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DSG expresses “No Confidence” in ARAMARK Emily Almas THE CHRONICLE

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A bylaw amendment to change the funding ofThe Chanticleer failed to pass in the Duke Student Government

Wednesday night.

The amendment would have altered the bylaws of the Student Organization Finance Committee’s regulations, which currently exempt the yearbook from having to raise a quarter of its own budget, as required of every other chartered organization receiving DSG funds.

Proponents of the bylaw change have argued that it would have restored equality to the SOFC budgeting process. The Chanticleer is the only campus organization that is currently able to be fully funded by DSG and is therefore excused from having to produce part of its own budget through fundraising. Others maintained that the publication, which consumes a fourth of the total SOFC budget by receiving $126,000 a year, had no impetus to improve quality or apply fiscal restraint.

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Duke Student Government sent an assertive message to ARAMARK Corp.

Wednesday night by voting “no confidence” in the company and its food service on campus.

In a 40-7-0 vote, senators passed an amended resolution off the legislative floor declaring their lack of confidence in the corporation, following presentations by the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee and testimonials from students. No representative from ARAMARK or Duke Dining services was present at the meeting.

DUSDAC presented a power-point presentation to the senate outlining the current status ofARAMARK’s eateries on campus, including student feedback about food quality. Emma Batchelder, co-chair of the group, outlined several disappointments with the company including that it kept out-of-date items in the refrigerators in the Great Hall, had only implemented one of 12 improvements management pitched in fall 2003 and that proposed menus for the current semester did not reflect promises to improve nutrition.

Although acknowledging some of the corporation’s accomplishments, such as establishing a fresh sushi bar in the Great Hall and adding breakfast-on-the-run to the Marketplace, Batchelder told the sen-

DSG members debate the future of ARAMARK at their meetingWednesday night.

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Hull nixes spring annual review Officials seek to even out Delta Sig moved to Edens by

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DeltaSigma Phi fraternity will move from its Kilgo Quadrangle location to Edens.

In a shocking move that defies a unanimous Campus Council resolution and erases a long-standing feature of residential life, Residence Life and Housing Services Director Eddie Hull has completely eliminated annual review for the immediate future. Annual review is the process by which selective living groups are evaluated on their contribution to the residential community.

Campus Council President Anthony Vitarelli, who chaired a committee that proposed a reform of annual review last fall, said he was extremely disappointed by both the substance of Hull’s decision and his office’s communication.

“The lack of communication from [RLHS] has been shameful,” Vitarelli said. “Selectives should be upset because they’ve planned a semester’s worth of activities under faulty assumptions. Unaffiliated students should be upset because selective living groups do not have to Justify the amenities they receive this semester. I’m personally disappointed that a group of students dedicated two months of their time to thoroughly reviewing the process this semester and their recommendations were discarded.”

Hull confirmed his decision but declined to explain SEE ANNUAL

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For reasons that remain obscure, Duke students have long preferred to study abroad in the fall semester than in the spring semester. With the numbers becoming increasingly lopsided in recent years, student affairs administrators are looking to alleviate the institutional strain of the study abroad disparity.

This year, 410 Duke students participated in fall study abroad programs, and only 118 students chose the spring, according to statistics from the Office of Study Abroad. Ten years ago, the fall-to-spring ratio was a more manageable 307 to 126.

“It would make things a lot easier if things were more balanced,” said Assistant Dean for Study Abroad Margaret Riley. “It’s kind of built into the culture at Duke, and changing that is going to mean changing the culture at Duke. And I think changing the culture of Duke is very difficult.”

Administrators said rumors have circulated for years that Duke basketball was the primary reason for the difSEE STUDY ABROAD ON PAGE

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The Supreme WASHINGTON Court, in a new rendering on separation ofchurch and state, voted Wednesday to let states withhold scholarships from students studying theology.

The court’s 7-2 ruling held that the state of Washington was within its rights to deny a taxpayer-funded scholarship to a college student who was studying to be a minister. That holding applies even when money is available to students studying anything else.

‘Training someone to lead a congregation is an essentially religious endeav-

majoring in devotional theology is akin to a religious calling as well as an academic pursuit.”

The case is a departure from recent church-state fights in which the Supreme Court has gradually allowed greater state sponsorship of religious activities. Rehnquist is usually a supporter of that idea.

Wednesday’s case has implications for President George W. Bush’s plan to allow more church-based organizations to compete for government money, and the Bush administration argued that the state had been wrong to yank the

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Israeli troops raid banks, take funds by

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Israeli forces burst into PalesRAMALLAH, West Bank tinian banks on Wednesday, corralled employees, covered security cameras and seized at least $6.7 million in an unprecedented raid. Israel said Iran, Syria and Lebanese guerrillas sent the funds to Palestinian militants.

Palestinian officials said the raid violated banking agreements and could trigger a run on the banks. “It’s like the mafia,” Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia said of the operation.

“I think it should be dealt with in a very serious way.”

Israel said the raid was part of the global fight against terror funding.

“This money is the fuel for Palestinian terror, and I am convinced we have to dry up the paths for this fuel,” Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said.

The Palestinian banking system has remained relatively stable, despite more than three years ofIsraeli-Palestinian violence that has decimated the Palestinian economy.

Israel said the system has been hijacked to finance Palestinian militant groups—Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the A1 Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades —that have killed more than 900 Israelis in bombings and shootings.

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US backs international presence in Haiti President Bush is encouraging the international community to provide a "security presence" in Haiti to back a political solution to the island nation's escalating violence.

Twenty detained amid hunt for ai Qaeda Pakistani troops flattened three housing compounds and detained at least 20 people Tuesday in a remote border region where Osama bin Laden and other ai Qaeda fugitives are believed to have sought refuge.

Libya takes responsibility for bombing The foreign minister of Libya assured the British government that it accepts responsibility for the actions of its officials in blowing up Pan Am flight 103 in 1988.

Religious clash in Nigeria leaves 48 dead Suspected Muslim militants killed at least 48 people in an attack on a farming village in central Nigeria. Most of the victims died as they sought refuge in a church.

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‘GMA’ veteran Hartman bemoans 24-hours news by

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With a deep voice and strong presence behind the podium, David Hartman offered a glimpse of the man who had spent years in front of the camera as the original host of ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Although he delivered his lecture “TV News Interviewing ‘O4: Entertain? Inform?

Inspire?” Wednesday night to a far more intimate audience than the millions he reached while on national television, he remained humble—stressing gratitude, privilege and responsibility.

The event served to honor Hartman,

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who received the Futrell Award for Excellence in Communications and Journalism, named for Ashley B. Futrell, Sr., publisher of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington (N.C.) Daily News.

From the outset, it was clear that Hartman was a man who stayed true to his roots, making sure to offer due credit to his colleagues for their help during his impressive career.

“I do network alone; it is not the nature of what I do,” Hartman said. “All of the work is our work, not my work.”

He offered some background on the historic nature of broadcasting in radio and television, which he said in the early years required performing a service for the community. In the 1980s, Hartman said, the development of satellite technology led to increasingly diluted programming, while the government walked away from many of its ethical standards.

Whereas ratings had once been calculated in 15-minute blocks, he said they are now documented every minute, requiring news to be more sensational and less informative. Still, he admitted that the popularity of the new format had not changed.

“Know this—garbage and gossip do sell,” he said.

Hartman said his father provided him with an important lesson in his childhood—that he was given the gift of 1,000 minutes each day, and that he should do something positive with it.

The lesson has stayed with him, even making its way into his morning show’s daily sign off, “Make it a

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David Hartman spoke on news interviewing in the new millennium in the Sanford Institute Wednesday.

good day today.”

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Trustee emeritus Samuel Dußois Cook and President Nan Keohane chat duringWednesday's ceremonies.

Cook Society honors Keohane, Burness The Samuel Dußois Cook Society honored President Nan Keohane, Senior Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations John Burness and the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership at its annual awards dinner Wednesday night.

Bumess and Keohane were both recognized for distinguished service to the community—Burness for his leadership with the Duke-Durham relationship and Keohane for her general commitment to improving race relations at the University and interaction between the University and the community during her tenure.

In addition, graduate students Shayla Nunnally and Robert Saunders and juniorsAmanda Earp and Amy Lazarus were recognized for their efforts toward building greater community with-

in their respective student bodies. Associate Dean for Trinity College Martina Bryant and Associate Professor of biomedical engineering William Reichert received the Society’s Pioneer Awards, and Vice Provost for Academic and Administrative Services Judith Ruderman received the Community Betterment Award.

The Cook Society was formed in 1997 to honor Cook, the University’s first tenured African-American professor and currently a trustee emeritus. Its aims are to address the organizational and structural issues that impede relationships between the various communities at Duke and to continue Cook’s work toward building a “Beloved Community of whole and creative persons.”

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In Iraq, women’s political gains still limited by

human rights association, coached her, saying: “Don’t mention 10 or 20 percent all the time. Insist on the 40 percent.”

Ali cheered up and gave petitions to men and women so they might gather signatures. She has been to villages and gotten signatures from women washing clothes on the river banks. She has convinced their sheiks, or tribal leaders, to sign, too, she said.

But at the same human rights center is a friend ofAli’s who was badly beaten by some men over the summer after she went to the market with her head uncovered. The woman is still too ashamed to talk.

Thanaa Salman, a 27-year-old school principal, pushed her way into local politics. She was elected to her neighborhood council, but the elections for its presidency were held without her knowledge, she said. So she contacted the Americans who had organized the vote and demanded a new election. It was held, and she won the presidency by a narrow margin. Still, men tell her every day that she is destined to fail.

“Iraqi women now have more freedom, more opportunity, so, more problems,” Salman said.

The broader political concerns of the women in Hilla reflect those of most politically active women in Iraq.

There is the issue of representation, especially on the allmale constitutional committee.

Women like Ibtisam Ali say they do not trust male politicians to protect freedom of religion and expression in a new constitution.

Those suspicions have arisen lately because of efforts by religious parties in the Governing Council to push through Resolution 137, which would abolish a 1959 law that the justice minister, Hashem Abdul-Rahman al-Shibli, says drew on the most generous protections for women and children from different schools of Shariah.

“Women don’t want clerics to write the constitution,” Salman said.

According to Shibli, the resolution would stipulate that a Shiite woman, for example, would have her divorce adjudicated by Shiite law, a Sunni by Sunni law. Besides at-

They were actually discouraged from wearing the hijab, the

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traditional Muslim head scarf. But in the 19905, when Saddam embraced Islam as a source of credibility in the Arab world, his government clamped down on women. Although they continued to attend schools and hold jobs, they were no longer allowed to travel on their own.

In general, said Zaineb Salbi, an Iraqi-American who is a president of Women for Women International, women abandoned public life, leaving politics to men. More women started to cover themselves, although wearing hijab became the norm only after Saddam’s ouster.

Many Iraqi women felt that with the arrival of the Americans, they would gain more rights. In Hilla, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, women are pressing for those

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Emboldened by the fall of Saddam HILLA, Iraq Hussein, Iraqi women are pushing for political freedoms many of them have never enjoyed. But as they do, a rising tide of religious zeal threatens even the small victories they have won.

Ibtisam Ali and her sister, Raghad, have spearheaded a petition drive demanding a large percentage of seats for women in a new national assembly. But when Raghad, 25, tried to run for local office, the men at the candidate registration office informed her that women could not be candidates.

“I was frightened of the people in my neighborhood,” Raghad said. “They looked at me so strangely, like I thought I was equal to men. I’m afraid of everything, from gossip to violence. It just kills the ambitions inside.”

Women, secular and religious, from all ethnic groups, “[Women] realize that if they are running for office and demanding a fair share of repdon’t move now, they will pay resentation in a country where they make up 60 percent of the population. the price for years and years to Yet new religious activism in Iraq has aggravated traditional attitudes about women’s roles in society. The 18come.” member committee drafting the new constitution does —Manal Omar not include any women, according to members of the Iraqi Governing Council. The council recently passed a nonbinding resolution calling for Shariah, or Islamic law, to govern family issues, which Iraq’s justice minister said would damage the rights of Iraqi women. rights, with the help of some men, and battling the anger And on the streets, more women, even little girls, are roused by their efforts.

One recent afternoon, Ibtisam Ali stood before the covering their heads and bodies, largely because of a fear staff of the Human Rights Association of Babylon asking ofharassment and violence, said a range of secular and refor signatures on a petition demanding that 40 percent of ligious womeij.

“Women are waking up and getting it now,” said Manal seats in the new national assembly be set aside for women.

The signature drive has spread across the country.

Omar, the country director in Iraq for the WashingtonAli, a tall, eloquent woman, was reluctant to push too based group Women for Women International, which women countries from war. hard after a man told her that women did not deserve in helps newly emerged “They realize that if they don’t move now, they will pay the price equal representation because they were not equal to men.

“If, after all this, the governing council gives us 10 or 20 for years and years to come.”

For 35 years, Iraqi women were able to get university depercent, that will be a blessing,” she told the group.

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University Publications Board, student life officials, alumni and leaders of other student organizations decried a suggested motion to table the legislation for further review and made appeals to the senate to reject the legislation.

“I’m going to ask you to settle this tonight,” said Russell Williams, speaking on behalf of the Pub Board during the meeting’s public forum. “I submit that moving the debate tonight is inconsiderate and bordering on unethical. Let Danielle [Behr, current editor of The Chanticleer,] get back to the business of creating our yearbook, not defending it.”

Others made similar points, saying that the publication was a vital part of documenting the student experience.

“I think that DSG is taking the risk of ruining one of the greatest cultural aspects of Duke University,” said Jonathan Bigelow, president of the Duke University Union. “If DSG can’t constructively fund student organizations, perhaps they should get out of the funding business,”

he added, describing “vigilante leadership” as responsible for the bill.

Brian Denton, advisor for the Office of Student Activities and Facilities, agreed with Bigelow. “I think this legislation is a huge mistake,” he said, noting that he has been an advisor to DSG for six years but never before spoken out on an issue in a public forum. “My own personal opinion is that the SOFC bylaws should be thrown out the window and started over. Do not let this issue table.”

W. F. Talman, a former sports editor of The Chronicle and the 1957 editor of The Chanticleer, drove 220 miles to also speak during the meeting. “[The Chanticleer] is the only publication most students or alumnni look at in their homes,” he said. “You have here a permanent archive on an annual basis of campus life.”

Senator Ryan Kennedy, a primary author of the bill, argued that a vote on the amendment should be moved to allow for futher discussion between DSG members, The Chanticleer and the leaders of the Pub Board. He said he had previously been met with “a stone wall”

when it came to finding solutions with those leaders.

“What I wanted to do is at least start talking,” he said. “It’s only fair to postpone the debate until after Spring Break.”

Behr, however, claimed that a postponement of the amendment’s vote or its debate would not lead to any new alternatives.

“I don’t feel there are appropriate solutions to the problems which I don’t think exist,” she said. “It’s not fair to apply the same rules to a different group and the suggested changes are not practical or fair.”

The discussion of the amendment lasted almost two hours and included several motions and a recess. At one point, a successful conclusion of whether to even vote on the issue seemed almost hopeless, with Vice President for Facilities and Athletics Alex Niejelow shouting from the back of the room, “Let’s get our act together and vote! I don’t want to be here any more!”

During a particularly rowdy moment, both the Executive Vice President Clifford Davison and President Matt Slovik repeatedly called “Order!” before the legislative body resumed order and re-

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a motion to modify the amendment, which would table it until April.

After further discussion, a restless senate voted 10-37-1 to reject the bylaw amendment to remove The Chanticleer’s SOFC

funding exemption.

To some in attendance at the session, the four hour length of the meeting tied for the longest meeting ever with one from four years ago—coupled with internal conflict and issues of productivity, was a sign of DSG’s inability to effectively decide legislation.

“What I witnessed tonight is the clearest example of organizational impotence I have ever seen at Duke University,” Bigelow said. “Regardless of what anybody feels on the matter discussed tonight, I think it is crystal clear that DSC is everything but capable of making a decision in the senate.”

However, DSC officials argued that the meeting’s length was more a reflection of the difficult issues tackled. “[The inefficiency] was unnecessary; however, we still got outcomes here,” said Andrew Wisnewski, vice president for community interaction.

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Batchelder said that 68 percent of students cited convenience as the primary reason for eating at the Great Hall, which received overall ratings from students of C-, B- and B- for quality, selection and service respectfully. “ARAMARK keeps saying that their employees are their problems but they were their highest rating,” she added.

Two undergraduate students, speaking during the meeting’s public forum, also urged legislators to show their displeasure in the company by voting for “no confidence.’’Junior Deirdre Hess, employed at Trinity Cafe on East Campus, shared her experiences working at the ARAMARKmanaged coffeehouse. She also read a letter from Trinity Cafe student managers Jeannie Chen and Allison Clarke, detailing their grievances with the company.

‘The stories are true,” Hess said of the “terrifying truth” about problems at the cafe and other ARAMARK eateries. “I could talk to you for hours about the problems we have at Trinity Cafe.”

Chen and Clark’s letter included allegations that some equipment has been broken for years, food quality and ingredients were inadequate or improperly kept, repeated firings in ARAMARK management made improvements or changes difficult and training was insufficient.

Hess claimed that the cafe failed a recent audit because it occurred a day earlier than scheduled and the eatery was, as typical, out of its necessary supplies.

Senators expressed their displeasure with murmurs of “eww” and “gross” upon hearing several of the depictions con-

tended in the letter—including claims that the bean grinder has been broken since the fall of 2002, plates are sometimes kept in the display case for up to a week, a sink has been clogged for weeks and that the espresso machine frequently malfunctions.

“We’re begging you, please, get them out,” Hess said. “Give us a chance to make new.”

Jessica Rosario, president of AQUA Duke, also urged a vote of no confidence.

She told senators that ARAMARK workers “assaulted verbally” members of her group at an event held at the Marketplace in fall 2003 and that the company’s management had fallen through on promises to host sexuality sensitivity training.

Most of the debate about ARAMARK during the four-hour long meeting did not occur over the company, but was aimed at producing a resolution amiable to both members of DUSDAC and the Student Affairs Committee, which is responsible for presenting legislation to DSC about dining services.

Elizabeth Dixon, vice president of the Student Affairs Committee, reported Monday night that her committee was unable to endorse DUSDAC’s official recommendation of “no confidence” because of a lack of student feedback or information from the advisory group. As such, there was not a resolution on DSG’s official agenda concerning a vote on the future of ARAMARK. However, both Dixon and her committee, as well as freshman senator Christopher Chin and DUSDAC (of which he is a member), presented resolutions to be offered from the floor about the vote.

Dixon’s resolution recommended a vote—aye for confidence, nay for no confidence—in the student body, while

Chin’s legislation was comprised of a DSC endorsement of the DUSDAC stance.

“I am confused why there are two resolutions on the table,” Chin said. “I know that there was a profound breakdown of communication between Elizabeth Dixon and DUSDAC.” After about an hour ofintercourse during debate between the Student Affairs Committee and the writers of the DUSDAC bill, a four-minute recess and multiple extensions of time, the senate approved Chin’s legislation from the floor after amending the rationale of the bill.

Dixon—responding to charges that the dispute over resolutions was part of a power struggle between her, her committee and DUSDAC’s legitimacy —described the problems over the ARAMARK resolutions as “a lack of communication” and said that, in the end, the outcome was most important.

“I think that the point of the evening was that each of us has the same goal,” she said. “There was a consensus of the student body reached and I have the utmost confidence that DUSDAC will effectively convey our concerns to the administration.”

DSG President Matt Slovik agreed, saying that the vote was a clear message to the company and Duke’s dining administration.

“In terms of ARAMARK, I think it was a pretty resounding vote and very meaningful that ARAMARK didn’t have a representative here tonight,” he said.

Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst has the final say on whether ARAMARK stays or goes. He has indicated previously that he would take into serious consideration DSG’s recommendation, but would not act solely on the students’ position.

IRAQI WOMEN from page 4 omizing the law into many laws, Shibli noted, such a move would strip every woman of some rights.

Inheritance rights for women are more generous under Shiite law than Sunni, but divorce protections are better under Sunni law. So a Shiite woman would still have some good inheritance protections but would see her divorce rights diminished.

The resolution has been frozen for now by the Americans who run Iraq, and a move is on by some Governing Council members to void it entirely. But supporters of it, like the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, indicate that they would like to bring it up again once Iraq gains its sovereignty, because they feel its respects the diversity of Iraq.

The new possibilities and dangers collide in the life of Fatennal Ramahi.

Fluent in English and German, Ramahi stopped working for the last 13 years because she was unwilling to inform on foreign employers. Now, she works for Women for Women. Depressed about staying at home, Ramahi, a 45-year-old mother of four, began wearing the hijab, a few years ago. When she began work, she took off the scarf.

“I feel back to my own self,” she said in her office, her lush auburn hair brushing the neck of her black sweater. Pointing at her smiling face, she said, ‘This is the real me.”

Though she is a religious Muslim who prays and fasts, her decision to take off her scarfis a grave transgression in the eyes of some, and they let her know it.

“The other day, I was crossing the street when a boy who was the same age as my son began shouting at me, very, very bad words,” Ramahi said.

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ANNUAL REVIEW f,„m pa 9 e 1 his rationale to The Chronicle The proposed reformation of annual review would have created positive financial incentives for outstanding contributions to the residential community and would have enabled groups to complete programming in four out of seven areas, instead of each of six areas. Campus Council unanimously approved the reform Oct. 30, 2003, though not without considerable debate and consternation about some of the proposal’s provisions.

A sticky point from the beginning, and potentially one of the reasons Hull axed annual review, was the role of an eighth pseudo-category: citizenship. Citizenship was measured under the former annual review system but was primarily used as away to dock groups when members acted up, Vitarelli said. The proposed reform would have used citizenship as a “swing factor” in both positive and negative directions.

Now, however, with no motivation to complete programming except for national requirements in some cases and their own goodwill, Vitarelli said little will be done by selective groups in the way of positive contributions to the residential community. “I would anticipate selective living groups fulfilling the requirements of the current system which, as it stands, are zero,” he said. “Surely, groups will continue to do some programming, but I anticipate a notable drop-off.”

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Hezbollah guerrillas, Israeli security said Wednesday.

Israel said it took $6.7 million to $8.9 million from the vaults of the three bank branches, and the money would be spent on humanitarian aid to Palestinians.

The raid began Tuesday night, when Israel arrested computer experts from two banks. Wednesday morning, troops in jeeps, trucks and armored personnel carriers sealed off downtown Ramallah as security forces, with the experts in tow, strode into the Cairo Amman Bank and two branches of the Arab Bank, Palestinian officials said.

Troops covered the banks’ cameras with sacks or disabled them, and herded the employees together, before eventually releasing them, witnesses said. Customers were allowed to leave after identification checks.

The Israelis sifted through several hundred bank accounts some linked to Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Israeli sources said.

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An ad-hoc RLHS selective house review process may be taking place in the meantime, as evidenced by the relocation ofDelta Sigma Phi fraternity to Edens Quadrangle beginning next year. Delta Sig reportedly ran into conflict with nearby Sigma Nu fraternity, also located in Kilgo Quadrangle.

“Clearly, that’s been an explosive relationship since the groups moved next to each other,” Vitarelli said. “There was a lack of foresight in situating those groups so closely.”

Delta Sig will move to Edens IC, and Sigma Nu will occupy a different set of rooms within Kilgo Quad.

“Obviously its a handful to have two fraternities in the same quad,” said Andrew Axlerod, president of Sigma Nu. “I believe we’re just being shifted around, we’re going to occupy the whole basement and the first floor.

That’s basically the extent of our shift.

“I think it will be better for the whole quad environment not having two fraternities stuck on top of another,” Axlerod added. ‘The whole quad environment will hopefully improve. I don’t think there’s anything negative going on [between Sigma Nu and Delta Sig]; it’s been generally well.”

Officers from Delta Sig could not be reached for com-

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STUDY ABROAD from page 1 ference in fall and spring study abroad enrollment, but Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said this was quite possibly a myth. More important, he said, was the prevailing culture of leaving campus in the fall to be with one’s friends in the spring.

Many other colleges, Riley said, had the opposite problem of students disproportionately wishing to study abroad in the spring semester. She credited booming football programs in the fall as the key factor for those schools.

Moneta said he would like to even out the gap. “I’m just sort of calling the question and talking to my colleagues in the academic community [about reducing the difference],” he said, pointing to housing

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Hartman said an interview should be about the guest, not the interviewer, a fact many current journalists ignore. “We need more thoughtful Q&A.... We can’t learn anything from having people scream at each other for half an hour,” he said. He noted several programs that provide good examples of how an interview should be conducted, including the CBS Sunday Morning News program and “Newsmaker,” a PBS program hosted by Jim Lehrer.

He also commented on the CNN-Fox News-MSNBC style round-the-clock news, which he said was weak and sensational due to its lack of context and depth.

“CNN could put a camera any place on the planet and show something blowing up or someone getting killed and put it

challenges and a student leadership void as negative results of the disparity.

A three-year on-campus living requirement and increasing enrollment means that University facilities must be filled to

at the beginning ofeach academic year. An influx of returning students from fall study abroad—and the relative trickle of students leaving to study abroad in the spring—can create situations where there is simply not enough housing to go around.

Such a housing crunch occurred this year, as nearly 300 additional students were on campus in the spring due to the study abroad disparity. Many were underclassmen and therefore entitied to housing. December graduations, dropouts and leaves of absence did not solve the crunch, and an emergency lottery was initiated by Residence Life and Housing Services Director

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on the air and call it news without any context,” Hartman said.

Ana Mukkoska, a visiting scholar from Macedonia, said Hartman’s high ethical standards for news had an effect on his view of the current state of media. “He seemed to have a nostalgia of earlier TV culture and the lost ethics of broadcasting,” she said.

Audience member Bruce Flynn, who works for the National Academy of Science, said Hartman provided an interesting perspective.

“It’s good to hear from someone who’s been there and can now reflect,” Flynn said.

Hartman said it was up to future generations to bring news back to higher standards by refusing to compromise and showing a responsibility to good journalism.

“The fun is in the work. T-G-I-M, Thank God It’s Monday,” he said.

Eddie Hull in search of juniors who would waive their guaranteed housing and volunteer to move off campus for the spring.

The lottery was only partially successful, and for the first time in years, RLHS had to transform West Campus commons rooms and study rooms into bedrooms to accommodate the remainder of the study abroad influx.

“The implications of [the disparity] would be anything from relatively minor to very extreme,” Hull said. “This current semester is an example of where it’s pretty extreme and is probably more representative of a typical year than not.”

Elsewhere in the University, the pool of potential student leaders of campus organizations is depleted by the large number of students who leave to study abroad in the fall, leading some administrators to seek higher summer study abroad enrollments.

SCHOLARSHIPS from page 2 or rite,” the high court majority said.

“It does not deny to ministers the right to participate in the political affairs of the community. And it does not require students to choose between their religious beliefs and receiving a government benefit. The state has merely chosen not to fund a distinct category of instruction.”

Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented.

“Let there be no doubt: This case is about discrimination against a religious minority,” Scalia wrote for the two. “In an era when the court is so quick to come to the aid of other disfavored groups, its indifference in this case, which involves a form of discrimination to which the Constitution actually

Moneta said the summer between junior and senior year could be an ideal time to study abroad. “[The student leadership void is] not debilitating, but it’s really unfortunate that sometimes students are forced to choose between a remarkable academic experience and a very valuable student leadership experience,” said Campus Council President Anthony Vitarelli. “The solution may lie in a more active promotion of summer abroad programs or trying to strike a balance between fall and spring.”

Duke Student Government President Matt Slovik said he thought the quality of student leadership was largely unaffected by the study abroad disparity.

“It definitely has an effect on things like housing and classes and other aspects of University life, but in terms of student leadership, I don’t agree,” he said.

speaks, is exceptional.”

Scalia said the court’s majority was to play down the damage to Davey, who continued his education without the subsidy. He did not choose to enter the ministry after graduation, and is now in law school.

“The indignity of being singled out for special burdens on the basis of one’s calling is so profound that the concrete harm produced can never be dismissed as insubstantial,” wrote Scalia, the father of a Catholic priest.

Davey’s lawyers argued that the state violated his constitutional right to wor-

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A broad ruling that Davey had a constitutional right to the scholarship money could have forced a vast reordering of government spending, in order to ensure that government did not exclude religious programs or organizations.

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John 3: 16.

Believe it. Don't believe it.Write it on a poster and hold it up at football games. It doesn't really matter if your Christian philosophy is Sunday morning-solid.

Truthfully, it doesn't even really matter what religion you are. But let the idea of John 3:16 be your emotional guide when you watch The Passion of the Christ.

"The Passion": the suffering of Jesus in the period following theLast Supper and including the Crucifixion, as related in

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the New Testament. Suffering. Memorize that word. This is the only other thing you need to know. Whether you are a Bible-toting über-Christian or the king of nonbelievers, if you allow yourself to remember the perceived necessity of Jesus'sacrificial death and the unimaginable 12-hour agony that led up to it (even if only for the sake of testing the bounds of your imagination), then you will realize that Gibson's Passion accomplishes its goal in brilliant fashion.

Jesus was mocked; Jesus was flogged; Jesus was spat upon—immediately recognizable Bible-talk that probably hasn't continued on page 5

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screen, in print, on the air tion on campus, but uncertain as to and by word of mouth, the whatform the reaction would take. FCIL media and the public have director Ari Dubin explained how been screaming controversy expectations of the film's impact have since Passion trailers first hit the web become more optimistic in the past few almost a year ago. Somewhere along weeks. "Six month ago, the media was the line, speculation about the film's portraying this as a Christian vs. Jewish content evolved almost unconsciously problem. Now, many Christians and into a discussion about people's percepJewish people have come together to tions of the content; transforming anticdemonstrate that this is not true." ipation into anxiety. How were people Reactions to the film have been perlikely to react? sonal, and not as polarized as previously The Freeman Center for Jewish Life feared. Dubin continued, "Jews see the began preparing an action plan several film and see what affects them. months in advance of the film's Ash Christians see the film and see what Wednesday release, anticipating a reaccontinued on page 5

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Rather than waiting until every other self-respecting male on campus assailed his netherquarters with a crack-full of these stylish skivvies, I decided to go first, making a trip to a local department store. Apparently, it was "every old couple in Durham browse aimlessly in the men's underwear section" day at Hecht's. Needless to say, I got some fu looks as I rubbed tl man-thong betwee my fingers, curious t' see how everything would be "breathing/ The real experi ence came when put it on. Friends, tha little strap of fab' boldly went where jockeys have ever

before—at least not since the cartoon Superman on my Fruit of the Looms succumbed to the 'Wedgie Heard 'Round the World' way back in 1986.

And it was every bit as ugly.

All day I wore this cruel torture device, and all day I walked like a bowlegged bronco rider or a guy trying to carry a corncob without using his hands. I bent over in the Great Hall and exposed an unfortunate and potentially vomit-inducing "double cheek peak."When girls do it, it's kind of sexy.

When I did it, not so much.

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WHO: The Duke Equestrian Team competes against 12 other schools in North Carolina and Virginia.

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By Jon Schnaars One of my first memories surrounding video games comes from my kindergarten class. A kid named Patrick, now almost a myth, left my school after that year, but not without leaving his mark on my impressionable psyche. I remember quite vividly standing around during snack time and discussing strategies for The Legend of Zelda for the NES. My one buddy was talking about finding the deceptive entrance to the eig when Patrick dungeon, moseyed up to give us his two cents. In his smart-alecky sixyear-old voice he said, "You guys are out of the loop. I took my game to this company that you pay to complete the games for you."

He thought he was bragging about having a completed copy ofThe Legend of Zelda, but even at that tender age, my friends and I knew something was wrong with Patrick's philosophy on gaming.

As much I would like to think that Patrick's method of finishing a game has grown up over the years, I still see shades of that brief dialogue throughout our video gaming world. A culture of laziness is growing.

Increasingly impressive technology in video game design has led to increased difficulty of play—a trend that has given rise to a flood of strategy guides and game FAQ's. Every RPG and 3-D shooter can now be purchased with its corresponding walkthrough, removing nearly any need for skill and intuition.

Granted, these helping hands are sup-

posed to aid gamers in difficult stretches, for that seemingly invincible boss or impassable puzzle. But the problem is that these guides have become a crutch that many gamers are leaning on just a little too heavily.

Emulator users—users of programs that can be downloaded off the internet that allow you to play software from var(SNES, Genesis, ious platforms Playstation, etc.) on your computer—are often the most flagrant abusers of itegy guide information. Final ntasy VII is possibly the most emulated game of all time, which makes it easy to understand why it also has n astronomical number of Ikthroughs floating around on internet. But if you're playing >ugh a game on your computwith an open window to an ernet walkthrough,you can no longer consider yourself a video gamer, myfriend.The difference between this scenario and say, reading a book or watching a movie, is slim if any.The interactiveness of games is what makes them a unique form of entertainment. If you remove that aspect, you have destroyed the very foundation of video gaming.

Now I would never denounce the use of guides altogether. With the intricate story lines of some of today's hottest games, problem solving has become increasingly convoluted. But be careful, because it's a slippery slope to video game slovenliness. The line between smart guide usage and straight up laziness is a thin one at best. And the next thing you know,you're paying other people to play your games for you.

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Keisha Castle-Hughes' less-flashy performance in including Best Picture (both are Miramax films).

Whale Rider is just as impressive and equally deserving. has been Though in the past the fantasy-stigma the In the Best Actor category, no one can top Sean year Predicting the Oscars is a lot like playing Texas too much for any film to overcome, this eerily compelling performance as the grievingOscar to Penn's Hold'em. Fantasy movies are a 2/7 offsuit; actors who Academy can't avoid giving the Best Picture in Mystic River. He father-turned-vengeful-killer isn't just wear extensive makeup and/or feign mental illness Return of the King. Besides, the competition he kills and he generally provides, mourns, cares, he he and Translation is too artsy, Master are pocket rockets; and Harvey Weinstein (founder of that good; Lost in the feel as if there is succeeds audience in making dull and Commander too disjointed, Seabiscuit too Miramax) is the Hollywood equivalent of Chris world, this so they might as holy and in nothing balance sacred perfect Moneymaker, that lucky, greedy bastard. Even if you Mystic River too gloomy. ROTK is the lives. well end their miserable just and stellar know the basic strategy, it doesn't make the betting of great story, exquisite cinematography Best Director is the most wide-open category right ensemble acting. After two years of disappointment, any easier. hobnow.

Will Peter Jackson be rewarded for his hard work of elves and luck like Peter Jackson and his fantasy world For instance, even ridiculous on the Lord of the Rings trilogy? Will the Academy recMoneymaker's had to run out eventually —and this bits will finally get their due.

PeterWeir's stellar directing on the tricky Master ognize Charlize Theron is a As for the performance awards, year Miramax's Cold Mountain got seriously snubbed. ? Will the Academy favor the new itand of serial Commander dead lock for best actress for her portrayal Oscar golden girl Nicole Kidman failed to get nomior their beloved Clint Eastwood? It's Coppola Sofia fabulous perforgirl nated; director Anthony Minghella got left in the killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster. Her guess —though we may take comfort in to impossible of an acting cold; and the movie was ignored in the Best Picture mance includes the three key components Kids' Choice Awards are only Nickelodeon the knowing She's Make-up? unrecogniz16 9 2fl category. But don't feel too sorry for Mr. Weinstein just Oscar: Weight gain? Check.

4 .‘ months away. killer a few a serial portraying yet; Foreign contender City of God's Fernando able. Mental illness? Does is a The 76thAnnual AcademyAwards will air at 8 p.m. this Meirelles was nominated for Best Director, and Master count? It seems like the star of Mighty Joe Young Sunday night on ABC. and Commander was nominated for several awards shoo-in, although in Recess' opinion, 13-year-old

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Jewish film in Carolina

By Corrine Low What makes a film Jewish?

This is just one of the questions that the Jewish Film Festival, this weekend at the Carolina Theatre, will explore as it showcases Jewish directorsfrom around the world.

For one, a "Jewish" film can simply be about Jewish people. An example of this approach is found in The Burial Society, a smart, fast-paced, modern movie about crime and self-discovery set against the backdrop of Jewish America. Director Nicholas Racz tells the edgy story of a meek man (who may have just stolen $2 million from the Jewish Mafia), seeking purpose (or perhaps a hideout) in the ancient Jewish society that performs burial rituals.The film explores Jewish values through the teachings of the society's elders, but for the most part, the film stands alone from its Jewishness. Here, Judaism is merely a subculture, a quaint collection ofmorals and customs tying the characters together.

Other films explore Jewishness through the shared experiences of Jewish people rather than through their beliefs. Almost Peaceful tells the story of the Jewish community of France struggling to recover from the devastating effects of the Nazi regime. Director Michael Deville explores the haunting possibility that modern Judaism has been forever disrupted by the Holocaust.The new Judaism must continually address the needs of a fragmented society.

This raises the question of whether Jewish culture can only be portrayed in the context of adversity.The documentary Strange Fruit, by filmmaker Joel Katz, dissects the history behind a famous anti-lynching anthem. The title song was written by a Jewish composer in the 1930'5,Lewis Allen, but brought into the mainstream by the mournful vocals of Billie Holiday. When asked how Jewish he is, Allen's son responds with a quote from his father:"Until the last anti-Semite is dead, I'm Jewish."

Conversely, Miss Eddeme, a submission from Israel, delves into a society where Jews, for once, hold the upper-hand.Traditional notions of Jewishness dissolve in the face of the film's harsh portrayal of a Jewish family's treatment of their Arab neighbors. Finally able to set societal norms, the film's Jewish characters cannot seem to let go of their historical status as an oppressed people.

The films showcased by the festival are far from the amateur artistic ventures one

A scene from The BurialSociety, one of many films playing at the Carolina Theatre this weekend during the Jewisl

might expect. They are high-budget, technologically-advanced, beautifully-orchestrated independent films, each with a poignant message and impeccable telling.The films are carefully selected each year from over a hundred submissions, based not only on artistic quality and the presence of "strong Jewish content," but also for a diversity of themes. Festival director Jim Carl noted that it was important for the festival to detach itself from the notion that all Jewish films are Holocaust films. This broad focus is essential to the festival's main goal, which Carl describes as "making Jewish culture accessible to Jews and non-Jews alike."

Each film offers as much insight into the whole of humanity as into the individual experience of Judaism, demonstrating that the true power of art is in its ability to relate unique scenarios to a broader audience.

The sixth annual Jewish Film Festival will run from Saturday the 28th through Sunday the 29th at the Carolina Theatre. Tickets are $7.50 for one screening.

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By Corinne Low Before and after seeing The Passion of the Christ at Southpoint Cinemas, Recess interviewed the diverse audience to see what they had to say: On why they came: "It's like Star Wars, but for Jesus."

—A man in his 20's, dressed as a shepherd, with his sister (also a shepherd) and their friend dressed as an angel.

"I read the Book, so I thought I would come see the movie."

—Ron, 54 "My husband dragged me here."

—Sylvia, 53

By Katie Somers & Natalia Antonova The problem of adapting The Passion of the Christ from the New Testament is transforming a succinct story into a two-hour movie. Filling in the gaps is where director Mel Gibson has the opportunity to exercise creative license.

For instance, the appearances of a creepily androgynous Satan (Rosalinda Celentano), accompanied in one memorable instance by a smirking demon baby (the future antichrist?), are powerful because they're so unexpectedly subtle. Where Satanic figures are often campy, overblown or even comical (Elizabeth Hurley in Bedazzled, or Al Pacino in The Devil's Advocate), Celentano's expressionless stare and demure lurking are terrifying by comparison. Gibson's details a maggot slithering from one nostril, clawlike fingernails—are intrinsic to the character, rather than extraneous afterthoughts.

After Jesus succumbs on the cross, Gibson depicts a hysterical Satan screaming and ripping off his/her Meet Satan—who appears in wig.The scene is all the more striking because it's Celentano's only display of emotion, and Gibson's sole depiction of the otherworldly.

In similarly subtle fashion, the hallucinatory hysteria that overtakes Judasfollowing Jesus'capture is represented in the transformation of children's faces into those of leering monsters. The juxtaposition of innocent children with Satan's minions is startling, and so brief as to cause the audience to wonder—did it really even happen? The —

rotting body of what seems to be a dead donkey, the only witness to Judas'suicide, is also a perversely potent image.

The stylization most evident of Gibson's influence is perhaps the single teardrop, presumably God's, that falls from heaven upon the crucifixion scene.The camera shot is placed within the tear, so thatthe crucifixion in seen in a watery blur, and then the camera falls within the teardrop onto the ground at Christ's feet.

Gibson does a fine job of cutting down out the melodrama and kitsch typical of classic cinematic Bible interpretations. The familiar moment in which Jesus tells the crucified thief that he will be granted entrance to paradise is especially moving, because the famous words aren't didactic, but comforting sentiments between fellow sufferers.

After this tender moment, however, in a bizarre twist of Gibsonesque violence, a demonic raven plucks out the eyes of the second thief who dares to mock Christ.The scene is one of only a few in the film that scream Hollywood, such as the handsome, athletic appearnearly every sequence of the film ance of Jesus and the casting of the ridiculously sexy Monica Bellucci as Mary Magdalen.To Gibson's credit, neither Magdalen nor any other females in the film appear to be wearing make-up.

Gibson's interpretation proves that even the most familiarof stories can have the power to jar and to surprise, if the storyteller is up to the taskThough brave directorial visions are Gibson's greatest strength,this is also where Gibson will find himself most vulnerable to criticism.

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ever made you truly uncomfortable.After all, this story has a happy ending, doesn't it?

Gibson, however, doesn't follow the all's-well-that-ends-well logic that many other portrayals do, and as such, you don't have the luxury of glossing over the pain. Violence yes. Graphic violence—absolutely. Gratuitous graphic violence —not a chance. For two straight hours, Jesus is scourged,bludgeoned, battered and bloodied.Blood. Buckets full, smattered and splattered with a gorish consistency that will cause you physical pain.

And that's exactly what you should feel, whether you're a Christian who reasons,"Jesus suffered for me" or a non-Christian exercising your imagination for the sake of the ticket price or the argument you're destined to get into tomorrow. Picture a man—son ofGod if you'd like—who is made to bear the sins of the world. A mortal man who is pushed to an inch of his life—and then one inch over. One final day of existence, devoted completely to horrific, unimaginable suffering. Imagine all the blood.

Many will incorrectly reason that emotional attachment to The Passion of the Christ depends on an affiliation to the Christian religion. Granted, it helps. The Passion's success, however, is not ecclesiastically contingent. It's about the suffering—a suffering that will remind Christians to say their prayers tonight, no doubt. But for the rest of the audience who isn't looking for a spiritual jump-start,The Passion still awes when approached with an open-mind. Allow simple human empathy to creep in; see evil (Satanic or otherwise); recognize good (Divine or not).Ultimately,experience the nearly unfathomable redemptive suffering and remember that Mel Gibson and The Passion of the Christ—whether through sadness, fear, anger or penitence—were only trying to make you feel all along.

affects them. They're reacting to their experience with the film, and not just to the film itself."

In conjunction with campus administrators, religious leaders and campus life organizations (including the Catholic Student Center), the Freeman Center is sponsoring a series oflectures and panels during the month ofMarch.

Dubin hopes to encourage open discussion addressing both the film's content and context."! think it would be a tragedy,"he concluded "to walk out and only talk about whether this film is anti-Semitic or not,"

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On the Anti-Semitism controversy: "There's been tons offilms with a negative portrayal of Catholics, and nobody got upset about it. Now just because it's an oppressed minority, everyone's saying it's so offensive. Get over it."

—Caitlin, 19 "The Jews didn't kill Jesus. Everyone killed Jesus, and the movie shows that."

—Heidi, 35 "The Romans were clearly the ones crucifying him.To say themovie is anti-Semitic is just stupid."

—Danielle, 30 "There's people saying this movie was made to attack Jewish people, and I think that's ridiculous. It's not against Jewish people, it's against the specific people of the time who did certain things. The Jews of today weren't alive back then. Blaming the Jews now would be like blaming white people today for slavery."

—Linda, 33 On the Christian message: "It was important for [me to bring my son], because I wanted him to hearand see the story as well as talk about it in church.It's kind oflike a "Bible picture book".. Sometimes people see the story of Christ as a superhero story. I see the movie as away for people to really see the humanity of Christ, that he was a man, that he was us, that's what I want my son to get."

—George, 45, with Kane, 9 "Satan needed to be in the story and his appearance was the perfect amount. Any more would have been too much, but his presence was essential."

42 "I think it was an emotional experience. wouldn't call it a religious experience."

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—Linda, 37 "Look around the streets of L.A. or even Durham.There is violence like that in so many movies.From what I have read about the crucifixion, that was a very accurate portrayal of the violence."

—Ashley, 29

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By Robert Winterode As this spring's music season shifts into gear, the onslaught ofheaped-on hype and name-dropping can be deafening. Recess attempts to clear the air with its selections of six talents, who are definitely buzzworthy.

The Asian Rapper

The ‘New Cali’

The Indie Wunderkind

Beyond headlining MTV's last "You Hear It First" tour and cameoing on 2 Fast 2 Furious with his song, "Peel Off," Jin is also the new Ruff Ryder. The Rest Is History, his debut album hits stores March 23. Prereleased tracks and bootlegs highlight his one-of-akind flow, such as on "Mess," where he barks innuendo over a flourish straight out of Oz and "Eeny Meeny," where a skittering rhythm marches along to his every word. Further evidence of his verbal prowess emerges on his current single, the Wyclefproduced "Learn Chinese," where he stands up for his heritage ("We should ride the train for free/ we built the railroads") and for his own identity (I ain't your Jigga man/ I'm a China man").

The countermovement to New York's garage scene has emerged in Dublin, Ireland byway of California. In fact, The Thrills' critically-acclaimed debut, So Much for the City, is enraptured by the West Coast; four of its eleven songs name-check the region ("Santa Cruz," for example—sadly, no Schwarzenegger). Accordingly, every corner of the album is so drenched by California brightness that it may rival, in sunshine terms, of course, anything ever made by The Beach Boys. And this is their inspiration; with this one album, they have made the most light-soaked surf-rock album in recent memory, one without the slightest trace of an Irish brogue.

Heralded as the new Strokes and/or the new Interpol, Franz Ferdinand's distorted vocals and strummy guitars vaguely sound like both groups; the atmosphere, however, is more that of Hot Hot Heat.

From the art-ravaged Glasglow, Scotland scene, this band embarked on its post-punk journey three years ago, concentrating on the riff and increasingly less so on the art; and all the while, vocalist Alex Kapranos is growling into the mic statements like "We are the new Scottish, gentry." The band's subject matter ranges from arson to temptation, and the band's tempo runs the gamut from busy to frenetic. Indeed, Franz Ferdinand has enough energy to spark another war.

Their self-titled debut drops March 9.

The geography is confusing, but The Thrills make music that rocks,

Franz Ferdinand better watch out for rival group, Gavril Princip. Allusion... ha!

Forget 9th Street; this jin is rapping with the biggest

names in the business,

The Local “Stoners”

The Goth Queen

The Brooklyn Bass

Originally dubbed The Comas because of the dirgey instrumentals of their novice days, the group has upped the tempo of its tune—if only a little.

Signed last year to London-based Warner Bros, imprint 679 Recordings, The Comas specialize in dreamy stoner-pop. With a sensibility somewhere in between Mazzy Star and Superchunk, their record, A Def Needle In Tomorrow, was included on Magnet Magazine's "Lost Hits From The Last Decade." Next up for the band is their third recording and first concept album, Conductor, which will feature both a fulllength CD as well as a 40-minute DVD of an animated film, bringing to the big—or small —screen, their unique blend of psychedelica.

Italian ice-metal goddess Christina Scabbia fronts Lacuna Coil, a six-year old rock unit.Their last album, Comalies, was released 2002, but not until this year has it impacted U.S. rock station playlists. Part of the reason for its arrival on the charts is the phenomenal success of Evanescence, whose frontwoman Amy Lee resembles Scabbia in voice, attitude and look. But Lacuna Coil is also magnificently goth with its crescendoing arrangements of tinkling piano ivories and crashing guitar riffs juxtaposed with Scabbia's own operatic voice. While filming their first video, "Heaven's A Lie," and tearing a new one for metal's sonic landscape, Coil has signed on to P.O.D.'s Spring tour and Ozzfest.

Fannypack —a Brown alum, two Brooklyn high schoolers and two sketchy producers—created So Stylistic, perhaps the most jumpin' album of last year.

While the infamous track/'Cameltoe,"remains their bestknown, it's probably the least distinctive on the debut.

Fannypack's style is a selective mix of Miami Bass and LA. electroclash, epitomized in their second single and anti-pickup artist screed,"Hey Mami."Here, Fannypack is at its most rump-shakin'distinctive, securing a place on Rolling Stone's "Hip-Hop Singles of2003,"right below 50 Cent,Outkast and Jay-Z.The rest of thealbum is a mishmash of old-school/new-school rhyme brilliance; stay especially alert for a mention of a hippopotamus and the sampling of a Yeah Yeah Yeah's track.

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Westside Connection Terrorist Threats

By Paul Crowley

Westside Connection's recent release Terrorist Threats strives to be a party record with political overtones, or vice versa.The trio comprised of Ice Cube,WC and Mack 10, has a lot more to offer the dance team than the debate team.

The complex and varied beats combine with the shoutable lyrics to make the album a strong example of gangsta rap. But with politicized rhymes, the trio emphasizes a grievously ill-conceived interpretation of the terrorist attacks on America as just a different sort of acceptable gangsta violence.This sentiment, in addition to getting them kicked out of Toby Keith's weekly poker game, fails to give their simple and infectious lyrics anything to wrap themselves around.

The album's high points come early, as "Call 9-1-1 "combines the best of Ice Cube's rapping on the album ("My ebonies is full of gin and tonic / erotic / yeah you got it / hypnotic / plus I got it") with a complex beat comprised of gunshots and violins.

The first two singles coming from Terrorist Threats are amongst the best tracks on the album, most notably the Nate Dogg-assisted "Gangsta Nation," which showcases another of Nate Dogg's stick-in-your-

head choruses and an eloquently profane defense of the party lifestyle by WC. "Get Ignit," the second single, emphasizes an actual anti-education, pro-moneymaking stance that, like so much of the album, sounds better over a catchy hook than it would in a policy memo. Its chorus ("To all the booty-shakers / To all the moneymakers / F-k the undertakers / Get ignit") is nearly impossible not to enjoy, but it is also the album's last truly worthwhile moment.

Not surprisingly the album's worst moments come when its strong suit (rap) is abandoned for its weakest element (politically charged invective).The low point is clearly the album's intro, as a ponderous voice-over man describes the trio in hyperbolic terms that make less sense with each listen, (e.g. as the "Masters of Gangsterism, a group of organized street thugs turned businessmen,").

The intro then uses dark, post-9/11 imagery and randomly sprinkled gunshots to create the "everybody's gonna die"feeling best captured in the fifth act of Hamlet.

While its political aspirations fall short, Terrorist Threats might have its listeners too ■■ busy dancing to notice.

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A candid conversation with Pat McGee The Pat McGee Band has a cult following at Duke, a highly anticipated new album called Save Me and a show this Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh. Recess editor David Walters caught up with the band's frontman/namesake to talk a little shop. The highlights: Recess: Your band's sound seems to be moving away from the old, raw jam-band feel to a more refined and polished rock-and-roll. What's the theory behind the change?

Pat McGee: Well it's been a natural transition for us and for me as a writer. I really do listen to all kinds of music; check out my powerbook, and you'll see everything from old metal and rock stuff, to the Beatles, Motown classics,jam bands,classical music and 'Bos stuff. But my favorites are Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, the Beatles and the Allman Brothers. It's so hard to pick. When I starting playing acoustic guitar and singing, I forced myself to learn all the classic rock classics. So it started me out on the path of the singer-songwriter, but I really just wanted to be in a rock band. It sort of took on a life of its own, and eight years later we are releasing our fifth CD on Warner Brothers.There is no real theory on a change in sound.To keep my interest in the music, I have to keep challenging myself to write in a different direction. I just had my head in a different place, and the band and I were challenged by the producer to just play what's best for the song and not think about what the normal Pat McGee Band sound was or is. I couldn't be happier with what went to tape.

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"Piano Man" —definitely. That song was played by our former band member, and he played it by himself. So I'm sure on the internet it is labeled as "Pat McGee," but we don't play that song."Rebecca" I love playing, even though we have most likely played it about 2,000 times. Still it's fun every night.

Do.you still do covers? And better yet, what are some new originals for fans to listen out for?

Yeah, the covers we are doing these days are fun; We do Billy Idol, REM, Pink Floyd, U2 and many other classic rock favorites. And the new tunes we are really excited about—"Don't Give Up,""You and I,""Beautiful Ways,""Annabel".. It's hard to pick. We love playing all the new stuff.

PMB probably tours as much as any band around. What do you do to entertain yourselves on the road?

Well, we are never bored, that's for sure. Other than the late-night fun, the days are taken up by radio visits and promo stuff.... But usually we go to gyms, movies, malls—You name it.

I saw your old Grammy pictures on the website.

Did you make it to the festivities this year? Any good after-party stories from this or last year?

No, three years in a row was enough; those parties are sick. It's like being in a wax museum, but everyone is alive, and you can do shots with them.

Oh, and ask for photo 0p5.... round.

Lightning quickly: Answer Speakerboxxx or The Love Below?

Sorry, not a big OutKast fan. But stank you anyway.

Clever, McGee... Ralph Nader: Legitimate independent option or Democratic spoiler?

No comment. I keep my politics to myself.

The new album's called Save Me. Who would you most like to save you: Captain Caveman, Lassie or "Baywatch" lifeguard CJ. Parker?

Pat McGee Band: The boys are back in town

Captain Caveman, for sure, I'd like to party with that guy. Oh wait, I already d 0.... Chardy ( PMB's percussionist).

Last question: Would you ever consider wearing a man-thong? A formal endorsement from Pat McGee could really make man-thong sales take off.

No, not really into that Just go commando if you don't want the boxers to show through those skintight pants you might be wearing.... Yikes.

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Head football coach Ted Roof completed his new staff Wednesday by hiring yet another offensive gum.

T’m very pleased to announce Tom Knotts as our quarterbacks coach,” Roof said Wednesday at a press conference in the Yoh Football Center. “He has a tremendous history of winning and that’s something we want to develop with our program.”

Knotts has been extremely successful in a 21-year high school coaching career in North Carolina, particularly in the past four seasons when he was the head coach of Charlotte Independence High School.

While there, Knotts’ teams went 63-1 and won four state titles, during which Independence was ranked in the top 20 of USA Today’s season-ending national poll each year. His most highprofile player was Chris Leak, who won the SEC’s freshman of the year award this past season for his work at quarterback for the Florida Gators.

Previously, Knotts had served at the helm of West Charlotte High for 11 years, a span during which he won the 1995 state tide en route to an overall ledger of 115-32. His other head coaching SEE KNOTTS ON PAGE 12

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After posting three ACC wins for the first time in over 40 years, and beating UNC for the first time in more than 30 years, it seemed fitting that the Duke wrestling team would conclude its season with a home win on senior night against Gardner-Webb.

Without the TV cameras, band or energetic announcer usually present in Cameron Indoor Stadium for sporting events, the Blue Devils (9-7) wrestled to a 25-12 victory over the Bulldogs (6-20) Wednesday.

Senior Michael Mitchell set the tone for the team with a 12SEE WRESTLING ON PAGE 12

Daniel Ewing will be looking to continueDuke's 40-game home winning streak tonight vs. Valparaiso.

YOUNG VALPO COMES TO CAMERON Dance, Krzyzewski also scheduled Valparaiso to simulate an early round matchup.

As a No. 13 seed in the 1998 NCAA tour“I think it’s good [to play Valparaiso] nament, litde-known Homer Drew and his because it’ll prepare you for the tournaValparaiso Crusaders shocked the world by ment,” forward Shavlik Randolph said.

“Especially going into the knocking off Mississippi and tournament, we’re going to Florida State to reach the jt Sweet 16. be playing a lot of teams that we don’tknow. Valpo has traThursday evening, the now-famous Crusaders (13-11, ditionally upset a lot of teams in the NCAA tourna10-5 in the Mid-Continent) ment, so I think it’ll be good march into Cameron Indoor Stadium to take on coach preparation as a team where Mike Krzyzewski’s Blue Devils Duke (22-3) people would tend to think, ‘We don’t have to play our (22-3, 11-2 in the ACC) in the first ever matchup between best.’ We do have to, and that’s going to prepare us the two teams. down the road.”

Krzyzewski said that it’s Few mid-major teams have Drew’s shrewd coaching and record the NCAA pedigree of the impressive tournament Crusaders. Their fabled 1998 that have earned the Crusaders a spot on Duke’s Valparaiso (13-11) run was part of six consecutive tournament appearnon-conference schedule. ances, a streak which ended “Homer is a good friend of 9:05 RM. IN CAMERON mine. He is the epitome of a in 2002. Valparaiso, however, has won eight of the past coach. He’s won over 500 the nine Mid-Con season tides and leads and he does it right way,” regular games Krzyzewski said. “Historically, in the NCAA this year’s league race by half a game. As such, the Crusaders appear primed to return tournament, he’s helped at our tournament with some upset specials, and that’s one of to the field of 65. the reasons we wanted to play them.”

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The baseball team captured the lead over Davidson for just a half inning before the Wildcats reclaimed the advantage for good in the bottom of the fourth inning en route to a 3-2 victory over the Blue Devils (7-3) Wednesday afternoon in Davidson, N.C. Trailing 1-0 in the top of the third, Duke used a two-out rally to knot the game at one on the strength of three singles, the final one coming from the bat of junior Tim Layden, knocking in freshman Jonathan Anderson.

In the fourth, sophomore iMike Miello was brought in by a groundout from junior Adam Loftin, rewarding Duke with a temporary lead.

But any further offense was hard to come by for the Blue Devils, as a trio of Davidson pitchers held Duke to seven hits, while racking up 10 strikeouts.

“Davidson did a good job of pitching and shutting us down offensively,” head coach Bill Hillier said. “I’m

pleased with the way we pitched and played defense,

but you have to score more than two runs in college baseball to win. You can’t strike out 10 times.”

Indeed, the Blue Devil defense was stellar after the fourth inning, as freshmen pitchers Tony Bajoczky and Danny Otero limited the Wildcats to just one hit.

“I’m pleased with the way Tony Bajoczky and and Danny Ortero pitched,” Hillier said.

“It’s good to see our freshmen pitching so well.”

Prior to that, however, the Wildcats took control of the game with a two-run bottom of the fourth, as back-toback doubles gave Davidson the edge.

Despite the loss, Duke’s sophomore catcher Brian Hernandez continued a 10game hitting streak with a second-inning double.

The Blue Devils will return home Friday for a three-game stand against Big East foe Pittsburgh.

The action is slated to begin at 3 p.m.

The Blue Devil baseball team, shown in action last week, was stymied by strong pitching from Davidson's rotation Wednesday night.

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Six-foot-6 point guard Miguel Ali Berdiel should generate some matchup problems for the Blue Devils. The lanky Puerto Rico native has shown flashes of brilliance, notching an impressive 28-point, eight-assist outing in a midseason loss to Oral Roberts. Berdiel has been inconsistent, however, scoring only 11 points in his last two games.For Valparaiso to have a chance at unseating Duke, Berdiel must snap out of his recent funk.

If his starters play poorly, Drew can turn to a particularly long bench, with 10 players averaging at least 14 minutes per game. Important reserves include freshman guard Jimmie Miles, massive freshman center Kenny Harris and sixth-year senior Greg Tonagel.

Nonetheless, Valparaiso brings a very young and inexperienced team into one of the nation’s most difficult road venues, and the Crusaders can only boast a relatively mediocre 13-11 record in a midmajor conference.

That being said, don’t expect the Blue Devils to sleep on this potential giant-killer.

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guard Daniel Ewing said. “But if we go into the game and play like we did [against Maryland], then I think we’ll have a good outcome.”

Knotts, who has been friends with passoffensive coordinator Marty Galbraith for quite some time, said he had experience came at Harding High School, turned down opportunities in college which he led to a 52-22 mark over six seasons. before. The reason? He just wanted to The constant through Knotts’ success has coach for his alma mater. been a big-time quarterback—all but one of “Not many people get to live a dream the gunslingers Knotts has coached in his 21 life, but I’ve pretty much led a dream life,” years has signed a Division I or I-AA scholar- Knotts said. “Ever since I was little I wantship, including Duke quarferback Dave ed to play at Duke, and when I realized I Greene, who saw action for the Blue Devils wasn’t going to be able to make the pros, I from 1995-97. went into coaching and I always hoped I “When you look at [Knotts’] quartercould come back here.” backs, the thing that jumps out in my mind This dedication to the Blue Devil footis what theirrecords have been, what their ball program played a large role in Roofs team records have been,” Roof said. decision to offer the job to Knotts.

“His love for Duke and his wanting to According to Knotts, who played defensive back for Duke from 1975-77, the key to coachbe here was very important to me,” Roof said. “We’ve got a great place here and it ing quarterbacks comes down to an attitude.

“It’s a philosophy that I coach confidentis important to me that we have people ly, and I think I instill in my quarterbacks,” that want to be here. Not only people Knotts said. “I think they’re fundamental, that want to be here, but people who we’re not scared to throw the ball but we’re deserve to be here and have earned the not going to be stupid about what we do.” right to be here.”

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JJ. Redick's three-ponit stroke will be on display tonight in Cameron versus Valparaiso.

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While his last home meet had special meaning for Mitchell, he is looking ahead to the ACC tournament.

‘This is Just another match preparing me to attain my ultimate goal, which is to be an ACC champion,” Mitchell said. “I definitely have the talent and the potential, but it’s just a matter of everything coming together.”

Senior Tim Marcantonio also celebrated his final dual meet with a victory, winning 7-1 in the 197-pound weight division. Marcantonio dominated Brent Blackwell going into the final period with a 3-0 edge. He increased his lead in the final two minutes with a takedown, a stalling point and a point for the match’s riding time.

“Tim, I thought, did a great job,” head coach Clar Anderson said. “He loosened up and beat a pretty tough kid.”

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Following Gardner-Webb’s first scoring of the dual-meet, junior Frank Comely pinned John Loff to swing the momentum back in Duke’s direction in the third matchup of the night. Two bouts later, freshman Christian Smith pinned the Bulldogs’ Jonathan Neal at the 4:48 mark for his team-leading ninth pin of the season.

“Once we got the two pins, it pretty much put them out of it,” Anderson said.

Freshman Antwone Floyd also had an impressive showing with a 10-4 win over Adam Glaser at 149-pounds to conclude the meet.

Coming off Tuesday night’s tough loss against N.C. State, Anderson was worried the team might have been discouraged.

However, with this final dual-meet win, the Blue Devils are set to make an impact in the ACC tournament.

“We’re going to vie for the [ACC tournament] championship,” Anderson said.

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Academic THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Speakers: 12:30-1:30pm. Thirsting for Righteousness?

The Industrial Areas Foundation and Localized Christian Witness. 022 Divinity Bldg. Contact ssmusser@alumni.duke.edu. Speakers: Chris Bishop, Amy Laura Hall, Stanley Hauerwas, Mary McClintock Fulkerson.

Systematics Seminar: 12:40pm. Nathalie Nagalingum, Duke University. “Ferns in the freezer systematics, biogeography and diversity of Cretaceous ferns from Australia and Antarctica." 144 Biological Sciences.

Environmental Institutions Seminar: 3;30-4;3opm, reception following. John Wiens from The Nature Conservancy. 113 Physics Bldg. RSVP: Carolyn Leith at leithc@duke.edu or 613-8131. Please RSVP if you plan to attend the reception following in Hugg Commons in the Nicholas School. Contact: solutions@env.duke.edu.

Lecture: 4pm. Robert Richardson: Innovative ScienceCharlatans and Geniuses. Love Auditorium, Levine Science Research Center. The language of science has provided a platform for cheating the public about miracle cures for at least two centuries.

Spanish Rim Festival: 6:3opm. “El otro lado de la cama” in Spanish with English subtitles. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BED is a raucous and sexy romantic comedy with a musical twist. Soc. Psych 130.

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Screening: 7pm. Documentary, “February One." Richard White Auditorium, East Campus. "February

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Chemistry Seminar: 3:3opm. "Synthetic PorphyrinBased Light-Harvesting Arrays"; Refreshments at 3:15 in the Lobby. 103 P.M. GrossChemical Laboratory. Contact janet.rosenthal©duke.edu.

Student Symposium: 4-s:3opm. “Meat, Photography, Modernity,” Department of Art & Art History Graduate Student Symposium. 204 B East Duke Building. Contact lbst@duke.edu, 684-2224, Dept, of Art & Art History.

Johanne Lamoureaux teaches Contemporary Art and Methodology at the University of Montreal. Free.

German Studies Lecture Series: 4pm. 'The Nazi Conscience," Claudia Koonz, Professor, Department of History, Duke University. 119 Old Chemistry Building, Duke University, West Campus. Reception to Follow.

Lecture: 4-spm. The Tree of Life Initiative: Tandy Warnow. DlO6 Levine Science Research Center (LSRC). The Tree of Life initiative to reconstruct the evolutionary history of all organisms is the computational grand challenge of evolutionary biology.

Weekly Eucharist (Holy Communion): s:3opm, Thursdays. Wesley Office (Chapel Basement).

Graduate Christian Fellowship: 6pm, dinner; 6;45pm, program. Dr. Richard Hays (New Testament) and Dr. Grant Wacker (American Christianity) will be speaking on Christian perspectives on the nation of Israel. Q & A to follow. Chapel Basement. Comeand bring a friend. For info on Grad-IV see www.duke.edu/web/grad-iv.

Intercultural Christian Fellowship: Thursdays, 7:3opm. basement. www.duke.edu/web/icf/ or Chapel dsw9@duke.edu.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Shabbat: Services at 6, dinner at 7. FCJL.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 Senior Havdalah Wine Tasting; Havdalah at 7, Free Wine at 8. FCJL, ID required. RSVP.

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Social Programming and Meetings THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Play: Bpm. “Holding Talks” by Ola Rotimi.Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center. Produced by the Rotimi Foundation, presented by Duke Institute of the Arts, supported in part by a grant from the Kenan Institute of

One" documents the Greensboro sit-ins, which changed public accommodation laws in North Carolina and served as a blueprint for von-violent protests throughout the 19605. "February One" had its world premiere at Durham's Full Frame Documentary in April 2003. The screening will be followed by a discussion led by the filmmakers and Dean William H. Chafe. The event will conclude with a reception.

Klezmer Klarinet (Concert and Master Class: spm.

Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg. Contact Dept, of Music, 660-3300, duke-music@duke.edu. Featuring MICHELE GINGRAS, clarinet; JOSHUA MOSS, piano; and ERIC PRITCHARD, violin. FREE and open to the public.

Movie: 7 & 9:3opm. Elephant. Griffith Film Theater.

Movie presented by Duke University Union's Freewater Presentations. Free to Duke students, $1 for employees, $2 for the general public.

Performance: Bpm. SAMULNORI. Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center. 684-4444, www.tickets.duke.edu.

SamulNori is a group of four dynamic musicians dedicated to performing and preserving traditional Korean music and dance. Since these superb percussionists joined together in 1978, SamulNori has sparked a renaissance in Korea's music scene and gamed worldwide acclaim. Tickets: $25/$l2.

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Nader's motives in question In 2000, Nader’s campaign was viewed as legitimate because he and announced his intern espoused a rhetoric based solidly tion to run for the presidency in on the issues, claiming that meanNovember, speculation as to his ingful differences between the motivations became rampant. His Republican and Democratic paraffect on the race will no doubt be ties had disappeared, and that profound regardless of his inten- neither party represented the people. However, dons, but the disSTAFF EDITORIAL in the 2004 race, crepancy between Nader claims to be and concern over legitimate ego campaign issues may well decide committed to ousting Bush above whether his candidacy hurts or all else—a goal many of Nader’s critics, as well as his supporters, helps the country.

At first glance, it appears as claim may best be served by his though Nader’s entry into the race not running at all.

Nader is running without the for president will be a boon for of the Green Party, and Bush and the support RepubliGeorge W. can Party, while causing a great will be hard-pressed even to get on deal of worry for the Democratic the ballot in all 50 states. And, even candidates and their party ma- if he does so, he may only succeed chine. Nader, running on a plat- in drawing votes away from the Deform of environmental issues and mocratic nominee, an action that anti-big business, appeals to a pri- in a close race, could once again concede the race to Bush. marily Democratic constituency. fear Nader’s best course of action, have reason to Democrats Nader. Without Nader’s presence if he is truly committed to conin the 2000 presidential race, A1 tributing to Bush’s exit from the Gore would almost certainly have White House, would be to enter taken the White House. Take as an the race, campaign for his issues example the widely publicized elec- with vigor, and drop out midtion in Florida, where after the fa- summer. Such a move would mous recounts, Bush beat Gore by force both Bush and his oppoa slim 537 vote margin. Nader cor- nent to address Nader’s issues, railed 997,488 votes in Florida, and would allow Nader to enmany of which could reasonably dorse the Democratic nominee have been expected to be cast for before voters take the polls in

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ON THE RECORD The lack of communication from [RLHS] has been shameful.

Selectives should be upset because they’ve planned a semester’s worth of activities underfaulty assumptions.... I’m personally disappointed that a group of students dedicated two months of their time to thoroughly reviewing the process this semester and their recommendations were discarded.

Anthony Vitarelli, president of Campus Council,

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the abrupt decision to dispense with the revamped Annual Review process. See story, page one.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Empolyee brought joy to his work I am writing in response to the death of Duke’s beloved Marketplace employee Jeff Allen. Sadly and abruptly Jeff passed away this past Thursday.

Jeffs family and friends, the Duke community, especially the freshmen and staff on East Campus, will miss Jeff sorely.

Students that have eaten at the Marketplace this year, whether they knew his name or not, can attest to the profound sense of joy with which Jeff did his work. He seemed to wear a permanent smile and faithfully

Volunteers respond In times of tragedy it is often remarkable witness the amount of compassion and assistance that can emerge from the student body. Wednesday was no exception. In response to the recent death of Jeff Allen, a much loved Duke food service employee, several students jumped at the opportunity to help out in the Marketplace so co-workers could attend his funeral service.

It was an opportunity to see Duke students at their best. Their motivations were pure—they just wanted to help out. At one point in the afternoon the number of volunteers offering to help exceeded the demand and one of the supervisors said she was thrilled with the compassionate response by the students.

As is the case with most volunteer work, I found that I ended up benefiting from it much more than I probably contributed. In addition to helping out the Marketplace staff, the student volunteers had a brief opportunity to see what it was like to work to

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there. I spent my time wiping the remnants of breakfast off the tables, filling the backup containers for the salad bar, and getting frustrated with having to re-wipe the counters every time another person carelessly spilled something. After a mere hour of work, I had gained an enormous amount of respect for the people who have been serving me for the past four years.

I’d like to not only offer my condolences to Jeffs family and his co-workers, but I also want to encourage students to find ways to express the level of compassion I witnessed among my peers Wednesday more frequently. When you volunteer your time to others it is amazing how much you gain.

Jeff, you’ll certainly be missed. And as for his co-workers in food service, thanks for all that you do.

Tori Hogan Trinity ’O4 The author is co-director of the Community Service Center

ARAMARK not being treated fairly I find it ironic that in The Chronicle, the staff editorial denounces ARAMARK, while on page 4 of the same issue, another Chronicle writer describes how great the Marketplace’s and Great Hall’s new menu options will be.

Ask the upperclassmen that know what the dining options were like before ARAMARK and they will tell you that they have improved.

There is now a variety of food that you would have never imagined four years ago.

Freshmen need to understand that the Marketplace is a cafeteria and by its very nature of producing food for the masses, the quality will not be as high as it would be in a restaurant.

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of his way to interact with Duke students.

On behalf of the Duke community I would like to express our sincerest condolences to Jeffs family and co-workers. Jeff embodied the spirit of generousity and joy; working, grilling and smiling as a man who enjoyed serving others. For his life and efforts to brighten our days, we say thanks. went out

Aside from that, why is Duke Student Govvoting on ARAMARK when we already have an organization in charge of monitoring our campus eateries (DUSDAC)?

Why is DSG failing to live up to its other ernment even

more important roles? How can we be so quick to remove ARAMARK after two and a half years and when they have made tremendous strides in improving on-campus food?

It took four years for any change to occur to C2K when people were complaining about its overburdening requirements —something the faculty now agree with.

Furthermore, the undergraduate body has ademently complained about the decreasing social options, but I don’t see DSG taking a vote of no confidence in Larry Moneta. With DSG elections right around the corner, is it any wonder that they are trying to make the news after a year of accomplishing very little? In classic fashion, they are acting without adequately assessing the opinions of the students and away from DSG’s intended function.

Kumar Sukhdeo Trinity ’O4

DUSDAC thanks students for input The members of DUSDAC want to thank you for your feedback on our ARAMARKmanaged venues. Thank you for completing online surveys, paper surveys, and allowing us to interrupt your meals for interviews.

Your quantitative and qualitative input has been an integral part of our review of ARA-

MARK this past year. Your feedback is extremely valuable and we hope you continue to offer us opinions in the future regarding you dining experiences.

Sean Biederman and other members ofDUSDAC

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COMMENTARIES

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Same-sex marriages and gender roles

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yes we’re here to get our mar- babies is bom with genitals that are neither riage license,” Kerry exclaims to male nor female. Other babies are not bom the clerk as Jordan smiles nerv- with the standard issue XX or XX but inously. The clerk eyes them up and down stead XYY or some other mutation. Most with a skeptical expression. confusingly, there are those individuals who “I’m sorry, we’re going to have to take choose to medically change their bodies in you two in the back room for a genital in- order to become another sex. And men who spection and some tests. Just follow me,” wear dresses. And women who wear men’s the clerk commands. suits and smoke cigars. How do we define Kerry and Jordan exchange worried who is male and who is female? Contrary to glances. They love each other. They cannot popular belief, such gender bending is not “*■* just found in liberal Westimagine their lives witheach other.

Suddenly, out em societies, but is. global their marriage hinges and historical. We are unique only in our obsesupon some genital probsion with putting each pering and DNA tests?

Of course, this scenario son into one category or is fictional. You probably the other. We brutally punalso think it is silly—of ish those who defy our articourse we all know what a ficial gender boundaries, man is and what a woman even as we ourselves are imis. You might even agree Fidget JNewman prisoned by the same genwith Bush that oppositeder limitations.

Looking for the Holes sex marriage “is the most What limitations? What could be so sinister about enduring human institua Constitutional amendtion, honored and encouraged in all cultures and by every religious ment to define marriage as between a faith.” Lock and key. Ym and yang. Vagina “man” and a “woman”? I think Bush and and penis. Surely only crazy leftist radicals his conservative allies are frightened. Their would want to disrupt the sacred institution whole worldview revolves around women of penises and vaginas! staying home and raising children (free of What if it’s not this simple? What if charge of course!) and men leaving at defining “male” and “female” is not as easy dawn for work (no unions please!). A as we all like to think? What if defining woman’s survival and that of her children, marriage as between a man and a woman is is to be tied to the goodwill of her husmorc sinister than it appears? Most impor- band. What Bush calls “the stability of socitantly, why should our Constitution yet ety” has not always been beneficial or even again be amended in away that limits the stable for women and their children, When my girlfriends and I reflect on the rights of certain people?

First, how do we define male and female? lives of our mothers, we see deferred Even though our society tries to force peodreams, pain, and even abuse. Many of our ple to conform to one gender or the other, fathers are not even aware of what our it gets confusing sometimes. We’ve all had mothers sacrificed and endured. They are fun with the “man or woman?” game and also unaware of what they lost: time with jabs at the sensitive guy or the “tom-boy.” As their children and the joy of an equal partan added twist, around one in every 2,000 nership with their wives. I think I speak for

many young women when I say that I might get married someday, but I want no part in upholding the “stability of society” via my womb or subservience to my partner. Make no mistake about it; Bush’s proposed marriage amendment is as much about the role of all women as it is about gays and lesbians.

Of course, the group most immediately affected by such an amendment is gay people. This amendment follows in die tradition of the infamous “three-fifths” of a human being idea in that it attempts to exclude one group from the full rights ofcitizenship. While the right to vote is surely a fundamental right, the right to equal treatment under the law is also vital. Anti-same sex marriage laws are comparable to the anti-miscegenation laws of the South. In that case, marriage rights were based on another artificial and arbitrary category: race. Today, Bush would like to use the equally artificial and arbitrary category of gender to define who may legally marry and who may not.

Some might agree that race should have no bearing on whom we marry but hold that

gender is a “real” category that must be recognized. We should all remember that there was a time when “race-mixing” was repugnant to many Americans and it was thought that different races had inherent qualities.

Sex-based categories do pose a challenge because some are able to give birth and some are not. Yet, there is no reason why this should define who shouldraise children and who should go to work, or who should cry and who should not, or who should be able to get married and who should not. I hope that someday we will be able to look back on these days in the same way we look back on racial discrimination, as we try to understand how our minds ever could have been so limited and hateful.

Most of all, I hope that someday my children will be able to be whomever they wish to be, marry whomever they fall in love with, and are never asked to drop their pants before they sign their marriage certificates.

Brdiget Newman is a Trinity junior. Her

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Alien Invasion uad council and the administration are missing These cats, like most problems, are not unique to stock around the world are causing erosion and deserthe Duke Duke. Estimates of feral cats in the U.S. range between tification. By removing native ground cover and I Gun Club can help. There’s something noticeably 60 and 100 million. Each rural dwelling cat eats over forests, and planting annual monoculture crops, huthe quads these days and it’s not simply the in- 27 animals a month, usually 60 percent of which are mans sap the soil of nutrients, making the next year’s compatibility of the grass species with our North Carolina mammals, 20 percent birds. A study on Britain’s feral crop less productive. Often, as in the tropics, there isn’t a second harvest on the land and a new clearing environment—it’s the cats. Both species are introduced to cats estimated that the population killed over 300 milthis ecosystem without having an ecolion birds annually. for agriculture must be made. Do I have a solution to Not only can feral cats threaten birds these problems involving global invasives? Not at the logical niche compatible with their needs. Like most grass species in the and other local and global populations moment, besides finding a better understanding of ' of animals with extinction through prewhat can live and grow where—but I propose that we U.S., Duke grass is not native to this dation, and therefore but can also start they out-compete acting locally, and kill the cats. is not adapted NfeJEp ecosystem to the weather conditions. It, like so other predators such as red-tailed hawks A If we allow the cats to continue to live on campus, and owls, gone will be the days when many other plants, is not suited to live here and will not become so, despite But cats aren’t red-tailed hawks can swoop ■. the only introdown upon the quad for a our human ingenuity. duced squirrel snack as mid-day The cats too, are invasive, not native species Kevin OgOFZalek To begin restoring some semto North America. The ancient Egypoccurred my sophomore throwing off ecosyse blance of ecological normalcy tern balances and tians first domesticated cats a couple year to the delight of many. (though the existence of sucn It’s time for the quad cats to thousands years ago, mistaking Felis dothreatening species a state remains debatable) to go the way of Duke’s dogs of mesticus for a goddess. Eventually the Romans got a hold with extinction. Humans have an old. To begin restoring of cats and realized that they already had enough deities, illustrious history of unwittingly the quads we need to take the some semblance of ecologiso they might as well use them as pets. In the 1800s, cats fi- and knowlgy introducing species easiest step possible: extermical normalcy (though the nally came to North America during the heat ofManifest into different ecosystems and nate the cats. existence of such a state reDestiny, proving useful in controlling the rat population. decimating native populations of mains debatable) to the Technology has advanced since then and rat traps no flora and fauna. Pigs brought to Hawaii are the extinction quads we need to take the causing longer necessitate free roaming cats, yet for some reason not used to exterminate the cats. They days on of birds terrestrial easiest possible: predastep and to ground-dwelling they’re everywhere campus always manage sneak up on you at night. If the cats could eat the grass tors. Brown snakes on Guam have essentially eliminat- lounging around feeding on our dumpster scraps, quad while we planted a more compatible species, then our ed all birds upon that island following their post-WWII squirrels and birds should come to an end sooner rather problems would be solved and we wouldn’t have to worry introduction. The elimination of such species ripples than later. And if we need to, they can serve as a stop-gap about PETA or the Humane Society Breathing down our through the ecosystem putting extinction pressures on if Aramark gets kicked off campus, but that would be a necks. Unfortunately, cats don’t have molars and rely on plants that once relied on these species for pollination modest proposal. meat for food. or seed dispersal.

These animals aren’t the only invasives causing Kevin Ogorzalek is a Trinity senior. His column appears They’re most likely to blame for the squirrel, rabbit and bird populations that I’ve noticed on campus, problems. Attempts to grow non-native crops and live- every third Thursday.

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A Writing Contest Sponsored by the Gothic Bookshop and the Friends of the Duke University Libraries Write the essay, poem, or story inspired by this 1975 black and white photograph by William Gedney of a domestic scene. The image might suggest a beginning, middle, or end, or serve as a building block or thematic starting point.—Limit yourself to 2,000 words.

The contest is open to all Duke students. A $5OO Gothic gift certificate will be awarded to the best undergraduate entry and the best graduate/professional submission. Entries must be delivered to 220 Perkins Library by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 19. Questions? Call 660-5816.

William Gedney (1932-1989) made photographs in the United States, India, and Europe. His work is held in the collection of Duke’s Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. Go to the Library’s William Gedney Web site at http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/gedney/photographs.html to see this photograph and to learn more about the Gedney collection.

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Love Auditorium in the Levine Science Research Center Ellen Ochoa, who became an astronaut in 1991, has logged more than 978 hours in space during her four space flights, including the first mission to dock with the International Space Station. She plans to show a video capturing her flight experiences, and discuss how her engineering training influenced her career development.

Ochoa is now the deputy director of flight crew operations at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Her technical assignments to date include flight software verification, flight software and computer hardware development, robotics development testing, and training.

Ochoa’s NASA awards include the Exceptional Service Medal (1997) and the Outstanding Leadership Medal (1995). She is also the recipient of numerous other awards, including the Women in Aerospace Outstanding Achievement Award, the Hispanic Engineering Albert Baez Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Humanity, and the Hispanic Heritage Leadership Award. She received her Ph.D SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING in electrical engineering from Stanford

Seniors Remember This?

Let’s Do It Again*.

Who: When: Where: Weather: What Else:

All Members of the Class of 2004 THIS Friday, February 27, @ 3:00 pm Scaffolding being erected around the JB Duke statue in front of the Chapel Sunny and Cloudy is fine. Rain, we'll have to cancel.

Free Gifts! Dress up if you like! Coupons to Chick-Fil-A for the first 500 seniors

This special opportunity is brought to you by University Photography, Public Affairs and G mm The Annual Fund and the Senior Gift and Week Committee