Page 1 News (05/09)

Big Brother: My brother Bill Walsh gets inducted into the Wildcat Hall of Fame. Take that, "Pretty Boy" Hicks! (UA)

Smells Like Preteen Spirit: She's good -- ask your boyfriend. (TLB)

RIP: Australian songwriter Grant McLennan, co-founder of the iconic Aussie band The Go-Betweens, died in his sleep at home in Brisbane on Saturday. McLennan, 48, is thought to have died of a heart attack. "16 Lovers Lane" was one of my favorite albums of the 1980s and the band's reunion CD "Oceans Apart" was a highlight of recent years. The music world has lost a real talent. (Australian)

Lucky Bitch: "Saved by the Bell" hunk Mark-Paul Gosselaar and his wife, Lisa, are the parents of a baby daughter, the couple's second child. (ABC)

Sweet Talk: Federal health officials said Monday they are conducting their own review of a since-discredited 2005 Italian study that concluded the sugar substitute aspartame causes cancer. Oh, great. Just when we got the word that it was safe ... here we go again. (WP)

Reason Aside?: A new outside report has concluded that Duke University officials -- from the campus police to the highest administration levels -- failed to grasp the the seriousness of an accusation that white lacrosse players raped a black woman at a party in March and did not respond quickly enough. It goes on to say that senior leadership of the university -- five white men, an Asian-American man and a white woman -- had been "handicapped by its own limited diversity" in responding. The report cited "a gap in communications that is extraordinary," noting that the Duke police force had failed to alert administration officials to the racial component of the case. Now I'm not a lawyer, but wouldn't it bolster the claim of dismissiveness fueled by racism much more if the Duke police force had alerted officials to the racial component of the case? Furthermore, the report criticizes administration officials for being too heavily influenced by Durham police reports that the woman "kept changing her story and was not credible." Huh? The school listens to the Durham police -- not the Duke campus police -- and that's wrong, too? I keep trying to tell myself this world isn't completely ignorant and fucked up, but clearly I'm the fool. (NYT)