The baseball team swept Ohio this weekend... ROOMMATE WANTED: good communication skills and For more, see Sports, page 7 excellent hygiene a must … Listen to Opinion Editor Ceaf Lewis read For more, see columnist Andrew Solomon Opinion, page 4 entertaining letters from his mailbag… PRICE For more, see Opinion at InsideVandy.com he Vanderbilt Hustler Vanderbilt he T / / HENSLEY THETHE VOICEVOICE OFOF VANDERBILTVANDERBILT SINCESINCE 18881888 TH MASON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2007 • 119 YEAR, NO. 18 THE WALL compiled by EVE ATTERMANN TODAY AIN’T NOAH STOPPIN’ US NOW How To Help A Friend VANDY GAMEDAY: VANDERBILT 83 #1 FLORIDA 70 IMAGE will host a workshop today aimed at helping friends with potential eating disorders. The workshop will be held in Furman Hall, Room 132 at 7 p.m. Resources and materials will be provided. The event is part of IMAGE Week 2007. IMAGE is a student-run organization that seeks to improve body image and self-image on campus. TODAY Blair Nightcap Series: Baroque and Beyond “Baroque and Beyond” will begin today at 8 p.m. as a part of the Blair Nightcap Series in the Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall. The concert will be a “mix and match” program of chamber music in duos, trios and quartets from three centuries. Featured composers will be Telemann, Bach, Benjamin Blake, Francois Devienne and Phillipe Gaubert. The concert is open to the public. JONATHAN DIETZ / The Vanderbilt Hustler Students rush the court after Vanderbilt defeated No. 1 Florida Saturday afternoon at Memorial Gymnasium. The Commodores won 83-70. TUESDAY, FEB. 20 Chancellor’s Lecture University may face $25,000 Southeastern Conference fine for student conduct. Series: Bob Herbert New York Times by JARRED AMATO play the No. 1 team in the country,” said junior Shan “Th ere are lot of things that need to go right in columnist Bob Herbert Sports Editor Foster. “We got the opportunity to play them, and we order to beat them, and a lot of things went right will lecture at 6 p.m on seized the moment.” (Saturday),” said coach Kevin Stallings. Tuesday at the Student It was $25,000 very well spent. Th ey most certainly did. Led by Foster and senior Vanderbilt shot 57 percent from the fi eld and Life Center. The lecture is Vanderbilt’s yellow-jacketed police offi cers Derrick Byars, who scored 24 points apiece, the held the nation’s best shooting team to 44 percent. a part of the Chancellor’s stood helplessly in front of the student section as Commodores (18-8, 8-4 SEC) handed the Gators (24- Defensively, the Commodores frustrated the Gators’ Lecture Series and is Commodore fans stormed the court following their 3, 11-1 SEC) their fi rst conference loss and snapped talented frontline, especially fan-favorite Joakim open to the public. team’s 83-70 victory over No. 1 Florida on Saturday their 17-game winning steak. Noah. Most importantly, they responded to every There will be a reception afternoon at Memorial Gymnasium. “Th is is one for the ages,” Byars said. “Twenty years one of Florida’s runs. prior to the lecture at 5 Under Southeastern Conference rule, Vanderbilt from now, I’ll be able to tell my little kids this. Th is is “Th is is defi nitely going to be one game that we’ll p.m. A live video of this can be fi ned up to $25,000 for its actions, a small price special. You can’t explain it.” remember — our whole team, the fans, the program,” event will be streamed to pay for such a sweet reward. The Commodores knew they would have to play close said junior Ross Neltner, who scored 15 points. ■ from VUCast. “A lot of people don’t even get the opportunity to to perfect basketball in order to win, and they did. TUESDAY, FEB. 20 Whirling Dervishes of Rumi Kappa Delta event uses John Edwards Turkey’s Whirling Dervishes of Rumi will perform at 7:30 Twister to raise money writes chancellor p.m. at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. The program will feature live music and in support of living dance containing core elements of Sufi music and will accompany wage movement the poems of Rumi. The dance, which by ALLISON SMITH living wage campaign on symbolizes infi nite News Editor Tuesday. spinning in perfect “Next week is sort of a harmony, is a part of Presidential hopeful culmination of this whole Turkish custom, history, and former Senator John process with everything,” said beliefs and culture. Edwards expressed support Beau Worsham, the union Tickets are $20 to $35 for the Vanderbilt living wage representative in Vanderbilt’s and can be purchased campaign to Chancellor negotiations. “It’s designed to at the TPAC box offi ce, Gordon Gee in a letter dated be a high-profi le town meeting the TPAC Web site, Feb. 12. sort of event.” Davis-Kidd Booksellers Th e Edwards letter arrives Among other events in the Mall at Green at a time when the living scheduled for this week, the Hills or through wage campaign is set to pick union will hold a town hall Ticketmaster. up momentum. Actor Danny meeting at the Wightman Glover and the Laborer’s Chapel at the Scarritt-Bennett International Union General Center. Compiled by staff from various KELLY HOCUTT / The Vanderbilt Hustler President Terry O’Sullivan are Worsham said he expects to sources. Check out http://calendar.vanderbilt.edu Freshmen Jeff Collins, Tommy Byrd and Morgan Roach play Twister Saturday afternoon in the Student Recreation Center as a part of set to participate in a series of fi ll the 300-seat chapel. for more events. Kappa Delta’s annual philanthropy event, which benefi ts Prevent Child Abuse Tennessee and Prevent Child Abuse America. events concerning Vanderbilt’s Please see EDWARDS, page 2 ��������������������������������������� ��������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������� ��������������������������������������� ����� ������ ������������� �������������������� ���������� �������������������� �������������� ���������������������������� 2 Monday, February 19, 2007 The Vanderbilt Hustler www.insidevandy.com CORRECTION The article in the Feb. 16 issue IN THE KNOW entitled “Democrats rally as part The news you need — in brief EDWARDS: Union plans of national protest” contained compiled by EVE ATTERMANN several factual inaccuracies. For example, the rally was not a WORLD partisan event. While the College events for coming week Democrats were involved, they Israeli police commander resigns in did not take the fi rst step in scandal involving underworld figures From EDWARDS, page 1 wouldn’t normally confi rm the authenticity organizing the rally. The Hustler Israel’s police commander resigned Sunday after a Vanderbilt spokesman Michael of any single letter,” Schoenfeld said. “It is regrets these errors. government commission said he ignored ties between senior Schoenfeld said Edwards’ letter looked not uncommon for political candidates offi cers and underworld fi gures and failed to ensure a thorough “interesting” but that and advocacy groups to send copies of their WEATHER investigation into the 1999 killing of a suspected crime boss. it did not change the correspondence to the news media before it compiled by EVE ATTERMANN Th e resignation of Moshe Karadi was the latest in a series fact that Vanderbilt ever gets to the intended recipient as a way of public scandals and controversies involving Israel’s top currently provides to generate news coverage, so I imagine that TODAYTODAY leadership—including rape allegations against the president a comprehensive was the case with this letter.” and questions over the prime minister’s role in a bank sale. compensation In his letter, the former senator pointed out Earlier Sunday, commission chairman Vardi Zeiler, a retired package to all that other universities, including Harvard, judge, said Karadi, although he was a departmental head, not employees. Georgetown and Yale, had established a police commissioner, at the time of the killing, should lose “It’s obvious living wage on their campus within the last his job for the incomplete investigation and for ignoring ties EDWARDS that the union and few years. between senior police offi cers and top organized crime fi gures. activist groups have “I understand that Vanderbilt employees, Terminating Karadi’s appointment would “highlight a clear targeted Vanderbilt students, religious leaders, labor leaders and PartlyPartly Cloudy, 56/43 norm for generations to come that someone who behaves for attention,” community residents have joined together like Karadi would be unable to complete his term as police Schoenfeld said. “It’s to take up this cause of simple fairness,” TUESDAY commissioner,” Zeiler told reporters. not surprising that a Edwards wrote. “I support their eff orts, and I Karadi insisted that the allegations against him were untrue, political candidate hope you will join us.” but said he was resigning to “set a personal example” and would speak out In response, Gee wrote a four-point letter spare the police the harm of a scandal. about this, but it does addressed to Edwards. Karadi was a top offi cial in southern Israel at the time of the not change the facts “While we are optimistic that Vanderbilt 1999 killing, and the commission rebuked him for promoting a of the situation or and the union will eventually reach a police commander suspected in hushing up the case on behalf GEE Vanderbilt’s position.” mutually agreeable position, I do want to be of the crime family that allegedly hired the murdered offi cer. Kate Bedingfi eld, clear about several important points that, a spokeswoman for unfortunately, have been either ignored Showers, 56/40 Edwards’ campaign, or distorted in the rhetoric that has been At least 23 bombs explode Sunday in confi rmed the letter’s generated around the issue,” Gee wrote. WEDNESDAYWEDNESDAY southern Thailand, killing three authenticity Sunday.