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Hill denies allegations of mismanagement offunds by

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Students who saw Lesley Hill taking boxes out of Crowell Quadrangle earlier this week weren’t imagining things.

Hill —Residence Coordinator for Crowell and Wannamaker quadrangles since 2004 —confirmed Wednesday that she had moved most of her possessions out of the RC apartment and will have finished moving out by the end of this week.

She was “temporarily reassigned” to another position within Residence Life and Housing Services, Hill and a source familiar with the situation confirmed.

The source, who wished to remain anonymous, said Hill had initially come under scrutiny because ofissues related to the collection of funds for the housekeeping staff. Hill denied, however, that the collection violated University policy and maintained that she had managed all funds properly.

Since shortly before the beginning of Spring Break, Deb Loßiondo, assistant dean of residence life, has been acting as supervisor for the residence life staff in Crowell and Wannamaker.

[Loßiondo] has just been doing the regular duties that Lesley has,” said senior Luke Stewart, a Resident Assistant in Wannamaker.

RLHS officials declined to comment on “

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Women’s basketball head coach Gail Goestenkors visited the University ofTexas’ campus in Austin Tuesday and Wednesday to interview for the Longhorn’s coaching vacancy.

Goestenkors, however, has not given any indication as to which job she will ultimately choose, and she is scheduled to return to Durham Thursday before making a final decision about her future.

“It’s going to take some time,” Goestenkors told The Associated Press Wednesday as she walked from theTexas athletic department offices toward the school’s football complex. “I have to go back and talk to my people [at Duke].”

A parent of a current Duke player told The Chronicle Wednesday that Goestenkors is expected to meet with her team when she returns. A senior official within Duke’s Department of Athletics, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the situation is likely to be resolved quickly and should be over within the next day or two.

The Dallas Morning News reported on its website Wednesday that a source close to the Duke program estimated Goestenkors’ odds of leaving Duke are “50-50.”

“Gail Goestenkors is a great coach and a great human being,” President Richard Brodhead wrote in an e-mail.

“She has represented this university in a wonderful way, and I hope this will be her home for many years to come.

You can be sure we’ll be doing our best to keep her at Duke.”

While Goestenkors considers the Texas job, manyhave offered their support for the Blue Devils’ coach to remain at the school where she has been the coach for the past 15 years.

Women's basketballhead coach Gail Goestenkors currently is considering a coaching opportunity with Texas.

“I think she’s a great coach,” Director of Athletics Joe Alieva said. “She’s done an unbelievable job at Duke University.... I hope she’s the coach here until she decides to retire.”

A rally is planned for the lawn outside Cameron Indoor Stadium—officially known as Krzyzewskiville but recently dubbed Goestenkorsopolis for women’s games—for Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

When men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski considered leaving Duke SEE COACH G ON PAGE 13

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7:30 p.m. this evening, a rally will be held outside Cameron Indoor Stadium to show Coach G she has the support ofDuke fans.

“Based on Coach G’s travel and work schedule, she will be in her office at the time and will be able to see the rally,” DSG President Elliott Wolf wrote in an e-mail to the student body. “Student Affairs is providing free pizza and much of the team will be there as well.”

Politicians urge broader investigation of Nifong by

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As the North Carolina State Bar continues its ethical investigation into Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong’s conduct during the Duke lacrosse case, some politicians are unconvinced that the state analysis inquiry will be sufficient,

Nifong will go before the State Bar Dis-

ciplinary Hearing Commission June 12.

F. Lane Williamson, chair of the commission, set a requirement that the Bar submit its expert witness list by April 15 SEE NIFONG ON PAGE 5

Several politicians have called for further investigation into the behavior of Durham DA Mike Nifong.

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Iran, Britain clash over navy seizure by

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TEHRAN, Iran Iran aired a video Wednesday of 15 captured British sailors and marines, showing the only woman captive saying her group had “trespassed” in Iranian waters. Britain angrily denounced the video as a “completely unacceptable” display of prisoners.

The Iranian foreign minister said the woman, sailor Faye Turney, could be released soon, but backed off reports she would be freed as early as Wednesday.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government announced it was freezing all dealings with Iran except to negotiate the

release of its personnel, adding to a public exchange of sharp comments that pushed up tensions in a standoff helping fuel a spike in world oil prices.

Britain’s military released a GPS readout it said proved the Royal Navy personnel were seized 1.7 nautical miles inside Iraqi waters

Friday.

But Iranian state television quoted an unidentified Iranian official as saying the first phase of an investigation had determined the two British boat crews were “definitely” in Iran’s territorial waters.

A few hours later, a brief video of the captured Britons was shown on Iran’s Arabic language satellite television sta-

tion, Al-Alam One segment showed sailors and marines sitting in an Iranian boat in open waters immediately after their capture.

The video also displayed what appeared to be a handwritten letter from Turney, 26, to her family.

Turney was the only detainee to be shown speaking, giving her name and saying she had been in the navy for nine years.

“Obviously we trespassed into their waters,” Turney said at one point, her voice audible under a simultaneous AraSEE IRAN ON PAGE 4

Report explains prosecutor firings by

Laurie Kellman

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WASHINGTON Eight federal prosecutors were fired last year because they did not sufficiently support President George W. Bush’s priorities, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ former chief of staff says in remarks prepared for delivery to Congress Thursday.

Separately, the Justice Department admitted Wednesday it gave senators inaccurate informationabout the firings and presidential political adviser Karl Rove’s role in trying to secure a U.S. attorney’s post for one of his former aides, Tim Griffin.

In a letter accompanying new documents sent to the House and Senate Judiciary com-

mittees, Justice officials acknowledged that a Feb. 23 letter to four Democratic senators erred in asserting that the department was not aware of any role Rove played in the decision to appoint Griffin to replace U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins in Litde Rock, Ark. Gonzales’ former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, in remarks obtained Wednesday

by The Associated Press, spoke dismissively of Democrats’ condemnation of what they call political pressure in the firings.

“The distinction between ‘political’ and ‘performance-related’ reasons for remov-

ing a United States attorney is, in my view,

largely artificial,” he said. “A U.S. attorney who is unsuccessful from a political perspective... is unsuccessful.”

Democrats have described the firings as an “intimidation by purge” and a warning to remaining U.S. attorneys to fall in line with Bush’s priorities. Political pressure, Democrats say, can skew the judgment of prosecutors when deciding whom to investigate and which indictments to pursue.

Sampson, who resigned this month because of the furor over the firings, is to

President George W. Bush and the Democratic-controlled Congress lurched toward a veto showdown over Iraq Wednesday, the commander in chief demanding a replenishment of war funding with no strings and Speaker Nancy Pelosi counseling him, "Calm down with the threats."

S.C. sex scandal stirs tensions Two white female teachers who were arrested on charges of having sex with six of

their male students—who were black—were released on bail, bringing on cries of lingering racism in one of South Carolina's most conservative counties.

King denounces U.S. presence King Abdullah denounced U.S. military presence in Iraq Wednesday as an "illegitimate foreign occupation" and called on the West to end its financial embargo against the Palestinians. The Saudi monarch's speech also urged Arab leaders to show unity.

WHO, U.N. urge circumcision Heterosexual men should be circumcised because of compelling evidence it reduces their chances of contracting HIV by up to 60 percent, the World Health Organization and UNAIDS said Wednesday.

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With four different majors and origins across the country and globe, the backgrounds of the four candidates vying for Duke Student Government vice president of academic affairs are about as different as their platforms.

And the candidates—juniors Gina Ireland and Joshua Kazdin and sophomores Natalie Barber and Samson Mesele—said they hope to capitalize on their individual campaign issues in order to win the April 3 election.

Ireland, who has served as a research assistant in the Office of the Vice Provost of Academic Affairs, said her main goal if elected vice president SEE VP OF AA ON PAGE

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DSG approved a proposal for a soft quota on thenumber ofpages each student can print via ePrint each semester.

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Spanning three classes and presenting three distinctive plans for action, the 2007 candidates for Duke Student Government vice president of community interaction are about as diverse as the campus they hope to represent.

What junior Genevieve Cody, sophomore Brandon Roane and

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freshman Lee Strasburger share, however, is a desire to create a better Duke community and to improve Duke-Durham relations as chair of the Intercommunity Council.

Cody, who has served on DSG’s community interaction committee for the past two years, said one ofher goals is to

Landscapes of Flesh: Thoughts TowardAlternative Metaphors for the Body and Its Goods

Joel James Shuman, Ph.D. Assoc, Professor and Chair, Dept, of Theology Dir., Center for Ethics and Public Life King's College, Pennsylvania

Thursday, April 5 Noon 1:30 p.m.

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Medical Center Board Room 11708, Duke South Clinic First Floor, Yellow Zone A seminar sponsored by Theology and Medicine

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To reserve lunch (space limited) please call 383-0615, xlO5 or email awallace@div.duke.edu

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Duke Student Government unanimous-

ly endorsed a soft quota on the number of pages available per student through ePrint set to start Fall 2007 at its weekly meeting Wednesday night.

The proposal came from the Office of

Information Technology.

Each student will be granted 1,800 pages per semester with the ability to request free quota increases of 500 pages, said Kevin Davis, senior manager at OIT for academic technology services.

Davis added that all quota-increase requests will be granted in the 2007-2008 academic year, but if students exceed their quota, their FLEX account will be charged for the additional printing until a request has been made.

Davis said the limit will force students to be more prudent with their printing and encourage environmentally minded reductions in the amount of wasted paper.

“We’re hoping we’ll have a positive impact through the incentive for double-

sided printing,” he said. “Right now we do 27-million pages on ePrint and only 10 to 15 percent is double-sided.”

The DSG Senate also listened to a presentation by Chief of Staff Paul Slattery, a junior, advocating for a procedure to increase funding for auxiliary services such as dining, parking and transportation and event management.

The report recommends abandoning the cost-recovery model—which states that an increase in cost in one aspect of auxiliary services must be accompanied by an equal decrease in cost in another.

Slattery said the change will allow elements of auxiliary services to be subsidized without having to cut costs within other areas of auxiliary services.

Reports such as the Campus Culture Initiative and the strategic plan emphasize the importance of strengthening auxiliary services, but the restrictive costrecovery model limits such an expansion, Slattery said.

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Duke, Canadian firm to develop gene tests by

Anne Llewellyn THE CHRONICLE

Geoffrey Ginsburg, directorof the Center for GenomicMedicine, said Duke advances tend to focus on improving the treatment of cancer.

Med BioGene, a Canadian biotechnology company, announced last week that it will collaborate with Duke to develop and test genetic biomarkers for lymphoma and leukemia.

“The development of these biomarkers is the first step towards personalized medicine and is intended to replace the conventional ‘one-drug-fits-all’ approach to disease management,” said Erinn Broshko, chief executive officer of Med BioGene, in a statement.

Physicians will employ biomarkers—biological indicators, usually genomic, used in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases—in clinical trials to test their utility in the development of personalized medical treatments.

The effort to better treat lymphoma and leukemia joins various other efforts to integrate advances in knowledge of the human genome into medical practice.

“The Med BioGene deal is really just a very small part of a very large and promising series ofinitiatives at Duke,” said Huntington Willard, director of the University’s Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy.

Currently, biomarkers are being applied to develop less invasive, more accurate and more effective treatment options for a range of medical conditions.

Similar efforts are also being utilized and developed to treat cardiovascular and infectious diseases, said Joseph Nevins, director of the IGSP Center for Applied Genomics and Technology.

“If there are a hundred individual women with breast cancer, it might not be a hundred different diseases, but it’s definitely more than one,” Nevins said. “There’s a lot of variation, and the ability to then recognize those differences is all about the ability to treat those individual diseases appropriately.”

Many of the major advances in personalized medicine at Duke relate to the treatment of cancer, said Geoffrey Ginsburg, director of the Center for Genomic Medicine at the Duke Institute for GenomeSciences and Policy. But the University is generally recognized for its unique role in the application of genome-based medicine.

“Duke... is actually doing clinical studies that test to see if the biomarkers are doing what they’re supposed to do, or proof or evidence that this actually makes a difference,” Ginsburg said, adding that in recent years Duke researchers have been at the forefront of proof-of-principle research in this area.

These clinical trials will determine whether patients assigned treatments based on their genetic information respond better than patients given treatment based on conventional practices. Researchers hope that the implications of biomarkers will revolutionize the accuracy of medical treatments.

Nevins said it is important to confirm and refine these emerging applications quickly in order to achieve the optimal diagnoses and treatments of diseases.

“If there is an advance that can have an impact, you move it forward and try to put into use as soon as you can,” he said. ‘You don’t increase expectations beyond where it’s reasonable, because if you do that in the end it will be counterproductive.”

Nevins noted the sense of optimism that genomic discoveries inspire among scientists and care providers alike.

“If we can do some science that makes use of genomic technologies that have particular power to dissect biological complexity and help patients survive diseases....

That’s a good feeling,” he said.

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bic translation. “They were very friendly and very hospitable, very thoughtful, nice people. They explained to us why we’ve been arrested. There was no harm, no

aggression.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki backed off predictions that Turney could be freed Wednesday or Thursday, saying Iran will look into releasing her “as soon as possible.”

Asked when Iran would release Turney, Mottaki told the Associated Press, “We will look into this as soon as

possible.”

He said earlier reports that he had said she could be freed Wednesday or Thursday were incorrect. “I was probably misquoted,” he said.

Earlier in the day, Mottaki told AP on the sidelines of an Arab summit in the Saudi capital, “Today or tomorrow, the lady will be released.”

The Turkish television station, CNN-Turk, had also reported him saying Wednesday she would be freed “today or tomorrow.”

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NIFONG from page 1 and that Nifong submit his own list of witnesses by May 1.

A conviction by the commission could leave Nifong without a license to practice law.

Sen. Barack Obama, D-111., said recently he endorses a federal investigation of Nifong, which several other politicians, including Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., have already requested.

Duke Law Professor Thomas Metzloff, said, however, it is probably rash to call for a national investigation at this point in the Bar’s proceedings.

“The question of whether or not we should have an investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s office, I think, is a bit premature at this point,” Metzloff said.

He added that it is important for the State Bar to hear both sides of the case before a decision is made and further investi-

gation requested.

“Each side is represented by a lawyer, and the State Bar’s lawyers will be explaining why they believe Nifong violated the rules,” Metzloff said. “Mr. Nifong’s attorneys will be trying to minimize the implications of these violations.”

Metzloff added that some aspects of Nifong’s conduct were clear violations of ethical rules, but he believes Nifong’s lawyers will claim they were insignificant to the case.

“I think they will concede that some of the statements that Nifong made to the media probably shouldn’thave been made,” he said. “But they will say these don’t constitute serious violations ofconduct.”

If the State Bar finds that Nifong’s violations warrant a federal investigation, there will be time later to further examine the conduct in the case, Metzloff said.

“If at the end of the day there are still concerns about what was done and how it was done, then [a federal investigation] would be appropriate,” he said.

Duke Law Professor James Coleman said he doubts the proposed federal investigation has anything to do with the State Bar’s ethical investigation of Nifong specifically.

“I think Rep. Jones called for a national investigation independently of any ethical violation,” Coleman said.

He added that it is unlikely the U.S. Justice Department would conduct or initiate an investigation until the State Bar investigation arrives at a conclusion.

Metzloff said, however, that politicians do play an important role in representing their constituents and commenting on aspects of the justice system.

“That’s their job, and I don’t think it’s inappropriate for politicians to ask these kinds of questions at all,” Metzloff said.

Requests for a federal investigation come just as North Carolina Senate leaders have proposed a bill that would give the governor the authority to suspend a district attorney who faces a State Bar investigation, the Herald-Sun reported.

“I think it is a very interesting piece of legislation that should be given attention,” Metzloff said. He added that North Carolina currently does not have the option for a district-attorney recall, which exists in several other states.

Coleman said the public currendy relies on a prosecutor to remove himself from the case, adding that this undermines public confidence in the integrity of the judicial system.

“The public would have more confidence in the outcome if a prosecutor who is apparently laboring under ethical violations is not making the decisions in the case,” he said.

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The Department of History and the Women’s Studies Program, the Program in Sexuality Studies and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Zoila Airall, Ph.D.

Thursday, March 29, 2007

4:15 p.m.

Assistant Vice President Student Affairs

Richard White Lecture Hall, East Campus reception to follow in the Parlours, East Duke Building

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Valerie Traub University of Michigan Women’s Studies and Department of English

Historicizing the Normal

“Does Women’s History Month Matter?”

Of course Women’s History Month still matters. This is a time that we, as a nation, should reflect on the many accomplishments that women have brought to the human experience throughout the world. Generations of women have brought passion, complexity, desire, and wisdom to our personal and professional relationships. Our experience models community and diversity.

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In an e-mail, Hill noted that through-

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out her tenure as RC, she has encour-

aged RAs to collect private, voluntary donations of money to distribute among the situation, citing a policy against speaking about matters relating to personnel. housekeeping and maintenance staff.

Members of the housekeeping staff deBecause the Housing Assignments diviclined to comsion of RLHS ment on this disneeded extra help, tribution.

Hill has been work“Any allegations made “I know that I ing there since her return at the end contributed against me in terms of finanoflast week from a money to it,” cial mismanagement are Wisely said, but planned vacation, she wrote in an ehe added that he inaccurate.” false and grossly mail. She added knew no more that she would Lesley Hill about the process. now be working Regarding the RC, Crowell and Wannamaker broader investion “special projgation, Hill said, ects for the de“I have been expartment as needed,” as her posting at Housing tremely cooperative with the investigation that is going on, providing as much Assignments has now concluded.

“It was really weird,” said junior Chrisinformation as possible.” tian Sotomayor, who saw Hill removing “I am confident that this investigation her possessions from her residence in will conclude very soon and it will be deCrowell. “I don’t know the story or anytermined that there was never any reason thing.... Her boyfriend was helping her to doubt my expenditures,” she added.

Stewart, who also worked as an RA move out and, I think, one of her under Hill last year, said the experience of boyfriend’s friends,” Sotomayor said.

He added that Crowell residents having her as a supervisor had been good.

“I definitely have enjoyed it,” Stewart have begun to receive regular e-mails from Paul Naglieri, the Kilgo Quadransaid. “I don’t have any complaints.” gle RC. Wisely, who is a member of Wayne Sophomore Ellis Wisely, a member of Manor, said the group’s interaction with the Wannamaker Quad Council, said he Hill was generally positive. first heard March 19 that Hill would no “Lesley Hill enforced the rules of longer be working as his RC. “I still RLHS to the best ofher ability. At times it haven’t really learned officially what’s caused differences between us, but we were able to work well together to overhappening,” Wisely said.

The issues concerning funds raised for come those differences,” said senior Peter Williams, president of Pi Kappa Alpha frathe housekeepers’ benefit did not directly lead to Hill’s reassignment, the source ternity, whose section is in Wannamaker. said, but they led to a broader, formal inHill explained that her role is and has vestigation of her financial management. always been to support students and RLHS. “There are a lot of staff members and “Any allegations made against me in residents who are very confused as to why terms of financial mismanagement are Lesley is no longer there,” the source said. false and grossly inaccurate,” she said.

of academic affairs would be to focus on the smaller issues.

“At Duke we all have a lot of big ideas,” she said. “Sometimes it is really just execution that is lacking, so I want to attend to those details and keep the stapler full of staples.”

Ireland said she would like to improve students’ overall academic experiences, particularly regarding the advising system. She said she thinks the peer advising system should be a part of pre-major advising, so incoming freshmen would be immediately paired with upperclassmen with similar interests.

She also would like to start a discussion about the relationship between diversity and academics. “I think we’re talking right now, especially with the [Campus Culture Initiative], about issues in social and living spaces, but I want to talk about diversity in the classroom,” Ireland said.

Kazdin said he decided to run for vice president of academic affairs because many of his friends have had lackluster experiences at the University trying to get funding to do research or get internships abroad.

“My main platform is increasing coordination between departments concerning research funding, increasing financial accountability for research grants,” Kazdin said.

He said students with fellowships have various opportunities for traveling, research and study, but others do not.

“The academic opportunity presented to average undergraduate students does not exactly match what we’re paying for it,” Kazdin added.

He also would like to raise the financial incentives for professors to do research with students, which he said would accomplish another goal of added student-faculty interaction.

“The main issue if you want to increase the richness of academic life is to increase the funding for professors to get involved

with it, to increase students voice,” he said Barber is currendy a senator on the DSG academic affairs committee. She said her platform has no overarching theme because academics has so many components.

She noted, however, that a major part of her platform is having reading period extended next year.

“I think the University would benefit from having much better prepared students,” she said.

Barber said she would focus on academic integrity, particularly unauthorized collaboration and falsified lab data.

She also stressed faculty accountability and further collaborations with Duke’s peer institutions.

“The lacrosse situation... brought light to the fact that faculty don’t always have as much oversight as they should,” she said.

Barber added that she found inspiration for her platform by looking at other universities. “Innovation is invaluable in education, but we can still learn a lot from our institutional peers,” she said.

Mesele is the current academic affairs chair of the Black Student Alliance and was a senator on the DSG academic affairs committee during his freshman year.

He said he has been calling his campaign “Optimize Your Learning Experience.”

“I’m going to be working with the Academic Resource Center and the Career Center on various issues,” Mesele said.

He said he would like to provide streaming video in large lectures and look at opportunities for increased funding in undergraduate research.

Mesele said he would also like “inhouse” funding to be available specifically for undergraduates, as well as for students who serve as peer tutors.

He said he would work to make changes so that the Academic Resource Center would allow students to obtain more than one tutor per semester, as well as find ways to couple work study with academic pursuits.

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“We need to connect students with faculty over mutual interest,” he said. “The concept of faculty-in-residence is stupid because students already have lives and interests.... It’s better to spend that money connecting students and faculty over things they are both interested in.”

In response to the Campus Culture Initiative’s recommendations on housing, Slattery said he advocates for smaller communities of friends —regardless of gender or age—living together, rather than eliminating selective living groups and forcing interaction.

“I think what [the administration] has done is talk about how housing serves the University mission in terms of diversity, but it really serves a greater purpose—it helps me be in a supportive

testify Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. In his prepared testimony, he maintained that adherence to the priorities of the president and attorney general was a legitimate standard.

“Presidential appointees are judged not only on their professional skills but also their management abilities, their relationships with law enforcement and other governmental leaders and their support for the priorities of the president and the attorney general,” Sampson said.

He strongly denied Democrats’ allegations that some of the prosecutors were dismissed for pursuing Republicans too much and Democrats not enough in corruption cases.

“To my knowledge, nothing of the sort occurred here,” he said.

The White House said it will withhold comment on Sampson’s testimony until he testifies.

In a letter accompanying documents sent to lawmakers on Wednesday, Acting Assistant Attorney General Richard Herding said that certain statements in last month’s letter to Democratic lawmakers appeared to be “contradicted by department documents included in our production.”

In his written testimony to the Senate committee, Sampson also refers to the White House role in the firings, beginning with the quicklyrejected idea of replacing all 93 U.S. attorneys after the 2004 election. He said he periodically provided to the White House over two years updated lists of U.S. attorneys whose dismissals were under consideration.

Sampson’s testimony Thursday is voluntary, though committee Chairman Patrick Leahy told reporters he has kept a signed subpoena in case Sampson backed out.

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“bring your own beverage” policy.

“The nightmare scenario would be if they force us to buy University kegs and

get down with the alcohol enforcement team,” he said. “I think we’d just go home.”

A native of Sioux Falls, S.D., Slattery first came to Duke to interview for the Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship, a merit award he eventually received.

“I chose Duke because the culture was more vibrant and more adaptive than anywhere else,” he said. “When they invited me down, I thought, ‘lt’s March in South Dakota, so I’ll take a free vacation’—but I was genuinely

blown away by Duke.”

Before joining DSG, Slattery was the captain and treasurer of the Duke Debate Team, an editor of Duke Blue and a member of the Advisory Committee of Investment Responsibility.

“I got involved with DSG when Elliott was elected because I knew my efforts wouldn’t be wasted,” he said. “The president is a policy lobbyist—if you want to listen or work with or encourage, you don’t have any concrete ideas, and you won’t get anything done.”

Based on Slattery’s DSG experience, Wolf said he will fully endorse him.

“DSG’s ability to get things done is dependent wholly on its ability to make arguments, and Paul’s skills are extremely valuable in that capacity—I don’t know what we would have done without him this year,” Wolf said. “I trust him implicitly to continue what we’ve started and to uphold DSG’s obligation to lobby forcefully on behalf of students.”

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He said his first move as president would be to move Duke’s auxiliary services, including dining, parking and transportation, off the cost-recovery model.

“Those things—which are pretty key to student life and are a big part ofyour daily routine—are set up so that every dollar they spend they have to make back off of you,” he said. “They are a self-contained unit that the University doesn’t sponsor, but if you recognize them as critical parts of the campus, then you can realistically improve campus services.”

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“There is a lot of social segregation on campus,” she said. “While people have a tendency to form cliques on campus and that’s not necessarily a bad thing there needs to be more outreach between those groups.”

Cody also said Duke needs to encourage professors to take greater initiative in getting to know dieir students. “I think a lot of the science majors and engineers are trying to get recommendations and having a really tough time because their classes have all been around 150 people or more,” she said.

“I know it sounds cra2y, but I had a Chem 21 teacher who learned people’s names —that was her goal, and it was great.”

Cody said that her biggest challenge will be improving Duke-Durham relations, which she hopes to achieve by providing transportation from campus to downtown Durham and allowing students to use food points offcampus.

“I think it’s a shame that we can go to Duke and feel like we have never really been a part of Durham,” she said. “That doesn’t happen at other schools.”

Roane, the current chair of the Black Student Alliance’s outreach committee, said he hopes to translate his experiences —

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“The idea is to stop treating auxiliary services like the forgotten child,” he said.

“All these [reports] point to how important it is. They all talk about dining and community, so put your money where your mouth is.”

President Elliott Wolf, a junior, said DSG’s past efforts to improve auxiliary services have often failed due to the budgetary limits of the cost-recovery model.

“Every dme you go to [the administration] and ask for a new bus route they say,

‘No, we’re on cost-recovery,’” Wolf said.

“The buses that drive on East [Campus] to West [Campus] are not street legal —those relics are a result of parking [and transportation’s] inability to allocate capital.”

Slattery said he has spoken to administrators regarding the proposal and will continue to work with them toward its possible

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“I have made extensive connections in the Durham community,” he said. “I got my name and BSA’s name out there.”

If elected, Roane said he will spend the summer in Durham to assess what the community needs and how the University can better collaborate with the city.

“I think one of the major things we have to look forward to this year is Duke Engage,” Roane said. “I definitely want this year to be geared towards engaging the Duke community in general.”

Strasburger, the youngest contender, said he stands out because he has fresh ideas and is not politically allied as older students might be.

“I can honesdy say that I don’t have a certain fraternity here or a group of people in my back pocket that I am on DSG to lobby for,” he said.

Strasburger said one of his main goals will be to extend the use of food points to off-campus venues, which would encourage students to interact with the community.

“Lots of colleges have it,” he said. “The way it has been done in the past is so that the Duke dining program doesn’t lose money, and I don’t think that serves us as Duke students.”

Since the candidates were first announced, the field of contenders in this race have been reduced from five to three.

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For the past three months, they have been playing without their head coach, Rod Myers, who is in the batde for his life against an acute form of leukemia.

“It’s weird, even in practice—just not having him around—it’s like something’s missing,” senior Jake Grodzinsky said.

Myers used to walk the line of tee boxes, asking players about their days and their classes, crackingjokes and gently teasing them about their girlfriends.

In his 34 years as head coach at Duke, Myers has guided 14 All-Americans, nine Academic All-Americans, 22 All-ACC selections and three ACC Individual Champions.

He has led the Blue Devils to 27 team tides, an ACC Championship and six trips to the NCAA Championships.

But all of these impressive numbers pale in comparison to the number of lives Myers has touched.

It is impossible to quantify how much a person means to another person, let alone hundreds of people, but the outpouring of support for the 67 year-old coach since January—when it was officially announced he had leukemia—has been overwhelming.

In that same month, Myers and his family opened an account on carepages.com, a networking site designed to allow cancer patients to update their day-to-day status for friends and family across the country. On each individual page is a message board so people following the progress of patients can leave notes of love and encouragement.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. Duke commit Kyle Singler led a trio offuture Blue Devils with 10 points for the West team Wednesday night in the McDonald’s All-American Game at Freedom Hall.

Singler’s future teammate, Taylor King, chipped in eight points for the West squad, which held on for a 114-112 victory in the annual high school all-star game.

On the East side, Duke signee Nolan Smith added eight points, including a rimshattering dunk early in the first half. His efforts were not enough, however, as OJ. Mayo missed a game winning three-point attempt at the buzzer.

The shot hit the back of the rim, and Nick Calathes’ putback went long.

“It felt good, I just had it a little bit long,” Mayo said. “We fought back in it and had our chances, we just came up short.”

Beasley, heading to Kansas State, scored 23 points for the West and was named the Most Valuable Player. “Winning the MVP is great, but I’m happier that we got the win,” Beasley said.

While the crowd seemed to enjoy Mayo’s misfortune, it saved its biggest cheers for Patterson andjai Lucas, the only two players who remain unsigned. Both have been heavily recruited by Kentucky, and both are still considering the Wildcats even after the departure of coach Tubby Smith. Each finished with eight points.

“It’s great, but I’m still going to take my

time,” Patterson said. “But you can tell the people here love their basketball.”

Patterson is also still considering Duke, and he is expected to trim his list of schools to three in the upcoming days.

UCLA-bound Kevin Love had 13 points

and six rebounds for the West, and Eric Gordon, who is going to Indiana, added 13 points. Jerryd Bayless, who will play at Arizona, had 11 points for the West.

Calathes, who has signed at Florida, had 13 points but said he’ll think for a while about the floater that missed at the buzzer.

“I didn’t know how much time was left so I just threw it up,” he said.

The teams spent the first 35 minutes playing the up-and-down pace normally associated with all-star games. But things changed in the final five minutes as the East continued to peck away at the West’s lead. Several times the East cut it to a one possession game,but couldn’t tie it up.

“We wanted to show that we weren’t just going to go out there and do a bunch of dunks and shoot some threes,” Beasley said. “We wanted to win. That’s what was important to us.”

On the women’s side, Duke signee Jasmine Thomas had 16 points, nine rebounds and six assists to lead the East to a 105-76 victory over the West.

Thomas credited the East’s dominance to defense, something usually not seen in these all-star exhibitions. The West turned

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The only thing hotter than the weather Wednesday afternoon was the Blue Devils as No. 21 Duke burnt No. 20 N.C. State for a 5-2 victory.

The Blue Devils (9-6, 2-1 in the ACC) started strong and never let up as they took down the Wolfpack (16-5, 1-3) at home in Ambler Stadium.

“We’re playing better and better,” head coach Jay Lapidus said. “We’re a little young, but we’re starting to come into our own.”

Duke took control of the contest early as the Blue Devils NX. STATE won the first two DUKE 5 matches to win the doubles point.

Sophomore Kiril Dimitrov and senior Peter Rodrigues came back from a 4-1 deficit to defeat Andre Iriarte and Christian Welte 84 for the first doubles point. Junior David Gouletand senior Joey Atas won their match 84 to clinch the doubles point for Duke.

“It was big for us to win the doubles point,”Rodrigues said. “They’re a really deep team, so it was huge for us to start well.”

The Blue Devils continued to keep their momentum rolling into singles play.

Playing side-by-side on courts No. 1, 2 and 3, Rodrigues, Atas, and Dimitrov all coasted to win their respective first sets 6-1.

In the shortest match of the day, Rodrigues looked especially sharp in his 6-1, 6-2 defeat ofJay Weinacker. Atas then went on to win 6-1, 6-1 against Cavaday while Dimitrov

bested Noblitt 6-1, 6-2 to collectively put the Blue Devils ahead 4-0 and seal the win.

“It was just an accumulation of a couple of good weeks of practice and good matches,” Rodrigues said. “This was one of my better matches of the year.

[Weinacker]’s a good player, so it was good that I got up early.”

Even though Duke had already secured the win, N. C. State refused to leave without a fight as the remaining three singles matches went down to the wire.

Freshman Aaron Carpenter fell 7-5,6-3 to Iriarte while fellow freshman Dylan Amould came out on top 7-6, 7-5 over Welte. Both matches, however, ended well before David Goulet’s singles batde with David McGee. After winning the first set 7-5, Goulet continuously traded games with McGee during the highly-contested second set. The junior eventually lost the second set 7-5, setting the stage for the match tiebreaker.

With the crowd and the regular Dukejersey clad gorilla focusing all ofits attention on court No. 4, Goulet battled furiously for the win. While both players traded back-andforth points to tie the score at 11, Goulet was unable to ultimately to score any more points and fell in the tiebreakerround 13-11.

Wednesday’s win—the first game of a six-game conference home stand—gives the Blue Devils a boost as they take on No. 27 Florida State Friday and No. 35 Miami Sunday in Durham.

“The momentum is going in the right direction,” Lapidus said. “I feel good.”

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take a job with the Los Angeles Lakers during the summer of 2004, a similar rally held by students and administrators helped convince Krzyzewski to stay.

In addition, a group calling itself “Friends of Duke Women’s Basketball” took out a two-page ad that appears in Thursday’s print edition ofThe Chronicle.

“We love Gail Goestenkors—we think she’s a class act,” said Dr. Henry Friedman, deputy director ofThe Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center and a prominent booster of the women’s program. “I think she’s looking because when you reach that level of stature in your field, it is never a bad idea to take a look. If nothing else, you learn things that could be beneficial for your program.”

Texas is likely to offer Goestenkors a compensation package that is significandy higher than her current one at Duke. Former Longhorns coach Jody Conradt, who retired at the end of this season, earned $540,000 last year. Although Goestenkors’ contract is not public information, Duke’s most recent Internal Revenue Service filings indicate that Goestenkors’ salary is less than that.

Chris Plonsky, Texas’ women’s athletic director, has not publicly confirmed that Goestenkors was offered the post, but Duke athletics department officials expected Texas to make an offer during her visit.

Goestenkors arrived at Duke in 1992, taking over a program that had reached just one NCAA Tournament in its 17 previous years ofexistence. Since then, Duke has become one of the nation’s elite teams, making it to the Final Four in four out of the past eight seasons. Goestenkors’ teams have lost in their two appearances in the National Championship game, including an overtime defeat to Maryland in 2006.

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North Carolina State coach Sidney Lowe asked Wolfpack fans for “support and understanding” Wednesday after his son was charged with crimes ranging from armed robbery to drug possession.

“This is a difficult time for my son, myself and my family,” Lowe said in a statement issued by the school. “We appreciate the support and understanding of the

Wolfpack family.”

On Tuesday, University of North Carolina at Greensboro police said 21-year-old Sidney R. Lowe Jr. was charged with nine counts, including a felony of aiding and abetting attempted armed robbery in connection with the shooting of a man in a campus dorm Saturday.

Locke Clifford, Lowe Jr.’s attorney, said Greensboro police also filed 13 charges against his client in connection with an incident March 16.

Clifford said Lowe Jr. is charged with six counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon, six counts of second-degree kidnapping and one count of assault inflicting serious bodily injury.

He said Lowe and another man are accused of entering a house with six people in it and striking one of them on the head with a bottle.

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the ball over 24 times and shot just 32 perthe floor.

“We were outsized, so we had no choice but to play defense,” said Thomas, who was named Most Valuable Player. “That was our plan, get a stop and then go down to the other end and score.”

Thomas was one offive East players in double figures. Connecticut-bound Maya Moore had 18 points and six rebounds for the East. Marah Strickland and Jantel Lavender had 12 points each, and Tennessee-bound center Kelley Cain had 10 points and 14 rebounds.

“It was the perfect way to end my high school career,” Cain said.

The margin of victory was the largest in the game’s six-year history. The East set sevcent from

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Thomas said the players tried to enjoy the game, knowing things will be different when they face each other in college.

“There’s already a lot of mini-feuds going on,” she said. “There’s a lot of ACC girls on the team. We know the next time we see each other, it’s going to be for real. I was like ‘Good job, but rfext year, you won’t be able to do that when you play [Duke].”

Thomas added that she’s not worried about whether Duke coach Gail Goestenkors will be around in Durham next fall. Goestenkors interviewed for the Texas coaching jobWednesday.

“It can be nerve-racking, but I have a close relationship with Coach G and the assistant coaches,” she said. “But I didn’t just pick Duke because of Coach G. I picked it because it’s a great school, and even if she’s not there, I’ll still be at Duke.”

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posts have been left for Myers—everyone from former players to groundskeepers and church choir directors wanted to let him and his family know they care.

The wide range of people who have felt compelled to leave prayers, share anecdotes or remind Myers of rounds of 18 he owes them attests to the kind of person the coach is.

“He’s by far the most well-connected person I’ve ever met,” junior Michael Schachner said. “He just knows so many people, and I’ve never heard a person say a bad thing about him. Everyone he’s ever come in contact with has loved him. It’s not very often you find someone like that.”

In addition to making the Duke golf program into one of the best in the country, Myers has made it into a family.

Over 100 former golfers stay connected through e-mail, and now, more than ever, they are banding together to support the man who has always supported them.

“Personally, coach Myers is a second father figure. He’s my mentor. He’s a great friend—he’s all that wrapped into one person,” interim head coach Brad Sparling said. “He’s a great golf coach, but he’s an even better man.”

Sparling, who was an assistant under Myers for three years, is not alone in his admiration of the coach. In an article published Feb. 24 in Golfweek, senior writer Ron Balicki ran a letter written by former Blue Devil Mike Casdeforte, which expressed how profoundly Myers has affected the lives of his players.

When asked about what inspired him to write the letter and why so many people seemed so invested in Myers’ progress, Casdeforte’s answer was simple, but telling.

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Rod Myers has been a steadying influence for the men's golf program during his 34 years in charge of it. of us—while we were [at Duke] and once when we left—that it was just natural to want to stay in contact with him and keep track of his progress,” Casdeforte said.

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Myers never had to demand the respect of his players explicitly because his passion for and his knowledge of the game did that for him, pushing his players to be the best.

In 2005, the Blue Devils won the team ACC Championship and then-junior Ryan Blaum, who would become the first player in Duke history to win All-American honors three times, took the individual championship.

Blaum, who is now playing professionally on the Nationwide Tour, recalls the moments after the win as one of his fondest memories ofhis coach.

“I was coming off the green knowing that we won and giving him a hug,” Blaum said. “I had promised him during the year that we would win one either that year or the next. And we won it. He broke down crying. Being able to win that tournament for him was my proudest moment at Duke.”

In August of that same year, the Karcher-Ingram Golf Center opened, providing state-of-the-art facilities for the men’s and women’s golf teams.

The Center was the brainchild of Myers, who was always thinking of how to improve Duke golf—and in big ways.

“This is what he probably dreamt that Duke golf would turn into,” Schachner said at practice on the driving range specially designed for the varsity teams.

As Myers continues in the fight for his life, the 20th-ranked Blue Devils continue to practice and compete, striving to live up to the high standards their coach set for them from Day One. “He is this program,” Sparling said.

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But Li’s proposals to create a school-wide online event calendar and to implement a DukeCard system that works off campus are unoriginal and have been tried in the past, with poor results. While she has done well to research and borrow ideas from other schools, Li needs to learn more about Duke.

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underdeveloped. She advoprotecting selective living groups with no original ideas to improve residential cates

life. McKinstry adds nothing to the dining debate except to agree with the CCFs suggestion to subsidize the system.

Her ideas about social space are stale and uninspired.

Nevertheless, McKinstry casts a wider net than her opponent, as she is clearly passionate about the new Duke Engage program and generating student feedback about the CCI. Both candidates should think more deeply about the issues facing the Student Affairs committee in the coming year and be sure to seek out input from other students.

McKinstry lacks experience, but makes up for it with effort. She has clearly

tried to compensate for her lack ofDSG work through recent meetings with administrators and student leaders.

With more time and work, she could be a stronger candidate in the future.

Thus, while both candidates are weak, Li has more DSG experience and a better knowledge of the VP of student affairs position than McKinstry, who, despite many interesting life experiences, is only a freshman.

Li has obviously researched some relevant options at other universities and brings that valuable data to the table. She has also already developed her skills in speaking with administrators and working within a bureaucracy.

The Chronicle formally endorses Madison Li for vice president of student affairs.

Reinvigorating the Community Standard

ontherecord The question of whether or not vestigation by the U.S. Attorney’s premature at this point.

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the past 10 months, a group of students, faculty and administrators has taken a closer look at Duke’s Community Standard, examining whether or not our principles match our performance and searching for ways to strengthen the language of our young honor code.

An honor code, though not set in stone, is not to be tinkered with lightly.

We were cognizant or the need to avoid SODI & rudermail for its making change guest column own sake. Yet at the end of the day, after much debate, we agreed on two major points: first, that the language of the Standard itselfneeded sharpening; and second, that the language of the pledge needed

strengthening.

In short, we could do better.

So we worked, consulted, paid attention and played wordsmith. The committee’s efforts culminated in the creation of a revised Community Standard. Yet we understood that simply implementing the new code without publicly interrogating the changes would mean the committee had walked a mile while the community might have moved an inch.

Committee members therefore successfully lobbied the Duke Student Government to place the revised version as a referendum topic in the spring studentgovernment elections. Our hope is that such a public vetting will generate reflection about the revisions and acceptance of the changes.

The proposed new Duke Community Standard reads: Duke University is a community dedicated to scholarship, leadership, and service and to the principles of honesty, fairness, respect, and accountability. Citizens of this community commit to reflect upon and uphold these principles in all academic and non-academic endeavors, and to protect and promote a culture of integrity.

To uphold the Duke Community Standard: I will not lie, cheat, or steal in my academic •

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I will conduct myself honorably in all my en-

deavors; and

I will act if theStandard is compromised.

The new Community Standard’s greatest strength lies in its final bullet: Students pledge to act if the Standard is compromised. This addition to the pledge empowers students to build the community they wish to live in. This change builds on the Obligation to Act, a guiding document created last year that similarly empowered students to act when they witnessed academic integrity violations.

The final bullet, along with the Obligation to Act, gives the Standard considerable purchase and back-

bone. It grounds principles and values in everyday actions that may range from friends confronting one another about destructive decisions; a student speaking out in disagreement with a faculty member; a classmate approaching another, or an instructor, after witnessing a violation of academic integrity. Our hope is that such a menu of choices may make the obligation to act a more robust part of our culture.

Some questions you might be asking; Let’s talk process: Who was involved in these revisions?

The work was done by representatives from the Academic Integrity Council, Duke Student Government, Honor Council, Undergraduate Judicial Board and Kenan Institute for Ethics. Students paid a leading role in the process.

Is this related to the lacrosse incident or to the Campus Culture Initiative?

Lacrosse was a conversation starter, but little more.

Out of that conversation grew a by a summer’sworth of close examination. When committee members—mostly students—express some unhappiness with the summer’s results, a smaller group comprised of mostly students sat down to rework and reevaluate the process. . This process was not part of the Campus Culture Initiative.

Do these revisions affect judicialpolicy ?1 No. The Duke Community Standard is a statement of values and principles; it can be violated by one’s actions but those actions are not adjudicable unless they also violate judicial policy.

How is this version preferable to the current one ?

Accountability and engagement, as underscored by the more prominent placement of the Obligation to Act within the pledge itself. This iteration of the Community Standard expects and encourages action in both academic and non-academic domains. More, it gives students the power to choose how and when they will respond to situations they find problematic.

What can we reasonably expect a change ofwording to do?

The revised language starts us down the path of building a community of mutual accountability where principles become calls to action. The language suggests in broad strokes the kind of community we can hope for, but it will be our job—students, faculty and administrators alike—to make this a living document.

We hope that the editorial pages ofThe Chronicle and other forums will encourage discussion about this issue. Such debate, after all, is at the core of the revisions of the Community Standard and essential to what we have set out to achieve. Thank you.

SeniorJimmy Soni is vice president of academic affairs for Duke Student Government and co-chair of the Undergraduate Judicial Board. Judith Rudeman is vice provost for academic affairs and serves as chair of theAcademic Integrity Council.

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middle-aged men who were of college age during the early stages of the sexual revolution, we know the changes that have occurred in American society, both in terms of opportunities for and the successes of women.

Nonetheless, as women have seized their rightful role in our society, some disturbing issues remain. Nowhere perhaps is this more dramatic than in the inability of our society to make an appreciable dent in the de-

gree to which women, and esburness & reese pecially young women, continue to be subjected to sexual guest column abuse and assault.

Statistics about sexual assault should alarm all of us, and sexual assault counselors report that these statistics are conservative. According to the Dating Violence Resources Center in Washington, D.C., 32 percent of college women experience some form of sexual assault or dating violence, ranging from stalking to rape. In any one year, it is estimated that 5 percent of college women will experience a rape or an attempted rape. If we extrapolate these numbers to Duke, some 967 students have experienced dating violence, and more than 150 undergraduate women are survivors of sexual assault. No one can be comfortable with this information. But numbers tell only part of the story.

Sexual violence occurs within a larger context marked by ambiguity about what actually constitutes dating violence. Admittedly, in the context of the hook-up culture, sexual assault can be difficult to discuss. Young women we have talked with tell us that the hookup culture often muddles these distinctions. So have young men.

Thanks to student efforts, we’ve made some strides in diminishing the stigma associated with sexual assault. Publications like Saturday Night: Untold Stories of Sexual Assault have helped educate our campus about the experience of those who survive sexual and dating violence.

They have helped open conversations about informed consent and exposed the fear of sexual violence that some women feel on campus. Events like “Take Back the Night” have enabled us to understand the reality of the survivor and helped educate us not to blame the victim. But when we as a community talk about sexual assault, we still talk about it as if it is a “women’s issue.” That’s where we’re getting it wrong.

Sexual assault is not a women’s issue; it’s a relationship issue, a cultural issue and a societal issue. Statistics alone cannot convey how an act of sexual violence, in which power and force replace tenderness and love, can have a long-term impact on a woman’s views of sexual intimacy and on her relationships. Sexual assault is a men’s issue every bit as much as it is a women’s and men need to claim an equal stake in this issue if real progress is to be made.

The fact that men tend to be bigger and stronger than women places women at a physical disadvantage. That’s easy to understand. What do we as men do to recognize the implications of physical advantage and psychological coercion in sexual relations and, in particular, to nullify them? And there’s another damaging issue—referenced earlier—that may be difficultfor young people to appreciate. Both of us in our lifetimes have known women who were subjected to sexual assault at any early age. It affected their marriages, their roles as spouses, as partners and as parents, because for one night, it was easy for a male to take advantage of a situation.

As with many of the toughest societal issues, real progress comes when everyone owns a problem. Are breast cancer or prostate cancer women’s or men’s issues?

Surely not. They affect everyone in a relationship with the person who has the disease. If we continue to think simplistically of sexual assault as something that women can control, we do not recognize the role and, more importantly, the responsibility of men in the equation. It is as much a young man’s job to ascertain clear consent for sexual acts—which means a willing partner who is sober enough to be believed—as it is the responsibility of a woman to be firm with the man with whom she doesn’t want to have sex. Insufficient consent is avoidable, but it requires a joint effort between the actors. Indeed, we weaken the discussion and cripple our own progress when men are not equal partners in the conversation about how to decrease sexual assault.

There is no magic bullet, but there are ways that young men and young women can talk with each other honestly, can support each other and can be responsible in the ownership of an issue that has no gender. It is a question of decency and caring and responsibility.

John Bumess is the senior vice president ofpublic affairs and government relations and Benjamin Reese is vice president for institutional equity.

yacht-cabin-like bowels of Rugby, the Franklin Street store also known as the mecca of gratingly WASPish attire. Immediately deemed sartorially unclean (thank you, ripped jeans), I escaped the notice of the gratingly WASPish salespeople, one of whom was instead turning her attention to a 50-something, blond-bobbed woman shopping for her daughter.

“There certainly are quite a few items on sale,” said Anna Wintour’s long lost American twin, rifling through Nantucket reds ‘Yes, well, we’re closing on March 10,” the

salesgirl replied casually, stacking cashmere cable-

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knit crewnecks.

“What?!” cried the woman, stricken. “What ever shall I do this summer, when I need a seersucker blazer with silk-tie lining and pink skull-and-crossbones embroidered all over it? Surely, I shall perish!” (.. .Actually, she didn’t really say the last part. But I bet she would have, if the salesgirl hadn’t promptly replied.)

“Leasing this building is pretty expensive, and we don’t get enough traffic during the week. On the weekends, sure, but other times, not so much,” the girl said.

I listened quietly to all of this. Two years ago, I covered Rugby’s grand opening for this paper’s arts and entertainment section. Now, I was bearing witness to its early departure—its very, very surprising early departure.

To retrogress for a second; Rugby was conceived of as the younger, hipper, more athletic son of luxury American sportswear company Polo Ralph Lauren. It does not have an online counterpart, and its stores—purposefully located only in college towns like Georgetown, Boston and Charlottesville—market a lifestyle just as tenaciously as they market their signature pique cotton. There are posters of sailing teams and worn badminton racquets; there are beat-up leather suitcases and vintage prep school patches everywhere. Exactly the vibe you’d expect, I suppose, from the design team selected to swath the officials at last summer’s Wimbledon.

Everything about Rugby’s vision and its execution pointed to success in the South. There are certainly more occasions for which seersucker and sundresses are appropriate in North Carolina than in Greenwich. And there’s the small matter of all the masses of pearl-loving prepsters and conservative dressers walking around these parts. So despite the store’s occasionally questionable wares—Grandma’s floral sofa upholstery fashioned into cheek-baring mini-skirt, anyone? —the overall brand

seemed a guaranteed fit for Chapel Hill So why the flop?

Anyone who follows Chapel Hill urban planning knows that store closures and reshuffling businesses on the west end of Franklin Street are not new problems.

Short of “Tar! Heels!,” “For lease” have to be the most popular two syllables in Chapel Hill. In recent years and months we’ve seen that wacky outpost of Kerr Drugs, Peppers Pizza, the Gap, Wachovia and many others go under, leaving dust and peeling carpet for all to see.

Walking down Franklin Street again last weekend, 1 kept glancing around for tumbleweed.

There are many reasons for the city’s stumbling, including disagreements over development of parking lots and other fun city-council-meeting fodder. The thematic reason is Chapel Hill’s struggle for identity as it urbanizes.

The same thing can certainly be said about Durham.

Chapel Thrill and The Dirty D are both college towns (on paper, anyway). The two cities’ proximity to top-tier universities makes them “cultural destination[s],” in the words of Liz Parham, executive director of the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership. “Great college towns are great because of the cultural offerings that are simply not found in other towns,” Parham wrote in a Feb. 20 guest column for the The Chapel Hill Herald. She went on to suggest that revitalizing a wilting college town means “to reinvent ourselves by looking closely at what is driving foot traffic today, and then identifying complimentary businesses that we can recruit in.”

This theory is already riddled with buckshot.

Rugby seemed to fit perfectly the definition for what Parham and others feel is an ideal college town business, despite being nationally owned and operated. It was conceived to cater exclusively to denizens of college towns, in fact. So why no stampeding shoppers?

Because that elusive foot traffic everybody’s seeking is off getting a better deal, clicking its way to stylish duds on an ißook.

I am not sounding the death knell for the picturesque, economically vibrant college town. But as people continue to shy away from the specialty boutique and the physical store, preferring instead to take their business to booming department stores and online venues, the makeup of the college town is going to change, and drastically. Maybe we should just accept it.

Of course, the one thing that college kids can’t do online is kick back with a drink. Prepare yourself for the future of the Triangle: more brilliant medical researchers and buck-a-beer dives per square mile than anywhere else in the world.

Sarah Ball is a Trinity junior and former editorial page editor of The Chronicle. Her column runs every Thursday.

letterstotheeditor Cody for VP of community interaction I am very proud to have been asked to interview candidates for the Duke Student Government position of vice president of community interaction. As director of the Human Relations Department for Durham, I understand that it takes a special individual for this type of position. It was a pleasure for me to meet such wonderful students. Freshman Lee Strasburger, sophomore Brandon Roane and junior Genevieve Cody presented themselves in a very professional manner, and they were able to articulate their goals if elected for this position. Duke can be proud of these three individuals, and I am sure they will continue to represent Duke well.

My endorsement goes to Cody for her ability to express her vision, goals and plans as the next vice president of community interaction. She was very knowledgeable of the issues regarding students’ needs and the benefits to working with the Durham community. She also showed a true commitment to Duke. She has extensive experience on other committees, an extensive employment and volunteer history and experience working with the Durham community. I know she is someone we need to watch as she develops into a leader in whatever field she chooses to work.

With no hesitation I endorse Cody for this position, and I sincerely wish her good luck. I look forward to working with Cody and other Duke students in the future.

YvonnePena Director, Durham Human Relations Department Choice of graduation speaker disappointing

Secretary-General of the United Nations. President of Chile. A Duke professor. And now... the GM CEO who happens to be a member of the Board of Trustees.

I was extremely disappointed with the choice of Rick Wagoner as the graduation speaker this year. I’m sure he’s a very intelligent man and possibly an engaging speaker, but he is not the type of person I was hoping to hear speak at my graduation, given previous commencement speakers.

I question why Duke was not able to look beyond the Duke community for a speaker. Were others asked to speak and declined, or did the commencement committee think that this was the type of speaker students wanted to hear? If it’s the former, I would like to know who they sought. If it’s the latter, I can’t help but wonder why more student input was not sought. We were asked to nominate speakers, but that was the last I ever heard of it Perhaps in future years, seniors could vote on a list of possible speakers so we get to hear someone speak at our graduation who we wanted.

Oh well, at least I got to hear former Secretary of State Colin Powell speak when he came to Duke last year. Oh wait...

Katie Zimmerman Trinity ’O7

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Contemporar city-based art comes to Nasher CatherineKaelin recess The sophisticated, elegant venue of the Nasher Museum ofArt is about to embrace a distinctly urban flair with its newest exhibition, Street Level.

Street Level, which opens today, features the work of Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhodes, all of whom address issues of race, pop culture and urban environment through unique approaches to their art. The media of the three artists ranges from sculpture, to performance, to detailed drawing, to aerial imaging.

“Their work has overlapping concerns, but they all deal with it in completely different ways, in different media and process,” said Trevor Schoonmaker, curator of the exhibition and curator of contemporary art at the Nasher.

The artists draw inspiration directly from their surroundings in metropolitan centers around the world, ranging from New York, Los Angeles and Miami to Lima, Peru, Berlin, Germany and Johannesburg, South Africa.

William Cordova, a Lima native who spent much of his life in Miami, said that the appeal of such environments lies partly in the concept that one is able to make connections between different places.

“In Miami, you’re hyper aware of this because it’s so mixed. That’s how most of my works evolve, through making connections between home and here visually, and for me, psychologically,” Cordova said.

The associations Cordova makes between Lima and Miami can also be made in Durham, which despite its smaller size, serves as a microcosm of larger urban cenWilliam Cordova's"Badussy (or Machu Picchu After Dark)" is on display at the Nasher as part of the exhibit Street Level, that features contemporary, urban art. ters through its diversity.

“Durham has its own identity and urban Cordova works more extensively found paperand recycled or discarded maedge,” Schoonmaker said, “Every place is movement, particularly in his 2005 video through detailed drawing, although one of terials in their work. so differentbut the changes that are taking recording, “Niagara.” ‘“Machu Picchu’ was inspired by Inca “Niagara” depicts a middle aged, black his featured works in the exhibition drastiplace in Durham take place in every city.” this medium. architecture and ideas of visual landscape,” “Badussy based resident as he walks down the sidefrom L.A. Mark Bradford, a Los Angeles cally departs Cordova said. He also noted that he drew (or Machu Picchu after dark)” is a largeartist, works a great deal from aerial photowalk. Inspired by Marilyn Monroe’s threefrom the 1971 Who album cover Who’s graphs to create intricate designs which minute walk at the end ofher film Niagara, scale sculpture, assembled from found, reconstructed and of urban Bradford chronicles the of and stereo speakers. expressiveness vibrancy cycled suggest the chaos SEE STREET ON PAGE 5 Both Bradford and Cordova use primarily life. He also focuses upon the aesthetic of movement in a far different context. by

Alumni band Bombadil takes road less traveled A simple enough lifestyle, it seems, but when so many Duties ended up in a chair at a desk, Although not everyone at Duke is headed to how did Michalak end up here?

“It’s a slow process,” Michalak explained. “I’m Office Space-Gsque cubicles with eight different not going to say that you wake up bosses and T.P.S. reports, most Duke grads don’t find one day and you say, ‘Hey, this is what I’m going to do for the rest themselves working part-time of my life.’ There were a lot of either.

SPOTLIGHT in yardwork turning points.”

Most, though, does not The main turning point ocBombadil mean all. curred one night after a show at Enter Daniel Michalak: Springternational small, a crummy bar last year.

West Trinity ’O6, Durham resident (Main Quadrangle) The manager of a band called and lead singer of Bombadil.

Friday, March 30 the Avett Brothers came up to Michalak rises at 8:30 a.m.

Come support former Dukies Michalak and asked if Bombadil when he feels like it, that is—trying to make it big. would open for the Avett Brothand heads over to a Durham to ers the next night. They did, and elementary school assistant in front of 800 people, they didteach (read: tie shoelaces).

When school lets out, or whenever he feels like n’t disappoint. The next day, the manager it, he does yardwork for extra cash and then asked if Bombadil would like to work for the heads home for dinner. After dinner his band Avett Brothers’ record label, Ramseur Records, gathers, and they practice their grassroots, upSEE BOMBADIL ON PAGE 7 beat yet casual songs late into the night by

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askrecess Harry Potter cover art and twists revealed!

Online news sources are alight with insights and predictions following the release of the cover art for J. K. Rowling’s ground-breakingly septuple thriller, Harry Potter and the Deathly Halloios.

The artwork for the U.S. cover clearly depicts Harry and Lord Voldemort, both wandless, in a stadium-like enclosure. Potterian epistomologicists have long predicted a final confrontation between the two, but are divided as to how the cover art can be in-

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SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ron dies horribly. There, we said it. Harry and Hermione are brought together by the grief of Ron’s passing and discover a deep-seeded sexual chemistry. Hermione turns out to be a total freak.Unfortunately for Harry, just as he is about to accio some poontang, Death Eaters show up and attack him.

Barely escaping to a Buddhist monastery in Bolivia, Harry falls in love with the ghost of El Che and together they convince a penguin and polar bear to set aside their differences and learn the true meaning of Christmas.

The polar bear turns out to be Lord Voldemort in disguise. He grabs Harry and touches the penguin suggestively, which turns out to be a port key. The two are transported to the 30-yard-line ofWade Wallace Stadium where the Order of the Phoenix and the Deadt Eaters are playing an epic game of touch.

With three seconds on the clock, the Order has the ball and are down by six. Harry, who is being covered

by Voldemort, stutter steps right and goes long just as Severus Snape switches sides at the last second and throws a Hail Mary to Harry.

With everyone watching, and the fate of the wizarding world on the line, Harry turns to look for the ball as Voldemort looks on with alarm, too far away to stop him. Does Harry come through? Sorry, we’ve revealed enough. You’ll just have to read it for yourselves.

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Dear recess, Now that it’s getting warmer out, I’m looking for some new drinks that can keep me cool. Any suggestions?

There are plenty of great drinks, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, to get you in the mood for spring. One great chilled drink that is easy to prepare for a group of friends is “Rose Sangria.” Just combine one botde of rose wine, 1/4 cup of brandy, 1/4 cup of Triple Sec, one cup of orange juice and 1/4 cup of simple syrup into a large pitcher. Cover and refrigerate for anywhere from eight to 24 hours. Before serving, add orange, lemon, lime and apple slices.

For something a little lighter (i.e. booze-free), try whipping up some “Fruit and Sherbet Punch” by combining two liters of Sprite or Ginger Ale and one gallon of a fruit juice ofyour choice, and then floating two pints of sherbet in the punch before serving. Or, for a single-sized drink, try the apdy-tided “Fuzzless Navel”. Take two ounces of peach nectar, six ounces of orange juice, stir and garnish with a slice oforange and you’re good to go.

All that’s left to do is sit down, relax and enjoy the beginning of some warm spring weather.

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The newest bachelor is not only an “Officer and A Gentleman as the season’s title claims, heis also a former Blue Devil, recess Chelsea Allison recently participated in an interview with Andy Baldwin, Trinity ‘99, star ofThe Bachelor.

Considering your pedigree and your education and the physical things you put yourself through as a tri-athlete did any of that pale in comparison to trying to appease 25 marriage-hungry women?

Andy Baldwin: Yeah. It definitely did —I had no idea how difficult a journey and a mission this was going to be. I’ve done a lot of things—you know getting to be a doctor, I’ve done the iron man six times—but this was hard but well worth the journey. I came out with an amazing woman and I’m totally in love.

What kind of women generally do you find yourself attracted to?

I definitely want a woman with an open mind, but who also does have an opinion. What I look for most is a woman who can challenge me and who I can challenge back.

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I definitely had my eyes open and someone who’s athletic. I look for someone who can make me and ears open. What’s great about laugh, someone who’s witty and who this show is that it’s very intense, above and beyond has the same you don’t sleep a lot and you’re family values I do. busy busy busy, but there’s a How is it that a guy like you hasn’t method to the madness...People found the right woman yet? really show their true colors after a It’s plain and simple—I’ve had a while, faster than they would in a number of very long term relationreal-life dating situation...lt definitely took me a couple episodes to ships and it’s always been that something was missing, but I’m not will- figure out who was here for the ing to setde for anything less than right reasons and I really think what’s right for me. A lot ofit had to about everyone was. do with timing and where I’ve been Has the woman you chose—you in my life. Right now I’ve reached a know a lot of what we see is not alpoint where I’m ready to settle ways dignified or very pretty—has down and I thought, What a better she expressed any concerns to you about her behavior on the show that way than basically have a professional screening process and they pay to you might be exposed to as the show airs? go on these amazing dates.

Oh, of course. I think we are all I understand there are a lot of Texans on this show —what is it about going to see things that might be a Texas women? little eye opening, but in the end we I really like the Southern girls. know what the result was, and we Ever since my time at Duke and know how we feel about each other. spending time down south, defi- We’re not going to hold anything nitely—they’re very charming and against each other.

So if she’s on tape putting Nair in anvery classy.

Did you have any concerns about other woman’s shampoo that’s fine? the motives of the girls? (laughs) That’s a good strategy.

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recess tradtional Italian-American restauA rant has not opened in Durham for quite some time. These eateries, known for their marinara, meatballs and marsala, have more recendy been replaced by modern, Italian-influenced eateries like Pop’s or Piedmont. And perhaps this is for good reason. Piazza Italia, a new restaurant of the former camp, does little to make diners yearn for days gone by.

Piazza Italia occupies a large and not unattractive space in a prime corner of Brightleaf Square. In addition to the restaurant, the space also houses a gelateria and a small market, selling olive oils and pastas. Taken together, the three vendors represent an ambitious project in both size and scope.

First impressions are promising, too.

Sociable servers deliver warm bread and an

entire bulb of roasted garlic for snacking. across on the restaurant’s menu. Despite With a little salt and olive oil, available on Piazza’s smart trappings, its cuisine is enrequest, you’ve got a perfectly serviceable tirely uninspired. Eggplant and chicken fdlet parmigiana, antipasto before even mignon balsamico and looking at the menu. recesstasfes Add a chop salad Italiano are refreshing soda, Antarctica a soft not likely to be found in drink from Brazil vagueRome or Tuscany. And to make matters worse, ly reminiscent of ginger these are not the Italianale, and all seems well.

American Sunday supper Or does it? Brazilian favorites that your Nonna soda in an Italian restauused to make. A trip to rant? Something is remiss. According to the the Macaroni Grill yields staff, the Brazilian owna more rewarding meal, singing maestros and all. ers of Chamas, the South American rodizio A seafood stuffed peprestaurant just across per was drowned in an the square, also operate Piazza Italia. This insipid and goopy pesto cream sauce. The fact does not bode well for an authentic filling, a mixture of polenta and utterly Italian dining experience. unrecognizable bits of protein that tasted A certain lack of authenticity comes vaguely like seafood, was no improve-

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ment. The promise of a flavorful lobster aioli was for naught.

The cannelloni fiorentina—delivered the instant my stuffed pepper was cleared—was described by a waiter to look “just like the Italian flag.” Indeed, he was correct.

Three overly stuffed spinach and ricotta cannelloni were respectively flooded with cringe-inducing pomodoro, alffedo and pesto sauces. In retrospect, it seems that choosing a dish based on resemblance to its flag of origin is not the best way to order.

Perhaps the restaurant’s only saving grace is the gelateria tucked away in a rear comer. The approximately twcndozen flavors of high-quality gelato and sorbetto on offer include unique varieties like strawberry-basil, peach amaretto and sour cherry.

Torrone-flavored gelato, a classic Italian sweet consisting of honey, egg whites, vanilla and nuts was perhaps the most authentic and delicious item Piazza Italia had to offer.

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Movie Making Marathon challenges filmmakers 24 hour experience brings together Eric Bishop recess In the world offictionalized action-drama, much can be accomplished in 24 hours, as Jack Bauer has shown us time and again.

Last weekend’s Movie Making Marathon put that theory to practice, pitting groups of students against each another in a quest to make the best eight-minute movie they could in a day’s time.

The 10 teams —each headed by a student from a film course taught by theater studies Lecturing Fellow Elisabeth Benfey —received thousands of dollars worth of filmmaking equipment at 7 a.m. Saturday, working all day and night to shoot and edit by

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their movies by the 7 a.m. Sunday deadline.

“It was the hardest project I’ve ever had to do,” said senior Danny Bischoff, who directed one of the films.

The event, produced by Benfey, junior Annie Fleishman and first-year humanities graduate student Shannon Rowbury, started with a screenwriting competition last semester. Five student-written screenplays were selected for the marathon in December.

Each group, though, didn’t receive its randomly assigned script until the day before shooting began, which exacerbated the task of putting together a movie in such a short time frame.

Members ofTeam 5 take a break from filming in the Marketplace to pose with props.

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“The day before filming I was just on my cell phone all day trying to get actors,” said Bischoff,

whose film went on to win awards for best actor, best director and best film.

Many of the films’ actors came from the groups themselves, which consisted mosdy of undergraduates without much experience in movie making.

That was part of the point, event coordinators said.

“Our mission is to kind of expose filmmaking to people who otherwise wouldn’t have a chance to make a movie,” Fleishman said.

“It’s definitely geared toward people who love making movies, but it’s also for kids who don’t even have time to take a film class here and would like to learn more about it.”

The films premiered Sunday afternoon at Griffith Film Theater, where a panel of judges selected winners in various categories. Among the jurists was Mr. Holland’s Opus and Jumanji producer Bill Teitler, who flew in from New York City for the event.

“I thought it was an absolutely sensational experience to see it and be a part of it, and I thought the work they did was nothing short of extraordinary,” Teitler said at the screening.

While the marathon went off largely without a hitch, there were a few bumps in the road along the way. When senior Jacob McCafferty showed up at 7 a.m.

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teammates’ absences varied—one had a meeting, one overslept and another lost faith in the script and the organization of the marathon—McCafferty decided to continue with the project on his own.

And although he didn’t finish filming and start editing until much later than the rest of the groups, McCafferty snagged the award for best editing and the “Ultimate Survivor Award,” which the marathon’s producers created for the unique circumstances ofhis filmmaking.

Benfey called the marathon an exercise in how not only to work quickly, but also to make the necessary preparations to make situations like McCafferty’s easier to handle.

“The best impromptu is the one that’s well rehearsed,” she said.

Sean Canino, a senior and team leader, said Benfey’s class helped him ready himself for the big event, but ultimately the spontaneous nature of the marathon required plenty of on-the-spot decision making.

“You don’t really know what it’s gonna be like until you're actually doing it,” he said.

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Women bring experiences to stage While tabling on the West Campus Plaza this past week, cast members from All of the Above were forced to repeatedly refute the same claim: “It’s just like The Vagina Monologues at Duke,” passersby said.

All of the Above, which opens tonight, is definitely not just the University’s version of the famous play, directors stressed.

“It’s not just about sex and sexuality,” said co-director Christine Schellack, a senior and recess staffmember. “It’s about being a college student, being female and being at Duke.”

Schellack—who works with co-directors and seniors Emily Rotberg, a Chronicle staff member, and Gul Tuysuz —said the play gives voice to the multitude of experiences that aren’t talked about at Duke.

The play consists of 23 anonymous

monologues performed by 10 actresses and the three directors. Of course there are monologues about sex. But there are also monologues about buying fish from Walmart that always die, going to Bonnaroo and discovering that your mother smokes marijuana.

The directors received more than double the number of monologues they could use and had 40 girls audition for 10 spots, resulting in a diverse set of monologues, backgrounds and personalities.

Participants are afforded the opportunity to make friends and connections with women whom they might have never interacted with otherwise.

Though the play shares the experiences of women at Duke, Rotberg said the play is certainly not meant for women only.

“It’s more important for guys to see the show,” she said. “I love having my friends there, but I’d almost rather the seats be filled with people who wouldn’t otherwise have come.”

All of the Above is an opportunity for all Duke students to witness the diversity of experience on campus, Rotberg said, adding that it is powerful, but also cool and fun.

“It’s really satisfying to get chills every time I hear certain parts of the monologues,” she said. “It’s like it’s new each time.”

—Lauren Fischetti

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Racial stereotypes broken down by come dians It’s hard not to react to a show with a tide like N*gger, Wetback, Ch*nk.

The three racially diverse comedians performing in N*W*C—which will be coming to the Carolina Theatre on March 31—are used to shocked responses from their audiences.

“It’s funny because people judge the words that were meant to pre-judge others,” said comedian Allan Axibal. “Often the words on our posters are crossed out because people think that it’s a white supremacist show.”

N*W*C is anything but white suprema-

cist. The three performers, Miles Gregley (N*gger), Rafael Agustin (Wetb*ck) and Axibal (Ch*nk), use humor to deconstruct stereotypes and discuss race issues in America.

“Our aim is to create theater for people of color and for our generation,” Agustin said. “We want to create art that’s socially significant —that will make you laugh and make you think.”

N*W*C came to life while the three friends were studying at the University of California at Los Angeles. Agustin was working on his M.A. in theater and want-

ed to write about illegal immigration to the United States.

“I came illegally to America and didn’t know it until I went to college and needed a real Social Security number,” he said. “Going from high school class president and prom king to illegal immigrant was hard, and I wanted to create something that spoke to that experience."

Gregley and Axibal, theater students who had been struggling to be cast in leading roles because of their skin colors, joined Agustin with their own experiences with racial typecasting.

“Our main message is that there’s only one race—the Human Race,” Axibal said.

“People think of race as a biological fact, but it’s not—it’s a social construct.”

But the comedians don’t take themselves too seriously, either.

“What’s my aim in performing this show?”

Agustin joked. “I think...world peace.”

—Andrea Marston

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� ���� Blades of Glory, an occasionally funny romp through the exciting world of pairs figure skating, feels exactly like one might imagine: a watered-down version of Will Ferrell’s Anchorman—on ice! It’s unclear if Ferrell is actually becoming less and less funny, or if audiences have just grown overly accustomed to the vapid braggadocio of the man-children he routinely portrays —with varying levels of hair-featherage.

It’s not that Ferrell isn’t entertaining as the “rebellious” skating phenom Chazz Michael Michaels, just that the role is starting to feel tired. Still, Ferrell’s performance remains an altogether

positive one, responsible for some of the film’s biggest laughs.

Following the familiar fall from grace/rise to glory plot typical ofFerrell films, Blades tells the tale of two rival skaters who are forced to forge an unlikely partnership after being banned from men’s singles. While Ferrell’s Chazz Michaels is a drunken, sex-addicted braggart, his rival/part-

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Heder—is a naive goody-goody who has been raised from youth for the sole purpose of attaining figure skating glory. When the two come together, shenanigans ensue as they are forced to overcome their differences in pursuit of the gold!

Heder, who should be Ferrell’s equal, comes off as a less funny sidekick. He repeatedly slides through would-be punch lines with the

comedic dexterity of a wooden block.

Heder should contribute to the film, but instead only serves as a reflector for Ferrell’s absurdity.

Not surprisingly, this isn’t where the film shines. Rather, the film’s best moments come from the underutilized supporting cast. Will Arnett ( Arrested Development's Gob) and Amy Poehler {SNL) are hilarious as Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg—the vaguely incestuous brother-sister skating team determined to defend their title.

Nick Swardson ( Grandma’s Boy) makes a few disturbingly funny appearances as a stalker who reminds Heder that, even though he loves him, he’s still going to kill him one day. Jenna Fischer (Pam from The Office) also makes a strong showing playing Katie, the Van Waldenbergs’ shy, neglected sister. The role she plays here isn’t too different from her Office character, but she nailsKatie’s reserved awkwardness as she makes a surprisingly strong transition onto the big screen.

These performances provide welcome relief, managing to save the film from being mere rehash mired down by an excessive number of obligatory gay jokes and gross-out humor.

—Bryan Sayler

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� � � 'k'b Newbie director Michael Kang’s The Motel is an “indie dramedy” for “indie people”—meaning, it’s a worthwhile flick, but from one look at the ’Bos color-schemed, pop-artcomic poster, it’s clear that audiences are in for a prototypical, predictable indie ride.

Ernest (Jeffrey Chyau) is a 13-yearold Chinese boy, who lives in a dingy motel with his mother and grandfather. His childhood is hardly innocent, cleaning up after hookers and alcoholic welfare-ees.

His best friend, Christine (Samantha Futerman), provides his only moments of escape from the dreary world of the motel. The older girl thinks Ernest is a “spaz,” and he secretiy pines for her. However, Ernest’s quiet life is derailed when he befriends disheveled businessman Sam (Sung Kang), who is more of a child than Ernest.

The coming-of-age story, based on Ed Lin’s novel Waylaid manages to draw laughs, albeit from shock value. ,

The juxtaposition of adult themes with childhood naivete brings out chuckles of absurdity—Ernest’s bully forces a make out session between the chubby protagonist and his own sister, who proclaims Ernest’s erection means that they are in love.

The film is good by indie standards, but lacks originality. Wide shots, lethargic editing and drained dialogue have all become cliches in the world of low-budget features.

However stale the formatting, the film’s acting deserves real praise. Jade Wu realistically conveys the burden of

a single mom running a business and raising children. Her striking performance will profoundly connect

with immigrant audience members.

Chyau and Kang, as Ernest and Sam,

show the talent it takes to be successful in acting.

It may not be fresh, but The Motel knows how to effectively deliver comedy and tears in a short 76 minutes. However, it may lose you in its eccentricities if you forget to don your horn-rimmed glasses and vintage t-shirt.

—Vanin Leila

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Napolean Dynamite star Jon Heder chats with recess' Varan Leila about his upcoming ice-skating comedy Blades of Glory, co-starring Will Ferrell, Will Amett, Amy Poehler and Craig T Nelson.

How was it working with Will Ferrell?

It was great. There are pros: He is easy to work with, he is wonderful and funny. Cons: He’s too funny and makes you look bad. There is no ego. All the guy cares about is making people laugh and entertaining people. He is a lot of fun to work with.

Was it hard to learn ice skating?

It was a challenge and I loved it. When they train you, you know that you are going to come home with a new skill, and, for me, that’s awesome, because I like to rack up “the skills.”

How was the atmosphere on the set?

It was great. It was like a workhouse. People ask if we had a fun time. Yeah we did, but, opposed to some of the other comedies I’ve done, it was hard work. It was comedy mixed with athletics. We would get there and want to be funny, but we also wanted to be good on the ice.

You have said that you were interested in doing animation projects with your brother. Anything in the works?

Well, I love watching [animc]. I don’t have anything going on right now, but we are always looking and playing with ideas for future animations that we could direct or produce. We don't have anything right now, but it’s something we have always wanted to do.

Does your religion [Mormonism] affect your work?

There are obviously certain comfortable barriers for me. As an actor you have to break down your comfort zones, but at a certain point you have to draw a line. So from the beginning you make certain decisions.

Were you and Will competing comedians off-set?

There is no question that he is the better comedian. More of the competitive parts came on the ice, like who is the better skater. We were both kind of new to it. I am not that competitive, but I take pride in my ability to get into a sport if I am new to it. I remember thinking that Will has three extra weeks of training and I can skate circles around him. He can skate comedy circles around me and I can skate real circles around him.

How did you end up breaking your ankle?

I actually broke it before we started filming, during training. I wish I could say it was doing a cool trick, but I was spinning and my body kept spinning and my foot didn't. There were a couple weeks where we thought the movie would get canned, but luckily I healed and the movie went forward.

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Robin Rhodes, a Johannesburg native, works primarily in video and photographic performance. His work emphasizes movement and process within distinctly urban settings.

His photographic series draw attention to the active and transient nature ofurban life. Unlike the other artists, he is physically present in his work, though he remains anonymous by turning his back towards the camera and covering his face with hats or other garments.

Through distinctly different media, the three artists emphasize the essential role of environment in the formation of individual identity.

“When I got to Durham I found myself consistendy making visual connections to New Haven or Chicago because for me, or

really for anyone, you try to make connections to things that look familiar to feel more confident and more situated,” Cordova said These connections are evident not only in the physical landscape of the environments but also in the popular iconography that the artists use.

“The pop culture that they draw from is not unique to any one city, it’s really universal,” said Schoonmaker.

This collaboration comes to fruition out of the artists’ mutual conviction that art originates not in the classroom or the studio, but at street level. Their ideas overlap although the three artists come from varied backgrounds and have never met.

As Schoonmaker said, “The idea is to let the work have the conversation rather than the artists.”

Street Level will be on display at the Nasher Museum from March 29 to July 29, 2007

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Full of the upbeat, life-is-good message that has become his trademark, leadoff track “Last Dollar (Fly Away)” falls somewhat short of past standout hits such as “I Like It, I Love It” and “Something Like That.” However, it does offer the only respite from the somewhat melancholic themes that run through most of the album.

Fans hoping for another power duet from Tim and wife Faith Hill will not be disappointed. Fresh off their record-breaking Soul2Soul tour, the couple recorded not one, but two new duets for this album, “I Need You” and “Shotgun Rider.”The latter plays like an old country classic, vaguely reminiscent of great duos gone before them (think Johnny Cash and June Carter), making it their most unique and memorable duet to date. All in all, Let it Go offers the complete package to fans who have come to expect nothing less.

—Brittany James

Known far and wide for her raspy voice,

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and don’t lose their appeal after more than a few spins.

However, most of the second half of this record does. As an album, it is kind of subpar, but as a framework for some amazing singles, Life in Cartoon Motion does quite well.

—Aaron Carpenter

R&B, the album features many notable artists such as will.i.am and Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas, Justin Timberlake, Natalie Cole and Nas, each adding their own distinct flavor to the project.

Big's highlights include “One For Me,” made great by a string arrangement that adds an almost aching beauty. By far, the most memorable tracks on the album are “Get Out” and “Treat Me Like Your Money,” featuring producers Timberlake and will.i.am. Both songs are catchy, driven and radio-friendly, with beats that will continue to reverberate in your head long after the song has gone off the air.

As with most albums, however, not every track is a hit. Many are mediocre and forgettable. Fortunately, no track is blatandy bad—unless you’re not a personal fan of the famous and yet infamous Macy Gray rasp. If you are not, no amount of string arrangements, will.i.am raps or Timberlake features should tempt you to give this album a listen, as that rasping voice is indeed the focal point of every song.

—Dina Graves

unleash his dominance on America. Just like the Pet Shop Boys, Elton John and Queen before him, Mika stands more than a fighting chance at a swift conquest with Life in Cartoon Motion.

He doesn’t really look androgynous, but Mika definitely sounds it. He takes the Freddy Mercury approach to vocals straight-from-the-conservatory, meticulous bombast. What makes Mika so fascinating and different is how he mixes this with songwriting so eccentric and cutesy that it seems purchased from an Osaka electronics store. Songs like “Grace Kelly” and “Love Today” are shocking upon first listen —

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Delighted, Bombadil accepted and the band began to record an ER The parents of the band members, however, needed some persuading.

“It took a long time to convince [my parents] that what we’re doing is serious,” Michalak said.

“But hey, it’s better now. My mom loves music, and she’s coming in on Friday to see us at Duke.”

Since teaming up with Ramseur Records, things have been looking up for Bombadil. They’ve generated press from some influential players in music media, including National Public Radio (while still students), The Independent Weekly and Encore. Not bad for a group named after a Tolkien character

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who lives a day’s walk from society (and, presumably, all forms of media).

Still, the touring and devotion to creating new music can be taxing on any group. In Bombadil’s case, they are losing drummer John Michalak (Daniel’s younger brother) at the end of the summer to his medical school aspirations. As they hunt for a new drummer, Michalak and the two other band members—Stuart Robinson and Bryan Rahja, both Trinity ’o6—seem relatively unfazed by their uncertain future.

“I know that because of the connections I made in my four years at Duke that there are people I can rely on,” Michalak said. “It’s not so much the piece of paper, but the people that I met at Duke—that is my job security.”

For those ofyou who weren’t particularly excited about dressing up and pushing your way through mobs of hungry Duke students at the latest DukePlays event, Saturday’s Sound Festival on Craven Quadrangle just may be the thing for you.

Sponsored by Beta Theta Pi fraternity, the Duke University Union, Campus Council, several Ninth Street merchants and Duke Don Aid, among others, the festival is a collaboration between the Duke and Durham communities. Additionally, Duke DonAid will facilitate the donation of all the profits from sales of food and merchandise to a Durham public school music program.

“By incorporating both Durham bands and merchants, we hope to open this festival up to people outside of Duke’s campus,” said Neo Chung, a sophomore who helped organize the event “We hope that this festival will help bring Duke and Durham closer together.”

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