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Several blocks off East Campus were evacuated Wednesday afternoon when a local property owner reported a suspicious package outside a building at 731 Broad St. near Markham Avenue.

The report was filed at about 2 p.m., said Cpl. David Addison of the Durham Police Department. The package was removed to a Durham County Sheriffs Department truck at about 3:45 p.m., and the van left the scene, escorted by police and fire vehicles, at about 4 p.m.

Addison said officials did not know whether the package was an explosive device, but he said it would be destroyed. Neither DPD nor the sheriffs department had further information as of Wednesday night.

“Apparently some packages were left by the previous owner, and while they were going through them, the new owner found something suspicious,” said Capt. Sara-Jane Raines, executive officer with Duke University Police Department.

Raines said there was no real concern for the safety of East Campus, but University-employed Alliedßarton Security Service officers helped to keep pedestrians out of the area and DUPD officers blocked traffic.

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A group of approximately 90 faculty members calling themselves “Concerned Duke Faculty”

posted an open letter addressed to the University community online Tuesday.

In the letter, the signatories affirmed their support for the authors of an ad published in The Chronicle in April 2006 titled “What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?” which highlighted concerns brought to light by the lacrosse incident about racism and sexism on campus.

The signatories of the recent letter stated that the original ad has been widely misinterpreted in discussions about the lacrosse case and the University.

“We stand by the claim that is sues of race and sexual violence on campus are real, and we join the ad’s call to all of us at Duke to do something about this,” the authors of the open letter wrote.

By yesterday afternoon, 90 professors and lecturing fellows appeared on the list of signatories to which the letter links. Of them, 64 were among the 88 signers of the ad printed in April.

“I think that another letter has been needed for months,” said Ronen Plesser, associate professor of physics, who signed both the letter and the ad. “What held :

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Durham Police respond to a suspicious package found on BroadStreet off East. was also on scene.

Broad and Markham were both closed for several blocks, the scene was blocked by yellow tape and dozens oflaw enforcement vehicles filled the parking lot of the Dollar General at 800 Broad St.

“We wanted to make sure that we have the area evacuated so that if something happens, the effect will be minimal,” Addison said, In addition to DPD and SEE BOMB SCARE ON PAGE 6

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it up was that it’s a complicated thing to do, and nobody wanted to get started.”

Plesser said the timing of the letter’s publication was unrelated to recent developments in the legal case against three members of the 20052006 men’s lacrosse team He noted that the letter’s authors began

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drafts around the time of Winter Break and have been RonenPlesser trying for some time to publish the article in local venues.

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Brodhead has no New pilot program to run Harvard hopes buses to off-East hot spots DUKE STUDENT GOVERNMENT

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asked if he would ever consider g Duke to assume Harvard Universiesidency, President Richard Brodhead simple response.

“What a foolish question,” he wrote in e-mail. “I already have a great job.”

Brodhead is currently among 22 conirmed candidates for the position, ac:ording to the Boston Globe and The Harvard Crimson.

Other confirmed candidates include iolumbia University President Lee iollinger, Brown University President .uth Simmons and University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman, The Crimson reported in a Jan. 10 article.

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Students will soon be able to hop on a bus to get to an off-campus restaurant on weekend nights, thanks to a program endorsed by Duke Student Government

Wednesday.

The three-week pilot program, which will begin Jan. 25, was awarded $4,000 and will gauge student demand and help to deter-

mine if the service can be a permanent fixture on campus.

“Transportation sucks and there need to be more bus routes, more buses on campus and more buses off campus,” said DSG President Elliott Wolf, a junior.

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DSG endorsed a new bus route that will travel to several off-East sites.

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Secret panel oversees surveillance by

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WASHINGTON The Bush administration changed course and agreed Wednesday to let a secret but independent panel offederal judges oversee the government’s controversial domestic spying program. Officials say the secret court has already approved at least one request for monitoring.

The shift will likely end a court fight over whether the warrantless surveillance program was legal.

The program, which was secretly authorized by President George W. Bush shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror at-

tacks, was disclosed a little over a year ago, resulting in widespread criticism from lawmakers and civil libertarians who questioned its legality.

The program allowed the National Security Agency —without approval from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court—to monitor phone calls and e-mails between the United States and other countries when a link to terrorism is suspected.

In a letter to senators Wednesday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that “any electronic surveillance that was occurring as part of the Terrorist Surveillance Program will now be conducted subject to the approval of the Foreign Intelligence

Surveillance Court.”

Gonzales said Bush would not reauthorize the program once it expires. Justice Department officials later said authorization for one investigation under the warrantless program was set to expire soon, but they would not specify when.

Justice Department officials say the court already has approved at least one warrant to conduct surveillance involving a person suspected of having ties to al-Qaida or an associated terror group.

After it was revealed in 2005, the administration vigorously defended the program SEE FISA COURT ON PAGE 7

Baghdad suicide car bombs kill 17 by

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BAGHDAD, Iraq A suicide car bomber killed 17 Shiites at a teeming Sadr City market Wednesday, while gunmen in a predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Baghdad shot up a convoy of democracy workers in an ambush that took the lives of an American woman and three bodyguards.

The attack on the marketplace came one day after car bombings killed scores of university students just two miles away, indicating that al-Qaida-linked fighters are bent on a surge ofbloodshed as U.S. and Iraqi forces gear up for a fresh neighborhood-by-neigh-

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borhood security sweep through the capital.

Although nobody claimed responsibility for the car bombings, such attacks are the hallmark ofSunni militants, who seem to be taking advantage of a waiting period before the security crackdown to step up attacks on Shiites. There had been a relative lull in Baghdad violence since the first of the year.

An Iraqi army officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of security concerns, said the attack on the Western convoy took place in Yarmouk, a predominantly Sunni neighborhood in western Baghdad.

The three-car convoy belonged to the Washington-based National Democratic In-

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stitute, according to Les Campbell, the notfor-profit group’s Middle East director. He

said the four dead included an American woman along with three security contractors—a Hungarian, a Croatian and an Iraqi.

Two others were wounded, one seriously, Campbell said by telephone from Washington. Their names were withheld until their families could be notified.

In all, police reported 70 people killed or found dead in Iraq on Wednesday. They included 31 bullet-riddledbodies that turned up in Baghdad showing signs of torture, victims of apparent death squads largely run by Shiite militias like the Mahdi Army.

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Seniors concerned that their theses will be left untouched in the University library now have another means of sharing their work with the public.

College students can post their senior theses and view other students’ work on a non-profit online database at

www.UGßesearch.org.

Peter Noteboom

Peter Noteboom and Lacono launched the database in 2005 after graduating

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from Dartmouth College.

Noteboom said there are now approximately 1,000 papers available through the database. Though the vast majority of the papers were written by students in Ameri-

can universities, Noteboom said the website also features papers by students in Austria and the United Kingdom.

Noteboom said he conceived of the idea while auditing an economics seminar his senior year.

“Undergraduates often produce novel work that is never published in journals,” Noteboom said. To fill the void, Noteboom said he wanted to create “a comprehensive database that everyone can access and benefit from.”

The website also features a keyword search organized by college and subject matter. Students only need a college email address to post work on the site.

“Once your work is uploaded, we go through it [to ensure] that it meets basic levels ofpropriety,” Noteboom said. Expecting students to post high-caliber work, he

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Visitors from the Triangle and the surrounding areas comprise the majority of the Nasher's visitors.

Triangle museum-goers Duke, NCCU team up to boost Nasher numbers prepare 155,404 meals SEE E-LIBRARY ON PAGE 7

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Katie Noto

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The Nasher Museum of Art is known across Duke’s campus for its world-class art, its unique architecture and its cupcakes.

But despite the museum’s popularity among students, visitors from the Triangle area and beyond have continued to make up the largest percentage of attendees to the museum since its October

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It takes a community to feed a million children, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Million Meals Service Project sought to do just that Wednesday at North Carolina Central University.

The efforts of about 200 Duke students, 400 NCCU students and a number of Durham rotarians yielded 155,404 meals by 9:30 p.m. yesterday—a number that surpassed the previous one-day record.

“We’re all a part ofDurham. We’re all a part of the United States. We’re all a part of the world, which is why we’re here today,” said Susan Ross, president of the Durham Rotary Club and Duke’s director SEE MILLION MEALS ON PAGE 5

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2005 opening.

“The Nasher Museum is a major art center, and it is on Duke’s campus, so of course it serves the University first and foremost,” said Wendy Livingston, manager of marketing and communication at the Nasher. “But it also serves the Research Triangle with exhibitions and educational programs.”

Through a grant from The HeraldSun, the Nasher offers free admission to Durham residents attending the museum.

Last year, this population made up the

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President Brodhead speaks Wednesday at an event that helped make more than 155,000meals for kids.

second largest admission category with 17 percent of total visitors, right after paying adults from outside Durham, who comprised 28 percent.

“Our first year, we had about 95,000 people come,” said David Eck, the museum’s manager of visitor services. “This year, we’ll be closer to 80,000. We’re not new anymore, and there’s a novelty factor to museums, but 80,000 is really good for a museum this size.”

Students made up the third largest group of visitors to the museum at 10 percent.

“A fair number of Duke students are coming for a cultural experience outside their academic needs,” Eck said.

Although some students do attend the museum solely for class assignments or to go to the cafe, Livingston emphasized that each visit is welcomed.

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Say goodbye to the Spanish benches two years after their controversial installation, the large wooden benches from Spain that once adorned the Main West Quadrangle have been removed by the University.

The four imported monoliths sparked criticism from students when they made their campus debut in January 2005. Some students voiced objections to their hefty price tag of $4,000 apiece, while others complained that administrators failed to seek student input on the decision to purchase the benches.

Ultimately, though, it was their appearance that led Executive Vice President Tallman Trask to order their removal.

“They’re ugly and they’re falling apart,” Trask said, noting that large cracks have formed in the wood.

Student criticism also played a role in their departure, said Landscape Architect Mark Hough, whose office fielded numerous complaints from students on the style of the benches. “A lot of the comments were that they seemed out of place.”

On the Main Quad, more traditional metal benches are taking the place of their imported predecessors to give West Campus a more consistent look, University officials said. The benches are decorated with a Duke insignia, and were designed with “a nod to the Gothic surroundings,” Hough said.

The contemporary European flair of the Spanish benches contrasted with the more classical Gothic architecture of West Campus, which administrators said was an attempt to integrate the Main Quad with

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The Spanish benches caused quite a stir when they arrived on West in January 2005. Now, the $4,000-a-piece benches have been removed and placed in storage. the architecture of the West Campus Plaza, Residential Life and Housing Services installed the benches on the Main Quad both to provide more seating options for students and to determine whether they would eventually be an appropriate fit for the Plaza, said Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services.

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benches to the Plaza because permanent furniture there would have given the space less flexibility.

It is unclear what will become of the Spanish benches, which were removed last month. Officials say the benches could find a new home on East Campus or Central Campus.

“We’ve talked about certain indiscreet places where the aesthetics are less impor-

tant,” Hough said.

Trask said he doubts the benches will be relocated. “I’m saving them for Elliott,” he joked, referring to Duke Student Government President Elliott Wolf, a junior.

Wolf, when asked about the benches, said he had not yet been approached about them. “I’d be glad to come up with a plan to burn them if the administrators will let me,” Wolf said.

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One goal of the event was to break the record set by N.C. State last fall.

Duke President Richard Brodhead delivered an opening speech, citing the goal of packaging a record 155,000 meals at

of financial aid development.

NCCU hosted Duke students, faculty and members of three local rotary clubs Wednesday’s event, “Don’t just break [the record], break it for a meal-packaging event designed to by such a distance that no one will even provide food for developing countries. dream of chalTim Mannix, it,” lenging governor of Rodistrict Brodhead said tary “This signals that students of Chad 7710, proposed Stutsman, prothat rotarians of today are Service-minded and &

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The rotary clubs have been working with the Operation Sharehouse initiative of the non-profit organization Stop Hunger Now to package fortified rice-soy meals. They will be distributed by school lunch programs and relief agencies in countries such as Haiti, Bolivia, Ghana and Guatemala.

As of Jan. 13, the organizations had compiled more than 515,000 meals.

153,792 were packed by students of NCCU in October 2006, which inspired Bijoy Sahoo, Durham Rotary Club member and interim dean of the NCCU School of Business, to hold a similar event at NCCU in cooperation with Duke.

Sahoo said he hopes to see student efforts continue on an annual basis.

“Success is if you can sustain it,” he said

Now, dubbed the project not just a “volunteer assembly line,” but a “volunteer sweat

shop.”

‘You guys are competitive,” Stutsman said, commending the volunteers’ efforts.

The packaging process started with labeling the bags, each of which makes six meals priced at 20 cents each.

The bags were then filled with soy, a chicken vitamin mix, dehydrated vegetables and rice. A gong was sounded each time 1,000 meals were completed.

NCCU Chancellor James Ammons thanked volunteers and sponsors, including both universities and community members, for giving their time and donations.

“This signals that students of today are service-minded and that you do care about people other than yourselves,” Ammons said.

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96,000 people visited the Nasher Museum ofArt during its first year open. About 10 percent were students.

NASHER from page 3 “We are thrilled when students come in whether it’s for class or just for lunch at the cafe,” she said. “We want students to feel comfortable here.”

The Nasher Museum replaced Duke’s previous art museum on East Campus, and for some alumni, the new museum has been a draw back to campus.

“One thing I missed when I was here was that we had no real art museum,” said Sylvia Watson, Women’s College ’62 and a visitor from Holly Springs, N.C. “The Nasher really creates a focal point.

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Through speakers, film series and workshops, the museum seeks to bring art in all forms to an increasingly larger audience.

“The Nasher Museum’s purpose is to be one of the top university art museums in the country,” Livingston said. “We would love to see every Durham resident and Duke student in the museum once a year, so we’re working on reaching out to as many people as we can. We had 96,000 people in our first 12 months, and that was very successful. We feel embraced by the community.”

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BRODHEAO from page 1 Harvard’s search for a new president began in March 2006, shortly after then President Lawrence Summers announced his resignation, effective at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year.

A nine-member search committee assumed the task of finding his replacement.

As stipulated by Harvard’s charter, the committee includes the six fellows of the Harvard Corporation and the University’s chief external advisory board. The committee also includes three members of the 30-person Board of Overseers, a representative body of Harvard’s alumni. After nearly a year, the committee’s work is nearing its end, according to The Crimson.

The committee plans to reach a decision by early February, but the announcement could come as early as the end of January or as late as the beginning of March, The Crimson reported.

When the Board of Overseers met in early December, they were presented with a list of 30 candidates. Only a dozen, however, were actually under serious consideration at the time, according to The Crimson.

Since then, Stanford University Provost John Etchemendy and University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Alison Richard—two of the top candidates—have both stated publicly that they are not interested in Harvard’s top post.

As a result, Harvard may now be more seriously considering previously overlooked candidates from the list of 22, according to The Crimson. Since the search began, committee members have declined to speak publicly about the process. Harvard Corporation fellows Nan Keohane, former Duke president, and Patricia King, a law professor at Georgetown University, maintained that policy when contacted by The Chronicle.

When asked for comment, John Harness, Duke’s senior vice president for public relations and government affairs, minimized the significance of Brod-

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the top four candidates on the short list of probable candidates, three are women. If a woman were chosen, she would be the first female president in Harvard’s nearly 400-year history.

Alison Richard Richard, a renowned

anthropologist specializing in primate social systems, joined Yale’s faculty in 1972 upon earning

her Ph.D. from the Uniof London.

Richard served in a number of positions at Yale, until becoming Provost in 1994.

In 2003, Richard left Yale to become the University of Cambridge’s first female Vice-Chancellor.

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Eiena Kagan Kagan has served as Dean of Harvard Law School since 2003. Before coming to Harvard, Kagan was a law professor at the University of Chicago and Associate Counsel to former U.S. President Bill Clinton.

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Newspapers have reported that Richard Brodhead isamong 30 people being consideredfor Harvard's presidency. head’s candidacy, pointing out that approximately 30 people are being considered by Harvard.

“It’s the nature of the process that any prominent figure in higher education will be mentioned whenever a prestigious institution has a job opening,” Burness said.

Burness added that the intense scrutiny

and pressure from some groups during the past year have not made Brodhead any more willing to consider other positions in academia.

“Being president is one of the great joys of his life—he loves this institution and its energy,” Burness said. “He’s here for the duration.”

Faust assumed the top position at the Harvard’s Raddiffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2001. Before coming to Cambridge, Faust was the Annenberg Professor of History and director of the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Several of the other signatories of the April ad who did not sign the recent letter no longer work at the University.

The letter appears on an independent website, http://concemeddukefaculty.org.

Plesser explained that he would have preferred not to publish the letter on the

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“This is not an organized effort,” Plesser said. “My personal hope is that this will be the basis for a conversation on campus... a conversation that will eventually Internet. lead to some understanding.”

Elizabeth Clark, John Carlisle Kilgo “We were unable to find a venue locally first. We tried,” Plesser said. professor of religion and one of the reActing on behalf cently published letof the signatories, ter’s co-authors, said Plesser submitted a she signed the letter “We stand the claim draft of the letter to to show she supports that issues of race and The Chronicle as an efforts for change ad last week. The on campus. sexual violence on camChronicle offered to “When the situathe letter on the run tion becomes such pus are real.” condition that the that honored mem‘Concerned Duke Faculty’ authors accepted bers of the faculty editorial certain are being attacked changes to wording on blogs in very perthat posed legal sonal ways, I think it’s perhaps time to say that we join in... risks for the newspaper. Plesser and his the struggle against racism and sexism at fellow signatories ultimately rejected Duke,” said Clark, who was not among the The Chronicle’s offer.

In an e-mail to The Chronicle, Laurie 88 who signed the original ad.

Twenty-four of those who signed the Shannon, associate professor of English, April ad are not currendy listed among the criticized the newspaper for not giving due weight to faculty members’ right to “Concerned Faculty.” Among them is miriam cooke, professor of Asian and African freedom of expression.

Writing in another e-mail, Kenneth languages and literature, who does not capitalize her name. She said she signed an Surin, professor ofliterature and religion earlier version of the recent letter, howevand critical theory, said the paper’s “cener, and continued to support its contents. sorship” of the ad was “very disturbing.”

The Chronicle has customarily re“Each one of us has received messages that run the spectrum of polite requests viewed ads of this nature and required advertisers to make changes. to demur... to rude, aggressive, threaten“What The Chronicle has to say about ing letters,” said cooke, referring to the 88 faculty who signed the April ad. “I why it made its choice—that’s the paper’s decision,” Plesser said. hope that will stop.”

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Several police cars, including a biological and chemical response truck, arrive at the scene ofWednesday's incident.

BOMB SCARE from page 1 DUPD, the Durham Fire Department and Durham County Sheriff’s Department all had personnel on scene, including DPD’s Biological Chemical Emergency Response Team and a mobile police substation.

The building houses a law office, a travel agency and several other businesses.

Some neighborhood residents milled around outside the blocked-off area, including one Clarendon Street resident, who asked to be identified only as Mrs. Williams.

“I sent my daughter down to the dollar store and I didn’t know if something had happened,” she said. “My heart was racing,

but I still don’t know if she turned around or what.”

While events unfolded on Broad Street, an apparently unrelated bomb threat was called in at 2:16 p.m. to the Hillcrest Convalescent Center at 1417 W. Pettigrew St., Addison said.

Hillcrest Administrator Ted Smith said the facility contacted police, who advised an evacuation and began a search. Only about 20 of the home’s approximately 110 residents had been removed when police gave the go-ahead to reoccupy between 3:30 and 4 p.m., Smith said.

“We prepare for lots of different emergency procedures,” he said. “We’ve never had to utilize this one, but it couldn’t have gone any smoother. We had lots of neighbors who pitched in to help.”

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said that works are not checked for quality.

Though Noteboom and Lacono fund the project themselves, they recently began soliciting help from college administrators.

Noteboom has also informed college administrators of the database’s existence as a precaution against plagiarism.

“If they have concerns, they can search the database themselves,” he said. “We haven’t had any problems with [plagiarism] so far.”

He added that the length and specific nature of theses would make it difficult for

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plagiarize.

Student response to the website has been mixed.

Michael Humeniuk, a senior who wrote

FISA COURT from page 2 as essential to national security. Although the secret court was established precisely to review requests for domestic surveillance warrants, the White House insisted that such oversight was not required by law and, in fact, would slow efforts to stop terrorists.

From the start, Bush maintained the warrantless program’s existence was “fully consistent with my constitutional responsibilities and authorities,” and said he would continue to reauthorize it “for as long as our nation faces a continuing threat from al-Qaida and related groups.” Circumventing the court, he said, “enables us to move faster and quicker.”

But last August, a federal judge in Detroit declared the spying program unconstitutional, saying it violated the rights to free speech and privacy and the separation

a thesis in mechanical engineering, said that he did not think the database would have been helpful in writing his own thesis.

“We had all the latest, current publications,” Humeniuk said. He added that he did not plan to post his own thesis on the database yet because he hoped that his work would be published in a journal first.

Suparna Salil, a senior whose thesis was in English, said the website would have been a valuable resource.

“The database would have been useful in terms of seeing what other ideas are out there and what other resources people are using.”

She noted, however, that while writing her thesis, she was already overwhelmed by the amount ofinformation available to her in the form of books and articles.

“I would post my own work and if [others] found it helpful, then great,” Salil said.

ofpowers. In October, a three-judge panel of the Cincinnati-based appeals court ruled that the administration could keep the program in place while it appeals the Detroit decision.

That appeal, which was scheduled to be heard on Jan. 31, will now likely be rendered moot, said one Justice Department official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the government has not yet officially decided whether to drop its case.

Attorneys for the department notified the appeals court in a separate letter Wednesday that “the government plans to file promptly papers... addressing the implications of this development on the

litigation.”

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said the administration is satisfied with new rules adopted by the FISA court to address administration officials’ concerns about national security.

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Congressman continues to push for inquiry U.S. Rep. Walter Jones told the Raleigh News and Observer Tuesday that he will ask the U.S. Department ofJustice to reconsider its decision to not yet look into the conduct of District Attorney Mike Nifong.

Jones had formally asked the Department of Justice to investigate Nifong’s handling of the Duke lacrosse case, but last week, Jones received a letter from the U.S. Attorney General’s Office saying they thought it was too early to investigate the case.

“The letter said, ‘lt would be premature to initiate a federal investigation pending a criminal trial,’” Jones told The News and Observer.

The letter’s arrival, however, came the day before Nifong asked to have himself recused from the case. With Nifong off the case, Jones wants a reconsideration of the inquiry.

“Now that he’s not on the case, that puts it in a different light,” Jones said.

“Since he’s not involved anymore, it would be appropriate to investigate him.”

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Evidence in case transferred to Raleigh The crates and boxes filled with pictures, videotapes and other evidence collected by Durham prosecutors were delivered to N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper’s office Tuesday evening. One of the first tasks for investigators is to see whether a photo lineup of lacrosse players will be permissible in court.

Special prosecution tied to parties in case Mary Winstead, one of two special prosecutors appointed by Roy Cooper to oversee the case after Mike Nifong’s re-

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Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., (left) will continue to ask Attorney General Gonzales to review the Duke case. cusal, worked with the district attorney in the past.

Although some lawyers suggested a potential conflict of interest, other legal experts said such a situation is common to the practice of law.

“All prosecutors work with other prosecutors all the time—that’s normal” said James Tierney, director of the National State Attorneys General Program at Columbia University Law School.

Jim Croman, the second prosecutor, has also been linked to a party involved in the case.

Croman battled Joe Cheshire, defense attorney for David Evans, in the high-profile second trial of former death row inmate Alan Cell.

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The two representatives said that although they do not have any pre-conceived goals for the program, they believe

between 7 p.m. and 3 a.m., Thursday, Friit will serve a useful function.

“We think this is a service that studay and Saturday nights and will make stops at West Campus, Anderson Street, dents will use and will utilize,” Brihmadethe intersection at Ninth and Perry Streets sam said. and by the Old Coke Building on Main Senators also selected 10representatives Street—several to serve on the Young Trustee blocks from Brig h 11 ea f Nominating Committee “Transportation sucks and Square will Buses “They will all there need to be more bus cycle through be expected to three times in have a non-biroutes, more buses on campus the course of an ased view for all and more buses off campus.” hour. The new the candidates bus route was Elliott Wolf and have the initiated by senhighest morals, president, DSG integrity David lors and Snider, DSG confidentiality in vice president the process,” said for athletics and campus services, and sophomore Jordan Giordano, DSG vice Vijay Brihmadesam, DSG student services president for community interaction. director.

Snider and Brihmadesam said the proIn other business: Senators unanimously voted to allocate posed route will address that fact that students on West and Central campuses feel $l,OOO to the Claire Crowley Memorial isolated from Durham eateries and bars, Fund, in honor of the sophomore who was and on-campus options are limited during killed in a bike accident Dec. 23. The the weekends. money will go toward the Duke University Wolf said similar programs have been Women’s Institute for Secondary Education for Muhuru Bay, Kenya. unsuccessfully implemented in the past.

“There’s clearly been a demand exSophomore Alex Crable, chair of the pressed, but when past programs have Student Organization Finance Commitbeen initiated, students didn’t use them tee, did a first reading for a proposed because they didn’t know about them,” fund that would allow DSG to use surplus Wolf added. money to purchase kegs for approved Snider and Brihmadesam said that after campus events. the three weeks they hope to identify venOnly DSG-chartered organizations dors who benefit from the service and will would be permitted to receive two kegs and bartenders. help finance the route in the future.

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THE CHRONICLE BREAKS SOWN TONIGHT'S DUKE VS. WAKE MATCHUP PAGE 10

EAGLES DISMISS TWO PLAYERS Boston College announced Wednesday that Sean Williams and Akida McClain had been dismissed from the team for violating team rules. The Eagles are in first place in the ACC with a 5-0 conference record.

Show some Duke looks to build on Miami win love for the ladies MEN'S BASKETBALL

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Tim Britton

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After a startling 0-2 beginning to conference play, Duke went back to the basics.

The Blue Devils recommitted themselves to practice, resulting in one of their finest performances Sunday at Miami.

No. 14 Duke (14-3, 1-2 in the ACC) will try to preserve that momentum, particularon the offensive end, when it hosts Wake Forest

When I first found out I’d be writing a sports column this year, I promised myself I wouldn’t become “that girl”—you know,

the raging feminist writer who waves Title IX, sports bras and lip gloss in your face when all you want to read is another unqualified opinion on why the football team struggles or how the men’s basketball team should be run, But in case you’ve missed it, Cameron Indoor Stadium is meredith home to the No. 1 ■ S fl I fl C ■ team in the country the women’s team and I (regardless of my gender) would be remiss not to use this space to give the top team in the country its due and to ask you to do the same.

Just imagine for a second that you are an elite college basketball coach who goes by a nickname consisting of one letter.

You’re coming off a season that ended with a heartbreaking loss keeping you from the National Championship, you lose your top-two scorers —your seasoned seniors—to the pros, and now you’ve entered this season with a lot of holes to be filled by freshmen or sophomores and are under immense pressure to win.

If you were imagining yourself as Mike Krzyzewski, stop. The coach I’m referring to is Gail Goestenkors, Coach G. It would be unfair to continue to portray the men’s and women’s team as being in completely identical situations. It goes

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The Blue Devils broke out of their season-long

offensive mire against the Hurricanes shooting 68.3 . oe Percent and scoring 85 Duke missed just points. four shots while scoring 49 points in a blistering first half.

Wake Forest, on the other hand, comes into Cameron Indoor Stadium riding a two-game losing streak and struggling on the defensive end. The Demon Deacons have not won in Cameron in their last nine trips, and Duke has averaged more than 90 points per game during that span.

After the Blue Devils’ win over Miami, freshman Jon Scheyer credited Duke’s preparation and renewed focus for the team’s highest offensive output since its 86-43 season-opening win over Columbia Nov. 12.

“We really learned that we had to practice harder,” sophomore forward David McClure said Wednesday. “We were out there practicing to practice, rather than practicing knowing we were going to go into a war everyday. You have to go out there and compete every play, and we know that every possession and every play is valuable.”

The Blue Devils have worked on inteTONIGHT 7 p.m.

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Wolfpack rally around sidelined Coach Yow by

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Even coaches who have been inducted into seven different halls of fame have their weaknesses. For State head coach Kay Yow, breast cancer has proven—at least temVS. porarily—to be that stopping force.

When No. 1 Duke (184), 3-0 in the ACC) TONIGHT, 7 p.m. treks east on 1-40 to take Raleigh, N.C. Qn the Wolfpack (13-5, 21) in Reynolds Coliseum tonight at 7 p.m., Blue Devils head coach Gail Goestenkors will shake hands not with Yow but instead with interim head coach Stephanie Glance, who has gone 104 since Yow took an indefinite leave of

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Lindsey Harding and the No. 1 Blue Devils are on a roll after beating then-top-ranked Maryland Saturday.

absence Nov. 23 Yow, whom N.C. State hired in 1975, has made several significant contributions to the game of women’s basketball, including pushing hard for the creation of Title IX in 1972 and helping other schools make women’s basketball more

prominent.

Goestenkors said she remembered a conversation she had with Yow soon after arriving at Duke.

“I talked to her at that point about marketing because our attendance was really bad and they had much better attendance,” Goestenkors said. “Everybody across the nation loves Kay Yow and respects her. She had such an impact on our game.”

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grating a new offensive set all season, and they finally looked in rhythm Sunday night.

Greg Paulus was able to push the tempo without forcing the ball, allowing Scheyer to spot up on the perimeter. The freshman hit four three-pointers en route to a careerhigh 25 points.

“I “I believe [we’ve grasped the offensive set],” set],” McClure said. “It’s just really getting consistent with it and comfortable with it.

It’s kind of a free-flowing offense—it’s very much set up for us to make reads. We’re going to break plays a lot and make a lot of good reads.” . Duke remained balanced, however, with Paulas chipping in 15 points and DeMarcos Nelson and Josh Mcßoberts also scoring in double figures.

The Blue Devils, above all, were efficient on the offensive end, capitalizing on open looks and constantly applying pressure on the Miami defense. Duke responded when-

W. BBALL from page 9 Yow has been quite productive on the

court as well. With 636 wins and five ACC championships on her resume, Yow has the

fifth most wins among active NCAA coaches, and in 1998 she took N.C. State to its only Final Four appearance.

Perhaps even more impressive than her collegiate accomplishments are her international achievements. Much like Goestenkors this past summer, Yow led Team USA. to a gold medal at the Olympics in 1988. With her 1984 gold medal as an assistant coach, she became the only coach to have garnered two gold medals in the historyof women’s basketball.

“I realize that it’s a great opportunity for me to work for a legend in the game and a legend in life,” Glance told The Raleigh News and Observer. ‘You don’t meet many people like Coach Yow.” At times, however, Yow fell very ill. Yow was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987 and again in late 2004. But keeping the spotlight away from her, Yow kept everyone—even her own players—in the dark for several weeks. Even when she announced that she needed a leave of absence, she humbly insisted in a statement released Nov. 23 that equal treatment be given to. other cancer patients going

ever the Hurricanes tried to get back in the game, ming a 144 mn in the first half to build the lead and a 19-5 run to start the second half to put the game out of reach, “We just have to be confident,” McClure said. “We have to realize we are very good

players.”

The Blue Devils will try to maintain that offensive output against a Wake Forest team that ranks last in the ACC in field goal percentage defense, The Demon Demon Deacons are coming off a to N.C. disappointing 88-74 home loss to State last Saturday. Wake Forest has struggled since a 5-0 start to the season, with its lone ACC victory coming in a one-point win at Miami.

The Demon Deacons rely heavily on senior center Kyle Visser, who ranks fourth in the conference in both scoring and rebounding. In order to contain Visser, Duke will need to improve its post defense after being dominated inside in its loss at Georgia Tech Jan. 10. In that game, Yellow Jacket center Ra’Sean Dickey scored 21 points and

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The 6-foot-11 Visser, who is No. 4 in the ACC in points and fifth in boards, could pose problems for Duke's defense, but beyond him the Demon Deacons are very inconsistent. Expect both McRoberts and Thomas to work to deny Visser the ball all game.

Both starting guards for Wake Forest are freshmen and will struggle due to inexperience and the defensive pressure the Blue Devils put on the ball. Duke's combination of Paulus, the steadily improving Scheyer and Nelson hold the clear advantage.

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routinely forced double-teams on the block.

Freshman point guard Ishmael Smith leads the ACC in assists with more than six per game. Smith is joined in the starting lineup by fellow freshmen L.D. Williams and Jamie Skeen, making Wake Forest one

of the youngest teams in the ACC. Duke is in the midst of a stretch in which it faces the three teams selected to finish at the bottom of the conference.

The Blue Devils hope to use these games to build momentum before entering the brunt of the conference schedule.

“We’re really approaching these games to keep building on the Duke standard,” McClure said. “That’s one thing we had let slip a little bit, and we really have to go into these games just expecting to play great.

We-need to be precise, execute well and just fight every play.”

through similar experiences.

Through all the success and problems, Vow has maintained doing things her way—with class, grace, style and integrity all mixed together, Goestenkors said.

“She’s been a tremendous role model to me,” Goestenkors said. “She’s been someone I want to emulate because of how she coaches and because of who she is.”

Even with the absence of such an influential presence, the Wolfpack still has found away to continue the success Coach Yow brought them. Of N.C. State’s four losses since Yow’s departure, one came to then-No. 1 Maryland Jan. 3 and one in overtime at Arizona Nov. 24, the day after Yow announced that she would take a leave ofabsence.

The team bonded and rallied around Yow, Goestenkors said about N.C. State, and the players became stronger.

“Stephanie’s been doing an incredible job,” Yow told the N&O about N.C. State’s new head coach. “She’s taken on a yeoman’s task.”

The resilient Wolfpack enter tonight’s matchup riding a two-game ACC win streak. But N.C. State will likely need its best performance of the season if it hopes to stay close with the Blue Devils.

Duke has won all ofits contests this season by at least 10 points, including an improbable 10-point victory over Maryland Monday.

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SHINER from page 9 without saying that the women’s team is undefeated and just upset the former No. 1 team in the country, conference-rival Maryland (yes, I’m sorry to say, a team is your rival if it beat you out in overtime for the National

Championship).

Goestenkors takes her team into each game with a big

advantage —OK, maybe one big one and another really, really big one—Lindsey Harding and Alison Bales.

Harding, the reigning ACC Defensive Player of the Year, has has improved her game immensely between this season and last and is the spark for this team on

both sides of the ball. She’s averaging 14.3 points per game and shooting nearly 50 percent from the floor.

The senior captain has become a leader, both in voice and through her play, which has become explosive.

It seems to me, that if a writer fails to attach the modifier “6-foot-7” to 6-foot-7 Alison Bales’ name, he or she has failed to live up to the standards of journalistic integrity. Since last March, however, when Bales emerged as a player on the national stage, she has become so much more than just 6-foot-7. She consistently shows up for the big games. Against the Terrapins last Saturday, Bales put up 18 points, pulled down 12 rebounds and swatted away seven shots. That was against the “best” team in the country. That was almost a tripledouble, folks.

“We knew our players had to adjust to new roles,” Goestenkors said after this week’s rankings were released. “Our role players had to become go-to players.

I’m impressed how quickly they’ve adjusted to their new roles and embraced their new roles.”

The Blue Devils have adjusted, alright. And it

shouldn’t be surprising.

Over the past five years, Duke has been ranked No.l in the Associated Press poll for a total of 26 weeks. The Blue Devils also have been in the top seven of the AP poll for 44 straight weeks—l 2 weeks longer than second-place North Carolina, 20 weeks longer than Maryland and almost 30 more weeks more than Tennessee.

So, basically, what I’m trying to say is that this team is good. Really good. National Championship good. And we should treat these Blue Devils like the serious contenders that they are.

Last year, when Dukies believed J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams were going to take their team to the Promised Land, they jumped onto a train that magically appeared behind Cameron. Theyjumped into tents.

They jumped on the bleachers in Cameron.

Last Saturday’s Maryland game may have been a sellout, but many of the student section seats were sold to non-students.

You can bet this team’s national title hopes that if the men’s team were No. 3 in the nation taking on a topranked Terps squad, not only would that game have been a tenting game, but the fire marshall would have gotten a nervous twitch from the sheer volume of Crazies they would have packed into the bleachers.

A national title contender deserves so much better than what it’s getting right now. Duke fans are supposed to be the best in the country.

Connecticut’s women’s team consistently sells out two different 10,000-plus seat stadiums. And I think Jim Calhoun would take offense if anyone were to claim that the PETE KIEHART/THE CHRONICLE Lady Huskies are the only game in town.

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Nonetheless, a drop in apAfter learning last week that plication numbers is not, of regular applications for admiscourse, news to be praised, ession had fallen only 3.3 percent—far from the apocalyptic, pecially when many peer institutions and other universities precipitous drop some predicted after the lacrosse scandal throughout the country are reerupted —that gasp turned porting surging numbers. The into a collective sigh of relief. pending criminal charges The news revealed what the against three members of the majority of those in the Duke men’s lacrosse team and the community already knew: The ensuing media fallout from sky is not falling. The Duke ship those allegations certainly is sailing steadily and, for the played a part in reversing a posate

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Newly instituted programs such as “Duke Nights” and “A Duke Conversation” helped showcase the University to prospective students and their families throughout the country. These efforts, as well as strong work on the part of the new Admissions Ambassadors, perhaps helped to blunt the impact of an applicant drop brought about by negative perceptions of Duke stemming from the lacrosse case.

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“Theproblem is not who we’re admitting. It’s who’s applying. . . . We want to change the perception of the school, and that’s going to take time.

-Peter Lange, Provost of Duke University, 11.16.06 ”

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—Duke Student Government President Elliott Wolf, a junior, on the uncertain future of the so-called Spanish benches, which were recently removed from Main West. See story page 3.

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versity’s vulnerability in the wake of the scandal, seasoned college counselors may have encouraged students to apply to Duke knowing full well that one university’s troubles might be another student’s acceptance letter.

That being said, numbers can only reveal so much. To attribute the marginal decline in admissions solely to lacrosse may ignore other explanatory variables. In terms of the first batch of applications Duke received, changes in early admissions policies at peer institutions as well as Duke’s fall in the U.S. News & World Report annual rankings (which is not attributable to the lacrosse case, as this year’s rankings were calculated prior to the ad-

of the scandal) may also have contributed to the number of applications the University received. The numbers also fail to reveal from which part of the applicant pool the decline came. It is unclear whether the 3-percent drop was evenly distributed throughout the entire spectrum of applicants or whether the University lost the top 3 percent of its applicants.

In the latter case, the seemingly minimal decline in applications would be anything but insignificant.

Indeed, numbers do not reveal the admissions game’s nuances. As such, taking them at face value and saying, “Look at what lacrosse did!” is an uninformed approach to the situation.Admissions matters are, in the end, much more on track than those quick to jump to conclusions would have us think. vent

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Lange appraised Duke students’ appreciation of diversity and inclusion at last semester’s “Black I event, Like Me.” At the event, scores of students filed into White Lecture Hall for a panel discussion on the Campus Life and Learning Project. Launched in 2000, the CLIP has exsamson mesele amined the “characteristics and qualities tutu powerful of diffierent groups o;»f students’ undergraduate educational experiences.” With data collected from 1,500 students in the classes of 2005 and 2006, the Project’s midstream report laid bare troubling realities about Duke undergraduates’ academic, social and residential lives. Perhaps the most disappointing finding was student-reported discrimination during their second year.

Black: 44 percent. Bi-Multiracial: 28 percent. Asian and Latino: 19 percent. White: 11 percent.

In its present form, the CLLP offers valuable information, but information isn’t enough. Now is the time to draw key insights from the Project’s research for the sake of progress.

Since welcoming African-American faculty and students, Duke has produced an outwardly diverse campus.

But if 44 percent of black students in the classes of 2005 and 2006 experienced discrimination as sophomores, Duke has institutional evidence that shows its racial diversity has not precluded on-campus discrimination. Indeed, in the latest Strategic Plan, the University Trustees articulated a commitment “to advancing research and teaching on the history, cultures, and contemporary issues affected by and affecting the lives of under-represented minorities in the United States.” The Trustees also endorsed lasting “change in campus culture and... inclusion through programming on campus and beyond.”

Unfortunately, the discrimination cited in the CLLP prevents the flill exploitation of such efforts.

Duke cannot easily divorce students from the prejudices and biases with which they enter college, but a concrete change will signal to future applicants that Duke (a) commits to embracing difference and (b) rejects individual and institutional forms of discrimination. As Lange suggests, at stake is the type of student we are attracting.

The concrete change I call for is a new mandatory course for first-year students on die historical foundation and ethical dimensions of diversity. What better

way to enhance that culture—to change “the perception of the school” as Lange advises—than by incorporating the enduring theme of diversity into the classroom from Day One? In my plan, Trinity College’s existing requirements for Cross Culture Inquiry and Ethical Inquiry would undergird the proposed course. The rationale for the two CCI requirements currently reads, “To be successful, Duke students need formal and academic experience in the processes of exploring... differences among peoples. .. within national and international contexts.” And the two El requirements are intended to “sharpen [students’] understanding of a variety of ways in which ethical issues and values frame... human conduct.”

What is missing here is a broad treatment of, as the Trustees stated in the Strategic Plan, disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to “issues of race, ethnicity, and gender in the sciences, social sciences, humanities and the professions.” Indeed, undergraduates can maneuver through the Trinity requirements (and obviously those ofPratt) without ever truly engaging diversity or gaining academic exposure to contemporary instances of discrimination. Only self-selecting students enroll in those classes that effectively address and interrogate diversity as a subject. Save the once-over-then-done summer reading, we have no “common intellectual currency” (as Jimmy Soni in Duke Student Government Academic Affairs has stated), especially where diversity is concerned.

So, how exactly do I propose we build that currency? The half-credit, pass/fail seminar I propose for first-year students would allow for interactive and meaningful dialogue based on selected readings, but it also would bring each incoming class together for a supplemental lecture series supported by international spokespersons, multi-millionaire CEOs, American politicos, biomedical engineers, financial leaders, celebrities, artists, actors and even comedians. Imagine arriving at Duke to hear 10 of the world’s most capable and rousing speakers lecture on diversity in their professional life and global citizenship. The guest speakers would help propel dialogue and make diversity more relevant for incoming students.

The need is clear. More than 40 percent of this year’s freshmen are students of color. About 45 percent of all undergrads receive financial aid from the University.

More than 500 international post-doctoral fellows conduct research at Duke. One in three graduate and professional students is international.

But these instandy gratifying metrics of diversity mean nothing to the student who chooses not to engage the statistics’ variance—an engagement that must begin in the classroom.

Samson Mesele is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Thursday.

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Answering the call After

four years at Duke, I have become familiar with the frequent (and not always inaccurate) perception of the University administration as operating with a heavy-handed, top-down approach. Often, new policies and programs seem to spring from thin air with minimal, and sometimes no, consultation with students.

The Campus Culture Initiative is different. The University administration has no silver bullet in its effort to define the future of the Duke undergradjoe fore uate experience. For many of guest column the most important choices, decision-makers must rely on the insight that only we, as students, are able to provide. Absent this critical feedback, the University will struggle to promote a cohesive plan, shaping it largely on assumptions about what in their undergraduate experience students would find both attractive and rewarding.

While the fruits of this uninformed labor may, indeed, produce some improvements, the more likely result is a suboptimal outcome for which neither the administration nor future classes of Duke students would hope. Therefore, it is imperative that we, as students, commit ourselves to participating in the process to ensure that whatever direction the University takes is informed and supported by the undergraduate student body. The administration is looking actively for advice, and it’s up to us to provide it.

There are several ways that undergraduate input can filter up to the top levels of the University administration. The first is direct communication through channels specifically designed for collecting such thoughts. Currently, the task of providing student input to the CCI has fallen mainly on the shoulders of a small, select group of students, supplemented by anonymous comments provided through the CCl’s website. While the efforts of these students have been laudable, it is clear that we, the broader student body, must take a more active role in both the formation and implementation ofany initiatives the University wishes to pursue. We must talk to the students on the committees, meet with involved faculty and submit our own proposals.

Two student-driven projects also have been launched with the goal of providing farther avenues for undergraduates to share their thoughts. The Student CCI, originally organized by leaders of Duke’s largest cultural organizations, seeks to have students answer the questions, “I love Duke because...” and “I love Duke, but...” The aim is to produce a set of concrete recommendations. Simultaneously, DSG’s Duke Story Project hopes to collect students’ perceptions of the ideal Duke experience in narrative form and merge their collective desires into a series of broad themes.

Another means of sending a message to the administration is the organic action of students who turn their hopes for improvement into direct change. Already, a number of entrepreneurial students have risen to this challenge and taken matters into their own hands. Refusing to buy into polarizing characterizations ofDuke’s social scene, student leading Duke Plays seek to give voice to the breadth of “play” that defines our social lives.

Senior Ben Abram and others, desiring more informal intellectual discourse, have taken advantage of funding from President Richard Brodhead to invite speakers, including nationally recognized authors, journalists and business leaders, to dinner.

The list of similar actions goes on and on.

Not everyone is so bold, and that’sfine. Maybe you feel more comfortable submitting anonymous recommendations for improving the quad model or faculty student interaction." Or maybe you are up to the task of starting a new organization or leading a push to meet a previously unmet need on campus.

There are tremendous resources available for ambitious students wanting to enrich our community through their efforts.

No matter your preferred modus operandi, you can get it done.

It has become beyond trite to claim that we are at a turning point in the history of our University. Still our generation of Duke students has been given a unique chance: the opportunity to help shape the future of University for years, maybe decades. It is, perhaps, not since the Allen Building takeover in 1969 that students have been able to take such a direct and active role in plotting the course that Duke will take.

If we fail to leave a legacy at this crucial time, it will not be, it cannot be, for want of opportunity. We have ample oudets to make our wishes known, either through our voices or through our actions. If we fail to share our ideas with the broader community, we are in no position to complain if the results are not the ones for which we hope.

Joe Fore is a Trinity seniorand executive vice president of Duke Studwt Government.

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I’m talking about last spring, when, in a journalism that give greek life a bad name. I see clusters of girls who think deliberate cultivation of a certain aesthetic-investclass I was taking, a very coiffed and successful financial rement in some specific, branded swag-will itself bring the porter from The New cachet they need to launch into some imagined social York Times came to speak rna>. to us about her work. She stratosphere. The saying is “Good clothes open all doors,” not “Seven jeans open all doors.” was brilliant. She was Unfortunately for those who’ve already drained their smart. She was unbelievably well-dressed. savings, that never happens. My rallying to the defense of girls who dress up before rush, job interviews, church or I do not mean to imply first dates does not mean I’m advocating brand-naming that her knack for coordifrom head to toe, or worse, fashion-related “reinvention.” nating accessories distractsarah ball ed from her professional Laugh if you want, but a diluted sense of self is not what being greek is about-at least, not to me. some got pencils accomplishments. To me, I simply find harping on recruitment coiffing so singuit enhanced them. It’s relar, and so strange. Comparatively, I wonder why it’s inoffreshing to see intelligent fensive to spend an hour or more getting dressed to go to women in positions ofpower, women who brush aside insurmountable obstacles as though they’re nothing, still out on the weekends—something I do, too. If dressing up manage to look like a million bucks. I open Us Weekly to to make a positive impression on an organization you a flawless picture ofLohan in her “Oh, justsomething Karl hope one day to join is laughable, then what is ruining suede pumps and denim hems in three inches of beer sent over” finery, but so-freaking-what? Nancy Pelosi and sludge? Pulling your hair Condi Rice can wear that into an effortful French same floor-length twist before Round 3 is vanChanel, but they’ve got If dressing up to make a positive imity and “sorostitution” at its something going on uppression on an organization you hope worst, but dabbing Light stairs. They are the real in your decolletage fashionistas one day to join is laughable, then what Blue before blacking out and I say all this because it’s a position not often being carted off to Edens is ruining suede pumps and denim is... what, feminism? taken this time of year, as hems in three inches of beer sludge?

Does it take guts to look half of Duke’s first-year nice for reasons other than women through go attracting guys? sorority recruitment Ten Every year at this time, I remember a story my aunt chapters are trying to lure new members in a process that told me about her own greek days. In the 1970 at weeks.

As of the once two orthoroughly draining spans part deal, girls dress up—casually for the first two rounds, Louisiana State University, sororities hosted pledge fordressy for the third and in semi-formalattire for the fourth mals to honor their newest members. Each girl, clad in a and final. Most wear make-up. Some carry handbags. A few white gown, was called to the center of a stage, where she curtsied or bowed before exidng to polite clapping. My even brush or blow-dry their hair.

Outrageous, I know. Or so you’d believe, ifyou listen to aunt remembers no one in particular, except for a girl what these girls’ fellow students have to say. So often, it is named Lisa Cordell.

As Lisa ascended and crossed the stage, as had those benot the clapping, the singing, the elaborately conceived nametags that are objects ofridicule—it is the effort these fore her, she reached a hand behind her back and hit a freshmen put into their appearances. Rushees are badgbattery pack she’d affixed to her dress.

Wired from head to toe in white twinkling lights, Lisa ered, teased by their friends, made to feel silly for bowing Cordell lit up like the National Christmas Tree. to such antiquated rules. “[Rush] is completely useless,” a She took a bow. close non-greek friend of mine said recendy. “What life I imagine her looking great, to riotous female applause. skill does this impart? When are you ever going to have to Sometimes, it does take courage, without losing a sense know how to line up, with manicures and pedicures, self, of about to look good. dressed immaculately, yapping nothing?”

My think a move now corlaughed, laughter I I I regret.

Sarah Ball is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every Thursroborated the mindset that being smart and put-together neatness are mutually exclusive. It confirmed that of ap- day.

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Duke arts visionary says farewell to university riously in her presenting, so she presented international artists years before anyone was else was very seriously pursing world music or world dance,” he said.

“Certainly taking those chances in North Carolina, she was the first. Her vision of the arts is an incredibly democratic one in that she realizes the more good art available the better.”

The Institute of the Arts was a large, ambiguously defined office. It encompassed not only programming, but also attracting guest artists and artists-in-residence and promoting events sponsored by arts-related academic departments. Silbiger said she has missed the latter two roles since Duke Performances came about in a reorganization three years ago.

In addition to Duke in New York (now run by the English department), Duke in Los Angeles (a program created with and controlled the by in Program Film/Video/Digital), she helped create an international jazz festival held between 1988 and 1990,which featured names like Wynton Marsalis and Lionel Hampton.

Silbiger—a classically trained trumpeter and primarily a classical listener also worked to diversify the offerings available at Duke.

“I was feeling as though the scene here was a little bit Western-centered,” she said of the 1989 creation of a “Living Traditions” series of world-arts performances.

Silbiger added that through her work she was able to develop a deep appreciation for and knowledge about jazz and modern dance, two genres with which she had been mostly unfamiliar.

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Alex Frydman dous hit over the past year. For example, recess the Sony Ericsson WBloi Phone, nickupon a time, cell phones were named the Walkman phone, currently st to make phone calls—but with reigns as the top seller in the Cell Phones ux of phones that take pictures and & Service category on Amazon.com. And and even stream TV shows, those in a recent poll by the IDC, listening to e long gone. music topped the “Five Most Desired Sermy new cell phones also double as vices” category for cell phones.

Users have also praised these phones players, allowing users to do anyfor their multitasking abilities. ig from tranfer music from their PCs “It’s really convenient,” said senior Blair buy music on the go. But just like e zany names of some of these new Josephs of her Samsung A950 phone. “I 'hones (RAZR, MOTOKRZR, SLVR, was commuting into [New York City] over enV and Chocolate, just to name a the summer and instead of carrying my few), the viability of this trend may cell phone and my iPod, I just used my also be a little farfetched. phone.”

Users of the phones are diAnn Fields, a freshman, echoed vided on their opinions of this Josephs’ comments, adding that she entechnology, so recess decided to joyed the ability to buy songs straight from break down the good and bad of her Cingular CUSOO phone. Service mp 3 cell phones. providers, such as Verizon Wireless, have created stores similar to Apple’s iTunes The Good Music Store that users can access from Based on numbers alone, mp their phones. Songs are usually $1.99 ell phones have been a tremen- apiece and are transmitted direcdy to a by

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“It’s helpful if I’m on the go and just think of a song that I want to listen to right then,” Fields said.

The Bad But at $1.99 per song, $1 more than it costs to download a song from the iTunes store, providers seem to be putting out the message that mp 3 cell phones are convenient—but for a price.

For example, if users of Verizon’s Chocolate want to transfer music from their PCs to their phones, they must purchase an optional cable and software that costs $5O. The Chocolate also does not come with a memory card, only allowing it to hold 64 MB worth of music, or about 16 songs. If users want to store any additional songs, they must purchase a $lOO, 2 GB memory card. This is all in addition to the $l5O the phone already costs.

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David Graham recess The year was 1984: the MTV Video Music Awards debuted and Prince, Tina Turner and Kenny Loggins topped charts.

Stunningly, the local performing arts scene was even worse when Kathy Silbiger arrived in Durham and became programming director of the Institute of the Arts, a now-defunct University office.

Weeks before her retirement as head of Duke Performances Dec. 31, 2006, Silbiger reflected on the changes she had helped to create at Duke and in the Triangle.

“I moved here because my husband got a job here, a typical trailing wife tale. I looked around—and you’ve gotta remember, this was 21 years ago—there was nothing, not just at Duke but in the area,” chuckled Silbiger, who had been working at the Madison Civic Center in Madison, Wise. “My job was to create programs, so I just started doing that.”

As she leaves her post, she can consider a successful arts series, several programs for students and a burgeoning Triangle arts scene as changes she helped to create.

“I feel good about the fact that I created some academic programs that have continued, and got Duke in Los Angeles and Duke in New York started,” she said. “I feel like I have incubated a number of projects that have gone on to become an integral part of arts at Duke, and I feel good to have really raised the profile of Duke as a forward-thinking presenter.”

Aaron Greenwald, who became interim director of Duke Performances Jan. 1, said the University has developed a national reputation for quality performances during her tenure.

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Roman Candle just can’t catch a break. Sure, their independy-released debut Says Pop (Oudook) was released in 2002 to critical acclaim, leading Rolling Stone to dub them “explosive new darlings.” But after being tossed around by their first major label and watching their second fold just days ago, the Chapel Hill-based rockers are once again living in label limbo. Don’t feel too sorry for them, though—their 2006 release, The Wee Hours Revue (V2), has been lauded as one of the year’s most intelligent, well crafted albums, recess’ Eric Bishop spoke with frontman Skip Matheny about pop music, surviving the

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��� � � Zach Braff of Scrubs once asserted that the music of an obscure 10-fi Sub Pop group, the Shins, had the raw power to change one’s life. Instantly, the legions of quirky indie rock fans found a new object of worship.

Unfortunately for those fans addicted to the deft lyrical stylings and pop hooks of James Mercer, they have had to wait three years for the release of The Shins’ latest album, Wincing the Night Away. To add insult to injury, many of these devoted fans will be disappointed. Wincing the Night Away is undoubtedly the group’s most experimental album to date. The melodies are slower, the synth has added a spacey atmospheric effect and there is an almost psychedelic air as in the track “Sleeping Lessons,” that pervades the entire album. To further aggravate Shins fans, the fidelity is higher and the album has a more polished feel than the previous albums.

Yet the melodies are gorgeous and perfectly complemented by the atmospherics, and the lyrics remain as brilliant as before. Once you let go of your preconceptions, the only aspect of this album that can possibly be faulted is the lengthiness. Although impressive works of art, some of the songs, like “Sea Legs,” could easily have been cut down by a minute or two.

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the main reason they avoid downloading music to their mp 3 cell phones.

“When I got the phone, they offered me a free one-month subscription to Z-Cast [Verizon’s downloading service],” said senior Brian Hanson, who owns a MOTOKRZR. “But I never took the time to learn it and* it costs $lO a month so I cancelled it. Maybe if they made it easier and cheaper for us I would use it.”

Another crucial drawback of these phones is though a multitude of technologies crammed into one cell phone may appeal to multitaskers, this same technology can clutter a phone for others.

“It’s not convenient. In 15 minutes I can download thousands of songs onto my computer, while in that same dme I can only

download six or seven songs to my phone,” Hanson said.

Other students agree “Who wants to listen to music on their phone?” said senior Stephen Reading, who owns a Sony Ericsson wOOi. “There’s not enough storage space, you’d have to switch out songs constantly and if you do listen to music then you run down your battery faster and might not have any left when you need to make a call.”

The layout of the new phones is also a source of contention for many users.

“They’re trying so hard to make me use the music thing that they put not one, but two buttons on the outside of the phone that causes it to start playing music if you accidentally hit them,” Reading said. “Since I don’t have any music on my phone, it plays this horrible preloaded music that you can’t take off that sounds like if Gloria Estefan made a

tribal music album.”

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music industry and the band’s uncertain future. recess: In your song “Why Modern Radio Is A-OK” you sing that “a pop song used to be a powerful thing.” Why isn’t it a powerful thing anymore?

Skip Matheny: I don’t think that people are writing songs on a big, grand scale like they used to. Especially if you’re talking about modern radio, I don’t find new songwriters that really blow my mind like older songwriters do. I don’t think it’s a craft that people pay a lot of attention to these days. We certainly pay attention to it, but we don’t really find a lot of new songwriters that write a lot of lyrics... You know, certain old songs used to be really songs that you could mark your life by because people were treating them as individual pieces of art—that’s the kind of stuff that I do think is harder to come by in the world of pop music these days.

I understand that you’re writing a guidebook to surviving the music industry.

I was gonna try and write a book that I wish I had found on the floor of some club bathroom so that I could read it and go, “Okay, there’s a shortcut here,” or “This is a waste of time.” Those types of things are pretty invaluable if you’re actually trying to learn how to be in a band and not kill yourself or your bandmates.

What kind of new material are you working on?

[Keyboardist and wife Timshet Metheny] and I went to England last year for about six weeks to do some writing and we ended up widi this sort of concept record called “Songs for an Empty Room.” We were going to record that record as kind of a digital download-only type thing, but it turns out we’re not gonna do that immediately, so we’re probably going to start working on our second record next month.

With the recent news of your record label V 2 Records shutting down, what’s the next step for the band on the business side of things?

I believe that all die V 2 artists including the really famous ones are like free agents at the moment. So we can hopefully find a new label, and then we’ll probably record a brand-new record and then record that concept record on the side.

said Hanson. “If you have the money to buy it, it should be pretty sweet.”

The iPhone will cost somewhere between $5OO and $6OO, but comes in 4 GB and 8 GB versions, so ample storage space is ensured.

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If George W. Bush weren’t presiwould still be a film of deft artistic touch and relevancy. But with “the Decider” facing his last few years in power, Kelly Reichardt’s latest film takes on additional meaning.

Its protagonists are worn down, thirty-something liberal men, Kurt and Mark, college buddies reuniting years after their graduation. Their rendezvous is not an official function, just a chance to catch up while searching for a hot spring in the Oregon Cascades, and Reichardt fills the movie’s many moments of silence

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The film is both a story of male friendship and a story of lost belief, of a joy that clearly existed before and is now wordless pain. These are men headed in opposite directions—Mark (Daniel London) toward a family and Kurt (Will Oldham) toward his next joint, Mark towards adulthood and Kurt towards perpetual childhood. Properly enough, Mark comes outfitted with a

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Kurt rocks a classic woodsman beard and some board shorts.

The film’s climactic scene, filmed at the almost unbelievably serene Bagby Hot Springs in Oregon, is certainly the most poignant and perfect moment from a 2006 film. As Kurt tells his friend a story from which the film draws its title, Mark’s head remains above water, his eyes frozen in contemplation. His left arm slowly and purposefully slides into the tub.

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Spanish Civil War has been over for five years, the turmoil endures as rebel groups continue to fight the harsh rule and oppression of the Nationalist Army. When Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) and her pregnant mother Carmen (Ariadna Gil) travel north to live with Carmen’s new husband, Capitan Vidal, they find themselves amidst brutality, deceit and domineering powers. To escape the grim events occurring around her, Ofelia

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and doesn’t even seem to move. It’s visual poetry as storytelling, and it’s

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journeys to a remarkable labyrinth where, with the aid of a mysterious faun (Doug Jones), she must complete three tasks to become the magical world’s princess.

While viewers may expect a pure labyrinth-based fantasy adventure, the faun and his world often take a backseat to the grey, brutal reality of war. This aspect of the tale is engaging and contrasts so well with the colorful, dreamlike escapism of Ofelia’s quest, that the lack of more labyrinth excitement is hardly missed.

Del Toro’s portrait of post-war Spain is incredibly enthralling, largely due to his bold depiction of the sheer savagery and gruesomeness of the sinister nationalists, namely Capitan Vidal. The imaginitve construction of the labyrinth displays a creative prowess that is surprising amongst modem filmmakers, much less the director of Blade 11. Del Toro’s film carries immense emotional and visual depth with a poignancy that is felt throughout harsh reality and fantastical fairy tale.

From the start Pan’s Labyrinth is near perfect storytelling and acting with an ending that will leave audiences both anguished and hopeful.

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Actress-Musical/Comedy, respectively. Streep won for her role as icy fashion ||editor Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Sfc Prada, while Mirren won for her portrayal of

Queen Elizabeth in The Queen. Mirren also

took home the award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her portryal of yet another royal Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth I, in the TV movie Elizabeth I.

Neon Orange Somehow winter in L.A. morphed into summer in Miami (and not in a Will Smith “Miami” kind of way) as celebrities such as Vanessa Minnillo and Jann Carl took to the carpet in blinding, neon orange gowns. We’re all for adding some color to the usual black dress, but someone must have forgotten to tell them that Tang is for drinking not wearing. And why was Vanessa Minnillo even at the Golden Globes?

Bobby: One would automatically assume that an allfeaturing William H. Macy, Martin Sheen, Demi Moore, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Fishburne and more could not fail, but they have obviously not met Emilio Estevez. This obsequious tribute to Robert Kennedy fell short of the Robert Altman Nashvilleesque ensemble drama it attempted to emulate. star cast

—Brian McGinn

The Golden Globe Htehlhhts Older Beauties Sweep Best Actress Categories Who says you can’t be beautiful, talented and over 50? Not Helen Mirren, 61, and Meryl Streep, 57, who took home the awards for Best Actress-Drama and Best

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respond, will lash out at Kurt and the scene and slight film that has preceded it will topple towards heavy-handed exposition. But instead the action becomes one of release and recognition, a giving up. And then, just as quickly, there’s Mark out of the tub again, there’s the two of them, back in the Volvo, and then finally there’s Kurt, back on the streets, the night engulfing him as he crosses the road

As the awards season reaches its climax, cess offers our picks for the best in acting, writ and directing. This is the first of seven . merits coveting the 79th Academy Awards seated Sunday, Feb. 25.

The glitz, glamour and gloss of the award red carpet is thrust upon us again. While Sacha Baron Cohen may be appreciating his Golden Globe, recess knows that the 92 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press have nothing on the 6,500-plus industry members who hand out the prestigious Oscar. What better way to discuss who will win a golden statuette than to point out those who won’t? We weigh in on the most disappointing films of the season.

All theKing’s Men: Maybe people were tired of Sean Penn and his shotgun-toting, canoe-driving antics or it may have been the lack of interest in a film about early 20th-century Louisiana gubernatorial campaigns, but despite heavy buzz this flick flopped.

Messy and overwrought, it featured lukewarm performances from the likes of Jude Law, definitely nothing to attack Chris Rock about.

The Good German-. After grabbing a statue for Good Night and Good Luck, speaking in front of the U.N. about Darfur and being named the sexiest man of the

year for the second time at the age of 45, it seemed that George Clooney could do no wrong. However, his second foray into black and white in the past two years was a disaster ofBatman and Robin proportions.

Steven Soderbergh managed to perfectly execute noir, but ignored the lessons of Filmmaking 101 with flat characters and a forgettable plot.

Man of the Year. The trailer for this politicalcomedic-satire thriller—yes, I said satire thriller—basically asked the question, “What would the world be like if John Stewart were president?” Unfortunately for audiences, it dropped that question within the first 20 minutes, as the film moved from interesting comedy to alarmist thriller. Barry Levinson missed a chance to exercise his developed satirical muscles and instead decided to attack electronic voting machines with a plot device worthy ofDanielle Steel.

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Beyonce’s reavealing, metallic-toned dress put the golden in this year’s Golden Globes. Slightly blonder and

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hair and dress would match. Perhaps aiming for the stars (color), the Dream Girls star and former Destiny’s Child leader fell short of her goal, landing in the territory of the flashy, overdone and down-

right ugly.

Reese Witherspoon Wearing a figure-flattering strapdress, less the recently divorcedWitherspoon (who an presented award) yet again proved her class and style. The simpie, yellow, kneelength dress complimenting her coloring made the newly-single actress the belle of the ball.

Her simple yet fresh makeup also accentuating her look. With a great blow-out to boot, Witherspoon dressed to impress. Not that we expected anything less from Hollywood’s favorite blonde

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Hair for the win Catherine Kaelin recess Through a haze of smoke and veils of unwashed locks, Hoof ‘n’ Horn brings yet another Broadway favorite to the Duke community this month.

The student-run theater company will perform James Rado’s Hair in Sheafer Theater for the next two weekends.

Hair gives performers and audience members alike the chance to relive America’s grooviest decade from the party scene, to the bedroom, to the front lines ofVietnam.

A politically charged and controversial musical, Hairis particularly significant given the parallels between our current military situation and the circumstances of the era in which the show is set.

Though the the show was not deliberately chosen for this reason, current events influenced some aspects of its production said Director Dominik Fungipani, a graduate exchange student from Germany.

“Iraq might make it more obvious to everyday people why this show is so relevant,” said Josh Posen, a senior and president of Hoof ‘n’ Horn.

Hair is also infamous for its sexually explicit scenes, as well as the onstage nudity that has shocked audiences since its premiere in 1967. Fungipani said he has contended with this delicate issue in creative ways.

“I basically wanted to have it done the way I wanted to have it done, appropriate-or not,” Fungipani said. “As long as my cast is comfortable with what is going on on stage we go for it.”

Fungipani has added another dimension of controversy by turning Berger and Woof, two of the traditionally male leads, into female roles, introducing a more complex by

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under fire for not booking popular acts—something she feels ought to be the province of the student-run Duke University Union.

“I wish that Duke students were more adventurous and creative and would see out new experiences; but maybe that’s human nature or maybe I haven’t done enough to make it cool,” she said. “I don’t blame people.”

She also said bad facilities—especially Page and Baldwin auditoriums—and lack of funding have been challenges.

“It sends a message to audiences, and to students does Duke really care, if this is the kind of facility we provide?” she said. “That’s made this job harder than it should have been.”

But with the emphasis on the arts in the University’s new strategic plan, passed by the Board ofTrustees in September, Silbiger said she hopes her successors will have more leeway, and said the future for the arts at Duke can be very positive.

In a December interview, Provost Peter Lange, whose —

Hoof'n' Horn taps into the ghost of hippies long past to bring thefeel of the 1960's to the Duke University of today with their new production. sexual ambiguity.

“It was done because we had lots of great female actors and I wanted to cast all of them so we decided that these roles would work as female characters as well,” Fungipani said. “It also adds some content or meaning to the show that wasn’t in there before, though issues ofhomosexuality have always been in the show.”

However, this element addresses not only sexual confusion but also grey areas on a moral and social level.

“It’s pansexuality. It’s bigger than bisexual—in any different circumstances you can go one way or the other,”

Posen said.

Hair is a production that succeeds in mocking both uptight traditionalists and its own hippie heroes. Despite lyrics and dialogue that often border on the absurd, the show ultimately makes a powerful statement whose social and political significance resonates across decades.

Hoof ‘n’ Horn will be performing Hair January 18-21 and 2528 in the Sheaf er Theatre. Visit www.duke.edu/web/hoofnhorm

for show

times and to purchase tickets.

office subsidizes $5 tickets for students at all Duke Per“My hope is that we’d be able to get not only into music formances events, emphasized Duke’s commitment to classrooms but into dance, history, anthropology and so on,” he said. the arts “We’re on an upward trajecOther plans include international series—the first tory for the arts on this campus and that’s in curricular terms focusing on Brazil—and a I wish that Duke students were and co-curricular terms, as well Spring 2008 set on North as in terms of opportunities for Carolina rhythm and more adventurous and creative and the community,” he said. would see out new experiences; but blues, from 1950 Greenwald, who will serve for a McPhatter, Clyde maybe that’s human nature or 18 months, said Silbiger’s pioDurham native, to Charlotte-born neo-soulman maybe I haven’t done enough to neering work has helped to create a boom of programming Anthony Hamilton. make it cool.

As for Silbiger, she said throughout the Triangle that Kathy Silbiger she’ll be taking some time threatens to crowd Duke out. He said he hopes to combat that off to live in New York with themed, interdisciplinary City, travel to Argentina miniseries, including one for the and do volunteer work.

90th anniversary of the birth of legendary jazzman TheloAnd then, she said, it will be time to pick up her horn nious Monk. The Monk series, he said, would tie into reagain. After a quarter century of cultivating other peosearch about the North Carolina-born pianist being done ple’s art, it’s tough to begrudge her the opportunity to work on her own. at the Center for Documentary Studies. “

s crooner

”

Coltrane, Brecker go to great gig in the sky

Michael Brecker, 57, died Saturday ofleukemia in New York City.

Forty years after John Coltrane’s death, the jazz world lost two important links to the legendary saxophonist this week.

Coltrane’s widow Alice Coltrane, a pianist, harpist and organist, passed away Friday at 69 of respiratory failure.

Saxophonist Michael Brecker, 57, died Saturday of leukemia.

Brecker was the arguably the most influential saxophonist of his generation. Working as a leader, sideman and studio whiz, he ingested Coltrane’s harmonic and technical innovations, packaging them in a style at once accessible and sophisticated.

Born in Philadelphia, he began as a clarinetist at b, moving through alto saxophone on his way to tenor. He briefly attended Indiana University before dropping out to pursue music.

Brecker recorded the first of his 900-plus albums in 1969, and formed the fusion band Dreams with drummer Billy Cobham and his brother Randy, a trumpeter. His jazz credits include Pat Metheny and Chick Corea, but he was equally comfortable in the pop world, working with Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, Frank Zappa and James Taylor. A perennial favorite of the Recording Academy, Brecker racked up 11 Grammys, many for his work as a soloist.

In 2005, Brecker publicly announced his diagnosis with a bone-marrow disorder, which later progressed to

leukemia. Despite calls for bone-marrow donors and numerous benefits held by musician friends, Brecker passed away from the illness in a New York City hospital

Saturday.

Coltrane did not have nearly as much influence on music as Brecker, but her spiritual impact was great. As a young pianist, she met John Coltrane while playing in vibraphonist Terry Gibbs’ band in 1963; they were married two years later. She replaced McCoy Tyner in her husband’s band during the last period of his career, as his music became more and more daring.

The prime of her career came in the early 19705, playing adventurous music informed by the gospel music she heard and played during her childhood in the company of her late husband’s associates. But a new spiritual direction became powerful in her life: the influence of gurus Swami Satchidananda and Sathya Sai Baba.

Beginning in the late 19705, Coltrane largely retreated from performance to lead her own ashram (Sai Anantam near Los Angeles—she was known as Swami Turiyasangitananda), raise her children (including now-prominent tenor saxophonist Ravi Coltrane) and administer John Coltrane’s estate. She made a brief, critically acclaimed comeback in 2004 with Translinear Light, featuring Ravi Coltrane, Charlie Haden and Jack Dejohnette.

—David Graham

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Durham honors future Picassos Lauren Fischetti recess human wombs, Soviet-era punk-folk music and What do Tobacco Trail have in common? the American These varied subjects are just a few of the many to be tackled by the 12 artists who received grants last week at the 23rd annual Emerging Artists Awards Ceremony, administered by the Durham Arts Council.

The artists were selected from a pool of 94 applicants from Durham, Chatham, Orange, Granville and Person by

Counties.

The Arts Council does not allocate awards based on county or art form, but this year’s recipients hail from only Durham and Orange Counties. The program simply strives to recognize and support quality art.

“The intent of the program is to fund projects that will help artists take their careers forward,” said Margaret DeMott, program administrator and DAC director of artist services.

Each recipient’s application undergoes three levels of review which evaluate the criteria for the award: quality of art, feasibility of the project and potential impact on the artist’s career.

Individual grants funded by a variety of benefactors are not to exceed $1,500.

“It is not a huge amount, but it can make a significant difference,” DeMott said.

Adam Sobsey, a grant recipient, wrote in an e-mail that the funding will allow him to spend less time waiting tables and more time attending rehearsals and producing his play The Gratitude of Wasps, premiering April 26, with Chapel Hill’s Deep Dish Theater Company.

The benefits for the artists extend far beyond the monetary award, however.

The application process itself is helpful for artists who often struggle to actually think through their project, DeMott said. Applicants are required to complete a narrative about the proposed project, explain how it will help their careers and set out a reasonable budget, paving the way for a smoother process.

Receipt of the grant also serves as a useful credential when artists seek to garner funds, attend graduate programs or receive advanced training.

“If down the road I’m able to make a living as a playwright or as a teacher of playwriting, having credentials like the DAC Emerging Artists grant will help persuade people who might be likely to pay me for work that I’m worth paying,” Sobsey said.

Such a grant also helps to validate art forms that have

COURTESY RACHEL BERNSTEIN

Rachel Berstein's artwork related to the workings of the human body led her to an Emerging Artists Grant from the Durham Art Council. not yet been accepted, like those that make heavy use of technology, DeMott said.

DeMott said the Emerging Artists Program benefits DAC by introducing members to new artists and keeping them abreast of current issues and trends.

She added that it is important to become familiar with those artists not selected to receive funding as well because DAC is often asked for artist referrals. In the same vein, all project requests helps the council understand what artists are thinking about.

“We don’thave councils without the artists,” DeMott said

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