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Duke talks Central Vitarelli elected to Board DSG taps Campus with its neighbors Council president by

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In a town hall-style meeting Wednesday night, Duke senior administrators updated Durham residents on the status of the University’s plans for large-scale Central Campus revitalization.

Dozens ofresidents showed up to the event, seeking to learn more about the plans and to have their opinions heard.

In a presentation, which came a day after a similar event addressed to students, Provost Peter Lange, Vice President for Campus Services Kernel Dawkins and Director of Community Affairs Michael Palmer stressed that the plans for revamping Central are still very much in the

“conceptualizing” stage.

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that could take process decades, the short-term priority is to provide new living space, with 1,200 beds slated to be completed on Central by August 2007, Lange said.

Beyond the initial space concerns, however, Lange said the goal is to have an “urban” Central that would connect East Campus and West Campus rather than function as a “peripheral” campus.

“We want Central to be a place where students do things, where they live there, where they go there for activities,” Lange said.

While Lange said he hopes the new amenities will make mtral a more vital part of the iidential experience, he emasized that he did not want ntral to harm the surroundg community.

“Duke has a fundamental inest in the economic health Durham,” he said. “We have i institutional interest in makg sure adjacent properties are

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Provost Peter Lange explains Central plans to nearly 50 attendees Wednesday.

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Duke Student Government named senior Anthony Vitarelli the new Young Trustee Wednesday night, ending the final round of what has been an arduous selection process. The position is one of the highest honors bestowed on an undergraduate by the undergrad community; the Campus Council president defeated finalists Jonathan Bigelow and Andrew Wisnewski by a majority vote.

“This is an immense honor. I can’t express the gratitude I feel for having the trust ofmy peers,” he said.

Vitarelli—like the other two finalists—ran on a platform encompassing nearly every major issue facing the University, from Central Campus reconstruction to interdisciplinary curricula. His own plans for his three-year term on the Board of Trustees include capitalizing on the efficient allocation of funds—making sure that although the University’s endowment lags behind those of its peer institutions, it will remain competitive.

Matching his ambition for the job, however, is Vitarelli’s

Senior Anthony Vitarelli beat out Jonathan Bigelow and Andrew Wisnewski for the Young Trustee position. He plans to focus on Central Campus and interdisciplinarity.

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The Central Campus Plan.ng Committee, chaired by Lange and Dawkins, has formed four subcommittees to SEE CENTRAL ON PAGE 8

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The Nasher Museum ofArt, set to open Oct. 2, will now include a wing namedafter the late Nicholas Biddle, a memberof thefamily thathascontributed substantially to arts at Duke.

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The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation gave a $1 million gift to the Nasher Museum of Art, which is set to open Oct 2. The museum will name one of its gallery pavilions after the late Nicholas Benjamin Duke Biddle in honor of the benefactor’s family.

The $23 million museum will be Duke’s premier site for art exhibition, focusing primarily on sculpture and modern art.

Nicholas Biddle, who died in 2004, was the son of Mary Duke Biddle. He was a a great lover of the arts founding trustee of the Durham-based foundation that bears his mother’s name. The Nicholas Benjamin Duke Biddle Pavilion will be one of five pavilions surrounding the Mary Duke

Biddle Trent Semans Grand Hall, which was named for his sister.

“The Foundation made the gift to establish the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building, [so] it is fitting to have her two children represented significantly on another major arts institution at Duke University,” Mary Jones, granddaughter of Mary Duke Biddle and chair of the. Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, said in a statement. “My grandmother would be very pleased to have her children’s names brought together at the Nasher Museum ofArt.” The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation was created in 1956 to continue to support causes and organizations that she, her parents and her grandfather—the University’s namesake Washington Duke—advocated.

“Naming a pavilion for Nicholas Biddle is a wonderful way to continue the family’s history of making important things possible for Duke,” President Richard Brodhead said in a statement. “Mary Semans has long championed the arts at Duke, and it is especially fitting that her brother’s name will grace a pavilion next to the great hall that will bear her name.”

The gift will help bring funding for the construction project to within $4 million of its eventual $23 million cost. Duke trustee emeritus Raymond Nasher provided the single largest contribution to the museum with $7.5 million. Other major benefactors include the Nasher Foundation SEE NASHER ON PAGE 9

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Fossils called oldest human remains more in line with that, said John Fleagle of Stony Brook University in New York, an author of the study.

The fossils were found in 1967 near the Omo River in southwestern Ethiopia. One location yielded Omo I, which includes part of a skull plus skeletal bones. Another site produced Omo 11, which has more of a skull but no skeletal bones. Neither specimen has a complete face.

Although Omo II shows more primitive characteristics than Omo I, scientists called both specimens Homo sapiens and assigned a tentative age of 130,000years.

Now, after visiting the discovery sites, ana-

By Malcolm Ritter THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bones discovered nearly NEW YORK 40 years ago in Ethiopia now appear to be the oldest known fossils of modem-looking humans, says an analysis that suggests they come from around the dawn of the species.

Researchers determined that the specimens are around 195,000 years old. Previously, the oldest known fossils of Homo sapiens were Ethiopian skulls dated to about 160,000years ago.

Genetic studies estimate that Homo sapiens arose about 200,000 years ago, so the new research brings the fossil record

lyzing their geology and testing rock samples with more modem dating techniques, Fleagle and colleagues report in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature that both specimens are 195,000 years old, give or take 5,000 years.

He did the work with geologist Frank Brown of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and lan McDougall of the Australian National University in Canberra.

Fleagle said the more primitive traits of Omo II may mean the two specimens came from different but overlapping Homo sapiens populations, or that they just represent natural variation within a

single population.

Funeral turn into anti-Syria rally

By Hussein Dakroub THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT, Lebanon In an unprecedented outpouring of grief and anger, mourners shouted “Syria Out!” as they crowded Beirut’s streets Wednesday to bury their former prime minister, Rafik Hariri.

Lebanon’s pro-Syrian president stayed away, warned not to come by Hariri supporters who blame Damascus for his death.

In Syria, government officials were silent as American and U.N. pressure continued to mount.

The assassination “angered the international community, and this requires that

we shed the light on this heinous, indescribable act,” said French President Jacques Chirac, a friend of Hariri’s who flew in to offer condolences.

Late Wednesday, Chirac and his wife accompanied Hariri’s widow, Nazek, to her slain husband’s flower-covered grave at the towering Mohammed al-Amin Mosque, which Hariri had built in downtownBeirut.

The dignitaries were surrounded by heavily armed police holding back hundreds of chanting Hariri supporters, who screamed “Syria Out, Syria Out” before singing Lebanon’s national anthem.

Chirac received a rousing round of ap-

plause from the crowd, who yelled “Vive

Chirac, Vive France.”

The U.S. representative at the funeral, Assistant Secretary of State William Burns, called again on Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon —a further spike in U.S.Syrian tensions a day after the U.S. recalled its ambassador from Damascus.

“Mr. Hariri’s death should give—in fact it must give—renewed impetus to achieving a free, independent and sovereign Lebanon,” Burns said after a meeting with Lebanon’s foreign minister.

President George W. Bush's top intelligence and military officials said that terrorists are regrouping for possible new strikes against the US. They said the best defense was for Congress to approve the president's military and anti-terror budget.

Iraq elects PM by secret ballot Top Shiite politicians failed to reach a consensus on their nominee for prime minister, shifting the two-man race to a secret ballot and exposing divisions in the winning alliance. Officials will choose between Ibrahim al-Jaafari and Ahmad Chalabi.

Fed takes go slow approach Alan Greenspan urged Congress to take a go-slow approach in setting up the private Social Security accounts favored by President George W. Bush.The president said he wasn’t ruling out taxing high-income workers more to help the retirement program.

Iran, Syria team up for fight Iran and Syria will form a "united front" to confront possible threats against them."ln view of the special conditions faced by Syria, Iran will transfer its experience, especially concerning sanctions, to Syria," Mohammad Reza Aref said.

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Body Perceptions: There will be two exhibits in the Bryan Center. The Brown Gallery will display different conceptions of the body via a variety of artistic mediums including stone and photography. And directly across from the Brown Gallery on the main floor, a mirrored display of life-size popular culture icons will give your body image a reality chec

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Rodney Wyncoop directs a rehearsal of theChapel Choir Wednesday night.

AQUADuke focuses on outreach by

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The Alliance of Queer Undergraduates is ready for change. The group has already set into motion a series ofreforms designed to improve the quality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer life at Duke by making it easier for students to feel comfortable about coming out.

To achieve their goals, AQUADuke leaders are reinforcing confidentiality rules for group events and improving outreach to closeted students. The organization also changed its mission statement last fall to have a greater focus on cultivating community than on championing gay rights.

“Before, there was a lot more political advocacy,” said senior Brian West, AQUADuke President. “That’s still offered, but it’s not our main goal.”

West said the confidentiality of at Duke

AQUADuke events, programming and on-

line communications is key to the new reforms. “The organization helps bind people together, so that people can’t justleave the meetings and go out and say ‘Oh, look who’s out of the closet. Look who’s gay,’” he said, adding that AQUADuke cannot not guarantee that each individual in attendance will respect this policy but that it is mostly adhered to.

One change West noted was establishing a new method of using the Internet as an outlet for conversation between closeted and openly gay students. Now, students interested in chatting with a member of the group’s executive board can do so by sending an instant message to the ‘deviloutlook’ screen name from their AOL Instant Messenger account.

Several social events implemented in the last few years have helped to improve

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These include The Lavender Ball, a prom-style celebration involving college students from across North Carolina, increased involvement with the gay community in Durham and hosting a lesbian rock band.

LGBTQ tensions have deep roots at Duke. In 1999, The Princeton Review ranked the University among the least accepting of the gay community in American universities. Duke placed first in the “alternative lifestyles not an alternative” category. But with AQUADuke’s increased programming and strategic moves, the University’s perceived closed-minded reputation was reduced and Duke dropped out of the The Princeton Review’s top 20 for the category in 2004.

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A handful ofDuke Law School students circulated a petition earlier this week to raise awareness about a law that forces universities to allow military recruiters on their campuses who may exhibit discriminatory behavior.

The students who drafted the petition are members of OUTLaw, a group advocating discussion and raising consciousness about legal issues involving sexual orientation. They presented the petition to Captain Susan Kim Tuesday as she interviewed about 18 law students for positions as Judicial Advocate Generals, who would represent the U.S. military in legal matters upon being hired.

But students who are openly gay cannot SEE MILITARY ON PAGE 9

Clarification The stylized sketches that appeared with a story about Central Campus on page 1 Feb. 16 were artists'renderings of what a campus in that area could look like. They are not projections and have no correlation to final plans, which are not yet drawn.

Correction In the same story, the Duke University Bookstore, the Career Center and all student media have been discussed as possible tenants for Central, but no plans have been established. No plans have been made to build a concert hall to replace Page Auditorium. If Duke does create a new venue in the future, the University would consider putting it on Central.

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Some call for more life-saving devices on campus by

Steve Veres

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Russell Monjar had never been sick a day in his life. The 67-year-old retiree, an avid golf player, had driven nine hours from his home in Cincinnati, Ohio to attend his first Duke basketball game Dec. 12 in Cameron. He never entered the stadium, because he collapsed only yards away. His heart had stopped.

Police officers Orlando Soto and David Johnson responded to the emergency call.

Thinking quickly, Johnson brought out his automatic external defibrillator—a feature that comes installed in Duke’s six police vehicles. The AED sensors Johnson applied found a shockable pulse, and the officer administered one shock.

This emergency was the first time any Duke police officer had successfully used an AED to save a person’s life since the devices were installed several years ago. Although AEDs are available throughout the Duke University Medical Center, some individuals are calling for their installation in high-traffic areas of the academic and residential campuses.

An AED uses sensors to monitor the heart rhythms of a victim undergoing sudden cardiac arrest. It gives voice prompts to direct the user how best to proceed.

The size of a laptop, each device costs between $l,OOO and $2,000. “They are pretty close to fool-proof,” said senior David Strauss, director of Duke’s student-run Emergency Medical Services.

Duke EMS has one AED in its car and two others it uses for special events that draw large crowds. There are also about 60 AEDs scattered across tfie Medical Center.

Sophomore Amit Momaya, co-chair of the Health and Safety Committee of Duke Red Cross, is leading the efforts to bring more AEDs to campus. His short-term goal is to raise enough money to install an AED in the Bryan Center by spring break.

“With heart disease increasing and number ofalumni increasing... cardiac arrest is something that can happen to any time and CPR might not always save a person’s life,” Momaya said. ‘The AED is something that can buy some more time.”

Strauss said there was one other cardiac

Defibrillators, like this one at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, maybe installed in high-traffic areas on Duke's campus. arrest near the end of last semester. The

AED was properly used, but the patient ultimately did not survive.

“It is worth investing to put some in the University,” Strauss said. “Duke should be providing the best care to its members and visitors.”

Executive Vice President Tallman Trask noted that although the project was not a high priority at the moment, the Bryan Center would be a suitable loca-

tion for an AED to be installed “We already have them in most large venues,” he said. “It’s a guessing game of where we are going to need it. I think the Bryan Center would be a good place.”

Monjar, who is already back to his tee times, underwent a triple bypass surgery at DUMC and was able to go home by Christmas Eve. Soto and Johnson secured tickets for Monjar’s friends for a different game and the group is already consider-

ing a return visit next year.

“I wouldn’t be afraid to go back and the

same thing happened to me because its a great organization,” Monjar said. “Of all the people I met there in the hospital or the police, they have been super.”

Johnson and Soto, meanwhile, do not consider their life-saving efforts out of the ordinary.

“This is what we are trained to do,” Johnson said. “A hero is a sandwich.”

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wanted the case dismissed Bullock did neither Wednesday.

“I don’t see a dismissal in this case at this time,” Bullock said. “I also don’t think I need to decide right now if the policy is unconstitutional.”

Alpha lota Omega objects to a school requirement that membership be open to everyone, regardless ofreligion or sexual orientation.

Officers and founders of the non-denominational fraternity say members must participate in the organization’s primary mission of Christian evangelism from a personal perspective. They say it would be a lie to say they will accept people who cannot do that.

Trevorr Hamm, president of the UNcCH chapter attended Wednesday’s hearing. He said he felt fraternity leaders should be allowed to ask prospective members questions about their “relationship with Christ” and their views on topics such as premarital sex.

“I think [the school’s] motive which is to not allow any discrimination—is a noble one, but in our particular case it was

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A federal judge

Wednesday urged attorneys for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Christian fraternity to settle a dispute over

whether the group should be denied campus recognition for refusing to accept nonbelievers and homosexuals.

After a two-hour hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Frank W. Bullock Jr. urged lawyers to come to him later this month with a consent decree settling the case.

Bullock gave the attorneys until Feb. 28 to reach a settlement. If they cannot reach one, he told them, he would issue a ruling on the fraternity’s request for an injunction granting them official recognition pending a full trial in the case.

Lawyers for the fraternity, Alpha lota Omega—which has three members on the Chapel Hill campus—want the school ordered to restore the group’s official status, which was revoked because the school said the group refused to adopt the university’s nondiscrimination policy.

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because of that they don’t get any of these benefits,” he said.

UNC Chancellor James Moeser, who did not attend the hearing, has said previously that the school has 42 recognized religious student groups with nearly 5,000 members.

“The university has no interest in being the religion police,” Rutledge said Wednesday. “Our policy is that they have to consider everybody.”

He also has said the university believes its position strikes the right balance between nondiscrimination and free association—both rights guaranteed in the Constitution.

Alpha lota Omega is not banned from campus, though its nonofficial status means it is ineligible for privileges including priority use of university facilities and eligibility for money generated by student fees.

Alpha lota Omega was founded at UNC-CH in April 1999. It has 37 members nationwide, three of whom are now students at Chapel Hill. It was an officially recognized group until last year.

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Previously, the group has said allowing homosexual students to join would violate the organization’s standards of conduct, which limits members to heterosexual sex within the confines of marriage.

In her arguments, Joyce Rutledge, an assistant attorney general who represented the university, argued that the fraternity members had not shown any damages suffered as a result of the school’s refusal to give the group official recognition.

“This is an important obstacle and one that the plaintiffs cannot surmount,” she said.

Jordan Lorence, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, represented the fraternity at the hearing. He argued that the group’s members have missed out on benefits like university funding, preferred access to on-campus facilities and use of the school’s computer server to' host its Web site.

“They suffered because they refused to sign [the antidiscrimination policy] and

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by Hilary Roxe THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON The Justice Department said Wednesday it will appeal a court decision barring it from pursuing $2BO billion from tobacco companies in a civil

racketeering lawsuit.

The government said it will ask the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to hear the case after a threejudge panel earlier this month said the government could not seek the money.

Government lawyers hope to file the request soon, though they have until March 21 to do so, said Justice Department spokesperson Charles Miller.

The government oudined its intentions in a brief ordered by U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler, who is presiding over the monthslong trial. She had asked the Justice Department to address the “scope and meaning” of the appeals court’s ruling earlier this month.

The 2-1 decision from the appeals court dealt a major blow to the government’s attempt to hold cigarette makers accountable for decades of alleged deceit about the dangers of smoking.

The panel decided that the 1970 civil racketeering statute under which the government filed its case required forward-looking remedies, which did not include “disgorgement,” or the pursuit of $2BO billion the government claims the industry earned through fraudulent activities.

“Until the matter is ultimately resolved, the elimination of disgorgement as a remedy... forces the United States to substantially revise and alter its presentation,” the government wrote in Wednesday’s brief.

Anthony J. Sebok, a professor at Brooklyn Law School, said the government’s decision to appeal was not a surprise.

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CHAPEL HILL Two town leaders in Chapel Hill say regulating beer kegs in this university town would help eliminate un-

derage drinking.

Town Council Member Jim Ward and Police Chief Gregg Jarvies are seeking a law that would require kegs to be affixed with the buyer’s name, address and driver’s license number.

When officers catch underage drinkers, that information would assist law enforcement in identifying anyone who purchased the keg and charge them with contributing to delinquency of a minor.

If the person who purchased the keg is underage, the merchant could be held responsible for selling it.

“It’s a tool seen by people who are concerned with teenage drug and alcohol abuse and the police force as away of tying problem events with whose keg it is,” Ward said.

Jarvies said the law would be more effective if it were regional or statewide so underage drinkers would not be able to go to the next town to obtain a keg.

A task force set up by Gov. Mike Easley to recommend ways to reduce drunken driving has suggested requiring a keg permit from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.

LAS VEGAS The Federal Trade Commission approved MGM Mirage’s proposal to buy rival Mandalay Resort Group Wednesday, a move that could create one of the largest gambling companies in the world and give the casino operator control of 11 resorts on the famed Las Vegas Strip.

The commission voted 5-0 to close its investigation and place no conditions on the transaction.

MGM Mirage Inc. still needs Nevada to approve the blockbuster deal.

“We are very pleased that the FTC has made the ruling but there remains a significant step, the approval of the Gaming Control Board and Gaming Commission in Nevada,” MGM Mirage spokesperson Alan Feldman said. State gambling regulators are scheduled to consider the matter next week.

In June, MGM Mirage agreed to purchase Mandalay for $4.8 billion in cash, $2.5 billion in debt and $6OO million convertible debentures.

The companies would claim half of the 74,424 hotel rooms and about 40 percent of the slot machines on the Strip. Those numbers will slide slightly when Wynn Resorts Ltd.’s 2,700-room Wynn Las Vegas and the 949-room tower at Caesars Palace open later this year.

Many of the world’s most famous casinos, The Mirage, Bellagio, MGM Grand, Circus Circus, Luxor and Mandalay Bay would fall under the new MGM Mirage corporate umbrella.

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“A lot of the allies in Duke community got [upset with] the Princeton Review about that,” said junior Maddie Dewar, treasurer and secretary of AQUADuke. “We have one of the biggest LGBT centers in the country.

Duke is not the model of homophobia.” She added the faculty and administration are very supportive and, despite its small size, the LGBTQ community is very active.

Dewar acknowledged that there is still room for improvement in making homosexuality more acceptable among undergraduates. “I think that we’ve got a long way to go. However, it’s much better here than at many other southern public schools,” she said. “The environment here can be very tense and uncertain.

Since I’ve been here, the gay community has made huge progress.”

AQUADuke officials say there is no one reason why coming out can be so difficult here at Duke, but they have several theories.

“A lot of homophobic attitudes are just kind of the norm, kind ofcool these days,” Dewar said. “You can never tell if people mean what they’re saying or not.

There’s lots of talk and mean things said about gay people in general, but when I came out to my team, they were actually very cool about it.”

Senior Jonathan Wells, vice president of AQUADuke, felt the reason was more due to Duke students’ busy lives.

“It has a lot to do with the social atmosphere here at Duke,” he said. “People are so focused on academics that it can be hard to branch out socially. We want to make that easier and more comfortable.”

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John Schelp, president of the Old West Durham Neighborhood Association, posed several questions to Duke administrators during a community forum at the Erwin Mill Building Wednesday night.

CENTRAL from page 1 mull options for housing and dining, academic programs, extracurricular activities and spaces, and community relations. The four subcommittees are scheduled to report back to the principal committee Monday with broad recommendations rather than specific proposals. That main CCPC branch will then deliver a progress report to the Board of Trustees in May, but Dawkins said that “even at that point we will be very far from putting a shovel in the ground and building anything.”

Many local residents in attendance Wednesday were primarily concerned with how the Central development plans would impact the Durham community

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and local businesses. Some Durham residents have voiced concerns that the new Central—which in concept could include, along with academic, residential and student group space, outlets like bookstores or restaurants—would hurt local businesses and insulate students from Durham.

Primary to their concerns is the type of zoning ordinance under which the new Central will be built. Although Lange and the other administrators stressed that the University is not yet prepared to decide on what kind of zoning it will seek for the area because plans are not yet concrete enough, some residents raised a number of concerns about potential zoning implications.

Currently Central Campus is a residential zone, but the new Central could conceivably be rezoned as a university zone —

like East and West Campuses—or even partially as a mixed use or general' commercial zone, which would allow many types of businesses to locate on Central.

University zoning allows for “limited retail...to the extent that [retail facilities] are designed to serve the campus population of the University,” according to a March email sent by City Planning Director Frank Duke to neighborhood representatives.

Businesses thtit open on a university zone are property-tax exempt, which some Duke neighbors have charged would provide retailers with an unfair advantage.

Palmer said Wednesday that Duke was likely to pursue a university zoning ordinance. “I don’t think it’s anyone’s choice to do anything other than a university zone,” he said.

But when John Schelp, president of the Old West Durham Neighborhood Association, which includes Ninth Street, asked Palmer why Duke could not commit to a zoning plan now, Palmer responded by saying “we’re not in the zoning phase at this time. We’ll make that [decision] when we see the site plan—that triggers the process. We want to go through the programming phase before we do that.”

Members of the audience also urged the University to add local residents to the planning committees, which currently consist of administrators, faculty and students. But neighbors were mostly focused on simply being part of the dialogue with Duke.

“It’s a pretty difficult process to plan something that’s 75 years in development, but it has to be linked to the area around it,” area resident Tom Newman said. “If Duke continues to show concern, if we leave our attitudes at the door, I think this will work out really well.”

EditorKaren Hauptman, a member of the activities and services planning committee, was not involved in the writing or editing of this article.

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teraction, presided over the Senate and the voting process.

“Everything went smoothly, and our committee members were excited about participating in this event,” he said. The other candidates, he said, were highly

humility. “I’ve realized how much I don’t know,” he said in a 15-minute final presentation to the assembled voting body.

The “underpinnings and dynamics” of qualified.

Wisnewski, executive vice president of the University as an institution, including the workers’ unions, are things with DSG, was relieved to see the selection which he aims to become more familiar. process finally end.

Vitarelli is a Truman Scholar, Phi Beta “It was a wild ride—definitely worth the nervousness,” he said. “Anthony will Kappa and resident of Wayne Manor selective living house. He is already familiar do an excellent job.” with the Board of Trustees, having served In other business: DSG unanimously voted to recognize on its Student Affairs subcommittee.

As Young Trustee, Vitarelli will serve as both the recendy established Selective a full-fledged member of the Board, the House Council and Duke Grilling Society. intent of his presence being to provide a The SHC was created in order to facilitate collaboration and to create an annual seyoung, fresh perspective that more established Board members may lack. Trustees lective house review available online.

Charters for three other groups—Inare flown in for the quarterly Board meetings, at which they formulate an agenda terfaith Dialogue, the Duke Chapter of for the institution at large. the National Society of Black Engineers Sophomore Joel Kliksberg, chair of the and the Duke Chapter of the American Young Trustee nominating committee Water Resource Association—were also and DSG vice president of community inapproved.

Students said they are upset Duke has followed Harvard and Yale’s lead and said the Duke community has taken comparatively little action against the act.

They said students and professors alike seem either unaware or apathetic about the act.

“Until public opinion reveals a stance on this issue and discrimination in general, no change should be expected,” Pilipink said.

Some people on the Duke Law faculty said they disagree. Jim Coleman, senior associate dean for Academic Affairs at Duke Law, said faculty involvement has been strong and included at least one plaintiff with the lawsuit that declared Solomon unconstitutional in November.

But last month the Department of Defense announced plans to appeal that decision, and the case will be presented to the Supreme Court by the end of this month, with a decisive ruling expected in March.

“Here at Duke, ultimately the [Supreme Court’s] decision is going to be the bottom line, but awareness is definitely an important factor,” Coleman said.

OUTLaw petitioners said they plan to send the petition in the upcoming weeks to Congress and to President George W. Bush. not

apply for these posts due to the military’s controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

This actively opposes the non-discriminatory stance that universities are committed to upholding.

“The psychological ramifications of the military’s discrimination cancel out efforts to create equity,” said law student Jeffrey Pilipink, who worked on the petition.

Law students said JAG recruiters pay universities amelioration funds that are directed towards assisting openly gay students during their own interviewing efforts.

Teresa Sakash, a Duke law student at the forefront of the petitioning efforts, pointed out that enforcement of the problematic law affects not just openly gay students, but the entire student population.

The law—known as the Solomon Amendment and enacted by Congress in 1995 before being struck down by a federal appeals court in November—could potentially restrict funding for universities from the federal government.

Two weeks ago Yale Law School announced it would deny JAG recruiting after a court decision prompted Harvard’s law school to do the same.

NASHER from page 1 of Dallas and the Duke Endowment, Kim Rorschach, the Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans director of the Nasher Museum, said the donation is beneficial and timely because it will assist in reaching the capital campaign goal before the museum opens this fall. “This gift is integral to the museum,” she said. “This whole thing is a very fitting tribute to [Nicholas Biddle] —we are delighted to

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The Biddle Pavilion is a naturally lit 4,600-square-foot enclosure with white oak floors and floating art walls. It will feature one of the museum’s first exhibitions, “The Evolution of the Nasher Collection,” which will be composed of art from the personal collection of the Nasher family. The exhibition will be available to the public from opening night until May 13, 2006, and will map the collection’s growth, which originated with a 1954 work by Ben Sahn.

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Along the funeral route, mourners draped Lebanese flags from balconies and held up pictures of the former prime minister, who was assassinated Monday by a massive bomb that also killed 16 others.

A huge crowd first gathered outside Hariri’s house, then marched for two hours behind the ambulance carrying his coffin to the mosque where the slain billionaire was buried.

An estimated 200,000 people gathered around the mosque for the noon funeral prayers, hanging from scaffolding and street lights to catch a glimpse of the coffin, draped in Lebanon’s red, white and green flag.

On Tuesday, the U.N. Security Council demanded Lebanon bring the culprits to justice.

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Sand alFaisal, whose country refused France’s initial call for an international investigation, urged Lebanese authorities to hold “a quick inquiry to find the culprits and punish them."

“Otherwise the situation in the Arab world and Lebanon will go in a bad direction," Al-Faisal warned.

Screaming, weeping mourners turned out to pay tribute to Hariri, who many credit with rebuilding Lebanon after its devastating 1975-90 civil war.

But the funeral was also seen as a protest against Syria, which has long been this country’s main power broker and which still maintains 15,000 troops—and an extensive intelligence network—here.

As the mourners marched through Beirut, young men shouted insults at Syrian President Bashar Assad, calling on him

dogs from Beirut” —a reference to Syrian intelligence agents.

Lebanon’s pro-Syrian president, Emile Lahoud, stayed away from the funeral after being warned not to come by Hariri supporters, who blame his government and Damascus for his assassination.

Syrian TV broadcast Lebanese television footage of the funeral, but authorities in Damascus were quiet.

Hariri, 60, was Lebanon’s prime minister for 10 of the 14years after the country’s civil war. He resigned last year amid opposition to a Syrian-backed constitutional amendment that enabled his rival, Lahoud, to extend his term in office.

Syrian Vice PresidentAbdul-Halim Khaddam, a close Hariri friend, attended the mosque service, but made no comments.

However, Syria’s ambassador to Washington, Imad Moustapha, said people insinuating Syria had a role in the attack were “lacking logic” and intent on damaging Syria.

Lebanon’s interior minister has suggested a suicide bomber aided by “international parties” may have been behind the bomb attack on Hariri’s motorcade, but no credible claims of responsibility have emerged.

A huge security operation kept order at the funeral, which drew the largest crowd ever seen in Lebanon, aside from a Mass in Beirut by Pope John Paul II in 1997 that attracted almost 1 million people.

In a sign of Hariri’s ability to reach across Lebanon’s often-volatile divisions, Sunni Muslim clerics, Druse leaders in white turbans and ordinary Lebanese Shiites and Christians all marched in the funeral. Hariri was a Sunni Arab.

Breaking with Islamic tradidon, hundreds of weeping women waving white handkerchiefs joined the men in the march

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Air America. Kind of sounds like a revolutionary air filtration system that eliminates 98 percent of dust, dander and spores, but not so. In fact, it is a national radio network working to eliminate the conservative domination of the radio airwaves. Ar America Radio, broadcasting since March 31, 2004, originally emerged, at least in part, to counter the Bush re-election machine.

Among those currentiy signed on I are comedienne Janeane Garofalo, f Public Enemy’s Chuck D and anchor A1 Franken, occupying the noon to 3 p.m. time slot. There are 48 Air America affiliates right now, not counting XM Radio channel 167 and Sirius Stream 144. Air America can also be found streaming 24/7 at www.AirAmerica Radio.com. Of its 48 affliates, few broadcast all 17 hours of Air America’s weekday programming. Most carry only two or three of the seven weekday shows, instead they often opt for Jones Radio Networks’ syndicated hosts Stephanie Miller and Ed Schultz.

In the case of Chapel Hill station AM 1360 WCHL, Air America programming has been adopted in a painfully selective manner, carrying only A1 Franken’s show in its entirety. The first hour of WCHL’s only other weekday Air American contribution, “The Majority Report,” is superseded by daily discussion of the Atlantic Coast Con-

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Recently, recess spoke with Air America’s “Morning Sedition” cohost/stand-up comedian/sometime actor, Marc Maron about his show and the network on the whole. Marc calls his style of comedy “an acquired taste,” but he has garnered rave reviews for his performance at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival as well as non-negative reviews from The New York Times and the Village Voice.

Maron says his show, which he hosts with radio veteran Mark Riley, allows him “to flow in and out of all things” ranging from the budding “Morning Sedition” book club to performances by former Soul Coughing front man and Marc Maron super-fan Mike Doughty.

“Morning Sedition’s” most notable interviews have been with Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, Michael Stipe and Peter Bergen; one of the few Western journalists to have met terrorist Osama bin Laden. Guest hosts also keep the show fresh. Maron has worked with talents as varied as professional wrestler Mick Foley and former presidential candidate, the Reverend A1 Sharpton.

When the conversation turned to ratings, Maron speculated that his listeners have been siphoned from Howard Stem, Don Imus and the show that serves as his program's namesake, “Morning Edition.”

Air America claims to have a progressive See MARON on page 7

Carolina Ballet and The Red Clay Ramblers join together in the Carolina Jamboree to bring an eclectic music and dance experience to North Carolina’s community. In a unique collaboration, the Tony Award-winning string band was invited by Carolina Ballet’s artistic director, Robert Weiss, to create a musical composition set to movement by Broadway choreographer, Lynn-Taylor Corbett.

Despite the lack of adequate funding for the arts, Weiss has plans to precipitate growth both in production and finances for Carolina Ballet through a diverse repertoire and a company of unique dancers. With 31 talented members, a vigorous 32-week contract, 55 performances and guest choreographers, Carolina Ballet has approached its new season with new ideas that will promote an increased public awareness for the company. The Jamboree is thus the perfect vehicle to stimulate artistic appreciation in the Triangle through a

blend of different art forms “This is an effort at audience integra- fl tion,” Weiss said. “People who love blue- V grass and Dixieland music will be attract- H V ed to see the ballet, something they ordinarily may not have seen.”

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Director Andy Tennant has done it again. The mastermind behind Sweet Home Alabama and Fools Rush In has managed to eclipse even his previous stunning achievements in pointless, mind-numbing romantic comedy. The real villain this time around, though, is first-time screenwriter Kevin Bisch, whose stale script will choke even the most die-hard cheese fans with day-old cheddar.

There are a few bright spots. Will Smith, stars as Alex “Hitch” Hitchens, a professional “date consultant” rescuing earnest average Joes from their own bumbling, romantic ineptitude. The Fresh Prince is typically charming and almost believable as the ultimate advisor for painfully tactless simpletons trying to woo disproportionately attractive women. As the expert on how to play it cool and win the girl ofyour dreams, Smith

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We know that music mash-ups are in vogue these days but asking the Bfack Eyed Peas, Los Lonely Boys, Franz Ferdinand, Gwen Stefani, Eve and Maroon 5 to play at once created a wall of sound that would have Phil Spector spinning in his prison cell.

Queen Latifah’s uncanny resemblance to the Kool-Aid man in her first outfit Queen Latifah’s uncanny resemblance to Ursula ofThe Little Mermaid in her second outfit Okay, let’s be honest, Ray Charles is a music legend and an influence on much of today’s music, but no one needs more than one tribute per awards show.

What would Kanye West have done if he didn't win for best Rap Album?

We're not sure, but we think it would have involved a glock, a box of tampons, two dozen eggs and Kevin Bacon.

We regret that the tribute to Southern Rock did not include a single washboard or jug.

We really would have preferred family videos of The Country Bear Jam boree to the Tim McGraw and Friends performance.

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's duet brought out the cheesy Telemundo soap opera hidden in every award show.

The tsunami tribute performance: those songs from Live Aid really weren't that great 20 years ago, so why are Bono & Co. trying again?

Finally, we'd like to suggest that Stevie Wonder was probably the biggest winner Sunday because he was the only one who didn't have to see any of Queen Latifah's outfits.

After a night brimming with artificial excitement and feigned ingenuity, we're actually sorry we missed the Pro Bowl.

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Playground recess' top 5 5. The Gates Christo has done it again. This time he has transformed New York’s Central Park into a swaying sea of saffron. The Gates reminds everyone what makes installation art so fun.

4. Desperately Seeking Fiona Apple

Remember Fiona Apple, the under-fed, outspoken singersongwriter whose last album title was so verbose it took up the entire album cover? In the six years since, When the pawn..., she has recorded a third album that is supposedly un-marketable and languishing on Sony executives’ shelves. Devoted Fionafans have created an online campaign and protested outside the record label’s offices. Ifthey had listened to their idol, they would have realized that this world is bulls**! and gone with themselves.

3. Pink Fingernails Although pink nail polish has been around for decades, one wouldn’t have known from looking at women’s fingernails in the past few years. Now, many girls at Duke at least have forsaken the trend of wearing light or colorless polish and are having their nails painted various shades of blush, rose and fushia. Nail polish manufacturers are tickled pink.

2. Salsa at Patio Loco on Franklin St. You might need to venture into enemy territory, but you won’t find salsa this hot anywhere north of the border. Get your dancing shoes and check out this hoedown every Saturday from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m.

1. The Mad About You Collection Now MadAbout Km fans can finally take Paul and Jamie Buchman (and Murray) home with them. Although it had long avoided the trend of ’9os hit TV shows going to DVD, the show is now available as a four-disc collection of the 22 best episodes. Laugh

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The man behind the Billboard Classical Chart’s 13-week sensation Romance of the Violin is the dashing Joshua Bell—a Grammy-award winning violin virtuoso with a record of achievements as varied as his repertoire. His artistry and accolades include 27 recorded albums, a solo performance in The Red Violin movie soundtrack, frequent performances with top orchestras and a place on People Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People in the World” list.

Even with his intense international tour schedule, Bell performed at Duke last Friday to a sold-out Page Auditorium as part of the DukePerformances series. The program encompassed a range of works from Brahms' “Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano” composed in 1879 to a sonata by Janacek from 1921. The five works on the program featured musical prowess and true talent, as Bell played technically and interpredvely demanding pieces with seemingly effordess finesse. Eyes closed, his trademark shaggy brown hair bouncing up and down with every accented note, Bell also captured the energy and fervor of the pieces, playing “in the moment” and captivating the audience as a result. The audience held its breath collectively as Bell pulled off a notoriously difficult passage in Saint-Saens’ “Sonata No. 1” with uncompromising clarity, precise intonation, and fingers flying so fast they blurred.

Bell also graciously hosted a “meet and greet” session with the Duke Symphony Orchestra earlier in the day. “Joshua Bell is friendly and"funny, and seems like a guy you'd want to hang out with,” says Duke senior and violinist Sarah Zaman. “But when he plays, you remember why you're in awe of him: he's a virtuoso, but more than that, he draws you in with his emotional stage presence.”

With the reverberations of Bell’s final note still lingering in the air and his bow poised over the strings, the crowd waited for the moment to finally exhale and burst into thunderous applause. After concluding the concert with a showy Wieniawski piece—and after three curtain calls—Bell commented that “Wieniawski is really the closest thing violinists have to [piano composer] Chopin.” He followed this statement with an enchanting arrangement of Chopin's famous “Nocturne” as an encore. Now, if only more people could remember to bring cough drops to concerts during cold season.

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Perhaps the most refreshing show to join the midseason lineup is House, an unlikely medical drama that revolves around Hugh Laurie as an irrepressibly impatient maverick doctor with a nonexistent bedside manner and an uncanny ability to diagnose his patients. With a terrific ensemble cast and steadily increasing ratings, House is the quirky drama that will stay on the air this season. Now if they could only get rid the cringeworthy ER/Chicago Hope-e sque scenes that bookend every episode.

crushing on Uncle Jesse from Full House, John Stamos is back on network television in Jake in Progress, coming this March to Thursdays on ABC. In the sitcom, Stamos will play a slick celebrity publicist, working and playing in New York City. Since Full House ended, Stamos has had trouble finding a permanent gig on TV, but with a

sure-thing supporting cast and a trendy subject like celebrity-obsessed culture, it looks like Uncle Jesse, er,

Jake may be

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Who knew that math could be cool? On Friday nights the new CBS drama NUMB3RS is doing for math what CSI did for forensic science.

David Krumholtz (the dorky Shakespeare guy from 10 Things I Hate About You) stars as a not-so-dorky mathematical genius helping his FBI agent brother solve a widearray ofcrimes in Los Angeles relying solely on—you guessed it—numbers.And set aside the skepticism—the show's numbers really do add up—the producers hired a professor from the California Institute of Technology to supervise their calculations.

Those ofyou who are disenchanted with the current romanticization of cowboys need to pay a visit to dear old Deadwood Sunday nights on HBO. Entering its second season this March, Deadwood is an unforgiving western drama with true grit that spares none of the good, the bad or the ugly for its viewers but, rather, rubs their face in it. In addition to more sex, murder and manipulation, fans can look forward to the return of the less than decorous Calamity Jane.

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ESPN continues its domination of the poker racket by expanding its coverage with the fictional series Tilt.

Michael Madsen, of Tarantino fame, plays the reprehensible yet unstoppable poker machine, Don “The Matador” Everest. Tilt follows the story of several card aficionados’ plan to take him down at (surprise, surprise) ESPN]s cash cow, the World Series of Poker. As you might imagine, poker jargon and casino scenes drive die otherwise flimsy narrative.

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Four concerts to see this February

■Le Tigre Cat’s Cradle, Feb. 23 Feminist pop artists, Le Tigre, will rock you with their cheesy choreography, outrageous outfits and high-pitched excitement. Their danceable electronica stormed through the indie scene, and now they're ready to take on the rest of the world armed with only a drum machine, a guitar, a megaphone and two video screens for your viewing pleasure.

The three members of the band—Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman, and JD Samson—all share musical responsibilities, taking turns singing lead vocals, playing guitar and triggering samples from their drum pad.

For Le Tigre, music is a form of political expression. While their sound is lighthearted and Jocular, their lyrical protests against sexual abuse and President George W. Bush, among other targets, are provocative. And while they've toned down the political rhetoric for their major-label release This Island, their new wave beats should be just as rowdy next Wednesday night. Who knows? You might even learn a thing or two about the feminist movement —

Secret Machines Cat’s Cradle, Feb. 28 With all the ‘Bos revival bands cropping up these days, old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll has lost its status as the “it genre.” The Secret Machines, however, have made it their responsibility to bring rock back into the —

spodight.

Compared by many critics to groups like Pink Floyd and The Band, the Secret Machines are not afraid to push their sound to the limit. Named “the

city's best live band” by the New York Press, the group’s psychedelic guitar riffs have enough distortion to give you goosebumps.

The band’s sound is' so immense that the Secret Machines had difficulty capturing it when they recorded their latest album, Now Here is Nowhere. In fact, don't expect the tracks from Nowhere to sound the same when performed live. All three band members take turns improvising on drums, keyboard and guitar, making each show different from the next.

Interpol—Disco Rodeo, Feb. 27 Interpol’s live performances burst with a force that is missing from their sometimes hollow albums. During last summer’s Curiosa Festival in Toronto, Inter-

pol's rock-music-that-actually-rocks style

forced fans who were waiting to see The Cure to enjoy music without weeping. Appearing on stage in matching black suits, the members of Interpol exude a dark, debonair flair.

The band’s dramatic nature is further revealed through Daniel Kessler’s Johnny Ramone-ian viscous, down-stroke guitar work and Sam Fogarino’s merciless drumming. Unlike a few too many artists in the technological age, Paul Banks’ vocals do not suffer when sung live, and even gain a sense of urgency.

The crescendo of Interpol’s performance that night came at a caesura in “PDA,” as the band held the audience in suspense like a conductor holding his baton aloft before the final act of a Beethoven symphony. If Interpol can rock a pavilion full of Goth kids anxiously awaiting their idol, the band’s performance in front of their own fans should not be missed.

Jett Rink —Local 506, Feb. 18 They know how to rock and roll using hot keyboard riffs and an abnormally tall lead singer. If you’re in the dark, we're talking about recording artist Jett Rink, the only local band that plays rockin’ 80s punk with a heavy helping of synth-pop. With their dance-y beats and blaring synthesizers, the only thing you can do at their concerts is dance like there's no tomorrow.

Hailing from our majestic little town of Durham, Jett Rink makes you yearn for the music that defined the years you only knew as a wee tot. If for some absolutely unexcusable reason you miss their performance at Local 506 with Asobi Seksu, don't let it get you down; they'll be back in a couple of months to play at Duke’s own Coffeehouse.

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A very bad education, indeed Almodovar’s new flick fails to make the grade by

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A splashy, elegantly-crafted affair is acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's latest (and possibly most autobiographical) work Bad Education.

The film follows the typical trajectory of the classic film noir. Our hero meets a femme fatale—only this femme isn’t a femme—and his life is subsequently spun into a cinematic whirlwind.

The protagonist is a young art film director searching for the subject of his next film. Conveniently, a long-lost “friend” stops by and offers him the perfect screenplay for his next movie. The movie's controversy comes in as the proposed film is based on the two characters’ scandalous relationship in a Catholic grade school, particularly, the actions of a wayward priest who, of course, abuses one of the boys.

Two unexpected reveals boomerang the film and completely transform everything we’ve learned thus far. Despite the smart delivery of the plot twists, the surprising turn-ofevents manifest themselves as a bad thing in the film.

Almodovar’s forte is spraying paint the cinematic canvas, creating some of the strangest yet realistic and incredibly vivid characters ever to strut across the silver screen. He’s especially adept at

conjuring up memorably

tragic women whether it be a distraught mother

or a struggling drug addict. A bad sign in Bad Education is the fact that there are no female leads.

Instead, for the duration of the movie, he fails considerably to deliver anything

close to an important character; the film's people are wooden and superficially-thin.

When the secrets are unveiled and the plot kicks into high gear, it's a betrayal to the audience. Everything learned about the characters that we care about changes, and while at first glance the flip-flop is satisfyingly rendered, upon closer examination, the characters finish up as faceless—or masked—personages without a shred of real purpose or motivation. Sure one of the characters might've perpetrated a vicious crime, but if the viewer can't imagine the character doing it or understand why he did it, it's not a great movie.

Almodovar who is usually so adept at managing the conflicting personalities and agendas of his movie's citizens fails miserably here. Mostly because of this, Bad Education, Almodovar’s first noir, is separated from the rest of his recent masterpieces (see Talk To Her, All About My Mother, and Women on the Verge ofa Nervous Breakdown) it’s the almost a success work among a collection of poignant, irresistible cinematic leviathans. ;

Despite currency problems, Louis XIV creates valid EP Sarah Freeman recess Apparently Louis XIV slept with most of the women in his court, producing multiple illegitimate children. How appropriate then that a band that sings almost entirely about sex have named themselves after the French monarch.

Even though the group calls San Diego home, its sound is a direct throwback to many of the British bands of the ‘7os. And Rolling Stones and Beatles fans will enjoy Louis XlV’s catchy hooks and foot-tapping beats.

With their first major-label release Illegal Tender Louis XIV has created an EP consisting offive songs from completely different genres. One of the tracks is a slower ballad, the next is a country-like instrumental featuring a fiddle, a hom and handclaps. This range of sounds makes it impossible to place the band in a specific genre.

Although the band’s previous, eponymously titled release was a concept album about sex, this EP continues to explore a sexual theme. The lyrics are steamy enough to make a 14 year old boy nervous.

“Wind you up and make you crawl to me / Tie you up until you call to me,” the sexy guest vocals ofLindsey Troy call out to the listener on “Finding Out True Love is Blind.” Although Louis XlV’s lyrics often sound silly and absurd, the EP’s message is important: love is blind to race and insecurities. by

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JAMBOREE stages,” said Herrick, the band’s frontman.

“This latest partnership with Carolina Ballet is the result of Mr. Weiss’ idea to join us with Lynn Taylor Corbett, [who is] known, like the Ramblers, for very untraditional work,” Herrick said. “I’m quite sure this new piece will be a lot of fun. It is a very ambitious work with new lively music. We gready admire the originality of Lynn’s choreography.”

Both performing groups have high expectations for the Jamboree to increase artistic support, appreciation and sales promotion among the art community in the Triangle. Herrick commented that these types of projects bring the band’s music to a wider audience and provide the group with the artistic challenge of combining art forms.

The joint effort has also been a unique experience for the Carolina Ballet dancers. “We are used to performing in classical ballet works,” Tanner Martin, an apprentice with Carolina Ballet, said. “The Red Clay Ramblers have given us the means to perform in a more contemporary setting with upbeat and energetic musical accompaniment.”

Ballet dancers are driven by their passion for the arts, music, expression and movement. “The Ramblers have presented a new challenge for us as artists,” Martin

said. “Accustomed

to

performing to

Tchaikovsky’s scores, the bluegrass undertones bring out a new personality that helps to define the well-rounded dancer,” said Martin.

Argentinean dancer, Pablo Peraz, spoke of his experience with the Teatro Colon in Argentina. He remarked that CarolinaBallet created work of a different style then in Argentina. “In Argentina, we performed more classical story ballets. Here we do more contemporary—a style that lam beginning to really like,” he said.

Weiss spoke about the intricacy of casting when he said, “I looked for dancers who had a special sense of themselves so that they could communicate back to the audience.”

For Weiss, the ability to convey the meaning of music—be it Mozart or bluegrass—into the bigger form of movement, allows for that art to be individualized and perfected.

“My dancers have to have technique,” Weiss said. “But after that they have to possess something interesting artistically: their soul, their spirit, their intuition, the way they move; its something that makes them stand out from everyone else.”

The Carolina Jamboree will be held Feb. 24

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MARON perspective, but Maron insists that his listeners come from both sides of the political spectrum

During the research for this story, an

interesting tidbit came to light. “Morning Sedition's” timeslot, weekdays 6 a.m. until 9a.m., suggested that there is also a six o'clock in the morning. Some bold reporting confirmed these suspicions. Confronting Maron about this realization proved fruitful as he dutifully recounted his daily routine. Waking up Monday to Friday at 2:30 or 3 a.m., Maron gobbles up an ample serving of cereal accompanied by a soothing cup of tea, to fortify his radio timbre, and then catches the train to arrive at Air America's Park Avenue studios by 4 a.m Waiting for him at the studio are his staff of producers and writers who brief him on the day’s guests as he peruses the latest headlines so that he might poke fun at President Bush’s latest foibles and be;

moan the day’s corporate scandals. Readers who are usually roused by the sun’s encroachment on their accommodations as Maron’s day is coming to an end, need not fret. “Morning Sedition” can be heard 9 to noon time at a.m. eastern 620KPOJ.com, and archived episodes can be retrieved anytime, and heard commercial-free at AirAmericaPlace.com With some financial troubles and some corporate turnover behind it, Air America has found a home at stations owned by industry behemoths Clear Channel Communications and Infinity Broadcasting. It seems like Air America will be around for a long time to come, or at least as long as the conservative leadership remains on its current lofty pedestal. With more listeners, many of, them young people, tuning in each day, it seems fitting to end with the following quote from “Majority Report” announcer Jon Benjamin: “The left just got a little bit louder.”

reminds us how charismatic he can be.

Unfortunately, no one can salvage a line like, “Wow. That's crazy! Just hearing your voice makes me smile.” More brilliant screenwriting from Mr. Bisch.

Sultry Eva Mendes is mildly appealing as Sara Melas, the workaholic gossip columnist who steals Alex’s secretly fragile heart.

Watching the smooth-talking Smith stutter in the face of a worthy adversary provides a few welcome (if predictable) laughs, but the initial attraction quickly wears off. Indepedendy, Alex and Sara are entertaining, but when brought together their dialogue falls flat and viewers’ hopes for chemistry diminish with each dull interaction.

Meanwhile, Alex takes on Albert Brenneman, The King of Queens' Kevin James, as his most ambitious project to date in an equally .painful romantic subplot. James’ cholesterol-infused physical comedy gamers a few cheap laughs (take note ofhis choreography the next time you get a chance to get down to “Yeah!”), and watching him melt for the stunning Allegra Cole (Amber Valletta) is

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Even in a genre that’s built around cliches, Hitch manages to come off as trite.

Blame Bisch's script for shooting the movie in the foot and for reducing Smith's honest effort to sheer agony. Hitch may not be “the cure for the common man,” as the slogan suggests, but it will fill an empty trash can.

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The first-place team in the ACC will take on the last-place team at Cameron Indoor Stadium tonight at 7 p.m.

Duke, although holding the clear advantage in the standings, may face a tough fight from 11thplace Clemson. The No. 3 Blue Devils (23-2, 9-1 in the ACC) will have faced all their in-conference opponents at least once this season after playing the Tigers (7-16, 1-9).

Duke, battling inexperience

all season, is now also challenged by an injury to Monique Currie.

The junior managed to play 33 minutes in Sunday’s win over Maryland but has a stress fracture in her foot.

Much like the Blue Devils, the Lady Tigers have also had to retool their roster—Clemson graduated four of last year’s starters. Only junior Amanda White returned to her old position, leaving head coach Jim Davis with many holes to fill at the start of the season.

Davis has started 12 different players —11 in the lasj: four games—but four juniors, as well as freshman D’Lesha Lloyd, play the majority of the minutes.

“I’ve watched them play on tape a couple of times, and they’re one of those very, very scary teams,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. [They] have a lot of new faces, and they continue to get better and better.”

Duke has had litde trouble adapting to adversity this season. After Lindsey Harding’s suspension, freshman guard Wanisha Smith took over the point guard position, and although she has struggled with turnovers she has led Duke to a perfect home record and just a pair of road loses.

Meanwhile Clemson has floundered all season with its new lineup, and after losing to four consecutive top-25 opponents the Tigers will try to improve their ACC-worst record against a top-five opponent.

“We need to focus more on “

Alison Bales and the Blue Devils hold a significant size advantage over the Tigers, who shoot poorly from the outside.

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No team wants to face Duke coming off a loss. After all, the Blue Devils (18-3, 8-3 in the ACC) are 25-3 in such meetings since the 1997-1998 season.

Virginia Tech (12-10, 5-6) understands its predicament all too well. Among those 25 victories is Duke’s 100-65 win over the Hokiesjan. 18 in Cameron Indoor Stadium. That game was a physical one and, just like tonight’s 9 p.m. matchup in

Blacksburg, Va., was preceded by a closely-contested Blue Devil loss to Maryland.

“Once again, Gary [Williams] has done a really nice job for me

in giving us an angry Duke team,” Virginia Tech head coach Seth Greenberg said. “I really appreciate that.”

Both teams have struggled on the .defensive end lately. The Hokies, who have lost four of their last five games, have given up over 80 points three times over the stretch. The Blue Devils gave up 99 points in their overtime loss to the Terrapins and also surrendered 94 to Wake Forest Feb. 2.

One reason for Duke’s defensive woes has been foul trouble.

Before the season started, many questions circulated about Duke’s lack of depth. Only on two occasions has foul trouble

been a major factor, but in Saturday’s loss to Maryland, the walls came tumbling down.

“Over the last four games our defense hasn’t been consistent,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

“We just haven’t been as disciplined in handling our foul situation. We have to move our feet better and be smarter about how we’re doing that stuff.”Four players fouled out against the Terps, including Daniel Ewing, who recorded a technical foul for the second time in four games.

“Daniel is our primary ballhandler and our on-ball defender,” Krzyzewski said. “Even if we SEE M. BBALL ON PAGE 13

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Frustrated screams spewed from the mouths of Old Dominion players most of the afternoon.

The only Blue Devil who had similar frustrations was ODU Katie Blaszak, who

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Senior Katie Blaszak moved her opponent from side to side, clinching theoverall match for Duke Wednesday.

year-old.”

But as the first set wrapped up in most of the matches, the chatter quieted as ODU players glared down the row of courts at the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center, only to see Duke with a commanding lead.

Blaszak, who was playing at the No. 1 singles spot because No. 56 Jackie Carleton is batding tendonitis in her ankle, contin-

ued to shout even after getting out to an early lead in the second. But most of the Blue Devils simply shrugged their shoulders on errant forehands, seeing that it would not be much of a match.

No. 6 Duke (5-1) beat Old Dominion 7-0 in its first match since losing in the semifinals of the national indoor championship 11 days ago.

“We are more talented than Old Dominion, so I talked with them about not giving Old Dominion any kind of confidence,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said.

“The longer they hang around, you start to get close matches.

“If we could get up on them and put them away, right away, then we wouldn’t be in that situation, and we did a good job of that.”

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In a high-scoring, back-and-forth thriller, the baseball team suffered a 9-7 loss on the road to UNC-Wilmington

From staff reports After one day of competition, the women’s swimming and diving team’s 48 points place them in fifth position at the ACC Championships in Adanta, Ga. In the opening event of the meet, the Blue Devils finished ninth out of ten teams with their 7:39.54 dme in the 800-yard freestyle relay.

Duke’s 1:47.00 finish in the 200yard medley relay was good enough for fourth place, thanks to the disqualification of the Florida State, Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech foursomes.

In preliminary qualifying, junior Katie Ness moved on to final heats in the 200 IM and 100 backstroke, and will also compete in the consolation heat for the 100 butterfly and 200 backstroke.

Ness’s time of 2:03.98 in' the 200 IM was just under the NCAA B cut.

Sophomore Jackie Rodriguez will also score points for the Blue Devils after qualifying for the final heat in the 200 breaststroke and just barely making the consolation heat in the 500 freestyle.

Junior Nora Stupp will also compete in the 200 IM consolation heat.

Wednesday.

“It was a good ball game,” head coach Bill Hillier said. “We made a couple errors, but they’re a good team The Blue DevPUKE ils (4-2) lost control of the contest UNC-W 9 after UNC-W (42) posted a three-run seventh inning off relievers Sean O’Brien and Jim Perry.

O’Brien threw to only four batters and was pulled after giving up a go-ahead, tworun double to designated hitter Lee McLean. Perry entered the game and immediately surrendered an RBI single to catcher Mark Carver. O’Brien was credited with the loss.

“I wasn’t real pleased with our relief pitching,” Hillier said. “We gave up four runs out of the bullpen —you’ve got to do a better job than that.”

Duke threatened again in the top of the eighth, scoring two runs off a Jimmy Gallagher single and an error by Cavalier leftfielder Daniel Hargrave. Gallagher was the Blue Devils’ top offensive producer, posting two hits in the game.

But UNC-W sealed Duke’s fate by scoring on three consecutive singles in the eighth to increase its lead to two. Cavalier closer Tony Bajoczky pitched a one-twothree ninth to knock off the Blue Devils. ”

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Third baseman Adam Murray's two-out doublewas an integral part ofDuke's two-run fourth inning.

AMIDST LOCKOUT, NHL CANCELS SEASON by

Ira Podell

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NEW YORK— A hockey season on the brink is now a season gone bust.

The NHL canceled what was left of its decimated schedule Wednesday after a round of last-gasp negotiations failed to resolve differences over a salary cap—the flash-point issue that led to a lockout.

It’s the first time a major pro sports league in North America lost an entire season to a labor dispute. The resulting damage could be immeasurable to hockey, which already has limited appeal in the United States.

“This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided,” NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said.

“Every day that this thing continues we don’t think it’s good for the game,” NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow said in Toronto.

To begin with, all momentum gained in the final days of negotiations has been lost—late offers that appeared to bring the sides close to a deal are now off the table, and there’s no telling when the NHL will get back on the ice.

No Stanley Cup champion will be crowned, the first time that’s happened since

1919,when the twoyear-old league called off the finals because of a flu epidemic.

Without an agreement, there can be no June draft. The sport’s heralded next big thing, Canadian phenom Sidney Crosby, won’t pull on his first NHL sweater anytime soon.

Then there is the parade of aging (39), Mark stars —Mario Lemieux Messier (44), Steve Yzerman (39) Brett Hull (40), Ron Francis (41), Dave Andreychuk (41) and Chris Chelios (43) whose playing days could be ending on someone else’s terms.

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Bettman said. “Their careers are short and this is money and opportunity they’ll never get back,” Bettman said.

Despite being the NHL’s best-known star, there was never a chance that Pittsburgh’s Lemieux, the first owner-player in modern American pro sports history, would side with the players.

“A few years ago, I thought the owners were making a lot of money and were hiding some under the table, but then I got on this side and saw the losses this league was accumulating,” he said Wednesday.

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Shelden Williams scored 25 points and grabbed 17rebounds when Duke hosted Virginia Tech Jan. 30.

M.BBALL from page 11 have him in the game, if he’s in foul trouble he’s not going to do his job as well, and it gives your opponent an edge.”

Although depth has been a problem, two Blue Devils are on their way back and will bolster Duke’s bench. Senior Reggie Love and freshman Dave McClure are almost recovered from leg injuries. Love broke his right foot against Clemson Jan. 2 and is questionable for the Virginia Tech contest. McClure had a loose body removed frpm his left knee, and appears doubtful to return tonight.

If one looks at the statistics, this game would appear to be a runaway victory for Duke. The Blue Devils possess significant advantages in most major team categories, with the exception of steals and turnovers.

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of game it was. It’s a new environment for us. As a team we’ve never played up there before, but we know they’re going to be

ready to play.”

Virginia Tech’s best performances this season have come from its sophomore guard tandem of Jamon Gordon and

Zabian Dowdell, both natives of Florida.

Gordon, the point guard, leads the ACC with 2.5 steals per game and also averages 10.8 points and 4.4 assists per game.

Dowdell, the shooting guard, leads the Hokies with 15.3 points per game and has been the catalyst for an offense that can be stagnant at times. “[Dowdell] really has the ability to create separation and get off shots,” Greenberg said. “We are really blessed to have a player as talented as he is because of his work ethic. He’s just a very good basketball player, and a better person.”

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In games following a loss this year Redick has exploded for an average of 27.5 points. Away from Cameron, the junior sharpshooter feeds off the animosity of opposing crowds and will look to get in a groove against a defense that had no answer last time around. An array of role players should also get chances to contribute.

After letting the Maryland game turn into a shootout, Duke will refocus on the suffocating defensive effort that made the difference against Carolina. Virginia Tech has had its own offensive problems, scoring a meager 69.9 ppg, second to last in the ACC. Dowdell is fifth in scoring in the ACC in conference games.

The Blue Devils don't like to lose. In the past five years, the game following a loss has tended to be lopsided. Coach K will have his team focused and hungry to kick off a tough final stretch with five of seven away from home, including games at UNC and Georgia Tech. But Duke can't look past the Hokies with Wake coming to Durham Sunday.

Remember the last time Duke faced Virginia Tech after a loss to Maryland?

This time around probably won't be as severe as the beatdown the Blue Devils handed out in Durham, but the margin will be decisive.

Duke wins 88-65. compiled by Dan Kapnick

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W. BBALL from page 11 what we can do to grow,” Davis said. “I always feel we spend too much time reading scouting reports. We’re just trying to focus on doing what we do and trying to hone our skills.”

Duke holds a huge size advantage over Clemson and will look to use centers Alison Bales and Chante Black to continue to block shots and control the boards against the Tigers.

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or Black, Clemson may be forced to shoot from the perimeter, where it has struggled all season. The Tigers make just37 percent of their shots from the field.

“There are times when we play pretty well and times when we don’t play so well,” Davis said. “One reason is we haven’t been able to avoid the turnover bugaboo.”

The Blue Devils have also been bothered by turnovers all season. When starting Smith, a converted shooting guard, at the point, Duke has averaged 17.2 turnovers per game, but the Lady Tigers have been turning the ball over 21 times per game.

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Even with Currie hobbled by a stress fracture in her foot, look for the junior to be the main offensive threat for the Blue Devils. With nobody to match her size and talent, Clemson may be forced to double team the forward, leaving open looks for Foley and Smith from the perimeter. Even if the shots do not fall for Duke, Bales should be able to get many boards and keep the ball in the Blue Devils' possession.

Clemson has no real scoring threat and uses a 12-person rotation to get their points. Guard Reggie Maddox leads her team with just under 10 points per game but at 5-foot-9 will have great difficulty shooting over the 6-foot-7 Bales. Already a poor shooting team at 37 percent from the field, the Lady Tigers will face one of the nation's top defensive units and probably struggle to mount any sort of offensive attack.

The Blue Devils have not lost in Cameron Indoor Stadium all season, and Clemson has not won a game in over a month. Duke is playing with just an eight-person rotation but has adjusted very well, and all eight players have been rallying around each other when someone has an off-night. Even if Currie does spend some time on the bench, the Blue Devils have more than enough talent to dispose of the outgunned Lady Tigers.

Currie will again lead her team to victory. Clemson is simply no match for Duke this season and is going to have major problems playing on the road against a far superior team. Look for Duke to come out strong and dominate the Lady Tigers alt night compiled by Patrick Byrnes Duke wins, 82-59

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“Clelia has been playing really well,” Ashworth said.

“She has been all over our lineup a little bit, but wherever we have put her she has played really well.”

Blaszak then finished her match, which, along with the doubles point, clinched the win over the Monarchs (6-5).

On match point, Blaszak moved Kerstin Endlich from side to side and hit a clean winner from just inside the baseline to complete a 6-2, 6-0 win, improving her dualmatch record to 6-0 this season.

“She had a pretty hard, flat ball,” Blaszak said. “I started hitting into the body a little more. I started moving a little bit better, and I started getting a little bit more patient.”

Tory Zawacki won her fifth-flight match, 6-2, 6-0, with serves that overpowered her opponent. The sophomore frequently made it to net, putting away her overheads.

Kristin Cargill and Parker Coyer took a little longer to win their matches, but the results were the same. Coyer won 6-2, 6-0, while Cargill took a 5-2 lead in the second but needed a tiebreaker to complete a 6-3, 7-6 victory in the closest match of the afternoon.

At the No. 1 doubles spot, Old Dominion won its only match of the night, but Duke took the second and third slots and the opening point. Like the singles lineup, the doubles parings were shaken up because of Carleton’s absence.

Blaszak and Zawacki only let their opponents reach 40 once in an 8-0 win that took just 26 minutes.

“We just put it together,” Blaszak said. “We didn’t make

Starting pitcher Greg Burke left the game against UNC-Wilmington after six innings of workand the game tied 5-5.

BASEBALL from page 12 “We need to clean our defense up a little bit and get betperformances out of our relief pitchers,” Hillier said.

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Hockey was already a distant fourth on the popularity scale among the nation’s major league sports. The NHL lost the first season ofits two-year broadcasting agreement with NBC that was supposed to begin this season, a revenue-sharing deal in which the network is not even paying rights fees.

Taking a year off, or more, will only push the league further off the radar screen.

“The scary part now for hockey is do the fans come back? We’re not baseball, we’re not the national pastime,” Nashville forward Jim McKenzie said.

Between shifts of a pickup game at the Denver rink where the Avalanche used to practice, fan Don Cameron called the cancellation “a shame.”

“When they come back, it’s not going to be as easy to pay for a $9O season ticket,” he said.

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Kristin Cargill won Wednesday's most competitive match, even though her opponent came back from 5-2 down in the second to force a tiebreaker. a whole lot of errors, we hit our returns well, we hit our serves well and didn’t miss a lot ofeasy volleys.”

Parker Goyer and Clelia Deltour won their match 8-4 while Zika and Cargill lost in the top slot. Ashworth said he will continue to mix up his doubles lineup, as he does not know when Carleton will be able to return.

Carleton’s absence may hurt the Blue Devils more this weekend when they play No. 20 Notre Dame and No. 4 Northwestern on the road.

shortstop Michael Marbry.

The Blue Devils increased their lead to three after a homer by catcher Ron Causey in the top of the second.

But UNC-W halted Duke’s early momentum in a disastrous third inning for the Blue Devils when the Cavaliers batted in four runs.

After a Marbry lead-off double, second baseman Kenny Smith picked up two RBIs with a home run. Leftfielder Jason Appel followed with a single up the middle.

First baseman Jonathan Batts continued the offensive onslaught by knocking a ball over the right-field fence.

“I don’t think it was anything we did wrong,” Hillier said of the third inning. “They hit it hard a few times, and the wind was blowing, and they scored a few runs.”

The Blue Devils regained the lead after a two-run fourth with back-to-back hits by Adam Murray and Brian Smith.

“I’m pretty pleased with the way we swung the bat,” Hillier said. “At this point, I’m more concerned with the mistakes we’ve been making running the bases.”

Centerfielder Jonathan Anderson drew a walk earlier in the inning but was picked off while trying to steal second.

The Cavaliers tied the game in the fifth after Lee McLean scored on a wild pitch thrown by Duke pitcher Greg Burke.

“Burke threw six complete innings and 99 pitches, which is the most we’ve allowed him to go this year,” Hillier said. “He got a no decision—he pitched well.”

pie who depend on our industry for their livelihoods,” Bettman said.

“If you want to know how I feel, I’ll summarize it in one word—terrible,” he said.

Bettman said the sides would keep working toward an agreement, “We’re planning to have hockey next season,” he said.

Goodenow stressed that the players had already given a lot of ground. “Every offer by the players moved in the owners’ direction,” he said.

“Keep one thing perfecdy clear,” Goodenow said. “The players never asked for more money—they just asked for a marketplace.”

The league and players’ union traded a flurry of proposals and letters Tuesday night, but could never agree on a cap. The players proposed $49 million per team; the owners said $42.5 million. But a series of conditions and fine print in both proposals made the offers farther apart than just $6.5 million per team.

“We weren’t as close as people were speculating,” Bettman said.

Although Bettman was unequivocal in announcing the cancellation, Yzerman held out hope that some kind of a miracle was still possible.

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The second thing I’d tell them is that the politicians were willing to talk bluntly to the weekend. But on the way back, the U.S. deletyrants. McCain sat on a panel with officials gation stopped for refueling at Shannon AirRussia, Egypt and Iran. He began his talk from Ireland port in with suggestions on how to use NATO troops A bunch of us were milling about the airin die Middle East. Then it was time for a little port bar, holding little Irish coffees, when hunstraight talk. He ripped the Egyptians for ardreds of Marines started flooding into the terminal. This was their first chance at a beer resting opposition leaders. (The Egyptian forafter eight months of mayhem in the Sunni eign, minister held his brow, as if in grief.) He condemned the Iranians for supporting terror.

Triangle. They streamed in looking thick(The Iranian hunched over like someone in a necked and strong, but they also had wideeyed, tentative expressions on their faces, like hailstorm.) He criticized Russia for embracing people trying to reacclimate to the manners of electoral fraud in Ukraine. In the land of the summiteers, this was in-your-face behavior. normal life.

Then Td tell the Marines about the EuroThis unit had lost 22 men, including several pean to who had speeches. Let me say straight away that I the last weeks. talked one kid a in I covered Europe for four and craggy scar running across the half years and I’m no Euroside of his skull. He was proud phobe. I’m glad trans-Atlantic of how Election Day went and david brooks relations are improving. said Iraqis were working harder guest commentary But I’d tell the Marines that to take care of their own streets. didn’t hear too many EuroI them told a bunch of I some senators were on the other side of the bar peans giving specific ideas on how to make Iraq if they wanted to shake hands. One of themwas a success. Instead, I heard too many speakers evading this current pivot-point in history by blase, but the rest were pleased to go over—especially when they saw John McCain and Joe giving airy-fairy speeches about their grand viLieberman. These were not guys grown cynical sions of the future architecture of distant multilateral arrangements. about their political leaders.

I heard the German foreign minister, JoschI tried to think of the Munich conference ka Fischer in his soaring, stratospheric mode, those Marines had from their perspective. If had the stomach to sit through all those panel declaring that we need the “creation ofa grand discussions, would they have thought that the design, a strategic consensus across the Atlantic.”We need a “social Magna Carta” to bind political class was playing games at luxury hothe globe. His chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, tels, or that the politicians were doing someproposed a vague commission to rebuild or rething useful to make the most of those 22 Maplace NATO. His president, Horst Koehler, inrine deaths?

The first thing I’d tell these Marines is that sisted, “Unless we tackle global poverty, longwhen this group of politicians went abroad to term security will remain elusive.”

Fine, let’s tackle global poverty and have represent the United States, they didn’t take new arrangements. But maybe democracies their squabbles with them. There were Democrats and Republicans in this delegation, but should be contributing to Iraq now. That’s you couldn’t tell who was who by listening to called passing the credibility test. It occurred to their speeches. Instead, what you heard were me as we leftShannon that it’s always been true that American and European politicians have pretty specific, productive suggestions on windifferent historical experiences and come from the war Islamist extremism.

Rening against publican Sen. Lindsey Graham lobbied for divergent strands of the liberal intellectual traways to use NATO troops to protect a larger dition. But now there’s something else differUnited Nations presence in Iraq. Democratic ent. American politicians meet combat veterRep. Jane Harman was pushing the Europeans ans all the time. They make the calls to to classify Hezbollah as a terrorist group. bereaved families.

That concentrates the mind.

Hillary Clinton suggested ways to strengthen the United Nations, while also blasting its absurdities. Clinton affirmed that the U.S. preDavid Brooks is a syndicated columnist for The ferred to work within the U.N., but she tough- New York Times.

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that’s what Ludacris and Usher and countless other rules, she faces age-old double standards or presfeminist in the stereotypical sense. For a long time, I asother men have told me and my friends that they sure. The restrictive boundaries under which female sociated it with white women, working for white women’s want out of a woman. heterosexual desire can act can be seen in many comissues, condemning all those who did something “old-fashEveryone knows “you can’t turn a ho into a housewife,” mon examples. For example, many have trouble graspioned” like cook for a man or stay at home. but nor is a prude desirable. The result is that women have ing that a woman who is not a virgin This reverse vision of what it meant to be a real woman might not want to a very narrow space in which to achave sex with every man she dates. confused me, because it seemed just as limiting to me as ceptably deal with heterosexual deContrary to some notions, there are other the one women were trying to break free from. I have sire. A woman who likes lots of reasons women can choose not to have sex. An- since realized that there are many ways to be a feminist, sex—unless its lots of sex with you other example, stemming from the disdainful and not all of them have to involve bras burning the in confines of your bedroom—way that uncontrolled female sexuality is viewed, I will not insist that you take off your pearls or dance is slutty. And a woman whose is the notion that a ho cannot be raped. on tables and take on a reactionary stance toward your straight-laced “lady” image extends Often when a woman is involved in high pro- womanhood. In the end, whether you choose to obey papast the street and into the confile rape allegations, her past sexual history is triarchy, or simply react inversely to it, you are still definfines of your bedroom is probleminto question. Whether a woman has ing yourself around male patriarchy. The goal of attackamelia Herbert brought atic as well. These notions pervade had sex with zero men or ing unjust roles of male power should don't believe the hype our everyday lives and affect the 1,000, does that really I Will not insist that you take not be only to flip that power and act way women are treated by men, as off tabl «* well as how we deal with each other.

P MrIS 0r *■“ whether bm Lately I have been increasingly frustrated by the soMany of these attitudes that and take Oil a reactionary Stance simply to take on those cial stigma and behavior resulting from traditional stem from a desire to control toward your Womanhood. In the roles seen as unjust to begin with. power relations between men and women. From the man Sim^ ridiculing women for time that many young women are born, they are raised nest Test memselves in the laws of end, whether you choose to obey J not to assert their liberachoosing to think about their sexual reputations. our nation and in healthcare as patriarchy. Or Simply react intion t^e same way yoU) js just Having sex with multiple partners makes you less lady- well. While health insurance versely to it, you are still bad as women for freely exridiculing defining like, and if one does, it is not something to be talked the,r re «.ng sexuality. about. Even the concept of waiting until marriage is often uiiui control in many cases un- y oUrSelf around male patriarchy. P The goal should not be to con/ more heavily targeted toward females, despite the fact less a doctor recommends it for The goal Ot attacking unjust roles struct a new, equally restrictive counthat it takes two to tango. The more men a woman has nonsexual purposes, they have of male power should not be Only terdefinition of proper womanhood, had sex with, the lower her social status plunges, while recently decided to cover-drugs x.* but rather to create an open space nnwer and art thic male social status increases as his numbers increase. that increase sexual desire and where womanhood and female sexuAt the same time, a woman who does not want to enstamina in men, like Viagra. This Way towards men, for then ality can be self-determined and have gage in sexual activity fares no better. She is pressured to reinforces age old ideas that man y faces. A space where female are not escaping Oppressive believe that, while she can make rational choices conbut simply attempting to cerning her sexual activity, men need sex for physical survival and cannot overcome these desires, and if she female desire to freely have sex take On those roles Seen as UnjUSt “freak” behind closed doors or celewants to keep one, she will have to comply. solely for purposes of pleasure is brating your sexual desire, wearing begin with.

These conflicting messages that society sends to women abnormal. It maintains that feyour black lace or wearing your can be very confusing. They result in a society where the female sexual desire should not be pearls—or wearing both at the same male “closet freak” is the most celebrated, for she appears accommodated, or celebrated as a normal part of a time. A space where you can be a “lady” or a “freak” in virginal in the public places reserved for men to feel free woman’s life in the same way that male sexual desire is. the bedroom, the street, or wherever you please. (or more often pressured) to glorify their sexual exploits What I find equally frustrating as these double stanand only reveals this side of herself in hidden spaces. dards themselves, is the way women are often instructed to Amelia Herbert is a Trinity senior. Her column appears every If she chooses to engage, or not engage, in sex by any combat these phenomena. I’ve never considered myself a other Thursday.

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who did not attend Saturday’s performance The Vagina Monologues supposedly promotes a pro-fetionships from V-Day festivities, campus feminists show of the Vagina Monologues missed more than just an male agenda by sparking discussions about taboo subus that gender equality really isn’t their goal. overpriced and poorly-acted play. They also jects and raising awareness about sexual violence.

An observer of the Vagina Monologues sees women demissed an in-your-face expression of Said one of this year’s student directors: picted as very sexual and very anti-male, interested only female sexuality that contradicts “We need the Vagina Monologues until conin self-pleasure and lesbianism, not friendship or love. what feminism supposedly stands for. versations that are being re-enacted and perAnd it’s a woman’s genitals, not her personality, that deThe Vagina Monologues is not new formed for us begin fine who she is. to Duke; it has been the centerpiece occurring on an everyIn the past year and a half, ■ l_ fL„ j of “Vagina Day” festivities for years.

In the past year and a half, Duke students day basis between real and faculty memBased on a 1997 script by radical people hers have done a fine job raising Duke students and faculty feminist Eve Ensler, the play is wellThe Monologues, of known for two reasons course, were part of a members have done a fine job nathan carleton One, its actors impersonate felarger series of V-Day raising awareness for legiti- mutilation and sexual assault, male genitals and express their disactivities like the “Vagioverb |°™ “* e te ef poker dain for unnecessary inconveniences na f k Workshop”—an mate women's issues like eat- fortless perfection may be, this like tampons and shaving. event held at the Mary mg disorders, mutilation, and campus has seen productive disTwo, the original script contains a scene where a 24- Lou Williams Center last week for cussion ? bo nique pres year-old lesbian lures a 13-year-old girl to her home, females to display sex toys and dis- sexual assault. As overblown as sures a school like Duke puts on fenxx i x gives her alcohol and has sex with her—making her recuss masturbation. Several years ttle term effortless perfec* males, and some have even shared alize that she has no need for men. As the individual ago, organizers sold vaginastories of seif-destmction has Ponersonal playing the 13-year-old’s vagina sums up the evening, “if shaped lollipops on the Bryan tion" may be, this campus r these pages. it was rape, it was a good rape.”

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Seen productive discussion V-Day organizers claim that This year, the Duke performance was less a series of For a group dedicated to raislike the Vagina Monologues events about the unique a pressures monologues and more interactive. Specifically, 14 fe- ing respect for women, V-Day oraddress these issues, yet they offer males formed a circle on stage, asked questions like “If ganizers have an amazingly selfschool like Duke puts on feonly sex toy parties and foulyour vagina got dressed, what would it wear?,” and prodefeating strategy. mouthed rants about tampons that males, some and have even ceeded to shout out answers to them.

Indeed, by focusing every asonly take focus away from serious One scene stressed the importance of pubic hair, pect of V-Day on sex and by iden- shared personal stories of selfproblems and promote over-thewith an actress declaring that “you have to love hair to tifying womanhood by a sexual destruction on these pages. top absurdity. love the vagina.” Another part was dedicated to a 72- organ, they objectify females and Here’s hoping that anyone year-old arthritic woman and her search for a certain their bodies worse than anyone. without a date next Valentine’s There’s no doubt that men who commit acts of sexual Day will skip the Vagina Monologues and do something pleasure point.

Outside of a college campus, most would label a play like harassment and violence think of women as sexual obelse. No matter what it is, it will be a better choice. the Vagina Monologues as smut. Even those who were not ofjects, not people. There’s also no doubt that skits in fended would still see it as shock entertainment, a guilty which female actresses play pleasure-seeking vaginas do Nathan Carleton is a Trinity senior. His column appears pleasure at best. Yet here at Duke, “V-Day” organizers see little to change such perceptions.

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