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RALEIGH The $l7 billion state spending plan Gov. Mike Easley presented to lawmakers Wednesday includes $277

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Close to home For Strong, a difficult transition to Duke led to a search for stability within a stressful environment. “I was always the girl that never thought it would be my problem,” she said. “I thought that it was an image thing, that it was about being thin—that it was about trying to be perfect.”

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For sophomore Theresa Viglizzo, a preoccupation with counting calories led to a bout with anorexia and ultimately landed her in the hospital.

“Someone came to school and she mentioned counting calories,” she said. “I was definitely a perfectionist in high school, so when she started talking about it I was like, ‘Oh, maybe this is something I should try.’”

Viglizzo, who is currently a member of the Educating Students to Eliminate Eating Misconceptions group, better known as ESTEEM, began to cut back on calories after her swimming season ended. Her habit spiraled into a preoccupation that came to dominate her behavior. “It stopped being about losing weight, because I never thought I was overweight,” Viglizzo said.

“Food became the one thing that I could control. To see the weight on the scale drop became this sort of high, and it was a sense of accomplishment every day.”

In an effort to increase campus awareness of eating disorders and to counteract unhealthy attitudes, ESTEEM is hosting Celebrating Our Bodies Week. Events have included a speech by actress Jamie Lynn DiScala, a presentation on the history of body image and a display in the Bryan Center depicting a Barbie Doll and a G.I.Joe blown up to life-size proportions. In Friday’s program, “Unheard Voices,” Duke students will share their personal struggles with eating disorders. Event organizers consider this event the week’s capstone experience.

“We’re trying to raise awareness of the fact that it does exist and it is okay to talk about it, but we’re also trying to help people decide how to talk to a friend,” said senior Alexis Strong, ESTEEM co-president. “We’re not only trying to get people to seek help but also to educate people on how to help others.”

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lowest cigarette tax from 5 cents a pack to 50 cents by mid-2007. The increase would come in two phases, beginning with a jump to 40 cents in September.

The Democratic governor said the 50cent proposal has the best chance for passage this year.

“I’m trying to strike a balance between how I can get enough money to help reduce teen smoking and at the same time not make it too high for those legislators in tobacco-dependent communities, so that they vote me down,” Easley told reporters.

After a first term spent dealing with annual budget crises, Easley said his aim this year was to present a budget in keeping with the state’s slower-than-expected economic recovery, while expanding edSEE BUDGET ON PAGE 5

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MAINZ, Germany President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder agreed Wednesday to turn down the volume on arguments about Iraq and Iran, demanding in unison that Tehran abandon its nuclear ambitions and exploring whether allies should use rewards or punishment to achieve that goal.

Nearing the end of a five-day reconciliation visit to Europe, Bush also prepared for a showdown Thursday with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Bratislava, the snow-covered capital of Slovakia.

Bush said he was concerned about

Putin’s restrictions on press freedom and other steps amounting to a retreat from democracy. Still, Bush emphasized he did not want to harm “a close relationship with Vladimir.”

Bush raced through a nine-hour stop in Germany after harmonious discussions with European allies in Brussels, Belgium.

Iran was a prominent subject in his talks.

Stephen Hadley, the president’s national security adviser, said at issue was “should there be a mix of carrots and sticks and who should the carrots come from and what should they be.”

Bush expressed general support for negotiations by Germany, Britain and France

that offer Iran incentives to permanently abandon the uranium enrichment that is at the heart of its suspected nuclear weapons ambitions. “We will work with them to convince the mullahs that they need to give up their nuclear ambitions,” he said.

But the United States has resisted taking part in the European diplomacy and has insisted so far that Tehran should not be rewarded. Germany has offered to sell Iran an Airbus aircraft and other nonmilitary items to encourage Tehran to keep negotiating and drop its nuclear program.

Bush has suggested that the best strategy might be to ask the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Ayad Allawi, the secular interim prime minister, said Wednesday he’s putting together a coalition to try to hold onto the job in the next government and block the candidate of the dominant Shiite political alliance. Kurdish parties also weighed in with demands for top posts, setting up a possible showdown over the role of religion in a new Iraq.

Allawi’s call for an inclusive coalition that would attract minority Sunni Arabs who form the core of the insurgency came

as support for Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the leading Shiite candidate, began slipping in his United Iraq Alliance.

One day after al-Jaafari, 58, was nominated for the post of prime minister by the clergy-backed alliance, a Shiite political group that supports his one-time challenger, Ahmad Chalabi, threatened to withdraw its support.

The Shiite Political Council demanded that the alliance make amends after forcing Chalabi to end his pursuit of the prime minister’s post by nominating one of the council’s members for the largely ceremonial post of Iraqi president.

But the Kurdish coalition controlling 75 of the 275 seats in the National Assembly has long taken for granted that the alliance, which has 140 seats, will give the presidency to one of their leaders—Jalal Talabani.

“Regarding the nomination for the presidential post, no names were presented officially and we are running unofficial discussions with all parties, especially with the Kurdish officials here in Baghdad,” al-Jaafari spokesman Abdul Razaq Al-Kadhimi said.

The Kurds also issued a separate list of demands that include reinforcing autonomy in their northern provinces.

Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday that Queen Elizabeth II would not attend the April 8 wedding of her son and heir "because she is aware that the prince and Mrs, Parker Bowles wanted to keep the occasion low key." Prince Philip, the queen's husband and Charles'father, also is unlikely to attend.

Man guilty of triple murder Jurors in Moore County, N.C., convicted a man Wednesday in the slayings of three men during a drug deal. Prosecutors argued that he planned to kill his victims as part of a June 2002, robbery in a mobile home park.

Jury selected for Jackson trial In surprisingly quick time, a jury was selected Wednesday that will decide Michael Jackson's fate on charges that he molested a teenage boy at his Neverland Ranch. The panel consists of four men and eight women, ranging in age from 20 to 79.

Catholic leader convalescing Pope John Paul 11, appearing somewhat gaunt and wheezing as he spoke, made his longest public appearance Wednesday since his hospitalization. It was broadcast by video hookup after the Vatican canceled his planned appearance at his apartment window after rain and winds lashed Rome.

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Socio-economic, ethnic divides highlighted Jasten McGowan

Duke’s black student community, a few members blamed indirect factors, such Black Student Alliance members disas the impracticably of recruiting at cussed recent criticisms voiced by various inner-city schools where the pursuit of campus groups about the success of academia is not always a priority among Duke’s recruiting efforts in achieving a students. representative black student population “They’re not just looking for black at a general body meeting in the Mary faces, they’re looking for the best,” HenLou Williams Center Tuesday night. drickson said. “Let’s face it, most innerThe discussion began by questioning city students just don’t offer what the Uniwhat factors have shaped Duke’s current versity wants.” black student community, which some Senior Glenda Richardson recalled a BSA members claim does not represent high school experience with Duke: “They national socio-economic and ethnic dewanted me at my private school, but when mographics. The group then went on to I transferred [to a public school] I never address whether the non-representative saw a Duke recruiter again.” black student population has been a facThe discussion went on to evaluate tor in the black community’s lack of inwhat course of action should be taken volvement in activities facilitated for by BSA and black students who wish to and by black students. BSA leaders secreate a black student community at lected the topic to open the discussion Duke more representative of the nationof what direction the future black comal community.

Suggestions ranged from improving munity at the University will likely take.

The forum-like discussion suggested a black recruitment through increased sturecent influx of “privileged” black studentvisits to their high schools to extending the focus of the University’s African dents—wealthy, private high-school alumni—and students of Afro-Caribbean and American Mentoring Program beyond African heritage have led to a lack of paracademics to include social activities as well. In addition, some members suggestticipation in the University’s black community. Students in attendance generally ed that seniors take an active role in leadconcurred that most Afro-Caribbean and ing by example.

African students who enroll at Duke Although most attendees laughed at come from a more elevated socio-ecothe inefficiency of AAMP in helping nomic background than native African- black students adjust in past years, freshAmerican students. man Andrew George said the program Students responded with nods of was essential to his smooth transition to agreement as senior Jason Hendrickson college life. “I’m sure that with a little speculated that the University’s position improvement, all students [involved with AAMP] could be as lucky as I was,” as a growing institution for higher learning has led to a major decrease in Duke he said. recruiters’ emphasis on targeting lowerThe African American Collegiate Unity Coalition has organized a forum to income students.

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her growing preoccupation with dieting.

“It takes over your life —I lived my eating disorder. It robbed me of who I was and was quite possibly the most lonely feeling,” Strong said. “It affected all of my friends, my relationships and my experience with college; I pulled away from everybody.... Part of the reason that I joined ESTEEM is that I never wanted anyone to feel that they were alone.”

Three years ago, Dr. Terrill Bravender, assistant professor of pediatrics and medical director of the Duke Eating Disorder Program, and Dr. Betty Staples, a clinical associate in pediatrics, found eating disorders to be widely prevalent on campus.

“Duke students do have a significantly higher rate of disordered eating behaviors as compared to [The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill] students,” Bravender said. “[Duke women] are about 50 percent more likely to have disordered eating behaviors if you participated in a sorority.”

Duke Student Health Service officials have observed similar problems.

“We struggle probably more than some universities,” said Franca Alphin. As adviser for ESTEEM and interim director of health promotion for Student Health, Alphin is a registered dietician who has observed a significant amount of disordered eating among students. Avoiding social outings involving food, she said, was one example of such behavior.

Strong agreed. “When you say eating disorders, people think that you’re either anorexic or bulimic,” Strong said. “Its more of a continuum—there’s a lot of disordered eating in-between, and that’s where I think most students fall. Their conception of healthy eating is skewed.”

Senior Kristina Goff, co-president of ESTEEM, felt that at times, unhealthy atti-

tudes towards food arose unintentionally.

“A lot of students have disordered eating without meaning to,” she said. “I think if you get into the habit of certain behaviors is where you have the problem.”

A downward spiral As Viglizzo’s disorder progressed, friends and family began to take notice. In a physical examination, doctors noticed that she had developed a weakened heart—a complication that can often result from anorexia. “You’re not getting enough fuel, so your body just starts to eat away at its muscles,” Viglizzo said.

For people with anorexia, dieting may become excessive—to the point of self-starvation. In addition to heart problems, anorexia can result in a weakened immune system, fatigue, dry skin, hair loss and kidney failure. Dr. Susan Spratt said even recovered anorexics can suffer the consequences of the disorder later in life; malnourishment can result in calcium deficiency, brittle bones and ultimately osteoporosis. Bulimia, which is characterized by binge eating and purging, also has its complications, including heart failure and inflammation of the esophagus.

While Viglizzo continued in outpatient treatment through her senior year, the disorder was difficult to overcome. “I would throw parts of my lunch away or down the toilet, and I had a time where I took laxatives to purge my body of the food I had eaten,” she said.

Friends were a significant part of the recovery process—both as a help and a hindrance. At the time, Viglizzo’s best friend was struggling with bulimia; other friends advised her to drink excessive amounts of water and duct-tape weights to herself while she was in outpatient therapy.

“I had friends that said, ‘Anything to get you through outpatient treatment, just do it,”’ she said. “Ultimately, it was the peo-

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A display in the Bryan Center demonstrates the extremes of some male and female body stereotypes.

pie who didn’t just ignore the fact that it was happening who were being the best friends to me.”

Four years later, Viglizzo has not forgotten her struggles and said she believes disordered eating and exercise habits are a commonly overlooked problem on campus. “You go to the gym and see the girls who are there all of die time, and are they are unhealthily thin and just drinking Diet Coke,” she said.

These are the types of behaviors ESTEEM hopes to address.

Social pressures

Amy Brantley, a nutritionist at the Duke Eating Disorder Clinic, said while poor body image was often a primary cause, the factors that contribute to eating disorders are complex. Other triggers may include genetic factors, family history, social factors and interpersonal relationships.

“A lot could have to do with socialization... it just teaches us to compare our-

selves related to appearance,” Brandey said. “As a whole, women have unrealistic expectations of what their bodies should look like.”

Freshman Meredith Breuer said she believed most women suffered from appearance-related insecurity. “Girls are always conscious about their body image,” she said.

“I’m sure guys are, too, but every girl is in some way, even the ones that say they don’t care about what people think of them.”

With its proactive approach, ESTEEM has received significant praise for its efforts. While eating habits and body image remain problems on campus, optimism for the future still remains prevalent, “We need to start talking, not just about the people who are severely disordered,” Strong said. “Its not going to be a mass movement. It has to be something that happens between friends or coming from trusted sources. We need to accept it as our responsibility to effect change on an interpersonal level.”

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in October that would review concerns about the ethical implications of investments. �We recognize that sometimes a corporation’s policies or practices can cause substantial social injury,” state the guideline for socially responsible investing. “For example, corporate actions may violate domestic or international laws intended to protect individuals and/or groups against deprivation of health, safety, or civil, political and human rights.”

The guidelines go on to explain that the actions the University takes may not materially affect an offending corporation, but “such actions may have significant symbolic value.”

Robert Steel, vice chair of the Board of Trustees, noted that the guidelines set forth will allow the University community to hear different perspectives about socially responsible investing. “I think all of us feel good about the framework that this new policy gives the University when addressing these issues,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Now there is a clear mechanism by which interested parties can raise, discuss and resolve these questions.”

Burger and Steel emphasized the complex nature of the issues surrounding investment policies. “One can’t fully appreciate the secondary and tertiary ramifications of investments that the University owns,” Burger said.

“Whatever we can do to maximize the investments of Duke University, short of compromising ourselves, really ends up benefiting the students here. It is our fiduciary obligation to maximize our investment returns, but we want to do this in a socially responsible way.”

Over the past 15 years, other universities—including Harvard University, Stanford University, UCSF and Johns Hopkins University—have formally divested from their tobacco stock. In both 1991 and 1998, Yale considered divestment but ultimately voted against it. Stanford divested from its shares in major tobacco corporations in 1998 after assessing the financial and legal liability ofits stocks.

“We pulled out because of the financial liability and risk. That risk can come in many forms—it can be a reduction in stock price or return on investment based on potential liability, corporate governance practices or reputational risk,” said Linda Kimball, manager of investment at Stanford.

At Duke, the subject of investment in big tobacco receives mixed reviews. “I believe that in general it’s Duke’s job to make prudent investment strategies and to increase our endowment and allow us to compete with older institutions,” junior Paige Sparkman said. “If that means investing in tobacco stock, I would trust Duke’s judgment. I don’t think that the University’s ties with tobacco are somehow exceptional or necessarily injurious to the student body if you look at our other peer institutions.”

Frank Sloan, J. Alexander McMahon professor of health policy, law and management, has a more conflicted view. “I personally would not invest in tobacco stocks, but these are just financial instruments of the University, and if we didn’t hold them someone else would,” Sloan said. “I think we could probably do fairly well without investing in tobacco stocks, but I don’t think we are going to make people healthier just by divesting.”

The complexity of the issue at hand is underlined by junior Jared Fish, president ofDuke Democrats. “We must recognize that tobacco is a cultural icon in North Carolina, an important part of Duke's heritage,” Fish said. “At the same time, as a socially responsible investor, Duke should face the severe health impacts of smoking by financing state programs promoting profitable alternatives to tobacco.”

ucation programs and squeezing the rate of growth of Medicaid spending.

“I’m presenting a solid, balanced budget that allows us to make real, sustainable progress and provide the revenue necessary to fund our priorities,” he said.

With budget analysts projecting a revenue shortfall of $1.3 billion if all temporary taxes are allowed to expire, Easley said the economy wasn’t strong enough to allow him to end a 4-year-old half-cent sales tax increase expire this summer, as he had hoped.

Easley has no timetable for removing the half-cent increase, his staff said.

The governor’s plan does propose rolling back the 8.25 percent marginal income tax rate on the highest wageearners added in 2001. The rate would drop to 8 percent in January and back to 7.75 percent —the previous highest income tax rate —in 2007.

Administration officials say North Carolina’s top bracket—which applies to people making more than $lOO,OOO

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and couples making over $200,000—is the highest in the Southeast and puts the state at a competitive disadvantage in attracting corporations.

According to Easley’s budget adviser, Dan Gerlach, executives with building products company Louisiana Pacific expressed interest in moving their company’s headquarters to North Carolina, but “once they saw that number 8-point-something, they crossed us off the list.”

Legislators and social activists criticized the governor for giving tax breaks to wealthy residents while keeping the sales tax flat. Consumers pay a 7 percent sales tax, 7.5 percent in Mecklenburg County.

“It’s clearly unfair to give tax relief to the wealthy and not to average citizens,” said Rep. Paul Luebke, DDurham, who helped negotiate the two temporary taxes in 2001 in tandem with some middle-class tax breaks.

Easley also anticipates $105.6 million in new revenue from raising or lowering taxes on a host of items to bring them in line with other states.

Candy sales, which are now not taxed, would be taxed at 7 percent, as would sales of movie and concert tickets (now 1 percent and 3 percent, respectively).

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The Daniel Pearl Dialogue for Musllm-lewish Understanding featuring Akbar Ahmed and Judea Pearl Judea Pearl, a professor of computer science at

the University of California, Los Angeles, is the father of journalist Daniel Pearl, the

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kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in February 2002. Akbar Ahmed is a former high commissioner of Pakistan to Great Britain, chair of Islamic Studies at American University and author of “Islam under Siege.”

Monday, February 28

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Akbar Ahmed

Akbar Ahmed and Judea Pearl have launched a personal yet public dialogue out of a concern about divisions between Muslims and Jews and a shared hope for reconciliation between these two Abrahamic faiths. Their discussions range from policy issues to global perceptions and address truth, lies, and deepest fears. Question-and-answer session and book signings will follow.

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Duke entered WednesATLANTA day night’s game against Georgia Tech as the loser of its last three road games staring at a schedule that includes three ofits four fmal §ames nnux I 2? c.t\ UUKt from away GA.TECH 56 Cameron Indoor Stadium.

In each of those three road losses, the Blue Devils have been out-rebounded by an average of 11 per contest.

But with Duke (20-4, 10-4 in the ACC) clinging to a three-point advantage with 39 seconds remaining Wednesday night, Lee Melchionni hoisted a three pointer from the top of the key that ricocheted off the back rim. The ball then arched toward the top of the paint, where senior captain Daniel Ewing snatched it from midair and extended Duke’s crucial possession.

“Daniel got that rebound, and that was probably as important a play as there was in the game,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

It was the Blue Devils’ 14th offensive rebound of the night. Shelden Williams would grab another moments later off a missed free throw by Ewing.

“That whole possession, it started with a strong shot by Lee,” Krzyzewski said. “And then a strong rebound and then another strong rebound. Sometimes you win games that way.”

With a determined mindset, the Blue Devils escaped with a 60-56 win over the Yellow Jackets (15-9, 6-7) at Alexander Memorial Coliseum.

Duke won the rebounding battle 39-37, and, more importantly, held the edge on the offensive glass, scoring three secondchance points in a game where baskets were difficult to come by.

The top-ranked defenders in the ACC, the Yellow Jackets were stifling once again, holding the Blue Devils to just 33.9 percent shooting for the game. But Georgia Tech, which shot 42.1 percent, could not hit enough shots to walk away victorious.

“That was a very difficult defeat for us,” Georgia Tech head coach Paul Hewitt said.

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ATLANTA In an ugly, ugly game, all it takes to win is an exceptional performance from a single individual. With Daniel Ewing and DeMarcus Nelson handcuffed by four fouls, JJ. Redick blanketed by 6-foot-7 Anaamf* thony McHenry, and Sean Dockery sitting on analysis the sideline with a sprained knee, Duke was quickly running out of heroes to turn to with the game on the line.

When no one was left to rescue the team from the, Yellow Jackets (15-9, 6-7 in the ACC) Lee Melchionni became the Blue Devils’ messiah.

Melchionni—whom head coach Mike Knyzewski later heralded as Duke’s “unsung hero”—had a wretched first half and shot 1for-5 from the field in the first 20 minutes.

That did not stop the junior from shooting, however, and leading Duke to a 60-56 win.

With six minutes remaining, it appeared as if Melchionni would dig the offense-deprived Blue Devils (20-4,10-4) into an even deeper hole when he air-balled an ill-advised three-point attempt.

On the next two shots, Melchionni would not miss.

Three minutes after the air ball, the Blue Devils found themselves in a tied game. Nelson—witnessing a sputtering Duke offense that ended the night shooting 33.9 percent from the field—decided to make a strong move to the hoop.

The freshman drove down the baseline, and instead of finding the basket, he ran straight into a double team. Thinking quickly, Nelson spun around and dished the ball to a wide-open Melchionni. He nailed the three from the right corner.

With a little more than a minute and a half left to play, Melchionni found himself setting a screen for Redick.

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When the Miami women’s basketball team travels to Durham for the first time today, it will not only have to battle the legendary mystique of Cameron Indoor Stadium.

The Hurricanes will also have to contend with the fact that they are taking on a Duke squad ranked second in the nation and first in the ACC, a team that is undefeated at home and is in the midst of a seven-game win streak.

“It’s kind of like David and Goliath going at one another on Thursday night,” Miami head coach Ferae Labati said.

In spite of the impressive height and statistical girth of Goliath, however, David has one very accurate rock in his slingshot.

The Hurricanes (12-13, 4-8 in the ACC) boast the top

scoring storm scorer in the NCAA, Tamara James. A National Player of the Year candidate, James is averaging 23.2 points per game and tallied 27 in Miami’s 70-65 loss to Maryland.

The junior also leads the Hurricanes in blocks, averaging 6.8 boards per game. “[James] is a tough matchup because she plays the four for them, but she shoots the three really well,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “She’s really a guard, but she posts up a great deal. She’s big, she’s strong, she’s smart.”

The Blue Devils’ own National Player of the Year contender, Monique Currie, has recently been slowed by injury.

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JuniorJessica Foley anchored theBlue Devilsfrom the three-point line against GeorgiaTech Feb. 20 with sixfield goals and 19 points.

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Pins and a missed opportunity were die downfall for the Duke wresding team against N.C. State (8-8, 3-3 in the ACC) Wednesday night. The Wolfpack secured two key pins DUKE earlv in N.CSTATE 25 match, and Duke (9-5, 2-3) was unable to overcome a 19-0 deficit on the way to a 25-18 loss.

Alex Hernandez defeated Duke’s Antwone Floyd 10-7 in the opening match at 149 pounds to give the Wolfpack a 3-0 advantage to begin. Duke’s 157-pounder Adam Weisberg then lost a 13-3 major decision to Kody Hamrah to put the team score at 7-0.

The next two matches swung all the remaining momentum toward N.C. State. At 165 pounds, Duke’s normal starter Steve Smith had to sit out because of a skin ailment, forcing sophomore Adam Lesser into the lineup. Lesser was up a weight from what he normally wrestles, and N.C. State’s Ryan Nowicki used his size advantage to pin Lesser 1:58 into the match.

The 174-pound weight class was anticipated to be more evenly contested.

Duke’s Levi Craig was the ACC champion at that weight a year ago, but the Wolfpack’s Kevin Gabrielson has wrestled strong all season and entered Wednesday night with a 15-8 record.

The match, however, was one-sided, as Gabrielson pinned Craigjust 43 seconds into their bout.

“He just caught me with a move I wasn’t ready for,” Craig said after the match. “All I can do now is learn from it and get ready to wresde him again at

Ibtihaj Muhammad won the women’s sabre tide at the Junior Olympics in Dallas, Texas this weekend. In her last year of eligibility in the under-20 competition, the sophomore beat out 117 other fencers for the elite title.

For Muhammad, this tide came on play characterized by confidence and a calm nature once she got into the action.

“She fenced like she fences usually,” head coach Alex Beguinet said. “But she was much more relaxed. She was enjoying the competition more than in the past.”

The sophomore attributed her victory over the long-lasting competition to coaching support and practice.

“Coach [Beguinet] was with me the entire time from the early afternoon to the late night,” Muhammad said. “He knows that as a team, we train really hard and results like this come from that training.”

Muhammad lost her first bout but did not lose again for the rest of competition.

Beguinet said something clicked for Muhammad following her second match, after which she told him she thought she had a shot to win the tournament.

She took the final match 15-12 and never trailed after jumping out to a 3-0 lead. Beguinet said she was in control of the match after the first of two encounters.

“I have never really performed this well,” Muhammad said. “But whenyou are in the national circuit for a while, you come up against the same opponents every once in a while.”

The other Blue Devils who competed at Junior Olympics did not finish as high.

Freshman Zach Moss finished 64th in the men’s epee. Sophomore Raymond Fan lost during the early rounds of the

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Danny Otero pitched the final two innings for Duke and took out the last two batters with loaded bases.

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vocation, doing what you love

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As the game swung into extra innings, the darkening sky forced the two teams to suspend play and leave the score tied for the evening.

The ballgame began with Blue Devil starting pitcher Jim Perry perfect through seven hitters. The righty’s perfection ended on a solo home run by Radford that put the Phoenix ahead, 1-0.

Duke (4-5) got on the board with a bang in a six-run, six-hit fourth inning that put the squad five runs ahead. Over a stretch SEE BASEBALL ON PAGE 12

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carreer cenHer (ka-rir' senior) n. 1. The best place to go for help deciding what you want to pursue after Duke 2. Where you can meet with your career counselor 3. The people who can help you find jobs, explore internships and uncover your interests 4. 110 fLjjjk Page Building 5. For an appointment call, 660-1050 —Syn. (noun) 1. The perfect place to start, or continue your path to doing what you want

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Telling a message that's accessible to all races in America, the intricacies of the class conflicts between the upper and lower classes of society are illustrated through African-American caricatures.

The Harrisons, a haughty middle class family hands over custody of Beverly, Avery Harrison's niece, to Caleb Johnson, Beverly's father's protege and busi-

ness partner.

Beverly is inwardly quite taken with Caleb, who runs the Shake-Shake Club.

Avery and his pretentious wife Myra, who refers to her husband as “The Reverend Dr.,” do not approve of handing over their niece, worrying about the public image of their niece living with a nightclub owner direcdy above the club. But Beverly, who now owns half of the Shake-Shake Club, is excited that when she turns 21 the next year, she will become the proprietor of two-thirds of the club.

Beverly is at first stunned by the fast crowd of her new surroundings. But the young country girl quickly learns the tricks of the trade from Caleb's sassy lady friend, Mozelle, a woman in touch with her sexu-

How to define success? by

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“Two birds with one night!”

And so two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington summed up the historic 2001 Academy Awards ceremony.

That evening Washington received his Best Actor prize, 40 years after the legendary Sidney Poitier had become the first black actor to do so. That same night Poitier himselfreceived an honorary Oscar, his second overall. The most memorable moment of the evening, however, was when Halle Berry became the first black woman ever to receive the Best Actress Oscar.

Every year as the annual Academy

Awards ceremony approaches, the obligatory debate over the meaning of the Oscars also arises. For better or for worse, the Oscars tend to serve as an indication of the direction in which the Hollywood political current is flowing. Though the 2001 Oscar ceremony seemed to suggest that Hollywood was finally deconstructing its racial barriers 40 years after the Civil Rights era, there remained many skeptics, like Washington who saw the night less as a harbinger of change than as a pat on the back for phony progressivism.

This year Hollywood may finally prove the skeptics wrong.

In case you hadn't heard, 2004 has been retroactively branded the year of

ality, who teaches Beverly how to dress and act seductively.

Talking about the sexual desires of women and the thought that passes through a woman's mind when she sees a sexually appealing man, Mozelle says,

"If a woman talk to a man the way a man talk to a woman, she'd be by herself an' lonesome.”

Written in the early 1980s, One Monkey addresses issues that the contemporary society dealt with. A subplot of the play revolves around the controversial bestseller, The Joy of Sex —originally published in 1972—by sexologist Alex Comfort.

True to the book's popularity with the see KARAMU on page 7

Jamie Foxx. With his phenomenal per-

formances in both Collateral and Ray, Foxx has finally propelled himself onto Hollywood's A-list with the likes of Washington, Will Smith, and Samuel L. Jackson.

Foxx may not be the first actor to have successfully parlayed two outstanding performances into two Oscar nominations in a single year (Julianne Moore most recently), but he is the first black actor to do so. However, Fox* is not the lone black performer in the 2004 Oscar race —Morgan Freeman, Don Cheadle, and Sophie Okonedo also scored nominations see SUCCESS on page 7 —

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Each year since 1998 the American Film Institute has released a new list in their “100 Years...” series. This year they are striving to compile a list of the best movie quotes ofall time. Seeing as their list is decidedly stodgy and stale, recess has cceated a best of our generation (post-1990) list. Take a gander.

10. “Come with me if you want to live.”—Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991

Paris Hilton created a firestorm earlier this week in Tinseltown—this time with her clothes still on. The heiress’ T-Mobile account was hacked by a crafty', young computer whiz who prompdy posted all the exclusive celebrity cell-phone numbers on the Web, along with all of Hilton’s AIM conversations, digital photos and personal notes. Needless to say, things got a little ugly, recess did a little digging and was able to unearth some telling text messages from the inner sanctum of Hilton’s Sidekick.

Here’s a little sample:

9. “And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengence upon thee.”—Jules Winnfield, Pulp Fiction, 1994

7. “In vino veritas.”

To Lindsay Lohan: Hey bitch. U comin to Tinkerbell’s wedding? I can’t believe that slut is finally settling down. What a gold digger.

6. “No, no, he didn’t slam into you, he didn’t bump you, he didn’t nudge you... he RUBBED you. And rubbin’, son, is racin’.” —Harry Hogge, Days of Thunder, 1990

To Nicky Hilton; Did you see Jimmy Carter on MSNBC last night? What a hottie. He won’t call.

5. “I have nipples, Greg. Can you milk Meet the Parents, 2000

8. Max: “I like your nurse’s uniform, guy.”

Peter: “These are O.R. scrubs.”

Max: “Oh, are they?”—Rushmore, 1998 —

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To Ashton Kutcher; What’s a dikfour?

4. “Keaton always said, ‘I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of him.’ Well, I believe in God—and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze.” —Verbal Kint, The Usual Suspects, 1995

To Kanye West: Osama keeps blowin up my cell. Dudez w/ beardz creep me out but it would probably make Page 6.

3. “Remember those posters that said, ‘Today is the first day of the rest of your life.’? Well, that’s true of every day but one—the day you die.”—Lester Buhraam, American Beauty, 1999

To Dr. Dre: Did U read that article I sent from the New England icine? Deviated septums are so NOT hot!!!

2. “By simply doing what they're designed to do, something large and magnificent happens. In this sense they show us how to live how the only barometer you have is your heart. How, when you spot your flower, you can't let anything get in your way.”—John Laroche, Adaptation, 2002

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1. “The Dude abides. I don'tknow about you but I take comfort in that. It’s good knowin’ he’s out there. The Dude. Takin’ ‘er easy for all us sinners.”—The Stranger, The Big Lehowski, 1998

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Concert posters e new Alex Frydman recess Concerts are the kind of events that can be remembered forever. Who doesn’t recall the first concert he ever went to, or that one performance that just left him in awe of how perfect a song could be? And for every show there is always some kind of memorabilia that serves as a concrete reminder that this event actually happened. This can be a T-shirt, a ticket stub, a program or concert posters.

All concert posters advertise an upcoming music event.

This is where the similarities end, particularly with rock concert posters. They can be anything from a generic picture of the band or album cover to elaborate limited-edition pieces of art. Like any piece of fine art they make use of everything from acrylic ink and silk screening to glowin-the-dark paint and magazine cutouts. They can be satirical, moving, abstract or shocking in their imagery.

This breadth in creativity is largely due to the independent nature of concert posters. Most music-related items—T-shirts or CD artwork—are controlled and marketed by the record label. While there’s a great deal of room for creative input, since these labels have the marketing rights, they basically have complete reign over the by

aesthetics of the products.

It is a completely different situation with concert posters, which are used to advertise an event on a particular date. Only after the concert are they sold as pieces of art. But since posters are in effect advertisements for some event that occurred in the past, they’re considered to be collectibles, or cultural artifacts, unlike other merchandise, which is considered a product. The only way for the record labels to actually control the creation and distribution of concert posters would be by licensing their own promotions and organizing their own marketing. A feat such as this would be so detail-oriented, it would effectively be impossible for the major labels to pull off. For now the creation and distribution of concert posters rests solely in the hands of the artist and the performers they advertise.

Lately, this hodge-podge of designers has begun to organize themselves into - a’ more cohesive, business-like unit. In 2002, the American Posters Institute was created as a non-profit corporation dedicated to serving poster artists and promoting the art form. It is organized like any corporation, including a board of directors, which consists of both artists and non-artists. That same year API also created Flatstock, a convention held yearly at the

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South by Southwest Music Festival to feature and promote the artwork ofboth up-and-coming and established concert poster artists. It seems that concert posters have progressed far from their do-it-yourself roots of mass photocopies with slapped together cut-outs and sketches.

Even big-name corporations are getting in on the trend. For instance, for this past summer’s Warped Tour, concert poster artist Brian Ewing was commissioned to design five posters, which were sponsored in part by Cingular and Samsung. When these posters were distributed for free at the shows, the two companies’ logos were prominently displayed in the lower right-hand corner. Examples like this may become more and more visible in the coming years, especially since many of these artists work in other capacities with these bigger businesses, where they may design corporate logos and illustrate advertisements.

But many performers still see concert posters as the most direct visual embodiment of their music and with the variety in both style and message, it is still one of the most vivid ways to keep the memory of that first concert alive long after the ticket stub has been lost and the T-shirt has been worn to shreds.

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Wind symphony brings British music to Duke by

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“There are some cornerstone works that each student in a Wind Symphony must know.” These were some of the first words John Randal Guptill, the conductor of the Duke Wind Symphony, mentioned to me as we started talking about the coming English concert for February.

The concert, featuring exclusively works from some of the most interesting contemporary English classical composers, is this year's winter formal performance from the Duke Wind Symphony music series. As Guptill said, all of these pieces are “gorgeous, very beautiful music.” They are challenging as well. As students from the symphony shared, “The pieces are enriching and difficult enough to gain experience.”

The works presented are by the English composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Percy Grainger and Malcolm Arnold. Collectively, they cover a span as diverse as a toccata Marziale (martial band music), an Irish Tune, prelude and siciliano, and Lincolnshire Posy, Grainger's-masterpiece, the “musical wildflowers” from

Lincolnshire, England.

Although very different, the compositions carry inter-

esting stories behind their creation or publicity. The Lincolnshire Posy, for example, consists of six individual pieces, based on six folk songs, collected during Grainger's hunt for folk melodies around Lincolnshire in 1905 and 1906. The rhythms are sometimes very irregular such as 1/8 and 3/8, as compared to more traditional meters such as 2/4 or 4/4.

Guptill quoted Percy Grainger himself, who explained, “Each number is intended to be a kind of musical portrait of the singer who sang its underlying melody [within the folk song]... [the singer’s] preference for gaunt or ornately arabesqued delivery, his contrasts of legato and staccato, his tendency towards breadth or delicacy of tone.”

From folk to classical to contemporary, all of the pieces have something to offer and touch in the listener, with the climax of the concert being Grainger's grandiose Lincolnshire Posy.

“It is not only Beethoven or Brahms that students should know to play or recognize,” Guptill said of the choice in music. The English pieces offer a (plane-less) journey over the Atlantic and travel through the beginning of the past century with reminiscent Irish tunes and martial music.

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The Duke Wind Symphony will perform tonight at 8 p. m in East Campus’ Baldwin Auditorium. Admission is free.

Rockin the Durham proleteriat Des Ark takes the music to the people by

Matt Dearborn recess

They function on what they call a “Do-It-Yourself Ethic:” no corporate nonsense, no superficiality, just pure, stripped-down rock ’n’ roll.

They cite George Bush and Karl Marx as musical influences. In concert, they try not to play on stage, but rather move to the ground in hopes that everyone, band and audience alike, can together be absorbed by the music. If one were to evaluate the evolution of modem rock music, Durham-based rock duo Des Ark is probably about the closest a band is to existing purely for the sake of the music itself.

They have their day jobs: Aimee Argote, the band's guitarist and lead singer, works at a coffee shop. Timothy Herzog, the drummer, builds guitars. But, as with most budding bands, they have their dreams as well. They want to quit work and live as a self-sustaining outfit; however, they don't want to become a business.

“Ideally, I want to just tour around; it’s just the place I am at in my life right now,” Aimee explains. “I justwant to travel and play music; I want to meet people who are living the same life. For me, Des Ark is a vessel that will allow me to do that.”

Although they formed more than three years ago and have been playing many local shows since, Des Ark’s debut album Loose Lips Sink Ships is set to be released early next month.

Putting a genre label to the album's sound is a difficult task: the songs range from punk to folk to straight-up rock.

Such a struggle to define Des Ark, however, is not a foreign concept to die band. “It’s funny to see how people categorize [our music],” Amee says. “We don't really think about differentkinds ofmusic when we write our songs. In some senses, the fact that we're a two-piece band makes us hard to define, because we have to take up more space than other bands and requires us to be more creative in utilizing our instruments.” But

labeled or not, in the end, strip Des Ark down and they’re “just a rock ’n’ roll band.”

Apart from their debut album, Des Ark hopes to achieve their dreams by embarking on a month-long tour, traveling to cities from Washington, D.C. to Houston. In concert, Des Ark is in their prime. “It's not going to be one of those concerts where you can stand there and not be a part of it,” Timothy says. “When we move into the crowd, we're not dependent on a sound guy to make us sound good; we're completely in control of our own sound.”

By playing on the floor and with the audience, “the power dynamic between the performer and the observer is totally changed,” Timothy says. “Aimee definitely forces the people who are watching us to become a part of the music by physically involving them in what's going on. You can’t stand in front of us and not get spit on or hit.”

Aimee furthers the explanation as to why the band moves away from the stage. “To move the show into the [audience], into their space, really makes a difference,” she says. “Even if there are four people interacting with the music, it's worth it.”

They may be on the brink of getting much bigger, but Des Ark remains unfazed. “Just because we've sold some records, it's not like our sound it going to change,” Timothy says.

Aimee agrees, adding that “We will never join a major label; we would never participate in corporate rock.” For now and always, Des Ark wants only to be a rock ’n’ roll band: no gimmicks, no hiding behind fake personas.

“There is no better feeling dian driving all day in a van and getdng to a venue, meeting awesome people and playing rock music,” Timothy says. “That’s really the best thing in the world. That's all we want.”

Des Ark will be holding a free record release party 26 at Chapel Hill’s Local 506.

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Sarah Ball recess Even before she opened her red-lacquered lips to ask, the Queen of Hearts must have already guessed Alice’s answer just from looking at her.

“Do you play croquet?”

Not in that outfit, she doesn’t.

Fast forward 150 years, a time when The Official Preppy Handbook is back in print and collars are starched for maximum pop.

These days there exists a niche in the 18-to-24-year-old market for prep fashion, and at least one designer is capitalizing on it. Ralph Lauren is most venerable of die American fashion houses and, in cahoots with Brooks Brothers and British designer Lilly Pulitzer, has formed the basis of the nouveau-prep movement. Rugby is Lauren’s most recendy launched collection, specifically targeting the college sector. The line is currendy sold in stores of the same name. Only two of the “concept stores” exist nationwide—one is located on Boston’s Newbury St.; the other just opened on East Franklin St. in Chapel Hill.

The gimmick is simple. Take a successful and established brand name, update its hallmark designs and advertise in campus newspapers—voila, an incredibly lucrative endeavor. College-age kids spent nearly $3O billion on clothing in the last 12 months, according to a New York-based research firm, by

and are a notoriously fickle slice of the expenditure pie for Lauren's company. Rugby, according to the suits at Ralph Lauren, is an attempt to change all that.

But if the marketing strategy behind Rugby is relatively simple, the ultra-chic concept store is a feat of sheer marketing genius.

Salespeople are clad in ensembles chosen by management; the pieces—denim miniskirts, cashmere boleros, madras pants and oversize rugby jerseys—are theirs to keep.

“We explain our style, and then they pick out things they think we would like,” said one salesman at the Chapel Hill branch. “I love the style. It’s so relaxed.”

Prices are also somewhat relaxed.

Though the store teeters on the cusp of expensive—tweed blazers can run up to $298 the majority of the store’s offerings are much more moderately priced than Ralph Lauren luxury label. Polo. shirts are about $4B, markedly cheaper than the Polo brand.

Physically, the design of the store is also impressive. Dressing rooms resemble belowdeck cabins on a yacht with heavy canvas curtains, polished teak, brass fixtures and a heap of plaid flannel pillows. Vintage photographs ofrugby players and other athletes adorn the walls; several antique leather foot- and rugbyballs are stacked above the register.

Ripe old age is thematic: There is nothing trendy about Rugby. Rather than —

stressing groundbreaking changes in cut and fabric, the line uses color as away to stay current. Classic cable-knit cardigans, ruffly cotton pique tennis skirts and seersucker pants —things that your grandmother wore as a junior counselor at allgirls summer camp —are updated in chartreuse and tangerine. Even the store’s throwback soundtrack deftly mixes a few hip-hop hits with the Beatles’ White Album in its near-entirety.

The items that are most representative of Rugby's success thus far are the Ralph Lauren patches. Styled after blazer patches or uniform crests, the logos are sewn on or purchased separately for $l5 to $3O. Brand premiums at their finest—wearers reportedly pin patches to pants or have jersey number-like examples sewn to the backs of sweatshirts. Remarkably, these have been incredibly hot sellers.

Lauren himself has made plans for new stores to open in Charlottesville, Va. and perhaps in Princeton, N.J., catering to the collegiate masses. Local success seems imminent, with shoppers coming from across the Triangle to outfit themselves. And on a campus where preppiness is next to godliness, you can be sure to see the Rugby logo.

At any rate, if your familiarity with elite lawn sports, like Alice’s, is nil, you'll at least look like you know port from starboard.

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recess “We asked ourselves, 'Who out there is interested in doing a creative collaborative—a true collaborative?'” Designbox cofounder Aly Khalifa said. The question was posed about two years ago as Khalifa, his wife Beth and a few of their friends discussed whatwould become the creative collaborative Designbox.

As he speaks, Khalifa sits in the intimate gallery space of Designbox’s Raleigh home while members trickle in from lunch breaks and resettle into their work spaces.

What a difference two years makes.

Physically, Designbox is a big white box of a warehouse, enlivened with a Designbox sign and a bright blue door. Its office

space artfully betrays industrial beginnings.

“We haven't tried to make the space too slick, too untouchable,” Khalifa said of the space. It worked.

Two dogs trot around the open space; the conference room table is lined with chairs in primary colors; member designs and promotional materials hang proudly throughout; the office space bleeds into a gallery area that glances over comfy covered couches.

Ambiance aside, Designbox is not a typical office. It is composed of a variety of creative professionals representing firms from a range of fields, including engineering, animation and filmmaking, product design, interior design, and photography. Designbox is not, Khalifa cautioned, an “art farm.” Members are not financially tied to

one another and exist as professionals in their own right.

“What we think is the magic of it is that we’re all individual,” Khalifa said. “We’re all able to function by ourselves.”

Members may opt to rent out a space in Designbox, but must contribute at least two hours a week to Designbox—either at the weekly brainstorming meeting or in some other capacity.

Clients approach Designbox in need of a product —a brochure, for example, or belt buckles for sporting gear. Designbox then refers the client to a member or set of mem-

bers, and the metaphorical ball gets rolling Members bounce ideas off one another, and offer each other creative solutions. Contracted member or members then execute the project armed with the creative input from their fellow professionals.

Khalifa said that the range of fields proffers more creative solutions to design and practical problems.

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inter-industry “cross-pollination.” see DESIGN on page 7

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DiScala talks to recess After her recent appearence at The Freeman Center for Jewish Life, Jamie-Lynn diScala, Tony Soprano's daughter, took some time to sit down with recess' senior editor Yoav Lurie to talk Jewish mothers, Will Smith and everything in between.

R: Was the Godfather a required movie for the recess: What’s it like to work with a bunch of show? mobsters?

JLD: No. Well, not for my character at least, Jamie-Lynn diScala: On camera I do, but off camactors. for some of the guys. I've only seen it twice. work with bunch of maybe great They're era, I a What's the worst part about being a star?

R: kind ofinherited like five father I great people. great JLD: When I have the paparazzi following me. It's figures. It's a great show to be on. I guess I have been inherited into the Italian community by association surreal, it's really weird, every time you are in public, when want to go shopping with your friends or when because I have no Italian in me whatsoever.

R: If you drop a line, is James Gandolfini going to you want to eat at an outdoor restaurant and you're walking down the street with five people with camoff you? the eras in your face. And you never know when some[on cast] me, Not another guy maybe JLD: would be afraid, but I think I'm always on the safe one is watching you. That's a little strange, but it comes with the territory. And it's kind of cool, beside.

R: You grew up in a Jewish home, so, which is cause every once in a while I'll get a call from my mom saying, “Oh, I like that shirt.” You have to take worse a Jewish mom or a mob-boss dad? it both use a lot of and both lightly and disregard it as much as you can, ‘cause they guilt JLD: They I'd it's never going to go away.

But, under a lot of say pressure. put you Jewish R: Do you regret not going to college? You have mom because I have my mob-boss dad wrapped around my finger. Just by being a girl, by being lived a pretty atypical life.

JLD: I get to kind of live my life vicariously daddy's little girl: every daddy has a weakness for that. Especially as a mob-boss, he has been working through Meadow. I went to NYU for a little while with really tough men all day and has his pretty lit- and I moved into the dorm, I tried to be as normal tle daughter bat her eyes at him and you can see as I could be. I went to public school all growing up and graduated from a public school while filming him crumble apart. A Jewish mom is tough no matthe show, so I always got to live a normal life and ter what. who would it take all those steps with my friends and built this cahad to a hit on If you put anyone, R: reer on the side. So, of course, I skipped a few be? but I don't regret it. I don't envy anybody JLD: Oh, I could never do that, I couldn't deal things,life and I am so fortunate for the one that I else's with the guilt. live and I couldn't imagine it being any different.

R: Speaking of hits, what did you think of Hitchi?

R: What was the best part of having a normal upJLD: I loved it. Will Smith is my favorite. I think he is so charming. He is so great and so fun to bringing?

JLD; Definitely the bat mitzvah year. Lhad the watch. And every time I watch one of his movies, I can just engross myself in his character and the best social life my bat mitzvah year, really. It was the story, to forget about everything else, which is what best year because we got to get into these dresses with all our friends and go dance. Every Friday night, movies are all about.

Saturday night and Sunday we had one. We had to take the Fresh on, But come can R: you really have Sunday ones because there were so many Prince seriously?

JLD: I think he's a great actor, yeah, I do. He does kids—we had to squeeze the parties in.

R: And how did your bat mitzvah stack up to those a lot of fun, romantic comedies and he plays silly roles and he was the Fresh Prince of Bel Air for so of your friends?

JLD; My bat mitzvah was great. My themewas The many years, but there's a lot of talent involved in Wizard of Oz. It was a lot of fun, the DJ was the M&M that. He doesn't always have to be doing these seritwins, and I got to sing “Somewhere over the Rainous dramatic roles to get my respect. bow.”

R: What was your favorite mob movie?

JLD: Goodfellas. Without a doubt.

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Director Gurinder Chadha rides the international success of her 2002 smash Bend It Like Beckham with the more daring spectacle, Bride and Prejudice—her Bollywood take on Jane Austen's classic romance. Bride is a ‘great’ film the same way Bat Out of Hell or I Get Wet are ‘great’ albums: it's a self-conscious, operatic, sensory body blow. How well Western audiences will receive an over-the-top musical-melodrama like this, however, remains to be seen.

Nevertheless, Bollywood’s bold foray into mainstream American cinema certainly sent the right ambassadors: hot chicks. Miss World 1994 Aishwarya Rai leads a cast of gorgeous, full-figured Indian women

(sorry, boys—no nudity). If nothing else, the voluptuous Rai, who gained a well-distributed 20 pounds in order to look less like a supermodel, is a pleasant contrast to Beckham's nocarb Keira Knightley. Rai brings class and elegance to the Elizabeth Bennet role (with a name change to Lalita Bakshi), but her Mr. Darcy is more dud than stud. Mediocre Martin Henderson ( The Ring) is the son of a hotel magnate who visits India and falls in love during the film’s first and best musical number—a heartpounding, hypnotic extravaganza that sets a precedent the rest of the film never lives up to.

Outspoken Lalita and outclassed Darcy ignite a chemistry that is a little, well, absent. But when Bollywood wants romance, then by God they'll give you romance: long walks on the

beach (complete with gospel choir), dancing in the rain, faraway looks and sunset kisses...in the Grand Canyon—call it vibrant, call it obnoxious, at least it's authentic Bollywood.

The rollercoaster cinematography is jarring and the plot twists could have been stolen right from The Young and the Restless, but that's all part of the show. Nitin Ganatra is a hoot as Mr. Kholi, the L.A. accountant on the hunt for a 'traditional' Indian wife, but despite his best efforts (and even quotes from Gloria Estefan), the laughs are a little too few and far between. Easilydistracted American audiences may tire of the drawn-out musical numbers. The best of Bollywood has been bottled and is ready to go global, but it looks like the rhythm just isn’t gonna get you.

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setting five as the new record for Oscar nominated black performances in a single year.

But what does this all mean? Surely this surge in recognition isn’t because black performances are suddenly better than they used to be. Before the performances can come to fruition, the roles themselves need to first exist. Has Hollywood finally discovered that there’s an audience for films driven by black characters?

“Racial reward can never be untainted by the racial historical past,” Literature professor GrantFarred offered. “It is at these historical moments when the creations of the critical masses on the put pressure white-dominated establishment that more opportunities are created.”

In a press release put out by the NAACP immediately following the Oscar, nominations, Vicangelo Bulluck, exectutive producer of the NAACP Image Awards, noted the progress but cautioned that there was still room for improvement. “In celebrating the achievements of the nominated artists the NAACP maintains there is a struggle for more representation of people of color behind the scenes and below-the-line. We-continue to be concerned about the lack of significant roles for women of color.”

Hustle & Flow, the much buzzed-about film at the Sundance Film Festival, features noted black director John Singleton in the role of producer. The independently financed film about a Memphis pimp trying to make it as a rapper started a bidding war that ended at 5 a.m. when Paramount Studios successfully closed a distribution deal for $9 million with the help of MTV. Hustle & Row, however, did not gamer rave reviews at Sundance, with some criticizing the film’s capitulation to African-American stereotypes and its derivative exploitation of the urban genre. What then is the (rue measure of success? Is it overstereotypes? Or is it increasing the: number and exposure ofblack films?

Perhaps the problem lies within the question itself.

[These questions] will always reformulate, rearticulate themselves at different political junctures,”Farred concluded. “[The task is] not to continue the dominant narrative, but to ask the question in a different way.”

The diverse range of professionals is phenomenon, but the result of the group’s attempt to eschew ingroup competition and prevent the oversaturation of a particular profession.

Applicants must represent a profession sufficiently different from those of existing members—if an admitted applicant has a specialty similar to an existing member, that memberwrites up a non-competition contract. Such measures are intended contribute to a space that allows members to share ideas without reserva-

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tion or fear of idea theft.

Khalifa called the group’s organization “the opposite of the good of boy system.”

Members take turns heading the Wednesday night brainstorming meetings and curating the group’s gallery installations, like next week’s The Art ofHELLCAR curated by comic strip artist Paul Friedrich of Onion Head Monster fame.

After two years of existence, Designbox appears to be going strong. But, Khalifa laughed, “There's no way we've got this thing nailed down.”

Though members boast book deals, product designs, and participation in the creation of the Pratt School of Engineering's “Smart House,” Designbox is thinking bigger. “We want to ultimately become a brand of quality on a creative individual,” said Khalifa, so that a Designbox member is instantly recognized as talented, innovative and creative.

Khalifa also mentioned that Designbox would like to plant the “seeds of the idea” in other locations—like Durham.

Fuqua: take note.

KARAMU from page 1

youth, Myra’s college-aged son brings the book into their sterilized, bourgeois

home. The presence of the book sets the prudish Myra Harrison’s fury ablaze and gets the Reverend Dr. Avery Harrison’s hormones flowing. The Joy of Sex isn’t the only thing Felix brings home.

Li!’ Bits, or Josephine Caldwell, who is from the “dangerous” side of town, joins the family, much to the horror of Myra.

The play shows the variety within the African-American community, using caricatures to kindle dialogue about the stereotypes that are projected on African Americans.

“My character tries to disown those who are not well to-do...[but she] was originally poor, then she and Avery came to their status through [fortuitous] circumstances and now looks down her nose,” said senior Chi Chi Eto, who plays the over-the-top Myra Harrison.

While the play works to criticize certain sitock characters, Eto agrees with the play’s co-directors, senior Shaleia Threadcraft and sophomore Norah Yahya, that it speaks to different “types” within the African-American community—from middle-class to poverty level—as a social commentary for inter-class is-

sues beyond the African-American social dynamics.

Being a comedy, One Monkey isn't a philosophically heavy piece, but, with its over-the-top characters, it will get the audience engaged. Throughout the play, many of the characters, from the ostentatious Lil’ Bits played by freshman Laura Welch to Avery Harrison played by senior Rasul Miller, undergo progressive and liberating changes. The most notable transformation, however, is the process that Beverly Harrison, played by senior Portia Jones, goes through to gain agency over herself as a woman.

Karamu Drama Group, in existence since the 19605, is one of the lesserknown, student-run theater groups on campus. Karamu has a distinct mission to serve as a catalyst for critical thought and as a resource for African-American history and culture. Not all the members come from theatrical backgrounds, yet they put together the talents they have to achieve a larger purpose. They use extensive research to bring to the stage lesser-known works from AfricanAmerican artists that address issues that pertain to a diverse audience.

Yahya said, “Lots of our plays happen to be controversial vehicles [that allow] the Duke community to see African American lifestyles.”

Threadcraft further ties Karamu’s aim and One Monkey together. “People tend to lump African Americans together but we’re trying to dispel the image of homogeneity, explain stereotypes through exaggerations of the stereotypes,” she said.

They both talked about the pertinence of the play, despite the fact that it was written over 20 years ago. The issues of premarital sex, college life and class struggles are exemplified indulgently. “It throws it in your face, gets you to think on your own about the topics,” said Threadcraft.

While this play is not as sensational and charged as last year's The Blaeks, A Clown Show, Yahya thinks thatit will elicit a reaction from the African-American students. The play illustrates AfricanAmerican history that has been around but not explicitly spoken about and that cannot be ignored.

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Mistie Williams (left) scored eight points against GeorgiaTech Sunday. Three Blue Devils (right) swarm a Yellow Jacket underneath the basket. The Blue Devils take on ACC newcomer Miami tonight.

MIAMI from page 7 first time this season in Sunday’s 73-55 win over GeorgiaTech.

Currie suffered two stress fractures in her left foot in Duke’s Feb. 3 victory at Miami and has averaged 11.8 points in the subsequent four games. In the eight games prior to her injury, the forward av-

eraged 21.3 points.

“We need [Currie] to be effective,” Goestenkors said. “I think she’s becoming more comfortable with the shell and with

the orthotic in her shoe, and I think she’s about ready to turn the comer for us.”

With their top scorer playing under duress, other Blue Devil starters and bench players have stepped up to fill the void. Junior guard Jessica Foley posted a teamhigh 19 points against the Yellow Jackets Feb. 20, sinking five three-pointers.

Freshman Chante Black has been averaging 7.8 points off the bench. Black and fellow reserve Wynter Whidey each recorded 11 points in Sunday’s contest.

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Labati also named starting center Imani Dhahabu amongst Miami’s top players.

Dhahabu’s performance has improved as of late. She has averaged 11.3 points and 6.7 rebounds in the last six games, well above her season averages of 6.0 points and 5.2 rebounds per contest.

“Their role players have really stepped up for [the Hurricanes], I think, since the first time we played them,” Goestenkors

said. “They’re getting much greater contributions from all of their other players as well, which makes them very, very good and very dangerous.”

Miami has struggled on the glass in recent games. In the Feb. 17 contest, the Hurricanes were outrebounded 46-26 by the Terrapins. The Blue Devils grabbed 46 boards compared to Miami’s 30 rebounds in their 72-63 win.

“I think we have to do a better job on the boards,” Labati said. “We’ve got to play a great game against Duke just to be in the game with them.”

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GA. TECH from page 7 win those types of ballgames. It’s very disappointing that we didn’t.”

Williams, who struggled throughout the first half, shooting l-for-7, began the second half on the bench. But with about 13 minutes remaining, he began asserting himself against Yellow Jacket center Luke Schenscher.

He did not miss a shot the rest of the game, including what Krzyzewski called “one of the spectacular plays of the season.”

Ewing missed a jumper and Williams slammed home the rebound with one hand nearly bringing the rim down with him.

This put-back extended the Blue Devil lead to five points with 2:16 remaining.

After Jarrett Jack made a right-handed layup and hit a foul shot to complete a three-point play, Melchionni rattled in his third three-pointer of the game, again increasing the lead to five. Free throws by freshman DeMarcus Nelson and J.J. Redick sealed the game.

Earlier in the half, it looked as if foul problems could once again derail the Blue Devils on the road. Ewing committed his fourth foul with more than 15 minutes left, and Nelson joined him on the bench with four fouls three minutes later. To make matters worse, junior Sean Dockery sprained his knee in the first half and was unable to return to the game.

With no other scholarship guards available, Krzyzewski turned to Patrick Davidson, who earned meaningful minutes for the second consecutive game.

Once again the sophomore walk-on made the most of it.

“The kid, number 41, Davidson, you’ve got to give him credit,” Jack said. “He stepped up and played huge minutes for them, and you’ve just got to take your hat off to him.”

When the Blue Devils Jumped out to a 20-11 lead early on, Jack shouldered his team and scored eight straight points. But after the halftime break, the point guard went cold and scored just six more to finish the game with 20. Teammate BJ. Elder, who recently returned from a hamstring injury, could not find his rhythm offensively either, making just one basket.

With just three games remaining in each team’s regular season, the two squads are faced with very different scenarios.

The Yellow Jackets have now dipped below .500 in conference play, but Hewitt said he believes his team can turn things around in a hurry just as they did last year, when they marched to the national title game.

The Blue Devils, with the win, are still alive in the race for the ACC regular season championship—although they need both

Wake Forest and North Carolina to lose—and have high postseason expectations.

“They play in the toughest league in the country,” Hewitt said of Duke. “You’ve got two No. 1 seeds right now coming out, with Carolina and Wake. They’re 2T against those teams right now. If they’re not wordiy of a number one seed, I’d like to find out who is.”

NOTES: Redick scored in double figures for the 23rd time this season, the 78th time in his career. The junior has scored double-figures in 10 of his team’s last 12 games....

Williams recorded four blocks against Georgia Tech and now leads the ACC with 91 on the season. Williams’ 12 points and 10 rebounds gave the junior his ACC-leading 33rd career double-double....

Duke improved to 20-4, for the 22nd 20-win season in Krzyzewski’s 25 years at Duke.... Freshman David McClure played two minutes against the Yellow Jackets after sitting out with a knee injury he suffered Jan. 26 against Maryland.... The Blue Devils have won 108 of their last 126 ACC road games. This season, Duke is 4-3 against ACC teams on the road.

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JuniorLee Melchionni contributednine points off the bench, hitting all three baskets from behind the arc.

MELCHIONNI The two Georgia Tech players chased after Redick, but neither followed Melchionni. He set up camp at the top of the 3-point line and nailed the shot in the face of the slow-to-react Georgia Tech defense.

The shot put Duke up by five, and the Yellow Jackets would never recover.

“It’s tough when a player goes three-for-10 and all three ofhis shots are huge shots from behind the arc,” Georgia Tech point guard Jarrett Jack said after the game. “It’s tough to swallow. They have their three big guns in Shelden Williams, Daniel Ewing and Redick, but their supporting cast just do a great job of stepping up. It was a pickand-roll situation, and we tried to help, but Melchionni just caught that pass and made the three anyway.”

The moment he released those two shots, the junior knew his days of ugly attempts were over.

“The air balls I knew were short,” Melchionni said. “Those last ones I just let go, and they ended up going down and it felt great.”

Melchionni’s contribution is even

more crucial when one takes into consideration the impotence of the rest of the Duke offense. Redick, who attempted only three three-point shots in the second half, praised Melchionni’s courage when the game was on the line.

“I was so proud ofLee,” Redick said. “I talk to him all the time about having a killer instinct. For him to step up and do that was just great. It showed a lot of guts.

With Krzyzewski forced to count on yet another round of passionate performances from walk-ons Patrick Davidson and Patrick Johnson, and with the Blue Devils truly struggling out of the set offense, Melchionni provided the lone offensive spark for Duke in the second half. Ewing continued Redick’s “True Grit” accolades.

“Real gutty plays by him,” the senior said. “It showed all the confidence and poise that he had in his shot.”

Most importantly, Melchionni did not retreat into modesty after the game. He admitted that he made a conscious effort to take control of the contest.

“With guys in foul trouble and guys having trouble shooting the ball, it just gave me a chance to step up,” Melchionni said.

“It’s just what I had to do today.” ”

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Javier Socorro and Bryan Smith each notched an RBI dou-

ble with catcher Ron Causey adding a two-RBI single.

Perry had been cruising until he was unable to retire a batter in the Elon fourth inning. Paul DeMarco came on in relief but relinqished three Phoenix runs before retiring the side. Elon used this momentum during its following two at bats, tying the game and building a two-run lead heading into the seventh.

With the bases loaded and nobody out in the seventh, Duke had a chance to take the lead back and possibly more. Freshman first baseman Brett Bartles, who is currently leading the team with a .533 batting average, hit a two-RBI single, evening the score at eight. The Blue Devils, however, failed to capitalize on the opportunity to take the lead. Eric Baumann was picked off second base, leaving just Bardes on first, where he finished the inning.

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men’s foil tournament Marilyn Tycer won her first match, but the sophomore lost the following two in the women’s foil competition.

Several Blue Devils have won Junior Olympic titles over the past several years. Last season Muhammad and fellow sophomore Anne Kercsmar earned All-American honors following the 2004 NCAA Fencing Championships.

A Junior Olympics championship tide has often translated into fencing success beyond a collegiate career.

Mariel Zagunis, who won the sabre competition at the Junior Olympics in 2000, went out to win gold at the Athens Olympics in August.

Muhammad, Moss and Tycer are looking to capitalize on their experiences at the Junior Olympics as they head to the Atlantic South Regional tournament March 5 with five other Duke fencers. Muhammad, noting that the Junior Olympic competition is more stringent than that of the regional tournament, is looking to complete a top-five performance March 5 to advance to the NCAA Tournament.

WRESTLING from page 8 the ACC’s.”

Duke head coach Clar Anderson said the decision at the 174-pound weight class won the match for N.C. State.

“We were really expecting to get a win there,” Anderson said. “That pin was a nine point swing from what we were expecting and really took us out of it.”

Duke took some of the momentum away from N.C. State in the next two matches. Frank Comely won a major decision at 184 pounds to bring the Blue Devils within 15,and Mark Thompson earned a technical fall at 197 pounds over Wolfpack backup wrestler Jeremy Colbert to put Duke within reach at 19-9.

Though three matches remained, the final outcome seemed to rest in the heavyweight result. Duke’s Venroy July was 60 pounds lighter than his opponent Jainor Palma, but July had a quickness advantage. In the end, however, Palma was able to use his weight to win a 2-1 victory and put N.C. State ahead 22-9.

“It is definitely hard to wrestle someone who weighs a lot more than you,” July said. “I just tried to do what.l do and unfortunately he was just a little better this tirhe.”

Kellan McKeon lost a close decision at 125 pounds before two impressive Blue Devil victories closed the match.

At 133 pounds, Duke’s Bryan Gibson dominated Jeremy Hartrum, a former ACC runner-up, en route to a thirdperiod pin. Wes Kuser’s match at 141 pounds went into a second tie-breaker before an escape, a takedown and three back points earned Kuser the 9-3 victory.

“Bryan Gibson has been wresding tremendously,” Anderson said. “He has improved so much this year and he could do very well in the postseason.”

With the loss, Duke finished the regular season 9-5 overall and 2-3 in the ACC. The Blue Devils finished fourth in the conference, a disappointment after last year’s team tied for first.

The Blue Devils are now preparing for the ACC Tournament. Several individuals have a chance to place high, but Duke first has to work on a change in attitude, Anderson noted.

“We need to be more aggressive,” Anderson said. “In wresding, the aggressive wrestler wins, and right now we need to work on being the aggressive wrestler.”

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students should get test- times STDs are symptomless. It is neced for HIV, and the Universi- essary for students to get tested perity should do a better job of odically to maintain their health and advertising and promoting the free the health of their partners. Testing, HIV tests available to students however, is no substitute for practicing safe sex, and Stuthrough the Student St3tfGultoli3l dent Health also proHealth Center. vides students with Duke research have found that it is cost-effective for free condoms For its part, Student Health more people to get HIV tests than national guidelines suggest. Routine should better advertise the available HIV tests, even in low-risk individuals, tests and continue to educate stuwould slow the spread of the virus dents about sexual health concerns. and save lives. It would be less costly Student Health should also seek to than treating HIV after it has been provide a safe environment where students feel comfortable getting testbeen contracted It is a good idea for students to get ed. If students feel that they will be tested for HIV and for all sexually judged if they go in for STD tests, transmitted diseases routinely. College than they will not get tested to the students tend to be at high risk for detriment of their own health.

STDs since they may have a larger than Jean Hanson, administrative director for Student Health, has made it average number of sexual partners. clear that the STD tests are offered In the summer of 2003, two independent reports from researchers at simply for t&e safe of student welfare.

Duke and the University of North Student Health is not passing judgeCarolina at Chapel Hill found a spike ment on students’ lifestyle or sexual behavior. As true as this may be, howin HIV cases among black men at Triangle colleges. The reports also ever, some students may still be threatfound young women to be at particuened by the idea of getting tested.

Therefore, Student Health should larly high risk for STD transmission. do everything it can to educate stuAt the Duke Student Health Center HIV tests are included in an STD dents and ensure that they feel comtest package offered to students for fortable enough to go get tested.

STD and HIV tests are designed to free. These tests are readily available and easy for students to take. All stukeep students healthy, and more students should utilize them. Given the dent have to do to get a free, confidential HIV test is walk a couple prevalence of STDs on college camhundred yards to Student Health. It puses and in the Durham area, it is a good idea for as many students as posis not time consuming, and the bensible to get tested, and Student efits are significant.

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Sophomore Theresa Viglizzo, a member of ESTEEM, on eating disorders on campus, a problem she feels is often overlooked at Duke. See story, page 1.

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Coach G invites students Students, women’s basketball needs your support!

I would like to encourage all of you to come out this week for the women’s basketball team’s two final games at home this season. We play Miami on Thursday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. and fourth-ranked University of North Carolina Sunday, Feb. 27 at 8 p.m.

We have a tremendously talented team this season that is currently ranked second in the nation and first in the ACC. We suffered an away loss to UNC earlier this year, but are prepared and eager for Sunday’s rematch.

Having an enthusiastic and spirited student section will certainly create an exciting atmosphere for our athletes, and an intimidating one for these opponents.

to games

As you know, there is nothing quite like the Duke-UNC rivalry.

Sunday’s home game will no doubt embody the intensity, physicality, and passion that are inherent in any Duke-UNC match up.

These are our last home games of the season and we would love to head into the ACC Tournament with two very big wins.

So, to recap, we would love to see all of you, in true Cameron Crazies fashion, at our home games this week versus Miami on Thursday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. and versus UNC this Sunday, Feb. 27 at 8 p.m.

Thank you for your support and Go Duke!

Gail Goestenkors Women’s basketball head coach

K-ville tradition a ‘blight on the land’ Tradition—one definition is “a time-honored practice.”

This letter is not an attempt to put a damper on expression of school spirit or to do away with K-ville, but an opinion of its outward appearance and how it impacts the morale and sense of dignity of Duke’s support staff—and a plea to future tenters to show respect for property and consideration of Duke employees.

The majority of administrators probably don’t get to see K-ville up close, but for those of us who do, here is what we’re subjected to.

Working in the Wilson Recreation Center, between Christmas and spring break, we are privileged to witness firsthand the tradition of K-ville daily, as we walk from Card Gym parking lot to Wilson and back—at best stepping around smelly garbage, wet bedding, cans and other litter—at worst trying to avoid broken glass, vomit, blood, urine, feces even used condoms.

It seems to grow a little worse each year, with this year being the worst yet. The garbage cans provided are not fully uti-

lized. It is an eyesore with all the trash and litter and must create quite an impression on visitors.

As parents and grandparents, it is scary to see kids living in such deplorable conditions for 6-8 weeks. Is this what an expensive education at an esteemed university comes down to? Is it okay to make a horrendous mess because someone else will clean it up?

The employees performing the cleanup should receive premium pay, probably even hazard pay.

We appreciate that basketball is a big part of the Duke experience, and are all in favor of school spirit and team support, but in its present state, K-ville is a blight on the landscape of an otherwise beautiful campus.

Betty Hilliard JohnLeßar Mike Forbes Robbie Williams Ruth Johnson Lee Tucker The authors work in Wilson Recreation Center

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How ironic it was to see Ashwin Bhimd’s

lighthearted attack on stereotypes next to John Miller’s column justifying Harvard President Summers’ unsupported remarks about the relative inability of women to achieve in

selves to be feminists. Summers’ statements are right in line with the Harvard culture that I remember, and I believe that such statements create and encourage an atmosphere in which individuals are belittled and

the sciences and in mathematics. If one

discouraged.

thing needs to be made clear to Summers, Miller and many others, it is this: stereotypes

And what we do at a university comes down to individuals. I don’t teach “women.”

I teach Francesca and Janelle and April and Yu-Jin and many others. I judge each of them by their ability, their work, and what Martin Luther King called “the content of [their] character[s]” and the same is true of my male students. Because one Harvard professor judged me the same way, I became a scientist—with no slight quantitative ability.

And because I believe that stereotypes stand in the way of scientific discovery and of individual achievement alike, I have become a non-donating Harvard alumna.

and generalizations have no use in the context ofintellectual achievement.

Harvard attracts gifted women scientists from around the world. What message does that University’s president’s statement send to those women about how their worth is perceived and how their work will be rewarded?

What message does it send to their male colleagues and supervisors?

I received my A.B. from Harvard in 1988.

Sexism was rampant, blatant, and tolerated at every level there at that time. I found myself on the butt end of negative remarks about my mathematical ability from male Harvard faculty, and about my unladylike athletic ability from members of the Radcliffe administration who believed them-

Anne Weil, Ph.D. Research Associate Biological Anthropology and Anatomy Harvard Class of ’BB

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should have known better when I first read the head- ciplinary action. Churchill’s words may have been con- Is it acceptable to work for a company like Lockheed lines claiming that Ward Churchill had compared troversial, but it reveals a very twisted set of priorities Martin, even though you know they are a part of the milwhen controversial words cause more alarm than rape itary industrial complex and profit from war? Is it possiSept. 11 victims to Nazis.

Instead, I believed the mainstream media and was and violence. ble to work for the CIA and not implicate yourself in the lam defending Churchill for many reasons, but the torture or repression of others? Can you put a sticker deeply disappointed in an activist I had admired since high school. “How could he say that?” I wondered as I first of which is that Churchill never advocated terror- against Alaskan oil drilling on your car? remembered interning in New York in the summer of ism against civilians—in fact, he was condemning terrorMy third and final reason for defending Churchill is 2002. Even almost a year later, people in downtown ism against innocent people by pointing out the cruelty that his courageous questions should compel us to take Manhattan were still shaken and theirkids were still hav- of our own military targeting. Using the logic of the U.S. action on behalf of oppressed innocent people around ing nightmares. I was sure Ward Churchill had gone too military, the World Trade Center and Pentagon would the world. far and destroyed his credibility as an activist and social be considered “military targets” because they housed In a recent article, Churchill wrote that the “bottom critic. military and intelligence offices. Sudden- line of my argument is that the best and perhaps only ly, the janitors, children, and secretaries way to prevent Sept. 11 style attacks on the U.S. is for Even when it seemed clear to me that Ward Churchill had lost it, I had friends become unfortunate“collateral damage.” American citizens to compel their government to cornWe often claim to minimize civilian ply with the rule of law.” Churchill believes this is an obsending me links to the full text of his deaths, but al Qaeda could argue that ligation that befalls all of us, including himself. The comments on Sept. 11 and explanations of why he said what he did. My own tragic and devastating terrorism on they made the same efforts. After knowledge ofWard Churchill also caused Sept. 11 gave us a firsthand experiUsillQ tllG IOOIC Of all, they didn’t tarme to doubt the media’s claims. Churchill ence of what the rest of the world has fought in Vietnam, he has spoken out eloget th,e Mall of U.S* ITIIIIXciry, TllG WONCI been suffering for too many years, DriClQjGt nGWITISII America, a quently and defiantly against the oppresTontpr anH Pan- There is noj possible justification for WlUci and rcH the ma i m n g Gf children or the sion of Native peoples, and he never heslooking for the holes NASCAR race, or itates to ask the tough questions that of innocent human beings. slaughter Disneyland. They tdQOII WOUld bG COllSici* 3 aimed for the cenknow is no such thing as colWe now desperately need to be asked. I began to f lateral damage when the people are wonder if I had missed something even as CNN and Fox ters of our military and economic ered military y our own ' P er*iaPs we should quesNews were telling me that Ward Churchill wanted more power. When they did this, they *U ou hniiCO horailCO iney DcWUSc nOUbc lifted a page right from our own tion if such a conce pt should even Sept. ll’s and supported terrorism against civilians. exist in the first place, After reviewing Churchill’s statements and interro- playbook. The defense of such Gild intGlll* I know that many people would gating my own conscience, I have now concluded that targeting is of course, morally abstill disagree with Ward Churchill Ward Churchill was right to raise these painful ques- horrent. This was Churchill’s gGncG offices. Sudeten ■ -■ they understood his actual dons. He was right to raise them and in response our point, not that it is acceptable to even ianitnre rhil Cml“ *ji JdmTOrS, position, but I think we should at country has demonized him in an attempt to avoid an- kill civilians.

The second reason why lam east d^scussi n g h*s argument swering his difficult questions. Churchill has received cITGR and SGCrGtdNGS and not the sensational headlines, numerous death threats, he has had swastikas spray- defending Churchill is that he Do we desire universal definitions of Urn OftlUlcltG painted on his truck and institutions have told him that forced us to ask ourselves if we “innocent” or “civilian”? On what they could not guarantee his safety at speaking events, have a duty to refuse to particin COIIaTCiaI QcaillciCpG. moral basis can we have one set of The price of truth is high these days. pate in oppressive systems. On definitions for ourselves and another While Ward Churchill has been hung out to dry at this point, Churchill admits that the University of Colorado, other scandals have received he himself is implicated in the oppression of others. As for the rest of the world? And what does it reveal about little attention. Football recruits are allegedly shown an academic, he has a certain amount of power and he us when we viciously attack those who dare to even ask pornographic films and promised easy sex if they join also benefits to a certain extent from the wealth of our such questions? the school’s team. Three women have claimed they were country. All of us are in a sense hypocritical if we critiBrigdet Newman is a Trinity senior. Her column appears raped or assaulted by University of Colorado football cize others for mindlessly contributing to the suffering players but school officials have yet to take any real dis- of others without examining our own lives and choices, every other Thursday.

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students still wonder why President Richard robbery and murder, though the man she married has son ended up a radical himself, often comparing his Brodhead handled last semester’s Palestine Soli- still never cooperated with authorities. parents’ imprisonment to larger social problems. In a Three month’s after BrodNew York Times interview, he glodarity Movement controversy the way he did. Was Brodhead just trying to make everyone happy, or does head and others sent the letter, Oil Jllll6 15, 2003, Brod- rified his parents’ past, saying “We have a different name for the war Duke have another administrator/activist in the Allen a sympathetic parole board ac■ *l rl a I ++ released IIG3CI SIQIIGCI 3 IGTTGr TO 1116 we’re fighting now—now we call it tually Building? At least one story from Boudin, prompting Ngw York Board Of PdVOIG die war on terrori sm dien they the President’s past suggests he is called it the war on communism. indeed into activism. great outrage.

Urging TtlG TGIGdSG Ot 111Brent Newbury, the My parents were all dedicated to On June 15, 2003, Brodhead ghting US - imperialism around President of a Policesigned a letter to the New York matG Kathy BOUdlll 1 who flthe world. I’m dedicated to the Board of Parole urging the release men’s Benevolent Association, called WdS SGrVIflCf 3 SGIItGIICG lOf same thing.” of inmate Kathy Boudin, who was Boudin “a cop killer Not only didBrodhead sign the serving a sentence for a 1981 rob1981 TObbGrV that left letter, terrorhe also spoke about the that left two and anda domestic a bery policemen rarltnn Hainan CaniOn ist “it makes need for dead. tWO and a SGCUadding prisons to not be “vindicguard poIICGITIGn security Identifying tive.” a statement to the Yale In himself as the Dean ofYale Univeru physically sick to my poker narrl rloarl irlontifu.

9 Dean Brodhead exY Y Herald, stomach to see her Daily sity, Brodhead joined others in saywalk of his reasons for signing the out prison.” plained that an ideal Dean Of Ing ing justice system hl'lTlSelf 3S tllG letter, even making a comment Fraternal Order of Police Valo llnivorcifu “recognizes and rewards inmates like Kathy who have, RrnHhPAri about The Scarlet Letter: URI VCfSliy, DFOaneaa undergone profound personal growth, and shown gen- President Frank Ferreyra called Said Brodhead: “This case uine remorse.” The letter said Boudin had “earned” Boudin’s release “a slap in the joined OthGfS in Saying raises in a very deep way the face of every officer in our state parole.

A ’7os radical, Kathy Boudin was a member of and our nation” and a “travesty that an IdGal JUStICG SyStGITI question of rehabilitation, the “Weather Underground,” an American terrorist group of justice.” "fGCOQniZGS and TGWafdS question whether punishment and suffering can work a change New York Governor George that bombed government buildings. On Oct. 20, 1981, denounced mmatGS lIKG Kaihy WHO that makes further punishment also she and other members of the radical Black Liberation Pataki “It is release, killed Brinks while Boudin’s saying a Army security guard stealing $1.6 ||gyo undGfCXOnG profound J ust vindictive, Maybe I m just a man who has millionfrom an armored truck. When the U-Haul they not a decision that should have pGISOIIdI grOWXn, and taught The Scarlet Letter too transferred the money to was pulled over by two police- been made.... The murder of a °^ten men, Boudin got out and asked the officers to put their police officer is a horrific crime ? 3111 th° u ght this was the QGntliflG time, this and that should be case punone As several armed men out guns away. they did, jumped Its unclear whether Brodhead of the back of the U-Haul and shot the two officers ished to the fullest extent of the TmG iGttGT S3l Cl BOlXCiin hdCI er reasons or law.” dead, one white and one black.

DarolG Brodhead’s letter probably the letter. It s also unclear whether Boudin was arrested while running from the scene he would ever use his position at of the crime. Police were already looking for her be- had nothing to do with stands, written at the beDuke take similar release, Boudin’s but it was to actually cause of her role in an explosion at a Greenwich Village townhouse ten years before. While in jail, Boudin best of Boudin’s son Chesa Boudin, a Yale student at Nathan Catlton is a Trinity senior. His column appears married one of the men involved in the robbery, al- the time. Chesa’s parents went to jail when he was a while Yale.

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