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Rapper XL’s early exit at the Cameron Rocks! concert earlier this month left many students dissatisfied and allegedly broke contractual agreements, but the University has decided not to pursue legal action.

The incident, however, has prompted criticism of the role and effectiveness of the Office of Student Activities and Facilities, which paid XL in full for his performance despite being told not to by Duke University Union officials.

XL was scheduled to perform for at least 60 minutes at the April 7 show but walked off the stage after only 40 minutes.

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Duke has chosen not to pursue a suit against T.l. for breach of contract for his Cameron Rocks! concert.

Going by a one-letter nickname must be a prerequisite for being a head basketball coach at Duke, as Coach G will be replaced by Coach P. Duke announced Wednesday that Michigan State head coach Joanne P. McCallie—known by her players as ‘Coach P’ because of her maiden name Palombo—will fill the top job at Duke, which had been vacant since Gail Goestenkors left for Texas April 3.

Director of Athletics Joe Alieva informed the current team of the decision at an early afternoon meeting, and a news conference has been scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Friday in Cameron Indoor Stadium to introduce McCallie.

“This has been a dream job of mine for many years,” McCallie said in a statement. “We cannot wait to meet and get to know a team that we are so very impressed by academically, as well as athletically, and by the way they carry themselves.”

McCallie, 41, had served as Michigan State’s head coach for seven years.

In 2005, she took the Spartans to the National Championship game and won Associated Press Coach of the Year honors.

She took Michigan State to five straight NCAA Tournaments, and the program reached as high as No. 2 in the polls during the 2005 season.

“We are elated to have Joanne McCallie taking over our women’s basketball program,” Alieva said in a statement. “Joanne has accomplished so much at both Maine and Michigan State, and we feel she is one of the top coaches in the game today. She elevated the Michigan State program to a new level and we look forward to her continuing the tremendous tradition we have established at Duke.”

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Joanne McCallie will be introduced to Duke at a press conference at 1:30 Friday in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

After Goestenkors decided to leave for Texas, Alieva had immediately targeted Duke graduate and Cal head coach

Joanne Boyle.

Boyle received an offer after interviewing for the job, but she turned it down last week, saying she did not want to leave her players at Cal. With the top choice out, Duke took a wider look at coaches who might be interested in the position. McCallie and Mar-

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$20.07 at a time, senior gift campaign aims forrecord by

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When senior Brittany Rhodes first came to campus four years ago, she did not know exacdy how she would be able to pay back an institution that afforded her so many opportunities.

As a University Scholar, Rhodes said she is forever grateful for the financial support she receives from the scholarship’s benefactor, Melinda Gates, Trinity ’B6 and Fuqua ’B7. And Rhodes cited this as one of the reasons she chose to become involved with the Class of 2007 Senior Gift Campaign.

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The Supreme WASHINGTON Court’s new conservative majority gave

anti-abortion forces a landmark victory Wednesday in a 5-4 decision that bans a controversial abortion procedure nationwide and sets the stage for further restrictions.

It was a long-awaited and resounding win that abortion opponents had hoped to gain from a court pushed to the right by President George W. Bush’s appointees.

For the first time since the court established a woman’s right to an abortion in 1973, the justices said the Constitution permits a nationwide prohibition on a specific abortion method.

The court’s liberal justices, in dissent, said the ruling chipped away at abortion rights.

The 54 decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.

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Even before it was

opened, the oversized letter sent from Cho Seung-Hui to NBC News attracted attention. The postal worker who brought it to NBC’s Manhattan headquarters Wednesday pointed out the return address of

Blacksburg, Va. Inside was what NBC anchor Brian Williams described as a “muldmedia manifesto,” with video, pictures and writing from the murderer of 32 people just before he went on his killing spree at Virginia Tech. Cho mailed it at 9:01 a.m. Monday, between murders.

It was mass murder for the YouTube generation, a chilling document from a man who said little in life but clearly wanted people to know his grievances in death.

And it started a frantic day for a news organization that, for the second time in a week, suddenly found itself at the center of the nation’s biggest news story.

The package was addressed to 30 Rockefeller Ave., mistaking the Plaza for a street. Incorrect zip codes were written twice and crossed out—the failure to settie on the right one delaying the letter’s arrival by a day.

NBC security opened the envelope, a policy they have taken with suspicious packages ever since anthrax was delivered to anchor Tom Brokaw shortly after the September 2001 terrorist attacks. They

Virginia Tech gunmanCho Seung-Hui sent a package of harrowing video clips to NBC News in between hisattacks. handled it with gloved hands, and quickly made copies of what they found.

At noon, NBC News President Steve Capus was called out of a news meeting by security chief Brian Patton and told what had been delivered.

“At first I wondered if it was real, but when you look at it and see all the pictures you realize that it is,” he said.

The package contained a DVD and a 23-page printout of a computer file that

mixed rambling, profane messages with 29 pictures of the killer. Eleven photos showed him aiming a gun at the camera.

One photograph showed 30 hollowpoint bullets, with the message written undemeath; “All the s— you gave me right back at you with hollow points.”

“I recoiled in horror,” Capus said. “It was chilling ”

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Students lobbying for a climbing wall on campus can now hope to bring out their harnesses by the end of next year.

At its final meeting of the 2006-2007 academic year, Duke Student Government unanimously approved to commit an initial $5,000 to install a 35-ft. high and 20-ft. wide climbing wall in the main atrium of Wilson Recreation Center.

“It can’t be too big because it’s right there in the middle of Wilson, but you’ll be able to climb all around it,” said sophomore Sunny Kantha, incoming vice president for athletics and campus services.

Senior David Snider, current vice president for athletics and campus services, and Kantha met with administrators Tuesday to obtain preliminary approval for the wall, which will be ordered from the company Leading Edge and is expected to cost about $70,000.

“We came to the consensus that we probably can put a wall in over the next year, probably by this summer,” Kantha said.

The move to install a climbing wall was initiated by “popular demand,” including 150 e-mails students sent to administrators requesting the equipment, Snider said. He added that the wall recently erected at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill was well received by students there.

“From examining [UNC’s wall] usage, I think it definitely justifies the cost,” Snider said.

Kantha added that an advantage of the wall will be its “recruiting value,” and its visible location will generate more interest in climbing as students see it.

Snider and Kantha plan to continue talks with administrators to gain final approval for the wall.

Representatives also unanimously endorsed a resolution presented by Executive Vice President Joe Fore, a senior, concerning the University’s technology transfer policies.

The resolution calls for the University to sign on to a set of recommendations on patenting and licensing crafted by the Association of American Medical Colleges

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eling Biological Systems—following the Arts and Sciences Council approval of the two programs at its meeting last Thursday.

Both certificates will require an introductory course, several electives and a capstone class. Some research and study abroad requirements are also included in their curricula.

The Islamic Studies certificate will entail courses in departments such as religion, litera- Bruce Lawrence ture and cultural anthropology, said Bruce Lawrence, professor of religion and director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center.

Students will also be required to study abroad in a predominantly Muslim country and take two years of an “appropriate” language, such as Arabic, Persian, Turkish or Urdu, he added.

“Part of [DISC’s] mission was to provide opportunities for undergraduates that are now available,” Lawrence said. “[The certificate] will highlight courses and give students a hands-on opportunity to go abroad... and experience the Muslim world more than they do now.”

Lawrence said the creation of an Islamic Studies certificate at the University has been a long time coming. He added that the need for an Islamic Studies program is greater now, given the events of Sept. 11 and the United States’ increasing involvement in the Muslim world.

“Many Duke supporters think that if things are going to get better, it’s going to be in your generation, not ours,” he said.

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Incoming DSG president Paul Slattery speaks to the senate Wednesday during the group'sweekly meeting. and a number ofDuke’s peer institutions, “Universities should license their products very carefully so other universities will have access to them,” Fore said, adding that the recommendations aim to ensure inventions are reasonably accessible to researchers addressing the health and technological needs of developing countries.

Fore said the fact that the University was not asked to help draft the recommendations—which were reviewed by Harvard University, Stanford University and Yale University, among others—was

“embarrassing.” He added, however, that administrators were willing to adopt the policy changes.

DSG President Elliot Wolf, a junior, gave a presentation highlighting the student government’s accomplishments over the past year. He said the government fulfilled it’s role as an outside student lobbying organization, “We were able to accomplish a lot despite the fact we had no one in the lead administration who was directly responsible to us,” Wolf said.

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Local seventh graders in Kelly Stevens’ social studies class at Rogers-Herr Middle School recently went on a treasure hunt armed with GPS devices and clues from a

swashbuckling pirate.

“Oh my God, they loved it,” recalled Stevens, who is a member of the PepsiCo K-12 Technology Mentor Program.

Last year, Duke Libraries launched the program to increase technology use in Durham area public schools.

The initiative’s roots can be traced back to the mid-19905, when IBM and AT&T gave large grants to Duke Libraries to teach schoolchildren how to use the Internet, explained program coordinator Dorothy Black. “[The current program] is just a natural progression of that earlier status,” Black said, adding that it was PepsiCo’s $l- donation last year and her subsequent appointment as the program’s coordinator that got the technology mentor program off the ground.

“It’s a really valuable tool,” Stevens said, noting that the program creates opportunities for her to constructively integrate technology into the classroom.

And when Stevens’ seventh graders are not hunting for chocolate coins with GPS devices, she said they are busy posting blogs, creating WebQuests and taking tests with electronic clickers.

The program provides fundihg for teachers to attend technology conferences and for schools to buy new equipment, such as headphones, digital cameras and software for Claymation movies, Black said.

She added that the program is aimed at

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PepsiCo is sponsoring a program for $1 million to help teach Durham middleschoolers how to use special pieces of technology, including computers and GPS.

helping teachers and students become comfortable with the changing technology of a fast-paced world.

“The best teachers are the ones who continue to leam themselves,” said Andy Scott, Duke’s assistant diving coach.

Scott, who is a science teacher at Rogers-Herr Middle School, said he hopes to use the program to help his students de-

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velop long-term use of the scientific method with a modified hydration backpack his seventh graders would experiment on using a respirator.

“It’s funny because it’s something I came up as a sort of harebrained idea several years ago,” Scott said. “This project gives me a chance to test the waters.”

The program also allows Duke Libraries

to participate in the university-neighborhood partnership, said Ilene Nelson, director of communications for Duke Libraries.

In March, Claymation short films of African proverbs made by third graders from E.K. Powe Elementary School were showcased during an African and AfricanAmerican dance and music performance by the Collage Dance Company at Duke.

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GUNMAN from page 2 Through NBC’s Justice Department correspondent, Pete Williams, NBC reached out to authorities. A representative of the FBl’s New York office came to NBC to get the originals, and NBC was asked not to say anything about it publicly until investigators could examine it, a request Capus thought was appropriate. The first public word of what NBC had wasn’t released until a news conference in Blacksburg around 4:30 p.m. EDT. “If we wanted to do something competitive, we would have popped it on the air immediately,” Capus said.

Authorities still hadn’t fully examined Cho’s DVD and it wasn’t until after 6 p.m. that NBC had an official OK to show some of his filmed message. NBC’s “Nightly News” aired at 6:30 p.m. Except for one

SEX STUDY from page 1 47 percent of the student body said they

had just one sexual partner, and only 10

percent said they had two.

Yet when asked in the same study to predict what they thought the actual statistics would be, Duke students said they believed only 2.5 percent of the student body was not sexually active, 19 percent had one partner and 33 percent had two.

The difference between the statistics reflects the misconception among students that “everyone ‘hooks up’” and that everyone has multiple sexual partners, Franca Alphin, director of health promotions at the Duke Student Health Center, wrote in an e-mail.

Sophomore Sarah Doyle, however, said Duke’s hook-up culture thrives at the expense of its dating culture.

“Nobody that I know of actually goes out on dates, and ifthey do, it’s very unusual,” she said. “More people just kind of meet up with people when they’re already out, like at bars, or restaurants or parties.

It’s usually very flattering as a girl to be asked out on a date because it usually doesn’t happen very often.”

In an effort to promote dating among the student body, freshman Lucy McKinstry helped create the Facebook group “We’re bringing the date back!” that currently boasts 377 members.

“People want to date,” McKinstry said.

still picture aired earlier on MSNBC, that broadcast was the first to show extensive details of what NBC received.

“We are sensitive to how all of this will be seen by those affected,” said NBC anchor Brian Williams. “We know we are in effect airing the words of a murderer.”

NBC’s evening-news competitors, ABC’s “World News” and the “CBS Evening News,” managed to swiftly air portions of what NBC released only minutes after it came on the air. “They seem to have acted honorably,” said ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider. “They turned the information over to the authorities swiftly and they reported it out.”

Some competitive anger flashed at the 4:30 news conference when Col. Steve Flaherty of the Virginia State Police announced that the package had been received by NBC, offered a brief description, and abruptly left the room.

23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people before he fatally shot himself Monday at Virginia Tech.

Duke’s campus because you’re expected to put out so much, and if you don’t, then it’s almost like the interest is lost.”

Social expectations differ among classes, Doyle added.

“All the freshmen are getting all sorts of attention and everything,” she said. “I feel like the guys are trying “It’s usually very flattering to see how much they can push these girls.” as a girl to be asked out on Of those sexually aca date because it usually tive, the NCHA survey that 40 percent doesn’t happen very often.” found of students said they Sarah Doyle have never used a condom during oral sex. Alsophomore phin said that this statistic is a cause for

“I’ve been really surprised at how many people have joined and how many different kinds of people. I feel like it’s really crossed all sorts of social lines. It’s something that everyone can kind of agree on.”

Doyle said she believes relationships are hard to find on campus because of the drive and

independence some female students exhibit. other “In schools, some girls may come to

college looking

for a husband, but at Duke females are coming to college to get a career and a future,” Doyle said Health education specialist Lindsey Bickers Bock said this phenomenon is not unique to Duke, adding that Duke’s social culture layers on top of hometown culture andAmerican culture.

Yet Duke’s campus culture still places an unbalanced amount of social pressure on its female students, Doyle said.

“I wouldn’t necessarily say that Duke is any different than any other college campus,” she said. “But in general, I feel like it’s usually expected that more than just making out is part of hooking up. As a woman, it can be kind of degrading on

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especially

since less than 1 percent said they always used a condom during oral sex.

But Doyle said most students generally consider their sexual health important.

She added that the responsibility for getting condoms normally falls on men, while the responsibility of taking birth control pills rests on women.

Sophomore Daniel Harvey, a member of Duke Educational Leaders in Sexual Health, said he wished students were more aware of all the services Duke provides for sexual health, such as free condoms, contraceptives and STD testing.

Still, protection itselfcould lead to mis-

conceptions, Bickers Bock said.

“I think, not just at Duke, that in American culture, how prepared and educated someone is about their sexual health, people extrapolate that to what their experiences have been,” she said. “So, if somebody knows a lot about sexual health, is that because they’ve been sexually active with a lot of people? Because somebody is carrying condoms, does that mean that they assume that they’re going to be sexually acdve tonight?”

Doyle said it is more demeaning for a woman to have a sexually transmitted disease than for a man to have one.

“Girls should respect themselves and their bodies, and in order to do that, I feel like they definitely have to be careful with who they may decide to hook up with, or make sure that they really care about that person,” she said.

Bickers Bock added that the overall culture has created different gender characterizations for men and women.

“That’s where you get terms like ‘slut’ and ‘pimp,’” she said. “Those having different connotations is part of a larger culture.”

Bickers Bock said for sexually active students, sexual health is a personal responsibility. “It’s not like people make a one-time decision, and they’re going to say, T’m going to be sexually healthy or not,’” she said. “Instead, it’s a lot of individual decisions and people figuring out what’s right for them.”

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“We’ll let [T.l.’s agency] know our serious concerns about what transpired at the concert,” OSAF Director Chris Roby said.

“I’m not an attorney, but I have the sense that to litigate would cost more than what we would get back.”

Though it will not take legal action, Roby said OSAF will use the incident to re-evaluate its relationships with student organizations.

In die days following the concert, Roby met with Union President Katelyn Donnelly, a junior, to discuss the possibility of taking legal action. The ultimate decision not to confront the William Morris Agency, which represents T.L, was a result of this meeting.

“TI. has the largest agent in the country,” Donnelly said. “If we were to continue to push for legal action, we could damage our relationship and ability to bring performers to Duke in the future.”

Donnelly added that the Union will change the way it negotiates with and chooses future artists.

“We’d make it much more explicit in the contract about time limits we place on the artists and have a conversation before the show about what our expectations are,” she said.

Donnelly added, however, that she was not completely satisfied with the outcome of her meeting with Roby and sympathized with any frustrations within the student body.

“I feel that T.L really disrespected us, our time and our money,” she said. “I’m just as angry as they are and wanted something to be resolved from this.”

Officials from OSAF and the Union are scheduled to meet to discuss the relationship between the two organizations, Roby said.

“My sense is that they would like more autonomy,” he said. “We want to give the Union the space they need, so they can

run events the way they see fit.”

Donnelly said Union members felt “babied” and “out of the loop” when working with OSAF advisers.

“It’s very frustrating as a student organization to work through a bureaucracy,” she said. “It takes a lot of time to do certain things like fill out financial forms and constantly keep advisers in the loop.”

OSAF advisers might also be “overeducated” for their jobs, Donnelly added, explaining that the advisers often take on leadership roles that students would be capable of assuming themselves.

“People don’t always have the most respect for the employees in OSAF and treat them like glorified secretaries,” she said.

“We don’t need them for leadership things.

You don’t come to Duke for that. You come to Duke to be innovative yourself.”

Duke Student GovernmentPresident Elliot Wolf, a junior, agreed that OSAF advisers are overeducated in areas like “student development.” He added that other types of knowledge or experience, however, were lacking. “Professional experience would be much better than a degree in coloring and babysitting,” Wolf wrote in an e-mail.

Wolf added that OSAF personnel lacked the extensive institutional knowledge needed to better help students get what they need.

During the Cameron Rocks! planning process, for example, a fire marshal told OSAF it could have 1,500 fewer seats in Cameron Indoor Stadium than last year, Wolf said. “The adviser, however, did not realize that she had only talked to Duke Fire Safety—the same people who we had overruled in the situation where the front row in Cameron was taken away [for basketball games],” he said.

Once he explained to the adviser that the individual with whom she spoke was a Duke employee —not a part of the Durham Fire Department—the matter was

T.l/s Cameron Rocks! performance earlier this month lasted 20 minutes shorter than his contract required. resolved quickly, Wolf added.

“It’s just strange for me, as a student, to have vastly more extensive institutional knowledge than people who are supposed to advise student groups,” Wolf said.

Outgoing Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a senior, said, however, that working with OSAF has been a positive experience.

“I would like to see a change with policies, not the people,” Ganatra said. “It’s more the registration of events, the length of time needed to do that. There are so many deterrents for people wanting to do events on campus.”

Roby said OSAF plans to address some of these issues in upcoming years by redefining descriptions of positions in the organization and making technological enhancements.

OSAF has already started to streamline processes this year by allowing students to register events online, Roby said.

“Over 60 percent of students who register online never have to come into the office —it’s instantaneous approval,” he said.

OSAF also plans to develop a stronger relationship with students on East Campus and create more facilities for students on West Campus, such as a night-club bar or outdoor hammocks, Roby added.

Roby said that by working with and getting suggestions from students and other organizations, OSAF would become more effective and student-centered.

“Our fundamental mission is to support and try to create as many student activities that students want to see on campus,” Roby said. “The last thing we want to do is put up barriers.”

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The campaign asks each senior to contribute $20.07—in commemoration of their graduation year to the Duke Annual Fund.

“We hope the senior gift is the first gift in a lifetime of giving back to Duke,” said Heather Bennett, associate director ofannual giving.

Already, the participadon rate of the Class of 2007 currently at 27 percent—is higher than that of the Class of 2006 at this time last year, Bennett said. The committee hopes to reach 70 percent participation, which would put the class ahead of the Class of 2005’s recordbreaking 69-percent participation rate. The Class of 2006 reached a participation rate of 61 percent.

Duke is not the only university, however, to hope for record-setting success in senior giving this year.

The University of Pennsylvania is also ahead of schedule in its 2007 campaign due to several factors, including a very strong leadership committee, major improvements to its class website and a cohesive marketing campaign, said Meredith Seidel, UPenn’s assistant director of student advancement.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill also reported a successful donation year, with a 22-percent participation rate and a total of $20,514.73 raised so far.

Marie DiZazzo, senior class gift director at Yale University, attributed her school’s campaign’s 80-percent participation rate —which has raised a total of $27,130 —to outstanding individual donations and successful coordination activities, including wine tastings and study breaks.

“I’m pretty satisfied with how things have been,” DiZazzo said. “The Class of 2007 was phenomenal. This year’s senior class was one the best gift campaigns that we’ve had so far.”

The Duke campaign began with a kick-off event in September to raise awareness, but the heart of the effort centered around last week’s Senior Week, said senior Brittany Greenfield, co-chair of the senior class gift committee.

“One of the primary goals besides the philanthropic aspect is to bring the senior class together,” Greenfield said. “Since freshman year, we don’t have a venue or council to bring all 1,600 of us together. Senior Week is

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“If not Duke, where; if not now, when?”

Freshman Steven Schmulenson said Sept. 11 illustrated the need to study the Muslim world.

He said that prior to the creation of the Islamic Studies certificate, Duke had been “lacking” in Islamic studies. He also noted that the University already has an African and African American Studies program and a Latin American Studies certificate. “What’s exciting about this certificate is that it’s brand new,” Schmulenson said. “It’s great that Duke is taking the initiative and going forward with it.”

The Modeling Biological Systems certificate will emphasize undergraduate research and include classes from the biology, mathematics and computer science departments and the Institute ofStatistics and Decision Sciences.

Planned research projects include gene expression in plant root systems, the yeast cell cycle and metabolic pathways, said John Harer, director of the Center for Computational Science, Engineering and Medicine and professor of mathematics.

Harer added that research will emphasize “vertical integration”—undergraduates, graduate students and professors working together and sharing expertise. “[The certificate] brings together new kinds of modeling problems that biology presents together with the need to bring together mathematics, computer science and statistics,” he said.

Harer said the field of computational biology is growing, and firms, especially in the pharmaceutical industry, are increasingly applying computational approaches to bi-

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A numberof seniors standatop theChapel as part ofSeniorWeek 2007. a chance to catch up with everybody.”

Senior Week included the traditional Duke Chapel Climb, a pub crawl in collaboration with Drink for Durham, a “Senior Prom” hosted at the Millennium Hotel and a senior picnic hosted by President Richard Brodhead and his wife.

“Based on the current donor total, the enthusiasm and dedication of the Senior Gift Committee and the incredible attendance at the Senior Week events last week, this year’s campaign will be a terrific success,” Bennett said.

In addition to individual donations, Brodhead issued a challenge to the class at the senior picnic. He contributed $20.07 and promised that if the class reaches 50-percent participation, he will move it one decimal point and donate $200.70. If the class reaches 70 percent participation, he will move it again for a $2,007 gift to the campaign.

In the larger scheme of things, $20.07 is a small amount of money to pay back to Duke, Rhodes said. “$20.07 is like 15 fro-yos or a bar tab at Charlie’s or half a tank of gas,” she said. “I don’t think it’s that much to give when I look back at my Duke experience. I just v can’t put a price on that.”

ological modeling problems.

“The fact that there are so many graduate programs in computational biology will make this program stronger,” Harer said. “People will see that this prepares them for those programs in a direct way.”

Duke’s academic resources and focus on interdepartmental collaboration will help this certificate succeed, said sophomore Scott Spillias, who is majoring in both biology and mathematics.

He said many of his mathematics professors do research in biological modeling.

“I really feel like Duke is one of the best places for this to happen because we really do have all the people here required to make this a successful program,” Spillias said.

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Three days after a mass shooting rocked the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va., the Hokies will take the court against Duke in the first round of the ACC Tennis Championships in at noon Cary, N.C. On Tuesday, Virginia Tech cancelled a number of its athletic events this week, including the annual spring football game.

Teams taking part in postseason play, however, will continue on as scheduled Duke assistant coach Stephanie Nickitas said the matchup will be difficult for both teams in light of the recent tragic events.

“It’s a very unfortunate situation,” Nickitas said. “I feel so bad for all of them. It’s probably going to be difficult for them to play.”

Despite the ongoing events on the Hokies campus, play will go on after a moment of silence is observed.

Seventh-seeded Duke (10-9, 5-6 in the ACC) faces lOth-seeded Virginia Tech (12-

12, 2-9) for a chance to play Georgia Tech in Friday’s second round. Clemson (19-3, 10-1) is the top seed, while North Carolina (20-7, 8-3) enters as the tournament’s third seed. The championship match will be contested Sunday.

“We have a lot to prove,” Nickitas said.

“Results-wise, we want to do a little bit better, and we have a great opportunity ahead of us. Every match is going to be difficult, but we feel that we are absolutely one of the best teams in the conference, and we’re really excited to go out there and show it.”

Nickitas said the team has been smoothing out its game recendy.

“We had a really good practice this morning,” Nickitas said. “We’re working on refining some individual things. We’re just trying to stay rested.”

The Blue Devils may be missing their No. 1 player in the tournament due to a shoulder injury. Senior Daniela Bercek was forced to miss her last three matches against N.C. State (20-7, 8-3) and North Carolina.

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Injuries aside, freshman Amanda Granson has high hopes for her team.

“As a team, we feel confident going into ACCs because even though we haven’t won all of our matches, we have been competing really well and have had close finishes with three of the top five teams in the nation,” Granson said. “It would be great to get a rematch against UNC. We lost to them on Sunday, and we would love another shot at them.”

Sophomore Melissa Mang said the Blue Devils will need to keep a solid mental attitude during the matches.

“Every game we play is such high level,” Mang said. “We just need to not put pressure on ourselves against teams we know are going to be tough. We need to focus on our attitudes and supporting each other.”

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Coaches have INDIANAPOLIS the last several years upgrading spent their gadgets and learning the new tricks of recruiting. Now it may be time to turn back the clock.

The NCAA Division I management council has recommended a ban on all electronically transmitted correspondence, including text messages, between coaches and recruits. E-mails and faxes would be exempt from the new rule but would be limited by current NCAA

guidelines.

Unlike restrictions on phone calls and in-person visits, there are no coach limits on text messaging.

The Board ofDirectors must still pass the legislation, and if approved at.its April 26 meeting, the ban would take effect in August. Typically, the board passes such recommendations, but if it’s delayed or rejected, coaches would revert to their previous policy of no limits.

“I think student-athletes wanted to see this eliminated for their own sanity,” said Kate Hickey, the management council’s chairwoman whose term is about to expire. “And to get rid of some of these bills.”

The Student-Athlete Advisory Council, which represents college athletes, complained during this week’s meetings that the number of text messages had become intrusive and cosdy. Hickey, an associate athletic director at Rutgers, expects the proposal to pass next week.

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if a committee recommendation passes next week, coaches will be banned from text messaging recruits. and athletic directors and then, ultimately, the board members over the next week,” she said. “I think some of the coaches on our staff are going to say ‘Great, we can continue to recruit the way we always have.’

Others, I think, will say ‘I can’t believe this.’”

For some coaches, the changes could become problematic.

Before this week’s vote, Santa Clara coach Kerry Keating, a former UCLA assistant, said coaches need to contact recruits through modern means—the same way teenagers often chat with friends and family—to build relationships.

The NCAA was concerned that unlimited text messages created a loophole that permitted coaches to send a message asking recruits to call them—calls that would violate NCAA rules if the coach made the call.

Dealing with the rapid technological advances has become tricky for the NCAA. Because it normally takes at least one year to pass a rule, new features and devices sometimes appear in the marketplace faster than the NCAA can regulate. So the management council took the unconventional route by passing a broader measure over its usually more specific ones.

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“Joanne McCallie is a terrific choice to take over the head coaching responsibilities of the Duke women’s basketball program,” men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski said in a statement. “I was able to meet with Coach McCallie during the hiring process and was tremendously impressed with her coaching resume as well as her commitment to the community.”

In the end, Duke came out with one of the top young coaches in the NCAA and one who arguably has a stronger pedigree than Boyle.

“This is a wonderful appointment for Duke,” President Richard Brodhead said in a statement. “Throughout her career, Joanne McCallie has been associated with excellence. She is an accomplished coach and teacher who understands the importance Duke gives to the development of our players as students and as athletes. The Duke women’s team is in very good hands.”

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Before working in East Lansing, McCaiiie had been the head coach at Maine for eight years, guiding the Black Bears to the NCAA Tournament in her last six seasons there.

McCaiiie was bom in California and grew up in Maine before attending Northwestern.

She obtained an MBA from Auburn while serving as an assistant coach there after graduating from Northwestern in 1987. She is married to John McCaiiie, a visiting associate professor of economics at Michigan State, and the couple has two young children.

“The entire McCaiiie family is absolutely thrilled about the opportunity to serve at Duke,” McCaiiie said. “We are very grateful to the President Brodhead, Joe Alieva and [senior women’s administrator] Jacki Silar for their support and for this awesome opportunity.”

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As Duke students, we wanted a prompter, more informative, more widely disseminated statement from the administration. In such situations, when our community is questioning its own well-being and mourning the damage done to another school’s sense of security and self, we want to hear Duke’s leadership loud and clear.

We urge the administration to consider new and betterways to inform the community if it is threatened. And we appreciate Tuesday’s interfaith vigil and its visible community power. But we still missed and were puzzled by the lack of a simple, widely available statement of assurance and support.

While we hope that such a statement will not be needed in the future, if it is needed, we look to the administration to stand as a stronger pillar of information, of comfort, and of guidance.

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erred in its response. On a day when colleges and universities across the country stood still, shocked by how suddenly and violently an academic haven much like their own had been violated, Duke was silent. On a day when students and parents, faculty and staff wanted reassurance of their own safety and an assertion that the University stood in support of its ACC counterpart, Duke was largely absent.

This is not to say there was no campus response. Religious organizations did an excellent job coordinating Tuesday’s interfaith vigil and several religious groups sent out e-mails to their members offering support. Such organizations, however, only touch a certain percentage of students; the Duke community as a whole was still left mostly in the dark about the University’s security and support responses.

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was on my way to East Campus one day when I noticed something very odd, something I definitely hadn’t noticed before. The bridge that so many Dukies pass under every day was sporting a fresh, solid coat of white paint—or at least it was fresh in my mind. And on that solid coat was a large, bright blue spray-painted piece of graffiti art. At first, I was perplexed as to who would deface the bridge so valiantly; on the white background, the blue piece stood as an aesf SSL thetic dare to all who viewed it '■ HB After seeing it again on the way back to West, again struck by its visual power, I cut and thrust tried hard to rememb'jer w:hedr ier or not I had ever seen graffiti or any type of illicit art anywhere else on Duke’s campus. As far as I could recount, I hadn’t.

Naturally, Facebook fixed everything.

I first heard of the Nasher Museum of Art’s “Street Level” exhibit through a Facebook notification, the same way most of us now keep tabs on current campus events. After having my interest piqued by the graffiti on the bridge, I decided I was going to see the Nasher exhibit—and I was excited. I figured that since the popular conception of graffiti, street and/or urban art consists largely of rogue youth defacing structures for some inexplicable pleasure, I’d get the same sort of thing at Nasher. I imagined a pavilion full of canvases drenched in graffiti art.

Once I stepped inside the Nasher pavilion, however, the expectations I held for the exhibit were dismissed immediately. I was confronted by one of the exhibit’s pieces. I couldn’t tell if it was modeled on an aerial view of a city or if it was a replication of a city plan. I don’t know. What I did know was that the narrow and short spaces in the piece made me think about how the social issues intrinsic to urban living can be as suffocating as a city’s crowded schema.

I loved what I was seeing, even more so when I learned about the artists. Mark Bradford (Los Angeles), William Cordova (Lima/Miami/Houston) and Robin Rhode (Cape Town/Berlin) are three up-and-coming urban artists who use materials from their respective worlds to discuss the issues that matter to them.

Although the three come from different places, their cities share a certain type of urban culture, in which issues of class, race and sexuality all inter*'

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sect. The artists’ uses of everything from magazine clippings to discarded speakers to chalk drawings

all tell a story of conversation and creation: a conversation between the artists and the earthly and social landscapes of their cities and a creation that springs from minds unrestricted by what defines beauty, and for that matter, art.

In a YouTube video introducing the exhibit, Bradford says that although public spaces are open to everyone, they often carry hidden codes, and those who use these places sometimes engage in private conversations. By simply walking into the exhibit, I felt as if it was my duty to figure out what these artists were trying to say to me, or to lead me to conclude on my own.

I found myself a bit overwhelmed at one point because I felt I didn’t have enough time to really think about each piece. I was too anxious to read about and see the next works.

I walked through the gallery with a student who worked at the information desk, and we eventually engaged in our own private conversation. We discussed how important we found the exhibit to be and how it most certainly should be a tool to encourage discussion of the issues that Bradford, Cordova and Rhode make salient in their works.

At first glance, many of the pieces appeared completely abstract, but once the accompanying notes were read, we were in awe of how the artists’ ideas were conveyed, wondering what type of mind creates such novel and ingenious modes of expression. We agreed that if we were totally engrossed in figuring out for ourselves what these pieces meant to say, the effect could be the same for all who have visited and will visit the exhibit.

I left completely satisfied with my experience, and I was even more impressed by what the Nastier has continued to do since its opening in October 2005. The tagline on the museum’s website alerts visitors to “Prepare to be enlightened,” and with the “Street Level” exhibit, coordinated by Curator of Contemporary Art Trevor Schoonmaker, those running the Nasher have once again encouraged and challenged students to step outside of the box.

The three “Street Level” artists have put themselves willingly outside of the box, and by using the world as their studio, they have gained the tools and the power to discuss the things that are most important to them.

All the while, however, they are also asking viewers to seek their own tools for navigation through the world.

Keesha Brown is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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Storylines for the summer

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going to be an interesting summer. And putting it that way is a dramatic understatement. In the coming months, Republicans and Democrats will navigate the political landscape with an eye toward next fall’s elections; presidential candidates will do the same.

The big story will be Iraq. Congress and the president are currendy gearing up for a showdown over funding the war. Democrats will want a bill to include a timelinefor withdrawaland some $2O billion of pork (nevermind theirlambasting Republicans for the same thing last year). (If you figure out how $74 million for peanut farmers helps our troops, let me know.)

Immigration’s another touchy subject, and it may be on this summer’s agenda as well. The president’s personal stance, with a path to citiStGVGfIS zenship, is viewed as too soft hY much ofhis own PartX but the other conservative may be well received among Democrats. The dynamics here will be interesting, as Republicans both please their base with stronger enforcement-first rhetoric and simultaneously distance themselves from an unpopular president. Some conservative Democrats may also want to take a strong position against illegal immigration, but their leadership may pull them in the other direction.

In the presidential race, the campaigns recently disclosed their first-quarter fundraising numbers. Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., was unequivocally the winner on the right, while Sen. Barack Obama, D-DL, defied even the most optimistic expectations with his haul.

For Romney, the question is whether or not the massive amounts ofcash he’s raised will boost his lackluster poll numbers.

Some show him behind formerSen. Fred Thompson (of Law & Order fame) —andFred’s not even officially running!

Sen. John McCain’s, R-Ariz., fundraising numbers were astoundingly anemic, and the one-time frontrunner’s going to have to show thathe’s not an afterthought His campaign seems recendy reinvigorated, evidenced by a string ofrecent speeches; he’s wrapping himself in the flag and decrying the Democrats’ handling of Iraq. It may bum him in the long run, but it seems like the old Straight Talk Express is back.

Rudy Giuliani’s got some work to do with the social conservatives. Appearing in favor of government-funded abortions and suggesting that they’re constitutionally mandated, are a bitter pill for conservative stalwarts. No one’s perfect in this field, but the base may start to think that even Mitt’s Mormonism is looking pretty good if he keeps it up.

But if anyone’s under pressure, it’s Sen. Hillary Clinton, DN.Y She raised a fortune, some $25 million, but Obama’s breathing down her neck. Moreover, his money’s mostly for the primaries and comes from smaller donors (and more of them).

Hillary, in contrast, took larger sums and thus has tapped out some donors already. But questions of substance still lurk, and Barack will have to show that there’s more than just the flash if he wants to keep up his surge.

And then there are Congressional races; two razor-thin victories in the Senate and only about 100,000 votes overall in the House separated the two parties last November. The outcome in many of these contests will in part ride on the presidential nominees; Hillary will give red-state Democrats enormous headaches.

This is especially true in the House, where conservative Democrats are between a rock and a hard place, seeking to placate their constituents while their party seeks to run left at high speed.

In the Senate, Democrats seem guardedly optimistic; meanwhile Republicans aren’t nervous yet The GOP could pick up seats in South Dakota (should the convalescent Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., decide not to seek re-election) and/or Louisiana with a bit of luck-hut there are still rumors of retirement swirling around Sens. JohnWarner ofVirginia and Thad Cochran ofMississippi. If either retires, the resulting races could be extremely competitive (especially Virginia, where popular former governor MarkWarner would be the Democrats’ go-to guy). Meanwhile in Oregon, there’s the possibility of Republican fratricide (a la Rhode Island 2006).

The storylines in the House will revolve around freshmen who aren’t traditionally in line with their district (most often, Democrats in districts thatBush carried once or twice) and thus may be vulnerable. It’s this reality that will complicate policymaking until Election Day as they’re caught between constituents and the leadership.

This isn’t even everything; it’s going to be an interesting summer!

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Gill Stevens is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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now, there isn’t a soul in the United States who hasn’t seen the greasy, glinting forehead of Cho Seung-Hui, the gunman responsible for what broadcast news and the blogosphere are terming “the Virginia Tech Massacre.” His grease and his glint are everywhere, above every fold, at the top of every segment of every news program on every channel. Every anchor and every rural Virginia stringer for T every paper have started every story this week with that grease, and that man Then, invariably, they turn it over to us —to the cell phone cameramen, sarah ball the bloggers, the Facesome got pencils book status changers The era of the citizen journalist, age 19, has arrived.

This week, in this new era, I watched major news programs become veritable footage Crazy Quilts, with those same borrowed phone shots and MySpace stills casually inter-cut with traditional anchor shots. In establishing a timeline on that fateful Monday, journalists did not simply seek help from the intrepid reporters at Tech’s paper, The Collegiate Times. They posted interview requests to message boards, requested footage to be emailed or uploaded to websites, scoured community sites like Facebook and MySpace for leads.

Fox News, which has outdone itself with glossy infotainment segments and dirge-like piano soundtracks, ran an entirely viewer-constructed package called ‘You Report” on the day of the shooting. You Report was comprised of cell videos of police cars and evacuating students, as well as transcribed posts from sites like Fark.com and MySpace.

When not plumbing the citizen journalist pool for pre-made reporting, Fox itself reported on other ways students were using Internet tech—kids notifying their families of their safety via Facebook, for example, when cell phone lines were clogged.

In the absence of order, the cyber chaos both reported the news and was the news.

All this is perhaps unremarkable, given the prevalence of digital communication in collegiate life, and the ways in which crisis tends to unify a body of people in whatever community, digital or physical, they may lie. Yet the transition from man-on-the-street interviewing and reporting in times of crisis to this mish-mashing of homemade footage nuggets can’t pass without examination.

It’s not only a pretty new phenomenon for major network news stations to capitalize on these particular grassroots sources (Facebook? Really?), but it also actually alters the genre of what we’re seeing. Ostensibly, we’re

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watching news. But since when did news have weepy soundtracks, or gunman-style storyboard art, or dozens of non journalist reporters? Is not a Park post or personal blog entry the kissing cousin of a televised diary-room confession, that familiar feature of reality television that red flags what we’re watching as staged and fictional?

Even secondary or tertiary differences, like the nauseating bobbing of handheld-cell phone footage, shows viewers a pure and unfiltered strain of raw emotion—a guttural-ness that we perhaps more closely associated with documentary film than with the six o’clock news.

Hearing the personal thoughts of students is tremendously moving to me, and has no doubt left my fellow denizens of the beautiful Old Dominion close to breakdown as we wait to hear about friends and family. Yet each time I hear or read those unadulterated thoughts, or see that dizzying cell shot, I am not left with the impression that what I am consuming is news. I am still not sure what I can safely believe.

Documentarian takes on soft news, in both conception and delivery phases, may peter out as a trend. We may lose our taste for the sensationalized, the citizen journalist and the unapologetic commodification offact.

At the bottom of a pack of Sour Patch Kids, your tongue eventually goes numb.

But we could also adapt. We could learn to better process what hard news means for average citizens, as we see more confessionals, read more superlative language, hear more weepy piano. Emotive, homemade news could be the final frontier in mobilizing apathetic Americans.

Or. Jack Shafer, editor-at-large of Slate.com, wrote Tuesday in defense of journalists that there is “no tougher assignment in journalism than knocking on the door of a mother who has lost her young daughter to a killer and asking, ‘How do you feel?’” Earnestness and an unshakeable “self-disgust” help reporters to cope and to get the mother on the record in these situations, he continues. Besides, if networks hadn’t gone to the wall on this one, chasing Facebook for sob stories, viewers would have been outraged.

I’m not sure that I agree. Shafer says we’re narrowly avoiding outrageous sensationalism overall, but I’m not sure that it wouldn’t take much more than a boost in market competition among media outlets to finally reduce feature journalism to pulp. And if that happens—if rules bend to accommodate the effectively affecting, and if the untrained citizen reporter takes over—what mourning family would dignify that imposing knock with an open door and a somber quote?

I know that I would not.

Sarah Ball is a Trinity junior and former editorialpage editor of The Chronicle. She is a native of Virginia. Her column runs every Thursday.

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ALCOHOL Consistent with standing University policy for registered BYOB events, the following guidelines will be enforced among those who choose to drink:

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If students are obviously making poor decisions (i.e. urinating in public) or appear otherwise intoxicated, their alcohol will be confiscated.

GRILLS A limited number of grills are still available, so check yours out now!

Grills are available for check-out through RLHS. Grills can only be checked out by student groups registered with OSAR Grilling can only take place on the Clocktower Quad.

RAIN In the event of rain, the LDOC Concert will be held in Page Auditorium.

A final rain call will be made at Sam on April 25th Ticket distribution will take place at 2pm on April 25th on the Plaza 1100 tickets are available and will be free with a valid Duke ID on a first come, first serve basis

For more information, please visit www.duke.edu/web/ldoc Questions can be e-mailed to ideas.ldoc@gmail.com

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Bands pay tribute, gain popularity Legend and lore define statuary Lauren Fischetti and Lexi Richards recess Incoming freshmen are greeted by a seated statue of Washington Duke as they first approach the East Campus circle. Mr. Duke also serves another function that if hi chair, it virgin walked b Like the stat campus, Washin Duke sta steeped history tradition by

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recess Four years ago, a group of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill music students came together and asked the one question that all bands ask themselves at some point: “Why don’t we just do all Michael Jackson songs?”

Unlike most people, Vamsi Tadepalli actually ran with the idea. At the time, saxophonist Tadepalli was in the process of starting a funk band.

“As I started putting together a song list, I realized how many Michael Jackson songs would work in that type of band,” Tadepalli said in an e-mail.

So Tadepalli decided to try his hand at

playing songs exclusively by Jackson.

“I asked a bunch of my friends from the UNC music school, and they all agreed to the idea,” Tadepalli said.

Today, they are Who’s Bad—dubbed “the closest you’ll get to the King of Pop live” by the Independent Weekly. The group tours the country, each night decked out in glitzy red jackets and single white gloves.

Tribute bands, unlike cover bands, go to extreme lengths in order to emulate their source material as closely as possible. Some, such as Dark Star Orchestra—a Grateful Dead tribute band—go so far as to recreate specific concerts. The members of Zoso, a California-based Led

Zeppelin tribute band, have all grown their hair to the style of their respective counterparts.

At times, adhering so closely to the source material can be somewhat restrictive

“There are obvious limitations in our song list, being a tribute band,” Tadepalli said. “There are a few songs that we open up for improvisation, but we mostly stick to the original or live recordings.”

Still, Tadepalli is comfortable with where the band stands, stating that they will always be a tribute band. All of the band’s members also have their own side

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The Monastery obtainedFull Frame's award for Best Film over MandaBala.

This past weekend, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival jury awarded the Jury Prize for Best Film to The Monastery, a lovely notebook Danish film about an old man’s long-standing dream of building a monastic paradise. But they made a mistake. The most exciting cinema this weekend was Manda Bala, director Jason Kohn’s film about kidnapping and corruption in Brazil. While The Monastery offered a more reflective representation of human life, it had little to offer beyond its story.

In 2007, we find ourselves entering an age when documentaries must be held to higher standards—the proliferation of

production equipment has made documentary filmmaking possible for the masses. There must be some way to measure a film’s achievement. The easiest way to do this is by production value.

After all, good films are born from a marriage of imagery and story. How good, for example, would Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill series be without the lensing of Bob Richardson, his director of photography? Mediocre.

Would Alfonso Cuaron’s Children ofMen be a complete film without the incredible single-take camerawork and lighting by Emmanuel Lubezki? Absolutely not. And that brings us to Full Frame 2007 and the state of modern documentary filmmaking.

Manda Bala is, simply put, the best looking documentary I’ve

ever seen. Shooting with anamor-

phic lenses on SuperlbMM film, Kohn fills his frames like a veteran fiction storyteller; with color and life. To call this rare in documentary film is to call Knut the baby polar bear adorable—it’s so obvious it borders on idiocy. At Sundance, the risks Kohn took in making his film beautiful—selling his car, uprooting his life and moving to Brazil —were rewarded with the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary. At Full Frame, Kohn and his producer Jared lan Goldman were left empty-handed while The Monastery brought home the gold—a $20,000 postproduction grant. But The Monastery is simply not as ambitious or well-constructed as SEE BALA ON PAGE 5

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Another year has come and gone, and with it go some of our most beloved staffers.

In memory of the good times, the late times, but most of all our times, we give you “A night in recess.”

5:45 p.m. Lexi arrives... nothing is done despite the Monday night “deadline.”

5:50 p.m. Lexi realizes all of arts is in and has been since yesterday. Go Fish.

6:30 p.m. Bishop begins fourth draft of his 300 word music review.

7:03 p.m. Alex Warr arrives sporting checkered PJ.’s, Ugz, and a fabulous scarf.

Realizes he has yet to write sandbox, crap.

7:39 p.m. Varun arrives, office productivity drops 13.6 percent.

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8:50 p.m. Irem arrives and asks where Baishi is. She is ready to start dropping pictures. Alex asks her for a cut-out of Kate Beckinsale for the cover. She ignores him.

9:13 p.m. Alex Frydman frantically calls her friends for askrecess questions. Eventually settles on Yaffe’s latest relationship dilemma; dear recess, my girlfriend and I have our anniversary, her aunt Mariel’s birthday party, and a reservation to Z Kitchen all tonight but I have to finish lining up text, what should I do?

9:46 p.m. Baishi reappears smelling faintly of McDonald’s fries and dried-out medical devices.

9:56 p.m. Brian McGinn graces the office with his presence. Randomly changes layout fonts and goes home.

Congratulations 2007 Theater Studies Award Winners!

Harold Brody Award for Excellence In Musical Theater Russell Hainline lohn M. Clum Distinguished Theater Studies Graduate Award Martin Zimmerman Alex Cohen Award for Summer Initiatives in Theater Shaun Dozier Danny Bischoff Sarah Ellis Madeleine Lambert Kyle Knight Richard E. Cytowic Award for Outstanding Acting Michael Ayers Dasha Epstein Award in Playwriting Judd Schlossbcrg lody McAuliffe Award for Excellence in Directing Paul Reid Reynolds Price Award for Scriptwriting Corey Sobel Dale 8.1. Randall Award in Dramatic Literature Julie Berger Kenneth I. Reardon Award for Theater Design, Management or Production Josh Posen

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10:15 p.m. Bishop finishes his review and puts music to bed with a satisfied smirk.

10:30 p.m. Dearborn begins his review.

11:30 p.m. David Graham bitches out his superiors (soon to be underlings) for not securing a watchdog.

11:30 p.m. Bryan Sayler starts watchdogging. Prompdy quits. David starts again.

12:20 a.m. Lexi’s phone sings “My dirty little secret,” Yoni comes in to see Lexi (aaawwwwwww) and write his new cartoon.

12:34 a.m. The printer explodes, a collective groan escapes recess and sports sections.

Beastmaster it is. Alex flips out and ninja kicks something.

1:20 a.m. Alex and Lexi shake hands and do a little dance recess is finished.

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recess Next month, as some Duke students eagerly leave campus in anticipation of a summer filled with home-cooked meals and lazy days at the beach, many others will be heading off to big cities, often for the first time, for a variety of summer internships. And for those entering the urban workforce, hopefully flush with a little extra cash, the question of where to eat in their new urban surroundings is likely a top concern. Here, recess presents suggestions for those evenings when an ordinary meal simply will not suffice. With cuisines spanning all corners of the globe, these restaurants are worth seeking out.

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Any East Village restaurant that plainly states, “We do not serve vegetarian-friendly items,” better offer something special, for fear of offending the socially-conscious hipsters that congregate in the area.

Thankfully, Chef David Chang’s Momofuku Ssam Bar—not to be confused with Chang’s also notable Momofuku Noodle Bar —serves among the most delicious food in New York. This is not fusion cuisine, but rather updated Asian cuisine with an emphasis on top quality products in a casual setting. Servers wearing Bob Dylan t-shirts deliver small dishes like sea urchin served atop yuzu-tapioca and whipped tofu, while Atmosphere plays overhead. The bo ssam, a braised-thenroasted 10-pound pork shoulder served whole with raw oysters and kimchee, is available for groups of eight or more.

Located within a stone’s throw from one another, Tabla, Eleven Madison Park and Shake Shack stand among the city’s best Indian, Modern French and burger restaurants, respectively. Tabla features New American cuisine as seen through the Indian lens. The downstairs part of Tabla, known as Bread Bar, offers more traditional Indian staples in a causal but attractive environment. The Shake Shack is less a restaurant than a literal shack with ample outdoor seating. Burgers and frozen custards from the Shack are among the best in the city. The breadth and range of the Gourmande tasting menu cannot be beat, and at $135, actually represents a great value for you investment bankers working at the Credit Suisse offices located right overhead.

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ModemLatin American cuisine gets infused with Asian and Spanish flavors at this popular Washington hotspot. Less accustomed to the turf of Washington bigwigs than that of their young, cosmopolitan underlings, Chefs Jose Andres and Katsuya Fukushima are known for their innovative food and drink creations. Nowhere is this more true than at the Mini Bar, a separate bar in the restaurant for up to six diners, where 24-course, hypermodem meals are served twice nightly.

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Citronelle 3000 M St. NW Washington, D.C. 202-625-2150

Arguably the finest restaurant in Washington, Citronelle embodies the best of fine dining. ChefMichel Richard is a seasoned master of his craft who is unafraid of using modern techniques to create light, globally-influenced French cuisine.

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projects, and hope to write and record original material. In the meantime, Who’s Bad is away to pay the bills—something it’s doing quite well. The band sometimes plays up to four shows a week, nearly all which are before sold-out crowds.

The strong reception, most fans agree, is because of the unparalleled enthusiasm the group brings to the stage. Brian Kindle, a senior who has seen the band perform seven times, named several reasons for the

group’s popularity.

“For one, they bring this great sense of energy and showmanship to the stage,” said Kindle, who is a Chronicle columnist.

“They really know how to play to the audience. Then there’s the fact that they’re playing such great pop songs that people have all these great memories of.”

And venues are capitalizing on fans’ demand, regularly booking

a variety of tribute bands.

“We usually have about two tribute shows a month,” said Mark Thompson, owner of Raleigh’s Lincoln Theatre. “It depends on the band, but they usually sell better than the regular bands we bring in here. You can’t go out and see Zeippelin anymore. These guys give you a chance to see a showyou can’t see anywhere else.”

Raleigh-based Jacob’s Ladder, a fledgling Rush tribute band, hopes to take advantage of this growing demand. The band was born a few months back, when bassist Scott Josephson—sick of playing random covers and blues tracks—decided to try something different and do a full-on tribute to his favorite group.

“A tribute band has the opportunity to really master the sound of a band, instrumentally and vocally,” said Josephson. “They can specialize and really focus on the sound, rather than doing many things Just kind of well.”

After posting a series of ads

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Rush tribute band Jacob'sLadder aspires to become Guitar Heroes.

on the Internet, Josephson watched as the group gradually came together, starting with drummer Phil Tidmarsh, then guitarists Kris Robison and Sam Adam. Today, the group is near mastering Rush’s complex instrumentation.

Unfortunately, the vocal element remains a hurdle that Jacob’s Ladder has yet to clear. As a Rush tribute band, they found themselves with the nearly impossible task of finding a singer capable of Getty Lee’s inimitable falsetto. Peter Norwood, a friend of Josephson, has recently undertaken the challenge. Though he’s not quite capable of hitting the range needed, with the help of voice lessons, he hopes to one day fill the final spot in Jacob’s Ladder.

Many tribute bands have to deal with similar problems. Vocals, explains Thompson, can make or break a good tribute band.

“Of all the elements, vocals are definitely the one that audiences most notice,” said Thompson. “If the vocals are off, people can tell that the sound is off.”

Still, some bands have found a way around the rule of matching their source’s sound. GABBA, the self-described disco-punk sensation, plays ABBA songs in the style of the Ramones. Other groups get around this by substituting spectacle for musical fidelity.

MiniKiss, a Kiss tribute entirely comprised of little people, has recendy come under fire from their rival —Tiny Kiss, which features three little people and a 350pound woman—for lip syncing their shows. The quarrel, which has gone so far as to be chronicled on The Daily Show doesn’t seem to hurt either band, as both still manage to sell out shows.

Who's Bad? is a Michael Jackson tribute band formed nearby at UNC.

In the end, whether it be by exact musical

duplication or stylistic deviation, tribute bands are slowly carving themselves a niche in the live music

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Like nearly every other Canadian indie rock star, Feist is a part-time member of Broken Social Scene and has collaborated with a variety of artists. Yet it is on her solo albums that Feist’s talents shine most. The Reminderus a seductive affair, luring listeners with Feist’s soothing, breathy vocals and jazzy melodies on songs like “So Sorry” and “Honey Honey.”

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voice may grate on the listener—it’s a bit high and nasal, like Arlo Guthrie probably sounded at 15. It also can’t capture the spooky edge needed for the Hank Williams-esque “No Sorrows.” (I can’t imagine the singer killing a six-pack, much less another man.)

Even so, Cobblestones is easy on the ear, and a good soundtrack for spring in Durham.

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Singer and guitarist Phelan, who once appeared under the rather silly moniker Calloused Hands, is a decent if lightweight and somewhat navel-gazing songwriter.

The rest of Luego, which draws members from other campus bands including the Soulless Dogs Blues Band and Stella by Starlight, provides strong rootsy accompaniments for the lyrics with a stripped-down rhythm section and folksy violin and viola.

The players know how to complement Phelan without getting in his way, and he knows how to use them. The tide track, which opens the disc, is the probably

scene,

Their success, as Thompson it, “is probably because, if close your eyes, you may as be there. And the shows damn fun.”

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typical college band. Missing are the faint strains of folksy pretension that plague most wannabe-socially aware students who aspire to Bright Eyes-dom. Formerly the Bom Analogue, Stella easily blends dance-synth and indie coolness with traditional pop rock in their six-track EP, Made ofFire.

It is easy to compare Stella to the Killers—their production mimics the Utah band’s Hot Fuss, and junior Sonny Byrd bears an uncanny resemblance to Brandon Flowers. However, Byrd’s distractingly off-key voice is noticeably layered on top of, not within, the instruments. This ultimately detracts from an otherwise solid debut, full of metronomic percussion, gratifying keyboard riffs and excellent bass support.

Stella’s songs stay immensely familiar throughout, as if belonging to another band whose name is just on the tip of your tongue. Although their jumpy, energetic version of indie rock always serves as

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Running Lights has plenty of things going their way—a talented guitarist, welldone harmonies and a decent lead vocal, but all of this fails to create a substantially entertaining or interesting ER All five songs on this self-titled debut strike a similar chord of watered-down, mellow pop beneath lyrics that define end-of-adolescence relationship agony. Upon the conclusion of listening to any song—be it “Ineffectual” or “Sister”—l feel exactly the same as the one before it, while knowing that the one after it will have me feeling the exact same way.

Still, Running Lights has a professional feel—their sonic similarities to John Mayer and the Fray will definitely endear them to some. However, the band needs to diversify their sound or improve what they have before they can offer something greater than mediocrity.

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recess Professional journalists stand in the priority line at Full Frame. It’s almost like we, for once, have a sense of purpose outside > of being dutiful repeaters, I mean reporters, of the notebook Gospel of Good American Values or of Shocking, Fear-Inducing Threats. We are there to review “reality,” something they profess to dish out in great quantities at this documentary festival.

And so I went into Gonzo: The Life and Death of Hunter Thompson with an open mind and a half botde of Wild Turkey Bourbon, hoping to catch a glimpse of the last great journalistic hero for freaks, weirdos, malcontents, bohemians, acidcrazed maniacs or any of us who actually like reading a good story when we sit down to try and understand our world.

Gonzo was a work-in-progress. They showed two clips, a half-hour each, from the sixteen-hour rough cut. The first was on Thompson’s book Hell’s Angels, written about the year he lived and rode with the notorious motorcycle gang. The second clip centered on his great work on the American political process, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72, when he followed George McGovern during his hapless run for the presidency.

What supposedly distinguishes this film from other hack efforts to probe the mind of a sincerely disturbed individual is the narration, solely derived from Thompson’s written words. Nice effect, but I could just .

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Gonzo: The Life and Death ofHunter Thompson chronicles the escapades and thefear and the loathing on the campaign trail of a journalistic hero. tell that the filmmaker, Alex Gibney, had likely garnered too much praise for this particular attempt at “original storytelling.” Neither segment told me anything

I didn’t know about Thompson nor did they present any real criticism of Thompson’s style or analysis of his impact on readers. Both came off as kitschy slideshows of the Crazy Times during the Age of Aquarius (Haight Street, Dope) and the Very Exciting and Disturbing Political Unrest Surrounding It (R.F.K., Kent State).

“History is hard to know,” Thompson once said, “because ofall the hired bullshit.”

Gibney is not a Thompson die-hard. He

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never even met the man. The Smartest Guys in the Room director was approached to make a follow-up to his Enron documentary for HDNet—and it shows. Gibney will probably succeed in telling a sort of master narrative of Thompson that will make middle-aged, ex-hippie-wannabe-liberals feel good about their tenuous and meek opposition to the Bush administration. For heavens sakes, how low do you have to stoop in this country to become a successful filmmaker? Very low. It’s to be expected from a presentation sponsored by VH-1. A shame, really, that this is what will pass for the reality of Thompson’s life.

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Kohn’s film. Where the Danish film takes on the task of telling a simple story, Manda Bala attempts to capture the problems of an entire country and anthropomorphizes frogs. I believe it’s the first time frogs have been a metaphor for humans on film. So put another mark in Manda Bala’s column.

It is important to note that The Monastery is not an ugly piece of filmmaking—it’s just blown out

Soon the film will fit into two neat hours that will be a fine introduction to Hunter Thompson, drug-addled, gun-toting Gonzo journalist. It will be an important film for those who don’tknow about him and want to leam. Biography is strange, old sport, especially when it gets into corporate hands.

But the end product might just be full of too much reality, if you ask me, for any serious Thompson fan in the depths of a Wild Turkey binge to handle.

“Buy the ticket, take the ride,” the old man used to say.

In this case, I’m thankful that mine was free.

of the water by Manda Bala's visual and narrative audacity. The real question raised by the two films is this: should the filmmaking community be rewarding documentary artists for merely discovering great stories and capturing them, or should they be rewarding filmmakers for creating stories with striking visual flair, for crafting new narrative structures out of disparate pieces? In the modern fragmented world, Kohn’s style is the best way to tell real stories because it is, at its very core, also construct-

ed from fragments At Sundance Kohn described his desire to make “movies,” not just “documentaries.” And, at its essence, this is the dilemma Full Frame Jury members faced this weekend. Manda Bala was both a documentary and a movie—visuals and story. The Monastery was just a documentary. In 2007, Full Frame chose “just a documentary” for its top prize. Let’s hope that in the years to come, jury members start to see that documentary doesn’t mean ugly, and audacity leading to success should always be rewarded.

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Wright brings together an unusual marriage of top-notch comedy and superb editing in the two-hour flick. Although the humor, co-written by Pegg and

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� ���� From Brit director Edgar Wright comes the sweet, donutladen justice of Hot Fuzz, soon to

be a comedy-action classic on the level of Hot Shots! and The Naked Gun series. Fuzz is the follow up to Wright’s romantic-zombiecomedy, or rom-zom-com, import hit Shaun of the Dead, also starring the comedic duo of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. However, the sad fact is that Hot Fuzz is simply not as good as Shaun of the Dead which means it is still pretty damn great.

Fuzz follows the life of stoic supercop Nicholas Angel (Pegg), an officer so good he is transferred to the quaint Hamlet of Sandford just to keep the rest of the squad from looking bad. The quiet village seems serene, friendly and perfect... a little too perfect The hard-nosed Angel and his nitwit, townie partner Danny Butterman (Frost) begin to discover that the safest village in the country may not be so safe after all.

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Wright, often falls short of its intended impact, the laughs range from the subde chuckle to the full-bodied heave —the embarrassing kind that draw stares from audience members (luckily they are too busy laughing as well).

The parody extends beyond the absurd plot twists and wham-ham, shoot-’em-up fight sequences and seeps into the post-production and cine-

matography. Wright expertly

mimics washed-out Tony Scott Guy montages, fast-paced Ritchie editing and long rotating pans of Michael Bay. Regardless of the brilliance of Fuzz, it is hard not to walk out of the theater deflated, knowing how good the movie could have been. The slighdy meandering film doesn’t manage to fill the shoes ofits predecessor. But when the bullets fly and the blood spatters, its easy to forget about Shaun with Fuzz on the brain.

—Vanin Leila

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News Works Festival showcases student plays “I want to encourage people who don’t normally go to the theater to come to this show,” Hill said. “We have comedy, tragedy, everything—it’s a great taste of what the stage has to offer.”

The wide variety of genres is a reflection of the diverse interests and skills of the class.

“It’s cool because the average kid in the class isn’t necessarily a theater kid,” said senior Danny Bischoff. “But everyone’s been really committed and hard-working.”

Bischoff wrote Mad Gardening Party, a snapshot of a married couple’s life. The plot involves a husband who tries to write poetry in his room, while his wife is working in the garden and constandy interrupting him.

“Basically, it’s an allegory for having sex,” Bischoff said.

This year marks the third dme that professors Jay O’Berski and Andrea Stolowitz have taught the Short Play Festival class, but the festival has existed in various incarnations for many years.

“I think the class is extremely important because it trains students in a mentored capacity,” Stolowitz said. “I expect it to be sublime.”

The 2007 New Works Festival: Blood and Air will be showing from Wednesday, April 18 to Saturday, April 21 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5 for the general public and $3 for students and senior citizens. All six plays will be performed each night.

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Regardless of their previous experience, students enrolled in the class Short Play Festival have all found their theatrical calling—and most of them have found more than one.

The 2007 New Works Festival: Blood and Air is the culmination of a semester’s worth of effort for students in this class.

Covering everything from writing and directing to acting, they have produced six original, ten-minute plays to be performed for the public. The students agree that the opportunity has been challenging, but informative.

“We’re doing everything on our own so it’s like a small theater production company,” said freshman Kana Hatakeyama. She, like many of the students in the class, is directing one play and acting in two others.

This year’s festival name, Blood and Air, is also the title of the first play. Freshman playwright Bethany Hill describes it as the story of two star-crossed Latin lovers who can’t live with each other and can’t live without each other. The lovers spend a dramatic 10 minutes quite literally dancing around one another, and they set the tone for the festival with their intensity and humorous edge. by

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“While visiting Mr. Duke, [Bishop Kilgo, former president of Trinity College] was attracted to the statue by the manliness and strength of the face, with its firm chin and lips, and its expression of manhood,” The Chronicle reported in 1914. The German-made statue has been on East Campus ever since.

“When there were stricter social regulations in the ‘3os and ‘4os, students could walk around campus and it would not count as a date,” said Thomas Harkins, associate university archivist. “They would put a penny in the Sower’s hand and if it was still there when they returned, they could kiss.”

The statue is also prey to students’ less romantic aims.

On December 18, 1993, the Sower spent the night on its face, presumably the result of a prank.

The likeness of James B. Duke has also been subject to the handiwork of mischievous students. First unveiled in front of the Chapel in 1935, the statue was a source of dis-

content among the student population. Supposedly, stu-

dents were unhappy because of its location and potential distraction from the Gothic architecture, a concept familiar to modem day Dukies upset by the glowing statue on the West Campus Plaza.

The 1935 uproar prompted then President William Few to release a statement in The Chronicle on March 22, saying that the location of the founder’s statue was in accordance with the original architects’ plans for the

University.

Despite the original uproar, students have found uses

for the statue.

“My mom told me once about how they covered the James B. Duke statue in tinfoil when there were UFO sightings [in Rocky Mount, NC] and made a big sign that said ‘Greetings Earthlings,” freshman Kait Nagi said.

Duke students, mostly during the ‘6os and ‘7os, have also dressed him up as a shiek, Charlie Chaplin and a political candidate. One photograph even shows him tarred and feathered. He has also been used to advertise political rallies and student parties.

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Unfortunately, students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill also picked up on the trend.

“It’s hard to tell because the pictures are black and white, but James B. Duke was [once] painted blue and it doesn’t look like dark blue,” Harkins joked. “It could be light blue. I’m not saying anything, but it could’ve been our neighbors.”

Like the statue of his father, James B. Duke’s statue has become the subject of Duke lore. Rumor has it that the cigar in his hand is warm to the touch.

Only time will tell whether the newest addition to the Duke family statuary will also achieve legendary status on campus. Unveiled in 1999, Benjamin Duke’s likeness was introduced as part of the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Indenture of Trust which created the University.

“There are things that stay on in the mythology, like the graduation requirements that get passed on,” Harkins said. “It seems silly, but if you think about the purpose things like that serve, they help form community. Statues and mythologies help to personalize this great, big place.”

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