or drinking out of mugs with a scowling pink bunny peering out?

One major draw is the length of each episode. With the typr ly short attention spans of our generation, a three-minute story the right length to keep us laughing and allow us to move on

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Most of the cartoons come in series with new episodes periodically uploaded to the sites by their proud producers.

Many are light-themed commentaries or just plain cute, mind-numbing fun. Some, however, are overwhelmingly gruesome and violent, such as the story of Ninjai: The Little Ninja who is on an enigmatic mUsion and encounters

evil ninjas who attempt to terminate him. The cute little boy in a shadowy straw hat nonchalantly slices off heads and talks to small birdies while on his journey.

It’s easy to get hooked on a specific website, going back for more whenever you need to write up a chemistry lab or post responses about Jane Eyre on Blackboard.

Some non-committal fun can be found on WeeblsStuff.com where a collection of animators contributes their freaky humor and randomness to add to your procrastination. The animation titled Kenya is especially mesmerizing—Weebls Stuff musical toons cycle back to the beginning allowing you to zone out for as long as you please.

Salad Fingers is also especially creepy at 3:49 a.m. while you’re trying to finish your take-home midterm.

As it grows in popularity, finding new footholds in previously unexplored niches, web animation is also a great conversion starter or even a nice way to make up with your roommate •r an argument about the hour-long snooze crime you committhe morning.

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recess From one-of-a-kind dresses to faded T-shirts, the thrift store offers an eclectic mix of unique and often inexpensive pieces to complement any wardrobe. But for every amazing find hours of work can be involved, navigating through disorganized racks and sifting through dozens of pieces of clothing. By following a few simple guidelines you can makes the process as enjoyable ahd profitable as possible: 1) Check ahead for store hours: One of the most common problems in thrift store shopping is arriving at the store just to find that it’s closed for the day. Most thrift and vintage stores are only open several times a week and often at odd hours. Make sure to check ahead for store hours, especially if it’s your first time shopping there.

2) Know your size ahead of time: Clothing sizes are extremely inconsistent at thrift stores. Remember many of these pieces were manufactured decades ago when sizing was done on a completely different scale. Many of the stores also don't have any fitting rooms, making it impossible to see how a piece fits until returning home. By knowing your sizing in either centimeters or inches beforehand, you can often save yourself the hassle ofreturning back to the store to make a return.

3) Be ready to look everywhere: Ruth McDowell, a Trinity sophomore and avid thrift store shopper, highlighted another obstacle in thrift store shopping; “Since they [items] aren’t arranged by size all the time, it’s hard to make sure you are getting something that fits.” Thrift stores are notorious for being extremely disorganized as a result of the inconsistent sizing. Many times, articles of clothing are hardly separated beyond tops and bottoms.

Be ready to search through the entire store if you want to be sure not to overlook anything.

4) Keep texture and quality in mind: When looking at an article of clothing, the quality and texture of the material is often as important as the fit. Keep an eye out for any holes, rips, or stretched out material. Fabric texture is also important because, as Michelle Lee of the Untidy Museum says, “some things can be made into other things, like shirts into hats or bags.” Ifyou’re in love with the material, but hate the cut, with a few alterations any article of clothing can be converted into a fashionable accessory.

5) Post-shopping: Make sure to clean all articles of clothing after purchase. T-shirts can usually just be thrown in the washing machine, but most pieces will need to be dry-cleaned.

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Takagi Masakatsu's “Private Drawing”, for example, combines video, music and drawing to create a thoroughly genreless artwork. As violintinged techno music plays, colorful swiggles move from the left of the computer screen to the right, outlining and then filling in the images of people, places and objects. A still from “Private Drawing” could be taken for a sketch created with traditional media like colored pencils.

Levitated’s poem-generator also evidences digital art’s interdisciplinary tendencies. The generator allows theviewer to choose five “states,” such as “fellowship” or “peace,” to create a poem. The final poem spins word by word from the comers of the computer screen and toward the screen's center before finally disappearing into oblivion. Literature, movement and artist-viewer collaboration all combine to create a genreless work of art With its ease of distribution and ability to be displayed on the Internet, digital art is changing the face of the exhibition. Online museums like the Digital Art Museum, as-well as artists’ websites, allow viewers an unprecedented accessibility to and intimacy with artwork.

This accessibility and intimacy also facilitates production and distribution. Not surprisingly, Lasch explains, digital art is confounding concepts like authorship and ideas of the artist’s original work. Whereas one can discover a traditional painting’s status as original by viewing its texture, or by forensic means, identifying the “original” form of digital artwork can be a little more tricky. Is the file created by the artist the original or is the image on the viewer’s screen the original?

For Lasch, the issue is moot. “I think that’s a very important thing about digital art,” he said. “Digital art and video art are based on distribution. The whole idea and fetishization of originality are destroyed.”

In terms of physical exhibition space, digital art remains largely confined to cultural powerhouses like New York, Los Angeles or Berlin or in niche galleries like Texas’ Austin Museum of Digital Art. Local museums with traditional, permanent collections serving a less adventurous constituency, like the North Carolina Museum of Art, are less eager to jump on the digital bandwagon.

“On my end, as a curator, I'm kind of waiting to see how it plays out in the art world. Solely web-based art—l haven’t seen that much that is interesting,” NCMA Adjunct Associate Curator of Contemporary Art Linda Johnson Dougherty said.

NCMA is slowly testing the waters of less traditional, more experimental media however. For example, its September “Crosscurrents” exhibition, a collaboration with Charlotte’s Mint Museum of Art, features emerging North Carolinian artists —some of whom incorporate digital media with traditional media.

Still, it may be a while before even works that mesh the traditional with the digital become a staple for the museums like the NCMA. “I'm not sure I’d be ready to buy [digital artwork] for the museum and include it as part of the museum’s permanent collection, but I definitely think it’s worth looking at,” Dougherty said.

While traditional museums like NCMA take a “wait and see” approach, cautiously poking their toes in the brisk waters of digital art, digital artists continue to plunge into the pixeled waters with full force.

With an exhibition space as large and varied as the Internet and throngs of digital enthusiasts, there is little need to wait.

brother However, 9th Wonder’s beats and melodies are what has put the group on the nadonal map.

At the time of the debut’s release, Litde Brother was just on the cusp of national fame.

Shortly after The Listening was released, 9th Wonder got a call from Jay-Z’s engineer, who told the producer that Jay-Z wanted him to make a song for Jay-Z’s The Black Album. 9th Wonder quickly agreed, flew up to New York and produced “Threat” After the success of The Black Album, JayZ called 9th Wonder and personally asked him if he would do a songfor Destiny’s Child.

Again, the producer acquiesced and spent three days in Los Angeles. ‘You’d be surprised how real [Jay-Z and Destiny’s Child] are,” he says.

‘You think that they’re gonna be all wrapped up in their success but they’re the real thing.”

After the success of The Listening, the members of Little Brother began to work on solo albums as well as a follow-up to the debut. Despite their upcoming solo outings, the members ofLitde Brother have remained faithful to the group.

This loyalty has allowed them to make The Minstrel Shaw, a more polished follow-up to The Listening that will be released this September.

For Litde Brother, the thought of becoming satisfied with their way of life is the first step to failing in the rap world. “We’re not here for the money,” Phonte says. “If we don’t get bigger than this, I’m fine with that, and I know [they are too].

I don’t need to be making money to be happy.”

Pooh echoes Phonte’s remarks. “I’m happy but I’m not satisfied,” he says. “The moment you become satisfied, you stall and hit the ground.” Because they fear this kind of complacency, Litde Brother constantiy makes sure they do not tread far from the philosophy that originally drew them together as musicians.

“We have to constantiy challenge ourselves,” 9th Wonder says. “If our next album doesn’t top our previous one, to me, we’ve failed.”

Little Brother is opposed to selling out but at the same time, they are not against becoming mainstream. “I can see ourselves getting more popular and working our way into the mainstream,” Pooh says. “But we’re going to work at it. It’s not going to be an overnight deal.”

9th Wonder agrees with Pooh while

adding his disgust for current mainstream hiphop. “Mainstream rap is whack,” he says. “It’s not that I don’t like the genres that they’re in. I just don’t like whack music. I’m not a big fan of the same thing all the time, and that’s what’s up these days. If you don’t have a music video on TV or a single being played five times a day on the radio station, you’re not real. That’s just not right.”

Although they were originally signed to a West Coast label, more often than not, Little Brother is associated with “Durham rap.” Although none of the members actually grew up in Durham, they all identify with the local hiphop scene. “Music doesn’t depend necessarily on where you’re from,” Phonte says. “It’s where you’re at that matters.”

All of Little Brother’s members appreciate the media coverage that Durham hip-hop is receiving. “The press is good but it’s not where it should be,” Pooh says. “The real problem is from the people living in Durham. We get some attention from people living in Durham, but here, you gotta rock the world before you come back.”

9th Wonder, however, remarks differendy.

“We didn’t really have a choice about where we were gqing to blow up,” he says. “We live in a conservative state where you’re raised either to go to college or get a job right after high school. No matter what, you’re expected to get married and have kids. And that’s the end ofyour life. North Carolina isn’t really a musical haven, but it’s great that we’ve found an outlet here.”

Gaining increased fame along the way though does not seem to faze Little Brother. “I wouldn’t have my life be any other way,” Phonte says. “We just like to have a good time. On stage, we like to draw the audience in and keep them, let themfeel the music using the energy we give from the stage.

That’s how we keep moving and getting better.”

Little Brother is riding the wave of the Durham rap scene, and riding it well. With every step they’ve taken, they acquire more national recognition and acclaim. They are pioneers of the local underground rap scene, dedicated to bring rap back to where it used to be.

“I like to think we can change the face of hiphop,” 9th Wonder says. “It just takes patience, but we’ve got all the time in the world.”

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With March Madness in the past, the time has come for America to return to its pastime.

The Durham Bulls, the AAA affiliate of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and 2002 and 2003 International League chamseason pions, begin their season today against preview the Toledo Mud Hens at Durham Bulls Athletic Park at 1 p.m.

Scorecards will be a hot commodity this afternoon. Like any other minor league team, the Bulls will start the season with a roster full of fresh faces they bear little resemblance to the team that lost the final three games of its five-game playoff series against the Buffalo Bisons last year.

A pair of corner infielders are the club’s biggest acquisitions. Casual fans may recognize the Bulls’ most recent free-agent pick-up, Eric Munson.

Munson played 246 games with the Detroit Tigers since 2000, but he never really matured into the type of hitter the Tigers expected when they chose him third overall in the 1999 amateur draft. Munson hit 37 home runs over his last two seasons with the Tigers.

The Bulls will also receive an additional offensive boost from former Pawtucket third baseman Earl Snyder, who led the International League

When Monique Currie told teammate Jessica Foley last week that she was passing up her final year of eligibility and jumping to the WNBA, Foley was disappointed.

Only there was a catch—it was an April Fool’s joke.

Currie assuaged her teammates’ fears Wednesday when the ACC Player of the Year announced she has decided to stay at Duke for another season, even though she is on pace to graduate in May. “This has been one of the most difficult decisions I’ve ever had to make,” Currie said. “I’ve decided to come back next season and try to pursue a championship.”

Currie, who has an extra year of eligibility because of a medical redshirt in the 2002-2003 season for a tom left anterior cruciate ligament, remained quiet all season about her plans for next year. After Duke’s loss to LSU in the Elite Eight last week in a game in which Currie struggled, the pressure on her to decide intensified.

“I’m a competitive person with competidve spirit—it definitely was hard for me to just walk away with a loss like that, without saying that I gave all thatI could,” Currie said.

WNBA scouts followed Currie all year and said during the season that she was almost guaranteed to be a top-five pick in the April 16 WNBA draft if she were to leave Duke.

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Sept. 9, 2004, Tampa Bay shortstop Upton settled into the righthanded batter’s box at Yankee Stadium. With one out in the top of the first and young lefthander Brad Halsey on the mound, Upton sent a drive into the leftfield seats to give the Devil Rays a 1-0 lead.

Upton had just turned 20 years old two and a half weeks earlier.

When was the last time a player younger than Upton hit a home run in the House that Ruth Built? Back in 1989, when Ken GrifFeyJr. decked one over the wall as a 19-year-old.

Upton’s blast was one of four home runs he would hit in his 45 games with the Devil Rays. Although the Yankee Stadium homer put the Chesapeake, Va.,

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“I think they just put him down here to get a little more seasoning,” Durham hitting coach Richie Hebner said. “He has a chance to be a stud and play a lot of years in the big leagues. There’s no reason he shouldn’t.”

Upton will need to work on his fielding—he has made 100 errors over the past two seasons—and improve his discipline at the plate. He has walked 129 times and struck out 205 times in his professional career.

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Monique Currie will return to Duke to try to win the school's first women's basketball national title.

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The football team wrapped up a spring practice season Wednesday that was replete

closest teammates to stay in Durham and play for the Blue Devils once they finished high school.

“I found out that Waagbo was coming to Duke at our U-19 tryouts,” sophomore Rachel Sanford said. “I’m thinking, if I come to Duke we’re going to have the sickest class. I ended up committing to Duke that night.”

Following Sanford’s signing, the new Blue Devil duo set out trying to convince two other teammates, attacker Leigh Jester and midfielder Michelle Menser, to join them at Duke.

“We all kind ofheard about [their comthe decisions] mitment through grapevine,” Menser said. “Rachel was my roommate in the weekend of our first tournament. Her and Waags tried to coerce me

with injury and burdened with the difficult task of adjusting to a new offensive coordinator. Despite the challenges team has faced during preliminary workouts for the 2005 season, head coach Ted Roofs outlook for the fall remains positive.

“Overall, I’ve been pleased with the enthusiasm and effort I’ve seen at practice,” Roof said. “We’ve been missing several players due to injury, but it’s allowed some of the guys who maybe hadn’t gotten many reps last season a chance to play.”

One of the players sidelined by injury is Duke’s top recruit Wince Oghobaase. After suffering a tom medial collateral ligament during die course of spring practice, the defensive end was unable to work out with the team. Oghobaase graduated from high school early and enrolled at Duke in January to acquaint himself with the Blue Devils.

The highly-anticipated Oghobaase was ranked seventh nationally among defensive tackles by scout.com as a high school senior, and Roof said he had been performing well in practice before his injury.

“I can’t say much more except that I expect everybody that’s hurt right now to be ready for the season,” Roof said.

As a result of injuries to several anticipated Blue Devil starters, backup players received an opportunity to spend more time on the field this spring. Roof anticipates this circumstance will improve the team’s depth next season, which he cites as one of the

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As the hot afternoon sun began its slow descent behind the surrounding forest, large shadows began to cast themselves across portions of the field. Practice had officially ended 15 minutes earlier, but attacker Kristen Waagbo was still standing attentively a few yards from the net.

Waagbo suddenly accelerated toward the goal, pausing a moment to receive a pass before sending the ball into the back of the net. A few seconds later, Waagbo resumed her position at the top of the crease, eagerly awaiting the drill to start again.

Known by her teammates simply as “Waags,” Waagbo has enjoyed a standout season. After a stellar freshman campaign in which she led the team in assists and finished third in goals, the Ellicott City,

Md., native, has already surpassed many of her totals from last season. In only 11 games, the sophomore has scored 27 goals and recorded 10 assists.

Waagbo’s contributions to the Blue Devils’ program, however, have not been limited to her offensive output on the playing field. In fact, Waagbo played an invaluable role in helping to deliver three prized recruits to the Blue Devils in 2002.

In the summer before her senior year of high school, Waagbo successfully made the U.S. Under-19 Women’s Lacrosse World Cup team. The original 26-person squad spent the rest of the summer training in Durham and playing in various tournaments until a final 16-player traveling roster was determined.

Having already committed to Duke shortly before the tryouts, Waagbo used the opportunity to convince some of her

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For the first time since George H.W. Bush was in office, No. 12 Duke lost a conference road match Wednesday, falling to No. 36 Wake Forest, 6-1.

The Blue DevDUKE JL ils(l2-6, 3-2 in the 6 ACC) loss, which WAKE ended a 55-match ACC road winning streak dating back to 1989, was the first such defeat during head coach Jamie Ashworth’s nine-year tenure.

“We didn’t play very well today,” Ashworth said. “It is too bad that the streak had to end the way it did. If we’re going to get beat, I’d rather get beat than lose because of lack of discipline.”

After splitting the first two doubles matches, the first point of the day came down to the matchup of Wake Forest’s Danielle Schwartz and Blakely Offutt against Duke’s tandem of Clelia Deltour and Lauren Archer. The Wake Forest duo escaped with a victory and the doubles point, winning the rubber match 9-7.

Jackie Carleton and Katie Blaszak were the only Duke tandem to take home a doubles match.

“We lost the doubles point, and we never recovered mentally or emotionally,” Ashworth said. “We are not a talented enough team to just show up and win a match. We cannot afford to do that.”

On the Demon Deacons’ Senior Day, all three Wake Forest (10-8, 3-4) seniors came

3, 6-0. Katie Martzolf cruised as well, downing Duke’s Saras Arasu 6-4, 6-2, to end her career at home on a high note.

Schwartz, Wake Forest’s third senior, could not capitalize on her first set tiebreaker victory. After Kristin Cargill won the second set easily 6-2, she escaped in a thrilling third-set tiebreaker 11-9 for Duke’s only singles victory of the day.

“Kristin did a good job coming back after the first set,” Ashworth said. “Everyone was losing and she could have easily folded, but she did a good job fighting and getting herself back into her match.”

No. 44 Blaszak, who competed at second singles, also played a match that came down to the wire. After losing the first set 7-5, the senior smoked her opponent 6-1 in the second. But in the deciding set’s tiebreaker, Blaszak could not pull out the victory, losing 10-8.

Ashworth was disappointed with the team’s performance, and emblematic of the Duke’s effort, or lack thereof, was the matchup of the four seeds. Wake Forest’s Alex Hirsch fought her way to a 7-5 win in the first set against Deltour. In the second set, however, Deltour collapsed, losing 6-0.

“We played with a total lack of effort and discipline,” Ashworth said. “We’re better than we’re playing.... As a team, we really needed to compete better.”

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Harding, who said Wednesday that she expects to play next year after sitting out

She did not make up her mind until this weekend when she attended the Final Four and was honored for being an All-American.

“Since the WNBA’s inception, I have always wanted to be a part of that and it has been an ultimate goal of mine, but also to win a national championship has been an ultimate goal of mine,” Currie said. “Just watching and feeling like I want to have a chance to maybe get there next year—that definitely had a huge effect on me and my decision.”

Currie comes back to a squad that should be vasdy different from this year’s Blue Devils. Gone are the days when head coach Gail Goestenkors will have to make do with only eight healthy players. With Currie’s return, the only expected loss is senior forward Wynter Whitley.

The Blue Devils will be bolstered by the second-best recruiting class in the nation, which includes four top caliber players. The Blue Devils are also anticipating the return of point guard Lindsey

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During spring workouts, quarterback Mike Schneider began learning Duke's new offensive scheme.

FOOTBALL from page 12 major problems Duke combatted last year.

Another issue the Blue Devils dealt with in 2004 was a lackluster offense. Consequently, one of the main focuses of spring practice was introducing new offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien’s system.

O’Brien, a former Maryland running backs coach, replaced Marty Galbraith at the position in early January.

“It’s going to be a multiple offense,” O’Brien said in January. “It’s based really on how much the quarterback has learned and how well the quarterback can play.”

Roof said junior signal-caller Mike Schneider demonstrated leadership during spring practice and committed himself to learning the plays in O’Brien’s offense.

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“I’ve been pleased with the way players have worked to pick it up,” Roof said. “We’ll continue to rep it until we get it right.”

Roof expects wide receiver Ronnie Elliott, tight end Ben Patrick and tailback Ronnie Drummer to lead the Blue Devil offense. Roof said he hopes the movement of rising senior Malcolm Ruff from linebacker to fullback will add a new dimension to the Duke running game.

Other players who impressed Roof over the past month were defensive end Eli Nichols and linebacker Patrick Bailey, who is learning the position after transitioning from defensive end. The coach said he was also excited by the overall performance of the secondary.

“We’ve got a lot of work left to do,” Roof said. “But when people are passionate and excited, that’s a fun environment to be around.”

a little bit into Duke, and I had the opportunity to get to know them a little bit.”

Before long, Waagbo accomplished her mission as both Menser and Jester signed with the Blue Devils, securing the foundation of a freshman class that would prove to be among the most tightly-knit ofany in the history of the program.

By the time the World Cup rolled around in the summer of 2003, the foursome’s plans for the Fall were put on the back burner as they finally set out on their quest to win the IFWLA Championship.

Their wishes were met as the team’s long journey culminated in a 21-8 win over Australia in the championship game in Towson, Md. During the match, Waagbo tied two other teammates for a game-high four goals, while Sanford added a hat trick of her own.

“That’s probably the biggest thrill I’ve had in lacrosse,” Waagbo said.

More importandy, however, was the knowledge that the relationships forged

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Currie and Harding both said that the opportunity to play with one another next year was a reason for Currie’s decision.

“I wanted her to do what was best for her, but every now and again I would throw in comments about how much I wanted her to come back,” Harding said.

“I remember talking to her and telling her that everyone misses college—it’s only four years and she gets a fifth year.”

The return ofCurrie provides the Blue Devils with the leadership necessary to carry the team toward the program’s elusive first National Championship.

“Monique has grown so much over the past year in particular, and it is exciting to see the possibilities for her and our team next season,” Goestenkors said.

Currie will graduate with a double degree in Public Policy and African American Studies in May. She has applied to Duke’s Graduate School next year for the Master’s in Arts & Teaching and Liberal Studies programs.

during their travels with the U-19 team would become stronger once they arrived at Duke just a few weeks later.

“It was very special to play in a very intense environment before college with them,” Sanford said. “But it was even more exciting to know that I would be able to play with them for another four years.”

The class’ chemistry on the field has paid huge dividends for the Blue Devils who are 9-2 and ranked second in the country. Waagbo, Jester and Sanford are second, third and fourth on the team in points, respectively, while Menser is on track to surpass her 22-point total from last season.

Once they get off the field, the group continues to remain the best of friends.

The foursome share a block together on West Campus and spend most of their free time with one another and with the three other members of their class.

“When we think back to our U-19 days we always laugh about how we didn’t really know each other and the silly things we did,” Sanford said. “Now, we’re so much closer.”

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with 36 homers last year.

Snyder said the Bulls are a fun team to play with, and all of his teammates in the infield have the ability to make it to the majors.

“I just want to stay consistent,” Snyder said. “I want to be consistent at the plate—l don’t want to go through too many low streaks. Everybody slumps, but I’d like to cut that to a minimum this year.”

Brian Sweeney will be the Bulls’ Opening Day starter.

Last year the Yonkers, N.Y., native was named the Pacific Coast League’s top righthanded pitcher. Sweeney has experienced a taste of the major leagues, playing five games with the Mariners in 2003 and seven games with the Padres in 2004. In his second stint in the majors, Sweeney recorded a win over Randy Johnson and the Arizona Diamondbacks June 29.

The 29-year old Sweeney described himself as a fastball and changeup pitcher who relies more on control and

changing speeds than on pure velocity. He said he was extremely relieved to leave the Pacific Coast League behind him and take the mound on Opening Day. “It’s always great to start things off—hopefully on a positive note —and get the ball rolling, so I’m very excited,” Sweeney said. “I heard a lot of good things, that [Durham] was a great place to play and that the fans were great.”

The Bulls also welcome back top-prospect B J. Upton,

who left Durham last fall and went on to hit .258 in 45 games with the Devil Rays.

Catcher Tim Laker returns to the Bulls this year as well after spending the last two seasons with the Cleveland Indians. A career .224 hitter in the majors, Laker will split time behind the plate with Pete LaForest, a Hull, Quebec, native. LaForest hit .308 for the Canadian Olympic team that advanced to the bronze medal game last summer in Athens, where it lost to Japan.

Hitting coach Richie Hebner said LaForest might be poised to have a breakout season.

“I’d like to see Pete LaForest turn it up a notch,” Hebner said. “He had a rough year last year, going to the

Olympics, he missed a lot of games here. But Pete swung well the last two weeks of spring training. If Pete gets going, this could be a fun club to watch.”

This off-season the Bulls lost three of their four 20home run hitters. Utilityman Jorge Cantu is currently the Devil Rays’ starting second baseman. Midre Cummings is now on the Orioles’ disabled list after slamming his hand against the outfield fence in a spring training game. Outfielder Matt Diaz, who last season led the International League in doubles, is now in the Kansas City farm system.

Jonny Gomes, who hit 26 home runs last season, is the sole power hitter to return to the lineup. But the additions of Upton, Munson, Snyder and ex-Richmond Braves outfielder Damon Hollins appear to be more than enough to keep the Durham lineup potent.

“We have a good offensive club. You look down the lineup, we have some good pop,” Hebner said. “We definitely have more power this year. We’re capable of hitting a lot of three-run homers. That makes the manager happy and that makes a lot of people in the stands happy.”

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average. Hebner said the shortstop has all the skills to return to the majors.

“He’s got power to all fields,” Hebner said. “When he’s swinging well the ball just Jumps off his bat.”

Upton agrees that playing every day will be the only way for his game to improve and has tapped the Bulls’ veterans for daily advice.

“I’m trying to leam from them,” Upton said. ‘You have

guys here who have been in the game for 10 to 12 years.

I’m still young—I’m 20 and I’ve only been playing for three years.

‘You leam about the little things. Something will happen in a game and I’ll go to one of them and ask ‘What should I have done differently there?”’

As is the case with all minor leaguers, Upton could be called back up to the majors at any time.

“I learned to be ready to play every day and be ready to get your work in,” he said. ‘You never know what’s going to happen. Skip [manager Bill Evers] said that there’s a lot of transactions that happen here—l think they said 144 last year. You just have to be ready to play, and play hard.”

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the fault of commission, but it is also a result of a poorly written constitution, The DSG Judiciary ruled that Aviki’s original sanction—not being allowed to campaign for the rua-off election—was uncon-

mess of campaign violations, Election Commission rulings, appeals and reversals of ‘Election St3TTGCiItOI I3i stitutional, forcing Commission rulings. the commission to reThe initial problems were caused by the candidates, but consider the election for a second they were exacerbated by an arbi- time. The Judiciary then recommendtrary, confusing DSG constitution and ed that the commission dock Aviki 4 the Election Commission’s failure to percentage points, throwing the election into a three-way run-off. This, act timely and decisively.

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In light of these events, DSC should seems as though the competition only led to childish bickering and re-evaluate its election regulations and make sure that they are both clear and mudslinging.

The Election Commission found sensible so that in the future problems Emily Aviki guilty of two campaign vio- such as these can be avoided.

The other major problem the lations—hanging a banner before the allowed time and having a live link on Election Commission had was one of her AOL Instant Messenger profile timing. The commission was less than during the election. Her excuses for forthcoming with all of its decisions, but its announcement of the second the violations are unconvincing.

Perhaps the most unnerving as- runoff between Ferguson and Longoria came after 11 p.m., only 10 hours pect of the campaign was the accusations flying between Aviki’s campaign before the polls for the runoff team and Russ Ferguson’s supporters. opened. With this last-minute deciAfter an incident involving slogans sion, the commission risked a low painted on the East Campus bridge, turnout due to its failure to announce the two camps tossed allegations back the runoff with enough lead time.

Of course, all of this could have and forth. Jesse Longoria, the eventual winner, should be commended for been avoided if DSC had simply had an automatic run-off as stipulated by its staying out of the fight. caused Aviki’s constitution. Although the merit of auby The problems campaign violations, however, were tomatic run-offs is debatable, if DSG’s only furthered by the way the Election constitution has a provision for an auCommission dealt with them. After tomatic run-off, it needs to be in place. considering the allegations, the Elec- In addition to adhering to the constitution, it probably would have saved a tion Commission failed to reach a decigreat deal ofconfusion and made for a sion that was in line with its own constitution and bylaws. This is only partially much smoother election process. „

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Judicial Board standards clarified In response to Matt Gillum’s column (“Deans gone wild,” April 6), I think it is important to clarify that the University’s standard of evidence for a finding of responsibility for all allegations of undergraduate misconduct—including sexual assault—is “clear and convincing.”

While many universities use a lower burden of proof such as “preponderance of the evidence” (or “more likely than not”) and some use the criminal court standard of “beyond a reasonable doubt,” the “clear and convincing” confidence level enables us to protect the rights of accused students while allowing for the developmental and educational approach we take in our disciplinary' process.

Members of the Undergraduate Judicial Board take their responsibilities very sen-

ously and do not approach any decision of responsibility lightly. In sexual misconduct cases especially, hearing panelists carefully weigh the information presented and deliberate extensively in reaching their conclusion—a process that usually takes many,

many hours.

To make a grand statement that the University is “satisfied with getting it right three quarters of the time” makes great fodder for a campus newspaper—but is offensive to those (including the students, faculty, and staff of the Undergraduate Judicial Board) who strive to effect a campus of integrity, responsibility, and respect for the rights of others.

Stephen Bryan Associate Dean for Judicial Affairs

Duke needs affordable healthcare The Chronicle’s April 6 article “Insurance Questions Linger” omitted some very important figures. It should have noted that the Graduate and Professional Student Council is currendy contemplating raising the costs of health insurance for students with families by $1,397 to $5,626 (for student, spouse, child) in order to save single students $69 to $279.

If they choose to go this route, the total cost for a student needing to insure self, spouse and child (ren) next year would be $7,091 to $11,320, compared with $1,310 to $1,520 for a single student (see

that single students currently subsidize the insurance costs of families, but it is also true that men subsidize women, non-smokers subsidize smokers and those without chronic illnesses subsidize those with such illnesses.

It is morally deplorable to target one group and decide to reduce or stop subsidizing it. All members of the Duke community should have access to affordable healthcare.

Limiting such access could potentially cause students to drop out of our program, and it most certainly will hinder Duke’s ability to recruit prospective students with families.

When that happens, Duke’s academic reputation will tarnish, and our University will fail to be the best that it can be.

ance in this way would tatter the academic and moral fiber of our University. It is true

Matthew Schlimm Grad ’ll

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Increasing the cost of family health insur-

Consider meaning of ‘social justice’ Given that this week is social justice week, I find it very appropriate to laud and encourage the efforts being made to shed light on the injustice in this country and beyond, and the efforts being made to stir people to look beyond their often times insular daily lives.

However, we need more than moral indignation and a desire for change if we want to make a worthwhile impact, and most importantly, we cannot lose sight of the justice in social justice.

The phrase “social justice” is all too frequently used very loosely, and seemingly more often than not is used as a euphemism for social entitlement rather than anything remotely approximating actual justice.

Social justice is usually interpreted as referring to the level offairness with which a society distributes its rewards and burdens. However, this definition masks an inherent bias and serves to skirt the issue of determining what constitutes a just society by automatically adopting a sort of pseudo-Marxist ethics.

By referring to “society’s” distribution of rewards and burdens, it is assumed that all of the assets of a society are somehow all in one gigantic, communal pot, and that it is up to the central distributor of society to distribute the goods “fairly.”

As a result, social justice is often used as little more than a cover to attack economic free agency and property rights, and unfortunately serves to usurp individual rights in favor of group rights.

During this week, I therefore strongly encourage people to continue the fight against injustice and oppression, but I have a strong word of caution. Continue the fight, but don’t lose sight of what should be the true goal of social justice: a JUST society. What is needed is a society that commits itself unswervingly to promoting individual empowerment, not one that sacrifices individuals to the demand for group entitlements.

Aaron Hedlund Trinity ’O6

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s a fact, documented by two recent studies, that we had no business being persuaded by mountains of registered Republicans and self-proclaimed con- evidence.” And it conceded that it had succumbed “to servatives make up only a small minority of profes- the easy mistake of thinking that scientists understand sors at elite universities. But what should we conclude their fields better than, say, U.S. senators or best-selling from that? novelists do.”

Conservatives see it as compelling evidence ofliberal The editorial was titled “OK, We Give Up.” But it bias in university hiring and promotion. And they say could just as well have been called “Why So Few Scienthat new academic freedom laws will simply mitigate lists Are Republicans These Days.” Thirty years ago, atthe effects of that bias, promoting a diversity of views, tacks on science came mostly from the left; these days, But a closer look both at the universities and at the mo- they come overwhelmingly from the right, and have the lives of those who would police them suggests a quite backing of leading Republicans. different story.

Scientific American may think that Claims that liberal bias keeps conserevolution is supported by mountains of paiil KrUgmail vatives off college faculties almost always evidence, but President Bush declares focus on the humanities and social scithat "the jurT s still out.” Sen. James Inquest commentary ences, where judgments about what conhiofe dismisses the vast body of research stitutes good scholarship can seem subsupporting the scientific consensus on jective to an outsider. But studies that find registered climate change as a “gigantic hoax.” And conservative Republicans in the minority at elite universities show pundits like George Will write approvingly about that Republicans are almost as rare in hard sciences like Michael Crichton’s anti-environmentalist fantasies. physics and in engineering departments as in softer Think of the message this sends: Today’s Republifields. Why? can Party —increasingly dominated by people who beOne answer is self-selection—the same sort of self-selieve truth should be determined by revelation, not relection that leads Republicans to outnumber Democsearch—doesn’t respect science, or scholarship in rats four to one in the military. The sort of person who general. It shouldn’t be surprising that scholars have prefers an academic career to the private sector is like- returned the favor by losing respect for the Republily to be somewhat more liberal than average, even in can Party.

Conservatives should be worried by the alienation of engineering.

But there’s also, crucially, a values issue. In the 19705, the universities; they should at least wonder if some of even Democrats like Daniel Patrick Moynihan conceded the fault lies not in the professors, but in themselves. Inthat the Republican Party was the “party of ideas.” stead, they’re seeking a Lysenkoist solution that would Today, even Republicans like Rep. Chris Shays concede have politics determine courses’ content. that it has become the “party of theocracy.”

And it wouldn’t just be a matter of demanding that Consider the statements of Dennis Baxley, a Florida historians play down the role of slavery in early Amerilegislator who has sponsored a bill that—like similar ca, or that economists give the macroeconomic theories bills introduced in almost a dozen states—would give of Friedrich Hayek as much respect as those of John students who think that their conservative views aren’t Maynard Keynes. Soon, biology professors who don’t respected the right to sue their professors. Baxley says give creationism equal time with evolution and geology that he is taking on “leftists” struggling against “mainprofessors who dismiss the view that the Earth is only 6,000 years old might face lawsuits. stream society,” professors who act as “dictators” and turn the classroom into a “totalitarian niche.” His prime If it got that far, universities would probably find ways example of academic totalitarianism? When professors to cope—by, say, requiring that all entering students sign waivers. But political pressure will nonetheless have say that evolution is a fact.

In its April Fools’ Day issue, Scientific American a chilling effect on scholarship. And that, of course, is published a spoof editorial in which it apologized for its purpose. endorsing the theory of evolution just because it’s “the Paul Krugman is a syndicated columnist for The New York unifying concept for all of biology and one of the greatest scientific ideas of all time,” saying that “as editors, Times. .

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living wage

“Don’t Angelica workers deserve a living wage?”

“No. They don’t. They are not even employees of Duke, and even if they were, a living wage would be a terrible idea. Thanks.”

President Richard Brodhead should have offered that response to the students who stood on stage holding the tacky banner as he spoke to undergraduates two weeks ago. While the president didn’t, he has apparendy been steadfast in opposing the University-wide “living wage” the activists are demanding. Let’s hope that doesn’t change so Duke does not duplicate Georgetown, which last month promised employees $l4 per hour in response to a ridiculous “hunger strike” that sent two students to the hospital.

The students who disrupted Brodhead’s speech seem to have a similar number in mind for Duke. After all, Durham County already has a $9.74 living wage for county employees, and Duke cunrendy has a de facto $lO minimum wage for its own workers. These numbers do not apply to the infamous Angelica Corp. laundry service, since Duke only contracts their services, so groups like “Duke Students Against Sweatshops” are demanding that Duke not only institute a higher minimum wage and set it to automatically increase with inflanathan carleton tion, but also end agreepoker ments with contracted who don’t companies pay their employees this same amount. Perhaps they are preparing for a hunger strike.

This issue is largely framed as an urgent moral imperative with a few abstract economic benefits. Yet as noble as a living wage may sound, its implementation would cause major financial trouble, and not just for employers. Living wages are especially problematic to workers, and-*he most harmed ones are usually the lowest-paid and least-qualified.

If a university suddenly requires a business to pay its employees more money, the employees of the business will become victims. Take Angelica. Were Duke’s administrators to suddenly demand that it start paying employees $l3 an hour, Angelica’s management would obviously not just give everyone a $5 raise and carry on as usual. Unless Duke gave them extra money, Angelica would exercise one of two options: end their contract with Duke, or make cuts to compensate.

This first option would be bad for everyone, as it would leave Duke without a cleaning service, take revenue from Angelica and make many of their workers’ jobs unnecessary. The second, cuts, would lead to job loss and a worsening of working conditions. When a company is told to pay their lowest-paid employees more, they are naturally inclined to fire the least-needed workers and use the savings to pay others. This seems an especially likely scenario were the company truly a corrupt, greedy business that didn’t care about its workers’ well-being, as Students Against Sweatshops claim Angelica is.

The complications would not cease were Duke to just give the workers more money. Such an exchange would not really be a wage at all, just one group giving money to another out of social concern. Problematically, this would artificially inflate thevalue oflaborand thus lead to turnover and job loss. Imagine what the employment level in America would be were the beliefs of these demanders universalized, and every business was required to pay employees $l4 an hour regardless ofage, experience or demand for the job.

The biggest problem with a living wage is that it prevents less qualified or uneducated workers from competing for jobs. Sometimes the only unique benefit an applicant can offer a business is a willingness to work for a lower wage than others will. In that sense, artificial living wages strip those in an already disadvantaged group of their only bargaining chip and make their pool of potential jobs even smaller, especially if employers discriminate in hiring.

Why do these workers accept these supposedly unlivable wages in the first place? Just as a professor is a professor because he or she prefers teaching to other alternatives, someone who works at Duke does so because he or she chooses to. If an employee is being abused or mistreated at the workplace, then the problem obviously needs addressing. But mandates that cause people to lose jobs to pay for others’ “living wages”? No one deserves that Nathan CarieUm is a Trinity senior. His column appears Thursdays.

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