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New bus schedule draws student ire

by Austin Powers THE CHRONICLE

Duke’s busiest bus route has gained parttime express service but lost the satisfaction of some students and staff.

Duke Parking and Transportation Services has added two bus routes to its schedule.

The office now operates three C-1 Express buses that provide nonstop service between East and West Campuses. And in addition to the remaining non-express C-1 route, there is now a C-1-5 route which detours to Smith Warehouse, while still making stops along Campus Drive.

The changes are posing some major inconveniences for students and staff, especially those who often see the new express shoot right by them on Campus Drive.

“I feel bad driving by a lot of people on Campus Drive,” senior Katie Sourbeer said.

Jenny Kim, a first-year master of environmental management at the Nicholas School of the Environment, said she believes the buses may as well make the extra stop.

“If they’re going to stop at a stoplight, and there’s a person at the door, why not?” Kim said.

Since the introduction of the C-1 Express service, students and staff waiting at bus stops along Campus Drive have complained about less frequent service. A frequent commuter

New laundry system aids Central

by Tiffany Lieu THE CHRONICLE

Students on Central will no longer have to worry about trekking to laundry machines only to find that none are available.

A new laundry-monitoring service— called “Laundry Alert”—was installed over the summer on Central Campus.

Laundry Alert allows students to log onto a website and check for available washing machines and dryers on Central. For each laundry room, the site, http://laundryalert.com, the number of washers and dryers available and the number of machines in use. The system also notifies students via email when their laundry is ready.

Campus Council—the University’s former residential government that was absorbed by Duke Student Government last Spring—introduced the idea to bring Laundry Alert to Central in the Spring of last year. Campus Council collaborated with Housing, Dining and Residence Life and Duke Stores to plan and fund the project.

Associate Dean for HDRL Joe Gonzalez said Campus Council contributed $15,000 to bring Laundry Alert to the University. Gonzalez added that the

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REMEMBERING SEPTEMBER 11

Panel urges AGS program educates students on post-9/11 security religious unity

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When junior Talia Glodjo watched government policies unfold after the events of Sept. 11, 2001, she said it was easy to criticize the Bush Administration for some of its decisions.

But after joining Duke’s American Grand Strategy Program, Glodjo said she now has a completely different perspective—and she is not alone.

“9/11 created a generation of young people who recognize that national security and global affairs really matter and can affect them personally,” said Peter Feaver, co-director of the Duke AGS program and Alexander F. Hehmeyer professor of political science. “There is a steady supply of students who want to discuss these issues and who are interested in really understanding them.”

An interdisciplinary program focusing on U.S. foreign policy, AGS started in Spring 2008 under the leadership of Feaver, who was also a special adviser on the National Security Council Staff at the White House from 2005 to 2007.

Featuring a core seminar course offered to undergraduate and graduate students, introductory and seminar courses taught by AGS-affiliated faculty, speaker events and other specialized programming, AGS filled a void on Duke’s campus for students interested in homeland security issues, Feaver noted.

Feaver said when he left his government position to come to Duke, he saw an opportunity to build a security studies program with strong collaboration between the

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Faith groups at Duke are joining hands to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11.

The Duke Divinity School and the Faith Council hosted a panel discussion Wednesday to discuss the topic of faith communities and their responses to the terrorist attacks in 2001. Dean of the Duke Divinity School Richard Hays introduced the speakers—Muslim Chaplain Abdullah Antepli, Buddhist Chaplain Sumi Kim, Assistant Director of Jewish Studies Laura Lieber and Dean of the Duke Chapel Sam Wells. The speakers vocalized hopes for future interfaith unity.

“This is an opportunity for us to come together and reflect on the differing—and hopefully sometimes convergent—ways religion addresses a matter

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Stewart Nozette was a gifted scientist privy to America’s top secrets.

On Wednesday, he admitted trying to sell those secrets to a foreign government. With his guilty plea to attempted espionage, the astrophysicist was rebranded a would-be traitor.

Nozette, 54, of Chevy Chase, Md., stood in an orange prison jumpsuit in federal court as he conceded that he had accepted $11,000 in cash in 2009 in exchange for passing classified materials about U.S. satellite defense systems to what he believed was an Israeli intelligence officer.

Nozette answered “Yes” when U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman asked whether he understood that he faced 13 years in federal prison.

The purported Israeli was actually an FBI employee in an undercover espionage investigation launched after Nozette drew attention for fraud.

Nation lacking in capacity Egypt’s top military rulers for bioterrorism response testify at Mubarak trial A decade after envelopes containing anthrax terrorized the nation, significant gaps remain in the nation’s capacity to respond to a bioterrorism attack, according to an analysis by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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CAIRO — Egypt’s top military rulers were summoned to testify at the trial of their former commander, Hosni Mubarak, on Wednesday after police witnesses dealt prosecutors another blow by refusing to implicate Egypt’s longtime leader in the deaths of protesters.

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Online ‘Office Hours’ on the Lives of Veterans Since 9/11 with Bruce Kuhniholm 12-1p.m., Webcast

9-11 Tenth Anniversary Symposium: Did 9-11 Change Anything? Everything 9a.m.-5p.m., Von Canon ABC

“Rebirth” Screening 1-3p.m., Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium

Panel Discussion and Reception: The Photography of Jonathan Hyman 4-6 p.m., Perkins Library Rare Book Room

Artistic and Visual Responses to 9/11 and Other Disasters 10a.m.-12p.m., Perkins Library Rare Book Room

“Rebirth” Screening 7p.m., First Presbyterian Church

“9-11: After Ten Years and After Bin Laden” with Juan C. Zarate 4:45-8p.m., Sanford School of Public Policy, Fleishman Commons

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CORRECTION The Sept. 7 article “S. African justice promotes diverstiy” said that Cameron came out as a gay man in 1996. Cameron came out in the early 1980s during the apartheid. The Chronicle regrets the error.

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“Rebirth” Screening 1-3p.m., Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium The Impact of 9-11 on the U.S. National Security Establishment 2-4p.m., North Carolina State University (Raleigh) Talley Student Center, 4114 Brown Room 9-11 Ten Years Later: The Impact on Muslims at Home and Abroad 5:00-8:30pm, UNC-Chapel Hill Nelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Education Center

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‘Football Gameday’ policy under review

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Engaging independents with Football Gameday remains a top priority for Duke Student Government.

In last night’s DSG meeting, junior Chris Brown, external chief of staff, said he has been working with DSG President Pete Schork, a senior, and senior Christina Lieu, DSG vice president for athletics, services and the environment, to persuade University administration to change the Football Gameday policy regarding independent students. Under current policy, only registered student groups are allowed to hold barbecues on West Campus prior to each home football game.

“In the past, there were loopholes that were used by fraternities off campus to throw parties on West [Campus],” Brown said.

“That’s why the administration has been very cautious about changing this policy.”

Brown and his team are trying to elicit interest from independent students in order to bargain with University administrators to push for a policy that would allow any group of students to register in Football Gameday, Brown said.

“Without the ability to reserve space on the quad, it would be impossible to think that independent students are satisfied with the current Football Gameday model,” Brown said.

The Interfraternity Council “was not satisfied” with Football Gameday, Brown said, adding that he highlighted IFC’s reaction because the majority of registered student groups at the first Football Gameday last Saturday were part of the organization. He added that only one group—

selective living group Wayne Manor—that participated in last week’s Football Gameday opted not to participate this weekend.

Two groups affiliated with IFC will not be participating this weekend because of policy violations, he noted.

In other business: Vice President for Academic Affairs Kaveh Danesh, a senior, addressed the Senate about the plan to renovate the West Union building. He said he met with administrators last week but there have not yet been specific details released about the renovations. Danesh said he is hopeful that there will be more meeting spaces for student groups.

“There will be [The] Link-like spaces,

and even storage spaces, which we severely lack,” Danesh said.

Junior Alex Swain, vice president for Durham and regional affairs, also proposed new programs to better integrate Duke students with the Durham community.

In one program, DSG will fund three off-campus receptions for students and Durham residents to get to know each other better. The Office of Student Affairs, in an effort led by Christine Pesetski, assistant dean for off-campus and mediation services, will fund three similar events, Swain said, adding that there will be safeguard measures in place to prevent mishandling of this fund—which amounts to $250 for each reception.

Anna Koelsch contributed reporting.

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AGS from page 1 Sanford School of Public Policy and the political science department. Describing grand strategy as a international relations theory, Feaver said it is the collection of plans, policies and national resources the United States uses to achieve its national goals.

Glodjo, who is from Canada, said Feaver’s inside perspective to post-9/11 policy allowed her to see the event from a different angle and bridge the gap from what she perceived and what was true.

“His anecdotes [about The White House] made me really see that counterterrorism is never an easy thing,” she said. “I saw the events of 9/11 happen not as something in isolation but as a string of messages that the Middle East was trying to send to the United States over a number of years.”

Sophomore Daniel Strunk, a member of the AGS Undergraduate Advisory Council, wrote in an email Tuesday that he now sees AGS as a field of foreign policy heavily related to the aftermath of 9/11, adding that he now understands the aftermath of the attack from a foreign policy standpoint.

“The events of 9/11 underscored many of the factors that one assesses in determining a grand strategy,” Strunk said. “These include national security, the changing face of warfare and international diplomacy and the emergence of non-state actors as potential threats to U.S. ideals.”

Involvement in the AGS program does not end with Glodjo and Strunk. The AGS listserv currently boasts more than 550 members. Feaver wrote in an email Wednesday that after four years of teaching the core seminar in the program, a combined 60 graduate and undergraduate students have taken the course and a majority remain heavily involved in the program. In addition, approximately 120 students have taken the 10 AGS-affiliated courses such as “Counterterrorism, Law and Policy” and “9/11: Causes, Response and Strategy” taught by David Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security and visiting professor of public policy.

Schanzer said that to date, 9/11 is the most consequential event in the lifetime of most current undergraduates.

With that in mind, it makes sense that there is an active student body interested in the issues.

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“Students who are freshmen today were born after the Berlin Wall fell,” Schanzer said. “[9/11] really has been front and center and reinforced by personal experiences with this generation. Whether they are interested in what is happening in the Middle East, or 9/11 or military issues, AGS covers all of it.”

Chelsea Goldstein, Trinity ’10, wrote in an email Monday that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks enlightened her to the domestic ramifications of international relations.

“AGS taught me how complex it is to try to aggregate all foreign policy decisions,” Goldstein said. “Feaver really convinced me that in the current world, the U.S. needs a global presence.”

Feaver’s contribution to homeland security knowledge extends beyond informing the Duke population. Co-authoring a chapter of the book “Assessing Strategic Choice in the War on Terror,” Feaver said many of the decisions made after 9/11 that are perceived to be wrong had alternative decisions that would not have achieved substantially better results for the country.

“Let’s take the decision to elevate terrorism as a firstrank concern,” he said. “Some people say that we should not have elevated it to the level of war, but [instead] as a basic problem as it had been treated in the nineties. But when you look at it, we show that by not elevating the status of the issue, it would have made al Qaeda stronger and doing so weakened them. It was a close call.”

Looking toward the future of homeland security policy and counterterrorism efforts, Feaver said the future of AGS is in a period of grand debate and large flux.

“We are possibly coming to the end of a 20-year cycle of one grand strategy since the end of the Cold War,” he said.

“9/11 is a new line of action in terms of terrorism, but we may be coming to the end of it because of the financial crisis.

We see both Democrats and Republicans having that line of thinking. The 2012 elections could have a grand impact.”

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money came from five years’ worth of savings given to Campus Council from HDRL in order to make improvements to residence halls.

“This is just another way that [HDRL] is trying to improve the student experience here at Duke,” Gonzalez said.

Students living on Central have reacted positively to the new service.

“Everyone who has used Laundry Alert has loved it,” said Andrew Barnhill, a graduate resident for Central.

Central resident Chad Liu, a junior, said although he has not used Laundry Alert yet, he is excited to try it and has been encouraging his friends to take advantage of the services.

One challenge associated with bringing Laundry Alert to Central is informing residents about the new program, Barnhill said. He added that emails have been sent to residents about the new program but he does not think the site has been widely used.

Laundry Alert is currently a pilot program exclusive to Central Campus, though it may be expanded to other campuses, Gonazalez said. He added that Central was selected as a trial campus because laundry machines are less accessible there than machines on West and East Campuses.

A committee will convene later this year to discuss the possibility of expanding the Laundry Alert program at Duke, Gonzalez said.

“Laundry Alert will remain on Central Campus regardless of whether we decide expand the program,” he said.

of great public importance and common concern to us all,” Hays said.

He added that although many people say religion fosters violence, he believes that religion is merely the instrument that humans use to inflict violence upon one another.

“Jewish communities often take measures in Israel against this kind of violence, and we did the same here,” Lieber said.

“We had to increase security against places visibly and identifiably Jewish.”

Lieber noted that Judaism has something to contribute—the concept of memorializing an event without remaining in grief from it.

Kim mentioned that the grief resulting from 9/11 could justifiably result in anger—a natural response—but said Buddhism warns against allowing the anger to fester into hatred.

She encouraged tolerance and acceptance and ended her contribution with a Buddhist recitation titled “May I Know Peace.” The message, she said, was that there are a variety of parties involved and affected by the attacks, but they must come together to find peace.

“If Jews and Christians can learn about healing and respect from one another, then I hope the circle can be ever widened,” Lieber said.

Wells warned against allowing already existing narratives and prejudices to shape the way we reflect on the event.

“The fact that we’re having this kind of conversation 10 years later indicates that the event was simply too complex to fit in one agreed narrative,” he said.

Wells added that he theologically did not agree with the aggressive manner in which the United States responded to the

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attacks. He called Sept. 12 the saddest day in modern history.

“It was an opportunity for America to show what it was really made of, and it came out with all guns blazing,” Wells said.

Antepli said it is human nature to respond to differences violently. He noted that in Saudi Arabia, Christians who are drawn in for their skills and resources cannot practice their religion within their own homes.

He also spoke about the challenges facing the Muslim population in a post9/11 America and the negative feelings they felt coming from a place they considered home.

“Muslim doctors, policemen and firemen were arrested and sometimes deported when they tried to rescue people,” Antepli said. “They thought we were trying to finish the job of a few crazy members of our society.”

Wells added that Americans and Christians both have to reinvent their relationship with Islam.

“The idea that a war can be conducted against a specific group of people to eradicate all evil from the earth is theologically very flawed,” he said. “It is, however, a very practiced strategy in the last 10 years.”

Antepli said Muslims spent the years following 9/11 apologizing for a crime they did not commit. He noted that members of the Islamic population had to adjust to 9/11 as propaganda, creating “the monster of Islam.” Not all Americans believe it, he said, but significant amounts do.

“Some people were changing their names as a self-defense system and others rejected the faith entirely,” Antepli said.

“We are all grieving over lost dreams of integration that we thought we had already achieved.”

The speakers concurred that the forecast for the future remains hopeful and that interfaith unity will take time.

“Ten years is not a very long time in the life of nations, but I sit here before you in a sense of defeat,” Antepli said. “I think in another 10 years there will be a better story to tell.”

The audience—made up of students and faculty—was given the chance to approach the speakers with questions following the panel discussion. Many expressed the belief that the event was an important contribution to remembrance of Sept. 11.

“Personally, this panel helped me understand the complexities of what happened that day and the variety of people that were affected following the tragic events,” sophomore Hannah Ward said.

“As an American Protestant Christian, my view was hardly global.”

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SCHEDULE from page 1 between West and her Smith Warehouse office, Paula Mangiafico, senior processing archivist for the Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library, said she is frustrated with the new schedule.

“I’ve had to wait twenty minutes to get a regular bus,” Mangiafico said. “It’s eating up forty minutes every time just to go back and forth to West.”

Magniafico added that the changes to the busing system have been poorly communicated.

“When the semester began, there was a whole new bus schedule,” she said. “Nobody was informed and so nobody knew what was going on. It was a big mess.”

Sam Veraldi, director of Parking and Transportation Services, said he understands that the new schedule poses some challenges, but noted that he believes the bus system will improve later this Fall when new buses join the fleet.

Veraldi added that he took into account information from the Office of the Registrar about expected student

traffic between East and West Campus during class changes when designing the new schedule.

“The majority of our passengers are going directly between East and West,” Veraldi said. “We’re trying to move the largest group possible in the most expeditious manner.”

And though the introduction of express buses may have created the impression that service to Campus Drive bus stops has been reduced, Veraldi said those stops are served just as often as last year.

During class time, from approximately 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., the new C-1 express buses run every five minutes. The regular C-1 bus and the C-1-5 bus run every 20 minutes but head in opposite directions. According to last year’s bus schedule, however, non-express C-1 buses ran every three to six minutes.

Veraldi said he believes much of the dissatisfaction is due to difficulties in communication, though he noted that his office advertised the changes by reaching out to students during orientation week and through DukeToday.

“We might have to try sitting out there with coffee and

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doughnuts and explain it to people,” he said.

And though this year’s bus schedule is posted on the Parking and Transportation Services website, there is no mention of the C-1 Express as of Wednesday,.

“I think we need to fix that,” he said.

Furthering many students’ confusion, some have reported seeing C-1 Express bus drivers allowing students on or off along Campus Drive, despite official policy.

Veraldi noted that his office plans to evaluate this problem.

“Right now, our drivers are told to run the express route,” he said. “Some transit systems believe [opening the doors at stoplights] is okay. We’re trying to really look at that right now.”

Several bus drivers declined to comment.

Relief may come in early October, when Duke expects to receive two large, hybrid, accordion-style buses—manufactured by Nova Bus, a subsidiary of Volvo.

According to the Nova Bus website, the 62-foot hybrid buses have a rated capacity of 112 people. This is a marked increase from the standard capacity of Duke’s current bus fleet, Veraldi said. The two buses, purchased for a combined $1.7 million using University funds, will serve the C-1 Express route, he added.

“It will be a very good thing for us,” Veraldi said. “They should alleviate a lot of congestion.”

The introduction of express service and the purchase of the new hybrids are part of an effort to improve Duke’s transportation offerings, Veraldi noted.

Real-time GPS bus-tracking is currently in the works.

“We continue to focus on getting better all the time,” Veraldi said. “We are taking a serious look at integrating technology in our infrastructure. We’re more than exploring.”

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Even before the first week of the season, Duke was going to be a double-digit underdog against Stanford. After the Blue Devils fell flat in their opener against an FCS opponent and the Cardinal cruised to an easy 57-3 victory in its first game, most analysts are predicting a blowout.

No. 6 Stanford (1-0), which capped off an 11-1 regular season with a dominant 4012 win over ACC champion Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl last year, lost head coach Jim Harbaugh to the NFL in the offseason.

The Cardinal, however, returned quarterback Andrew Luck, who was runner-up for the Heisman trophy last year and is the favorite to win it this time around. “[Luck] is some kind of physical specimen,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “He’s a big, strong athlete. He’s got great feet, great quick hands, and he has an uncanny sense of poise and ability to buy a little time.”

Though Luck has pro scouts salivating over his potential, Stanford is far from a one-man team. Luck’s ability and reputation often leads teams to focus heavily on the pass, exposing them to the Cardinal’s bruising rushing attack. Last year Stanford running back Stepfan Taylor racked up more than 1,100 yards and 15 touchdowns, more than all of Duke’s running backs combined.

Taylor started his season last week with two touchdowns against San Jose State.

“They’re just physical,” Cutcliffe said of Stanford’s offense. “They’re going to line up in two and three tight end sets and just do a lot of shifts and motion to try and create support problems for you… [Taylor] runs downhill… I like watching him run when I’m not getting ready to have to play him.”

To stop Luck and the rest of the Stanford offense, which scored 40.3 points per game last season, Duke will have to generate more backfield pressure than it did against Richmond, when the defense failed to come up with a sack. On the whole, the defense played fairly well against the Spiders, allowing only 13 points on possessions starting outside the Blue Devil 30-yard line. Still, miscommunications on several crucial third down attempts kept the Duke offense on the sideline.

But for the most part, the burden of maintaining possession rests with the offense, which lost two fumbles and generated only 5.9 yards per attempt through the air. While the ground game showed signs of improvement, it will be crucial for the offense to click in all phases of the game if the Blue Devils are to keep their opponents’ offense, and the pressure the Cardinal can bring, off the field.

Against an opponent like Stanford, offense might be the best defense.

“I love to keep the football even if we’re not playing a potent offense,” Cutcliffe said. “I learned this when I was a kid in the backyard.

As long as we have the ball you can’t score if we take care of it…. Possession is a key thing.”

But keeping the ball out of Luck’s hands is easier said than done. The Cardinal’s defense,

Senior cornerback Johnny Williams will be busy on Saturday against Stanford’s prolific passing game.

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Senior Sophia Dunworth leads the Blue Devils with 67 kills in the team’s six regular season games.

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The Blue Devils did not lose three games in a row all of last season, but after dropping two matches last weekend—with a top-20 opponent coming to Durham—they have their work cut out for them to keep the streak alive.

No. 21 Duke (4-2) will take on No. 19 San Diego (6-0) at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Thursday night at 7 p.m.

The Toreros have been on fire so far this season. Not only have they not lost a match, but, more impressively, they have won five out of their six games this season in straight sets. A large part of San Diego’s success can be credited to their offensive dominance. Led by sophomore middle hitter Chloe Ferrari with 68 kills, the team has three players who have at least 60 kills on the season, the other two being the outside hitter duo of juniors Amber Tatsch and Carrie Baird with 66 and 62 kills, respectively.

The Blue Devils, in comparison, have only two players with over 60 kills. Senior Sophia Dunworth leads the team with 67, though freshman Jeme Obeime is just one behind.

“Obeime is doing a tremendous job for us coming out as freshman,” Nagel said. “It’s always exciting to see the new players get out on the court. But more so than her individual play, I think the freshmen as a whole are making us better because we are getting some really good competition in practice.”

The matchup between San Diego’s powerful offense and Duke’s strong de-

fense will determine Thursday night’s winner. Sophomore Ali McCurdy, who was named first team All-ACC as a libero last year and All-Tournament at the Stanford Invitational, continues to have a commanding presence defensively on the court. She leads the ACC with 133 digs, including 31 in the team’s last match against Stanford.

“She continues to get better and it’s amazing to watch,” Nagel said.

After starting the season 4-0, Duke has come up short in its previous two contests, both of which were held last weekend at the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif.

The Blue Devils will do their best on Thursday to turn their play around and avoid a three-game losing streak.

The team is helped significantly by its return to the friendly confines of Cameron Indoor Stadium, where the Blue Devils are undefeated this season and 132-22 since 2000.

“We always appreciate when the fans come out to our matches because it helps us a ton,” Nagel said. “Having fans there is a crucial part of getting us through matches and we will need this continued support in order to be successful.”

But the victory will not come easy for the Blue Devils.

“The defense as a whole is going to be important tomorrow because San Diego is a big team,” Nagel said. “They have played some good competition this year but if we play at the level I know we are capable of, we should be able to get our job done on the court.”

Heisman Trophy favorite Andrew Luck and the Cardinal offense put up 57 points in their opener against San Jose State last weekend but produced almost 100 fewer yards than their average last season. No. 6 Stanford lost its three best receivers to graduation, though Stepfan Taylor, who rushed for 1,137 yards in 2010, returns.

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The Cardinal’s defensive success stems from its ability to generate turnovers. The team finished seventh nationally in turnover margin last year. While Stanford’s defense may not be as athletic

as some of the nation’s other elite defenses, Cutcliffe sees the defense as well coached and aggressive.

“Stanford’s got great technique,” Duke center Dave Harding said. “They’re just really high energy guys who expect to win.

They’ll do whatever it takes—fight, scratch— they’re a really strong-willed team.”

The Cardinal hasn’t lost to an underdog since a November 2009 game against California, so Duke has plenty of work to do to create an upset. But a win, even a close game, would be an incredible step forward for the program.

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Neurostimulants are symptom, not disease The Office of Student A ban makes sense in the Conduct has upped the ante hyper-competitive arena of for students who use cogni- an elite college. Stephen tive-enhancing prescription Bryan, associate dean of studrugs. Last Friday, the Office dents and director of the Ofof Student Conduct notified fice of Student Conduct, is the student right to chalk editorial body of the up the policy changes to the to a symbolic Duke Community Standard, gesture; drug use is tough which now condemns the to trace and even tougher to use of prescription cognitive- curb. But the mere existence enhancing drugs, like Ritalin of this new designation stigand Adderall, as a violation matizes this behavior as an of the University’s academic academic crime. Students policy. In the past, the use who use these drugs now of these cognitive enhance- must concern themselves not ments earned a slap on the only with legal repercussions, wrist—transgressions fell but also with the stigma and into same effete University potential consequences of drug policy that wags a finger cheating. The new policy creat consumption of alcohol by ates yet another disincentive minors. Now violations fall for this type of drug use. into more sacred ground: a The policy recognizes that student’s academic standing. cognitive-enhancing drugs

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impact not only their users but the student communities that surround them. In a university setting, students compete for resources, opportunities and even grades.

A student who has access to cognitive-enhancing drugs gains an advantage akin to the advantage of football player on steroids. The existence of this new policy signifies both students’ and administrators’ joint resolution to create a fair playing field for all.

But the very availability of these playing field metaphors is cause for reflection on the University’s academic life.

That necessity of this policy cedes the idea of academic pursuit as a contest. Cognitive enhancements sought to promise only growth for

a student population bent on academics as an end in itself. But the new policy does not exist because these drugs stymie education; it exists because these drugs create inequities in a competitive learning environment.

The notion of undergraduate academics as a contest pervades our campus. Classes with curved grading systems judge students only insofar as they exceed or are exceeded by their peers—one student’s success depends on another’s failure. Instead of fostering the idea of learning as an end in itself, this grading structure pits students against one another in pursuit of a high mark.

The pre-professional attitude of many students similarly generates competition

in academic settings. Students see their peers as direct competition for job offers or spots in graduate and professional school. With this mind set, many students strive not only to do well themselves, but also to do better than their competitors—that is, their classmates.

Use of cognitive-enhancing drugs like Ritalin and Adderall, especially in a college setting, has real, tangible consequences on academic life that an adjustment of the Duke Community Standard stands to mitigate. Few other universities have incorporated such policies, signifying that Duke has taken the lead on this issue. But, in the end, this decision tells us less about these drugs than it does about ourselves.

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ood news, folks. We have all escaped from the dozens of roses sitting on the entrance of Chathe frightening and blood-sucking mon- pel Drive, or the cheerful tulips that bloom each ster known as the economic crisis. This spring, only to be trampled on by anxious students monster cannot even think of pokas they rush to Perkins during finals ing his nose in this magical place week? called Duke, where it is warded off Even freshman year, I noticed the by careful financial planning, budsigns of Duke’s careful spending on geting and possibly even protective my first trip to the Link. Not only is spells. this place the coolest basement in Of course, keeping the monster America, but upon entering the study out of our grounds is no easy task. In area students are almost immediately fact, countless hours are spent porgreeted with—hey! What’s that? Are sony rao ing over each and every dollar that is those fish? Hundreds of fish swimin the annual budget, dividing funds that’s what she said ming across what appear to be dozens to cover three crucial areas of the of computer screens! Yes, this virtual University’s development: academic aquarium is a unique selling point programs, renovations of infrastructure and most on campus tours. In fact, no other university probimportantly, state-of-the art lounging materials. ably invests this much time and effort into providing So how does a top-tier institution such as ours momentary comfort and a source of distraction to successfully allocate funds to the most deserving frustrated students who are wandering around down sources? To start off, the University seems to be dili- there trying to find their computer science T.A. gent about trying to remove useless expenditures.

These renovations are clear examples of the UniFor instance, when ordering Jimmy John’s for lunch versity’s improving financial state, something Presilast week, I handed the delivery guy my DukeCard dent Richard Brodhead himself addressed in an email and, with a friendly grin, told him I’d like to pay he sent to Duke University employees on March 28 with food points. I was met with cackles of laughter of this year. During what was then a reviving financial by said delivery guy, who instead took my flex points market, President Brodhead reflected on the success and speedily drove away. At first, I was frustrated by of the University’s reductions in spending and hailed this new development, but soon realized it was part the “self-discipline of the past two years.” of a complex budgeting strategy of which I had little Well, I am still reeling from this constant flood knowledge. Of course, other students were not par- of self-discipline. Interestingly, while government ticularly enthusiastic. Some protested. There may spending has forced cuts to several language prohave even been a sign that read “Sigma Sigma Jimmy grams and may threaten the continued existence refuses to stand for Subway.” of Pell Grants, our University has remained dediAnd so, after much discussion, the Merchants cated to continuing programs that encourage stuon Points program was reinstated. But this move is dents to engage in thrilling cultural activities. AcOK, according to Duke, who decided the program tivities such as Heat Wave ... a.k.a. Joe College Day, was not really a financial burden after all, but an a riveting day of musical entertainment that drew issue of antisocial “student culture.” a crowd of almost 20 people last year.

Other budgeting decisions, however, seem to These prudent financial choices send a strong have shown actual results. The other day I was walk- message to us affable college students. Spend eving around Wannamaker searching for a place to ery dime carefully, this message says, and if you R&R when out of nowhere I saw gliders readily have a choice, spend it on state-of-the art lounging available for my sitting and sliding needs! Unlike materials or landscaping. our careful budgeters, I would have never thought As a student walking around campus who alof spending university funding on these wonderful ready has enough to deal with, I find this message things. I likely would have wasted it on unnecessary very comforting. I can laugh at the outside world luxuries, like plumbing repairs for those residents and Wall Street as they anxiously watch the Dow who would rather not have their ceilings crash plummet for the fifth time in a week. “Ha!” I say down on top of them during heavy thunderstorms. to them. Our financial planning is so darn sustainBut our financial initiatives are not limited to able that we have money left over for nifty lounge purchasing stylish outdoor furniture—Duke prides chairs. We don’t have a thing to worry about for itself on helping the environment through a series oh, two, four years? of measures directed towards beautifying the camHopefully, the monster will have retired by then. pus landscape. These measures not only preserve the environment, but help boost its self-confidence Sony Rao is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every a little, too. What would this campus be without other Thursday.

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Peace on Jeju Island

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recently watched Boon Joon-Ho’s “The Host,” a South their own. Jeju Island could serve as a strategic point for Korean monster flick with familiar Hollywood conven- the U.S. to counter Chinese expansionism in the East tions but unique Korean characteristics and context.

China Sea, which is claimed by multiple Asian countries In it, a sea monster rises out of the Han and is rumored to contain valuable oil and River, attracting a curious crowd that begins mineral deposits. South Korea, however, is to feed it. Suddenly, it attacks, runs amok, more threatened by North Korea—for its and pulls a girl into the river, launching recent military provocations, the shelling the plot of a ragtag family’s struggle to save of Yeonpeong Island last November and its its youngest member from a sewer. nuclear weapons—than by China, its largAlthough the monster provides the imest trading partner. mediate conflict in the movie, it kills and The controversy illustrates the shifting kidnaps unthinkingly—not because it is in Korean public sentiment regarding the jessica kim willfully evil—and thus is not the real ancountry’s longstanding security ties with out of the fishbowl the U.S., dating back to the 1950 Korean tagonist of the film. Rather, the monster serves as a proxy for the complex and imWar. On one hand, America is still Korea’s balanced relationship Korea has with the United States. largest ally with over 30 military bases built in key cities This metaphor is illustrated in the beginning when a like Seoul, Busan and Osan. I spent eight years living on waxy-looking American scientist orders a Korean lab as- the Yongsan base in Seoul and witnessed firsthand various sistant to dump 200 bottles of formaldehyde into the Han protests that showed the increasing uneasiness younger River. The Korean protests, the American dismisses it, and Koreans feel about the wide U.S. military presence in the Korean complies out of deference to authority. It is their cities. this deference that ultimately spawns the deadly monster.

Allowing Jeju Island to become a strategic buffer In real life, the recent but yet little-known government against China to protect U.S. security interests places it crackdown in a village called Gangjeong on Jeju Island directly in the line of fire between two larger countries, hopefully will not invoke similar themes. Koreans are and Koreans are wary. The Korean government has tried very familiar with Jeju Island, designated by the Korean to downplay the regional implications of this naval base. government as the “Island of World Peace” in 2005, as a It markets it as an “eco-friendly” port where luxury cruise popular vacation spot. Even I remember family vacations ships will dock. here, eating clementines on the tour bus while my parBut the recent crackdown on protesters shows the willents shopped for local pearls and looked at stone carv- ingness of the Korean government to involve its citizens ings. When I grew old enough to appreciate Jeju’s culture in a risky regional arms race without their consent. If the beyond its clementines, I realized that the island was a building of a naval base is really so innocuous, why not put UNESCO World Heritage site and is known for its matri- it to a legitimate vote? The military claims that a majorarchal culture of female deep-sea divers. ity of Gangjeong villagers had voted in 2007 for building Since January, villagers have protested against the con- the naval base, calling it the most democratic process in struction of a $920.5 million naval base that the South the history of the country’s defense projects. But The KoKorean government claims is crucial to the nation’s se- rea Times recounts the village general assembly meeting curity interests. When completed in 2014, the naval base in 2007 as a sham. Fewer than 100 of the village’s 1,000 will host 20 warships that can protect Korea’s maritime residents attended, since the meeting was not widely adtrade and its territorial claims in waters bordered by other vertised, and voting was carelessly done through clapping.

Asian nations. Jeju villagers, activists and journalists have The town officially reversed this decision by referendum denounced the naval base as the militarization of one of 10 days afterwards but the government refused to acKorea’s most peaceful locales in the service of an arms knowledge this. race. Last Friday, Korean riot police detained nearly three In “The Host,” it was an American scientist who made dozen protesters camping inside the construction area. the order to dump chemicals into the Han River, but it According to The Korea Times, protesters had staged was the Korean lab assistant who complied. Similarly, the a sit-in with their bodies chained to a six-story bamboo Korean government may be under exogenous pressure to watchtower. Citizens protested that their consent was not strengthen its defenses, but the decision to do so and the obtained in a fair, democratic process, and that the con- manner in which it is done ought to remain a decision by struction of a naval base will compromise the peace on the Korean people.

Jeju Island.

But Koreans are also suspicious that the naval base will Jessica Kim is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other serve America’s interests in Southeast Asia rather than Thursday.

lettertotheeditor Thank you from Duke Volleyball Dear Durham Community, Duke Community and Students, We would like to sincerely thank everyone in the Durham and Duke communities who came out Aug. 26 and 27 to support our volleyball team during our matches against Furman, Charleston Southern and Wisconsin. These matches were tough, and we could not have pulled through without the support of you, our fans. We would in particular like to thank the Duke freshman class for

coming out both Friday and again Saturday night.

Your presence was incredibly energizing and inspiring, which made all the difference in overcoming some really tough matches. From the bottom of our hearts, we would like to say thank you for your support of Duke volleyball, and we hope you come back out again tonight at 7 p.m. when our volleyball team takes on San Diego.

Thank you, Duke Volleyball Team and Staff

Defining moments

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on’t worry, we’re going to do something,” Tom Burnett reassured his wife, Deena, on Sept. 11, 2001 while they huddled together on United Airlines Flight 93. Passengers grouped together in the back of the plane made phone calls to their loved ones in the final moments. In the last minutes of the flight, Tom Burnett and others made the heroic decision to forcibly reclaim the cockpit daniel strunk from the four hijackers. They a fly on the wall knew the terrorists intended to carry out a suicide mission and that it was the moment for action. Their valor that day likely saved the Capitol building.

Over this past summer I thought a lot about self-definition—what is it that makes me who I am? The type of role I see for myself in this world. What moral code do I seek to live by, and do I indeed live by it, not just think about it.

The idea of a personal definition for oneself might strike some as impossible and others as frivolous. But I gained a lot from this summer of pondering. The best advice I could give to a freshman would be to think seriously about your personal definition. It’s all too easy in college to lose sight of what you stand for, especially if you aren’t even sure exactly what that is to begin with.

It was while watching movies this summer that I realized that many people base self-conception partly on “defining moments.” We all know what defining moments are—they are indeed the stuff of movies, of books and of history. It’s the moment in the last Harry Potter book when the characters must decide whether they shall fight in the final battle against Voldermort or flee. It was the moment when Herb Brooks gave his locker room speech to the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, right before they defeated the Soviets.

It’s the moment in Star Wars when Luke Skywalker decides to fall from the top of Cloud City, rather than join Darth Vader. And it was the moment in history when Abraham Lincoln delivered the Emancipation Proclamation.

Even though I certainly have no desire to face a life-ordeath defining moment like the passengers on Flight 93, I nonetheless long to find myself in one of these “defining moments” that we so frequently see in movies and books. I wish to give the speech, to say the line or to fight the epic duel.

I want to experience those crucial seconds where, with the world watching, I take a resounding stand to demonstrate my personal definition. I want a chance, in one moment’s course of action, to show the entire world what beliefs I stand for—what values I cherish. You see, I think I know what type of person I am; I just need some defining moments to prove it to myself, or more importantly, to everyone else.

But that’s unfortunately not how it works. Life is not a movie. Defining moments occur, but they are rare. And more often than not they are a matter of hindsight. The truth of the matter is that personal definitions are built, not triggered.

Defining moments are what bubble to the surface from deep within your core, but they play little part in building that core.

They’re what we experience, every once in a while, that expands a small part of our character into a momentous part.

Tom Burnett and those passengers on Flight 93 are heroes. On this 10 year anniversary of 9/11, I will take a moment to remember the incredible courage they demonstrated on that fateful day—and the strength of the human spirit they exemplified.

But even though Tom Burnett and those of Flight 93 are heroes, they were not born, and did not live their lives, solely for that one moment on that one airplane. Their heroism and their actions transcend that moment. Before they boarded that plane, each and every action they took on each and every day developed their character. Of these actions, 99 percent were not defining moments. Of these actions, 99 percent were committed without applause, without recognition. But it is these actions that laid the groundwork for their defining moment of heroism.

Tom Burnett and those other passengers were not born heroes in wait of a defining moment. They made themselves into heroes with each and every day they lived. That, in and of itself, is all the more honorable and all the more heroic.

I, and everyone else, can only hope to do the same—one un-defining moment at a time.

Daniel Strunk is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Thursday.

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theSANDBOX. If you’re reading this, and you don’t have a ticket to Hopscotch Music Festival this weekend, it’s probably too late. Sure, there are probably a few passes still out there to see the Flaming Lips or Drive-By Truckers. But as all the art school Brooklynites in their little jackets know, going to a festival to see the headliners is about the least relevant thing you can do.

But for those of you with one of the coveted (and long sold-out) three day passes and hipster aspirations, here’s some primers for the weekend’s best (re: trendiest) shows.

Ford & Lopatin at The Hive at the Busy Bee (Thursday, 12:30 a.m.): In case you haven’t visited Pitchfork in the last two years, I’ll update you: the ’80s are in right now. Which means, of course, that they’re also on their way out—all the more reason to go see this synthy, sparkly duo play music ideally suited to watching John Hughes movies on acid. Plus, going to this show means you’ll miss the Black Lips, who

once beefed with Wavves and are probably a******s.

Toro y Moi at the Lincoln Theater (Saturday, 10:30 p.m.): The man that launched a million Hipster Runoff posts, Chaz Bundick does, for real, seem like a pretty chill bro. In reality, Toro y Moi hasn’t been cool since at least the summer of 2009, but that’s the point: it’s an opportunity to affirm yourself by condescending the latecomers still wondering what happens when gorilla and bear collide.

Yelawolf at the Lincoln Theater (Saturday, 12:30 a.m.): So you wanna get in on the next great blog-approved music bubble? Look no further. White-trash Southern speed rap about to be in, in a big way. Because, for the skinny-jeaned, tank-topped and mohawked, there is simply no more bizarre and inexplicable direction to go: irony, taken to its logical extreme.

—Ross Green

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Sunday is the series finale of Entourage.

E I guess I should be e excited about this—after all, I would w objectively be considered a fan of the show. I’ve watched a 94 episodes, I know every all w word to the (admittedly terrible) J Jane’s Addiction song “Superhero,” r and I sometimes think that M Martin Scorsese actually directed a version of The Great Gatsby. Sund should be the culmination of day y years of fandom. It should be a b deal. big But the truth is, I couldn’t c care less. I’ve disliked Entourage r for around three seasons n now.

Actively hated it might be t better phrase—the truth is, the I haven’t enjoyed an episode since Johnny Drama’s emotional breakdown on The View back in season five. Season six was irresponsibly bad, mainly for the misguided storylines and, of course, the introduction of the cheesy, diminutive Scotty Lavin into the friend group. Quick show of hands: How many times do you make a new best friend in the span of days?

Then came season seven, in which Vince “went to the dark side,” complete with a coke addiction and a porn star girlfriend. I distinctly remember hoping, at the end of that gem of a year, that Vince would drive off the Pacific Coast Highway in a drugfilled stupor.

Because I knew, if Vince was dead, I was off the hook. I wouldn’t have to watch another season of this awful show, a show which I’ve watched as a compulsion for years with no enjoyment. I would be free. I could maybe

even read a book after Curb Your Enthusiasm on Sunday nights. But it came back, and this season has been as bad as I knew it would be. So now I’m stuck here wondering why we fall into the trap of this particular brand of television.

Shows like Entourage, The Killing and Lost represent some of the worst kinds of entertainment—they suck you in, even as you realize you don’t like them and don’t like where they’re going. The Killing, after a promising start, devolved into red herrings and contrived cliff-hangers; the absurdity of the unfulfilling season finale almost seemed inevitable. Likewise, as Lost reached its series finale, it became abundantly clear that nothing would be answered, nothing would be resolved. Yet fans, having stuck around through six seasons of flashbacks and smoke monsters, could hardly abandon the show. And then there’s Entourage, which has already had two or three seemingly major plots neatly tied up in two-episode arcs this year (as if its feeble-minded fans can’t handle any conflict that lasts too long). It’s also looking more and more like we won’t have any sort of dramatic conclusion for Vince, Turtle and Drama, who will go on a date with a random reporter, open a restaurant and star in a TV movie, respectively. Thrilling, thrilling stuff.

Why do we do this? Do we hold on because we feel like things will turn around?

Do we genuinely care about the characters?

Or are we victims to a terrible, manipulative brand of television, designed by studios that could care less about quality than about making it too costly for fans to tune out?

Screw you, Vincent Chase.

—Andy Moore

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Duke dancers experiences China up close

By Tong Xiang THE CHRONICLE

Halfway around the world, the new Shenzhen Stadium rumbled with a bass-backed remix of The Sound of Music’s “Do-Re-Mi” as 300 dancers cantered onto a whorl-shaped stage. To a backdrop of camera flashes and rainbow LEDs, 12 Duke students filled the brightest spotlight, dancing front and center to 60,000 spectators.

The Duke University Dancers—as the group called themselves—highlighted the August 12 opening ceremony to the 2011 Summer Universiade Games in Shenzhen, China. The Universiade, often likened to the Olympic Games for collegiate athletes, marked the first performance in a month-long dance tour of China.

“This was really a once in a lifetime opportunity for all of us,” said team member and junior Ashley Tsai.

“Waking up every morning and knowing that the only thing I had to do would be something that I love—this could only happen at Duke, with such a strong combination of academics and such great support for the arts.”

Representing a wide range of styles, from ballet to Latin to breakdancing, the team was selected from thousands of international applicants to perform. In addition to opening for the Universiade Games in Shenzhen, Hsiao-Mei Ku, a professor of the practice of music at Duke, arranged for the team to perform at seven other sites in China. These included Beijing, Hong Kong and the halftime of the first Duke men’s basketball exhibition game in Kunshan.

“I wanted to give them a bit more exposure to China, and China a bit more exposure to them,” said Ku, a native of China and member of Duke’s Ciompi quartet.

“A lot of Chinese people follow American basketball, but not many people know that Duke has highly academically and artistically talented students.”

Luou Zhang, Trinity ’11, applied for the spot to perform after participating in DukeEngage’s arts education project in Zhuhai. After the organizers of the Universiade decreased funding for international performers, Ku and Scott Lindroth, Vice Provost for the Arts, stepped in. Lindroth, who arranged Duke’s financial support for the project, emphasized that success of the project was due to the students themselves.

“This initiative was entirely student-driven. The invitation was extended to the students, they organized it themselves,” Lindroth said. “There wasn’t a department or program sponsoring them like DukeEngage or study abroad.”

While overseas, the students took it upon themselves

to immerse completely in Chinese culture—even in the midst of their tight rehearsal and performance schedule. The team had a rigorous learning curve: In addition to practicing routines at Duke during the spring semester, the team had two weeks to learn what their Chinese counterparts had been practicing for six. Practice sessions sometimes ran to 17 hours a day.

Despite the team members’ long work days and mutual widespread exhaustion, it was worth it to meet and share dance experiences with Chinese dancers throughout the nation. Incidentally, for many of the team members, cultural exchanges with Chinese dancers were the most salient memories of the project.

“Not only did the energy and dedication of the Chinese dancers wow us through those long days, but also their stories [impressed us],” Zhang said. “What their dreams are—some were professionals, some had never danced before. It was eye-opening.”

While only three members of the team spoke Mandarin Chinese, the team quickly found other ways to communicate—namely through its common bond, dance.

“Kartik [a team member] would go up to dudes and

be like ‘b-boy? B-boy?’” recounted senior Will Beckman. “He didn’t speak any Chinese, so they’d all start making gestures and eventually form a circle and start dancing.”

Tsai recalled a similar experience with a young female dancer who observed the Duke dancers’ fusion of different dance styles.

“One girl commented that she really liked to watch us dance because we have a freedom of expression and each of us had an individual and unique style,” Tsai said. “She felt that that was somewhat missing in China.”

Through this communication, Ku sees the project as helping to address a critical need for the arts in modern China.

“What’s most interesting is how much the dancers benefited, and how much they taught [Chinese dancers] to stretch artistic boundaries,” Ku said. “When a society like China is developing so drastically and quickly, a lot of young people get lost—art is really the critical component in one’s education and life.”

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An ornate staircase spiraling through a room of marble. Women in retro, glamorous ‘50s-era bathing suits painted on boardwalks.

Busted-out neon motel signs.

These are the types of images that make up photographer Jim Dow’s new book American Studies, recently published by powerHouse Books and Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies. For the past forty years, Dow, who currently teaches at Tufts University and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, has traveled across the United States capturing small-town American life on camera.

“Even though ordinary objects are not expressly art, they are just as valid if not more because they are celebrations of ingenuity [of the American people],” Dow said.

Dow began by photographing in black and white, and ultimately transitioned to color photography. American Studies demonstrates this chronology: his black and white work from the 1970s appears at the beginning, but the book progresses toward a section with both color and black and white images that express similar themes or subjects. As a whole, the work echoes an evolution of American culture.

In this way, as Dow said, the book can be seen more as a novel than any sort of journalistic work.

“Pictures are a contemporary version of liberal arts,” Dow said.

“They are visually wanting to do the same thing as literature: tell a story, but with no beginning or end.”

Considering the book’s visual narrative, the viewer can begin to pick up on Dow’s artistic philosophy. Many of the photographs create unrest due to their emptiness. As Dow says, it as though all the images’ inhabitants merely “went out for a cigarette break, or rather a coffee break in this day and age,” but never returned after realizing that their individuality and originality were lost.

Despite his interest in portraying the remnants of human interactions, Dow emphasized that it was the places themselves that are actually important and meaningful, and he hoped to illuminate them in such a way. In doing so, he created a specific and under-

standable story of American resilience.

The tangible result of this story is a carefully edited compilation of several images pared down from an overabundance of original prints. Iris Tillman-Hill, who edited American Studies, took on the task of arranging Dow’s unrelated works and streamlining them into a form accessible to all viewers. “[Dow] never stops working,” Tillman-Hill said. “He had over 3,000 images to choose from, and then we all worked together to pare them down.”

The Center for Documentary Studies’ decision to publish the book marks a departure from their normal publications, which are most often reviewed in specialized arts and media or photography journals. In the case of American Studies, which has already been featured in publications such as The New Yorker, the Center’s aim was to break both Dow’s work and their own into the mainstream Tom Rankin, director of the Center for Documentary Studies and associate professor of the practice of art and documentary studies, studied with Dow years ago and has since been following his work with interest.

“We’re glad to be making a difference by publishing it, but the book really propelled itself, and made people in the publishing world very interested,” Rankin said.

At a time when Duke begins its first MFA program in Experimental and Documentary Arts and increasingly funnels administrative support to the arts, American Studies represents, at a fundamental level, what can draw humans to aesthetic culture.

“We live in a time where popular culture is so homogeneous, it hardly varies from place to place and across countries,” Dow said.

“But the most beautiful thing is when ordinary people express themselves through popular culture because it gives a sense of individuality.”

Jim Dow will speak about American Studies tomorrow at 6:30pm at the Center for Documentary Studies Auditorium and Porch. The event is free and open to the public.

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by Jake Stanley THE CHRONICLE

PHOTOS BY SHARIZA BARANYANKA

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In the entrance to the new exhibit at the Nasher Museum of Art, Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, a giant paragraph on the wall defines its purpose: “[to] reject the common tendency to view black communities in terms of conflict or stereotypes.”

By this measure, Becoming is a certain triumph. Chronicling 120 years of portraiture, the exhibit presents a beautiful and fiercely authentic narrative of black agency.

The works come from the collection of Dr. Kenneth Montague of Toronto. Montague is originally from Windsor, Ontario—a town separated from Detroit by a border and a sliver of Great Lakes water—and grew up in the 1960s and ’70s, a contentious period for people of color.

After completing dental school in 1987 (he now cares for the teeth of celebrities Russell Crowe and Nelly Furtado), Montague began collecting photography in earnest. He opened a small gallery in 1997, displaying pieces in the narrow “wedge” hallways in his loft apartment. Its success soon led to the Wedge Curatorial Project, a nonprofit that raises public awareness of the arts, particularly art from the AfricanCanadian diaspora with which Montague identifies.

The photographs capture the African diaspora at dozens of culturally significant moments; European, African and North American artists comprise the majority of the work. An 1891 print of Jamaican women harvesting sugar cane evokes the pre-industrial Caribbean. Further along chronologically

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is James VanDerZee’s classic image of Harlem’s Jazz Age opulence in “Couple in Raccoon Coats.” Wonderful portraits by Jamel Shabazz depict the infancy of hip-hop culture in 1980s New York.

A theme of Becoming is the rising economic might of North American blacks. Fred Herzog’s 1959 candid of a stylish black family walking a spaniel down the streets of Vancouver in a scene that evokes American normalcy à la Norman Rockwell.

As does Henry Clay Anderson’s portrait of a happy couple straddling a motorcycle in Greenville, Mississippi, home to a burgeoning black middle class from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Becoming is refreshing for what it tacitly omits: representations of blatant racial conflict. Absent are images of colonial oppression, violent revolution or civil rights clashes. Political icons like Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X or Nelson Mandela are missing, too. As a curator, Montague seems more interested in the lives of “regular” blacks, affording them an individuality that might be overlooked in conventional narratives of cultural warfare.

The exhibit makes sure each viewer is painstakingly aware of the history of unbalanced power relations between whites and blacks. The images of Becoming do not suggest a 20th century free of racial trauma, but rather focus instead on the black identity that flowered indefatigably, against the odds.

Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection runs until Jan. 8, 2012, at the Nasher Museum of Art.

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Recess interviews: Guided

by Voices’ Tobin Sprout

by Brian Contratto THE CHRONICLE

Guided By Voices spent much of the’90s defining the indie landscape. In 2004, after a 17-year career that produced nearly as many records, they called it quits. But beginning last year, the band returned in its original lineup (singer/songwriter Robert Pollard, guitarists Tobin Sprout and Mitch Mitchell, drummer Kevin Fennell and bassist Greg Demos) for another season of touring that concludes this Friday at the Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh. Recess’ Brian Contratto interviewed Tobin Sprout via email.

Recess: When you’re a band that’s been together this long, how do you feel playing live shows with all these 20-somethings? Are you more confident, or more self-conscious?

Tobin Sprout: The fans are all ages—a lot of them are old fans and there are kids just finding GBV. It seems ageless. So I really don’t feel anything but good to still be on stage.

People still want to see us. I almost feel more confident today than when we were in our stride in ’96.

R: Bob’s never really stopped making music, right? Who else in the band is still a musician, and who’s got the less exciting day jobs?

TS: I released a solo album called The Bluebirds of Happiness Tried To Land On My Shoulder. I also released a single called “An-

tietam,” released on the date of the battle—Sept. 17. I can’t really speak for the others, although I know Mitch is still making music with his band, the Terrifying Experience. As far as other jobs, I still paint and might be doing an art show with Bob in the near future.

R: Does Guided By Voices read books? What kinds of authors or titles?

TS: I know everyone in GBV can read. I know Bob reads a lot. I enjoy reading about American history; right now I’m reading The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, about the Battle of Gettysburg. The Illusion of Life by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston is a great book—all about the creation of Disney and about the development of the art and the artists behind the scenes.

R: Hopscotch is the last show you’ve

got listed on the website. What’ll you do in Raleigh afterwards?

TS: We plan to watch the Ohio State [college football] game, eat wings and drink, sort of celebrate the final show. I’m noot sure if we will stay in Raleigh—we might start heading back to Dayton and stop somewhere on the way.

R: Thanks for for getting back together.

TB: You are welcome. Raleigh has always been a big fan base for Guided By Voices from the beginning, so it’s nice to be doing our final show here. We love Raleigh.

Guided By Voices will play their final show at Hopscotch Music Festival this Friday, Sept. 6 at Raleigh City Plaza at 8:40 p.m.

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the rapture IN THE GRACE OF YOUR LOVE DFA

When “How Deep Is Your Love?” dropped earlier this summer, you would have been forgiven for prematurely penciling In the Grace of Your Love into the 2011 year-end lists. An undeniable Chicago house banger, with a hightension hook to match its minor-key piano loop, the track appeared to signal a potent new iteration of the Rapture: steelier, more mature, less reliant on well-worn dance-punk tropes. Their five-year hiatus looked like the perfect tonic, and their reemergence seemed well-timed to capitalize on the ascension of dance music in the indie realm.

In the Grace of Your Love isn’t a rotten egg. After a lengthy hiatus and a thunderous, return-to-form lead single, though, the band’s third album fails to follow through.

There are a few tracks here that come close to “How Deep is Your Love,” but a good number are punchless if serviceable filler. And then there’s “Roller Coaster,” a brutal misstep that reveals a serious lack of judgement.

With In the Grace of Your Love, they are making an honest attempt to outgrow their early-career punk predilections.

Frontman Luke Jenner, who left the band for three years after his mother’s suicide in 2006, focuses his nervous yelp on issues that have clearly weighed heavily on him in the interim. The album’s most immediate and anthemic track, “Children,” aims its Arcade Fire-level angst for the rafters to impressive effect. “Come Back to Me” rides a seductive accordian riff for a couple minutes, then ingeniously downshifts into sub-bass and ominous synths. But elsewhere, the generic stomp of “Never Gonna Die Again” and plodding closer “It Takes Time To Be a Man” want for the raw energy of the band’s debut LP Echoes. Sometimes, the band just needs a more discerning edit: witness the bizarre construction of “Sail Away,” which waits all of ten bars to dive into a propulsive chorus before spending its last minute and a half on a squiggly, aimless sax outro.

It’s hard to fault the Rapture for showing us their ace in the hole early on. The only problem is that “How Deep Is Your Love” wrote a check that In the Grace of Your Love doesn’t cash.

—Ross Green

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Film series opens with The Betrayal

by Chris Bassil THE CHRONICLE

It’s a general rule of thumb that it takes around three months to shoot a feature film. Ellen Kuras’ The Betrayal, which will be screened on Tuesday, Sept.

13 by the Duke Human Rights Center and the Kenan Institute of Ethics, is an exception.

The documentary, which was filmed over an astounding 23 years, follows the struggle of Laotian refugee Thavisouk Phrasavath, forced to flee his native country after his father—an informant in the CIA’s secret war in Laos in the 1970’s—was labelled an enemy of the state by the Pathet Lao government. At the age of twelve, Phrasavath crossed the Mekong River on inflated plastic bags to escape persecution and imprisonment. Phrasavath, who co-directed The Betrayal, revisits his life—his childhood in Laos, his time in Thai refugee camps and as an immigrant in New York—to examine tumultuous transitions from wartime to peacetime.

Robin Kirk, program director at the Duke Human Rights Center, said that The

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The Rights! Camera! Action documentary series kicked off with the story of Thavisouk Phrasavath

Betrayal, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature in 2009, is one of the best films she has ever seen. “[It] succeeds in telling a human story that we can all identify with and recognize,” Kirk said. “The circumstances are extreme, but you can connect on a human level.”

Kirk believes that the documentary is an important one for undergraduates because it explores the issue of human rights and the lives of refugees from an angle that all students can comprehend.

“The filmmaker succeeds because she makes us care about these people as human beings,” Kirk said. “We understand the complexities, but through a younger angle. Students can connect to issues that they’ve had in their own family.”

That sort of common ground is crucial to a documentary like The Betrayal, which spent more time in production than most undergraduates have spent on the planet.

“The film does a really excellent job of bringing the struggle to life,” said Patrick Stawski, a human rights archivist for Duke University Libraries. “It deals a lot with issues of how we reconcile the past and move on with the future.”

The screening is the first in the 20112012 Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Screening Series, which features award-winning documentaries with human rights themes followed by discussion panels with film’s director or writer. The series started in the fall of 2009, with co-sponsors that include Duke Human Rights Center, the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Program in Arts of the Moving Image.

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the guard JOHN MICHAEL MCDONAGH SONY PICTURES CLASSICS

An aesthetic reminiscent of In Bruges, a heavy dose of Irish nihilism and a finely balanced comedic tone black enough to make the Coen Brothers scream copyright infringement. All of these characterize John McDonagh’s first feature-length foray into directing. From the first scene of The Guard— where Sergeant Gerry Boyle, played by the underrated and always entertaining Brendon Gleeson, steals and then pops a tab of acid he got from the victims of a car crash he is supposed to be policing— the audience is set up for a ride riddled with the unexpected.

The feature, which starts off as a simple murder case, eventually becomes a “half a billion” dollar drug trafficking conspiracy rife with police corruption and sadistic henchmen. As for some of the earlier, less exciting portions of the film, techniques such as sharp cutting, pervasive point-of-view and a random smattering of unusual camera movements entrance the viewer.

One of The Guard’s most salient features, though, is the acerbic wit that permeates the dialogue and gives vitality and intellect to the superficially inane rural policeman Boyle. The often flippant yet incisive interchanges between Boyle and FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) are a rare sight in modern cinema and are among the film’s highlights.

The Guard, however, is more than just a slick-looking black comedy. It takes a variety of characters with differing temperaments and, over the course of the movie, transforms the audience’s perception of them.

They go from unlikable to endearing, and by the end become complex, multifaceted individuals, propelling the film into the higher echelons of cinema by adding a necessary (and rarely seen) level of depth.

Relationships, like that of Boyle and his terminally ill mother (Fionnula Flanagan)— the only person whom he truly loves—and Gabriela (Katarina Cas), the stunning wife of his partner (Rory Keenan), demonstrate a trustworthiness and rigid, albeit unorthodox, moral code that layer and deepen his character.

Coupling sharp dialogue with unexpected character depth, and pushing Gleeson ever further into the film viewer’s consciousness, McDonagh has written in The Guard what might just be the smartest screenplay of the year.

—Derek Saffe

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