GRANDFATHER CLAUS Celebrity Fascination

NEWS FEATURES SPORTS The Jazz Ensemble is fund- Guitar fanatics and fi rst-timers alike After a Tuesday washout, the raising for a summer trip had a groovy time at the Dallas baseball team prepares to face to Italy. International Guitar Festival. Texas Tech. TOMORROW PAGE 5 PAGE 8 TCU WEDNESDAY April 25, 2007 Vol. 104 Issue 108 EST. 1902 DAILYWWW.DAILYSKIFF SKIFF.COM Nursing clinical sign-ups cause schedule diffi culties By AUNDREA EICHMAN Whitney Huffaker , a junior frustration that clinical sign-ups to arrange work and/or child- programs has increased. The information Mangan Staff Reporter nursing major . cause students, and she is hop- care issues after the posting on Weeks said this issue said she would like to see go The system in which required “They see this as giving ing to fi nd solutions to improve the clinical days and times,” should not impact any stu- along with the section number nursing clinical sign-ups are everyone a fair opportunity,” the process of fi nalizing clinical Weeks said. dent’s graduation. is when and where the clinical being conducted is making it Huffaker said, “When, in actu- spaces. Weeks said enrollments This allows for students to Stephanie Mangan, a junior will be and who the instructor diffi cult to register for classes ality, they are just making it in the nursing program have fi nalize schedule arrangements nursing major , said that there will be. and plan work schedules, nurs- impossible for you to make made clinical spaces in hos- over the summer, she said. are six section groups available She said she understands the ing students said. your schedule for the follow- pitals scarce and that it takes TCU is one of many schools for students to sign up for clini- way it works because the teach- The problem with signing up ing semester, since you don’t until the end of the semester to in the area that vie for clinical cals. ers do not know their sched- for clinicals is that students do know what time you will be in fi nalize specifi c days for each spaces, Weeks said, and clini- “When you blindly pick a ules or the hospital schedules not know the days of the week clinical and/or which day.” clinical section. cal spaces have become scarcer section, there is no informa- at the time of registration. their clinical will be held when Susan Weeks , a nursing pro- “The primary impact on stu- over the past three to four years tion going along with it,” Man- they register for classes, said fessor , said she realizes the dents is that they may need because enrollment in nursing gan said. See CLINICALS, page 2 Symposium questions GRANDFATHER CLAUS celebrity fascination

By ASHLEIGH WHALEY Staff Reporter Students and faculty want to know why America is obsessed with celebrities. “Why is America obsessed with celebrities” is the question of the day and the title of today’s Search- light Sympo- sium from 5 to 7 p.m. in Smith Hall 104. S t u d e n t s RICHARD ALLEN will hear about celebrity obsession from guest speakers Rich- ard Allen, a BILLY WESSELS / Photo Editor radio-TV-film (LEFT) Howard Payne, 82, and Crystal Gauthier, senior accounting major, use the computer in the Jarvis Hall offi ce. Payne has been working as an offi ce attendant for more than 20 years. (RIGHT) Howard and his professor, and wife, Mildred, prepare for an event at the Kelly Alumni Center. The two have been married for 58 years. Howard and Mildred met at the university and have volunteered at Frog Camp. Adam Schiffer, a political sci- By SONYA CISNEROS side of Fort Worth , Payne has ADAM SCHIFFER ence assistant Staff Reporter seen the city at its best and professor, and can participate Howard Payne’s offi ce isn’t worst. in an open-question forum, one fi lled with accolades and Growing up during the Great said John Wood, founder of awards on the wall. Depression , Payne said much of the biannual event that started There are a few plaques and his time was spent making do in 2006. a TCU baseball cap decorating with what he’d been given. Allen, who has worked as a the bookshelf, along with a He said his family was for- contributing writer for numer- bright blue lunch box. tunate in that his father’s job ous soap operas, including The offi ce is fi tting for an 82- provided them with maybe a “Days of our Lives” and “One year-old who knows that peo- little more than most. Life to Live,” said he will offer ple matter most. He said people were hun- a creative perspective to accom- To some, the title of offi ce gry back then and recalled his pany Schiffer’s scholarly view. assistant hardly encompass- mother always giving passers- “It’s important to realize es what Payne has contribut- by a cup of coffee and fried-egg that the media can manipu- ed to TCU for more than two sandwich. late you if you’re not aware,” decades. “Those were the days,” he Allen said. “Manipulation by Jodi Norman , a former TCU said with a smile that never the media would be less per- student , has an especially close left his face. vasive if people were more relationship with Payne — one After spending three years media literate.” that spans 20 years. in the service, Payne enrolled People aren’t attracted to Payne is a father fi gure that at TCU. a dramatic event as much as offers direction, example and With a twinkle in his eye and they’re attracted to the person- support to many students, she a mischievous grin, Payne said ality involved, Allen said. said. it was at TCU where he met his “The media builds up what “If there was an ambassador wife, Mildred. we know about certain per- of TCU, it would be him,” Nor- Payne began the memory of STEPHEN SPILLMAN / Staff Photographer sonalities,” he said. “They man said. Howard Payne celebrates his 80th birthday two years ago. Howard and his wife have not missed a TCU graduation take people who are already Born and raised in the south See HOWARD, page 2 in almost 40 years. He said TCU keeps him and his wife young. famous and create celebrities out of them by offering more and more information about their personal lives.” FOR YOUR INFO From a political angle, Week’s events to raise awareness of Darfur genocide GLOBAL DAYS EVENTS: America’s obsession is affect- By AUNDREA EICHMAN Nathan Kaspar , a junior Staff Reporter • Documentary Screening ing how people look at poli- criminal justice major, said Sid Richardson ticians by making them into The TCU community is par- the Build-a-Camp event will today, 7:30 p.m. celebrities, Schiffer said. ticipating in Global Days for challenge students to create a • 5K Walk/Run “The press has taken over as Darfur to raise awareness about small refugee camp meant to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the key decision-maker in choos- the genocide occurring in Dar- raise awareness about the geno- $10 minimum donation ing party nominees,” Schiffer fur, a professor said. cide occurring in Darfur. Kas- • Darfur Victims Memorial Sadler Lawn said. “It’s important to take a Global Days is a worldwide par said building started at 8 Saturday, Noon to 6 p.m. look at our nation’s priorities campaign to raise awareness a.m Tuesday. • Documentary Screening particularly rendered by major and is all about education “This week of events is a step Student Center Lounge news organizations.” and action, said Cecil Van de in the process of making a dif- Sunday, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Searchlight Symposiums Voorde , an assistant criminal ference,” Kaspar said. $5 minimum donation encourage students to take a justice professor. Van de Voorde said one tent The events will close at 5:30 look at issues rarely discussed “I want people to wake up, built is a refugee hut fi lled with p.m. Sunday on Sadler Lawn in class and give an “interde- pay attention and start acting,” posters and fl iers for information with a moment of silence and partmental exchange,” Wood BILLY WESSELS / Photo Editor said Van de Voorde , who is silent prayer. said.�� Global Days aims to raise Darfur awareness through refugee huts on campus. managing this week’s events. See DARFUR, page 2 �� WEATHER PECULIAR FACT TODAY’S HEADLINES CONTACT US TODAY: Partly Cloudy, 74/53 VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A Canadian FEATURES: Dallas’ guitar festival rocks, page 5 Send your questions, man was arrested after walking around naked THURSDAY: Partly Cloudy, 72/54 OPINION: Building credit is smart, page 3 compliments, complaints with a swastika taped to his body to mark Adolf and hot tips to the staff at FRIDAY: Partly Cloudy, 78/57 Hitler’s bithday, police said Friday. — Reuters SPORTS: Frogs are facing the Red Raiders, page 8 [email protected] 2 NEWS TCU Daily Skiff Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Darfur, small grave sites said she has always been students live in a global “Adequate spaces are held for each DARFUR and wooden crosses. involved in human rights community and should CLINICALS student in the clinical courses they From page 1 “We either choose to and humanitarian law. raise awareness, Gam- From page 1 need,” Weeks said. ignore it,” Kaspar said, “This conflict is some- mie said. The upper divisions clinical courses and the other will repre- “Or we do not even thing I have taken to Global Days for Dar- Mangan said that she would at least are two days a week and are available sent a medical unit. She know about it at all.” heart,” Van de Voorde fur lasts from April 23 like to see each section number matched on Monday, Wednesday or Friday, Weeks said she wants people to Kaspar said this cri- said. to April 30. Along with with a day because holding down a job said, and that allows students to sign up be aware and to seek out sis has been going on Jenica Gammie, a Build-a-Camp, which is also difficult without knowing the for Tuesday and Thursday courses. more information and since 2003, and at least freshman nursing major, will be displayed until schedule beforehand. She said that most nursing classes are share it with others. 400,000 people have said she didn’t know April 28, TCU is also This system makes it hard for stu- held Tuesday and Thursday mornings so Canopies were provid- been murdered and 2.5 much about Darfur, but showing films, having a dents to schedule other classes and students are able to sign up for elective ed by the Rec Center and million displaced. she might look into it 5K walk and a moment arrange day care for children, Man- courses that are Tuesday and Thursday all other materials were He said he wants to more because of the of silence. gan said. afternoon. either donated or bought get the word out that Global Days’ events. This week students from Home Depot for something is going on. “I think it is really may participate in the less than $10, Kaspar “Hopefully, when peo- interesting because it is Take Action Ad Cam- the ’60s, attending formals when fathers said. He said there is no ple find out they will not something you usu- paign in front of the HOWARD couldn’t. budget for the refugee want to take some kind ally see on campus,” library and Student Cen- From page 1 He also gave a student away at her wed- camp. of action,” Kaspar said. Gammie said. ter. Here they may create meeting Mildred on the second floor of ding. STAND, which stands He said most people She said it leads to advertisements about the the Bailey Building. No matter what he’s doing, be it a big for Students Take Action do not understand what curiosity which leads Darfur genocide. They were both representing their or small thing, he does it with the same Now, Darfur, is a student is going on in Darfur to asking questions. She Students have plenty respective Methodist churches at an infor- heart, Norman said. anti-genocide coalition because everything is was outside in the rain of opportunities to get mational meeting on campus and “one “TCU is his whole life,” she said. that is heading up the provided for them, espe- along with the Darfur involved such as par- thing lead to another,” he said. Payne, who also serves as TCU’s Santa Global Days events, he cially people at TCU. tent raising money for ticipating in this weeks They have been married 58 years. Claus, said he feels that the students like said. Van de Voorde teaches Invisible Children, an events as well as donat- Working in the West Texas oil business having a grandfather-figure. He said along with the a class on political vio- organization that raises ing money, Van de and then for himself, Payne kept return- “It’s like taking vitamins every day when refugee camp there will lence and her research is awareness about the dis- Voorde said, ing to TCU. you get out here,” Payne said. “You just be posters of people in focused on genocide. She placement of children in She said TCU is going The couple first volunteered at TCU pep yourself up by being here.” Uganda. to start a chapter of with Frog Camps, orientation and “this, Payne proudly displayed multiple pho- T h e s e STAND. She said there that and the other,” Payne said. tographs of students he’s met throughout issues are are more than 800 chap- “It’s been so good that TCU has let me the years, one of which was Miss Texas important to ters in high schools and hang on this long,” he said. 2000, Tara Watson. her because colleges. Though Payne has two sons, he said Norman, once one of those students, the women at TCU have been like daugh- said meeting Payne “had quite a profound ters to him throughout effect” on her life. his work in the female Since TCU is their whole life, Mildred residence halls. Payne said, the couple hasn’t missed a He said he served TCU graduation since 1968. as the “out-of-town Payne said TCU keeps them young. father” for the Delta “How fortunate and lucky can I get?” Gamma sorority in he said.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Transgendered individuals need universal support Sex remains a factor in women’s salaries. OK. The real question is why? Like foreigners in their own ing TCU, have their very own teased for being too feminine. youth’s right to express his or The article in the Skiff made the skin, transgendered people suf- Gay-Straight Alliance, which Student organizations along her gender identity at school assumption that men believe women are fer from massive confusion, brings together all students with changes in school poli- that students brought to the less deserving and that women are being verbal and physical abuse, to become aware of rights in cies can allow for a more posi- school’s attention. The dance stifl ed out of positions in business because and struggles with accep- regard to gender and sexual tive environment that accepts was held April 21. Although of a double standard. COMMENTARY tance. Many identity. This is important for everyone. Covarrubias did not become Seriously? Go read up on Fortune 500’s know about gay schools because it teaches tol- Gender is really just an Prom King, she still feels victo- Top 50 women in business: Indra Nooyi people, lesbi- erance and understanding. expression. It is a set of guide- rious. is CEO of PepsiCo — she’s a woman and ans and bisex- The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight lines set by society, and it is She said, “I’m happy I actu- she’s Indian. Plenty of women hold jobs ual people, but Education Network took an not always true for everyone. ally made a difference about in major companies and make plenty of little is known in-depth look at schools in Most people associate wom- changing the law and the pol- money. Also, while for-profi t business is about people every state and released what en with skirts, but not all wom- icy so you can run for your primarily male-dominated, non-profi t orga- who identify they found. The survey they en wear skirts. “Manly” men choice.” nizations are heavily in favor of women in themselves as conducted showed that the are often portrayed with pow- Everyone needs support leadership. Hayley Freeman transgendered. top three reasons for harass- er tools, but there are some whether they have discovered While these organizations pay less, they “Transgender” is a term used to ment at schools in Texas are men who do not even own a they are transgendered, are offer more intrinsic value, which appeals encompass people who do not appearance, sexual orienta- drill. Unfortunately, everyone dealing with bisexuality or more to women. But don’t forget that there identify well with the genders tion (whether it be perceived fi nds themselves measured up just have problems connect- are some women who choose not to make they were born as. Since not or real) and expression of against these standards, and if ing with the opposite sex if work their No. 1 priority. much is known about transgen- one’s gender (whether they act they fall short, they fall prey to they are heterosexual. Policies Men and women alike should continue dered people, they lack certain “girly” or “manly”). The last of the wrath of society. should be inclusive to everyone to put family before the offi ce, and many rights and are often discrimi- the three has become a recur- Fresno High School in Fres- no matter their sexual orienta- women who work forgo higher pay in nated against. With education ring problem for transgen- no, Calif., is taking a step in tion or gender identity. People favor of better health benefi ts for their and more tolerance, more legal dered. the right direction. One of its should tolerate and terminate families, better hours or more paid vaca- rights for these people should Sixty-three percent of stu- students, Cinthia Covarrubias, negative behaviors that turn tion. I didn’t recall any mention of these be made possible. dents say they have seen after being nominated by her the community into a harder factors in the survey conducted — did any- So far, campuses nationwide someone get made fun of fellow students, was able to place to live in. We should all one poll these women on why they accept have formed support groups because of how he or she run for prom king. The school be allies to each other. lower pay? I doubt most of them would say for those who identify them- expresses his or her gender. added her name to the bal- Hayley Freeman is a freshman “Because a man believes I am less quali- selves as gay, transgendered or Girls get made fun of for being lot because of a law made in English major from Fort Worth. Her fi ed.” bisexual. Many schools, includ- too masculine, and boys get the year 2000 that protected a column appears Wednesdays. Lauren Novak is a senior music major from Plano.

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By SALLY APGAR the town and approved unani- U.S. Constitution and his civil having an 80-foot pole that was 38 South Florida Sun-Sentinel mously by the Town Council over rights by denying free speech feet out of compliance. The town PALM BEACH, Fla. — Don- the weekend to not speak to the and expression. alleged other violations, includ- ald Trump and the town of Palm media until the two sides issue a Trump’s lawsuit also accused ing not applying for permits or Beach have reached a quiet truce joint statement. the town of violating equal pro- getting a “Certificate of Appro- in the six-month war over the Attorneys on both sides Mon- tection guaranteed under the priateness.” mega American flag he flies over day either declined comment or 14th Amendment by “selectively According to the 11-point Mar-a-Lago, his Creamsicle-orange could not be reached. enforcing” its ordinances. His suit agreement, Trump also will fortress by the sea. Last week, lawyers for Trump claimed that 20 other properties donate $100,000 “to charities A shorter version of the same and the town reached an agree- on the posh island also fly flags agreed to between the parties 25-by-50-foot flag stays. But, ment during secret, court- that violate town ordinances but dealing with Iraq War Veterans, instead of flying from an 80-foot ordered negotiations that call they have not been fined. (the) American Flag or the local flagpole built to withstand a Cat- for the town to waive all fines The flag flap began in Septem- VA hospital.” Trump had origi- egory 5 hurricane, the flag will fly for the code-busting flagpole ber when Trump sent the town nally said that if he won his $25 from a 70-foot pole. that have been amassing at a a letter notifying them that he million lawsuit, the proceeds So Trump gets to keep the flag rate of $1,250 a day since Janu- would erect a flag at Mar-A-Lago. would go to military members in his own backyard. ary. Trump agreed to withdraw He hoisted Old Glory on Oct. 3. returning from Iraq. But in a very untrumply man- the $25 million lawsuit he filed Although the 25-by-50-foot flag The agreement also requires ner, The Donald isn’t talking. last December against the town violates the town ordinance allow- the town to “review its ordinances

SLAVEN VLASIC / Abaca Press He declined to comment Mon- arguing in part that its ordi- ing for flags 4 by 6 feet, the town and codes dealing with flag poles Donald Trump gave up flying his 25-by-50-foot flag on an day in deference to a stipulation nances regulating the size of fathers passed on enforcing the and flags during the next zoning 80-foot flagpole after he sued the town of Palm Beach. in the agreement reached with flagpoles to 42 feet violate the rule. But they nailed Trump for season.” Lawmakers hope to recognize Armenian genocide next year By KAROUN DEMIRJIAN law in the lower house of the identical Senate version present- month, Secretary of State Con- Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who Turkey vehemently rejects Chicago Tribune French parliament criminal- ed by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. doleezza Rice and Defense Sec- is author of the House resolution the assertion that Armenian Every April 24, U.S. presi- izing denial of the Armenian Should the measures reach the retary Robert Gates wrote that and represents a district with the deaths during World War I dents commemorate the offi- genocide and extending to the floor, it would be the first time Turkey — which borders Syria, largest ethnic Armenian popula- constituted genocide, main- cial day of remembrance of political murder of a prominent since 2000, when then House Iraq and Iran — is “a linchpin in tion in the country. taining instead that those the Armenian genocide with Turkish-Armenian journalist. Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., the transshipment of vital cargo “I don’t see how we can killed — which it numbers at a speech or statement careful- The issue has caught the responded to a request from the and fuel” to U.S. troops engaged speak with moral authority on 300,000 — were the unfortu- ly crafted to avoid use of the attention of many U.S. lawmak- Clinton administration by pull- in the Middle East. the genocide in Darfur if we’re nate casualties of widespread word “genocide.” ers, and with House Speaker ing a resolution on the use of the A negative reaction from unwilling to speak with clar- war. U.S. officials have avoided Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., sympa- word “genocide” only minutes Turkey to a resolution on the ity about the genocide against Genocide — or lack thereof the word because Turkey, a key thetic to the cause, advocates are before a scheduled vote. Armenian genocide “could the Armenians,” Schiff said. “It — is a contentious issue within ally, strongly opposes the char- hopeful that by next year’s com- The bill’s advocates had harm American cannot be our pol- Turkey. Tension spiked in Jan- acterization to describe the early memoration survivors and their hoped that Pelosi, a longtime troops in the field, icy that we’ll rec- uary with the murder of Hrant 20th century deaths of an esti- descendants will find closure to advocate for recognition of the constrain our abil- “There’s really ognize genocide Dink, a prominent Turkish- mated 1.5 million Armenians at a 92-year struggle to gain official Armenian genocide, would ity to supply our no denying that when it’s commit- Armenian journalist who had the hands of Ottoman Turks. recognition for the mass killings bring the bill to a floor vote troops in Iraq and the murder of ted by the politi- been sentenced to jail under In the past, members of the that took place in the Ottoman by Tuesday. Afghanistan, and a million and a cally weak, as in Article 301 of the Turkish penal House and Senate have pro- Empire in World War I. Yet the bill is still lingering in significantly dam- Sudan, but not the code, which makes it a crime posed resolutions calling on the Aram Hamparian, execu- the House Committee on For- age our efforts to half Armenians politically strong, as to insult “Turkishness.” president to utter the phrase tive director of the Armenian eign Affairs, where it has not promote recon- constituted in Turkey.” Turkish officials have invoked “Armenian genocide,” but the National Committee of Amer- been scheduled for a vote. ciliation between genocide.” Advocates of the his death — publicly mourned efforts have run aground in the ica, a Washington-based lob- As a member of NATO and Armenia and Tur- Adam Schiff bill add that a neg- by Armenians and Turks alike face of political concerns voiced bying group, said that if the a key transit link for Caspian key,” Rice and ative reaction from — as a rallying point to call for California by both Democratic and Repub- resolutions came to a vote in oil, Turkey has long been an Gates wrote. Turkey — however more academic and historical Democratic lican administrations. the full House and Senate, they important U.S. ally, and offi- Daniel Fried, dramatic — would dialogue between the two eth- Representative In the last year, however, the would pass. “It’s time to let cials at the highest levels of the assistant secretary not be crippling. nic groups. That same call is struggle over the word “geno- public policy catch up with the Bush administration are wary of state for Euro- “Each time we being echoed by those attempt- cide” has received international truth,” he said. of straining that relationship. pean and Eurasian affairs, discuss this, Turkey has pre- ing to stymie debate over the attention through a series of The House version is co-spon- In a letter to Pelosi and House added to the alarm in March dicted the end of the world, or genocide issue in Congress. high-profile news events, com- sored by 190 lawmakers, with 29 Foreign Affairs Committee chair- when he told Lantos’ commit- threatened to cut off all ties,” But Schiff questioned calls mencing with the passage of a senators supporting the nearly man Tom Lantos, D-Calif., last tee that Turkey could respond Hamparian said. for dialogue from a coun- to a genocide bill by blocking But since Turkey refused to try that he says is still cam- U.S. access to Incirlik air base, let the U.S. use its territory as paigning to censor parts of a transit point in southeastern an entry point into Iraq dur- the debate. “There’s really no Turkey for nearly three-quar- ing the 2003 invasion, he said, denying that the murder of a ters of all military cargo head- American dependence on Tur- million and a half Armenians ed for Iraq. key has waned. constituted genocide,” he said. But some legislators see the “Turkey has relationships “Iran is in the business of host- administration’s warnings as with the U.S. because it makes ing conferences denying the misapplied fear-mongering. sense for Turkey,” Hampar- Holocaust. We shouldn’t be “You can essentially sum up ian said. “So these doomsday in the business of supporting the argument against recognition threats are really just threats to conferences to debate undeni- in one word: expediency,” said punish themselves.” able facts of genocide.” TCU Daily Skiff FUNKY FROGS Read about the lives of all the hip faculty and staff on campus. Features TOMORROW Wednesday, April 25, 2007 5

Nothing broken about ‘Fracture’ No Strings Attached International guitar festival rocks Dallas By SAEROM YOO Staff Reporter Step into the 214,000 square-foot warehouse and gape at the rows and rows NEW LINE CINEMA of guitars. Ryan Gosling interrogates Anthony Hopkins in the thriller “Fracture.” Classical, acoustic, electric, vintage — there more By SAM ORTIZ a fork. More excitingly, Gos- types than the average Staff Reporter ling’s style of understatement music lover could ever “If you look close enough, might just be one of the more name. Hear about 30 dif- you’ll find everyone has a exhilarating things to happen ferent guitar melodies weak spot.” This tagline to film in quite a long time. simultaneously; all are live. for the film “Fracture” is Chances are, without the Some come from profes- the most elementary way to fabulous entourage of actors, sional guitarists playing explain this thrilling two- “Fracture” still would stand a on any of the five stages hour ride. chance at being a box office dispersed throughout the When meticulous struc- success. The story itself is hall, but most are attend- tural engineer Ted Crawford complicated, detailed and ees of the world’s largest is found innocent of the fantastically put together. It guitar festival experiment- attempted murder of his wife, keeps the audience on pins ing on their potentially the young district attorney and needles through the new guitars at one of the Willy Beachum who is pros- entire runtime. When the 800 exhibitors’ booths. ecuting him becomes a cru- film was at a point where Blend in with the infinite- sader for justice. “Fracture” is the viewers believed they ly diverse group of guitar- packed with twists and turns understood everything going lovers and skim the array that weave in and out of the on and they had it all fig- of guitars, some of which AMBER PARCHER / Features Editor courtroom as the pair try to ured out, the screenwriters date back to 1923 — when ( Left) Eric Clapton’s red guitar, his Cream guitar case and his favorite guitar nicknamed “Blackie,” which has appeard on more outwit each other. had us running to catch up the first electric guitar was album covers than any other guitar, were showcased at Dallas’ guitar festival. Next to Blackie is Stevie Ray Vaughan’s guitar. The first noticeable praise with them in the complete- made. for the film is for the impec- ly opposite direction. Its cable performances. Direc- attempts at being coy, intel- HISTORY THE CROWD THE HOLY GRAIL GUITAR EXHIBITION tor Gregory Hoblit (“Primal ligent and entertaining paid According to the Dallas Interna- The demographics of this year’s The Holy Grail, sponsored by PRS Fear”) left nothing out, going off extremely well. tional Guitar Festival show guide, attendees shifted slightly from the Guitars, was a miniature guitar so far as to include an out- Watching Hopkins’s char- 30 years ago, the Dallas Interna- more-seasoned Monte Montgomery museum, “featuring 60 of the world’s standing supporting cast that acter (Crawford) engage Gos- tional Guitar Festival was a humble fans with an appreciation for vintage most famous guitars and memora- boasts the talents of Acad- ling (Beachum) in a sinister get-together of guitar dealers and collectibles to the fresher music-lov- bilia,” according to the festival Web emy Award-nominee David game of cat and mouse is collectors in a small hotel meet- ers as the festival brought in young- site. Its attractions ranged from the Strathairn (“Good Night, And worth the price of admission. ing room called Greater South- er musicians such as Green River guitar Jimi Hendrix couldn’t buy Good Luck”) and Rosamund But, more importantly, watch- west Vintage Guitar Show. About Ordinance and Hero Factor. These because he died before making it Pike (“Pride & Prejudice”). ing the two characters bend 20 years later, live music came onto attractions were brought in through to southern California to make the Easily the movie’s best and twist the plot around to the scene, bringing in more people. Trivate Entertainment, a managing purchase, to the first electric guitar assets are the legendary leave us with a fantastic story In 2004, the guitar festival made company responsible for booking ever made, which looked like a cross Anthony Hopkins and Ryan of infidelity, coercion and lies its way into the Dallas Market Hall, younger bands and promoting the between a symphonic guitar and a Gosling. Gosling, with his is worth the $20 DVD. the world’s largest privately owned festival to the college-age popula- harp; from a million-dollar guitar Academy Award-nominated It was definitely one of the exhibition hall, and enjoys the rep- tion, said Amy Graziano, a Trivate to Carlos Santana to Eric Clapton’s performance in “Half Nel- more enjoyable films of the utation of being the world’s pre- employee and senior advertising/ very own guitars on loan from the son,” manages to keep up year, as well as one for which mier guitar show today. public relations major. artists themselves. with the stunning Hopkins a second viewing would be without so much as breaking beneficial rather than bland. a sweat. In fact, Gosling goes You won’t regret traveling to so far as to outline every min- the nearest theater to see this iscule detail of his character’s one even if you aren’t a fre- persona, including even the quent moviegoer. most mundane — right down to how his character holds ★★★★★

‘Hot Fuzz’ balances comedy, action

By JOHN BOLLER questions. The villagers laugh Staff Reporter at Angel when he suggests foul If you thought “Shaun of play, and, with no evidence of the Dead” was good way any, he has only one supporter, back in 2004, then “Hot Butterman. Fuzz” is worth your time. Butterman, a big action- Director and co-writer Edgar movie buff, is a cop who Wright (“Shaun of the Dead”) dreams about high-speed teamed up again with co-writ- car chases, explosions and er and actor Simon Pegg and gun fighting. actor Nick Frost (both from Soon after the death of “Shaun of the Dead”) to give Merchant, two more grisly AMBER PARCHER/ Features Editor AMBER PARCHER / Features Editor AMBER PARCHER / Features Editor audiences a lot of laughs com- deaths occur, both of which This 1958 Gibson with gold hardware is valued The 1923 Lloyed Loard electric guitar is the first Carlos Santana’s double guitar is on loan by plemented by action and sus- have Angel convinced of at $1 million. It usually resides in Rolling Hills electric guitar ever made. Santana. pense. foul play. What entails is Estate, Calif. Sgt. Nicholas Angel, played pure action in the sleepy THE MUSIC by Pegg, is the best officer in town of Sandford. all of London; unfortunate- The film has hilarious char- Most performances were instruments. But one thing attention and admiration. clear notes, fully intended ly it is not to his advantage. acters in the town villagers, fairly humble: a small stage, was obvious — this festival One Brazilian duo in par- and perfect. The melodies His high achievements in law great comedic performances a cluster of plastic fold-out was meant to highlight and ticular, Brazilian Greats, are easy and soothing to the enforcement continue to make from Pegg and Frost and a chairs — more than half heighten the public’s appre- attracted listeners through ears but as Felipe Nacif and his fellow officers jealous, and solid plot and suspenseful were empty. Passers-by ciation for guitars and their flowing and intricate melo- Joao Erbetta said, their vir- his superiors transfer him to story. The only downside to would stop for a moment masters. dies resembling a waterfall tuosity results from 20 years the seemingly quiet village of the film, at a running time of to get a taste of the current The musicians were far trickling down tier after tier, of practice. Sandford. more than two hours, is that performer’s music; some from the stereotypical rock every note smoothly flowing When asked how they In Sandford, Angel meets it seems to drag a few scenes walked on to find a better star guitarists one might into the next. Their appear- spent their days when not his new partner, police officer a little too long. However, the suiting stage for their tastes, envision at a guitar festival. ance wasn’t eye-catching, playing the guitar, Nacif Danny Butterman (Frost). Even film does make sure to keep some sat down with a slight They blended in pretty well as they sat in T-shirts and blankly replied after a though Angel is far from the audiences in the seats with a slouch, heads tilted up with with the rest of the attend- shorts, and nor were their moment of silence: “sleep?” big action back in London, he good constant pace of laugh- alert. These stages in most ees in their button-up shirts instruments: acoustic gui- Erbetta frankly admitted still keeps his eye open for sus- ter and action. part showcased one or two and khaki shorts. However, tars. Their fingers easily and that he plays “all the time.” picious activity. After George If you are in need of a guitar players; some also once they got their hands on rapidly — almost carelessly “I think people think I’m Merchant, the richest and good laugh and some high- sang and some were accom- a guitar, their scurrying fin- — darted down the guitar boring because I play so the drunkest man in the vil- octane action, “Hot Fuzz” is panied by one or two other gers immediately demanded necks but produced crisp, much,” he said. lage, has an ‘accidental’ death the movie for you. when the oven in his kitchen JARS OF CLAY explodes, Angel begins to ask ★★★★★ As Jars of Clay, the headlin- sounds. Although Jars of Clay is ing band of the festival took its now a well-known, mainstream place on stage, the sun hovered band, its performance was in over the horizon, as if waiting fact a unique one among the for permission to retire. The many other performances that performance wasn’t the typi- took place in the market hall cal rock show, where attendees Saturday. The spotlight wasn’t push and shove to get a bet- solely on the guitarist like the ter view of their favorite musi- others; it was shared by a drum- cians. Some stood and swayed mer, keyboardist, vocalist and to the music by the stage, while two guitarists. The sky dark- others sat on the black hardtop ened, and a stimulating light parking lot and listened from a show pulsated with the music AMBER PARCHER / Features Editor distance. The set was balanced as Jars of Clay epitomized the Dan Haseltine, lead vocalist for Jars of Clay, and Matt Odmark, guitar- ROGUE PICTURES between energetic, interactive festival’s essence with honest, ist, closed Saturday night’s festival as the headlining band for the Dallas Simon Pegg, left, and Nick Frost get some action in “Hot Fuzz.” sing-alongs and poignant, gentle loud and simply good music. International Guitar Festival. TCU Daily Skiff SET FOR CHAMPIONSHIPS The men’s tennis team starts Mountain West Conference championships. TOMORROW

SportsWednesday,Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8 ‘Character issues’ in draft

SWING AWAY By ALAN SCHMADTKE consistent trump card. The Orlando Sentinel That doesn’t prevent teams Digging up dirt on people from wanting to know how Young batter hardly is a new concept. The much character some prospects question is what to do with actually have. it. “You gather information; you rivals Big 12 In the NFL, some answers share information,” Jackson- are coming soon. ville coach Jack Del Rio said. The NFL stages its annual “I don’t know that it’s changed veterans draft next Saturday and Sunday. a whole lot, other than there’s By MARCUS MURPHREE Some of the same team execu- more information being gath- Sports Editor tives and coaches who applaud- ered. You spend more time Roll the tarp back and ed NFL Commissioner Roger researching the background, put fresh chalk on the base Goodell’s recent crackdown the character backgrounds. . . paths. on bad boys Adam “Pacman” . You really spend more time Although Tuesday night’s Jones and Chris Henry will get trying to make sure your check- nonconference contest was the chance to attach actions to list is complete.” postponed, a mid-week ball- their public relations. Over the past two weeks, game will take place at Lup- Last week, three more high- teams invited likely fi rst- and ton Stadium. ly rated prospects publicly second-round picks to their cit- A week ago, the No. 27 entered the muck when it was ies for detailed interviews. All Horned Frogs baseball team revealed that Georgia Tech topics are on the table. had a taste of sweet revenge wide receiver Calvin Johnson, “A lot of the questions are against the Oklahoma Soon- Clemson defensive end Gaines pretty blunt: `Do you do drugs? ers in a battle of top-30 Adams and Louisville defensive If you get in a fi ght with a team- teams. tackle Amobi Okoye admitted mate or your girlfriend, how do Tonight, the Horned Frogs to smoking marijuana while in you handle that,’” Notre Dame will try to bring the season college. All three are consid- quarterback Brady Quinn told record against teams in the ered early fi rst-round picks. The Record of Hackensack, Big 12 Conference to an even This year’s group of pros- N.J. .500 in a game against the ROBYN SHEPHEARD / Staff Photographer pects with “character issues” The stakes have been raised. Sophomore Matt Vern prepares to face a UC-Santa Barbara pitcher March 31. The Frogs will face the Texas Tech Red Texas Tech Red Raiders. Raiders tonight. The Red Raiders won 4-1 during the last TCU-Texas Tech matchup. is set to enter the league in Changes to the NFL’s person- The last time that these the wake of Goodell’s ratchet- al-conduct policy, announced two teams faced each other, through pitching, and he is win against the Sooners, “It depends on how the ing up of the league’s person- April 10, effectively alter the the Red Raiders came out vic- leading the Horned Frogs the Horned Frogs managed other schools across the al-conduct policy. Is this the consequences of making torious in a 4-1 win over the in every major offensive to pound out five doubles country play,” Schlossna- year police paperwork weighs poor picks on draft day. Play- Horned Frogs, whose bats category against the big helping erase the memory gle said. more than stat sheets? Is this ers who encounter legal woes were essentially held silent boys from Texas and Okla- of the 13-5 loss that came Although the home win- the draft where teams really do are increasingly likely to miss throughout the game. One homa. April 3. ning streak was silenced by pay attention to character? game time. And for the fi rst of the only bright moments The past two meetings The Red Raiders (25-17, the BYU Cougars last week- “You know talented play- time, teams are going to be that shone during that game against Big 12 competition 7-10) are averaging 4.35 end, the Horned Frogs still ers help you win, but imma- held accountable for repeated was sophomore Matt Vern’s have ended in TCU’s favor runs per game during con- have a 17-1 record while ture players can help you lose,” misdeeds of their players and inside-the-park home run. with the Horned Frogs’ ference play, and the team playing on the manicured Kansas City coach Herman their front-offi ce personnel. Since that game, Vern has (30-10, 12-2) offense com- has the worst ERA in the grounds of Williams-Reilly Edwards said. “It’s not only “The teams that have been become a plague to Big 12 ing alive against the Baylor Big 12 giving hope to a Field during the 2007 sea- young guys but veteran guys, winning Super Bowls the last B e a r s d u r - Horned Frog offense that son. too. . . . Nothing good happens three, four, five years have BIG BATS VS. BIG 12 ing a 6-3 vic- is pushing almost eight Following the Texas Tech after 12 o’clock.” been clean off the fi eld,” NFL AVG Hits Runs RBI SLG tory April 10, runs across the plate each game, the Horned Frogs Good, bad or indifferent, Network analyst Mike Mayock Matt Vern .353 6 4 6 .647 and in an 11-3 game. will have one more game a team will draft Lynch. And said. “New England, Pittsburgh, Clint Arnold .307 4 1 3 .384 shelling of the Whether a win tonight against a Big-12 team when Meriweather. And Thomas. Dit- Indianapolis — they have Steven Trout .285 6 3 1 .333 Sooners just will impact rank is not of they face the Baylor Bears to Johnson, Adams and Okoye. drafted well and been clean Austin Adams .200 4 2 3 .400 one week lat- importance, head coach Jim for the second time this Draft history suggests when and won. The NFL is a copy- er. During the Schlossnagle said . season. players are young, talent is the cat league. 6 INTERNATIONAL TCU Daily Skiff Wednesday, April 25, 2007 Mexico City legalizes abortion American Muslim unable to return home

By DAVID OVALLE By JONATHAN S. LANDAY ments agreed that Meshal The delay in Meshal’s release McClatchy Newspapers McClatchy Newspapers should be removed from the raises “serious concern about MEXICO CITY — Mexico WASHINGTON — Ethiopia no-fly list and brought back to his welfare, the United States’ City’s liberal legislative assembly has changed its mind and decid- the United States. commitment to bringing him passed a controversial law Tuesday ed for the time being not to free An administration official, home and the United States’ night legalizing abortion during a an American Muslim who was speaking on condition of ano- role in his detention in Ethio- woman’s ﬁ rst 12 weeks of preg- captured trying to flee war-torn nymity because of the sen- pia,” said the letter, which was nancy, placing the Mexican capi- Somalia and was held without sitivity of the case, said that also sent to Attorney General tal among Cuba and Guyana as the charges in Kenya and Ethio- Ethiopian officials had then Alberto Gonzales and Home- only Latin American and Carib- pia for more than four months, told the U.S. Embassy that land Security Secretary Michael bean locations with unrestricted according to an internal U.S. “administrative procedures” for Chertoff. access to the procedure. government document. his release were under way, but It said that Meshal’s fam- The vote, after a day of ﬁ ery The latest impediment to that they “would take an indefi- ily was suffering “tremen- debate, was praised by supporters Amir Mohamed Meshal’s repa- nite number of days.” dous hardship” and called for of abortion rights and denounced triation follows the resolution “These are internal domes- “immediate action” to obtain by opponents. of an internal U.S. government tic procedures. They are com- his release. The vote will dramatically alter squabble that had blocked his plex logistical issues that are Meshal was among scores the landscape of abortion in Mexi- return. The Bush administra- being worked to get him to the of people who were captured co, where most of the 107 million tion now seeks to bring him United States,” explained the in Somalia as they fled toward population claims to be Roman back as quickly as possible, administration official without Kenya in January after a U.S.- Catholic. Mexico City has eight officials said. elaborating. backed Ethiopian military million people, but its surrounding “The Ethiopians have He said U.S. officials were offensive toppled a coalition of region contains 21 million more, changed their minds,” said an “making every logistical Islamic militias that had seized and opponents warned that Mexi- internal U.S. government memo effort that needs to be made power last summer. cans from throughout the country read to McClatchy Newspapers to bring this guy could avail themselves of Mexico on Tuesday. It gave no reason back to the United City’s new legislation. for the turnaround. States.” “It’s a huge victory,” said Dr. Ethiopia had been expected J o n a t h a n Raffaela Schiavon, the executive to release Meshal, 24, of Tinton Hafetz, a lawyer director of the women’s health Falls, N.J., from a secret pris- with the Brennan advocacy group Ipas Mexico. “It on following an April 13 hear- Center for Justice could start a chain of similar initia- ing in Addis Ababa at which who’s provid- tives in other Mexican states and be a military tribunal declined to ing legal advice an example for other countries.” charge him with a crime, U.S. to Meshal’s rela-

The passage also signifi es a vic- MCT CAMPUS officials said. tives, said in a tory for the country’s liberal Par- The State Department had letter Tuesday to ty of the Democratic Revolution said Peschard-Sverdrup, the direc- President Felipe Calderon, of the made arrangements to fly him Secretary of State (PRD), which last year lost a nar- tor of the Washington-based Cen- PAN, has opposed the bill, and the home. But it discovered that Condoleezza Rice row, bitterly contested presidential ter for Strategic and International party has said it will ask the Mexi- the FBI had placed Meshal’s that the relatives’ election to the conservative Nation- Studies’ Mexico Project. can Supreme Court to review the name on a no-fly list of sus- congressman, Rep. al Action Party (PAN). The debate over the bill has law. pected security threats main- Rush Holt, D-N.J., MCT CAMPUS Political analyst Armand roiled Mexico for weeks, pitting Abortion in Mexico was already tained by the Department of had informed An American citizen of Somali extraction, arrested after Peschard-Sverdrup says the legis- conservative leaders and the coun- legal in cases of incest, rape or if Homeland Security. them on April 19 the brief U.S.-supported Ethiopian intervention in Somalia, lation’s passage will help the left- try’s Roman Catholic Church, with a woman’s life is in danger. The Last week, officials from the that Meshal would Amir Meshal languishes in an Ethiopian jail because U.S. leaning PRD solidify its appeal. help from the Vatican, against abor- procedure would remain illegal if FBI and the State, Homeland be home in two offi cials were unable to stop Kenyan authorities from “They’re catering to their base,” tion-rights advocates. done after 13 weeks. Security and Justice Depart- days. deporting him in the middle of the night. TCU Daily Skiff TODAY IN HISTORY WORTH A LAUGH — BUT ONLY ONE 1859: At Port Said, Egypt, ground is broken for Q: How do you make a hot dog stand? the Suez Canal, an artifi cial waterway intended to stretch 101 miles across the Isthmus of Suez A: Take its chair away. Etc. to the Mediterranean and Red Seas. Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7

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