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Battle

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A campus debates: Myrtle vs. Virginia by

Caroline McGeough THE CHRONICLE

It’s

time to start booking hotels and condominiums for the yearly, debaucherous pilgrimage known to many as “Beach Week”—but this year, some students are pushing for a change in locale.

Citing concerns that Myrde Beach, the week’s traditional destination, has become a less-attractive venue, some say Virginia Beach is the new Myrtle for this year’s festivities.

“Myrtle has really gone downhill in the past couple years,” said Andrew Longenecker, a senior and creator of the Facebook group “Virginia

Beach Sweetness.” thing anymore,” Longenecker said.

Longenecker said many hotels and “We’re kind of catching Virginia clubs that have historically appealed Beach off guard.”

But others said Myrto Duke students have shut their doors to the college-aged populatle is a tacky tradition that shouldn’t be tion “It’s time to start a new tradichallenged.

“Some people tion,” Longenecker said. it’s Some students added that really say Myrde has become too wary of trashy—l think that’s the legal troubles associated •art of the charm of the with throngs of vacationing said Andrew Grochal, “Myrtle has been this college students, referencing patterned arrests and property big staple of Duke for years and years, as far as I know. I don’t really damage during Beach Week.

“Myrtle just seemed like a place SEE MYRTLE ON PAGE 7 that didn’t welcome that kind of ,

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is continuing its investigation into the drug-related delivery of two suspicious packages to campus this week.

Junior Ryan Packer was arrested and charged Tuesday with intent to sell and deliver marijuana and with drug trafficking, after 17 pounds of marijuana were delivered to his campus address in Craven Quadrangle. Another student allegedly involved was not charged.

University officials said probable cause for the second student to be charged in a drug-related incident was not found.

Packer appeared in Durham County District Court Wednesday and is scheduled to reappear at a trial June 7, a Criminal division representative said. Packer was released from jail Tuesday after posting $5,000 bond.

A drug-sniffing dog was used to determine that the package delivered to Packer contained the narcotic before police obtained a search warrant, The Durham Herald-Sun reported.

A second package—addressed to a student in Kilgo Quadrangle and with the same return address as Packer’s—was seized in Arizona by Phoenix police, said a representative of DHL, the delivery company the SEE SBI ON PAGE 8

Service held to Players respond to G’s departure honor Sanders by

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much better about themselves. You could always count on him for it. He was a constant.”

Present at the service were Sanders’ brother, John, and parents, Arthur and Margaret, who shared words of

One day after Duke announced Gail Goestenkors would leave the Blue Devils to become head coach at Texas, several Duke players said they had no intentions of transferring and the incoming recruits were firm in their commitments.

Sophomore Abby Waner and junior Wanisha Smith said they were saddened by their coach’s departure, but they did not anticipate a dip in the program’s success.

“It’s hard accepting that there’s going to be a change,” Waner said. “The initial impact that there was going to be a change was the hardest part. We’re losing somebody that’s very dear to us that we really care about. However, change is not always bad, and we’re going to move forward. We’re not going to drop down our goals and expectations from a national-championship level.”

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Bearing somber expressions of melancholy and bewilderment, family members and friends gathered in Duke Chapel Wednesday night for a mass to celebrate the life of junior Chris Sanders.

“He had such a great smile,” junior Joanna Bersin said. “He had the ability to make everybody around him feel so

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Fortier women’s basketball coach Gail Goestenkors leftfor Texas Tuesday.

Several players said Wednesday that all 3 recruits will still attend Duke.

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British captives released from Iran by

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TEHRAN, Iran

President Mahmoud

Ahmadinejad defused a growing con%

frontation with Britain, announcing the surprise release of 15 captive British sailors Wednesday and then gleefully accepting the crew’s thanks and handshakes in what he called an Easter gift.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair expressed “profound relief’ over the peaceful end to the 13-day crisis. “Throughout we have taken a measured approach —firm but calm, not negotiating, but not confronting either,” Blair said in London, adding a message to the Iranian people

that “we bear you no ill will.”

The announcement in Tehran was a breakthrough in a crisis that had escalated over nearly two weeks, raising oil prices and fears of military conflict in the volatile region.

The move to release the sailors suggested that Iran’s hard-line leadership decided it had shown its strength but did not want to push the standoff too far.

Iran did not get the main thing it sought—a public apology for entering Iranian waters. Britain, which said its crew was in Iraqi waters when seized, insists it never offered a quid pro quo, either, instead relying on quiet diplomacy.

Syria, Iran’s close ally, said it played a role in winning the release. “Syria exercised a sort of quiet diplomacy to solve this problem and encourage dialogue between the two parties,” Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said in Damascus.

The announcement of the release came hours after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with President Bashar Assad in Damascus, trying to show that a U.S. dialogue with Syria—rejected by the Bush administration—could bring benefits for the Middle East.

The British sailors were not part of their talks, and it was not clear if the release was timed to coincide with her visit.

Bush bypasses Congre ss on break by

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President George W. WASHINGTON Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress, where Democrats had derailed Fox’s nomination.

The appointment, made while lawmakers were out of town on spring break, prompted angry rebukes from Democrats, who said Bush’s action may even be illegal.

Democrats had denounced Fox for his donation to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth during the 2004 presidential cam-

paign. The group’s TV ads, which claimed that Sen. John Kerry exaggerated his mili-

tary record in Vietnam, were viewed as a major factor in the Massachusetts Democrat’s election loss.

Recognizing Fox did not have the votes to obtain Senate confirmation in the Foreign Relations Committee, Bush withdrew the nomination last week. Wednesday, with the Senate on a one-week break, the president used his power to make recess appointments to put Fox in the job without Senate confirmation.

This means Fox can remain ambassador until the end of the next session of Con-

gress, effectively through the end of the Bush presidency.

“It’s sad but not surprising that this White House would abuse the power of the presidency to reward a donor over the objections of the Senate,” Kerry said in a statement.

Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, said he plans to ask the GovernmentAccountability Office to issue an opinion on whether the recess appointment is legal.

Recess appointments are intended to give the president flexibility if Congress is out for a lengthy period of time, such as the four-week adjournment in summer.

The lawyer and parents of American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh asked President George W. Bush Wednesday to commute his 20-year prison term, citing the case of an Australian who was sentenced to

less than a year for aiding terrorism.

One doctor wrote Anna's Rx One doctor authorized all 11 prescription medications found in Anna Nicole Smith's hotel room the day the Playboy Playmate died of a drug overdose, according to documents released by the medical examiner's

office Wednesday.

Barack's funds rival Hillary's

With a stunning $25 million fundraising haul for his presidential campaign, Democrat Barack Obama affirmed his statuis Wednesday as Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief rival. Obarria's total for the first three months of the year stopped just short of the record $26 million Clinton brought in.

Coyote visits Chicago Quizno's Employees and customers at a downtown Chicago Quizno's sandwich shop were stunned to see a coyote walk through the propped-open front door Tuesday afternoon and lie down in a cooler stocked with fruit juice and soda.

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GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDENT COUNCIL

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The Graduate and Professional Student Council welcomed new members and returning leadership to the group’s new Executive Board during its meeting Wednesday night.

Crystal Brown, a second-year law school student, will don the hat of GPSC president.

Brown said she will focus next year on the role of the organization as fully representing all graduate and professional students.

In her address to the council as one of three presidential candidates, Brown said she noticed graduate and professional students getting lost in University conversations, using the Campus Culture Initiative as an example. In response, Brown said she decided to serve as an advocate for her peers.

“I found myselfacting in this role [as president] without even knowing it,” she said.

Brown has been a GPSC representative for two years, and said she is aware of the issues and operations of GPSC and its constituents. She cited issues such as financial

tance of continuing the endeavors of the

previous Executive Board.

“The first thing on the agenda would be to take a look at GPSC internally,” Brown said after her election.

She suggested the council introduce a discussion of students’ concerns in general assembly meetings. She added that GPSC needs to balance the needs of both graduate and professional students.

“I’m going to school to be the best advocate that I can be for anyone. I don’t take that job lightly,” she said. “I’m so excited.”

Betsy Holmberg, a graduate student in clinical psychology, ran unopposed for the position of vice president.

“Hi, everyone, I’m Betsy Holmberg, and I guess I’ll be your new vice president,” she said before the vote took place.

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If an anatomy textbook came to life, it might look like “BODIES... The Exhibition,” a travelling exhibit of more than 250 skinless cadavers and organ specimens that opened in Durham Wednesday.

“I think this is a life-changing experience for people,” said Dr. Roy Glover, the

medical director of “BODIES” and a retired anatomy professor at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. “It’s an opportunity to learn more about yourself so that you can live a healthier and more productive life.”

The exhibition is located at The Streets at Southpoint, and it will remain in Durham until Aug. 5 before travelling

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The exhibition aims to be primarily educational.

Visitors begin their tour looking at actual human skeletons and end looking at specimens that demonstrate various human diseases.

Bodies at the exhibit are arranged in a variety of poses to emphasize the different parts of the body. Often the bodies are put in athletic situations, stretching to hit a volleyball or shoot a basketball.

Despite many positive reviews, the exhibit has still managed to get under some people’s skin.

Groups in New York, Miami and Seattle protested the exhibition when it came to their cities and wrote letters to local media

outlets. Activists are concerned that the bodies may have been obtained illegally and that the exhibition is disrespectful to the deceased.

According to statements from the exhibition’s organizers, “BODIES” obtained all their cadavers from Dalian Medical University in China, which in turn received them from the Chinese government.

Some protesters are concerned the bodies may have been political prisoners or citizens who never gave consent to have theirremains put on display for thousands of people to inspect.

Glover denies that “BODIES” has done anything illegal or unethical.

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“Household Responses to the Financial Crisis in Indonesia”

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Duke Student Government President Elliott Wolf gave a presentation about the evidentiary standards used in University judicial proceedings at Wednesday night’s general body meeting.

“We as an organization have a responsibility to fight for the most autonomy for students,” said Wolf, a junior.

He added that the Office of Judicial Affairs has taken judicial action against students based on illegally obtained evidence from Durham Police Department officers.

When students are cited off campus, the police department faxes the school incident reports.

“The University will use that evidence independent of any evidentiary standards that are used in the courts,” Wolf said.

The practice gives police an incentive to cite students when they otherwise would not due to a lack of evidence, he said.

The policy, moreover, is ideologically inconsistent with the University’s judicial process, which does not impart the same strict penalties as a court of law and is instead focused on ensuring that students learn from their mistakes.

He said the issue of Durham police officers treating students differently from community members was highlighted during the lacrosse case last spring.

Wolf sent a memo to Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of judicial affairs, March 28 stating that the University should not use illegally obtained or insufficient evidence collected by local law enforcement.

“We hope that the University institutes

minimal evidentiary standards when dealing with evidence collected by Durham police officers to protect students’ constitutional rights and decide not to use evidence that was illegally obtained,” Wolf said.

He added that he does not think the police department, Alcohol Law Enforcement or other parties should have the ability to manipulate Duke’s judicial

process.

After the meeting, Wolf said he thought DSG’s argument was very clear.

“Either [the Office of Judicial Affairs] could do this and do what we want, or they could not do this and everyone would know they are wrong,” he said.

Wolf and Executive Vice President Joe Fore, a senior, also presented a possible change to the fall exam reading period.

The proposal entailed making Monday a full reading day and eliminating the Thursday morning reading period, in place of the present system in which both Monday and Thursday are only partial reading days.

In an informal process, the DSG Senate approved the proposal. Wolf said he hopes to learn next week if the University will approve the changes.

In other business: Senior David Snider, vice president for athletics and campus services, gave a presentation detailing his committee’s work this year. He highlighted changes made in athletics, transit and technology, and said he will continue to work on parking projects.

“It’s been frustrating,” Snider said about

DSG President Elliott Wolf discusses University evidentiary standards at the group's meeting Wednesday. requests to reduce parking ticket fines and add drop-off zones. “I have cautious optimism about changes being made.”

Senator Madison Li, a sophomore, submitted a complaint yesterday following the results of the DSG Executive Board elections.

Li, a candidate for vice president for student affairs, petitioned for a new election because she said the death of junior Chris Sanders Tuesday cost her votes.

The election commission denied her request, and freshman Lucy McKinstry will step into the role next year.

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Grad students flood East study locations by

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East Campus may be the place that freshmen call home, but over the course of the year, residents may have have noticed older faces studying or congregating around the quad.

Easy to spot due to their age and maturity, graduate students are scattered around East from morning to night. They can be spotted studying at Lilly Library, Trinity Cafe and the East Campus Coffeehouse.

Some graduate students said they value the quieter space where they can concentrate on theirwork away from the constant bustle ofWest Campus.

“There’s some distance from the people you would normally want to talk to,” said Erin Kuhns, a fourth-year graduate student in religion. “If I’m on [West], friends pass by or students, and I get less done that way.

I try to be there when I can devote my time to them, and be here when I have to devote my time just to my scholarship.”

Several graduate students added that parking and nearby housing are among the top reasons why they choose to spend time on East rather than West. “[Graduate students] find it a convenient point of access if they live off campus,” said Dave Munden, evening reference librarian and building supervisor at Lilly.

Despite spending time on a predominately freshman campus, some graduate students said they do not interact much with the younger class and do not mind the age difference.

“Generally I don’t notice,” said Bart

Keeton, a sixth-year graduate student in English. “Sometimes in the evenings it can be raucous, but I encourage that. Right around 11 p.m. when there’s a lot of people showing up, it becomes bit of a social scene, but it doesn’t bother me at all, and it looks kind of fun. Typically, I’m just doing work if I’m still here at that time.”

Freshmen said they agree that the close proximity between the two types of students is not bothersome.

“I definitely don’t mind,” freshman Tim Macarthur said. “I think it’s good to connect both the grad schools and also all the undergraduates because there’s a lot that we can learn from each other.”

Macarthur added, however, that he does not frequently interact with the graduate students on East.

“All the encounters I had were among grad students that I already knew, and it was Just conversation,” he said.

Graduate students, however, may be having a more subtle effect on freshmen, Munden said, explaining that the older students’ work ethic may be shared by firstsemester freshmen who are not yet “assimilated into the Duke play culture.”

“The fact that the grad students are here—they add to a more serious [atmosphere] ,” he said.

Munden said graduate students also benefit from being surrounded by freshmen.

“When the grad students begin teaching. they have a sense of belonging and camaraderie with the first-year students that they didn’t have before, because that’s usually the audience they begin to teach,” he said. ..

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6 set to summit Kilimanjaro to aid Kenyan school the basement of Lilly Library procrastinating and watching the movie trailer for ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’” Miller said. “A1 Gore says very, very dramatically, ‘Before the end of the decade, the

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Sophomore Lee Miller has never been mountain climbing. But in August, he will scale Africa’s tallest mountain while raising money for a good cause.

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Focus on Kenya class.

Varun Gokam said he is For the last five years Sherryl Broverman, Sophomore associate professor of the practice of biology, optimistic the group will reach its goal.

“We purposefully set a lofty goal for has been collaborating with faculty at ourselves. But even if we don’t reach it Egerton University in Kenya to build we’ve still made a significant contribution WISER. The school’s purpose is “reducing to the project,” he said. sexual abuse and guaranteeing [girls’] right Tuition to the school is approximately to a safe and effective education,” according $5OO a year, and a sum of $50,000 would to theWISER website. provide a complete education for 100 girls.

Currendy cIimbWISER is working on Gokarn, Miller and along raising money by tapping into personal Jhaveri, with sophomores Jason Pate, Nandini networks and approaching large corporaKumar and Kevin Hwang, who is also a tions in the Raleigh-Durham area. Miller Chronicle photographer, said they have said the group is being careful that all the all wanted to climb Mount Kilimanjaro funds raised go straight to WISER—none of the funds will be used to diffuse the since their freshman year. remember “I very distinctly sitting in costs of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. .

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Six Duke students are planning to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in August to raise moneyfor a Kenyan school.

Several members of the group will be in Muhuru Bay before the climb this summer, piloting a course about gender, leadership and health to 30 girls. The WISER school is scheduled to be completed next summer.

Duke will host a WISER awareness week beginning April 16, during which climb-

WISER hopes to have a climbing wall to encourage student donations, “The climb is an adventure ofits own,” Pate said. “But it’ll also be an experience to reflect on what we’ve all done over the summer and issues we’d like to focus on in the future.”

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see any reason to change it up.”

Supporters of the Myrtle tradition said they are not looking for an upscale vacation in their last week together before graduation and the summer break.

“It’s the kind of experience where you’re there two or three days and then you don’t want to come back for another year,” said sophomore Molly Bierman, who added that she would likely be returning to Myrtle this year.

Many students said they had not even considered reforming the Myrde Beach custom.

Reuben Goetzl, a sophomore in Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, said the fraternity’s decision to book hotel rooms in Myrtle Beach for the week was nearly unanimous. ‘“By the Sea Motel’ may be a craphole,” he said. “But it’s good, it’s tradition. We’ve gone there for 25 years.”

Most students emphasized, however, that Beach Week agendas were still up in the air.

“It’s all speculation right now,”

“We’ve taken every legal step ensure that the bodies at the exhibition were obtained in compliance with every domestic and international law,” he said.

“We’ve put together an exhibition that displays the bodies in a comfortable space and in a dignified and respectful way.”

“BODIES” assures its visitors that all specimens died of natural causes.

The preservation process keeps the bodies intact for many decades after death—a modern mummification. The specimen is immersed in acetone to remove all bodily fluids. The dried body is then placed in a polymer bath and sealed in a vacuum chamber.

The acetone evaporates and is replaced by the polymer.

Finally, a catalyst is added and the body hardens to create a specimen that will not decay.

Some of the bodies preserved by this process are already pushing 30, but they are still on disto

Students hang off a balcony in North Myrtle Beach,S.C,atraditk>nal Beach Week locale. said Lydia Simmons, a sophomore and administrator in the Virginia Beach Sweetness group.

“People don’t have solid plans.”

Supporters of Virginia Beach said the effort to move Beach Week is not unilateral or fraternity- or sorority-related.

“We’re trying to get a diverse, fun group of people from different social atmospheres to go down to Virginia Beach,”

Simmons said

Regardless of venue choice, students agreed splitting the student body in half for Beach Week was the last thing they wanted.

“More than anything, people just want to be with everyone else,” Longenecker said. “If everyone knows where everyone’s going, it doesn’t really matter where we go.”

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play and in good condidon. The cadavers attain a sort of immortality—they will last indefinitely.

Exhibit organizers arranged the bodies with education in mind, not art, but Glover said visitors often remark that there is an element of art to the exhibition.

In fact, one specimen is arranged to mimic artist Auguste Rodin’s “The Thinker.”

“There is a great degree of artisdc beauty about the body,” Glover said. “But we enter into the exhibition for the sake ofeducation, not for the sake of art.”

Regardless of people’s reasons for coming, exhibition directors said they hope Durham’s medical community will embrace it, and that “BODIES” will bring benefits to its residents.

“I think when we leave, the city of Durham—the city of medicine, interestingly —will be a much healthier place,” Glover said. “That will be good not only for the general population, it will be a great support for the medical community as well.”

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program, also ran unopposed for the position of executive secretary.

David Kahler, a second-year civil and environmental engineering student, ran unopposed for a second year, re-assuming the role of treasurer.

Yvonne Ford, a first-year student in the nursing school, was elected attorney general. Cong Jin was also elected academic officer in an uncontested race, listing goals of providing more funding and advocating a mentor program for graduate students. “[I want to] lobby for coverage of conferences during our Ph.D. period,” she said, asking council members for input.

Alethea Duncan and Jessi Bardill, chemistry and English graduate students,

become the student life chairs.

“We’re running together because we’re always together,” Duncan said. The two spoke in tandem about proposals for social and active events.

Claire Gordy, a third-year immunology student, was elected communications coordinator. She said she will use innovative forms of publicity —like giant sidewalk art—as well as traditional mediums.

Ali Saaem, a biomedical engineering student, and Elizabeth Rach, a third-year computation biology and bioinformatics student, were elected unopposed as community affairs coordinator and student group liaison, respectively.

In other business, Kahler presented the budget proposal for the next academic year, which GPSC approved.

party.’ Right away, he made me feel so welcome at Duke. It’s very rare that you could meet a guy like that.” thanks and warmth outside the Chapel Junior Garrick Berberich, a fellow swimmer who was planning to live with Sanders following the mass.

Sanders was found dead in his Kilgo next year, said Sanders was a talented diver Quadrangle dormitory room early Tuesday on the swim team, but more than anything, morning, University administrators said he was always very dedicated and lifted up Tuesday afternoon. The New Haven, all his teammates.

Conn., native was 20 years old and an art “He was the kind of guy who would make you laugh in the middle of a workhistory major.

During the past two days, friends of out,” Berberich said. “He knew when to say Sanders have come together to discuss his something smart and crack a joke—that life and their memories of him. kind of perfect timing.”

Ever since he first stepped foot on camMidway through his freshman year, said, his friends Sanders had a welSanders pledged Sigm2i Nu fraternity. He pus, coming and helpful personality that drew was adorned with the pledge name “Stewie,” the nickname by which many of everyone to him.

“He was in my freshman dorm in Southhis friends continued to call him.

Sanders developed some of his closest gate,” Bersin said. “I didn’t know that friendships within Sigma Nu, including felmany people, but he had this whole network of people because he was on the swim low juniorsPhil Hauspurg and Michael Sloyteam and had all these events to go to. er, who both noted Sanders’ infectious smile.

He’d come up to me and say, ‘Let’s go up “I remember that over the summer we to my room, hang out and go to a swim and a bunch of friends were up at my

house,” Hauspurg said. “There was a big fire pit, and Stewie did a front flip over it.

He was just that type of guy. He always provided a boost in everybody’s life.”

“It was always nice that you always knew where to find him,” Sloyer said. “Living across the hall from him, I always liked to know that he was there to bounce offyour ideas at him and shoot the s with him for a couple of hours.”

During his junior year, Sanders served on the First-Year Advisory Council Board andalways “spread his welcoming, warm, and caring personality to everyone,” juniors Geoff Bass and Bronwyn Lewis wrote in an e-mail ofbehalf of the FAC board.

A memorial service for Sanders also took place in the Old Chemistry Building Tuesday night. In the informal setting, Sanders’ friends told stories about him and Sloyer put together a slideshow ofSanders.

“What I got most out of the slideshow was that he was smiling in every picture,” sophomore Lydia Simmons said. “And that’s what we should remember him for—his smile.”

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Both packages had a. return address from Colormark Custom Photo Imaging in Phoenix. They were both shipped March 29 and scheduled for delivery April 2, according to DHL tracking reports. DHL records also described the contents of Packer’s 24-pound package—which contained 17 pounds of drugs—as business cards and described the contents of the second student’s 32pound package as photos.

Colormark Custom Photo Imaging specializes in photography and printing but had no record of either Packer’s or the other student’s order, employees said. Colormark uses only UPS for shipments —not DHL—company representatives said. Employees also said they had not been contacted by authorities investigating the packages.

Duke University Police Department officers contacted Duke Postal Operations Friday regarding the situation, said Mike Trogdon, director of Postal Operations. “They wanted me to clarify how packages are delivered to students,” Trogdon said. “DHL packages—and UPS or FedEx—are delivered to students directly by the vendor.”

A Kilgo resident said he saw a man wearing a DHL uniform shirt enter Kilgo Tuesday morning carrying a package approximately three feet long.

He said the deliveryman appeared approximately half an hour later holding the DHL shirt and package and leading a female in handcuffs. They drove away in an unmarked SUV. DUPD Executive Officer Sara-Jane Raines said she was unable to comment on the case because SBI had taken over the ongoing investigation.

PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS Steven

Weinberg once wrote: “Most physicists use quantum mechanics every day in their working lives without needing to worry about the fundamental problem of its interpretation. Being sensible people with very little time to follow tip all the ideas and data in their own specialties and not having to worry about this fundamental problem, they do not worry about it.” Weinberg went on to relate the story of a once-promising physicist whose career was ruined when “he tried to understand quantum mechanics.”

The fundamental problem Weinberg alluded to can be formulated like this: “What would the world have to be like in order for quantum mechanics to be a true account of it?” This turns out to be a terribly difficult question to answer. Curiously, it is not a question anyone needs to answer in order to be able to apply the theory to other problems in physics, both theoretical and practical. So, for sensible reasons, many physicists follow Weinberg’s advice and ignore the problem of how to interpret this theory. However, some philosophers of science (who do not have careers as physicists that they need to worry about ruining) have made this problem the main thing that they worry about. In this presentation I will introduce some of the attempted solutions they have come up with.

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During practice Wednesday morning behind Wallace Wade Stadium, No. 6 lined up at wide receiver, went in motion and ran his route.

Exactly one play later, No. 6 lined up spring on defense, snuck up notebook to the line and sacked the quarterback.

Within those two plays, Marcus Jones’ ability to adjust quickly to his recent position change to linebacker was obvious.

“I’ve never done anything like this but it’s a lot of fun,” Jones said. “This is something I wanted to do. I’m open to it, and I’m having fun.”

Once a top recruit as a quarterback, Jones initially played wide receiver as a freshman because of the depth at quarterback with Mike Schneider, Zack Asack and CurtDukes all ahead of him.

Last year, Schneider and Dukes left school and Asack was suspended for the year, leaving the door open for Jones to capitalize as the starting quarterback and “have fun,” he said.

Last year was anything but fun for Jones, who struggled in the opening shutout loss to Richmond and lost his starting job to freshman Thaddeus Lewis. Expected to be a multi-threat quarterback, Jones attempted just 14 passes on the year and finished with a net loss of six yards rushing.

Right before signing day in February, head coach Ted Roof summoned Jones into his office to ask the sophomore what he wanted to do. Stacked at the receiver position but with a tremendous athlete .

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in Jones, Roofwanted to ensure one ofhis best athletes would be on the field and suggested Jones move to linebacker.

“It’s my job as head coach to make sure that we get our best guys in the right spot,” Roof said. “We had some

depth at wide receiver plus we had some

guys that red-shirted. I want to get our best athletes on the field.”

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Win streak ends with loss to Wake

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Despite pushing his match to three sets, David Goulet could not pull out a victory over Wake Forest.

The suspense did not last long for the Blue Devils at the WNBA Draft Wednesday afternoon in Cleveland.

Naismith National Player of the Year Lindsey Harding became the first Duke player to be taken No. 1 overall, and Alison Bales was selected ninth overall by the Indiana Fever and will return to her hometown of Indianapolis.

Harding was surrounded by drama from the beginning of the draft. After being selected as the No. 1 overall pick by the Phoenix Mercury, she was prompdy tradedaway to the Minnesota Lynx for AllStar forward Tangela Smith.

Harding did not seem to mind.

“It was a really good draft for me,” Harding said. “There were just a lot of trades going on.”

The unpredictability of the draft continued after Harding was chosen. Ohio State product Jessica Davenport, who was the second overall pick, was also traded away moments after being drafted, and North Carolina guard Ivory Latta fell to No. 11 on draft day after she was projected to be a two

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All good things must come to an end, and Duke’s home win streak did Wednesday afternoon against No. 11 Wake Forest at the AmblerTennis Stadium.

The No. 16 Blue Devils (IT7, 4-2 in the ACC) had won all seven matches they had played at Ambler and the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center this season, but were unable to overcome the Demon Deacons—the highest-ranked team to visit Duke so far.

“They are pretty solid and I think we could have won, but a couple of close breaks just didn’t go our way,” freshman Dylan Amould said.

Wednesday’s match started poorly for the Blue Devils, as the team dropped the always-important doubles point. After having earned the point Sunday against Miami, Duke lost all three doubles matches 8-5 to go down right away.

Wake Forest (18-3, 4-2 in the ACC) car-

ried its winning ways into singles play, with Todd Paul, the sixth-ranked player in the country, beating the Blue Devils’Joey Atas in straight sets to put his team up 2-0.

The teams then split the next two matches, as Duke’s Peter Rodrigues won 6- 6-2 as the third seed and Kiril Dimitrov went down in a tightly-contested 7-6, 7- match.

In the decisive match of the day, between the Blue Devils’ David Goulet and Wake’s Mariusz Adamski, Goulet dropped the first set 6-4 but then roared back to easily take the second 6-2. Finally, Adamski pulled out the victory in a thirdset tiebreak 7-6 (8-6) to clinch the match for the Demon Deacons at 4-2.

“Goulet had a really tough match, and we just came up a little short in the late matches,” Arnould said.

The loss snaps Duke’s four-game winning streak, and the Blue Devils will get a chance to start a new one Friday afternoon against Boston College at Ambler.

top-five pick.

In the end, however, the fickleness did seriously hamper the two Dukies—both Harding and Bales were able to join squads that have plenty of positives.

Harding will team up in the backcourt with former LSU star Seimone Augustus, who was the No. 1 overall pick last year. In addition, Minnesota selected UCLA’s Noelle Quinn—a three time all-Pac 10 not

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A final four reunion is on hand this week.

When No. 4 Duke (9-1) travels to No. 12 Notre Dame (9-2) Thursday at 4 p.m. and No. 1 Northwestern (7-1) Saturday at 2 p.m., three of the four teams from last year’s Final Four will be in action. The Blue Devils were eliminated 11-10 in overtime in the national semifinals by the Wildcats —who went on to win the national championship.

“We had a really exciting game against UVA [Saturday], but we know we can play a lot better,” senior attack Kristen Waagsaid. “We’re looking forward to playing other

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The Blue Devils rallied from six goals down and TODAY, 4 p.m.

South Bend, Ind. outlasted the Cavaliers in triple-overtime 19-18. Senior midfielder Rachel Sanford hit the game-winner with 13 seconds left in the third overtime.

Although such a win might exhilarate some teams, Duke knows that the win illuminated facets ofits game that it must address if it hopes to beat the nation’s top teams.

“We have to improve our organization on defense,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “We let a lot of the UVA players beat us on simple stuff. We can’t give up so many goals in the first half.”

Preventing early deficits could be vital for the Blue Devils as they battle two formidable opponents on the road.

The Fighting Irish are on a four-game winning streak and are coming off an easy 15-7 win over Duquesne. Notre Dame went toe-to-toe with the Blue Devils last year in Durham before Duke escaped with an 11-10 victory.

Northwestern once again looks like the favorite to win its third straight national title. After dropping their first contest of the season, the Wildcats have reeled off seven straight wins. They defeated Notre Dame 18-10, obliterated No. 19 Vanderbilt

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Kristen Waagbo and the Blue Devils beat Notre Dame last season 11-10 and play the Fighting Irish today.

20-2 and blasted Connecticut 22-5 in their most recent game. Northwestern has a

deep and talented squad highlighted by midfielder Kristen Kjellman.

The senior was awarded the Tewaaraton Trophy—given to the top player in the country—last year, when she scored 72 goals. The three-time All-American became Northwestern’s all-time points leader in the Wildcats’ win against the Huskies.

Last year, Duke witnessed Kjellman’s prowess first-hand when she scored four goals and tallied one assist to help Northwestern end the Blue Devils’ season.

Another encounter with the dominant Wildcats on Saturday might tempt Duke to look past Notre Dame. The Blue Devils, however, refuse to make that contest a be-

all and end-all grudge match.

“It’s not about payback,” Waagbo said.

“We have a tight series with Northwestern and there’s a lot of emotion involved. I just hope this is one of the best games of my career.”

Although Duke knows it can get better, its recent play has been very solid. The Blue Devils are on a five-game winning streak during which they have averaged over 16 goals per game. Three of the wins, however, came in the friendly confines of Koskinen Stadium. The change in venue, though, does not bother Duke—in fact, the Blue Devils’ reaction to playing on the road is surprisingly positive.

“Last year, we were a great road team,” Waagbo said. “We like a change of‘environment —it gets us excited.”

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Jones, informing him that he could still try to earn a starting job at wide receiver if he wanted to. After taking some time to make his decision, Jones met with Roof again and informed him that he wanted to play at linebacker.

Jones has never complained about the switch. In fact, Jones said he had initially wanted to approach Roof about playing linebacker this fall.

The position is not entirely foreign to Jones. In high school, he played quarterback, wide receiver, safety, punter and linebacker.

“I feel like [playing linebacker] comes to me pretty naturally,” Jones said.

In practice Wednesday, Jones played as if he never missed a beat, staying on his man in pass coverage and aggressively pursuing the ball when the offense ran the ball.

Jones, however, still faces challenges.

Listed at 210 pounds last season, Jones is lighter than most at his position and has had to adjust to offensive linemen attacking instead of defending him.

“Reading linemen and having to get off blocks —that’s a whole new ball game,” Jones said. “The things I need to work on most as a linebacker are, one, gaining weight and, two, being able to take on linemen.”

In the long term, however, both Roof and Jones expect the decision to pay off, as Jones believes his past experience at quarterback will help him understand what offenses will do to counter a defense’s attack.

“It’s a new position for him and every day’s a learning opportunity and experience,” Roof said. “I think he’s going to be a very good football player going forward.” to

NOTES: Thaddeus Lewis has shown signs of vast improvement in the spring, completing 16-of-26 passes for 223 yards and a touchdown in a scrimmage last Saturday. “I’ve already seen Thad get a lot better from last season,” Roof said. “He’s very comfortable in what we’re doing.”... Peter Vaas has replaced Bill O’Brien, who left to take a job with the New England Patriots, as offensive coordinator. Vaas most recentiy mentored Brady Quinn as quarterbacks coach at Notre Dame. “He’s helped me out a whole lot,” Lewis said.

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the vacancy. Several messages left for her were not returned.

Miami head coach Katie Meier, another potential candidate, is also a Duke gradPart of the plan to maintain Duke’s recent excellence is welcoming next year’s uate. Meier declined an interview request freshman class—Karima Christmas, Jas- but released a statement Wednesday.

“As an alumna and former student-athmine Thomas and Krystal Thomas. Waner lete at Duke University, I’m incredibly flatsaid Wednesday that she had been in contered that anyone would think of me in tact with all three recruits, by cell phone conversations and text messages, and regards to its women’s basketball head none of them indicated any plans to opt coaching position,” Meier said. “I am deout of their commitments. lighted and proud to be the head coach of the University A Duke spokesperof Miami son added that none of basketwomen’s recruits had rethe “I let them know that ball team, and quested to be released from their signed letwe’re the Duke program, will continue to work towards a ters of intent. not just Coach G.” successful 2007“I don’t want them season to feel that sense of Abby Waner, OS The Duke abandonment,” Waner met sophomore guard players said. “I let them know Wednesda’ with that we’re the Duke Director of Athprogram, not just letics Joe Alieva and senior women’s athCoach G, and that they’re just as imporletic administrator Jackie Silar. During the tant to us as anybody else. They all comDuke, to didn’t commit to meeting, the players demonstrated intermitted they est in playing an active part in the coachsolely Coach G.” Waner and Smith also maintained that ing search.

“We expressed to the administrators they will stay at Duke and that none of their teammates had any plans to transfer. and our staff that, first of all, we would like Goestenkors, who had coached at to know when the decision is made,” Abby Waner said. “And if there’s anyway that we Duke for 15 years, had an hour-long meetcan give input—which is hard to do—but with the at the offplayers Tuesday ing campus house of Alison Bales, Lindsey we want to be as involved as we possibly Harding and Emily Waner. At that gather- can, even if that doesn’t mean much.”

Although the search for a new coach is ing, Goestenkors informed the team of under way, the Duke players are still copthe reasons behind her decision.

Goestenkors’ departure opens one of ing with Goestenkors’ departure.

“These types of things happen all the the most coveted coaching positions in the country. The front-runner for the job time, so it’s not something that’s a surappears to be Joanne Boyle, the head prise,” Smith said. “But at the same time, coach at California-Berkeley and a 1985 you never think it will happen to your team or coach. It was really hard, but at the same Duke graduate. Through a spokespertime, we’re going to get through it.” declined comment about son, Boyle to

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WNBA DRAFT from page 9 first teamer—with the fourth overall pick, giving Harding plenty of help for her rookie season.

Bales, meanwhile, celebrated her 22nd birthday by returning to familiar territory in more ways than one. In addition to playing in her hometown again, Bales is also extremely familiar with Indiana assistant coach Lin Dunn.* “I’m really excited,” Bales said. “Lin Dunn has been to so many of our practices and games and is a close personal friend of Coach G. I talked to Coach G and she thinks it’ll be a really good fit.”

The 6-foot-7 Bales will add size to a Fever squad that did not have a player over 6-foot-3 last year. Because they were both picked so early, it would be natural for both players to feel pressured to make

an immediate impact. Harding, however, said she is not intimidated.

“I don’t think I’ll feel anymore pressure than I felt in college,” Harding said.

“Obviously they picked me No. 1 and want to see what I can do, but I don’t really feel any pressure.”

The two stars leave behind a legacy that could stand for a long time. Harding racked up 579 assists in her four years at Duke and leaves the school with 128 career victories the most all time. Bales averaged 4.4 blocks per game last year en route to becoming the school’s leader in blocked shots.

The dynamic duo recorded these feats in large part because they played so well in tandem. After four years on campus together, however, Bales and Harding have to part ways.

“Lindsey’s a great teammate and a close personal friend,” Bales said. “It’ll be different not playing with her.”

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nancial and lifestyle stakes in the process as well as the outcome of the investigation and RC policy decisions. Failing to consider student perspectives and clouding the investigation in secrecy does nothing to reassure students that they are getting their money’s worth from their residential

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On Monday, more mold was discovered in Edens, this time on the fifth floor ofEdens 2A. The cause of the mold'—the air conditioning system —was not shut down and no students were evacuated. The recent mold problem, along with a lack of sufficient warm water on East, poor drainage in Craven, a roof collapse in Few, bathrooms falling apart in Crowell all point to the fact

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can’t possibly be the only one wishing Spring Break was right around the comer... again. Two weeks ago, whether it was at home, a tropical island or Anchorage (unless you... actually live in Anchorage), those nine days served as a huge sigh of relief, and it couldn’t have come at a better time.

But while my days were filled with jubilation, I was plagued by nightmares of the work to come. A plethora of term papers and tests accompanies the end of the academic year, and it’s hard not to think that all ofyour professors have conspired against you when everything is due within two days and the weekend counts as ■ 11 Ip reading period (now that belongs on the “This Will Probably Piss Our Students Off” list).

The libraries have Keesha DVOWn already turned into batcut afld thrust degrounds for the two— Dukes: A & B (a hilariously accurate classification done by The Morning Wood of last semester’s Monday, Monday). The A group includes full-time residents of all the libraries, while the B group just tries to cram into their heads as much of that SOfrpage textbook as possible (on the day before the exam, that is). Members of the first group will feel slighted once they lose the seats that don imprints of their bottoms, a sign of their nine months of dedication to the books, to members of the second crew. But the latter, after having shot-gunned (and/or keg-stood) the weekend away, will steal these seats and tell those Duke As that they should have called “fives” and that maybe they should go study in Teer... orsomething (that’s the Pratt library, by the way).

There is another library-related batde, however, and it hinges on the query, “Where is the best place to study?”

As a freshman, when I first ventured to West Campus excitedly, I felt as if Bostock was the new place to be studious (it was all the rage, seriously). Plus, by being there, I could interact with more upperclassmen. I was fascinated with the beauty of the building and its immaculate rows ofbooks that symbolized never-ceasing edifications.

I would spend hours in the library but when I left, something kept nagging me. I would exit with a feeling of incredulity as I realized hours had gone by without any official notice. The bright lights, cubicles and mostly window-lacking walls of Bostock did a thorough job at single-handedly eliminating the dimension of time.

I slowly began to build immunity to Bostock (the frustration with Safe Rides really topping it all off) and realized hours upon hours were being spent there, and too many of them were not spent studying.

But it was more than my realization of the time warp that pushed me away from Bostock’s hallowed halls. It also stemmed from the realization that the place was -

rapidly becoming high-profile social space

Club Bostock is what the multi-million dollar (55, to be exact) building was dubbed soon after its opening, leading to the birth of several Facebook groups (“Bostock is Better Than Home” and “Club Bostizzle,” to name just a few). People were going to Bostock in droves (mispronouncing the name, all along the way), excited to utilize this new modem space. I heard a story about people fighting over a space in an apparendy well-sought-after area.

It was at that moment when I heard about ensuing battles in Bostock (having nearby students request that you type a bit more sofdy included) that I realized something; Bostock was no longer good for my health.

I figured (and still believe) that any place in which people would fight for desk space is a place I need to be as far away from as possible.

Now I am not attempting to discredit the joy thatBostock has brought to students overall. It is evident that Bostock has become commonplace in both the academic and social sectors of many people’s happy lives.

It is beautiful and its architecture helps it to blend in well with the surrounding, much older buildings (the Bryan Center wasn’t so successful at that).

But for me, when it came to studying, I found a little bit ofmy sanity was slipping away with each hour spent in such a large building, with so many people, who (minus an infuriating few) took oaths of silence for hours on end. I had to ask myself repeatedly: “Am I in the library ora mental ward?”

So I looked for other places to study. I even tried to convince myself that my room would do. Ultimately I found it way too comfortable, with too many exciting alternatives (sleeping being No. 1 with friends coming in a close second).

After an exhaustive search, I realized the answer was on East Campus all along: Lilly.

Lilly has become my new late-night spot. Well, the Thomas Reading Room, more specifically. Lilly has an atmosphere that is extremely relaxed, but at the same time everyone knows that everyone else is working and act accordingly. The Thomas Reading Room helps Lilly feel like a library should: welcoming and calming while still functioning as a study space. Sure, eradicating my fear of turning pages too loudly (a fear held too strongly in Bostock) probably added to my liking of Lilly. But I also have been able to work without the allure of friends close by, which is exacdy what made Bostock the club it was last year, as well as the batdefield it can sometimes become.

So what’s my point? Considering that it’s crunch time, that Duke As and Duke Bs alike are hitting the books, I encourage two things: first, don’t overstress, and second, don’t assume Bostock is the be all, end all.

Find the space that’s right for you. , Keesha Brown is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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Producing difference Our

University’s interest in minority and women students and faculty is to be commended. There is much we can do to develop a campus culture in which the historic exclusions and biases of race, sexuality and gender do not hold sway. Nevertheless, institutionally produced difference is not one of the ways to mitigate the effects of exclusionary habits of history.

Individuals should certainly come to Duke and karla Holloway anticipate that they might discover good reasons to . guest column t and work with identify each other. If culture and ethnicity, or gender, or sexuality is the impulse of the association, then these are associations appropriately produced by an individual’s desire. The Black Student Alliance or Mi Gente or groups of women faculty who self-organize would be supported absolutely and appropriately by administrative structures. But they would not be “produced” by these structures.

Duke’s institutional practices must move past the time when it is the machine that generates, produces and frankly assigns those distinctions. What would be the practical effect of a review of our “diversity” policies and programs? Duke could do the following: 1. Reassess the ethic of presidential councils that organize their memberships via the assignment of race or gender.

Reconsider the impact of recruitment weekends that 2. force institutional ideologies of race onto students who have not yet even had the opportunity to meet each other.

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Confront the result of how race-based scholarships for some produce other scholarship communities that have little diversity.

Ask why administrators would turn over major activi4. ties of one recruitment weekend to a group of students while another weekend, for high-achieving students, is deeply (and in my judgment, appropriately) managed by student affairs and admissions specialists.

Frankly, BSA invitational weekend as well as black student orientations where students meet black faculty and participate in black cultural events (like step shows) seem an odd introduction to a university that anticipates and hopes for a culture of inclusion. Why wouldn’t we imagine that all pre-frosh might benefit from these faculty introductions and cultural events? It seems as if the institution anticipates that these particular students’ cultural and academic universe might be best determined by their race. We know them this well? What admissionsbased intelligence leads us to this determination?

Frankly, such institutionally produced, racially assigned programming does not quite match the vision of inclusiveness we broadcast as our desire.

It is not easy to be a child of the 1960 and to realize that the 21st century demands some careful and frankly unpopular reassessments of the strategies of diversity and inclusion. But it would be naive to believe that the strategies of two score and more years past need no reconsideration.

The courage of our conviction that inclusiveness is an appropriate institutional desire means that we review the practices we have developed and relied upon to produce difference. Should we work affirmatively and aggressively to recruit students with a variety of backgrounds to campus? Absolutely! Do we force an association that is our own racial imaginary for that convention of prefrosh? Not any more.

It seems to me that Duke could do a marvelous job of recruiting highly desired students with a weekend that brings them all together, in their artistic, creative, high-SAT, leadership, stellar community-work glory and introduces them to a Duke that would celebrate them for these accomplishments. I have no doubt whatsoever that this constellation of students would be diverse, inclusive and an absolute joy to watch interact with each other.

Let’s use this moment of reassessment of Duke’s campus cultures to take a bolder step regarding identity, diversity and inclusiveness than one that holds forth because it is the process of record that is the most familiar to us. Will such changes produce debate? Probably. Will some see it as contradictory? Very likely. Walt Whitman, “America’s poet” wrote: “Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.”

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In Britain, free speech and the ability to study history Europe is wasting away. Sclerotic economies are unable to offer opportunities to critically is under assault. A recent study by a goveman often restless populace while a serious crisis ment department found that in some schools, the Holocaust has been dropped from history curricula. The reaof identity has produced some disquieting results.

It’s the economic decline that’s most noted in the son? Teachers and administrators don’t wish to upset domestic press, especially the occasional riots. The students who deny the Holocaust. Among these are Musbooming decades after the Second World War saw the lim pupils who have been taught outside of school that it never occurred; no doubt it is this same demographic implementation of welthat gave us the 7/7 subway bombers, fare states that are no A society that will make no mention of mankind’s longer sustainable yet most depraved moment in time merely to avoid giving are seemingly immune to reform. The most visioffense is one whose moral compass is desperately in need of reorientation. Such meekness makes a mockery ble result is unemployment rates that would be of the times when the world said “never again” if we allow willful ignorance to go unchallenged. the death knell of any Meanwhile, France is considering a law that would American government.

■■■ c pu<j nc criminalize denial of the Armenian Genocide. Some What’s worse is that 9*" SieveilS much of this joblessness the Other conservative suggest this is mere theater, pandering to the counis centered on the try’s Armenian populace. But it has the same effect of stifling discourse. youth. In France, the In Germany, extreme cultural relativism—again for children and grandchildren of immigrants are espedally prone to unrest—witness not just the widespread fear of giving offense—has reared its ugly head. A judge rioting of 18 months ago but continued tensions, such recently ruled that a woman could not divorce her abusive as the mini-riot in the Gare du Nord last week. On husband on the grounds that the Koran permitted him to some level this group has legitimate grievances, as beat her. Beyond the obvious outrageousness of such a multiple studies have shown widespread discrimina- ruling, it also suggests that the secularism that has so long tion against non-French individuals for limited job underpinned European society is itself crumbling, These last two cases also speak to a larger trend: as openings; this in a country that prides itself on everyEuropean nations age and their native birthrates dwinone’s being French regardless ofcolor or creed.

But there is also a widespread sense of entitlement die (while those of immigrant populations increase), deamong native youth. They want the same benefits their mographics are undergoing radical changes. These miparents have enjoyed: the five weeks paid vacation, the norities, most affected by the economies’ chronic ills 35-hour work week and the near-impossibility of being and whose religiosity is out of step with Europe’s declinfired from one’s job. It was this last point that led to ing rates of church attendance and overall secularism, widespread rioting by students last year, after the gov- have produced unique challenges and varying responsernment had the temerity to suggest new reforms that es. Sometimes, as in France’s ban on wearing headwould allow young people (quelle horreur!) to be fired scarves in school, the response is a policy of assimilation, blurring the distinctions by trying to make everyone in their first two years on the job.

The fact that the government backed down in the French. Elsewhere, the response tends toward extreme face of these protests is emblematic; while everyone may accommodation. Whether either approach is viable rerecognize the need for reform, no one wants to be short- mains to be seen; so too the consequences, Europe is plagued by self-doubt stemming, in part, changed and the government lacks the spine to force the issue. (Britain would likely be in much the same from economic turmoil and restless youth. But it is also shape today if it hadn’t been for Lady Thatcher and her filled with uncertainty as it attempts to redefine its identity in light of its growing minorities and their unique radical shift to free-market policies in the 1980s.)

At the same time, elements ofEurope’s political liberal- challenges. It is a continent whose future is uncertain, ism seem to be eroding before our eyes; this seems to be Gill Stevens is a Trinity junior. His column runs every the result of an obsession with political correctness and the other Thursday. extremes to which some will go to avoid offending others. *

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The Streets at Southpoint has always been a wholesome destination, with shopping, dining and entertainment for the whole family.

Now, you can add viewing a variety of ripped-open, skinless cadavers to the list of possible activities.

Opening today in the “City of Medicine,” BODIES... The Exhibition is a slick collection of real, whole-body specimens and other organs on display-in a museum-like at setting—or least as best as can be conjured in a location usually loween Costume Warehouse.

“The idea is to teach people about their bodies, and to be a life-supporting experience,” explained Dr. Ray Glover, chief medical director for BODIES, which is run by a forprofit organization. “We want to engage the public when they come here.”

It’s not a hard task, with graphic displays of human anatomy around every corner. The exhibit moves through the human body, progressively peeling back each layer of skin and organs, from skeletal to digestive.

Searching for a completely skinned

lung of a longtime smoker is more power-

body? Or for a specimen displaying the distribution of fat in the female body with some rather unflattering cross -sectional cuts? Look furno ther.

ful than a decade of anti-drug television advertisements.

Glover said over 200,000 schoolchildren have visited the exhibition in its three years of national

touring.

“When they’re in the lobby or outside the building, they buzz, but once they’re in here they all quiet down,” he said.

Indeed, some ofBODIES is more Magic School Bus than MCAT. “The circulatory system is the body’s superhighway,” reads a note on the wall.

“When a breast-feeding woman eats garlic, her baby will suckle longer,” reads another.

The latter topic—fetal development is covered in an optional area of the building which should be required viewing for everyone with strong feelings ofany kind on abortion.

Imagine a row of glass boxes with fetuses in different stages of development, and you’ll understand why there is a prominent warning on the entrance to the room.

All the bodies in the exhibit are treated with a polymer preservation process to prevent the tissue’s natural decay, —

Though initially shocking, there is a definite educational aspect to the exhibit. Seeing a flawlessly preserved

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"Durham's band of composers" plays Friday at Broad Street Cafe with Ghaphery-Bivins-Davis andThe Hem of His Garment.The show is at 8 p.m. and tickets are $6.

Local composers give music new pulse Eric Bishop recess Like Wool E. Bull, the Regulator Bookshop and (until recently) LocoPops, pjiilsoptional is one of those rare pheonomenayou can only find in Durham.

And after seven years of wowing the Triangle with its avantgarde experimentalism, the ensemble of mostly current and former graduate students in the Department ofMusic will finally release its eponymous debut album Friday at Broad Street Cafe.

And after that... well, they’re not sure. For any other band armed with a brand-new album, a tour would most definitely be in order. But pulsoptional isn’t like most other bands.

Most bands you read about on these pages probably couldn’t even tell you what an English horn looks like, and they’d eye a bassoon with suspicion (pulsoptional’s arsenal of instruments includes both). Most bands don’t read notated music at their shows, meticulously executing each polyrhythm and metric modulation with the fervor and intensity of a symphony orchestra by

(pulsoptional does, and with electric guitars, no less). And most bands don’t compose doctoral dissertations based on Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity (pulsoptional’s John Mayrose has).

So, they’re not like most bands. But they’re not like most composers either. For one thing, their compositions aren’t commissioned for outside chamber groups—they’re commissioned for themselves.

“As a composer, it’s hard to get your music played,” said marc fads (like his ensemble, he doesn’t capitalize his name) a visiting assistant professor in the Department ofMusic who composes and plays electric guitar in the group. “This is away to get your music played with more care and attention than you’d otherwise get.” faris admits though, that the casual nature of the groups practices—relative to more traditional ensembles—can lend itself to introducing half-baked compositions to hash out as a group.

“I’m sometimes shocking myself with the sloppy crap I bring in to play,” he said.

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second shot Brian McGinn recess The last few years have seen the resurrection of several so-called “lost” films,” movies never distributed in America or significantly overlooked in their original theatrical runs. Films like Elevator to the Gallows {Ascenseur pour Vechafaud, reviewed in recess in 2005), Army of Shadows and Overlord have found new life decades after they were originally produced.

Rialto Pictures, a New York-based restoration and distribution company, has been at the forefront of the revolution, taking old prints of films and scanning, cleaning and reprinting them, then distributing the films to art-house theaters across the country. The critical reaction has been overwhelming, reaching a peak in 2006 as Army of Shadows, a 1969 film by French director Jean-Pierre Melville, was named the top film of the year by both Premiere Magazine and New York Times critic Manohla Dargis.

Returning to undiscovered masterpieces is an understandable urge for film historians and enthusiasts like Rialto or the Criterion Collection series of DVDs, which has recently released Overlord and Elevator to the Gallows special editions and will release Army of Shadows in May, but it’s less understandable in the context of today’s film world.

After all, the trend has been toward remaking older films, not restoring and rereleasing them. Take Chris Rock’s systematic removal of subtlety and intelligence from 1957 film Love in the Afternoon (2007’s I Think I Love My Wife) as an example of how not to do it, and Martin Scorcese’s The Departed (2006) as a lesson in crafting a solid film from used parts (Scorcese’s film was adapted from Hong Kong hit Infernal Affairs).

Hank Okazaki, program director in Film/Video/Digital, runs the Duke Screen/Society, an annual screening series that featured Army of Shadows earlier this year. He said the backward trend is part of the process of understanding modern cinema.

“Sometimes you’ll focus on recent films made about the past, and then you end up returning to older films,” Okazaki says.

“There’s always a desire to show new work, by

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The iPhone, slated for a June 11 release date in the U.S., is a multitasker’s dream —part cell phone, part iPod and complete with Internet access. Or at least this is what it’s touted to be by Apple. Yet as many new multi-tasking phones have proven, advertising may not reveal everything. Take Verizon’s recently released Chocolate. Many users have complained that the middle dial on the phone, used to navigate both the mp and cell phone components of the device, is clunky and hard to use. The iPhone may be similarly difficult to navigate —New York Times reporter David Pogue, while test-driving a prototype of the iPhone, even commented on the tediousness of typing on the device because of its virtual keys.

There’s also the issue of pricing. According to Cingular’s website, a 4GB iPhone costs $499, while an BGB goes for $599. For most college students, this is the biggest deal-breaker. And don’t forget that the iPhone only works with Cingular, so many people would have to switch carriers before they could even consider buying the device.

In short, skip on the iPhone, for now. Wait until you’ve seen a few reviews of the actual device, whether in newspapers or online, before considering it. Also, by few a waiting months after the release date, you may be able to save a few dollars, as prices are sure to drop. The iPhone is poised to bring the multi-tasking technology of cell phones to a new height, but I wouldn’t jump on the until bandwagon I’ve heard from the experts that its the real deal

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Fear Factor host shows funny side What future projects are you looking at?

What I want to concentrate on now is stand-up. I would love to do something uncensored like a radio show, TV show or what Tom Green has. He has a TV show from his house streaming live without input from directors or producers.

How was it touring with John Heffron and Charlie Murphy last year?

That was a lot of fun, it was cool. It wasn’t just, comedy clubs, we did some theaters. You show up in the city in the afternoon, check in to the hotel, perform and get something to eat and go to sleep. It was kind of sad that we didn’t get to see the cities more.

Do you think that there is an appropriate comparison to Sam Kinison?

I was definitely influenced by him for sure. I was a huge Kinison fan since I was a kid and if there is any similarity, it is because he was an influence. He was one of the best comedians ever. Especially in his earlier years. He is a good example of what happens to comedians when they lose their hunger. If you listen to the earlier stuff around 1986, like Louder Than Hell, you can see how great he is, but later you can tell his heart just isn’t in it anymore.

You are a strong advocate of marijuana.

I definitely think that not only should marijuana be legal, I think anything that only harms the person who is using it should be legal—and marijuana doesn’t even hurt people. It is all based on bulls lies from the ’3os when they were trying to combat hemp. What William Randolph Hearst did was print newspaper articles saying that Mexicans and blacks are using this new drug called marijuana.

How have you liked doing the new Ultimate Fighting Championship show?

I think it is very exciting. I love it.

These guys are out there making a lot of money now and finding ways to retire at a comfortable age. These guys don’t have to worry about what they have to do for the rest of their lives. It gives a professional venue for a lot of guys who don’t have any other options, like amateur wrestlers.

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By most Americans’ account, Joe Rogan is not a stand-up comedian.

Rogan, known as the host of Fear Factor and the electrician from Newsßadio, is setting out to remind people how he got into showbiz with his first stand-up CD in six years, Shiny Happy Jihad.

The black-belt comedian has been spending die past years hosting FearFactor and providing color commentary for Ultimate Fighting Championship, and it’s a shame. Rogan is a great, unappreciated comedian. Funny, original and gutsy, it is surprising he has not gotten more attention.

For Rogan, no subject is off-limits, whether it is religion, relationships or even himself. He attacks everything with a methodical sung and crassness severely lacking from the polished comics that comprise today’s comedy circuit. Everything that flows from his curse-laden mouth seems natural—like a more tolerable version of a Dennis Miller rant.

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It is important for comedy that stuff like that gets exposed. Clubs, club owners, Comedy Central—no one is doing something to protect the material of artists.

The only people speaking out are other artists who step up and say ‘Hey. Stop stealing my material.’

Why do you think people don’t protect the material of comedians?

The Internet is really changing how people have access to this information. In the past, comedians would get labeled as jealous and now you just show a video and they can’t say anything, because it is what it is. Lots of comedians were bullied as kids, so it is difficult for comedians to confront people when someone is stealing from you.

Why do you think Comedy Central hasn’t acted?

Money. It is really simple: they are making money. They are selling a show. There is a gang of s out there that is stolen. If you watch that Mind ofMencia show, that is stolen goods. That is a fact. They are selling that and making a ton of money. It is clearly a financial issue.

Have you kept in touch with the Newsßadio cast and would you be interested in working with them again?

I actually ran into Dave Foley [who played Dave Nelson on Newsßadio] the other day and talked about how great it would be to do something together again.

It is so hard to create a good sitcom with talented actors. Newsßadio was the best scenario working with guys like Phil Hartman, Andy Dick and Stephen Root and Maura Tierney. It was so amazing. But can you do that again? What do you do? How do you set that up? Do you do Newsßadio 2?

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�� Reviewing super-producer Timbaland’s second studio release, Timbaland Presents Shock Value, is no easy task. Sure, most of the songs are perfectly produced and executed, from the club-ready “Give It to Me” and the haunting “Kill Yourself,” to the brilliantly weird “Bounce.”

But all together, Shock Value lacks cohesion, and sounds more like a sampler or compilation album than, say, any RZA or Kanye album—for example, songs like “Release” and “Come and Get Me” could have easily been b-sides, or even singles, off a Justin Timberlake or any G-Unit album.

Furthermore, the album contains some of the worst tracks Timbaland has ever produced, including the insufferable wannabe classic “Bombay,” and the fauxslow jam “Apologize,” featuring Oneßepublic, an untalented nu-emo group signed to Timbaland’s record label, THE ACADEMY 15...

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SANTI The question remains, still, how to apFUELED BY RAMEN himselfsaid proach the album. Timbaland that he was tired of excelling in the hipConsider this a disclaimer; If you don t hop genre and desired instead to conquer emo—or, at the very least, pop rocklike the Top 40 charts Shock Value was supto will probably not like Santi, the sophoyou be the conquistador. posed big more release from The Academy 15.... But But one must wonder, then, if he was paying any attention when four Justin if you do, Santi has a lot to offer, though it does take a little bit of digging, Timberlake and three Nelly Furtado The problem isn’t the songs themselves, tracks—none of which were hip-hop—hit but the ordering of the songs. The opener, the No. 1 spot.

“Same Blood,” is a flat-out dud, and the And so what does a hip-hop producfollowing “LAX to O Hare doeser who owns the hip-hop charts n’t get good until the chorus, and, subsequently, the pop about 40 seconds in. It’s only charts do? He attempts to during the third song, the conquer the alternative aptly chosen single “We’ve rock charts. Timbaland’s a Mess On Our desire to do so is evident iiiiirjrrjiuij lit HlUSiCreViljWS Hands,” that you’re really in the last third of Shock Value, as he works with the WM B7 hooked. The song is a great track, replacing their Fall Out mainstay Boy, pop-rock gloss with some stathe Swedish freak-rock dium-worthy guitar crunch and group the Hives, Interpol ripsing-along choruses. But its imoffs She Wants Revenge and his pact is weakened because it follows two own Oneßepublic. songs that are mediocre at best, Never has a hip-hop producer so inserted himself into the Thankfully, though, the rest of the producstrongly don of a rock track, but left the rock feel— album keeps the whining fladiners at bay it’s been done before, but never like this. with a succession of catchy songs with a twist, be it the glam-rock touches on “Bulls And while some of these tracks fall apart in Brooklyn,” or the combination of grit (Fall Out Boy’s “One and Only” notably), and reverb on “Sleeping With Giants (Lifethe idea stays behind. time).” (Thanks to the help of Butch WalkShock Value, then, is mosdy new looks at old news. But it’s those few tracks that er, who has produced emo staples such as make us sit back and think that maybe All-American Rejects and Fall Out Boy.) It’s a shame that Santi is such a diawe’re catching a glimpse of a new form of mond-in-the-rough release—there are music, some freak bastard child of rock, hip-hop and pop. Will a new genre be ere- some really great songs, but they’re hidated, or will we witness the beginning of den in the album. A more cohesive structhe largest musical implosion? We’ll have ture could have really pushed this release above the pack. to wait and see.

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pulsoptional’s composers also tailor their pieces to the specific players they share the stage with, a point fans called “one of the most satisfying aspects of this group.”

And unlike most contemporary classical groups, this band of composers frequents rock clubs like the Duke Coffeehouse, usually to surprising acclaim.

“There’s a certain energy to everything we do,” said Thom Limbert, pulsoptional’s percussionist. “The feeling I have in practice is similar to the feeling I get when I’m playing rock.”

But he added, “I was in a rock band for several years before this, and I’d never gotten the reception I’ve gotten for this group.”

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You’d expect to find a group like this in a place like London or New York City. But pulsoptional feels right at home in

Durham, a creative community saturated with rock bands where faris says the group has carved out a niche.

“We’re not as loud as they are,” he said.

“And we happen to be really lucky here that there are a lot of people who are open to approaching music in a lot of different ways. We kind of fit into that because we don’t make sense, in away.”

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Youth and Young Manhood was the party, Aha Shake Heartbreak is the hangover.” If that’s the case then Because of the Times, the band’s third full-length proper, is when you decide, “Screw it, it’s time to wake the beast,” and start throwing back all the beers you can find.

Put bluntly, this album is Kings of Leon’s loudest. From its first track, the two guitars, bass and drums collectively pound into your head like a drunk Irishman on Adderall. But wait—there is a method to

this Guinness-fueled madness. Specifically, every song has a unique bass line and powerful guitar parts that drive toward constant crescendos. Airy electric guitars and the strange yet beautiful whine of lead singer Caleb Eollowill fill the breaks in intensity with eye-of-the-storm-like serenity.

Moreover, Because of the Times is a hurricane, engulfing the listener with force no one knew three young brothers and a cousin from a small town in Tennessee could deliver.

On the other hand, there’s something here for the singles type as well. Tracks like “On Call,” the album’s pre-released single, and “My Party” will certainly get you going when you’re looking for some downloadable caffeine.

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to creep us out with ajar full of

testicles, acquire two more for his collection and land face-first on one of them during a gunfight—all within the first 15 minutes.

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In March, Criterion launched Eclipse, a new line of DVDs focused on the distribution of unseen works by important directors. The mission statement is simple: provide “lost, forgotten or overshadowed films in simple, affordable editions... a brief cinematheque retrospective for the adventurous home viewer.”

For a company like Criterion, known for their scrupulous restoration process, the short turnaroundfor the Eclipse line—releasing a boxset of tides monthly —is a

significant change.

Criterion was unable to “make a dent in

said Criterion President Peter Becker in a statement.

The notion that companies like Criterion and Rialto are filling the niche of availability and education appeals to Okazaki.

“Art-house cinemas used to—in their heyday—do retrospectives, and a lot of film buffs got their education those screenings. from Today, there’s none of that,” he said. “Screen/Society, like Criterion and Rialto, are working on an educational mission.”

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homonymically-named Sydney Poitier). The second act, where the film’s real heart is, features a different group of girls (including Rosario Dawson) giving Mike a taste of his own medicine—resulting in one of the best car chase scenes since The Italian Job. With Planet Terror, Rodriguez attempts to make a film outside his own era, while Tarantino only manages to make a Tarantino film—which is nothing to scoff at. Minus a few dropped

Those expecting to see an awe-inspiring spectacle ofJesus Christ’s eternal love for mankind right in time for the Easter holiday will be sorely disappointed by Passover-inspired thriller The Reaping.

The movie kicks it Old Testament style, where God Almighty is a deity with a short temper and a quick trigger finger for those who do not follow him. However, this does not stop Katherine Winter (Hilary Swank), a renowned theological myth-buster and professor at Louisiana State University, from attaching scientific explanations to miraculous situations around the world.

The latest of such scenarios occurs in a small town of Haven, where two miles of river have turned to blood.

In addition to the 10 biblical plagues, this movie has a few bonus ones. The 11th plague is the citizenry of Haven, which has the combined IQ of a doorknob.The

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frames and overlapping sound sequences, the film displays no marks of ’7os cheapies, lacking the discoloration of Planet Terror.

The film has all the markers of QT. Foot fetishes, developed dialogue, a bad-ass black protagonist? Check, check and check (the Samuel L. Jackson-channeling Trade Thoms).

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no stranger to wannabe exploitation films. Even if it .doesn’t manage to be pure grindhouse fodder, Death Proof is structurally stronger than Planet Terror and benefits from a great performance by the infectiously charismatic non-actress Zoe Bell (the real-life stuntwoman doubled for Uma

in Kill Bill) .

Modern experimental film projects usually fall short of bearable—how many moviegoers flock to a Lars von Trier Dogme9s film? However, Rodriguez and Tarantino manage to brew up some cinematic magic that opens a portal back to the golden age of the moviewatching experience.

12th and most painful plague is the typical slasher-flick characters—running off alone and making counterin-

tuitive decisions.

Like a touch of the Lord’s own hand, the cinematography and special effects crews save The Reaping from total damnation—sort of. The gorgeous landscape shots of rural Louisiana are slightly reminiscent of Forrest Gump thanks to producer Robert Zemeckis. The special effects courtesy ofK.N.B. EFX Group are top notch without detracting from the overall experience.

This film certainly isn’t a must-see—unless witnessing the most random sex scene since Underworld: Evolution or watching Hilary Swank clean blood off a little girl’s leg while awkwardly explaining puberty is your cup of tea. However, The Reaping is not a total loss thanks to some solid behind-the camera-production work.

—Jamie Thomas North Carolina State University sophomore Jamie Thomas is a guest reporter for recess.

That mission is reaching a wider and duced in a new way.

New, of course, is the subjective word, wider audience, and opening up an extraordinary variety since Overlord was made in 1975. But Okazaof films for public consump- ki is quick to note that discovering new styles don. Overlord, for example, in old film isn’t the slightest bit strange. released on DVD by Criteri“Things don’t always just progress and on, is a fiction film constructadvance,” he said. “A 40-year-old film can ed from a hybridization of seem daring and innovative today—Hollyarchival footage and original wood has gotten a little tame.” material.

So the resurgence of unseen or previUnlike what could techously ignored films in our theaters and our nically be its closest brother, home theaters cannot be attached to a sinErrol Morris’ The Thin Blue gle movement: It could be representative Line (1988), in which real of the re-emergence of film education for events are restaged and shot the masses or merely a rebellion against fiction-style before being the products of our current studio system. cut into documentary inBut it’s also quite possible that the reason terview footage, Overlord for the proliferation might simply lie with seems anything but fiction narrative pro- the film enthusiasts.

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Michael Ayers, one of the stars of Shadow of Himself, which explores the issues of masculinity and homosexuality, is a Trinity senior and active member of the theater community on campus.

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Is evil just a word used to justify evil?

Shadow ofHimself written by Neal Bell, professor of the practice of theater studies, explores this essential question by putting a modern spin on the ancient Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh.

The ancient tale tells the story of a king who is part god, part mortal and his friend who is half man, half animal. At the king’s bidding, the two launch an unjustified attack upon the guardian of the forest and must then face unanticipated consequences.

Director Jody McAuliffe, also a professor of the practice of theater studies, noted the relevance of the piece to current international issues.

“There are certain overt parallels to the situation in Iraq,” she said. “It’s an imperialistic venture based on faulty informadon.”

The story, which takes place in what is present-day Iraq,

focuses on essentially timeless themes.

“It could apply to all kinds of aggressive wars... it’s a very human story—it's about loss and redemption,” McAuliffe said. “The main character has to learn that he has to lose something or someone that he loves and that teaches him compassion and humanity.”

Not only does the play emphasize the senselessness of human violence and aggression, but it also draws attention to the ensuing damage to the earth.

In his lust for glory, the king ravages the land, destroying everything in his path.

‘You make the world a wasteland,” laments the king’s beloved friend, far too late.

McAuliffe explained that environmental concerns also link the plot to current issues in global politics.

A New York theater group called The Civilians, which specializes in documentary work, originally commissioned the play. The group asked Bell to write a piece concerning masculinity.

This-theme is explored extensively in the play, which two ambiguously homosexual relationships between men fixated on demonstrating their strength and courage, regardless of the devastating consequences.

Bell seamlessly integrates these themes, successfully crafting a piece which is politically charged in more ways than one.

Actors Michael Ayers, a senior and Aaron Marco, Trinity ’O4, interact in a manner which conveys their ferocity and aggression while maintaining the suggestion of intimacy and tenderness, illustrating the complexities of human relationships.

The play reveals essential human fears of loneliness and being forgotten. But as the characters learn, there are worse fates than that.

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Members of the student theatergroup Hoof n' Horn sing and dance during a rehearsal for upcoming production Guys andDolls.

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recess Set in the jazzy New York scene of the gambling age—filled with booze, cards and all sorts of sin— Guys and Dolls is renowned as a musical classic.

And this spring, Duke’s Hoof n’ Horn production group will be bringing this award-winning musical to the campus stage.

First-time director Shaun Dozier, a junior, decided to keep true to the age and atmosphere of the original Broadway classic.

Guys and Dolls is a timeless hit because it is a piece, of pure entertainment,” Dozier said. “My goal for this adaptation is for the audience to leave feeling a little lighter and fully entertained.”

With a live orchestra and many seasoned actors, the production definitely captures more than a bit of New York sass. “

Bubbling with a personality made for New York, Adelaide, played by UNC junior Julia Swin-

dal, is a sure favorite. From her sharp New York accent to her feisty singing, Adelaide is a bigger-than-life character that jumps off the stage. As a fitting counterpart, Nathan Detroit, played by sophomore Matthew Colabrese, is a lovable gambler whose problem with commitment—but genuine love for Adelaide—is deftly portrayed.

On the other hand, the pairing of senior Russell Hainline, as Sky Masterson, with third-year student Jenny graduate Woodruff, as Sarah Brown, seems a little off-kilter. Although both actors have exceptional voices, Woodruffs voice often overpowers Hainline’s, bringing excessive attention to her singing ability rather than her

character’s story.

Additionally, technical difficulties keep the show from reaching its full potential. The strength and attitude of some of the songs are diluted by the at times out-of-tune and overwhelming pit orchestra accompaniment. Significant microphone problems add to the diminished sound quality, with some characters drowning out others in the harmonization that adds the spice to this musical.

Technical difficulties aside, this production is a mediocre adaptation of Frank Loesser’s 1950 masterpiece and does not achieves Dozier’s goal.

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Guys and Dolls is playing April 5-7 and April 12-14 at 8 p.m., and April 14-15 at 2 p.m. in Reynolds Theatre (in the Bryan Center). Tickets are $7 for students.

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BODIES

Cadavers on display challenge traditional understandings of art and science ethics.

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resulting in a specimen that retains the look of the original but has the flexibility of rubber.

Using real human cadavers has made BODIES—and several similar exhibitions—a lightning rod for controversy.

Critics allege that bodies are obtained through unethical means, and that the subjects did not intend to be on display.

Glover said the company follows all international laws.

Still, BODIES has drawn millions of people during its previous stops in cities such as Miami, Seatde and London, and its sister production continues to attract

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Ninth Street location minutesfrom Duke University ,

tourists to New York’s South Street Seaport.

Approximately 200,000 are expected for the four-month Durham run.

“All told, BODIES... The Exhibition is expected to help generate $24 million in overall spending in Durham >vith a net economic impact on the community of $l7 million,” said Reyn Bowman, president and CEO of the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau, in a statement.

[lt] is a coup for Durham as a rapidly emerging destination,” he added. “

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