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savy fav see page 3

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The Hush Sound: Alternative rockers get set to help orient freshmen.

ADF: recess spotlights the internationally renowned and Durham-based festival’s 75th year.

see page 5

see pages 8 and 9

Seventies cinema rides again at the Nasher Museum of Art

see page 10

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sandbox Dear Class of 2012,

Welcome to Duke University.

Your new home. The Gothic Wonderland. The home of the Blue Devils. Eruditio et Religio and all that.

Inevitably, you are excited. Finally, you will be among your true peers–a group of scholars from a higher echelon of genetic selection. You’ll be with kids who share your dreams of Johns Hopkins medical school and similarly appreciate your ultra-indie taste in music. Vampire Weekend is so awesome.

Better yet, you’ll have four years to forge bonds with your BFFs for the rest of your life. You can share the joy of watching Mike Krzyzewski cap off your freshman year with a National Championship. You’ll tent for two months in the grueling Carolina winter but have the satisfaction of watching Duke trounce a dominant Carolina squad in Cameron. And LDOC ’09–that’s Last Day of Classes for anyone

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who didn’t know–well, that will just be awesome. Best LDOC ever.

In fact, when you arrive on East Campus that first day, everything will be different. You’ll go to your first totally awesome section party on West Campus.

After three too many Busch Lites, you’ll bus-surf your way back to East Campus and end up at Shooters II. Heck, you might even get in the cage. And it will be awesome and you will want to go back every weekend. With that buzz not worn off yet, you and your new best friends from Giles will go vandalize some East Campus bench and make it look like the kids in Brown did it. So original. No one to come through Duke has been or will be quite as cool, quite as clever. Class of 2012. Best class ever.

So enjoy your first two semesters in the Gothic Wasteland. Just remember to savor that Duke idyll you have in your mind right now, because as soon as you get back your first Econ 51 exam, you’ll know everything has changed. This is, after all, only school.

–Andrew Hibbard

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When I turned 10 years old, I had a big party.

It seems like after that, no one cared as much about my birthday anymore (check that… I turned 21 a week or so ago. But never mind that now.). There were no more cakes, no more big bashes and all of a sudden everyone seemed to want something more out of me (how does this relate directly to birthday parties? The first two directly have to do with changes in the celebration of your birthday, the third is more abstract. It’s a little disconnected to read).

Guess what? recess is officially 11. The party’s over.

So now that we’re all grown-up—or at least fast approaching puberty—we realize we need to mature as well.

There are several things we have in mind.

First, we want to focus more on the campus.

That means that if you’re in a band, exhibiting art or putting on a play, we want to hear from you. Our new arts calendar on page 3 seeks to be the campus’ clearing house for arts happenings every week. With the new calendar and more comprehensive on-campus coverage, we hope to encourage both your involvement in the campus arts and also nurture ours.

The bottom line is that when there’s a major arts happening on campus—whether it’s put on by Duke Performances, the Duke University Union, Hoof ’n‘ Horn, Theater Studies or any of the legion of arts organizations on campus, recess will be there. We have not been in the past, and it’s time to fix it.

Secondly, we’re going to cut down the

length of some of our stories. For the past three years, my name has most frequently graced these pages at the top of lengthy Faulknerian screeds masquerading as music features about obscure jazz musicians. I love writing ‘em, but who wants to read all that? Starting now, you can look for short, punchy and informative articles and reviews on these pages.

Thirdly? (I don’t really like using this, but there needs to be consistency). There will also be a new focus on lifestyle issues— the things that our colleagues in The Chronicle, the grey lady of campus journalism, sniff at: food, fashion, nightlife and sex life. We’ll bring them to you both with standard articles and, starting in August, with a handful of the finest columnists to appear in The Chronicle (eat that, Kristin Butler and Stephen Miller). They will all appear alongside the mix of witty, incisive coverage of movies, music and games that you’ve come to expect (or, for freshmen and jaded readers, will come to expect) from recess.

But, as they say, we are nothing without our readers. So what do you want? If you have ideas or requests, if you want to let us know about something that’s going on or if you just want to vent about what a moron I am, go for it. Feel free to send me an e-mail anytime at david.graham@duke.edu.

(Honestly, I’m a senior history major. Give me something to kill my time, folks.)

Ironically, David Graham Editor

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CALENDAR aug 20

the hush sound

7:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.

Duke University East Campus Quad

Come mingle (with freshmeat!) before the semester begins at the first-ever Duke University Union-sponsored Freshman Orientation Concert featuring indiepop quartet, The Hush Sound (see interview).

aug 21

el greco to velazquez:

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art during the reign of philip iii Nasher Museum of Art

courtesy les savy fav

New York-based Les Savy Fav has generated a massive fan base due to their eccentric live shows but is still largely ignored by the mainstream.

Les Savy Fav takes over Nasher

by Andrew Hibbard The chronicle

In modern music, genre names are tossed around so casually that they can pigeonhole any band, and the all-inclusive “indie rock” has become one of the most meaningless phrases in the industry.

Some bands, however, have been able to avoid categorization. Les Savy Fav is a prime example.

Formed during the band’s tenure at the Rhode Island School of Design in the mid 1990s, the now-New Yorkbased quintet has spent the past 13 years performing and recording on its own terms. As a result, it is an enduring force in modern music known for its defiant originality.

Drummer Harrison Haynes grew up in Chapel Hill and now lives in Durham, where he operates Branch Gallery with his wife. He joined the band a few years after its inception.

Haynes recalled going to the bands early shows at RISD. “[Les Savy Fav was] set apart within the context of other RISD bands. Les Savy Fav seemed like a straight forward rock ‘n’ roll band in the context of lightning bolts and black dice, you know,” Haynes said. “A lot of the RISD bands at that time were deconstructing rock and doing like feedback loops, which is awesome but I remember seeing Les Savy Fav and seeing two guitarists and vocals and drums and bass. It

was weirdly revolutionary compared to the other bands.”

In spite of this standard approach, Haynes quickly learned that the band’s songwriting was rife with subtlety and inventiveness. “Meet Me in the Dollar Bin” of 2004’s Inches, for example, is a four-minute percussion-driven track with only two notes and feedback.

This inventive spirit has in many ways defined the band.

Billed as post-punk, Les Savy Fav’s punk influences mostly stop at the surface level.

“I think we’ve managed to eschew a lot of categorization. We’ve been very stubborn about not being able to or not wanting to sum up what our band is,” Haynes said. “It even goes down to what the name of our band is. It means nothing. We made it up. It’s just self-referential.”

As a result, the band has not found much fame in the mainstream, but consistently sells out its shows and in 2008 performed at major festivals like Coachella and Norway’s Hove Festival alongside Jay-Z. For Haynes, this limbo between extreme notoriety and niche appeal is just fine.

“We insist on doing things our own way, and in some ways I think it’s really paid off. We have a cultish following that’s pretty second to none,” he said. “On the other hand, we haven’t really gone down in the books. Most people don’t

Perhaps one of the most important exhibits to come out of Spain, El Greco to Velazquez chronicles the dawning of the Spanish Golden Age with work from the masters and other lesser known artists. The exhibit took 20 years research under curator Sarah Schroth and is a partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This monumental collection will help put into perspective the political, social and religious dynamics of this time period and consequently shed new light on the birth of Spanish naturalism.

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He has most recently been touring with his bluesy group, the John Mayer Trio.

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DUU brings the popular Canadian stand-up comedian, best known for his dead-on impressions and racial commentary. Student tickets for the show go on sale July 31 for $22 and general admission tickets go on sale Aug. 4 for $30.

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Summertime is the most exciting time of year for healthy eaters. There’s no limit to the amount of fresh, homegrown produce available and never an easier time to plan healthy, nutritious meals (see Post-it notes for ideas) and snacks such as raw veggies with low-fat spinach dip or hummus.

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At the end of eight weeks, the high-variety group showed significantly reduced rates of DNA oxidation, making their bodies more resilient against disease and highlighting the importance of consuming a wide variety of fruits and vegetables to get the most inclusive range of nutrients.

In addition to this benefit, eating the whole fruit can have extensive advantages, even when compared to its 100 percent juice form. Juices are often in concentrated form, increasing their caloric content and greatly reducing key elements such as dietary fiber and vitamins. FYI: orange pulp contains 10 times the Vitamin C found in the juice alone, so high-pulp juice can pack a significant punch. Whenever possible, opt for the whole fruit.

The hot summer months also bring to mind grilled hamburgers and hot dogs.

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Hush Sound ready to bring noise to East Campus For the Hush Sound, success has come suddenly. Releasing their first record in 2005, the band has gone on to headline tours and support acts such as Panic at the Disco and Fall Out Boy. The Chicago-based group fuses harmonic vocals with a distinctive jazzy rock sound. Recently, the Hush Sound’s guitarist Bob Morris spoke with recess’ Jordan Axt about the band’s newest album, musical inspirations and awkward freshman.

How do you feel like your new album, Goodbye Blues, differs from your previous records?

On Goodbye Blues, we kind of got to explore a lot more tones and take our song writing further. On Like Vines, we already had our tones laid out beforehand, whereas on Goodbye Blues, we were able to work up each song individually, finding a separate tune for each. We had the ability to decide each song individually.

How do you think your music differs from the bands that you have toured with, such as Panic at the Disco, the All-American Rejects and Rooney?

Music is my life. A lot of people like music, but it’s not their life. So we try a lot to have a really original and distinct sound. I don’t think we sound like any other band.

I don’t think we want to sound like any of the bands we tour with. No one wants to go to a concert where all five of the bands sound the same.

What acts do you feel are the biggest inspirations in your own music?

There are a lot: the Beatles, some Motown, Leon Russell, the Kinks. As a band, we are very nostalgic. We all have really eclectic music tastes. Unfortunately, I find it overwhelming to find new music today that doesn’t suck. There’s a lot of bad music out

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The Hush Sound is the latest band booked by DUU Major Attractions to play free for all students. there, and it’s hard to sort through it all.

That said, are there any bands out there right now that you particularly admire?

Phantom Planet, the group we just finished touring with, is a really great band.

There is not a band that comes close to them. They are just completely and unbelievably talented. Of course, there are also the obvious choices like Radiohead. Everybody loves Radiohead. Basically, when somebody is a genius, you have to admire their work.

You’ve toured as a supporting act with a lot of big name bands. Yet, you’ve also had three tours where you were the headline act. What do you take away from being both a supporting act and the headliner on a tour?

It’s really important to do both. Natu-

rally, we really enjoy doing a headlining tour because the audience is there for you.

They know all the lyrics to your songs and sing along to your work. It’s a great feeling.

There’s just generally a lot less pressure.

Support tours, on the other hand, are a little bit harder. You have to make the audience become fans of yours. You have to make them want to come see you the next time you are in town. Being the supporting act on a major tour has taken us to a lot of places and venues we probably couldn’t do on our own.

One of the most interesting aspects about The Hush Sound is that all band members share vocal duties. Yet, on Goodbye Blues, pianist Greta Salpeter sings nine of the 13 tracks. Was this a conscious decision?

It was not a conscious decision at all.

I was going through a lot of personal things that prevented me from finishing songs, and Greta was simply finishing more songs. When you are in a band that shares songwriting and vocal duties, there is a lot of opportunities for jealousy to arise. But now that we have been doing this for so long, we’re all comfortable with saying “Greta, I love you to death.”

We used to be a band where whoever wrote the song got to do the vocals, but now we’re a lot about allowing other members to do the vocals to songs that someone else has written.

What has it been like to work with Pete Wentz who signed you to his label?

Pete has been pretty hands-off in his interactions with the band. Mostly, he has helped us just get more support and exposure. Patrick Stump, the lead vocalist for Fall Out Boy, has also been very helpful. He produced our previous record, Like Vines.

He has had a lot of insight into our work. I was at his house just the other day and got the chance to just bounce some ideas off of him for our next album.

You will be playing at Duke during orientation, which means that your concert will undoubtedly be primarily attended by nervous, awkward freshman. How will your show help them overcome this feeling?

I think that we put out a pretty welcoming vibe in our shows. We put a lot into our music and we expect a lot back. We bring a lot of energy and it’s the best feeling when the crowd is able to reciprocate that energy.

These people will definitely be really nervous, but we think that our music will help loosen them up a bit. Or maybe they’ll just be drunk, which might make things a lot easier.

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The Hold Steady are rock and roll. The grit, sweat and blood. The drugs and alcohol. The everyman emotions. The self-destruction. All are perfectly encapsulated by Craig Finn and company’s fourth release, Stay Positive. While the Hold Steady have their quirks (namely Finn’s unusual but highly effective sing-speak delivery and the Catholic imagery that runs throughout), it takes little time to recognize Stay Positive as one of the year’s strongest, most accomplished albums.

The album consists of 11 tracks that range from spectacular to outstanding. Each chronicles the lives of substance-addled individuals with intricate and furious guitars, deft keys work from Franz Nicolay and Finn’s literate blue-collar poetry, brought to life by his gruff and inimitable voice.

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Finn has created his own world over the course of the Hold Steady’s discography, a world set in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Ybor City, which is populated with townies, hoodrats, drifters, scenesters, users and dealers. Certain lyrics particularly resonate, such as the line in murder-drama “One for the Cutters” that asks, “When one townie falls in the forest/Can anyone hear it?” Similarly, in “Stay Positive,” a track that sound like the unknown theme song of an aging generation, Finn vows that “The kids at the shows/They’ll have kids of their own/And the sing-a-long songs’ll be their scriptures.”

It’s futile to pick out any more tracks and lyrics to highlight, as every track and lyric is a success on par with some of the giants of American music. This album is a landmark, the very convincing work of a band making a case for itself as one of the country’s best, and—idiosyncrasies be damned—it’s a masterpiece.

—Kevin Lincoln

Evil Urges, My Morning Jacket’s fifth studio album, will cast a hypnotic spell over any listener. With haunting vocals, wailing guitar solos and full-out jams, the album blends alternative, country, rock, pop and electronic influences to create an eclectic sound that’s nearly impossible to label.

Yet, beyond the sheer seductiveness of the melodies lies a deeper reflection, one that delves into the shortcomings of society. But unlike contemporary rebel yells and political rants, Evil Urges criticizes to inspire. Title track “Evil Urges” rejects traditional ideas about what is “evil” and instead proclaims that evil is what you make it. Lead singer Jim James begs the listener to “dedicate your love to any woman or man/No racial boundary lines, no social subdivisions/If you want it, you can.” In “I’m Amazed,” the band pairs wonder with confusion, chanting, “I’m amazed at all that has been/I’m amazed at all that will be/I’m amazed at the TV stations/I’m amazed at what they want me to believe.”

With such inventive rhythms and intelligent lyrics, Evil Urges is the most accomplished and cohesive record in My Morning Jacket’s promising career. Aside from the fact that they rock out, break guitars and put on crowd-raising live performances, My Morning Jacket shows their courage even more so in Evil Urges, where hard-hitting tracks like “Highly Suspicious” are followed by more sensitive songs such as “Thank You Too!” It is precisely this kind of exploration and never straying too far from the band’s Kentucky roots that makes the album a success.

Evil Urges is a record that experiments, pushes limits and above all establishes My

Morning Jacket as one of the most innovative bands in music. It’s one of those albums you put in your car and escape, when you roll down the windows and just drive.

It’s an album you put on for contemplative nights alone. It’s mellow and invigorating.

It’s motivational. It’s going to be stuck in your head—and not in a bad way.

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Lil Wayne has a lot of hype to live up to these days. Since the 2006 release of Tha Carter II, he has been widely hailed as the “best rapper alive” (even recently anointed as such by the most venerable of hip-hop tastemakers, The New York Times).

On Tha Carter III, he delivers. He raps (well). He plays guitar (badly). He threatens to shoot your grandmother. It appears that the drugs have gone to his head, and honestly, it’s for the best. Throughout the album, Lil Wayne (Dwayne Carter) cements his reputation as a brilliant and unhinged lyricist, indulging in extended metaphor and paranoid fantasies, more than holding his own against today’s best MCs. The album’s production is a solid blend of the best of what’s been coming out of Houston, Atlanta, Chicago and New York the last few years, from a variety of producers (not exclusively Kanye West, as was rumored earlier). However, Lil Wayne is, without question, the attraction here, and he’s not afraid to say it. On “Let the Beat Build,” he rightly compares himself to Tupac and Biggie. Jay-Z even contributes a Wayne-biting verse to the record, effectively passing the torch of rap’s biggest star to Mr. Carter the Younger. (continued on next page)

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At Mount Zoomer, the sophomore effort from Montreal giants Wolf Parade, is as schizophrenic and disheveled as its bizarre album cover. Torn into two separate works by the diverging interests of the group’s lead songwriters, Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner, the album is sorely lacking the distinct identity that was readily apparent on the band’s outstanding 2005 debut, Apologies to the Queen Mary.

Krug’s songs, the best of Apologies, now sound like B-sides from his superb sideproject, Sunset Rubdown. “Call It A Ritual” is a particularly weak showing, with a relatively bland piano line, poor specimens of his hit-or-miss lyrics and a distinct lack of energy. Later, Krug recycles Sunset Rubdown’s “Stallion” into “Bang Your Drum,” an improvement on “Call It a Ritual,” but not on the aforementioned Rubdown effort. The only convincing Wolf Parade

piece is “California Dreamer,” which is easily his best work on the record.

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However, At Mount Zoomer is unavoidably sunk by the fact that it sounds like the work of two unique bands. The only seemingly collaborative song, “Kissing the Beehive,” is a wasted effort. The track’s three segments would have held up well as individual pieces, but instead implode under the 11-minute running time. In the end, At Mount Zoomer leaves only the sense of Wolf Parade’s identity crisis, devoid of a cohesive aesthetic or sound. One departs wondering whether Krug and Boeckner’s continued partnership is only handicapping each artist’s clearly abundant talent.

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I love Weezer. My personality has been sculpted by a combination of “My Name is Jonas” and “El Scorcho”, contributing to an absurd and self-deprecating sense of humor, a debilitating level of self-awareness and a love for alcohol and irony.

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“The Greatest Man That Ever Lived” brings back the Shaker hymn used in “Across the Sea” and “Surf Wax America,” using an obscene number of variations in musical style to construct the greatest karaoke song ever. Both tracks represent everything that makes the band special—its simplified yet endlessly appealing sound.

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It features the traditionally uneven components of any Weezer production: self-aware radio pop (“Troublemaker”), pseudo-heartfelt nostalgia (“Heart Songs”), angsty tempo switching (“Dreamin’”) and an epic ending (“The Angel and the One”). Tragically, it even features truly forgettable songs with vocals from (gasp!) band members other than Rivers Cuomo. Some would say it’s formulaic. I say a band needs to be true to itself.

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International dance festival celebrates 75 years What’s in a name? recess’ reviewer takes on the acrobatic and majestic Pilobolus

by Alice Ren The chronicle

Pilobolus (crystallinus): a phototrophic zygomycete; a sun-loving fungus that grows in barnyards and pastures.

Naming your dance troupe after a fungus might not seem like a harbinger of success, but the dance group Pilobolusmay have pulled it off. Actually, that’s an understatement.

Since its inception in 1971 Pilobolus has grown (no pun intended) to become a worldwide phenomenon, featured on 60 Minutes in 2004 and performing at the 2007 Academy Awards. This is Pilobolus’s 37th year at the American Dance Festival, and it has become the must-see attraction, with an audience that comes back year after year for breathtaking lifts and acrobatic artistry.

The night began with a demonstration of the troupe’s physical agility and creativity . With the Beatles’ “Birthday” playing in the background, dancers spelled out “ADF 75th” in a human alphabet shadowed onto a white screen. The curtain then rose to reveal a mystical darkness lit up fireflies. The piece, Lantern Magica, evoked images of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with fairy- and nymph-like creatures in a playful and everlasting game of search and pursuit. My favorite of the night, Magica brought out the child in me. The piece came alive with innumerable lifts that carried the dancers from one fairytale scene to another. Pilobolus showed an almost inhuman ability to create the illusion of weightlessness.

Characters floated through the air, undulating and flowing in time to classical music.

But beneath the beauty was the group’s undeniable physical strength. The first piece alone included a human boat, a human plane and two-person somersaults (two dancers in a crab-like embrace flipping over one another).

The second piece, Symbiosis, a duet in which the two dancers, one man and one woman almost never lost physical contact, showcased the acrobatics in a primeval light. Here the dancers wore the least in terms of their outfits, but their sculpted bodies magnified the motions and poses.

The highlight after intermission was the poignant solo, Nocturne, where an emotive, masked woman explored youth and age. In one of the most powerful uses of costume all night, the ribbon holding the mask to the woman’s face was unraveled and transformed into a walking cane. In near silence, a now-aged woman walked off with a quiet but resilient dignity.

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Pilobolus brings fanciful visions back to life in a collection of performances filled with creative and physically daring dancers.

Then came the experiment, the step into the future: Darkness and Light. As during the introduction, the Pilobolus dancers now performed without the audience seeing them. Besides an intentional two-second pause in the beginning before the screen dropped down, viewers could only see lights held by dancers or the silhouettes of their bodies. On this new canvas, the audience saw sights reminiscent of microorganisms under a microscope, men and aliens, and—for lack of a better expression—jelly-like blobs engulfing one another.

For some, this display was made all the more incredible because one could only guess at how the dancers created the subtle spastic vibrations of the amoeba-shaped objects. But the performance undeniably suffered from the audience’s

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In any case, the piece is indicative of what the future of dance performance may hold.

Throughout the evening, the troupe’s range was Impressive, as they moved from fairy tale to primeval man while still showcasing their signature style. Although Darkness and Light was not on par with the dancing exhibited in the rest of the performance, Nocturne is not to be missed. The images were unworldly and amazing, but it changes the definition of dance to put a screen between the dancers and the audience.

This reviewer may not be ready for the revolution—dancing without the dancers—but until that day comes, I’ll still be holding my own.

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co-director It has only been one year since Nimerichter took on the role of director, but she has already made strides to improve the festival, bringing in more acts by combining companies for each performance in the “Split Screens” series. She discusses the distinctive nature of ADF, the beauty of variety and appreciating modern dance.

The view from inside ADF

An intern’s view into the creative outlets of modern dance

by Lauren Tam The chronicle

On my first day as an intern for the American Dance Festival, I had my first jarring epiphany.

I found that my freshman year dorm room had been transformed in to the “copier room.” Not only was my former abode now air-conditioned and equipped with packages of colored paper, the entire Wilson Residence Hall had become an office building, complete with a receptionist and an ADF store. While the metamorphosis changed my perception of my old home, my summer internship has caused other epiphanies in my perception of dance as well.

I originally applied to be an intern for ADF because I longed to spend the precious days of summer doing something that I am truly passionate about: dance. I have trained in ballet, jazz, lyrical and tap nearly my entire life, but have only had limited exposure to modern styles, which is the main focus of ADF. Although I love dance, I have never pursued it during my summers in college because of the demands of the pre-med curriculum. My summers always involve research in a lab, reading scientific journals and preparing PowerPoint presentations for seminars. With my senior year fast approaching, I dared to do something different the last time around. At ADF I would immerse myself in the world of modern dance—one that emerges every summer right on Duke’s campus.

As the school video intern, I film everything from master classes and informal student showings to discussions with visiting artists and repertory workshops. Through these opportunities to archive special events at ADF my internship allows me to experience multiple aspects of the festival.

Besides recording, my days are spent taking an advance modern technique class of my choice, attending weekly in-

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tern seminars and watching all of the ADF performances for free. I have been fortunate enough to sample some of the many distinct techniques of ADF’s accomplished faculty, such as Pam Pietro and Keith Thompson, and grateful to be exposed to the dozens of world-renowned dance companies lined up to perform in celebration of ADF’s 75th anniversary.

In my experience so far, I have been surrounded by an environment that nurtures creativity and stimulates unity within the dance community. I constantly see individuals engaging in a dialogue through the ADF blog on the walls of Wilson dorm. If students watch a performance with other fellow dancers, they can participate in a criticism discussion the next day. They also share your work with peers in open showings and let loose at weekly “improv jams.”

As an intern, dancer and audience member, my appreciation for dance has grown tremendously. All of my former training has been in styles that have a specific vocabulary of movement. When someone asks you about dance ballet, you can demonstrate that style easily with a plie, grand jete, or pirouette. When someone asks you to show modern dance, however, you wouldn’t know where to begin.

The diversity of my experiences through ADF has generously broadened my idea of what dance is and has only emphasized the impossibility of defining it. I have learned that the spectrum of dance extends beyond “technique” classes—it encompasses the limitless quality of human expression. Dance embraces the pulsing rhythms of African drums, the stillness of meditation and the frenetic compulsions of a twitch. In a place so familiar to me during the academic year, ADF has managed to unveil an entirely new world—one that has shown me what dance is from more angles than I thought possible.

Diversions of Angles, Lamentation and Steps in the streets Martha Graham Dance company Hailed as “one of the seven wonders of the artistic universe” by The Washington Post, the company portrays the reactions to facism, grief and love in this dramatic presentation.

Have there been challenges with the “Split Scenes” in terms of pairing companies together with similar repertoire?

When Charles and I first started thinking about curating this season, we wanted to show the widest breadth and depth of what the modern dance repertoire is, and show classic work from history, commission new work [and] represent the national and international companies and artists in the work. So we had this idea of all that we wanted to do and we started the think, “Yes, it would be terrific if we could put XYZ in one program because it makes a really nice fit.” In most cases, it sometimes worked out. But then there’s another factor that plays into it greatly, which is [that] when you’re trying to coordinate that many companies, their schedules don’t always work out to be available at the same times that you hoped. But I think that despite that, it ends up in a way just as interesting, if not more, because there’s more diversity, which gives the audience a real range of work to look at.

You’ve worked with a lot of other festivals and productions. What do you think makes ADF different?

I think that ADF is unique—and I don’t like using that word often—but unique in the sense that it is an intensive, six-and-a-half week festival that brings together choreographers, dancers, scholars, critics [and] faculty, all together, and they’re working side-by-side, so there’s this incredible opportunity for exchange, and I think the amount of information in relation to sets, scene and form is life-changing. And you’re removed from most if not all of the struggles of day-to-day life. In a way, you’re going to camp. And you get to do what you love to do for that intense period with 400-plus other people who share that same passion. It’s unusual to be surrounded by people who care so much about the same thing you do.

ADF also runs a summer camp. How does that tie in with the performances aspect?

We have a six-and-a-half week school, and the younger dancer school. They take classes four days a week, six hours a day, and on the weekend they have a big smorgasbord of dancing classes and other things that can’t fit into the regular schedule.

ADF is the place where we train dancers for the choreographers, and by coming and training, dancers also get to see the different performances and they get to audition for different pieces in our season.

We’re trying to bridge the training and the professional world together. A lot of people don’t know this, but we offer tours to go behind-the-scenes and see what’s happening on East Campus.

Modern dance is sometimes esoteric and for people that don’t have background into it, how would you say they should go about appreciating the variety?

I think art is very subjective and personal. The thing with modern dance is that it has such a wide palette to choose from. It’s only by seeing many things that you can understand the wide range of this art form, so it’s allowing yourself to go to the theater, commit yourself to what’s happening there, and you take away what you want to take away from it. I think a lot of people go and don’t understand what they think they’re supposed to understand, but there isn’t something you’re supposed to understand. There are some very intellectual pieces and there are the other programs that are much more accessible. But that variety of flavor is, again, the richness of the art form.

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Nasher celebrates Hendricks with film series

by Andrew Hibbard The chronicle

Barkley Hendricks captured the spirit of a generation in his iconic paintings.

The Nasher Museum of Art’s “Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool” exhibition showcases the artist’s life-sized portraits, and the museum has supplemented the show with numerous panel discussions and appearances by the artist himself.

And in May, the Nasher joined up with the the Program in Film/Video/Digital’s Screen/Society to present a series of films from the era Hendricks depicted.

The film series is varied and has included a documentary as well as several blaxploitation films, such as Shaft and Super Fly. The series was born out of a need for summer programming, said Trevor Schoonmaker, curator for the Hendricks exhibition. The academic year tends to draw more scholarly programming like panel discussions, but the summer is about finding a wider appeal, Schoonmaker said, so he decided a film series would get a different audience.

After coming up with a list of films he thought would complement the show, Schoonmaker approached Screen/Society Coordinator Hank Okazaki about helping with the series and the list of films. After consulting the list, Okazaki got on board and immediately, backing the series because of its representation of what he calls “the tapestry of the era.”

One of the most important elements in choosing the films was the musical element.

Hendricks, a musician himself, was heavily affected by music. This influence is apparent in the titles of some of his works, as well as the exhibition’s title, borrowed from Miles Davis’ landmark 1949 album

Birth of the Cool.

Similarly, music plays a role in many of the films. Isaac Hayes’ Oscar-winning score plays a subtle role in the picture Shaft, whereas the 1972 film The Harder They Came, scored by Jimmy Cliff, uses reggae as a major plot device. The series also included Music is the Weapon, a documentary on Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti, also the subject of one of the Hendricks paintings on display.

“I wanted the musical components to come out in the film series,” Schoonmaker said. “But I also just sort of wanted to culturally, historically look at the culture he was documenting and exploring.”

He added that screening films is important to the Nasher as the museum tries to showcase more than visual art.

“The music film and visual arts are not separate worlds, they do overlap,” he said.

The films also demonstrate a convergence of ideas popular at the time.

“There’s kind of a synergy between the music, the politics [and] the fashion of the time,” Okazaki said. “It reflects the influences and the interests of the painters and his subjects.”

He said one of the biggest joys for him, in addition to seeing the films he hadn’t seen before, was getting to work with the Nasher’s broad mission statement.

“It’s nice that the Nasher Museum has an expanded view of what’s sort of important and cultural and that we are worthy of consideration in a museum context,” Okazaki said.

Schoonmaker said the screenings have averaged between 50 and 100 visitors per show, some of the largest audiences ever for film screenings at the Nasher.

“I know there’s people who have come

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Blaxploitation films ushered in a brief Hollywood renaissance in the 1970s after a slump in the sixties. to the film series who have never been to the museum before,” he said. “Even if that’s just a handful of people, that’s great.”

Because of the success of this series, Schoonmaker hopes to continue screening more films at the Nasher.

“The response has been very positive and it’s encouraging that we can do more

of these in the future,” he said. “We’ve done a screening here and there, but the more we do people are going to get accustomed to films that have just enough appeal to a broad audience but just removed enough from the mainstream to where people haven’t seen it three times already.”

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Inside Joker awarded Rooftop prize

by Braden Hendricks

comedy@duke Duke University Improv (DUI)

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The eyes of comedy aficionados across the nation turned to Duke when one of its own won the RooftopComedy National College Comedy Competition in May. Tim Ball, Trinity ’08, won the three-tiered contest by beating out contestants from 31 schools at the university, regional and national level.

The funny thing about Ball’s win, however, is that he participated in the original first round of the competition on a whim.

“One day my friend Lindsay from Duke told me that RooftopComedy was having a national stand-up competition in search of the funniest college kid,” he said. “So I thought to myself, ‘Hey why not? I’ll give it a shot.’”

Although he entered the competition upon his friend’s suggestion, Ball has thought about the entertainment business as a future.

“Comedy is a passion of mine and I do want to pursue it as a career,” he said. If he chooses to continue this passion, Ball would be building upon a solid foundation of comedic experience from his time with Inside Joke, Duke’s sketch-comedy group.

Kyle Knight, Trinity ’08 and last year’s president of Inside Joke, said Ball’s achievement was a significant one..

“He was in an audience-vote contest up against comedians from schools with three times the enrollment of Duke, and he won,” Knight said. “It means Duke students know comedy when they see it.”

Indeed, his victory is even more noteworthy because he made it to the finals in Aspen as a wild card after losing to Mary Sasson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the regional round.

“I had to get voted back into the final-

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Tim Ball (left), here with the local contestants, is a former member of Duke’s sketch comedy group, Inside Joke. ist group in order to get a chance to go to Aspen,” he explained. A large contingency of Duke students came out in support of fellow contestants such as Ball, Varun Lella, Trinity ’08 and former editor of recess, junior Daniel Lewin and sophomore Prashant Swaminathan. Clearly, their presence paid off.

While Lella and Swaminathan approached the subject of race and growing up Indian in America, and Lewin attacked UNC basketball star Tyler Hansbrough, Ball prepared a wide scope of content that ranged from commentary of the typical office environment to Spanish classes to reality shows. Making fun of such popular shows as the Maury Povich Show and MTV’s Next, Ball noted what he views as the ridiculous nature of modern television.

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Ball said his performance in Aspen, available online at the RooftopComedy Web site, was delivered with confidence that veiled his internal panic.

“I was so nervous that I threw up in the morning,” he said.

Nevertheless, his poise translated into victory.

Besides receiving a check for $1500, the exposure from the competition is a positive first step to a showbiz career. The prestige of winning a national competition could potentially be what Ball needs to get his foot in the door of the entertainment business.

For the recent Duke graduate, the experience is simply a dream come true. And naturally, he’ll crack jokes about it.

“I could not believe it. It was so surreal,” Ball said. “I did not know what to do except to smile and say thank you… and of course, go to a whorehouse afterwards.”

Who: Duke’s best and only improv comedy troupe Why they’re a big deal: They were featured in The New York Times Magazine and Sports Illustrated blogs for an Asian parody of the viral video, “My New Haircut.” Their “Asian Edition” received over two million views within the first three months. Plus, every dollar that DUI raises goes towards the Scott Carter Foundation for Pediatric Cancer Research.

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Summer style sounds fanfare for the common clothes

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As an added bonus, the look still seems risky enough that the pants you buy now will last at least through fall before you retire them to avoid appearing too slavish a follower of the trends. For those in search of a more flattering look, high-waisted skirts, both pencil and A-line, are the best figure-forgiving option.

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This summer, the sidewalk replaces the catwalk as individualistic street fashion commands the trends. The models to watch are not the skinny creatures prancing around at fashion shows sporting haute couture creations but the nonchalant fashionistas you see on the subway during your daily commute. And high fashion is certainly reflecting the counter-fad, exemplified by quirky, of-the-moment statement pieces that look more like they came from a thrift store than Neiman’s.

When asked what look represents the pinnacle of summer trendiness, employees of Olive and Bette’s boutique in Soho­—known for peddling the most transiently popular pieces of contemporary sportswear from brands such as Joie and Splendid—responded unanimously: “Gladiators!”

Indeed, the bondage-like strappy sandals, previously seen only on the most daring, are appearing this summer in record numbers. This season they’re most visible in eye-catching brights and metallics, but the popularity of such a unique item can only mean one thing—a quickly elapsing shelf-life.

The same thing is true of other distinct summer looks such as bold yellow tones and voluminous maxi-dresses—all of which were worn and abandoned by those truly in-the-know months ago. Similarly, leggings are so far gone that they’re almost retro again—almost.

Light summer scarves, though slowly creeping through Gaps and Targets nationwide, still have a small window of wearability left. Most popular among them is the keffiyah, a patterned, tasseled

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Department of Theater Studies Annual Open House All undergraduates are invited to our open house, Monday,August 25, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm in Brody Theater on East Campus. Meet the Theater Studies Faculty and the Duke Players Council and reconnect with friends. Information about courses, auditions, backstage opportunities, and other news will be available. FREE FOOD!

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Three short works by a writer known for his outrageous and often absurd comedy. Join the fun as Duke Players presents the quirky plays of eagleeyed playwright Christopher Durang.

Three short, zany comedies by Christopher Durang Directed by Adam Barron (T’10) Brody Theater, East Campus August 22, 23 at 11 pm August 29, 30 at 8 pm

SWEENEY TODD Book by Hugh Wheeler Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Directed by John Clum,Theater Studies faculty Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center,West Campus October 23-November 2

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By David Mamet Directed by Russell Hainline (T’07) Featuring Matt Colabrese (T’09) 209 East Duke, East Campus January 22-25

Duke Players is the student organization in the Department of Theater Studies. Its members support the Department’s productions by running auditions, working on production crews, promoting participation in theater by all Duke students, and representing the interests of students involved in Theater Studies.

All undergraduates are eligible for membership.

Brody Theater, East Campus November 13-16

OLEANNA (Sr. Distinction Project)

PURE IMAGINATION: an evening of Roald Dahl

GULAG FOLLIES Written and directed by Jody McAuliffe, Theater Studies faculty

Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center,West Campus February 19-22

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By Eugene Ionesco Directed by Ellen Hemphill, Theater Studies faculty Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center,West Campus April 2-11

THE MAIDS (Sr. Distinction Project)

By Jean Genet Directed by Gretchen Wright (T’09) Featuring Claire Florian (T’09) & Becky Sweren (T’09) Brody Theater, East Campus April 16-18 Check www.duke.edu/web/theaterstudies for times and/or changes

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AUDITIONS FOR SWEENEY TODD All Duke Undergrads are invited to audition for Theater Studies’ and Hoof ‘n’ Horn’s joint fall production on Wednesday, August 27 or Thursday, August 28, with callbacks on Friday, August 29.

Auditions will be held in the Bryan Center.

Location TBA.

(Sr. Distinction Project) Directed by Carolyn McDaniel (T’09) Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center,West Campus February 5-8

Sign up in advance for your audition time in the Duke Players notebook at the Info Desk in the Bryan Center. For more info, e-mail matthew.patrick@duke.edu.

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So far this summer, Hollywood has treated the masses to sexually liberated 40-somethings, an aged tomb raider and a pair of Marvel superheroes. But the most human and affecting character of the summer isn’t even human.

WALL-E, the titular character in Pixar’s latest film, is an obsolete trash-compacting robot stranded on Earth. In the first minutes of the film, director Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo) exposes us to WALL-E’s post-apocalyptic world covered by skyscrapers of garbage and remnants of corporate advertising. Because of all this garbage, humans have evecuated Earth and been mindlessly living for 700 years on an intergalactic cruise where bone density has given way to obesity.

The first 40 minutes are sparse on dialogue and are the strongest part of the film.

Stanton establishes a strong but not overpowering environmental and anti-consumerist message (ironic for a Disney film).

The meatier story line in WALL-E, however, is between the title character and EVE, a sleek egg-shaped robot who comes to Earth with a classified mission. At first, EVE is abrasive, blowing up everything in sight

in her quest to complete her task. WALL-E soon wins her over with naive and affable charm, showing her his collection of junk and his video of “It Only Takes a Moment” from Hello, Dolly—a scene that influences WALL-E’s idea that true love exists when two people hold hands.

What is most remarkable about this love story is the expression of emotion.

WALL-E’s binocular eyes reveal his pain, wonderment and love in a stunningly affecting manner (Keanu Reeves could take a few lessons). Moreover, the two robots’ speech is limited to their names, yet each utterance of “WALL-E” or “EVE” is rife with emotion and meaning far deeper than the actual words. Nora Ephron, eat your heart out.

As the film heads to outer space, the plot gives way to a Disney-fied HAL 9000 and a quiet satire of how technology has overtaken society. The animation is of course stunning and the humor broad enough to appeal to all audiences. But the heart of the film is still WALL-E’s intrepid, loving spirit as he relentlessly, if foolishly, tries to help EVE complete her mission.

WALL-E might be a glorified rusty metal box, but he is one of the warmest and most inspiring characters to come to theaters in a long time.

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From his fascination with firearms to his star-studded funeral—which included a launching of his ashes—Hunter S. Thompson was an epic personality. So it is fitting that, as far as documentaries go, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is a frenetic, celebrity-filled affair of grand proportions.

Gonzo takes a straight-forward approach to the biographical documentary, addressing its subject’s life chronologically beginning with his Hell’s Angels phase. The methods of biography are standard protocol with a flair for the famous. The documentary boasts narration by Johnny Depp and interviews with Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Carter and Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner. Director Alex Gibney also employs Ralph Steadman drawings and clips from the 1998 adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to great effect, charging and animating the story of Thompson’s life.

In contrast to the dark tone of Gibney’s last two documentaries—Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) and the Oscar-winning, torture-themed Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)—Gonzo is rife with humor. The clips of Thompson at his zaniest play center stage and add the most authenticity to the film.

But Gibney is not afraid of drawing political comparisons between the current politics and the war in Iraq and Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 and Vietnam. While apt and likely to have garnered Thompson’s support, some of the parallels presented, such as the juxtaposition of soldiers in Vietnam and Iraq, feel out of place in the film. Gibney simply cannot overcome his political agenda.

Nonetheless, Gibney’s portrayal of the father of Gonzo journalism is not all political rants and clips of the always-irreverent Thompson. The film’s final act focuses on Thompson’s personal demise, which coincided with the critical backlash against Thompson in the seventies and eighties. Interviews with his first wife and son add emotional depth to the documentary. With their accounts, the film reveals a Thompson deeper than the persona, but the film is careful to never present him as a tragic figure.

Gonzo is both a tribute to Thompson

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and an in-depth look at a man often seen as only an eccentric. No doubt his life story is interesting, but it’s the more personal angle that makes Gonzo worth seeing.

—Andrew Hibbard

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James McAvoy has built himself as a dashing leading man–a British one, no less.

But he throws that all out the window in Wanted to tackle the role of Wesley Gibson, a disaffected Chicago accountant straight out of a Chuck Palahniuk novel.

After a tough day, Gibson finds himself in the crossfire between Fox (Angelina Jolie) and a rogue assassin. One physics-defying car chase later, Gibson is introduced to Sloan (Morgan Freeman), the head honcho of an elite band of assassins called The Fraternity.

Sloan urges Gibson to join them and use his natural abilities. After some initial shock, he joins. Cue training montage.

Director Timur Bekmambetov applies the frenzied camera work from his Night Watch films. We trace the trajectory of bullets, and slow motion shots become a little overused. The visual style is assaulting to the senses but more original than most of the Matrix derivatives from the past decade.

Michael Brandt and Derek Haas penned the film, although to call it writing gives them a little too much credit. Much like the pair’s 2003 feature 2 Fast 2 Furious, action and violence upstage dialogue and creative plot. In fact, the scant dialogue assigned to headliners Common and Jolie make this seem like the latter’s her easiest paycheck yet. What dialogue the writers did put down is so rife with f-bombs it makes them come across as angry 16-year-old boys. This explosion-heavy script does, however, drive home the film’s message that we should all take control of our lives by acting rather than being passively tolerant.

In spite of the predictable plot line, the film isn’t entirely vacant of thought. Gibson questions The Fraternity’s reckless use of violence–and the violence in Wanted is reckless and gruesome indeed. Ultimately, the twohour gun fest renders the question null, but the film gets some points for putting some thought into what would otherwise be just another mindless summer blockbuster.

—Andrew Hibbard

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les savy fav from page know who our band is. Those are things that we are fine with. We started a band to be the underappreciated band. To be like in 20 years, ‘Oh you never checked this band out, oh they were really seminal.’ We always sort of had that in mind, in a joking way.”

Perhaps the most obvious manifestation of their originality is their live show. Vocalist Tim Harrington brings a duffel bag full of costumes that he rotates throughout the show. His antics include kissing audience members and wandering around the stage in states of undress.

The defining element of their shows, however, is the improvisational spirit.

“One thing we do is to never organize anything. We always ad lib everything,” Haynes said. “Humor plays a big part of, but it’s not like standup comedy. It’s a very stream-of-consciousness, performance-art type thing.”

Although Harrington seems to be involved in his own performance, it is still very much a group show.

“Tim is sort of doing his thing, we’re just sort of playing the music, but we’re all talking about the performance and the ideas behind the costumes and all the live energy,” Haynes said. “It might seem that Tim is doing his thing and we’re doing our thing, to a certain degree that’s true. But to another degree, we’re all kind of vibing off the same energy.”

Haynes added that the live show is firmly rooted in a post-modern art ethic.

“In the way we approach the live thing and the way we record, we’re all sort of influenced by the paradigms we learned in art school for making things—you know, trying not to be too illustrative. Trying to present pieces of information and let people bridge the gap where they need to,” Haynes said. “I think that we’re also all conscious about this

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idea [that]... there’s no art in being like the guy on the unicycle with the purple mohawk.

The art is in the subtlety—not that Tim is that subtle very often. I think even within Tim’s complete reckless abandon there are some little nuanced weird things. Even when Tim is thought of as being sort of confrontational, it actually could also be seen as sort of weird and child-like. Even though we’re very confrontational live, we’re not macho.

I think that’s a subtle thing that’s sometimes lost on people.”

Coupled with Hayne’s involvement in the Triangle art scene, it is this improvisational art ethic that drew Trevor Schoonmaker, curator of the Nasher Museum of Arts’s Barkley Hendricks “Birth of the Cool” exhibition, to invite the band to play.

Schoonmaker approached Duke Performances Director Aaron Greenwald to help coordinate the event.

Haynes said that the band loves to play in non-traditional venues, thus accounting for their previous gallery shows and their performance at the Museum of Modern Art. Playing at the Nasher was thus an easy choice, he said.

“I joked about it once: Art museum tour. It started at the MoMA now it’s here,” Haynes said.

The show will be a first on several counts.

In addition to being the band’s first public concert in the area in five years, it is the first outdoor show for the Nasher.

“The Triangle has all these great indie rock bands and you can see them if you want to go to the Cradle but there’s no good, mid-sized outdoor venue,” Greenwald said. “There’s a sense of intimacy that artist and audience can have. We sort of... create an environment that’s different. Not to say it’s better than the Cradle, it’s just different.”

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Although the Nasher may seem an unlikely rock concert venue, Les Savy Fav has played a few shows in art museums. seum is important,” he said. “The trick will be to see how much they associate this with what the Nasher is trying to do. Just see if they can look beyond concert or exhibition and see interesting, noncommercial artistic production.”

As for closing the Hendricks exhibition, both Haynes and Schoomaker said the band’s connections to the artist are small but notable. Both represent an intersection of visual and musical arts. Schoon-

maker also said both have been overlooked in their careers and are only now breaking into the mainstream.

“There’s a pretty big gap culturally between us. There could have been more specifically appropriate bands that could have played the closing of the Barkley show,” Haynes said. “I like to have disparate things out there and have people make the connections. I think that’s what contemporary art is all about.”

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sports editor’s note First-year head coach David Cutcliffe has already made sweeping changes to Duke’s program. Will the onfield results reflect the new culture?

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Every two years, the Olympics capture a fan’s attention like no other sporting event, and every two years, I’m pleasantly surprised that my growing cynicism is curtailed for at least three weeks. What doesn’t surprise me anymore, though, is the reason we become enraptured by the biennial games. Almost everyone has a rooting interest. Now, you have a new team to root for in Duke.

For some Olympians, the gold medal is more of an expectation than a fool’s ambition. While the medal is the tangible relic of success, I think the more rewarding prize for these athletes is the knowledge that for at least a four-year period, Ben they are considered the best in the world. The group of Dukies in Beijing this summer is expansive. Favorites and underdogs, heralded and obscure, American and not, they’re braided together by a common thread: they’re all Blue Devils.

We all have our own metaphorically elusive but attainable gold medal. For some, it’s hearing a national anthem blare throughout the Olympic Village. For others, it’s producing a high-quality newspaper 146 times a year.

Naturally, the Olympic spirit has infiltrated the back hall of 301 Flowers, the home of The Chronicle’s sports department. And in that manner, we have the same goal as the athletes and coaches we cover. We want to be the best.

So enough of me, when you have enough stories to last you until August—the glorious time campus is abuzz with the promise of new beginnings and, of course, the Olympic torch is lit. I am proud to welcome you to the sports coverage of The Chronicle’s 104th Volume, to introduce the 26th installment of Sportswrap and to kick off a year in which we’ll all be going for gold.

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3 Veteran Chronicle columnists Alex Fan- 12 Mike Krzyzewski’s involvement with aroff, a medical student, and Meredith Shiner, former sports editor, pass on the wisdom they have accrued to the Class of 2012

5 The Chronicle analyzes the games of Olek Czyz, Miles Plumlee and Elliot Williams, the three members of Duke’s incoming freshman class 5 Sophomore point guard Nolan Smith

Team USA might be the best thing that could have happened to Duke in its push for globalization. Plus, profiles of several Dukies at the Olympics

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Chronicle columnists Tim Britton and Sam Levy debate the question of whether Coach K’s involvement with the Olympics will help the Blue Devils

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True Life: I used to be a Duke hater

OPINION LETTERS TO the CLASS OF 2012

Don’t wear face paint Ladies and gentlemen of the Class of 2012: Don’t wear blue face paint.

If I could offer you only one piece of advice as you embark upon The Greatest Four Years of Your Life, not wearing blue face paint would have to be it. The fact that wearing blue face paint to any Duke sporting event just makes you look like a tool has been proven by scientists (trust me, I’ll be a doctor in three years), whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

Go to basketball games.

Alex Oh, never mind, you’ll just say you’re busy—tests and girlfriends and whatnot. You won’t understand what four free years in Cameron Indoor Stadium means until you’ve graduated. When you’re watching games on TV the first year after you’ve graduated, you’ll realize how many insignificant things you used to do when you were in college.

You’ll never be as busy as you imagine.

But learn something about Duke Basketball before you go to your first game. If you’re standing in the front row but you don’t know Nate James from Nate Dogg, you’re not really a Cameron Crazie no matter how many coats of paint you put on your chest

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I’m always amazed at how well Dukie stereotypes are represented by the MTV series True Life—from “I’m a Jersey Shore Girl” and “I’m a Southern Belle,” from “I’m Under Peer Pressure” to “I’m An Alcoholic” and “I’ll do Anything for Money.”

But in the context of these pages, the True Life story I’m about to admit to could be considered even more shocking, dare I say heretical, than any of these.

My name is Meredith Shiner, and I am a former Duke hater.

I admit this dirty little secret knowing it likely will evoke the wrath of online commenters, and perhaps even a little jab from Coach K himself. (Heck, former athletic director Joe Alleva once called me out because he had personally seen me donning University-of-Illinois orange, so it’s not like I’ve done that great of a job of concealing my former identity anyway.)

But I also want to disclose my true history because I know there are some of you out there in the Class of 2012 who might be going through similar mental

Two more: Frozen lemonade.

Set your DVR to record any Duke game on ESPN Classic. If you’re flipping through channels and the 1992 NCAA regional final comes on, stop whatever you’re doing and watch to the end.

Remember: When Coach K says you’re the sixth man, he doesn’t really mean it. Jon Scheyer is the sixth man. You’re not even on the team, unless you’re Elliot Williams, Olek Czyz or Miles Plumlee.

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anguish, and others still who might not care two grade points about sports in the first place. To the second type of student, I hope I can share a bit of what those of us who love sports see. To the first, I think I can help you cope with that one thing I was always so accustomed to hating: Perennial winners.

In short, I have always been that antagonistic sports fan.

As a senior in high school, I proudly earned the superlative of “Most likely to start a brawl at a Meredith Cubs/Sox game,” posing for my north suburban high school’s yearbook in a Sox jersey and backwards cap like the badass I am not.

For me, hating Duke was like hating the Yankees or Michigan Football or the Packers: easy.

If you don’t believe me, you should ask one Duke senior who was in my high school class. I harassed him every time we passed each other in the hallway for a few fateful months in 2005. He had gotten into Duke early, and I was riding high on the hopes of an Illinois national title. Of course, I couldn’t help myself.I told him how much Duke sucked whenever we crossed paths.

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Cheer. No matter how cool you think you are, you’re not too cool.

Do the “Go to Hell Carolina” chant when Duke is playing North Carolina.

Don’t do it otherwise.

Scream “You live in a houseboat,” before an opposing player shoots a free throw.

You’re damned right it doesn’t make any sense. That’s the point.

Maybe you’ll go to Tailgate, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll wear a stupid costume, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll make it to the game, maybe you’ll get hammered and head out to the Belmont pool where you and some Durham cops will re-enact one of the fight scenes from “West Side Story.” Whatever you do, don’t get in a drunken fight or do coke

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off the hood of a car. The cops are also at Tail- Hill, passing out at a UNC frat party with gate. And they’ll arrest you if you’re an idiot. your mouth open.

Make it to as many non-revenue sportTry to cross swords with a Durhamite at ing events as you can. It doesn’t cost any- one of the Wally Wade pee troughs while the thing other than 1929 restrooms are your time, and some around. You just “Go to a Duke-Carolina game. still of the teams are might make a new pretty good. And if While you’re camping out, friend. you don’t know the Go to a Dukedon’t study econometrics. rules, they’re usuCarolina game, ally pretty easy to Study basketball. Think of even if you have to figure out. camp out. While Don’t try to fig- some damaging insults to yell you’re camping ure out the rules of out, don’t study at Tyler Hansbrough.” field hockey. It will econometrics. only frustrate you.

Study basketball.

Yell until you’re hoarse.

Learn something about the team and think Buy a warm sleeping bag. of some damaging insults to yell at Tyler If you’re actually an athlete, avoid doing Hansbrough. the following things: hiring strippers, drivBecome familiar with the careers of ing drunk, drinking underage in Chapel the following Duke Basketball players:

J.J. Redick, Dick Groat, Bobby Hurley, Jason Williams, Shelden Williams, Johnny Dawkins, Art Heyman, Shane Battier, Christian Laettner, Grant Hill, Danny Ferry, Mike Gminski, Jeff Mullins.

When a TV cameraman points at you at a basketball game, it’s not a Get Out Of Acting Civilized Free card. It’s great that your mom can see you on ESPN, but the rest of us are just embarrassed for you.

Remember: All of this is nothing but the ravings of someone who was you five years ago and dearly wishes he could do it all over again.

But trust me on the blue face paint. Seriously.

Alex Fanaroff, Trinity ’07, is a second-year medical student, former sports managing editor and conductor of The Train. He will have a biweekly editorial column this Fall.

shiner from page said, “So, I see you’re going to Duke?”

Karma’s a bitch.

Or maybe it’s not.

I also remember standing in the Edward Jones Dome at the Final Four with my dad, just days before discovering where I would be spending the next four years of my life. I gazed around the stadium then looked at him and said, “You know, I’m really going to miss this.” I never thought I would go to a school where sports mattered. But then I got into Duke, and I realized that if I sucked up my pride, I could make like Hannah Montana and have the best of both worlds—the academics and the experience.

(Plus, I already hated Sean May and UNC, so I was well on my way to Dukiedom before I even liked the place.)

What really sealed the deal for me, though, was Cameron Indoor Stadium. Stepping into that gymnasium for the first time was like stepping into sports history. The only other time I’d felt that way was at Fenway, and for me, it was something truly special.

But that was just one of many firsts of freshman year, and I envy all of you for being in the position of dewy-eyed Duke newness. You could hate sports from convocation to commencement, and I’d still be jealous of the time that you have.

Because you don’t have to love sports to love Duke, and vice-versa. But I do hope that you go to a basketball game at least once in your time here, because, like the Chapel or late-night Cook Out runs, basketball is part of the Duke experience.

The Truth about Duke, contrary to what the haters say, is so simple it’s cliche: Duke is what you make of it.

I know a guy who waits in line for Duke basketball games like it’s his job (and to my surprise, has yet to come down with pneumonia). I know a girl who couldn’t tell you the difference between Brian Zoubek and Nolan Smith if you lined them up right in front of her, and she still cheers at the TV when the guys wearing the Blue jerseys score.

I even know a girl who went from being a Duke hater to sports editor of The Chronicle in a mere three years.

Just don’t think I’ll ever be a Yankees fan.

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Five-star shooting guard Elliot Williams—the fourth best freshman at his position—headlines Duke’s incoming class with his offensive talent. Williams is “very explosive. He’s a scorer, he’s not just a pure shooter,” said Jeff Ruffin, Williams’ head coach at St. George’s in Collierville, Tenn. Scout.com’s National Recruiting Director Dave Telep touted the freshman’s athleticism and “ability to get to the rim and play above the rim.” He still needs to improve his 3-point shot to help space the floor for the Blue Devils, but nonetheless, Krzyzewski Elliot Williams loves his versatility and maturity, which should help Williams contribute right away.

Perhaps better known as the older brother of 2009 commit Mason Plumlee, former Stanford signee Miles Plumlee has the ability to make his own name in a program that fits his skill set. The 6foot-10, 230-pound forward adds size to the Duke frontcourt, but has the speed and ball handling of a guard. “You keep reminding yourself this is a guy who is 6-10 and has all this offensive talent,” Christ School head coach David Gaines said. Scouts especially commend the freshman’s improvement from year to year. “Bottom line is he’s playing his Miles Plumlee best basketball right now,” Telep said.

Olek Czyz, however, might be saving the best of his game for his arrival at Duke. “The thing that’s always been kind of odd about Olek is he’s always played better against better competition,” Reno High School head coach Kyle Schellin said. “Whenever we played a team with a big-time player, he’d get up for those games....

He’s always stepped up to the level of his competition.” And Czyz certainly possesses the athleticism to contribute. He has solid footwork for his size, and is capable at rebounding and blocking shots—not to mention his off-thecharts hops. “Olek is still learning the game, Olek Czyz but he’s a tremendous athlete,” Krzyzewski said June 17. “He’s just a really good athlete. Tough.” ­—by Sabreena Merchant

Smith trains with Beasley

Duke guard attends draft with high school teammate

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The green room at the NBA Draft has been a frequent stopover for former Blue Devils waiting to hear their name called and have their professional careers determined. So it wasn’t surprising that yet another Duke player spent an evening in the company of the league’s top draftees—except he wasn’t there to hear his own name called.

Sophomore guard Nolan Smith attended the June 26 draft as a guest of childhood friend Michael Beasley, who was selected by the Heat as the second overall pick.

The draft day visit to Madison Square Garden culminated the first half of Smith’s summer, which he spent working out with Beasley as he prepared for the NBA. Smith and Beasley have been teammates on the AAU circuit and in high school at Oak Hill Academy, but the bonds between the pair have transcended basketball since Beasley moved in to live with Smith’s family 11 years ago.

“My friendship with him is, we’re like brothers,” Smith said. “We’ve spent a lot of time together working out and just really making each other better.”

After the end of his freshman year, Smith returned to his home in the Washington, D.C. area for a mere two days before heading to Philadelphia to train with Beasley as he prepared for draft tryouts and the NBA’s combine in Orlando, Fla. Beasley, Smith and other prospects followed a grueling training regimen built around three-a-day sessions of drills, conditioning and weightlifting with minimal breaks between workouts.

“We would wake up at 9 a.m., eat breakfast and go straight to the gym from 10 a.m. to about 1 p.m., getting about three hours in,” said Smith, who averaged 5.9

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Smith also joined junior forward Gerald Henderson in Philadelphia, Henderson’s home city. Smith saw his teammate a few times this summer, as Henderson used the same facility to recover from postseason wrist surgery.

“Gerald thinks he’s left-handed now after having surgery on his shooting hand,” Smith said. “He’s worked real hard this summer as far as not getting out of shape and working on his off hand.”

Smith said the constant workouts with NBAbound players have helped his skills, but the intimate exposure to the draft preparation process has also stimulated his mental approach to the game.

“It motivates you, and that’s really what I’ve done this last season, [tried to] motivate myself even more,” he said. “Not that I wasn’t motivated, but that just makes you get the extra kick to work hard. Now that I’ve stepped back on Duke’s campus, I know that those guys have pushed me and that I’ve pushed them.”

Smith said he plans to continue to work on all aspects of his game over the remainder of the summer as he trains with teammates and former Duke players on campus. Most of all, the soft-spoken point guard also hopes to develop more of an on-court attitude.

“The main thing [for me] is just being cocky,” Smith said. “Not being cocky in a bad way, where I’m a jerk and stuff like that, but just being cocky on the court to where I feel like I can beat any person that steps in front of me.”

And if he can beat Beasley, he might be able to beat anyone.

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TURNING IT AROUND

David Cutcliffe has used the offseason to energize a downtrodden program. Now comes the true test.

BY MATTHEW ILES

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lans are moving forward to improve Wallace Wade’s sound system, bathrooms and concession stands. New speakers, couches and televisions have been added in the Yoh Football Center. The coaches’ recruiting efforts have already landed them quality 2009 commitments.

First-year head coach David Cutcliffe and his staff have certainly used the winter, spring and summer to move this program in the right direction for future success.

But nothing is more important to them than this season.

Despite inheriting a senior class that has won only two games in its career and practicing only 44 times before Duke’s first game against James Madison Aug. 30, Cutcliffe has told just about anybody who will listen what he expects from his squad.

Thirty points per game. Bowl-eligible. Conference contender.

And that’s how he’ll tell it to you. No conditionals, no if-clauses and no out strategies.

Past coaches said similar things, but nobody believed them like people believe in Cutcliffe. And it starts with his players.

“It’s a different atmosphere,” junior quarterback Thaddeus Lewis said. “The team has a swagger.

People are feeling really good about themselves and glad they have made those accomplishments

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that Coach Cutcliffe had presented.”

One of those challenges was losing a collective 1,000 pounds. Cutcliffe was in no way quiet about Duke’s lack of conditioning, calling it the worst he had seen in his career. The players responded by changing their diets and enhancing their workout regimens.

When the summer arrived, Cutcliffe made another change, another challenge. In the past, players had been given the option of staying for the first summer session. This year, it was mandatory to stay in Durham for the entire summer to prepare for the season as a team. Again, the players responded.

“This is Division-I football. There’s no reason why everyone shouldn’t be here,” senior linebacker Michael Tauillili said. “The values and the intensity that [the coaching staff is] bringing, and mainly, in my eyes, the experience that they’re bringing to the program has been different. Changes like we just talked about... making the sacrifices we need to and the strides we need.”

Recognition, expectations and ticket sales are up—the athletic department is estimating a 30-percent gain with 2,000 new season-ticket holders— but there still haven’t been any real results. Cutcliffe, who took his first vacation in the last week of June after he was hired in December, knows this better than anyone.

“As a new staff, you really don’t have a lot of time to get your football team as prepared as you’d like,” Cutcliffe said. “We have a practice plan that we’ve already got on paper. You try to take every phase, every situation that occurs and put your team in those situations, prepare them to be able to play in every situation they’ll face during the season. Other than that, you’re just working fundamentals, techniques and individual techniques at each position.

“That’s kind of what football is all about. Then you bring that together in the greatest team game of all sports.”

Aside from continuing to work with the strength and conditioning staff, the players have been running smaller practice sessions on their own, such as seven-on-seven passing skeletons. Many players have said that the hardest part so far has been learning all the new terminology, but as the summer has progressed, they have become more familiar with it.

On offense, Cutcliffe said running back Re’quan Boyette could have a “special season,” as he not only takes the majority of the handoffs but also catches some balls out of the backfield.

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“It’s a different atmosphere.The team has a swagger. People are feeling really good about themselves.”

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Veterans, rookie mix at QB role

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LEWIS

JUNIOR 6-FOOT-2 190 LB. 21 TD/10 INT

Lewis is the incumbent and sits at the top of the depth chart, having started all 12 games last season and finishing in the top five of the ACC in all major passing categories.

by Stephen Allan The chronicle

The last time David Cutcliffe had three starting quarterbacks, he suffered his only losing season in his five-year tenure at Ole Miss and was fired after a 4-7 record in 2004.

But this year, Cutcliffe isn’t looking for Eli Manning’s replacement, as he was then.

Now, he has two veteran quarterbacks who have started numerous games and an incoming freshman who was ranked the 10th best signal-caller in the country by scout.com.

With junior Thaddeus Lewis (23 starts), redshirt junior Zack Asack (six) and freshman Sean Renfree lining up behind center, Cutcliffe seems to have a difficult, if not fortunate, task in choosing a starting quarterback. The first-year head coach, however, has made it clear who the starter is—at least for the time being.

“Thad Lewis is the number one guy and Zack Asack’s currently number two,” Cutcliffe said in June.

It’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility, though, for any of those three guys to be the starter by October—or by Aug. 30, Duke’s opening game against James Madison.

Lewis has the most impressive credentials as the incumbent quarterback, averaging 202.5 passing yards per game, fourth-best in the ACC. He is far more advanced than his competitors in terms of on-field production,

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Junior quarterback Thaddeus Lewis is the incumbent and figures to start the season at the top of the depth chart. and the junior would have it no other way.

“I’d hope my play could speak for itself,” Lewis said. “I’m more of a lead-by-example guy. I bring a different swagger to the team.”

That swagger and strong play led to 21 touchdowns against just 10 interceptions, the best ratio of any Duke quarterback in the past several years. Lewis, however, hit a rough patch in spring training as he struggled to learn Cutcliffe’s new offense, Lewis’ third in three seasons.

“Going into a new system, you can’t just go out there and play because you don’t know anything,” Lewis said. “But it boosts your morale and confidence learning it.”

Lewis has since rebounded in “tremendous form,” Cutcliffe said.

Asack is something of a wild card. Although he has never had tremendous success throw-

ing the ball, his mobility provides an unpredictable element for Cutcliffe’s offense. With Lewis as the established starter for now, Asack sees himself as a mentor for younger players.

“I can help them through the process with the coaches and what to expect,” Asack said.

“Any off-field issues they might have, they can come to me. I feel like the dad in the group.”

He should know. After he was assumed to be Duke’s quarterback in 2006, he was suspended for plagiarism and was forced to miss an entire season. But just because he lost the starting job doesn’t mean he has given up fighting for it.

“We’re still going to be competing in the fall,” Asack said. “It’s the coaches’ decision, but I think [Cutcliffe] wants to incorporate See quarterback on page 18

RED. JUNIOR 6-FOOT-4 205 LB. 0 TD/0 INT Asack, the oldest of the bunch, will likely start the season as the backup, but his versatility as a runner should earn him a sizable amount of snaps per game.

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RENFREE FRESHMAN 6-FOOT-2 205 LB. 41 TD/6 INT (HS) Renfree is the wild card. An incoming freshman, the highly-touted recruit committed to quarterback guru David Cutcliffe and could move up the depth chart with a good preseason.

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MIKE KRZYZEWSKI IS MORE THAN JUST A COACH. THE OLYMPICS ARE MORE THAN JUST SPORT. BOTH NOW AFFECT DUKE’S

GOLDENGAMEOF

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by ben cohen

ow do you say “Coach K” in Chinese?

President Richard Brodhead might

know.

Brodhead is a Yale-trained academic with a scholarly interest in American literature and a life rooted in higher education. He traveled to Asia for two weeks in June 2006 in his first overseas trip as Duke’s president and while in Shanghai, he answered an hour and a half’s worth of questions about Duke in an online chatroom for about 10 million Chinese students. They asked him about education and worldwide reputation, but they also wanted to know more about the leader of the University’s most visible team.

Kobe Bryant, too, might know.

Bryant, who bypassed college life by jumping from high school to the pros, is perhaps the world’s best basketball player. The reigning NBA MVP flew to Asia in September to promote Nike and Team USA in preparation for this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing and traversed five cities—Beijing, Alana Beard is no stranger to accolades.

FUL E P O AN H ARD I P M Y OL ANA BE AL

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She was the first women’s basketball player to have her jersey retired at Duke and has already been named to three All-Star teams in just four WNBA seasons.

But despite these accomplishments, Beard has her eye on a more satisfying prize.

“I’ve always wanted to be an Olympian—it’s been an ultimate goal of mine,” Beard said. “It’s something while growing up that I’ve always wanted to be a part of and do. To be picked from hundreds of women means so much, you can’t even put it in words. It’s definitely an honor.”

The honor could now be Beard’s, as Team USA announces its roster in early July.

Beard already has some experience with Olympic competition, having played for the 2003 Under-

Hong Kong, Manila, Taipei and Shanghai—in his five-day “Supernatural Tour.” When he returned, he talked to the national team’s coach.

“It’s unbelievable,” he told Mike Krzyzewski. “Coach, they ask questions about you. They ask questions about Duke.”

Krzyzewski certainly knows. He made his first trip to China in 2007, and some approached him using his nickname, even if they wanted to ask more questions about Bryant and LeBron James. Krzyzewski, who will begin his 29th year at Duke after he attempts to guide Team USA to its first gold medal since 2000, was struck with the Chinese adoration of basketball, their knowledge of Duke and, consequently, Duke Basketball.

“I’m conscious of being a representative of Duke every second of my life, because I’m branded with Duke,” Krzyzewski said. “Whether I go out to eat, whether I go to the grocery store, getting gas... but I also know that if I’m on the road or somebody might not be able to pronounce my name, they’ll say, ‘Duke!’” I say, ‘No, it’s Mike Krzyzewski.’”

Chinese is a tonal language; beautiful, it is not. But one name in Chinese is melodious to a school in the middle of a concerted effort to expand its international presence.

“It is by happy chance that a famous Duke person will be leading probably the most watched sport in these Olympics,” Brodhead said.

“Duke did not contrive the Olympics to be in Beijing. And Duke could not have gotten Mike Krzyzewski chosen as the coach.... Well, as it happens, you put these two coincidences together and you get a great drama played out on a great stage. It’s extraordinary—it’s absolutely extraordinary.”

The answer to one question might define Duke’s great leap more than any other. So, again: How do you say “Coach K” in Chinese?

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acau, baby, Macau. Like Vegas on the juice.

It is, with Hong Kong, one of two special administrative regions in China. It is almost autonomous.

But Macau is most known for a byproduct of its relative independence: It is the top gambling destination in the world, having overtaken Las Vegas for most casino revenue in 2006. The Venetian Macau will host two of Team USA’s exhibition games July 31 and Aug. 1.

The Venetian Macau will also be home to about 75 Duke represen-

21 World Championship team and the 2006 FIBA World Championship squad, which brought home a bronze medal. She knows that being part of the 2008 team would be even more demanding.

“People don’t grasp how extreme the training is,” Beard said. “For you to be a part of the team, you have to undergo unbelievable preparation. From college to the WNBA it goes up one level, but from the WNBA to the Olympics, it goes up 10 levels.”

Beard is not the only Duke graduate considered for the team. Minnesota Lynx guard Lindsey Harding, whose jersey hangs in the rafters next to Beard’s, is also on a short list to earn a spot on the roster, and Beard believes that the success of the two stars is a reflection of Duke.

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BASKETBALL ASSISTANT COACH Johnny Dawkins has lived in Durham since his freshman year at Duke.

tatives that weekend. The University, the development office and the basketball program’s Legacy Fund have collaborated to create a two-day event to coincide with Krzyzewski and Team USA’s appearance. There will be gambling, golf, basketball and, the main attraction, a chance to mingle with Krzyzewski, who will meet with Duke donors, alumni and parents.

“It’s once in a lifetime. It’s never happened before, and it may never happen again that the Duke University head coach is the head coach of our Olympic team,” said Mike Cragg, associate athletic director and director of the Legacy Fund. “That alone is a reason to celebrate.”

Eric Savage graduated from Duke in 1992 and was on campus for four Final Fours and two national championships. He lives in Bangalore, India now, but manages to catch every Duke game through a Slingbox, which transmits the cable from his parents’ television in Toledo, Ohio. A fellow Duke graduate in Hong Kong tapes the games and sends them to him, as well, and he watches them again on his iPod at the gym.

Savage postponed an annual vacation to the United States to attend the Macau gathering.

“Many alumni have a much stronger affinity for this school than alumni from other schools, and I think a reasonable part is due to the basketball program,” said Savage, who has attended the K Academy since its inception in 2003. “I know that whenever Duke alumni gather, it’s relatively common to talk about basketball.

“If they had a star professor out and doing a dinner in Macau or Hong Kong, you probably wouldn’t get as many people flying in from all over.”

The University will also sponsor an event in the United States’ own sin city, Las Vegas, for the national team’s July 25 exhibition against Canada, but once Krzyzewski and his 12 players—including former Blue Devil Carlos Boozer—reach Beijing, he belongs completely to Team USA. Of course, given the free publicity Krzyzewski will afford Duke, he might as well be wearing the Blue Devil on his lapel.

After all, Krzyzewski’s affiliation with Duke defines his career. For some, he is not Mike Krzyzewski. He is the leader of Duke Basketball.

“If you know two things about Coach K, you know these things: 1. He is a person who lives and breathes basketball, and 2. He is a person who absolutely loves Duke,” Brodhead said. “The name Coach K evokes both of those facts.

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First came the crutches.

Then, the pool and the stationary bike. Finally, the elliptical.

This was how Shannon Rowbury rehabilitated from a stress fracture in her hip. She ran last September for the first time since April. On Thanksgiving, the 2007 Duke graduate placed second at the Seagate Elite 5K in her professional debut.

And then, just six months later, she shattered her personal best and left the global competition in the dust to become the odds-on favorite to represent the United States in the 1,500-meter at the Olympics. Her time of 4 minutes, 1.61 seconds

terwards that it really kind of sank in. It was like, ‘Wow, that goal was a pretty big one.’

More than anything, it was just a big sigh of relief.”

In order to be eligible for the Olympics, an athlete must break the Olympic time standard over the season—the “A” standard is 4:10 for the 1,500—as well as place in the top three during the official trials July 3-6. Rowbury’s sole focus May 18 was to break the standard to position herself as a serious contender in the trials.

Her record-setting performance was just an added bonus.

And an especially impressive one

Being drafted by the San Antonio Spurs didn’t change that. Neither did later NBA stops in Philadelphia and Detroit.

But now, Dawkins is gone.

His house is on the market.

The former Blue Devil point guard and nine-year associate head coach is 2,800 miles away, having taken the open head coaching position at Stanford April 26.

For the first time in 26 years, Dawkins will make his permanent residence outside of North Carolina.

“It’s a change,” Dawkins said. “I’ve definitely moved outside of my comfort zone. I’ve learned a great deal over the last month and a half.”

And while Dawkins was learning, Duke’s coaching staff was undergoing its first major change since 2000. Assistant coaches Steve Wojciechowski and Chris Collins were promoted to associate head coaches, and Nate James was hired to fill the void left from Dawkins’ departure.

Dawkins’ No. 24 hangs in Cameron’s rafters, and head coach Mike Krzyzewski said no one did more for Duke’s program in his 28 years at the helm. But after spurning previous overtures to leave his alma mater, Dawkins couldn’t pass up the Cardinal post.

He felt it was the right time to leave, and the similar tenet of the schools’ athletic departments—the academic-athletic balance—made the job particularly appealing.

“The [Duke] program is in great shape,” Dawkins said after running off a list of other reasons the Stanford job intrigued him. “Of course, I wouldn’t have departed if I didn’t think we were in terrific shape with where we were going and our future with what we were doing.

“I’m always pulling for them, of course. I’m a Duke alum, and I’m excited when those guys have success.”

Dawkins’ name is frequently brought up in connection with the Blue Devils’ future. Some consider him to be the leading candidate to replace Krzyzewski after the legendary coach retires, a topic that was sparked anew when Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby introduced his new coach as Krzyzewski’s likely heir.

Krzyzewski will not name a successor, and he prefers that the job stays in the Duke family, he told The Chronicle in June. But Dawkins tends to ignore the suggestions that he may one day return to the sidelines of Coach K Court.

“I try not to concentrate on that,” Dawkins said. “I can’t see anyone

See rowbury on page 21

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NBA MVP Kobe Bryant (below) SAID he has waited his entire life to play for Mike Krzyzewski, who will coach Team USA at the Olympic Games in Beijing this summer.

at the adidas Track Classic May 18 clocked in as not only the fifth-best in U.S. history and the fastest American time in the last six years, but the fastest 1,500-meter time in the world in 2008.

Romania’s Liliana Popescu ran a 4:00.35 May 24 to subsequently nab the top global time, but the title of “fastest female 1,500 runner in the world” was, at that point, not yet Rowbury’s goal. After all, she was forced to overcome a crippling injury and wasn’t supposed to be in this position.

“I didn’t think of the bigger picture when I went into the race, I just focused on what I had to accomplish,” said Rowbury, who shaved six seconds off her previous best to attain her time that day. “It was af-

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Will the Olympics help Duke Basketball?

Publicity will eventually benefit Blue Devils

Only 1 team warrants Krzyzewski’s attention

Picture this: it’s August 24 in Beijing, the final day of the 2008 Olympics and the championship game in men’s baskeball.

There, at the top of the widest podium in sports, stands Mike Krzyzewski, a gold medal around his neck, his hand over his heart and eyes toward the American flag as the national anthem plays.

Surrounding Krzyzewski are NBA luminaries, all of whom will tout the Tim coach’s meticulous strategy and liberal rotation that pleased everyone as the keys to the team’s success. They will casually mention him as one of the best coaches they’ve ever had.

It might as well be a commercial for Duke Basketball. It certainly speaks louder and clearer to the Blue Devils’ target demographic than any ad for American Express or State Farm ever could.

For better or worse (OK, it’s for better), Krzyzewski is the face of Duke Basketball in a way unlike any other coach in the United States. And Coach K’s inextricable connection to his “other” gig will be evident throughout the Olympics, whether it’s broadcasters introducing him as a college basketball institution at Duke or feature stories highlighting his close relationship with Kobe Bryant.

You see, Coach K is at the head of USA Basketball at the best possible mo-

When the best high school basketball players in the nation compete in national tournaments and camps this July, the most high-profile coaches in the country will be visible in the crowd. One familiar face, however, might be absent from the bleachers—Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski. No face-to-face contact with recruits is allowed in July, but the mere visibility of coaches is essential in the later stages of recruiting.

Of course, Coach K won’t be missing most of the action without good reason, as he will be preparing Team USA for the Olympics later in August.

But with all the hoopla surrounding Krzyzewski’s new squad and its quest for the gold medal in Beijing, the fact remains that the months of July and August are a crucial time for Coach K’s other team, the Blue Devils. Perhaps you’ve heard of them.

“He’s a face that won’t be there,” said Dave Telep, scout. com’s national recruiting director.

“Whether it makes a difference—that’s another story.”

And although Krzyzewski might be visible to recruits during the first

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ment. It is almost certain that he has the best team, but the United States isn’t the slam-dunk favorite it used to be, not after failing to win the last three international tournaments. These Olympics, then, will be the first time since Barcelona and the Christian Laettner-led Dream Team in 1992 that winning gold would be an accomplishment, and not a fait accompli.

And if Team USA loses? Well, then the story is the continued growth of international basketball, and Krzyzewski would have failed no more than Larry Brown did in 2004, when the Americans lost three games en route to the bronze.

Aside from increasing Duke’s already-astronomical exposure in the basketball world, Krzyzewski’s work with Team USA should benefit the coach on the court.

We’ve already seen the positive impact working with Team USA assistants Mike D’Antoni and Jim Boeheim had for Duke last season, and another summer on the sidelines should only deepen those relationships.

And maybe while Boeheim is teaching him the See britton on page 17

half of July, there is no denying that he has other things and other teams on his mind this summer.

Duke’s past two early exits in the NCAA Tournament certainly don’t help the argument that Krzyzewski’s Team USA duties have taken nothing away from his commitment to his primary job.

The uproar was a little softer, you may re- Sam member, when Coach K took over the national team in 2005. At that time, Duke had two returning All-Americans in J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams and was the consensus preseason No. 1. Now that the Blue Devils haven’t reached the Sweet 16 the past two seasons, the question of whether Coach K’s committment to Duke has shown its effects in recent recruiting and on-court success is valid, if unpopular.

But since Redick and Williams graduated in 2006, Duke has not maintained a strong presence in the paint to balance its depth on the perimeter. Josh McRoberts was the highest-rated big man in the Class of 2005, but his two-year career at Duke was underwhelming at best. (For the record, Duke fans were then ecstatic they landed McRoberts over Tyler Hansbrough.) Eric Boateng, Jamal Boykin and

Levy

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FILE O R P IAN WARD P M Y OL ECCA REB BY SEAN MORONEY FENCING SABER Please excuse Rebecca Ward

if she seems tired during orientation. She will be less than a week removed from fencing in the Olympics.

Ward, an incoming freshman fencer, has a chance to win two gold medals in the individual saber and team fencing competitions in Beijing.

In 2006, Ward won gold in the individual saber competition and a silver medal in the team event at the World Fencing Championships. Now, Ward is No. 1, having won almost every international competition.

The only hardware missing from her thing case is an Olympic medal. Although the Olympics will be the biggest competition of her young career, Ward said she is preparing for it like it’s any other event.

“I haven’t changed my training all that much,” said Ward, who hails from Beaverton, Ore. “I’ve just kept training the way I always have, with a bit more cross-training.”

Ward won’t have much time to dwell on the results. The team competition ends Aug. 14. Freshman move-in is just five days later.

“There are ways in which we wouldn’t seek to exploit [the attention]. Coach K won’t wear Duke paraphernalia during the game. But to some extent, we don’t need that. Let me put it this way... it’s the kind of thing the University doesn’t need to do much to capitalize on.”

The men’s basketball gold medal game is anticipated to be one of the most watched sporting events in the history of the world. ESPN’s broadcast of North Carolina’s win over Duke in Cameron Indoor Stadium March 8 took in 5.6 million. It set a record for a men’s college basketball game. The 2008 Super Bowl drew 97.5 million viewers. A 2007 NBA game between Chinese basketball heroes Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian attracted about 200 million viewers on 19 television stations in China.

The Olympic final? It could eclipse the 2006 World Cup final, which drew an average of 260 million viewers.

“What does that mean? Well, it means a lot, especially if you win,” Krzyzewski said.

“That will bring something to Duke. That’s the thing about whether you’re a history professor here or a doctor or whatever— when you do something that gets national or international recognition, it helps Duke.

Well, the fact is, Duke always helps you. It’s a neat thing.”

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uke already has a brand inEurope— just ask John Burness.

Burness, the University’s outgoing senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, traveled to Italy about 10 years ago and noticed a Duke hat.

Then he spotted another one. He soon began counting college’s caps and, by the end of his trip, Burness had tallied 27 Duke hats—nine more than Georgetown, its closest competitor.

The reason behind the abundance of Duke hats rather than, say, Harvard, was clear to Burness.

“I have to believe that some of that has to do with the sports programs at these institutions,” he said. “There is this wonderful loyalty that exists at American universities, but that loyalty is so much stronger at a place like Duke. If you have a foreign student at a place like Duke and he goes back, you can bet he’s going back with a basketball cap.”

The University has made a conscious push to expand its global presence in the last decade, evident in the list of recent international See krzyzewski on page 15

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Duke will host an event at The Venetian in Macau, China (above) to coincide with a Team USA exhibition.

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Kevin Cullen picked up his

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phone one day after he had accepted a new position on Duke’s basketball staff and associate head coach Steve Wojciechowski was on the other end.

“By the way,” Wojciechowski said, “we’re going to have to take you to China with us.”

“Well, if you have to,” Cullen responded.

And so began the 2007 graduate’s Olympic journey.

Cullen never scored a point at Duke and the lanky computer science major worked at a firm that builds and manages video editing software in the year after graduation—that is, he’s not your average Olympian. Five years ago, he didn’t even think he would be a manager at Duke and two

months ago, he was sitting in his apartment in Charlotte watching the Final Four.

In fact, the former four-year manager considered traveling to Beijing for the Olympics as a fan. He was willing to take two weeks of vacation and burn all of his frequent flyer miles, but the price tag on hotels and flights was too much for the 23-year old.

But through his job at Sportstec, Cullen worked closely with the athletic department and traveled back to campus about once a month. When Duke was interested in establishing a video coordinator position to compensate for the program’s growing dependence on film study and after former director of basketball operations Mike Schrage left for Stanford, Cullen was the man for the job—and backtracked his way

into the position with USA Basketball.

None of Cullen’s experience will rival what looms in China, what he calls a “logistical nightmare.” The power system and video format are different, and there is no equipment.

“It’s not like being here at Duke, where you can run down to the closet and get something else,” said Cullen, who anticipates several all-nighters. “There’s no closet over there.”

So instead of having a month and a half of downtime in Durham to adorn a new video room, Cullen will be living a goal that has never been his, but he’s nonetheless happy to adopt.

“It’s certainly one of the best things I could have ever imagined,” he said. “It wasn’t a dream of mine, but now to think that I’ve been able to do it, it’s a phenomenal dream come true.”

krzyzewski from page 14 initiatives, from the advent of DukeEngage to the development of a partnership with a Singapore hospital. In his annual speech to faculty in October 2007, Brodhead described Duke’s international ambitions and laid out a plan to increase its dimensions.

“Duke’s international efforts to date have been somewhat opportunistic in character, and almost exclusively unit-based,” he said to the faculty. “So far, so good. But we are nearing a time when the University’s internationalization will need to become more concerted and more strategic.”

The impact of Krzyzewski’s Olympic appearance, then, goes against both tenets of Duke’s globalization philosophy. The potential of the athletics sector has been untapped—almost all of the University’s international efforts have come in the academic and service fields—and Krzyzewski’s selection as Team USA head coach was a stroke of luck for Duke.

The ways in which Duke seeks to use Krzyzewski’s introduction to the rest of the world are far from concerted or strategic. They are purely opportunistic.

“Duke University has an enormous brand in higher education,” said Director of Athletics Kevin White, who has a scholarly interest in globalization and has taught a class about the business of sport for the last 26 years at various institutions. “Duke Basketball is kind of in a position all by itself within college basketball. I don’t know that people would argue with that. Coach K has a brand, and that’s perhaps why he’s been invited to coach that team and do so many darn things.

“Now you take all of those things and you put into that mix the opportunity to coach the Olympic team and all of that, if it’s possible, will go to another level.”

Still, using sport as a talking point is less of a priority for a University distinct in its commitment to rigorous academics and highly competitive athletics. That combination would likely be lost in translation.

“It’s unique in colleges and universities around the world that you have these big-time sports programs,” Burness said. “They’re not tacked onto or part of the university. It would not then be the natural interplay.”

Basketball reigns supreme in China, though, and its popularity will only surge as the growing superpower continues to export NBA All-Stars like Yao, who is something of a transcendent celebrity. Add the inherent internationalization of basketball as a sport, and it’s no surprise that so many will sit down to watch the gold medal game Aug. 24 if Team USA’s band of superstars is involved.

It also makes sense that Duke administrators’ rooting interests are not simply fueled by patriotism or friendship with Krzyzewski. The further Team USA advances, the more attention Duke receives. Play-by-play announcers and analysts don’t even have to mention Krzyzewski’s day job; whenever the camera flashes to Krzyzewski’s face, “DUKE” is essentially emblazoned on the screen.

So Brodhead understands that he must pull hard for a Team USA gold medal.

“You bet I will! I’m not a fool,” he said. “It’s a fantastic event. It’s completely phenomenal. Sometimes you hit it lucky.... A Duke coach being chosen just at this moment, when the media make more things available to more billions of people than we’ve ever seen? That’s just good fortune.”

In other words, the University’s fortune cookie reads: K jiào liàn.

That’s how you say “Coach K” in Chinese.

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Next time you see the Ultimate Highlight Reel on “SportsCenter” or the Web Gems on “Baseball Tonight,” think of Abby Waner. These plays of the day are coming your way because of her work as a studio production intern for ESPN. In addition to her behind-the-scenes work at the Worldwide Leader’s studio in Bristol, Conn., Waner had the opportunity to go to New York City and work the NBA Draft with former Blue Devil and current ESPN analyst Jay Bilas. So perhaps you could thank the senior guard for bringing O.J. Mayo, complete with librarian-style glasses and bowling shoes, into your house, too.

If you thought basketball was the only thing the Blue Devils cared about, you would be mistaken. In fact, the players’ summer plans are as varied as, well, any other Duke student.

“You gotta stay busy,” senior center Chante Black said with a laugh.

Busy might be an understatement to describe Black and Waner’s summer work schedules.

Black puts in six days a week for two different departments at Saint Francis Care in Hartford, Conn. Black’s first responsibility is to the grant and aid foundation, in which she solicits money from former donors to support the hospital and all of its causes. She also wears several hats in the emergency department, from checking in

patients and escorting them to rooms to keeping family members informed of their relatives’ status.

Black has been working so much that she has had trouble finding time to meet up with Waner, who is working about 30 minutes away.

“Abby called [June 20] at midnight to let me know she was playing,” Black said.

“With both of us working so much, it has been tough to get together, but we are going to try.”

While Black and Waner work in the Northeast, their other tri-captain, Carrem Gay opted to engage in work closer to campus.

Gay is proof that DukeEngage does more than fling Dukies to places all over the globe. Not all volunteers leave the country.

Or, for that matter, North Carolina.

The senior forward is working in Durham, so she can still workout at Duke, she said.

Gay is working in the Office of Community Affairs, helping out however she can.

Some of her major summer projects have been with Quality of Life, a group that focuses on community organizing, and helping the department with a major archiving project. Gay also attends meetings with prominent community members to ensure Durham’s well-being.

Gay, Joy Cheek, Keturah Jackson and Bridgette Mitchell have stayed in Durham over the summer to workout together.

With the exceptions of Black and Waner, the whole team will be back at Duke in July

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Senior guard Abby Waner has an internship in studio production at ESPN in Bristol, Conn. this summer. and August to prepare for the upcoming season.

Back up in Connecticut, Black and Waner have developed their own workout routines to stay fresh. Black joined Bally’s Fitness Club, and Waner has found no shortages of workout partners around her.

“It’s great,” said Waner, who held a miniinternship with the network at the end of last summer. “ESPN has its own fitness center, and there is an outdoor court. Also, there are a couple of YMCAs around the area. And it’s awesome because it’s either athletes, ex-athletes or people who played in high school who all play in these pickup games. They are just great runs. We played for three-and-a-half hours the other day.

There is never a loss of games or places to work out at ESPN.”

beard from page 12 “The fact that it’s produced two Olympians in one school in similar years shows you what Duke Basketball is all about,” Beard said. “It is a tribute to what [former head coach] Gail Goestenkors has done.”

And although a labral tear in her left shoulder leaves Beard on the bubble to make the team, she has since recovered after surgery and is ready to show the world what she can do.

“It’s always an unbelievable experience playing with the best in the world,” she said. “The fact that we are the U.S., we go in with a target on our backs. People are always out to get the U.S. Team. Our goal is to get a gold medal and nothing less.”

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BRITTON from page 14 2-3 zone, Krzyzewski can try to learn how to beat it in case Miami ever employs it again.

It’s also energized Krzyzewski. While Coach K will never admit it, it’s tough to consistently be the best at your position and not grow complacent. Finding a new challenge was the primary motivation for Krzyzewski’s flirtation with the Lakers in 2004, and the Olympics provide him a similar opportunity without depriving him of his day job. (And this job is infinitely better than his second option: playing minor league baseball for the Birmingham Barons.)

“There’s been a tremendous amount of positive energy and learning coming from that—Coach K’s more energized now than I’ve ever seen him,” ESPN analyst Jay Bilas said. “And a big part of that has to do with his involvement with USA Basketball. I

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know he’s learned a great deal. He looks at the game a bit differently.”

And a renewed perspective is exactly the medicine for the inevitable complacency of being the best at what you do.

Some will argue that Krzyzewski’s absence will hurt the Blue Devils’ recruiting in critical summer months. But communication is international now, and the Duke coaching staff should have no problem calling or texting recruits while overseas (yes, Kelvin, it’s legal in July). At the same time, he can lay the groundwork for a China-to-Durham pipeline that may one day bring Duke a big man that plays outside-in—something Duke has sorely lacked in recent seasons.

And at the very least, the Olympics will provide Krzyzewski a bit more practice in a tournament setting—that is, after all, where Duke has struggled recently.

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Former associate head coach Johnny Dawkins was Mike Krzyzewski’s right-hand man before he became head coach at Stanford.

DAWKINS from page 13 there other than [Krzyzewski]. I never could see past that.

So many people have visions of what happens when he goes or this and they’re looking at all kinds of strategies behind Coach’s departure, and I’m one that can’t ever see anything other than him always in the picture. And it’s because not only did I work for him, but also played for him. So I take a different perspective than, I guess, most people.”

Before he coaches his first game in Palo Alto, Calif., though, Dawkins will get one more opportunity to work with his mentor. Despite the rigors of taking charge of the Cardinal program, Dawkins will still travel to Beijing as the director of player personnel for Team USA. He never seriously considered opting out of his commitment to Krzyzewski and USA Basketball because he believed that working for the national team was the “highest honor” possible, he said. When Dawkins interviewed for the Stanford job, he was asked whether he would go to Beijing this summer. He replied that he wanted to stay involved with the national team either way.

Dawkins’ role on the Olympic team is to work with the players before, during and after practice, as well as to oversee their training regimens off the court—a position he’s comfortable with, having spearheaded player development at Duke.

As for working with Krzyzewski one last time? Dawkins’ whirlwind departure to the West Coast will make the trip to China that much more meaningful.

“Everything changed so quickly that really I didn’t have a chance to catch my breath,” Dawkins said. “I’m looking forward to the opportunity to work with him.”

But even though he will be nearly 3,000 miles from Krzyzewski’s office this fall, he won’t be forgotten anytime soon at Duke. Dawkins was in town as recently as Father’s Day, and he has kept in touch with the Blue Devil players this summer.

And after all, he still has that house to sell.

LEVY from page 14 Taylor King have all transferred, and junior Brian Zoubek has battled chronic injury problems.

There is no doubt that the Blue Devils have missed out on some big name posts in recent years—Greg Monroe, Brandan Wright and Patrick Patterson, to name a few—but are Coach K’s responsibilities with Team USA really to blame for it?

“I don’t think Duke has any worries in the world when it comes to recruiting,” ESPN analyst Dick Vitale said. “The fact that Coach K is coaching Team USA with guys like LeBron and Kobe—kids see that and say, ‘If he can coach them, he can coach me.’”

Vitale and former Blue Devil Jay Bilas argue that Krzyzewski’s Olympic tie brings positive energy to the program and that

his associations with the best players in the world certainly can’t and won’t hurt the Blue Devils. They could be right.

There are plenty of potential benefits for Duke, and it’s foolish to believe that the coaching staff hasn’t formulated a plan to compensate for its Team USA responsibilities. If Coach K stands on the podium with the NBA’s best players, the Duke program will become more attractive to potential recruits. That’s undeniable.

But it’s also possible that a high school stud could enroll at North Carolina because Coach K didn’t show him enough love this summer and in that case, we might reflect and say Krzyzewski should have put his full focus on his Blue Devil squad.

After all, it’s certain that almost every other college coach is focused on one team, not two.

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football from page Eron Riley, who had 40 catches last year and is ranked the No. 13 receiver in the country by Lindy’s magazine, will likely be called upon to haul in as many as 70 or 80 throws in Cutcliffe’s system. Lewis said he has had to learn the different situations for when he’s given the green light to change the call at the line, as well as the plays with choice routes and a host of other new wrinkles.

Not to mention, it’s a no-huddle offense.

And while former athletic director Joe Alleva said one of the reasons he hired Cutcliffe was for his offensive prowess, the head coach has no qualms with slowing it down if the situation calls for it.

“The big issue is trying to win games, and that changes from week to week,” Cutcliffe said. “We believe we can score 30 points a game, and we will always have that as a minimum goal. But if it takes playing slow-ball or takes playing something different, we’re going to do it. We’re going to be a very versatile team in all areas. I think one of the

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things you’ll see is aggressiveness and versatility, because that’s what I think it takes to win in this day and time.”

Nobody has placed more emphasis on winning the cliched one game at a time as much as Cutcliffe. In Duke’s first three opponents—James Madison, Northwestern and Navy, all at home—the Blue Devils play a Division I-AA school, a squad the Blue Devils beat on the road and a team that beat Duke 46-43 last season.

But you won’t hear a single player look that far ahead.

Tauillili said there is no reason why this team shouldn’t start out on a roll. Lewis said it would be like a snowball effect, each win helping to build on the next one. Each, though, first mentioned the caveat their coach has so determinately pounded into their heads.

“What I hope people remember about this team is how well they played one game at a time,” Cutcliffe said. “We can’t waste a second on the field, so we have to be the best we can be when we go out.

“The biggest tradition we’d like to reinstate is winning some football games and defending our home field really well.”

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And then there’s Renfree, who has developed a buzz even before standing on the sideline.

In one highlight video, Renfree shows off his 4.5-second 40-yard dash speed by taking the snap directly under center and sprinting straight ahead, splitting the safeties for an easy touchdown. Renfree, who also displayed his toughness by playing the last seven games of his senior season with a broken foot, participated in the Elite 11 quarterback camp, which has featured current NFL starters Carson Palmer, Matt Leinart and Vince Young.

Renfree will likely begin the season third on the depth chart behind Lewis and Asack, Cutcliffe said.

Cutcliffe does not expect to redshirt the four-star recruit, saying he has about a month of training camp to show the coaching staff what he can do.

So what’s a coach to do with three talented players and one spot on the field? If you’re Cutcliffe, you think beyond the normal setup.

“We might have a wrinkle or two,” Cutcliffe said. “One of the things you might see at quarterback is [Lewis and Asack] in the game at the same time.”

Not even the quarterbacks know how such a scenario would work.

“I really have no idea what Coach Cutcliffe has up his sleeve, but I’m sure it’ll be interesting,” Asack said.

“My guess is as good as yours,” Lewis said. “No one really knows what to anticipate.”

One thing should be certain: Cutcliffe will not get the axe again for having three capable quarterbacks on the roster.

“When one [of the Ole Miss quarterbacks] was finally good, we settled in,” Cutcliffe said. “I don’t anticipate that being the case here. We’re good at quarterback.”

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rowbury from page 13 given where she was this time last year: sidelined with a stress fracture in her hip that made Rowbury dependent on crutches and unable to run at all.

Rowbury had redshirted the entire 2006 season—her senior year at Duke—to prepare and train for 2007. Continuing her Duke education with a master’s in humanities, she placed first and second in the NCAA indoor championships to start 2007. But a nagging pain in her hip was diagnosed as a stress fracture in April. It ended her fifth year and final outdoor season.

“Of course I was devastated at first, but having that diagnosis, I finally knew what I was dealing with,” said Rowbury, who won All-American honors and broke Duke and national records in her Blue Devil career. “I made it my goal to do everything I could to get healthy, to fix whatever problems caused my injury in the first place and come back

stronger than I was before. I never looked back.”

Rowbury combined her own motivation with the support of coach John Cook and her teammates to stage an improbable comeback. Cook mentors athletes for Nike and trains the close-knit trio of Rowbury and former North Carolina runners Shalane Flanagan and Erin Donohue.

So began Rowbury’s comprehensive rehabilitation process. Months of training later—at high altitudes in Mexico, with Cook in Sarasota, Fla. and at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.—Rowbury was back.

“Some of my biggest successes have been after my biggest failures or most upsetting moments,” Rowbury said. “The stress fracture I had in the spring of ’07 was heartbreaking for me, but at the same time, it made me much tougher and taught me what I was made with. I think it’s important with something like that to find the silver lining in it and make a promise to yourself that you’ll be better.”

And Rowbury is a woman of her word.

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summer briefs McRoberts dealt, Nelson goes undrafted A former Blue Devil found a new team on the night of the 2008 NBA Draft, but for the first time since 1997, a Duke player was not selected in the two-round ordeal.

Josh McRoberts, a Duke forward who declared for the draft after two seasons in 2007, was traded to Indianapolis from Portland. McRoberts was an All-American at Carmel High School in nearby Carmel, Ind. He was dropped to the D-League in January and was recalled to the Trail Blazers in February. He played in eight games in his rookie season, averaging 1.5 points per game in 30 total minutes.

DeMarcus Nelson, a First-Team All-ACC selection in 2008, went undrafted despite impressing scouts in NBA workouts and showcases.

Only one ACC player, N.C. State’s J.J. Hickson, was taken in the first round of the draft. Virginia’s Sean Singletary, Maryland’s James Gist and Virginia Tech’s Deron Washington were all selected in the second round.

Duke Tennis shakes up coaching staff After 18 years at the helm, Jay Lapidus resigned as the men’s tennis head coach and will oversee operations in both tennis programs as the school’s new director of tennis. Ramsey Smith, an assistant and associate head coach for the last three seasons, will be the team’s new head coach.

Lapidus ends his coaching career as the winningest coach in the program’s history. He was named ACC Coach of the Year six times and has guided Duke to 17 consecutive NCAA tournaments.

“Ultimately my decision came down to what is best for Duke tennis,” Lapidus said in a statement. “The goal of both the men’s and women’s tennis programs is to win a national championship. This reorganization is a positive move in that direction and reflects Duke’s commitment to tennis.”

Blumenherst takes 38th at U.S. Open Three-time defending National Player of the Year Amanda Blumenherst made the cut and finished 38th in the U.S. Open at Interlachen Country Club in Edina, Minn. last weekend.

The amateur fired under-par rounds Thursday and Saturday, but her Friday and Sunday performances dropped her to 6-over for the tournament.

Former Blue Devil Brittany Lang also qualified for the weekend and her score of 5-over was good for 31st.

Seven golfers with Duke ties—including Blumenherst, senior Jennie Lee, sophomore Kim Donovan and incoming freshman Mina Harigae—competed in the national championship, the second-most in program history.

Duke places 19th in Directors’ Cup For the fifth straight year, Duke finished in the top 20 of the Directors’ Cup, which measures department-wise success in college athletics. Duke’s score was good for 19th. Stanford won the prize for the 14th straight year.

Duke dropped in the standings for the third straight year. It finished fifth in 2005, eighth in 2006 and 11th in 2007.

The women’s golf team contributed the most points with 85, followed by men’s and women’s lacrosse (83) and women’s soccer (73). Men’s basketball added 50 points, and women’s basketball tallied 64.

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FIVE TO REMEMBER...

5. NOT AGAIN (May 28)

Duke loses to Johns Hopkins in what some people call the biggest upset in college lacrosse history. After defeating the Blue Jays 17-6 two months earlier, the top-seeded Blue Devils end their season at the hands of Johns Hopkins for the third time in four years.

first year at the helm and the program’s worst season since 1997, as it finished 21-10 with no titles to its name.

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an otherwise lifeless football program. The tutor of the last two Super Bowl MVPs helps increase ticket sales, enhance recruiting and promises a bowl-bound Duke team.

Former athletic director Joe Alleva might have made the hire of his career in David Cutcliffe. It might have been so good that it boosted him to another job, as Alleva took the same position at Louisiana State in April. After a month-long search, Duke hires Kevin White, the highly respected athletic director from Notre Dame.

1. ONE AND DONE... AGAIN (March 22)

A hot start had people hoping for a perfect ACC record, especially after a dismantling of North Carolina on the road Feb. 6. But Duke 4. NOT SO SWEET (March tumbles hard—failing to reach the ACC tourna30) ment final, barely escaping embarrassment with The Blue Devils lose in the Sweet a one-point win over No. 15 Belmont in the first 2. CUT TO THE CHASE (Dec. 15) 16 for the second consecutive season, round of the NCAAs only to fall to West Virginia Billed as a quarterback guru and offensive master- in the second round. It’s the second straight year this time to Texas A&M in Oklahoma City. The loss ends Joanne P. McCallie’s mind, David Cutcliffe immediately breathes air into Duke fails to advance past the first weekend.

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BY BEN COHEN 5. NATE FREIMAN The postseason chances of Duke’s baseball team may well rest on Freiman’s bat. The now-senior slugger led the team in every major hitting category last season and, with his draft stock on the line, could finish off a memorable career with an end-of-season reward: an NCAA tournament berth.

4. NED CROTTY No Matt Danowski? No problem—if Crotty fills the void left by the 2007 Tewaaraton Trophy winner and perhaps the best player in program history. Danowski broke the NCAA’s all-time scoring record, but Crotty could be just as useful in the midfield next year, as the Blue Devils begin another quest to bring home the school’s first national championship.

3. ERON RILEY Riley caught 40 passes last year for 830 yards and a team-high nine touchdowns. He and quarterback Thaddeus Lewis were, at times, unstoppable. And now, get this: the senior may have to grab 70 or 80 passes this year in new head coach David Cutcliffe’s pass-heavy system. Riley might be Duke’s most explosive weapon on offense—and could be the key to the Blue Devils reaching their goal of 30 points per game.

2. ABBY WANER In her first two seasons, Waner garnered the reputation as a sharpshooter—an assassin-of-sorts who waited in the corner for a penetration-andkick from All-American point guard Lindsey Harding and swished whatever she hoisted. But the rising senior didn’t have that luxury last year, and she won’t have it this year. Her scoring numbers and 3-point percentage were down, but her floor game was better than ever. Still, if Duke is to improve on its 21-10 record, it will have to develop a legitimate inside-out threat. And to do that, Waner must reestablish her touch.

1. GERALD HENDERSON Just watch Henderson save Duke from a first-round NCAA Tournament loss to No. 15 Belmont, and you’ll understand why he might be able to get the Blue Devils back to their first Final Four since 2004. He grabs a rebound, dribbles down the length of the court, cuts through four defenders and effortlessly lays the ball into the hoop—all in about seven seconds, with less than 20 ticks remaining. The junior forward will throw down some of the most athletic dunks Cameron has ever experienced (see: YouTube). He’ll have to do much more than that now.

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Who: senior, associate editor Story: “Are the Blue Devils still an elite team?” page 21 “Just be yourself,” my oldest brother told me as he hopped into our minivan to head home on a humid day in August 2005. My other brother shook his head. “Just don’t be lame,” he said. But they’re both true. College is about being yourself (after you figure out who that is, which you do by subtracting the—in my brother’s Generation X vocabulary— “lameness”). I’ve heard how stupid it was to consider, then declare, then actually enjoy being an English major. But I also know that I enjoy having professors know my name, not taking tests, and making arcane references to Joyce and Faulkner none of my friends can possibly understanding. Why be practical when you can be condescending?

Who: sophomore, Chronicle photography editor Story: Ten To Watch, pages 20-29 MAYA ROBINSON I’m a sophomore, so I am a [self-proclaimed] expert on freshman year. This “expert” status enables me to impart advice so you can share in the boon of some good advice and avoid falling victim to well-intentioned, but misguided words of wisdom. The best advice came from a dreamy senior who told me to go to a lecture a week. He wasn’t talking about your regular class lectures, but rather the variety that is open to the public where most of the audience has white hair. Plus, there usually was free food. If you live in what I’ll call ski country (north of the Mason-Dixon line, south of Patagonia, the Rockies) leave your collection of down jackets at home. If you had decided to go to Dartmouth, it might be a different story, but you wisely chose Duke so you can revel in 50 degree winters.

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Who: junior, contributing writer Story: The Rumor Mill, page 10 The best piece of advice I got was being told to take advantage of every opportunity given to me.

It may sound cliché, but most of the learning you do in college is outside the classroom. Never be afraid to try something new even if you aren’t always the best at it. The journey and the experience are well worth it! Enjoy meeting people who you wouldn’t meet otherwise and don’t be afraid to learn things along the way. Just be ASHLEY HOLMSTROM yourself and all the rest will work itself out.

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THIRSTY THURSDAYS, WATCH OUT: Paul Harraka might be the best athlete in the Class of 2012, and he wasn’t even recruited to play a varsity sport.

A Nascar driver, Harraka can list off his racing stats almost as fast as he can drive—nearly 160 miles per hour. At 18 years old, his wins total 156—including 6 world championships and 13 national championships.

Currently he drives in the “minor leagues of racing,” but he aims for the majors, where he hopes to win the Daytona 500 and the NASCAR Spring Cup Series.

Harraka literally began living his life in the fast lane at age seven when his father gave him a go-cart. He won the first race he entered in his hometown Wayne, New Jersey and then

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rolled up to the national circuit in go-carting—where he still holds the title for the youngest driver to win a national championship.

The “Rookie of the Year” titlewinner now drives a full-size NASCAR vehicle for a company based in California. As he rattles off each notch in his seatbelt, he uses the plural “we won”—crediting the teams of individuals who put him on the track.

Driving is all about the challenge for Harraka—making quick decisions and thriving on adrenaline. Although he loves to race, he doesn’t consider himself a “car guy.” Off the track, he steers clear of idle time by volunteering at his church and spending time with his family.

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“I am fortunate enough to have so many opportunities that I don’t want to pass those up,” he says.

Not only does he get the proverbial “Why Duke?” inquiry, he gets, “Why college at all?” He plans to double major in mechanical engineering and public policy—two knowledge bases that will increase his marketability in the technical and business sides of the racing industry.

With a three-peat of NASCAR events scheduled post-East Campus move-in, he says he will carefully balance his new life with racing. He eagerly anticipates getting involved in extracurriculars, such as DukeCru, DukeEngange and the Catholic Student Center. m

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Do not over-pack. A friendly FAC will unload every single item you feel you must have at Duke, but you don’t want to be “that kid.” Elle Woods may have gotten away with a U-Haul of stuff, but you surely will not.

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Do not loft your bed. Lofted beds not only provide extra floor space but also prevent using your bed as a couch and can lead to serious injuries. If a loft is unavoidable: don’t put it together yourself!

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Take a gym class. The instructors are great, the classes are varied (from golf to advanced yoga), and you can take two towards graduation credit.

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Indulge in the Marketplace brunch. “The Freshman 15” may be looming in your head, but at least once (perhaps after a particularly rough night at a section party), load up your tray with as much as you can humanly consume. Tater tots are a personal favorite, and the cereal selection is the stuff of legends.

Avoid Friday classes at 8:30am. High school may have started at that obscenely early hour, but college does not have to.

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Join something. Although it may seem like a blessing, the amouont of free time in college can be overwhelming and even isolating.

To avoid a Wii/online shopping, go to the activities fair. And no, pong is not an official intramural sport.

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Venture to Bostock. The seeand-be-seen Lilly left side will get old by second semester.

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Do free stuff. You will soon learn that Duke loves to give things away (evidence: every member of the Class of 2008 got an iPod). There are constantly events on campus with free food, music, and gear.

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Do not walk alone at night, on or off campus; use a buddy system! This is probably the most “survive” related tip, to say the least.

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I Love Manhattan Pizza Open until 2 a.m. Monday-Thursday; 3 a.m. Friday-Saturday It’s all well and good that this place loves Manhattan’s (exceptional) pizza, but that doesn’t make up for the fact that theirs has the consistency of cardboard at many times the price. Even the impressively late delivery hours don’t make up for the shoddy product, which will have you yearning for the Marketplace/Great Hall variety in no time.

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Or, though the administration may loathe the idea of students eating alone in their rooms, Domino’s and Papa John’s also deliver late and are generally easier on the food points.

If you’re stuck on campus and you need pizza, just stick with the big guns. And if you’re really craving a New York slice, head to RDU. Rating (out of five): tt Dain’s Place Open until 2 a.m. Tuesday-Saturday Offering a variety of burgers, hot dogs, and sandwiches, Dain’s provides an almost ideal opportunity for late-night dining fare. Go with the Dainer, an exquisite burger garnished with bacon, Thousand Island dressing and a bevy of other

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This freshman favorite is a great way for first-years to meet each other and check out their peers in bikinis or playing shirtless Frisbee. Once freshman year is over, however, you become the creeper for sneaking peeks at the shirtless newbies.

A- Very easily accessible, good grass, but off limits for all but the most-desperate upperclassmen.

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The Duke Gardens are known as one of the crown jewels of

Dragon Gate Open until 10 p.m. Monday-Thursda; 11 p.m. Friday-Saturday I would be failing in my duties as a food critic and self-respecting journalist if I didn’t include a Chinese take-out place on this list. Seeing as Grace’s closes at 9 pm, Dragon Gate is the only option for those craving some bedtime General Tso’s or a pint of fried rice to distract you from the 37 midterms you’ve neglected.

And, with the quickest delivery on points, you won’t have to wait long for your chicken and broccoli

combination plate (highly recommended). Tip the delivery man well, because the food comes so fast that it’s clear he has earned it.

Rating: ttt Jimmy John’s Open until 3 a.m. Monday-Sunday One of the few (if not only) sandwich places on points open late, Jimmy John’s earns bonus points for also delivering. Be warned, though: leave aside a good hour and a half for your sandwich to actually arrive after you place the order. They are not prompt. At all. Ever. The sandwiches themselves are solid, utilitarian versions of the traditional cold-cut and/or chicken concoctions. Very edible, but unlikely to make you forsake that phenomenal deli that you and your high-school buddies used to frequent for lunch back home. Oh, the memories…

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Duke’s campus. Although “the Gardens” has plenty of grass, shady nooks, and even a stream, there isn’t internet access and there are very few bathrooms.

C Don’t be fooled by the beauty, the lack of facilities most definitely will be a problem.

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This secret spot isn’t exactly University condoned, but it wins major points for privacy. Keep in mind that West Campus card access is needed.

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nothing too special about the locale, you win brownie points for breaking the rules and if you wanted to

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Belmont Pool

Planet Beach Tanning

If you choose to “fake-bake” this is one of the treasured places to do so. The cost, however, adds up in dollars and the risk of skin cancer.

Plus, nobody is fooled when you show up for brunch with a suspiciously radioactive orange glow.

F These tanning beds are the equivalent of academic dishonesty.

This see-and-be-seen place at the off-campus apartment complex is an upperclassmen favorite. Since the complex’s security is iffy at best, anyone who wants to indulge in a dip is more than welcome.

A Open to all, pool and BYOB without Duke Police intervening.

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Change comes quickly at the University, and other times not at all. New additions this fall will include a new athletics director, a new dean of engineering, a coffee shop, a yet-to-be-named Asian restaurant, and seven pole-mounted warning sirens for campus emergencies.

Did you know: Newly hired Athletics Director Kevin White was considered a candidate for the position, interviewed and hired over two days late in the month of May. Although a search committe was formed with the intention of making a hire in the fall, President Richard Brodhead sped up the process during his three-hour meeting with White, during which the former Notre Dame AD went from being a consultant to being considered as the top candidate for

Rewind A short essay

By Jacquelyn Talpalar Ten years ago, the first thing on every Dukie’s mind was neither how to pass Math 103 nor what time to get to Alpine Bagel in order to avoid weekend brunch rush.

Instead they worried about—what else—the mysterious Y2K. Said one student: “Well that little Y2K problem is going to collapse all the economies in the world. No more food, electricity, fuel, communications, etc. All those things are going to shut down like that ‘snap.’ (Maybe a week or so) but them multi-warheads will be flying around and the survival of the fittest will become the law until the antichrist takes over the world.”

Guess he was a little off. But it wasn’t just our thinking that was different. In Fall 2008, there will be more than 300 classes taught at the crack of dawn (aka 8:30 a.m.). Rewind 10 years, and the crack of dawn was not 8:30, but 9:10 a.m. And there were only 249 classes taught at this early hour. How kind.

Today, the most popular class, “Financial Accounting,” has 39

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of Dining Services Jim Wulforst told the Chronicle in May that no “neon, fast-food” place will be coming to the BC. Hmmm, sounds like Panda Express to us. Meanwhile, Cup A Joe is still slated to go into the Gothic Bookshop. Sorry all you Starbucks afficianados.

At the Arts and Sciences Council’s May meeting, three faculty members who will remain anonymous had some harsh words for the new athletic strategic plan.

Professors being outraged about athletics is nothing new (lacrosse, anyone?) but this year seems like a particularly tender time to attack the athletic department.

Then again, if the football team regresses back to another 0-12 season, RM is all for complaining about the strategic plan.

Overheard: That the RLHS ban on lofted beds on West was passed

over Campus Council’s heads. If such an event were even considered news anymore, RM would be concerned.

people on the waitlist for the fall. tains were Trajan Langdon and Ten years earlier, the most popular Chris Carrawell. We had Shane class was Tony Brown’s PPS class, Battier. We had Corey Maggette. and there were only 12 on the wait- We had Elton Brand. We had William Avery. Unfortunately, both list. Those were the days.

Stilll, academically, there are sev- the men’s and women’s teams fell eral things that have not changed. in the national championships that For one thing, Public Policy still year. But damn were we good.

Ten years ago, we gave 210 athintimidated many overwhelmed underclassmen trying to choose a letic scholarships to Duke students. major that could potentially help The cost per scholarship--$33,000. them achieve the most success.

Today, we give 237 athletic scholar“You may take one look at me ships to students at a cost of $47,800 and drop out of this course,” threat- per scholarship, plus summer school ened Professor Kyle Hudson ten tuition. Let’s give our Cameron Crayears ago, at the start of rigorous zies a reason to tent next year, boys.

This year’s student activists are PPS 116D. A d d i t i o n a l l y, while we are under“You may take one look at me taking some major and drop out of this course.” improvements to the Sanford Institute of Public Policy today, ten years ago, most remembered for China protests the additional funds were benefiting last spring. Ten years ago, there were the Pratt School of Engineering, as protests, but on a very different Edmund T. Pratt, Jr endowed the subject. Student activists in 1998 school with $35 million dollars. formed a union on campus called So we may not have had the “Students Against Sweatshops.” most successful year in Cameron Then on January 21, 1999, the SAS Crazy history. But how did the members staged a sit-in on the secsquad look in fall 1998? Our cap- ond floor lobby in the Allen Building

to prevent Duke President Keohane from a code calling for factories to abide by human rights standards.

The students felt it was too weak(!). After 30 hours of sitting— and an intense game of Risk—the SAS members had created a proposal which called for the University to sign the code.

Now we’re known as somehwat of a social campus, or so says the national media. But ten years ago, we were on a whole different level. We were party animals. So dangerous, so rebellious, that we even hosted the second annual “Slaw Slam.”

Just imagine Duke girls, bikinis, and cole slaw. Now imagine them eating a giant vat of the creamy salad while in their bikinis. Hot. Yeah, we were risk-takers. Not. In fact, those Chapel Hill kids definitely win the prize. Dressed as bikers in black leather and fishnets, they joined grunge-era slackers in blocking a minor street in Chapel Hill.

Well UNC may have taken some risks, but lets face it—we’re the ones with the real class. We were ten years ago, we were now, and we will be forevermore. m

the position, which had been vacated by the highly-criticized Joe Alleva four weeks prior.

By contrast, it has been nearly 18 months since the former Director of Parking and Transportation Services left Duke, but no search committee has yet been formed.

Will Brodhead take a similar course, bypassing Kemel Dawkins, vice president of campus services, and finding his own candidate?

Though less transparent than a search committee, it might get the job done, which PTS has thus far been unable to do. To their credit, they have been short-staffed for a year and half now.... Chuck Catotti can only fill so many shoes.

Dukies are still waiting with baited breath to see which Asian dining institution will make its way into the BC. Lemon Grass is out... Panda Express is in? Director

CHARITY OF THE MOMENT: There are plenty of campus causes to support but here’s a new one: Lung cancer. Two seniors spent last semester laying the groundwork for massive on-campus publicity for the #1 cancer killer in the coun try.

At the end of spring semester they brought a benefit concert alive in the French Science Center, including stories, music and the ubiquitous Duke University Improv.

RM hears the show returns this semester under the “Zindagi” banner. Here’s to supporting something a little bit different in the new year.

Duking it Out

Is pre-med really worth it?

by Madeline Perez (former pre-med) and Shreya Rao (stuck with it)

mperez: there’s always one thing i can count on at the beginning of each year: a freshman class full of premeds. srao: i don’t blame ‘em. zach braff is hot. mperez: too bad that’s nothing like med school. they won’t find any McDreamy’s pulling twenty-hour shifts. and there’s no sex in the on-call rooms. srao: maybe not (though, i’m still holding out hope), but they are joining a really ridiculously goodlooking group of Dukies. mperez: ... srao: we’re better than the engineers? mperez: and you’ll be stuck in a lab and the library just as much as them. srao: bostock is not just any library. it’s a work of creative genius. pre-meds can be fun! mperez: just how much fun can you have in school until you’re thirty? srao: hey more school means more indecision. four more years! four more years! mperez: and more money and student loans. you could always just marry a doctor. srao: something you kids of the trinity college of arts and crafts will never understand is the beauty of helping people. mperez: alright, I’m not going to deny the altruism. but wearing those scrubs should be a crime. they aren’t flattering. srao: it’s all about the coat—white is the new black. mperez: let’s not forget the class requirements. sure, some people just can’t get enough of microbiology. but who wouldn’t want to take “rap/hip hop music appreciation” or “dating and mating at duke” instead? srao: but how about that lifelong job security... mperez: ...and sadistic professors who enjoy shattering your dreams on a daily basis. srao: bad grades build character. plus, what are you going to do with a b.a in english? mperez: i may not have a job when I graduate, but at least I’m unique. and sure, everyone starts out pre med. but soon all of your friends will drop faster than a jj redick 3-pointer. srao: fine but i’ll have your back when you need your stomach pumped or a loan on that rat-infested studio apartment in the city.

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ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES—

My hotel room is chilled to a crisp, cool 23 degrees Celsius, but sometimes in the evening I like to open my window anyway.

It lets in the intense heat— above 100 degrees Fahrenheit even now, two or three hours after dark—but it also lets in the sounds of hustle and bustle beneath, of men (mostly men, at least) visiting the numerous groceries, laundries, barbershops and hookah bars.

And if I open the window at the right time, I might hear the muezzin from the mosque down the street, the sound of the intoned call to prayer lofting over the heavy automotive rumble of the big city.

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Even to this Midwest-reared Episcopal choir boy, it’s a beautiful thing.

Along with the rest of the United States, Dukies have turned their gaze eastward since the attacks of September 11. A donation in 2005 established the Duke Islamic Studies Center. In addition to starting a new certificate program, the center has begun bringing in top-notch faculty members in various disciplines—with the faculty roster set to double when classes resume is August. The need to get involved in the Middle Easr is “obvious”, President Richard Brodhead wrote to me via e-mail.

“The Islamic world contains over a billion people,” he says. “In a globalized society, many more Americans must learn to appreciate and navigate Islamic cultures.

I trust many Duke students will be included in the list.”

And that’s why I’m here. In May, I hope to graduate in Duke’s first crop of certificate recipients.

If it seems unusual for students to have to travel halfway around the world, it shouldn’t, says the University’s own Lawrence of Arabia.

Bruce Lawrence, professor of religion, director of DISC and half of Duke’s first family of Islamic studies (his wife, miriam cooke, runs the Arabic language program and is a professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies).

“Islamic studies certificate students have to do lab work,” he writes in an e-mail—fresh from academic travels to Oxford and Berlin.

“If you’re a chemist, you can stay at home and do it in Gross Chem, but if you’re eager to be credentialed with an Islamic studies certificate, you must travel to some part of the expanse of Afro-Eurasia.”

My laboratory is the capital of the UAE, where I’m struggling to remember my Introductory Economics lessons as a business reporting intern th The National, a newly launched English language paper that aims to be the Wall Street Journal of the Persian Gulf.

The UAE is a strange part of the world: A place where H3s and Starbucks are at least as common at home (and hey, when you’re paying a state-subsidized $1.40 per gallon, why not drive big, right?), but where more risqué websites are blocked nationwide for being inconsistent with the state’s morals. You can see camels stalking the desert just a few minutes outside the bustling city limits of Abu Dhabi and its glitzier cousin, Dubai.

Ordinarily, business isn’t my thing. It’s the vibrant medieval period of Islam that drove me to study Muslim cultures—and it’s a mythologized image of that same period that appeals to the likes of Osama Bin Laden. But Lawrence insists we should look deeper.

“Terrorists represent less than .01 percent of all Muslims,” he says.

“They dominate the headlines but not the daily pathways of Africa and Asia where Muslims dominate, nor the workplaces of Europe and America where other Muslims have come to find a better future.”

What I’ve discovered is that there’s more to the Arab world (which, to be fair, accounts for only a small percentage of the globe’s Muslim population) than what happened here centuries ago. And there’s more to it than al Qaeda and Iranian subterfuge and centrifuge, the thriving oil business in the Persian Gulf and the festering morass in Iraq. Revelations like mine are exactly the aim of immersing students in the world of Islam, Lawrence says.

“What Islamic studies tries to do, and must do, is to make sense of the local and global, in constant tension as well as vital synergy, throughout the Muslim world,” he explains.

Those “vital synergies” should make the Middle East and South and South East Asia as much—if not more—relevant to the University’s often business-obsessed student body than to bookish amateur historians like me.

While Wall Street struggles to regain its footing in the wake of a weakening dollar, the burst housing bubble and the subprime mortgage crisis, investment banks in the Gulf region are thriving. Let me put another way: Looking to score that prized McKinsey & Co. gig? Maybe you should look to the consulting firm’s Dubai office.

Take Islamic finance. As Osama Bin Laden and his lieutenants look backward, forward-thinking Muslim bankers are finding innovative ways to merge Islam’s centuries-old prohibition on interest, which makes traditional mortgages and bonds forbidden.

Instead, “Islamic banks” buy

Hey, when you’re paying $1.40 per gallon, why not drive big, right? properties for clients and sell them on at a slightly increased price: the banks profit, and believers don’t have to forfeit their creed in order to enter the global market.

Sukuk and other Islamic finance tools, are big business, worth hundreds of billions of dollars in places like Dubai’s

Stanleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chair and Investment banks in the Gulf region are C E O and a thriving. Looking to score that prized D u k e McKinsey & Co. gig? Maybe you should t r u s t e e , look to the consulting firmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dubai office. stopped in Dubai a n d Doha, scorching hot real estate marthe capiket. Authorities in secular Hong tal of Qatar. Blair Sheppard, dean Kong and Singapore, looking for of the Fuqua School of Business, alternate markets to the stumhas also visited recently. bling West, are changing laws to â&#x20AC;&#x153;I traveled to Dubai and Qatar encourage sukuk trading in their in 2006 to see an interesting part marketsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;after all, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s every bit of the world and to learn what as profitable as any other trade. opportunities there might be for American universities are tryDuke to partner with their future ing to get in on the act, too. Johns projects,â&#x20AC;? Brodhead says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;NothHopkins University runs a mediing has been decided, but it made cal school in Qatar; New York for fascinating exploration.â&#x20AC;?

University is opening a branch in Well, President Brodhead, Dubai and dozens of other schools from one egghead to another: are looking for ways to tap into a Get in while the gettingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good. market thirsty for education.

Duke is considering more David Graham is a Trinity senior possibilities as well. In Fall 2006, and currently welcoming any advice Brodhead, accompanied by Lawon the finer points of Islamic busirence and John Mack, Morgan ness reporting via e-mail.

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>>>CONFESSIONS OF A DURHAM-ETTE Is Durham really so, well, nasty?... Besides Shooters, not necessarily.

I wouldn’t exactly call myself your typical Duke sophomore.

Sure, I tented for basketball tickets. I completed a few graduation requirements. I went to the sketchy, Southern-themed bar, Shooters II, on the first Thursday night of the semester—a Duke tradition.

I developed an unnecessary hatred for everything UNC-related. I fought my way onto the bus that runs from East to West campus, affectionately called the C-1. I suffered through the monotony of meals at the freshman dining hall.

And on several occasions, I even stood in line for hours to get a free t-shirt.

But despite all this, there is something about me that I can’t change or deny that sets me apart from the rest of the student body—something that is either feared or hated across campus: I am a Durhamite.

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fitting adjectives that can go be- taught by motivating teachers— fore Durhamite in a conversation all of whom were Durhamites. were “sketchy” or “armed.”

But after being accepted to Within the first few weeks of Duke and graduating from Jorliving on campus, it occured to dan, I was not expecting such me that perhaps some students an extreme culture shock. Just a pitied themselves because the five-minute car ride sent me tumprestigious institution which bling down the rabbit hole and they attended was regrettably suddenly, I found myself with a located in Durham, North Caro- new perspective. lina, and they were completely I quickly realized that most surrounded by us. people at Duke don’t share my Although my opinion is not love for Durham. Few apprecia popular one, I love Durham. ated the sense of community I love the Southern charm, the that I found so obvious for years, history and the uniqueness that nor do they value the diversity make the Bull City so differ- of the city. ent from any other place in the My freshman year was filled world. I love that on a hot sum- with hate columns and comments mer day you can walk around on online message boards claimthe renovated historic tobacco ing that “Durham is a piece of district, completely restored in shit” and complaining how disapa private-public partnership and pointing Durham was for Duke meet complete strangers who are students. neighborly and friendly.

I remember wondering if the Durham has a very small, people who wrote so eloquently close-knit community of people about the violent and unsafe city from all walks of life. There is had ever actually been outside something very unusual and re- the Duke bubble. I began wonmarkable about having a small- dering how Durham got such a town feeling in a city of its size. bad rap.

More important than the city Recent incidents, such as the itself is its residents. Downtown murder of graduate student AbDurham is full of small, family- hijit Mahato by a teenager who owned and -run businesses where went to high school with me, obemployees know you by your first viously contribute to the distrust name and take the time to get to of Durhamites. But the idea that know you.

Durham consists only of violent And if you take the time to get people who are out to harm Duke to know them, many Durhamites students has become unnecessarwill tell you their stories of Dur- ily widespread. ham, and it’s obvious to see that most Although my opinion is not a popular hold a one, I love Durham. I love the Southern great affection for charm, the history and the uniqueness a city that that make the Bull City so different. is wonderfully diverse and also nationally renowned for things Why do students think that unrelated to crime statistics.

“Durhole” is gang-infested, diI attended one of the area’s lapidated and dangerous, causpublic high schools, which pro- ing students to fear for their own vided a very different experience lives? The city has been ranked to a Duke education. Even with the 15th best place to live in the the gang riot, bathroom fires and U.S. and one of the 100 best comoccasional bomb threats, I thor- munities for young people. oughly enjoyed my four years at Although it is frustrating, the C.E. Jordan High School. I met general disregard and disdain the most amazing people and was for the city I call home does not

have much of an impression of Durham at all. I wasn’t aware that the Durham community existed.

I had no knowledge of anyone that lived in Durham or grew up in Durham until I graduated and moved into Trinity Park and actually lived in a community.”

The only contact many students have A l with the Durham community is when though I have Larry Moneta sents out an e-mail... grown to because somebody has been robbed off- love and be proud campus. of the city that get students involved in the in which I grew up, I have never Durham community, like Project planed to stay in North Carolina BUILD, DukeEngage and man- for the rest of my life. And like datory and voluntary community many Duke students, I view these four years in the Dirty D as a service.

But for many incoming stu- temporary adventure.

When I told Keuber this, he dents, except for the occasional weekend trek to local clubs and laughed and said he used to have bars or a shopping trip to the the exact same intentions. Almost mall, they don’t consider Dur- 20 years after his departure from ham worth exploring. The only Duke, however, he reports that contact many students have with he still happily resides in Durthe Durham community is when ham, something he never would Larry Moneta, vice president for have imagined when he was atstudent affairs, sends out an e- tending the University.

“The idea was that you came mail about safety procedures because somebody has been robbed to Duke and when you graduated, you went away. There was not a off-campus.

Although these incidents of compelling reason to stay here. crime are undoubtedly tragic, But yet I encounter people that are the majority of Durhamites do very involved in the city years after not attempt to rip off students, they have graduated. I think it’s not to my admittedly unscientific uncommon that something, like a job, kept them here and the city knowledge.

Like any city, and perhaps grew on them,” he says.

Maybe this city is an acquired more than most cities, Durham has its share of crime. But there taste. Maybe four years just isn’t is no need to forgo venturing out enough to appreciate all that the and learning about the city and Bull City has to offer. It grows on the communities that exist within people, gradually wearing down it, right down the road from our the skeptics with its Southern charm and rich history. own community.

Sure, some may consider This community-wide ignorance is no new phenomena. Gary Durham the bastard child of the Keuber, Trinity ’92and writer for Triangle—that sibling to Chapel the blog “Endangered Durham,” Hill and Raleigh that just isn’t says that students were equally as mentioned at family reunions. apathetic about the community But despite it all, I find myself now proudly telling anyone who surrounding the Duke campus.

“When I first came up as a asks: I am, in fact, a Durhamite.

Duke student, I had a perception of Durham that I think was com- Christine Hall is a Trinity sophomonplace among students at that more and, contrary to popular belief, time,” he told me in an interview. no one in the University’s Public “Even if it wasn’t a necessar- Relations Department forced her to ily negative perception, we didn’t write this essay. surprise me. From what I have witnessed, Duke students do not venture out past the protective stonewalls around the University.

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TV Associate Editor Jiajia Zhang knows full well what it’s like to straddle two cultures. A native of Beijing, Zhang takes a look inside the Chinese experience at Duke in this month’s cover feature.

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his summer for the first time, when I casually mention to people at home that I go to Duke, not everyone gives me a blank look.

Now, they move closer and whisper, “Do you know anything about Grace Wang?”

Although the pro-Tibet and pro-China protests on the Chapel Quadrangle occurred more than three months ago in a southern town many miles from the People’s Republic, people are still talking about it, and with the event, Duke’s fame may be on the rise.

But is it the right kind of publicity?

“Now they know about Duke because of Grace Wang,” says Fangzhou Qi, a freshman from Tianjin—a harbor city outside of Beijing.

It isn’t the first time news related to Chinese students at Duke have caught the attention of the Chinese public. Two years ago, a Chinese graduate student was kicked out of her program, and last summer Chinese students were among the 34 caught cheating at Fuqua School of Business.

For current and prospective Chinese students at the Gothic Wonderland, their day-to-day life couldn’t have less to do with the famous frosh and her highly-publicized incident on the Chapel Quadrangle.

“This incident itself is definitely a negative image. I don’t know how bad it really is. Sometimes it might be a good thing for people to hear this name, to find some news about this,” says Zhizhong Li, former president of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association.

“I hope, I really hope, this can be turned into something better than we thought.”

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n April 9 pro-Tibet and pro-Chinese demonstrators clashed on the Chapel Quadrangle during a march to raise awareness for the struggle for Tibetan freedom.

After shouting and chanting first broke out from both sides of the arguement, Grace Wang, now a sophomore, placed herself in between the opposing groups, angering many of the pro-Chinese protestors who believed that she was on the pro-Tibetan side.

Shortly thereafter, a video of Wang’s participation surfaced on www.youtube.com. Her parents’ address in China was also leaked to the public. Within a week, her home in China had been vandalized and she and her family received numerous letters, threats and e-mails regarding the incident.

But all the negative news didn’t seem to deter students of Chinese descent from enrolling at the University. 426 undergraduate and graduate students from China will enroll at the University this fall, making it the largest group of international of students at Duke for at least the tenth year in a row, according to the Interntional House.

Some of these Far East students will arrive in August’s muggy weather, sit through a few days of international student orientation and then be hit by a massive transition period, say current Chinese students.

Li, like many Chinese students, had already studied English in secondary school. He had even taken a few of classes taught in English as TOWERVIEW

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an undergrad in Beijing, but when he got here, it still took him half a semester to feel comfortable with the language.

“You get used to [the Chinese] accent and not used to the real American accent, especially the southern accent,” he says. Add in slangs, twangs and, well, some of the more colorful additions to the college vernacular and he’s completely lost.

Even Qi, who has been learning English since he was six, found the notoriously obtruse academic English hard to follow.

“When I first got here, when I turned on the TV, I didn’t even want to watch it,” he says. “I just didn’t have the motivation to listen to more English. You just give up.”

In China, many introductory English lessons begin with “Hi, my name is.” Then students are taught to greet each other with respect by asking asking “How are you?”

When was the last time two American college students actually executed that dialogue, outside of a theater class. 1960?

Li says he didn’t hear many “How are you”s but instead got many “What’s up”s.

“I had no idea—what does that mean?” he recalls.

“I went back and checked on the Internet.”

Then there was the time when Qi hit up off-campus Mexican restaurant Cosmic Cantina with some friends. Problem: He didn’t know what was in a burrito.

Xing Zong, a sixth-year Ph.D candidate in physics, says he thought the little yellow signs labeled “Xing” on it was the University’s thoughtful of welcoming him.

Others didn’t find Duke quite so welcoming.

Because of the initial language barrier, it can be easier for Chinese students to make friends with other Chinese students. They are far from the only international student group to do so.

Guangang Chen, a visiting scholar from China who recently completed his one-year term, says he often felt lonely during his ten16

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ure in Durham, in no small part because he was used to the busy streetlife of the average Chinese metropolis. Not exactly a description of Durham.

“All the streets are very open, and I look around, there’s no people, only me,” he says. “So I feel lonely, I feel cold, just nobody to talk with, to play with, especially in the evening.” The murder of graduate student Abhijit Mahato has only exacerbated matters. “I

“I didn’t expect selfsegregation to be like this at Duke.”

—Guangang Chen dare not go out because of the robbery, so you stay home,” Chen says.

Other Chinese students do make close friends—they just tend to be from the same background.

“I didn’t expect self-segregation to be like this at Duke,” he says.

Although his fellow dormmates invited Li along to the obligatory ice-breaker parties when he first arrived at Duke, he says it it was difficult to make conversation at these gatherings because of a lack of common topics. So he found himself drawn the Chinese community from the very beginning.

Chen says he has difficulty becoming close with Caucasian students. His interactions with non-Chinese people at Duke are mostly limited to the office.

Other cultural differences might also prevent intermixing.

An important part of American college life is—no surprise—alcohol. For the past few years,

there has been no shortage of talk about the campus drinking culture. “We don’t drink that much, but we talk a lot,” Li says. “But here, it’s very loud in the bars.”

DCSSA to the rescue. For Chen, the Chinese students association gave him a chance to celebrate traditional Chinese holidays with like-minded people.

“We are Chinese, we are overseas, we’re not in our motherland,” Chen says. “When our traditional festivals come, we have strong feelings and thinking home, thinking mom.”

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uke’s connection with China traces as far back as 1881, when Charlie Soong enrolled in then-Trinity College as the first international student of the school. But Soong, did not receive his degree from Trinity because he wished to pursue missionary studies, and the school then did not have a divinity school. He went on to become one of the most influential figures in 20th century China, and he brought his North Carolina connection with him back across the Pacific.

His legacy lives on in Zong, the most recently elected graduate Young Trustee. Zong was elected after memorably describing himself as the “iPhone Young

Trustee.” He also spearheaded the www.dukechina.org Web site to increase Duke’s accessibility to students in China.

Zong says he hopes to see more Chinese students in leadership positions on campus to break the stereotypes of Asian students. “Asian students typically give the stereotype that Asian students study mathematics or study sciences and don’t really talk much,” he says.

“But I think that’s no longer the case. Asian students are active and eager to break the glass ceiling.”

There’s no such glass ceiling in the ranks of the faculty. Duke boasts more than 50 Chinese faculty members, many of whom also came to America first to pursue a higher-quality education.

But their initial experiences in America, for some occurred decades ago as graduate students, held more challenges.

“I was not prepared to come to U.S.” professor Fan Yuan writes in an e-mail. “In addition, the living style in China is much closer to here now. Thus, the culture shock is smaller. And current students are richer than I was.”

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y Qi’s approximation, most of the Chinese students at Duke must be from middle to higher-middle class

in China to be able to afford the tuition American living expenses.

Therefore most of the students are also from bigger cities in China such as Beijing and Shanghai – where exposure to Western lifestyle is maximized, helping the students transition into America even better.

“If you’ve been exposed to socalled western capitalists or materialistic stuff for a long time, it won’t be that bad,” Qi says. “But if you come from little cities in China...you’re pretty much very shocked [when you first get to America].”

Zong says when he first came to Duke he looked to the “star professors” at the institution to figure out a career path for himself.

And like other Chinese students at Duke, Zong wants to eventually move back to China and share what he has learned from Duke with his motherland.

Tradition is a key selling point in convincing other students in China to follow in Zong’s footsteps. Zong and students say they heard about the University from other graduates, rather than through the Chinese schools’ college advising systems.

Zong says he was attracted to the school not by publicity or basketball or any of the other reasons students give when asked why they were attracted to Duke.

“As a Chinese student, I typically just go through the rankings on U.S. News,” Zong says.

Even Chen, the visiting scholar, says he had never heard of Duke before he found the school through rankings.

One weak point for Trinity College of Arts and Sciences is that many more graduate students than undergrads are coming to Duke from China. Although there were 426 international students from China, only 41 of the group were undergraduate students.

Patrick Morris, head of the international house, thinks there are many factors contributing to both the large number of Chinese students and the disparity between undergraduate and graduate student numbers.

“From what we’ve heard over the years is that Chinese students seem to be very satisfied with their undergrad in their home country.

But in the research science fields, they look to the U.S.” Morris says.

Qi says there is now a growing dissatisfaction with higher education in China, even from the undergraduate level.

“I think most people come here aren’t satisfied with the fact that they’re only graded on one test,” Qi says of the infamous “gao kao”—the national college entrance exam in China, whose result determines one’s chances of getting into universities completely. For Chinese high school students who wish to come to America for college, they must prepare for both the national college entrance exam and the American college applications.

Graduate students and professors also noted that the facilities available to conduct experiments are much better in America.

The biggest difference between an American and a Chinese education is the amount of freedom of academics, students says. They were all pleasantly surprised to find that starting as freshmen, they could select the courses they wanted with minimal interference from departmental requirements.

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hat does the future hold for the Gothic Wonderland’s relationship with the People’s Republic?

Outside of the recent demonstration and the Internet debacle that followed, Qi cites Duke basketball and President Richard Brodhead’s visit to China last summer as media through which Duke’s name has been spread.

“Before that, you can talk to someone, and it’ll be Harvard and that’s pretty much it,” he says.

Chen thinks all it takes is time, noting that Harvard itself wasn’t so famous just a few decades ago.

But Li thinks the situation is different for college students, a crowd where Duke’s name is already famous.

“Duke is a big name,” he says, no matter where you are.

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There’s something for everyone, from the innocent froshies who can’t tell a fratstar from a Prattstar, to the jaded seniors with one foot in bucolic Durham and another in the fast-paced business world. So whip out a pen, start taking notes and feel free to consider this a crash course on the next 12 months of your life.

Are the Blue Devils still an elite team?

Basketball The Class of 2008 did something only one other class since 1985 can claim: it graduated without seeing Duke in the Final Four.

Its last hopes were dashed March 22 when the Blue Devils lost in the second round to West Virginia. It was the second straight year they could not survive the NCAA Tournament’s first weekend.

In the aftermath, there was no shortage of eulogies for the once-proud Dukies.

Duke Basketball, the writers, the fans, even the Mountaineers said, had become was just a name that now lacked substance. Oh sure, it looked good on the outside, with its Olympic coach and its All-American recruits. But inside, there was something missing.

That something that wins

in March. That something that raises banners.

It isn’t exactly new ground for Duke, though, which experienced the same downturn in the mid-90s.

However, recruits such as Elton Brand, Shane Battier, and Jason Williams returned the Blue Devils to the peak of college basketball.

The game, though, has changed since then.

“What the Duke basketball fan wants is the Elton Brand answer,” explained Dave Telep, scout.com’s National Recruiting Director. “But we’re in a different era, and Elton Brands don’t come around a whole lot.”

It’s an era of one-anddone players where the recruiting risks and rewards have been amplified exponentially. Thus, Greg Oden can lead Ohio State to the NCAA title game; Josh McRoberts can Duke, well, nowhere.

But is it an era that has passed the increasingly conservative recruiting of Mike Krzyzewski by?

The numbers don’t lend themselves to an affirmative answer.

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last five seasons, Duke has advanced to the Sweet Sixteen three times; no college basketball team has made it more. And it’s not like the Blue Devils have missed the NCAA Tournament multiple times in the last decade, like college basketball powerhouses North Carolina, Connecticut, and UCLA. The point is that programs cycle and Duke’s “down years” haven’t been that down.

“There are certain programs where records don’t matter,” said Jay Bilas, a former Blue Devil and current ESPN analyst. “Trophies and banners are what people remember.”

And for the last few years, Duke’s Marches have been a little too forgettable. But it would be wrong to overlook the strides the Blue Devils made last season and wonder, with one more year under their belt and more bulletin board material than ever, what this team can do next March.

Because for the Class of 2009, the clock is ticking.

-Tim Britton

Are There Jobs for the Class of ’09?

A Shaky Market In Mike Nichols’ classic film, “The Graduate,” Dustin Hoffman returns home after graduating from college and is told one word about his career path: “Plastics.” Hoffman’s character might have agreed in 1967, but fast-forward 40 years and the word has changed: Diversify.

Due to the recent crisis at Bear Stearns as well as the downturn in the financial markets, reports suggest that jobs are becoming increasingly harder to snag—not only in the financial and consulting sectors popular with many undergraduates, but across the board. For at least the near future, the outlook seems gloomy.

Lance Choy, director of the career center at Stan-

ford University, said he expects the real impact of the financial crisis will be felt in the upcoming fall. While there are some areas in the economy that are doing well, he anticipates it is going to be more competitive than ever and that students must—here’s that word— diversify their options.

“If a student comes to me and says, ‘I want a job in investment banking,’ it’s going to be tough, and he or she might want to come up with alternative strategies and alternative types of career paths,” Choy says. “I can’t predict exactly what is going to happen but my best guess is that there’s going to be a slow down. I can’t tell you how severe it is going to be; that’s why I don’t read crystal balls.”

The financial industry is trying to recover from the huge liquidity and bank capital shock from last summer, says Connel Fullenkamp, associate director of undergraduate studies for Economics.

Fullenkamp is optimistic about the future of the job market, although some students may have to settle for a firm without a “big

name.” This downturn is just part of the cycle, he says, and a correction is forthcoming. For some students, though, the economic cycle is less important, he says.

“The trend is definitely toward more rather than fewer financial services in terms of careers,” Fullenkamp notes.

Choy and Fullenkamp agree that students need to avoid getting their hearts set on only one career path. This concept of— wait for it—diversification is echoed by David Lapinksi, associate director of employer relations at the Career Center.

Lapinksi says he has seen an uptake in the hiring by consulting firms with students who in the past might have looked at an investment banking opportunity.

He recommends students look at the wide variety of areas even at some of the non-traditional companies that are out there because the job market has b e come more

competitive.

Although he does not feel there is a shift away from students going into the financial industry, Lapinksi, like Choy, expects fall recruiting to be slower.

Many banks and financial service firms have said they are going to defer some of their recruiting to their internship conversions.

“Duke students remain highly marketable. They are wanted all across different industries,” Lapinski says. “You are not going to see an advertising agency that is looking for their one or two candidates to make a trip down for a career fair because it is not in their strategy. If you really break down the numbers, there are a lot of other types of companies that are out there that students just tend to bypass, even though they have great opportunities.”

Fullenkamp attributes the heavy emphasis on the financial industry at Duke to the fact that students do not want to go through the classic “pavement pounding” process. In other words, it

can be a daunting prospect for many students to send out resumes and cover letters to firms who don’t have a preset impression of Duke graduates and are not necessarily recruiting.

Many students look to the Career Center for help in their search, and Fullenkamp feels the menu of jobs is limited due to decisions that students have made in the past. Fortune 500 companies such as Proctor & Gamble, Ford and General Motors have fixed recruiting budgets and thus want to go to campuses where they will not only get the talent, but also where their yield will be good, he added.

“Duke students have kind of self-selected the recruiters that come here, and now we have this very limited menu and it seems like your menu is investment banking and consulting,” Fullenkamp noted.

One of those pavementpounders is rising senior Daniel Freshman (not a

joke). Working for a consulting firm in Boston this summer to fulfill his public policy internship, Freshman applied to numerous jobs in the financial industry last spring but received very few interviews. He continued sending his resumes to non-traditional companies without success.

Freshman says that recruiters he spoke with anticipated bringing in fewer people this coming fall.

Accenture, a global consulting firm, told him they took seven Duke applicants out of 250 and they expect to take only six from 300 applicants, he says.

His principal concern as he begins the job hunt this fall is students who have internships at some of the bigger name banks and consulting firms who, according to Lapinski, are in a better position because of internship connections.

Freshman attributes some of his troubles to the high level of competition for

jobs this year in particular.

“I was stunned to come back after my freshman year to learn that so many kids had held jobs with such prestigious companies,” he adds. Freshman, who spent the summer after his freshman year working at a golf course, felt he was behind.

“I think the concept of diversification translates into students becoming more competitive,” he says. “People are trying hard and doing as much as they can to diversify themselves. With the job market so tight, I think you are going to find a lot of people settling for something less than they would like and other people who will be going to go back to school where they normally wouldn’t.”

Although Freshman says Duke could do a better job of attracting lesser-known companies to campus, he recognizes that the heavy emphasis on the financial sector is due to the culture of competitiveness at the school.

“Having a job in finance has been passed down as a ‘metric for success.’ I think people come to Duke and believe it is what they have to do.”

Fullenkamp, a strong endorser of the “pavement pounding” model, said the students who are truly focused on making a career on Wall Street will find a way to do that. His solution: start at any well-respected place and do a good job.

“I always tell students that if you have your heart set on working for Goldman Sachs, you will someday,” Fullenkamp said.

“You might not necessarily start there.”

-Josh Chapin

Will the Pratt kids finally have fun?

Dean Thomas Katsouleas Prepare to share waves with the new Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, Thomas Katsouleas, at the next annual post-finals Beach Week. Katsouleas, a self-proclaimed “recovering WestCoast surfer” is looking for students who will water-ski or surf with him, and he intends to be a regular at E-socials next year.

“I’m coming at the end of June and my family is joining me at the end of August,” Katsouleas says. “So for a month I’ll be looking for people to pull around on the lake.”

When senior Mary Ellen Koran, president of Engineering Student Government, heard the dean shares her interest in waterskiing and surfing, she saw potential for a school-wide tradition. “Maybe ESG will sponsor a beach trip with the dean next year?” she jokes in an e-mail.

Maybe he’ll invite the Trinity School of Arts and Sciences for some competitive games to cultivate to the friendly rivalry between it and Pratt. “The question is whether we should break down the rivalry or just sort of build on it,” Katsouleas muses.

He said the pride Duke’s engineering community takes in itself is healthy.

“He is definitely a fun guy, but he knows what he is doing,” said electrical engineering junior Ankit Prasad after meeting Katsouleas at the Mr. and Ms. Pratt competition, where Katsouleas was a judge. On a less competitive note, Katsouleas’ plans include mutual efforts across campus and joint curricula with Trinity and the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.

He is also interested in more joint events between Duke’s schools to foster friendly competition and lead the way in collaborative efforts. Why not a Pratt versus Trinity volleyball game at North Myrtle after the semester’s last E-social?

-Casey Dean

What more could go wrong at DUPD? A new chief You don’t need to be a conspiracy theorist to think that something is amok at the Duke University Police Department. Officer attrition has been as high as 50 percent since Aaron Graves, vice president for campus safety and security, arrived two years ago and there remain questions outstanding regarding the department’s conduct during the lacrosse incident a few years back.

Amidst the turmoil, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask is leading a search for a new chief. Robert Dean, director of the department for two separate stints, is retiring again—and this time it’s going to stick. “We’re replacing an institution in Dean, and it’s never easy to replace an institution,” Trask says.

A top priority is finding a candidate with both realworld experience and the right attitude for campus security. But as some officers say Graves proved, finding the right resume does not necessarily equal success. Trask has hired a New York-based search firm to make sure the right person is in place by the start of classes. Let’s just hope there are still officers around in August to welcome the new chief.

—Rob Copeland

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Just how apatheic are we, anyway?

The Election Year For politically active Duke students, all years are not created equal. And in your four on campus, you get only one big one; one year, that is, when students cheer for presidential candidates like they’re basketball players and even the most uninterested of Dukies keeps an eye on election news. This year.

“The presidential election energizes everyone because it’s so big,” says senior Samuel Tasher of the Duke College Republicans.

That energy was palpable last December, when Karl Rove, former deputy White House chief of staff, addressed a packed Page Auditorium, setting off both applause and jeers from the charged audience.

Spring semester saw visits to campus by several more political notables. And then there was the presidential primary.

While John McCain clinched the Republican nomination early on, a heavily divided Democratic contest made North Carolina’s May primary important nationally for the first time in two decades.

The expectation is that students don’t care, students don’t vote and that students don’t matter. But I think this whole election has contradicted that claim, says sophomore Ben Bergmann, president of the Duke Democrats.

Students aren’t the only ones getting involved. Michael Munger, chair of the political science department, is running as North Carolina’s libertarian candidate for governor. “There are counties in North Carolina where parents follow the school bus to school to make sure it won’t break down,” he said Jan. 16.

Like Munger, students have been galvanized by a message of change in this season’s political campaigns. Political groups on campus say they hope to continue that momentum in the fall as they lead the drive in national and local campaigns.

-Ryan Brown

What’s the bottom line with the new A.D.?

Kevin White Let’s just say Kevin White has a mind for finance in college athletics. During his eight-year turn as the athletic director at Notre Dame, White embarked on a $100-million fundraising campaign. And in the same role at Arizona State, he bolstered the athletics department’s revenue to $26 million. “I’m somebody that has a pretty significant interest in business and particularly, the business of sport,” White says.

Though Duke doesn’t necessarily have a fundraising problem, as the newly appointed AD, White will need to harness that passion to improve the University’s official Strategic Plan. Implementing the plan, which includes new scholarships and facilities, will take a mastermind who can handle administrators, faculty, students, and boosters. “I couldn’t be more excited about joining this leadership team, White says. “I’ve used the word euphoric. Euphoric plus plus.”

Currently, the athletics department relies on a subsidy from the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, but the plan is to eliminate the funding in favor of a $300 million endowment for athletics.

“We’re going to look at any and all ways to increase revenue,” White says. “It’s the early innings here.... From 25,000 or 30,000 feet, I have a pretty good sense, but I’m still yet to get to the tarmac, and I’m working at it.”

Moving away from the current funding model will be hardfor an athletics department that relies on basketball for its main source of revenue and only generated $100,000 in income in 2007.

White’s track record, however, shows he’s up to the challenge.

—Sean Moroney. With reporting by Ben Cohen

Is West being won over by a new housing model?

Constructive Criticism

Edens is Eddie Hull’s favorite quadrangle.

He told me so over Diet Cokes in Alpine, on a June day so hot the men doing the Few construction project were probably longing for the air conditioning system they were overhauling.

But I suspect Hull, dean of residence life and housing services, confesses some favoritism for every dorm in his kingdom—for Craven, blessed with proximity; for Crowell’s tocking tower and horseshoe-shaped Keohane’s luck; for the Wanny fire lane, Kilgo’s AC and the Smart Home’s shining LEED medal.

Yes, even the ugly stepsister of the Gothic Wonderland has its redeeming qualities.

Early in RoomPix ’08, I resigned myself to the long adventure through Wonderland that is the West-to-Edens hike, knowing singles in Kilgo or Wannamaker would disappear long before my selection

window opened. So I became more and more curious about the far-off quad, plucking a 162-sq. foot plot as though it were labeled “PICK ME.” My new home should leave me in good company: I’ll be one of just 157 junior women living on West, the rest of us bound for flats abroad or shacking up on Central or jumping

the semester and my increasing conviction that my photographs were curling under these conditions, my apocalyptic paranoia was doubled.

But for all Few’s flaws—that there was a single functioning toilet on my hall, that showers occasionally put me at one with nature, that the laundry room was an eternity away—I loved it anyway, because it was mine. And so a

residents-worth of forgone housing and dining opportunities for the semester.

The University is counting on the abroad bubble to account for lost bedspace, releasing some juniors from oncampus housing contracts and permitting some sophomores to live on Central. University policy states that all undergraduate students are required to live on campus for three years, a policy Hull notes can be recon-

ship to live in Durham, according to data provided by RLHS Coordinator Jen Frank.

But my last year on Campus Proper may mark the end of Housing As We Know It.

little piece of me broke with every bit of demolition.

And a lot of demolition had to be done just to access the utilities, says Wes Foushee, the project executive for LeChase Construction, which is doing the renovation.

“It was only sensible to include architectural upgrades,” he told me, which made the renovation fairly comprehensive and time-consuming, a luxury LeChase doesn’t really have.

Hull, however, is confident LeChase, a New York firm with offices in Durham, will finish the project as scheduled despite the crunched timeline.

“Oh, don’t even think about that happening!” Hull says when pressed on the possibility even want to think about that happening.”

With good reason, too.

But my friends and I thought about it over queso at The Dillo, and it’s a calculated risk: If Few remains closed to residents for Spring 2009, it could cost the University 440

sidered in extraordinary circumstances. It’s not the first time it’s been done, either: Two hundred eighty-seven juniors were released from on-campus housing when they returned from abroad last Spring.

The sophomores living on Central next year are another exception, borne out of an error in the fledgling online RoomPix process.

The morning of March 30, when RoomPix ended, 58 sophomore women were bedless. “It became uncomfortably clear that we’re going to run out of space for women,” Hull remembers. “We went back and [we had] pulled numbers from the wrong thing. And it was a simple human error. The process was working.”

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he University is pour-

ing $20 million and seven months of sweat into fixing Few, working from May to December to overhaul Variable Air Volume control boxes, renovate the restrooms, upgrade the fire alarm system and handicap accommodations and touch-up the infrastructure.

RLHS told Few residents in early Fall that the Quad would be renovated, hinting at moldbreeding moisture in the air system. We shouldn’t worry, RLHS assured us, because there was little health risk. But they would need to get residents out of the non-codified quad as soon as possible. Naturally, with this information, in addition to the roaches that infested the restrooms early in

Hull says the circumstance perhaps presents an opportunity to rethink housing policy, waxing philosophic at the notion that assignments based on year could be limiting.

“We think, ‘I’m a sophomore

because I’m in my second year.

Being a sophomore doesn’t define me, I’m defined by who I am, what I think, what I am interested [in] and does that— should that—limit me to living in this building?’ I don’t know that it should,” Hull says.

Since then, the rising sophomores were relocated, after RLHS discovered spots on West or invited them to move to Central Campus.

it’s informed by lots of opinion, envisioning and dreaming about what could be, and then trying to set it in place today so that it’ll work tomorrow,” Hull explains, and it’s clear he believes in this feeling, rustling up a vision of the new campus with his enthusiastic hand gestures.

The design phase is expected to take another six months, with infrastructure work beginning in 2009 and

The proposals centered on undergraduate life, but aimed to break down constructs that prevented engagement. The report delineates some of the motivations behind the Residential Experience and the flaws the CCI hoped to address, among them a lack of social space for unaffiliated students, the disproportionate minority makeup of Central Campus, the tendency of upperclassmen to “self-segregate,” and the perceived dominance of selective living groups.

Central isn’t exactly a vision, although the prospect of bats twinkling in the rafters, as they are wont to do, made me a rabid fan of the hard-knocked buildings when I lived there last summer. But when the Central renovation project is complete, “there will be no ‘Central Campus,’” according to Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki, who drafted “Uniting Old and New: A Vision for the Integrated Development of Duke’s West and Central Campus.”

buildings opening in early 2011, according to a University statement. “This is going to be, for those of us in contemporary Duke, one of the most exciting projects we’ve ever embarked on. It’s huge—it’s huge!” Hull says. “For students, I hope they’re able to look back and say, ‘Yeah, I was there when it happened.

That was really cool.’”

The following September, Provost Peter Lange released a report of his own. But the Interim Report on the Undergraduate Experience recommends reconsidering some of the CCI’s proposals, including a more controversial recommendation to eliminate selective living groups.

“I think there were a fair number of suggestions that said, ‘Well wait a minute. Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater,’” Hull says. “There’s a lot of good that can come out of group living experiences, so if there are issues with the way the model is working now, let’s consider the model without abandoning it.”

In fact, the administration appears to have done an aboutface on that suggestion, advocating a pluralistic community, recognizing the advantages to adding selective groups.

Duke, in fact, is moving toward a 40-20-40 living model, with 40 percent of space allocable to “social” SLGs, 20

The renovation of Duke’s 200-acre middle campus has been in the works for years.

But what’s risen from the ashes of the plans oft-scorned and the ground that was, at one point, expected to break in Summer 2007, is a massive reimagining that classes a quarter of a century from now will see to completion.

“How we design it in a way that it has a better than likely chance of responding flexibly to change over decades is not a science; it’s an art. And

But there are, I suppose, darker corners of housing where problems with campus culture overall go to nest.

A report released in 2007 by the Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee, found that parts of Duke’s culture were fragmented. A nine-month gestation yielded 36 pages that weighed aspects of the campus community and made recommendations for change, considering policies that were in infancy and those that were borne out of deepseated displeasure.

to learning communities and 40 percent to unaffiliated students. It will start with a pilot selective living group blocking on West: a group of sophomores interested in social justice issues. From there, Hull says RLHS will be able to refine the requirements for future groups to coalesce.

So what else will RLHS build on?

Hull says RLHS has a number of other initiatives planned

for the school year, including taking a look at the Residence Coordinator system, assessing the Faculty-in-Residence program and soliciting input from students. According to reports from 2006, it seems dear-old Edens isn’t on deck for the next renovations. The University had planned to revamp for Crowell Quadrangle, followed

by Craven Quadrangle, then Few, Southgate Dormitory and Gilbert-Addoms Dormitory.

Though I doubt I’ll lose affection for my previous residences (AC-less Alspaugh, Central-by-Erwin, Few and the Smart Home), however they may change after I become a Durham Resident, I have hopes that Edens’s prettier features will grow on me.

And even if it isn’t my favorite quadrangle, I imagine it’ll still cushion me from the sound of hammers and men tearing into my old home, at least till the dust settles.

—Chelsea Allison

Why even bother playing football?

David Cutcliffe Since Steve Spurrier left, Duke football has been awful. The Blue Devils have lost 25 straight ACC contests, dating back to 2004. But by hiring David Cutcliffe, Duke may finally be turning things around. Cutcliffe’s credentials easily make him the best coach to roam Wallace Wade since Spurrier’s departure. The new coach went to work immediately, instituting new conditioning goals for the “fattest, softest team” he had ever seen to boost speed and productivity. But will Duke actually win some games? Cutcliffe just wants one win right now—the opener against James Madison August 30.

“Do we play anyone after James Madison?” Cutcliffe asks rhetorically. “When you have seniors who have won two games in their career, you don’t overload them with expectations.”

Duke does have a highly favorable opening stretch. The Blue Devils get a chance to repeat their win over Northwestern while also getting another crack at Navy, who beat them on a last-second field goal.

The games against these opponents reresent shrewd non-conference scheduling by the University against foes with similar programs.

ACC play follows, and despite its conference futility, Duke may never have a better time to succeed. The major programs are rebuilding, and the favorite, Clemson, has never handled success well (Duke’s last ACC win? The Tigers). Top that off with seven home games, and the Blue Devils’ odds of winning multiple games haven’t looked this good in years.

Says Cutcliffe: “When the dust settles, we’re going to be a team competing for postseason play.” Check back on this one in December.

—Stephen Allan

Are the graduate students eclipsing the undergrads?

New Facilities, More Students Warning: the line for brunch at Foster’s Market is about to get even longer. The Fuqua School of Business’s class size has grown 20.9% in the past five years, from 340 to 430, and its $23 million Fox Student Center makes the Bryan Center look archaic.

The School of Law’s class size has remained consistent, but in order to compete as a ranked school just outside the top ten it has pumped millions of dollars into renovation projects: between 2000 and 2005, more than $30 million was spent renovating law facilities and a new library is currently under construction thanks to a $6.5 million gift from the Duke Endowment.

What does this all mean for the undergraduate population?

There are the positives, such as new places to eat. The Star Commons, part of the Law renovations, will have a café and 4,200 square feet of space, within a glass enclosure (think: von der Heyden with a slightly older crowd). There are also Fuqua events that undergrads can attend undercover. Kegs and a projector are brought into the shiny new Fox Center to view basketball games during March Madness. So, for those undergrads not tenting who want a bit more excitement than a common room view, a grad school event could be perfect. But, this undergrad’s concern is that the younger students are missing out on some of the bigger perks. Will they have access to better parking options like their graduate counterparts? Will the BC get a shiny makeover and become a glass pavilion? Paging Aubrey McClendon.

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Can this neurosurgeon’s career reach even greater heights?

Dr. Allan Friedman Dr. Allan Friedman is a meticulous neurosurgeon who abides by only the strictest rituals. He runs the trail at the Washington Duke Inn three times a week and on Fridays, he loops twice. He does not mind the scorching humidity of early June, because that’s when the smell of honeysuckle is most intoxicating. He watches women’s basketball games from the front row under the Duke basket and mentors female athletes interested in medicine through a program he co-directs with another top neurosurgeon, Dr. Henry Friedman (no relation). He leads a biweekly, Socratic discussion for first-year medical students called “brain school.” He enjoys poetry and has a copy of Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” on the corkboard behind his desk; he can even recite by memory the first, oft-quoted line.

Friedman operates three or four times a week, and he repeats the same process every time. He reviews the X-rays for his next day’s cases the night before and simulates the operations in his head. He considers the potential pitfalls and pauses at the trickiest parts. The routine June 2 was no different. He met with the patient for about an hour Sunday to explain the course of action, informing him and his family that there was a chance he could end up a “whole lot worse than when he came in,” as Friedman says. Then he studied the looming procedure Sunday night, slept for seven hours, woke up Monday morning, drove to work at Duke University Hospital and removed a malignant tumor from the brain of Sen. Edward Kennedy.

By 3 p.m., Kennedy had told his wife, Vicki, that he felt like a million bucks.

Sometime during the three and a half hour operation, Friedman had not only saved Kennedy’s life, but realized just who was on his table. “What crossed my mind was, I’m operating on this guy, and I’m not doing different at all. I’m just doing regular. I said, ‘Yep, that’s true.’ And I continued the operation,” he says in his first interview since he picked the mind of the most famous and influential Democratic senator this side of 2,117 pledged delegates.

Weeks later, he has a stack of printed e-mails from the Massachusetts First Family under his desk—the Kennedy pile, he calls it. Friedman, after all, isn’t the type of doctor to take off his surgical mask and never again speak with the man whose brain he just saw. He still operates frequently because he enjoys the rapport with patients—that, and he benefits from so many referrals. It’s obvious that he treats Kennedy the same way he treated Reynolds Price after he removed a malignant tumor from his spine in 1984.

The senator’s decision to travel to North Carolina—rather than stay at Mass General or see a hotshot from Harvard—was a vote of confidence for Duke, and the fact that the venerable politician is already sailing on Cape Cod mornings will do wonders for the hospital’s prestige. But it was just another day for Friedman, who released a brief statement and denied interview requests from every major newspaper and morning show, partly because of the medical code of patient confidentiality, partly because of his own sturdy set of ethics. Maybe it was a career highlight and maybe it wasn’t, but Friedman did not not think of Kennedy like the VIP that he was. “I think if you treat it otherwise, it’s a real mistake. I think you would do a less good job,” Friedman says. “The idea is to go in there and not say, ‘Oh my God, I’m operating on Senator Kennedy,’ but to say, ‘This is the patient, and I just need to make it a perfect operation.’”

Which, of course, he did. So what comes next? The expansion of the Preston Robert Tisch Center for Brain Tumors to include surgeons in the hospital’s branch in Raleigh, for one. Then there’s more basketball and football games, and staying on the cutting edge of research. Ho-hum. “You’re kind of late for me,” he says in response to his selection in these pages. “You should have watched me 20 years ago!” Had we but world enough, and time.

-Ben Cohen

TTW: One Year Later Here’s a quick update on the ten trendsetters featured in last year’s 4th annual Ten To Watch issue.

SHOEBOXED- Online startup Shoeboxed.com has moved from its dorm-room startup to an office in Brightleaf square and developed mail-in receipt scanning services. For the busy, lazy or cluttered: keep watching.

STEVE NOWICKI- In just a year Duke’s first dean of undergraduate education has created big shoes for any successor to fill. Nowicki took an active role in Central Campus planning and sponsored food and drink mixology courses, to name just two achievements. With the dinner parties he hosts for students, those drink-mixing skills are put to good use.

JOANNE P. MCCALLIE- McCallie led the women’s basketball team through a rocky start to an unsteady season with disappointing losses to non-rivals followed by a peak of eight consecutive wins. Hopefully, her talent will yield more promising results next season.

DURHAM BLUES- The Bull City blues still have it— the percussiveness and the finger-picked style of the often-overlooked Piedmont blues that filtered through much of the musical south is here to stay.

JOHN THOMAS- This physics professor’s JETLab team has made breakthroughs in light and matter interaction. Worthy of a Nobel nomination in the field?

We’ll have to wait and see.

DUKEENGAGE- 300 students are scattered around the world this summer in places such as Guatemala, India, Peru and elsewhere thanks to this $30 million initiative.

KATELYN DONNELLY- When Donnelly took the reigns as the Union’s president last year, she inherited a jungle that desperately needed pruning. Though she was nabbed of Young Trustee last year, Donnelly certainly was, and will continue to be, one to watch.

RICHARD BRODHEAD- Lacrosse lawsuits linger.

The jury’s still out.

PETER VAAS- Duke football had a 2-9 record under their new offensive coordinator. Not exactly change we can believe in.

TOMMYE FITZPATRICK- This fashion writer wasn’t exactly a Top Ten star in the past 12 months.

Better luck next year, perhaps.

-Emmeline Zhao

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Telling the Difference Mary Carmichael is drowning in a sea of unedited online content

Back in 1999, having somehow not heard that print magazines were in trouble, I started the one you’re now reading.

Shortly afterwards, I read a column in Newsweek about Michael Kelly, one of the nation’s brightest journalists, who had just become the editor of the Atlantic Monthly. Kelly was going against the biggest trend in media. The Internet, he said, was producing “a great wash of talk, blather, chatter,” quite a lot of it inaccurate and ill-considered. He wanted to create an antidote: a type of magazine the column called a “thought leader,” one that featured lengthy, contemplative, carefully edited pieces. That was what I was trying to do with Towerview, and it was what I hoped to do with my career. I took the column as gospel; I clipped it out and taped it behind my Chronicle office desk.

Michael Kelly died on the job five years ago, and if you believe almost everyone who comments on the media, print journalism will soon be joining him. I work at Newsweek now, and although I know plenty of people who read the mag in dead-tree form —hi, Mom—most of my friends and, I suspect, most young people who read it do so online.

There are a lot of journalists who bemoan this fact. Yes, they know online content can be enriched, and enriching, in all kinds of ways that print can’t. Yes, they understand that the screen is often just another way to distribute the same content they’ve always produced. (As a commenter on angryjournalist.com recently put it: “Beer used to be delivered in wagons.

Now it comes in trucks. But you know what?

It’s still beer.”) Nonetheless, they see the Internet as inferior. They worry that their sites will never make enough money; that the web’s demand for content is impossible to satisfy; that, as a friend of mine likes to say, converting words from print to online is “like taking an actor off his beautiful stage and making him do street theater.”

Mostly, they complain that the Internet dumbs people down.

In June, the Atlantic suggested in a cover story that on-screen reading was rendering us all incapable of absorbing long-form, complex content. The headline: “Is Google Making Us Stoopid?”

Well? Is it? None of these complaints are new. The Newsweek column I was so attached to in 1999 contained all the gripes I’ve just listed.

The fact that we’re still having the same arguments nine years later is comforting, in a way—it means we haven’t gotten so “stoopid” that we’ve stopped considering these issues. It also means there are still a lot of print folks around to defend their side. But I have to admit that lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about stupidity and the web, because increasingly, I’m encountering too much of the former on the latter.

Before I go any further, let me emphasize that I’m very pro-web; 28

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information wants to be free, and all that. There’s wonderful writing and thought to be found on the Internet. (I just quoted a commenter, if you didn’t notice.)

But there’s also a lot of crap. The onus of telling the difference now falls solely on the reader. Call me a Luddite, but I like picking up a magazine knowing that editors and fact-checkers have winnowed it to high-quality, credible stuff. On the web, that doesn’t always happen. A journalist or expert can spend months or years trying to understand and accurately portray a subject in an article, then have all that work wiped out by anonymous commenters spreading disinformation with no concern for civility, credibility, or punctuation. The reader is left to decide whom to trust. Too often, his only guideline is caveat lector: a good rule of thumb, but not a sufficient one.

I realize that this point, too, is not all that new: I’m sure 15th-century monks were horrified by the printing press, and we can all be thankful that they didn’t manage to stop many people from buying newly available books. So I’d like to take the point a little further. Let’s think for a minute about why there’s so much crap on the Internet. Google didn’t produce that stuff. People did. Google didn’t make them “stoopid.” A shamefully broken educational system - and a society that devalues critical thought - did. If there is a mixture of intelligent and idiotic content on the web, that’s not the web’s fault; it’s a reflection of society at large.

Duke students, of course, don’t all live in society at large. They have the advantage of a high-level education; they have more opportunities and tools than a lot of people do. This is what critics mean when they say Dukies are “privileged.” Let’s face it; we are. So I’d like to issue a challenge to students reading this column: Use your privilege wisely.

To the electrical engineering majors and tech whizzes: figure out some way to help people sift through the Internet, to tell the bad from the good. And to the rest of you: make more of the good stuff.

Start your own thoughtful blogs; leave comments that are long and backed up by citations; drown out the bad stuff. That Newsweek column I read so many years ago concluded that “thought leader” magazines probably wouldn’t survive the rise of the web. Maybe they will, maybe they won’t. But in an age when everyone has a voice, those of us with good educations must do the work that used to be the responsibility of those magazines. Being a journalist may be my job, but being a thought leader is a job that has to fall to all of us now.

Mary Carmichael, now a senior writer at Newsweek, graduated from Duke in 2001. She was the first editor of Towerview.

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