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Dept. status New plaza to bridge BC, Towerview to aid growth of Neurology

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The neurology division of the School of Medicine will become its own department this summer, which should improve its ability to recruit faculty and students, administrators said.

Administrators will formally inaugurate the department July 1, giving neurology staff more autonomy and direct access to the Duke University Health System. The neurology division currently utilizes the administration within the department of medicine, which currently has 15 divisions in total, to connect with Joel DUHS, the private diMorgenlander agnostic clinic and the medical school, said Ronald Beauvais, the division administrator for neurology. As a neurology department, staff will have direct access to these resources as well as stronger representation in department meetings.

“We will have a seat at the big table, and SEE NEUROLOGY ON PAGE 4

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The renovated Bryan Center Plaza, on track for an Aug. 2013 completion, will link student social hubs with academic buildings on Towerview Road and Science Drive.

The extension, currently shrouded in a grey protective barrier, is part of the larger construction project involving the renovation of the West Union Building, which will cause West Union and Bryan Center shops and restaurants to shuffle locations.

The extended plaza will function as the main gateway leading into the Events Pavilion—which will host eateries during renovations and later become an events space—and also become the main connection between West Campus and the buildings on Towerview Road.

Instead of going down stairs leading to Union Drive in order to access Towerview from the West Union Building area, the new Plaza—a continuous, leveled platform—will access the athletics facilities, the Sanford School of Public Policy, Rubenstein Hall, Gross Chemistry Building, Fuqua School of Business and Duke School of Law. “Public policy is one of the top majors at Duke,” said Steve Nowicki, dean

Plans show the extension of the Bryan Center Plaza to the new Events Pavilion (top), and the University moves forward with construction on the extended plaza and the Events Pavilion (bottom).

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ICS program Uni works with South Sudan to boost crops celebrates 40 years at Duke

by Margot Tuchler THE CHRONICLE

by Ryan Zhang THE CHRONICLE

A two-day conference celebrating the 40th anniversary of International Comparative Studies at Duke is set to begin Thursday.

The conference, titled “Movements and Exchanges in an Unequal World: ICS at 40,” will feature presentations on a wide range of topics by Duke faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students as well as speakers from other universities.

The presentations are grouped into five themes central to ICS—Migration and Ethnicity; Humanitarianism and Development; Refugees, Rescue and Race; the University and Security and the Law. The idea for the conference emerged SEE ICS ON PAGE 2

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Akec Khoc, South Sudanese ambassador to the United States, is spending time at Duke to help find ways to improve food security in South Sudan.

As part of the University’s Africa Initiative, Khoc was invited to campus to speak about food security in the newly independent South Sudan and to learn about a Duke-led project that aims to alleviate the problem by introducing a strain of maize through South Sudan.

Led by adjunct professor of biology Mary Eubanks, junior Nyuol Tong—a South Sudanese student who opened a school in his home village last August— and Ellen Davis, the Amos Ragan Kearns distinguished professor of bible and practical theology at the Divinity School, the venture aims to revolutionize the future of sustainable agriculture in the country.

“South Sudan is... living with the difficulties of food security,” Khoc said. “We SEE AMBASSADOR ON PAGE 4

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Adjunct professor of biology Mary Eubanks shows Akec Khoc, South Sudanese ambassador to the United States, a strain of maize that could boost the country’s agricultural capabilities.

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“Stop blaming the poor and... start questioning the institutions and structures that perpetuate property....”

—Elena Botella in ‘The myth of the unworthy poor.’ See column page 10

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Duke to hold ‘Academic Homecoming’ in March

by Carleigh Stiehm THE CHRONICLE

A new sophomore class social will be held on March 20.

The inaugural event, coined Academic Homecoming, celebrates sophomores joining their new academic “homes” after declaring their major, said sophomore Laurel Kaye, senator for academic affairs.

“We really want to start academic traditions at Duke,” Kaye said. “There are so many special traditions [at Duke] that revolve around athletics or social culture, but there are few academic traditions to celebrate.”

She added that sophomores must declare their majors in the days before spring break. The event will be held the Wednesday after spring break.

Academic Homecoming will feature a meet-and-greet with faculty and professors from each academic department, as well as free food and shirts personalized for each major. It will be an event that brings the entire sophomore class together, said sophomore Nikolai Doytchinov, vice president for academic affairs.

Kaye said she hopes Academic Homecoming will become an annual tradition to celebrate an aspect of student life that is often overlooked.

“We want to create a community for students that branches past other social and athletic groups,” Kaye said. “Students in the same major will be spending a lot of time together. We hope that [Academic Homecoming] will allow students to begin fostering an academic community or mentorship relationships.”

Senator for Academic Affairs Ray Li, a sophomore, said the event required a lot of collaboration between different groups, but he said he believes it will be worth the effort for students to feel welcomed into their new departments.

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Sophomore Laurel Kaye, DSG senator for academic affairs, has planned an event called Academic Homecoming, catered to sophomores who recently declare their majors the first programmed events catered purely to academics,” said Executive Vice President Patrick Oathout, a junior. “The shirt idea is genius—there aren’t many philosophy majors on campus, so now I might get a chance to meet some after seeing their shirts. I am glad DSG chose to fund the event, and I hope it continues year after year.”

The event is being sponsored by Duke Student Government, the Student Organization Finance Committee, Sophomore Class Council, the Academic Advising Center and the Sophomore Year Experience. It is also receiving support from Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences; Tom Katsouleas, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering; Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education; and Dean of Arts and Sciences Laurie Patton.

ICS from page 1 from a conversation with Dean of Arts and Sciences Laurie Patton, a year and a half ago, said Frances Hasso, director of the ICS Program and associate professor of women’s studies.

“We thought it would be a good thing to have a kind of ‘coming out’ conference for ICS in terms of making connections with other schools and other disciplines across campus,” she said.

ICS was approved to become an official program, instead of just a major, by the Board of Trustees at their meeting last weekend. The conference, however, had been scheduled before the announcement.

The keynote address will be delivered Friday by Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. It will focus on international strategies in dealing with the war on terror as well as other wars.

Three seniors will also be presenting their senior thesis research during Friday’s portion of the conference. The students were selected from the ICS honors thesis seminar.

Jeline Rabideau studied the Rwandan refugee crisis and how laws established by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees affect refugee identity. She selected her topic after spending a semester abroad in Rwanda and Uganda.

“You can’t look at any cultural phenomenon in isolation, and the refugee crisis is no exception to that,” Rabideau said. “You have to look at different actors in the international community—different governments, different states and different individuals.”

Gena Olan tackled a “historical conundrum” in her research, exploring the motives that led certain individuals in WorldWar-II-era Spain, then an ally of Germany and a fascist dictatorship, to help the op-

pressed Jewish population escape the Nazis.

Having studied abroad in Madrid, Olan, who is Jewish, chose a topic that combined several of her interests into one field of research.

Elysia Pan focused her research on the globalization of the beauty industry, particularly with regard to the skin-whitening culture prevalent in East Asia.

“The first time I went back to China, I was just so surprised to see how some women would use umbrellas to try and constantly protect their skin from the sun’s rays,” Pan said. “Whereas here, everyone wants to be tan. It’s interesting to see that difference.”

Olan noted that the ICS program had helped her develop her skills as a thinker and writer.

“I have really enjoyed this thesis process—our seminar instructor Cheri Ross [associate director of undergraduate studies in ICS] has been a wonderful mentor,” Pan said. “It’s great that we have the opportunity to present our findings to the larger academic community on Friday.”

In addition to the undergraduate panel, several professors from Duke and other universities will be on hand to present their research. These include Peter Redfield, associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Jenny Chio, assistant professor of anthropology at Emory University. Redfield will discuss the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, and Chio will screen the documentary film “Peasant Family Happiness” on Thursday. The documentary, produced by Chio, depicts rural villages in China that have begun to integrate the growing tourism industry into their ethnic identity.

“ICS received program status last week in the Board of Trustees meeting, so I think the timing is very good,” Hasso said. “It’s an exciting time for ICS.”

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Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (right) speaks about her newsest book and life in Nigeria at White Lecture Hall Tuesday night.

and vice provost of undergraduate education. “And there has always been this lack of connectivity up to Towerview.”

In addition to improving accessibility to different parts of the campus, the new 15-foot wide walkway will also promote a higher sense of community for students through the smaller, more private seating areas, Roby added.

“The gathering spaces may be a little bit more intimate than what exists on the plaza that we now have, and you’ll be able to find a little more solitude,” he said.

But the new plaza will be slightly narrower than the existing one and therefore will require negotiations with student organizations to determine how to make full use of the limited space. Director of Dining Services Robert Coffey noted that there might be less space for additional food carts and that the decision of which food vendors will return will take place once the construction is complete.

The anticipated Events Pavilion will be another space dedicated to student life—in addition to the Bryan Center, West Union, Page Auditorium and the plaza. One of the goals of the West Campus Precinct Planning Project is to holistically make all these spaces feel connected in some way, said Chris Roby, director of the University Center Activities and Events.

“We want to take the already-existing footprint and make it make more sense,” Roby said. “The bridge is sort of the tissue that connects all those spaces together to make everything work.”

To further the sense of interconnec-

tivity between the old plaza and the new extension, the Gothic Bookshop, currently under renovation, will move from the inside of the Bryan Center to a new location, which will have two glass entrances facing the plaza, beside Joe Van Gogh cafe.

“One of the flaws of the Bryan Center is that it has just kind of been this weird stone structure,” Nowicki said. “Opening up the bookstore at the sides animates the Plaza and invites people in by connecting the inside to the outside, and at the end of the day, [all the structures] will be an integrated whole.”

Joe Van Gogh will operate within the same space after being closed from March 1 through June. But the coffee shop may have an improved heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, said Dave Jernigan, Joe Van Gogh’s director of sales and marketing.

“We are really hoping to see more business after the renovation,” Jernigan said. “We all want a better campus experience for students.”

The administration has made an effort to minimize inconvenience to the Duke community during the ongoing construction thus far, said Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta.

Students should, however, expect more visible impacts in the near future.

“I am pretty pleased that we have been able to do everything [without causing major inconveniences to the student body], but it’s going to get a little messier because the next phase of renovation is going to move up to the upper level of [the] Bryan Center,” Moneta said The plaza extension is currently on schedule and will be completed by Aug. 2013, but some minor landscaping will take place over summer, Roby said.

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AMBASSADOR from page 1 see it in the general population and we see it in the household—there are so many difficulties that we need to share with others and think together on how to resolve some of them.... Maize is one of our staple food products so if we can expand and grow, it will not be a new product, it would help resolve a number of issues.”

Developed by Eubanks, the maize is particularly resistant to droughts, floods and insects; it is also high in protein. Eubanks initially cross-pollinated gamagrass and teosinte, two types of maize ancestors that

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exhibit the aforementioned properties.

She then used the hybrid to develop those properties for corn. In 1984, Eubanks became the first scientist to successfully breed this maize that resembles hardier, ancient varieties of the crop that are now staples across Africa.

Tong began working with Eubanks his freshman year to develop the hybrid, and they now hope to plant it at the school Tong founded, the Malualdit Ayeit Liberty Academy. Khoc said he is excited about the maize’s potential to alleviate persistent issues plaguing the fledgling country, which continues to recover from more than 20 years of war.

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Students strech before a blocked mirror in Wilson Gym, in an effort to show that being fit is just about looks as part of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.

“This could revolutionize the whole South Sudan in so many ways,” said Tong, who noted that he grew up eating maize.

“The whole process of farming will involve the community.... We’re relying on the local skill, the local knowledge and the local farming schools.... There couldn’t be a better project, and I can see its potential.”

Eubanks’ cross-pollination work has produced several strains of the hybrid maize.

Some of these varieties are currently being tested out in Renk, South Sudan, at the Renk Theological College. Several varieties of the seed have been tested there over the past few years. This connection was forged

by Davis, who has taught in South Sudan since 2004 and has worked extensively in the Episcopal Church of Sudan, an institution with 4.5 million members.

Davis has been a friend and colleague of Eubanks for several years and noted how well Eubanks’ research fit with the “holistic model of theological education” Davis has been pursuing. “[The model] includes what we would call traditional theological education but also sustainable community health and community agriculture,” Davis said, noting that significant gains have been made in the former two categories. “The community agriculture has been the piece that we didn’t yet know how to develop.... It’s been the slowest one.”

The two decided last summer to pursue the project together as part of the Africa Initiative, sponsored by the University.

“The aim of this is to try to make it available for people who desperately need the food and the protein and for many of whom maize is already a standard part of their diet,” Davis said.

Eubanks has a doctorate degree in anthropology, and noted that her background gave her insight on how to approach the task of aid and development in South Sudan. She said it is important to collaborate with the villages involved, as opposed to imposing solutions that are not necessarily sustainable or practical in the villages involved.

“You need to work with people and let them tell you what they need,” Eubanks said. “In South Sudan, they don’t have infrastructure to move equipment and machinery to do industrial agriculture, and these people are hungry now.”

NEUROLOGY from page 1 that is a big step forward,” Beauvais said.

Neurology is the third division to successfully lobby for department status—the first two departments were dermatology and ophthalmology. Currently, Duke is the only top ranked medical school to retain a neurology division rather than an individual department for the specialty, Beauvais noted. This discrepancy has made it more difficult to recruit faculty as well as medical residents, who largely expect neurology departments at prestigious medical schools.

“Although we always evaluate our own needs in the larger context, recruitment and retention of faculty and residents is facilitated by having a department, in line with national norms, rather than a division of neurology,” Dr. Nancy Andrews, dean of the medical school, wrote in an email Tuesday.

The process to become a department was multifaceted, and included planning a five-year budget and meeting with senior medical school officials, the University and the Board of Trustees, Beauvais said. Currently, the staff is awaiting DUHS approval before moving forward with recruitment for additional faculty.

The maize being tested can be saved and replanted every year, Eubanks said, which makes it a truly sustainable crop. It also is cultivated with traditional farming methods that Sudanese people already know.

Although traditional farming methods persist throughout Sudanese communities, Khoc noted that as many residents were forced to refugee camps in neighboring countries—particularly Ethiopia—they lost the skills to farm their own food, as they were given a ration of grain every week. The implementation of local farms will serve to reintroduce self-sufficiency to the country as it continues to develop.

“The fact of living together in one multiethnic community would be one way of creating dialogue of healing, understanding and resolving perennial conflict,” Khoc said, noting how members of a community could benefit by working together on home farms.

This summer, Tong said he plans to bring seeds back to his village and plant them at farms at his school. He will implement a system to monitor the progress of the different strains in order to determine which grow best and are most useful.

Eubanks, Tong, Davis and Khoc will all present tomorrow—along with President Richard Brodhead and Charles Piot, professor of cultural anthropology, African and African American studies and women’s studies and co-chair of the Africa Initiative—as part of the event “Food Security in Africa: The Case for South Sudan.”

The conference will focus on broader issues of development and food security, and will reflect a variety of perspectives on the issues, Tong noted.

“Development is a real issue,” Tong said. “As you will see tomorrow at the symposium, there are different perspectives about how some projects have worked and some projects have failed.”

Khoc noted that he has high hopes for the project as it relates to the future of his country.

“If we can put funds on research for the seeds that will be used over a long time— not [needing] to buy seeds every year— then we will be enriching and empowering households in South Sudan,” Khoc said.

“Food Security in Africa: the Case for South Sudan,” will take place in Goodson Chapel tomorrow from 1 to 5 p.m.

The Charlotte-based Duke Endowment as well as an anonymous donor have provided additional funds for this project in order to hire more research-oriented faculty, Andrews noted.

This promotion to a department follows curricular changes in the medical school that require second-year students to complete a four-week rotation in neurology.

This requirement emphasizes the importance of the field and prevalence of neurologic diseases in the world, said Dr. Joel Morgenlander, interim chief of neurology and associate director of the neurology residency training program.

“Neurologic problems are everywhere,” Morgenlander said. “It is important that physicians in all fields have some understanding of neurological diagnosis and treatments.”

Morgenlander noted that Duke’s investment in the future of the department shows confidence in the ability of neurology to continue the missions of the medical school, which include expanding research, enhancing clinical care and improving educational programs.

“We have worked together to build a very strong department that hopefully will be a leader in clinical care, research and education and are already a long way down that road,” he said.

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Duke takes on UVA in Charlottesville Spatola’s

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With two games in three days, No. 3 Duke (24-3, 11-3 in the ACC) will be tested as though the postseason has already arrived.

In a clash between the second and third place teams in the conference, the Blue Devils travel to face the Cavaliers (19-8, 9-5) tonight at 9 p.m. in Charlottesville, Va. While many Blue Devil fans may already be looking ahead to the looming top-five matchup against Miami Saturday, Virginia comes into the contest on a 15-game home winning streak.

“They’re just a really good basketball team,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said in his weekly teleconference. “It’s a team that fans would like. Your fans would really love a team the way that [Virginia head coach] Tony [Bennett’s] put his team together.”

And the fans certainly appreciate the results and his team, with the 15,000-seat John Paul Jones Arena sold out as of Monday.

The Cavaliers defeated Georgia Tech at home Sunday to snap a two-game skid on the road against North Carolina and Miami. For a roster including seven freshman, playing at home may be vital for Virginia to claim its first win against Duke since 2007.

“It’s key in maybe getting the crowd on our side, being more comfortable playing in front of our home crowd,” Cavalier guard Joe Harris said. “It’s always tough playing at Cameron Indoor, so I guess it was fortunate that the only time we’re playing Duke this season is at home.”

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Virginia’s Joe Harris noted the importance of this game for his team’s chances at making the NCAA Tournament.

Harris, a junior who leads Virginia with 16.6 points per game, is a player Krzyzewski described as “a warrior,” comparing him to former Blue Devil forward Kyle Singler in their toughness and how they lead a team.

“He’s one of the favorite players that I’ve watched, not just in our conference but around the country,” Krzyzewski said.

“I think he’s that good.”

Bennett echoed much of what Krzyzewski said, speaking highly of the “ruggedness” Harris displays leading the Cavaliers and his willingness to do everything required to improve the Virginia basketball program.

Harris said he does not feel overwhelming pressure to lead his team to victory because SEE M. BASKETBALL ON PAGE 8

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Blue Devils lose to Campbell 9-3

By Josh Rosen THE CHRONICLE

Duke lost to a red-hot Campbell University squad 9-3 at Jack Coombs Field Wednesday afternoon. For much of the game, the Blue Devils trailed the Fighting Camels by two, but in the ninth inning Campbell’s bats caught fire, putting up four insurance runs to put the contest out of reach.

Ryan Mattes started on the mound for Campbell (7-1) and pitched five innings while giving up three runs. Duke (4-3) scored the first run of the game in the second inning on a home run by first baseman Chris Marconcini, but the Fighting Camels quickly responded.

In the top of the third, Campbell’s Clayton Brown hit a lead-off triple off Blue Devil starting pitcher James Marvel, a highly regarded freshman making his first collegiate start.

Brown later scored on a sacrifice fly from Ben McQuown. Then in the fourth, the Fighting Camels took the lead off third baseman Elijah Trail’s booming home run to left field and never looked back.

“I just tried to swing as hard as I could,” Trail said. “Luckily it just worked out.”

Duke responded in the bottom of the fourth inning with two runs to cut the lead to one, but never scored again. Relief pitcher Logan Self replaced Mattes to start the sixth inning and pitched a scoreless final four innings, giving up just one hit and one walk while striking out four en route to the save. “[Self did a] tremendous job today,” Campbell head coach Greg Goff said. “[He

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Making his first career collegiate start, James Marvel allowed five runs in four innings. has] a lot of courage. Logan has really worked hard…. We just feel like if we can give him the ball in the middle innings, he can get us to the late innings…. We have a lot of confidence in him.”

Although this was a tough loss for Duke— its first loss at Jack Coombs Field after sweeping Bucknell this weekend—Blue Devil head coach Chris Pollard hopes that his younger players can learn from it and move forward.

“We ran a lot of really young guys out there today, a lot of guys that don’t have a ton of college experience,” Pollard said. “[Our young guys need to] do the best job [they] can of controlling the running game, but then when it’s time to execute the pitch, you execute the pitch.”

Duke looks to bounce back from Wednesday’s game when it take on Towson at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park Friday.

When Duke played Army on Nov. 25, 2000, assistant coach Steve Wojciechowski wrote an unofficial scouting report on the Black Knights’ star point guard Chris Spatola.

The dirt: He’s handsome.

The official scouting report—detailing his skill running the Army offense—still hangs on the wall in Spatola’s office, but Wojciechowski wrote a facetious one for Jamie Krzyzewski, the daughter of Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski, who Spatola was dating at the time.

“I changed some of the scouting for what a girlfriend would think,” Wojciechowski said.

Spatola and Jamie married in 2004 and after finishing five years of military service, Spatola returned to Duke where he served as a graduate assistant for a season before being promoted to director of basketball operations in 2008, sitting alongside his father-in-law at every basketball game.

At the end of last season, though, Spatola told Mike Krzyzewski he was interested in a fresh perspective. Wanting to see “the other side of athletics,” Spatola left his job as director of basketball operations and got two new jobs: special assistant to Duke athletic director Kevin White and college basketball broadcaster for the Pac-12 and CBS Sports networks.

“The main advice [was] to follow your heart,” Krzyzewski said. “If he was doing something passionately that I didn’t think he had the skill set to do, I would’ve said don’t do that. But he does.”

Spatola was afraid there could be a conflict of interest as a member of the media still employed by Duke. But his situation is not unique— Joe Lunardi, an ESPN college basketball “bracketologist,” is also a vice president for marketing communications at Saint Joseph’s.

Spatola turned to Jay Bilas, a former Blue Devil turned broadcaster, for advice on how to handle the situation. Bilas, like Spatola, was an assistant at Duke before moving to broadcasting and also juggles two jobs, doubling as a lawyer and college basketball analyst for ESPN. Bilas was impressed that Spatola took the time to “do his homework” and reach out to him, something he attributed to the military background and the culture of ultra-preparedness that both he and Krzyzewski have instilled in them.

“I told him the advice that his father-in-law gave me when I first started: Don’t ever pull any punches when it comes to Duke,” Bilas said. “[Krzyzewski’s] thing was, if you want people to believe what you say, tell the truth.”

Throughout the entire journey, whether it was leaving the service to come to Durham or deciding to leave his role with the basketball team, Spatola knew the one SEE SPATOLA ON PAGE 7

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Q&A with Semi Ojeleye’s HS coach Duke faces Miami on the road

by Brady Buck THE CHRONICLE

Duke signee Semi Ojeleye—the No. 36 overall player in the class, according to ESPN—is nearing the end of his senior season. Recently having broken the all-time career scoring record in Kansas, the 6-foot6 wing is averaging more than 40 points per game.

His team, Ottawa High School (Ottawa, Kan.), is undefeated and the No. 1 ranked team in the 4A classification. With the state playoffs now underway, Ottawa head coach John McKowen spoke with The Chronicle’s Brady Buck about Ojeleye.

The Chronicle: Coach, first off, I want to start with the all-time Kansas-career scoring record that Ojeleye broke last week. What does the record mean to Ojeleye, and what does it say about it him as a player?

John McKowen: It says he has a tireless work ethic. It’s an amazing feat. You’ve got to come in as a freshman and be pretty productive. He scored about 13 points per game as a freshman. He was in the low-20s [points per game] as sophomore and the low-30s as junior and then this year he’s in the low-40s. You can just tell how much better he has gotten as a basketball player, and physically his body has gotten so much better too. He’s a well-rounded basketball player. What it says about the team is that he has great teammates. For four years, his teammates have been very unselfish and always found him on the floor—just the flat-out consistency to score that many points is amazing.

TC: What was Ojeleye’s reaction after he broke the all-time Kansas career scoring record?

JM: It was a relief because so many people were talking about the record. He didn’t want to make it bigger than the team, but people outside of the team were obviously making it much bigger than the team, as a 13-year old

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Two games in a row he has faced triangle-andtwo [defenses] with two people guarding him.

He was in the 20s for a couple games, and he was okay with it. He was at 14-15 shots per game and that was down from about 25 shots per game because that’s what they were giving our team. And he understands that the most important thing is for the team to win…He’s just an amazing teammate and leader. The stats happen because of his work ethic and athletic ability, but that’s just something that happens. It’s win first all the time with him.

TC: I imagine that as a Duke signee—

In its first contest since clinching the ACC regular season title, No. 5 Duke travels to Coral Gables, Fla. to take on a Miami team in search of a win to solidify its NCAA tournament resume.

The teams met in Durham in January, when a sluggish Blue Devil start and No. 5 hot Miami shooting Duke led to a 29-29 halfvs. time score.

Miami “We didn’t do anything in the first half.

We didn’t attack, we Thursday, 7 p.m. didn’t compete, and BankUnited Center we didn’t contest,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said.

After intermission, the Blue Devils (261, 16-0 in the ACC) ramped up their focus and energy, outscoring the Hurricanes 5314 in the second half en route to an 82-43 win, forcing 22 turnovers in the contest.

“We came into it trying to pick up the intensity on defense, trying to force more turnovers and get some offense off that,” junior guard Tricia Liston said.

The Hurricanes (18-9, 9-7) were led by junior Krystal Saunders, who knocked down five 3-pointers, all in the first half,

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Semi Ojeleye sits at the Duke-Georgia State game on his official visit to Duke earlier in the season. record. And everybody wanted to talk to him about it, and he didn’t want to talk to anybody about it. He was just happy to get it over with more than anything, so he can focus on winning a state championship.

TC: How has Ojeleye performed relative to your expectations of him coming into the year?

JM: Above and beyond. It goes a lot deeper than the scoring. Leading our team in rebounding from the guard position is not easy to do. He’s been up around four-five assists per game. Recently, his assists have went way up, and that’s due to other team’s not wanting him to get the scoring record against them.

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SPATOLA from page 5 person he could turn to advice was Krzyzewski, who could advise him as his boss and father-in-law.

“I went to him as both,” Spatola said. “We definitely share [the bond of being in the army]…. Our career paths have been very similar.”

Spatola has spent the year broadcasting games along the likes of Reggie Miller. He will call the Army-Lehigh game Saturday—Spatola’s alma-mater against the school that knocked the Blue Devils out of the NCAA Tournament’s round of 64 last season.

Both jobs, working for White and broadcasting, require Spatola to spend time on the road, but they have also opened up more time for him to spend with Jamie and their two children, who are 3 and 1 years old.

“This as far as time consumption has been much more consistent, so you’re not getting back at 2 a.m. on road trips,” Spatola said. “[My family] went on a three-day vacation to the mountains on New Years’ Eve, and I don’t remember the last time I celebrated New Years’ Eve…. That’s definitely been a residual benefit.”

Working for White, Spatola has gained an administrative perspective on athletics, different from the one he saw spending every day with the basketball team.

Now having worked for both White and Krzyzewsi, Spatola has observed many similarities between the two, qualities that make them the “best in the business.”

“They’re both very good managers in that they allow the people who work for them to be creative, be talented and do their job—they don’t micromanage,” Spatola said.

“But you always know when you go to them, they’ll give

you the honest truth, they’ll give you great advice. There’s a confidence around both of them.”

Part of his work in the athletic department has been visiting and evaluating other schools’ athletic facilities as Duke seeks to expand its own as a part of the Duke Forward capital campaign that has a goal of raising $250 million for athletics, $100 million of it to improve faciltities.

Spatola added that Virginia, North Carolina and Stanford had particularly noteworthy facilities. While at Stanford, he had the chance to see two familiar faces: Johnny Dawkins and Mike Schrage. Dawkins, the current Stanford head coach, formerly played for Duke and served as an assistant for Krzyzewski. Schrage was the director of basketball operations for six seasons prior to Spatola.

Although more removed from the basketball team now, Spatola said current players on the team will visit him in his office, and he can provide a more objective perspective on their performance and the team because he is no longer so close to it.

And he still remains close to Wojciechowski, fellow associate head coach Chris Collins and other members of the staff, regularly playing in pickup basketball games with them. Wojciechowski said Spatola still has the same skills that led him to averaging a career-high 18.5 points per game his junior season when Duke played Army in 2000.

Spatola scored just four points that game, but on the scouting report—the real one—Krzyzewski scribbled in pen a single word below the paragraph on Spatola: “Awareness.”

“Chris is very smart. He loves the game, he’s a great speaker, good on his feet, and he can develop unbelievable relationships,” Krzyzewski said. “He went to an amazing school, and he served our country. You’re talking about one of the elite guys in our whole country.”

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JM: You know it really started after he committed to Duke, such a high-profile program. Last year, he would get two, three, or four kids after games wanting to talk to him and get autographs. Now, it’s 20, 30, 40 or 50 people waiting for him at the locker room. We can’t take him into Subway without people stopping him and wanting to talk to him. But you know a 6-foot-8 kid walking around with high school kids kind of stands out, and people figure out who he is pretty fast. He handles it great. He understands it’s a podium for him to reach numerous people and share his morals and his values. Even if, of the hundreds of kids that talk to him, he can help just one kid pursue his dream, it’s well worth every one. He handles it well—not just the autographs, it’s sitting down looking to them eye-to-eye, smiling in the pictures, talking to every single one of them. For the Midwest, it’s just amazing how many Duke T-shirts come out of the crowd both home and away. There’s a lot of closet-Duke fans around here, and they are definitely out in full-force right now to watch him.

TC: Despite the remarkable season, Ojeleye did not get invited to play in the McDonald’s All-American game or the Jordan Brand Classic. What’s your reaction to that and what’s Ojeleye’s reaction to that?

JM: I’m disappointed in it. I feel like he’s one of the best players in the nation and he deserves to be there. [Ojeleye] did not talk about being disappointed. He said it’s a fuel to make him better. It’s just another thing that people are questioning that he can’t do. For those days that he thinks about not going to the gym, it gets him there longer. Everything that faces him, all the adversity, makes him better. He never feels sorry for himself. He understands that he’s blessed to do the things he can do. In the long run, it does not matter what all-star games you play in. And after high school, he gets to go play for Coach K and Duke, so that’s truly what matters to him.

TC: Looking to next year, it will be quite a transition from Ottawa to Durham. He’ll be going against high-caliber wing players like Rodney Hood, Jabari Parker and Alex Murphy everyday. How do you think Ojeleye is going to handle the jump in competition?

JM: First of all, he plays against kids like that every single day in the summer. So, it’s not like 20 years ago when you just showed up from small town, Kansas and you’ve never seen anyone over 6-foot-4 guarding you. He has seen [quality competition] in the summer, and he put up great numbers. On the other hand, he won’t have two-three people guarding him, and he won’t be everyone’s game plan.

That’s the reason he chose Duke, though. He wanted the competition. He wanted to get the most out of his body. He could have went to another school and been the man like he is in high school, but he chose Duke to go against great competition in practice every day. And that’s going to make him a better player.

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“They have excellent three-balls, so you’ve got to locate them, spot up, and contest them, especially in transition,” McCallie said of Stroman and Yderstrom.

In Sunday’s tilt with then-No.8 Maryland, one of the best rebounding teams in the country, Duke lost the battle of the boards 33-30. Miami presents another challenging matchup down low, averaging 43.1 boards per contest.

“They’ve got some good depth [at the post] position, and they all bang and play physically,” McCallie said.

At 6-foot-6, junior Hurricane center Shawnice Wilson is among the nation’s tallest players. Liston embraced the challenge of dealing with such impressive size in the paint.

“It’s definitely good practice, because you’re going to see teams down the road with big players like that—[Baylor center] Brittney Griner for example—but you can’t let it alter your shot too much,” Liston said.

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Tricia Liston said Miami’s height will help prepare the Duke for teams in the NCAA tournament.

“You’ve still got to attack the basket, look to get foul calls, but also know when you have to pass, know when you have to shoot your floater.”

Tonight’s game is Duke’s third since the loss of junior floor general Chelsea Gray, who suffered a season-ending knee injury Feb. 17 against Wake Forest.

M. BASKETBALL from page 5 Virginia, like Duke, has a variety of scoring options. And on the defensive end, Harris is supported by a crew that has kept opponents to 54.0 points per game, the fourth fewest in Division I. “[The Blue Devils] have tons of offensive options,” Harris said. “One guy on any night can go off. But our defense is very team oriented. It’s not really one guy going up against Mason Plumlee, for example, but it’s more guarding whoever has the ball as a team.”

One of Duke’s offensive weapons is freshman Rasheed Sulaimon, who had a career-high 27 points on 10-of-15 shooting against Boston College Sunday.

Sulaimon, who is the tallest of Duke’s starting perimeter players, may even be tasked with guarding the 6-foot-6 Harris at times.

“I think Rasheed’s very complete,” Bennett said in his weekly teleconference. “Defensively, long, quick, shoots the three well and uses a lot of dimensions of his game and seems to play very, very efficiently for a freshman.”

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I think they’re a smart basketball team that will take opportunistic shots,” Krzyzewski said. “When they get a good shot, they’ll take it. They’re more so an efficient team.”

With the postseason beginning in two weeks, this game will also affect the postseason fortunes of both teams.

The Blue Devils cannot afford to drop more games to have any hopes of winning the ACC regular season title, already two games behind Miami. A win could also aid Duke’s case for a No. 1 seeding in the NCAA Tournament.

For Virginia, the win would move them within a game of the Blue Devils in the conference standings. As a team on the NCAA Tournament bubble, the implications could be much greater.

“We understand where we’re at with our Tournament resume,” Harris said. “To get a win against a team like Duke would be huge for us and our chances of going to the tournament.”

Not only that, but Harris also said a victory will show how far they have progressed in Bennett’s fourth season in rebuilding the program.

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Despite that disparity, Duke and Virginia are first and second, respectively, in scoring margin in the ACC. This has led the Cavaliers to be known as a team that slows the pace of the game, a notion Krzyzewski disagrees with.

“I don’t think they’re a slow-down team,

McCallie noted that reserve players have had chances to fill Gray’s large shoes, and that regrouping is akin to starting a new season.

“I have a lot of faith in everybody,” McCallie said. “I don’t feel like we need to go down at all when there’s a sub, and quite frankly maybe can elevate.”

Liston, who along with Alexis Jones has assumed increased ball-handling responsibilities in Gray’s absence, echoed that sentiment.

“Everyone’s just had to have more confidence, be willing to take shots and make plays for other people off the bounce like Chelsea used to do,” Liston said.

Duke is 2-0 without Gray, with both wins against ranked opponents—the Blue Devils round out the regular season with Miami and No. 15 North Carolina.

McCallie said the backloaded schedule serves as excellent preparation for the NCAA tournament.

Above all, McCallie is looking for consistent play from her team as it gears up for postseason play.

“No matter where we play—anytime, anyplace, anywhere—[we want] to bring that [A-game] and compete.”

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he statistics of poverty in the United States CHIP, or “Children’s Medicaid,” but as soon as they are jarring. An estimated 45,000 deaths in turn 18, they are out of luck if their employer doesn’t America each year are linked to a lack of provide health insurance. Out of luck, that is, unless health insurance. About 48 million Americans live they have a child themselves. The sharp discontinuin households that struggle to put ity implies that once you turn 18, you food on the table. are completely at fault for your own We know that people have a hard poverty. You had 18 years to make it time internalizing these sorts of into the middle class, buster; if you numbers. In fact, psychologists have failed, do not pass “go,” do not colfound that when potential donors are lect $200. It is odd, and perverse, that shown both statistics about poverty an adult can only “regain” their eligiand an anecdote about a person in bility for most anti-poverty programs poverty, they donate less than when by having babies. We’re creating elena botella only shown the anecdote. Perhaps we this weird incentive structure where numb ourselves when we realize the a rebirth of wonder we actively encourage poor adults, overwhelming scale of a problem. who might not otherwise feel ready, I think something else is going on as well. When to start having children. Everyone—children and Americans, especially relatively privileged Ameri- adults, childless or otherwise—should have access to cans, hear about the statistics of domestic poverty, food and healthcare. As it stands, our anti-poverty they hear a big number and then think to them- programs tell adults, “We really don’t want to help selves: “What did all those people do wrong?” I often you, but if it’s the only way to protect your cute baby, find that Duke students feel more sympathy for the then I guess we’re stuck.” poor abroad than the poor here at home—operatI’m not here to argue that there is zero fraud and ing under the mistaken assumption that there is no zero abuse in our anti-poverty programs; almost evreal poverty in the United States or that following ery large initiative by the public or private sector will the rules and working a 40-hour week guarantees an result in some waste, and a few people will violate American entry into the middle class. the spirit or letter or the rules. Our paranoia about Most Duke students can make a few mistakes in fraud prevents us from thinking rationally about their lives and brush themselves off without too much how to build the middle class. We’ll tolerate countdamage. Students caught on campus with drugs are less cases of tremendous need to prevent one case likely to get off with disciplinary probation, no more of a trickster gaming the system. In many instances, than a slap on the wrist. If a Durham Tech student states will implement a measure to prevent fraud— gets caught the chances are much higher that he’d for example, requiring food stamp participants to face jail time and a criminal record that could cause get fingerprinted—whose total cost far exceeds the him a lifetime of employment difficulties. estimated costs of the fraud itself.

As a Duke student, whether your starting salary Too often we begin from the premise that the upon graduation is $100,000 or $30,000, you can poor are criminal. Many states drug-test recipients buy the things you need—food, shelter, a way to get of unemployment insurance, but we’re not drugto work—and still have money leftover for pleasures testing the recipients of TARP or of farm subsidies and to save for emergencies. If over your lifetime, or of the mortgage-interest tax deduction. your salary never crosses the $30,000 line, however, We also implicitly assume the out-of-work are unthe calculus of putting kids through college, saving employed by choice. For many programs, like Medfor retirement and leaving enough aside in case you icaid and welfare, eligibility is mostly restricted to the lose your job, becomes much trickier. working poor. When jobs are bountiful, this assumpI’m not here to argue that the poor never make tion isn’t so crazy; when jobs are scarce, our assumpmistakes, but rather, to argue that we all make mis- tion that the jobless are lazy is ludicrous. takes and that a person shouldn’t have to be perfect We should be making sure that everyone has opto deserve help. portunities to achieve a comfortable life instead of The structure of federal anti-poverty programs assuming that “equality of opportunity” only applies reveals how entrenched conceptions of the “worthy to children, that most poor people are crooks and poor” versus the “unworthy poor” are. that job loss results from a failure to accept “personal For example, we consider children the “worthy” responsibility.” It’s time for us to stop blaming the poor; they’re the ultimate innocents. Right-wing poor and to start questioning the institutions and rhetoric about “personal responsibility” sounds ludi- structures that perpetuate poverty. crous when applied to a toddler. Almost all federal and state assistance cuts off at one’s 18th birthday.

Elena Botella is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every In North Carolina, a child in poverty qualifies for Thursday. You can follow Elena on Twitter @elenabotella.

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f you read at an average pace, it will take you fense Fund, a black male born in 2001 has a one-infour minutes to finish this column. By the time three chance of going to prison in his lifetime. For you’re done, approximately nine U.S. students a Latino male, the odds are one in six. Put simply, will have dropped out of high school. That’s 1.2 U.S. schools are disproportionately failing our black million dropouts a year—dropouts who are quali- and Hispanic children. The Republican Party must fied for only 10 percent of new jobs, are eight times help these communities. It needs to loudly declare: more likely to be incarcerated and are 50 percent “All children are born with an inherent potential to less likely to vote. When Texas projects how many succeed, and every single American child deserves a prisons it will need 10 years from tochance to achieve that success.” day, one of the data points it considBut above all, education reform is ers is the percentage of literate Texas intrinsically linked to the American fourth graders. The correlation is dream. To me, the two are inseparastrong—six out of 10 American prison ble. When a child dies a metaphorical inmates are illiterate. death at an early age, with his educaAmerica’s educational problems tional opportunities withering away permeate all aspects of our society— at the hands of a hopelessly failing from economic growth to crime to naschool, this is the death not only of a daniel strunk tional security. And that’s not a new, child’s intellectual development but tantalizingly fresh concept I’ve just questions not asked also of that child’s dreams. I stated earwritten. In preparing to write this collier that 1.2 million students drop out umn, I found so many websites with educational cri- of high school each year—that’s 1.2 million Amerisis statistics that my Google Chrome froze from an can dreams dashed upon the rocks of cruel fate. overload of tabs.

The Republican Party needs to convey to the elecBut here’s a potentially fresher point: The Re- torate that it’s the party of the American dream—for publican Party needs to take on education as the rich and poor alike. It must demonstrate a genuine issue it uses to rebrand itself. Not only is education compassion for the plight of poverty—a compassion reform absolutely vital for the future of our coun- that resonates among large swathes of Republicans try, but it also makes strategic sense for a party per- but is simply not being translated into public perceived, validly or not, as out of touch and out of ception by its leaders. Education reform is one way date. There’s been a lot of pontification since the to translate it. The party needs to say: “We believe losses last November about the future of the Repub- the American dream is about expanding opportunilican Party. Education is one of my answers. It’s one ty—and one of the best ways to expand opportunity of the answers that should be rolling off the tongues is to expand education.” of every Republican politician in the country.

In closing, you’ll notice I have not proposed the Let’s start with demographics. Much political sci- actual policies I think Republicans should advocate ence research and commentary has focused on demo- for. That was not my intention in writing this. I have graphic shifts to explain the Republican Party’s 2012 a limited number of words, but there are plenty losses. Just this week Gallup published polling data of ideas and proposals available from think tanks, showing Democrats enjoy a two-to-one identification citizens and policy wonks. I encourage you to read advantage among Hispanics. Moreover, 50 percent of them, and I hope the comments section might bear 18 to 34-year-old Hispanics, the age segment that ac- some of those ideas out. counts for almost half of the total U.S. Hispanic popMy intention in writing this column was to convey ulation, identify as Democrat or leaning Democrat. a cry of desperation to my fellow Republicans. The Combine this with 64 percent of blacks who identify American educational system is squandering the poas Democrat to the 5 percent of blacks identifying as tential of too many of our children. Democrats have Republican, and the Republican Party is faced with a failed to provide a sufficient answer—Republicans stark reality. The party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt can provide one. It’s good political strategy—but and Reagan has a history of being a big-tent party. It far more importantly it is simply the right thing to needs to become one again. do. It is a transgression of the highest order that Republican-led education reform can help open an 8-year-old’s fate might be decided by her zip that tent. Among Hispanic fourth graders, only 17 code. By the end of the next sentence, remember percent score proficient or better on the National that nine students have dropped out of high school.

Assessment of Educational Progress, compared to Now Republicans, let’s do something about it.

42 percent of non-Hispanic whites. What’s more, the high school graduation rate for Hispanics nationally Daniel Strunk is a Trinity junior. His column runs is just 64 percent. According to the Children’s De- every other Thursday.

lettertotheeditor We, the independent people There are a lot of hurt feelings and disappointment around this time of year as greek and selective living group rush comes to an end. Much of this stems from the perceived stigma sometimes associated with independent housing—but worry not, your chance to be involved on campus, make real and interesting friendships, and have a rewarding and unique Duke experience is not only possible, but inevitable. Congratulations on your nonconformity!

Joining a new independent house allows you not only to be an engineer of your own future but of the future and direction of your house. Independent housing affords a unique opportunity to shape the legacy of the house by introducing new traditions, planning events and leaving a mark on the Duke community that will last for years to come. Just think, you could come back to visit Duke as an alum and see students sporting the crests and mottos that you had a hand in creating. As Duke students, you all belong here and have so much to contribute. By

not being selective, new houses serve as an inclusive community where you are free to be who you are.

Yes, there may be times you wish you had joined an SLG given their high visibility on campus and role in social life, but as the house model progresses, it is our conviction that independent houses will gain a more equal footing in campus life. Moreover, the unique plasticity of the house model allows it to do things that are difficult for SLGs, like foster diversity, implement change and self-define.

Being independent is exactly what it sounds like; it means you have the independence to follow your passions and shape your own future.

To our greek and SLG-affiliated peers, we appreciate the value of your groups. This opinion is by no means a critique on your organizations, but merely seeks to speak to the merits of independent living. Vive la révolution.

Laurel Kaye, Trinity ’15, Sherwood president Jay Sullivan, Trinity ’16, Randolph House Council Cameron Tripp, Trinity’15, Marquis president

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act: Most people see it as weakness to answer a “How are you?” with anything less than a “fine.” Wanting to be reassured, needing the support of friends and family and desiring to have your hand held is weak.

We compare it to Victorian pregnancy—an unpleasant yet unavoidable evil, meant to be plodded through but certainly not encouraged.

When an interviewer poses, “What is your greatest weakness?” the response formula is to turn a hardlyniva taylor negative trait into an overly the next big thing positive one. “I’ve learned to use my perfectionism to my advantage, allowing me to meet deadlines and pay acute attention to detail.”

I can understand the need to resist crumbling about all non-okay things haunting your waking moments over the phone to a nameless HR interviewer. I really can. But we possess fundamental weaknesses far greater than the need to triple-check every e-mail and properly label drawers. Fact: Anyone who truly believes that is your greatest weakness can keep dreaming. I’ll even throw in a Montauk beach house.

I met my best friend the first week of Duke, as she sat visibly upset in the hallway of our freshman dorm. Knowing the bad rap associated with exhibiting uninhibited emotion, I immediately lumped her into that category of “weak” people who fail at suppressing their feelings. In my mind, she could devolve into guttural yells at any moment and was capable of stalking some new crush with bouquets of roses while proclaiming her undying love.

I could not have been more wrong. While I was prepared to avoid eye contact at all costs and walk past her, I stopped. My decision to stop has been, to date, the best decision I have made at Duke. Without the carefully constructed layers of pretend perfectionism, I met a refreshingly loyal companion who has been my rock since season one. And the best part is that we didn’t start with an exhausting Ryan Gosling honeymoon phase—we fastforwarded straight into Danny Devito emotional honesty.

I consider myself incredibly fortunate to have someone I can lean on without sinking my chances of being hired for a job. I have found someone who deserves Beyonce, because she won’t run away at Lindsay Lohan.

Over the next three years, I learned that it is unfair to associate full emotional disclosure with weakness. I can respect blasting Whitney Houston’s “The Greatest Love of All,” watching heartwarming cat videos on YouTube and just sobbing for a good 30 minutes. It feels comparable to going for a great run, in that afterward you feel notably lighter, refreshed and even pleasantly delirious. It feels as though something has been released. That fight you got in with your parents? The six hours you spent on the first two problems in a set of 23? The guy who stopped texting you back? The jealousy of watching your older sister accomplish all the things you ever wanted? Gone.

As a student body our greatest weakness is that we forget it is okay to be weak. We get so wrapped up in the obsession of hiding personality flaws, flaunting our strengths and trying our hardest to handle everything like adults that we become embarrassed of emotion. But how did emotional strength become a symbol of greater maturity?

Obviously, no one benefits from a total surrendering to pain, but doesn’t a certain kind of weakness have a place in certain moments? There are so many things that happen each day that are outside of our control—things that, for the most part, we cannot understand. Keep dreaming if you can’t admit to yourself that it’s scary, and at times overwhelming.

Next time, be weak. Instead of squashing the full weight of your emotions into some hidden-away compartment, admit you’re not okay. Take some time to revel in your pity before you cut the sadness off. Go for a long run. Cry. And let someone see your ugly-cry-face. You might even meet your best friend. Fact.

Niva Taylor is a Pratt junior. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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ATTENTION: BONFIRE GUIDELINES February 28, 2013 The University has requested a City bonfire permit for March 3 (UNC Women at Duke). We want to remind you about safety guidelines for basketball bonfires at Duke. Several years ago, the Durham Fire Marshal revoked permits following a bonfire that, in his view, had gotten out of control. Students and administrators subsequently agreed on the guidelines outlined below which will help ensure everyone’s safety.

The bonfire site is in front of House P. The bonfire must be contained within a 40-foot marked boundary and everyone should remain outside that boundary.

Do not put furniture in the bonfire.

Periodically, the bonfire must burn down to a safe height. During “burn downs,” no additional fuel may be added to the bonfire.

Bring beverages in plastic bottles or cans.

Do not sit or stand on building roofs.

Do not add fuel to the fire more than two hours following the game.

The use of any accelerant is prohibited.

Bonfires on any other day or at any other location are not permitted. Students who participate in a bonfire on any other day or at any other location may be subject to prosecution.

Celebrating basketball victories with a bonfire is a Duke tradition. Follow these basic safety rules so we can maintain this tradition for years to come.

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editor’sNOTE come from major studios and big-budget productions.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a group of nearly 6,000 film professionals, including experts in sixteen branches, from directing to executive to editing to sound. Membership is by invitation only, with the Board of Governors choosing from submissions from members and previous Oscar nominees and winners. This method of selecting members is inherently limiting, stacking the deck against independent filmmakers outside the Academy complex. It is reminiscent of our obsession with networking—at its worst, that unavoidable, detestable aspect of today’s job market that gets in the way of fair hiring.

It comes down not to who is the best candidate but instead to who knows the right people. In career-scheming and in the Academy, everything feels very old-boys’ club.

And in fact, it is an old boys’ club! John Horn, Nicole Sperling and Doug Smith of the LA Times conducted a study in which they polled around 5,000 of the 5,765 voting members of the Academy. 77% of respondents were male. Five of the sixteen branches were less than one-tenth female. Another troubling aspect of the Academy’s makeup is the racial breakdown. A whopping 94% were white.

The sweeping crowd shots of this year’s Awards further evidence the Academy’s (and the Hollywood glitterati’s) racial homogeneity.

This is not a call for affirmative action by the Academy for its members or nominees, though prominent figures (Denzel Washington to name one) have supported this idea.

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Before last Sunday, I can’t remember ever sitting through an entire awards show. As the film editor of this fine publication, I felt it was my duty to watch closely as the best of Hollywood and beyond was recognized and celebrated, so I strapped in for the nearly four-hour ceremony.

The Academy Awards were first given in 1929. The categories then were more limited but largely the same as what we see today. Obviously I wasn’t there to witness the ceremony, but my imagination has been running wild: white-tie attire and champagne in those oddly shallow crystal glasses, all in black and white (color filmmaking was only just emerging).

Then, as now, the awards were given by and to people associated with major studios. But filmmaking today is entirely different than it was 80 years ago. The scale of filmmaking in that era made it prohibitively expensive for almost anyone but major studios to make a decent film. Today, I have more filmmaking technology in my smart phone than all of ’20s Hollywood put together, and the capability to craft artful, technically beautiful films is within reach for huge portions of the population. Beasts of the Southern Wild, whose budget is thought to be less than two million dollars, was the most-nominated “low-budget” film of this year. Beasts is considered an independent film—a production not associated with a major studio. The last decade has been a comparative heyday of Oscar recognition for independent films, but virtually all of the nominees continue to

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Academy (only 14% under 50 with a median age of 62) to relate to the latter’s internet-based plot. Later on they quoted Alfre Woodard, a black actress and Academy member, in her discussion of Shame, Steve McQueen’s NC-17 rated film about a sex addict: “I thought [Shame] was a brilliantly rendered piece but a subject matter that you don’t expect a certain older demographic would flock to see,” she said. I saw Shame and am inclined to agree with Mrs. Woodard. This year at the Oscars, three times as many men took home statues as did women, pointing to huge gender biases across all realms of Hollywood (and perhaps in the voting practices of the male-dominated Academy). Strikingly, only one woman (Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker) has ever won an Oscar for Best Director. The Academy’s limited diversity points to a limit in the diversity of the viewpoints they represent.

While all of this is pretty bad, it is simply the shortcomings of a trade organization and the awards they present.

Far-reaching societal issues emerge when everyone and their mother gets wrapped up in who won what and which designer so-and-so wore. When I checked my Facebook after the Oscars, at least nine out of ten posts congratulated winners or lamented supposed injustices. A friend told me her mom DVRed the ceremony for her. People seem to really care. Our society is giving heaps of credence to an organization composed principally of old, white men who hire a young white man to make misogynistic jokes while presenting awards to three times as many men as women.

What can you do to stop all this? Not much, unfortunately. The Academy determines its own fate, and film lacks the vast landscape of minor production companies enjoyed by music fans everywhere. The major film industry doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. But what you can do is stop giving a damn. Make your own critical decisions about art. You don’t need to write or publish your opinions, but it is important to think and talk about them. Test your conclusions by reading other reviews. Don’t parrot everything you read, but be open to the possibility that your opinions may change. Have confidence in yourself. It’s your opinion that matters most.

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Golden Grrrls engage pop culture without embarrassment. Their name is associated both with a sitcom (of the same name) and a third-wave feminist punk movement (Riot Grrrls). They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try to escape tropes of the indie genre: rather they embrace a DIY attitude that celebrates the joys of even derivative music.

Glasgow is often noted as the birthplace of indie pop, and Golden Grrrls donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stray too far from the pop aesthetics established by decades of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premiere musicians. The sceneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history can be traced back to Postcard Records, a less than prolific label that nevertheless heavily influenced many of the genreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s figureheads. Of these groups, Belle & Sebastian is the most well-known stateside, and Golden Grrrlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; upbeat melodies and relentlessly pleasant male and female vocals often sound like punk-inspired versions of Write About Love. Other critics have compared the noise pop trio to fellow Glasgow bands the Vaselines and the Pastels. The impact of these predecessors and contemporaries is obvious in their debut LP, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not necessarily problematic.

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Concert premieres works by Music Dept. PhD candidates

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After only a few minutes talking with each of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PhD candidates in music composition, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear that each takes a very different approach to the creation of classical music. Tim Hambourger makes musical miniatures: short movements he tightens until his language is both succinct and distinct. His work Last Wave Reached summons many of the adjectives used to describe the poet Kay Ryan, whose compact, intricate poems are woven throughout Hambourgerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s composition. Dan Rucciaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s song cycle, which incorporates poems by Canadian sound poet Christian BĂśk, operates on a much larger scale than Hambourgerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. At times Ruccia describes the post-Philip Glass and post-Steve Reich sound world of Hallmarks, Sigils & Colophons as â&#x20AC;&#x153;giganticâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;overpowering,â&#x20AC;? the size of which Ruccia believes was a necessary response to BĂśkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;monolithicâ&#x20AC;? text.

And then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Paul Swartzel, whose concerto Barbecue Man, Unleashed: The Greatest Professional Wrestling Work of All Time takes inspiration from the entrance music of WWE wrestlers.

At 8 p.m. this Sunday in Sheafer Lab Theater, the three PhD candidates will premiere these compositions in A Concert of Dissertations, part of the Music Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Encounters series. Members of the New York-based Wet Ink Ensemble and the North Carolina Symphony as well as Anonymous 4â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek and other guests will collaborate to perform the arrangements of both Hambourger and Ruccia. Swartzelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concerto, to be played between Hambourgerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Rucciaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, has been produced using a virtual orchestra of over 1000 instruments.

The concerto will serve as the musical accompaniment to a photo slideshow that narrates the story of protagonist Barbecue Man. Even among the professors of the Duke Music Department, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no one preferred composition style, and all three composers have mentioned how Duke has allowed the PhD candidates substantial freedom to express and integrate their various musical interests. Hambourgerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience with both sacred harp singing and Balkan singing helped to shape his vocal arrangements, and two of his compositionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movements are interspersed with in-

serves more as an homage than as an inspired reinvention of Scottish pop.

Given the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strange how far removed they are from the feminist political agenda of the Riot Grrrl movement. The choruses are repetitive and not particularly deep, and it often seems as if Golden Grrrls are using vocals merely as another layer of sound.

The whole Grrrl movement is based on using language as weapon to rebel, and Golden Grrrls never utilize lyrics toward that purpose. Sometimes tracks sound like those of genuine Riot Grrrlsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Past Tenseâ&#x20AC;? is essentially a poppy Sleater-Kinney b-sideâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but they are stripped of all anti-patriarchal aggression.

In Loud and Quiet, an independent London-based music publication, Golden Grrrls guitarist Ruari MacLean was quoted as saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just fun music,â&#x20AC;? and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right.

Though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never quite unusual, the band plays up an entertaining happy-go-lucky vibe. The harmonies are often infectious and Eilidh Rodgersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; drumming drives each track at a notably energetic tempo. Listening to the album is very easy, and I find myself drawn to it even though Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not totally sure itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anything more than another cheap pop record. But I have the lingering feeling that the band is capable of producing the same lighthearted music with greater depth. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Lauren Feilich strumental imitations of bird songs. Rucciaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s composition incorporates influences as wide-ranging as free jazz, bossa nova, rock, doom metal and minimalism. Swartzelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s piece branches even further outside what is typically considered classical music. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Swartzelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concerto] is a mashup of professional wrestling, classical music, southern pop tropes and Hollywood,â&#x20AC;? said Professor Stephen Jaffe, Mary and James H. Semans Professor of Music Composition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And he does it expertly.â&#x20AC;?

Swartzel has long been interested in the combination of classical music and wrestling. As a child he used to imitate the voices of wrestlers while playing classical records. He often associates classical music with feelings of strength, and at his high school graduation Swartzel said that hearing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pomp and Circumstanceâ&#x20AC;? made him feel like â&#x20AC;&#x153;a macho man.â&#x20AC;? Barbecue Man, Unleashed brings together two of Swartzelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great loves in a way that perfectly aligns with his approach to music. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to be a gateway drug to the classical music world,â&#x20AC;?

Swartzel said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never be Bach. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not good enough. But I want to compose works that will bring people into the classical music world.â&#x20AC;?

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There’s a dilemma that every Duke freshman faces when they first move to campus: if you spy a C-1 resting at the circle, should you book it? Should you risk the humiliation of sprinting after a departing bus?

Learning that it usually is never worth booking it is only one of many freshman-year rites. This Friday, the 11th Annual Froshlife Film Festival will premiere student-produced films that specifically highlight the experience of adjusting to college, the Marketplace, C-1s, roommates and more.

Froshlife, an initiative started by both the Division of Student Affairs and Office of Information Technology in 2003, was created to expose students to up-and-coming technology, inspire future filmmakers and most importantly foster friendships within each residence hall.

“The goal of Froshlife is about providing the opportunity for community-building for students through film and video,” Director and Assistant Dean of HDRL Clay Adams said. “It’s about capturing the first-year experience especially from the eyes of a freshman.”

Michael Faber, Multimedia Project Studio Manager of the Office of Information Technology (OIT), added, “OIT and Student Affairs wanted to create a program that served our independent needs better in a joint fashion. For OIT, it was about introducing the student body to innovative technology, and for student affairs, it was about a vehicle for students to be able to talk about their freshman experience.”

Each dormitory works in a team to create and produce the film, allocating the director, producer, actor, writer and editor responsibilities within their group.

“Because East is structured the way it is with only freshmen, there’s almost a healthy competition between the dorms as they make this video,” last year’s winner and the Froshlife committee’s student representative King Lu said.

In 2003, before the era of YouTube and Facebook, lending out laptops and handheld video cameras to Froshlife teams was considered novel. Although media and technology have been revamped and revolutionized in the past decade, certain elements of Froshlife remain the same.

“What still hasn’t changed at all is what the fresh-

man experience is and how freshmen tell that story.

We watched the movies this morning, and that same skeleton of a story could have been told in 2003 as it was today,” Faber said. “The core archetypal story of struggling with academics, fitting in or first love are all the same.”

Each film is limited to seven minutes and is judged by its relevance to the theme, story, creativity, innovative use of technology, execution, editing and acting performance. While the past two years relied on a combination of a panel of judges and audience vote to determine the winner, this year Froshlife will not have any judges. According to Faber, Froshlife decided to remove the judges because the audience always agreed with the judges in regards to the best film.

Filming and producing the Froshlife shorts also serves as a time for freshmen to look back on their eventful, busy first few months of college. Freshman Serges Himbaza, the leader for the Jarvis team, describes the experience as “reflective.”

“I think the purpose of Froshlife is to get you to reflect on the freshman experience in relation to you and your dorm,” Himbaza said. “It also allows you to reflect with a group of people who are going through the same things, providing for a more enriched view of what it means to be a freshman.”

Even though Froshlife occurs during both tenting and rush season, Faber describes how it has still paved its own niche.

“This can be an outlet for people who didn’t fit into rushing, tenting or all the other activities that were going on at this time. It tries to latch on certain kinds of people and draw connections within residence halls that perhaps weren’t drawn out by other programming,” Faber said.

Some freshmen found that events such as tenting only enhanced their projects rather than hindering them. Freshman Tiana Horn of Blackwell used the UNC game for one of her scenes in her group’s film.

“I definitely don’t regret it,” Horn said, about both tenting and producing a film. “I wrote the script in my tent. It all worked out.”

The 11th annual Froshlife Film Festival takes place tomorrow, Mar. 1, at 8 p.m. in Richard White Lecture Hall.

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Thom Yorke’s infatuation with progressive electronic music has been apparent ever since the Kid A/Amnesiac sessions. In his first solo record, The Eraser, Yorke rejected the guitar-driven rock of Hail to the Thief and instead dove into a minimalist, loop-heavy aesthetic. In the past few years, Yorke has found inspiration in the sounds of contemporary UK bass music, even dabbling with DJing at the Low End Theory and Fabric, notorious hotspots for electronic music. 2011’s The King of Limbs drew heavily from 2-step and future garage and the band even commissioned a remix album featuring the likes of Pearson Sound, Blawan and Jamie XX. Atoms for Peace, his most recent project, started as a vehicle to perform The Eraser live. The supergroup consists of musicians that are considered cornerstones of ’90s and early ’00s alt-rock: Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, Beck and R.E.M. drummer Joey Waronker and Brazilian percussionist Mauro Refosco. Even with all of this established talent, Yorke is still the creative hub for the group, and AMOK is a follow-up to his debut solo album. Although The Eraser was a tepid foray into glitchy electronica, AMOK is a full immersion. Whereas The Eraser was spare and often underdeveloped, AMOK is restless, both rhythmically and sonically dense. In interviews leading up to the album release, Yorke noted the LP was a “product of getting together, getting wasted and listening to Fela Kuti.” Opener “Before Your Very Eyes…” wears this afrobeat influence on its sleeve and is a funky fusion of skittish reggae and 2-step rhythms. Yorke’s vocals soar over Flea’s relentless bass playing as the album gets off to a flying start. “Default” is another twitchy number, and boasts a majestic chorus: Yorke et al layer an off-kilter, broken beat over sweeping synths reminiscent of Boards of Canada. “Ingenue,” “Dropped” and “Unless” are a trio of throbbing synth tracks that also sport deep bass and frenetic percussion. “Unless,” especially, is notable for its juke flourishes and would sound right at home in a Pearson Sound set. But it is the titular, final track “Amok” that is the album’s best. It creaks and clatters as the vocal loops soar over a haunting synth.

Most supergroup albums are aimless and tend to wander, but AMOK is remarkably cohesive and gets better with each listen. What holds the album back from being truly stellar, however, is its repetitiveness—this isn’t a Radiohead album after all. Although each song is surprisingly hooky, they still feel underdeveloped. What’s more, Flea’s bass playing is criminally underused, and is inexplicably missing or pushed to the background in a number of songs.

Although it is neither likely to arouse the same passions as In Rainbows nor be as consistently inventive as Kid A, AMOK lives up to lofty expectations as another satisfying Thom Yorke project.

—Suvam Neupane

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the abcs of death

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In its 14th year, the Nevermore Film Festival brought short films and full-length features in the horror genre from around the globe. Featuring a variety of films from recent years, plus the oft-requested Dawn of the Dead, Nevermore gives local audiences a chance to see films that aren’t widely known, particularly international films. I had a chance to see two films that were screened at Nevermore this year—The ABCs of Death and John Dies at the End, both horrorcomedy romps.

The ABCs of Death is exactly what it sounds like: 26 deaths, in alphabetical order. Twenty-six directors from around the world were each given a letter about which to make a short film, but beyond that, they were given complete creative independence. The one consistency between the shorts is the title cards, spelled out by children’s letter blocks in a pool of scarlet blood, which appear after each short. In fact, part of ABCs’ excitement is in guessing what the letter stands for. It’s much harder than it looks with titles like “H is for Hydro-electric Diffusion” (a short about a Nazi-fighting bulldog).

Though the shorts’ styles and qualities vary immensely, many of the filmmakers took similar approaches.

“W” and “Q” both attempt to do the same thing—make a meta short about making a short where the directors get wrapped up in the horror themselves. It’s shortception. While the directors of “Q” create a humorous and ironic tale, the directors of “W” find themselves swept up in a whirlwind (no, that’s not what the “W” stands for) of weirdness (not that, either) in aptly titled “W is for WTF?” One of the most appropriately titled but most disap-

pointing shorts was “P is for Pressure,” about a prostitute who struggles to make ends meet and turns to making crush porn. Equally cringeworthy but arguably the best of the bunch is “L is for Libido,” directed and written with an unflinching view of a twisted mind by Timo Tjahjanto.

A few directors pushed the limits of horror-comedy, chiefly “F is for Fart.” Don’t get me wrong—I am in no way averse to potty humor (after all, I adored “T is for Toilet”).

But when a film includes the line, “Maybe that black gas is a fart from the ass of God” and a short-skirted schoolgirl kneels behind her equally short-skirted teacher to inhale her flatulence, I lose faith in jokes about “cutting the cheese.”

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John Dies at the End feels like an extended version of one of the ABC shorts. Its letter? “S,” for soy sauce.

When injected, the illicit substance, an oozy black goo, gives the “saucer” psychic powers. Newcomers Chase Williamson and Rob Mayes play Dave and the titular John, two ghost-busting buddies who inadvertently get into a load of trouble when they start saucing (John intentionally and Dave accidentally).

John is what many of the ABCs fell short of (no pun intended). It seamlessly blends terrifying monster and possession scenes with a lovable comedy bromance, in the vein of Harold and Kumar. After their saucing gives Dave and John the ability to communicate across time and space, John saves Dave from a burning building by possessing a dog in a fantastically weird scene. While its complete lack of backstory, multiple plot holes and inexplicable presence of Paul Giamatti as a journalist looking for the scoop on sauce led to some confusion, John is another success in the genre from SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE Don Coscarelli, best known for 2002’s Bubba Ho-Tep. John has time to build suspense and recurring jokes, a luxury not afforded to The ABCs of Death. Even without the credits for the 26 individual casts and crews, ABCs clocks in at over two hours, but it doesn’t feel like it. Because of the fast-paced nature of the short film form, you never have long to wait before you’re shrinking into your seat in fear or doubling over in laughter.

While I wouldn’t feel comfortable calling either a great film, both John and ABCs are a great time to watch.

—Megan Rise

Purple Jessups and Transactors Improv come to Common Ground Theatre

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This weekend, Common Ground Theatre will showcase the unpredictable. On Friday, Mar. 1, the Purple Jessups, a rock band made up of improvisers, will perform what they call “BandProv”; a fusion of music and improv. The Purple Jessups was created in September of last year by Jeff Day, the group’s drummer and manager, who sought out musicians to collaborate on his “BandProv” project. Day had already been renting out the Common Ground Theatre for a few improv shows under the name Bravest Face when he wanted to incorporate music into his performance. The band is made up of five

musicians, four of whom are also improvisers, a dynamic that Day says contributes to the spontaneity and excitement of the show.

“Playing music with improvisers is hilarious,” said Day. “We bond really well and have this dual relationship where we practice two arts that I love.”

Friday will be the debut performance for the Purple Jessups, and to the group’s knowledge, their particular combination of rock music and improv is a new direction that they’ve never seen explored. The band will begin by playing a set of six songs, covering artists including Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, The Offspring and Metallica, among others. The band members will be dressed in character, each of them portraying individual band members while also alluding to their personality outside of the performance. After their first set, the rock band will morph into an improv group and perform a long-form piece based on any topic, which will be determined by the audience. After the improv interlude, the group will finish as a rock band once again.

Branching out of the typical improv style, the Purple Jessups are diving into an entirely new type of performance—one that unhinges audience expectations.

The following night, a different but equally innovative type of improv show will take place at the Theatre. Transactors Improv Company, the oldest currently active improv group in the South, will be performing a piece called Addicts Anonymous, where the actors portray an addiction that is chosen by the audience.

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several years, including at UNC’s School of Public Administration. Brod said that the improv exercises were starting to become boring, but a quick Google search inspired Addicts Anonymous and revitalized her interest in crafting new performances. The goal of the show is to illustrate the challenges, relationships and triumphs of these characters through a comedic yet meaningful lens. “[The original show] was supposed to be a five-minute piece about an addict’s experience, and I thought it would be interesting to turn it into an hour-long performance,” explains Brod explained. “I thought this [would create] a juicy and high-stakes performance. Because of the nature of the subject matter, everyone has to be very invested emotionally. It’s interesting, funny, intense, real...it makes for really good theater.”

With the unpredictability of the audience and a sensitive subject matter, how far are the improvisers willing to go for comedy yet avoid parody?

“Our job as improvisers is that, no matter how silly of an addiction we get, we have to play it real and serious,” said Brod.

“Sometimes we get really silly addiction suggestions – for example, in class someone suggested toothpicks, which seems like a bizarre addiction to have, but [the show] isn’t going to be interesting unless we play it like it’s a real addiction.”

It may be hard to know what to expect from Addicts, as it is a serious topic that’s handled in this case in a spontaneous manner. Yet Brod recognizes the array of emotions that she will expect to see. “The audience should expect to laugh more of the time. We try to have our laughter come from real and/or emotional places.

It will definitely be a combination of silly and serious.”

After all, Transactors Improv’s motto is, “if you laugh, we’re doing comedy; if you don’t we’re doing drama.”

The Purple Jessups will perform at Common Ground Theatre on Friday, Mar. 1 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10, and all money raised at the show will go to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation to fight childhood cancer.

Transactors Improv will perform Addicts Anonymous at Common Ground Theatre on Saturday, Mar. 2 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $14.

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CONCERT from page 3 training. This new plurality puts extra emphasis on the individual composer to synthesize musical strains without sacrificing emotional clarity. Jaffe, who serves as the chair of the dissertation committee for both Swartzel and Ruccia, said that it is very important for the contemporary composer to express depth of feeling and depth of reach and not merely “mash things together.” Jaffe believes that all three composers have risen to that task: “They’ve all shown a real interest and depth about synthesis and that’s very impressive.”

Given the composers’ various styles, it’s not obvious what conversations will arise between the compositions over the course of Sunday’s concert. Ruccia, however, did not seem too worried that the various pieces may not necessarily match. “I think it’s important to really bring the wide range of different sounds and possibilities of new music together under the same umbrella,” he said. “It seems a shame to me to let the different threads keep going on in their separate worlds. It’s much more interesting to find those places of commonality—that dialogue.” Likewise, there are joys to be found from hearing the places where compositions fail to converse, and the concert may offer a cross-section of potentially incompatible yet mutually viable approaches to contemporary music.

Perhaps most importantly for Duke undergraduates, A Concert of Dissertations provides an opportunity to listen to new, youthful ways in which classical music is being brought into contact with other potentially more accessible genres. Ruccia emphasized that any students interested in coming should not feel like it’s a standard classical concert nor should they worry if they know little about classical music. “The music might be challenging,” Ruccia said. “But that’s okay and shouldn’t be off-putting. Music is music and should be able to speak to you on a basic level without having to know all that much beforehand.”

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Recess Interviews: Jenny Li, winner of DSO’s Concerto Competition The “Duke Symphony Orchestra: Centennial Celebrations” performance will be held Mar. 6 in Page Auditorium. Along with works by Britten and Wagner, the orchestra will perform the Sibelius Violin Concerto, featuring soloist Jingwei (Jenny) Li, the winner of this year’s DSO Concerto Competition. Recess writer Kathy Zhou spoke with the freshman about a student musician’s perspective on the upcoming performance and Duke’s music department.

Recess: Let’s start with your musical background and your involvement with DSO. Jenny Li: I actually started with flute and piccolo and then picked up violin when I was eight. I didn’t like violin when I first started, but I grew into it. I taught myself piano, and I like to make compositions, too. When I came

to Duke, I auditioned right away for lessons and for orchestra. I take private lessons with [Eric] Pritchard [Professor of the Practice of Music (Violin) and Member of Ciompi Quartet], and I’m thinking about starting a quartet with my friends. DSO has been a really good experience.

R: Why have you enjoyed DSO? What makes it different?

JL: In DSO, everyone is really encouraging. Everyone’s good, too, but it never feels like a competition. I am really thankful for Professor [Harry] Davidson [Professor of the Practice of Music and Director of Duke Symphony Orchestra]. He’s really passionate about the music, and he focuses on the orchestra as a whole, to make the orchestra the best

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it can be. The level of the orchestra really motivated me to practice more. We definitely enjoy music together as one.

It’s more organic, and not just an organization.

Everyone’s function in the orchestra is important.

R: What has preparation with DSO been like for the performance?

JL: We started rehearsing all the pieces after winter break. We rehearse Mondays and Wednesdays for two hours. I play with [the whole orchestra] for the other pieces. I think the Sibelius sounds really good, and I’m really happy with how it sounds—I’m really grateful. All the pieces are great, and I don’t think I can choose one as a highlight.

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R: Yes, it’s a great line-up. I’m personally looking forward most to the Sibelius Violin Concerto. How do you feel about the piece?

JL: It’s just so rich. A part of it is about suffering, and that’s something everyone goes through. There’s some agitation. But interspersed, there’s still the beauty in life, and I really want to touch the audience in some way, because we have these shared experiences. I hope I will be able to tell the story by playing the piece. I’ve been practicing a lot, because I have a different motivation. This time I want to consider the audience more. I just want to encourage something—everyone might have some different interpretation. It’s definitely a piece you can always be in the mood for.

R: That’s so important, to have a personal connection to the piece and to try to convey that to the audience. Moving to a broader view, what’s your opinion on the music scene at Duke?

JL: It’s definitely a good program with a strong network.

I think that in college, if you decide to continue with music, it means you’re really passionate about it. I can tell a lot of people truly love music and enjoy playing. Sometimes I’ll practice late at night and there are always a lot of others practicing as well. That commitment to music is really encouraging. The faculty is great, too. I feel like I can connect with anyone, even if it’s not a violinist or a string professor…I do think music could be more prominent here.

I don’t think the orchestra gets as much attention as other music groups and ensembles, and there are so many of them. I think maybe classical music in general is something people don’t have as much taste for, but I hope we can somehow make it more appealing to students at Duke.

R: I would agree. Speaking personally, what is the appeal of classical music for you?

JL: I’ve always really liked classical music. I don’t really know why. There’s just something pure in it. It’s something I can really connect emotionally to. Every piece is a composer telling some kind of story, or some experience they had. For motivation or for any kind of encouragement I always listen to music and I play music. It has a purpose.

Sometimes words and language are pretty limited, and you just can’t express through words. I think music is really powerful. Classical music is more related to the spirit, to the soul.