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The Vanderbilt Hustler www.vanderbilthustler.com MONDAY THE VOICE OF APRIL 3, 2006 VANDERBILT 118th YEAR SINCE 1888 No. 32 TThehe VVanderbiltanderbilt HHustlerustler STUDENT LIFE Debate team racks up victories, awards Season comes to a close on a decade-high note. peted in the Varsity National Tournament Th is year, the team’s coach and Vander- We’re Vanderbilt kids, we’re really smart. It sponsored by the Cross Examination De- bilt’s Director of Debate M.L. Sandoz was makes sense.” BY DARCY NEWELL National Debate Tournament held at West bate in Dallas. awarded the National John A. Jacobsohn Gould and Ross attribute their individ- HUSTLER REPORTER Virginia University, beating out over 80 Th e team is made up of two varsity Memorial Award for her career contribu- ual success as a partnership to their strong As the end of the 2005-2006 season teams from schools across the country, teams (each team consisting of two debat- tions in this fi eld. working relationship. approaches, the Vanderbilt debate team marking the fi rst National Championship ers who work together on each argument) “I would say that this past season has “Russell and I have a very interesting can look back on a record of competing for Vanderbilt since the 1980s. and one novice team. Th e varsity debater been the most successful year Vanderbilt dynamic,” said Gould. “What I’m weak in more than 270 competitions and more In addition, Gould was presented with duos are Katie Ryzoc/Phil Rappmond and Debate has ever seen,” said Ross. “We ex- in he is strong in, and vice versa. Where than 50 awards. the fi ft h place Speaker Award, and Ross Susan Mader/Matt Earnest. Th e novice cel because we have a coaching staff that I excel in policy and philosophy oriented Over spring break, juniors Courtney won 17th place in the same category. partnership consists of Courtney Gould is completely dedicated to the students. critiques, Russell is great at topicality argu- Gould and Russell Ros won the Novice Th is weekend, the varsity teams com- and Russell Ross. Also, we’re pretty talented, we work hard. Please see DEBATE, page 5 SPOTLIGHT SPEAKERS Award winner to return to China Sudanese refugee to speak about experience Yahya tells story of oppression, murder in Darfur region. BY BECKY TYRRELL HUSTLER REPORTER Mohamed Yahya, a refugee from the Darfur region of Sudan and chairman of the Damanga Coalition for Freedom and Democracy, will speak about his experi- ence as a refugee at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, in the Student Life Center Ballroom. “Yahya is the ultimate source to show why some- thing must be done to stop the tragedy of genocide before it becomes something like the Holocaust that we look back on with » Complete horror for allowing to happen,” said listing of Slav- senior Jonathan White.Yahya experi- ery Awarness enced the brutal racism that perme- Week events, ates Sudanese society, both as a child in on Page 5. ABOVE: “(Dis)comfort”, second print in a series of fi ve titled Lines that Connect by Senior Studio Art major Xin Lu. The background is Fuzhou, China, Lu’s home until immigrating to the United States at age seven. school and as an adult. He was beaten by Arab teachers for speaking his tribal language rather Award one of the largest in country. than Arabic, and witnessed Sudanese police and army offi cers forcing black men into cars and sending them BY ROBERT PROUDFOOT set in for Lu. HUSTLER SENIOR FEATURES REPORTER to prison or to work as servants. “I’m still in a daze,” Lu said. “It feels “I think that the student body as a whole is not aware Amongst a roaring pretty surreal. It still doesn’t feel like it ac- of the situation in Darfur, and if they are, not much is crowd on Friday in the E. tually happened.” being done about it,” White said. “I think this event will Bronson Ingram Studio Started in 1986, Th e Margaret Stone- really help enlighten everyone and give visibility to the A Art Center, seniors Xin Lu wall Wooldridge Hamblet Award or the situation.” received the $25,000 cash Hamblet award is a gallery exhibition of In 1993, Yahya’s village in western Sudan was com- Hamblet award and David Walker re- senior studio art majors that present a pletely destroyed in the fi rst attacks of the Sudanese ceived a cash merit award of $10,000. collection of art pieces usually based from government’s Arab militia raiders, and most of his Seconds aft er the announcement of a theme. relatives and other villagers were killed, raped or burnt $25,000 cash award, the overwhelmed Lu “It is one of the largest cash awards for alive in their huts. said only that she was “speechless.” studio art students in the country,” said Aft er 48 hours, the award had still not Please see HAMBLET, page 2 He received word of his parents’ safety at Al-Azhar University in Cairo where he was studying at the time of the decimation, and decided then that action must ROBERT PROUDFOOT / The Vanderbilt Hustler be taken to save black African Sudanese from annihila- RIGHT: Xin Lu receives congratulations from fellow competitors and department heads after winning the tion. Hamblet award Friday. Please see YAHYA, page 2 RESEARCH External funding for Take a tour of Vanderbilt ITS Securing the net not Vanderbilt climbs again just as easy as McAfee. BY DARCY NEWELL BY BEN SWEET amount of external funding for the univer- HUSTLER REPORTER HUSTLER NEWS EDITOR sity has more than doubled in the past fi ve Hardly a week goes by, it seems, that Student in Community Development Ac- less services on campus,” said Weissen- Last year, external funding for years. students don’t receive an e-mail from tion in the Peabody School, was inspired burger. “He Vanderbilt researchers increased 15 per- Th ough most of the $444 million award- Matt Hall, assistant vice chancellor of In- to meet with Hall, to discuss exactly what acknowledged my concern and gra- cent, putting the total amount of funding ed last year went to the medical center, formation Technology Services, request- the system provides for the student body ciously off ered a tour.” for peer-reviewed contracts and grants at $121 million (or 25 percent) was awarded ing them to change their password for and the changes being made that will af- Hall, who came to Vanderbilt in the $444 million and marking the fi ft h straight to other researchers on the campus, with security reasons. fect campus security. spring of 2004, graduated from the Uni- year of growth. Peabody receiving almost $42 million. In fact, with the recent onslaught of “A ft er Matt last announced a possible versity of Florida, receiving his masters Currently, Vanderbilt is 25th in the na- “Th ese very strong growth numbers, in complaints students have been fi ring at security breach, I voiced concerns from Florida State. Before coming to tion in external funding and fi ft h for exter- the face of fl attening federal research bud- ITS, Steven Weissenburger, a Professional to him about the security of our wire- Please see ITS, page 3 nal funding for faculty members. Th e total Please see FUNDING, page 2 OUR VIEW BASEBALLCOLUMN QUOTABLE POLL WEATHER INSIDE Read about why Read about Opinion Editor Reeve “I will not engage In the Bubble 2 THE we are alarmed the baseball Hamilton feels that in polemics. But let that world govern- team’s two America’s wiretap- me be clear: I abhor 56% In History 2 ments continue to victories ping program is the all who kidnap and Crime Report 2 WALL do nothing regard- against No. 15 Florida. first step on the road murder civilians, and Percent of Americans Opinion 6 ing the situation in The wins propel the to further restrictions my captors are clearly favor off ering illegal Darfur. We feel that team to 7-2 in the of Americans’ consti- guilty of both crimes.” immigrants a shot at 56 39 Our View 6 students should Southeastern tutional rights by the some kind of legal HI LO Sports 8 educate themselves Conference. government. — Jill Carroll, the U.S. status. » Extended forecast on page 2 by attending the See Page 8 See Page 6 journalist who was held Fun & Games 10 refugee’s speech. hostage for 82 days in Iraq See Page 6 » Associated Press 2 NEWS The Vanderbilt Hustler | Monday, April 3, 2006 FORECAST WORD OF THE DAY THIS DAY IN HISTORY TUESDAY 1860 The legendary Pony Express began service between St. Joseph, Sunny Mo., and Sacramento, Calif. High: 64 REBARBATIVE PAGE 2 1882 Outlaw Jesse James was shot to death in St. Joseph, Mo., by Low: 38 Robert Ford, a member of James’ gang. Today is Monday, April 3, 2006 WEDNESDAY adj. 1. serving/tending to irritate/repel 1936 Bruno Hauptmann was electrocuted in Trenton, N.J., for the Partly Cloudy kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh child. IT IS THE THERE ARE High: 69 1948 President Truman signed the Marshall Plan, which allocated Low: 52 rd more than $5 billion in aid for 16 European countries. THURSDAY 53 21 19 39 1968 The day before he was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., civil Mostly Cloudy day of classes class days class days calendar rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “moun- High: 77 until exams until Rites of days to com- taintop” speech to a rally of striking sanitation workers. Low: 53 Spring mencement Source: Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language Compiled by the Associated Press TODAY IN THE BUBBLE Compiled by Lisa Guo April showers bring May fl owers The Swingin’ Dores spring concert Come hear the Swingin’ Dores sing some great a capella music at their spring concert! Th e concert is today in the Student Life Center at 7:45 p.m.
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