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Even with Duke trailing nearly the entire game, Mason Plumlee looked like a man unwilling to lose. The senior forward recorded a double-double less than five minutes into the second half, but the Blue Devils were behind almost the entire way, unable to break through as their co-captain looked as if he were playing one-againstfive at times.

But thanks to Rasheed Sulaimon and Ryan Kelly emerging as his perfect sidekicks, Duke’s senior superhero walked off the court a man who maintained his team’s undefeated record with a third win against a top-five opponent.

The No. 2 Blue Devils (7-0) rallied to defeat No. 4 Ohio State (4-1) 73-68 at Cameron Indoor Stadium Wednesday night with Plumlee recording 21 points and 17 rebounds in a highlight-filled but grueling 39 minutes of action.

“He’s one of the best players in the country. His performance tonight was magnificent,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “My guys are unbelievable to win this game.”

Even with Duke failing to generate any offensive mojo in the first half, scoring just 23 points in the period on 6-of-20 shooting, Plumlee was able to send the crowd into a frenzy on multiple occasions. None was more impressive and emblematic of his man-on-amission mentality than a one-handed alleyoop he slammed home off a Quinn Cook pass that appeared to be off target.

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Senior forward Mason Plumlee leads No. 2 Duke with 21 points and career-high-tying 17 rebounds in their 73-68 comeback win over No. 4 Ohio State Wednesday.

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Author outlines past Dean speaks on linking and future of cancer passion with coursework

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Throughout history, medical understanding of cancer has not always been as promising as it is now, Pulitzer Prizewinning author Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee said Wednesday.

To a packed audience in Page Auditorium, Mukherjee spoke about his book Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, for which he won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. The book gives historical and medical context to civilization’s struggle with cancer throughout time. In his presentation, Mukherjee, an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University, discussed the history of the disease in human society by outlining numerous breakthroughs in

Dean of Arts and Sciences Laurie Patton unveiled her vision of the future of the University’s liberal arts program to a crowded room of faculty and students Wednesday.

Although most students attempt to integrate what they are passionate about with their academic coursework, she noted, this often produces anxiety for those who understand the importance of strong career preparation.

Integrating one’s specialized knowledge and humanitarian interests into worldly causes pose a sense of “vertigo” for graduates, and the demands of family and financial stability force many to stray from their passions to more conventional career paths.

“What question will you never an-

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Author Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee spoke about the history of cancer in Page Auditorium Wednesday.

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swer for the rest of your life, but you will never tire of asking?” Patton asked.

“No matter where you land and what you do with your life, no matter what your career or what major you choose to focus on, you will always focus on your question.”

In collaboration Laurie Patton with her office and the liberal arts departments, Patton said she plans to foster prestige around integration of course paths and to implement a component in every course for students to reflect on how the class relates to the broader world.

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“I’m putting death on the table. Not to freak us out, but to highlight life....”

Women’s basketball beats Michigan 71-54,

—Hannah Anderson-Baranger in ‘Get out of the bubble.’ See column page 11

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WHO house visualizes issues with body image

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The Women’s Housing Option launched a new campaign this week to raise awareness on the complexity of women’s body issues.

Photographs of 16 women with inflammatory phrases written on their bodies were posted around campus Tuesday for the campaign. Each phrase draws attention to the complexity of body image issues in an effort to highlight how women with different body types struggle with varying insecurities. To raise awareness about the campaign, participators wrote “Who Speaks?” on their throats the day the campaign was launched.

“There have been a lot of really good campaigns about body image recently, and awareness of the issues is much better now,” senior Ashley Tsai, the photographer for the campaign, said. “What we wanted to do was delve a little deeper—why do these issues exist in the first place?”

Tsai added that WHO Speaks is unique for its emphasis on fostering conversation about body image issues, rather than just pointing out their negative impact.

The campaign does not seek to provide answers to the difficult questions being posed, said senior Sarah McCaffery, a WHO member photographed for the campaign.

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Students build makeshift gingerbread houses with graham crackers at the Food Factory on Central Campus Wednesday evening.

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This poster is part of the Women’s Housing Option house’s recently launched photo campaign that highlights women’s body issues.

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Local park cleanup Former Duke physicist to take place Sat. braved sexism and Nazis

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Duke Student Government approved funding for a park cleanup aimed at involving students more in Durham.

Sophomore David Robertson, senator for Durham and regional affairs, took the floor Wednesday on behalf of the DRA to request funding for the event in conjunction with the Trinity Park Neighborhood Association. During Saturday’s event, students and local residents will remove trash and invasive weeds from Ellerbee Creek trail near East Campus. The committee for Durham and regional affairs is looking for ways to encourage students living off campus to participate more in neighborhood life.

“The goal of Saturday’s event is to create a forum for open dialogue so students and the people living around them have an opportunity to learn about each other and about the neighborhoods they live in,” senator Rosie Williams, a freshman, added.

In organizing the event, Robertson met with Adam Haile, president of the Trinity Park Neighborhood Association, to discuss the community’s needs. Robertson said he hopes that the attendees

are evenly split between Duke students and community members .

“We wanted to work with the community to address their needs rather than have Duke students come into the situation and do what we thought needed to be done,” Robertson sad.

Like Knock and Talks—a Duke program in which police officers visit student homes to remind them of the responsibilities of living off campus—the goal of the event is to foster a sense of comfort between Durham residents and Duke students, Williams noted. Because many student groups and independent students enjoy the option of living off campus, Williams said she believes forming positive relationships within the neighborhoods is crucial.

“We found it important that they do something community service-based because it shows that we are all working towards a common goal,” Williams said.

The committee has reached out to the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, the Office of Student Conduct and Duke Partnership for Service to promote the event.

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Before joining the Duke physics department as a research associate in 1952, Hedvig Kohn had to face sexism and flee the Nazis.

A physics department colloquium Wednesday showcased the story of the former Duke physicist and the obstacles she faced as a Jewish female scientist in early 20th century Germany. “The Life and Work of Hedwig Kohn: From the Kaiserreich to the Subbasement of the Duke Physics Building” was presented by Ohio State University physics professor Brenda Winnewisser, Ph.D ’65, to an audience of faculty and students.

“It’s a story of persistence,” said Horst Meyer, Fritz London professor emeritus of physics, Kohn’s friend and former colleague. “Her life was a story of endurance, hard work, kindness and professional competence.”

Kohn was born in Germany in 1887, a time when educational opportunities for upper-middle-class women such as herself were rather limited. Despite this disadvantage, she discovered an

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Hedwig Kohn was a groundbreaking German physicist—both for her work and being a female scientist in the early 1900s—who spent part of her career at Duke. affinity for math and science and dedicated herself to the study of physics, seeking out a tutor to complement her secondary schooling with advanced math and science instruction.

In 1907, after completing gymnasium, a German equivalent to high school, Kohn made the decision to enter university in her hometown of

Breslau. As an auditor rather than a student, because females were not allowed student status at the time.

Winnewisser noted that Kohn’s mother and tutor greatly influenced her pursuit of higher-level physics.

“It was very important that her mother encouraged her

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Senior Benton Wise expressed concerns that the desire of students to meet credentials—such as a high grade point average or an exclusive internship—prevents many from pursuing philanthropy and other non-academic passions.

Patton and Malone acknowledged the problems with the “credentializing culture” that exists at Duke and other top universities as students strive towards success and achievement. Students, thereby, abandon other passions as a result of an overwhelming drive to obtain success, Malone said.

“We are now offering so many options here at Duke that in some ways there are too many choices and students feel the need to do everything in order to be successful,” he noted. “[As a society], we tend to reward academic performance rather than engagement.”

Duke Student Government President Alex Swain, a senior, said she believes Duke has been doing a good job of rewarding out-of-classroom experiences with valid credentials. She noted, however, that there should be more flexibility within the system for students to build their own paths.

Patton agreed with Swain’s proposal and said that making the courses required to fulfill a major more flexible was something she hoped to follow up on in the near future.

She added that exposing students to Duke alumni that changed their career field after graduation would demonstrate the need for interdisciplinary mastery. Students, Patton noted, should see their individual majors as “gateways” to life, not just as a link to their future careers. Students tend to refer to their first major as the “career major” while their second major or minor represented the “passionate major,” she said.

“It is not a question of achievement, it is a question of what we are meant to do with our lives, which is to create value,” Patton said. “My dream would be to have service learning and reflection in every single class—and that would be the Duke signature.”

David Malone, director of the Service Learning Program and an organizer of the event, emphasized the recent uptick in Duke courses that offer service learning components.

“What I am most excited and proud of is the Duke student’s way of thinking about what it means to get a Duke education,” Malone said. “Today is a really exciting time to be a Duke student or faculty member.”

Duke students do not excel in reflecting on their academic experiences and connecting academics to outside efforts, he added.

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PIONEER from page 3 in her ambitions, even though it was not an intellectual family,” she said.

“Her tutor was a truly inspiring teacher. It’s not too surprising that with this sort of help and training she entered university.”

The year after Kohn started taking university courses, the rules were changed and women were officially allowed to enroll. She began research in emission spectroscopy, observing the metal vapors given off by different flames. She received her doctorate in 1913, and in 1914, she was granted her first university staff position as an unpaid personal assistant to the prominent physicist Otto Lummer.

The following year, however, World War I broke out. With many of the department’s men enlisting in the army, Kohn was quickly promoted. She alone took the place of all five of Lummer’s full assistants, running labs and advising students. During the war, she continued her research, and in 1918, she decided to apply for Habilitation, the qualification for a full professorship and for giving formal lectures. Only men, however, were eligible for the position.

“The dean handed her the booklet [of Habilitation requirements] and asked, ‘Does this apply to you, Miss Kohn?’ And she simply looked at it and said, ‘Well, I guess it doesn’t,’” Winnewisser said.

Kohn did not allow this setback to deter her from her research, however.

To continue studying the photoelectric effect in gases and vapors, she applied for money from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics—the former research home of Albert Einstein. She traveled

WHO from page 2 Instead, it seeks to ask questions and possibly change the way people think about body image.

The campaign initially developed because members of WHO wanted a way to respond to negative as well as thoughtprovoking comments they heard about women’s bodies.

“At first, we wanted to write down statements on pieces of paper and just take pictures,” McCaffery said. “Then we thought, why don’t we use our bodies as a canvas? It would be a lot more dramatic and a lot more intimate and vulnerable.”

Not all of the phrases written on the women’s bodies were necessarily negative, however the accompanying captions of the photographs elucidate that even compliments can contribute to body image problems. Written on one woman’s body, for example, was the phrase “You look pretty today.”

“When you look at [that phrase], this seems like a nice thing,” Tsai said. “But when you read the woman’s statement, she says she only hears this when she wears makeup, and that she doesn’t feel pretty without makeup.”

Tsai co-founded the Who Needs Feminism campaign last semester and said

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to Berlin to speak directly with Einstein about her work, and it was ultimately agreed that she would be granted the funds to continue her study.

Unfortunately, due to Germany’s economic crisis, several years passed before Kohn received the necessary money. While she waited for her funds, competing researchers proved what she was trying to test, and Kohn was left with what seemed to be limited prospects.

While Kohn was working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, the gender barrier to Habilitation was removed. She successfully applied after contributing to an important reference book by her former mentor, Lummer. In 1930, Kohn became the third woman eligible to lecture and teach, 12 years after her first attempt to do so and 17 years after receiving her doctorate.

But three years later, Hitler took power and Kohn’s years of hard work were suddenly in jeopardy. In April 1933, it was announced that Jews were banned from civil service, including at universities, unless they were granted special exceptions. That September, Kohn’s permission to teach and lecture was revoked.

Kohn nevertheless chose to remain in Germany to stay with her family, taking on a job in the electricity industry.

“She felt she had reasons not to leave,” said Winnewisser. “It was her homeland, her family was there, she didn’t want to abandon them. The director of the [Breslau Physics] Institute told her, ‘Stay here, this nonsense won’t last, I’ll make sure you’re taken care of.’”

In 1938, Kohn realized that Germany was no longer safe for her. Escaping to the United States proved to be quite the that it served as a valuable learning experience when developing WHO Speaks.

After seeing how social media played a significant role in the Who Needs Feminism campaign, Tsai hopes to facilitate greater involvement in WHO Speaks by using blog posts to spread the word. She also wants to encourage people to take their own pictures in the same format as the WHO Speaks campaign and send the photos to their Tumblr page.

McCaffery said her personal experience being photographed helped her understand how using woman’s bodies had deeper meaning.

“I had never had anything so derogatory written on my body before,” McCaffery said. “I’m a dancer who expresses a lot physically, so having my body taken over by these words was very revealing for me.”

Tsai said that the campaign had quickly taken off—its Facebook page had nearly 700 likes within two days. She added that the campaign was beginning to draw attention online, outside of just the Duke community.

“It’s exciting to see all this conversation get started,” Tsai said. “We’re not trying to push any message. We just give people a chance to read about someone’s personal experiences, and maybe contemplate the questions.”

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difficult task, however. With the help of other physicists, Kohn secured a teaching position that would grant her a visa at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 1940, she escaped Germany, traveling across Asia and the Pacific Ocean to the United States.

After teaching at UNC Greensboro for a year, Kohn began work at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. In 1950, at the age of 63, she decided to retire but realized that her financial situation left her unable to do so. She found a solution in the form of Hertha Sponer, a Duke physicist and fellow German refugee.

Sponer had received her Habilitation shortly before Kohn and came to Duke in 1936. She offered Kohn work as a research associate, sharing her Naval research grant.

From 1952 until her death in 1962, Kohn worked at Duke, mentoring students and postdoctoral researchers as well as conducting her own research and becoming a beloved figure in the department.

“She was in the lab all the time, and students loved to work with her,” said Meyer. “She was really an extraordinary human being.”

Though she had only a brief and casual relationship with Kohn, Winnewisser became interested in Kohn years after her death. She has been working on a biography of Kohn that will be published Spring 2014.

Physics professor Roxanne Springer, the faculty host for the presentation, noted that though the difficulties faced

by Kohn as a woman in physics are not nearly as prevalent today, they are still present to some degree.

“The situation is vastly, vastly better, but there are still problems,” she said.

MUKHERJEE from page 1 cancer research.

“The first major idea was that cancer is a disease of cells,” Mukherjee said. “In 2012, we take this fact for granted. However, in the late 1800s and 1900s—when it was discovered that cancer is deregulated growth in our own cells—it was considered deeply radical and had many opponents.”

Most past theories about cancer were riddled with errors, Mukherjee said, noting humorism in particular. The ancient theory postulated that black bile—a fictional substance—causes cancer. He added that this was the standard understanding of cancer for much of the disease’s history.

A strong push toward cancer research in the United States began in 1971 when the National Cancer Act was passed.

After this movement began, scientific research eventually revealed an understanding of how cancer cells reproduce.

When people began to understand cancer, the disease became part of public discourse, Mukherjee said.

“Cancer is not just a disease of cells but a disease of genes.” Mukherjee said.

“If you take your own genes that cause normal growth and deregulate them, you unleash the dark side of the same growth, thereby unleashing cancer.”

Despite initial challenges with research, modern technology has rapidly progressed humans’ understanding of cancer, he said.

Going forward, the next big challenge in cancer research is dealing with the diversity of cancer genes. For example, even though breast cancer cells may appear similar, the mutations that cause the cancer are different for each person, he said. The challenge is finding the

DSG from page 3 the off-campus students and the neighborhoods in which they live,” Robertson said.

Starting 10 a.m. Saturday, students will gather at the clean-up site at 800 Green Street. Although the event is geared towards off-campus students any interested student is encouraged to come, Robertson added.

Sophomore Derek Rhodes, vice president for Durham and regional affairs, could not be reached for comment.

In other business: Executive Vice President Patrick Oathout, a junior, proposed an amendment to the Spring 2013 election rules and procedures based on vote deductions in this Fall’s election of freshman senators.

Noting that freshmen candidates who were docked votes because they created a website 10 minutes before the official start of the campaign period or because their flyer partially covered that of another candidate, Oathout proposed that the Senate soften the rules and let the Board of Elections determine violations. He argued that a large set of prohibitive rules would discourage students from running and that the intent of the candidates was more important than rules students can find loop holes around.

Junior Daniel Strunk, chief justice of the Judiciary, took the floor during public forum to propose that DSG play in active role in increasing holiday decorations in common areas around campus. Strunk, a Chronicle columnist, argued that the decorations would foster social cohesion, increase performance on final exams and promote holiday spirit.

Freshman representatives Will Gallagher and Victoria Diggs have agreed to look into the possibilities. cancer variants even though there is tremendous diversity among individuals.

“Every breast cancer is unique in the same sense that every person who has breast cancer is unique,” he noted.

Mukherjee’s lecture was hosted by Duke University Libraries’ Weaver Memorial Lecture series and cosponsored by the Office of the Provost, Office of the Chancellor for Health Affairs, Duke Department of Medicine and Duke Cancer Institute. The series, which holds lectures every other year, was established in memory of William Weaver, a former member of the Library Advisory Board and Trinity ’72. It has featured several prominent authors, such as Barbara Kingsolver, Dr. Oliver Sacks and Dave Eggers.

“We always try to get someone who thinks big, writes extremely well, will inspire conversation and will appeal to the broadest possible audience at Duke,” wrote Aaron Welborn, director of communications for the libraries, in an email Tuesday. “It’s hard to think of a more universal topic [than cancer] whose details so few of us really comprehend.”

Welborn also said Mukherjee toured the Duke Cancer Center while at Duke, and he met with President Richard Brodhead and Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of the Duke University Health System.

Many students said they attended the lecture because they are interested in the history of cancer. Sophomore Amee Tan noted that she wanted to learn about the intersection between medicine and history.

“I was curious to see where our knowledge of cancer began and how it has evolved over the last 150 years,” Tan said. “I wanted to hear Dr. Mukherjee’s perspective because cancer is such a prominent disease.”

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ACC adds Duke’s size overwhelms Michigan Louisville

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ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Before Duke’s ACC/Big 10 Challenge matchup against Michigan Wednesday night, first-year Wolverine head coach Kim Barnes Arico projected that her team would have trouble matching up with the Blue Devils’ size, strength and athleticism.

Arico’s forecast of Michigan’s struggles was right on the DUKE 71 mark, as No. 4 Duke (5-0) overMICH 54 whelmed an overmatched Wolverine squad (5-2) 71-54 at Crisler Center in Ann Arbor, Mich. “[The Blue Devils] were just so physical—we weren’t able to do anything, and we turned the ball over,” Arico said. “When we turned the basketball over they got easy points in transition.”

Sophomore center Elizabeth Williams and junior point guard Chelsea Gray carried Duke with 19 points apiece. Williams limited Michigan’s leading scorer, senior Rachel Sheffer, to eight points on the night—a little over half her 14.9 pointsper-game average. 6-foot-3 Williams’ height advantage played a role on both ends of the court.

“Size definitely helps,” she said. “You just try to be a big presence defensively, and then offensively just posting up strong and running the floor.”

Louisville basketball got a taste of what life might be like in the ACC last weekend, losing to Duke 76-71 in the Battle 4 Atlantis championship in the Bahamas. Now the Cardinals can look forward to annual rematches.

The ACC Council of Presidents unanimously voted to accept Louisville Wednesday morning after Maryland announced its intention to leave the ACC for the Big Ten last week. Louisville is currently a member of the Big East.

“Louisville is committed in its approach to doing everything at the highest level,” ACC Commissioner John Swofford said in a teleconference with reporters Wednesday afternoon. “I’d like to commend the ACC Council of Presidents because they’ve done a good job positioning the ACC for the long term future.”

Prior to joining the Big East in 2005, Louisville was a member of Conference USA. Louisville was reportedly close to earning an offer from the Big Ten last year, a spot that was ultimately given to West Virginia. Since then, the Cardinals have not spoken with other conferences about joining, Louisville President James Ramsey said in the teleconference.

“The Atlantic Coast Conference is a great athletic conference. It has a great history and tradition,” Ramsey said.

The Cardinals join a changing conference that added both Syracuse and Pittsburgh from the Big East last year. Most recently, the ACC announced the addition of Notre Dame in September as a partial member.

“I think this was something that had to happen,” Duke vice president and director of athletics Kevin White said. “I think we had to react to the market place thoughtfully.”

Cincinnati and Connecticut were also considered as potential additions, but Louisville was ultimately chosen in what the officials described as a decision that focused primarily on athletics. In previous announcements, such as the one of Notre Dame, academics were also stressed as a driving force.

“What the ACC needed most was the most exciting sports program we could [find],” said Holden Thorp, North Carolina’s chancellor and head of the ACC’s Council of Presidents.

“That is the way to ensure that the success of the ACC in sports was successful enough to allow us to keep our group together.”

Ramsey has strong ties to North Carolina, where he was formerly a vice chancellor.

Both Louisville’s strong basketball and football programs were cited as reasons for its addition to the conference. Its football team will compete for the Big East championship Thursday evening against Rutgers, which is also leaving the conference and joining the Big Ten along with Maryland.

With the subtraction of Maryland and the eventual additions of Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Louisville, the ACC will have 14 full members and a 15th in Notre Dame, which is a member in every sport except football and hockey.

“If you look at what the ACC has done over the last 15 months, it has only gotten stronger,” Swofford said.

Swofford also said the ACC is looking into potentially creating a television network with the conference’s current TV partner ESPN.

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Chelsea Gray led Duke with 19 points and five steals in 35 minutes of action in the team’s win.

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MEN’S SOCCER

Belshaw prepares for a pro career

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For the past four years, James Belshaw has been the unshakeable core of Duke men’s soccer. He has been a rock, a constant source of stability and consistency that has laid the foundation for the program’s success. Now, after 77 starts in goal for the Blue Devils, it is time for Belshaw to graduate and pursue his dream of playing professional soccer.

The senior from Nottingham, England will complete his credits at the conclusion of the Fall semester, and while his teammates and friends return to campus in January, Belshaw will instead begin the process of turning his lustrous college career into a full-time job.

“I’m excited to get things going with my pro career, but I’m going to miss this place,” Belshaw said. “It’s a special place to be… It’s going to be a weird spring hearing stories of people being at Duke and me being away. But the best thing for my career is to finish up in December and take it from there.”

The MLS Superdraft will take place Jan. 17, 2013 in Indianapolis, but first Belshaw will participate in several MLS team-led training camps and then the MLS combine. If all goes according to plan, Belshaw hopes to hear his name called during the draft, signaling the start of a professional career in the United States.

“Playing in the MLS works for me having

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Duke goalkeeper James Belshaw will graduate early after the Fall semester before pursuing a professional career. come over here for college,” Belshaw said. “I think the first couple of years I was over here, I was adamant about going home and playing in England. But after the way my college career has panned out, I’ve almost built a better reputation here with MLS coaches.”

During his four-year career, Belshaw established himself as the premier goalkeeper in

the ACC and one of the top in the country.

The past two seasons he was an All-ACC firstteam selection and was selected to the All-ACC second team following his sophomore season.

In the past three years, Belshaw only missed one start in goal for the Blue Devils.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

A November to remember With Ohio State leading 31-23 at halftime, having outplayed the Blue Devils in every facet of the game, Duke looked sluggish and out-of-sync, but it was lucky that its deficit was not greater. The athletic Buckeye lineup was outhustling Duke and grabbed 11 offensive rebounds in the first half. On both ends, the feisty Ohio State guards were having their way with Duke’s starting backcourt, which combined for a meager four first-half points.

“I thought we were being put in positions that were less advantageous to run good offense [in the first half],” Duke head coach Brady Mike Krzyzewski said.

The raucous crowd at Cameron Indoor Stadium could sense the post-Thanksgiving hangover reoccurring for Duke.

After all, the Blue Devils were virtually in the same position a year ago—coming off the emotional-high of winning one of the premiere Thanksgiving tournaments in college basketball. Last November, a host of factors—fatigue, immaturity and lack of togetherness—led to Duke’s embarrassing 85-63 demise on the road against Buckeyes, who eventually marched on to the Final Four. The early-season setback foreshadowed the Blue Devils’ future: an upset loss on the opening-weekend of the 2012 NCAA Tournament.

The Blue Devils were seemingly on the verge of getting knocked out for the second-straight year in the ACC/Big 10 Challenge. With its 96-game non-conference-home winning streak on the line and payback on the players’ minds, Duke came out of the locker room with a swagger in the second half—something fans never saw in last season’s squad.

“They got knocked back in the first half, and then played great in the second half, and just fought,” Krzyzewski said.

Chipping away at the Buckeye’s lead—that peaked at 10 points in the second half—the Blue Devils received resilient second-half performances from Rasheed Sulaimon, Ryan Kelly and Quinn Cook, who collectively scored 35 points in the second half to complement Mason Plumlee’s dominating 21-point, 17-rebound performance. Spearheaded by Cook at point guard, the newfound offensive rhythm allowed Duke to scrap and claw its way back, take the lead and ultimately get highly sought-after revenge.

“We certainly wanted [the win],” Kelly said, with regards to having lost to the Buckeyes last season. “We had to prove as team that winning our first championship, that we could put that behind us and take the next step. Last year is last year, but we couldn’t make that step last year.”

After going scoreless and playing his worst half in a Duke uniform, Sulaimon showed unique character, especially for a rookie, by bouncing back with a critical 17 points in the second half. In the process, the youngster illustrated his versatile game—creating his own shots both off the dribble and on deep 3-pointers.

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Mason Plumlee recorded his third double-double of the season, notching 21 points and 17 rebounds, both game-high marks.

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Rasheed Sulaimon scored 17 second-half points after he went scoreless in a first half in which the Blue Devils put up just 23 as a team.

8 assists Quinn Cook raised Duke’s offensive tempo in the second half and finished the game with eight assists.

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Elizabeth Williams scored 19 points on 8-of-12 shooting against Michigan.

Fresh off a blowout win against Xavier, the Blue Devils started the game in dominant fashion. With 6:41 remaining in the opening half, they led the Wolverines 34-17.

But Michigan held the Blue Devils scoreless for the rest of the period, trimming their advantage to three points by the end of the first half.

In that span, Duke turned the ball over four straight times.

The Blue Devils quickly overpowered Michigan in the second half, however, earning back their double-digit lead within less than three minutes.

“They started the game full-court man-to-man, pressuring us like crazy,” Arico said. “We got super tight and turned the basketball over. Later in the first half they went to their zone, they went to their trap—they switched it up, and we were able to score out of that. To start the second-half, they went back to that man-on-man, which gave us our most difficult time.”

Duke took its early double-digit lead in the second half and ran with it, cruising to a 71-54 victory. The Blue Devils’ savvy defense kept the Wolverines from crawling back into the game. “[Duke] kind of gets you into places on the court you don’t want to be in and trap hard, and they use their length and athleticism really well,” Michigan senior guard Jenny Ryan said. “It’s not so much

quick as it is smart.”

Arico considered her team’s quick shots the equivalent of turnovers, because Duke was quick to run the ball down the offensive end after the Wolverines made hasty baskets. Consequently, Michigan focused on utilizing the shot clock as much as possible.

“If we took something really fast, [the Blue Devils] were going down the other way very quickly, and we couldn’t keep up that pace with their speed and athleticism,” Arico said. “I know it sounds crazy, but we were okay using the shot clock as long as we weren’t turning the ball over.”

The Blue Devils’ speed and athleticism will be key Sunday afternoon when they take on No. 10 California—their first ranked opponent of the season—at home in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

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ANN ARBOR, Mich.—For the first time all season, Duke won a game by less than 20 points.

Streaky play allowed Michigan to climb back from an early first-half deficit, but the Blue Devils (5-0) never trailed the Wolverines (5-2) and led by double-digits for almost the entire second period.

Despite dominating the second half and coasting to their fifth win of the season, the Blue Devils—for the first time Game this year—entered the Analysis locker room at halftime with a close game on their hands.

After jumping out to a 13-2 lead, Duke did not make a field goal for the last 6:38 of the opening period and led by just three points heading into the second half. The Wolverines finished the first period on a 15-1 run, energizing their home fans and giving Duke the closest thing it has had to a scare so far in this young season.

M. BASKETBALL from page 1 The dish initially looked as if it would be out of Plumlee’s grasp, but he threw it down with authority, and in the process tied Duke’s all-time dunk record, a mark he surpassed by the end of evening.

“I was happy Quinn threw it. He trusted me and I upheld my end,” Plumlee said. “I told him, ‘We can’t be on Sportscenter, unless, you got to make it look like I can’t get it. If I get it, we’ll get on Top 10.’”

Kelly, along with Plumlee, was one of two Duke players who was effective offensively in the first half. The senior from Raleigh, however, regularly found himself on the bench with foul trouble and defensive struggles, initially starting the game against Ohio State star Deshaun Thomas, who recorded eight early points. Thomas, who averaged 24.0 points per game entering the contest, finished with a season-low 16.

Kelly made his mark on the game in the second half, though, beginning with a 3-pointer to tie the game at 53 with 6:15 left, ending a run of 28:03 where the Buckeyes held the lead.

On Duke’s next possession, Kelly nailed another trey to give the Blue Devils a lead they never relinquished.

“It was a huge set of plays. A big part of that was our crowd tonight,” Kelly said. “That was as good as Cameron has been in a long time.”

Sulaimon struggled in the first half against the Buckeyes’ lengthy perimeter, finding him-

“We weren’t playing Duke basketball,” junior guard Chelsea Gray said. “We only had two offensive rebounds in the first half and five free throw attempts. We were just making bonehead mistakes.”

For the first time this year, the Blue Devils stepped onto the court to start the second half with an opponent legitimately challenging them.

Led by Gray and sophomore center Elizabeth Williams, both preseason Player of the Year candidates, the Blue Devils stormed out of the locker room and proved that they could take a punch and respond—going on a 21-6 run to start the second half.

“That was Duke basketball,” Duke head coach Joanna P. McCallie said.

“That was much more hard nosed. You could see that in the rebounding, the shot selection, and also just leading the team. Chelsea made some tough shots during that stretch, and [Elizabeth] was rebounding and adding a three-point play or two. That was sending the proper message I hope, trying to be a dominant team.”

Williams, still fighting through a self on the bench at various points and failing to record a point, rebound or assist. But he came alive in the second half, scoring all 17 of his points in that span.

“For a freshman, I thought he got knocked back. At halftime, he responded,” Krzyzewski said. “He had 17 points in the second half and gave us a verve, gave us a real verve.”

But Duke’s first-half struggles extended beyond the backcourt as it was outrebounded 22-16 in the period despite Plumlee’s eight early rebounds. Playing their fourth game in seven days after the Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas, the Blue Devils were initially sluggish.

Plumlee and Kelly scored 17 of Duke’s 22 firsthalf points with Seth Curry, Quinn Cook and Sulaimoin going a combined 1-of-11 from the field in the first 20 minutes. Entering halftime, Duke trailed 31-23, with Ohio State extending its lead to a game-high 10 points with the first score after the break.

“We didn’t think we had played well,” Kelly said. “Things could have been a lot worse, and they weren’t. We had to fight harder, and if we fought harder and just played with a reckless abandon we believed we could win.”

Clearly nursing a lingering leg injury, Curry remained ineffective for much of the game, while Sulaimon lit up the scoreboard and Cook orchestrated an offense that doubled its first-half output in the final 20 minutes.

Cook finished with 12 points, six rebounds and eight assists, but was more important as an emotional leader. He aggressively battled Ohio State’s point guard Aaron Craft on defense. The junior floor general played his

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After going scoreless in the first half, the seniors talked to Sulaimon, who erupted with 17 points.

right leg injury, came up huge for the Blue Devils in her first start of the season. After averaging just 18 minutes per game prior to playing Michigan, Williams stayed on the floor for 29 minutes against the Wolverines, making a seasonhigh for the sophomore.

“It felt really good,” Williams said. “I was really excited to come out at the beginning of the game rather than sitting and watching for a bit and then coming out. I just tried to be really aggressive.”

Williams’ aggressiveness left Michigan without a way to contain her, as the sophomore center scored 19 points, oftentimes fighting through double teams from the smaller Wolverine defenders.

Williams also made her presence felt on the defensive side of the ball, pulling down seven boards and posting two blocks on the night.

Gray proved too much for Michigan to handle as well, adding 19 points and dishing out five assists. Gray’s five steals, four of which came in the first half, translated into offensive opportunities for Duke, which struggled at times to score in its half-court sets against the

Wolverine’s 2-3 zone.

“This is a great group, a very quick group—in speed and lateral quickness,” McCallie said. “They’ve really worked hard in the weight room, and when they get together, whether it’s trapping or some of the other things we like to do, it really shows. We have to use that to our advantage, and I think we did that tonight.”

The Blue Devils’ defense, which forced 20 Michigan turnovers, allowed them to go on big runs at the start of both halves. But for McCallie’s squad to be successful once it gets to the heart of the schedule—facing No. 2 Connecticut, No. 10 California and No. 22 North Carolina—the Blue Devils will have to maintain their defensive intensity for the entire game.

Despite exhibiting spurts of sloppy offensive play and lack of defensive pressure, Duke can draw three very important conclusions from its matchup against the Wolverines.

Firstly, the Blue Devils proved that SEE ANALYSIS ON PAGE 8

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Quinn Cook finished with 12 points, eight assists and six rebounds, playing nearly the entire game. worst game of the season with 11 points and just one assist, going 3-of-15 from the field.

“Quinn is playing at a high level right now,” Buckeye head coach Thad Matta said. “He’s a great kid. I know him, and I’m happy as heck for him, though I didn’t want him to play that well tonight. His pressure got a bit to [Craft].”

The sophomore floor general spent all but five seconds on the court and pushed the pace of the offense in the second half, giving the unit a needed jolt of life. The fan atmosphere marked a crucial difference between last year’s edition of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge when

the Blue Devils lost 85-63 to the Buckeyes in Columbus, Ohio.

And nobody fed off that energy more than Plumlee, whose name the Cameron Crazies chanted from the bleachers after the game was finished.

“I think when our fans left today, they left and said, ‘We won.’ That’s when Cameron is great,” Krzyzewski said. “Well maybe that should be something we do. Like Saturday [against Delaware] would be a heck of a thing, for everybody to come to the club again. Club Cameron.”

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Devils escaped murderer’s row—No. 8 Kentucky, No. 21 Minnesota, VCU, No. 5 Louisville and No. 4 Ohio State—unscathed in the month of November.

“I have liked my group,” Krzyzewski said. “You just don’t know if they have the confidence, the endurance and the togetherness to go through a stretch like that. It’ll be hard to find anybody that has been through a stretch like this. They have gotten better. I knew my team was together, but through accomplishment they have gotten more together.”

“For a freshman to respond that way is superb,” Krzyzewski said. “It just doesn’t happen very often.”

But it was the three seniors that made it happen. The trio of leaders pulled the talented freshman shooting guard aside at halftime and demanded that the youngster step up in the second half— another telling sign that this Duke team is poised for a deeper postseason run.

“All three of them came to me and said I need to step it up,” Sulaimon said. “I just wanted to do it for them, not for me. I had a bad half in the first half, and in the second half I just wanted to do whatever I can to make those guys proud. ” The team is clearly tougher and has taken a step it failed to last year. The Blue

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BELSHAW from page 5 Belshaw continued to develop and polish his game each season during his career at Duke. Even though his senior campaign was disappointing from a team perspective, as the Blue Devils failed to merit a NCAA Tournament bid, Belshaw posted career highs in shutouts, notching eight, and save percentage at .840. He also allowed a career-low 12 goals this season. “He’s an overall great goalkeeper,â€? head coach John Kerr said. “James is very strong in shot blocking, good in the air, he’s got great feet and he’s a great distributor and communicator‌ At the pro level, he’s going to give everything he has and he’ll be a good citizen and give back to the community.

He appreciates the lessons he learned on the field here, as well as off the field.�

Belshaw’s contributions to Duke cannot be limited to his statistics and on-field performance. Kerr said he would miss Belshaw’s personality the most, citing that he carried himself with a level of professionalism and maturity that is not characteristic of most college athletes.

Duke matches the past four years were accompanied by the sound of Belshaw’s steady and astonishingly loud voice booming over the field as he directed his teammates and offered relentless encouragement. He credits his leadership to his experience as a freshman, when his new Duke teammates helped him feel comfortable after leaving his family, friends and home in England.

ANALYSIS from page 7 they can win multiple road games in a short span of time—Duke beat Xavier Sunday night in Ohio before traveling to Michigan for Wednesday’s game.

Secondly, Gray and Williams proved once again that they can take over a game single-handedly. Although the Blue Devils received important scoring contributions and defensive performances from a host of players, Gray and Williams were the players who asserted their will to give Duke its comfortable first and second half leads.

Thirdly, Alexis Jones continues to impress as the only freshman to start for McCallie. Jones, who has

“I know how hard it is,� Belshaw said. “A lot of [freshmen] are coming away from family for the first time, and I help them make that transition. Hopefully, they can take away some of the advice that I’ve given them and the support. I’d like to see some success from the team next year and I’d like to think I played a small part in helping build that.�

Belshaw’s impact on the program will be felt for years to come, but new challenges await. He must adjust to the faster pace of the professional game. He will have to make a new life for himself in a new city. And for the time being, he will have to deal with the complete uncertainty his future holds.

While he hopes to play in the MLS, Belshaw is keeping all options open in England and other European leagues. In fact, while he is home for Christmas, Belshaw will try out to represent Great Britain in the World University Games in Russia. “I think he’s going to be an all-around contributor to whatever environment he decides to be in,� Kerr said. “He’s got a long career ahead of him. I’m thrilled for the young man and he’s been a great impact on our program. He will be sorely missed.�

Despite the netminder’s intensity on the field, Belshaw understands that when it comes to launching a professional soccer career, beggars can’t be choosers. “As long as I’m playing soccer, I’m happy,� Belshaw said. “Whether that’s here or England or wherever, as long as I’m kicking a ball around and doing what I love doing everyday, then nothing can beat that.� started every game this year, scored nine points and recorded eight assists to just three turnovers. The Irving, Texas native also proved vital in pressuring the Wolverine guards, forcing them into traps which resulted in turnovers.

The honeymoon is over for the Blue Devils. The Golden Bears—the first ranked opponent on Duke’s schedule—will come to Cameron Indoor Stadium on December 2nd. But the Blue Devils gained valuable experience against Michigan, which reminded Duke that it will have to play a full forty minutes if it wants to compete with the best teams in the country and make a run for the NCAA title.

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ven after a cease-fire, it’s easy to feel hopeless operations as a non-violent method of resistance about the situation in Israel/Palestine. The to Israeli occupation. Universities and civil society rockets have stopped (for now), but the vio- groups around the world are beginning to hear lence continues. Gaza is still under their call. Recently, UC Irvine’s siege. The West Bank is still under a student government voted unanibrutal military occupation. Refugees mously in support of divestment are barred from returning home. from Israeli occupation and apartThe wall still stands. What can one heid by calling upon their university do on a campus in North Carolina “to dissociate itself from groups or aside from light some candles, “raise companies that promote systematic awareness” or screen movies? Why prejudiced oppression … by divestshould anyone care? ing from companies that participate ahmad jitan Every single person on this camin or profit from human rights violapus should care because we are all indecent family man tions.” Brown University’s Advisory complicit in the suffering of the PalCommittee on Corporate Responsiestinian people. Our tax money provides billions bility in Investment Policies (ACCRIP) has also isof dollars in military aid to Israel, which makes an sued a statement strongly considering divestment, illegal occupation and building of settlements pos- stating, “The documented abuses of Palestinian sible. Our tax dollars helped pay for the bombs citizens by the Israeli Defense Force in the Occuthat rained destruction on the people of Gaza. Our pied Territories are deeply troubling. Israel is inpoliticians rightly condemned the targeting of civil- disputably engaged in ongoing systemic abuses of ians by armed resistance groups in Gaza, but justi- human rights and violations of international law, as fied the death of Palestinians as “self defense.” The documented by the United Nations Human Rights blood of Gazan children is on our hands.

Council and the International Court of Justice.” It’s It’s difficult to make sense of the violence, and about time that Duke followed suit. it’s tempting to throw our hands up in the air and We know that, as a University, we can take tanaccept that the Middle East will always be a savage gible steps toward ending injustice in the world by and chaotic place. We could pretend that the suffer- ensuring that we are no longer complicit in finaning is due to a lack of civilization, to age-old enmity, cially supporting those injustices. Last year, Duke’s to divine order, or we can critically ask ourselves Board of Trustees approved a resolution authorizing how we personally perpetuate these injustices.

DUMAC (Duke University’s endowment arm) to The answer to what we can do on this campus: adopt a proxy voting guideline for their investment divest. We have a moral responsibility to make sure in companies regarding avoidance of conflict minthat our University’s investment assets are not sup- erals. This is a far cry from full transparency of the porting corporations that profit from human rights University’s endowment, which is what is needed if abuses. In the ’80s, universities divested from South we are serious about responsible investment, but it is Africa and pressured the fall of the apartheid re- at the very least a step in the right direction. gime. There are other ethical and moral issues that The Israeli occupation is just one of many injusuniversities have taken a stance on and responded tices in the world that we have a stake in and can to by divesting from certain interests. Whether it’s help put an end to. Given that the United States genocide in Darfur, companies with unfair labor is one of the main supporters of the Israeli state practices, sustainable energy or conflict minerals and its human rights abuses, however, it is an apfrom the Democratic Republic of the Congo, every propriate target for divestment efforts. Divestment member of the Duke community has a role in ensur- is just one strategy, along with pressuring our politiing that our University invests its assets responsibly. cal representatives and generally raising awareness Duke University must divest from corporations about the situation, at our disposal to put an end to that profit from the illegal military occupation of the suffering of both Palestinians and Israelis that Palestinian lands. Corporations like Caterpillar, has come about because of the occupation. Everywhich provides bulldozers to demolish Palestinian one should be invested in ending oppression and homes to help construct the separation wall. Or So- promoting the dignity of all human beings on our dastream, which operates its main manufacturing planet. As Nelson Mandela said, “For to be free is plant in an illegal Israeli settlement. Or Hewlett- not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in Packard, which provides biometric identification a way that respects and enhances the freedom of systems that restrict Palestinians freedom of move- others.” ment within the West Bank.

Palestinian civil society has made a call for diAhmad Jitan is a Trinity senior. This is his final colvestment from and sanctions of Israel’s military umn of the semester.

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bet if you really tried, really took the time to drudge They estimate a loss of $1.4 billion a year for Mexican through the depths of your contacts list, you could marijuana traffickers due to the propositions passed on be at an ATM by this evening and smoking weed Election Day. by tonight. From “for tobacco use only” glassware to However, the positive externalities don’t stop at mariApr. 20, marijuana culture permeates American soci- juana. Drug trafficking comes with huge unavoidable ety. With annual prevalence cannabis consumption in overhead costs, from bribery to the protection of terriAmerica roughly doubling that of the Dutch and their tory. Thus other drugs making their way into the U.S. infamous Amsterdam, we are home to a will be less competitive when compared marijuana market valued in the tens of to the U.S. version, cutting into Mexican billions. And due to current prohibicartels’ profits yet again. At last, a few bultion, this market has been forced underlet points on the laundry list of problems ground, to the great peril of our neighcreated by American excesses will remain bors to the south. where they should, in America.

According to the Mexican Institute However, this legislation is only a for Competitiveness (IMCO), America’s small step, as the viability of a taxable insatiable lungs get anywhere from 40 market for federally prohibited subtravis smith percent to 70 percent of their weed from and i was all like... stances lies at the mercy of the feds. So Mexico, filling the pockets of Mexico’s now we face another battle because of drug traffickers with about $2 billion a this legislation, with the states in one year. This lucrative drug trade, second only to the billions corner and the federal government in the other. in cocaine moving north across the border, brings with I implore you to look past the immediate obvious efit violence on a grand scale. It is estimated that about fects of this legislation. This is about making sure Amer60,000 have died in Mexico during the last six years due ican problems are isolated to America. If we are provto organized crime. American families are torn apart di- ing time and time again that we, as Americans, will not rectly by drug addiction, Mexican families are torn apart stop consuming currently illicit drugs, then we should by the industry these drug addictions support. be mature enough to not create legislation prohibiting It’s time to be realistic. The war on drugs is ineffec- their use, which only effectively creates lucrative black tive, is laughable in regards to marijuana and structures markets. I don’t care whether you have asthma or are a playing field that breeds violence and corruption. I using the margin of this article to roll a joint; this is not grant that solving a problem takes time, but our solu- an issue of the consumption of marijuana. People are tion cannot be tolerated when it creates greater prob- always going to be smoking weed in America, resulting lems (how many violent stoners do you know?). The in debatably minor personal consequences and undegovernment battles our demand-created drug trade niable international impacts. with supply-side reductions. This means the American I could cite an elimination of the estimated $13.7 bilpeople are demanding crop fields that the American lion a year spent on marijuana prohibition, comparable government is then decimating, leaving farmers in the tax revenues available for the government, a reduction crossfire of hypocrisy. People always cite that marijuana in the incarceration of non-violent drug offenders on use has never killed anyone. Sure, that may be true di- a mass scale, etc., but those benefits are secondary to rectly, but indirectly it kills on a mass scale. If marijuana just being adults about this and ceasing to humor arguisn’t harmful itself, but its legal status is, then something ments that pretend legalization would do more harm has got to give. than good.

And on Election Day something did. Initiative 502 We live in a democracy, for the people, by the people. in Washington and Amendment 64 in Colorado legal- The people have spoken in a number of states already, ized recreational marijuana use and established plans and in the very near future that number will grow. As for the taxation of its sale. Besides increasing personal this happens the federal government will be pressured freedom, exemplifying democracy, battling the deficit to act accordingly. When they do please remember, this and all of that jazz, this dealt a huge blow to the Mexi- won’t be a bill to be signed by Cheetos-crusted fingers, can drug trade. As marijuana is illegally transported out but by rational decision makers battling for a more of Washington and Colorado to neighboring states, as intelligent use of money and manpower, preservation is most certainly happening even as you read, demand of human life and improved international relations. If for the Mexican greenery will shrink. In fact, IMCO and when the vote comes to you, remember that this is figures, adjusting for quality and adding transporta- about a whole lot more than just getting high. tion costs, that American weed, from Colorado and Washington, will undercut the Mexican counterpart in Travis Smith is a Trinity senior. This is his final column almost all areas of America except a few border states. of the semester.

Mariah Hukins is a Trinity senior. You can follow Mariah on Twitter @thehukes.

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ollege is a bubble, an artificial reality that keeps us from addressing real-life issues of life and death. Recently I’ve been questioning this bubble and its merits. Sometimes this makes me unsure about my place at school, but I’ve realized that it is necessary since life and death are part of, well, life.

The college bubble is perhaps especially present at schools with well-defined campuses, like Duke.

Our day-to-day existence is vastly removed from the realities of ex- hannah andersonistence in the real world. We use baranger fake money called food points and have “free” access to excellent acstate of the arts ademic and athletic facilities. Our problems are what to wear to semi-formal, e-Print not working and having trouble registering for classes. This artificiality intensifies at the end of the semester, when preparing for final projects and exams becomes the most important activity of our lives. At this time of the year, exclamations of how important a given assignment is for our GPA, happiness and future are extremely common. It is all too easy to really feel these issues are matters of life and death, and to freak out accordingly. In actuality these aren’t matters of life and death, but they’re out there beyond the bubble—reality is out there.

This semester I was jolted out of this artificial world of college life when several of my friends experienced real problems of life and death. I began to find it difficult to concentrate on normal college tasks that usually seem important, like planning social events or completing assignments. When the real world continues out there, when tragic deaths and illnesses continue to occur even though we are in this bubble of safety, it’s challenging to continue to emphasize the “big problems” of college life.

It’s tempting to blissfully exist within the bubble. Even when violent conflicts are breaking out in other countries, we can easily ignore them and glide through life in the safety of our Duke bubble. We operate within a framework of “these things don’t happen at Duke.” Real matters of life and death don’t happen.

But, that’s a false sentiment and just part of the artificiality of college life. Death isn’t only exclusive to far-away countries and far-removed places. Death does come to campus. There are accidents. There is illness. As I write this, there is probably a Duke student, faculty member or staff person whom I don’t know suffering from a terminal illness. Reality isn’t just “out there,” outside the bubble of college, but also in here.

This semester I was repeatedly made aware of this artificiality as people close to me suffered illness, injury, assault and death. I was forced to confront the reality of life: that it necessitates death.

I don’t mean to be morbid, but we have to face the fact that life is transient. It is necessary to acknowledge this, because the real world is where we actually exist, not the artificial college bubble.

Death as a topic for discussion is usually taboo at universities, but it’s important to put it on the table. If death does come up, it is often discussed in an abstract distant way, in terms of casualty statistics. Rarely is it addressed in terms of students’ lives and the lives of their loved ones, in terms of navigating life and death in real life.

And navigating life and death is exactly what we must do, both in our personal lives and as we become the “leaders of tomorrow.”

I encourage all of us to start being the leaders of tomorrow now by considering death, and while doing so, considering life.

For many people, the month of December is a time to spread joy and goodwill, inspired by religious holidays and New Year’s resolutions. Consider spreading joy by working to preserve life.

This isn’t a battle against death, but an effort to improve conditions and chances of life. Work at a soup kitchen. Get involved with medical aid for low-income individuals. Donate to medical research efforts. Protect the environment. And break free of the college bubble.

If you read my column regularly, you probably know by now that I’m all about the environment. And there are several reasons for that. But the main one is a dedication to protecting life in an effort to avoid certain tragedies, like death caused by pollution, malnutrition from environmental degradation and other environmentally caused, and avoidable, deaths.

So I’m putting death on the table. Not to freak us out, but to highlight life. We can’t really talk about protecting life, whether it concerns the environment or human illness, without acknowledging death.

Let’s get out of the bubble.

Hannah Anderson-Baranger is a Trinity junior. This is her final column of the semester.

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for dealing with our world. And in this vaguely designed “arts and culture” editorial vehicle, that language necessarily comes from our experience—our experience as Duke students; as men and women and sons and daughters and siblings; as poets, musicians, scientists, dancers, athletes; as young people who like to be Nov. 24, 2012, circa 11:11pm, Gchat.

Michaela: currently trying to start an editor’s note precisely about around each other and who are curious about culture. feeling things and personal things and etc I’m curious if maybe, upon deeper consideration, past while simultaneously not being too personal about it and some- “opinion writing” or “journalism,” you’d call this writing that how connecting it to why we need good nonfiction work in our always occupies Page Two of Recess “nonfiction.” Last Thurspublic schools and storytelling and taylor swift day The New York Times published an op-ed by Sara Mosle, S: oh wow! i can’t wait to read it titled, “What Should Children Read?” Defending the imporM: while also calling attention to the medium of writing itself tance of good nonfiction, Mosle discusses the newly developed S: that sounds tricky Common Core Standards, a “set of national benchmarks... for Ceci n’est pas une Editor’s Note. the skills public school students should master in language arts Since I know you’re wondering, yes, it was recently the and mathematics.” She describes what these Standards do, 114th birthday of French surrealist painter René Magritte, besides elicit my metaphorical groan at their tasteless adminwho made famous half of that sentence. And, yes, given istrative phrasing: “Depending on your point of view, the now that I’m the editor of a written publication and someone contentious guidelines prescribe a healthy — or lethal — dose who has begun feeling okay including “writer” in response of nonfiction.” to questions—no matter how superficial—about my idenThat nonfiction consists of “informational texts,” such as tity or “future plans,” I have a vested interest in language historical documents and “scientific tracts.” One image I’ve and how we use it. preserved from my Thanksgiving break—apart from driving If I tell you, as I attempted above, that “this is not an Editor’s to the sweet sounds of Taylor Swift’s* new album and fearNote,” I’m curious about how you’d classify this editorial. We’ve ing that upon returning to Duke I’d have no language left left the Editor’s Note open thus far for, among others, a rant save for her lyrics— is sprawling languidly in our family room against a metal band, a defense of Young Adult literature, a con- while my mom, a teacher, read aloud examples of this “nondemnation of calling women “crazy” and various calls-to-arms fiction,” allotted per grade. for the arts at Duke. We’ve even written—musically, I’d argue— “No,” I spat out into my pillow, in response to the sound about how to write about music. No matter the subject or con- of Discovering Mars: The Amazing Story of the Red Planet and poceptual frame, we use the same written medium—varied accord- litical treatises by the likes George Washington and Patrick ing, and beautifully so, to our own style—to articulate a language Henry. I bristle at the Common Core Standards’ per-grade charting and color-coding in the same way that I bristle at the College Board’s primary colors and acorn logo. I bristle more at Mosle’s depiction of David Coleman, incipresidential-esque people we’d like to method-act dentally the president of the College Board, who “helped Michaela Dwyer.....................................................Jackie O. design and promote the Common Core” and “says EngHolly Hilliard......................................................bell hooks lish classes today focus too much on self-expression.”

Later in the Gchat that’s excerpted above, my friend menDan Fishman................................................Walt Whitman tioned that her least favorite saying is “don’t take it personTeddy Phillips............................................Teddy Roosevelt ally.” I quickly agreed. I have a big problem with the denial Katie Zaborsky......................................Benjamin Franklin of the personal, of the self, in creative work, and with the noSophia Durand........................................................Sarkozy tion that we can prescribe this denial on a large scale. I have a big problem with how the “personal” is sectioned off from Emma Loewe.........................................................Harrison the “academic” or the “intellectual.” As if to feel something, Andrew Karim...................................................Aaron Burr and to acknowledge and work out that feeling—in speech, in action, and by extension in writing and in art—isn’t the

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way to live seriously. Upholding sentiment, vibe, inkling, curiosity is seen, and especially with these new Standards, as a divergence and devaluation from fact and truth— nonfiction, as we’re taught to understand it. This mentality is unfortunate, because it perpetuates the nonfiction/fiction “smackdown” Mosle mentions: English instructors’ tug between teaching a novel or an article, a poem or a treatise, and their increasing mandate to focus on the latter.

I’m not here to rally for that smackdown. Its language presumes that fiction and nonfiction are diametrically opposed, and that all of us understand, and want to maintain, whatever their difference is. With that, I’m not here to elevate some notion of “nonfiction” over “fiction.” I tried journalism in high school and continued it at Duke, and through it have found a tangible way to capitalize on my curiosities about people and things. “Nonfiction” writing has always been my creative go-to, more than short stories or poetry. But, that said, I’d defend to the death those two literary genres (and not just because I’m an English major), just as I’d defend anything that ultimately goes in these Editor’s Notes. Writing well, and producing a good story, in each of these contexts involves creative process—one that necessarily emerges from rigorous personal experience. “Nonfiction” and “fiction” writing are exercises in empathy, and at empathy’s core is an understanding of, and respect for, the self. What good nonfiction does well—read Mosle’s piece for some examples, or I can hand you my Documentary Writing syllabus, and then blab about writers I like who blur the fiction-nonfiction distinction*—is the same as what good fiction does well. Both demonstrate, with forms and approaches as varied as our Editor’s Notes, that life is messy, unresolved and infinitely nuanced; they’re a neverending riff on the personal.

And variations on the personal are themselves neverending.

Whereas part of mine is a focus on women writers and artists, Ireland and the American South and the arts in education and policy, an equal part is my anxiety, my humor and my relationships. I’ve only figured that out through creative work, which forces us, no matter the project, to determine, in realtime, what we know and don’t know, but most importantly what we’re curious about. *NPR/Guy Raz: Is there a line that you won’t cross when it comes to writing about how you feel?

Taylor Swift: I don’t think that I’ve ever experienced that line before. *Virginia Woolf, Sheila Heti and Marina Keegan (please, if you haven’t yet, read “Cold Pastoral”), among others.

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Piotr Anderszewski to perform through DP

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Piotr Anderszewski, who will perform in Page Auditorium on Friday night, is considered one of the most atypical method actors in the classical music business. He takes on pieces that are not widely hailed, some of which, being performed Friday, are considered obscure even to connoisseurs of the genre. Friday’s performance brings to Duke an artist who may not be as familiar a name as last month’s Polish pianist Rafal Blechacz, but David Heid, lecturer in piano at Duke, assures that “[it will be] a wonderful evening of entertainment.”

Described by The Guardian as a “perfect conduit” for Bach, Anderszewski has been working to incarnate ideologies that were central to the increasingly secular musical repertoire of the Baroque era. His pieces attempt to bring to life more recognizably modern visions of the likes of Janacek and Schumann.

In interviews, it’s obvious that Anderszewski has labored to increase his empathetic understanding of Schumann such that it allows him to better personify the psychology of the composer. He has claimed in various YouTube interviews that reading about Schumann’s incarceration in an asylum following a suicide attempt helped Anderszewski recognize psychological absurdities in Schumann’s oeuvre.

The program that Anderszewski has selected for Friday night—one which blends the baroque with the surreal—is like something out of a Murakami novel. He will play Bach’s Italian Concerto and English Suite followed by Janacek’s An Overgrown Path. Finally, he will perform Schumann’s renowned Fantasie in C. The program is an unusual mix of canonical and rare works that has Duke faculty members like Heid excited.

“As a teacher of young pianists, I’m ecstatic that they get to hear such artistry in person,” Heid said. “His program includes some of the masterworks of the literature such as the Schumann Fantasy in C but also a chance to hear appealing rarities like the Janacek.”

One of the challenges of modern classical music is to reinvigorate the canon without coming off as pretentious and without losing the vital messages of old composers.

This is inhibited by the often-difficult relationship between the classical artist and his repertoire. Duke student pianist Jameson Kuang described the process of becoming a conduit for another musician’s message as complicated, but central to great piano performances.

“My old [piano] teacher always said one can’t just understand a piece and expect to play it well without also understanding the composer’s life, his/her motives, heroes, struggles, friends and enemies and loves,” Kuang said.

With relatively unknown pieces, the standards are even higher, and Friday will be one of the litmus tests for evaluating Anderszewski. At first, the evolution from the Bach concerto to the Schumann, detouring through the more modern and folk-inspired Janacek, makes little chronological sense. Though, as with the best Murakami novels, that which is chronologically puzzling often has a thematic purpose. Moreover, the ability to make enigmatic pieces accessible to the public is a hallmark of great musicians.

“I think it takes a very worldly and cultural mind to be able to meld stylistically different pieces into a satisfying and exciting program,” Kuang said.

In the Bach selections alone, Anderszewski seems to want to explore the multi-faceted nature of the classical canon. He has chosen to play one of three known sets of Bach suites—the earliest thereof. The contrapuntal English Suites are, according to Kuang, “relatively experimental” in comparison to the later French Suites and the Partitas, whereas The Italian Concerto that we will hear is more traditionally and recognizably Baroque.

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If Kuang and Heid are right, Anderszewski’s concert on Friday night will be an adventure for both mind and ear. The Bach Suites will initiate a curious journey through the abstract and experimental. The audience will experience the somnolent, though sometimes discordant, landscapes of Janacek. But the experience will culminate with an evocative plunge down the rabbit hole—a dive into the riddle that is Schumann—that may be worthy of pretentious boasting.

Duke Performances presents Piotr Anderszewski tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in Page Auditorium.

Triangle musicians support MS research

By Cord Peters THE CHRONICLE

On Friday, Motorco Music Hall will host a benefit concert for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society that showcases many of the Triangle’s most esteemed music groups.

The concert is a rare opportunity to view a cross-section of the local music scene as well as some of the bands who have grown to national importance.

“People don’t realize there are bands that are as good as any in the nation right here,” said Mimi McLaughlin of Magnolia Collective.

The sets will demonstrate the local music scene’s wide variety of genres and styles. Django Haskins, frontman for Chapel Hill band The Old Ceremony, plays what some would call “cinematic rock,” but Haskins downplays that label.

“There’s some folk influences, some jazz, some postpunk,” Haskins said. “Really we just play what sounds good to us; we’re not good at naming it.”

The Dogwoods, a group composed of Triangle-based artists like Jack Crawford from The Old Ceremony, Roman Candle and Max Indian, are more comfortably classic rock, while Magnolia Collective plays what the band humorously calls “bootgazer,” a type of twangy, alt-country rock. Headliner Mandolin Orange adds Southern and non-traditional elements to bluegrass, including the occasional electric guitar, organ and bass.

Zach Terry and Mark Simonsen, whose mothers are both affected by MS, organized the event and in order to generate revenue and support for MS, a nervous-system disease that affects over a quarter-million people in the United States. The bands are doing this event pro bono, donating all their tickets sales to the Eastern North Carolina Chapter of the National MS Society. Much of the money will stay in the Raleigh, Central and Eastern North Carolina areas. Some of the proceeds will pay for handicap ramps and assistance dogs, and other money will fund local research at Duke and UNC. But, for Terry and Simonsen, the impact is more personal.

“At the end of the day, it’s me and Mark doing something for our moms,” Terry said.

It wasn’t hard for Terry and Simonsen to find successful bands who wanted to help the cause. The local music

scene is exceptionally interconnected, as the bands on Friday’s set list demonstrate. Terry has played for Magnolia Collective. Magnolia Collective met Mandolin Orange at a gig few years ago and became friends. Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz, who make up Mandolin Orange, also play occasionally in the Dogwoods. Simonsen plays vibraphone and organ in Haskins’ band The Old Ceremony and owns Studio M, which professionally records for many local artists.

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selves after shows,” Simonsen said. “They also play a lot with other bands because many of the shows are multi-band bills.”

McLaughlin might have said it best: “You almost have to make a family tree to connect everyone.”

With its lower-than-New York rent and a burgeoning young audience for alternative music, the Triangle area is attractive for a lot of great bands.

“It’s easy enough to make a living down here—or at least scrape by,” Haskins said. “You don’t have to go to work for Bank of America just to play in a band, and that allows

the artistic community the freedom to experiment, not just try to ‘make it.’” Of the bands playing on Friday, only the members of Magnolia Collective hold non-music-related day jobs.

Though these bands and other musicians have started to draw national attention, band members say the scene is kept alive by its local fan base. Simonsen attributes this partially to the great music programs at the local universities, which produce music majors who then get involved in the local scene. But the Triangle music scene had been important well before these universities attained their stature. From the 1940s when John D. Loudermilk and George Hamilton IV found a hit with “A Rose and a Baby Ruth” to the heralded rise in talent in the ‘80s and the recent success of Max Indian, the area has history of successful bands. This is every bit as true today, though, as Simonsen said, it’s “been a building process for over 70 years.”

The recent rise in talent is partially associated with the advancement of digital media. Many independent bands can make “do-it-yourself albums,” as Terry describes, and also record in local studios like Simonsen’s Studio M and Arbor Ridge Studios.

“The scene doesn’t have an industry presence,” Frantz said. “It’s non-competitive; we’re just eager to play.”

The Triangle is also an exciting place to be a thrifty music lover. The price of admittance at many music venues is less than that of a movie and popcorn. But as many of the artists conceded, undergraduate students rarely attend the shows.

“College students are an interesting population to try to reach,” Haskins said. “They’re transitory, and at a school like Duke, they don’t tend to get terribly involved in the local community.” Simonsen attributes the poor college student turnout to the drinking age and the fact that many venues are 18- or 21-plus.

Friday is a chance for undergraduates to change that dynamic. For Duke students, it’s a one-stop opportunity to both experience the bars on Rigsbee Avenue and see, as Terry said, “world-class bands in their own backyard.”

Doors to the concert open at 8 p.m. for a 9 p.m. showtime.

There will be food trucks and acoustic music in the Garage and the patio area. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.

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Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) lost his wife, his home and his sanity after nearly beating his wife’s lover to death. Eight months later, he’s shed a few pounds, gained a new philosophy and moved in with his anxious mother (Jacki Weaver) and Philadelphia Eagles-crazed father (Robert DeNiro). Running through his neighborhood and attending regular therapy sessions, Pat maintains an intense physical and psychological regime in an effort to win back his estranged wife. In the meantime, he meets self-proclaimed used-to-bewhore Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), his match made in head-case heaven.

The cast, dealing with everything from manic depression to obsessive compulsion to anxiety and nymphomania, is an absolute knockout. I had my reservations with The Hunger Games battlefield sweetheart Jennifer Lawrence and The Hangover stud Bradley Cooper given the complexity of

the roles they were playing, but each successfu job. The film’s shortcomings lie in its ultimate p conflicts between and within its characters. But about a bunch of psychos for anything else, do Silver Linings Playbook was adapted from Matt same name. If you’ve read it you may be disapp slightly. The film takes place in the suburbs of P Jersey, and Pat’s relationship with his father is re one fighting to keep his father engaged, but th theless, Quick has said that he is a “big fan of th only manipulated for the sake of its success on Silver Linings Playbook was as entertaining as is a head-scratcher at times, which for me is an rom-com fare. That might alienate those intere (cough, cough) charisma, but if for nothing el yell about the alternate ending to Ernest Hemin —Ashley Alman

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The people who inhabit the Washington D.C. of Steven Spielberg’s latest historical drama, Lincoln, could be well-described by Snoop Dogg’s—forgive me, Snoop Lion’s—song “G’s and Hustlas.” These eponymous characters, Snoop reflects, “want some, get some, bad enough, take some.” They are wheeler-dealers, unscrupulous figures trying their hardest to advance in politics—and presumably, in the process, make their “sh*t dope.” In particular, proceedings of the House of Representatives are about as loud and raucous as your average frat party. Votes for bills or amendments transcend meek “yes”’s or “no”’s into ear-splitting shrieks of “YAYYY” or “NAYYY.” Outspoken abolitionist Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) can’t help but call a whole lot of people “nincompoops.” Throughout the film, representatives, true legislative frat-stars, deliver rousing speeches at the House podium. In this Congress, resulting celebratory Busch-Light-shot-gunning sessions would not feel out of place.

This is the flawed system Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis) must contend with in order to pass the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution abolish-

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with the novels has always been that the action is slow-moving, but this movie kept the plot chugging along.

Kristen Stewart also deserves some credit. Finally, come round five, her acting didn’t physically hurt me. Her chops have improved, and the remaining awkwardness fits with the Bella we have come to know. No Oscars in her future, but maybe her MTV Movie Award will actually be deserved this time around.

However, there is one major flaw in this film that I cannot overlook: the demon baby. I don’t say demon baby because Bella and Edward’s child is half-vampire; I say demon baby because the filmmakers decided that instead of casting a real baby, they would use CGI to construct the face. It is the most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen, except for the birthing video I watched in seventh-grade science class. And what’s worse, they continued to CGI the face until the girl was eight or nine. So the demon baby grew into a demon child. Yes, this child needed to age rapidly, but that’s why you cast multiple children who look the part. Find siblings. I don’t care. Just don’t do an extreme close up on a fake baby face with way too much hair.

If you have ever declared yourself Team Edward or Team Jacob, you’ll be very happy with this final installment. If you only go to laugh (it’s OK, I know you secretly like them) you’ll be satisfied too. This is not a good film, but it’s a great Twilight movie.

—Jamie Kessler

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in film ore significantly, the Civil War is in full force, and hundreds n one occasion, Lincoln’s oldest son Robert (Joseph Gordona wheelbarrow full of limbs and proceeds to puke (otherwise forgettable, albeit cute). Lincoln has some family troubles—an riage, grief over his dead son—but he must choose politics over order to implement law and influence legacy, Lincoln must play lligently and realistically. When you play the game of politics, ur legislation dies. akes do. This is not the honest Abe we think we know; Linus that he is “the President of the United States, clothed power.” To obtain votes for the Amendment, he deals in pabribery, offering jobs and titles in exchange for votes. He y negotiators who occasionally resort to outright bullying to senting Democrats. s Lincoln is tall, a little stooped. He is calm, patient and subtle warmth and wit. He speaks in tales and metaphors; my erns George Washington and the act of sh*tting. Day-Lewis s to characterize the sixteenth president with subtlety and ng the monumental nature of the man speak for itself. Dayyear preparing for this role, studying speeches and even tex-

ting Sally Field (who plays Mary Todd) in character. This is a mesmerizing performance; it’s hard to believe Day-Lewis is not Abe in the flesh.

Because this is a period drama, Lincoln’s producers had some fun with setting. There is an astonishing variety of facial hair, from toothbrush mustaches to curly sideburns extending the entire length of a face. Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn) remains unfortunately cleanshaven, but during one scene, he wears a fantastic yellow spangled kimono-jacket. Thaddeus Stevens is similarly [and tragically] hairless, but, for his part, wears the worst wig ever (there can be no other way to describe this brown, fluffy concoction). This, along with Jones’ passionate—and ultimately adorable—performance, makes for great entertainment.

The result of all this is as good a movie as has been in theaters this year.

For a film about the last few months of Lincoln’s life—I mean, you already know how it’s going to end—Lincoln remains relevant, despite a dearth of battles with Confederate vampires. Like our friend Snoop, Spielberg’s Lincoln is a lion of a film rather than a dog.

—Indu Ramesh

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“You’re entitled to your own opinion / sit and shake your head at my decision,” Rihanna sings on “Half of Me,” the closer of her newest album Unapologetic. Clearly, she expects people to judge her. For one, she sings a duet with Chris Brown, her ex- (or maybe not-so-ex) boyfriend who violently abused her in 2009. Their song is called “Nobody’s Business,” and as Rihanna begs him to “make out in this Lexus,” one can’t help but remember that Brown has done other things in cars, things like assault. Unapologetic is also jarringly different from her previous six albums in that it is not a breeding ground for chart-topping singles, nor is it strictly pop. Rihanna’s seventh studio album explores unfamiliar territory, often sounding more hip hop than Top 40, and it’s a change that, frankly, she shouldn’t have to apologize for.

And she doesn’t: “I’m the type that don’t give a f***,” she says on “Half of Me.” For a few years the Barbadian starlet has expressed that same sentiment, but I didn’t believe her until now. Good Girl Gone Bad and Rated R were intended to show Rihanna’s dark side, but the only edgy things she did involved painting herself silver for the “Umbrella” video and wearing an eye-patch in “Wait Your Turn.” I was convinced that she simply had a bad stylist. And then came Loud, in which she sang about the excitement of whips and chains. She was trying so hard to be risqué that I didn’t believe the facade. Her next album Talk That Talk was again disappointing, and I lost heart, mourning the loss of my “Pon de Replay” pop princess and vowing never to listen to her music again (except for when “Cake” played on 97.5).

Now, though, I finally get where Rihanna is going. She’s not in pop/dance/reggae limbo anymore: she’s heading hip hop. And she doesn’t do it badly. It helps that she brings in a few feature artists, including Future, David Guetta and Eminem, as well as a guy named Mikky Ekko. He doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page, and yet the song with him in it—“Stay,” a slow piano ballad—is easily my favorite on the album. And David Guetta’s piece, “Right Now,” is one of the few on the CD that is destined to dominate popular radio: it has the same YOLO theme and club style as Ke$ha’s “Die Young.” But even in songs without guest artists, Rihanna holds her own: “Pour It Up” is basically a catchy ver-

If any one person is responsible for reintroducing Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina to a generation of readers all too content to label it as “insurmountable,” it’s Oprah Winfrey.

She chose the book in May of 2004 as part of her book club, an unprecedented pick for two reasons: for one, she hadn’t read the book before assigning it, an Oprah’s Book Club first. Second, the book centers on an adulterous wife of a bureaucrat and the societal repercussions she faces in 19th century aristocratic Russia, a far, privileged cry from the Toni Morrison novels that frequently grace Oprah’s list. The novel is certainly a masterpiece, but Oprah did more than revive interest in a classic—she helped revive the market for translated literature. Anna Karenina the movie, then, is a translation of a translation, suggesting an even cruder derivation than most film adaptations. Yet director Joe Wright’s big budget drama doesn’t pretend to be faithful to the reader, a task that may actually be insurmountable. Instead, Anna Karenina is faithful to the moviegoer, reveling in the power of cinematic aesthetics on par with Tolstoy’s original prose.

Anna Karenina’s simple plot structure belies its reputation as an impenetrable and dense novel (Tisch film professors should use it as a paragon of how to construct an A story and B story). The main plot, of course, centers on Anna (Keira Knightley), a married aristocrat who begins an affair with the much-too-mustachioed Count Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). When she confesses her secret to her husband Alexey (a wildly unsexy Jude Law), he ain’t even mad! He does, however, inform her about the politics of divorce and urges her to end the affair to avoid a public scandal. Vronsky’s mustache has never looked tastier.

The subplot that lurks behind Anna’s indiscretions is much more wholesome by comparison, its quiet romance sometimes overshadowed by the icy love triangle that dominates the movie. Konstantin Levin (Domhnall Gleeson), a landowner of simple tastes, is in love with Kitty Shcherbatsky, a young princess with her eye on Count Vronsky as well. In the movie, Levin is clearly the superior choice in terms of facial hair and principles, but of all the characters that make the leap from literature to cinema, he is the one who is clearly shortchanged. Maybe it’s because he

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sion of “Bandz a Make Her Dance,” and “Phresh Out the Runway” has Rihanna asking the question: “What’s on my chain? Dollas.” Swag.

That’s not to say Unapologetic is without its missteps.

“Jump,” which samples Ginuwine’s “Pony,” builds to a terrifying dubstep breakdown following the lyrics “My saddle is waiting, come and jump on it.” It doesn’t sound very inviting, but thanks anyway, Rihanna. The boring “Get It Over With,” too, is appropriately named. One thing that Rihanna has improved on, though, is her singing. “Get It Over With” and a few others on the album demonstrate her surprising vocal ability, her voice sounding richer, smoother and much less whiny. Listen to “What Now” if you need proof.

Rihanna knows that people talk about her, and Unapologetic shows that she really doesn’t care. She has released seven albums and she’s only 24—I think she has earned the right to do what she wants. And, most importantly, she’s always trying something new with her music. Even if I don’t necessarily approve of some of her personal decisions, I respect what she’s doing as an artist. Two years ago I reviewed her album Loud and suggested that Rihanna stop the music. Unapologetic just changed my mind.

—Holly Hilliard

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display of artifacts from the Rock Nest Monster, one of Lee’s imagined creations. The creature reflects the artist’s more fictitious pursuits that stand in contrast to his documentarystyle portrait photography work in Senegal, Ghana and Nigeria from the 2000s.

“Looking back, forward, inward, and out. I understand that in terms of where he is in his artistic career, but also in terms of each piece, this ‘looking inward and out’ quality,” said Laura Ritchie, co-founder and gallery director of the Carrack. “He has several photographs of this amazing texture that happens when gourds get moldy, and I don’t think you’d realize if you knew that because they’re so beautiful. Then, up front, he has several immaculately finished gourd sculptures. They almost become a completely different object. You see two different stages of this natural object’s life. And that’s just a small part of the exhibit. This is happening all over, different views of the same subject or object.”

This broad variety of work seems right at home at the

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‘Spectives’ exhibition “all about looking”

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What defines the relationship between a retrospective and an introspective? Prefixes.

Artist Jim Lee describes his exhibition, “Spectives,” as “all about looking,” via retrospective, introspective, perspective and more. “Spectives,” which opened at the Carrack Modern Art on Tuesday, is a dynamic exploration of Lee’s past and present work. The elements of the exhibit are composed in such a way to form a comprehensive space within the Carrack, a gallery located in the heart of downtown Durham.

“Spectives” contains an eclectic array of Lee’s projects throughout the last few years, including photography, sculpture, multimedia art and a miniature exhibit-within-

Manbites Dog celebrates 25 years with 70 short scenes

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It’s 1987 and in an abandoned shoe store in desolate downtown Durham, two men endeavor to set up a theater that would showcase performances that push past the conventional boundaries of typical shows.

Jeff Storer, professor of theater studies, and Edward Hunt took a plunge when they co-founded Manbites Dog Theater in the empty storefront in an area with little to attract an audience. Under the premise that it would serve as haven for performances favoring the bizarre, Hunt, the current associate artistic director and managing director of Manbites Dog, and Storer, the current artistic director, put

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Carrack Modern Art. “It fits in perfectly with our narrative,” Ritchie said.

“One of the unique things about the Carrack is artists have complete artistic freedom and can use all the square footage, not just the walls. As a whole, he very successfully utilizes the space.”

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on Seventy Scenes of Halloween that December.

Seventy Scenes of Halloween is a show with a title that pretty much speaks for itself—comprised of 70 short scenes, the longest being five minutes, the performance shows the tattered marriage of Jeff and Joan as they wait for trick-ortreaters. Unconventional by virtue of the play’s ability to seamlessly tie in overt violence with riotous comedic relief, the four actors performed three shows in that store before the owner jacked up the rent, a result of seeing a potential profit from the size of the crowds.

Manbites Dog then crafted theater space anywhere they could find. From conference rooms, a bar on Broad Street and the Durham Art Council, performances would continue to pop up throughout Durham regardless of lacking its own facility. For a while, Manbites Dog existed in a strip mall on Roxboro Road before moving to its permanent location on 703 Foster Street.

Now, Manbites Dog will celebrate its 25th anniversary by performing Seventy Scenes of Halloween, the first show ever put on by the theater.

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KARENINA from page 6 represents a kind of outmoded morality: he finds satisfaction in hard work and productivity and rejects social performance for its own sake. But Levin is perhaps the richest and most thoroughly developed character in Tolstoy’s novel—a semiautobiographical version of Tolstoy himself—and yet the screenplay fails to capitalize on this. Tom Stoppard’s screenplay manages to include the most pivotal scenes of Anna’s storyline while barely skimming over Levin’s brilliant philosophical arguments and beliefs, a great disservice to the audience.

If Anna is the story’s anti-hero, then Levin is undoubtedly the hero, an idea not quite apparent in the movie version.

That raises the question of faithfulness: is Anna Karenina faithful to Anna Karenina, and is that even a appropriate benchmark for success? Past adaptations have taken the realist approach to the novel, with the 1997 remake even going on location to Russia. From the first scene, Joe Wright’s reimagining shows us that there are many ways to be faithful: Anna’s brother Stiva (Matthew Macfadyen) receives a shave from a barber on an empty stage. The theater, the exposed stagecraft, the onedimensional scenery that hangs in the background—this is the setting of Anna Karenina, and it’s a creative, memorable interpretation of one of the novel’s main themes: we are never without an audience. After all, Anna can only create a spectacle of herself if there are those around to judge her. With a framework that exposes the theatricality of it all, the idea of faithfulness seems irrelevant or at least opens it up to new meanings.

For the detractors of such visual cleverness, there are many previous adaptations of Anna Karenina that adhere more strictly to the novel. The newest Anna Karenina adaptation is smarter than its predecessors because it rests on the notion that film and literature are not equivalent mediums, nor should they be considered as such. Yes, Anna Karenina the movie is a translation, but it speaks the language of cinema fluently. And for whatever reason, it speaks with a British accent.

—Yekaterina Zaborskaya

“Spectives” will be on display at The Carrack Modern Art until December 6.

MANBITES from page 7 “We feel blessed every day that we are a company that’s still alive,” Storer said. “It surprises us every day because it’s hard to raise funds....It was a huge challenge eventually buying our own building and presenting anything we want to present there.”

Despite challenges that may have arisen along the way, audience members were touched by Manbites Dogs from the get-go.

Adam Sobsey, the current director for Seventy Scenes of Halloween, originally watched the show in the shoe store

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around the Triangle, creates a delicate balance between cohesion and range in “Spectives.”

“I had no idea that Jim was an artist who could work in such a diverse range of media,” said Ritchie. “I’ve seen a few isolated pieces, but I had no idea he was so multifaceted. And there’s a coherence to all of it.”

Despite this perceived lucidity, Lee denies any central message to this collection, instead suggesting that it can’t be constrained in this way.

“There’s a range of things covered, so there’s no one answer to what I’m trying to convey,” Lee said. “There are things in there that are absolutely funny, and things that are tragic and about real human condition. ‘Spectives,’ for me, is a time to share the multiple facets of what I do and how I think.”

The Carrack Modern Art was founded in non-commercial ideals. It has housed a variety of visual and performance artists with freedom from fees and commercial pressures.

Lee’s relationship with the Carrack has developed alongside the Carrack’s relationship with Durham. “[Lee] has been very involved in terms of volunteering his time and contributing to the building of conversation about the Carrack,” said Ritchie, particularly noting the Carrack’s word-of-mouth approach to business.

“I try to be as supportive as I can. I would like to see [the Carrack] survive and become a viable resource for the community,” said Lee.

as a 17-year old. As an aspiring actor, he was accustomed to performing in class theater productions, such as Romeo and Juliet and The Crucible. Seeing Seventy Scenes of Halloween exposed him to a new form of theater that he would continue to study in college and, eventually, write himself.

“I came out of the theater after I saw [the show] and felt that the sense of what the rules were in theater had been completely transformed, and that’s what inspired me to start writing plays,” he said. “I remember being so excited coming out of the theater and seeing how the play really takes conventional theatrical models, uses them briefly and basically just explodes them.”

The recent adaptation of Seventy Scenes of Halloween, however, is extremely different from the original show in ‘87, he said. The show is designed so that the scenes can be played out of order; as a result, the current production will be in a completely different order than the original show. Also, having a permanent space allows the producers to take advantage of set design, lighting and even incorporate magic tricks.

Manbites Dog attempts to accomplish three goals with its performance selection, Storer said. The theater will only put on shows that fall into one of three typesets—magical realism, powerfully political and shows that challenge the audience’s perception on the form of theater.

Junior Jacob Tobia, who performed in Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them, said the theater excels at showing politically relevant and socially conscious issues.

“I came out to my parents four years before doing this show and it was the first time they saw me kiss a boy,” he said. “That epitomizes what Manbites does.”

And as long as the theater continues to get the community support it has received since its first performance in an abandoned storefront, Storer said it will only continue to keep pushing the envelope with different forms of theater.

“The truth of the matter is we didn’t know if we’d make it past the first play, let alone know if we’d be in existence 25 years later,” he said. “We are doing new stuff all of the time and that is the definition of who we are. We may do things that may seem at odds with one another but that’s the reason we’ve stayed alive.”

Seventy Scenes of Halloween runs at Manbites Dog Theater from November 29-December 15.

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