MEN’S BASKETBALL Fashion writer Katy Finneran GEORGIA AT VANDY explains how to calculate your body Saturday, Feb. 3 6 p.m. mass index in light of Spain banning Win prizes by blogging and submitting photos Memorial Gym underweight models… to InsideVandy.com! For a preview, see Sports, page 8 For more, see Life, page 10 For more details, see today’s Hustler ad, page 13 THETHE VOICEVOICE OFOF VANDERBILTVANDERBILT SINCESINCE 18881888 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2007 • 119 TH YEAR, NO. 11 THE WALL Black History compiled by KRISTEN CHMIELEWSKI TODAY McGill Hour promotes Civil rights leader James Lawson to Month event speak in Benton Civil rights pioneer and Distinguished grasp of global issues to feature University Professor James Lawson will give a lecture at rapper’s mom Vanderbilt’s Benton Chapel today at 1 p.m. Lawson will Several functions, speakers refl ect on the civil scheduled throughout the rights movement and the legacy of Martin coming weeks. Luther King Jr. The event is free and open by JANELLE STOKES to the public. Contributing Reporter TODAY When some people hear the name Shakur, ‘Reading’ Movies: they think of one person: Tupac. But few The Art of Watching know the woman behind the infamous (and Writing About) rapper, Afeni Shakur. Films Afeni Shakur will come to Vanderbilt on This workshop is for Feb. 6 at 6:30 p.m. as the keynote speaker anyone who wants a for Black History Month. deeper understanding Frank E. Dobson Jr., about how to watch director of the Bishop and write about fi lms. Joseph Johnson Black The discussion will Cultural Center, said occur from 5 to 8 p.m. her story is not simply in Alumni Hall 117. about being the mother The event is open to of Tupac Shakur. students only. Pizza, “Her story is about her involvement in the popcorn and drinks SHAKUR will be provided. Black Panther struggle, about her being jailed in the ’60s,” Dobson SUNDAY, FEB. 3 & said. “It’s about her defending herself in SATURDAY, FEB. 4 court, about her succumbing to drugs at Rhythm and Roots some point and beating her drug habit, and presents ‘Pieces of LAUREN FONDRIEST / The Vanderbilt Hustler becoming an activist.” Professor Jonathan Gilligan, of the earth and environmental sciences department, takes time to speak to students about energy conservation Thursday evening in McGIll Hall. Th e Department of African American and a DREAM’ Beth Conklin, an anthropology and religious studies professor, and Doug Wood, a philosophy professor, also made presentations to the group. Premier student dance Diaspora Studies, the Offi ce of the Provost and drama ensemble and the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Rhythm and Roots Center are responsible for bringing Shakur, Performance Company a fi lm series on the civil rights era and two Fraternities, sororities held local entrepreneurs to campus for Black presents “Pieces of a DREAM” Saturday, History Month. Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. and Black History Month has been celebrated Sunday, Feb. 4 at 4 to different GPA standards nationally since 1926 and at Vanderbilt p.m. in Ingram Hall. since the early ’70s. Th e theme of this year’s Tickets cost $6 and can Some attribute discrepancy to low IFC recruitment numbers. program is “Black History is American be purchased at the History.” Sarratt Box Offi ce or at by CHRIS LAWRENCE Th e theme was chosen because “a typical the door. Contributing Reporter misconception is that black history and the Black Cultural Center only pertain to African- MONDAY, FEB. 5 Th e Panhellenic Council raised Americans,” said LaShonda King-Knowles, VSG candidates its required grade point average facility and event coordinator for the BCC. meeting to a 2.5 last semester, causing “I think that everyone is going to benefi t, Any student interested concern among some that the students and faculty alike,” King-Knowles in running for VSG Interfraternity Council should said. “We always hear about Martin Luther senator or school follow suite. King Jr. and Malcolm X. … We are bringing council resident must Panhellenic raised its minimum in new information that hasn’t been attend the mandatory GPA for recruitment from a 2.3 discussed or shown before.” candidates meeting to a 2.5 last semester, while IFC Freshman Madeleine Fentress said she Monday in Sarratt maintains that any potential thinks of literary works, civil rights and 363 at 6 p.m. Contact new member must fi nish his fi rst Martin Luther King Jr. when she thinks of Elizabeth Scott with semester with a 2.3. black history, yet recognizes it as a part of any questions. Some Greek recruits and other her history. students have voiced concern with MASON HENSLEY / The Vanderbilt Hustler “It is the history of my country and people ALL NEXT WEEK this discrepancy. New members of Alpha Chi Omega sorority receive their t-shirts on Bid Day 2007. The Panhellenic Council raised that I live with and interact with,” Fentress Last chance for Sigma Chi pledge Oliver Green the minimum GPA from 2.3 to 2.5 before this year’s rounds; IFC has not made the same change. said. “Even if it’s not my family, it’s still yearbook portraits said he thinks fraternity men apart of my culture.” Yearbook should have to make at least as unlike those governed by IFC. Psi recruitment chair, said he does Afeni Shakur plays an integral role in photographers are high a GPA as sorority women, if Liz Warner, the Panhellenic vice not think the IFC should increase bridging the gap due to her role as a pop returning next week, not higher, because he said when president of recruitment, said its minimum GPA requirement for culture icon and activist, Dobson said. Shakur Feb. 5-9, for their fi nal pledging a fraternity, most pledges’ Panhellenic decided to raise the recruitment reasons. was involved in the infamous 1969 “New visit to take photos for grades drop. minimum GPA this semester at “Fraternity recruitment was York Panther 21” case where 21 members undergraduates for Kappa Kappa Gamma new the consensus of all the sorority down this year, so the minimum of the party were arrested for conspiracy the 2007 yearbook. member Amanda Cline said recruitment chairs, because the GPA should not increase, to bomb several New York establishments. Students must stop women should not be held to a minimum GPA requirement for regardless of what the girls decide She is also the founder of the Tupac Amaru by Sarratt 112 from 9 higher standard than the men. each house was above a 2.5. to do,” Wilson said. “Especially with Shakur Center for the Arts and the Tupac a.m. to 1 p.m. or 2 p.m. “(Women) shouldn’t have to Th e average GPA for sorority Th e Commons on the horizon, Amaru Shakur Foundation that provides to 6 p.m. Seniors are work harder than any guy would members is a 3.3. we do not need to set any more arts education to young people. encouraged to make to be considered by a Greek Ashley Holmes, the outgoing limitations.” “I think that depending upon the appointments as soon organization,” she said. Panhellenic scholarship chair, said Andy Malgieri, Phi Kappa Psi speaker, (interest) may go from lukewarm as possible because the Th e two councils work she does not understand why girls fraternity president, agreed, saying to very interested,” Dobson said. “I have schedule is fi lling up independently of one another well below the average should go he thinks because “a lot” more seen events like Maya Angelou last year quickly. and therefore decide the GPA through the recruitment process prospective Greeks go through where we had maybe 3,000 people. I have requirement for its chapters if “there were a zero to minimum Panhellenic rush than IFC rush, seen other events draw smaller crowds. separately. In addition, each chapter chance” that a chapter would the Panhellenic rush standards It’s less about his or her race but about the Check out within Panhellenic has a diff erent extend them a bid. should be a “little bit higher to celebrity status, notoriety and perception http://calendar.vanderbilt.edu for more events. GPA requirement for admission, Ryan Wilson, former Phi Kappa control the numbers.” ■ of the person.” ■ ��������� ��������� 2 Friday, February 2, 2007 The Vanderbilt Hustler www.insidevandy.com WEATHER compiled by KRISTEN CHMIELEWSKI IN THE KNOW TODAY The news you need — in brief Freshmen last 24 compiled by KRISTEN CHMIELEWSKI WORLD French president retracts statements hours without media concerning Iran nuclear program On Monday French President Jacques Chirac stated that Professor assigns technology moratorium to Mostly Cloudy, 40/26 Iran’s possession of a nuclear weapon would not be “very dangerous,” and that if it is used on Israel, Tehran will be demonstrate effect of technology on students. immediately “razed.” SATURDAY Th e comments were protested domestically by the Socialist Party and criticized internationally. Now the by HARISH KRISHNAMOORTHI With that in mind, it may come as French government is performing damage control by Asst News Editor no surprise that Berger said she began retracting and clarifying the statements made Monday. texting friends, checking e-mail and using Chirac admits he should have paid more attention to his Freshman Jacquie Berger could not Facebook immediately after her media statements made on the record. In a new statement, Chirac envision a world where she was unable moratorium concluded. said the danger lies in the chances of proliferation or an to use her cell phone or access her e-mail While the students cringed at the loss of arms race in the Middle East should Iran build a nuclear until freshman seminar professor Bruce personal connectivity, they did manage to Partly Cloudy, 35/21 bomb.