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Thirty years since they first cracked the gender barrier in varsity sports, Duke’s female athletes will have their history commemorated by a three-day celebration designed to bring further prominence to women’s athletics.

This weekend’s events stemmed from the efforts ofAssociate Athletic Director Jackie Silar, who witnessed universities like Harvard and Virginia host similar festivities on the 25th anniversaries of their original women’s athletic programs.

President Nan Keohane and Athletic Director Joe Alieva, who have consistently shown their support for Duke’s women’s athletes by regularly attending their sporting events this season, will each speak at the weekend’s main activity, a silent auction and dinner held tonight in Cameron Indoor Stadium. At the fund-raising gala, Universi, multimilli

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“I thought it was time that Duke celebrated its history with women’s athletics,” said Jackie Silar, who has been working for nearly two years to organize this weekend. “What a more fitting time than 30 years.”

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Effectively wrapping up its pursuit of a new city manager, the Durham City Council unanimously voted yesterday to accept the terms of a deal with Marcia Conner, current assistant city manager of Austin, Texas.

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pensation in person. Tennyson said he and Conner had the discussed terms that the council approved today, and that she had made an “absolute categorical statement” that she would come to Durham under Marcia Conner those conditions, Conner, who is expected to begin in mid-May, will make $138,000 each year, and receive a benefit package. The

terms include severance conditions that effectively guarantee that Conner will be on the city’s payroll until December 2002, unless the contract is renegotiated or she is fired on grounds of “malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of

duty or incompetence.”

By comparison, the starting salary of Conner’s predecessor, Lament Ewell, was $114,000 in 1997. When he left Durham last December to take a job in San Diego, he was earning $150,623.

Even though Conner will be receiving considerably more than Ewell’s initial See CONNER on page 5 P-

Student-created website solicits course evaluations two spoke on condition of anonymity out of concern that their academic standing could be threatened.

The site has been up for about two weeks, and as of Tuesday evening, users had submitted about 300

By DAVE INGRAM The Chronicle

A new course evaluation system has arrived just in time for fall class registration, but the new online form—independent ofthe University—is not the one

evaluations of spring 2001 courses.

Visitors to the site can rate classes on factors such as interest level, difficulty, workload, knowledge gained and overall opinion. The site also includes space for comments, and so far, many evaluations contain several notes.

Comments are accompanied by the grade the student said he or she received, but there are no assurances that the student actually received that grade or even took the class.

“It is not a system that I would support in its present form,” Dean of Trinity College Robert Thompson wrote in an e-mail. He is collaborating with DSG on a University-sponsored course evaluation system. “The method for assuring the authen-

anticipated by student leaders and administrators.

Frustrated by the failures of similar projects in the past, and by delays in making University-sponsored evaluation forms public, two undergraduates created EZDevil.com in part to aid students registering for classes. The site also boasts a wide variety of links to Duke-related and national websites, as well as a search engine for digital music and video, but the site’s developers said that course evaluations are the main draw.

“We originally had the idea of doing course evaluations because we knew that [Duke Student Government] has been working on it for a long time, and we felt that students really wanted a resource to help choose their courses,” one of the developers said. The

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FROM WIRE REPORTS

Marine Corps places blame for Osprey crash The Marine Corps blamed a fatal crash of the V-22 Osprey on the aircraft’s computer software and a flaw in the flight control system that it had been aware of for at least 18 months.

Strike forces Hawaiian schools to shut down Hawaii, the nation’s only statewide public school system, shut down as nearly 13,000 teachers went on strike over pay raises and 3,100 University of Hawaii faculty members were also preparing to go on strike.

Republican plan may not match Bush’s Still struggling for votes, Republicans conceded that the budget they plan to push through the Senate may fall short of President George W. Bush’s full $1.6 trillion, 10-year tax cut proposal.

Leading Palestinian militant killed A leading Palestinian militant was blown up when a booby-trapped public phone exploded as he used it on the street outside the West Bank jail where he was held on-and-off by Palestinian authorities.

Veneman supports salmonella testing Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman disavowed a departmental policy to eliminate testing for salmonella in ground beef for the federal schoollunch program.

Unemployment claims hit 3-year high The number of Americans filing new state unemployment insurance claims rose to the highest level since 1998, fresh evidence that companies are shedding workers to cope with the weak economy.

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China again seeks U.S. apology President Jiang called the United States’ spy plane tactics ‘not acceptable’

By KEVIN GRAY Associated Press

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President Jiang Zemin Thursday calledagain for the United States to apologize for a collision between a U.S. surveillance plane and a Chinese fighter.

“I have visited many countries and I see that when people have an accident, the two groups involved, the two parts always say excuse me,” Jiang said after arriving in Santiago, Chile, the first stop of a

12-day Latin American tour.

The United States has declined to apologize for the mishap, but Thursday President George W. Bush expressed “regret”—qualified

language that has been used by other American officials.

China said Thursday it will hold the crew of the plane for questioning and insisted on a “cooperative attitude” from Washington before they are allowed to meet again with American diplomats. Jiang also said both sides should try to seek a resolution.

“I want to say with emphasis

that the leaders of China and the United States must manage this issue to the maximum interests [of our relations],” he said, adding that Chinese officials were exasperated by continued U.S. surveillance flights.

“American planes come to the

edge of our country and they don’t say excuse me. This sort of conduct is not acceptable in any country,” he said.

He said the airplane’s 24-member crew was “healthy,” and expressed regret about the missing Chinese flyer involved in the crash.

“During my flight to Chile, I was thinking about our pilot, and we don’t know where he is, and our plane is at the bottom ofthe ocean,” said Jiang.

China has given no sign that the 24 American men and women would be released soon, despite warnings from Bush that China risks undermining relations by continuing to hold them.

Dell sparks temporary market success

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In headier times, Dell’s statement would hardly have caused a stir. The company, which makes comMinor news from Dell Computer puter systems, said after the market closed Wednesday NEW YORK spurred a major rally on Wall Street Thursday as the that its sales and profit for the quarter that ends April Dow Jones industrial average gained more than 400 30 would match analysts’ lowered estimates. points and the Nasdaq composite index posted its But after a stream of bad news from technology third-largest percentage gain ever. companies like Cisco Systems and Oracle, Dell’s anThursday’s action provided some relief for in- nouncement gave investors reason to hope that the vestors whose portfolios have been ravaged by worst of the earnings news might be over, money manmonths of declines. But without new evidence that agers said. the U.S. economy is improving, few analysts or money “Dell ended up alluding to the idea that things were managers were ready to predict the gains would last. stabilizing,” said Michael Manns, senior portfolio manIn fact, they noted that some of the strongest single ager of the $3 billion AXP mutual fund. “The market days ever for the Nasdaq have come during its rout of was so oversold that any inkling of good news was the last year. enough to spur a rally.”

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Campaigns reveal Duke considers center’s expansion no sign of slowing Though the national economy is experiencing a downturn, university officials across the country say the trend has not affected their billion-dollar capital campaigns—yet.

By STEVEN WRIGHT The Chronicle

As most of the nation braces for an economic slowdown, so do the development offices at several universities across the nation. Today, about a dozen American research universities are engaged in capital campaigns seeking a billion dollars or more. At Duke, administrators are beginning to wonder how the economy will affect the University’s ongoing $2 billion

campaign goal.

At a regularly scheduled meeting yesterday, Campaign for Duke officials met to discuss, among other things, campaign strategy and the potential effects of an economic downturn. To hedge against the prospects of a slowdown, campaign officials will begin taking a more general approach to fundraising.

The strategy of The Duke Campaign, which has reached about 73 percent of its goal, has long attempted to match specific donors to specific initiatives. Now, fundraisers will begin widening their nets and offering a larger pool of potential donors the opportunity to give to more varied University initiatives.

Peter Vaughn, director of communications and donor relations for University development, said that campaign officials had already planned to change the fundraising strategy when the University reached a certain point, but saw this move as an extra safeguard.

Thus far, the Campaign for Duke has begun to See

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Correction A page-six story in the April 4 edition misspelled the name of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ chief justice. His name is Harvie Wilkinson.

A page-one story in yesterday’s edition incorrectly attributed an opinion to sophomore Leila Fusfeld. In fact, dietician Franca Alphin thinks the Durham Co-op’s prices are a little high.

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THE MARY LOU WILLIAMS CENTER, created in 1983, is to small and not visible enough, say some campus community members A student proposal advocates moving the center to a freestanding building on West Campus.

famed jazz musician who once taught at Duke, was created in 1983 following 15 years of lobbying by For nearly five months, a committee of faculty and black students. Located in the basement ofthe West students has met behind closed doors to discuss the Union Building, it includes two offices, a lounge, a lifuture of cultural and multicultural centers at Duke. brary and a large room for meetings and speeches.

It will release a report later this month, but one key Some students consistently have complained that decision has already been made: to separate a potenthe center is too small physically and lacks visibilitial new multicultural center from the expansion of ty. “The facility is not capable of holding many ofthe the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture. events that African-Americans do on campus,” said President Nan Keohane hinted at that decision in junior Bunia Parker, who helped write one proposal a March 29 report addressing progress on several for the expansion. “There are 600 African-American demands made by black students in 1969,1975 and students on this campus.... If you wanted to have a 1997. “I recognize the need to distinguish between banquet, you couldn’t have it in there. The Kwanzaa the missions of the Office of Intercultural Affairs celebration, you couldn’t have there.” Parker also and the Mary Lou Williams Center, and to site both sits on the committee studying the cultural center. units effectively,” Keohane wrote. “We will work with Others, including center director Leon Dunkley student leaders and groups on how and where.” and BSA President Troy Clair, say the center’s visiThe Black Student Alliance and students who bility and size are only a small part of the larger disprotested The Chronicle’s publication of a March 19 cussion about culture on campus. advertisement opposing slavery reparations have “It’s not necessarily a question of where the offices ofcultural organizations are. It’s where culturexpressed concern about the cultural center issue.

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FRIDAY, APRIL6, 2001

Duke looks for director to solve parking crunch

By DAVE INGRAM The Chronicle

Locating a parking space on West Campus might be tough, but finding someone to direct the campus parking system may prove just as difficult.

At the recommendation of a consulting firm that advises Duke on transportation, a 10-member committee is in the middle of a search for a new director of University and Medical Center parking. The position would be new since the current director of transit and parking, Stephen Burrell, also oversees other operations like the campus post office and publications.

Search committee members hope that having a director who is devoted solely

to parking will alleviate long-standing complaints. Parking allocation and fees, student and employee needs, ticketing and improving mass transportation are some of the issues that will confront the new director.

The committee began meeting in January and hopes to have someone in place by this summer, said Daniel Rodas, committee chair and assistant

vice president for administration.

Rodas said the committee already offered the position to one candidate, who turned down the job because of conflicts relocating to Durham. Several candidates will be coming to the University over the next few weeks to tour the campus and meet with the search committee. All together, the committee has received about 25 applications.

“It’s an extremely attractive and challenging opportunity because not only is Duke a world-class institution, but we’re looking for someone who can lead our parking program and give it di-

rection,” Rodas said.

That may seem counterintuitive to community members who have had difficulty with the parking system. In addition, there is no occupational track that naturally leads to the position, as there is with many other administrative or faculty positions.

But Rodas said that the committee is specifically targeting experienced directors from other universities.

“We’re looking for someone who can

help us to implement the recommendations from the consultant’s report, someone who can think creatively about campus parking in general,” he said.

Sophomore Emily Grey, Duke Student

Government vice president for facilities and athletics, said the consultant’s suggestions—which are still in draft form—necessitate a full-time director.

“There never seemed to be someone on campus to address parking issues as they came up during the year, and if there were someone on campus to answer those questions that would be a lot more beneficial,” Grey said.

She added that a new director might also increase student representation on committees that address parking. The current search committee includes three students, one professor and six administrators.

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Pizza: The Other Food Group Graduate students enjoyed a couple slices of pizza yesterday afternoon at a party organized

by Lyndee Champion, left, a student services offer in the graduate school. The pizza party was one in a series of events celebrating Graduate Student Appreciation Week, which ends tomorrow at the end of Springfest. The Office of Graduate Student Affairs and the Graduate and Professional Student Council sponsored the week which also included a graduate student picnic, a bicycle safety and repair workshop and a blood drive.

DUKE CHAPEL HOLY WEEK April 8, Palm Sunday Worship Service 10:50 am beginning on Chapel steps Catholic Palm Sunday Services 11 am in York Chapel, Duke Divinity School 9 pm Duke Chapel Black Campus Ministries Worship 7 pm Mary Lou Williams Center to, 11, and 12, Holy Week Services 9, 12 noon Duke Chapel 12, Maudy Thursday Services Service of the Lord’s Supper, Stripping of the Altar 7:30 pm Duke Chapel Catholic Liturgy of Holy Thursday 9 pm Duke Chapel *

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Burglar takes stereo, CDs from car parked at Trent From staff reports Someone broke out the $2OO right rear window of a student’s vehicle and stole 20 CDs worth $4OO and a car stereo worth $250 between 2:30 a.m. March 30 and 8:15 p.m. April 1, said Maj. Robert Dean of the Duke University Police Department. The vehicle was parked in the Zone N parking lot across from Trent Dormitory.

Another car entered: A student reported that between 8:40 a.m. and 9:45 April 1 someone broke out the $lOO right rear passenger window of her vehicle and stole her $350 Sony CD player with radio, a $2OO pair of Sony speakers and nine CDs worth $lOB, Dean said. The perpetrator also forced open the glove box, causing $5O in damage. The vehicle was parked in the Alumni House lot.

Vehicles vandalized: Two cars in the gravel parking lot at Anderson Street and Campus Drive were

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salary, council members did not see the package as overly costly.

“I really do believe that we have a fair and reasonable compensation package that really rewards the skills that Ms. Conner brings to this area,” said council member Floyd McKissick.

Tennyson agreed, saying the contract was not so lucrative as it might appear.

“We’ve got a $2OO million business,” he said. “We do not pay the CEO of that business anything approaching a market rate.... I think the compensation package is reflective of public service responsibilities

and talent.”

Other provisions—such as vacations and severance

terms that increase with each year Conner holds the job—are intended to give her incentives to stay for at least five years, longer than Ewell’s three-and-a-half.

“We’re all agreed that it would have been much better had we been able to keep Lamont for that long,” Tennyson said. “One ofthe things that we most wanted to do is provide incentives for stability, and, you know, I think the fact that she’s thinking in terms of her long-range future as she contemplates what compensation she wants is a good sign.”

Council members were pleased that Conner is now certain to become the city manager.

“She is what our community needs, and certainly she is what our existing city organization expects in terms of expertise,” council member Pamela Blyth said.

Conner was equally glad to hear the news of the council’s approval, Tennyson said. While talking to reporters, the mayor received a phone call from Conner.

He reported her reaction to the news of the vote: “She said she’s very excited, and looking forward to coming to Durham soon.”

Conner could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Tennyson said he expects Conner’s primary focus in office to be management, compared to the hiring decisions in which Ewell was often involved.

“One of the very obvious strengths she brings is the experience with fiscal matters,” he said. “The other thing... that you’d have to be completely out of your mind not to notice is that we need real growth management expertise.”

Tennyson also cited public safety as a primary focus for Conner.

“I told her that we’ve made progress but that we’re

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$250 Pioneer CD stereo.

Another employee reported that between 3:40 and 3:45 p.m. April 4, someone broke out the $lOO driver’s side window of his vehicle, setting off the alarm. Nothing was stolen from the vehicle.

Fishing equipment snagged: A student reported that between 8:30 p.m. April 3 and 11:30 a.m. April 4, someone broke out the $250 driver’s side window of his vehicle and stole a $3OO Colorado fishing reel, Dean said. The perpetrator also dented the driver’s side door, causing $lOO in damage. The vehicle was parked in the Alumni House lot.

Commons room damaged: Between 7 p.m.

March 31 and 3:15 p.m. April 1, someone vandalized the commons room of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

A student found that the perpetrator had overturned furniture and thrown beer cans, playing cards and poker chips all over the floor. Additionally, there were unknown fluids on one of the couches and the walls.

The perpetrator caused $75 in damage by painting and carving fraternity symbols on the walls. Also, the perpetrator stole the $3OO picture of the 2000 class of fraternity members and the $l5O framed fraternity mission statement.

Wallet swiped; A visitor reported that between 3:30 and 4 p.m. April 4, someone stole her $5O wallet, containing credit cards and a check for $lO from her jacket while she was in the Bryan Center Store dressing room, Dean said.

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al programming goes on,” said Clair, a sophomore. “It’s where art is hung on the walls. It’s the names of the buildings or the spaces.... We need to talk about how this entire campus can highlight different cultures and not talk about whether it’s a floor or a freestanding building.” Clair also sits on the committee studying the multicultural center.

Dunkley stressed that the visibility arguments are complex. For example, he said, no one thinks of the Hideaway as lacking visibility, but physically, it is on the same level as the Mary Lou Williams Center.

“There needs to be a University decision made about how to deal with social and cultural space,” Dunkley said. “Lacking that, you propagate a logic that says, ‘lf I’m in a group, I ought to have a building.’”

He added that space can play a role in the University’s perceived commitment to different communities, citing the differences between the Mary Lou Williams Center and the Freeman Center for Jewish Life.

Several members of the committee, including the chair, Residential Program Review Director Judith White, declined to comment on the group’s deliberations but said it had decided early in the process to consider the Mary Lou Williams Center’s expansion separate from the establishment of a multicultural center.

Questions remain as to what the expanded Mary Lou Williams center would look like and where it would be located. Under Parker’s proposal, submitted

by BSA and the National Panhellenic Council, it would be freestanding.

“If the Mary Lou Williams Center were in another building, its significance would be diminished and its essence diluted,” the proposal reads. “A freestanding center maintains an aura that would permeate across the campus whether people enter or not.”

Still, as space becomes of increasing concern to nearly every constituency on campus, finding space for a building might be difficult. Some have suggested the Bryan Center—scheduled for the eventual addition of

another floor—as an alternate venue. Regardless, most agree that a West Campus location would be ideal.

“Having a West Campus location would be very important in terms of black culture being incorporated into the larger university culture,” said senior Kelly Black, president of the Duke chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. “If that’s not really plausible, I think it’s still important that there is an expasion of the center somewhere.”

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show few signs of significant slowdown. The only noticeable effect has been a 10 percent decrease in appreciated securities.

The University has also raised $6O million less than it did one year ago. But Vaughn and others are quick to point out that last year’s $407 million in donations set a record and no one expects such success to be duplicated.

“When we moved beyond $4OO million, many of our mouths dropped,” said Vaughn. “Our numbers last year had been so strong that we didn’t expect to make it again this year.”

Duke was one of many schools that raised its capital campaign goal, and despite the current state of the economy, officials do not regret the action. “A number of trustees expressed feeling that this might happen so we weren’t unprepared,” said Vaughn.

DSG goes ahead with own system EZDEVIL from page 1 ticity and accuracy of grade reporting is not clear, and the response categories for some of the questions are Is-

unprofessional.”

The site developers said those categories were created to accommodate faculty concerns, including the possibility of libeling a professor. “We really don’t ask questions about the professors directly,” one said. “We ask about the classroom experience in general.”

The site developers screen all comments before posting them to make sure they contain exclusively opinion and no obvious falsehoods. “We’ve only gotten two or three that have been really negative,” one said.

The website allows for comments to appease another faculty concern—that a quantitative rating system might oversimplify an evaluation. But the site developers said that such ratings can be useful, especially when supplemented by written comments. “There are some things that aren’t that subjective,” one said.

The site does not include advertisements, and the site developers said they financed the site with their own money. “It took relatively little time to set this up,” one added. “I hope... that it will encourage organizations like DSG or the administration to get the ball rolling on their own system.”

Senior Jason Bergsman, DSG vice president for academic affairs, has been coordinating with Thompson on a course evaluation system. But Bergsman said EZDevil.com will not change his approach. If anything, the student interest demonstrated by the site could boost parallel efforts, he said.

Thompson agreed that the site will not usurp other efforts, adding that a sanctioned evaluation system is progressing.

“I think that DSG and the administration have been moving forward in a genuine collaborative process to formulate a system that is informative and accurate, and that addresses faculty and student concerns,” Thompson wrote. “Currently, we are addressing the need for administrative support, and corresponding funding sources, for the DSG endeavor.”

A similar course evaluation form to EZDevil.com’s used to exist on one of its current rivals— DevilNet.duke.edu—but the former editors removed evaluations because of libel concerns. Devil Net and The Chronicle are both owned by Duke Student Publishing Company.

Joshua Spielman, current co-editor of Devil Net, hopes to bring the service back to compete with EZDevil.com. “We ultimately want to do it,” he said, adding that plans have been complicated because the site shares programmers with The Chronicle and DSG. DevilNet also would edit any comments, Spiel-

Like many schools, Duke started its campaign in one of the strongest economies in history. Officials at Northwestern and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said that the unprecedented strength with these capital campaigns started may have set unrealistic expectations. The quick, large donations put the campaigns far ahead of schedule.

“We had a really fast early pace,” said Penelepe Hunt, Northwestern’s associate vice president for university development and director of the school’s campaign. “For a while, we thought that we might meet our goal early, but now I think we won’t reach the finish line too far ahead of schedule.”

Northwestern’s campaign, which is $350 million shy of its $1.4 billion campaign goal, has only recently begun to show signs that the national slowdown may have an effect. Some donors have become slower to give large contributions, while donations to the

school’s annual fund may have begun to decrease.

“Many people are beginning to take more of a waitand-see attitude to giving,” said Hunt.

Still, campaign officials at Northwestern and MIT said that they will not change their fundraising techniques in any significant manner.

“Like everyone else, we’re feeling the effects,” said Stephen Dare, director of resource development at MIT. “But we have a lot of alumni who have done very well and we really have no plans to change our strategy.”

The most recent data suggest that Duke officials also have no reason to worry. “We have a lot of programs in place that look specifically at smaller gifts,” said Sterly Wilder, director of the annual fund. Officials are banking on responses from the recent admissions decisions and the men’s basketball national championship to help keep gifts to the annual fund near anticipated rates.

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Reckless behavior China’s handling of the captured spy plane controversy may backfire Essay � William Safire WASHINGTON Our turboprop Aries reconnaissance aircraft is designed to fly slowly, to listen and observe while aloft for 12 hours Lumbering along at about 350 mph, the plane that is now impounded by China was being buzzed, shadowed and harassed by a couple of Chinese F-8 fighter jets capable of nearly three times its speed.

One of the

The Chinese reaction to what is so obviously an accident reveals a standard Cold War Communist mindset: (1) Blame the United States for killing its reckless pilot. (2) Assert that the collision occurred within its territorial waters although it happened over 50 miles out to sea. (3) Complain that our crippled plane failed to get permission to land when it radioed “mayday” and put down at the nearest airstrip. (4)

Hold our crew incommunicado and then, against all custom, civilized treat them as prisnews is oners. (5) Take our plane apart to steal what computer secrets our crew is was not able to destroy. (6) Insist

The welcome how the Chinese leadership inflicting great damage on its strategic purposes.

Chinese jets positioned itself in front of the Aries (the name, stargazers know, is Latin for “the ram”). Is it possible that our pilot with a crew of 23 aboard deliberately surged ahead to ram the fighter?

That makes no sense. Even if the slow

we halt surveillance ofits coastal patrols

and oil exploration.

Finally, the most significant Chinese reaction at the highest level was: (7) Humiliate the United States in Asian

the story of new President George W. Bush’s prudent reactions were more newsworthy than China’s bellicose actions. A cool head in the Oval Office is to be expected; too many of us are measuring equanimity under pressure in the White House rather than denouncing the enormity of China’s propaganda slander.

The welcome news is how the Chinese leadership is inflicting great damage on its strategic purposes. Its uncoordinated overreaction to the accident—especially its foolish demand that the United States grovel—is a gift to geopolitical realists here and a blow to softie Sinologists and amoral business interests.

For China to buy a change in America’s trade policy with illegal campaign contributions may be troubling. For China to snatch our academics and put them on show trials for espionage may be dismaying. For China to acquire our secret technology from greedy American executives and

friendly scientists may be distressing.

But for China to hold prisoner two dozen American servicemen and servicewomen to extract our apology for its own reckless wrongdoing—that’s infuriating.

And hell hath no fury like a Congress double-crossed. Those on the Hill who ignored human rights and buckled to corporate-Clinton pressure now mutter about rescinding their giveaway of trade restraints. Those who closed their eyes to the missile buildup now threatening Taiwan are opening them to the need for selling that democratic ally our Aegis antimis-

sile defense.

Beijing will soon awaken to its blunder. Our “explanation” and “regret” will lead to its release of our detainees or internees (never say hostages or prisoners). Too late; the tide of political opinion may be turning.

William Safire’s column is syndicated

by The New York Times News Service.

eyes by demanding an official apology, An expression of regret or sorrow at

the loss of life would not suffice;

plane could catch the much faster one, such a maneuver would be suicidal.

What does make sense is this; The jet plane in front slowed to obstruct

Beijing made clear that only an abject confession of being in the wrong, followed by a Clintonesque apology,

the Americans’ observation of what may have been a new destroyer purchased from Russia. But the F-8 was not designed for such slow speed, and probably stalled; the U.S. plane behind then ran into it.

Thus we have an accident caused by a form ofreckless endangerment by the provocateurs commanding the Chinese air force. Beijing’s military wants no surveillance of its buildup in the area and is prepared to make life dangerous for American watchers.

As facts trickle out, it becomes ever more apparent that the Chinese policy of endangerment was the cause of the accident, compounded by those seven succeeding wrongful acts. The United States is not demanding an apology because it wants its crew back; we also know that such a bootless demand

would do.

would reveal national insecurity, just

as what China’s nervous politicians now display.

Media attention in America is transfixed by “Bush’s first test,” as if

Ending up a Duke fan that I’d look like a teenage idiot. Anyway, the next year, my senior year of high school, I stopped caring so much about one particular player and started caring about the team. I taped all the games. I entered the high school NCAA tournament pool—and won! And just a few months later, I was a freshman at Duke.

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Well, not just any blonde guy. Steve Wojciechowski.

I discovered Duke basketball in 11th grade when I walked into the family TV room and saw him hurtling across the court. I already knew I wanted to go to Duke, and I already liked basketball—my high school was tops in the AA circuit—but here was yet another reason to cheer for the team. Within five minutes, I was a full-fledged groupie. (I know I’m not alone. You wouldn’t believe how many of us there were.)

That summer, I came to Duke for Pre College and lo and behold, the basketball team was here. My new best friend Bernie had a thing for Trajan Langdon. My other new best friend Becky was a fan of Jay Heaps.

(Bear in mind, we weren’t basing our preferences on skill alone.) We proceeded to spend the next six weeks more or less stalking the team. Becky saw Jay on campus and ran after him blowing kisses. He saw her. It was a disaster. Bernie never did spot Trajan, but hanging out in Cameron one day, she picked up a loose ball and passed it to Ricky Price. Unfortunately, he didn’t see it coming. It clocked him in the back. “Nice pass,” he said.

I saw Wojo several times that summer, but I never did bother to say anything to him. I figured, correctly,

I’ll be a Duke fan, for sure, but not a Duke student. 1 won’t even be able to get into Cameron. I’ll be sidelined.

I guess as a freshman I still harbored hopes of running into Wojo, but there were other basketball players to fawn over. I met all four freshman phenoms before class even started. Trajan sat in front of me in Greek History, when he came to class. Roshown McLeod dated my roommate for a month or two. And when basketball season started, I really fell in love with the game itself. I became a tent leader and camped out for a miserable rainy six weeks to get into the Carolina game. We won 77-75. Until this past Saturday, I thought it was the best game I’d ever seen. I painted my face. I touched Dickie Ys bald head. I was—and here’s something I’m not ashamed to admit—a Cameron Crazy. I was in it, finally, for love of the game.

Wojo, and most ofthe other things I obsessed over in high school, had become a faded memory by this time. Then, one night during the fall of sophomore year, the man himself walked into the Hideaway and,

omigod, looked straight at me from across the crowded room and smiled. Talk about “One Shining Moment.”

The redheaded Pi Phi standing next to me swore he was looking at her, but I knew better.

Paralyzed with panic, I took a deep breath and... did absolutely nothing. I don’t even think I smiled back at him. What could I have said? “Hi, you’re the reason I got into Duke basketball.” Too typical. “Hi, I used to be obsessed with you.” Definitely not. “Hi.” Just plain “hi.”

I guess that might have worked.

To be honest, I didn’t need to say anything. I was over it. I could officially call myself a Duke fan—not a Wojo fan—and say it with an iota of self-respect. I was

too old for mindless celebrity crushes, and for that

matter, probably too old to be at the Hideaway.

I didn’t think about any of this again until we won

the championship Monday. Like everyone else on this campus, I was exhilarated, but my excitement was tinged with the melancholy ofknowing that next time we win the big one—and there will be a next time—I’ll have graduated. I’ll be a Duke fan, for sure, but not a Duke student. I won’t even be able to get into Cameron. I’ll be sidelined.

Standing in Cameron, I took in the scene as the buzzer sounded and the crowd erupted. I couldn’t help wondering what Wojo was thinking. I wonder if he thought it was a long time coming. I wonder, I just wonder, if a tiny part of him wished he was the one in the uniform, calling the plays, slapping the floor. I wonder if he felt the time slipping out of his hands—if he, at his young age, felt old.

I know I did.

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You recently played a show in Easter Island. How was that?

We went to Easter Island but we didn't play there.

Oh. What was it like?

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The people i are very polite and really friendly, and I had a really good feeling there.

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And how did you wind up with a studio in Barcelona?

Our music is more global compared to the Finnish tradition. The popular music scene is a lot like what's happening in Europe in general —techno, hard rock and the punk rock scene is really big there. The electronic music scene is really growing, obviously. The population is really small.

Okay, but why do you have a studio in Barcelona?

We record mainly there. It's like a home studio. Most of the instruments we have are early 70s and 'Bos, and some sequencers and samplers and mixing desks. But it's a really simple studio. It's a good environment, very nice and beautiful, and it's also cheaper there and easier to move.

Yeah, I guess more flights go through Barcelona than Helsinki.

Yes. You've been closely linked with the art world. Does performing at museums influence your work?

It's important to our work, performing in galleries. If everything's working well with good sound systems, it can be very good It's common in the art scene that lots of people come who aren't interested in hearing the sound. It's actually pretty annoying.

That's just what I was about to ask you—do you ever feel like you're creating background music for charlatans?

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He wants to be like the guy from Matchbox Twenty.

To the average person, being a teenager in a third-tier rock band may be a chance for an early initiation into the life of sex, drugs and rock n' roll before getting to college. But there's not a hint of that in youthful pretty boy and ministers' son Jason Wade of radio-rock band Lifehouse. The wide-eyed Wade spoke to us before his band hits the Triangle as the opening act for Everclear and Matchbox 20 April 16 in Raleigh. Maybe the super-friendly frontboy just says no to the temptations of deviant sex and binge drinking, but judging by his interview with next year's Recess Editor Tim Perzyk, being the lead singer of a rock band these days is a not-so-rock-n-roll experience.

No, no, not at all. You know it's funny. I feel like we're still the same band as when we started off on alternative radio. The thing is, too, that we re not coming on some crusade to like be all tough to prove we're alternative because we never did that in the beginning. We're just kinda making our music and letting it fall wherever it falls.

You mentioned that a lot of your influences were singer/songwriter types of people. What's the most interesting story behind something on No Name Face ?

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I had to do my vocal to it later on, me and we were because Sergio, my voice actually changed from Yeah, actually, the church about 18. playing at youth group for 15 to So we kept the same music, three years until we finally started getting into and 1 had to put another vocal on it. So the studio and making other kinds of music. it's funny that that song actually lasted Have you seen the Tom Hanks flick That five years on the same music.

You Do ever What most annoys you about interabout Thing you worry Do7 a one-hit wonder? being views, the press and critics? Feel free to one of favorite movies. be vicious. my That's actually the has crossed mind.

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Bridget Jones, the quirky, slightly dumpy conception of British author Helen Fielding, might be the post-millennial female Prufrock, if such a thing is possible. The diary she keeps is the painstaking GRADE: chronicle of a small life, filled with obsessive counts of cigarettes smoked, pounds gained and lost, and lovers coming and going. Fielding's novel distills the life of the single female into a character at once harmlessly neurotic and endearingly inept. Bridget is a caricature, for sure, but we can see a little of Bridget in all of us.

The book's on-screen adaptation, courtesy of director Sharon Maguire, deftly turns the book's episodic format into a comprehensible narrative. A chunky and perfectly cast Renee Zellweger sends Bridget up as a big-eyed, off-balance woman whose charm and wit shine through her ineptitude. Even as she stumbles through public speeches and makes an ass of herself on television and in public, Zellweger's Bridget always lands on her tottering feet.

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between a slick, sexy boss (Hugh Grant) and the quiet, equally confused Mark Darcy, who's just been divorced and faces another miscast commitment.

After Bridget catches her loverboy publisher boss in a roll in the hay with a waifish American ("I thought you said she was thin," the American sniffs when she's discovered), she finds herself ready to succumb to the subtler charms of Darcy, who, like the Austen character he not-so-subtly refers to, Bridget finds abominable at first.

But one calamity is never enough for Bridget. Her mother has split for a home shopping maven, leaving her father a sodden mess. Even as we laugh at Bridget's petty catastrophes, her parents remind us that bad choices aren't made only by the young.

Bridget Jones' Diary is not a great film; even with sharper acting and more believable personas, its characters still find themselves trapped in a romantic comedy world that elevates the overwrought and unbelievable But given its genre Bridget Jones' Diary is a triumph. Unlike a slighty-toussled Jennifer Anniston or Julia Roberts, Zellweger's Bridget actually elicits the empathy she's meant to. Maguire has taken the original book to the screen in away that is more masterful and important than a simple tearjerker.n

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ROBERT RODRIGUEZ. WITH: ANOTONIO BANDERAS, CARLA GUGINO, ALEXA VEGA, DARYL SABARA

Indeed, much of this movie's success derives and strippers wide-eyed kiddie films isn't from its characters. Antonio Banderas and Carla n Gugino play spy parents who can never find time as large as might be expected, and Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn's director for sabotage anymore, what with carpool and all.

Robert Rodriguez bridges it quite nicely with his Their kids (the minimally annoying Alexa Vega and bright and slick Spy Kids. The regression from horDaryl Sabara) are remarkably adept at maneuvering monal pubescent fantasies of big guns and bigger explosions to this child's treat is really only a jump backward of maybe five teen years. Spy Kids proves that Rodriguez's inner pre-adolescent has just as much fun as that pimply teenaged B-movie auteur.

It's a bit of a surprise, given that the film's premise doesn't sound much better than See Spot Run. A married spy couple are captured and only their genetically espionage-gifted youngsters can save the day.

But Spy Kids handles its entertainment deftly; there's only one poop joke—and it's pretty decent as far as poop jokes go.

Rather than turn puerile or predicatable, this movie smartly sends up the spy genre with whiz-bang gadgetry and impossibly WHEE!!: Those little Spy Kids at work. And hey, their movie's good unruffled heroes

GRADE: The 9 a P between bloodthirsty vampire

rocket packs and spy planes, bickering with each other the entire way.

Archenemy Fegan Floop (Alan Gumming) is the star of a kiddie TV show and creator of an evil army of child spy robots. Of course, they're the worst type of spy robots, because parents will simply suspect that the little anklebiters' Ritalin is working.

Gumming and his diabolical playpen/lair absurdly resemble Peewee's Playhouse on some nasty shrooms—the film suggests that perhaps both of these criminal child entertainers' perversities, whether they be indecent exposure or world domination, are somehow driven by an honest

artistic intention.

It's all in good fun for these kids and the audience, and the film generally refrains from letting its moral —that families should be honest with each other, even about issues of international counterintelligence—get in the way of the momentum. It's certainly more entertaining than the last tired Bond entry. College students could do wel 1 for themselves if they crossed back over that demographic line once in a while.

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By Saurabh Singh and Andi Lazar SWEET NOTHING: Hey, at least this thing's an upgrade for Ashley Judd (left) from lame action thrillers,

howing some progression from far-fetched action films like Double Jeopardy, Ashley Judd's movie career has now branched ambitiously into the hackneyed genre of romantic comedy. Her new vehicle, Someone Like You, is as cliched and uninspired as they come.

The plot finds Judd as Jane Goodale, a talk show talent booker who falls in love with Ray Brown (Greg Kinnear), her program's new executive producer. But as they prepare to move from dating to cohabitation, Ray abruptly ends their relationship. Left with GRADE: no place of her own, Jane is forced to move in with her '

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After much soul-searching and the help of a scientific article entitled "Polygamy Preferred by Male Cows," Jane concludes that human males and bulls share striking similarities in their mating activities: They always want a new heifer. With the help of her publisher friend Liz (Marisa Tomei), Jane begins to write a column in a men's magazine

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What ensues is a love triangle with a very predictable ending.

Rest assured, this film appeals to more than just sappy romantics.

Scholars can also appreciate the movie's witty dialogue, which draws from a diverse pool of academic disciplines. For example, Jane tells Liz that "less than 5 percent of male animals are monogamous." Besides displaying her impressive knowledge of zoology, Jane exhibits a remarkable grasp of physiology as she explains the importance of her "erotic nose brain." She also demonstrates her mastery of psychology with the stunning comparison of cows to the male psyche. And one final note to ponder; Is it merely a coincidence that Judd's character has the same name as famed primate researcher Jane Goodall?

Interestingly, though, this blandly titled, blandly executed little film was directed by Judd's Kiss the Girls co-star Tony Goldwyn, who in Ghost was famously Ignced with broken glass and ferried to Hell by a host of shrieking black incubi. Wonder if they're available this time around. □

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Fratboy Failure TOMCATS. DIR: GREGORY POIRIER. WITH! JERRY O'CONNELL, SHANNON ELIZABETH, JAKE BUSEY, BILL MAHER

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Jerry O'Connell, the chubby and lovable Vern of the 'Bos classic Stand By Me, once spoke eloquent words of wisdom that ring true today; "If I could only have one food for the rest of my life? That's easy.

Cherry Fez. Cherry-flavor Fez. There’s no doubt about it."

The lesson learned there is that it's good to be decisive. And that's why I'm decisively telling you that Jerry's latest vehicle, Tomcats, is the world's worst movie (next to Blame It On the Bellboy, of course). Boys, don't be fooled by the posters of a nearly naked woman, because it's all ’ a lie! The only trueT&A we see is one lady's breast lactating. Oh, sexy!

The premise of this horrid flick is that a group of friends, the Tomcats, make a pledge; Whoever gets married last wins a whole lotta money.

Flash forward seven years, and they're all hitched-all except Michael (O'Connell)

and playboy Kyle (Jake Busey, aka Shasta McNasty). Now, Michael needs to pay back a $51,000 debt that he amassed in Vegas, or Carlos the quasi criminal (Bill Maher) will kill him. So, eyes on the conjugal prize, he tries to rig a marriage between Jake and Natalie (Shannon Elizabeth, the talented naked thespian from American Pie). But of course he ends up falling in love with Nat and finds himself in a conundrum.

The conundrum the audience finds itself in, however, is confusion over how the film got made. Tomcats is not only unfunny but unoriginal; it purloins gags from Road Trip, Ml:2, American Beauty and even Tom Green's testicular cancer special. Moreover, it alienates the female audience with its overt and misogynistic sexism. Kyle, for one, gets all the chicks (his goal is to bonk every XX chromosome on the planet) despite the fact that he is ugly and nasty and looks like an albino. He says his dream woman works at a makeup counter because then she'd always look good and not be ambitious and not do that feminist thing of keeping her own last name. Deep. Deeply offensive, that is, even for a comedy.

In essence, all the Tomcats are dogs. Bill Maher's precious few moments on screen elicit the only laughs. So here's your warning, boys and girls: Don't see this film.

There's not even nudity to save it!

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The Changeling Duke Players’ production of The Changeling struggles to stay afloat amid bad direction, too much “eyebrow acting” and hazy production.

Story by Cary Hughes Photos by Robert Tai FARAN IN ACTION: That's our Trends editor playing Beatrice-Joanna on the left, with CharlesAitken as Alsemero.

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is time to die when 'tis a shame to live." That's lead character Beatrice-Joanna's last line in Duke Players' new production of The Changeling by Thomas Middleton that line is all-too-indicative of the existence of the play itself, Directed by Christine Morris, the drama department's director of undergraduate studies, and set during the early 17th century in Spain, The Changeling takes advantage of some beautiful scene and costume work by designer Jan Chambers. Chambers' work beautifully captures the time period; the set could not be more appropriate as it eases from an asylum to a house to a church, and the lavish costumes stand out with their exquisite detailing. Unfortunately, the actors did not seem at home in those costumes.

The plot revolves around a love triangle between Beatrice-Joanna (Faran Krentcil), Alsemero (Charles Aitken) and Deflores (Zack Armfield). The characters' relationships are never fully developed, so it is unclear why Joanna goes through with a marriage to Alsemero but chooses DeFlores in the end. In DeFlores' quest for Joanna's heart, he murders Alonzo (Michael J. Norman), whose brotherTomazo (Jim Iseman) is out for revenge against DeFlores. There is also a subplot surrounding an asylum full of madmen. The asylum folk remain in the rafters throughout the play and are sometimes the most impressive thing to watch.

The Changeling's acting completely lacked a sense of the style of the period. It seemed as if modern-day American bodies and their movements had been squeezed awkwardly into old Spanish costumes. In the precious moments spent mounting this production, it seems that someone could have spent time to touch on the importance of the daintiness of women and the effeminate gestures of men during that time.

The actors not only seemed out of place in their clothes, but uncomfortable with the dialogue as well. When speaking in verse, it is important not to let the dialogue sound too conversational. For instance, actors in great Shakespeare productions seem to be speaking casually, but their success lies in balancing verse and conversational conventions.

The Changeling's cast highlights the importance of using language to convey actual meaning. By letting the ends of the lines drop off their tongues, rushing through speeches and not using important words effectively, the actors allowed the audience to drift in and out of consciousness. The cast's poor language usage made the plot hazy and the characters even hazier: By the

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Morris also served as vocal coach for the performers.

Perhaps that explains why the actors were trying to speak in standard American English—except one.

Aitken's British accent was also out of place in the production. A director with a background in vocal training should not have allowed such an impurity into her production.

But Aitken's was not the only vocal offense.

Vermandero (Sam Morgan) was sitting so deeply on his vocal cords (bellowing from his throat) that his voice seemed ready to burst from his belly.

And then there was the use of indication, indication. Indicating, or conveying emotion with forced dramatic gestures, was rampant throughout the production. It was particularly evident with Armfield, who consistently "eyebrow-acted." In many of the scenes the actors might have well been talking to walls; rather than talking or listening to each other, they seemed to be addressing some unheard third entity.

But despite the poor direction, some actors used their natural talent and were able to shine.

Both Antonio (Flynn Barrison) and Franciscus (Paul W. Downs) provided a great deal of much-needed humor. The two are also members of Duke University Improv, which might explain their knack for humor. Both made bold character choices and stuck to them without question. Isabella (Chrissy Dickerson) also made some wonderful choices and lit up the second act. Also not to be ignored was Recess Trends Editor Faran Krentcil, who had the lead role as Beatrice-Joanna.

Krentcil seemed to be working as an actress with a true center that glowed.

However, despite some strong performances, the director's lack of attention to detail ultimately left The Changeling a mess in need of many changes. □ ick ArmfieW as the diabolical Deflores

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Duke's only performance tap club is making noise, and the stomp and thwomp of foot fury are garnering some well deserved attention.

On Tap are no ordinary performers. Their rhythmic style is a funkier, beat-based blend with hip-hop sensibilities. This Sunday, the innovative troupe will display its distinctive style of dance in

ferent from anything they have ever seen," Love explained.

The group members thrive on enthusiasm and a passion for their art. When Tina Belmore arrived at Duke in 1998, she was impressed by the opportunities for dancers, but the outlet for tap was limited. On Tap changed that. "Surprisingly there were a bunch of other talented tappers out there just waiting for a chance to perform," Belmore said. Medical Center employee Erin

O'Reilly is thrilled with the opportunity. "I'm so glad Bryan started this group. It's always great when you find a great group of Baldwin Auditorium. dancers to tap with."

Trinity junior Bryan Edwards started the club two years ago, On Tap's performances are truly collaborative efforts, with difwhen the tap scene at Duke was nearly nonexistent. Today, ferent members contributing choreographic influences. The roughly 15 members regularly participate, and the growing group dancers hail from various backgrounds. Many have been is still searching for untapped talent. Edwards acts as On Tap's schooled in classical, jazz, or Broadway styles, but the freer form artistic director, incorporating different styles, techniques and of rhythm tap is their focus. choreography. His companions are all female, affording the Sunday's debut will showcase the diverse talents of On Tap's trouncing troupe a hint of Riverdance cache. members, with seven component performance pieces. Though As Duke's only tap club, On Tap fills a gap in the University's the show will be heavy on rhythm, the numbers will draw upon dance mosaic. "The atmosphere of dance at Duke is somewhat various styles of tap, set to the tunes of Janet Jackson, Benny limited in that there is a focus on ballet and modern." noted club Goodman and Lauryn Hill, among others. But judging by the member Kimberly Love. But novelty may be an advantage. "Duke sound of things, the real music will be thundering harmony of students have wonderful reactions to On Tap because it is so diffeet and the roar of applause. □

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mini-human shapes.

Yagani's and Suh's work, along with satirical anime statues, seemingly gray wallpaper that actually consists of millions of tiny faces, and actual phone book pages with calligraphy written on them serve to both question and enlighten the viewer. The gallery juxtaposes real Asian tradition with plays on Asian stereotypes to create both an intellectually and visually stimulating show.

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Tattoos and body piercings are a big deal to a lot of Duke students. But are they worth it? piercings have long served as a hallmark for personal expression. Although the culture surrounding them seems grounded in individualism, there are two sides to every story. The people at Dogstar Tattoo Company on Ninth Street differ from many Duke students in their reasons for getting tattooed and pierced. In fact, while people with tattoos and piercings seem to be part of the same group, the two have ideological differences. The main bone of contention? Tattoos are permanent—at least they're supposed to be —and piercings are removable.

Eddie Oakes, one of the tattoo artists at Dogstar, is pasIt sionate about what it means to be tattoed. "It's a proactive , way of changing one's appearance.

Tattoos are a permanent commith G>l/ | / ment with both memory and meaning," he said. Eddie's arms are proof his tattoos of belief. Each of his seems to connote the culture he's a part of as well as his artistry. He quipped, "It is easy to be a mindless cow following the same herd. Tattoos are the ultimate approach to individual expression."

At the less-dedicated end of the spectrum is Lauren Belda, a sophomore, who had a tattoo of a dragon etched on her lower 11? back last summer. Belda wasn't even planning on getting a tattoo.

She was along to support a friend but wound up getting one herself. To this day, she is still unsure why she did it, but she is happy with her choice and hopes to get another tattoo on her ankle.

Jaime Crossler, a senior, lies somewhere between Eddie and Lauren in her commitment to tattoo culture. At first glance, Crossler completely defies tattoo stereotypes: With long, flowing blonde hair and neat, preppy dress, she hardly looks like she's in a biker gang. The reality is different: Not only does she ride a motorcycle, but she has five tattoos: a band around her right arm, two on her toes, a small heart on her hip and a sun with the symbol for truth inside it in the small of her back. And just recently she has started a scarification —a rare procedure that involves scarring the skin with a needle rather than coloring it. Crossler's scar is a vine running from her navel around her breast and up to her shoulder.

Crossler said that she wanted a tattoo for as long as she can remember. At 13, she was reading tattoo magazines and designing tattoos for herself. Finally, her brother took her to get her first tattoo for her 18th birthday. And for graduation, he is giving her the dragon tattoo on her back she has always wanted.

Although Dogstar offers both piercings and tattoos, Eddie said that the two do not appeal to the same market. Because piercings are not permanent, the tattooing community seems to take them less seriously.

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Jeff Earhart, a junior, got his tongue pierced because he didn't want to regret passing up the opportunity later. In discussing his piercing's semi-permanence, he said "piercings are for people who can't hold a relationship. If I end up marrying a girl with a tattoo, I'll know it's a good sign."

Freshman Kristen Riefkohl and sophomore Doug Ross share the same reason for getting pierced—they wanted to stand out. Riefkohl wanted a navel ring since she was 13 and finally got one when she turned 18 last year. Doug just recently pierced his tongue, but says he wouldn't have been pierced it if it were considered the norm Damien Hoffman worked at Dogstar as a piercer until he graduated from Duke in 1999. Soon after, Hoffman and other Duke grads co-founded a website called Tribalectic (see sidebar) for the piercing community. LikeT, Hoffman also described piercing as a rite of passage. He feels that because more people are beginning to experiment with piercings and live "out of the box," body modification is becoming more acceptable.

But with the stereotypes dissolving and tattoos and piercings becoming more and more prevalent, is this art deteriorating as a form of individual expression?

Eddie feels that the removal techniques being developed by cosmetic surgeons "undermine the heart of what tattooing is all about." Yet ultimately, cosmetic surgeons do similar work to tattooists and body piercers. They change appearances and modify bodies, even if they do it for different reasons. People who undergo voluntary cosmetic surgery want to be more aesthetically pleasing to distinguish themselves from others, just like people with tattoos. The principal difference, it would seem, is that cosmetic surgery seeks to refine a body's "normal" appearance, while tattooing and body modification add external elements Dogstar is supposedly a haven of individuality. Given that reputation, it's ironic that the walls are covered with "flash," sheets of different pre-designed tattoos, any of which you might see on someone strolling down Ninth Street. When the Dogstar staff were asked how they felt about customers requesting decidedly non-individualistic patterns, most responded along the lines of, "Who am 1 to judge?" But apparently, flash is what pays the rent. That sounds like capitalism at its finest, not a lofty quest for individuality.

Tattooing and body modification continues to be an unusual and exciting art. But if you're considering them solely as away to express your individuality, you may want to reconsider; There may be another "individual" out KING OF PAIN: Big Eddie doesn’t flinch when the needles hit his arm. That's why he works at Dogstar. there just like you.

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Do#t/K Tattoo Co. 730 9th Street dogstartattoo.com 286.5443 Dogstar Tattoo Co. offers virtually every tattoo imaginable as well as body piercing and Mehndi or Henna tattoos. You can go to the extreme with a Prince Albert or keep it simple with a navel or tongue ring. Kathryn Moore is the owner. She has a BFA in Fine Art from Carnegie Mellon, but feels that tattooing is her true place. And as Eddie Oakes put it, "Tattoos are the Renoir and Gauguin for the working man." Kathryn told me that the most popular tattoos are Japanese symbols, hearts and names. But be careful—legend has it that once you have your love interest's name tattooed on your body, destined to break up.

JmfLBCTtC tribalectic.com Tribalectic was created by Duke grads as a resource for people who are pierced, aspiring to be pierced, and body piercers. The site offers information on piercing as well as body jewelry and accessories. There is a page full of questions and answers and a page with piercing myths and their truths.

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players are pretty hard to get too excited about these days. With the exception of a few models, most players look and sound just average.

Although everyone's been jumping on the bandwagon, no company has up with a good solution to MP3 players' biggest problem: expensive memory expansion. Most MP3 players nowadays have 32 or

64 megabytes of on-board memory, with expansion slots for memory cards. The problem is that those cards are incredibly expensive: When it costs about 100 bucks to fit another half hour of music, it's a pretty hard sell.

Enter Intel and lomega. These two respectable companies, which have been in the computer indus-

try for a long time (although not in audio) have introduced new players that provide different solutions to the memory problem: The Intel Pocket Concert, which basically doubles the industry memory standard with a hefty 128MB, and the lomega HipZip, which allows cheap expansion through ultra-affordable 40MB "Pocket Zip" discs.D

IntelPocket Conceit $299 Best known for the übiquitous Pentium processor family, Intel is now trying its hand at consumer electronics. One of their first attempts is the new Intel Pocket Concert Audio Player.

The talk of the town at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, the Pocket Concert lives up to the hype. What makes this particular player stand out from the rest is that for about the same price as other high-end digital audio players, you get twice as much memory—l2BMß to be exact. That's enough for up to two hours of high-quality MP3s or four hours of Windows Media Audio. For the price, no other player comes close.,lntel also throws in a built-in FM radio with 10 presets, something that most players should have but don't.

While it may look like something coming out of Fisher Price, the Pocket Concert is no baby toy. Its amp is twice as powerful as most players, giving it a lot of extra kick that means the unit never has to be turned

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of its trademark zip storage technology with MP3 audio technology. Overall, it's a great combination.

The Hip Zip doesn't use traditional 100 MB Zip disks, but tiny flat 40 MB "PocketZip" discs. Originally called "clik" and touted as an affordable and convenient storage medium for laptops and digital cameras, the Pocket Zip format has struggled to find the right market. lomega is hoping that the third time's the charm in the Hip Zip. The unit comes bundled with two 40 MB Pocket Zip discs, a carrying case and an AC adaptor for recharging the internal lithium ion battery, which provides about 12 hours of play, according to the company. That is a big plus, as Intel's player eats up regular batteries pretty quickly. Unlike the Pocket Concert, however, the HipZip has no radio.

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While the media is ultra-cheap (blank discs can be purchased for only 10 bucks), reading them requires moving parts in the player. The result is a slightly larger and heavier unit than most of today's MP3 machines. Furthermore, the unit makes a noticeable whirring sound when it skips between songs. This allows the player to store the music in flash memory so that it won't skip, but it also slows down navigation and can be annoying.

On the plus side, the Hip Zip's sound is powerful, crystal clear and free from background hiss, even at low volumes. The unit's look is pretty slick, too. It's solidly built, with nice large buttons and a backlit LCD with easy to navigate menus. The top opens up for you to pop in the discs, and large rubber grips on the side make it comfortable in your hand.

If you're looking to build a portable library of MP3 tunes without spending a fortune, the HipZip is the way to go.

up all the way. However, it produces faint background noise at low volumes, which can be annoying in quieter compositions.

As with its appearance, Intel's focus with the Pocket Concert is on simplicity over features. By reducing the number of buttons and menus, they've made the Pocket Concert very easy to use, but done away with menu features like manipulating playlists, though options such as bookmarks and adjustable treble and bass remain. And the company went cheapskate in another category as well: Intel should have included the unit's rechargeable batteries and docking station rather than asking another $5O for the accessory kit.

With simple controls, jog-dial navigation and a backlit LCD screen, the Pocket Concert does a good job of balancing user friendliness with some nice features.

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Have you heard friends or colleagues uttering these words? Have you walked past a conversation on a Monday morning and heard names like Tony, Carmella, Silvio and Uncle Junior? When you overhear those conversations, do you consider calling the authorities because your friends are discussing having someone whacked? Have you noticed more and more people are speaking in a New Jersey accent?

Your friends have been watching HBO's The Sopranos, and you should be watching too.

In just three seasons, The Sopranos has become larger by Martin

ing? The answers are genuiness and audacity. Creator David Chase has given us a mob drama that looks and feels real: The dialogue is colloquial and conversational, not contrived (sorry, Quentin Tarantino). The actors and actresses are not glamorous celebrities, but mostly small-time thesps who are finally making it big. And the show is shot in suburban Newark, not in New York City—a tired, overly galmorous location for mob drama.

As for audacity, try this antipasto: At the end of the first season, Tony's mother attempted to have him killed. At the end of the second season, Tony had to whack his best friend, who was an audience favorite.

Barna Recently, a main character was raped during an episode. The than life. Not only has the show reinvented the mob Sopranos realistically and graphically depicted the assault not in away that glorified the heinous act, but in a fashion that horrified and frightdrama in an episodic medium, but it has single-handedly saved American dramatic television from the doldrums of comfort food (The West Wing) ened viewers.

Part of the credit for this audacity belongs to HBO—which has been at the and garbage grub ( Providence ). forefront of reinventing quality television with shows like Oz and Sex What makes The Sopranos so good? Let's start with the premise; New /—but most of it belongs to Chase and the rest of The Jersey don Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) suffers a panic writing staff. They know how to move from punch to some ducks that had nested in his backyard swimming pool iline. And unlike NYPD Blue or The X-Files, the show's reach adulthood and fly the coop. Soprano reluctantly, and tpisodic nature does not feel like every week is akin to privately, begins seeing Dr. Jennifer Melfi (Lorraine reading chapters of different books.

Bracco), a psychiatrist. She prescribes Prozac and further The Sopranos is like a book—one great big novel. It therapy to explore the feelings of abandonment and . has overarching themes, symbolism and deep characdepression that dominate the don's life. And from there ters. Lowlife mobster personas have traits that we can the adventure begins either happily or ashamedly identify with.

Why does Tony have these deep-rooted psychological Some critics have chastised The Sopranos for problems? Meet his family. There is Carmella, Tony's trouromancing violence and mob culture. Those critics bled wife; Meadow, his Columbia-undergraduate daughter; should try watching a couple episodes and examining and Anthony, Jr., his existentialist, troublemaking son. :he personal and emotional consequences for Tony and Livia, Tony's narcissistic, villainous mother, tried to have :he other wiseguys. They should see his guilt for lying to him killed after he put her in a nursing home. And Tony's lis wife and daughter. The Sopranos doesn't glorify mob insanely jealous uncle, Corrado, conspired against Tony ife, it dissects it, with the same modern scalpel we use too. Don't forget Tony's money-grubbing older sister, i our ordinary lives.

Janice, who rubbed out her own fiancee.

So sit back on a Sunday night at 9pm, and watch your And then there is the other family. You know, the "family." /vn life through a different lens. Get hooked, and soon And the FBI, which always shows up when things couldn't >u too can stand around the water cooler or Great Hall 'c. possibly get worse. d debate whether Tony should have whacked Ralphie OK, so the premise is entertaining and the characters are ast week. After all, even if you don't want to admit it, the well defined and portrayed by some very skilled actors and MAMA'S GONNAKNOCK YOU OUT: Soprano family is your family, too.n Careful, Tony. Livia's packin' heat actresses —how does that make The Sopranos so captivat<

2 Not So New Compared to last decade’s PopMart tour, U2’s show last Thursday in Charlotte seemed a whole lot more familiar. fter his wings were melted by the sun, Icarus probably said, "Come to think of it, the ground wasn't so bad."

Of all bands making music today, U2 would best understand that statement. After the critical and commercial rejection of 1997's Pop, an experimental opus that drenched the band's three chords and the truth in the skittering breakbeats of electronica, the lads broke out with a new album —All That You Can't Leave Behind—and a new world tour called "Elevation 2001.” And March 29 at the Charlotte Coliseum, it became clear that the band's retreat from Pop's interesting excesses is complete.

Like Icarus himself, U2 didn't stare at the sun with the experimental Pop—they flew right into it.

They went, in the minds of many, too far, and their Pop Mart tour—complete with its giant videoscreens and moving lemons —reinforced that. Thus, songs like the soaring "Beautiful Day" and the earnest "In A Little While" am

served a special role in Charlotte: They proved that U2 has returned to the artistic turf from which they sprang skyward so long ago.

Indeed, U2's new songs are the musical progeny of the soul-

wrenching anthems that redefined the stan-

dards of MARC SEROTA/REUTERS songs, there is a sense that the genes o APENITENT MAN: Bono's all big into spirituality again, No wonder his band's new album is so boring. great music can also grow tired.The human heart can only feel so much depth, and of "Discotheque," you could tell it to Bono's thrusting that, can communicate still less. Even for pelvis. But in 2001, you can tell it to The Backstreet Michelangelo, there was only one Pieta.

And so in Charlotte, fans witnessed a rediscovery Boys, so the new U2 plays its old music to happy fans, to make amends for the Pop album, which that was not simply of musical notes but also of offended popular convention by not pandering to

By Dana Vachon popular tastes.

These fans are happy because U2 can still put on shifting understandings of faith, guilt, god and a great shows and because the popular pleasure redemption. They witnessed a rediscovery of the U2 of the 1980s. principle has finally rendered art servile. But there was something powerful about only hearing In the past decade, several tours featured Bono in personas that clad him as a Mephistopheles of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" in concert when political conditions in Ireland warranted it. That was as close popular temptation. During Pop Mart, the guy choked on his own apple. So in Charlotte, Bono got as mainstream rock could ever really come to religion, identifying The Edge as "The only activism, or for that matter, dissent. In a move that Protestant in U2," and quipping, "Crouching tiger, could not be overlooked, the band juxtaposed this hidden Presbyterian." Gone was Bono's role as The ultimate anthem of political angst to 1998's "The Fly, a concocted persona of lovable hubris and enviSweetest Thing," a song about, well, nothing. In able libido. The new Bono is a penitent parishioner, place of the political edicts he once issued while confessing sins to a familiar priest. performing, Bono merely sang some lines from a In the nation of public apology, U2 are a band Bob Marley song. Deep.

For the dumbed down backers of boy bands and that lays itself prostrate before the titans of the marketplace. And in this new cathedral, acts of Britney Spears, this concert was a triumph, a testicontrition are words of thanks for simple things mony to the efficiency of the marketplace. But for such as "spending your hard-earned cash on a U2 those who respect the idea that art exists to chalshow." The old U2 played new songs to fans to lenge itself and its viewers, U2's pleasant and sucamuse themselves as artists. If you didn't like cessful show should be somewhat troubling. □

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fans were shaking their heads in disappointment at Dave Matthew Band's recent stinker Everyday, they'll be even more depressed when they hear the album it could have been. Thanks to the power of file sharing, the Steve Lillywhite-produced album that the band almost released before being shelved last summer has leaked to the eager Internet fan community.

The Lillywhite sessions, as they're known, can be found as tinny-sounding MP3 files around the web. Their production is unfinished, with levels often unbalanced and studio flourishes almost totally absent. Nevertheless, it's eminently listenable stuff—and a remarkable departure in song quality from the unbearably bland Everyday.

These songs, known only as the Lillywhite sessions, have at least a few diamonds amid their rough sound.

The difference between these songs and those on Everyday is that the Lillywhite sessions are completely within the vein of Dave's now seemingly abandoned former style. It's nothing particularly new, of course, but while Everyday flubbed the two things that Dave does best—laid back ballads and climaxing epics—they're both in full force here.

In fact, some of this material ranks among Dave's best work. "Bartender" and "Grey Street" are two songs proven in the live arena that hold up extremely well in the studio, although "Bartender" is stretched too long at over 10 minutes. "Captain" (transformed from "Crazy," a staple on the Dave and Tim Reynolds tour) emits a plaintive jazz room feel, and "Grace is Gone" is a heartbreakingly gentle country song.

Still, there are some duds. A soaring chorus can't rescue the lurching "Raven," and "Monkey Man" bears the same poor song construction that plagues Everyday.

But it's still astounding to think that this whole album was simply abandoned when some record exec didn't like it.

Though Dave has said these songs were made when he and his band were in a difficult time, he certainly sounds more relaxed here, and the band sounds like more than just his background.

Ultimately, the reason the record company killed these sessions may never be revealed. Assuming that Everyday—' which plummeted half a million units in sales during its second week—was merely an unfortunate glitch, it's only the label's loss now that fans have free access to this OH LOOK! THERE GO THE SALES OF OUR EXTREMELY BAD RECORD!: Poor Dave. He solid work in halted progress. □ scrapped a perfectly good record to release the abysmal Everyday. Sorry.

Red House Painters Old Ramon (matador) Some things get better with age, like wine. Others get worse, like sushi. Red House Painters' Old Ramon, recorded in 1997 but kept from distribtion because of the collapse of the band's old record label, falls somewhere in between.

Singer/guitarist Mark Kozalek is a songwriter of considerable talent.

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But Old Ramon is not Kozalek at his best. He seems to have reverted to the most conventional of pop-rock sounds but neglects one of pop-rock's most important conventions —namely, seven of the album's 10 songs go on for more than six minutes, and four of them pass the eight-minute mark.

Although the Red House Painters have never been known for short pop nuggets, the sheer dawdling of such otherwise-excellent songs like "Void" and "Cruiser" suggests an ugly self-indulgence that might turn fans away from the band's superior earlier work.

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Dim sum cultures already exist in major U.S. cities such as New York, Boston and the heavily Chinese areas of L.A. and San Francisco. The cuisine is most dominant in Hong Kong, where the best dim sum is supposedly found. Durham's "Hong Kong" tries to stay true to this fantastic and lively ritual. The friendly wait-staff and managers are all Chinese, making the ordering of dishes a more enriching experience. The steamed food is appropriately TAST EiNFO served on metal Dim sum at Hong Kong Chinese Restaurant steamers.

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Those unfamiliar with dim sum should start with the basics; spring shrimp dumplings and sweet rice with chicken. The next step wou the buns—sweet white steamed on* stuffed with various types of meat r vegetables. Such buns are staple Chinese breakfast foods, and it is a crime not to try one.

Before getting to the hard-core delicacy level of beef tripe, it is critical to try the spareribs in black bean sauce and the roast duck.

Hong Kong does both dishes especially well. As for the tripe and chick en feet, both are dim sum favorites among the Chinese, but refusing to eat them would in no way ruin the

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Hong Kong's dim sum is perhaps one of the best finds a Chinese food lover can make in the Triangle.

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Greenhouse Cafe is a tiny operation—the dining vegan palates. Ginger-coconut rice pudding with area is an enclosed front porch with quirky decorastrawberries sounds indulgent, but its rich creaminess tions and a scant six tables. Because seats are has disappeared along with the eggs and milk.

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Cultural climate The University is already tackling many of the issues raised by the Duke Student Movement

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part ofthe protest following The Chronicle’s publication of the controversial David Horowitz ad, members of the Duke Student Movement submitted a series of demands to the University regarding the treatment ofblack students.

Although improving the climate for black students is important, the DSM should realize that the University continues to be responsive to the needs of its minority communities. In fact, the University has released reports on minority faculty to the public every year in recent years. And it has addressed many ofthe demands in question, including those for more black faculty, improved cultural space and better event funding.

One ofthe students’ principal demands is for an increase in tenure-track black faculty. The University—and particularly President Nan Keohane—has repeatedly articulated a commitment to that goal. It is because of the more general national difficulty of recruiting top black faculty—and not a lack ofcommitment—that the University has not been more successM. In response to earlier demands for improved minority event funding, a committee set up last fall by President Keohane will likely recommend the consolidation of University social funds, which would facilitate easier access to funds. And this semester, administrators took a long-needed step toward equalizing the cost of social programming by subsidizing security at large non-fraternity events.

Keohane has also already addressed the students’ demand for cultural space. Along with appointing a group to study space for cultural groups, Keohane. has committed to expanding the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture. The University is also considering the establishment of a multicultural center.

Protesting students should realize that there are many institutionalized ways to get involved in meeting these goals and students should get involved. From joining the Duke chapter of the NAACP to applying for a position on the President’s Council on Black Affairs, no student should feel that their voice is going unheard.

The unfortunate truth is that the University’s racial problems run deeper than faculty numbers and funding. Some black students complain of a climate of disrespect, of an atmosphere that they find alienating and uninviting. While the demands made by the DSM may increase the institutional power ofblack students and minorities on campus, they will not address the more elusive, intangible problem of an uncomfortable climate for black students.

Even if every demand made by the DSM were met in full tomorrow, its members would have to admit that improving race relations requires more than political maneuvering. At the University level, it requires frank dialogue and discussion, as well as reconsideration of residential and social priorities.

The best efforts made at the University level can only begin to impact a much larger national problem. But for a climate of discomfort to be improved, students need to get comfortable talking about that climate first.

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Letters to the Editor

Dickson offensively stereotypes white applicants In a March 29 article, Vice President for Institutional Equity Sally Dickson said, “If you say you’re only going to select applicants from Yale, Stanford or Harvard, then you’re always going to get the same type of applicants.”

What is Dickson’s message here? That individuals from these institutions are by definition of one race, one mindset, one life experience and

one opinion?

I would invite Dickson to step into the real world for a moment to build an appreciafor referenced article, see

tion of the fact that personal differences, which indeed should be celebrated, do not emanate from one’s academic pedigree. I would imagine that Dickson’s counterparts at these fine institutions

would be infuriated to learn that their efforts to build “institutional equity” on their own campuses have been so glibly marginalized by the vice president’s thoughtless comments.

Further, her belief that all—implicitly white—graduates of these schools are “the

same type of applicant” is offensive on every level.

Racial stereotyping is unacceptable in any form. Given your charge at Duke University, I find your comment alarmingly naive and dangerous, and hope thatyou will provide an accounting of your personal beliefs on these matters, which no doubt inform decisions made on behalf of the Duke community as a whole.

Gordon Runte Trinity ’B6

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University must listen better to minority concerns I am writing on behalf of the University Task Force on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Matters. We have been following the campus events resulting from The Chronicle’s decision to publish an advertisement written by David Horowitz regarding reparations for slavery in this country.

Judging by the outpouring of emotion from the AfricanAmerican community on campus, The Chronicle’s decision to run the ad, most especially without distancing itself from the ad’s contents, hit an understandably

sore nerve regarding the place of racial minorities on this campus.

As representatives of the LGBT community at Duke, we understand what it feels like to have falsehoods about

one’s community publicly stated and accepted without

question. We understand what it is like to feel that one’s place in the Duke community is tenuous, to feel that the institution is not really behind you despite what the institutional leadership says.

This incident highlights the ways that Duke needs to embrace its guiding principle

of diversity and empower the racial minority community as a true and important part of the Duke community. We

hope that the administration will use this opportunity to make fundamental changes in the way it listens and responds to the racial minorities on this campus.

We offer our sincere support to the racial minorities on this campus—your presence at Duke enriches our lives and we are glad you are here.

Laura Lewis-Tuffin Chair, University Task Force on LGBT Matters

Chronicle misrepresents GPSC’s representation While I do appreciate The Chronicle’s recent coverage of and the Graduate Professional Student Council —a March 27 article and a March 28 editorial— The Chronicle misportrays graduate student dominance within GPSC. The professional schools and all the graduate departments are allotted representation, yet many of the schools do not send their full number of representatives. The Graduate School, unlike the medical school,

at Duke choose to unite under one organization while

other and from the graduate school. Still, better graduate recognizing that our concerns and professional student repare diverse. resentation to the Board of Concerning the position of Trustees will more fully repYoung Trustee and GPSC’s resent our roles in the request for an additional seat University. As over 40 percent on the Board of Trustees, the of the student population and March 28 editorial is correct invaluable contributors to in that “a 22-year-old medical Duke as a research institustudent and a 30-year-old lit- tion, we currently do not erature scholar do not bring receive proportionate representation to the Board of the same experiences of interTrustees. We deserve to repreest to the board.” For this reason, we need to have better sent the concerns of our representation on the Board diverse community with more of Trustees. Ideally these two than one voice. Graduate and positions should be filled by a professional Young Trustees would allow the Board to hear graduate student and a professional student. Even so, and understand the broad each young trustee has a diffi- concerns of the broader Duke cult task of representing the community. disparate individual communities. The Graduate School is ELAYNE Heisler internally diverse; similarly President-elect the various professional stuGraduate and Professional dents differ greatly from each Student Council

law school and business school, has no other student governance organization. For graduate student issues such as funding and parking, GPSC is the only avenue by which graduate students can have their collective issues addressed. While many universities merely have a graduate student association, we for referenced editorial, see http:/I www.chronicle.duke.edu I story.php?articlelD=2o972

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Survive" be a will gle to participating in Brown Bag Lunch at the Center for DocuSciences, mentary Studies at 12:00 noon. For more Division of Earth and Ocean Nicholas School of the Environment Lecinformation contact Shin Takeda at 416ture Series; Alan Howard, University of Vir9886, or visit www.duke.edu/web/freetibet. ginia, will speak about “Percival Lowell a was Kiona Ogle, Duke University: “Desert Vindicated: Once Upon Times Mars Rivers, Lakes, Graced with and Oceans dogma revisited: the link between stomp.m., 201 atal conductance and photosynthesis in (but Probably Not Canals), 3:00 Chemistry Old Building. the desert shrub Larrea tridentata.” Room 144 Biological Sciences, 12:45 p.m.

The Osier Literary Roundtable features a visiting writer, Peggy Payne, 12:00 noon, Administrative Conference Room (Clinics Red Zone 14218).

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Department of Music Student Recital: Frances Hsieh, violin, Jae Hwang and Elizabeth Nach, piano. 5:30 p.m. Bone Hall, Biddle Music Building, East Campus.

Opening reception for exhibit of studentcurated art. Cutting-edge contemporary Asian art. Tickets are $5 for the public, $2 for students and free for Friends of the Art Museum. For information, call 684-5135.

6:00 p.m. Duke University Museum of Art, East Campus.

Spanish and Latin American Film Series: “What Have I Done to Deserve This!" directed by Pedro Almodvar (1984). With English subtitles. Call 684-2823. 6:00 p.m.

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Freewater Films: “State and Main.” Tickets are free to Duke students, $3 for the public. For information, call 684-2911.

7:00 p.m., 9:30 p.m. Griffith Film Theater.

Concert: David Fanshawe’s African Sanctus. Featuring Sowah Mensah, African drummer; Marietta Buchanan, soprano; and the Duke Chapel Choir, directed by Dr. Rodney Wynkoop. For ticket information call 684-4444. 8:00 p.m.

Duke Chapel, West Campus.

Duke Drama: “The Changeling.” The Duke Players present this seventeenthcentury tragedy that explores the lines between love, obsession, and evil. For ticket information call 684-4444. 8:00 p.m. Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus.

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Person needed to make initial contact with pre-selected consumers to gather info, relating to insurance program. $lO-15/hour potential. 13 nights/week. 919-477-9861, ask for Brian or Tim. TWO RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS AVAILABLE. Duke Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. One FULL-TIME position to manage laboratory studies of emotion and memory using MRI, EEG and psychophysiological techniques in humans.

Strong computational, organizational and interpersonal skills required. Ideal for graduating senior or recent grad with B.A. in Psychology. Duties include running experiments, data analysis and some programming. One SUMMER position to help set up an infrared eye tracking system for a human psychophysiology laboratory. Ideal for computer science or engineering undergrad with interests in cognitive psychology.

Useful skills include knowledge of Matlab and other PC-based software. Start dates: 6/1/01 (flex).

Send resume to Kevin S. Laßar, Assistant Professor, Box 90999, Duke Univ, Durham, NC 27708; tel 919-681-0664; fax 919-681-0815; e-mail klabar@duke.edu Without a doubt... THE BEST JOB ON CAMPUSIII Summer Activities Programmer: May 14-August 11.

Plan all the cultural, educational, and recreational activities for Duke Summer Session. Attend all activities at no cost, live in your own Central Campus apartment at no charge, plus earn $3600! Must be able to work 40 hrs/wk including some evening and weekend time.

Must be highly organized, have good written and oral skills, and be energetic. Experience and own vehicle preferred. Pick up application in the Office of Continuing Education and Summer Session, Bishop’s House, East Campus, or at the information desk at the Bryan Center. Application deadline; 4 p.m. Friday, April 13th.

Work Study student needed to transcribe 25 videotapes which document Native American ceremonies and rituals. Student needs own computer, TV/VCR, and good typing skills. Work at own pace, but majority of transcribing should be completed by mid-June. 7.00-8.00 per hour. Please contact Pat Bodager 684-5012.

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No. 3 Yellow Jackets ready to exact revenge on Duke After taking 2-of-3 in their regular-season series in Atlanta last year, the Blue Devils hope to repeat their success against Georgia Tech

By KEVIN LLOYD

we go into every game against [our opponent] with a good What a great difference a year chance to win. Our guys are really excited for this series.” can make.

Three series into their ACC The Blue Devils believe that playing in front of the home season, the Blue Devils are sitting in a tie for fourth place with crowd will prove a significant a .500 record in the conference. advantage as they try to avenge That puts Duke a world away Georgia Tech’s 6-3 victory in the from last year’s disappointing 17- quarterfinals of the ACC tournament last season.

41 record.

“We have the best sports fans The Blue Devils (16-18, 4-4 in the ACC), who are coming off in America,” Hillier said. “We three straight victories, now have play two night games in this the chance to prove whether or series [7 p.m. Friday and 7 p.m. not they belong among the elite Saturday]. With basketball seaofthe conference. They square off son over, good weather, and the against the No. 3 team in college team playing one of the best probaseball, the Georgia Tech Yellow grams in the country, we hope the students will come out and Jackets (23-7, 6-3), in a threegame series this weekend at Jack support the team. That makes a The Chronicle

Coombs Stadium.

“We’re looking forward to playing them,” coach Bill Hillier said. “We’re playing our best baseball ofthe season.”

In Duke’s less-than-brilliant campaign last year, the series against Georgia Tech stood out among few bright spots.

The Blue Devils, who only won five games in conference last season, shocked the college baseball world by taking two out of three from the Yellow Jackets in Atlanta.

“Last year, going into that series I thought that our guys would have to play perfect to beat them,” Hillier said. “As a coach you always hope for that, but you can’t expect it. This year is a much different situation. I think

big difference.”

Duke enters the series with another advantage.

The Yellow Jackets are without last season’s collegiate player ofthe Year, third baseman MarkTeixeira.

‘We would have liked to have had him playing,” Hillier said.

“He’s got a good chance to be the top pick in the draft. You’d like the pitchers to have a chance to go up against someone like that.”

Teixeira will be out until the ACC tournament after breaking his right ankle in a game against Elon Feb. 21. He had two pins inserted into his ankle as a result of the injury.

Seven games into the season Teixeira was hitting .500 with See GEORGIA TECH on page 15

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JEFF ALLEVA and the Blue Devils host third-ranked Georgia Tech at Jack Coombs Stadium this weekend

Track and field teams energized about Duke Invitational

By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle In his first year as the men’s track coach in his own right, Norm Ogilvie will also be hosting his first Duke Invitational.

It is no easy task, however, as the event is the third largest meet on the East coast, featuring over

2,000 athletes.

But after a decade at Duke and four years after serving as associate head coach under the legendary A1 Buehler, preparing has not been too daunting for Ogilvie.

“It’s really no different,” he said. “The only added responsibility this year is the officials. Coach Buehler ran the officials for all these years. Everything else with the Duke Invite, including ticketing, handling injuries, printing programs out, we’ve done this role for years.... We feel that if you get enough good people, the meet runs itself after a while.”

Ogilvie and his wife Jan Samuelson-Ogilvie, now the only husband-and-wife coaching team in the ACC, said the meet will feature just as much talent as in years past, even without Buehler, who coached at Duke

Correction Due to misinformation, The Chronicle incorrectly reported the records ot the Duke and Davidson baseball teams yesterday. Duke’s correct record is 16-18, while Davidson’s is 13-18.

starting in 1955 until he retired last summer after hosting the NCAA meet at Duke.

Events get underway at 2 p.m. today at Wallace Wade Stadium with the hammer throw and conclude Saturday afternoon at 5:50 p.m. with the 4x400 relay races. Admission is free for students.

Every year, a number of Olympic-level athletes come to Durham for the meet, and this season’s meet is no exception. Among the notables will be Olympic gold medalist Antonio Pettigrew, who will compete in the 200-meter dash Saturday at 11:45 a.m.

On the women’s side, 1996 U.S. Olympian Juli Henner will compete against former Duke ACC champion Kim Voyticky Saturday afternoon. In the 4x400 relay, defending champion South Carolina will

compete as well.

Hosting the event gives Duke the chance to let every person on the team compete, which Ogilvie says will be important to winnowing the team down to 28 for the ACC Championships that follow the Duke Invitational.

“It’s important because it gives them a chance to

Ansiey honored again The Intercollegiate Tennis Association named Duke freshman Ansiey Cargill its national player of the month yesterday. This is the second time she has won that award this year.

Will he take it this time?

Former Georgia Tech coach Bobby Cremins met with

South Carolina’s athletic director yesterday to discuss the Gamecocks’ coaching vacancy, reported The Post and Courier of Charleston.

compete at home,” he said. “We’ve always found our athletes compete at one notch higher here at the Duke Invite.”

Senior Brendan Fitzgibbon is expected to be among the top performers for Duke on the men’s side. Athletes from Michigan, Georgetown, and Villanova will face off against Fitzgibbon, who will anchor Duke’s distance medley Friday night “He had the best season of his life this fall,” Ogilvie said. “He’s close to four-minute mile shape right now.”

Fitzgibbon hurt his back, however, and missed five weeks of training, but performed exceptionally last weekend and qualified for the IC4As in the

Stanford Invitational.

Jillian Schwartz, Duke’s pole vaulting star, won the last two Duke Invitationals, andOgilvie considers her to be the favorite to repeat in the pole vault competition Friday night at 5 p.m.

Junior Katie Atlas, who will compete in the 800meter race, is also among the headliners competing for the Duke women.

UCLA coach accused UCLA coach Steve Lavin was accused yesterday of contacting two high school basketball players before NCAA rules permitted him to do so. Lavin was unavailable for comment.

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DiMarco leads after first round at Augusta National No one has more expectations than opportunity this time, a day when the Woods, though, especially at Augusta. course was quite forgiving.

He won the Masters with a record “This is a major championship. It’s (270) and by a record margin (12 conscore hardly said, four days,” Woods cerned that he was only five strokes out strokes) in his professional debut in 1997. He returns having won the U.S. of the lead. “Everyone knows it’s awfulturned his head. shoot British Open and PGA Open, in down the to out there and the ly hard go Through a strand of pines setting a scoring record Championship, day.”

James every Driscoll, he see amateur mid-60s hill, could Still, this was the day to do just in each of them. arms raised high after holing a bunker Woods was in position to join the that—barely a trace of wind and moisshot for an improbable birdie on No. 16. the from leaders when he made the turn at twoin grass the ture still manicured was after one round at clear, It under, but a four-foot par putt horseMasters yesterday, that no one was rain earlier in the week.

Fourteen players broke 70 in the first shoed around the hole on No. 10, and so about to lay down and let Woods just the most since 15 players did so many other medium-length chances round, into with a fourth straight history stroll turned away. in 1995. major championship.

“I played pretty solid,” the former Defending champion Vijay Singh got Not Chris DiMarco, whose 7-under champ said. “I hit a lot of good drives, a 65 gave him a one-stroke lead and the off to a conservative start and still manbest first round by a Masters rookie in aged a 69, along with Mark O’Meara.

11 years. Certainly not Phil Mickelson, Others among the 33 players who broke who made four straight birdies on the par were Jose Maria Olazabal (70), back nine for a 67, his best start at while the group at 71 included David Duval, Greg Norman, Ernie Els and Augusta in five years.

U.S. Davis Love 111.

Driscoll, even the Not Leading the way was DiMarco, who is Amateur runner-up who finished with still learning his way around Augusta. a 68 and a smile that evoked memoHe escaped trouble from the trees by ries of Matt Kuchar.

While Woods made only one birdie on punching out a 6-iron within 12 feet for a par 5 and finished with a meager 70, a birdie on No. 5, and holed another DiMarco led an assault on a relatively birdie putt on the par-3 sixth. Then, he tame Augusta National course with showed he was a quick study by hitting seven birdies on his first 13 holes for a wedge into three feet on No. 7 for his one-stroke lead over Steve Strieker and third straight birdie.

“I’ve heard how hard the greens are, Angel Cabrera of Argentina.

“You’re not going to have things go and they’re a little softer this year,” he said. “I had a good sand wedge yardage. your way all the time, and I had everything go my way today,” DiMarco said. “I I knew it would spin back, so I just chipped a wedge in there,” he said. just hope it stays like that.”

DiMarco is not the first Masters Woods couldn’t say the same.

His quest to become the first player rookie to wind up in the lead after 18 to hold all four professional majors at holes. A year ago, Dennis Paulson had a the same time began with a tee shot 68, but failed to break par the rest of into the pine straw, a punch shot with the week.

“There are probably 500 DiMarcos a 2-iron into the bunker, and a bogey.

He didn’t get much better the rest of who could come out and shoot 7-under on the first day,” Norman said. “They the way.

It was the seventh straight year, the don’t know the pressure of a golf course last five as a professional, that Woods when they first come out here. But he failed to break 70 in the first round of could hold on, just like anybody else.

TIGER WOODS plays out of the bunker on the first the Masters. He squandered a great He’s got credentials.”

By DOUG FERGUSON Associated Press Tiger Woods was AUGUSTA, Ga. sitting on a pine bench, staring at the ground, when an enormous cheer

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lot of crisp irons. The golf course is set up awfully difficult. The pins are tucked in some corners and you have to make a lot of 15-foot putts. I wasn’t able to do that.”

He also opened with a 70 when he blitzed the field in 1997, and there is plenty of time left to catch up to the leaders. Augusta figures to get harder, faster and firmer as the week goes along, and that could play into Woods’ hands.

“It’s an advantage to anyone who’s playing well,” Woods said. ‘With the greens being soft and receptive, guys hitting it borderline can get away with it. Once the greens get baked out... you can’t get away with it.”

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Big league prospect Teixeira Sponsors of weekend happy suffers from broken ankle with state of women’s sports �

GEORGIA TECH from page 13 four home runs, 11 RBI, and an amazing 1.042 slugging percentage.

Despite losing a large chunk of the season to injury, Teixeira does not believe his future is in danger.

“The doctors say I should be 100 percent when I get back,” he said. “There shouldn’t be any loss of movement or range in terms of fielding. I really expect to be a full-time third baseman. I don’t really think the injury will have any impact on the draft.”

The Minnesota Twins hold the No. 1 pick in June’s Major League Baseball draft. Given the club’s penny-pinching tendencies, and a rule forbidding draftpick trades, this pick won’t be used on any

ofthe top prospects.

This places the Chicago Cubs, who have control of the second pick, in an excellent position.

They will choose between Teixeira, easily the best offensive prospect available in an extremely deep draft, and right-handed pitcher Ben Sheets of the University of Southern California.

Baseball America’s Tracy Ringolsby said that Sheets could step into a Major League rotation as a third or fourth starter, and soon reach the top of the rotation.

Given the dearth of quality pitching at the Major League level, the fact that Teixeira is even a consideration over Sheets demonstrates his talent as a hitter.

While the absence of Teixeira hurts, Georgia Tech is No. 3 for many reasons.

Ten of them, in fact, as 10 Yellow

Jackets have already been drafted.

Even without their third baseman, the Yellow Jackets lead the conference in hitting at .348, runs scored, RBI and slugging percentage.

“Our pitchers can’t afford to make mistakes against them,” Hillier said.

“They have too many guys that can change the game with one swing.”

On the mound, the Yellow Jackets have the second-best team ERA in the conference. Georgia Tech will open the series with Steve Kelly, who has a 1.66 ERA in his last three start. On Saturday, the Blue Devils will face ACC wins leader Rhett Parrott.

“We’re going to really have to work to score runs,” Hillier said. “They’ve got a lot of talent, but our guys are hitting the ball well right now.”

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MARK TEIXEIRA will not play this weekend.

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2001 NCAA Basketball Championship Commemorative Issue

WOMEN from page 1

currently enjoyed by Duke’s female athletes was non-existent. During her tenure at Duke, Leonard often complained about a lack of investment, calling the administration’s support of women’s athletics in the 1970s and 1980s a “failure.”

Silar noted that Duke has come a long way in a relatively short period of time, and much of this weekend is dedicated to emphasizing that turnaround.

“What I really want to get out of this weekend is for people to appreciate our current athletes and learn a little bit more about the past,” Silar said. “[We want to recognize] some of the sacrifices that people had to make to get the programs to where they are now.”

Despite significant backing for women’s athletics from both Keohane and the athletic department, one group in particular has come under fire for failing to show an equal level of interest in both male and female athletes. James B. Duke Professor of Political Science Robert Keohane criticized the student popula-

president’s office Sunday morning.

“There is kind of a gender bias, and it’s too bad to see it from people who are 20 years old. It seems inexplicable.”

Close to 500 guests are expected at tonight’s silent auction, which Robert Keohane and its sponsors hope will add to the prominence of women’s athletics.

Part of that prominence, however, obviously includes money.

Since 1998, the University has undergone steps to add 34 scholarships—nearly half of Duke’s total in that year—for female athletes by 2004. That expansion

has the athletic department, which already receives $7 million annually from the Iron Dukes to fund financial aid to 270 athletes, searching for ways to cover their financial bases.

“Right now we’re looking to fund these scholarships,” said Susan Ross, the director of development spearheading the

fund-raising campaign. “The reality is the

rest of the athletic department scholarships are not endowed either. We’re trying to work toward that.”

Olympic gold medalist and one-time Sportswoman of the Year Bonnie Blair is scheduled as the keynote speaker at tonight’s silent auction.

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“I think it’s important to validate women’s sports equally with men’s sports,” said Robert Keohane, who will accompany selected members of the track team in leading a “Fun Run” from the

on this campus,” said Keohane, who referred to Duke’s third-year crew team, which has rapidly improved since its inaugural season, as pioneers in the current development of women’s sports. “Our investment is deep and our fan enthusiasm is both very genuine and growing.”

The University’s growth from its original seven women’s programs, one of which was later cut, has been a gradual process that did not witness a full-time female head coach until Debbie Leonard took over women’s basketball in 1977.

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