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YT process still under scrutiny

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Improved, some say ICC should carry more weight by

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Following criticisms that the Young Trustee selection process had been riddled with cronyism, significant changes were made this year to rebalance the distribution of power between the Intercommunity Council and Duke Student Government.

But some members of ICC—who argue that ICC better represents the entire Duke student body—remain dissatisfied with the weight given to DSG’s vote.

Members of the Young Trustee Selection Committee said the recent changes to the selection process which granted equal selection powers to 10 members ofICC and 10 members ofDSC were an improvement from the previous system, in which ICC narrowed the applicant pool, but DSC made the final decision.

Several members of the ICC, however, said changes can still be made to improve the process. “I think that the process overall went a lot smoother, but there is still some sense of advantage given to DSG,” said senior MalikBurnett, president ofthe Black StudentAlliance and a member of ICC. “I think ICC should have equal, if not increased, representation on the committee, because DSG

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Students dine on a spread of cheese and crackers at the Doris Duke Center Wednesday night.

Hundreds wine, dine in Gardens at Duke Roy ale

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Gao said the affair was an over-

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Hundreds of undergraduates and graduate students rubbed shoulders in the sushi line and crowded the Doris Duke Center patio Wednesday night at Duke Royale —a cocktail party in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens.

“It’s the first day of spring and everyone’s enjoying the outdoor scenery,” said senior Meng Gao, special projects coordinator for the Duke University Union, which hosted the party.

“We’re an hour into the event, and it’s already packed.”

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As the campus community evaluates the recommendations in the recently released Campus Culture Initiative report, the University has also begun a rigorous evaluation of the West Union Building and other social spaces on West Campus, administrators confirmed Wednesday.

Officials are now working through proposals that include major renovations of the West Union and the possible construction of an additional adjacent building, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask wrote in an e-mail.

The proposed building—which may focus on dining—would be attached to the West Union on the building’s west or north sides facing the West Campus Plaza,

whelming success and presented a new

venue for students to socialize and be

“classy” on a Wednesday night.

Students agreed the free food, drinks and fresh venue were powerful motivation to attend the event.

“I love that they’re utilizing this space and that everyone got dressed up and is just having a good time,” said junior Kristin Pfeiffer.

“Unfortunately, I missed the sushi,” she added.

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Administrators are considering major renovations to theWest Union Building and otherWest Campus sites.

Jewishfaith finds niche at Duke SSM gift to fund scholarships, aid With by

Nate Freeman

place among the

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students noshing on Kosher Pauly Dogs on the West Campus Plaza and kicking off their Friday nights with some Manischewitz at the Freeman Center for Jewish Life, Jewish culture is infused into a typical day for many Duke students ■ and not just Jewish ones.

Although the 650 undergraduates at the University Duke M who identify themselves as Jewish may make up only 10 Part 2 of 3 percent of the overall student body—a much smaller fraction than at some of Duke’s peer institutions—the vibrant and active Jewish community has cemented Judaism’s —

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Opened in 1999 to house religious services and serve Shabbat dinners, the Freeman Center has given Jewish life a home base.

The newly dedicated Rubenstein-Silvers Hillel—an organization that plans activities and programming—has also encouraged Jews and non-Jews alike to familiarize themselves with the religion.

Several peer universities have far higher numbers of Jewish undergraduates—3,ooo at the University of Pennsylvania, 2,000 at Harvard University and 2,000 at Columbia University, making up a third, a third and a quarter of those SEE

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Duke has received a $5-million gift to support scholarships and student fellowships, University officials announced Wednesday.

The gift comes from the Crown family, several of whom are Duke alumni and involved campus leaders.

The contribution designates $4 million in endowment for need-based scholarships for undergraduate students, $750,000 for undergraduate

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Gore returns to Hill with Truth'

Panel OKs subpoenas in firings case

by David Espo THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON President George W. Bush and the Democratic-controlled Congress careened closer to a full-blown legal showdown over the firing of federal prosecutors Wednesday as a House subcommittee voted subpoenas for top administration officials in defiance of the White House.

“After two months of stonewalling, shifting stories and misleading testimony, it is clear that we are still not getting the truth about the decision to fire these prosecutors and its cover-up,” said Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif.

In response, an unyielding White House threatened to rescind its day-old proposal for top strategist Karl Rove and other officials to answer lawmakers’ questions away from the glare of television lights and not under oath. “If they issue subpoenas, yes, the offer is withdrawn,” said presidential spokesman Tony Snow.

Democrats “will have rejected the offer,” he said.

Despite the rhetoric, Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, repeatedly suggested there was room for negotiations in a confrontation that has threatened Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ hold on his job and forced

his chief of staff to resign.

“What we’re voting on today is merely a backup,” said the Michigan Democrat, adding that he would refrain from issuing the subpoenas, at least for the time being.

Documents made public during the day did little to clarify the circumstances surrounding the firings of the eight U.S. attorneys.

Instead, they showed the Justice Department scrambling to answer questions from California Republican lawmakers critical of the record compiled by the U.S. attorney’s office on immigration cases. Carol Lam, the U.S. attorney at the time, was among the group that was fired.

Italy swaps prisoners; U.S. unhappy by

Jason Straziuso

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KABUL, Afghanistan Italy’s deputy foreign affairs minister confirmed Wednesday that the Afghan government released

five Taliban prisoners to win the freedom of a reporter who had been kidnapped in lawless Helmand province.

Daniele Mastrogiacomo, who writes for Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper, was freed Monday after two weeks in captivity. He had been seized in southern Helmand province with his Afghan driver, who was beheaded, and his translator, whose whereabouts are unknown.

Though the Afghan government called the swap “an exceptional case,” the deal was sharply criticized.

“When we create situations where you can buy the freedom of Taliban fighters when you catch a journalist, in the short term there will be no journalists anymore,” the Dutch foreign minister, Maxime Verhagen, said during a visit to Kabul on

Wednesday.

In Washington, a senior State Department

official said the United States was

pleased the journalist had been released unharmed, but was troubled by possible ramifications of the swap.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to address the media, said U.S. diplomats told Italian counterparts in Rome and Washington that the trade raised serious safety concerns and increased the risk of kidnappings in Afghanistan.

Among other issues, the official said five Taliban operatives were now free to resume extremist activities and that their release could encourage further abductions. The official also denied Italian claims that the U.S. had been consulted about the conditions of the journalist’s release.

A1 Gore made an emotional return to Congress Wednesday to plead with lawmakers to fight global warming with moral courage while revealing nothing about whether he will join the 2008 pres-

idential race.

Anti-Clinton ad man unmasked The mystery creator of the Orwellian YouTube ad against Hillary Clinton is a Democratic operative who worked for a digital consulting firm with ties to rival Sen. Barack Obama.The ad portrayed Clinton as a Big Brother figure and urged support for Obama's presidential campaign.

French prez endorses ex-rival After holding out for months, President Jacques Chirac on Wednesday endorsed fellow conservative Nicolas Sarkozy's bid to succeed him, despite long and sharp personal and political differences between them.

Iranians make Illegal'threat Iran's top leader warned Wednesday his country will pursue "illegal actions" if the U.N. Security Council insists it halt uranium enrichment, an apparent reference to nuclear activities outside international

regulations.

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DUKE STUDENT GOVERMENT

DSG OKs Community Standard referendum by

Nate Freeman

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Duke Student Government unanimousat its meeting Wednesday a reendorsed ly vision of the Duke Community Standard that will face a student referendum as part of the DSG elections April 3.

The new version of the community standard emphasizes “the principles of honesty, fairness, respect and accountability” instead of the policies that stem from these principles. The new version eliminates the reference to University policies.

Senior Jimmy Soni, DSG vice president for academic affairs, said the focus on academic principles evident in the revised version will compel students to act on their own ethical standards instead of strictly adhering to University laws.

“The revision separates the world of policy from the world of principle,” he said. “We’re not looking for moral policing from faculty or students. The real mission behind this is to empower people to act.”

DSG President Elliott Wolf, a junior, stressed the importance of having the Senate voice its support for the revised Corn-

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01T representatives spoke to Duke Student Government about budget problems at a meetingWednesday.

munity Standard before it is placed in

the hands of the voters. 'll would be good to endorse it to show our confidence,” Wolf said. “I personally believe the revised version is much improved.”

Soni said the Senate’s unanimous support for the new version affirms the standard’s effectiveness.

“In a room that usually has pretty sharp criticism, we unanimously approved the new Community Standard, and I think this bodes well for the vote on April 3,” Soni said. “I think DSG realized this is a more robust and stronger revision.”

In other business: Office of Information Technology representatives Kevin Davis and Mike Pickett presented a proposal to implement a quota limiting the free ePrint service available to all students.

Since the inception of ePrint at the start of the 2003-2004 academic year, the number of pages printed is projected to increase by 119 percent by the end of Spring 2007—an increase from about 12.4 million pages printed to about 27.2 million pages printed.

The proposed ePrint* limitations would restrict students to |36 in printing credit per semester —enough money to print 1,800 single-sided pages. Students who require additional pages would have the option of paying a fee of $lO for a 500-page increase to their quota.

After unsuccessfully lobbying Provost Peter Lange to appropriate the $lOO,OOO necessary to keep ePrint limitless, OIT was forced to attach monetary value to each page and cut costs, Davis said.

“Right now you don’t have any way of realizing there is a cost behind this,” he said. “The real goal is to keep on providing the quality of service.”

Pending approval, Davis said the quota will go into effect in Fall 2007.

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Guest chefs are set to visit Duke in the next few days to give students tips for cooking more balanced meals.

Nutrition week offers health advice, goodies by

Carolina Astigarraga THE CHRONICLE

Think a salad sprinkled with balsamic vinegarette and a heaping pile of fruit on your plate is good for you?

Not so, dieticians say—the real key to health is “balance.”

March is National Nutrition Month, and this week the Duke Student Health Center is sponsoring Nutrition Week by providing students with opportunities to get healthy eating tips.

For the next few days, students will have the chance to witness live cooking demonstrations from Bon Appetit chefs and to hear from nutritionists why they just can’t cut those midnight cravings. They will also be able to peruse colorful stickers placed at various food stations in the Marketplace that indicate how much fruit, protein, fats and carbohydrates are needed for a healthy meal.

Students can also win a “wellness bag” worth approximately $lO0—complete with goodies, such as a pedometer, stress ball and free personal training session.

“We’re increasing awareness for people

to think more about the various aspects of

their diet they can improve—just little steps they can take,” said Terri Brownlee, regional director of nutrition for Bon Appetit.

Last year, Duke’s Nutrition Week featured talks in dormitories and information sessions, but this year the focus is on “getting students where they are actually eating,” said Toni Apadula, a dietician at Student Health.

This year is the first time on-campus food service companies such as Bon Appetit and Chartwells have been involved, she added.

Despite the inclusion of new organizations, Apadula said the events held earlier in the week were still not as big as she had hoped, although students still stopped by the Marketplace information table throughout the evening Wednesday.

“Once you call them over there, they are always pretty receptive,” Apadula said.

“When engaging them in conversation, you can really see that they do have some questions —maybe even some questions they SEE NUTRITION ON PAGE 4

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GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDENT COUNCIL

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The Graduate and Professional Student Council unanimously approved changes to its charter at the general assembly meeting

Wednesday night.

The changes to the bylaws fit

into five general categories and were largely fashioned to clarify requirements and more accurately apply to current procedures.

“These charter changes represent a lot of hard work on the part ofmembers of the executive board,” GPSC Vice President Nathan Kundtz said.

The changes approved involve representatives, proxies and attendance; committee requirement outlines; the reformulation of the “ombudsperson” position; and a redistribution or clarification of minor responsibilities among leadership.

The committees within GPSC are designated as either internal or University. As part of the bylaws changes, serving on a University committee, by default, now also counts as serving on an internal committee, satisfying the requirement for GPSC representatives.

Members then nominated candidates for the 2007-2008 executive board and Board ofTrustees committees. Elections for the executive board will be held April 4.

“This is a great way to help

lead from the very, very top at Duke,” Kundtz said.

Daniel Kight, a first-year graduate student in public policy and the student body president at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy, presented ongoing projects at Sanford and addressed the student body’s interactions with GPSC, particularly with respect to funding.

Betsy Holmberg, a student in psychology and social health sciences, requested input from council members on the Graduate and Professional Student Health Fair, which she said had a low turnout earlier this year. Booth operators

reported talking to approximately 35 people, she said. In response to questions from Holmberg, members discussed timing, duration and location options and proposed that a greater emphasis be placed on specific services instead of general information about the services offered by Student Health. GPSC members also discussed the possibility of holding multiple smaller events or scheduling the fair to coincide with other health events.

Jessi Bardill, GPSC Financial Aid Initiative Student Advisory Council graduate representative and a Ph.D. student in English, announced that the University Financial Aid Committee will host a Financial Aid Awareness Day Thursday, March 29 at 5 p.m. in the Schiciano Auditorium to ad-

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The Graduateand Professional Student Council modified its bylaws Wednesday. dress the concerns and questions of graduate students regarding finances. Provost Peter Lange and Jim Belvin, director offinancial aid, will speak at the event.

Jason Franken, a first-year graduate student at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and a coordinator for the Duke Earth Day Festival, wrapped up the meeting with an announcement that

April has been designated as Earth Month. The culmination of the month will be the Earth Day Festival on the West Campus Plaza April 20.

“It’s about bringing people who can actually filter information and talk about these issues,” he said. “We want it to really be something that people can sort of customize and apply to their individual lives.”

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February 20: Employment and Civil Rights The Rev. John Mendez, D.D., •

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March «; Health Disparities and Civil Sljhts. David Barton Smith, professor, Fox School of Business, Temple University.

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didn’t know they had.”

It may be difficult to snag students because of the table’s location, sophomore Valencia Harriott said.

“Right now it’s kind ofhard to get people to stop and look at info. They’re getting people as they’re leaving eating.... Maybe they should grab people on the way in,” Harriott said. “They’re kind of doneand probably aren’t worried about eating now.”

Freshman Ade Sawyer also said the table’s location was not ideal. “[The dietician] grabbed them after they finished eating all that crap,” he added.

It is also difficult to follow through with balanced diet advice when good food options are limited at the Marketplace, Harriott said.

Other students, however, said they found Student Health’s information useful.

“Offering students a gym bag full of stuff is a great way to encourage students to look at what they are eating,” freshman Caroline Yoder said. “Most students have a basic level of understanding of what they should eat, but I don’t think all of them think of all the choices they make.”

Nutrition Week is just one in a series of programs sponsored by Student Health’s health promotion team. During upcoming Sleep Week, members of the center will offer advice on healthy sleeping habits.

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institutions’ overall undergraduate student bodies, respectively.

But even with relatively low numbers, Jewish students at Duke have succeeded in creating a vibrant community on campus, senior Adam Laker, president of the Hillel Student Board, wrote in an e-mail.

“Duke has traditionally had lower numbers than peer institutions for a multitude of reasons, both historical and geographic,” Laker said. “It is important to recognize that the number of Jewish students is exactly that, just a number, and does not speak to how active or involved in the community a student may be. [The Office of Undergraduate Admissions] has done a fantastic job in accepting diverse students who embrace their identity while matriculating at Duke.”

Because a department for Jewish life exists within the Division of Student Affairs, frequent interaction between Jewish students and other campus groups is common, said Rebecca Levenson, assistant director for Jewish life.

“We’re viewed as a peer by other departments on campus, and it gives us access to university resources in away that most Hillels don’t have,” she said.

Henry’s Place, located in the Heyman Dining Hall in the Freeman Center, serves free Kosher dinners to students with a freshman meal plan Monday through Thursday, and a free Shabbat dinner to all students on Friday.

Many Jewish students who follow a strict Kosher diet and must frequent the Freeman Center daily, however, lament the lack ofKosher options and worry that food vendors on campus are using the same materials to prepare meat and dairy products, sophomore Joel Ribnick said.

“I would like to see more Kosher op-

tions, but I’m not sure how many people that as students leave the comfort of celshare those opinions,” Ribnick said. “I eat ebrating holidays with family and dinner five times a week at the Freeman friends, newly matriculating students Center, and if they offered more meals I have to learn to practice their faith away would eat there more. At Alpine [Bagels], from home.

Eisenband attended a Jewish high they make an egg and bacon bagel in one and ask for bacon school before enrolling at the University if they no use cup, you the same cup.” and had to adLevenson just to celebratsaid devout Oring holidays outthodox “At Alpine [Bagels], they make side of his Jews tend to shy an egg and bacon bagel in one away from atnity, he said. tending Duke cup and if you ask for no bacon because “I they stayed they use the same cup. fear they would here for the not be able to Toelßibnick hi sh holidays,” observe the Eisenband Sabbath on a added stayed with a family campus that rethat I kind of quires constant knew for Rosh Hashanah, and I kind of commuting.

“Somebody who is very observant who missed being home. It was a little uncomisn’t going to ride the bus on Saturday fortable being in a family environment isn’t going to consider Duke,” she said. that wasn’t my own.”

Laker said the Hillel board offers sever“Between East and West campus, you would be confined to that campus for the al programs to assist students as they setde entirety ofShabbat. For every student, the into Duke’s Jewish community.

“An integral facet of Judaism, and reliimportant thing is that they feel comfortable in their community, and there is no gion as a whole, is the fact that it centers community of very observant Jews. We around the home and family,” he wrote in would have to make certain changes to acan e-mail. “Many students travel home for commodate them.” certain holidays, and that is embraced by Josh Sharp, vice president for community Jewish Life at Duke. Duke Hillel is not a building at die Hillel at Harvard, says Harplace were we want every Jew to come on vard is able to cultivate a thriving community every single holiday—we merely want it to of Orthodox Jews by making arrangements be an option as a place a Jewish student that cater to their religious practices. can come and feel comfortable.”

“There is a sizable Orthodox populaAlthough he has not noticed an overtion; there must be like 30 kids,” said whelming trend of anti-semitism on camSharp, a junior at Harvard. “It seems to pus, Ribnick said he has experienced one me that the institutions are very, accomincident of prejudice against his practice of modating. The college provides key ac- Judaism.

“There was one time when I was walkcess for students who can’t use electronic keys.” ing back from services at a synagogue off Duke freshman David Eisenband said of East Campus wearing a kippah, and

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“Why Does Women’s History Month Matter?”

The reality—or should I say realities—of women in history has in the past been downplayed if not outright obscured. With certain exceptions, particular notions of “femaleness” were considered not only of primary importance in defining women’s roles but also of secondary importance for the study of what we called “history.” Thus, my own education in the field, as a child of the ‘forties and ‘fifties, largely revolved around the accomplishments of “great men.” It has not been that long since the emergence of new perspectives.

Women’s History Month brings into focus the contributions of named individuals and anonymous women alike. It enlarges our sense of the social forces affecting institutions and nations, and the attendant attitudes and policies of the component parts. And it helps us all, women and men together, to consider questions of personal and cultural identity.

Any heightened attention to what Henry James called a “figure in the carpet” enhances our appreciation of the fabric as a whole. As a woman, but, more pertinently, as a human being, I applaud Womens History Month.

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there was a guy running on the track [bordering East Campus],” Ribnick said.

“When I got xloser, I heard the guy yelling, ‘You Jewish pigs! All you do is kill, kill, ki11!’.... It sounded like he was anti-Israel and anti-Jewish. But I haven’t heard of any similar instances.”

Eisenband said he has yet to encounter any blatant anti-semitism at the University, but he has nodced that many students come to Duke with little knowledge of the Jewish religion.

“I have encountered some ignorance, but not offensive ignorance,” Eisenband said. “I haven’t been harassed or anything, but I’m sure people have some judgments already established. People, I think, have opinions or have some conceptions of Judaism that might not be true.”

Laker said the Hillel Student Board is making an effort to educate non-Jews about the religion through events that reach out to all students.

“One thing that helps is an open level of communication at the top levels,” Laker wrote. “Another way we have encouraged interaction between different cultural groups is to open up our events to all members of the Duke community.”

As they transition from practicing Judaism with family at home to practicing the religion in a more personal way at college, students bring together their rediscovered faiths to create the vibrant Jewish community that appears all over campus, Levenson said.

“For everyone, when they come to college, they have to figure oiit how they’re going to observe and be true to their Jewish identities,” she said.

“They get to explore other options of celebrating, or they take what they had at home and infuse it into Jewish life on campus,” Levenson added.

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Trask said, adding that the idea first arose after assessing the costs of a full-scale renovation of the dining facilities within the West Union.

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs and vice chair of the CGI Steering Committee, noted that administrators are looking well beyond the West Union in their evaluation of students’ needs.

“We’re starting to build a much more robust set of space needs for all of West Campus,” he said.

Moneta added that the discussions underway in the Office of Student Affairs, the Office of Student Activities and Facilities and Residence Life and Housing Services will be coupled with Provost Peter Lange’s efforts in assessing the CCI report’s recommendations.

“Since our work will elaborate and expand upon those recommendations [relating to facilities], I would anticipate that it will have a considerable bearing on the renovation plans forWest Union and otherWest Campus

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University officials said they are considering an addition to the West Union building that could focus on new dining options for students.

facilities,” Lange wrote in an e-mail.

Moneta said conversations had begun between him and Chris Roby, director of OSAF, and Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, to ascertain what changes need to be made on West Campus in order to meet student needs.

Roby said he has begun engaging in discussions with students in his office, as well as reviewing a 2003 spaceneeds report drafted by Brailsford and Dunlavey, a facility-planning firm in Washington, D.C. Moneta added that the study—which he said Roby would work to contemporize —assessed space needs in the Bryan Center and West Union, and led to the proposal for the Plaza.

“I would say that the first piece of that puzzle will be the West Union—the role ofhow it uses food service and dining,” Roby said, referring to administrators’ assessment ofWest Campus space needs.

Although some administrators said they hoped to see renovations begin by the end of the calendar year, Lange said he expected it would take about a year for West Union-related projects to start.

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DSG and ICC now each select 10 electors to sit on the 20-person nominating committee, and votes for the final three candidates are weighted in order to give both groups equal representation.

“Before, the burden of reading applications was on ICC in the first step, but all the power was in the second step and given to DSG,” said sophomore Jordan Giordano, DSG vice president for community interaction and ICC chair. “Now that burden is shared.”

But Burnett said that because the DSG president —who is also on ICC—could sit on the nominating committee as one of the 10 ICC members, DSG could have more leverage in the selection process and potentially lobby for a candidate drawn from DSG. Other members of ICC said, however, that the current allegations of cronyism were not necessarily accurate.

“DSG is really the only truly representative body on campus—the only elected body,” said senior Jay Ganatra, Campus Council president and a member ofICC. “Give it another one or two years to see what changes are necessary. What I think people need to be aware of is oftentimes candidates from DSC are just going to win because they’re great candidates.”

Some ICC members also said they believe the perceived inequity was actually balanced in other ways.

“I think everyone will say ICC had more power this year,” Ganatra said. “ICC lost some power when it came to selecting the final four candidates from the 16 [semifinalists], but [made] huge gains when it came to selecting the final candidate, where it was really getting to the cream of the crop.

We couldn’t even just select three—we had to choose four.”

Before the changes were draftedJan. 17 and implemented in February, ICC chose three finalists from the applicant pool, and DSG members voted in the final selection.

Voting ICC members who ran for Young Trustee—and thus could not be present in the selection process —could select a proxy who could potentially vote for them.

“They could pick their best friend, their roommate —it didn’t matter,” Giordano said.

After this was cited as a conflict of interest, the policy was also revamped so that ICC members running for Young Trustee may only select the president, vice president or second-in-line of their organizations as voting replacements.

Although members of the nominating committee said the changes were successful in this year’s process, some said the response may have been different if another Young Trustee candidate had been chosen. .

They noted that senior Ben Abram, who was selected, was not affiliated with either DSG or ICC. “People feel a certain way based on the results, so perhaps people would have felt differently about the process if one of the DSG nominees had won,” Burnett said.

ICC met to discuss the process and its changes following Abram’s appointment.

Giordano said that although the committee was generally pleased with the process, there were individuals who had very strong opinions about the distribution of power.

There was dissatisfaction on both sides, making it difficult to determine the best appropriation of power, he added.

“Really the only way to get it to be completely equal is if the same ICC and DSC committee votes, and then let the entire student body vote for the final selection,” Ganatra said, adding that the feasibility of such a proposal is also debatable.

Giordano said the committee has no immediate plans for further change, in order to avoid a constant redrafting of the procedure.

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“The Crown family has already been incredibly supportive of Duke,” President Richard Brodhead said in a statement. “I am grateful that this gift will go toward what I regard as our most fundamental obligation: providing our students with the financial suppoft that will enable them to reach their potential.”

The $4.25 million provided for scholarships also supports the University’s Financial Aid Initiative, which aims to raise $3OO million overa period of three years, FAI Director Susan Ross said.

The Crown gift brings the FAI total to $2lB million, on track to reach its goal by December 2008, she added.

“Our family wholeheartedly supports Duke’s needblind admissions policy, and we want to ensure its legacy by strengthening the University’s permanent financial aid endowment,” Paula Crown, Trinity ’BO and a member of the Duke Board of Trustees, said in a statement. “We believe deeply in the University’s pursuit of academic excellence and service to society, and we are pleased to be part of this important initiative.”

The Crown Family Lacrosse Scholarship aims to support male and female lacrosse players demonstrating excellence in academics and leadership. Keat Crown, Trinity ’OO, is a former co-captain of the men’s lacrosse team and currendy serves as the Duke Annual Fund’s national chair of young alumni leadership giving.

The funds for summer fellowship will support the recently announced DukeEngage, a $3O-million initiative to promote civic engagement worldwide for Duke undergraduates.

“We are especially pleased our gift can support DukeEngage, which will enable Duke students to participate in serious service activities locally, nationally or globally,” Paula Crown said.

Ross said it is common for individual gifts, like the Crowns’, to be designated across a spectrum of areas—such as summer opportunities and athletics —because donors tend to support programs that are meaningful to them.

“All of these programs benefit from gift support from alumni, and the fundraising staff tries to match up the donors’ interests with the needs on campus,” Ross wrote in an e-mail.

The gift, like the entire FAI, is designated for endowment, making it a permanent gift that will build upon itself.

“The $5 million will be invested by Duke and only the income will be used; thus every year in perpetuity there will be Crown Scholarships awarded,” Ross said.

“Over time, hundreds and hundreds of students will be supported by this permanent endowment fund—it will never run out.”

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“Maybe students really do want a chance to dress up rather than just getting drunk on a Friday night,” Gao said.

DUU President Katelyn Donnelly, a junior, said the Doris Duke Center presented a far better alternative to the Bryan Center, where similar events have been hosted in previous years.

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Duke Royale catered not only to the undergraduate population but also to graduate students who attended the event in full force, Donnelly said.

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Many graduate students said that although there is still a perceptible divide between the undergraduate and graduate student cultures, events such as Duke Royale provide rare opportunities to socialize together.

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GregPaulus and the Blue Devils cannot be blamed for getting a feeling of deja vu as the buzzer sounded on their season Thursday night.

It was the same situation in which Duke had found itself on the first Thursday in Februseason ary at Virginia. Just like wrapup in the Blue Devils’ season-ending loss to VCU, Paulus’ last-second three fell harmlessly to the floor, resulting in a heartbreaking loss for Duke.

The two images of Paulus—devastated after losses to two Virginia schools—encapsulate Duke’s season and stand as the bookends to a tumultuous six weeks that eventually ended with the Blue Devils’ earliest exit from the NCAA Tournament in 11 seasons.

The overtime loss to the Cavaliers start-

ed a four-game losing streak that pushed Duke into the middle of the ACC standings. The loss to the Rams in the first round of the NCAA Tournament capped a second four-game losing streak—this one pushing the Blue Devils into a long offseason.

“This is the hardest loss I’ve ever had,” freshman Jon Scheyer said after the VCU game. “Obviously, it’s not an easy way to lose at any point in the season, especially not in the last game.”

It is fitting that Duke’s struggles in the final moments of that game ended its season prematurely. All year long, an inability to pull out close games defined the Blue Devils.

“We just didn’t do the tough things down the stretch,” junior DeMarcus Nelson said last Thursday.

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Open trailers and an unpainted wooden shed house the program’s oars, equipment and boat shells.

When those boats are on the water, they can move at tremendous speeds behind the force of strong, fit female athletes. At the starting line of a race, the hull of the boat sits deep in the water. As the race begins, the rowers take several half strokes to lift the boat to the top of the water, where they can perform full strokes with maximum effect As Duke rowing begins its spring season, after more than eight years of half strokes, the program may just now be reaching the top of the water.

Promoted to the varsity level largely because ofTitle DC requirements and without a true long-term vision, the program has still managed to achieve success in the sport The Blue Devils are currently ranked second in the South region, and the first varsity eight boat was named ACC

Crew of the Week Monday after finishing at the Longhom Invitational in Texas over spring break, But the program has also faced a number of challenges and internal issues that have hindered its growth. A concerning frequency of injuries and a high turnover rate have limited the team’s depth, and the program still has no true facilities ofits own as the rowers toil in virtual anonymity miles from a campus on which many do not realize the sport is indeed varsity, Title IX was signed into law in 1972, with the intent of preventing any discrimination based on sex by educational institutions. Since 1979, its primary interpretation has been as it relates to athletics programs, By the numbers, Title DC is working. The number of women competing in varsity sports at NCAA schools has risen from 74,239 in 1982 to 166,728 in 2005. But some of the requirements have come under criticism as an artificial quota system, especially as several schools have cut men’s sports to reach an adequate proportionality.

Duke has followed Tide DC since its enforcement, but the regulation had its most direct effect in 1997. The Duke women’s club rowing squad first petitioned for varsity status in 1994,but for three years was not promoted.

In 1997, however, the National Women’s Law Center filed a complaint against 25 schools, including Duke, claiming discrimination in their athletics departments.

Duke’s settlement of this complaint with the Office of Civil Rights required the school to keep the proportion of women’s scholarship money within one percent of their participation rate. By adding rowing and its 16 scholarships—the NCAA maximum is 20 for the sport the University was able to satisfy the requirements.

By adding rowing instead of softball, the athletics department was able to boost female participation rates without a high initial investment in new facilities.

“We had complied with Title IX from the standpoint —

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ROWING from page 9 that-we had continually showed progress,” Director of Athletics Joe Alieva said. “But we had to keep showing that, and rowing was the next natural sport to add because it involved a lot of women and we had a really good interest of the sport through the club program.”

Duke remained in such good standing with the Title IX requirements that the OCR released the school from monitoring a year earlier than planned. Today, the athletic proportionality is not quite equal—females constitute 42.7 percent of athletes and 48 percent of the student body —however, the financial equality mandated by the OCR is evident, as female athletes receive 45.9 percent of athletic financial aid.

CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO (TOP) AND WEIYITAN/THE CHRONICLE But did Duke rush adding a rowing program to satisfy Title IX requirements at the Head coach Robyn Horner (top) has led Duke's varsity women's rowing program for eight seaexpense of the program’s potential for success? Certainly, facing a complaint of not sons despite the lack of a modern boathouse (right). Director of Athletics Joe Alieva said this complying with a federal law, the Universiweekthat Duke is likely to break ground for a new ty needed to act quickly to reach a settiement. But nine years since the inception of facility at the same location this summer or fall. the program, Duke’s rowing squad is still dealing with such basic issues as program schools that are recruiting them,” Homer said. “Because whatwe’ve basically seen is a depth and adequate facilides.

“I think the administration didn’t underjump from maybe five schools that had varsity rowing programs to like 85 schools.” stand rowing as a sport, and they didn’t understand how capital-intensive it was,” head coach Robyn Homer said. “Duke is a natural Issues persist with facilities fit for rowing, because most of the kids that Due to issues obtaining a suitable plot of land, the project of building a new boatrow in high school are very academically-oriented. I think we just have to figure out how house has not yet broken ground, despite the to get our facilities up to par.” fact that Duke’s “Athletic Policy Manual,” last Duke added rowing as a varsity sport in revised in September 2003, stated, “Conthe midst of a larger national trend. While struction of a boathouse for women’s rowing, some schools have had intercollegiate teams currently in the planning stage, is the most since the 1800s, * the phenomenon of pressing facility need for women’s athletics.” women’s rowing as a scholarship sport is a After looking at a number of other plots recent one, spurred almost completely by on Lake Michie and on other local lakes, the requirements of Title IX. Despite its Alieva said the new boathouse will be built in the location where the team currently costs, rowing is an ideal sport for improving an athletics department’s proportionality practices and houses its equipment. Nearly figures because it provides opportunities to all the other options were either deemed so many women —last year Duke’s program financially infeasible or were rejected by included 63 athletes—and helps balance out the Durham City Council.

Alieva said he is currently going a Division I school’s 85 football scholarships.

And the growth has been tremendous, through the process of obtaining final apoutpacing the already noticeable growth in proval and funding to build the new boatwomen’s sports in general. In the 1982-83 house, and that construction will most likeseason, there were 25 varsity women’s rowly begin sometime this summer or fall.

For now, Duke must compete for recruits ing teams in Division I featuring 831 athletes. By the 2004-05 season, those numagainst schools that have multi-million dollar bers had skyrocketed to 85 teams with boathouses with facilities that often are not as 5,101 women. That increase was sixfold, good as those at the prospect’s high school. while the overall numbers in women’s Divi“A lot of times what we experience is, we’ll get some of the top kids from the U.S sion I sports slightly more than doubled.

Such rapid growth has created an abun[who are interested in Duke],” Horner dance of rowing programs searching for a said. “And then they’ll come on a visit and dearth of athletes. In the United States, be like, ‘Are you kidding me?’”

The rowing program also hopes to collegiate rowers outnumber high school rowers nearly 3 to 1, leaving many procatch up to several of its peer programs grams, including Duke, to rely on foreign with the eventual addition of an indoor talent and non-scholarship walk-ons. This tank, which would serve as a useful alteryear’s Blue Devil roster features six rowers native to rowing machines and could imfrom Canada and two from Australia. prove the efficiency of a team whose prac“There are not enough high-end athtice site is a half-hour from campus. letes in the U.S. yet to supply all the “Looking at building a boathouse, looking

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Duke's rowing team isoff to a strong start this spring and is currently ranked No. 2 in the NCAA's South region.

building a tank, those are all fairly expensive propositions,” Homer said. “I don’tknow if they planned that far down the road.”

Even without major facilities, the operational costs of the program are the highest of any non-revenue sport at Duke. From October 2005 to October 2006, the University spent $210,007 on rowing expenses, not including scholarship money. Much of the expenses stem from the pricey boats and equipment, the extensive amount of travel to away regattas and the constant cost of transportation for the entire team back and forth to Lake Michie. at

adaptations that the training room has made is just realizing if our kids get ten-

dinitis, it’s not OK to let them go a week more and see what happens.”

This year, the team has also attempted to cut down on the number of injuries by focusing in the weight room on preventative measures for susceptible areas. The price of that learning curve, however, is not simply a few less competitive seasons. Several athletes suffered severe injuries in their back, knees and shoulders, often requiring surgery.

“This is something I’m going to have to deal with for the rest of my life. It’s not just going to disappear,” Straight said.

A troubling trend of injuries While the facility concerns are largely out The numbers game The number of injuries in recent years of the program’s immediate control, ovemse health have has added to the already large need to draw and poorly-monitored contributed to a large number of injuries that many team members from the student body.

The rowing team recruits on campus just have significantly slowed its development.

In a sport based on a repetitive motion, like club sports and campus organizations. the number of ovemse injuries is fairly high, An average year brings in 40 to 50 girls, but but within Duke’s program the frequency, only one or two walk-ons per class usually make it through the program for four years. especially of more serious injuries, has conMany walk-ons decide the experience is cerned players and coaches. One former rower, who left the team at the end of her not worth the commitment of 20 to 30 freshman year, estimated that at any one hours per week.

‘You look at your friends who aren’t rowtime last season, as many as 10 girls would be limited in their activity because of injury. ing, and they have so much fun,” said senior On weeks during which the team is not Francesca Polvere, a walk-on who left the competing, there are afternoon workouts team last season. “And this is for a sport that every weekday—two on the lake—a team most people don’t even know we have.”

While the program expects to lose a ceryoga and pilates class Friday morning and tain number ofwalk-ons culled from the gena Saturday morning practice on the lake.

In addition, the rowers are expected to do eral student population, a number ofrecruitmultiple individual workouts during the ed and scholarship athletes have also left the week to maintain their conditioning. Alprogram, citing reasons ranging from injury to a poor rowing culture to clashes with though many on the team said the afternoon practices are a huge improvement coaches. Homer said some prospects may over the morning team practices that were have taken advantage of the program’s need the norm before last season, some said the for numbers to gain admission to the school intensity and volume of the physical effort as a recruited athlete without having the necessary commitment to stick with the sport. are the reasons for a disproportionate “We’ve had good retention with our number of injuries in the team’s history.

“I don’t think it would hinder us to have scholarship kids, but we have not had great more recovery time,” said Amber Straight, retention with our kfds that we’re recruiting a senior who is unable to compete because but not providing scholarships for,” she said. of a bulging disk in her back. “By the end “So it’s a matter of us doing a better job of of the week, I would feel very worn out and weeding out kids that just want to come to I would feel like the practices I was doing Duke versus kids that want to come to Duke and actually want to row for four years.” weren’t helping anymore.” load, defended the Homer practice saying Regardless of the reasons for the departures, it raises the question of the sustainabilit is on par or even less intense than peer programs. Many of the injuries of previous years ity of success for a program that has such a may have come from the combination of a high turnover rate. Last year, the varsity team had five girls quit, several of whom would training room not familiar with ailments particular to rowing and a coaching staffeager to have likely played important roles on this get athletes back from injury. The training year’s squad. And after eight seasons as a varstaff declined to provide comment for this sity sport, the program is still struggling with depth—the Blue Devils’ varsity squad is still story, but the rowing program was given its own trainer for die first time this season. roughly 15 rowers smaller than Virginia’s.

And if that trend continues, the pro“We have not had any new serious injury come up this year, which has not been the gram may indeed never be able to get up case in the past,” Horner said. “One of the out of the water.

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In every loss—even the four games Duke dropped by double digits—the Blue Devils had their chances in the final 10 minutes. But offensive droughts and a lack of timely defensive stops cost Duke repeatedly.

The offense had shouldered the blame throughout much of the season, as field goal droughts at inopportune times cost the Blue Devils in games against Marquette and Virginia among others.

In the final four games, however, it was the defense that let Duke down. After giving up 59.0 points per game through the first 29 contests of the year, the Blue Devils allowed an average of 83.8 points in the final four games of the season.

In its postseason losses to N.C. State and VCU, Duke was particularly incapable of coming up with stops at the end of the game. The Wolfpack scored on every possession in overtime in its 85-80 upset of the Blue Devils in the first round of the ACC Tournament, exploiting Duke’s lack of depth on interior.

The Rams, meanwhile, scored on their final five possessions to knock the Blue Devils out of the NCAA Tournament. VCU point guard Eric Maynor scored six of those points, including the game-winning jumper with 1.8 seconds left.

Maynor, like Sean Singletarybefore him, came through in the clutch when Duke could not.

The Blue Devils, however, would not have been in that situation if they had not surrendered a 13-point lead. In fact, Duke had let a 13-point lead slip away in the loss to Virginia, as well. For the season, the Blue Devils lost four games in which they held a double-digit lead.

“We have to put teams away and protect our leads,” sophomore Josh Mcßoberts said after the Virginia loss in February. “We were up [l3] at some point and we let them back into it. When you put yourselves in that position, bad things are going to happen, and that’s what happened to us.”

Many of Duke’s struggles can be attributed to the team’s youth. Nelson was the only upperclassmen to receive substantial playing time, and the team relied heavily on its freshman class. Although that inexperience showed in some of the season’s most crucial moments, the Blue Devils plan to build upon this year’s foundation for 2007-08—starting with the memory of their most painful defeats.

“You hope that everything you do that didn’t turn out as well as you would have liked, you can use as a source of motivation,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Our kids have always been wanting to get better, so we use an experience like this. And it hurts. When you lose in the last few seconds, after playing so hard all game, it’s not an easy thing to forget. I think we should use it as a motivation to get better, so that’s what we’ll use it as.”

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line: college stu- address the very important isdents drink. Alcohol sues of substance abuse and stuwill always be a salient dent health, The approach was apt. part of students’ lives at Duke It’s simply unreand on college alistic to expect alacross campuses editorial the country. cohol and underAnd in its recent report —a age drinking to disappear from controversial document that the lives of college students. It has drawn intense scrutiny would be myopic and ultimatesince its release last month—- ly counterproductive for the the Campus Culture Initiative University to take steps to deny Steering Committee seems to a place for alcohol on campus.

And while Duke has a responsiacknowledge this fact.

Indeed, perhaps more than bility to enforce current U.S. laws, it has been wise to avoid in any other section of the reheavy, top-down policies that port, the committee’s suggeswould likely do little but entionsfor alcohol show a real understanding of undergraduate courage student resistance. Instudent life. Refraining from stead of focusing on the fact that students under the age of drastic and distasteful proposals for changes to student social 21 drink on campus, the Unilife, the CCI Report presents versity must look to create polifive broad and relatively tame cies that encourage responsirecommendations that aim to ble drinking and create _

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The CCI Report cites some important statistics. Last year, 37 freshmen went to the emergency room for alcohol-related medical reasons, seven of whom made the trip during orientation week alone. Dozens visit Counseling and Psychological Services with symptoms of alcoholism every year.

CAPS, the CCI Steering Committee further notes, cannot adequately address these issues, and the University is not equipped to monitor the longterm issues surrounding alcoholism. So the CCI recommends that Duke create resources to better treat and prevent substance abuse and clarify University policies and punishments for alcohol-related offenses. In addition, it

urges the University to reduce the centrality of alcohol at social events and create attractive venues for 300-400 people that would allow for the controlled distribution of drinks.

These recommendations make sense. More than anything else, the administration should work to allocate more resources that help students avert dangerous drinking habits and, of course, effectively target disorderly and disrespectful behavior. The University should not ignore students’ desires to drink, but should instead continue to design outlets for students to drink socially.

Less clear, however, is the CCI Steering Committee’s desire to “implement an evidencebased approach... to alcohol policy, initiatives, and accounta-

I have encountered some ignorance, but not offensive ignorance.... People, I think, have opinions or have some conceptions ofJudaism that might not be true.

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his testimony to Congress on Capitol Hill March 7, Microsoft Corp. Chair Bill Gates suggested a massive increase in H-1B visas saying, “It makes no sense to tell well-trained, highly skilled individuals—many of whom are educated at our top colleges and universities —that the United States does not welcome or value them. For too many foreign students and professionals, however, our immigration olir >d prepolicies seru W3II, & RdnilH cisely this message.”

From a student perguest column spective, however, we don’t completely agree with Gates. We are of the opinion that students graduating from accredited U.S. universities be automatically qualified for Permanent Residency (Green Cards).

H-1B visas allow U.S. corporations and universities to temporarily employ foreign workers who have the equivalent to a U.S. bachelor’s degree.

Corporations argue that these visas provide a steady flow of highly skilled professionals who are in short supply, and reduce the need for them to move their operations abroad.

The H-1B system is itself tied up in knots. Firsdy, international students who apply for an F-l student visa to the United States must comince the authorities that they do not intend to remain in the country after they graduate from school. At the same time, there exists a quota of 20,000 visas to be issued to candidates who have graduated with a master’s degree from a U.S. university. It seems die U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is contradicting itself here.

From a student perspective, the H-1B system is nothing but a bundle of inconveniences. The H-1B visa has a six-year time limit, putting immigrants and their families at the risk of being forced to return to their home country if theirGreen Card application is not approved before this 6-year deadline. H-1B holders must leave the United States if they are laid off or if the sponsoring company goes out of business. Spouses of H-1B holders need a separate sponsor in order to be able to work or to even obtain a Social Security number. An H-1B holder can only work for their sponsoring employer and they can’t start new businesses.

A study conducted by a team ofresearchers from the Master of Engineering Management Program at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering revealed that skilled immigrants provide the United States with a global edge by contributing to the economy, creating jobs and leading innovation. Immigrants are fueling the creation of hi-tech businesses across our nation and creating a wealth of intellectual property. The MEM team made thousands of phone calls and received responses from 2,054 ;

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ketball bonfires and Last Day of Classes festivities. To date, such events are perhaps the best forums for engaging all parts of the Duke student community.

“Clamping down” could mean running the risk of reducing these activities to empty traditions—existing in name but not in community spirit.

And so, as they push forward, we ask administrators to increase the number ofoutlets for responsible drinking and not to waste time attempting to rewrite the role of alcohol for college-aged students.

This is the fifth in a series of editorials about the recommendations in the recently released Campus Culture Initiative Report.

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engineering and technology companies founded in the United States from 1995 to 2005.

In 25.3 percent of these companies, at least one key founder was foreign-bom. Immigrants were most highly represented as founders in the semiconductor, computer, communications and software fields.

Of all immigrant-founded companies, 26 percent have Indian founders. � In the fields of engineering and technology, over half (52.4 percent) of Silicon Valley startups and 18.7 percent of Research Triangle Park startups had one or more immigrants as a key founder.

Nationwide, these immigrant-founded companies produced $52 billion in revenues and employed 450,000 workers in 2005.

The team’s analysis of the World Intellectual Property Organization patent databases revealed that immigrants were named as inventors or co-inventors in 24.2 percent of international patent applications filed from the United States in 2006, a majority of whom are Chinese and Indians. Clearly, skilled immigrants have become a significant driving force in the creation of new businesses and intellectual property in the United States—and these contributions have significantly increased over the past decade.

Presently, the wait time for skilled immigrants from India and China to be granted Permanent Resident status (Green Card) stands at nearly six years because the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is backlogged. There is yearly limit of around 140,000 Green Cards for skilled workers and ho more than 9,800 (7 percent) of the visas are allowed to be allocated to immigrants from any one country.

Thus, the proportion of skilled immigrants allowed into the United States from India and China is the same as that for immigrants from Iceland and Senegal. This obviously puts Indian and Chinese immi•

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grants at a disadvantage.

Thus, the present immigration policy does no good for America. Immigrants educated in U.S. universities and trained in U.S. corporations are forced to return home, to become competitors. We believe that a more practical solution would be to automatically grant Green Cards to international students completing degrees in mathematics, engineering and sciences from accredited institutions of higherlearning.

Carefully screening and being highly selective about the quality of students being admitted into the United States would help the country maintain its

competitive edge.

Lokesh Mrig Liyao Wan and Jyothi Kanuri are international students currently enrolled in the Master of Engineering Management Program at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. They are core members of theDuke GlobalEngineering and Entrepreneurship research team.

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The coming civil war

We want Bradley Whitford

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year ago, the editors of The Chronicle’s 101st volume heartily congratulated Professor Emeritus John Hope Franklin on his selection as the Class of 2006’s commencement speaker.

No one, the paper’s mouthpiece said, was better qualified to deliver the address. “[S]uch a man, though humbly included among our faculty, though living and teaching in our midst, is truly a national treasure,” the editorial board wrote (“A valediction forbidding top choices,” March 28, 2006). “To ’•Sir accord him the privi«'■ lege of speaking at commencement is to remind students what an honor and privilege it is sarah ball to attend a university with such top-notch facsome got pencils ulty—and as the members of the Class of 2006 subsequently pour out into the world, with what better piece of information could they leave?”

More than half of that staff editorial’s wordage lauded Franklin as a choice. The remaining paragraphs, however, addressed the issue of rampant student disappointment with the selection process. The two are related, but not inextricably linked. Few if any students expressed disappointment with Franklin as a speaker. But plenty of students were miffed to see Franklin, one of our own, as the choice for speaker.

Muffled student disappointment reemerged this week, as The Chronicle reported Tuesday that a member of the University’s Board ofTrustees and co-chair ofthe Financial Aid Initiative will deliver this year’s commencement address. Speaker Richard Wagoner, chairman and CEO of General Motors Corp., received his undergraduate education at Duke (Trinity ’75), and in the words ofPresident Richard Brodhead, “He loves this university and has served it in a thousand ways.”

What do students find disappointing about Wagoner?

Certainly not his lack of accomplishments (GM’s recent failings notwithstanding); lauded as a brilliant international businessman, he is the youngest CEO in GM’s history.

And it cannot be a question of his loyalty —his blood runneth Duke blue, with two ofhis kids, his wife and his father all fellowBlue Devils. His alumnus status isn’t the problem, either.Few objected to Ricardo Lagos, the former Chilean president who received a Ph.D. in economics from Duke, tetwit-'uaMaxi's.

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when he was selected to address the Class of 2005 Perhaps it is a question of Wagoner’s salience. His heavy involvement on several Duke boards suggests that it was not particularly difficult to coax him into speaking.

Meanwhile, without reading the lede of The Chronicle story or without being an economics major, most students cannot identify Wagoner. (No such problem, incidentally, with John Hope Franklin.) In economic terms, perhaps Wagoner is a widely available, generic substitute for a brand-name item.

The university valediction is a rare honor, yet it is not without a very specific function. It is an exhortation forbidding students from taking their call to service too lightly.

Bold claims about what a Duke education has done for our seniors, and what our seniors can do for the future ofDuke education, will perhaps ring hollow when coming from a member of our own Board.

A graduation address should not seek to spritz butane on the raging flames ofDuke’s self-congratulation.

I don’t think that’s the crux of it, though.

Princeton’s Class Day speaker this year will be Bradley Whitford, the keenly intelligent Wesleyan graduate and actor from The West Wing; our friends at Stanford are playing host to renowned poet Dana Gioia, chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts. Yale welcomes back alum and foreign affairs genius Farced Zakaria this spring to deliver a commencement weekend speech, while the University of Virginia has nabbed novelist John Grisham and Dave Matthews Band violinist Boyd Tinsley for its bon voyage addresses.

The scope and magnitude of the above-listed’s accomplishments aren’t greater than those of Wagoner—who, again, is by most accounts, a very smart and talented man. It is the nature of what those accomplishments are that is different. These poets, academics, writers, artists and musicians who will impart wisdom to some of the nation’s most gifted 22-year-olds are people who have made career paths not out of interpreting bottom lines, but out of interpreting the human experience.

The wisdom they can offer is not inherently better than Wagoner’s wisdom, but it is different.

At a school that professes to uphold a civically engaged, socially active education model, it would seem we’d prefer the former’s wisdom over the latter’s.

Shouldn’t the capstone Duke experience for the Class of 2007 reflect that institutional preference?

Sarah Ball is a Trinity juniorandformer editorialpage editor

of The Chronicle. Her column runs every Thursday.

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capital city that’s recently seen significant political upheaval

is now hanging on the edge of bitter civil war; the new Democratic majority seems ready to go to war with itself.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi finds herself in an unenviable position, playing peacemaker while trying to pass legislation. So far she’s been successful, but it’s increasingly doubtful if she can maintain order.

Since Vietnam, the Demo cratic Party has seen two parallel paths of development. One branch is the remnant of the Solid South, conservativeminded Democrats from states like Mississippi, Tennessee and Missouri. These “Blue Dogs” are often pro-gun gill stevens and prolife; many are also the other conservative wary ofefforts to withdraw our troops from Iraq immediately.

The other end of the spectrum is dominated by a group often described as “progressive.”

These members agitate for universal health care and a bigger government; a subgroup is leading the charge for immediate retreat In the middle are the remaining “moderate” Democrats, the foundation on which Pelosi must build a majority on most votes.

Since the election, both factions have begun to feel somewhat unappreciated and both have begun to realize they can throw their weight around. All grievances have some legitimacy: progressive organizers, the so-called “netroots,” contributed to the victory though their valuation of their contribution may be overstated. These organizers also backed some Blue Dogs, such as North Carolina’s Heath Shuler, which has given both factions a greater sense ofentitlement.

The restlessness is increasingly apparent on Iraq, where a strange dynamic has developed. Progressives threaten to oppose measures that aren’t sufficiently anti-war whileBlue Dogs are wary of efforts to undercut the troops. As has been recently evidenced in the fight over funding for the troops, Pelosi is reduced to reminding Progressives that should they vote against her bill, they’ll help defeatDemocratic efforts. Should that happen, she’s threatened to offer a bill even more antithetical to Progressive foolishness, which will likely be passed by a mixture of Blue Dogs and Republicans.

Having held their noses to support “unenlightened” candidates, Progressives feel they have been denied a seat at the table. Instead, so the indictment goes, the allegedly “evil” Democratic Leadership Council (that pro-business and pro-free trade effort that actually produced the last Democratic president) has been trying to silence them. They howled when freshmen were briefed not by old-school labor hacks but by Clinton Treasury officials; they felt short-changed when their candidate for Majority Leader was defeated.

And if they feel betrayed, activists and some members may seek revenge. That all of these alleged slights may only be imagined is almost irrelevant—notall involved seem to have a sure grip on reality, as evidenced by one Caucus member’s infamous hearings into the ClA’s role in distributing crack in inner cities (let that sink in for a moment).

The most likely mechanism for revenge would be grassroots primary challenges to offending members. California Democrat Ellen Tauscher is already hearing rumblings of such an insurgency. There is in all of this an unsettling element of a quest for ideological purity; the progressives seem to believe they are on the forefront of a revolution in American politics that will usher in a quasi-socialist paradise and thosewho stand in theirway, Republicans or unprogressive Democrats alike, must be removed.

Such fratricide is by no means inevitable: Pelosi has thus far held the warring factions together. But a tipping point may be approaching. It could be Iraq. It could be the U.S. Attorneys scandal, which might finally cause Progressives to attempt impeachment against administration officials, despite Pelosi’s express refusal to allow any such action.

But if it comes I’ll be content. We’ll see an end to the myth of a unified, “big tent” Democratic Party as the Progressives the embodiment of every negative stereotype about the party —take over and display their true colors. What will happen to the Blue Dogs is unclear. But Republicans will be waiting in the wings, reenergized and refocused on core principles by their time in the minority. I’m not suggesting any sort of manifest destiny such as progressives seem to subscribe to.

Merely, I think voters will remember some of the reasons Democrats were unseated in the first place.

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GillStevens is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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Eric Bishop recess For a vampire, Eric Elbogen is pretty subdued. He doesn’t speak with a creepy accent, his hair isn’t slicked back and his bushy brown beard gives him an appearance more befitting Amish Pennsylvania than Draculian Transylvania.

But Elbogen, lead crooner for indiepop trio Say Hi to Your Mom, softly sings lyrics like, “Most days these fangs are inside someone,” and “I-I-I am gonna drink your blood.” Clearly garlic and sunlight don’t top his list of favorite things.

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Think back to elementary and middle school—the time of playgrounds, recess and everyone’s favorite, classes, like art and music. Ah, the simple life.

But these classes would not be possible in Durham public schools without the Durham Arts Council’s Creative Arts in Public/Private Schools (CAPS) program and the Verizon “Literacy Through The Arts” grant the program has received for the past three years.

The CAPS program has been in existence for 34 years, allowing artists to work in elementary and middle schools and interact with children in a classroom setting.

“The artists can go into schools and create residencies with the curriculum of students and impact students,” said Shana Adams, education and administrative coordinator for Durham Arts Council. “It helps promote cultural knowledge and self-esteem.”

The residencies of the artists, who include both visual and performance artists, typically run over the course offive days for one hour a day in a single class. They cost on average $360 each, but vary depending on the artist a school chooses to invite.

“Schools are allocated two dollars per child in elementary schools and one dollar per child in middle and high schools for CAPS programs,” said Banu Valladares, director of community arts education and partnerships for the Durham Arts Council.

“This allows schools to have a little bit of extra money for the arts. Extra funding comes from PTA fundraisers.”

Yet some schools cannot afford to bring in more than one residency during a school year because of a small student body and/or a relatively inactive PTA. .

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Full Frame finds way into classroom Varun Lella recess Warmly lit with comfortably padded seats and a massive projection screen, the Nasher Museuih of Art Auditorium is not your ordinary classroom—but then again, Documentary Studies 129 is not your ordinary class.

Cross-listed in the film/video/digital, political science and public policy studies programs, the lengthy-titled Contemporary Documentary Film: Filmmakers and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival offers students a unique chance to explore documentary film through the perspectives of filmmakers themselves.

The course, now in its second semester of instruction, is taught by not one professor, but three. David Paletz, director of the Program in by

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Film/Video/Digital, and Tom Rankin, Center for Documentary Studies director, are joined

by Nancy Buirski—Full Frame’s chief executive officer. Students have the rare opportunity to learn from two department directors in a single class.

Rankin said the purpose of the class is beyond learning how to analyze documentary film, learning how it is made and how directors explain their point-of-view.

“What is really important for this class is not only what you learn about the medium, but the issues these films confront—like high school sex education in rural Texas with TheEducation ofShelby Knox.”

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Gore releases hot air, right-wing patience thins

WASHINGTON Fresh off his Oscar victory and riding a wave of newfound hipness, A1 Gore took the good fight to Congress Wednesday in his first hike to the Hill since suffering a defeat in the 2000 presidential elections.

The topic for discussion was, inconveniently enough for the senators, a truthful one. Gore took the time to call for a non-partisan response to the issue of global warming in America.

Gore was almost immediately attacked across the Internet by conservative critics calling him a showboating charlatan. Robert Ferguson of the Center for Science and Public Policy led the fray, writing, “He travels the world emitting CO2 into the atmosphere, while enriching himself with $lOO,OOO payoffs for telling people to inflate their car tires, change their light bulbs and drive less.”

Many Republicans echoed these words, noting, from the driver’s seat of their token SUV, Gore’s failure to convert to the new hybrid jets reported to get up to 50 miles to the gallon in the city and 75 on the highway.

Ferguson is again spot-on targeting Gore’s many “payoffs,” or as we call them at Duke, “compensations for travel and speech-giving.” Clearly Gore can’t be expected to give accurate information if he is being paid for his time and effort!

It is so refreshing to hear from a non-partisan source who hasn’t spent

24 years as a Republican Congressional staffer and whose corporation hasn’t accepted funding from Exxon Mobil, God bless you, Robert Ferguson.

Gore also came under fire from within Congress. When addressing the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Gore exchanged heated words with senior Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma.

Few were surprised given the senator’s stance on global warming, which he called in a press conference “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.”

Although this message seems harsh, it is important to take into account the context behind the senators message—he had been responding to the following question; “Mr. Senator, excluding the promise of WMDs in Iraq, Watergate, 95% of senatorial hearings, the supposed sightings of Bigfoot at a Starbucks in Queens, and anything else coming out of the George W. Bush Administration, what do you think is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people?”

Despite Gore’s cunning strategy of presenting scientific evidence and asking for reasonable debate, experts agree that it was a successful day for the defenders of the right-wing. Final score? Insanely myopic conservatives: I—Planet Earth: 0.

—Alex Wan

askrecess Dear recess, My friends and I want to get away for a weekend before the semester ends. Where can we go ifwe don’t want to have to spend a ton of money on a short trip?

Asheville, N.C., is the perfect place to retreat to with friends or your better halffor a romantic get-away. About a three-and-a-half-hour drive from Durham, the liberal town in the western part of the state is close enough to drive too, yet far enough away from campus to offer a change of scenery.

Stay at a bed and breakfast rather than a hotel to keep costs down, and take advantage of the breakfasts and other complimentary fare. Exploreasheville.com is a great site listing all the hotels in the area and things to do.

While there, don’t miss taking a tour of the Biltmore Estate. Though the tickets are a tad pricey at $38.00, the estate can provide an entire day of entertainment, complete with a tour of the winery and a wine tasting.

Another cost-effective (and adventurous) option is hiking. Most of the trails are a bit of a drive from downtown, but worth it for fantastic views and outdoor fun. A drive down the Blue Ridge Parkway is also good way to go to experience nature in the area, and those wanting to stop and go for a walk can do so at Craggy Gardens (one of the lookout points along the Parkway).

At night, there are abundant restaurants and bars to frequent, ranging from a pizzeria featuring live bluegrass tunes to upscale wine bars.

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Tekken 3: Dark Resurrection is a near-perfect port of the arcade fighter to the Play Station 3. But is there enough substance to this sequel to make it out of the cave?

The short answer is yes. At $19.99, the game is a bargain, and can be downloaded at any time from Play Station Online. While there are a few drawbacks, there are more than enough new features to make it worth the money.

The main letdown is a general lack of story and practice modes. Most character endings are removed, and the single player game feels just like the arcade version.

That said, the real value of a console fighting game is in its Vs. Mode. If players will enjoy beating on their friends for any extended period of time, the developers have done their jobs. In this light, Dark Resurrection is a clear success.

The game plays much better than its predecessor. The control system is simple to learn and easy to master and an enhanced character roster makes it easy to find a fighter you connect with.

Characters’ fighting styles are quite diverse, increasing the game’s replay value as players have to adjust to unique combinations.

Graphics are an improvement over the Play Station 2 version, though not quite up to next-gen standards.

That said, the addition of a customizable character creation system adds much needed flavor to the action. Players are given the chance to use points acquired in Vs. and Arcade modes to purchase outfits and craft their own takes on Tekken favorites.

While not quite a full sequel, Dark Resurrection is a solid, stand-alone fighter well worth its price tag.

—Alex Wan

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Nasher highlights local contemporary artist Exhibit showcases 40 years worth of work by a former University psychology professor Mike Haley recess You might not associate psychology lectures with pieces of art, but former Duke professor Irwin Kremen has brought both to the University.

The first retrospective of the works of Irwin Kremen, a local artist who has been featured in nearly 40 shows internationally, opens today at the Nasher Museum ofArt. Irwin Kremen: Beyond Black Mountain (1966 to 2006) features over 160 works —collages, paintings and sculptures from Kremen’s 40 years as an artist.

“We wanted to do this exhibition because Irwin Kremen is a very important artist, yet his work is under-recognized,” said Kimerly Rorschach, the Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans Director of the Nasher Museum. “Because his works—collages, works on paper—are fragile and cannot be on view for long periods of time, the public does not know his work as well as they might.”

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op his own collagist method —affixing materials with paper hinges instead of the traditional glue —but his portfolio includes more than just collages. Paintings as well as sculptures made of various metals and woods will also be on display.

Notably, the show features several monumentallysized works Kremen made along with William Nolan, a professor in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies.

The three Kremen/Nolan collaborations—“still [untitled],” “[III]” and “Too”—are “open composition” works that include large open spaces allowing the viewer to not only see the work from the outside, but also move within it.

The exhibition is curated by Sarah Schroth, the Nancy Hanks senior curator at the Nasher.

“It’s amazing that Irwin Kremen was able to accomplish what he did—2l solo exhibitions in 30 years—while working outside the mainstream of contemporary art,” Schroth said in a press release. “His collages are stunningly beautiful and mysterious; his art speaks in another language, one with very ancient roots, and mystical in an abstract way Though Kremen’s work has been featured in a solo and group exhibitions, he never intended to become an artist After working in publishing in Greenwich Village, Chicago-born Kremen earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Harvard and ultimately joined the Duke psychology faculty in 1963. Three years later, at the age of 41, jii Kremen put together his work. first Originally, Kremen’s pieces were meant for him and his family. Of course, his passion eventually carried his art far outside the walls of his home “Once I started making a few works, it touched some deep vein within me,” Kremen said in a press release. “As I continued to work, it took on the deepest ”

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artists over to these needier schools that cannot foot the bill, and covers both artists’ fees and supplies. Valladares explains the program as working on a sliding scale system.

“The grant depends on the percent of students eligible for free or reduced lunches and if the schools are under Title I,” Valladares said. “So some schools get 100 percent of their fees covered, and it goes all the way down to covering only 60 percent for some schools.”

The $5OOO is significantly less than the $7500 it has been provided in previous years.

“It’s less, which is usually the case with grant orders,” Valladares explained. “You get less each year to encourage you to find other places for funding.”

No matter what the subsidy, this grant represents an enormous windfall for area schools, providing an influx of arts enrichment and education from nearby artists.

The residencies of Joy Acey, a local poet and performance artist, typifies the experience that CAPS and the grant can provide to

Irwin Kremen, Catch as Catch Can, No. 4,1982. Collection of the Wichita Art Museum. Part of the exhibition, Irwin Kremen. Beyond Black

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schools “Two of the things I do are poetry, North Carolina poets and poet laureates,” said Acey. “We [the students and I] create poems and orally present them at a poet tea at the end of the week. It’s going through the entire process.”

Acey notes that this process is integral to enriching the education of Durham schoolchildren who may have little contact with the arts.

“Most of these schools are focusing on writing tests, so they’re drilled all the time on writing,” Acey said. “This is an opportunity for them to see writing as something creative and fun, but are still developing skills they can use on the test.”

Willa Brigham, a CAPS artist who writes children’s songs and short stories and hosts the Emmy Award winning television show Smart Start Kids, agrees with Acey’s sentiments.

“I’m a guest artist, not a teacher, so I can be flamboyant and outrageous,” said Brigham. “I bring a different view to these classrooms. My stories come to life in away that teachers that aren’t as exhilarant or outrageous can’t do.”

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Over 160 works by Irwin Kremen, above, are included in the exhibit. and most profound meaning for me—and that’s what kept me going.”

Kremen’s works will be on display in the Johnson Pavilion and will be arranged loosely in chronological order; several of his works, including the “open composition” sculptures, will be exhibited in the Mary D. B.T. Semans Great Hall.

The “Re’eh Series,” featuring works inspired by the Holocaust, is walled off from the other works in the Johnson Pavilion.

The "Reva K. Series” is also on view apart from the other works.

The series is named after the artist’s late mother.

“This exhibition is referred to as a retrospective, meaning it covers much of what I’ve done in the way of art,” said Kremen who at 82 still lives in Durham. “It’s a very moving experience for me to see, all together, in one place, what I’ve done over the past 40 years. I’m very grateful for the opportunity to have it.”

Irwin Kremen: Beyond Black Mountain (1966 to 2006) will be on display at the Nasher from March 22 to June 17, 2007.

Willa Brigham, a Creative Arts in Public/Private Schools artist, writes and performs children's songs.

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quiry requirement as a Trinity undergraduate, but initially had a few concerns.

“I came in thinking of documentaries as boring, stale, but I have really enjoyed the films we have seen,” Saperstein said. “It has changed the way I see and analyze films and let me see things I am not exposed to on a regular basis.”

Buirski, who founded Full Frame as the Double Take Documentary Film Festival in 1998, said the class’s unique draw is its close relationship with the April event.

“It is really a feather in our cap,” she said. “It may be the first time that a film festival is part of the curriculum at any university.”

The festival, now celebrating its tenth year, has been a boon to the city, attracting high-profile celebrities—like A1 Franken and Danny DeVito—and tourists who come to see

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which runs for four hours once-a-week, range from Academy Award-nominated war doc Iraq in Fragments to TV documentary The Last Days ofLeft Eye, which chronicles the death of TLC member Lisa Lopes.

Although the class encourages a heavy focus on the study of film, many of the students, like Rachel Saperstein, are not budding filmmakers.

The junior said she took the class as an interesting way to fill her Science, Technology and Society Mode of In-

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quips—even his distinct, childish voice—

Adam Sandler takes on the role of the distraught widower Charlie Fineman in Reign Over Me. Unfortunately, Sandler’s solid performance is the only compelling element of Director Mike Binder’s film.

Charlie, complete with a coiffure reminiscent ofBob Dylan, has lost his wife and three daughters in the Sept. 11 plane crash and, five years later, has yet to recover. Once a well-to-do dentist, Charlie is now a man deeply suffering from posttraumatic stress.

Not only has he become a shell of his former self, but has also suppressed all memories of his past life. Charlie doesn’t

the films. Full Frame also adds to Durham’s revitalization effort by providing Bull City with the prestige of a worldrecognized film festival.

“It is an enormously rich opportunity,” Rankin said.

‘You could go to any major city in America and not have this opportunity.”

Although the festival in past years has been well-attended by out-of-towners and Durhamites alike, it has been historically overlooked by many Duke students.

“I had not heard of the film festival before this year,” Saperstein said. “Had I heard it existed, I might have gone to it.”

Contemporary Documentary Film students are reto attend a panel and two screenings of the prizewinning films, held April 15. However, Buirski said she hopes students enrolled in the class will encourage other students to attend.

Beyond mandatory festival attendance, students spend the semester studying mostly Full Frame-screened documentaries and receive four guest lectures by filmmakers who have participated in the festival.

“The speakers really sperate the class from any normal film class. They offer a hands-on perspective on making their movies and the issues they deal with,” Rankin said.

Guest lecturers for this semester include Kirby Dick {This Film Is Not Yet Rated) and MTV’s Lauren Lazin {Tupac: Resurrection). The filmmakers offer what Buirski describes as “an incredible opportunity to discuss film in an intimate setting.”

Although students like Saperstein may not start out as filmmakers, Buirski believes that the course may affect them profoundly.

“I think some of them may decide that they want to create documentaries or enter the film industry,” she added.

If Buirski is right, Contemporary Documentary Film students today may find themselves in the warmly lit confines of Nasher auditorium discussing their films with future students.

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even remember his college roommate, Alan Johnson (Don Cheadle), who re-enters his life following a chance encounter on the streets of New York. The foil to Sandler’s broken character, Cheadle plays a successful dentist who is jaded with his seemingly-perfect life.

Unsurprisingly, the heart of the film is the renewed friendship between these former roomates and their consequential growth and recovery.

Other than taking a refreshingly subtle, yet intimate look at die pain experienced of a widower amidst the patriotic post-Sept. 11 movies, Reign Over Me is an incredibly underdeveloped and underwhelming movie.

For a story dependent on the development of its characters, there is none. Although Charlie’s transformation is stunted at best, Sandler is instead the one who has grown with this film.

—Nancy Wang

THE NAMESAKE DIR M. NAIR FOX SEARCHLIGHT

The Namesake’s trailer advertises the

Penn, who is taking on heftier roles than Kumar with this one and his recent turn on 24, tries a bit too hard to be serious—making his character a little too closed for audiences to connect too. Although Penn is the star, the cute Indian-

poignant journey of a young man, Gogol Ganguli (Kal Penn), who struggles to de-

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fine his identity in terms ofAmerican reality and his family’s Indian roots.

Unfortunately, the movie delivers something entirely different. The painfully slow-moving story follows a newlywed couple who moves to America from India after an arranged marriage, their struggle to maintain their traditions while raising Gogol and his sister and then their adjustment to their children’s adult lives and the loss of a family member. Though the film’s length only hedges two hours, the audience may feel that they too have aged the 25 years Gogol’s parents have.

scenes are an insignificant part of the larger family framework. The real center of the story is his mother, played by actress Tabu, who beautifully portrays one woman’s growth and maturation over a lifetime.

Coming from director Mira Nair, The Namesake, which is based on Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel of the same name, is a disappointment compared to her cridcally acclaimed Monsoon Wedding (2001). Where Monsoon feels genuine and purposeful, The Namesake tries too hard to strike a chord, just missing the heartstrings.

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work. They add a refreshing twist to the sound that made his previous album a success. However, these tracks are few and far between. Even songs such as “The Lake,” which harkens back to Aqualung’s simplistic sound, have lost their glimmer ofbeauty and just seem like failed, lethargic and moody attempts at something pretty. While Aqualung admirably attempts something new with Memory Man, the record’s fragmented meanderings fall short in the end.

—Nancy Wang

THE FRATELLIS COSTELLO MUSIC FALLOUT

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Not unlike college students on Spring Break, the Fratellis’ three primary concerns are sex, intoxication and more sex.

On their debut album, Costello Music, the three-piece Glasgow outfit serves up a slew of testosterone-fueled, feel-good barroom anthems. Though their songs are limited in topical focus, it is precisely the band’s honest self-indulgence and refusal to take itself too seriously that make the album refreshing and original in its own right.

The album’s jaunty, up-tempo tracks connect smoothly in a narrative ofraunchy hotel hookups and post-pub tete-a-tetes.

With such musical chemistry, it’s surprising that the members of the band aren’t actually brothers, as their adoption of the surname “Fratelli” would suggest. Jon Fratelli’s gravelly voice keeps listeners riveted, as he vacillates between wild, sustained growling and charmingly lackadaisical, boyish coos of “la la” and “doo ba doo.” Bandmates Barry and Mince provide perfect musical support, creating a sensation of controlled raucousness with tight, thrashing guitardriven rhythms that sound like a less studiopolished amalgam of fellow U.K rockers Dirty Pretty Things and Franz Ferdinand.

Standout tracks include “Chelsea Dagger,” the tale of a fling with a petty thief, and “Vince theLoveable Stoner,” on which Barry trills a banjo while Jon croons playfully about a happy-go-lucky hippie who goes through girls and joints fester than Afro Man. An effortlessly unique and memorable debut, Costello Music offers all the fun of a night of gin-soaked debauchery, with none of that nasty melancholic hangover. Cheers.

—Jessica Matuozzi

��� � � Listen to most any tune by Isaac Brock and you imagine being in his circle of friends or even his band—formerly indie, still rockers Modest Mouse—has to be a somewhat scary experience. (Guitarist Johnny Marr took up the challenge, joining the troupe for this effort; but then, he worked for Morrissey in the Smiths, too.)

To say nothing of an old rape accusation (charges were never pressed), singer Brock is an emotional roller coaster. On We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank, he whimpers, screams, moans, cajoles, berates and whispers —all within, say, a couple of measures. For example, take lead-off track “March Into The Sea,” whereBrock growls spooky lyrics like, “I wish death on myself,” followed by maniacal laughs, all over nursery-rhyme melodies. Eesh.

Listening is a much more pleasant experience, though, !as 1.5 million-some mainstream music listeners who bought 2004’s platinum seller Good News for People Who Like Bad News found out. Brock delivers 14 new tunes on this disc, with guest vocals from the Shins’ James Merceron several songs. There’s probably no “Float On” here, although “Dashboard” is nothing to sneeze at. Still, Modest Mouse’s spiky, post-punky, guitar-driven songs, catchy melodies and Brock’s strangely endearing vocal delivery are nigh unto irresistible. Mix in tasteful strings, some horns and even the occasional fiddle breakdown, and you’ve got a winner.

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—Alex Frydman

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know change/I see change/I embody change/All we do is change.” This introduction is spoken aptly enough by Vinnie Jones, the famous English-footballerturned-actor, but is just as applicable to Stone. In particular, Stone’s third release injects an energetic shot into her soulful R&B ballads.

Despite being only 19, she is already internationally renowned for her larger than life, diva-esque voice. Her vocal chords are put to,good use on Introducing, especially in the belts on the single “Tell Me ’Bout It.” And of course it doesn’t hurt when this sound is amplified by the equally throaty vocals ofLauryn Hill on “Baby Baby Baby.”

In contrast to Stone’s powerful vocal range everything else is mere background music—but for background music it’s more than decent. The instrumentation evokes a range of both genres and time periods, such as the ’6os girl-group, the ’7os Diana Ross disco queen and more modern R&B and soul.

It would be nice, though, if the music

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album and second U.S. album release for British singer/songwriter Matt Hales, better known as Aqualung. Although this record takes a small step forward from the mesmerizing simplicity ofhis previous success (with breakthrough hit “Brighter than Sunshine”), Hales doesn’t quite live up to his own ambition.

It is clear from the very first track that Aqualung has largely traded in his loose and laid-back ambiance for something more energetic and busy. Not only has he incorporated faster beats in many of the songs, but this album is noticeably more guitar-heavy, especially with the sprinkling of distinctly un-atmospheric electric guitar riffs.

In a few of the tracks, such as the dolefully beautiful “Vapour Trail,” these additions are layered on top ofhis delicate and basic instrumental melodies, and they

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Cat's Cradle is at: 300 E. Main St Carrboro 27510 919 967 9053 www.catsaadie.com

qualified to participate in a research study of an investigational medication for sinusitis or bronchitis. you may be

Qualified participants will receive at no cost studyrelated doctor’s visits, lab tests and study-related medication, and will be paid for their time and travel.

For more information call North Carolina Clinical Research at 881-0309 between 8:30 am and 5:00 pm Monday through Friday. If after hours please leave a message.

North CarolinaClinical Research “Where patient care and the future of medicine come together” Dr. Craig LaForce and Dr. Karen Dunn.

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CONGRATULATIONS To Our Top Two Winners Who Each receive An Ultra Cool Apple iPod Hi-Fi!!

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