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Schools eye minority recruitment by

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As admissions officers at and universities across the country put the finishing touches on acceptance, waitlist and rejection letters, the debate about specialized

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Although few dispute the importance of holding recruitment programs for prospective scholars, many people affiliated with higher education are beginning to reassess the value of hosting minority recruitment weekends.

“Coming off of the Civil Rights Movement, there was a sense that you can’t expect [minority] students to walk into a newly integrated place and feel like they belonged there on the same terms as students who had been welcomed there forever,” said President Richard Brodhead. “That’s why theserecruitment [strategies] started.”

But more than 30 years after integration, some higher education officials are questioning whether programs directed to minority students are still necessary. “There is no eternally right answer,” Brodhead said.

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With two wins in the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament, head coach Mike Krzyzewki's squad advanced to the Regional semifinal.

Duke aims to avoid Sweet 16 stumble by

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For most teams in Division I basketball, simply making the Sweet 16 is an accomplishment in and of itself.

Many major-conference programs value a berth in the regional semifinals as a benchmark for a successful season. Similarly,

Officials identify lizard as cause of power loss from staff reports Monday’s power outage that affected much of West Campus and sections of the Medical Center was not caused by a construction mishap or mysterious power surge.

It seems that it was caused by a lizard.

The reptile was in a part of the health system when it crossed from one wire to another wire, causing an electric current to flow through its body. The connection between the two wires caused a break in the electrical circuitry that surged back to a substation.

“A lot of places there are these wires that are not supposed to touch each other,” Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said. “When the lizard climbed from one wire to the other wire he connected [them], and he shorted out the switch.”

University officials ascertained where the break in circuity occurred by looking at maps of the electrical system and sent technicians to examine the area, he explained.

It was there that they located the guilty reptile and determined the source of the electrical failure.

“They found a fried lizard on the

ground,” Trask said.

The incident was the second time in the last several years that Duke has experienced a full blackout, and an animal has been to blame both times, Trask added.

In the first instance, a squirrel transmitted a current between two wires in a substation next to the health system parking lot, causing a short in the circuitry.

Trask said that when Monday’s power failure occurred all of the backup systems “kicked in in a matter of nanoseconds.”

“We have a fairly high-end, fairly expensive, double backup electrical system that rarely fails, and when it does it’s always these goofy lizard things,” Trask said.

There were two other power disruptions last week—what Trask termed “circulation blips.” Officials are still trying to investigate what caused the blips.

Trask admitted that two occurrences in one week is uncommon.

“It may, in fact, have been construction but we haven’t been able to confirm that,” Trask said. “It was not necessarily plaza

construction.”

emerging mid-major programs see reaching the Sweet 16 as a statement announcing they have arrived on the national scene.

For Duke, however, the Sweet 16 is old news. After cruising to wins over Southern and George Washington in Greensboro last weekend, head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s teams have reached

the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament nine consecutive years. The top-seeded Blue Devils (32-3) play fourth-seeded LSU (25-8) at 7:10 p.m. tonight in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.

But while the streak of Sweet 16s is surely an accomplishment, SEE LSU ON PAGE 10

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Ceasefire offered in Spain The Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent ceasefire Wednesday, ending its terrorist campaign against Spain. The group has been blamed for more than 800 deaths and $15.5 billion in

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Emboldened a day after a successful jailbreak, insurgents laid siege to another prison Wednesday.

This time, U.S. troops and a special Iraqi unit thwarted the pre-dawn attack south of Baghdad, overwhelming the gunmen and capturing 50 of them, police said.

Although the raid failed, the insurgents’ ability to put together such large and well-armed bands of fighters underlined concerns about the ability of Iraqi police and military to take over the fight from U.S. troops.

Sixty militants participated in the assault, which attempted to free more jailed Sunni insurgents, police said.

The attack on the prison in Madain, 15 miles southeast of Baghdad, began with insurgents firing 10 mortar rounds.

They then stormed the facility, which is run by the Interior Ministry, a predominantly Shiite organization and heavily infiltrated by members of various Shiite militias.

Four police officers—including the commander of the special unit—died in a twohour gunbattle, which was subdued only after American forces arrived. Among the 50 captured, police said, was one Syrian.

The U.S. military did not respond to a

counterattack.

The raid came a day after 100 Sunni gunmen freed 33 prisoners and wrecked a jail, police station and courthouse in Muqdadiyah, a town northeast of Baghdad near the Iranian border.

Madain, the site of Wednesday’s attack, is at the northern tip of Iraq’s Sunni-dominated “Triangle of Death,” a farming region rife with sectarian vioand lence —retaliatory kidnappings killings in the underground conflict between Sunnis and Shiites.

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GM cuts costs with worker buyouts by

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DETROIT In one of the largest buyout programs ever, more than 125,000 hourly workers of General Motors Corp. and auto supplier Delphi Corp. are being offered up to $140,000 to give up their jobs to help cut the companies’ crippling labor costs.

GM did not say how many workers it expected to accept the offer, but it is aiming to slash 30,000 hourly jobs by 2008.

Some workers wasted no time in declaring the deal “fantastic” and started calculating what they would get, based on years of service, if they accepted the offer.

GM and Delphi have said that if enough workers sign up for buyouts or early retirement, their operating costs would drop significantly. Analysts warned that it still might not be enough to restore the companies’ financial health or avoid a paralyzing strike.

Under the program, about 113,000 GM workers will be eligible for early-retirement incentives or buyouts of between $35,000 and $140,000 depending on how long they were employed and whether they want to keep health care and other benefits. At Delphi, GM’s former parts division and largest supplier, 13,000 U.S.

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sum payment of $35,000 to retire. Also, up to 5,000 Delphi workers will be eligible to return to GM. The deal comes at a critical time for GM, which increased by $2 billion its reported 2005 loss to $10.6 billion last week. The world’s largest automaker has been losing U.S. market share to Asian automakers and is saddled with labor agreements that make it difficult to close plants or cut workers. The plan also is crucial for Delphi, the largest U.S. auto

12 dead in Chilean bus crash A bus carrying tourists plunged 300 feet down a mountainside in northern Chile Wednesday, killing 12 Americans, officials said. Two other Americans and two Chileans, the driver and the tour guide, were hospitalized in serious condition.

High Court limits searches ,

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police cannot search a home when one resident invites them in but another tells them to go away, provoking a strong objection from the new Chief Justice about the possible impact on battered women.

EU establishes airline ban

The European Union banned 92 airlines Wednesday, most of them based in Africa, from landing at European airports. The ban affects airlines considered to have an "inadequate system for regulatory oversight" or insufficient safety standards; The ban affects the 25-nation EU, Norway and Switzerland.

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Although she is most famous for her starring role in Blossom, Mayim Bialik is not a typical television star.

When she spoke in Von Canon Wednesday evening to a crowd of a few dozen, Bialik brought her husband and newborn instead of an entourage.

Dressed in a conservative skirt, not in high fashion, she shared her unusual experiences on and off the screen.

“The poster [advertising the speech] says ‘Having It Ail.’ I don’t really know how to do that,” Bialik said.

She outlined the story of her life and then took questions on topics ranging from celebrity privacy to the intersection of feminism and Orthodox Judaism.

In the dozen years since her television show Blossom finished its five-year run, Bialik has graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, become a more observant Jew, begun a doctoral program in neuroscience, married and had a baby.

“I am a nervous speaker,” Bialik said.

“I’m-just sharing my experience with you guys.”

Bialik discussed her heritage, saying she was raised in Los Angeles by Reform Jewish parents. Three of her grandparents were Eastern European immigrants.

Describing herself as a “nerdy child,” Bialik said her acting career stemmed from an interest in drama, a music-filled environment and her parents’ work on documentary films.

She started acting at age 11 —late, for a child actor, she noted—and appeared in the movie Beaches with Bette Midler and on the Fox show Molloy with Jennifer Aniston.

On Blossom, which focused on a divorced father raising three children, Bialik worked full-time while finishing high school.

“It’s kind ofhard to sum up five years of working with people day-in and dayout,” Bialik said.

She said she is no longer in touch

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with her co-stars, although they live very close to one another.

Bialik did not act for 10 years after the show finished, but she continued to do voice-over work. More recendy, she appeared in an independent film, Kalamazoo?, which will premiere next month. She said she hopes to restart her acting career, this time as an adult.

During the question-and-answer session, Bialik addressed the contradictions she faces as a self-proclaimed feminist who practices holistic, attachment parenting. Although Bialik wants to continue her career as an actress or begin working with special-needs children, her chosen job will not be her priority upon

finishing graduate school, she said.

“If I had to pick one thing, I would be the best parent that I could be, which is a full-time job for which you get no pay and no training,” Bialik said.

Rebecca Levenson, assistant director of the Freeman Center for Jewish Life, introduced the actress, who, along with Levenson, was involved with UCLA’s Hillel—a national organization that supports Jewish life on college campuses. The two women’s first meeting occurred when Bialik took a break while leading services for a high Jewish holiday and Levenson offered her food.

“That’s how I met Mayim,” Levenson said. “Eating challah during services.”

for Duke Student Government’s 20062007 executive offices crowded around an empty lecture hall in the Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy Wednesday night.

The contenders arrived at Sanford prepared to share their platforms with members of student organizations, who traditionally choose candidates to endorse.

No students were present, so the forum was cancelled.

DSG representatives proposed multiple possible explanations for the lack of attendees.

DSG Attorney General Bryce Walker, a senior, is coordinating the election. He said the forum was planned to reflect needs described to him by members of the Intercommunity Council.

“We did this because they wanted it,” Walker said, adding that he believed word of the forum had been adequately spread.

“As far as I knew, they knew about it.”

If the forum had occurred, Wednesday would have marked the first time DSG had held such an event.

The goal was to simplify the traditional endorsement process by which each campus organization would meet separately with individual candidates.

Junior Matthew Hoekstra, a member of DSG’s election commission and a senator on DSG’s Athletics and Campus Services Committee, shared the belief that ICC groups were aware of the forum. He attributed the lack of turnout to student apathy.

“My initial reaction is that a bunch of groups just dropped the ball,” Hoekstra noted. “If they don’t want to be here, they won’t show up, and that’s what happened.”

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Amid continued campaign buzz, Duke Student Government sat down to recognize recent accomplishments and to tackle upcoming challenges at its weekly meeting

Wednesday night.

After a long-standing push for technological improvements in the Bryan Center,

DSG announced that new computer stations have been installed in the student hub. It also endorsed the placement and mission of the Career Center on the new Central Campus during the meeting, which lasted 20 minutes.

“One of the roles we have as a student group is to present a united student front in order to show administrators how strongly we feel about certain initiatives,” DSG President Jesse Longoria, a senior, said after the meeting.

Senior Brenda Bautsch, vice president of athletics and campus services, reported that computer stations have now been placed outside the Office of Student Activities and Facilities and Meeting Rooms A and B. A total of six computers and one ePrint station have now been added to

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NYU, Columbiareceive S2OOM donations New York University and Columbia University each received separate donations of about $2OO million this week.

In comparison, the largest donation Duke has ever announced publically was last fall’s $75 million donation from the Duke Endowment.

The gift to Columbia is the largest in the university’s history. The money, slightly more than $2OO million given by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation, will create the Jerome Greene Science Center to study the brain and human behavior.

The gift to N.Y.U., among the largest it has ever received, will create a multidisciplinary center for the study of the ancient world. Consisting of cash and real estate valued at up to $2OO million, the gift is from the Leon Levy Foundation.

Stanford cuts tuition for lowincome families Families with annual incomes of less than $45,000 will not be expected to contribute to the cost of tuition at Stanford University, and the requirements for middle-income families will be cut in half.

The change applies to both new and continuing undergraduate students and will go into effect in the new academic year in September. The program is anticipated to cost the university $3 million in the first year.

During the current academic year, parents of enrolled students with incomes below $45,000 contributed an average $2,650 toward educational costs.

Under the new program, that contribution will be eliminated. Parents with incomes between $45,000 and $60,000 will

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Cornell student dies of alcoholintoxication A Cornell University freshman visiting a friend at the University of Virginia over spring break died from consuming too much alcohol, an autopsy found.

Matthew Pearlstone, 19, was found dead in a U.Va. residence hall bed Friday morning. He died of “alcohol intoxication,” Arkuie Williams, an administrator for the medical examiner’s office in Richmond, said Wednesday.

Williams would not disclose Pearlstone’s blood-alcohol level but said the death was deemed an accident.

The St. Louis native and former marathon runner was a computer science and electrical engineering student active in Cornell’s Autonomous UnderwaterVehicle club, which competes in building underwater, unmanned vehicles.

UW shells out $17.5M in back pay to faculty University of Washington regents agreed Thursday to give faculty a pay raise and to turn over $17.5 million in back pay, interest and attorney fees to settle a lawsuit.

The setdement came four months after a Superior Court judge ruled that the university had violated its own policy when it refused to give 3,200 faculty members a 2 percent raise during the 2002-03 school year.

The university had agreed in 1999 to grant the merit raises to keep salaries competitive and to address pay disparities that favored newcomers and professors who were threatening to leave.

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Mixed feelings Although Brodhead was generally in favor of minority recruitment weekends at Duke, he did voice some reservations.

Duke, generally maintain that although there exist some “One downside to putting too heavy an emphasis on drawbacks, recruitment programs geared toward minority minority student weekends is that when people come to students are beneficial because they cater to the interests Blue Devil Days they get the impression that this is not a of those students. Others, such as Yale University, have school that has admitted any minority students,” he said. stopped hosting specialized recruitment weekends for mi- “I don’t want students to think that. I want students to be nority students, insisting that they present unrealistic perattracted to the whole mix of our student body. But it’s all ceptions of a university. a matter of deciding how you organize the events.”

Brodhead added that it is important to ensure that miThe case for minority recruitment weekends nority prospective students are aware ofall of the opportuAdmissions officers and other administrators at Duke nities at the University and to organize the weekends in said they believe it is important to continue hosting a re- such away so as to not perpetuate self-segregation. cruitment program for minority students.

Guttentag, however, explained that issues of self-segreChristoph Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions, gation are complex and influenced by factors beyond said programs like Black Student Alliance Invitational and holding specialized minority recruitment weekends.

Latino Student Recruitment Weekend—which will take “Don’t think that a student’s decision [to self-segreplace this weekend and next weekend, respectively—are gate] is unduly influenced by whether they come to one of necessary programs. Hosting minority recruitment week- these programs or not,” he said. ends expand options for prospective students, he explained.

Brodhead and Guttentag said the discussion is never Brodhead said the history of a university must be taken closed on how best to organize recruitment weekends. into account when considering minority student recruitment. “Just because the history [of segregation] was a part of the public history of the South, I do think a school in the South might want to make more of an [effort] in regard to [recruiting minorities] than a school outside of the South,” he said.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a comparable Southern institution, also continues to hold minority recruitment weekends. Officials at UNC said specialized recruitment weekends serve to generate awareness about the accessibility of the university to prospective students from minority, disadvantaged and ’

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underprivileged backgrounds.

“The perception of accessibility is not reality,” said Herb

Davis, associate director of admissions at UNC. “We want to make sure that as many qualified prospective students as possible know about the opportunities available to them.”

In addition to hosting a separate recruitment weekend for incoming Latino and Native American students, UNC organizes programs geared toward educating minority, disadvantaged and underprivileged prospective students about the resources available at the university.

UNC’s recruitment weekends offer a wide range of activities, including information sessions about financial aid and performances by the university gospel choir.

“Everybody is together even though there are separate presentations,” Davis said.

Although a majority of the attendees are black, the programs are open to all students from minority, disadvantaged or underprivileged backgrounds, Davis said.

Davis also noted the importance of exposing prospective minority students to cultural organizations and activities at the university.

“We really want to show students that there are people like them,” he said. “If you’ve never been a minority of any type, then you’d never know what it’s like even walking into a classroom and being the only one that looks like you in there.”

Brodhead also voiced support for minority recruitment weekends because they generate a sense of community.

“I don’t think any student ever comes here with the intention of not being in the company of people who are closely [identifiable] to themselves,” he said.

The case against minority recruitment weekends Since 1996, Yale University has tailored recruitment programs to all admitted students, regardless of race or ethnic background.

“We believed that having separate recruitment weekends skewed the picture of what the freshman class was like,” said Rob Jackson, an admissions officer for Yale. We want students to benefit and learn from diversity. By having people together, you do celebrate diversity.”

Jackson added that the first year the university did not have the separate minority recruitment weekend, many members of underrepresented communities were upset.

Since that time, students have generally agreed with the change, he said.

Administrators at Yale still saw a need to address the needs of underrepresented prospective students, so a few years ago, officials developed a “multicultural open house” that caters to students interested in diversity. The open house is held annually on a Saturday in October and features panel discussions as well as a meet-and-greet with professors of color.

Itinvolves prospective students from minority and underrepresented religious and socioeconomic backgrounds, Jackson said.

“We looked at diversity in a much more broad way,’’Jackson said. ‘We felt like diversity was changing, and it is changing. Almost every elite university is fairly diverse now.”

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—Lengthen gym hours —Open a "real" campus bar Reform DSG to increase diversity, accountability and transparency —Establish an Oversight and Accountability Committee —Actively recruit women and minority groups Bring race and gender relations to the forefront of campus discourse —Revive the Women's Initiative —Create a Men's Initiative —Create more gender-neutral facilities, such as bathrooms

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Li proposes creating an Independents Council, mirroring the Greek governing bodies, to create “political leverage for Duke’s social majority.”

Li himself is a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity.

“The IFC and PanHel have a great deal offinancial resources, legal protection and away to lobby for what they want,” Li said.

“This is missing for independents.”

Li also supports opening up late-night options for students. When students wish to leave Duke in search of things to do, Li aims to provide free transportation and a shutde system to help students safely get to off-campus venues.

Li also hopes to improve students’ accessibility to internships.

He envisions instating a cooperative education, or co-op, program where undergraduate students can work for companies and institutes in the Triangle area to gain both work experience and academic credit.

“Duke students will gain real-world experience and get to explore career options,” Li said of his proposed program.

Li also sees his candidacy for DSG President as an opportunity to initiate policies aimed at breaking down what he perceives is self-segregation.

“We are doing a disservice to ourselves by self-segregation,” Li said. “Some of the best things I’ve learned at Duke are from people with different backgrounds than me.”

Li also wants to increase the accessibility of student programs, such as the Student Health Center and Counseling and Psychological Services, by expanding staff and hours.

Li hopes to address this by examining the underlying factors behind high stress among Duke students.

“We have one of the largest [Counseling and Psychological departments] but yet they are still overtaxed. At some point, we must realize there are greater forces at work at Duke causing this.”

Li also wants to diversify DSG by recruiting more women and minority groups, and by encouraging women to run for elected positions. This year, there are no female candidates for DSG president something which he feels is a problem.

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Over the past three years, Li developed DeItAIDS, a philanthropic organization through his fraternity. The organization, he said, “forced me to use all of the leadership skills and networking that I had acquired at Duke.”

Li organized student leaders, called community leaders and developed the organization—which today has raised thousands of dollars for AIDS research and he said is among his most prized achievements.

He hopes to show the student body what else he can achieve next year as DSG

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Chair Logan Leinster, a senior. He said he assumed that Leinster would inform ICC members of the event and that they would spread word of it among their respective or-

ganizations.

Leinster said she allowed Walker to speak at an ICC meeting, adding that she was not responsible forany other part of the election process.

“That’s not part of my job,”Leinster said. “I just facilitated discussion.”

She added that several ICC members were not present because they attended a different meeting at the time of the forum.

DSG President Jesse Longoria, a senior, said members of DSG expected attendance from the general student population, not just ICC group leaders.

“It was an attempt to incorporate more people,” Longoria said. “We’re just trying to open up the entire process.”

He added that he believes campus organizations were notified of the event.

Although he indicated that the election commission was in charge of spreading word of the forum, he said neither the election commission nor ICC was at fault for the unsuccessful session.

“I don’t think there’s any blame to be placed,” Longoria said. “If student groups decide not to go, that’s their decision.”

He added that part of the responsibility for advertising forums like this one belongs to the candidates.

“General knowledge of the election also falls on candidates in terms of getting the word out,” he said. “The more people who know about the election and your platform, the more successful you will be.”

In response to the failure of the event, executive vice presidential candidate George Fleming, a junior, said he will take a proactive approach.

“I think candidates can take the initiative and seek out groups,” he said. “We shouldn’trely on them coming to us.”

With the total number of executive candidates reaching 20—a substantial leap from last year’s 12—the procedure would have been especially time-consuming, DSG representatives said.

“I think it would have been a great opportunity,” said presidential candidate Hasnain Zaidi, a sophomore. “It would have been a great way to solicit opinions and ideas from students who represent the heart and soul of this

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Longoria said DSG officials are working to ensure that

the campus community is able to get to know the candidates well before casting votes next week.

“We are doing everything we can to address issues that were brought up in various conversations with students and student organizations,” Longoria said. “Low attendance is probably an indication that we need to try something new.”

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the Bryan Center.

“Part of me didn’t think it would be done,” Bautsch said. “This is hope for us that you can get stuff done if you work for it.”

Longoria said the new installments have already been a success. He added that DSG members should encourage other students to use the equipment in order to increase the chance that more computers will be added in the future.

In response to Career Center Executive Director Sheila Curran’s January presentation, DSG supported the placement of the new Career Center with the Alumni and Visitor Center on the new Central Campus. The group also approved of the “individual themes” outlined in Curran’s proposal statement.

DSG Senator Tina Hoang, a sophomore, said the Career Center’s current size inhibits its ability to serve students. Hoang added that endorsing the proposal would grant student backing to the initiative and increase DSG leverage in future Career Center decisions.

“As the year ends for student government, you’re tying up a lot of the projects you were working on,” Longoria said. “It’s just presenting the results of what we have been pursuing all year.”

In other business: Students of the Caribbean received $1,025 for its Caribbana event March 24. In addition, Central Campus Council was budgeted $9,000 for Party Central, which will be held April 15.

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JAILBREAK from page 2 Police have discovered hundreds of corpses in the past four weeks, victims of religious militants on a rampage of revenge killing.

At least 21 more bodies were found Wednesday, including those of 16 Shiite pilgrims, police said. Millions were returning home Wednesday at the conclusion of an important Shiite commemoration in the holy city of Karbala this week.

In the northern town of Beiji, meanwhile, a mortar fell on a government facility that Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi was visiting Wednesday, an aide said.

Chalabi was not harmed and later returned to Baghdad, the aide said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

Chalabi, who is also the interim oil minister, was believed to have been visiting the nation’s largest refinery, located in Beiji.

As U.S. officials step up pressure on Iraqi leaders to form a national unity government quickly, the United

States’ top military commander said he had underestimated the extent of Iraqi reluctance to come together.

“I think that I certainly did not understand the depth of fear that was generated by the decades of Saddam’s rule,” said Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

“I think a lot of Iraqis have been in the wait-and-see mode longer than I thought they would.”

Pace said one solution was for the Iraqis to do a better job of recruiting more Sunnis into the army and for police forces to balance Shiite domination.

“Units that are purely Shiite or Kurd or Sunni are looked on by various other sectors of the community as not being representative of their needs,” Pace said.

The Bush administration views formation of a broadbased government as a first step in quelling violence and allowing the start of an American troop withdrawal this summer.

While the U.S. military has touted its progress in training the Iraqi army and police, a top expert on Iraq said the forces remained poorly matched against the insurgency and al Qaeda.

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Rilperin suggests we now face a national divide, in which lawmakers are less accountable to the public and more beholden to party leaders. Her book discusses how our current political system has silenced the average American voter, and how ordinary citizens can reclaim the institution that claims to represent them.

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The companies made no predictions ofhow many employees might accept the offers or exacdy how much they would save in operating costs. GM has a goal of cutting 30,000 hourly jobs by 2008.

David Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research and the son of a former GM president, said the deal is of historic proportions.

“It’s huge, far more than I expected,” Cole said. He said the deal could go a long way toward helping GM return to profitability and speeding Delphi’s exit from bankruptcy. Cole said he expects many workers will take the

buyout.

“For our members, this is fantastic,” said Dan Fairbanks, president of United Auto Workers Local 1618 in Lansing. “There’s some huge incentives here.”

Michael Balls, 49, a pipefitter at the Delphi steering systems plant in Saginaw, was more cautious about his own options after reading details of the agreement.

“I feel a lot better, but I’m still questionable about some things,” said Balls, who with 30 years of service is eligible to retire and would get $35,000. He said he might take the offer—or might return to GM if they will offer him a skilled trades job.

Under the plan, GM would pay for the Delphi early-retirement incentives and assume some post-retirement benefits for Delphi employees who go back to work for GM. GM spokesman Dan Flores said GM didn’t yet know the full cost of the plans, since it’s unclear how many workers will participate.

Himanshu Patel, an auto analyst with JPMorgan, said GM will likely pay around $2 billion for the Delphi buyouts based on recent financial filings, while Merrill Lynch analyst John Murphy said GM will probably pay “well in excess of $1 billion” for its own buyouts.

Several analysts questioned how much GM and Delphi will save. Most workers that retire will get full benefits, which doesn’t relieve GM’s sizable pension obligations, Goldman Sachs analyst Robert Barry said in a note to investors. Barry added that savings gained from the retirement of younger workers will be offset by GM’s assumption of Delphi retiree benefits.

Analysts said it’s also unclear what will happen to the bulk of Delphi’s 34,000 hourly workers. Delphi remains in negotiations with GM and its unions to lower its labor costs, which it puts at $75 an hour in wages and benefits.

Delphi has threatened to ask a bankruptcy judge to cancel its union contracts if it fails to setde by March 30. If the judge does cancel those contracts, the unions could call a strike that would cripple Delphi and GM. “With a looming strike, they had to do something, but how they’re going to address plant closures for Delphi and remaining workers’ salaries are the two loose ends here,” said Rebecca Lindland, an auto analyst with the consulting firm Global Insight.

Lindland added she’s pessimistic about the number of people who will opt for the buyouts, especially younger workers who have no other health insurance. Some older workers also might not be persuaded, she said.

“I feel like people are going to look and say, ‘Can I give up my job for $35,000?’” Lindland said.

GM shares rose a penny to close at $22.01 on the New York Stock Exchange The Delphi plan must be approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Delphi said it will ask a judge to consider the plan April 7. GM’s plan doesn’t require approval, and Flores said retirements could begin as early as June I. Workers will have up to 52 days to decide whether to take the buyouts once they learn details in plant meetings.

Detroit-based GM said the plan will move it toward its goal of cutting 30,000 hourly jobs by 2008. GM has slightly more than 113,000 hourly workers companywide, but only UAW-represented workers are eligible for now, Flores said. The automaker is negotiating with the International Union of Electronic Workers-Communications Workers of America on a similar deal. Salaried workers won’t be getting the buyout option, Flores added.

“We said we’d be working with UAW leadership to develop an accelerated attrition program that would help us achieve needed cost reductions as rapidly as possible, while at the same time responding to the needs of our employees,” GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner said in a statement. “We are pleased that this agreement will help fulfill that important objective.”

In a memo sent to local union leaders, UAW President Ron Gettelfinger and Vice President Richard Shoemaker said they will ask the bankruptcy court to approve the Del-

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recess Visualize a ravioli with a filling offruit juice, encased in a gelatinized version of the juice itself. Picture surf-andturf with a scallop resting seamlessly within a tenderloin of beef or a noodle made entirely of meat. Finally, imagine eating ice cream served not cold but steaming hot.

While these dishes may seem outlandish, they represent a growing trend in modern restaurant cooking. Many of the world’s most creative chefs are employing principles of chemistry and processes traditionally used in largescale commercial food production to create new and unusual cuisine. Though this movement has no official center or membership, it is collectively referred to as molecular gastronomy.

Xanthan gum, traditionally found in products like bottled salad dressing, is now being used to thicken coconut water as part of carbonated coconut mousse at Room 4 Dessert, a new avant-garde dessert bar in New York City. Methyl cellulose, when dissolved in a liquid ice cream base, gels the mixture into a hot “ice cream” at SEE FOOD ON PAGE 6

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Still, Hollywood has struggled to address one of the world’s most divisive issues: religion. Starting with Dogma in 1999 and continuing with films like 2004’s Saved! and Screen Door Jesus, the winner of the 2003 Hampton Film Festival, movies have turned to humor to lighten the

blow of the heavy subject.

Screen Door Jesus, which opened in Cary last week, is the latest attempt. Set in a small town in East Texas, coincidentally named Bethlehem, the story center’s on Mother Harper’s screen door, which she believes has been blessed with the image of Jesus. Writer and director Kirk Davis uses a multi-thread plot, familiar from films like Crash and Magnolia, to provide what he called a “God’s eye view of the struggle of the town as a whole.”

The mindset and inner struggles of the deeply religious South is a familiar subject to Davis. Raised in the Church of Christ in Tennessee, he said he once wanted SEE RELIGION

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Devo 1.0 taps into “uncontrollable urge** for nostalgic ’Bos funk David Graham recess In 1978, Devo stumbled into the national spotlight with Q: Are We Not Men ? A: We are Devo!.

The peculiar cult favorites brought flower-pot hats, bright yellow jumpsuits, synthesizers and a message: Mankind was not evolving toward perfecton but was instead spiraling downward through devolution.

So perhaps it is a fitting manifestation of their theory that five children will go on tour next month to play “Whip It!” and other Devo favorites—an adult band's songs written for adult audiences, but performed by and for children.

The tour, hitting the stages of all of the East Coast’s hottest elementary and middle schools with an additional jaunt to Devo’s native Akron, Ohio, is brought to the world courtesy of Walt Disney Records.

But lead singer Nicole Stoehr, 13, insists Devo 2.0 is of a different ilk than your average kiddy band. She points out each member of the band plays his or her instrument on stage. Stoehr, for instance, got her part after auby

ditioning to play keyboards.

“At first, they wanted the band to be all boys, like Devo,” she said. “I auditioned and danced and sang and they decided to cast me as the lead singer.”

The cast was selected out of about 1,000kids who auditioned. And while it hasn’t all been peaches and cream—Stoehr said the band rehearsed all of four hours every day over the weekend in preparation for the tour the aspiring actress and singer bubbled over talking about her experience.

“All my friends say they got the CD, and it’s so awesome,” she said. “I think even teachers and a lot of parents know about [the original] Devo.”

Enough to make you feel old.

“I think kids will like it because it’s fun and upbeat and sends out a great message,” she said.

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While whipped cream bikinis and a certain Paris Hilton video clip may come to mind when equating food with sex, that’s simply not all there is to sensualized sustenance. And besides, recess is talking about the Paris Hilton Carl’s Jr. commercial (what video clip were you thinking of?).

The essence of sultry, seductive food is far subtler. If the lusciously soft thighs and plump breasts of a chicken or the subtle plunging cleavage of a peach are more your speed, perhaps you might be interested in food porn, the nearly orgasmic and undeniably sexy portrayal of food.

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There’s an entire section devoted to the creation of a sizzling porcini pizza, which, perhaps because of the porcini mushroom’s phallic appearance, is listed in the “hardcore” section.

For those of you that prefer the distinctive - pleasures of the Orient, foodporn.com has an entire section dedicated to that part of the globe.

There’s even a section with recommended reading and viewing materials and an area that chronicles celebrity (chef) sightings. And in the bedroom you can flaunt your fetish with foodporn.com thongs printed with tempting gastronomic

images.

Foodporn.com, however, is only the tip of the illicit culinary pleasure iceberg. The husband-and-wife team at the website www.ideasinfood.com espouses “improvisation and experimentation” and puts out some of the hottest and most tasteful food pom on the web.

Food porn isn’t for everyone. It can be intimidating for some and downright strange to others. But for a select few, the world of online food porn offers immediate gratification when that digestible desire stirs.

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The Catwalk of Shame

Michelle Stansbury recess Everyone does it. But not everyone looks good doing it. Picture this: The sun is shining. You’re stumbling home —or worse, to your B:3o—after a night of debauchery, inevitably running into your ex, your Econ T.A. and your pastor, who all look on knowingly at your disheveled hair and outfit. The question is, do you make it a walk of shame, or a walk of fame?

The sign of a true fashionista is not how put together she looks when she has hours to primp but the way she pulls off outfits in less than ideal cirby

cumstances.

No matter how extensive your

wardrobe, creativity is essential when all you have to pull together an outfit is your discarded clothing from the previous night and what you can “borrow” from around your date’s dorm room.

The objectives of your morning scramble to get dressed can vary from trying to get out as quickly and quietly as possible in order to not awake last night’s mistake, the futile attempt to become invisible and avoid seeing everyone you know on your way home or—for the style conscious student—to make a serious, and seriously discreet, fashion statement.

If you can happily stroll back home clad in the oh-so-obvious boxers and men’s t-shirt, barefoot with heels in hand, more power to you. But for those of us who prefer to leave everyone wondering if you just walked off the runway or are still trying to remember his name, here are some ensembles that can help you conquer the catwalk of shame.

Semi-formal dress, his

His seersucker shorts and hisflipflops your camisole, ribbon belt

His classic button-down dress shirt your black belt, last nights stilettos

knotted vintage t-shirt, yourfavorite accessory

This is the ideal look for when you wake up still drunk the morning after and still can’t walk a straight line in those stilettos. Bermuda shorts are in right now, so why not borrow his seersuckers? When paired with your lacy camisole from last night, no one will even notice that the flip flops you’re sporting are a few sizes too big. Pop in a piece of gum to hide the smell of alcohol on your breath, and you’re ready for class!

Sex and the 'City's Sarah Jessica Parker isn’t the only one who can pull off this terrific look. The key is Borrow one of the few necessities every guy is sure to have, a classic button-down, and just make sure it’s not wrinkled from sitting in a ball in the bottom of his closet. Roll up the sleeves and add your own black belt to create an innovative and stylish dress that combines menswear with eye-popping curves and lots of leg.

There is no more blatant walk of shame than the post-semi-formal stumble back home. Discretion is crucial... especially if you went home with someone else’s date!

Keep on your dress because there is no way you can cram it into that tiny clutch you brought, and layer with his vintage tee to dress it down. To hide the smeared mascara and eyeliner, you can try throwing on a baseball cap from his favorite team, or better yet, one of the chic new military caps.

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Harper masterfully combines the standard guitar, bass, piano and drums (all of which he plays himspecial to recess self) with strings, vibraphones and the occasional Eastern His earthy, soulful vocals are gende and intensely personal on the first disc—but don’t be fooled. Disc two shows that he can still wail, especially on the Prince-inspired “Better Way.” Both Sides of the Gun will delicately welcome you into Harper’s world, then it will rock your socks off.

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Prince, pop royalty in the/80s and a symbol in the ’9os, is fighting to regain his supreme status with his newest album, 3121. After a series of bad marketing decisions, Prince, the artist formerly v known as the artist formerly known as Prince, has finally made the wise decision to re# turn to his original flawless equation —’80s-style synthesizer, Prince funk, and even some classic, recycled Prince riffs. Unfortunately, some of the tracks veer 0 from Prince’s forte and venture into rather unin-

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Mates of State’s fourth effort, Bring It Back, showcases the band’s tried-andtrue brand of upbeat and eclectic indie pop. The husband and wife duo finally seems to have found the perfect balance between sunnychoruses and brooding and dark sounds by slowing down their usual frenetic pacing. This results in delicately spun songs, such as “Nature and the Wreck,” a piece full of haunting whispers set against a simple organ melody. But by far the strongest song is the opener, “Think Long,” as it starts with a slow, yawning drawl of alternating vocals and slowly builds into a crescendo of fast-paced drumming and a catchy repetition of “think long.”

The most starding fact about this band is how it can take just the organ and drums and produce such a myriad of different sounds—Mates of State can do more with two instruments than many bands can do with five or more. Bring It Back is another perfect example of this, blending their typical catchy choruses with a more mature and cohesive sound.

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and bassist Jerry Casale. The videos have all the quirkiness of Devo but none of the original’s disjointedness and disaffection.

In place of Midwestern college boys, Devo 2.0 is comprised of carefully groomed tweens—overly scheduled kids who split time between voice teachers, dance lessons and school.

David Giffels, co-author ofAre We NotMen ?

We Are Devo!, said some Devo fans—known as “spuds”—have been upset by the move, but he thinks Devo 2.0 is a brilliant promotional tactic for the original band members. Moreover, the irreverent nature of the group fits right in with Devo’s philosophy.

“Devo was always making mischief with popular culture,” he said. “Devo is one of the few groups of pop stars who realize how ridiculous they appear performing in middle-age. But they realize that their music has a certain timelessness—was ahead ofits time and ought to be performed in some sort of venue today.”

And as Devo ages and is less able to perform, Devo 2.0 can be seen as a humorous commentary on aging pop stars in general.

“What was really ironic was that Jerry Casale has had serious back problems and had to perform in a grotesque-looking full-body back brace,” Giffels said. “It’s like children are now being trained to be the new Devo.”

Stoehr said the fans’ disapproval might stem not from the content of the songs what does “Whip It!” mean, anyway?—but from the use of the Devo reputation.

“I just really want people to know that it’s a really fun and upbeat band,” she said.

“Sometimes people might think that it would be inappropriate, but it’s a lot of fun.”

And Giffels will tell you that Stoehrs has it right. Cultural connotations aside, the music appeals on a primal level. The kids, like the adults before them, have fans

off, I wasn’t aware that I could use my voice for anything talking. But after our last two albums, Nick and I decided a human voice would be the best next step to unifying our id. One of us had to do it, so one night I was just playing ind in the studio and started singing.... The rest is history, in terms of our music changing, I just think that it’s a sign mr growing older and maturing in our music. That’s really

popular. Even more uncommon is when a band whose music has very little melody and even less singing becomes popular.

However, The Books from New York are make their case as the exception. The Books have been making headlines since their debut and now have three albums to their name—and they only met each other six years ago. They have been featured on various television advertisements, can be heard on the mainstream radio and have been hailed by many top critics as the next revolutionary band. Yet despite their popularity, the band’s two members—Paul de Jong (cello) and Nick Zammuto (electronics) —remain humble about their accomplishments. Currendy on tour supporting their latest, critically acclaimed release Lost and Safe, The Books are at the top of their game. Zammuto took some time out ofhis schedule to talk to music editor Matt Dearborn about Buddhism, the band’s upcoming live show, and why being popular isn’t that big of a deal. The Books will be at Raleigh’s TSC Ballroom Thursday, March 30. recess: Has your popularity changed anything about your music? Your recent album is a bit more accessible and has incorporated more singing.

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What inspired your lyrics?

Those come from these ancient Buddhist texts that I’ve been fascinated with since I was a kid. I personally don’t belong to any particular religion, but those texts have always resonated strongly with me. They became really important when I was in my early 20s and having various crises about the direction of my life, and they served as a voice of reason for me. So apart from my personal attraction to them, I felt as though I should share them with other people; in away, to get them off my chest so I can finally move on.

How does this affect your live show?

It doesn’t. We’ve been incorporating a lot of video into our live show recently, and that’s the main focus when we play. I don’t even sing most of the time. I never understood concerts because you were paying a whole bunch of money just to get everything you could get on that artist’s album. So we try to make our live show totally different. There’s a lot of improvising on our part as well as a synched video. When we play live, we try to give the music and video a one-to-one relationship. It gives us more motivation to keep going when we’re able to manipulate more than one form of art. It’s kind of therapeutic, actually.

Have you ever considered signing to a major label?

We’ve considered it a few times, but honestly, we don’t really have any desire to change anything about ourselves. I mean, the mainstream has in a sense flipped on its head; and a band like The Books could get signed by a major, but what’s the point?

We’re having the time of our lives doing exactly what we’re doing, so why risk the possibility of being forced to change?

We’re in it for the art, not the quick buck. The popularity and press has been nice, but that’s not why we play music.

What feelings to you have for those bands who are in it for the money?

I don’t have anything against the bands. In all honesty we need those bands to have the music industry survive. But that’s not us—not our philosophy. Ironically, it seems that for us, that’s the attitude that has made us successful. In the end, what matters is that we’re enjoying ourselves and becoming more mature. The moment that the growth stops, the band will break up.

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to be a preacher but now considers himself “more spiritual than religious.”

Davis said he understands the quick comparison of his film to previous religiously themed movies. He called Saved! (a film about a fundamentalist Christian high school) “What Screen Door Jesus could have been like if it had a linear plot or was stricdy a comedy.” However, he also noted that “the Christians [in Saved!] are obviously more objects offun than real people.” “[l] tried to address all of the different aspects of religion as a human phenomenon—that it is very human to

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try to search for answers,” he said A common theme through many of these films is the search for truth and not the truth itself. Dogma, from Clerks director Kevin Smith, focused on the Catholic Church and one woman’s struggle to maintain her faith while being judged harshly by it. Because it featured a ISth apostle, rollerskating demons and monsters made from feces, many people missed Dogma's deeper themes.

At the opposite end of the spectrum, politically and tonally, is Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. Chronicling Jesus’ last days, death and resurrection, it was mostly praised by religious groups but also faced criticism from those who found it gruesomely violent. Davis, however, offers another voice. “[lt’s] not as Biblical as most people think,” he said. “It didn’t have enough of the message of Jesus to get his feeling across.”

Most recently, television has taken up the controversial subject. This new focus may be a reaction to the perceived increase in the role of religion in politics, said James Thrall, Mellon fellow in the University Writing Program, who specializes in religion in media.

The TV series The Book of David, a suburban soap opera focusing on a preacher and his dysfunctional family, was cancelled after only seven episodes amid uproar from the American Family Association, a group known for its protestation of works it perceives as anti-religious.

“People were upset because they thought the series was like Desperate Housewives but happening to a preacher,” Thrall said. “They missed the honest concern for the Christian perspective on society.”

This month, HBO premiered a new series entitled Big Love, which focuses on a Mormon polygamist and the dif-

Acuities he faces maintaining not one but three families.

This show, too, provoked anger from the religious community, this time from the Mormon Church, which banned polygamy in 1890.

Whether these works’ focus on religion is a reaction to the current state of America and its politics or not, religion is once again being dealt with by the arts in a serious manner.

And religion will likely remain an issue for years to come. For example, 2006 will see the release of Nativity, a film that will focus on the birth of Jesus and re-examine the Christian faith. If successful, it will, in Thrall’s words, “illuminate the human condition as it tries to reconcile religion and society.”

Aidan Quinn talks to Jesus on NBC's short-lived The Book ofDaniel.

Inside Man is an excellent thriller—tight in the right places, finelY cast expertly directed, But more than anything else, Inside Man is a good example of solid enw £ tertainment, in turns serious and funny, insightful and superficial. f|The latest spawn of the “perfect W bank heist” genre, Inside Man does follow some °f the time-hewn tradiof its predecessors, but it opts out of its constraints, most notably the stereotypical stock villain. Instead, director Spike Lee and firsttime writer Russell Gerwitz craft several layered characters, then set them free in situations where they attempt to toe the gray line between right and wrong. This is no more obvious than in the fascinating character of Dalton Russell.

Played to chilly perfection by Clive Owen (Closer), the heist’s mastermind is willing to take 50 innocents as hostages but is constantly described as a “man who won’t murder anyone.”

Beyond the characters, the involvement of Lee is interesting in itself. The dark undercurrents of the auteur’s post-9/11 films, most notably 2002’s 25th Hour, have placed the filmmaker in an interesting place. As a New Yorker, a respected director and a minority artist, Lee has, knowingly or not, embraced a role as the voice of post-9/11 New York. And 9/11 has certainly changed Lee’s films; Hour told the story of a drug dealer facing his last day of freedom—but below the surface, a whirlpool of racial and social tension raged, finally bursting into bloom in a magnificent, abrasive and brutally honest

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The film, however, suggests that it might be better to celebrate Fawkes’ intention than his failure.

Rather than promoting terrorism, however, the film embodies a faith in the power of ideas to reshape the world fundamentallyand suggests that sometimes radical steps must be taken to correct the unjust and oppressive The compelling and newly shorn Natalie Portman plays V’s would-be love interest Evey, and her character is paramount in understanding how the film carefully avoids glorifying terrorism.

Her transition from a helpless victim, constantly afraid of her world, to a brazen revolutionary, afraid of nothing, is what the film is truly about. Evey and V are rebelling against fear and oppression, not attempting to spread it.

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film category because of its mix of Austrian director and French setting, Cache (“Hidden”) was still raved about by critics around the globe. Georges (Daniel Auteil) and Anne (Julliette Binoche, Chocolat) are a hourgeois couple whose ritzy Paris life is interrupted by the appearance of anonymously sent videoof the couple and violent, child-like drawings. The film slowly reveals that the source of the creepy offerings may be someone from Georges’ less-than-perfect past. Sound cliche?

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takes that attitude and advances it four years. In Lee’s New York of 2006, policemen mistake Sikhs for Arabs and hostages immediately connect bank robberies to al-Qaeda, but the postdisaster attitude of sharing and goodwill has not completely dissapated. In one scene, Detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington, who must be able to say stale policeman lines in his sleep by now) turns to a crowd gathering behind crimescene tape and asks if anyone can identify the language the bank robbers are speaking. Such police action would be less likely to occur in a pre-9/11, pre-information sharing world.

Inside Man does have its flaws: its pace dawdles for 20 minutes in the last hour, and a few plotlines come to unsatisfactory conclusions.

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An example of this is the restaurant’s fried mayonnaise cubes: the normally unnear boiling temperatures and melts back structured substance is able to take deinto liquid as the dessert cools. fined shape through the use of gellan, anChemicals like these, called hydrocolother hydrocolloid. loids, sound more like something out of a Dufresne’s innovation doesn’t stop lab than a kitchen, but they are frequently there. He is perhaps the nation’s premier used in cooking for their gelling and thickexpert on cooking with transglutaminase, ening properties. And while they may seem an enzyme that bonds proteins together. unnatural, xanthan gum is derived from The enzyme acts as a contact adhesive bacterial fermentation, and methyl cellufor many types of meat, dairy and wheat lose is a plant compound. Both substances proteins, said Dr. Tom Payne, associate dihave been used in processed food for years rector of applications development at Ajito create richer textures and even mimic nomoto USA, the Japanese food manufachigher fat alternatives, Duke University Dituring company that sells various types of rector of Health Promotion Franca Alphin transglutaminase under the Activa brand. wrote in an e-mail.

“We’ve taken various species of sushiAt wd~so, another innovative New grade fish and have made rainbow sushi York City restaurant, Chef Wylie out of it,” Payne said. “It changes your Dufresne uses hydrocolloids to change presentation —you can put things together the properties, and thereby mouth-feel, and make them stay together throughout of traditional ingredients. the cooking process.”

Dufresne, who has popularized items “We’re adding texture to things, texturizing them by controlling how water moves like Activa-infused pure-shrimp noodles around, whether or not the water does and pasta sheets, said he sees applications move around, whether the water is solid or beyond the shocking and readily apparent.

“Things like shrimp sheets and shrimp noodles are obvious because they don’t immediately correlate to anything or don’t immediately made sense when you think of shrimp,” Dufresne said. “[Activa] sees its way all over the menu, from a sausage with no casing or a cake of skate [a type of fish] to short ribs beings sliced and rolled up.”

Chef at Room 4 Dessert, Will Goldfarb, a 1997 alumnus who opted to travel and work throughout Europe instead of going to law school, uses sodium alginate, anCOURTESY WD-50 other gelling agent, and calcium The deconstructed roast beef sandwich is a specialty of wd~so, chloride to form gel capsules commonly referred to as “caviars” and featuring fried mayonese cubes.

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This is just one of the ways amateur cooks are able to bring hypermodern cuisine home.

Online food forums like eGullet.org host discussions where serious cooks share their experiences and experiments when cooking far outside of the box.

Goldfarb is a skilled practitioner of modem cooking but refuses to label his style or his restaurant as trendy. Instead, he takes a more philosophical approach.

“Everything we do here we are attempting to make better by understanding the process that goes into it,” he said.

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Goldfarb said he sees both benefits and might also have serious health conseshortcomings to the dining public’s recent quences, dietician Alphin wrote in an einterest in all things molecular. “In the mail. “Although our bodies are amazing public eye this is kind of a new thing, creations, when you start introducing new which is a good thing for chefs if it leads to ‘things,’ perhaps we should be cautious better understanding of the processes,” he and not rush to have lots of that before we said. “But just using ingredients to use can see how our bodies handle it.”

As chefs continue to blur the line bethem is useless.”

Dufresne is similarly reluctant to be tween science and cooking, both Dufresne and Goldfarb are careful to seen as pushing the boundaries of cooking at the expense of taste. “People often note that these recent avant-garde trends ask, ‘What do you see in the future?’ It are only one very small part of cooking, doesn’t work like that,” he said. “We live in culture and food. “Trying to do things the present; we work in the present. We’re that are new and ususual and interesting not necessarily working on the future; is a worthwhile pursuit but not the only we’re working constantly on what’s going pursuit,” Goldfarb said. '

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Horrell recess The Nasher Museum of Art has conjured up a dynamic group of speakers to paint a fuller picture ofartist Romare Bearden, whose attention-grabbing works are presently casting their spell on Nasher’s walls.

The two-day colloquium, “Conjuring Women,” will bring 20 scholars from across the nation to Duke on March 24 and 25 to analyze the artist’s fascination with the intersection of powerful women and the supernatural. A poet, a choreographer and professors from fields as varied as photography, jazz studies and women’s studies will engage in discussion about the artist’s opus.

“The colloquium is intended to be in conversation with the exhibition and to expand upon a number of themes that surface through the exploration of Bearden’s dealings with women and the theme of conjure in his work,” explained senior Alicia Garcia.

Garcia is co-curator of “Conjuring Bearden,” the current Bearden exhibition she facilitated with three other Duke students and Richard Powell, professor of art and art history and African and African American studies.

The “conjure woman”—a magical figure with transformative powers—plays a central role in his boldly colored, energetic works. Bearden’s artwork depicts the black communities of places as far apart and culturally diverse as rural North Carolina, urban Harlem and the Caribbean, all locations he at one point called home.

The exhibition introduces to the public two collections ofBearden’s art, one a series of dazzling and compact collages that comprise a storyboard for an unrealized ballet.

Likewise, the colloquium will foster innovative dialogue about an artist whose works have much depth yet to be discovered in the scholarly world.

Garcia is particularly interested to hear Sally Price, Dittman Professor of anthropology at the College of William and Mary, who will speak about Bearden’s time on St. Martin, a topic that has yet to be fully addressed by the academic community. “Very little has been recorded in that respect, and I encountered a number of gaps while researching Bearden,” said Garcia. “I’m excited to hear what Ms. Price has uncovered.”

With Price and 19other experts on hand, Nasher will likely present color and excitement beyond that of the spell-binding works adorning the walls by

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Fall to Earth, a play about family drama, is currently playing at the Manbites Dog Theater in Durham.

Nina Bergelson recess Manbites Dog Theater brings Joel Drake Johnson's new play Fall to Earth from downtown Chicago to downtown Durham. In its new location, the play is directed by Jeff Storer, artistic director at Manbites and Duke associate professor of Theater Studies.

Fall to Earth tells the story of an estranged mother and daughter played by Marcia Edmundson and Dana Marks, respectively. After being forced to reunite because of a mysterious death, the two women must face their past with the help of a police officer played by Cheryl Chamblee.

The fast-paced, 90- minute play is composed of three scenes during which the story unfolds as each clue is revealed.

Storer found his cast nine months ago—giving the actors time to brew over the well-crafted play —even though intensive rehearsals began about a month before the play opened last week.

“We were able to find a whole new depth to the by

play and our characters,” actor Dana Marks said.

“This kind of wonderful work is something you rarely get with directors.”

Once rehersals officially began, Storer established the framework of the play and then began fine-tuning the scenes moment by moment.

The director said he is lucky to be working with three very experienced actors. Fall to Earth veers off into dark places, and Marks confirmed the actors’ willingness to explore the play’s more serious elements.

Despite its dark side, this particular production integrates a great sense of humor and familial warmth, keeping the play in the realm of reality.

“What good theater does is allow us to look into the privacy of people's lives,” Storer said. “It becomes a cathartic experience for the audience as well as the actors, because we must take responsibility for the secrets we all bear.”

Fall to Earth runs through April 2 at Manbites Dog Theater at 703 Foster Street in Durham.

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When most children are caught drawing on the walls, their parents give them a timeoutand then get to work scrubbing. Freshman Heather Guo’s parents, however, found the typical punishments to be ineffective.

Rather than stifle her creative impulses, they tried to give her alternate canvases by enrolling her in Chinese calligraphy and watercolor classes.

The transition from her native China to the United States made it nearly impossible for Guo to find art classes in those mediums. But this impediment did not dissuade her. While her parents continued to search in vain for a traditional Chinese art class, Guo used the techniques she had already learned to pursue pastels, pencils and regular water colors without any formal training.

After years on her own, Guo was able to develop her skills further under the guidance of middle school art teachers who recognized her talent. Before she even reached high school, displayed her art in her city hall.

Guo took a break from art classes in high school in order to focus on academics—a trade-off she said she is happy to have avoided at Duke.

“When I got here I was really excited,” she said, “I didn’t care what it was; I wanted to take an art class.” Thus Guo enrolled in a drawing class last semester unlike anything else she had ever experienced. “The professors here are... different,” she said with a pause. Giggling, she continued, “They want you to draw what you feeeeeeel.”

While Guo has enjoyed her limited art experience here, she is firm in her decision to minor in art rather than major. She is pursuing a degree in economics, if intro doesn’t kill her first, she joked. Even though Guo is still a freshman, she is already thinking about life after Duke. She seems ready to let art remain a relaxing hobby rather than a career path.

“It will always be exciting to see something form on a paper and know that you created it,” she said. As long as her art is confined to paper rather than their walls, her parents undoubtedly agree.

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“Stop crying, you big baby.”

It would seem that such a harsh command—uttered here by a Pee Wee football coach to a rotund nine-year old playing in a 12-year-old league—would usually spur resentment or hurt from its recipient.

But for Glen Davis, LSU’s large and certainly in charge sophomore center, the strict imperative evoked a lovable nickname that has stuck: Big Baby. It is a nickname that Davis even relishes and definitely prefers to an alternative handle linking him to former LSU great Shaquille O’Neal.

“I want it to be ‘Big Baby’ for the rest of my life, not Baby Shaq, or Shaquille or whatever,” Davis said last week. “It’s always good to be compared to the big guy, but I want my own foot in immortality.”

The comparisons to O’Neal are not at all surprising. At 6-foot-10, 310 pounds, Davis is a load inside—similar to 7-foot-l, 325-pound Shaq. After averaging 18.6 points and 10 rebounds per game so far this season, Big Baby claimed the SEC Player of the Year award, just as the Big Aristotle did as a sophomore in 1991. Davis has even replicated O’Neal’s easy-going and humorous nature with the media, especially in his dealings with the comparisons.

“I’m my own guy,” Davis said. “I got my own twist, my own flavor, kind of like a little gumbo. I got all kind of crabs and shrimps and turkey meat and spices. I got a good, you know, twist. Yeah, [Shaq’s] a big, lovable guy also, but I think personally I’m better looking.”

The ease with which Davis has accepted his accolades belies the immense effort put in to making himself a better player this year. Last season, Davis enjoyed the luxury SEE DAVIS ON PAGE 12

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Senior JJ. Redick received the Adolph F. Rupp Trophy Wednesday, marking the second time in as many years the Duke guard was selected for the honor.

The Rupp Award is handed out each year to the top player in college basketball by the Commonwealth Athletic Club of Kentucky, and Redick now joins Bill Walton and Ralph Sampson as the only players to be selected multiple times.

The shooting guard is currently second in the nation in scoring and has led the Blue Devils to ACC Tournament and regular season titles as well as Duke’s ninth-consecutive Sweet 16 appearance. Despite breaking records and winning awards all season, he has maintained that his team’s goals maintain his priority.

“It is not about me,” Redick said before the season.

“It is about Duke. It is more about the team and what we are trying to accomplish, which is competing for a National Championship.”

The announcement comes one day after Redick was

named a finalist for the 2006 Naismith Trophy along with Gonzaga’s Adam Morrison, Villanova’s Allan Ray and Com necticut’s Rudy Gay. In his record-setting senior season, Redick became the Duke and ACC all-time leading scorer and also set the NCAA mark for career three-point field goals.

After struggling with his shot to end the regular season, Redick has rebounded and is hitting 47 percent of his attempts in post-season play.

Redick beat out Utah’s Andrew Bogut for the Rupp Award last year after scoring 21.8 points per game and leading Duke to a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

And with his 27.2 scoring average this season, the senior is on pace to exceed Bob Verga’s school-best mark set in 1967 by over a point per game.

“In a league like ours, for him to do what he has done is truly amazing,” said head coach Mike Krzyzewski after Redick suprassed Johnny Dawkins to become Duke’s alltime scoring leader Feb. 19. “It shows a toughness and a physical conditioning —that combination that is at the highest level.”

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Duke—which has been a No. 1 seed in eight of the past nine tournaments—has struggled recently to advance further in the Tournament.

During the past four years —excepting a 2004 trip to the Final Four—the Blue Devils have bowed out of the NCAAs in the Sweet 16. JJ. Redick and Shelden Williams’ class is 1-2 in regional semifinal games and last year, top-seeded Duke was upset in the Austin regional by fourth-seeded Michigan state, 78-68.

With 32 wins and an ACC Tournament title already under their belt, the Blue Devils know that any satisfaction they take from this season will come from what goes on beginning with the Sweet 16.

“Going to the past four [Sweet 16s], it’s something special and it’s something you can’t appreciate until you graduate,” senior forward Lee Melchionni said. “But we feel like we’re not done yet and we feel like we have some unfinished business.”

While the Blue Devils won with relative ease over eighth-seeded George Washington in the second round, Duke’s opponent, LSU, was almost jettisoned from the NCAAs. The Tigers squeaked past Texas

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A&M in the second round when Darrel Mitchell nailed a long three-pointer with three seconds to play.

LSU’s appearance in the Sweet 16 is the program’s first since 2000, meaning none of the Tigers have any experience playing past the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament. Led by 310-pound SEC Player of the Year Glen Davis, LSU is certainly happy to have reached Atlanta but is committed to not being intimidated by Duke.

“I don’t think our team is walking around in any kind of awe or a belief that they can’t win or anything of that nature,” said LSU head coach John Brady, who has four NCAA wins to his credit. “I think they have a tremendous amount of respect for [Duke’s] team and the coach, but I do believe that when we step on the floor our team believes if we do certain things we’ll have an opportunity to win.”

Despite the disparity in Tournament experience between the two teams’ players and coaches, the Tigers come into the matchup with Duke with a fair amount of confidence. During the regular season LSU won games against Kentucky and Tennessee, and lost close contests at Connecticut and Ohio State.

Davis leads a deep and versatile frontcourt that has caused problems for other teams this season. Williams and Josh Mcßoberts will have their hands full with Davis and freshman sensation Tyrus Thomas. Thomas, one of three freshman who receives significant playing time for the Tigers, has wowed opponents and NBA scouts with his athleticism and shot-blocking ability this season, although he has been inconsistent at times.

“They’ll be a very difficult opponent,” Krzyzewski said. “They’ve had a great year, they have one of the best players in the country and John Brady’s done an amazing job with his team.”

Duke, on the other hand, has been buoyed of late by the play of its two freshman starters, Josh Mcßoberts and Greg Paulus. The two emerged during the George Washington game to assist Redick and \\Tlliams. After taking the day off Sunday, the team returned to practice Monday to begin preparations for LSU. “You have to be really ready, right away, no fooling around,” Krzyzewski said. “It’s mostly attitude —an aggressive, enthusiastic attitude—because you have to assume the other team is going to do that.”

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Yehuda Amichai, Israel’s most beloved poet, died five years ago. In honoring his memory and his astounding poetic legacy, we are gathering some of the world’s leading scholars to discuss his work—including Ghana Kronfeld (UC Berkeley), Ghana Bloch (Mills College), Dan Miron (Columbia University; Hebrew University), Natasha Gordinsky (Hebrew University) and Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi (Duke University; Hebrew University). In addition, there will be more informal poetry readings and a musical tribute to the work of Amichai and his contemporaries.

7:00 pm, Saturday, March 25th at Beth El Synagogue

corner of Watts & Markham Candlelight havdala service followed by readings, and a performance of original music and musings inspired by Amichai’s poetry Sunday, March 26th at Duke University 9:00 1:15 pm, at Breedlove Reading Room Perkins Library Colloquium on Amichai’s poetics and epistemology; on translation and reception -

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sportsbriefs Early run spurs women’s lacrosse over Holdes No. 2 Duke continued its best start in school history Wednesday, cruising past Virginia Tech, 22-6, for a perfect 8-0 record. The Blue Devils (3-0 in the ACC) opened the first half with a 6-0 run, highlighted by four goals and an assist from Katie Chrest.

The first goal, scored by Carolyn Davis, came out of Duke’s motion offense, which allowed the freshman to go one-on-one with the Hokie keeper.

The next two goals, both from Chrest, were on forced turnovers. She followed up her pair with a third score on a free position shot.

Taylor Field Baseball swept by UMBC in double-header In a long, fourteen-inning afternoon, Duke dropped both games of a doubleheader against Maryland-Baltimore County, 7-1 and 4-0, Wedneday at Jack Coombs Field.

A rain-out of Tuesday’s game forced the teams to play a

pair yesterday.

With a less than stellar hittingperfomance in their last series against Miami, the Blue Devils’ (8-18) hoped to get the bats going again, but that did not materialize Wednesday.

The Blue Devils finished with 10 hits to the Retrievers’ 17.

Katie Riera Women’s tennis stomps Princeton Rebounding from last week’s loss at Notre Dame, the No. 10 Duke women’s tennis team pounced on the Princeton Tigers Wednesday at the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center. Duke (9-3) downed its Ivy-League opponent, 6-1, to remain undefeated in its four home matches to date.

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of playing alongside star sophomore forward Brandon Bass and claimed SEC Freshman of the Year honors. But when Bass decided to enter the NBA Draft last summer, Davis quickly went from second fiddle to the primary option on a talented but young team.

The first task for Big Baby was to become slightly less big. Davis’ weight hovered around 350 pounds his freshman season, often hindering his level of play late in games.

Davis made a commitment to bring down his weight in the offseason, following a strict diet that cut out his beloved chocolate-chip cookies and included organic oatmeal.

The results from Davis’ 40-pound weight loss have been apparent —the sophomore has displayed surprisingly quick post moves this year, prompting Duke senior Lee Melchionni to call him a “315-pound ballerina.” But Big Baby said the weight loss was no small sacrifice, especially choking down the oatmeal.

“It has no taste and the texture is horrible—like those eating contests on ‘Fear Factor,”’ Davis said before the season. “It’s just you vs. the oatmeal.”

In addition to remaking his body, Davis has had to alter his role on a team that features seven freshmen and just one senior. Besides leading on the court, Davis has been credited by his head coach, John Brady, for keeping the Tigers’ young squad loose during LSU’s first trip to the Sweet 16 since 2000.

“There’s nothing sacred in our locker room,” Brady said last week. “Try to get serious with that team, and Glen will break that all down in a heartbeat. But they’ve been good for me. It’s a good group to coach. I just hope the traveling road show can continue.”

Whether or not the LSU’s season does continue may depend largely on the batde between Davis and Duke big man Shelden Williams in tonight’s Sweet 16 clash. Both players have come up big so far in the NCAA Tournament, as Williams and Davis have averaged 23 points and 16 rebounds, and 21.5 points and 10.5 rebounds, respectively.

Despite the big stage and premier opponent, Davis is certainly not over-thinking the matchup.

“My assignment is to play the biggest and best post man on each team, and he’s the best post player on their team, so I just have to do what I’m supposed to do to get the ballgame won,” Davis said Monday.

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Although University officials say tion how Fuqua’s slip may have affectthat such a mid-term resignation is not ed Breeden’s tenure, Fortunately, the fact that the anuncomrfion, the meaning of the move nouncement ofBreeden’s resignation is somewhat unclear. has come well in advance of his stepIf, as Provost Peter Lange has sughesitation Breeden expressed ping down will allow a thorough gested, about his desire to complete another search process for a new dean.

We hope that Breeden’s replaceentire five-year term, why was he apnot retirment will also be committed to furfor one?

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These low standards not only conshower water does healthy intel- tribute to the senior year exodus from the intellectual community lectual communiwhich Duke prides stdffcdftOffell °f West Campus but threatty, en a longer-term impact on itself on being. how is remembered by University our A student in Craven Quadrangle complained Tuesday that after hav- (hopefully) wealthy alumni —ones who ing showered in his House R bath- may or may not be donors, They say smell is the sense most room, his skin literally smelled “like tied to memory. Residential the latest of a seclosely This was only crap.” ries of bathroom and plumbing is- Life and Housing Services must do sues that have plagued the quad on a whatever needs to be done to prevent, in graduates’ minds, an association beseemingly regular basis.

Yet it seems there is no immediate tween glory days at Duke and “crap.”

Yesterday on these pages, we hope for remedy.

While hundreds of millions of dol- called for the administration to betlars are hypothetically tossed around ter address the “here and now.” The in discussions about the new Central housing facilities situation in Craven Campus, a student life issue as funda- represents a perfect opportunity to mental and imperative as proper hy- fix a current problem diminishing gienic standards is addressed only by the quality of the Duke experience for a handful of students. an “out of order” sign.

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Back in July 2002, an upbeat Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta gave a timeline of four at most five—years for completion of all West Campus renovations. As The Chronicle reported earlier this month, however, funding woes have stalled renovation plans for Crowell and Craven Quads, pushexecutives clear ing the project back at least another two years. after swimming While construction projects often hit snags through a nearby like financial difficulties—this should not eclipse sludge pond of raw the fact that the administration’s priorities are out sewage. One exec of whack. Not long after the renovation of Kilgo remarks indignantQuad, Moneta moved on to a new project —the stuly: “What’s that dent plaza. That has now been supplanted by Plansmell?” to which et Central. Having multiple construction projects Drebin replies nonjared fish running concurrently can be a great thing, but not chalantly, “Oh, I’m when funding for more urgent projects has yet to afraid that’s me. pro progress be secured. swimI* ve been Further, allowing 80-year old infrastructure to raw in ming atrophy and taking a “patch it up” approach to sewage.” maintenance is unacceptable. The administration’s the above hit close to Incidentally, episode home for me two days ago in a much less amusing blase attitude was perhaps best summed up by Joe scenario. After flushing the urinal in the dorm Gonzales, associate dean of residence life, back in bathroom, I stepped across into the shower and October: “You can’t always anticipate where a probturned the water on. The urinal would not stop lem will occur,” he said. “Our system works well for us.” Well, it’s true that no one has a crystal ball to flushing, so I resolved to call maintenance after finthe future, but what’s preferable: wearing a predict ishing my shower. condom or treating an STD? Before continuing, it’s worth noting the followSuffice it to say, we should not tolerate substaning incident took place in the now notorious dard facilities—especially at the price tag of comabout which at least Craven Quad House R tower, three Chronicle articles have been written this year ing to Duke. The $B4O per year difference between alone regarding infrastructure failures. The latest living in a renovated double or one in Crowell or Craven Quads does not nearly cover the differences incident comes after the third-floor urinal exploded last September, flooding the second floor where in living conditions, including such amenities as air I live. A month later the marble stall divider two conditioning.

As a final insult, the administration continues to floors below shattered. And finally, there are the tighten its grip on housing options. Students must near-constant faucet malfunctions that have precipalready live on campus for three years. Now, the reitated numerous calls to maintenance. to two Within seconds of cent East Campus buyout will push numerous fuFast forward days ago. ture seniors to relocate on campus where they will the shower the of I on recognized pungent turning smell of raw sewage saturating the air. Yes, it would be forced to pay Duke-determined housing rates no matter the physical integrity of the residence seem that I was showering in “crappy” water which would also explain why I was itching so much halls themselves.

Two days ago, The New York Times reported on afterward. It remains unclear what exacdy haphow could neia once insensitive Katrina recovery czar, Donpened, since the maintenance employee ald E. Powell, changed his image from a ‘“flintther pinpoint nor fix the problem.

What is clear, however, is the negligence of souled’ bean counter whose only concern was ‘guarding the money,’” to a champion of real rehaRLHS and the administration in general in mainbilitation.

From where did his metamorphosis much Duke’s residence halls.

Too emphasis taining has been placed on completing sexy projects —like come? Powell went out and listened to the people he was supposed to serve. Hopefully, RLHS and the the student plaza and Planet Central (aka the Cenadministration will see the same light when it tral Campus overhaul) —at the expense of basic upcomes to maintaining some pipes. keep students are entitled to.

It is ironic that The Chronicle reported the price Jared Fish is a Trinity senior. His column runs every tag of the first phase of Planet Central at $240 million the same day the Craven incident occurred. other Thursday.

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Taking action—responsibly Duke students don’t know how to protest. Though graced with intellectual brilliance, financial resources and national prestige, they have failed to succeed at one of humankind’s most fundamental politi-

cal activities, and it should worry us all This failure is not due to a lack of awareness. Supplied with Internet access, newspapers, magazines, fliers and even a daily publication that is tailored Cl Gel I specifically to campus issues (The Chronicle), strategery Duke students know perfectly well what is going on It is not due to a lack of things to protest, either.

On a national level, those outraged by the policies of President George W. Bush should speak out more, and those who are not should work harder to defend him.

After three years of war in Iraq, protests have fallen by the wayside, even while support for it dwindles. This is an understandable trend for the general public, but unacceptable at this university.

As for Duke issues, there are also many reasons to protest. Indeed, I have seen students and faculty do so on many occasions throughout my time here. But unfortunately, most of these efforts have proven to be embarrassing failures.

In 2004,1 decided to challenge my beliefs by attending a Kerry/Edwards rally on the West Campus quad. Because it featured Congressman David Price and Senator John Edwards’ daughter, I had high expectations for the event.

Considering die number of Democrats in the Duke community, however, hardly anyone showed up. In addition, Edwards’ daughter nearly cried when some drunken guy walking back from tailgate yelled, “John Kerry sucks!” This extremely rude interruption, when combined with the low turnout, made the event a true disappointment to me.

This year, the Duke Democrats staged a mock filibuster of Justice Samuel Alito. I will admit that it was a unique idea, and I am certain they had fun doing it. But the participants also left themselves open to ridicule, as many passers-by simply laughed at the brave soul standing behind that podium.

In the fall, a group of concerned students situated itself at the West Campus bus stop to protest former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett’s now-infamous words. While these students made others aware of the issue, it was actually my

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As opposed to these others, the movement led by Duke Students Against Sweatshops to ensure a living wage for all Duke-related workers was a great success. Those in the organization put forth a strong effort and, in the end, accomplished an important goal.

However, they erred last March when they interrupted an address by President Brodhead, compelling him to move away from his podium for the remainder of the talk.

In contrast to Brodhead, who reacted to the situation with grace and wisdom, the student protesters acted inappropriately given the occasion.

It is this sort ofbehavior that worries me most. While I applaud those who care enough to protest, too often such people have shown a lack of civility in public demonstration. The obvious example for me is what occurred at David Horowitz’s recent lecture in Page Auditorium.

I personally approached Horowitz in the same manner I did A1 Gore, George McGovern, David Price, Erwin Chemerinsky and others I have had the pleasure to see in person. I went to Page Auditorium prepared to listen, consider, scrutinize and question. But alas, I was forced to do so over the cacophony of a group that entered the building with a closed mind, their sole purpose to disrupt the event.

I was dismayed but not too surprised to find that three of our own professors took a role in leading the disturbances. To be truthful, I was delighted their actions merely proved Horowitz’s point. But I was also deeply saddened by their behavior. It reflected poorly not just on them, but also on the University as a whole and on the more civil, rational people who disagree with Horowitz.

Their protest was just plain rude. Invited speakers, no matter what they say or believe, deserve respect when addressing an audience on this campus. I hope Duke students—and especially professors —never act in this way again.

We need more students to take an active role in campus politics and discussion. We ought to help make this community a city upon a hill when it comes to public demonstrations and discourse.

Many would rather remain in political apathy or continue to behave inappropriately. But we must all become more involved in the free flow of ideas on campus.

Let’s do so with respect and decency.

Jamie Deal is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Thursday.

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past Spring Break was more for me than a chance go home, flop down on the couch and enjoy palatable food and reliable, decent cable TV service. It turned out to be an intellectual journey, as well (read: I managed to wrench a column topic out of it).

Spending the amount of time on this campus that I do, it tends to be enlightening to go home and reenter the rest of society (for example, did you know that companies other than the North Face' manufacture fleece products?). It reminds you that the world is a bit david klebail bigger than the thirdleather-bound books floor reading room of Bostock Encountering “outsiders” also led me to consider how Duke is perceived outside of our little bubble. Our perennially preeminent place in the March basketball tournament proved conducive to my research, which was conducted mosdy in bars around the Philadelphia area.

At Amtrack’s 30th Street Station, I struck up a conversation with a young gendeman who had graduated from Villanova. We didn’t discuss Duke for very long, other than to have him establish that instead of being direcdy off 95, our campus is in fact quite a fir piece on a tree-lined road through the middle of nowhere. If I had been hoping for a glowing assessment of my academic institution, I was not to find it here—but I also wasn’t subjected to the “f— Duke” mentality I secretly had been hoping for.

The other benefit of going to a topseeded school is encountering player-hating friends from home, who relish a discussion about by whom Duke will be knocked out of the tournament. I was listening to typically intelligent banter of this nature in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia when a perfect stranger approached our table, apparently having honed in at the mention ofDuke. His input was to criticize Demarcus Nelson’s lackluster play, to which I (being relatively unfamiliar with the particular statistics involved) mumbled something vague about the hurdles of an injury and subsequent recovery.

And that was that. Frustratingly, the man made no mention of our recently completed, multimillion-dollar engineering complex. Nothing lackluster about it.

My next encounter occurred over a beer in Philadelphia International Airport on my return trip. The DukeGW game was on at the time, and, as we were somewhat housing them, I was naturally inclined to make mention of where I happen to attend university. My companion this time, a middle-aged fellow from Tennessee, informed me that he hadn’t been to college. But he was making more money than his two sisters who had. I bet that’s what my father likes to hear.

In any event, I got on my plane, satisfied by my $8 Bass and our win. The lady in the seat next to me, who was probably in her mid-to-late eighties, told me that her granddaughter was in graduate school somewhere in North Carolina, although she had a bit of trouble remembering the name of the institution. When she described it as “the big, important university,” I helpfully offered Chapel Hill as a suggestion—what modesty! Of course, as I had been hoping with all my might, she told me no. Next, ever so meekly, I mentioned dear old Duke. That was the one.

It wasn’t until later that I started to wonder just how big and important we could be if we were so forgettable —albeit by an octogenarian. Would she have forgotten the name of the big, important university in Cambridge?

Even after my weeklong inquiry, I’m still at a loss as to what Duke means to people outside Duke. We make frequent mention ofour “peer institutions” (and by “we” here, I mean anyone who writes for The Chronicle; the phrase shows up in almost 200 of the articles in the archives). But what are they? If you’re talking about the upper echelon of the Ivy League, I’m a little dubious. Can we consider places that were founded decades before the U.S. Constitution was drafted our peers? We could just be a really good southern school. But the other good southern schools might beg to differ—too many Jersey accents.

I’m hesitant to conclude we’re simply an annoying, pretentious basketball powerhouse to some, and a vaguely, forgettably important school in the South to others. But I also struggle to find a substitute assessment. And maybe this is where our uniqueness lies—a recognizable name, but an elusive identity. to

David Kleban is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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Duke University Chorale Rodney Wynkoop, director

The Sweetheart of the Sun

Florida Spring Break Tour Concert 2006 The Duke Chorale will offer a diverse selection ranging from works

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