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Thursday, december 3, 2009 ONe huNdred aNd FIFTh year, Issue 70www.dukechronicle.com

Duke hosts nation’s No. 3, Page 8

13 years of Jazz Loft research culminate

with book, receSS 3

onTherecord“With the strong group of women we have now, we feel

now is the time to strike.” —Senior Casey Miller on sorority housing. See story page 3

Singler, Blue Devils fall short at Kohl

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Wisconsin’s Jon Leuer celebrates with hundreds of Badger students and fans who mobbed the court at the Kohl Center in Madison after Duke’s four-point loss.

Athletics’ growth provokes debate

by Naureen KhanThe chronicle

When chris Kennedy first joined the Duke athletics depart-ment, head basketball coach Bill Foster guided the team to the 1978 ncAA championship game. on top of his coaching duties, Foster taught a physical education course, said Kennedy, now senior associate athletics director.

Foster’s annual salary? Ken-nedy approximates the coach was

paid $32,000 for his services. “You can’t get a dogcatcher for

$32,000 now,” Kennedy said. “All of it has to do with the explosion of interest in football and basket-ball. That level of interest and that level of publicity has all kinds of effects, but it’s all in the direction of expansion.”

Adjusted for inflation, Foster’s annual salary in 1978 comes to

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by Joe DrewsThe chronicle

MADiSon, Wis. — Duke and the Acc are perfect no more.playing in its first true road game of the season at a raucous

Kohl center, the no. 6 Blue Devils trailed the entire game, never able to overcome an early Wisconsin advantage. Despite a late rally, Duke (6-1) squandered its late-game opportunities and the Badgers (5-1) held on for the 73-69 win.

The loss was the Blue Devils’ first of the season and first ever in the Acc/Big Ten challenge, and it led to the Big Ten’s only challenge win in the 11-year history of the event.

“They just wanted it more,” senior guard Jon Scheyer said. “That’s probably the worst thing i can say after a game.”

But it was true, and it took a heroic effort from Kyle Singler to keep Duke in the contest in the opening half, and a 3-point barrage from Andre Dawkins to give the Blue Devils a shot in the final minutes. The freshman guard made three long balls in a span of 1:42 to cut the deficit from nine to two, willing his team back after Wisconsin seemed to have pulled away.

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Nur: ‘No way in hell’

by Matthew ChaseThe chronicle

University administrators are consider-ing significant changes to the student din-ing plan.

Administrators are pushing for a “di-rected choice” dining plan, which would require students to spend part of their food points at non-contracted venues, in-cluding the great hall, the Marketplace, Trinity cafe, Subway and chik-fil-A, Duke Student government president Awa nur announced at the Senate meeting Wednes-day night.

“The University seems committed to di-rected choice, and i want to make my po-sition on that clear,” nur, a senior, said in her address to the Senate. “There is no way in hell that i am going to support that.... it’s fake choice and it’s not something that i stand for.”

The new plan would force sophomores, juniors and seniors with meal plans to spend between 500 to 700 of their food points at the non-contracted venues, nur said. She noted that the average student currently spends fewer than 300 points at these locations.

All non-contracted venues are operated and staffed by Bon Appetit Management company, which replaced ArAMArK—Duke’s former dining management com-pany—in 2007. Bon Appetit’s arrival in-creased Dining Services’ expenses by $1 million, which marked the beginning of a $2 million annual deficit.

nur added that directed choice originat-ed in meetings with administrators toward the end of last Spring. When negotiations with student representatives broke down, the administration made plans to formu-late five alternatives over the summer, but administrators barred nur from becoming involved in process on three separate occa-sions, nur said.

“And you can imagine what happened... the options that they have provided to us have subsequently not been good,” nur said, adding that a group of students has been working to draft alternative options.

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‘Directed choice’ would restrict dining options

DSG prez denounces proposed dining plan

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TONIGHT!

worldandnationMoscoW — chechen rebels took re-

sponsibility Wednesday for a bombing last week that derailed a passenger train bounded from Moscow to st. petersburg, killing 26 people and injuring 87 others.

The claim was carried on kavkazcenter.com, a Web site that often carries informa-tion from islamic rebels seeking indepen-dence for the russian republic of chechnya.

“We state that the given operation was prepared and carried out as part of the sabo-tage actions against strategically important facilities of russia planned earlier this year and successfully carried out on the orders of caucasus emir doku umarov,” said the statement signed by rebels’ general staff.

a spokesperson for the investigating committee of russia’s general prosecu-tor’s office refused to comment Wednes-day on the claim. but the spokesperson, vladimir Markin, confirmed the rebels’ as-

sertion that committee chief alexander bastrykin was injured during a second explosion at the site where the nevsky express passenger train derailed Friday.

bastrykin said in an interview with rossiyskaya gazeta published Wednes-day that the second explosion set off as investigators probed the derailment was characteristic of methods used by mili-tants from the caucasus region.

analysts said the islamic rebels’ claim, whether true or not, would raise tensions in the caucasus and lead to an increase in raids and arrests by authorities of eth-nic people from the caucasus region.

varvara pakhomenko, a member of demos, a Moscow-based human rights center, expressed concerns that chechen rebels may employ new tactics after a gap in major terrorist attacks against russian sites outside of the caucasus region.

“ ”It is easier to forgive an

enemy than to forgive a friend.

— William Blake

TODAY IN HISTORY1952: First TV broadcast in

Hawaii.

WashingTon, d.c. — pointing to public frustration over the pace of the economic recovery, democratic gover-nors said Wednesday they will begin the 2010 election year on the defensive and pledged to wage aggressive campaigns against republican policies they said would take the country backward.

Maryland gov. Martin o’Malley, vice chair-man of the democratic governors associa-tion, said the country’s finances were left in a shambles by former president george W. bush. “people are hurting so badly,” he add-ed, “that they’re very upset that their new leadership have not fixed it as quickly as ev-erybody would like for us to have fixed it.”

The mood among democrats contrasted sharply with that of republican governors, who met two weeks ago outside austin, Texas, and predicted significant gains be-yond the 24 governorships they now hold.

Jobs summit to assembleWashingTon, d.c. — creating jobs is

a political and economic imperative for president barack obama, who is holding a high-profile jobs summit Thursday that aides hope will demonstrate his concern for the plight of everyday americans.

obama has summoned 130 corporate executives, economists, small-business owners and union leaders to the White house to sound out ideas for accelerat-ing job growth during the worst labor market in a generation.

“The main thing that people are con-cerned about is jobs,” said rep. elijah cummings, d-Md. “it is the number one issue.”

but obama’s options are limited, as the administration already has signaled that it is unwilling to make any investments that would add significantly to the na-tion’s ballooning deficit.

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Baltazar Siqueiros, president of Baltazar Construction, opens a gate on the Angeles Crest Highway in California. The roads, which were damaged by wildfires that swept through the San Gabriel Moun-tains in August and September, reopened this week. Officials, however, noted that the roads are now more vulnerable to weather and may be closed as a precaution against possible inclement weather.

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Panhel pushes for Central sorority spaceby Christina Peña

The chronicle

next Fall, sororities could have a space to call their own.

Seniors Alyssa Dack and casey Miller—both sorority members—are in the process of formulating a formal residential space proposal for central campus. They have submitted drafts to residential life and housing Services and Steve nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate educa-tion and are awaiting feedback from soror-ity chapters to make sure all concerns are addressed. Dack and Miller will present a proposal to campus council tonight.

The current draft proposal asks for two one-bedroom woodskin apartment build-ings on central that would have approxi-mately 28 beds for the members of nine panhellenic Association sororities through an opt-in process. The proposal also re-quests that one apartment in each building be remodeled as a common space. owned by four to five panhellenic sororities, the common spaces would be serve small pro-gramming functions, such as speakers, small group discussions and ritual activi-ties.

Dack and Miller met with sorority mem-bers Wednesday evening to address their concerns about the proposal, one of which is the rationale for choosing central cam-pus.

“With plans for new campus put on halt with the economic issues, we were forced to look elsewhere for a temporary solution until the campus is actually built,” Miller said. “This is an intermediate solution. Some people are concerned that we are giving in to the administration, but i feel it is beneficial to both parties. We also feel by

locking in space on central now, we will be compensated properly when the new cam-pus does come into existence.”

Dack and Miller noted that many have asked why panhellenic is acting now.

clarybel peguero, assistant dean of students and director of fraternity and sorority life, said there have been many attempts in the past to acquire space. But at that time, there was more of a focus on

individual chapters, she said. This proposal takes a unique approach by having general panhellenic space where girls from various chapters can interact, in addition to living space.

“in the past we’ve been pretty split by chapter affiliation, and with Derby Days we came together for a cause,” Miller said. “We want to move along with the momen-tum [Derby Days] gave us and make pan-

hel more of a strong, cohesive unit. With the strong group of women we have now, we feel now is the time to strike.”

Derby Days was Sigma chi fraternity’s annual week-long annual event to raise money for various national charities that in-volved various competition among Duke’s sororities. But in october, the presidents of all nine panhellenic sororities joined to withdraw from the event.

Dack said the space on central is not mandatory but is an option for junior and senior panhellenic girls looking for a resi-dential community on campus. interest for the living space is still being gauged.

Both nowicki and Associate Dean for residential life Joe gonzalez said that al-though the proposal will be considered very seriously, it is hard to assess the situa-tion until the final proposal is submitted.

“We won’t be able finalize anything until they finalize what they want,” gonzalez said. “We’re hoping that [the meetings they’re having this week] will produce something more real and go beyond the theoretical and informal discussions we’ve had.”

The idea for the proposal stems from when greek honor society order of omega discussed Duke sorority and fraternity life with nowicki and Sue Wasiolek, dean of students and assistant vice president for student affairs.

Wasiolek said that in 1980, sororities were given a building on oregon Street–currently a police station–but returned it to the University because it was too difficult to manage.

“in previous years, [living space for sororities] was a topic that was debated,

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At a forum Wednesday night, representatives from the Panhellenic Association call for the creation of a formal residential space on Central Campus for Duke’s sororities by next Fall.

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approximately $106,000 in 2009. current head basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski makes $3.7 million a year while head football coach David cutcliffe came to Duke for a reported $1.5 million contract, according to espn.com. president richard Brodhead earned $662,000 in 2008.

The disparity in coaching salaries between now and then is just one indicator of how the landscape of intercollegiate athletics has been transformed in the last three decades.

Figures reported by the athletics department in compliance with the equity in Athletics Disclosure Act provides another glimpse into the explosive growth athletic departments across the country have experienced, even within the last 10 years.

From July 1997 to June 1998, the operating budget of the athletics department was $20.5 million, said Mitch Moser, asso-ciate athletic director for business operations. The department spent $6,238,903 for scholarships and $399,322 on recruiting.

now, the operating budget has almost quadrupled to $60.3 million, Moser said. Furthermore, the eADA form

filed for 2008-2009 shows that scholarship costs have dou-bled to $13.3 million while recruiting expenses have nearly tripled to $1.1 million.

in addition, for the last several years revenues have ex-ceeded expenses at most competitive schools, according to a recent report funded by the Knight Foundation.

intercollegiate athletics has become an increasingly time-consuming and costly enterprise, athletic administra-tors and outside experts have said.

“There are some inherent drivers that keep things mov-ing in terms of costs,” Director of Athletics Kevin White said. “i don’t think we’re in any sort of unilateral position in that regard. i think we belong to a competitive set.”

The first athletics strategic plan “Unrivaled Ambition” cites specific factors driving the expansion.

heightened interest, propelled by 24-hour cable televi-sion networks, is largely at play in the commercialization of athletics. coaches’ salaries have mushroomed as schools try to build winning programs. Universities are participating in a “facilities arms race.” in addition, in compliance with Title iX in 1977, the number of teams offered at Duke has

also seen a significant increase in the 1980s and 1990s.

Paying for playSome faculty members at Duke as well as outside ob-

servers have raised concerns about the escalating costs in college sports, especially in light of the current financial strain on university budgets.

Math professor richard hain said he became interested in the athletic department’s finances as chair of the math department in the late 1990s. As the math department struggled with an “acute space shortage”—alleviated by the construction of the French Science Family center in 2006—the athletics department was building a number of new fa-cilities, many of them funded by private gifts, hain said.

“As athletics becomes bigger, its appetite for resources increases and the University has devoted a good amount of its fundraising to athletics already,” hain said. “That comes at a cost of raising money for the endowment of say, Arts & Sciences and of engineering.”

Some have also said that the growth of athletic depart-ments could be detracting from the central mission of edu-cational institutions.

charles clotfelter, professor of economics and law and Z. Smith reynolds professor public policy, is writing a book about the “profoundest consequences” of big-time athletics at Ameri-can universities. After studying numerous colleges with success-ful sports programs, he found that athletics have become an essential component of these universities’ operations.

“if you look at the mission statements of universities, there’s no mention of athletics. There’s a paradoxical situ-ation there,” clotfelter said. “it’s important for us to take seriously that universities like ours are in the entertain-ment business and go on from there.”

orin Starn, Sally Dalton robinson professor of cultural anthropology and chair of the cultural anthropology de-partment, has been particularly outspoken in his criticism of big-time athletics at Duke.

“i’m concerned about the fact that it seems like a very strange world that we live in where the basketball and foot-ball coaches are making more money than the University president,” Starn said. “Duke has become part of this hyper-commercialized, ultra-competitive world of big-time sports.”

observers acknowledged, however, that the practices of the Duke athletics department is part of a nationwide trend in multimillion dollar budgets and exponential growth. it is a problem that would be difficult for any single university to buck if the athletics program wants to stay competitive.

“There is really a national issue,” hain said. “it’s very hard for Duke to deal with this in a vacuum.”

At other universities, faculty have taken a more proac-tive approach in calling for reform. Under mounting fi-nancial pressure and facing deep budget cuts, faculty at the University of california Berkeley are calling for a re-examination of the school’s athletic program and are de-manding more administrative oversight.

Starn said he would like to see a similar conversation take place at Duke.

“We ought to rethink the place of sports in a college setting. i’d love to see Duke take the lead in this,” he said. “But i don’t think it’ll ever happen in a million years.”

PricelessStill, administrators said the value of the athletics pro-

gram goes beyond a dollar amount. “The University has a really good feel for what a solid

athletic department can bring to the community. i don’t think their investment in us is disproportional in any way,” iron Dukes Director Jack Winters said. “You’ve got to ask yourself, ‘Would we be where we are today without the ath-letic accomplishments over the past decade?’”

indeed, administrators said participation in Division i athlet-ics has played an instrumental role in building Duke’s brand.

“Athletics is part of the mix of ingredients that gives American higher education its unique dynamism,” Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and govern-ment relations, wrote in an e-mail. “There is no doubt that athletics is one of the things that makes Duke attractive to students from around the world—both as spectators and as participants. That’s why virtually all colleges and univer-sities engage in athletics.”

in addition, officials pointed to the high graduation rate among the athletics program and rave reviews from student athletes about their experiences as evidence that Duke has maintained the right athletics-academic balance.

For White, there is no question that athletics add some-thing unique to Duke.

“You’re asking the pastor whether he’s praying over the right religion,” White said. “[Athletics is] Americana, it’s pop culture, and i think many institutions have figured that out.... it’s an external entity that has the capacity to draw people to the central mission of a university and some institutions have figured out how to do it very well. Duke is near the top of that list.”

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“They offered us five [options] after four months of nego-tiation. We offered them nine alternative ones after one week of deliberation.”

Throughout the dining portion of her speech, nur em-phasized that administrators have not been receptive to students’ demands.

“This is not how the administration should be interact-ing with students,” she said. “Again, let me emphasize that if we’re going to be in the room, we’re not just going to be present but we are going to be a presence, and the admin-istration should take notice.”

in the beginning of the meeting, the Senate approved the Young Trustee selection timeline, which set the Young Trustee application deadline on Jan. 15 and polls will open Feb. 9.

The Senate also selected six senators to sit on the Young Trustee nominating committee. of the 19 nominated stu-dents, senior Spencer eldred, vice president for student affairs, juniors Kendyl Tash and gregory Morrison, DSg executive vice president, sophomores lauren Moxley and pete Schork, vice president for athletics and campus ser-vices, and freshman christine larson were selected. These students will account for six of the 18 students on the Young Trustee nominating committee.

in other business:Senators considered a number of resolutions and stat-

utes, including one that aimed to remove the $2,000 DSg presidential stipend for future years. currently, the DSg president receives $2,000 over the course of his or her term, and funds come from the Student Activity Fee.

Junior lauren Kottis, a Durham and regional affairs senator who submitted the statute, said the same amount of money could instead be used to fund new organizations. She noted that funding should not come from the Student Activities Fee.

“it’s something students pay because they assume it will be used for their benefit, and not for a single person,” Kot-tis said.

Ultimately, senators voted down Kottis’ statute. The international Association also made a presentation

to senators in which they discussed the findings from its five domestic-international conversational exchange focus groups.

project recon, an entrepreneurial program that aims to better relations between Duke and north carolina cen-tral University students, also presented its future goals dur-ing the meeting.

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Sophomore Lauren Moxley (left) was one of the six members of the Young Trustee Nominating Committee selected by the Duke Student Gov-ernment Senate during the group’s meeting Wednesday night. The final committee will be composed of 18 students.

talked about, considered, but to my knowledge there has never been a formal proposal submitted for residential space,” she said.

Several other organizations, including some fraterni-ties, are also in talks with rlhS to get space on central.

“We’ve been working hard on upgrading central,” no-wicki said. “Ubuntu wanted space on West [campus] but because of the moratorium, we were unable to give it to them, so they had to get space on central and they’re de-liriously happy out there. We are aware that since the new campus has been put on hold we have to make central a more attractive option. The student experience [on cen-tral] is going to be very different next year [with the addi-tion of] a full restaurant, study spaces and a bar, among other things.”

Dack and Miller are working with administrators, rlhS, panhellenic presidents and Duke Student government in hopes of implementing the housing option by next Fall.

“All the ducks are lined up, we should be able to do something,” nowicki said. “There is no reason why we shouldn’t be able to [get this done] by Fall 2010.”

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The Chronicle breaks down the administration’s pro-posed changes to the student dining plan.

current plan: Students can use their food points in any capacity at any on-campus eatery.

Proposed plan: Up to 700 food points must be used at a non-contracted dining venue, all of which are operated by Bon Appetit.

BonAppetit?

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Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and largest academic honor society, was founded on December 5, 1 776 by five students at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Since then, it has ev olved to become the nation’s leading advocate for arts and sciences at the undergraduate level. Phi Beta Kapp a elects over 15,000 new members a year from 276 prestigious chapters across the United States. The Society’s distinctive emblem, a gold key (with the Greek character Phi along with B and K as the initials of t he name of the society), is widely recognized as a symbol of academic achievement. The Duke Chapter, Beta of North Carolina, was formed in 1920 at Trinity College. We are delighted to receive into membership the following:

BRAVO! Fall 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Initiates

Swathi Appachi

Elana Miriam Berger

Allison Corinne Milam Bibb

Joshua Mark Bienenfeld

Thomas John Blemaster

Hayden Courtney Bottoms

Joseph Philip Brothers

David Chi

Hyun Michelle Choi

Kathy Sunyoung Choi

Johanna Ruth Collins

Virginia Lee Crowder

Kendall Rashad Dabaghi

David Scott Distenfeld

Anne Louise Donato

Jared Alexander Dunnmon

Tyler Dahlin Evans

Claire Scribner Florian

Jessalyn Yulien Gale

Ian Qiying Gao

David Andrew Graham

Natasha Gupta

Travis Weston Halbert

Michelle Jasmin Culp Hahn

Guen Hwa Han

Jenna Lynne Hayes

Peter Andrew Heisler

Peter David Henle

Anna Louise Hinshaw

Daniel Stafford Houghton

Cameron Smith Howard

Elizabeth Holland Hoyle

Alexandra Rebecca Hurt

Kaitlin Erin Jacobson

Neal Jean

Michael Jonathan Kramarz

Anthony Lee

Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr.

Amy Louise Little

Emily Ann Long

Yi-Hsueh Lu

Cassie Ann Ludwig

Sarah Catherine Lupton

Lauren Maisel

Ralitsa Georgieva Markova

Melissa Joy Miller

Katherine Anne Morrison

Rachael Moss

Morgan Louise Mulvenon

Hiroya Nambu

Leena Vikas Padhye

Elin In Park

Jovana Pavisic

Eric Andrew Pince

Craig Robert Reeson

Alyssa Zuercher Reichardt

Hilary Ann Robbins

Gillet Gardner Rosenblith

Steven Michael Schmulenson

Jeremy Nathan Schneider

Jeremy Sean Semko

Daniel James Shankle

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Kevin Koehler Troy

David Wilson Ungvary

Kristin Elaine Winkler

Karmel ChunKa Wong

Haru Yamamoto

Jillian Caroline Ziarko

volume 12, issue 15 december 3, 20092009 is the cruelest year

natural selectionLori Vogt tackles Labour Love

gallery’s lastest showpage 3

fantasticMr. Fox weasels his way into

the Wes Anderson oeuvre

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jazz loftthe 13-year project materializes

in book, radio form

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The Year That WasLooking back on the best of 2009 in music and film

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Dec. 12, 2009 marks the fifth anniver-sary of a pop culture milestone. On that day in 2004, Stringer Bell of The Wire was brutally murdered by the odd alliance of Omar Little and Brother Mouzone.

In such a harsh end to an otherwise successful life, we lost a TV character who transcended the traditional model of the thug gangster. Stringer wasn’t in the game for the bullets or the blood. No, he wanted more. He wanted true success. Fabolous would have been proud.

Let us briefly review the principles of business, relationships and life Stringer espoused so faithfully it likely made John Wooden blush.

— Always value education. In pur-suing an economics degree at a Balti-more community college, Stringer un-doubtedly optimized his crew’s ability to shake down East Side gangsters and maximized the profits he could extract from his indigent and mostly homeless customer base.

— True friends stab you in the front. Business partner and friend Avon Barks-dale always posed a challenge for String-er. Despite building a drug empire to-gether, both Avon and Stringer wanted it all for themselves and would easily sell each other down the river.

— The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Harpers Magazine-reading gang-ster-nerd Mouzone and shotgun-toting Omar were the unlikeliest of allies. Re-gardless, their antipathy toward each other took a backseat to their venemous hatred of Stringer, and their shared love of all things violent.

— Aim for the stars. Drug kingpin-lite Marlo Stanfield should have fol-lowed Stringer’s lead. Keep flying high-er, Icarus.

He’s no Sun Tzu, but Stringer’s at least a Moltke in the pantheon of wise soldiers.

— Eugene Wang, who will see you in AAAS 199 - The Wire next semester

I’m cracked out on Adderall. I just chugged down 40 mg more, and I’m dig-ging in for my third consecutive all-nighter in the trenches baby!

You’re damn right I’m fired up. It’s the last week of classes, which means all the work you’ve put off is now due like Oprah’s com-ing-out speech. But if you’re trapped in the library when all you want to do is play golf and cheat on your wife, then you can’t see the Woods for the trees because cramming in Brostock, first floor, back table by the “Hon-ors Thesis Room” isn’t about sucking down Red Bull and typing until you have carpal tunnel. It’s about wasting all that time explor-ing the Internet looking at useless Web sites.

Recently, I saw “Hey Check Out This Gin-ge,” a Web site dedicated to Hitler’s worst nightmare: the dreaded redhead (say that five times fast). Unfortunately, this won’t be the fi-nal solution to the redhead problem, but it is a nice example of the recurring “look at this niche of people or things which provide end-less material for one-liners” Web sites. You’ve probably seen “Look at this F—ing Hipster” and “Check Out this Douchebag” but you may not have heard of these other ones.

First up is an oldie but a goodie: “Gander These Elders Getting Intimate.” PDA isn’t just for under the slide anymore. They’re old, they’re bold, and they’re mounting one another on a Rascal scooter. If Rascal scoot-ers had windows, they would be steamier than Jack and Rose’s carriage. “Oh Harold, people are taking pictures.” “I know, Maude. Doesn’t it turn you on?” He may not know how to turn a computer on, but he knows about Maude.

Next, what started with one single picture of a halfway decent Olympic swimmer has turned into “Look At This Lazy Pothead.” This is a gateway Web site. Once you click

on it, all you want is the next hard site. Next it’s “Look at this Tweaking Coke Head.” Then you’re on to “Check Out This Droop-ing Junkie.” Look at this Jenkem fiend. Strung-out and broke, you’ll find yourself on a “Home for the Homeless,” granted it’s less of a shelter and more of a public forum for us to ridicule their terrible feet.

But hey, baby steps. Seriously, sir, baby steps, you’re barefoot, and there is a lot of broken glass in this back alley. Now rummage around in that trash, desperate for something to eat. Perfect. On the count of three, act like you’ve just found some something shiny and metallic you might be able to hawk. Now hoist it above your head. There! I’ll call it “9th Street Won-der.” It’s going to get so many hits.

In the same vein as “This Is Why You’re Fat” comes “Please Eat Some Carbohydrates.” Weighing less than the Quenchers smoothie you can’t finish? Tights sagging down to your Uggs? Able to tell the change of seasons by the amount of peach fuzz your body grows to keep warm? You might be found here. Eating disorders are no laughing matter though, un-less you’re trying to burn calories.

Currently, I’m working on creating “Peep This Studious Oriental.” If you have any ac-tion shots—preferably involving a calcula-tor or groups hopped up on ginseng—send them in. Now’s the perfect time to capture them in their natural habitat. You may resent them for ruining the bell curve, but someone needs to balance out my D with an A.

I’m not allowed to say the code to the Honors Thesis Room, but I will say it’s a Strokes song. Get in there with some study drugs. You can sleep when you’re dead.

Jack Wilkinson is a Trinity senior. This is his last column of the semester.

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Back at the start of the research that led to The Jazz Loft Project, “13 years later” was not a part of the plan. Sam Ste-phenson didn’t know—couldn’t have known—that his in-vestigation into the universe of artifacts left behind by leg-endary American photographer W. Eugene Smith would come to resemble one of Smith’s ever-growing photo es-says, its focus growing wider by the day. But here he is, 13 years since the beginning of the entire project, and there are still over a thousand CDs to listen to.

Stephenson’s involvement with Smith’s work began as a magazine article. He was writing on the artist’s Pittsburgh project, a photo essay originally centered on the city’s bicentennial. Smith’s undertaking, intended to require three weeks of work and about 100 pictures, evolved into a four-year, 22,000-photograph anthology. The extent to which the project consumed him led Smith to leave his family and home and move into a Manhattan loft—the loft that captured Stephenson’s attention.

“There was never a plan in which I made a decision to work this long on this project,” Stephenson said. “It just sort of organically grew.”

The process through which Stephenson has explored and condensed Smith’s work is fascinating in its own right. What Smith left behind, aside from approximately 40,000 photographs, are about 4,000 hours of recorded sounds: jam sessions, street noise, television and radio programs, interpersonal banter, people reading aloud.

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Sam Stephenson unexpectedly spent 13 years researching the ar-chives of W. Eugene Smith’s New York loft. His project is now a book.

Labour Love Gallery’s exhibition Naturally Selected thoughtfully pieces together a collection of artists who seem to share the owners’ affinity for the tender. The gallery itself feels cherished and sincere, and the dis-played artists seem to be careful seekers of beauty and observers of the natural world.

Pamela Zimmerman wraps the dark browns of hard-body gourds in silvery barks or soft, yellow pine needles. One resembles a shell, lined inside its cool hardness with delicate pink iridescent paper. A fiber artist, she also coils horse hair around carved wooden moon faces.

Jenny Hodges’ works resemble encyclopedic tapes-tries that might be used to teach natural science classes to extraterrestrials. In her piece “Home 2,” she cocoons acorns, seashells and seedpods behind mesh nets hand-stitched into felt. The mesh obscures these objects light-ly, forcing the viewer to peer closely and really examine what lies behind it. Up close, the strangeness of nature’s burrs and seeds is delightful; you’re glad Hodges made you look.

Edgier and more bizarre than Hodges’ or Zimmer-man’s work, Emily Soldin Howard’s creations focus on the interplay between food and memory. “Avgo-lemono” is a piece done on distressed, stained and decomposing fabric that centers around the cooking of a hen. Howard uses mostly wax and plaster, medi-ums that work particularly well for this piece because they maintain the characteristics of beaten yolks or raw chicken. It’s done in mottled tans, whites and yellows and the wax looks sinewy. An old-fashioned recipe, complete with sketches of the hen being prepared, is digitally printed over the canvas.

Joshua Parker Coombs adds further variety to the collection by moving the display from the walls to the floor where his steel, stone and rust sculptures stand (an achievement in itself) tribute to inspiration. Be-hind them are the paintings he created by overlapping painted sheep from a sheep-shaped cookie cutter on top of wood panels. In greens and blues, they resemble oceanic cartography and in steely, mineral colors they become a map of the earth.

Finally, Destry Sparks expands the exhibition by con-centrating on less traditionally beautiful forms of na-ture, pulling in motifs of outer space and the southwest and utilizing materials as diverse as deer bones and dead amphibians. In “Ascension,” he frames a burlap canvas with an old window frame and creates a nightmarish acid rainstorm inside of it. The burlap pollutes his red, yellows and greens and his white paint stands out like stars. Floating in his trippy atmosphere are materials as diverse as bottle caps, rope, snake skin, twist ties and paper cone cups. Their overall effect is stunning, not a sermon against pollution. It’s only careful examination of detail that reveals garbage.

The collection coheres through the artists’ admirable uncovering of curious details. Their energy rejuvenates a desire to get closer, look harder and create.

—Lori Vogt

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Aspiring student sculptors, cartoonists, painters and photographers had their moment in the sun Tuesday at a reception launching the Duke Arts Students Showcase.

Twenty-six undergraduate and graduate students will have their pieces displayed in the Louise Jones Brown Gal-lery, located in the Bryan Center. The exhibit will run from Nov. 23 to Jan. 15, 2010.

“This is the first year we have done something like this, and it is a momentous occasion for us,” said junior Lisa Gao, visual arts committee programing director for Duke University Union. “We just wanted to have a place for stu-dents to showcase their art.”

A committee of professors, professional artists and stu-dents selected the works from more than 200 entries. The committee awarded a first place, second place, third place and honorable mention.

Laura Dodd, a junior, won third place for “Into the

Night,” a photograph taken from the backseat of a car on a raining night as an inmate was driven back to prison after visiting home.

Dodd said that although it was difficult to receive per-mission to photograph the inmate, the project was very rewarding.

“It made the work a lot harder,” Dodd said. “It took me two months to get permission.”

Gao said the committee was looking for variety in the artwork chosen for the exhibit.

“That was the best part of it,” Gao said. “We told people that they could submit whatever they wanted and we would find a way to display it.”

The artists themselves varied in their backgrounds as well. Dodd, for example, is a physics major.

“I would love to work for National Geographic, but real-istically, we all can’t work for National Geographic,” Dodd said. “I feel you need to have a backup plan, and my back-up plan is physics.”

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Be careful with Hospice, because it could very well ruin your day. Self-released by Ant-lers frontman Peter Silberman in March, it is the most profoundly sad album of the year. It’s also the best, an incredibly evoca-tive narrative of guilt, loss and most impor-tantly redemption.

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Influences don’t matter here, so I won’t inform you that Japandroids play from a tradition of DIY punk or that they worship Guns N’ Roses. Yes, they’re a stripped-down drum and guitar two-piece, but the sound is bigger than “lo-fi.” They’re playfully aware of genre shtick and the chances that they’d be incorrectly labeled “proto”-something or other—instead, they’re delightfully “Post-Nothing.”

By avoiding the cumbersome classifica-tions, they’re free to play heart-on-sleeve with no gimmicks. Few bands apart from The Wrens or Tough Alliance convinc-ingly entertain the notion of such ear-nestness. The lyrics are snappy bursts of confessional teenage poetry elevated by bleeding guitars and cymbal washes and shouts of “yeah!” It’s a kind of youthful exuberance that could be tiring—but here, it sounds like lightning in a bottle, an energy that only a band with a truly synchronous connection could conjure.

Song titles like “The Boys Are Leaving Town,” “I Quit Girls” and “Young Hearts Spark Fire” reveal the content. The last is an instant classic, selling their punk ethos in an anthem anyone my age should find relatable: “We used to dream/Now we worry about dying.”

So should you find yourself ponder-ing mortality and the esoteric time sig-natures of Dirty Projectors, here’s the antidote: find a friend and a jug of wine and blast “Crazy/Forever,” shouting “We’ll stick together forever/Stay sick together/Be crazy forever.” It’s this type of strangely idealistic comfort I look for in rock music that draws me into Post-Nothing again and again.

—Brian Contratto

I will always remember 2009 as the year I no longer separated females from males when consid-ering who I thought to be the best artist. Though Lady Gaga and Little Boots made convincing claims to the throne atop the pop kingdom, it’s La Roux’s claim that has the people chanting, “Long live the queen!”

Her outlandish comments may be deserving of the outraged response she has received in her motherland of the U.K. But this controversy ac-companying her is much the same as a queen. Her presence is in itself reflective of a pop star, but it is her music which has proven to be the jealous, scheming sister of forgotten queens of the past, that has the mirror proclaiming that she is the greatest of them all. Alongside co-writer and co-producer Ben Langmaid, La Roux has a strong grasp on the crown with her authentic ’80s sound, influenced by the likes of the Human League, Blancmange and Eurythmics.

La Roux’s self-titled debut album opens with “In For the Kill,” an irresistible combination of her soft, feminine vocals and a catchy chorus. Sin-gles “Bulletproof” and “Quicksand” approach her doomed romance in a defiant yet rejected man-ner, but it is the heartbreak of “Cover My Eyes,” with its naked honesty and wrenching jealousy, that raises her above other pop contemporaries. Although the album’s best tracks are at the begin-ning, the remainder of the album is not lost, as is common with other pop albums. La Roux and Langmaid are able to change the pace of the al-bum, slowing it down (without the whiplash) with sophisticated tracks such as “As If by Magic.”

As contemporary culture reappropriates the once-slandered ’80s, La Roux’s debut is an un-ashamed announcement of her and its arrival.

—Michael Woodsmall

If Bitte Orca contains one communicable message, it is this: Dirty Projectors are growing up. But don’t go genre-fying them.

For a band whose previous projects have run the risk of being rebelliously art-snobbish—including an album of re-imagined Black Flag songs and a tribute to Don Henley—Bitte Orca shows that band leader Dave Longstreth has become comfortable in his own quirky skin.

And thank the Lord for artistic maturity. The album displays the band’s virtuosity in a com-pact set of nine songs. The first single, “Stillness Is the Move,” juxtaposes Angel Deradoorian’s almost operatic, Mariah-like voice over a driving African beat. Meanwhile, Amber Coffman’s self-reflective balladry on “Two Doves” cites fellow chanteuse Nico’s lyrics from the transcendent song “These Days.” As Coffman pleads, “Don’t confront me with my failures.”

But the album has nary an inkling of fail-ure; Longstreth commands the band’s diverse instrumentation with precision. The scratchy guitar freakout halfway through “Useful Chamber” screeches to a halt as Deradoorian and Coffman explode into a swelling harmony. Moments later, the time signature runs ragged into aural oblivion: Longstreth shouting “Bitte Orca, Orca Bitte!” while noisy chaos rages in the background.

“Useful Chamber” is a crystallized micro-cosm of the album as a whole. Why focus on one structure when you can run the gamut of rock music in nine songs?

Bitte Orca proclaims that Dirty Projectors don’t need a unifying, rebellious aesthetic to blow the lid off of modern music. As “Stillness Is the Move” declares, “There is nothing we can’t do.”

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Be careful with Hospice, because it could very well ruin your day. Self-released by Ant-lers frontman Peter Silberman in March, it is the most profoundly sad album of the year. It’s also the best, an incredibly evoca-tive narrative of guilt, loss and most impor-tantly redemption.

Based on a fragile and stormy relation-

ship with a terminally ill cancer patient, Hospice alternates between its narrator’s nightmares and his equally hellish reality. Grounded in electronic ambience and me-tallic guitar tones, the album is driven by Silberman’s frail tenor; it’s the ideal instru-ment for this story, capable of conveying both the tainted optimism of “Bear” and the desperation of “Sylvia” in equal measure.

Making an album about terminal cancer is an inherently risky proposition because there’s so much room for triteness and su-

perficiality. The miracle of Hospice is the tightrope act it performs in avoiding both. Silberman establishes a compelling dramatic arc in the album’s first half, but it’s not until “Two,” the jangling emotional climax, that the tragedy fully materializes. Nothing since Arcade Fire’s Funeral has been as thematical-ly engaging, but even that feels impersonal and unfocused by comparison. Hospice is a difficult and uncompromising work of art, and all the more rewarding for it.

—Ross Green

The ’80s-tinted, harp-heavy, poetic, en-gaging folk/electronic/blues/soul/dance/pop/rock of Florence and the Machine’s de-but release Lungs is one of the greatest musi-cal achievements of this year.

All of her tracks are lyrically strong, usual-ly first-person narratives that never feel heavy or self-centered. Her perspective seems like the expression of the listener’s feelings, not her own emotions. She has a way of pulling in an audience immediately, her lush and in-triguing lyrics drawing the listener into her sonic spell.

She also is an expert wielder of refer-ences. “Rabbit Heart” begins with an Alice in Wonderland allusion: “The looking glass, so shiny and new/How quickly the glamour fades/I start spinning, slipping out of time.” She continues the track with a chorus about King Midas, ultimately creating a fairy tale of fiction, myth and emotion.

Her songs are distinct for their impec-cable and layered production. Instruments and rhythms meld seamlessly into an opu-lent soundscape. She makes spectacular use of strings, with both harp and violin creating a forceful and lively sound.

The majority of the album is fast-paced and intense, and this is where Florence shines, never becoming overwhelmed by the oft-pounding music. She also uses her powerhouse vocals for pseudo-ballads like “My Boy Builds Coffins.” These slower tracks are excellent, but they lack the vibrancy that otherwise characterizes Lungs.

What marks Flo’s first album is an eccen-tricity and variety that is rare in today’s mu-sic world. Her songs are filled with life and emotion, and their power is enough to make the air leave anyone’s lungs.

—Nathan Nye

The Hurt LockerThis successful Iraq movie has been

gaining steam in the awards circuit, es-pecially for director Kathryn Bigelow and lead Jeremy Renner. Overshadowed by much of the summer’s louder and overly violent action fare, The Hurt Lock-er is a tense, gripping story about U.S. Army soldiers who defuse bombs and quell insurgency.

Bigelow’s taut direction will leave you motionless in your seat and holding your breath as the fates of Renner’s Sgt. James and Anthony Mackie’s Sgt. San-born lie with the click of a switch. The complex emotional bond between the two soldiers—a begrudged brothership of sorts—is as explosive as their work. Bravo, Bigelow.

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The CoveEasily one of the best documentaries of the

year, The Cove exposes a small Japanese town that kills and captures thousands of dolphins each year and the poisonous effect of incorporating dolphin meat into the Japanese diet. Former Flipper trainer Ric O’Barry and director Louis Psihoyos, in Ocean’s Eleven style, put together a team of professionals and masterminds to ille-gally set up cameras and catch the culprits, while also exposing the more nefarious actions of the Japanese government in terms of whale-hunting. What unfolds is a thrilling piece of filmmaking that bristles with tension and triumph, proving that documentaries can make your knuckles as white as any Jason Bourne flick can.

The Yellow HandkerchiefOfficially premiering at Sundance in Janu-

ary of 2008, The Yellow Handkerchief didn’t gain distribution until this past year by Samuel Goldwyn Films. And that’s a great thing, for it’s a beautifully languid drama that follows an ex-convict played by William Hurt as he tries to restart his life.

Picked up along the way by a restless teen-ager played by Kristen Stewart and Eddie Red-mayne as her clumsy and vulnerable driver, the trio travel through Louisiana, forging dynamic new relationships as their pasts slowly unravel. Hurt’s Brett morally questions his decision to return to his ex-wife, the fiercely independent Maria Bello, as he gropes for former aspects of his being. Captiving and gorgeously shot, the film resonates.

Away We Go Sam Mendes departs from his trade-

mark dark, brooding look at suburban America to accompany early-30s couple Burt and pregnant Verona (John Krasin-ski and Maya Rudolph) as they journey around North America trying to deter-mine the best place to raise a family.

From Arizona to Wisconsin to Montreal and finally to Florida, the two encounter diverse and memorable characters from their past. Standouts are the progressive, anti-stroller, new-age mother played by Maggie Gyllenhaal and the good-hearted husband and father to five adoptees played by Chris Messina. Krasinski and Rudolph break out of their pigeonholed roles, show-casing surprisingly impressive range.

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At the Dec. 9 orchestral perfor-mance at reynolds industries The-ater, ushers will hand out crayons and sing-a-longs will commence, and the audience will be encour-aged to keep their phones on to “drown out any dreadful noise that might emanate from the stage.”

To be sure, it will not be your average concert. But the really Terrible orchestra of the Triangle isn’t your average orchestra either.

Formed in May 2008 after conductor W. Sands hobgood learned of edinburgh’s really Ter-rible orchestra, rTooT (capital-ize of, not the) has grown into a 50-piece ensemble with members of all ages (the youngest is seven) and of all musical and profes-sional backgrounds. The name, however, is a bit misleading. The orchestra is less cacophonous and more, as its Web site puts it, “des enfants terribles.”

“They resemble very much a regular classical concert but they don’t have nearly the same level of seriousness,” assistant conduc-tor Michael lyle said. “We are very purposely self-deprecating.”

indeed, this playfulness per-vades almost every aspect of rTooT, right down to the pro-gram, which includes chapters of famous books and coloring

patterns in case the audience gets bored.

But that doesn’t mean rTooT doesn’t take its music seriously. The humor becomes a tool with which to break down the stigma of classical music, presenting it in a relaxed, accessible—if not perfect—atmosphere.

“We think of ourselves as a zany group but really dedicated to classical music, doing the best we can—which is sometimes pretty decent,” hobgood said.

rTooT practices weekly—hobgood said it’s a necessity out of how bad they are. But lyle said the practice and dedication of rTooT are no different from that of the north carolina Sym-phony, even if the end result is a bit less polished.

he added that the true phe-nomenon of rTooT is how a group of professional musicians, lawyers and business types have come together to form a commu-nity, each carrying the burden of the group in their own way.

“The process of approaching music is an equalizer,” lyle said. “it becomes about the music, not the individual performer.”

RTOOT will perform in Reynolds Industries Theater Dec. 9 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $7 and can be purchased at the Duke University box office.

by Stefanija GiricThe chronicle

As founder and president of School house, an ethical brand of collegiate apparel, Duke alum rachel Weeks, Trinity ’07, is final-ly seeing her two passions blend seamlessly.

This Thursday, fashion and fem-inism will come together at School house’s first-ever runway show at Golden Belt’s cotton room.

“i’ve always loved fashion but i felt guilty about it for a long time,” Weeks said.

That is until an internship in Washington, D.c. opened her eyes to the possibilities of responsible manufacturing.

After her enlightening sum-mer, Weeks came back to Duke determined to learn about the challenges of sustainable sourc-ing in the garment industry.

“i had an idea my senior year to start a trend-driven ethically sourced collegiate brand, so i wanted to go to a developing country with an emerging gar-ment sector,” Weeks said.

Weeks said she saw the need both for a more fashionable col-legiate product and also to break the cycle of poverty in the gar-ment industry. She combined the two, and she said the results have been tremendous: a trendy line of clothes a cut above the uniform block-letter t-shirt that’s made by ethically treated workers.

“her clothes are unbelievably

cute, which makes the price more bearable. But it’s also a good, dependable line that supports a cause, which kind of cements the deal,” said senior cynthia chen.

After spending a year in Sri lanka on a Fulbright scholarship, she returned home and started a small living wage garment fac-tory in Sri lanka with a partner. now, 12 months after the launch of School house and a highly suc-cessful test run at harvard, she will sell the brand at 85 schools across the country through a deal with Barnes and noble.

“At the end of the day a lot of problems boil down to poverty, and i really saw an opportunity

to essentially triple the wages at these factories,” Weeks said.

Weeks partnered with a labor rights coalition in Sri lanka that conducted a living wage survey, tripling her workers’ wages so that they would be able to sustain themselves—and she’s not even close to being finished.

“living wage has been the first step that we’ve taken but it’s by no means the last,” Weeks said.

Weeks said she wants to include english classes and daycare fa-cilities for her workers and would also like to get Dukeengage and Duke students involved.

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Growing up in england, there were three things i feared: baked beans, den-tal plaque and grown-ups. Fortunately, i had the magic of roald Dahl to help me counter the horrid food and terrifying teachers. now, with his animated adapta-tion of Dahl’s classic, Fantastic Mr. Fox, di-rector Wes Anderson pays homage to this childhood hero by reviving one of his most memorable rebels.

Mr. Fox (voiced by the fantastic George clooney) makes his living stealing birds from repulsive farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean, “one short, one fat, one lean.” one day his wife (Meryl Streep) accompanies him on a job and, after the two are caught in a trap, she swears that if they get out alive he must find a new line of work. Two years later, Mr. Fox lives the risk-free life of a newspaper columnist (?!). Fed up with the

humdrum of his burrow, however, he insists on moving his family into a roomier abode above ground. once there, he immediately falls back into chicken stealing and rekin-dles the wrath of the farmers, who set out to kill their robber once and for all.

Anderson returns to the screen with the distinctive dry humor, expressive color pal-ette and folk/rock soundtrack that have set his films apart since Bottle Rocket. he teams up with screenwriter noah Baumbach for the second time since The Life Aquatic, and they produce a delightfully embellished take on the original tale. employing the laborious technique of stop-motion, Anderson trans-forms Dahl’s story into a patchwork world inhabited by hand-made figurines who look more like our playthings than the real thing, yet still manage to capture our hearts.

As Mr. Fox continually informs us throughout the film, it’s the wild animals that make this life fantastic, and as a former Brit, i’m grateful Dahl and Anderson are two of them.

—Emily Ackerman

As a film critic, it’s easy to become jaded: you review a film, note its strengths and weaknesses, the camerawork, the per-formances, all within the assigned word count. Thankfully, films like Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire arrive and so thoroughly shake you to your core, evincing the incredible power of cinema.

precious (Gabourey Sidibe, in an out-standing debut), an obese, intelligent but illiterate teenager, is expelled from school because of her second pregnancy. Unbeknownst to the institution, precious is physically abused by her mother Mary (Mo’nique) and raped by her father, who bore her two Down syndrome-afflicted children. precious painfully exists in her surroundings and dreams her way into an imaginary world of BeT videos and movie premieres filled with people who adore her. Fortuitously, precious enrolls at an alternative school, where her teach-

er Ms. rain (paula patton) cultivates her intellectual potential, bestowing precious with the ability to comprehend her real-ity and finally tell her own story. Similarly encouraging are the determination of so-cial worker Ms. Weiss (an unrecognizable Mariah carey), her nurse John (lenny Kravitz) and her classmates.

This film is tough. There are moments so excruciating—executed mainly by Mo’nique, who will assuredly win an os-car—they will leave you aghast at their hor-ror and hyper-sensitive to your powerless-ness as an audience member. But amid the devastation, there is humor, lighthearted-ness and an overwhelming sense of rebirth. Director lee Daniels endows his film with astonishing honesty; this is filmmaking at its purest. he, and the miraculous Sidibe, im-merse the audience so deeply in precious’ struggle that as she rises out of her ashes, you can feel your own soul being uplifted.

The most powerful film of the year, Pre-cious left me physically shaking and speech-less, but forever inspired. it was unlike any movie-going experience i have ever had.

—Charlie McSpadden

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ordinary things that Smith recorded, and you get a glimpse of what life was like in the middle of Manhattan in this rundown building,” Stephenson said.

The book has a particular focus on the idea of life as it was really lived by poor musicians and the people who sur-rounded them, at a specific time in American history—a quality that’s unusual for a work of its type. in fact, Ste-phenson identifies some of The Jazz Loft Project’s aims with a different type of work entirely.

“Where you get that is novels,” he said. “novels give you that insight into ordinary life, and that’s really the greatest contribution that novelists make.... This project gives you a glimpse of that in non-fiction. it’s not normal.”

Stephenson’s work, and that of his team, has consisted pri-marily of two activities, both designed to illuminate as clearly as possible what happened at and who frequented Smith’s loft.

First, there is the listening. The initial challenge was to turn the recordings made by Smith into cDs Stephenson and his team could archive and listen to. This required them to raise half a million dollars, a “long, arduous process” that

required multiple grant submissions and a handful of bene-factors. Since then—and now, and well into the future—the cDs need to be heard, and this task mostly falls onto center for Documentary Studies research associate Dan partridge.

partridge has been at it now for six-and-a-half years. out of the 5,089 disks contained in two substantial filing cabinets in his office, he estimates they’ve listened to about two-thirds. Though he said that someone had already marked the disks that supposedly contained music, there are surprises.

“We’re still stumbling on music,” partridge said. “i’ll be listening to street noise or a recording of the radio and then there’ll be a jam session.”

The second part of Stephenson’s research is what he calls, “the real honor and privilege of a lifetime.” This is the opportunity to interview those who made up the living, breathing part of the loft’s history, the people whose voices are preserved on those recordings and whose improvisa-tions partridge keeps discovering. in addition to the mu-sicians, Stephenson spoke with family members, photog-raphy students, associates of Smith and anyone else who might’ve happened to pass through the loft between 1957 and 1965, the years Smith lived there.

This is Stephenson’s favorite part of the project. he’s talk-

jazz LofT from page 3ed to some by phone and others in person, having traveled to new York 91 times since the effort’s commencement. And already, it’s been more fruitful than one could ever hope for.

“i’ve generated from these interviews enough material as a writer to last me the rest of my life,” he said.

But by no means are musicians always the best source of anecdotes.

“i think one of the frontiers of jazz history is interview-ing family members,” Stephenson said. “A lot of the musi-cians are dead, but they still have families. And a lot of those family members, particularly the spouses, have clear-er, deeper memories than the musicians themselves.”

it is from these countless hours of research into the per-sonalities and sounds of Smith’s loft, combined with his photographs, that The Jazz Loft Project has been culled. The book, Stephenson’s third on Smith, is only one part of the entire project, which also includes the aforementioned Web site, a traveling exhibit and a ten-part radio series on national public radio. And although this work does have an academic, intellectual bent, he thinks of it as something more than that, something different.

“Jazz history is told from the point of view of what hap-pened in the clubs and the studios. And there are thousands of recordings from clubs and studios,” Stephenson said. “But for every hour spent on a stage or in a studio, there are probably a thousand, a million hours that were spent by jazz musicians in places like this loft. You never get to hear that, you never get to see that. So that’s what this project offers.”

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in the end, however, Weeks said she hopes students end up buying clothes from her line simply because they are more style-savvy than typical bookstore offerings.

“it’s very important to me that we’re not selling a charity product,” Weeks said. “i want people to buy the clothes be-cause they like them—and for the fact that we care so much about the means of production to be the icing on the cake.”

For four years, Greg Paulus was a larger-than-life figure on campus—a hero of sorts—yet there was always something strangely humble about him. Duke fans want what’s best for the program, but we also wanted what was best for Paulus. He earned that courtesy.

Which is why I didn’t want to admit that at first, I thought Paulus made a mistake by playing football. I wasn’t an outlier, either.

Back in May, the soon-to-be-graduate announced that his college career wasn’t yet done, that he was using a fifth year of eligibility to play football at Syracuse. Paulus hadn’t played

competitive football in almost five years, and because he opted for Syracuse when he did, it was already too late to partici-pate in spring practice. He was the under-dog, and everyone in the race had a head start. Naturally, the jokes from Paulus’s detractors rolled in faster than he could pump out national television interviews—No flopping on the football field! Can’t slap the floor with a clipboard!—but per-sonally, I doubted his motivation. I didn’t want to see him fail, and I didn’t think he could succeed.

Then, in August, Orange head coach Doug Marrone made the announcement that no one thought he would make, at least not so soon: Greg Paulus would be his starting quarterback. Oh, and one of his captains, too.

It was about this time when Paulus and Syracuse became one of the most worth-while causes in college football, if not one of the most bizarre. (Even 12 games later, it’s still sort of jarring to see him in blue and orange, wearing No. 2, trapped inside a helmet. “It was weird seeing him out there, but it was the same Greg,” Miles Plumlee said recently, capturing the sentiment. “I could tell by the way he waved his hands, his mannerisms, that leadership he had with us. It definitely carried out on the field.”)

Because really, the story is larger than Paulus. Its scope extends beyond sports; thematically, it’s the stuff of great litera-ture. The protagonist, as the flawed hero, seeks a second chance, tempted by the promise of a journey. (Every good story relies on a quixotic trip.) From there, anything can happen. It often does.

Huck Finn sets off down the Mississip-pi. Odysseus returns from Troy. Jay Gatsby moves to West Egg.

So yeah, Paulus shipped up to Syracuse, his hometown, and strapped on a football helmet. Pretty much the same thing, right?

“There were different challenges along the way,” Paulus told me Wednesday. “The first was to get myself in football shape, adding on 15 pounds. Then you have to be part of the team—understanding guys,

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MADISON, Wis. — Duke may have stayed close to Wisconsin throughout most of its 73-69 loss Wednesday night, but the Blue Devils’ inability to get any crucial stops when they were within striking distance proved too costly to overcome.

And no two players were harder to stop than the Badgers’ Jon leuer and Trevon Hughes.

In the first half, leuer dominated the stat sheet with 12 points on 5-of-9 shooting, along with five rebounds, an assist and a

block. The versatile for-ward scored off the of-fensive glass, off of drop passes after penetration and even from beyond the 3-point line.

But when leuer’s shot stopped falling in the second half, Hughes took over the game. The senior scored 19 points in the final frame, includ-ing a 3-for-4 shooting display from beyond the arc and 4-for-4 at the charity stripe.

“Hughes and leuer were terrific. They controlled the game—they always looked poised,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyze-wski said. “When you have two veterans who are really good players playing like that, the other guys play better.”

leuer helped the Badgers to a six-point halftime lead, but it was Hughes who time and again preserved it in the second half. Despite Duke being within a single possession of tying the game nu-merous times in the second half, Hughes seemed to answer every Blue Devil run.

When Duke cut Wisconsin’s lead to two early in the second half, Hughes answered by burning freshman Andre Dawkins on a backdoor cut for an easy jump shot, and then he sank a 3-pointer with a hand in his face on the next possession.

And for an encore after a media tim-

eout, Hughes made a step-back jumper with no less than three Blue Devils in his face, almost singlehandedly turning a two-point lead into a nine-point one.

“He’s a damn good player,” Krzyzewski said of Hughes.

Much of Duke’s inability to stop both Hughes and leuer stemmed from short-comings of its decidedly aggressive man-to-man defense. In the first half, although the Blue Devils’ swarming attack forced Wisconsin to use most of the shot clock, Duke’s tendency to over-pursue and switch on pick-and-rolls gave Wisconsin’s big men open shots on the outside. leuer and Keaton Nankivil, who was 3-for-5 from the field, took advantage.

But when Duke started to key on Wis-consin’s plethora of jump shooters, the Badger guards were able to penetrate the lane. This drew Blue Devil forwards, espe-cially Miles Plumlee, away from the hoop, and led to easy drop passes to open Bad-gers, like leuer, down low.

“At the beginning, we let them do what-ever they wanted to do,” senior guard Jon Scheyer said. “A couple times we switched wrong and we gave Hughes an open look.”

For at least a few minutes in that first half, though, Duke appeared to have found a solution in the form of a 3-2 zone defense, with either Kyle Singler or lance Thomas providing a big body up top.

The look initially alleviated many of the issues Duke faced switching on pick-and-rolls and with penetration thanks to the additional help defense, and the Badgers seemed flustered after the switch. Were it not for a Hughes 3-pointer that was from beyond NBA distance, Duke would have closed its deficit to one at that point.

In the second half the Blue Devils elect-ed to ignore the zone in favor of a smaller lineup, with Dawkins replacing one of the Blue Devil forwards. And the move did help Duke defensively—Wisconsin shot less than

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35 percent from the field in the second half as opposed to over 53 percent in the first.

“I thought our defense in the second half was good,” Krzyzewski said. “I thought Dawk-ins really played well for us.”

But with the man-to-man in effect in crunch time, Duke was subject to the same problems stopping penetration that it expe-rienced early on. That shortcoming proved too costly to overcome, as down the stretch Hughes imposed his will on his defender with less fear of running into a shot blocker.

Indeed, the same issues that allowed leu-er to dominate the first half seemed to last until the final buzzer in the form of Hughes’ virtuoso performance.

“[One stop] is maybe all we needed, but they just got on a roll,” Singler said. “We just weren’t able to get a stop.”

At that point, Duke couldn’t put together a run that would give it the lead, simply trading baskets with the Badgers. When forward Jon leuer finally missed a free throw with 16 seconds remaining to make it a one-posses-sion game once again, Nolan Smith drove for a layup and the Blue Devils settled for two points on a Singler tip-in.

Still down by one, Duke was forced to foul Wisconsin again, and Trevon Hughes—as was the case all night—didn’t disappoint. After the senior sank both free throws to push the lead back to three with 4.9 seconds remaining, Sin-gler’s inbounds pass was too hard and too wide for Scheyer, who had already crossed halfcourt. The ball deflected out of bounds, and the Blue Devil comeback ended.

“We had chances,” Scheyer said. “We had two oppor-tunities to tie the game. It’s just frustrating when you don’t get a shot off.”

Duke was forced into that late-game position because of its struggles early, when the second-worst offensive team in the Big Ten torched the Blue Devils for 16-of-30 first-half shooting, including 5-of-11 from beyond the arc.

Wisconsin seized the momentum just 10 seconds into the game, when a Nolan Smith pass sailed out of bounds for a quick turnover. The Kohl Center crowd harassed the Blue Devils from then on, and the Badgers never relented.

“They hit a couple of open shots and then they got momentum,” said Singler, who finished with a career-high 28 points on 10-of-17 shooting. “We just weren’t tough enough to get down and stop them once.”

Duke couldn’t find a way to stop Hughes and leuer, who led the Badgers with 26 and 17 points, respectively. The dagger seemed to come from Hughes with just over five minutes remaining, as a multiple-shot, 68-second possession ended in an improbable, bouncing 3-pointer that gave Wisconsin its biggest lead of the night.

Dawkins’ late-game scoring burst erased most of that 11-point advantage, but in the end, the Blue Devils couldn’t overcome the early hole that they dug for themselves.

“[Wisconsin was] patient,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “That’s how they win. That’s what the swing offense is. The swing offense isn’t about one dribble and a shot. It’s about a lot of people touching the ball. You have to com-municate really well against it and play passing lanes well.

“Their offense was better than our defense. That’s the story of sport.”

The loss raises questions for Duke, which scored a convincing win over Connecticut in the NIT Season Tip-Off but now faces the reality of having been out-rebounded and outplayed by Wisconsin. The Blue Dev-ils had 21 offensive rebounds and 15 second-chance points against the Huskies. Against the Badgers, they corralled only eight offensive rebounds and had eight second-chance points, none in the first half.

While they held Connecticut to 36.1 percent shooting from the field, Wisconsin was eight percentage points better.

And in their only true road game before Jan. 9, the Blue Devils came out flat.

“road games are tough,” Scheyer said. “You need to have that togetherness—that fight—and we didn’t come out fighting. Give them credit too, because they played a hell of a game and they really took it to us.”

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becoming friends with teammates, showing who you are and what you can do. And as the season goes along, you go through the thick and the thin with your teammates. You play games.”

Individual games serve as natural checkpoints in any sports narrative. There are subsections within those chapters—topic sentences, supporting evidence, conclu-sions—but sporting events have beginnings and endings, wins and losses. There’s a sense of finality. By that unit of measurement, then, Paulus’s season was a wave of ups and downs. The Orange started the year with a deflating overtime loss at home, with the national attention shining bright on the Carrier Dome, and it rebounded with a win in a shootout over Northwestern, a bowl-bound team, when Paulus threw for 346 yards and two touchdowns.

The early enthusiasm for the hometown hero faded when Syracuse continued to lose. Weeks after Paulus threw five interceptions in a loss to South Florida, the fans were still booing, anxious to see Paulus’s backup —the same quarterback he had beaten out in minicamp, despite not having played football in years—and eventual-ly, the catcalls grew loud enough for Marrone to respond with a press conference so passionate that even the most gifted author couldn’t have written it.

“I put in a lot of time and thought, and I’d like to make a statement about Greg Paulus. I have never seen an ath-lete at any level, including the NFl, work as hard, mentally and physically, as Greg has worked since he’s joined us here at Syracuse,” Marrone said, tears welling up in his eyes. “really, what he’s accomplished is extraordinary. Maybe it can’t be fully appreciated because most don’t know just how difficult it is to play quarterback at a Division I program. In the era of video games, virtual reality, it’s easy to believe that throwing a pass, reading a defense, avoiding a sack is as easy as the push of a button, that any of us can do [it]. The problem, it’s not that easy. We can’t do that.

“And I truly, truly, truly thank him for being here. And I hope my kids grow up to have the courage and determination of a Greg Paulus. I get emotional when I talk about my family.”

Maybe it wasn’t Win One for the Gipper, or even Tebow’s Promise, and the Orange didn’t win one for Paulus—not for two more weeks, at least, when it upset No. 25 rutgers. By the end of the year, Paulus was play-ing his best football, efficiently picking apart defenses and racking up a 132.6 quarterback rating for his col-lege football career. He set a school record with 193 completions in a season and broke another Syracuse mark with a .677 completion percentage.

Not bad for a kid who was never supposed to play. Not bad for anyone, actually.

Syracuse’s season is over. The Orange finished with a 4-8 record—a bummer and all—but Paulus’s story doesn’t con-clude on a down note. How could it? This is a kid who put his legacy on the line. He traded in a four-year basketball career at Duke for an uncertain place on Syracuse’s football team, and not only did he avoid floundering, but he flourished, in a way. He won a job, and he beat other teams. He set some records. No one’s confusing him for an All-American, but last I looked, there were only a few of those, anyway.

It’s refreshing to see someone follow his heart, espe-cially when he’s ensconced in comfort. It’s even cooler to see that type of risk pay rewards.

“I haven’t really thought about it in terms of that,” Paulus admitted. “I am very happy with the decision I made, and if I had to do it all over again, I would make the same decision.”

Of course he would. There’s still an epilogue to be written. As he finishes up his stint in graduate school in May, Paulus is weighing futures in football, coaching and broadcasting, but the bulk of this micro-narrative is done. It has a happy ending.

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Junior kyle singler kept Duke in the game in the first half, but could not beat Ryan evans on a key drive late in the second period.

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Coming off two dominating performances last week against Western Kentucky and Marquette in the Caribbean Challenge, No. 11 Duke faces one of its toughest tests Thurs-day in No. 3 Ohio State (8-0). The 7:00 p.m. game in Camer-on Indoor Stadium provides the Blue Devils the opportunity to prove their worth against the best of the Big Ten as part of the third annual women’s Big Ten/ACC Challenge.

In order to extend its 17-game home-court winning streak, Duke will need to continue its tremendous defensive effort of late, which has limited the Blue Devils’ last four op-ponents to an average of 44 points.

“We defended like we were playing for the world champion-ship,” head coach Joanne P. Mc-Callie said about the Caribbean

Challenge. “We were Tasmanian devils for 80 minutes. Our kids were just all over the place.”

The Blue Devils, however, face a formidable opponent in All-American and reigning Big Ten Player of the Year Jantel lavender, who currently averages 24.3 points and 9.4 rebounds a game. At 6-foot-4, lavender possesses size and versatility.

“She just catches, turns and shoots and is not a stereo-typical post player because of her nice range and confi-dence as a shooter,” McCallie said. “You just have to scrap as a team against an offensive player like that.”

On top of lavender, Duke (5-1) must contend with Saman-tha Prahalis, last year’s Big Ten Freshman of the Year and the

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Duke faces Big Ten’s Buckeyesfacilitator of the Buckeyes’ offense, who currently dishes out 10 assists per game for the second-highest average in the nation.

Despite the confidence in its defense, Duke must con-tinue to improve its rebounding of the basketball on both the defensive and offensive ends.

Much of the increased efforts on the boards could fall upon junior center Krystal Thomas, senior forward Joy Cheek and freshman Allison Vernerey. Thomas, in par-ticular, seems poised for a big-time performance.

“She is becoming more confident in herself.... And her being able to finish [on offense] while defensively blocking peoples’ shots and being a presence in the paint is incredibly helpful for our team,” junior guard Jasmine Thomas said.

On the offensive side, the Blue Devils will continue to rely heavily on Jasmine Thomas, who became the third player to record a triple-double in Duke history against Marquette. While acknowledging the honor, Thomas con-tinued to stress that, “it’s a team thing we’re trying to focus on. The energy just can’t come from one player.”

All in all, the matchup with Ohio State provides Duke with a tremendous opportunity to prove its worth as a dangerous force this year. Facing such a tough opponent, though, Duke is hoping for as much fan support in as possible.

“We’re trying to get 6,000 [in Cameron],” McCallie said. “Tell your friends. Put it on your Twitter, your Facebook.”

Those who attend can expect nothing but a gut-wrench-ing fight between two highly skilled teams.

“We’ve been preparing for a battle,” Thomas said. “It’s go-ing to be a tough game. They’re going to be physical. We’re going to be physical. Both teams have that inside-outside pres-ence. We’re just going to try our best to limit their success.”

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Progress on women’s is-sues at Duke has seemingly stalled over the past several years, despite momentum gained during Nan Keohane’s presidency.

In 2003 at the conclusion of the Women’s Initiative, Keohane created a Commis-sion on the Status of Women to ensure that progress would be made on the actions high-lighted in the Initiative’s fi-nal report. Three years later, President Richard Brodhead charged a President’s Coun-cil on Women with continu-ing progress on gender equity at Duke.

But last year, Brodhead halted the council’s meet-ings and placed it on hiatus, saying that the body was be-ing re-evaluated. Since then, he has made no public state-

ments about the matter. Although the council was

more or less stagnant, it is im-portant to have an oversight

structure in place to address the important

needs of women at Duke.The council format adopt-

ed by Keohane and Brodhead was marginally successful in advancing women’s issues like the installation of lacta-tion rooms on campus and the improvement of childcare services offered to female em-ployees.

But one of the biggest flaws in the body’s structure was that it lumped all of the Uni-versity’s female constituents—students, faculty and staff—in-to the single demographic of women. In reality, the needs of these groups differ, and a one-size-fits-all approach was

destined to falter.Despite the council’s

failings, challenges still ex-ist for women at Duke, and they merit serious attention. When it comes to under-graduate life, the problems identified by the Women’s Initiative—dating culture at Duke, greek life and aca-demic advising networks—are not conducive to build-ing women’s self-esteem.

The Initiative’s report also rightly noted that female fac-ulty and staff face obstacles in the workplace because of their gender. Mentoring and professional development, safety and security, LGBT is-sues, diversity and work-life balance continue to be im-portant issues for the Univer-sity to address. And a glance at Duke’s upper level admin-istration reveals a dearth of

females, evidence that gen-der inequity—intentional or de facto—still exists.

Admittedly, many of the women’s issues present at our University are not unique to Duke. But they still necessi-tate careful, committed and sustained attention.

Support from the presi-dent goes a long way in le-gitimizing attempts to ad-dress women’s issues, and it is understandable that each president would take an ap-proach that best fits their in-dividual style. It’s problem-atic, however, that Brodhead chose to carry on Keohane’s council but later disbanded it in a rather underhanded manner without any suffi-cient explanation.

With the Women’s Initia-tive as a guiding document, Brodhead should replace

the President’s Council on Women with some sort of over-sight structure to address the obstacles Duke women face with concrete recommenda-tions and policies. Rather than charging a council with a broad and vague mandate, an action-based mechanism with a specific structure to deal with specific constituencies’ prob-lems would be more effective.

Bottom-up initiatives are necessary to address women’s issues, but they are ineffec-tive without outspoken upper level administrative support. President Brodhead must not shy away from exercising true leadership in addressing gen-der inequity at Duke.

Lucy McKinstry, a former member of the President’s Council on Women, recused herself from this editorial.

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What is it about some college students that so naturally

inclines them to tantrum-throwing?

As you may have heard, the Univer-sity of California Board of Regents voted Nov. 19 to increase student fees by 32 percent, about $2,500, in the face of an at least $535 million budget shortfall for the 2009-2010 school year. Both in anticipation of and in response to the decision, students at several UC campuses organized massive demonstrations and sit-ins, committing various acts of trespassing and other outright disorderly, some-times violent conduct in the process. All in the name of maintaining the right to state-subsidized tuition.

The protests capture an increasingly evident culture of entitlement afflicting our generation’s self-styled “activists.” Worse yet, this culture is re-flected in a tendency among youth to caricature the positions of those they disagree with to suit their narcissistic need for self-righteousness.

Now, it is fine for students—or anyone else, for that matter—to peacefully express their views within their right to freedom of speech. Amidst the recent protests, many did. This, however, does not entail that protestors are entitled to get what they want. This is apparently where the disconnect occurs—students seem to think they deserve a free lunch. Who cares how it gets to them.

Some facts are in order: The state of California is facing a $7 to $8 billion dollar budget shortfall for the 2010-2011 fiscal year, and as part of state-wide belt-tightening, has had to cut funding for state higher education by $637 million for the 2009-2010 school year. Keep in mind that 58 percent of the per-student cost of education is paid for by taxpay-ers as a whole, who by and large do not have chil-dren in the UC system. What makes students think they are entitled to this subsidy as a birthright?

At the end of the day, recessions are painful and budgets have to be balanced. As far as I can tell, demonstrators have presented no alternatives. The protests, characteristically, seem more cathartic than constructive. Luckily for them, they don’t have to make the decisions about what services have to be cut or how additional funds will be raised. Ad-ministrators, who don’t have that luxury, are faced with bad options and worse options.

Perhaps we could overlook the happenings in California of the past two weeks if they were an anom-

aly. But they are not. Look to the “Take Back NYU” shenanigans of last February at New York University, where a group of radical student activists blockaded a school cafeteria in a campus building and effectively shut down operations there, threatening that they would not leave until their demands were met.

The irony here is that the “Take Back NYU” protestors received none of their demands. Be-fore the stark fiscal reality the UC system faces, it seems unlikely that any of the student demonstra-tors will have their demands heard either.

What, then, is the point of such highly visible collec-tive action? It seems often little more than thoughtless chest-thumping, performative rather than purpose-ful. The words of one UC demonstrator were telling: “We’re here because it’s empowering for students.”

But what exactly is so empowering? That students can throw a tantrum, scream, yell and get away with it? One would think maturity is part of what students should hope to gain via their college education. And a crucial part of maturity is being able to recognize that things are not as simple as we would often like them to be. If anything, the recent resurgence in the culture of protest seems to disregard that notion, privileging instead the infantile idea that complexity is subservient to the need to be heard, ill-thought out though the expressed views might be.

Closer to home, we can be grateful that the student response to the much-publicized Inter-national House-Multicultural Center merger was tame and controlled by comparison. Details of the issue aside, the primary student organizers were respectful to administrators, and more important-ly, began with a clear set of goals that they were able to raise in a generally constructive manner, recognizing the difficulties involved.

Senior Priyanka Chaurasia, outgoing president of the Center for Race Relations, explained that the efforts she and other organizers made were “marked by being strategic and thinking careful-ly about the best way to get the desired result…. most of the activism has been diplomacy first.”

To be sure, there are aspects of the MCC-IH merger discussion that could have gone better. Numerous students reported that the manner in which views were sometimes expressed discour-aged disagreement. Efforts at campus discussion should promote thoughtful dialogue, and that in-volves creating space for disagreement.

Still, it has been said that Duke lacks an active culture of “activism.” Too often, we do not stop to consider what the term means. If the past few weeks’ events at UC campuses are what “activism” looks like, then Duke can do without it.

Vikram Srinivasan is a Trinity senior. This is his last column of the semester.

vikram srinivasanuncommon conviction

I’m a jealous guy. I know it’s hard to believe, but I assure you it’s true.

But you’re such an excellent Ukrainian folk dancer Jacob, what could you possibly be envious of, you reply? Of course, I know I was blessed with the amazing ability to express Yaro-slav Chuperchuk’s work through the art of dance in ways most would kill for, but I just can’t shake this jealousy thing.

Ask any of my ex-girlfriends and I’m sure they’ll attest to my jealous nature. Though at times I may go overboard, I still hold that for the most part my jealousy is justified: Anyone even remotely familiar with the Ukrainian folk dance tour community knows how many girlfriends have been lost to fellow Ukrainian dance superstars.

But this time, in the words of rapper and consonant lover extraordinaire Jay-Z: I’ve got 99 problems but a—well, I’ll stop there, I think you all know what “ain’t one.” Though I can relate to Jay-Z’s lack of relationship issues, I do have a few more than 99 problems on my mind.

Actually, that number is much closer to 1,739.Members of the freshmen Class of 2013, I’m sorry to

put it bluntly, but I despise every last one of you (espe-cially the kid who had his backpack taking up an open seat in a packed C-1 last week—have some common courtesy).

Well, let me rephrase that: WE despise every last one of you. I think I speak on the behalf of the majority of the senior class when I say the following: “We hate that you guys have three and a half years of college left, while we only have a semester. Also, you guys have some really adorable Uggs, where did you buy them?! Was it at Pennys? I thought so, they had a really good Black Friday sale, didn’t they?!” But we digress…

So yes, we’re a bit jealous. While our time at Duke has been full of many good memories, memories are fleeting. If we could only relive that first tailgate, that first Cookout run, that first time we saw “The Notebook” (I cried, lay off me, I’m sorry if I have a heart!), oh how wonderful that would be.

And not only do we pine for those earlier days, but in hindsight there are so many things we’d change: We’d get better grades our first semester, not hook up with that ran-do at Shooters and perhaps we’d even change our sheets more than once our freshman year.

Basically, if we could go back and start all over, we’d do it in a heartbeat. Now sure this jealously may in part be rooted in the career prospects, or lack thereof, that await us after graduation, but we also just really don’t want this wonderful thing called college to end.

It may seem like this jealousy is for naught. We can’t pull a Marty McFly, hop in our Delorean and travel back in time, But I think I have a solution. It’s bold, daring and probably won’t work, but I think it’s our only chance, fellow seniors.

Rebellion.Here’s the plan: At the start of spring semester, we take

back East Campus. Hopefully it will be a bloodless coup and the freshmen will give up their rooms with dignity, but should it come to violence, I think we can take them. Think about it, our frat stars have had three more years of getting their swell on in Wilson and our Pratt stars have had three more years of doing whatever it is they do in those dark hidden corners of the Perkins basement. With our collective combination of brawn and brains, those youngsters don’t stand a chance. After retaking East cam-pus, every senior simply assumes the identity of a fresh-man, simple as that (I call dibs on a guy with a nose that isn’t the size of Texas!).

Forget about living in the moment, mumbo jumbo about each new day being a new beginning and other tacky sayings to make us feel better about our past regrets. Let’s just rebel. Heck, I’ll even make a Facebook event with a clever title. So freshmen, it’s your move. If you go peace-fully, we may even let you come visit your old dorms every now and again—just remember to knock first if there’s a sock on the door.

Jacob Wolff is a Trinity senior. This is his final column of the semester.

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Go East, young man!

letterstotheeditorHold basketball to higher standard

The Chronicle’s opinion pieces on the men’s bas-ketball team consistently over-praise the team and do not hold it up to a high enough standard.

I, too, am very excited about this year’s team and the performances it has given so far. However, claims like we have a threesome as good as any in the na-tion are overreaching (better three-player tandems on Kansas and Kentucky immediately come to mind) and demonstrate an extremely biased analysis.

About a month ago a Chronicle article asserted that the reason Duke hasn’t been to a Final Four (or even Elite Eight for that matter) for the past five season was simply some bad luck. The team and students deserve a more measured, and sometimes critical, analysis of the team. The sports pages should express disappointment when the team does not play up to the Duke standard and give reasons why the team was lacking.

Additionally, it is too early to crown this year’s team, there is a lot of basketball left to be played. I think this Duke team and the teams for the next cou-ple of seasons can be great, but the basketball players and Coach K are not flawless, and they should not be treated as such.

Mark StromPratt ’11

RGAC to proceed after revisiting section menuThe Residential Group Assessment Committee

process is set to proceed in January after leaders from Campus Council, the Interfraternity Council

and Selective House Council revisit the “menu” from which selective living groups will select sections.

After the new menu is finalized and approved by leadership from all three councils, groups that earned the right to squat based on their perfor-mance in the RGAC process over the past three years will determine whether or not they wish to squat their current location. After these groups notify Residence Life and Housing Services of their decision of whether or not to squat, a new menu of available sections will be published, re-moving the sections that have been squatted by eligible groups.

In early January, the remaining selective living groups will select their sections based on the three-year average of their RGAC scores as originally in-tended and communicated to SLG presidents.

It is our hope that revisiting the menu and subse-quently carrying out the RGAC process will result in the creation of a West Campus that will be beneficial to affiliated and non-affiliated students alike.

Stephen TemplePresident, Campus Council

Trinity ’11

Eric KaufmanPresident, Interfraternity Council

Trinity ’10

Kait NagiPresident, Selective House Council

Trinity ’10

My big, fat, British Thanksgiving

“What do you mean, you don’t know what a mince pie is?”

You really do learn something new every day. It seems like a cliche, like something study abroad advertisers use as their catch phrase to entice you into their program, but I’ve come to realize how true it is.

Recently though, I’ve been thinking about how the things I’ve come to appreciate about Duke, study abroad and life in general have changed be-cause of where I’ve been in the past six months.

I suppose I may have been inspired to ponder about thankfulness by all the hoopla over last week’s Thanks-giving celebrations (and no, the Brits don’t celebrate the holiday that was invented by pilgrims seeking ref-uge from religious persecution in… Britain) but it may also have to do with the very frigid conditions in my flat right now and fond, fond memories of Duke’s magical heating system. Heating and energy usage in general is apparently quite expensive in Europe.

In all seriousness though, the most striking example of this newfound appreciation might be my new per-spective on diversity, both here and at Duke.

If you take a look around at the people walking across campus at Duke, I bet you barely even notice the sheer diversity of the student body. Here in Glasgow, however, diversity exists only when us Duke students get together for class or dinners. It’s always fascinating to realize, after having a conversation with someone, that you’re probably the only Asian person they’ve really talked to in person. Especially in the more remote parts of the U.K. such as Northern Ireland or the countryside regions of Britain, the population is extremely homoge-nous. Apart from the seminar all the Duke students take together, for example, I am the only non-white person in my classes here at the university.

Needless to say, there were times when I missed Duke for its jumble of students, for the cultural events like Awaaz and for the general feeling of being comfort-able with diversity. It’s also simply just neat to see what happens when you throw together students from every part of the world.

However, while Duke is fascinating because of how different each student is, it’s been interesting to observe here just how culturally integrated the Brit-ish are. Here, EVERYONE celebrates Christmas; you should have seen the blank stares my fellow Duke stu-dent received when she told our flatmates that her family doesn’t do Christmas. Even before December began, our flatmates have been excitedly planning our Christmas dinner, making plans to go ice-skating downtown beside the newly-lit town Christmas tree and getting us Americans to try all sorts of traditional British Christmas foods, i.e. mince pie.

Apart from Christmas, there are other important traditions as well. The drinking culture stands out es-pecially. Alcohol as part of the lifestyle is far more acceptable than in the U.S., perhaps due to the lower legal drinking age. Therefore, going to the pub dur-ing the week with your flatmates isn’t all that strange. In fact, it becomes another daily activity, chatting and sipping a pint of cider with your friends after a long day of classes or work. It’s part of the fabric of life and it works to bring everyone together to socialize and meet new people.

Alcohol aside, however, there’s also that wonderful idea of tea and toast, good for any hour of the day. I’ve come to appreciate this particular cultural phenom-enon not for the actual tea itself, but for the time Brits take to sit down and chat about their day. It’s also been a great opportunity to our British friends to learn about where we come from and how different our lives are in the United States, while we marvel at how culturally similar their lives are (Sunday roasts, cozy fireplaces, farming, football, countryside, village life, etc.) regard-less of whether they are from Northern Ireland or the north of England.

So, I suppose that while I am now more impressed by Duke’s diversity, it’s been a privilege to take part in the very unifying, singular sort of British life, if only temporarily. After all, diversity or not, the most impor-tant thing is feeling welcomed into whatever society you happen to be living. And, to that extent, I cannot ap-preciate Scotland more.

In case you were wondering, mince pie’s not too bad. But don’t expect any meat in it; it’s actually full of rai-sins. Who knew?

Doris Jwo is a Trinity junior. This is her final column of the semester.

jacob wolffi’m serious...

doris jwotwo points for

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