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The racial makeup of the top earners in American society is significantly lopsided, according to federal income data.

Blacks comprise just 1.4 percent of the top 1 percent of American households by income. Hispanics and other minority groups make up .9 percent and 1.6 percent, respectively, according to the Grio, a news website focusing on news in the black community. Within the 1 percent, blacks make about 22 percent less than their white counterparts and in terms of the median net worth of the top 1 percent, whites hold almost seven times more wealth than blacks. The Grio calculated this from data based on the Federal Reserve’s 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances.

One of the biggest factors related to this wealth gap, according to the Grio, is the higher level of household debt—roughly $1.4 million on average—that blacks in the top 1 percent accumulate. Despite this disparity, some contend that debt is not the main cause that inhibits wealth accumulation by blacks.

“The major sources of wealth for most of the super-rich are inheritances and in life transfers,” William Darity, arts and sciences professor of public policy and professor of African-American studies and economics at Duke, wrote in an email Monday. “The big reason is racial differences in access to resources to transfer to the next generation.”

Darity, who was also quoted in the Grio article, added that the practices of slavery, violence, Jim Crow laws, discrimination and dispossession of property have kept generations of blacks from accruing the type of wealth that whites in the top 1 percent have today.

But the government needs to help in creating a wealth cycle for blacks and any low-wealth Americans is imperative, Darity added. He proposes that the government provide bonds ranging in value from $20,000 to $30,000—the “Baby Bonds” proposal—to infants born into low-wealth families. When they reach adulthood, those individuals can then tap into these bonds, thus creating an inheritance for these children.

The Baby Bonds proposal would only cost about $60 billion annually—a drop in the bucket compared to the total national debt, Darity said.

“That’s a great idea,” said Robert Korstad, professor of public policy. “When we think of the wealth in the top 1 percent a lot of that money is generations old, and [blacks] have been excluded from it due to the legacy of discrimination and segregation.”

Despite their under-representation among the 1 percent, blacks have not joined the Occupy movement, according to data compiled Fast Company. They make up 1.6 percent of the approximate 5,000 protestors surveyed at the

Evidence surrounding the alleged murder of Duke graduate student Abhijit Mahato will be admissible in the trial of Laurence Lovette, who is being charged with first-degree murder in the death of former UNC student body president Eve Carson.

Lovette is also accused of murdering Mahato, an engineering graduate student who was shot and killed in his home at the Anderson Apartments near West Campus Jan. 18, 2008, though the case has not yet been resolved.

Lovette pleaded not guilty to the first-degree murder charge and four other charges in the Carson case Nov. 17.

Orange County Criminal Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour ruled Monday that evidence in the Mahato case can be introduced in the Carson trial, the Herald-Sun reported earlier this week. The ruling came after Lovette’s attorneys Kevin Bradley and Karen Bethea-Shields requested that the evidence be excluded from the trial, arguing that the murders of Carson and Mahato were not related enough to warrant allowing evidence from the latter case.

The defense also said that aspects of the Mahato case could confuse and prejudice the Orange County jury against Lovette, she said.

“We’re not trying the Durham case,” BetheaShields told the Herald-Sun. “We’re trying the case here in Orange County.”

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Fred Hersch, HIV-positive activist and three-time Grammy nominee, performs at the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture Wednesday night to celebrate World AIDS Day.

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Yale may draw from Tailgate’s fate

by Patton Callaway THE CHRONICLE

Two weeks after an incident at a Yale University tailgate killed a person, administrative officials have begun a review of the school’s tailgating policies.

At a tailgate before the annual Harvard-Yale football game Nov. 19, Brendon Ross, a Yale junior, lost control of a U-Haul transporting beer kegs. The vehicle accelerated into the crowd, hitting three women. One of the women was Nancy Barry, a 30-year-old Massachusetts resident, who was pronounced dead less than an hour after being struck.

The incident at Yale comes just one year after the accident at Duke’s tailgate where a minor, who was the guest of a student, was found unconscious in

a Porta Potty. Although the accident at Duke prompted the cancelation of tailgate in its entirety, how Yale’s tailgate polices will shift in light of recent events has yet to be determined, said George Hunter, a junior at Yale who was present at the incident.

“Every tailgate from now on will definitely be different, whether that has to do with new rules or with a sense of not being able to enjoy it as much,” Hunter said.

The Yale College Dean’s Office and Yale Athletics along with Yale’s Council of Masters, Yale Secuirty and Yale Police Department have begun an official review of Yale’s current tailgate policy, the Yale Daily News reported Monday.

The review will take into account tailgate policies at other universities, Yale

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Press Secretary Tom Conroy wrote in an email Tuesday.

Conroy said there is no timetable in place for Yale’s revision of its tailgate policy, and it is still unclear what the review process will ultimately conclude. He declined to comment further on the review process.

Yale administrators did not contact Duke in the aftermath of the incident, Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta wrote in an email Wednesday.

Moneta noted that he did not expect any correlation between Yale’s “tragic circumstances” and Duke’s Football Gameday policies.

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“We are the start of the process that ends up selecting one of the most important positions on campus.”

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Cain attorney’s celebrity clients cap tragic career

ATLANTA — L. Lin Wood, an Atlanta defamation attorney, was supposed to contain the damage Herman Cain’s Republican presidential bid sustained as a result of sexual harassment allegations.

Instead, Wood may have contributed to the opposite, when he chose to chide the news media on Nov. 28 for covering an “accusation of private, alleged consensual conduct between adults” while his client was saying Ginger White, who claimed a 13-year affair with Cain, was just a friend.

For Wood, 59, his representation of Cain is the latest turn in a career seeded in tragedy and capped by a series of high- profile victories in cases captured in national headlines.

In an interview, Wood said his statement on Cain had been misread and was intended to convey two points: that White’s assertions are “false allegations” and that the media shouldn’t pry into candidate’s private lives. “I believe Herman Cain. The public will decide who to believe,” Wood said.

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Walk on the Wide Side Sarah P. Duke Gardens, 11a.m.-12p.m.

This tour will explore wild North Carolina through walks in the Blomquist Garden of Native Plants. Free for Duke staff and students.

GoPass Distribution Event Bryan Center Plaza, 11:30a.m.-2p.m.

GoPasses will be distributed for free to Duke students, faculty and staff working around main campus. A valid Duke ID is required.

San Francisco McDonald’s Clinton visits Myanmar, to halt Happy Meal Toys assesses current reforms McDonald’s Corp., the world’s largest restaurant chain, will stop giving out Hello Kitty figurines or any other toys with its Happy Meals in San Francisco starting Thursday because of a new city ordinance. Restaurant meals in San Francisco can’t include a free toy unless they have less than 600 calories.

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Hillary Rodham Clinton touched down Wednesday in the desolate new capital of Myanmar, becoming the first U.S. secretary of state to visit the authoritarian country in more than half a century.

Clinton’s visit comes as Myanmar, also known as Burma, appears poised for historic reforms.

Duke in China Programs Information Session Perkins Library 218, 4:30-5:30p.m.

Faculty and staff from the Asian Pacific Studies Institue will provide an overview of all of the Duke programs in China.

SLG Rush Information Session GA Down Under, 7-9p.m.

Students interested in rushing selective living groups in the spring will learn about the different policies of each group.

TODAY IN HISTORY 1862: Lincoln gives State of the Union address.

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“When Juwan Thompson made a reception and took it to the endzone for 70 yards in the first quarter, he recorded Duke’s longest play from scrimmage of the season. Donovan Varner’s 64-yard touchdown against Virginia was previously the longest play.”

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Jamie Tworkowski, founder of To Write Love on Her Arms, speaks in Reynolds Theater Wednesday.

World AIDS Day International

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Charles Welch, conservation coordinator for the Duke Lemur Center, was nominated for the Indianapolis Prize.

Charles Welch works to save lemurs for a living.

As conservation coordinator for the Duke Lemur Center, Welch oversees the Center’s conservation efforts on the ground in the lemurs’ only natural habitat, Madagascar. He and his wife, Lemur Center Colony Manager and fellow conservationist Andrea Katz, began work there in 1987, living year-round in the island nation for 15 years starting in 1989. As partners with the Madagascar Fauna Group, a coalition dedicated to wildlife conservation in Madagascar, they developed the Parc Ivoloina, a project of the MFG that began as a holding facility for lemurs but has since expanded its efforts to include environmental education, sustainable agriculture, reforestation and capacity building for Malagasy people in many sectors of society. Welch also oversaw the first reintegration of captive-born lemurs into their natural habitat.

Welch and Katz both received the National Order of

Merit of Madagascar for their efforts.

Now back in Durham, Welch recently garnered a nomination for the Indianapolis Prize, a prestigious $100,000 award for animal conservation, presented by the Indianapolis Zoo. Over the next several months, judges will determine six finalists out of the 29 nominees, one of whom will receive the prize at a gala next September.

The Chronicle’s Julian Spector recently spoke with Welch about the nomination, the challenges of conservation in developing countries and the centrality of humans in the protection of animals.

TC: How did it feel to hear about your nomination?

CW: [I was] kind of surprised actually.

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DUKE STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Senate elects YTNC selection committee

by Patton Callaway THE CHRONICLE

Duke Student Government elected the members Young Trustee Nominating Committee Selection Committee during its meeting Wednesday.

The six-person selection committee will choose the members of the Young Trustee Nominating Committee, which nominates Young Trustee finalists, said Executive Vice President Gurdane Bhutani, a junior. The Sen-

ate elected sophomores Leila Alapour, senator for academic affairs; Sebastian Cifuentes, at-large senator for student life; Caroline Hall, senator for student life; and Mia Wise, senator for residential life and dining; and juniors Cherry Tran and Stratten Waldt, who are both senators for residential life and dining.

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Senate members gather for the weekly Duke Student Government meeting Wednesday evening.

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DSG from page 3 on campus,” Waldt said.

Applications for the Young Trustee Nominating Committee will be sent out Thursday evening, and interviews for the nominating committee will begin next Friday.

The YTNC has 18 members—eight slots are reserved for DSG members who are elected by the Senate. The remaining 10 spots on the YTNC are non-DSG affiliated, at-large members that will be selected by the selection committee appointed Wednesday.

“It’s not an open election process... there’s a need for structure where we have an interview process and debates,” Waldt said. “This simplifies the process, makes it much more transparent and does a lot of the leg work to help the student body make the best choice.”

During the meeting, senior Amy Li, chair of the student organization finance committee, also proposed DSG funding of the Peer for You and Movement for Youth organizations.

Peer for You provides an anonymous forum where students can discuss small issues in their lives when they feel uncomfortable talking to people that they know, Li said.

Movement for Youth is an organization that

LOVETTE from page 1 The prosecution, however, demonstrated similarities between the Mahato and the Carson cases and said that the Mahato evidence will help establish a theory of what happened in the time before Carson was killed. Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall also noted the similar manner of death in both cases—Carson and Mahato were college students who were shot in the head and robbed.

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creates partnerships between college stu- the residential facilities committee will serve in dents and local high school students for all an advisory role in the future. four years of their high school career. DSG DSG also had a first reading of the proposed approved the funding for both programs. revision to the SOFC bylaw. Currently, the only penalty for a student organization on campus is In other business: elimination of the group. The bylaw proposes a The Senate had a first reading of chang- probation clause that allows DSG to suspend a es in the affiliate bylaw, proposing that the group for up to six months, with the power to vice president of residential life and dining override the probation at any time. become the chair of the now-inactive resiMany senators also had questions about revidential facilities committee. The residential facilities committee will be an advisory group that will work with administrators to guide from page 1 improvements to residential facilities and amenities in the next 10 years, Bhutani said. movement’s epicenter in New York.

The committee will work closely with Rick Although black participation in the Johnson, assistant vice president of housing Occupy movement may appear limited, and dining, and Vice President for Student blacks have joined the local movements in Affairs Larry Moneta. predominantly black communities, WahThe residential facilities committee is the neema Lubiano, associate professor of Afnew iteration of the former Facilities and Services Committee, a part of Campus Counrican and African-American studies, wrote cil that was disbanded when the council was in an email Wednesday. absorbed by DSG last Spring. FSC had an independent budget of about $70,000 annually under Campus Council to use at its discretion for the improvement of residential CHRONICLE GRAPHIC BY ELIZA STRONG facilities. The administration did not allocate DATA SOURCE: PROFESSOR WILLIAM ROGERS, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY this lump sum of funding to DSG when DSG and Campus Council merged, which is why

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Lovette, who was 17-years-old when Carson was kidnapped and killed, cannot receive the death penalty if found guilty.

Lovette’s co-defendant Demario Atwater, who was also charged with kidnapping, robbing and killing Carson, is currently incarcerated in federal prison after pleading guilty to the murder charge in 2010.

Atwater and Lovette allegedly kidnapped Carson, hijacked her SUV and forced her to withdraw $1,400 from various automated teller machines before fatally shooting her multiple times the morning of March 5, 2008.

sions to the house model and the formation of a student committee that would provide input for the model. All students will receive a survey about the new residential model during Winter break, and once these results are in, student committees will work with DSG and the administration to adjust the model as necessary.

“It’s designed to engage feedback about what students want to see in the house model,” Bhutani said.

Sophomore Jacob Tobia, a member of Occupy Duke, wrote in an email Tuesday that the Occupy movement fundamentally aims to address disparities in income by race.

“We certainly are concerned by the fact that only 1.4 percent of the top 1 percent of households by income are African-American households,” Tobia said. “Occupy Duke stands against arbitrary systems of privilege and the ways that they disproportionately benefit the few at the expense of the many.”

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Turning the tables DJ/rupture spins worldly brand of bass music at the Coffeehouse

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ID:ENTITY

exhibit interrogates selfperception in modernity

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breaking dawn

twilight saga’s fourth chapter is dismal, delusional

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theSANDBOX. Fayetteville, North Carolina rapper J. Cole released a new album in September. It’s called Cole World: A Sideline Story. It’s damn good, people like it. The title is tight and catchy, too.

(Never mind that he is dating Raven Symone from all the TV shows you hated as a kid). “Cole” (or #Cole, more likely) will be the go-to buzzword for marketers in 2012, breaking the epic five-year run of “epic.” Some predictions: • Avicii remixes Loretta Lynn, spins “Cole Miner’s Daughter” at Ultra 2012.

• Jay-Z opens Cole Leafys, a buildyour-own-salad chain targeted at health-conscious women. First franchise opens in the lobby of Barclays Center, home of the Brooklyn Nets; team’s Russian owner Mikhail Prokhorov declares it “best restaurant USA.” • Kanye West re-releases Autotune disasterpiece 808s and Heartbreak, changes

title of “Coldest Winter” to “Colest Winter (But My Coat So Gucci).” Album races to 569th on the charts.

• Barack Obama chases the inner city vote in 2012, creates new agency for Urban AgriColeture.

• Rick Perry courts the Latino vote in the Southwest, proposes to replace the EPA with Exploratory Cole Commission. Promises jobs to bright science students whose names he cannot pronounce.

• Kraft Foods introduces Cole Whip, an “ebony confection” to rival Nutella, runs focus groups at Alcatraz, the 2012 home of Occupy Oakland.

• J. Cole and NBA star Josh “J-Smoov” Smith create premium ice cream truck startup “Cole n’ Smoove.”

•Premium clothier Cole Haan posts astronomical 1st quarter profits, don’t get.

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Music writing can be illuminating and a incisive, or it can be obnoxious and a pretentiously in-jokey, or it can just ju be dumb. But it’s usually pretty s self-serious: it exists because someo privileged their own opinion one e enough to write it down and share w others. It is rarely humorous, with except e in a second-order, wow-IanCohen-is-a-douche C sort of way.

All of which makes Big Ghost, a a.k.a.

Cocaine Biceps, Phantom R Raviolis or Hands of Zeus, so exceptionally c awesome. His blog, Big G Ghost Chronicles, is to rap circa 2011 2 what Hipster Runoff was to s scare quotes in 2009, except bette ter—straight-faced criticism from a p patently absurd perspective.

The Ghost persona—the author remains anonymous—is the embodiment of hip-hop purism, and his raison d’etre is a crusade against softness in all forms in hip-hop. Unsurprisingly, Big Ghost Chronicles takes a pretty hard line on Drake, whom he refers to variously as “the Kitten Whisperer,” “Young Garnier Fructis,” and “the human croissant.” And he’s actually at his best when pantomiming lyrics from other rappers; in a post that claimed to have unearthed the lyrics to a secret Lil Wayne joint, he wrote, “I am a a-li-en, maybe I’m a cybawrg/See me on my motorbike with b*****s in my sidecar,” absolutely nailing Weezy’s codeine-overdose affect as well as his recent penchant for lazily absurd and absurdly lazy wordplay.

Ghost shares many of my predilections about rap music, but he’s much funnier about them than I am—profane, ingenious, with a knack for providing appropriate captions for pictures of Aubrey Graham in less-than-intimidating poses. So here’s the rub about all this—what if the

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real Ghost is white?

It’s certainly not impossible. Hip-hop glossy Source was founded by a couple of lily-white Harvard bros, and they weren’t even trying to remain anonymous. There’s no evidence to suggest that Ghost is white, of course, but there’s also nothing (beyond the impropriety of a white guy using the African-American slurs so liberally, which, under the guise of an obviously exaggerated Internet avatar, would be highly offensive but not particularly shocking) to suggest he isn’t white.

If Ghost is like, actually white, I think the whole thing would be ruined for me—I simply wouldn’t be able to read the words with the same enthusiasm. In and of itself, that’s revelatory of a remarkably close-minded and contradictory approach to hip-hop. On the one hand, I love rap music; on the other, I hate—hate—to be one of those white dudes who loves rap music.

I don’t think this is caused by an adverse reaction to the American tradition of white people co-opting black art forms. I like the Rolling Stones now, and probably would have liked them even more in their heyday, when they were basically doing their Eminem thing on the B.B. King catalog. It has more to do with the disconnect between the world of rap music and the world I actually live in; bridging that gap is like somewhere between “trying way too hard” and “straight-up ignorant fakery.”

A friend of mine (also white, but I have black friends too, I swear) recently told me he was recording eight bars for J. Bully’s hiphop appreciation class. “I wanna rap, too!” was my first thought, closely followed by, “Man, I don’t wanna be a white rapper.” It may be ignorant, but my perception of hiphop is so bound up in race that I’ll always be more of a spectator than an active participant—Sideline Story, I guess.

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CAM exhibits focus on texture, identity

by Michaela Dwyer THE CHRONICLE

In a way, CAM Raleigh (Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh) resembles a split-level house. An expansive top-floor exhibition space spills into connecting middle ground; beneath it are interconnected gallery rooms. Echoing this preoccupation with the creative potential of space and the ways in which physical properties interact, CAM’s two current exhibitions, Deep Surface: Contemporary Ornament and Pattern and ID:ENTITY: Self: Perception + Reality, challenge how we engage with art on a surface level. When we encounter unique sculptures, do we want to touch them? Can clothing take on meaning beyond wearability and aesthetic decoration? How do we construct our identity through the objects, physical and digital, that surround and engulf us?

Deep Surface addresses these questions up front. Entering the exhibition, you immediately see different manifestations of “ornament,” which the exhibition defends as a “communicative, functional and desirable form of cultural expression.” Wiry sculptures abut cases filled with tea china; large-scale photographs depict modern buildings designed like gaudy, multi-colored gingerbread houses. From the exhibition’s diverse media, you glean that the curators’ idea of “ornament” has an interdisciplinary leaning rather than rigid classification. Organized into six sections— “Amplification,” “Everyday,” “Kit-of-Parts,” “Inheritances,” “Elaboration” and “Fantasy”—Deep Surface plays with its own internal categorization as a way to re-think how art lives up to and simultaneously breaks down definitions and assumptions.

In one corner of the exhibition, a collection of pieces illustrates how art traditionally deemed “decorative” or “ornamental” transcends its derogatory connotations. Inscribed across an entire wall, the sentence, “Ornament is meant to be read” confronts viewers with its capitalization and large typeface. The work—by Dutch artist Hansje van Halem and called Doily Type—is most remarkable, however, for its embellished typeface. Each letter is made up of swirling patterns, and when considered from afar, the work seems equal parts Fabergé egg and magnified cell bacteria.

The holistic result is both puzzling and powerful. Decorative form battles simple, directive content proposing that the art we typically discard as “ornamental” could, and should, require deeper intellectual engagement. There is more, so to speak, below the surface—or perhaps the surface itself is complex and beguiling.

Nearby is Clare Page and Harry Richardson’s tripartite sculptural piece Love (Blossoms). Made with Lladró porcelain figurine couples, the work lives up to its title: minia-

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ture glass flowers on the figurines’ faces inhibit physical embrace but make the piece more texturally dynamic.

Page and Richardson point toward the same tension in van Halem’s piece—when does adornment or decoration become inhibitive for artistic meaning, and when does it actually enhance our ability to engage with art? Mario Minale and Kuniko Maeda’s Delfts Toast Pan & Plate further

probes this question. At first glance, the work seems nothing more than a plate and toaster pan from your grandmother’s blue-and-white antique English pottery collection. Look closely, though, and you’ll notice a black print oozed onto the bread as if the aluminum leaf-and-flower pattern intended more than decoration. The toast’s branded pattern, traditional in form yet abstract in color, takes the piece out of its decorative context to propose something more unusual and atemporal.

ID:ENTITY: Self: Perception + Reality poses interesting questions related to the self and society. Conflating the impulsive-driven id with a non-specific “entity,” the exhibition features digital works that use audience participation to question digital identity and how our bodies respond to the internet. In Synchronous Objects, by Maria Palazzi and Norah Zuniga-Shaw in collaboration with experimental ballet choreographer William Forsythe, dancers move at breakneck speed atop, beneath and around several tables in a warehouse. Throughout the video, the screen goes black, reducing the dancers to multi-colored lines representing their movements and gesticulations. The piece flirts with formal simplicity even as it requires extremely developed methods of digital documentation, transforming our traditional conceptions of bodies moving in space.

The piece ponders whether this is what our generation, so absorbed by the internet, will leave behind as well.

Some pieces in ID:ENTITY have a more political bent than those of Deep Surface, keeping the exhibition relevant through targeted commentary rather than solely digital experimentation. The Ladder, by Lee Cherry, Patrick FitzGerald, Daniel Lunk and James Martin, fuses video projection and pen drawing to mirror a pinball game with buzzwords like “job market” and “the 1%.” Via video, a ball hurtles through the maze, meeting its fate within these arbitrary categories. Beyond its socio-political resonance, the piece speaks to Deep Surface’s consideration of what lies beneath societal definitions and generalizations. Both exhibitions, while varied in artistic medium, take a closer look at how we inhabit our world—in a tactile and an intellectual sense—on perceived levels of depth and superficiality.

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breaking dawn, pt. 1 DIR. BILL CONDON SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT

I normally enjoy doing background research for Recess stories. Reviewing an album gives you a chance to engage meaningfully with a band’s catalog. The same goes for film reviews—in order to contextualize your opinion, you familiarize yourself with the work of the director and the actors. It’s at these times, when I’m discovering a new artist for the sake of a story, that I relish my work. Researching The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Pt. I was not one of these times.

Perhaps, I thought before I started, this series might surprise me. After all, the films together have earned over $2 billion and the books have sold nearly 150 million copies. A franchise couldn’t possibly achieve such staggering success without possessing a few redeeming qualities.

Could it?

With a perverse curiosity I checked out the first three films from the library, borrowed the novels from a friend’s younger sister, and hurled myself headlong into the world of Bella, Edward and Jacob. What I found was, well, putrid and tedious. I will admit that I only read the first half of Twilight and the first half of Breaking Dawn. Yet even this much was excruciating. Though I am far from erudite, I know good writing when I see it. So when faced with such analogies as “the smell hit me like a rotten tomato to the face” and chapter titles like “The Two Things at the Very Top of My Things-INever-Want-to-Do List,” I don’t know whether to weep for the pre-teen generation or thank my stars they can still read.

And the film adaptations are little more than expensive soap operas that make the fatal mistake of buying into their own gravity. It’s tabloid cinema, not filmmaking.

For the three people who don’t know the story thus far: Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), an angst-ridden high school girl from Phoenix, moves in with her dad in the remote town of Forks, Washington, and falls in love with a gorgeous vampire named Edward Cullen (Robert

Pattinson). Unfortunately, Bella’s best friend Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) is also in love with her, and is a member of the native werewolf tribe, the Quileute.

There is an uneasy truce between the Cullens and the Quileute, but Bella and Edward’s relationship threatens to reignite their centuries-old feud. Also, and most importantly, Bella and Edward can’t have sex because Edward was born in the Victorian era and has antiquated notions of chastity. So the two star-cross’d lovers decide to consecrate their eternal teenage love and tie the knot. Which brings us to Breaking Dawn, Pt. I. The film opens with a lavish wedding ceremony. The supporting cast is woven together in a surprisingly charming toast montage—Billy Burke and the woefully underutilized Anna Kendrick as Bella’s father Charlie and her friend Jessica, respectively, steal the scene with their speeches. Sadly, though, this is where the fun ends, as the story dissolves quickly into melodrama. Jacob makes a surprise appearance at the reception but throws a fit when he learns that Bella intends to sleep with her husband on their honeymoon. The couple then embark on said honeymoon, on a private island off the coast of Brazil, and finally engage in the act it’s taken three installments to reach— again, and again, and again. Ah, but this is not the euphoric catharsis it ought to be. Wracked with guilt over his lack of caution—he mangles the bedframe and leaves Bella covered in bruises—Edward succumbs to self-loathing and spoils the occasion. What’s more, they find to their horror that Bella is pregnant, and the baby is not entirely human. It is growing too rapidly and is literally draining the life from her, so they rush home to Edward’s family for treatment. When the Quileute learn of the pregnancy, they decide they must break the treaty and eliminate Bella and her unholy offspring. The Cullens are now forced to defend Edward’s dying wife from an onslaught of werewolves.

Bella eventually gives birth, but only survives due to Edward’s venom; at the conclusion of the film, she is a vampire.

Director Bill Condon has demonstrated in past films like 2004’s Kinsey and 1998’s Gods & Monsters that he is capable of subtlety. In Breaking Dawn, Pt. I, however, he foregoes any tendency toward

restraint. The sweeping score saturates virtually every scene, lending a comic intensity to trivial events; the sex scenes are as salacious as the PG-13 rating will allow; and the birth of Bella’s daughter is a frenzied, bloody mess, replete with an incomprehensible impromptu C-section that far exceeds the novel in detail. In attempting to capture the intensity of the crucial scene, Condon mistakes chaos for urgency. He also mishandles the pacing of the story at large, dwelling endlessly on the honeymoon fleshcapade while racing through key plot turns like Jacob’s ascension to Alpha werewolf. The film jerks and stalls like a new driver learning a stick shift.

The acting from the three stars is decidedly one-note, consisting mostly of furrowed brows and choked anguish.

But then, it’s not my impression that anyone sees these films for the performances. What Stewart, Pattinson and Lautner do well is look toned and beautiful, providing sumptuous visual treats for their young, largely female audience.

Ultimately, though, the film’s greatest flaw is its source material. No directing or acting or cinematography could salvage a story that reads like the diary of a homeschooled 14-year-old. Not to mention that the contradictions present in Meyer’s text—the fetishizing of marriage, debilitating sexual guilt, the complete absence of contraceptives— are magnified when projected on screen.

It’s as though Meyer is using this series to rationalize her own Victorian notions of sexuality without considering the harm it may do to her legions of young fans.

What kind of message does it send when Bella, faced with a hazardous pregnancy that is going to kill her, refuses to consider alternatives?

I shudder to think that this kind of moralistic drivel passes as young adult fiction. There is so much better work in the genre—Orson Scott Card, C.S. Lewis, hell, even J.K. Rowling—that Twilight is hardly deserving of our critical attention.

I look forward to the inevitable day when Meyer’s “saga” is nothing more than an object of ridicule on VHI’s “I Love the 2000s.”

—Josh Stillman

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“Time has not been kind to old movies,” explains film historian Rene Tabard about halfway through Hugo, Martin Scorsese’s new 3D family film, at which point the director himself steps in to take up that mantle.

Hugo is, among other things, Scorsese’s love letter to old French cinema, eventually revealing itself to be less about a boy living in a train station and more about French filmmaker and “cinemagician” George Melies (Ben Kingsley).

Melies, the inventor of the stop trick technique in cinema, was making films as early as 1896, and by 1914 had completed over 500 silent films. World War I, however, saw the inventor of special effects lapse into obscurity, as his films were melted down for their chemical components and he was forced into bankruptcy.

Scorsese, in portraying Melies, cleverly picks up with him there, as a forgotten old man who works in a train station toy store and struggles to keep his memories of the past from surfacing again. In fact, Scorsese mimics the historical record exactly, waiting to reveal the true identity of his character until he is rediscovered and reestablished within the academy by the historian Tabard, a synecdoche for the film itself. Tabard brings Melies the recognition he deserves, casting him back into the spotlight at the same time as Scorsese moves away from young Hugo and refocuses the film around Melies as the true protagonist, even

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Melancholia is not a good movie. At least, not in the sense that it has a protagonist that you root for and a narrative arc of triumph over adversity that leaves the characters better off than they were before. Not all good films must conform to these conventions, but in order to provide entertainment and fulfillment to an audience, most of them do.

But film is also an art form, and one of the primary goals of art is to provide an altered version of reality that allows us to understand our own world – the “real” reality – in a way we couldn’t before. And, as a work of art, Melancholia—the latest feature film from controversial Antichrist auteur Lars von Trier—shines.

The film revolves around the melancholic bride Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and her seemingly hyper-rational sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), as the former makes every attempt to sabotage the lavish wedding that was painstakingly planned by the latter.

In the first act, “Justine,” we progress through what is perhaps the most uncomfortable wedding in cinematic history. Through this experience, we come to understand in the most visceral way what abject depression is like—not

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incorporating archival footage of the director’s famous 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, among many others.

But Scorsese’s nod to his predecessors, and contemporaries, does not end there, as the form of his film is steeped in the footprints of those who came before him.

By including the archival footage of Melies’s A Trip to the Moon, Scorsese employs cinema in the telling of its own history, in much the same way that Jean-Luc Godard does in his polemical, six-hour long 1998 film Histoire(s) du Cinema.

Furthermore, the way in which Scorsese plays and replays footage of the Lumiere brothers’ self-explanatory 1896 film The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station—which sent 19th century audiences running for the exits as the train barreled toward the screen—before actually depicting his own trail derailment, echoes the literalization of metaphor that so famously characterizes the beginning of the 1929 surrealist film Un Chien Andalou. And Hugo, like much of European cinema, refuses to forget the wars of the twentieth century: throughout the film, Inspector Gustav (Sacha Baron Cohen) ambles along on his war-torn leg, its corrective mechanical apparatus continually squeaking and reminding the audience that war has always had an invasive place in the theater.

It is somewhat odd that Scorsese chooses to celebrate cinema’s craftiest filmmaker, who used to hand-paint each frame of film to produce the illusion of color, with a special effect as sweeping and impersonal as 3D film has come to be. Still, though, the initiated will enjoy picking up on Scorsese’s many references almost as much as the director himself appears to have enjoyed crafting them.

—Chris Bassil

because we are told about it, but because we feel it. Every ostensible feature of the wedding is perfect—the decor, the food, the setting—and we are right there with Claire and her husband John (Kiefer Sutherland) in thinking, “Okay, Justine, just smile and be happy about it.” But even though everything looks right, it all feels wrong. From Justine’s marriage-hating mother (Charlotte Rampling) to her drunken father (John Hurt) to her tactless boss (Stellan Skarsgard), there is a lurking eeriness behind the whole event. We feel the irrationality of depression and are made to understand that it does not follow the simple model of “Get what you want, be happy.” We are at once frustrated with but understanding of Justine’s sadness, and it makes us uneasy.

In the second act, “Claire,” the looming shadow of doubt is made literal, as it is more concretely revealed that an unknown planet will pass by Earth in an unprecedented cosmic event. That is, unless the two planets collide. Now even the sensible Claire, who is nearly driven to madness by the approaching planet, knows the feeling of helplessness, of an all-consuming fear.

The success of Melancholia is its ability to make even the most hopeful experience hopelessness and to make even the very rational feel a chasmal pit in the stomach. And then, just when it has brought you down, it will make you see the beauty in the end of the world.

—Derek Speranza

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DJ/rupture set marks a Duke Coffeeehouse first: dubstep

by Dan fishman Tonight, the Duke Coffeehouse need not pay its busboys: DJ/rupture will be turning the tables.

There may be no artist better prepared to transform the Coffeehouse into a house party than Brooklyn’s Jace Clayton, a.k.a. DJ/rupture. Clayton integrates eclectic musical influences—New York hip-hop, Latin American cumbia and North African folk—to create music that plays as comfortably when accompanying the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (Clayton once performed as a turntable soloist with the 80-person ensemble) as it does blasting in the dance halls of Kingston. His mixtapes transition seamlessly between spacious Caribbean ragga and dense UK breakcore beats. His performances are practical, foottapping lessons in ethnomusicology.

“I try to push the turntable’s possibilities,” Clayton said.

Clayton has a knack for finding sources of music often unheard in today’s electronic era. Unlike most DJs, Rupture prefers not to scour the internet for new music.

Instead, he travels the world and scours old record stores, always keeping an ear to the ground for the best local tunes—his recent visit to Mexico scored him a few treasured cumbia albums.

“For me, being a DJ is much less about compulsive downloading than about piecing records together in a new way,” Clayton said.

Despite sampling from age-old musical genres, Rupture’s re-combinations never come across as retro. If anything, his mixes sound futuristic, anticipating how Caribbean and African music might incorporate electronica 30 years from now.

Dubstep, at least in its most popular iterations, has the reputation of being too crass, preferring outlandish bass drops to artistic restraint. Rupture breaks the mold, producing a brand of dubstep that maintains critical acclaim.

As a result, his audience is a mixed bag: some are pulled

in by his worldliness, others by the visceral nature of his propulsive beats.

Opening band Lemonade shares Rupture’s sophisticated approach to dance music.

“We have a similar aesthetic,” said Lemonade drummer Alex Pasternak. “We’re both doing a lot with UK hardcore. But we also share an interest in ethnic music: Brazilian, Caribbean and Turkish.”

Tonight’s performance breaks from traditional Coffeehouse concert offerings. While electronic bands perform frequently—including Blackbird, Blackbird and Baths this past spring—Lemonade and DJ /rupture offer the Coffeehouse’s first dubstep concert.

“The show will be more dance-oriented than most of our performances,” said Adelyn Wyngaarden, booking manager for the Coffeehouse. “The dubstep should be a nice release from all of the stress of finals and papers.”

“The basic goal is to get folks moving,” Clayton said.

DJ/rupture and Lemonade will perform at the Duke Coffeehouse on East Campus tonight at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10 for general admission and free for students and are sold at the door.

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In a recent Slate.com article, in-house pop critic Jonah Weiner mercilessly attacked Rihanna’s success, questioning her substance and authenticity on and off her albums, and ultimately labeling her a “a one hit-wonder several dozen times over.” It’s a provocative (and mathematically dubious) comment that sounds a bit naive in a current pop climate that expects reinvention with every release. While the Barbadian pop princesss isn’t beyond reproach, the criticism seems more appropriate for her contemporaries, who drench themselves in glitter, create impotent alter egos or morph into cartoonish caricatures of themselves. But Rihanna’s aesthetic is more red lipstick than red meat dress. Talk That Talk, Rihanna’s sixth studio album, demonstrates that she does have the capacity to sound genuine, even if that means showcasing the overconfident missteps of a 23-year old celebrity.

Cementing Rihanna’s bawdy bad-girl reputation that she began with Rated R’s “Rude Boy” and continued with Loud’s “S&M,” Talk That Talk overflows with lyrics about love, sex and conflating the two. On the Europop-infused “Where Have You Been,” Rihanna is characteristically upfront in her desires, singing “I’ve been everywhere, man, looking for someone/ Someone who can please me, love me all night long.” She is similarly suggestive on “Watch n’ Learn,” a percussion-driven chant where Rihanna, in her sometime-Caribbean delivery, declares, “Imma do it, do it, do it on the bed, on the floor, on the couch/ Only ‘cause your lips say make it to my mouth.”

Rihanna is at her best when she opts for love-drugged vulnerability or brazen sexuality, as shown in her cathartic, Calvin Harris-produced single “We Found Love” and the lusty deluxe addition track “Red Lipstick,” respectively. Her downfall, however, comes when she tries to stretch these emotions beyond believability. “Fool in Love” leaves Rihanna uncomfortably exposed in her reliance on affection, and “Cockiness (Love It)” is laughable in its attempt at wordplay—lines like “Suck my cockiness/ Lick my persuasion” sound contrived, as if she was using the wrong playbook.

On Talk That Talk, Rihanna is trying to establish a particular image that she occasionally explored on previous albums: She is raunchy, she is passionate, she is driven and, on her handful of standout tracks, she makes us believe her.

—Katie Zaborsky

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Tonight in Knoxville, Tenn., Duke hopes to kick-start another deep NCAA tournament run to follow up on last year’s quarterfinal appearance.

The Blue Devils (21-8) will face fourteenth-seeded Tennessee at 7 p.m. in hostile territory at Thompson-Boling Arena for the first round of this year’s tournament.

Duke comes into Blue the tilt on a fourDevils match winning streak, vs. including a Nov. 13 Lady victory against thenVols No. 17 Florida State.

The team found out THURSDAY, 7 p.m.

Thompson-Boling Arena Sunday it would be traveling to Knoxville in the opening round.

The Lady Volunteers (27-3) enter the contest with a 12-match winning streak and an SEC championship.

“They’re a very good team, and they’ve had a great year, so I think it’s going to be an exciting match,” Blue Devils’ head coach Jolene Nagel said. “We have some seniors who have been playing since they were freshmen on the court, and they’re excited for this challenge.

“I do think our team rises to the challenge, and we certainly will do that this weekend.”

Tennessee head coach Robert Patrick echoed Nagel’s sentiments, saying that he expects a very strong performance from Duke and thinks the match will be a

competitive one.

“I think both teams are playing at a really high level right now,” Patrick said.

“You can’t really concentrate on any one hitter against Duke because they have a great, experienced setter who really sets a lot of different people in their offense. We’re going to have to really play very disciplined defense, and we’re not going to know where they’re going to go to at times.”

Patrick also brought up the experience the Blue Devils have on their side. Duke features a starting team full of upperclassmen, including many who saw action in last year’s quarterfinal run, while Tennessee features a lineup of mostly freshmen and sophomores. “[Duke is] comfortable going on the road playing against very good teams and winning in the NCAA tournament,” Patrick said. “There isn’t anything we’re going to do that is going to rattle them, and they’re a very good volleyball team that plays the game very well and doesn’t make a lot of errors.”

Despite having strong leadership and veterans on their side, the Blue Devils are not overlooking their younger opponents and know they must counter the Lady Volunteers’ physicality on the court.

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MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY: SEASON IN REVIEW

Blue Devils make the best of rebuilding year Team finishes fourth in the conference

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For a team that had lost some of its most outstanding athletes to graduation, Duke started off the 2011 season with remarkably high goals. Among other things, head coach Norm Ogilvie and his runners looked forward to building on the momentum created by the 2010 team’s success and trying to earn a top-15 finish at the NCAA championship.

Despite these ambitions, however, the season did not go exactly as planned. In addition to the upperclassmen lost to graduation, Duke lost three more of its most experienced runners—James Kostelnik, Clint McKelvey and Mike Moverman—to injury. The attrition forced younger runners to step up and try to fill the vacant spots at high-level meets and, in the end, caused the team to fall short of its high expectations. Looking

back though, the Blue Devils are still proud of what they accomplished given the circumstances.

“Anytime you lose four seniors from a top-20 national team you’ll probably characterize it as a rebuilding year,” Ogilvie said. “We had a lot to replace…. We didn’t anticipate getting those guys hurt.

I think we did well considering what we had to put out there.”

Despite missing so many of its top runners, Duke was still able to pull off an improved performance at the ACC championship Oct. 29. The previous year, Bo Waggoner led the team to its fifth-place finish as he made history by placing in the top-ten individually for four years in a row. This year, seniors Andrew Brodeur and Stephen Clark managed to lead the team to fourth SEE MEN’S XC ON PAGE 6

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Freshman Elizabeth Williams leads the Blue Devils in both points and rebounds per game.

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After a close loss to then-No. 4 Notre Dame in the Bahamas last Saturday, the No. 7 Blue Devils (4-1) are back home with no time to relax. Duke will host No. 13 Purdue (6-0) tonight at 7 p.m. in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Blue Devils’ head coach Joanne P. McCallie is excited about the opportunity to compete against a nationally ranked opponent for the second consecutive game, particularly after her squad was painfully close to upsetting the Fighting Irish.

“We really benefited from playing an NCAA-type game in November,” McCallie said. “In the first half [after which Duke led by 16], we displayed great poise, execution and focus.... We’re not very happy though, because [in the second half] we didn’t close something we thought we could close.”

The Blue Devils will have a chance to avenge their second-half stumble against the Boilermakers, who play a similar style to the Fighting Irish, McCallie said.

“Elements that we’d been getting ready for against Notre Dame, we’ve also been preparing for this week,” McCallie said.

Like Notre Dame, Purdue’s offense

features a talented group of guards. The Boilermakers are led by senior Brittany Rayburn, who averages a team-high 15.3 points per game on 48.4-percent shooting, and redshirt sophomore KK Houser, who averages 10.8 points and 3.7 assists per contest.

Duke’s own starting backcourt will not be at full strength for tonight’s contest.

The team announced Tuesday that senior Shay Selby, who had been averaging 6.2 points and 3.0 assists per game, has been suspended indefinitely for an unspecified violation of team rules. Selby’s loss will place a greater burden on starting guards Chelsea Gray and Chloe Wells, who both average just over 10 points per game. Sophomore sharpshooter Tricia Liston could also see her role expanded in Selby’s absence.

The biggest challenge the Blue Devils may face is the Boilermakers’ aggressive, physical defense, which has allowed a Big Ten-best 46 points per game this season.

Duke’s second-half struggles against Notre Dame, McCallie said, were precipitated by the Fighting Irish’s increased physicality on the defensive end.

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“They are a big team, a great attacking team and they have an excellent setter who gets her hitters the ball, so us being able to touch balls on the block will be very important so we can play some defense.”

This is the Blue Devils’ seventh straight NCAA tournament appearance, and the team is seeking to add to its tally

of 12 tournament wins, the best mark of any ACC school.

“It’s exciting to know that Duke has earned that recognition,” said Nagel, who has led Duke to a tournament berth in 10 of her 13 seasons in Durham. “[The players] want more on their resume, and I think that’s what motivates them and what makes Duke such a special place because the people want to be challenged and want to go after it.”

If the Blue Devils notch the victory, they will face the winner of Ohio State and Middle Tennessee Friday in Knoxville.

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Duke can expect an entire game of intense defense from the Boilermakers, and its best tool for countering that pressure may be freshman Elizabeth Williams. The 6-foot-3 center has quickly emerged as a force in the paint for the Blue Devils, averaging a team-high 12.4 points and 8.0 rebounds per game.

“Elizabeth is unique in that her age really isn’t a factor at this point,” McCallie said. “She’s already starting to see double teams, which is really unusual for a freshman at this level.”

Above all, the Blue Devils are excited to return to Cameron Indoor Stadium, where they hope the crowd will help propel them to victory. While the sunny, tropical climate of the Bahamas made for a nice diversion, Duke is eager to return to its home court.

“It feels like we’ve been gone for months,” McCallie said. “We can’t wait to come back and play in Cameron, and we hope we get a lot of support.”

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“We had big shoes to fill… and like the girls’ team we were hampered by injuries,” Brodeur said. “But I ran my fastest times out of all four of the years I was here. I can’t walk away from it terribly disappointed.”

Brodeur also mentioned that one of his personal goals for the season had been serving as a guide for the younger runners on the team, particularly those in the freshman class. The senior listed that goal as something he achieved over the course of the season.

For the new runners, however, the most helpful tool gained was experience. One of the main sources that both Ogilvie and his runners cited as a cause for the team’s inability to live up to its ambitions was the loss of veteran runners from previous seasons. On a positive note, because those runners were not present, more underclassmen were forced to compete at a high level and earn their own experience.

“I feel a little bit disappointed,” freshman Morgan Pearson said. “As a team, we wanted to make nationals and we didn’t. I wish I could do my part a little better.

But as an individual I think I learned a lot. It was more experience for me.”

The team hopes this progression in its younger runners will translate into more successful seasons in the coming years. And even though the Blue Devils did not end this year’s season quite where they had hoped, they were still able to walk away satisfied.

“I think it was a good season,” Ogilvie said. “I don’t have any regrets whatsoever. We had a good year. If we have a couple things go differently, we have a great year.

We did a lot of good things. We’ll certainly shoot to do better next year, but that’s because every year you shoot to do better.”

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Pass the buck Duke, like many top uni- will examine the personal versities, sometimes operates motivations that drive us to much like a factory: it inputs become investment bankers smart and well-intentioned and consultants. kids, and churns out instruThe unabated flow of Duke ments for the Wall Street students into finance repremachine.

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it also spurs little growth and can place the entire economy at risk. Indeed, any argument for the value—economic or social—of the financial sector must rest on the ability of financial institutions to coordinate capital and foster innovative business ventures that produce wealth and create jobs. These arguments assume that the financial sector is only valuable insofar as it contributes to other more valuable areas.

Given the relative unproductiveness of the financial sector, graduates who pursue careers in finance or consulting sacrifice an opportunity to apply their unique intelligence and ingenuity to tackle the innumerable challenges we face as a country. Tacitly conceding the questionable

value of the financial sector, many students view entering the world of finance as a stepping stone to a more socially benign career; they accept that Wall Street may place its own interests over those of the public, but justify a stint on the dark side by telling themselves that, after a few hefty paychecks, they will move back to Houston to teach middle-school history.

It sounds nice, but the highpaying, status-elevating career path of finance has the tendency to entice and ensnare, making a cold-turkey exit next to impossible.

Entrepreneurial pursuits and careers in public service offer the most opportunity for graduates to do good. If more smart people pursue jobs oriented toward creat-

ing socially-valuable products and services or commit themselves to developing solutions to educational or environmental problems, society will improve in ways that trading in mortgage-backed securities will never achieve. We encourage students headed for Wall Street to stray from that tired road, but recognize the institutional, parental and social pressures that compel many to pursue careers in finance and consulting. Although these careers promise security, wealth and status, we believe that Duke students can do better. Those who choose another path have the power to improve society in lasting and meaningful ways. We hope that they will.

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he dreams of a student are fragile. They re- are. We observe to see what the student body might quire nourishment, and Duke as an insti- qualify as that elusive college or life version of “suctution undoubtedly provides a great deal. cess.” And in our desire to be successful that is But we’d be remiss if we were to exactly what we proceed to mimic. accept carte blanche that dreams What’s extracurricular success? It’s require only nourishment. On the being elected to DSG, writing for contrary, they also require a great The Chronicle, or starting your own deal of protection. And we’d be student organization. What’s career/ negligent to think there isn’t anyinternship success? It’s interning for thing during an undergraduate’s a top-tier bank or consulting firm. four years at Duke that poses a What’s academic success? It’s getting threat to a student realizing his or those three digits as high as you can daniel strunk her ultimate life aspirations. make them. a fly on the wall I’d like to elaborate on one such The siren call to default on your peril for you—the largest I think dreams and replace them with the Duke students face. For lack of a better term, I norm is such a dangerous one because of the elushall call this peril “dream defaulting.” sive nature of defining success. In our valiant and Many students set foot on Duke’s campus with understandable effort to be as successful in our lives a pre-conceived path laid out before them—they as possible, it is alluring to grow impatient in our know what their dreams are. Other students set search or struggle to find or achieve our dream. It’s foot on Duke’s campus with no such pre-con- appealing to default to those well-trodden pathways ceived path laid before them. But ultimately, they immediately deemed elite by society, whether it is a know they might be in the perfect place to figure certain career or a certain major. It’s attractive and it all out. significantly easier to be conventional, much more No matter which student you might be though, difficult to be uniquely true to yourself. you will inevitably face the siren call to “dream deBut dream defaulting is the ultimate disservice. fault.” Simply put, it’s very hard to come to Duke Success cannot be defined by anyone but you. Sucand not succumb to letting your dreams be de- cess means different things to different people. It fined for you. might be happiness or money or raising children Dream defaulting takes different forms. If or knowledge. But there is no converging answer. you’re the type of student that knows his or her And it is a great mistake to let someone else delife aspiration already, dream defaulting entails fine success for you, because in so doing you allow giving up on your ambition, defaulting to a differ- them to define your dream. Successfully achievent one. If you’re the type of student that doesn’t ing your calling is not I-banking or consulting or know his or her life aspiration yet, it entails giving Teach for America or summa cum laude or anyup on discovering what your real calling might be, thing else—unless that’s what you, deep down in defaulting to a well-trodden path and forsaking your introspective soul-searching self, deem to be what might have been. your calling. What you, more than anything else, Paradoxically, the result of dream defaulting is deem to be success. And success very well might our extreme desire to be successful. You see, suc- be all those things to you. It very well might be cess is hard to define, indeed, nearly impossibly so I-banking! But just be certain that that’s indeed at Duke. But yet we’re all students that are used to your version of success. succeeding. Indeed, we’re students obsessed with Simply put, pursuing your own dream, or even succeeding, who suddenly find ourselves at Duke— finding it, is hard. Resisting “dream defaulting” is outside of a system with clearly defined routes to hard. It takes fortitude. It takes courage. But it’s success. “Success” in high school was more or less worth doing. It’s worth the wait, and it’s worth the a linearly defined pathway leading to college—one struggle. Dreams are fragile things—they’re easily that we all trod. Now we’re at Duke and what do we lost, and they’re easily replaced. It’s easy to condo to continue to be successful? Where do we go? vince yourself that someone else’s dream is your And our impatience to discover this success—the dream. Dreams must be protected as well as nourimpatience to discover the meaning we desperately ished. And as much as Duke provides the nourishneed to define our ultimate pursuits—makes it dif- ment, you must provide the protection. Because ficult not to grow tired of redefinition and intro- quite frankly, at the end of the day, no one is ever spection. We need success and we need it now. It’s going to do it for you. something that can’t wait.

So many of us do an intuitively rational thing; Daniel Strunk is a Trinity sophomore. This is his fiwe cast around to see what the Duke societal norms nal column of the semester.

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The fairness of trade

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he Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement, passed in October by the U.S. Congress and last week by the National Assembly of South Korea, was seen as a political victory for President Obama’s push to revive the U.S. economy. But it produced winners and losers; the picture is a nuanced one. “[This trade agreement] will significantly boost American exports, support tens of thousands of American jobs and protect labor rights, the environment and intellectual property,” said the White House. jessica kim First signed in the Bush administraout of the fishbowl tion, it was widely criticized by both Democratic and Republican lawmakers as well as interest groups who contended that the deal did not do enough to open Korea’s auto or beef markets.

Through the 1990s, demand for Korean auto exports of small, gas-efficient cars grew in the U.S. due to the rising cost of gas. By the 2000s, Korea was the fifth largest producer and fourth largest exporter of motor vehicles in the world. U.S. autos’ import penetration in Korea, however, remained low. In explaining the trade imbalance, U.S. auto companies have targeted Korean tax and regulatory policies. The Bush-era agreement was criticized by the U.S. “Big Three”—Ford, Chrysler and General Motors (though GM remained more neutral since it owned the South Korean auto company Daewoo)—as not going far enough in dismantling Korea’s protectionist barriers to U.S. cars. How much of the problem was in Korea’s tax and regulatory policies versus a lack of market demand for larger, less gas-efficient American autos at the time is unclear.

As for beef, though the Bush-era agreement eliminated Korean tariffs on U.S. meat products, it did not remove a ban Korea imposed on U.S. beef, which Korea imposed in 2003 after a case of mad cow disease was found in Washington state due to concerns about the safety of U.S. beef. These two issues of autos and beef effectively tabled the agreement through the rest of President Bush’s term.

Obama, the presidential candidate, largely opposed the agreement, calling it a “badly flawed” agreement in an economic sense, but also assumed a more populist tone. “It’s a Washington where decades of trade deals like NAFTA and China have been signed with plenty of protections for corporations and their profits, but none for our environment or our workers who’ve seen factories shut their doors and millions of jobs disappear; workers whose right to organize and unionize has been under assault for the last eight years,” Obama said in February of 2008.

When he entered the White House, however, he distanced himself from the populist talk about corporations and NAFTA and lost jobs, and he focused on the specific barriers to passing the agreement. With an unemployment rate of 10 percent at six months in office and dropping approval ratings, all indicators pointed to a need for decisive action on the economy or face the political consequences. In June 2010, Obama set a deadline of the next G-20 meeting in Seoul to renegotiate a revised agreement with Korea.

The revised agreement won major concessions for the U.S. auto industry. In came the support of the Big Three—Ford, Chrysler, General Motors—as well as the United Auto Workers. House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., and ranking member Sander Levin, D-Mich., reversed their positions to support the agreement that would give a much-needed boost to the U.S. auto industry. Obama later promised the U.S. beef industry that he would pursue further bilateral talks with Korea, which won the support of beef producers and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana. With their support secured, Obama won over on-the-fence Democrats by defending their condition to pass Trade Adjustment Assistance, a program that provides aid to workers whose jobs were lost due to free trade.

The agreement is far from a win-win. There were losers such as the domestic U.S. textile or rice industry or displaced American workers whose voices were lost in the process.

But one thing to be said is that free trade agreements such as these can serve a broader diplomatic and geopolitical role beyond the immediate and long-term economic benefits they reap. The world is churning with new rising nations like China and India, and the days of the U.S. being the one super power in the world are numbered. Maybe it’s not such a bad thing. The U.S. can still maintain its competitive edge while increasingly engaging with the rest of the world in a reciprocal manner, such as through trade. Doing so will aid the economy here while extending U.S. presence to key areas such as the Asia-Pacific region. It builds upon diplomatic ties with allies and guards against regional threats in a non-threatening manner. In that sense, the Korea Free Trade Agreement was an unequivocal step in the right direction.

Jessica Kim is a Trinity senior. This is her final column of the semester.

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America’s darkest home videos

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he pen may be mightier than the sword, but for sharing videos. In a matter of hours, a video can the video camera trumps them both. go from seldom-viewed to viral. The UC Davis inciAs tensions between law enforcement of- dent brings to mind other episodes of student proficials and Occupy protestors have test, like the “Don’t Taze Me, Bro” heightened in the past two weeks, student at the University of Florida, videos taken by bystanders have who became infamous for his act of given us important information as defying police at a town hall forum to the ways some police forces have when a video of the act was recorded handled the “cleanup” process. and posted online.

For instance, on Nov. 18, campus Historically, we can’t forget the police from the University of Calirole videos played in bringing to fornia Davis claimed that they were light the civil rights violations of the sony rao forced to defend themselves with 1960s. More recently, we can look to pepper spray after being surrounded that’s what she said the use of videotapes to unveil disby Occupy student protestors. Howcriminatory action by the police in ever, a video of the incident instead reveals a single 1991, when the beating of an African American, police officer spraying pepper spray on a group of Rodney King, was caught on film. In addition to students huddling together on a cement floor. sparking widespread riots, the video led to the trial The actual details of the event may be more of four LAPD officers and the eventual conviction complex than both the police’s account and the of two under federal charges of civil rights violavideo indicate, but the students’ descriptions of tions. The video of the Rodney King beating gives the nausea and pain they suffered from the attack us another reason to believe in the power of film; are a telling statement of a reality that can go un- without it, what evidence is there to separate hisnoticed if it fails to be captured on film. Even more tory from myth? importantly, this incident speaks to the importance Aside from the questionability of police action of something as simple as a camera in holding law that officials claim should not be videotaped, the enforcement officials accountable for their words legality of videotaping raises the broader issue of and actions. our First Amendment rights of freedom of speech Yet, legislators are considering passing a law that and press. Do these rights even include the “right forbids citizens from videotaping police officers to record” (something I am sure the Founding while they are performing their duties. Specifical- Fathers were probably not considering when they ly, state courts are examining whether videotaping were drafting the Constitution)? police actions violates wiretapping statutes. Under There are obviously some things that should not North Carolina’s wiretapping statute, it appears be recorded to screen to the general public, like that it would be difficult to prosecute a citizen who third-party recordings of events in private settings. videotapes the police carrying out their duties, as But recording the actions of a police officer in the the act allows videotaping where at least one party public sphere, whose acts should be neither conficonsents. dential nor exceeding the bounds of his duty, should In other states, citizens have been consistently be afforded to us by our First Amendment rights. prosecuted for the act of videotaping police offiThe rapid spread of technology has given us the cers. Sharron Tasha Ford, a Florida resident, was power to hold public officials more accountable arrested in 2009 for videotaping a police officer for their actions—a potent, yet vital weapon in any speaking to her son. She was not prosecuted, but democracy. It also raises the question of the extent the American Civil Liberties Union sued the city to which citizens should go to expose the actions of on her behalf, claiming the arrest as a violation of these government agents. her First Amendment rights.

Those who have some reason to fear the eyes of Then there’s Anthony Graber, a sergeant for public scrutiny will say that videotaping police offithe Maryland Air National Guard, who videotaped cers puts too much power in the hands of the peoa state trooper when he pulled out his gun when ple. But those who believe that democracy thrives stopping Graber for speeding on his motorcycle. on the voices of its citizens will say that if officials Not only did police search his home and take his have no legitimate reason to hide from the eyes of computers, but he nearly faced 16 years in jail un- the people, then they have no reason to hide from der the allegation of violating wiretap laws. the eyes of their cameras.

The legality of videotaping police officers has become an increasingly contentious issue, especially Sony Rao is a Trinity junior. This is her final column because YouTube now serves as an open platform of the semester.

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WELCH from page 3 There are some very qualified people among the 29 nominees. I feel very honored to get this far in the process, and it has helped us as the Duke Lemur Center to draw attention to our work in conservation…. One way [the prize] generates so much interest in it is the very large carrot of the $100,000 prize.

You can do a lot in a developing country with a $100,000 in terms of conservation so it’s a nice carrot.... It would be a great boost to our project over there. But I am also quite realistic of my chances of winning, which are not very good—there are some very reputable conservationists that are nominees and they stand a very good chance of winning the prize. But that’s what I could use the money for. It’s always fun to plan... Because my wife Andrea Katz and I work together, I really consider it a joint nomination.

TC: What particular challenges do you face in the lemur conservation effort?

CW: Huge challenges—Madagascar is an extremely poor

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country. I think maybe it’s down to one of the five poorest in the world, certainly the 10 poorest. Therein lies the huge problem.

Many Malagasy in poor areas are living off the land and practicing subsistence agriculture. Mostly in the east, where we were, it’s slash and burn, which means cutting the forest and burning it as it dries out. It’s just not sustainable. It’s a dire situation now. Lemurs are sometimes hunted and eaten, but the huge problem is loss of habitat. But you can’t just go in and say ‘quit growing food to feed your families.’ So that’s why we put a lot of emphasis on sustainable agricultural practices—growing rice in paddies that can be reused, growing vegetables, growing fruits sustainably and even commercial foods like cloves, vanilla and coffee. Diversification of crops, getting away from just slash and burn.

tence-type agriculture, and that’s very hard to change… A lot of it is just about teaching the new techniques. It’s not a situation where people need expensive new fertilizers. But you have to go after it from the educational aspect as well. People have to start thinking about the value of the forest and the value protected land can have to them. But the kids are open-minded, much more open-minded than the adults, and they pick up new ideas more quickly. When you are working with teachers the teachers are often the most respected people in rural communities because they are often the most educated. They talk to the adults and the community members, so if you can generate some enthusiasm with the teachers as well they spread the word to the adult community, not just the kids that they are teaching.

TC: How do you convince the subsistence farmers to adapt to more sustainable techniques?

CW: You have to convince them primarily that it’s in their interest, [but] they don’t have the luxury really to think about [what is] in their interest in the long term. So that’s why we’ve focused on teaching sustainable agriculture. It’s not that you can’t do it, it’s that culturally their traditions have been subsis-

TC: Have you seen progress since you started working in Madagascar?

CW: It’s hard to measure, but yes, I think we are making progress. We’ve seen progress in that there are areas protected that if the Madagascar Fauna Group had not been working there would almost certainly be gone, because the Madagascar National Park Service has had some difficulty protecting some areas. In [19]89, people really didn’t have an idea about the importance of protecting their environment, wisely managing their environment and that mentality has very much changed there now since we’ve started. And there are a lot more Malagasy nationals working in conservation now. I’m not saying it’s just due to what we were doing—there are a lot of conservation organizations working in Madagascar, so it brings a higher profile to conservation.

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YALE from page 1 for administration at Yale, declined to comment.

Duke Student Government President Pete Schork, a senior, said that although the Duke administration canceled Tailgate after the incident last year, Yale’s tailgate has an extensive tradition behind it that could make it difficult for the university to parallel Duke’s decision.

“If you look at Duke’s example, we didn’t have the same strong tradition to pull upon [as Yale], so it was easier for the institution mandate to get rid of Tailgate,” Schork said.

“We are trying to create traditions, while Yale is trying to maintain a tradition.”

If Yale takes Duke’s new Football Gameday policies into account, the university will likely have the administration mandating certain risk management necessities going forward in light of what happened, Schork added.

Unlike Duke’s, Yale’s incident was not directly related to alcohol consumption though the U-Haul driven by Ross was transporting alcohol. Ross passed a sobriety test on the day of the incident, The Washington Post reported Nov. 20.

Yale officials are now combatting accusations that Ross committed manslaughter. Despite differences in the incidents, both have spurred discussions about tailgate traditions creating dangerous situations for students and those unaffiliated with the universities.

Yale’s current revision of its tailgate policy is not the first in recent history. In 2005, administration officials added a ban on drinking games, drinking game paraphernalia, tailgating after halftime and climbing on vehicles. In 2007, Yale’s administration continues to push more strict restrictions on tailgates and even proposed a complete ban of the use of U-Hauls citing safety and health concerns. Met with strong opposition by the student body, the U-Haul proposal was ultimately defeated, according to a Yale Daily News article Nov. 7, 2007.

This year, the Yale administration enforced more stringent tailgate policies to encourage safety, such as requiring wristbands upon entry to the tailgate to indicate if a student is 21-years-old.This was an alternative to the administration’s original proposal to ban alcohol completely, but students aggressively protested and prevented the ban from passing.

“It is hard to say now [how tailgate policies will change] because there will not be a tailgate until next Fall, so it all depends on what happens with the administration,” Hunter said. “I think they will change the policies on U-Hauls or the policies on students driving U-Hauls to tailgates.”

As Yale begins to re-examine its tailgate policies, Duke continues to make changes to its own. In the administration’s mind, the Yale incident likely confirmed its decision to cancel Duke’s former Tailgate, Schork said. After a football season with new regulations limiting size and number of Gameday festivities, DSG is currently seeking ways to revive a form of tailgating that more students can enjoy while simultaneously collaborating with administration.

“We recognize that students were not pleased with [Gameday] this year,” Schork said. “We’re working on trying to get a new venue within the athletic complex, and then the next steps are engaging the student body and working on how to establish a tailgate that’s fun but honors our community at the same time.”