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TODAY by GLENNA DEROY Lambda Drag Show Editor-in-Chief The Lambda Association presents Some 20 Panhellenic sorority women were its annual Drag Fashion involved in a heated dispute Th ursday morning Show at 7 p.m. on over the discovery of the “black derby,” hidden by Alumni Lawn. The Sigma Chi fraternity as a part of Derby Days. event is open to the Director of Greek Life Kristin Torrey said there public. were more than two Panhellenic chapters involved in the altercation but preferred not to specify SATURDAY, MARCH 31 which. Walk for Darfur Sororities had been searching for the derby Students Taking Action hat all week in hopes of winning the fraternity’s Now: Darfur will host annual week of philanthropy and competition. Th e its biggest event of the derby is worth 1,500 points toward the Derby Days year Saturday at 1:30 championship. p.m. in front of Kirkland Torrey sent an e-mail to all Greek women Hall. Participants Th ursday afternoon in condemnation of what she donate $10 to walk the perceived as a physical altercation. campus loop. The event “Th e purpose of my e-mail was to avoid any benefi ts the Lost Boys further drama for the rest of the Derby Days Center of Nashville. activities, especially in the football games, because those have always been something our sororities SATURDAY, MARCH 31 are highly competitive in,” she said. Blair Piano Faculty However, Director of Crime Prevention Andrew Signature Series Atwood said to the best of his knowledge, the Melissa Rose, Roland argument remained verbal and no police were called to the scene. Schneller, Martha LAUREN FONDRIEST / The Vanderbilt Hustler Bartles, Elizabeth Junior Mark Rafalko performs “Hello” by Oasis and “Take Your Mama” by Scissor Sisters at the Rock the Quad talent showcase in Highland Quad Thursday night. “Based upon what I was told, it appears that it Eckert, ChiHee Hwang, wasn’t anything other than a verbal altercation,” he Karen Krieger, Jama said. “It appears that one of our offi cers happened Reagan, Kay Rhee and upon female students this morning arguing over Deanna Walker will what turned out to be the derby that Sigma Chi perform a variety of Students feel housing crunch uses for Derby Days.” compositions written Atwood said the offi cer who came across the for zero to eight hands by ANNE MALINEE is ideal,” Kramka said. their ballot. Th e selection than last year, leaving incident handed over the derby to Sigma Chi, who in a one-hour concert Staff Reporter “But that is not possible order for ballots with fewer spots available for awarded the points to Kappa Alpha Th eta. titled “Zero to Eight in when our supply of the same point total is the lottery. Torrey said in the e-mail that the fi ght near 60 Minutes.” The free Rising juniors and each diff erent type of determined by random With tighter McGugin Center resulted in bite marks and a public performance sophomores felt the accommodation is fi xed selection. competition for living phone call to the police, contrary to VUPD reports. begins at 8 p.m in the squeeze this week as while student preferences Last spring, ballots with spaces, students who “To people outside of the Greek community, our Turner Recital Hall. the combination of are dynamic and change as few as six points were were able to reserve specifi c letters do not matter, and currently we look more students living over time.” able to secure Morgan apartments considered like stupid sorority girls fi ghting over a hat,” she said SUNDAY, APRIL 1 on campus and more Th ese students must and Lewis triples, themselves lucky. in the e-mail. “Please show some class as we fi nish Concert Choir, students reserving their now compete for single according to a guide to “We got Morgan out the Derby Days week.” Chambers Singers current living spaces and double rooms in the housing assignment and Lewis, which is Torrey said it was likely that the women involved spring concert limited the number of Carmichael Towers East, process issued by the something so many gave two versions of their story to her and VUPD. Hear the 75 voices of apartments and suites Tolman and Cole Halls, Offi ce of Housing and people didn’t get,” said “What somebody is going to say to a police offi cer the Concert Choir and available in this year’s and Peabody campus Residential Education. rising junior Emma Dyer, is probably diff erent than what they’re going to tell Chamber Singers at 2 housing lottery. dorms. Th is year, Kramka said who initially planned me, but more than anything, the people that came p.m. Sunday in Ingram Several rising juniors “It’s a really frustrating 17 ballots each for men to live in a Chaffi n but in to see me today wanted to apologize for failing to Hall as they present did not get Morgan process, especially since and women secured had to change plans at represent the Greek community the way that they a varied program, or Lewis suites and I’ve already lived on apartments with nine the last minute. “We got know they should,” she said. including works from Chaffi n apartments Peabody for a year,” said points before all the spots really lucky, even though Torrey said she could not know defi nitively the fi ve centuries. at the Highland Quad Michelle Pugh, a rising were taken. we didn’t get our fi rst extent of the disagreement, as she was not present lottery held Wednesday junior who was unable Last year, men’s ballots choice.” when it occurred. SUNDAY, APRIL 1 night, and no all-rising- to secure a Morgan or with 12 points and “We were very satisfi ed, “Th e version of the story had gone through Momentum Dance sophomore ballots Lewis apartment with women’s ballots with but I know there were a several diff erent people before it got to me,” she Group spring succeeded for apartments two of her classmates. “I eight points secured lot of people who didn’t said. “So, did someone have a bite mark? Did performance or suites. really didn’t want to live Chaffi n apartments. Th is get what they wanted,” someone not have a bite mark? I’m not really sure, Momentum, with Senior director of here again, but now I’m year, men needed at least said Douglas Kurdziel, a but that was what I was told.” the Vanderbilt Dance Housing Facilities forced to.” 14 points and women sophomore with senior Torrey said the incident is not “a big deal” and the Program, will perform Operation and Students compete for needed at least 13 to get a standing who was able to “magnitude of it is not over the top,” as it involved their own original work Management Jim Kramka apartments and suites Chaffi n, Kramka said. reserve a triple. a small subset of the hundreds of sorority women in their annual spring said he has received by fi lling out housing “Because more rising Kramka said the who participate in Derby Days. presentation Sunday some complaints from ballots with point values. seniors and rising juniors Offi ce of Housing “However, it is a big deal because we should at 3 p.m. in the Student students who were not Rising seniors receive are living on campus, the and Residential show better Panhellenic spirit than those women Life Center Ballroom. assigned to apartments, four points, rising juniors competition for suites Education will not grant today,” she said. “We need to make sure that we Admission is $5. and he understands their receive three points and apartments is stiff er,” additional off -campus are respectful of each other and that we are getting concerns. and rising sophomores Kramka said. authorizations because along.” “Th eir disappointment receive two points. Kramka also said four some students did not “Derby Days is intended to be a fun event in is genuine, and I wish Students are placed in more Chaffi ns and two get suites or apartments. which we raise money for the Children’s Miracle Compiled by staff from various that I could provide each order to choose their more three-person Lewis Th ey will be placed in Network. It is not supposed to be an occasion for ill sources. Check out http://calendar.vanderbilt.edu student with the type of living spaces based on and Morgan apartments open rooms elsewhere words and drama between Panhellenic sororities,” for more events. housing he or she thinks the total of points on were reserved this year on campus. ■ she said. ■ 615.279.7299 LUXURY LIVING IN THE VILLAGE WWW.THECHESTERFIELDCONDOS.COM|615.298.3545 2 Friday, March 30, 2007 The Vanderbilt Hustler www.insidevandy.com WEATHER compiled by KRISTEN CHMIELEWSKI IN THE KNOW TODAY The news you need — in brief ‘The Real World’ compiled by KRISTEN CHMIELEWSKI WORLD Britain takes case against Iran to United auditions to be held Nations in hopes of freeing sailors Britain took its case to free its 15 sailors and marines held by Iran to the United Nations on Th ursday, asking the Security at Buffalo Billiards Morning Showers, 79/58 Council to support a statement that would “deplore” Tehran’s action and demand their immediate release.