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Hill said while some individuThe Graduate and Professional als may never set foot in the StuStudent Council focused Monday dent Health Center, some people night on reviewing student health visit emergency rooms numerous insurance increases estimated for times each year. ‘You need to ennext year. Dr. William Purdy, assiscourage the people that have got tant clinical professor and interim these medical conditions to take medical director for Student better care of themselves,” he said.

Health, spoke along with Dan Megan Bums, GPSC attorney Hill, founder of Hill, Chesson and general and second-year public Woody—the insurance firm that policy student, said the group brokers insurance for Duke—- would help educate students. about current and future insur“GPSC must continue to raise ance costs for graduate students. awareness of student health so Insurance rates have risen on that, overtime, these insurance rate average 14 percent annually due increases will slow down,” she said.

Also discussed at the meeting to inflations in the health sector.

Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North was Duke University Union’s reCarolina, the provider of Duke’s cent increase in programming student health insurance, hiked fees for graduate and professioncosts 21.9 percent last year to al students. GPSC President $1,310 per student. Purdy said he Heather Dean, a fifth-year graduate student in neurobiology, said expected the costs to increase another 20 percent this fall, raising this increase will take effect in the concerns among cash-strapped 2006-2007 school year.

Senior Kevin Parker, president graduate students.

“What determines premiums of the Union, said steadily innext year are the number of creasing prices in the entertainclaims and dollar amounts this ment industry necessitated a raise year,” Hill said. “Emergency in graduate student contributions. He added that well-known room visits make up the most exspeakers may now cost more than pensive of these claims.” to bring to campus, $22,000 of said 79 graduHill percent ate students are insured under more than double the average Duke’s plan and 77 percent of costs of the early 19905.

The annual fee for graduate those students made some sort of health insurance claim over the and professional students stands past year. The claims amounted to more than $l3 million for the SEE GPSC ON PAGE 4 by

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The smirk GREENSBORO on Ivory Latta’s face from the opening tip said it all.

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nating 8867 win over the Blue Devils Monday in the ACC Tournament finals.

UNC used a 22-8 run to pull away early in the second half and held off a furious rally late in the game, handing Duke its first tournament loss since 1999.

“They won three games against us in a row,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “So at this point they are the better team.”

Latta, the tournament MVP, led the way for UNC with 26 points and seven assists, but she was far from the only Tar Heel lighting up the Blue Devils. Forward Camille Little chipped in 23 points of her own, including a devastating three-pointer with 8:17 remaining in the second half and the shot clock winding down.

“That was a dagger,” Goestenkors said. “They made big, big plays all night long.”

Duke dug itself a hole in the first half, going down by as many as 12 points. Were it not for the spirited play of Monique Currie, who scored Duke’s first 10 points in the first half, the Blue Devils

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“Our message is very clear and simple: Israel wants peace,” IsraeliAmbassador to the United States Daniel Ayalon said in a speech to the Duke community at the School ofLaw Monday.

The talk comes as part of several events at Duke focused on Middle Eastern politics, including last semester’s Palestine Solidarity Movement conference.

Ayalon started out by saying that it is hard to know what will happen next in the Middle East.

He, nevertheless, said all the ingredients for a peaceful future are there. He called for more cooperation to establish and maintain democracies in the Middle East, adding that peace is a “moral obligation” for the Israeli people and Israel is willing to “offer great concessions” and “take risks” for a better peace process. Yet, for that, he said Israel needs “a partner which is trustworthy and which is committed to peace.”

The Israeli Ambassador highlighted the historic compromises made between Israel and neighboring Arab leaders and how Israeli was “betrayed.” Under Yasser

Arafat’s administration, Ayalon said, “[Palestinians] tried to destroy a nation that is ours.”

Paraphrasing former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, Ayalon said the Palestinians “never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” He then expressed his hope that the newly elected Palestinian administration led

by Mahmoud Abbas has enough power to restructure the Palestinian police forces, economy and political structure so the process cain move ahead Ayalon said Israel is currently following a disengagement plan, moving out of the entire Gaza Strip and also a substantial portion of the West Bank. “We hope to get it done by the end of this year,” he said.

The Israeli ambassador also said that after departing from these areas Israel intends to act on the “Roadmap to Peace,” a three phase plan designed to ensure “everlasting” peace.

He said the Oslo peace process in 1993 failed because of a “lack of accountability.” Ayalon said there was no end to militant acts and Palestinians failed to take on

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John Bolton, a tough-talking arms control official who rarely muffles his views in diplomatic niceties, was chosen Monday by President George W. Bush to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Senate Democrats immediately assailed the nomination, arguing that it did not make sense for the president to pick a diplomat who has sometimes been critical of the world body at a time when mending fences with the international community was imperative. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Bolton’s selection sent “all the wrong signals.”

Anticipating a possible fight over confirmation—in 2001, Bolton was approved for his current post over the opposition of 43 Democratic senators—Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, “Through our history some of our best ambassadors have been those with strong voices.” She mentioned former U.N. ambassadors Jeanne Kirkpatrick and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

In his tenure, Bolton has angered officials in North Korea and China with his hard-edged approach. In fact, the Pyongyang government, furious with his comments, refused to negotiate with him.

Bolton, whose career has included posts in the administrations of President Reagan and the first President Bush, promised to work closely with members of Congress to advance Bush’s policies and said his record demonstrated “clear support for effective

U. Colorado president resigns The president of the University of Colorado, Elizabeth Hoffman, submitted her resignation today amid allegations that the school's athletic department had used sex and alcohol as recruiting tools for its football program.

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John Bolton, U.N. ambassador nominee, addresses thepress as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice looks on. multilateral diplomacy.”

Mindful that he, like the president, has sometimes questioned the relevance of the United Nations, Bolton said, “Working closely with others is essential to ensure a safer world.”

Rice praised the international organization as she announced Bolton’s selection.

“The United States is committed to the

success of the United Nations, and we view the U.N. as an important component of our diplomacy,” she said.

She said Bolton “knows how to get things done,” citing his work in nullifying a U.N. resolution that equated Zionism, the philosophic underpinning of ajewish state,

North Carolina needs to take a pause from executing convicted murderers, according to House members who filed a deathpenalty moratorium bill Monday. The measure is similar to one filed two years ago and approved by the state Senate at the time.

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“Barnes Avenue was a run-down section of town where there was high crime, high unemployment,” Baker said. “We didn’t just sort of get caught with our pants down here.”

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Local residents in attendance argued that the council should accept the bid from Hairston Enterprises, which has a history of recruiting minority contractors, over Blue Ridge Enterprises, which offered to oversee the approximately $3.4million redevelopment for $1,400 less.

Proponents of Hairston winning the Northeast Central Durham project argued that Blue Ridge would fail to comply with a provision of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 that calls for efforts to hire businesses that employ low- and moderate-income residents who live near HUD-funded projects.

But City Manager Patrick Baker backed Blue Ridge, noting that the company has been in business since the late 1960 and would have no problems complying with the minority worker recruitment provision.

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The Sudan Coalition held a fundraiser dinner and lecture Monday night in the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture to raise money for the adoption of a Sudanese refugee camp. An estimated 80 Duke students and community members attended the dinner, which included a raffle and silent auction.

The event featured guest speaker Suliman Giddo—a native of the Sudanese state Darfur and president of the Richmond, Va.-based Darfur Peace and Development Fund. Giddo gave a brief lecture on the politics behind the genocide currently taking place in Sudan.

Giddo, a Muslim who left Darfur in 1988 for Dubai—later to immigrate to the United States in 2000 —explained that the systemized killing of Sudanese blacks began in 1977 when certain nomadic Arab groups were encouraged by the Khartoum regime to kill black Sudanese farmers for land. The Khartoum regime—another name for the Sudanese government —officially came to power in 1989 with the main objective of “Arabizing and Islamizing” the country, he said. The regime called for the elimination of all black and Christian Sudanese inhabitants, Giddo said.

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Aii Arizona university student is believed to be the first person in the country to be convicted of a crime under state laws for illegally downloading music and movies from the Internet, prosecutors and activists say.

University of Arizona student Parvin Dhaliwal pleaded guilty to possession of counterfeit marks, or unauthorized copies ofintellectual property.

Under an agreement with prosecutors, Dhaliwal was sentenced last month to a three-month deferred jail sentence, three years of probation, 200 hours of community service and a $5,400 fine.

The judge in the case also ordered him to take a copyright class at the University of Arizona, which he attends, and to avoid file-sharing computer programs.

“Generally copyright is exclusively a federal matter,” said Jason Schultz, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a technology civil liberties group.

“Up until this point, you just haven’t seen states involved at all.”

Federal investigators referred the case to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office for prosecution because Dhaliwal was a minor when he committed the crime, said Krystal Garza, a spokeswoman for the office.

“His age was a big factor,” she said. “If it went into federal court, it’s a minimum of three months in jail up front.”

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may appear to solely attract undergraduates.

“We have tried to increase our visibility to graduate students a lot more this year than in the past,” Parker said. “W Te want to know what sort of programming applies to graduate and professional students.”

Parker also compared Duke’s fees to similar ones at competing universities. For example, graduate students at Harvard University pay $5O for programming, and fees at similar schools

average approximately $46.

The Union hosts campus events such as the recent Ben Folds concert and weekly movies in Griffith Film Theater.

It runs on a nearly $1 million budget supplied by student fees and event revenue. While a majority of the Union’s events are attended largely by undergraduate students, all Union events are open to graduate and professional students as well. GPSC has no power to prevent Union fee increases.

candidate, said Bolton’s nominafrom page 2 tion “carries with it baggage we cannot afford.” with racism, and in organizing 60 Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., countries to curb the spread of said Bolton’s “antipathy to the U.N. will prevent him from effecdangerous weapons.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi tively discharging his duties as Annan, who was alerted in a teleour ambassador.”

Confirmation hearings are phone call from Rice in advance of the appointment, said through expected to be held next month. a spokesperson he looked forLast month, in a strongly ward to working with Bolton. worded speech in Tokyo, Bolton lashed out at China for “I don’t know about what previous biases he may bring here,” not stopping its munitions comsaid spokesperson Stephane Dupanies from selling missile techjarric. “We have nothing against nology to Iran and other nations the United States people who do hold us accountable. On the contrary, I think we considers rogue states. do want to be held accountable.”

Two years ago, Bolton deDemocrats on the Senate Fornounced North Korean leader Relations Committee Kim Jong II as a “tyrannical dictaeign tor” and described life under the roundly criticized Bolton.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said ruler as “a hellish nightmare.” that if Bush were serious about A North Korean spokesperson reaching out to the world, “why fired back that “such human scum would he choose someone who and bloodsucker is not entided to has expressed such disdain for take part in the talks” on North working with our allies?” Kerry, Korea’s nuclear weapons program. unsuccessful 2004 presidential In his current post as under-

secretary for arms control and international security, Bolton, 56, has traveled frequently in the past four years, mostly to try to halt the spread of dangerous technology.

Before the 1991 Persian Gulf War, as an assistant secretary of state for international organizations, Bolton worked with tfyenSecretary ofState James A. Baker 111 in organizing an alliance with European and Arab countries for the war to liberate Kuwait, which Iraq had invaded.

Bolton, who has served as Washington’s top arms control official, would succeed former Sen. John Danforth, who retired in January. He must be confirmed for the post, which is being filled temporarily by Anne Patterson, a career foreign service officer.

Bolton has been undersecretary of state for arms control and international security since May 2001, and has held a variety of high-level jobs at the departments of Justice and State under Republican administrations.

GPSC from page 1 currendy at $10.50 per person while the undergraduate fee is set $BO.OO per person. The fee increase for graduate and professional students will be $9.50, bringing the annual payment for each student to $20.00.

Parker said the increase would help pay for added programming and increased advertising to encourage graduate students to attend more events that at

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Fire damages restroom A restroom in a building occupied by the Patient Revenue Management Organization, the group that does billing for Duke Medical Center, Durham Regional and Raleigh Community Hospital, was damaged by fire March 2.

No one was injured, but it appears the fire was intentionally set about 10:40 a.m. in a first floor women's restroom, which is common area, according to Durham city fire investigators. Toilet paper was lit, causing about $2,000 in damage. Fewer than 100 Duke employees share the building with other tenants at 4117 N. Roxboro Rd. The building was evacuated but is now open.

Car stolen and recovered A car belonging to a Duke senior was stolen March 5 from Brown Dormitory and later re-

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March s.When he returned later that afternoon, his car was gone.

Police found the vehicle on Dacian Street. The car had been vandalized, and the stereo and other property were missing.

Laptop stolen from dorm A laptop was stolen March 5 from Keohane Quad. Sophomore Christine Jamieson told police she took a break from studying in the 2nd floor alcove at 10:40 p.m. and when she returned, the computer was missing. The IBM Think Pad is worth $3,530.

Break-in results in damages Someone broke into the snack stand at Cameron Indoor Stadium March 3 and tampered with tubs of ice cream. A lock on the Carvel freezer was damaged, and eight tubs of ice cream worth $4OO must be replaced.

Camera stolen from Randolph A digital camera was stolen March 6 from a room in Randolph Dormitory. Freshman Yonas Tewodros told police he left his room at 1 p.m. without locking the door. When he returned, the Nikon camera, memory card and battery charger were gone. The property is worth $290.

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The Ambassador called on Palestinians dismantle terrorist organizations, confiscate their weapons and close weapon factories and explosives laboratories. After those actions are taken, he said, “We will respond in kind.”

“We don’t want to be in their cities. We would like diem to be there and control [the cities],” he said, noting.that Palestinians can do a much better job than the Israelis at fighting militant acts because “it’s their own people He also criticized Syria and Iran for hindering the peace process.“ Just as we are beginning to see some attraction between us to

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and the Palestinians, [Syria and Iran] are trying to derail the process,” Ayalon said.

Furthermore he urged Iran to abandon its nuclear program. “Nuclear Iran is unacceptable and intolerable,” he said. “It is an oil-rich country, which is why we don’t understand why they need nuclear energy.”

Ayalon was optimistic, however, about the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon. “Democracy could be contagious,” he said.

He also criticized the United Nations, saying it is slow to take action and not operating well. “It’s time to change the structure of the U.N.,” Ayalon said. “I am not sure [the UN] is now best suited in its current built-up or structure to deal with real problems.”

The ambassador had a message to young pro-Israeli students: “Don’t be in-

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timidated. Keep the advocacy; keep telling your story; keep telling the facts. Unfortunately our facts are not known.

“Here’s a lesson for the entire world,” he said, “[Terrorism] can be fought, and it can be won.”

President Richard Brodhead was among the 150 people in the audience. “I am very happy to have him come to this campus,” he said. “I think the ambassador would be the last person to think that anything gives you the warrant for unqualified optimism, but after all unqualified pessimism is as problematic as un-

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Southern black Sudanese rebel groups started fighting the Khartoum regime in 2003, and the regime counteracted the rebellion by increasing the attack on black civilians in Darfur, Giddo said.

“This is a psychological war for rebels. [The Khartoum regime] is trying to get the rebels to stop and discuss the issue,” Giddo said.

Although a preliminary peace agreement between the Khartoum regime and the southnorthern ern Sudanese rebels was signed in January, the killings have yet to end. Giddo said the stipulations of the agreement only called for peace in southern Sudan and said nothing about Darfur.

Giddo pointed to the Arabic Maharia Tribe, led by Musa Hilal, as the group principally involved in the killings by the Janjaweed—Arab militia supported by the regime.

“At 5 a.m. the government sends planes to bomb the villages. Then, later, the Janjaweed come and kill people and rape the women,” he said Giddo urged the attendees to join the Sudan Coalition’s efforts and take action against the genocide.

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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell officially termed the Khartoum regime’s ethnic cleansing of Sudanese blacks a genocide in late 2004. The U.S. government, however, has yet to-provide the $250 million in aid promised to the victims. So far, more than 1.2 million people have been displaced in refugee camps in the neighboring nation of Chad and more than 300,000 civilian lives have been lost by the hands of the regime and Janjaweed Students in attendance left the Monday’s event inspired to take action.

“I had zero knowledge,” freshman Kristin High said.

“He was very clear, and I really want to get involved.”

Before the event ended, one man in attendance pleaded to the crowd: “Please take your education and use it to benefit humanity.”

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And Monday, residents from across North Carolina continued to show their support for Hairston—and especially their distaste for its competitor.

“Blue Ridge has zero representation for black males and females,” said Ghali Hasan, president of the Winston-Salem Minority Business Association.

But Blue Ridge Vice President Todd Greenwood denied the claims, insisting that the company has hired Durham contractors and that it has minority employees

on its payroll list at its Winston-Salem base and in Durham.

“We’ve never had this problem brought up before,” Greenwood said.

The council voted 7-0 to delay the acceptance of the bid on the 16 houses and 6-1 on the 16 condos. If the city does not finalize the Barnes Avenue bid by Thursday, housing bylaws could force the project’s delay.

Nevertheless, Mayor Bill Bell stood behind the redevelopment’s mission.

“It will provide quality and affordable housing for people who have low and moderate income and a residence in a very desirable environment if they are built how they are proposed to be built,” Bell said after the meeting.

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The. charge is a low-level felony but may be dropped to a misdemeanor once he completes probation, she said.

A call to Dhaliwal’s attorney, James Martin, was not returned.

A man who identified himself as Dhaliwal’s father, but refused to give his name, returned a message left Monday at Dhaliwal’s parents’ home. He said his son had made a mistake, and was trying to put the case behind him. The man declined to comment further.

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The FBI found more than $5O million in music and movies on Dhaliwal’s computer. The illegally copied property included movies that, at the time of the theft, were available only in theaters.

They included “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Matrix Revolutions,” “The Cat In The Hat,” and “Mona Lisa Smile.”

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Juniors JJ. Redick and Shelden Williams were selected to the All-ACC first team Monday by the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association.

Redick, who leads the ACC in scoring with 22.5 points per game and frequently draws an opponent’s best defender, was the only member of the team picked on all 121 ballots.

“I’ve said all along, he’s the best player in the ACC,” Miami head coach Frank Haith said.

“He should be the MVP of the

No bandage can cover my scars It’s hard living a life behind invisible bars Searchingfor theface of God I’m only inspired by the poems ofNas Take the emotion of Maya Angelou, add in the creative wit of Shel Silverstein, and stir it with JJ. Redick’s great basketball mind, and find yourself in a world never seen before. But not only does the junior manage to create seamless and original lines that rhyme and elicit strong emotions, but he also conveys how well he , thinks Duke will do in postseason play in his writings.

So, where does the Duke basketball team stand now?

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I can’t see what my future has in store but I moveforth with the strength of a condor Redick has no idea and neither does anyone else. After the Blue Devils lost to UNC Sunday, they severely damaged their chance at a number one seed in the tournament and opened themselves up to the unappealing idea of having to possibly be a No. 2 seed or worse in Illinois’ quarter of the bracket.

A lot will still be decided in the ACC Tournament, where the Blue Devils are scheduled to play the winner of Virginia and Miami Friday at 9 p.m. If they advance, they might have to take on Wake Forest in the semifinals.

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The cause and effect of a thousand actions The mathematical breakdown of

micro-fractions

These two lines require a proper dissection. The first line, loosely translated means that specific events throughout the year have really shaped the direction of the team today. Starting from when Luol Deng and Shaun Livingston declared for the NBA draft and including Shavlik Randolph’s bout with mono, Sean

Dockery’s season-ending injury and North Carolina’s 11-0 run

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both offensive and defensive ACC Tournaanalysis ment records in large part because of hot shooting and relentless work on the glass. Duke’s 6-foot-7 Alison Bales and 6-foot-5 Chante Black gobbled up rebound after rebound over the weekend, and the bigger Blue Devils stymied almost every drive into the paint.

But Duke had no such luck against a more athletic North Carolina team that simply ran around Duke’s bigs for countless

second-chance opportunities. As a result, the Tar Heels had a 5337 rebounding edge that proved the deciding factor in the Blue Devils’ worst ACC Tournament loss since 1997.

“We didn’t use our size all night—on either end of the head coach Gail floor,” Goestenkors said after the game.

“We missed a lot of easy baskets on offense and did not do a good

job boxing out.

“They pursued the rebounds on both ends. They were very much the aggressor on the boards, and the team that is more aggressive on rebounds is going to win the war.”

The second-chance buckets neutralized Duke’s once-stifling interior defense, which forced North Carolina into 3-for-17 shooting to begin the game. But the Blue Devils’ towering post

Senior Daniel Ewing made the All-ACC third team and was the only other Blue Devil on the list. Duke has had at least one member on the league’s first team every year since 1997.

Guard Chris Duhon made the cut in 2004.

Redick and Williams, who were both second-team All-ACC selections a year ago, are joined on the 2005 team by the North Carolina duo of Sean May and Raymond Felton and Wake Forest’s Chris Paul.

Wake Forest suspended Paul Monday for the first game of the ACC Tournament after he punched N.C. State’s Julius Hodge in the groin during the teams’ contest Sunday. Paul would return for a potendal semifinal matchup with Duke Saturday.

players had trouble keeping up with the Tar Heels’ quickness on both ends of the court, and North Carolina climbed back into the game.

“They’re a very athletic team, so you can’t try to outrun them,” guard Jessica Foley said. “We’ve come up against them three times this year already, and we should’ve found some better ways to break their speed and to play smarter.”

Offensively the Tar Heels got their hands on seemingly every Duke shot, forcing the Blue Devils into 29-percent shooting in the second half, by far their worst output of the tournament. Defensively the Blue Devils could not regroup after letting the Tar Heels grab 18 offensive rebounds.

SEE UNC ON PAGE 12

JJ. Redick has averaged an ACC-best 22.5 points per gamethis season.

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Monique Currie carried theBlue Devils in the first half, scoring the team's first 10 points.

ACC TOURNEY from page, would not have even been in the game from the beginning.

But despite Duke being outplayed, a late 7-0 run highlighted by a Jessica Foley three-pointer with a minute and a half left brought the Blue Devils back to within five at halftime.

“In the first half we had weathered the storm,” Goestenkors said. “But it got much worse in the second half—or better for them.”

Duke held close at the beginning of the second half, closing the gap to as lit-

tie as three. With about 15 minutes remaining, though, North Carolina turned up its energy.

First Erlana Larkins scored down low over Mistie Williams. Chante Black coughed up the ball on Duke’s next possession, and Latta took off down the floor toward the basket. Finding no space down low, she hopped back behind the threepoint line and swished the off-balance shot.

A few minutes laterLatta drove the lane and rocketed the ball behind her back to guard La’Tangela Atkinson. Atkinson converted the jumper and made another three-pointer three minutes later.

“La’Tangela had not hit a basket in this

tournament, and for her to hit two threes, we really weren’t counting on that,” Goestenkors said.

Then after a few minutes of back-andforth play came Little’s three-pointer, which put UNC up by 20 with nine minutes to go. Little made 4-of-5 from beyond the arc for the game, and the Tar Heels made 10-of-19 as a team.

Currie, who finished with 26 points, tried to rally her teammates, and Duke got as close as 12 with five minutes to play. It was too little, too late, though, and the Blue Devils were forced to watch North Carolina celebrate its first ACC title since 1998 after losing to Duke in the finals the last three years.

“I said, ‘Coach, we’re going to get us one next year,’” Latta said about the feeling of watching Duke celebrate on the same court last season. “I’m on cloud nine right now. I don’tknow when I’m coming down.”

Unlike the teams’ previous two meetings this season, during which UNC scored many of its points off Duke turnovers, this time the Tar Heels beat the Blue Devils at their own game.

Even though they were smaller, the Tar Heels outrebounded Duke 53-37 and had almost as many offensive rebounds (18) as the Blue Devils did defensive rebounds (22). UNC scored 17 second-chance points and shot the ball at a much higher clip than Duke overall.

The Blue Devils had hoped to reverse the trends of their regular season losses but instead ended up getting swept by UNC for the first time since the 1996-1997 season.

“I thought the third time would be the charm for us against Carolina,” Goestenkors said.

The Blue Devils must now shift their focus to the NCAA Tournament, which begins March 19.

‘You can’t dwell on it,” Currie said. “We swept Carolina the past three years, and

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NOTES Duke had won five consecutive ACC Tournaments coming into Monday night....

The Blue Devils had only 12 assists after averaging 21 in the first two ACC Tournament games.... Monday was Duke’s worst loss since a 1998-1999 defeat at the hands of Notre Dame.... Currie made the All-Tournament first team, and Black made the second team after a quiet night in the finals; Latta, Litde and Nildta Bell all made first team.

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Soon enough, those second-chance buckets got North Carolina open looks beyond the three-point line, where the Tar Heels shot an efficient 52.6 percent.

“I just kept talking to them about their intensity level and rebounding, just playing good defense and rebounding and when they got the ball just being aggressive,” UNC head coach Sylvia Hatchell said. “That’s what we were trying to do.”

Meanwhile, the Blue Devils failed to recapture the shooting touch that had propelled them to a combined 181 points in their first two games. With 19:26 left in the game, Jessica Foley had an opportunity to bring Duke

within two of the Tar Heels with a wide-open three-pointer. The ball fell halfway into the hoop and bounced back out—a microcosm of the day’s offensive effort.

“We got some really good looks in the second half,” Foley said. “I had a few open shots, and the post players had some plays inside that we should’ve knocked down.”

That was an understatement. With just 12 turnovers, the Blue Devils were not particularly sloppy Monday, but Duke missed open look after open look as the Tar Heels’ lead continued to balloon.

Duke shot just 32.8 percent from the field, nearly half the 62 2-percent effort they used to set an ACC Tournament points record against Wake Forest just two days earlier.

With a No. 1 seed now in jeopardy, Duke awaits the selection committee’s verdict to see where they will play in the NCAA Tournament. But, regardless, this loss has Blue Devil fans asking which Duke team will show up in the NCAAs: the towering, dominant team that locked down both Maryland and Wake Forest over the weekend, or the flat-footed, cold-shooting Blue Devils who folded to North Carolina Monday night.

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Pay for flood damages water. In fact, some students said that flooding of Blackwell Dormitory last Thursday night was the University charged diem for the the fourth time in as many damage to their rooms, even though residence halls have floodthey have no control over the flooding. that years The University should assume all ed because of the sprinkler system. of the costs associatThis is occurring far StattGultOflcli ed with the damage more often than it from the flood. It is should be, and the University should consider possible unfair to make students, especially action to prevent events like this the students who live in the rooms adfrom continuing. Furthermore, since jacent to the room where the sprinflooding of residence halls can no kler was set off, pay for the damage longer be considered an anomaly, when the circumstances were out of the University must have a policy in their control.

Also, in the meantime, the Univerplace to deal with the flooding when it occurs. sity must make sure it provides adeAlthough the University has not yet quate accommodations for the stuclear how the it intends to handle the dents whose rooms became unlivable as a result of the flood. If these stumost recent incident of flooding, in the past students have reported that dents cannot go into their rooms for a the University did not completely week, the University must take care of cover for the damages caused by the those students’ needs.

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DSG produces TVs, results We applaud Duke Student Govand Senator David Snider for allocating money to fund the purchase of six 42-inch plasma-screen televisions for the main exercise hall of Wilson Recreation Center. .

The televisions will without a doubt be a popular addition to Wilson and will offer those using the gym an updated visual option while exercising.

More than anything, it is refreshing to see DSG produce tangible results. Snider should be commended for having a good idea and working for six months to see that idea through to fruition.

Snider’s focus is what is responsible for this accomplishment, and students, faculty and staff alike will enjoy ernment

the new televisions This is precisely the type of work DSG should be doing. There are a number of small-scale projects that are not terribly difficult to execute but will improve the University. Most of these projects, such as adding televisions to Wilson, are not big enough to be on the minds of administrators, but they are exactly the projects that DSG should adopt.

Also, as students, senators have an insight that other University officials may not have. Senators should use this to their advantage when coming up with ideas for projects.

In the future, we would like to see DSG senators taking the same kind of initiative that Snider took with getting televisions for the gym.

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all the EU armies together, they total around 2 the life of me, I simply do not understand why President George W. Bush is' million soldiers in uniform—almost the same objecting to the European Union’s selling size as the U.S. armed forces. But there is one arms to China, ending a 16-year embargo. I huge difference—only about 5 percent of the mean, what’s the problem?

European troops have the training, weaponry, There is an obvious compromise that Bush logistical and intelligence support and airlift could put on the table that would defuse this capability to fight a modem, hot war outside of whole issue. He should simply say to France, Europe. (In the United States it is 70 percent in Germany and their EU partners that America crucial units.)

The rest of the European troops—some of has absolutely no objection to Europeans’ selling arms to China—on one condition: that they whom are unionized!—do not have the trainsell arms to themselves first. That’s right, the ing or tools to fight alongside America in a hot United States should support the export to war. They might be good for peacekeeping, but China ofany defense system that the Europeans not for winning a war against a conventional buy for their own armies first. Buy one, sell one. foe. God save the Europeans if they ever felt But what the United States should not counthe need to confront a nuclear-armed Iran.

U.S. defense spending will be over $4OO biltenance is that at a time when the Europeans are spending peanuts on their own defense, lion in 2005.1 wish it could be less, but one reason it can’t is that the United making themselves into paper States of Europe is spending tigers and free riders on Amerless than half of what we are. ica for global policing, that thomas friedman And the U.S. and EU really are they start exporting arms to a the pillars of global stability. growing tiger—China.

This is especially true since The United States is buildthe real reason that the EU wants to end its ing 180 C-17 long-range lift aircraft to transport arms embargo with China is to position itself troops and tanks anywhere in the world, and better to sell more Airbus passenger jets to Bei- 112 C-ss, to replace the aging CT4ls. The Eujing. Weapons systems are the loss leader that ropean NATO members have exactly four Cthe EU is dangling in front of the Chinese to 17s. They all belong to Britain, and even those persuade them to buy more of Europe’s civil- are leased from Boeing. The Europeans are so ian airplanes. Indeed, what is really sad about shortof long-range lift aircraft that they basicalthe European arms sale proposal to China is ly have to depend on leased Russian and that the EU doesn’t seem to be demanding any Ukrainian Antonov transports to get to the batpolitical price, even the slightest change in be- tlefield. George Robertson, the former NATO havior, from Beijing in return, except some secretary-general, used to ask them what they vague “code of conduct.” Sure. Ask the soft- would do if a war broke out during the Christware industry about Chinese promises not to mas season, when most of the Antonovs are leased to toy companies shipping electronic pirate technology. lam not part of the bash-China lobby. I be- games around the world. Ride, mister?

For all of Europe’s complaining about what lieve that the United States needs to engage China, not isolate it, and work with it so that it the Bush team stands for, my ears are still ringtakes its rightful place on the world stage. I be- ing with the remark that a German columnist lieve China is largely a force for stability in Asia, recently made to me in Berlin: “What do we not instability. But one reason for that is that stand for?” he asked. What is Europe’s foreign the United States has countered any other im- policy? America is saying that the largest stratepulses from Beijing by maintaining a stable bal- gic issue ofour time is peacefully managing the ance ofpower among China, Korea, Japan and rise of China. We have to get this right. Having Taiwan—a balance that has helped the entire a strong Europe on our side—not on both region prosper. The sale of advanced Euro- sides—would be a big help, If Europe wants to go pacifist, that’s fine, pean weapons to China can only weaken that balance.

But there is nothing worse than a pacifist that But what really concerns me is Europe. Eusells arms —especially in away that increases rope’s armies were designed for static defense the burden on its U.S. ally and protector. against the Soviet Union. But the primary secuThomas Friedman is a syndicated columnist for rity challenges to Europe today come from the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa. If you put The New York Times.

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a lot of brilliance among Duke’s undergraduthat he is hardly freaky, but at Duke he is considered a standates. But you’d never know that from looking at our out freak. And he’s right—one lip stud and he is way out dominant culture. In my four years at Duke, I have there on the margin of our always cautious community. been struck by the amiable mediocrity that pervades underThere are a few other examples of visible, edgy self-presentagraduate public discourse and self-presentation. Where are tion, such as Chase Johnson studying Italian in every stylized the obnoxious standouts, who have the guts to visibly pronook and cranny in Durham, Jimmy Soni displaying unfetvoke us and question our community norms? tered ambition and Ben Abram growing out a colossal afro Compared to students at other universities and even some and setting up a Sudanese shantytown. There are a few other high schools, it is stunning how seldom we challenge the sta- standouts, but most of the real outliers are conspicuously tus quo. Many of our student government leaders are essenquiet or so far out in the periphery that they are invisible. tially powerless because they have fallen into the trap ofbeThere is, admittedly, something about publicly challengcoming too chummy with administrators. Anyone who has ing norms thatreeks of self-promotion. Breaking the mold of talked to them privately knows they can be amiable mediocrity in a visible way often means being stylized, ambitious, arrogant, refreshingly critical, but they always go back firs to the same gladhanding in public. We have calculating and annoying. There’s nothing the rest of our lives to compromise. Why not inherently superior about people like that, be acerbic and honest while you still can be? and in large doses—like at my high school, Our newspaper is stifled by either amiaPhillips Exeter Academy—one longs for nice folks who don’t shove their uniqueness bility or mediocrity, depending on who is involved. The coverage is either good but not down your throat. But at a university hill of ineffectual organization kids, intrepid enough —and here I am a perpetrapleasantly collins tor, as former University editor—or it is bold diere is a far worse feeling: suffocation. Four and confrontationalbut marred by inaccurahazzards of duke years at Duke has challenged my ability to think out of die box. Most of us aren’t even cy and sloppy writing. Most columnists are astoundingly mediocre, their arguments detoothed by a lack aware thatwe’re confined within our narrow definitionof soof knowledge and perspective cial action and self-presentation, obliviously proceeding to I’d like to point out that in discussing student government the next stop on our trajectory of mild success. organizations and The Chronicle first, I have revealed anothMy Duke experience has been immensely enriched by the er problem in our undergraduate community: our reliance wisdom of the faculty. Bruce Payne, Peter Wood—these are on established institutions. When we want to get involved people who have seen generations of students come and go with something—which is rare—we tend to go through and know the peculiar way a Duke education can be liberatknown channels. We instinctively flock to the safe bet. Coming and stifling at the same time. Payne focuses on the outlypared to the enterpeneurship at Harvard, Stanford and MIT, ing students who think differendy and Wood talks about die we are regular corporate shills. legions who were not able to break out, but the message is Maybe that’s why they produce the Bill Gateses of the the same. world and we produce the faceless senior managers and VPs. Had I not talked with these mentors at critical times in the There are exceptions, of course, but not as many as there last four years, I might have obliviously continued down the should be. Duke students—and I don’t exclude myself from beaten path. My fate is not yet decided by any means, but this group—tend to follow the rules extremely well, and that awareness of the box is a good first step toward thinking outgets them quite far within an established system. But true side of it. leaders don’tfollow the rules; they break the rules and make new rules.

Andrew Collins is a Trinity seniorand former University Editor Christopher Scoville wrote in a 2003 Chronicle column for The Chronicle. His column appears Tuesdays.

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Compassionate conservatism

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all of the varying opinions espoused about the port for everything from soup kitchens to major research of a tax system, one thing seems clear: universities. Duke is particularly dependent on such contriPeople do not particularly enjoy paying their taxes. butions, as it is trying to increase the size of its endowment Even liberals who are vehemently opposed to the Bush tax while funding the multi-billion dollar operations of the Unicuts don’t relish the thought of giving upwards of 30 to 40 versity that cannot be sustained on tuition alone. Research conducted by Duke public policy, economics and law profespercent of their income to federal, state and local governments. Although many see taxes as a social and moral imsor Charles Clotfelter suggests that various proposed perative, there is still the widespread perception of the govchanges in the tax code could “depress individual contribuernment itself as a bloated and wasteful bureaucracy that is tions by as much as a fifth,” and that other proposed not worthy of such a high level offinancial support. changes to estate and gift taxes could depress some contributions by “more than a third.” Clotfelter believes that alSo naturally, regardless of political considerations, individuals tend to do anything that decreases their own tax bill, most any proposal currently under consideration “would such as making charitable contributions to have significant and adverse impact on the nonprofit sector.” non-profit organizations (i.e. Duke). CurFor Duke, which has received billions of rently, the tax code allows almost any contribution to be deducted from a person’s indollars in individual contributions of cash, stock and other assets, these differences come, lowering die federal taxes (among could amount to shortfalls of tens of milothers) they owe by up to 35 percent of the amount of the contribution. Director Phillip lions of dollars every year. Just imagine if $4OO-$6OO million of the $2.36 billion CamBuchanan of the Office of Gift Planning said, “it only costs the [average] taxpayer paign for Duke had never materialized due about 70 cents to give $1 to Duke” with the elliott wolf to a tax code that was less conducive to givcurrent system. Although Buchanan emphaing. Even if donors continued giving to transparency Duke sized that the current situation is somewhat at the same costs to themselves, Duke would most certainly still be adversely affectcomplex, the tax code still effectively subsidizes donations at the same rate the donation would have ed if tax incentivesfor giving were curtailed. “Any significant been taxed had it been counted as income. reduction in the tax benefits allowed for making charitable However, recently proposed changes to federal tax codes gifts to Duke and other worthy organizations will greatly resignificantly threaten this stream of charitable donations duce the financial support for those charities,” said Buchanan. upon which Duke and the entire non-profit sector are deFor the sake ofuniversities and the rest of the non-profit pendent. During his presidential campaign, George W. sector, the tax code should not be changed in away that Bush played on Americans’ resentment of taxes and promised to “simplify” the tax code to make it more “pro-growth.” eliminates incentives for charitable giving; Duke and other universities need to take an active role in ensuring the equiWe are just now starting to learn what exactly that “simplification” entails. ty of any new tax policy—for their own futures, if not any other under debate and reason. While Bush is correct that there are significant in Congress stateProposals currently ments by the Bush administration indicate thatBush and his problems with the current system, changes should not be allies are seeking to transform the current progressive inmade at the expense of organizations that provide invaluable services to our society—especially while the governcome tax into a consumption tax or into a flat tax with charitable giving provisions that are either stripped down or ment itself is lessening its support for the same services in non-existent. Such changes were recently partially endorsed favor of lower taxes.

by Alan Greenspan as one way to boost the economy.

Elliott Wolf is a Pratt Freshman. His column appears every However, such irresponsible changes have the potential to drastically decrease donations to and undercut the sup- other Tuesday. ideal

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NOTE: none of the jokes included belong to the author.

1— A marquis returns from a business trip to find his wife in bed with the archbishop. After a moment’s pause, die starded marquis calmly opens the window a d starts blessing people in the street.

“What are you doing?” cries the anguished wife.

“Simple, my dear; The Monsignor is performing my function, so I am performing his.” (The Treasury of the Encyclopedia Britannica, pg. 451) In the joke above, we see the classic underpinnings of what is thought of as funny. An unexpected outcome (the marquis blessing the people in the street) is logically substitutedfor an expected outcome (the marquis getting angry).

Therefore, when a presumed notion is refuted by a second valid but contradictory notion, the situation is humorous.

Practical jokes operate on a base level where we are reminded of our physical limitations. The maestro is important looking in a tuxedo, but we laugh when he slips on a banana peel. Our nation’s greatest ideals are embodied in our president, but we laugh when he vomits on a foreign dignitary. In both xs> cases, the perception of societal importance is negated by the reality of the peopie obeying the same forces of gravity and biology as the rest of us gideon weinerth schmucks. When considerbrain inconsequential ing dark humor, black humor, gallows humor and morbid humor, the situation becomes more complex.

Joke 2—A woman gets into a terrible car accident. Her husband rushes to the hospital where his wife is being treated. After several hours of anxiety, the doctor comes to give the prognosis: “Listen: Your wife is alive but in very bad shape. She has lost all ability to care for herself. You will have to attend to her every need. You will have to feed her every meal. Bathe her every day, clean out every orifice.” At this point the man breaks down and starts to cry. The doctor pats him on the back and says: ‘Just kidding. She’s actually dead.” (unknown) Here we are reminded of the proverbial “fate worse than death.” Though there are many levels where the expected/unexpected switch may occur, there is an undercurrent present. As Napoleon said, “We laugh at a man to avoid crying for him.” (The Darwin Awards) The situation is too horrible for us to react in any way except laughing. This has larger implications when talking about less socially acceptable topics like racism and slavery.

Joke 3 First Egyptian Guard: What do you call a Jewish slave with 10 gold chariots, 50 oxen and inroads to the Pharaoh’s personal court?

Second Egyptian Guard: A Ra damned kike. (Esquire magazine) When we talk about race in mass media humor, there are two possibilities. In South Park do not laugh at Kyle for being Jewish, we laugh at Cartman for being racist. But there are also the social conventions with which racial stereotypes are grounded (Kyle is the smart one). Whether it’s Chappelle’s Show or Blue Collar Comedy, each are based on a fundamentally racist premise; Group A does X, Y, and Z. Hilarious.

The reason why we laugh at racism is slightly different from dark humor. Humor points to someone’s fundamental truth. Whether we want to or not, we think in racial terms. What’s really funny is that we know the difference between South Park racism and something that’s blatantly racist. The creators of South Park can use racism because they’re not racist, yet a KKK member cannot tell racist jokes without being offensive. We realize how insignificant race is when we laugh at South Park. Meanwhile, the KKK member holds race paramount and is chastised for it in the comedic medium.

Immanuel Kant calls laughter “the sudden transformation of a tense expectation into nothing.” Sex, death and racism are funny because they are each edgy subjects that are still a part of the human condition. I hope enlightened comedy helps to turn these fears into the nothings they really are. We all need to laugh more.

Joke 4 Hear the one about the cannibal who dumped his girlfriend? Think about it. (www.pvponline.com by Scott Kurtz)

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Bhawalkar, Music of the Spirit

North Indian vocal music accompanied by

MANIK MUNDE on two-headed drum.

March 8, Bpm. Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building.

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No yoga experience is necessary. Email dance@duke.edu to reserve a space in the class. Space is limited.

March 22, 6-7:3OPM. Ark Dance Studio, East Campus. Free.

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ARTS EVENTS ON CAMPOS This week: March 8-30

EXHIBITIONS

Wednesdays at the Center Series LINDA BELANS, Director, Health Arts Network at Duke. Arts and Humanities: Instruments for Living and Healing.

March 9,12pm. John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240. Free.

Wednesdays at the Center Series ERDAG GOKNAR, Assistant Professor, Turkish Language and Culture, Duke University. Literary Translation: Mediating Between Cultures.

March 23,12pm. John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240. Free.

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Lecture Timba Dance Music and the Politics ofFun in Socialist Cuba. ROBIN MOORE (Temple University).

March 25, 4pm. Room 101 Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

Sculpture by

Brent Crothers.

Opening March 9,5-7pm. Thru April 7. Brown Gallery.

$l5 General, $5 Duke Students.

Alasdair Fraser and Rhythms of Scotland Worldrenowned master

Scottish fiddler with local performers tell

the story of Scottish culture through music and dance.

March 11, Bpm. Page Auditorium. $25 & $2O Reserved, $5 DukeStudents.

Duke String School DOROTHY KITCHEN, dir. Mid-Winter Festival.

March 12, 3pm, 4pm, & 7pm. Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

Orion String Quartet Music of Beethoven and Bartok. This concert is SOLD OUT. A limited number of seats will be available on the night of show only.

March 12, Bpm. Reynolds Theater. $25 Genera], $5 Duke Students.

nicholasleichterdance African-American choreographer NICHOLAS LEICHTER and his racially mixed company offer seductive, luminous dancing. He and his six-member company are bold and charming with one another and with the audience as they confront issues of race, gender and cultural dominance with dancing that is well crafted and fully realized.

Insights discussion with Brian McCormick, Managing Director of nicholasleichterdance, March 23, 7pm. Bryan Center Meeting Room A. March 23-24, Bpm. Reynolds Theater. $2O General, $lO Students/ Youth, $5 Duke Students.

Guest Recital SCOTT RAWLS, viola; PHILLIP BUSH, piano. Works by Don Freund, Mark Kuss, Steven Paulus, Dmitri Shostakovich.

March 24, Bpm. Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building. Free.

Book Talk PAUL ORTIZ (University of California Santa Cruz) will discuss his new book, Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History ofBlack Organizing and White Violence in Florida From Reconstruction to the Bloody Election 0f1920.

March 21,12pm. Perkins Library Rare Book Room. Free.

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Travelling Light An exhibition of 25 years of work by South African photographer PAUL m WEINBERG. Open Wed., Fri., Sat., 12-spm. Thru March 25. Hanks Lobby Gallery, Reynolds Theater.

REYNOLDS PRICE, James B. Duke Professor of English, reads his translation of the Gospel of Mark, which is from his book entitled Three Gospels.

March 22, 7pm. Perkins Library Rare Book Room. Free. Limited

Exhibition A Life in Photography: Louise Rosskamand the Documentary Tradition. FSA Great Depression photographs from one of the elusive pioneers of the genre. Public reception with curators’talk: March 30, 6-9 pm.

March 15 thru May 15. Center for Documentary Studies.

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Film Screening En las Monos delHombre (The Hands of Man), 1952. A documentary on the important contribution different forms of manual labor have played in the progress of Puerto Rico, where Louise and Edwin Rosskam lived and photographed for a number of years. In conjunction with the exhibitionA Life in Photography: Louise Rosskam and the Documentary Tradition.

March 22, 7pm. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

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Frans & Willemina De Hen-Bijl Collection of Musical Instruments Inaugural Event Reception and lecture: DR. FERDINAND J. DE HEN welcomes this new collection of world music instruments. March 20, 3pm. Biddle Music Building Lobby. Lecture and performance: Dr. de Hen and ELAINE FUNARO, harpsichord. March 21, 7pm.

Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building. Lecture and performance: Dr. de Hen and MAMADOU DIABATE, kora.

March22, 7pm. Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building. All events are free.

Screen/Socicty presents Bpm, Richard White Auditorium, unless otherwise indicated (“G” Updates at www.duke.edu/web/film/screensociety.

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