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With football’s spring practice underway, Finally! The dos and don’ts so is running back of Vandy men’s fashion… Jeff Jennings… Log on to go behind the scenes at the For more, see Life, page 8 For more, see Sports, page 9 Student Health Center… For more, see Multimedia at InsideVandy.com THETHE VOICEVOICE OFOF VANDERBILTVANDERBILT SINCESINCE 18881888 FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 • 119 TH YEAR, NO. 28 THE WALL compiled by KRISTEN CHMIELEWSKI Hoyas do TODAY Sweet 16 viewing Ford delivers closing party in Memorial Join your fellow Vandy not strike fans in Memorial Gym at 6:27 p.m. to watch the Commodores take IMPACT address on the Georgetown fear into Hoyas. The game will be broadcast on the Jumbotron, and the concessions stands will Dores be open. So wear white, bring your Vandy ID and Vanderbilt competes for Elite come early (doors open at 6 p.m.) to cheer on Eight standing tonight. the Dores! by JARRED AMATO TODAY Sports Editor Latin America’s ‘Pink Tide’ speech “Respect is back. Fear is next.” Political Science That’s the message you’ll find on the Professor Peter Smith back of Georgetown students’ T-shirts. from the University of In the 1980s, the John Thompson- California, San Diego, coached and Patrick Ewing-led Hoyas will speak at 3 p.m. in were the team everyone loved to hate. Buttrick Hall, Room 206 Now, with Thompson’s son in charge, on “Latin America’s ‘Pink second-seeded Georgetown (28-6) has Tide’: A Threat to U.S. returned to the national spotlight, which Interests?” suits Vanderbilt just fine. “We have no pressure going into East TODAY Rutherford because there’s not a soul Philosophy anywhere that thinks we’re going to be department presents the team that advances,” said Vanderbilt Paul Taylor coach Kevin Stallings, whose squad plays Paul Taylor from the Hoyas tonight in the East Regional the Department of semifinal. “We will be given no chance to Philosophy at Temple advance. We already know that.” University will speak on The sixth-seeded Commodores also “Democracy and Virtue” know that getting to the Elite Eight for at 3:15 p.m. in Furman the first time since the tournament field Hall, Room 109. The expanded is no small task. The Hoyas event is free and open have won 17 of their last 18 games and to the public. captured the Big East Tournament championship. TODAY “I could close my eyes and pick Masala-SACE presents somebody that’s still in the field that I ‘Garba’ might rather play,” Stallings admitted. From 6 to 10 p.m. in the John Thompson III’s team has returned Branscomb Quadrangle to prominence thanks to its disciplined Rec Room Masala-SACE approach on both ends of the floor. will host “Garba,” where Defensively, it has limited opponents participants are invited to 56.8 points per game and 38 percent MASON HENSLEY / The Vanderbilt Hustler shooting, including 30 percent from 3- to learn a traditional Vanderbilt professor and former U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. delivered the fi nal IMPACT Symposium lecture Wednesday night. During the address in the Student Life Center, Ford Indian dance and eat explained to an audience of Vanderbilt and Nashville community members that America stands at a crossroads, but he assured the crowd that Americans could persevere. point range. free Indian appetizers. For a team that lives and dies by the There will also be a live jump shot, those numbers surely must band. change. Student ignites fi re with roll of “We’re going to have to shoot the ball TODAY well, which is generally a requirement for Vanderbilt Off - us, but it’s probably even more important Broadway presents in this game,” Stallings said. ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ toilet paper on Lupton 6 As usual, the Commodores will rely “Kiss Me, Kate” fuses Lupton, Scales residents forced to evacuate for about 40 minutes. on junior Shan Foster and Southeastern Shakespeare’s comedic Conference Player of the Year Derrick plot and Porter’s Byars, who is coming of a game-high musical creativity, by HARISH KRISHNAMOORTHI VUPD has turned 27 points in his team’s 78-74 double- resulting in an Asst News Editor a suspect over to the overtime victory over Washington State. exciting, hilarious and Office of Student When the duo combines to score at least unforgettable show. B r a n s c o m b Conduct. 40 points, Vanderbilt is 10-1 over the last Show times are tonight residents living in Most students were two seasons. at 8 p.m., March 25 at Lupton and Scales allowed back onto On the other end, the Commodores will 1 p.m. and March 31 at were forced to their halls around have to work hard to contain Georgetown’s 8 p.m. evacuate their dorms 9:50 p.m., about Princeton-style offense that emphasizes Wednesday evening, 40 minutes after constant movement and back-door cuts. SATURDAY, MARCH 24 after a roll of toilet they were forced to Vanderbilt ran something similar in the Allison Rose memorial paper was lit on fire evacuate, but Lupton past before switching to a more up-tempo service in a Lupton sixth floor sixth floor residents style this season. A memorial service bathroom. remained restricted “We’re familiar with what they do honoring Allison Chief of Police from their hall. offensively, but that doesn’t make it easy Frances Rose, a Marlon Lynch and the While no fire trucks to defend,” said Stallings, referring to Vanderbilt alumna who Vanderbilt University arrived on the scene, Hoyas’ frontline that includes center Roy was killed last summer Police Department freshman Sam Vinson Hibbert and forward Jeff Green. in an automobile conducted an said he saw “a cop on Although the underdog, the Commodores accident, will be held at investigation. a bike and at least one do not “fear” the Hoyas. Having already 3 p.m. at the Alpha Chi “Upon arrival, other cop car” on the defeated seven top-25 opponents, they Omega house. All are the object that was scene. ■ arrive in East Rutherford with every invited. smoldering was intention of winning their eighth. extinguished,” Lynch —Sydney Wilmer As Byars said, “We’re still hungry.” ■ said. “The residents contributed reporting MASON HENSLEY / The Vanderbilt Hustler Compiled by staff from various were evacuated due to this article. —For continuous updates on the Dores’ trip to the Sweet 16 over sources. Check out to the fire alarm A student directs residents of Lupton 6 to evacuate as the hall fi lls with smoke caused by a http://calendar.vanderbilt.edu fi re that started with a lit roll of toilet paper in the bathroom. the weekend, check out: for more events. activating.” 2 Friday, March 23, 2007 The Vanderbilt Hustler www.insidevandy.com WEATHER compiled by KRISTEN CHMIELEWSKI IN THE KNOW TODAYTODAY The news you need — in brief ASU promotes global awareness compiled by KRISTEN CHMIELEWSKI WORLD Rocket narrowly misses Iraq prime minister and U.N. secretary-general in Iraq U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and Iraq Prime Partly Cloudy, 80/56 Minister Nouri al-Maliki nearly became victims of a failed rocket attack Th ursday at the building where the two men held a press conference. SATURDAY A 3-foot-wide crater lay about 50 yards from the building in Baghdad’s Green Zone, which also houses the U.S. Embassy. No one was harmed in the attack; only two cars were damaged. Th e sound of the weapon could be heard from the AP offi ce, which is across the Tigris River east of the Green Zone. TYLER HAGEN / The Vanderbilt Hustler After assuring the safety of Ki-Moon and al-Maliki, both Sophomore Veronica Calvin makes a presentation at African Night, held in the Board of Trust Room Thursday night. The event, sponsored by the PartlyPartly Cloudy, 82/58 men resumed the news conference within minutes of the African Students Union as a part of International Awareness Week, featured African cuisine and music. attack. However, they ended the question-and-answer session shortly after. SUNDAY Th e last time a U.N. secretary-general was in Baghdad was Dickerson wins fi rst James in November 2005, when Ban’s predecessor, Kofi Annan, visited the capital. SOURCE: AP M. Lawson Jr. Chair award Satirical French newspaper cleared from by KRISTEN CHMIELEWSKI fi eld, within and outside the university. charges brought by Muslims Asst News Editor “Endowing chairs in an ongoing process — a A French court cleared a satirical weekly newspaper highest recognition awarded to faculty,” Outlaw Th ursday in a case brought by Muslims who were angered A symposium on the Rev. James Lawson Jr.’s said. “Th e university is always seeking ways to MostlyMostly Cloudy, 86/60 by its publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. legacy will celebrate the establishment of the James recognize and retain their most accomplished Th e newspaper Charlie-Hebdo and its director, Philippe M. Lawson Jr. Chair. Th e two-day event will be held faculty.” Val, were accused of “publicly abusing a group of people in Benton Chapel today and Saturday. Among those scheduled to participate include because of their religion.” MONDAY Professor of History Dennis Dickerson, who civil rights author and reporter David Halberstam, On Feb. 8, 2006, the paper printed three caricatures holds the fi rst chair, will deliver the inaugural lecture Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace regarding Islam. Two of them were reprints that caused titled “Rooted in India: William Stuart Nelson and Studies at the University of Rhode Island Bernard controversy in a Danish newspaper in 2005, and one was an the Religious Origins of the Civil Rights Movement” LaFayette Jr., associate of the Rev.