VOLUME 115, ISSUE 29
‘THESE CASES ARE OVER’
Outcome offers
closure at Duke
BY ERIN FRANCE
STATE 6 NATIONAL EDITOR
DURHAM Almost all of Duke
University seemed to breathe a sigh
of relief sifter kidnapping and sex
ual assault charges were dropped
against three former lacrosse play
ers by the state Attorney General
Roy Cooper.
Reade Seligmann, Collin
Finnerty and David Evans origi
nally were charged by Durham’s
District Attorney Michael Nifong
in the alleged rape of a black,
female exotic dancer at a March
13,2006 party.
The female also was a student at
the nearby historically black N.C.
Central University.
The charges of rape were
dropped after the accuser’s tes
timony of the night’s events
changed.
“The result is that these cases
are over, and no more criminal
proceedings will occur,” Cooper
said during a press conference
Wednesday.
“We believe that these cases
were the tragic result of a rush to
accuse and a failure to verify seri
ous allegations.”
He said he did not believ&any
charges should be brought against
the accuser but would not explain
further, mentioning that the docu
ments informing his decision are
sealed.
“She did want to move forward
with the case,” he said. “However,
the contradictions in her many
versions of what occurred and the
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BY ALEXANDRIA SHEALY
STAFF WRITER
It’s not every day that just about
anyone can brush shoulders with
renowned filmmakers such as out
spoken documentarian Michael
Moore and Mira Nair, director of
“The Namesake.”
But once a year, Durham hosts
the internationally recognized Full
Frame Documentary Film Festival.
Full Frame, now in its 10th
year, kicks off today and runs until
Sunday night at Durham’s Carolina
Theatre.
More than 1,100 films from 23
countries were submitted for the
festival’s 82 competitive slots.
Nancy Buirski, Full Frame’s
chief executive officer, founder
and artistic director, said she
chose Durham a6 the festival’s
location because the Triangle’s
acaSemic commdiuty.
“So many pefiMe are involved
with universities here,” she said.
“So many people here sre inter
ested in the Cultural experience
that we are offering.”
But Full Frame isn’t just a
series of films being shown in
Four can’t-miss documentaries at Full Frame
TODAY:
"Lake of Fho" Director Tony Kaye (“American History X") spent 15
years piecing together “Lake of Fire/ a film that likely will become the
definitive documentary about the U.S. abortion debate. (2:15 p.m.)
FRIDAY:
"Angels in the Dust" Documentarian Louise Hogarth continues her
exploration of the AIDS issue with ‘Angels in the Dust,” a chronicle of a
South African village that cares for afflicted children. (12:15 pm.) '
SATURDAY:
The Great Happiness Space” Jake Clennell makes his directorial debut
with this documentary about Japan's burgeoning male Geisha scene that
exposes an underbelly in Japan's modem dub culture. (8:15 pm.)
SUNDAY:
"Forever” Award-winning documentarian Heddy Honigman examines
a Parisian cemetery that is the final resting place for many artists and, in
turn, explores how art moves and inspires in everyday life. (9:15 a.m.)
For more films, locations, times, dates and pricing, visit fullframefest.org.
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conflicts between what she said
occurred and other evidence, like,
photographs and phone records,
could not be rectified.”
Joseph Cheshire, Evans’ attor
ney, in a later press conference in
Raleigh, said his clients were not
pressing any charges against the
accuser in the desire to have the
episode finished.
Much of the harsh criticism
aired was reserved for Nifong and
his handling of the case, for which
he now faces ethics charges of
withholding evidence and lying to
the court by the N.C. State Bar.
“He has no right being in a
position of power over any North
Carolinian,” Cheshire said.
And while Seligmann, Finnerty
and Evans said they are glad to be
exonerated of the charges, they
said they blame Nifong for a year’s
worth of legal trouble and emo
tional pain.
“This entire experience has
opened my eyes up to a tragic world
of injustice,” Seligmann said.
“I can’t imagine what they would
do to people who do not have the
resources to defend themselves.”
When the rape first was report
ed, a contingent of the school and
Durham community were vocal in
their support of the accuser, mani
fested in marches in the street as
well as calls on Nifong to find evi
dence against the three students.
“We’re just as innocent today
as we were back then,” Evans said.
“Nothing has changed”
But things have changed on
Duke’s campus since the allega
tions were leveled.
President Richard Brodhead
suspended the 2006 lacrosse sea
son at Duke and launched several
theaters to the general public.
The festival boasts intimate
question-and-answer sessions
with directors; discussion panels
giving audiences a chance to inter
act with personalities in documen
tary film; and star-studded events
such as the festival’s “Power of Ten”
series, where notable directors will
introduce 10 documentaries that
impacted their careers.
UNC senior Andrew Carlberg,
the Carolina Union Activities
Board’s film and public figures
chairman, along with fellow seniors
Natalie Palmer, Sean vonLembke,
and Hans Vogel, earned their docu
mentary, “Men in the Arena,” a spot
in the festival’s repertoire after win
ning CUAB’s Student Documentary
Shorts Competition in March.
“Full Frame has given students
such a high priority at the festival.
They aren’t an afterthought,” said
Gorham “Hap” Kindem, a UNC
professor who taught the students.
“They have an incredible oppor
tunity to get their work seen by film
makers and audiences they would
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conversations and committees to
investigate campus culture.
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Loeb teaches her biopsychology
class in Phillips on Tuesday. Loeb
has taught at UNC for two years.
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Editor’s Note: The Daily Tar Heel
regularly runs advertisements under
written by Coca-Cola.
BY CLINT JOHNSON
SENIOR WRITER
Union activist Ray
Rogers said he will never
forget a meeting he had
with Juan Carlos Galvis,
vice president of a union
of Coca-Cola bottling
workers in Colombia.
“He said, ‘Ray, if we
lose this fight against
Coca-Cola, first we will
lose our union; then
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we will lose our jobs; then we will lose our
lives.’”
Rogers said accounts such as this prompted
him and a group of labor organizers to launch
the Campaign tp Stop Killer Coke almost four
years ago. Killer Coke seeks to end the compa
ny’s alleged widespread labor, human rights
and environmental abuses worldwide.
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that seemed to pit three wealthy
white men against an unnamed
black woman.
“I’m concerned that statements
were made publicly that turned
out not to be true,” Cooper said.
BY NATE HEWITT
STAFF WRITER
Consuming beer and liquor
together is more likely to cause
someone to get sick than drinking
one of the two.
Psychology professor Jeannie
Loeb uses this
example to
explain
concept of
memory bind
ing how the
brain associ
ates different
favorite professors
elements to predict an outcome.
Loeb, 37, is not afraid to use
examples that keep her students
interested in the topic.
“She talks to us rather than
down to us like she’s one of our
peers,” said junior Elizabeth Cecil,
a psychology and studio art major.
“You can tell she really cares about
her students.”
That attitude has helped Loeb,
who began teaching at UNC in
Coca-Cola vehemently denies the accu
sations.
Instead of calling for a boycott, Killer Coke
has attempted to eliminate the company’s
markets, particularly college campuses.
“They know that if they get a student
hooked on their brand name, they have
a customer for the next 50 or 60 years,”
Rogers said.
“When they lose something like this, it
has quite an impact.”
UNC has an exclusive vending contract
with PepsiCo Inc., which means Pepsi prod
ucts are the only beverages that can be sold in
campus facilities aside from athletic ven
ues. UNC switched to Pepsi from Coca-Cola
in 2004 after a competitive bidding process.
Coca-Cola is a major sponsor of UNC
athletics and has concession sights at all
Tar Heel sports events.
A student-led movement
’New York University senior Dave Hancock
is a major player in the campaign against
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“People owe a lot of apologies to
other people.”
Awa Nur, a freshman at Duke,
said she, and other first-year stu
dents, reserved judgement until
enrolling for the fall semester.
2005, quickly become one of the
University’s most popular profes
sors among students.
Loeb’s “Biopsychology” class is
full this semester. Her “General
Psychology” class has just five out
of 120 seats open.
She said she likes to make her
classes as interactive as possible by
communicating directly with stu
dents and by encouraging them to
participate.
“It’s important that the students
have fun when they learn and pay
attention,” said Loeb, who received
a doctorate degree in psychology
from UNC in 1998. “I like to make
sure students are interested in the
material and that they can relate it
to their lives.”
And students in her classes said
that she’s successful in her endeav
or to make a seemingly dull sub
ject interesting.
“She does a good job of pre
senting the material,” said junior
Hannah Travlos, who is taking
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Ed Potter, Coca-Cola's director of global labor relations,
(left), discusses Colombia with Killer Coke's Ray Rogers.
Coca-Cola at NYU —one of the nation’s largest private
universities.
Starting in late 2003, Hancock and other activists
began an effort to build support for a Coca-Cola ban.
“At first, most folks were skeptical of a campaign that
claimed that the most übiquitous brand known to man
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“We kind of made our own deci
sions once we were on campus,”
she said.
Nur said she chose to support
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Loeb’s “Biopsychology” class. “She
gives really funny examples using
her friends and family.”
Loeb said her favorite part
about the field of psychology is
that she always learns new things
and that textbook definitions are
constantly being updated.
“Everything about it is so excit
ing,” Loeb said “And I want the
students to be as excited as I am.”
Karen Gil, chairwoman of the
Department of Psychology, said
Loeb is among the top 10 percent
of professors in the department
every semester when administra
tors look at course evaluations.
“Her greatest quality is her
enthusiasm for the subject mat
ter,” Gil said. “We’re just thrilled
to have her.”
Loeb also is the director of
undergraduate research in the psy
chology department. She said that
although she doesn’t participate in
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