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Smaller house size 70 DUKE CLEMSON 59 intended to create A FITTING SEND-OFF strong communities

by Nicole Kyle THE CHRONICLE

The house model may be new to Duke, but it’s not uncharted territory for some peer institutions.

Undergraduates at schools such as Harvard University, Yale University and Washington University in St. Louis have residential models somewhat similar to the house model Duke will implement in Fall 2012. Administrators involved in developing Duke’s house model, however, said the model will take a distinctly different approach from peer schools to achieve Duke’s goals of equity and community.

“Ours is a Duke model and it’s really quite unique,” said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residence life. “Part of transitioning to smaller communities is... for communities to be elevated and stronger. With [measures like] the right to return, we’re going to offer to all students what only some students experience now.”

And though the Duke house model and residential college models at other universities are similar in that they allow small groups of students from different years to live together, Gonzalez said the biggest differences between Duke’s strategy and the policies of places like Harvard and Yale are the smaller size of houses at Duke and a lesser role for faculty.

Gonzalez noted that although the administration wants faculty to have “significant involvement,” there is no desire to have live-in faculty.

The average size of a Duke house will be about 40 students, he said, smaller than the average population of a residential college at Yale, which ranges between 400 and 500 students. A smaller number of students in each house, however, means a greater number of houses across West and Central campuses.

“We expect these houses to ‘ground’ upper-class Duke students in diverse communities that feel like home, especially since they can return year after year,” Donna Lisker, associate dean of undergraduate education, wrote in a Feb. 22 e-mail.

As The Chronicle previously reported, the house model will likely feature 70 houses—a large number that See house model on page 5

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Seniors Kyle Singler, Nolan Smith and Casey Peters addressed Cameron Indoor Stadium after Duke’s 11-point win over Clemson last night.

Singler scores 18 and Smith has 21 to lead Duke to victory

by Alex Krinsky THE CHRONICLE

It was a special sight.

A superstar of Kyle Singler’s caliber, complete with a national championship and nearly every individual accolade possible, sprinted to the sideline and wrestled with a surprised Clemson defender to help Duke retain possession. It was Singler’s last game in Cameron Indoor Stadium, but he was hustling like it was his first, and it paid off as the Blue Devils defeated Clemson 70-59 on Senior Night.

The sentimental significance of last night’s game

was palpable during the brief pregame ceremonies, as senior Casey Peters was greeted with a standing ovation, and then standouts Singler and Nolan Smith received long, thunderous applauses from the crowd.

“I came back for a lot of reasons—moments like this, definitely,” Singler said. “It wasn’t a pretty game.

We wish we would have played better… But we got the win, and we’re moving on and playing for a conference championship.”

That win didn’t come easy. In the first half No. 4 Duke See m. basketball on page 8

Crace named new CAPS director Fourth paper

by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE

Kelly Crace, a staff psychologist at CAPS, will become the program’s new director July 1, the University announced Wednesday.

Crace said he is excited to lead Counseling and Psychological Services, which will involve staff oversight, strategic planning, cross-campus partner development and serving students and faculty. Before coming to Duke, he was the director of the counseling center at the College of William and Mary from 2001 to 2009.

“My interest in this position came from

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a deep care for the staff at CAPS, the opportunity to serve them and the Duke community more expansively and the continued support and value that CAPS has among higher-level administration,” Crace wrote in an e-mail Wednesday.

Selected out of a nationwide search, it was Crace’s loyalty to Duke that set him apart from other candidates, Todd Adams, senior associate dean of students and head of the search committee, said in a Duke news release. In addition to his current position, Crace interned at CAPS from 1991 to 1992 while studying at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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“We were fortunate to be able to choose from a number of candidates who could have done the job well,” Adams said. “[The] empathy he feels toward Duke students tipped the scale in his favor.”

Crace’s connection to Duke and familiarity with students and faculty will be an asset, said Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek. She believes that he will play an important role in accomplishing the department’s upcoming goals, including improved interdepartmentalism.

“Those of us who work closely with

A fourth scientific paper by controversial former Duke cancer researcher Anil Potti was retracted Wednesday.

The work, titled “A Genomic Strategy

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“The problem is that they aren’t taking aim with pistols; they’re pulling out bazookas.”

­—Sophomore Paul Horak in “How to shoot yourself in the foot.” See column page 11

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Church’s right to picket funerals affirmed by court

White House prepares for Mexican president

WASHINGTON D.C. — The First Amendment protects a fringe church’s anti-gay protests at military funerals, a nearly unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a powerful opinion that spoke to the nation’s tolerance for even hateful public speech.

The court’s most liberal and most conservative justices joined in a decision likely to define the term. It writes a new chapter in the court’s findings that freedom of speech is so central to the nation that it protects cruel and unpopular protests - even, in this case, at the moment of a family’s most profound grief.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that Westboro Baptist Church’s picketing at fallen soldiers’ funerals “is certainly hurtful and its contribution to public discourse may be negligible.”

But he said the reaction may not be “punishing the speaker.”

WASHINGTON D.C. — President Felipe Calderon is scheduled to visit the White House on Thursday at a time of heightened cross-border tensions, with the Mexican leader angrily accusing U.S. diplomats of causing harm with their leaked criticisms of Mexican anti-drug efforts.

The visit, which was abruptly announced a week ago, has been billed by U.S. and Mexican officials as a routine encounter that had been in the works for weeks. But recent problems, including the diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks and the slaying of a U.S. Immigration and Customs agent in northern Mexico, have contributed to an atmosphere of urgency.

Some U.S. lawmakers have called for pushing Mexico to allow U.S. agents stationed in that country to carry guns, a subject that is expected to come up at the meeting.

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Duke awarded gold in sustainability Nich School to present award at Full Frame

by Brandon Levy THE CHRONICLE

Duke is one of nine schools to receive a Gold STARS rating for its sustainability efforts.

The University received a score of 65.74 out of 100 in the new system created by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. The AASHE considered three main areas in rating Duke: education and research; operations; and planning, administration and engagement. Duke received scores of 61.35, 49.48 and 74.39, respectively, and received the maximum of four points for innovation, which were added to Duke’s average in calculating its final score.

Through STARS­—the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System—universities in the United States and Canada can compare their sustainability efforts against their peer institutions. A school can receive a rating of Platinum, Gold, Silver or Bronze. Out of the 39 schools that have thus far received certification, no universities have scored Platinum, and Silver and Bronze designations were awarded to 20 and 9 schools, respectively.

“Higher education plays a vital role in ensuring that people have an understanding of the interdependencies between environmental, social and economic forces and the skills and abilities to meet sustainability challenges,” STARS Program Coordinator Jillian Buckholz wrote in a March 1 e-mail.

Casey Roe, program coordinator for the Duke Sustainability Program, said she started working on a report for submission in October with Tavey Capps, environmental sustainability director, and three graduate students.

“What we really liked about STARS is that it was basically developed by our peer institutions,” Roe said, noting that the University especially appreciated the system’s transparency. “It was a great way for us to look comprehensively at all our sustainability programs.”

Buckholz added that the assessment’s use of an absolute grading scale helps eliminate the problems associated with “moving targets” and facilitates cooperation among institutions.

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“A long way to go” Duke scored well, but the University still has significant room for improvement, Roe said.

The University can serve more locally produced food, encourage clean transportation and monitor recycling and use of land and water, she noted.

Two of Duke’s lowest scores were for sustainabilityfocused and sustainability-related courses, which both fall under the curriculum subcategory of education and research. The University scored 1.29 and 0.21 out of 10, respectively.

But Roe said this does not mean Duke’s curriculum

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As a result of Duke’s recent push toward sustainability, it received a Gold STARS rating, one of nine schools to do so out of 39 rated schools.

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by Julian Spector THE CHRONICLE

Building on the established Lifetime Environmental Achievement in the Fine Arts Award, the Nicholas School continues to promote art as a means of communicating environmental themes to the public.

The Nicholas School of the Environment Film Award will be presented at the annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in April, which is organized by the Center for Documentary Studies. The winning film will be selected from more than 100 documentaries shown during the four-day festival in downtown Durham.

The chosen filmmaker will receive a $5,000 prize, funded by anonymous donations, as well as greater exposure within the documentary film community.

Nicholas School Dean Bill Chameides said the criteria for the award go beyond the traditional concept of an environmental film.

“Any kind of environmental film could potentially look for the award, but we’re trying to cast our net as broadly and as widely as possible to catch some of those other films that would not necessarily immediately jump up at you as an environmental documentary,” Chameides said.

The prize will be awarded by a jury of four or five people. The members of the selection jury are still being finalized, but it will most likely consist of two people from Duke, several from outside of the University community and Chameides as a tie-breaker in the case of an evenly split vote.

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full frame from page 3 The jury will choose the documentary that best portrays “the challenges we face in reconciling the human drive to improve living standards and the imperative to preserve the natural environments that sustain us and the cultural heritages that define us,” Chameides stated in a Duke news release Feb. 23.

Tom Rankin, the director of the Center for Documentary Studies, said environmental documentaries play a unique role at the festival.

“These kinds of films really do take an audience at a film festival and take them places where they wouldn’t go,” he said. “[They] complicate the issue of armchair environmental thinking and then move people from that place to hopefully doing something about it.”

David Gatten, visiting associate professor for the Program in Arts of the Moving Image, said the new award will have “a tremendous impact” for the environmental film community.

“For the filmmakers who win this award, everyone knows the Full Frame Festival, and everyone in the world of environmental studies knows about the Nicholas School,”

Gatten said. “So it’s a wonderful thing for a filmmaker to be able to say, ‘My work was supported by these two entities.’”

Gatten, an independent filmmaker who has made two films related to the environment, predicted that the award will draw more film submissions. He added that the monetary prize can greatly assist in paying for distribution of the film and jump starting new projects.

Chameides said the new award forms part of the ongoing Duke Art and the Environment Initiative, which encourages communication of environmental themes through the arts. He noted that discussion of environmental issues, especially among scientists and policymakers, can become “extremely intellectual,” but that the arts can play a vital role in advancing that discussion.

“When people say they care about the environment, I don’t think it’s coming from an intellectual place,” Chameides said. “I think it’s coming from a really gut level connection with the natural world that probably we’re born with. To be more effective in teaching people about the environment and caring for the environment... we need to connect people to the environment in a visceral kind of way, and that’s what artists do.”

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house model from page 1 has sparked some concern from students, Gonzalez said. He noted that these smaller communities will be strongly encouraged to interact and collaborate through residential programming and initiatives. It is possible, however, that there will be fewer than 70 communities.

“It is a lot of individual communities,” Gonzalez said. “But we’re convinced of two things: smaller communities mean stronger communities... and that house councils will provide a lot of opportunity for interaction. Houses will not be limited solely by their internal community.”

Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education, said the small houses accurately reflect what alumni enjoyed about the house model through the 1970s and 1980s. He added that Duke’s architecture lends itself to small house sizes.

“I think those small communities [will be] more real communities,” he said. “If your house is 50 people, then it’s easy to know who they all are—there’s a familiarity. There is some cultural anthropology in thinking about this: What is a good size for having a community organically spring up.”

Nowicki also added that the Duke house model demonstrates the University’s ingenuity as an institution distinct from its peers.

“I would quickly say that I want Duke to be Duke,” he said. “It’s really not similar in other ways... to what the Ivies are doing.

Our understanding is that these smaller communities are the way to go. If I wanted something else, I would go to Harvard.”

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta agreed with Nowicki that Duke’s house model will be distinct from the typical residential college model, or Harvard’s house system which features 12 houses.

“On campuses where their ‘house’ is much larger, they may emphasize floors and wings within the house as the smaller community with which students identify,” Moneta wrote in a Feb. 22 e-mail. “We’re going right to the ‘living community’ per se by labeling the collection of spaces and students who will self-govern and interact as our ‘house.’”

There is at least one thing in common between Duke’s house model and the systems at peer institutions: all promote community and inclusion.

Mary Elliot, associate director of residential life at Washington University in St. Louis—which implemented a residential college system in 1998—said the system’s contribution to the campus community and student experience is remarkable.

“I love it,” she said. “I think its indicative of what we really want our students to experience: a great sense of community on campus [and having] some place where they belong. I really believe they come into the residential colleges and the second they step on campus, they feel they have entered their own little community within the WashU community.”

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is deficient in sustainability education.

Just as students can search for classes based on whether they include service learning or use iPods, Roe believes the University would benefit from the creation of a similar label for sustainabilityrelated courses.

“There could be some courses out there we’re not getting credit for because it’s hard to count them,” Roe said.

Roe added that the University is attempting to find new ways to include sustainability in existing courses, rather than creating new ones. That way, she said, students can learn about sustainability while taking courses that correspond to their interests. To this end, Duke’s Campus Sustainability Committee held a two-day workshop last year designed to help faculty incorporate sustainability into their courses.

Junior Ben Soltoff, co-president of Duke’s Environmental Alliance, said he believes the gold rating shows Duke is on the right track when it comes to sustainability.

“I think [it] provides well-deserved recognition for Duke’s extensive sustainability efforts,” he wrote in an e-mail. “However, it is important to consider the rating as an acknowledgement of a continuing process rather than an award for a completed accomplishment.”

Soltoff cited the conversion of the East Campus Steam Plant from coal to natural gas as an example of Duke’s steps towards greater sustainability. Still, he thinks Duke “lacks a widespread campus culture of sustainability and environmental awareness.”

“Although Duke has come very far in the past few years, it still has a long way to go,” he said.

CAPS, our hope is that there will be more integration between CAPS and Student Health, and I’m looking forward to working with Dr. Crace to make that happen,” Wasiolek said.

As director, Crace said he hopes to call on his background in college counseling to creatively address the campus culture and encourage students’ developmental growth.

“My past experiences have been devoted to finding effective ways to address these challenges and optimize responsiveness to community needs, while maintaining our identity as an agency that strives to promote the developmental growth of students,” he said.

Current CAPS Director Kathy Hollingsworth will retire June 30 after

six years of leadership. During that time, she increased campus outreach and used data analysis to develop new programs.

Crace was an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University and received a master’s in sports and performance psychology and a doctorate in counseling psychology from UNC. Additionally, he has contributed to numerous publications and co-authored an online program for personal value development called Life Values Inventory Online.

“Entering this position at a time when there is such a core of talent, stability and trust allows us to be creative in optimally addressing the needs of our community and to possibly affect our culture toward greater authenticity, flourishing and well-being,” he said.

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Counseling and Psychological Services , located in the Flowers Building on West Campus, announced Kelly Crace, currently a staff psychologist as its new director Wednesday.

potti from page 1 to Refine Prognosis in Early-Stage Non– Small-Cell Lung Cancer,” was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in August 2006. The research, which has been cited in numerous other publications, studied pairing an appropriate chemotherapy treatment with lung cancer patients based on their genetic profile. A previous correction to the paper ran in January 2007.

NEJM published a letter to the editor requesting the retraction that had been signed by a number of Duke researchers, including Dr. Potti and Dr. Joseph Nevins, Potti’s mentor and Barbara Levine Professor of Breast Cancer Genomics.

“Using a sample set from a study by the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group and a collection of samples from a study by the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, we have tried and failed to reproduce results supporting the validation of the lung metagene model described in the article,” the article’s authors wrote. “We deeply regret the effect of this action on the work of other investigators.”

This particular retraction was somewhat unexpected. Just over a month ago, a NEJM spokesman told Retraction Watch that the journal did not have any plans to pull the paper. Retraction Watch tracks recalls of scientific research and is run by Ivan Oransky, the executive editor of Reuters Health, and Adam Marcus, managing editor of Anesthesiology News.

Potti resigned from Duke Nov. 19 following allegations that he falsified his qualifications on documents including applications for federal funding. In a review of his credentials led by Provost Peter Lange and completed in August, Duke identified “issues of substantial concern” and placed the researcher on administrative leave.

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theSANDBOX. I am so sick of the word “hipster.” I’d argue that its current noun/adjective duality (“Look at that hipster!” vs. “That’s so hipster!”) only makes the word more reductive. Though we live in a world of fluid witticisms and ever-evolving methods of communication, our continued use of “hipster” falls flat.

What does the word mean to you? On a material level, retro glasses, as proposed by many Google Image search results for “hipster,” and the recent Internet meme phenomenon Hipster Disney Princesses?

On a philosophical level, one who tends toward subjects deemed non-mainstream?

Could acknowledging this very thought process about hipsterdom push me toward hipster status?

Nowadays it seems that we understand “hipster” through this sort of meta-commentary. Countless blogs feature photos of people who dress and carry themselves in ways we identify as “so hipster.” Alongside their photos are usually captions that speak, knowingly, to the superficiality of it all. Embedded in these Internet

offerings is a sense that it’s all staged.

On Urban Dictionary, I surprisingly found the most reviewed definition of “hipster” to be the longest and most nuanced.

It begins, “Hipsters are a subculture of men and women typically in their 20s and 30s that value independent thinking, counterculture, progressive politics, an appreciation of art and indie-rock, creativity, intelligence and witty banter.” Interesting! These concepts seem synonymous with my lifestyle (and, in part, probably yours, too!), and yet I didn’t feel as pinned-down or inappropriately generalized as when someone might refer to me, or someone else, as a hipster.

Maybe this opens up a conversation that our blunt fixation on “hipster” prevents. It comes closer to recognizing our varied humanness, and not the ways our likes and dislikes conveniently lump us in “x” category of simplified generalization.

Because we all want to engage with others as our true selves—as the non-hipster Princess Ariel says, to be “part of [this] world.”

Just not by way of degraded buzzwords.

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[recesseditors] spring break destinations Kevin Lincoln......................................................taking my talents to South Beach Lisa Du.......................................................................................12-hour double-date Ross Green.....................................................................................stalking Rick Ross Andrew O’Rourke.........................................................................missed the boat :( Sanette Tanaka..............................................some much deserved home cooking Nate Glencer...................................................................HITTING THE BEACH jk Lindsey Rupp.............................................................................Russia with the prez

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To be perfectly honest, I’ve been procrastinating this column. Over the past few days, I’ve tried forcing myself to engage in a few minutes of earnest thinking about booty calls or Skype sex or pheromones or any other earnest topic of sexual interest. But the sunshine lures me to the WaDuke patio, while the depletion of my spring wardrobe spurs me to the mall. I crave SPF, open windows and the return of the Belmont pool.

Thus, even in the face of my lingering senior-year responsibilities, I maintain a comfortable yet genuinely false sense of security. According to my internal rationale, if I drink a little too much on a Tuesday night, I may still manage to write a reasonably acceptable thesis. If I don’t have the drive to go the grocery store, I can probably just make up the ingredients in bechamel sauce or at least subsist for a week on pita chips. Truly, everything will turn out okay in the end. For now, I’m tired. Even tired of writing about sex. And with that realization, I recognize that it’s time for spring break.

Surprisingly, this will be the first spring break I’ve spent in the United States since I started college. This year, I plan to serenade all 824 miles of the southbound stretch of I-95 with “Welcome to Miami” before reaching our destination in South Beach. After more seasoned visitors informed us that we needed to dress like Jersey Shore casting-call hopefuls to blend in along Ocean Drive, I expect a reasonably interesting trip to unfold. Vacations and good judgment have never been friends.

In reality, my first introduction to the true correlation between spring break and braincell loss began prior to college, during my senior year of high school. In an uncharacteristic

move, my mom had been too swamped to plan a more legitimate family vacation and instead booked the clan, as well as two friends, on a Caribbean cruise. Conveniently and predictably, the rest of the continental United States shared a spring break with my high school and I was soon making acquaintances across the SEC and ACC. Most importantly, Midshipmen from the Naval Academy seemed to pour from every deck and cabin. As a freshly minted eighteen-year-old, I was far too entranced by their dress whites during “formal” dinners for my own good. Still, I was happy to leave my rum-soaked flirtations at sea upon returning to the real world, only to be contacted by the now upperclassmen sailors when they made an appearance at the Duke-Navy game during my sophomore year. As I incidentally blurted out to the particular midshipmen who had caught my fancy those many years ago, “You were definitely on my list of people to never see again.”

With that in mind, you meet a lot of interesting members of the opposite sex on vacation, most of whom seem convinced that you’re far more likely to sleep with them as long as you’re near the southern hemisphere. Some stand-out (and ultimately platonic) encounters include the 28-year-old Mormon I met in a St. Thomas hotel pool, simultaneously stressing the creed of Joseph Smith and the necessity of buying me a drink. There was also the alcoholic ship captain in the British Virgin Islands who tried to convince the drunken female population they’d win a free shirt if they jumped off the boat and the swingers who hung out in Disney World. Something about sunscreen and Senor Frogs seems to attract these people.

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Duke student dancers to perform in China

by Michaela Dwyer THE CHRONICLE

Senior Luou Zhang will travel to China for the second summer in a row, this time with a team of dancers in the world’s second largest international dance competition, only behind the Olympics.

Zhang, who participated in DukeEngage in Zhuhai last summer, and 11 Duke dancers were selected from thousands of international applicants to represent one of two dance groups performing during the 10-day Summer Universiade, also known as the World University Games. Organized by the International University Sports Federation, the biannual sporting event features college athletes from around the globe.

The students will present an hour-long performance of self-choreographed pieces, each showcasing the diverse training and styles of each of the individual dancers.

Held in Shenzhen, the cultural venture rounds out the University’s push toward expansion in China, which includes studyabroad programs in the region as well as a Duke campus in Kunshan. After the DukeEngage arts education program in Zhuhai, the Universiade marks the second arts-related engagement the University has undertaken in China.

The dancers are involved with student dance groups, the Duke Dance Department or both. Zhang, artistic director of Duke Chinese Dance, said the composition of the team directly reflects his aim in performing at the Universiade.

“Duke has such a diverse group of dancers, and when we dance we already fuse different styles,” Zhang said. “I really want to start the next evolution of dance styles similar to the unifying theme of the Olympiad. We’re celebrating unity yet also the diversity of dance.”

While in Zhuhai last summer, Zhang worked with the other DukeEngage participants and program director Hsiao-Mei Ku, a professor of the practice of music, to introduce arts engagement practices in Chinese schools. The Duke group found that these schools prized backbreaking competition and memorization of academic material, instead of critical thinking and intellectual openness, Zhang said.

“We took the creativity, collaborativeness and constructiveness of the performing arts and brought it into the classrooms,” he said.

The Duke team hopes to echo the same artistic and social principles in their performance at the Universiade.

In this way, the students will embark on a unique opportunity to showcase Duke’s— and by extension the United States’—cultural dimensionality, said Ku, who is also a

special to The Chronicle

12 Duke student dancers were selected to perform during the 10-day Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China. The event is a biannual sporting event that features college athletes from around the globe. member of the Ciompi Quartet. “[The performers] are going not just to dance but to become ambassadors—to be there, to be visible, to tell [the Universiade participants and spectators] about Duke University and the opportunities the University provides,” Ku said.

Before leaving, the team will spend the semester perfecting their three-piece set, which demonstrates the intersection of ballet, hip-hop, jazz, modern and breakdancing styles.

Zhang noted, however, that there is a lot more to this performance than just the dancing itself.

“We have to conceptualize the idea and bring it halfway around the world,” Zhang said.

In addition to the artistic vision, Zhang and the dancers must consider the travel expenses, costumes and accommodations while in China. The group has a great deal of administrative assistance, partially from Vice Provost for the Arts Scott Lindroth.

“Since this is not a departmentally sponsored ensemble, [the group] needs some support,” Lindroth said. “But what appealed to me is that this came about from a student’s initiative. [The group have been chosen to perform] is a tremendous recognition of the talents here generated by

students.”

It’s this universal passion that motivates Duke student artists to work through logistical issues, Zhang said. As the University continues to work on integrating the arts, academia and social life, the dancers must conduct a balancing act of their own in order to maintain the importance of art in

their lives.

“For Duke students, it’s often practicality versus passion,” Zhang said. “But you can do both. I pride myself in proving the conventional wisdom wrong. I want to show Duke students that opportunities [to balance these ideas] are out there.”

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Professor presents photos of post-Katrina

by Brian Contratto THE CHRONICLE

Rubenstein Hall frequently serves as a modest gallery space for photography exhibitions. Hung on the walls between classrooms, the displays can be partially assessed by their ability to capture the attention of over-stimulated public policy students shuffling between classes. Alex Harris, professor of the practice of public policy, stated as much about After the Storm: Post-Katrina Photographs, currently on display in the Hall. His medium is documentary photography, and his goal is to divert focus to important policy issues.

Harris’ photographs render Hurricane Katrina’s destruction in triptychs, adding the interesting compositional effect of showing each scene from three different perspectives. The subjects range from the predictably grave— wrecked cars abandoned under a bridge, an unkempt man

living in a parking lot—to the surprisingly pretty. In fact, the tone evoked by the photographs is closer to somber beauty than alarming catastrophe. This makes sense given Harris’s original intention: to capture signs of spring flora that had re-emerged after Katrina. The salt water that saturated the soil made a fecund spring impossible in New Orleans, so instead he looked to the people and their homes, old and new.

The photos contain playful delights and oddities, like a teddy bear peeking out from the background of a couple’s temporary tent residence. A curious chandelier stands among the rubble of a home in one photograph, while an autographed football of unknown sentimental significance is the focus of another—these are unusual voyeuristic peaks into the lives New Orleans residents were forced to abandon.

There are also glimpses of morbid irony: the photo-

graph of Flood Street, the abundant presence of personal watercrafts and the for-sale funeral home on Canal Street, which stands ghostly and white, still somehow virginal despite the mess. These imaginative forms intend to inspire creative thinking, the kind of ingenuity that the Sanford School of Public Policy has long emphasized through social entrepreneurship to impact public policy and reform.

Though it would be a stretch to call the exhibit “editorial,” the photos underscore the Bush administration’s terrible ineptness and failures in offering disaster relief.

With Katrina more than five years behind us, After the Storm reminds of the work to be done in this arena.

After the Storm: Post-Katrina Photographs is on display in Rubenstein Hall until Aug. 12. Harris will give an artist’s talk March 23 in Rubenstein 153 at 5:30 p.m. It is a part of the Provost’s Lecture Series’ “Natural Disasters and Human Responses.”

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Nasher readies exhibit of recent contemporary acquisitions

by Katie Zaborsky THE CHRONICLE

After its immensely successful infancy, the Nasher Museum of Art is seeking to diversify with age.

Beginning March 10, the Nasher will open Building the Contemporary Collection: Five Years of Acquisitions, part of a yearlong celebration of its fifth birthday. With a strong focus on the African diaspora, the exhibition features the work of 42 artists acquired since the museum’s founding and will include photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, video and installation.

Assembled from donations by Duke alumni and through museum purchases, the exhibition came together in the fall of 2010. Wendy Livingston, the Nasher’s manager of marketing and communications, elaborated on the museum’s vision and methodology for collecting contemporary art.

“We focus on global emerging artists of color,” said Livingston. “We want to include artists who have been overlooked, female artists and artists from around the world.”

Nasher Director Kimerly Rorschach, Senior Curator Sarah Stroth and Curator of Contemporary Art Trevor Schoonmaker were instrumental in collecting works for the exhibit.

The Nasher currently has permanent collections of medieval and renaissance art, as well as antiquities from Greece and Rome, but their focus since opening in 2005 is on collecting more contemporary pieces.

“It is all a brand new enterprise,” Schoonmaker said. “There wasn’t much of a contemporary collection before.”

With this collection, the Nasher sought to acquire high-quality work from artists with whom museum patrons may not be familiar now, but who might be household names in the future.

“We want to keep building the collection and make it known to the public, and this will mean collaboration with other institutions as well,” said Schoonmaker.

At other museums, Schoonmaker explains, the collections are much narrower, but the em-

phasis for the upcoming show was compiling the contemporary artwork of American and international artists alike.

“This collection is one of a kind in that in that it can have this focus of the African diaspora while integrating works from all over the world,” says Schoonmaker.

Michael Levine, Trinity ’84 and member of the Nasher Board of Advisors, echoed the contemporary curator’s sentiment about the importance of diversity in the exhibition.

“The collection shows a better range of what’s really going on in contemporary art nowadays,” said Levine.

Levine added that the new acquisitions will also increase the popularity of the museum, attracting more visitors as well as more funding for future acquisitions.

“Contemporary art is more interesting to more people, which could draw more interest and then more donations,” Levine said.

One of the featured artists is William Cordova, an Afro-Peruvian artist who also contributed many works to the museum’s The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl in the fall. His series of drawings, many of which emphasize the vinyl motif, will be one of the contemporary works on display.

For Cordova, the public’s interaction with his art is essential, even if his work is more abstract.

“The general public is the only entity that can activate a work of art,” he wrote in an e-mail.

“All creative modes of expression require an exchange between the producer of that media and an audience.”

Cordova is one of a growing number of artists who count the Nasher as an attractive option for displaying their work. The museum has become a staple in his travels, if only to stop by and revisit the permanent collections.

“It’s like a phrase from a poem that you repeat over and over again,” Cordova wrote.

Building the Contemporary Collection: Five Years of Acquistions will be on display at the Nasher Museum of Art from March 10 to Aug. 14, 2011.

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In the days before the release of the new Liam Neeson movie, Unknown, my thoughts were that it looked like a combination of a lot of spy movies I’d seen—namely, Taken and The Bourne Identity. After watching it, the confusing twists, well-placed action sequences and gripping intensity definitely gave the movie the feeling that it was a cross between Taken and The Bourne Identity.

Unknown introduces us to Dr. Martin Harris, a biologist who has the unfortunate luck of being in a taxicab accident. Harris wakes up to find that his entire life has been replaced. Viewers then learn about Harris’ shady past as he attempts to piece his life back together—all the while avoiding the killers on his trail.

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answers carries the energy of the film through to the end, and he expertly combines helpless bewilderment and resolute will in his portrayal of Harris. The excellent supporting cast adds to the energy of the movie, with Diane Kruger as the taxi-driver-turned-assistant and January Jones as Harris’ wife.

For an action film, Unknown has its share of unbelievable moments and occasionally the dialogue feels contrived. Still, the movie easily overcomes these flaws with plenty of explosions, fight scenes and a plot that keeps the viewer guessing about the identity of the good guys and the bad guys, and mostly—who is who.

Yes, we’ve seen this film before—the ending in particular doesn’t give any surprises. Yet, in the end, the movie does what it set out to do: entertain. I was engrossed in the story, unsure of the twists and was excited for what came next. Although it is not the story is not unique, the movie will keep you thrillingly in the unknown.

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Lykke Li’s 2008 debut, Youth Novel, was a carefree exploration of young and vulnerable love, including lighthearted anthems such as “Dance, Dance, Dance” and “I’m Good, I’m Gone.” With her highly anticipated sophomore effort Wounded Rhymes, Li peels back the surface to reveal a darker and heavier edge. Though there are some standouts, the album as a whole falls short, with too much emphasis on instrumental production and not enough on the vocal roots that made her stand out in the first place.

Wounded Rhymes is dominated musically by an interesting marriage of Americana and tribal beats. The opener, “Youth Knows No Pain,” sets the tone for the rest of the album—Hammond organ melodies are coupled with syncopated drumming, establishing the driving force of the beats.

The powerful percussion is reflective of Li’s coming of age and shedding of her delicate image. No longer the shy girl who only wanted to “dance, dance, dance,” she is now “your prostitute” who proclaims, “Don’t make demands/I don’t take none” in her most provocative track, “Get Some.”

The strongest tracks of the album, however, place vocals at the forefront. In “Love Out of Lust,” Li’s hazy singing is prominently featured, allowing her heartfelt lyrics such as “Rather die in your arms/Than die lonesome/ Rather die hard/Than die hollow” to fully resonate. Producer Bjorn Yttling keeps the vocals high in the mix on “I Know Places,” a sweet love song set against acoustic guitar strumming, and “Unrequited Love,” an homage to folk balladry.

Although Li is still a hopeless romantic at her core, Wounded Rhymes sees her growing up and confronting deeper issues. Transitional in both scope and sound, the record is a promising step forward, held back only by its persistent instrumental ambience.

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It’s been over a decade since There’s Something About Mary, and the Farrelly brothers are still scratching at the door, desperate to return to their former prestige. But it seems that the inventors of the raunchy bro-medy have lost their touch, and after a string of flops—The Heartbreak Kid, Stuck on You and the pilot for canceled TV sitcom Unhitched, to name a few—their latest venture is just another nail in the coffin.

The first problem arises from the film’s contrived premise: Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis) have hotter-than-they-deserve wives yet are unhappy with their sex lives, spending their days clumsily checking out younger women. Fed up, their wives (Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate) grant them a week-long pass from marriage.

The women know that these pasty, middle-aged men have about as much a chance of getting with these girls as pigs have of flying. So the men spend a week with their buddies scouring the local Applebee’s for loose ladies. Meanwhile the women head to Cape Cod where they spark some heat with a college baseball team.

In a word, the film was boring. Where Hall Pass lacks creativity, which is almost everywhere, the Farrelly brothers plug in crude jokes and bodily fluids. It’s not even clever— like Cameron Diaz’s classic hair gel mix up—just more of uninspired bathroom humor. In other words, when the s*** hits the fan, it really hits the bathroom wall. And it’s not pretty. Or funny.

The only saving grace is the appearance of Rick and Fred’s older friend and love doctor, Coakley (Richard Jenkins), who despite his age is a sex-god to the ladies and a hero to the men. In the most noteworthy scenes of the film, Coakley tries to teach these desperate men how to pick up women. Jenkins inevitably steals the show, delivering his lines with a grace and comedic timing that the rest of the film lacks.

Hall Pass is like The Hangover, minus the kidnapping, the tiger, the stripper-marriage and the lost groom. Take a pass on this one.

—Arielle Silverman

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Sophomores complement main attraction

by Jason Palmatary THE CHRONICLE

Going into halftime and clinging to a 36-34 lead against an undersized, but pesky Clemson squad, it had been all about Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith for the Blue Devils. The duo had combined to score 22 of the team’s 36 points.

While that is what one might expect on Senior Night, having the two veterans always carry the team on their backs will not be the recipe for postseason success. What transpired in the second half, however, has to be very encouraging to the coaching staff.

From the moment that freshman sensation Kyrie Irving went down with the toe injury that has kept him out of Game action indefinitely, it has been all about Analysis the Big Two. The question has always been who can step up and provide a complementary effort to what Smith and Singler do on both ends of the floor. Luckily for the Duke faithful, sophomores Seth Curry, Mason Plumlee and Ryan Kelly showed last night that they can step up and fill the void.

Curry’s performance last night, especially down the stretch, showed that his confidence continues to grow. He finished with 18 points, the same number as Singler and three less than Smith, going 6-for-13 from the field and 3-for-6 from downtown.

“That’s what this team has been needing for a few weeks now­—someone to come in and be a consistent third scoring option,” Curry said. “It’s good to take some pressure off [Singler and Smith].”

Bouncing back from a brutal game against Virginia Tech in which he found himself in constant foul trouble, Curry drew praise from head coach Mike Krzyzewski for his ability to play through contact in a very physical game last night.

“If he goes into a funk, then he shouldn’t have a Duke uniform on,” Krzyzewski said. “Seth really responded well.

One of the biggest plays of the game was when he hit that three to put us up 58 to 50. That was not an easy shot—that was a determined three.”

With Curry doing it predominantly from the perimeter, Plumlee stepped up and was a dominant force on the inside after a very lackluster first half. Plumlee had five blocks on the evening, four of which came in the second

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Seth Curry scored 18 points against Clemson last night. Other sophomores Mason Plumlee and Ryan Kelly also turned in strong performances. half, thanks in part to a locker room adjustment that allowed him to stay closer to the rim.

“Mason played a heck of a game with his blocks,” Krzyzewski said. “Earlier in the season, he would lose the ball on some of those moves, but tonight he made a play out of those moves.”

The sophomore was even able to contribute on the offensive end with a jumphook and baseline slam, demonstrating some of the potential that NBA scouts have been salivating over for some time. But what stood out more than

anything was his intensity, which, if it continues, would be a big boost for the Duke frontcourt in the postseason.

“Sometimes you have to do something to get yourself going,” Plumlee said. “I was trying to feed off of momentum and keep my adrenaline going.”

A third player whose performance won’t leap off of the box score but was very integral to the Duke victory was Kelly.

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Doubles point propels Duke to victory in conference opener

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Freshman Rachel Kahan extended her singles winning streak to 11 games.

After a dry spell in doubles play, the No. 3 Blue Devils found their stride Wednesday against Wake Forest.

Quick wins across the board DUKE 6 helped Duke (9-2, 1-0 in the ACC) top the Demon Deacons 6-1 in 1 WF Ambler Stadium.

In their first ACC match of the season, the Blue Devils set out to prove they were worthy of their new No. 3 ranking. Wake Forest (2-5, 0-2) never got the chance to rally back after the No. 50 doubles team of Monica Gorny and Mary Clayton defeated Brigita Bercyte and Martina Pavelec 8-2. The new team of Ellah Nze and Rachel Kahan then knocked off Ryann Cutillo and Emilee Malvehy 8-5 to take the doubles point.

Duke hadn’t won the doubles point since Feb. 4 against

Indiana. Head coach Jamie Ashworth seems to have temporarily found the right pairings to bring the necessary chemistry to the court.

“I couldn’t even tell you how many different combinations we’ve already had this semester,” Ashworth said. “We’re just trying to find a lot of energy with our doubles.”

This energy fueled Clayton to win her singles match against Anna Mydlowska in just 58 minutes, 6-1, 6-1.

Not long after, Kahan bested Cutillo 7-5, 6-0 and Zsilinszka overcame Kayla Duncan 6-1, 6-0 from the No. 3 spot to clinch the team’s first ACC win.

Kahan extended her winning streak to 11 matches, dating back to the fall season. Her efforts from the No. 5 spot, as well as Clayton’s from No. 6, have been essential to many of Duke’s victories.

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Krzyzewski praised him for his toughness on the interior and mentioned the big 3-pointer he hit to halt a 12-0 Clemson run in the first half and help the Blue Devils not only regain the lead but seize momentum at a pivotal moment.

If players like Curry, Plumlee and Kelly can provide consistent contributions alongside the senior duo, Duke’s championship chances are much brighter.

Because as Smith and Singler once again showed on Senior Night, they can be depended upon. But two players can only take you so far.

was unable to establish an offensive rhythm against Clemson’s aggressive, athletic defense. Clemson forced nine of Duke’s season-high 20 turnovers in the opening half.

Consequently, Smith and Singler shouldered much of the offensive burden as they combined for 16 of the Blue Devils’ first 20 points.

“They were knocking us back,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “It was like coaching a fighter from the corner.”

With eight minutes remaining in the first half, forward Ryan Kelly threw down a two-handed dunk that spurred an 11-0 Duke run. Smith added four during this stretch, and after guard Seth Curry nailed a 3-pointer from the corner, it seemed as though the Blue Devils (27-3, 13-2 in the ACC) had established a comfortable lead with halftime approaching.

But with their NCAA Tournament chances hanging in the balance, the Tigers were not done yet. Guard Demontez Stitt, who is battling strep throat, hit two jumpers, and Bryan Narcisse added four points as Clemson (19-10, 8-7) responded with a 14-6 run that tied the game at 34 with two minutes to play before the half. A pair of Mason Plumlee free throws would give Duke a two-point advantage heading into the locker room.

“I thought that was a very critical time,” Krzyzewski said. “They could have really taken control of the game with that run. They came back and knocked us back.”

In the second half, a more balanced offensive attack helped the Blue Devils overcome a feisty Clemson squad that refused to back down. Smith and Singler continued to pave the way in the second half: Smith finished the game with 21 points while shooting 7-for-20 from the field, and Singler recorded a double-double in his last game

No. 4 Duke 70, Clemson 59 Clemson (19-10) No. 4 Duke (27-3) Clemson min fg 3-pt ft r a Booker 18 3-11 2-4 0-0 2 0 Grant 28 3-11 0-0 2-2 11 1 Stitt 36 4-15 0-3 6-6 7 4 Smith 20 2-4 0-2 0-0 2 2 Young 35 3-10 2-7 1-3 1 1 Anderson 4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 Baize 0+ 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 Baciu 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 Stanton 9 1-5 0-1 0-0 0 0 Narcisse 20 2-3 0-0 0-0 3 1 Jennings 29 3-10 0-2 4-4 11 0 Hopkins 0+ 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 TEAM 4 Totals 200 21-69 4-19 13-15 41 9 Blocks — Jennings (1), Narcisse (1), Grant (1) FG % — 1st Half: 37.1, 2nd Half: 23.5, Game: 30.4

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with 18 points and 11 rebounds.

It was Duke’s role players, however, that would make the difference in this game.

Curry was instrumental in the win, hitting shots at opportune moments en route to scoring 18 points and shooting 50 percent from beyond the arc.

“I’m trying to be more consistent bringing that third punch every game,” Curry said. “We need a third scoring option. Most teams come in keying on Nolan and Kyle.”

With Curry tossing in jumpshots, Plumlee made his mark inside. The sophomore forward sank an uncharacteristic 4-of-5 free throws and took over several offensive possessions that ended with a smooth spin-move from the post and a powerful slam-dunk.

Despite Curry and Plumlee’s supporting play, the Tigers were within striking distance for most of the second half behind big performances from Stitt and Milton Jennings.

Stitt was the catalyst to Clemson’s offense, constantly creating scoring opportunities for himself and his teammates. Stitt finished with a team-high 14 points and four assists.

But with seven minutes left to play, Curry nailed a 3-pointer that extended Duke’s lead to eight, and the Tigers were unable to close the gap any further.

Singler checked out of the game after sinking a free throw, and Smith capped his career in Cameron with a ferocious dunk in the last minute of play. After the game the Blue Devils’ mind-set shifted to their upcoming showdown with North Carolina for the ACC title, but first the seniors addressed an attentive Cameron crowd after the game, thanking them for four years of support.

“I thought of it being my last time,” Smith said. “There’s been so many memories that I can’t process them all, but walking in [the locker room], I got emotional…. I think I got out everything I wanted to say, but whatever I didn’t get out, I’ll just Tweet it.”

w. tennis from page 7 “If any of our top three can get a win, it’s the best feeling to know that we have two amazingly dominant players [in the bottom of our lineup],” Zsilinszka said.

“They’ve been great.”

Not only did this game mark the team’s first conference victory, but it also signaled the season’s transition from the Sheffield Indoor Center to the outdoor Ambler Stadium.

“It’s a different game because inside the points are faster,” Ashworth said. “Outside it’s much more of a conditioning kind of game. When you walk on the court you know you’ll have to work just a little bit more because of the speed and the elements.”

The Blue Devils were nearly perfect in singles competition, with only Nadine Fahoum falling to her opponent 3-6, 6-2, 3-6 after losing the first set. Even with the success of the rest of the team, Ashworth sees room to improve.

“I didn’t want them to relax because we won the doubles point,” the coach said. “You still have to give everything to win six singles matches.”

Duke will get another chance to adjust to outdoor play Friday against N.C. State. This in-state rivalry match marks the beginning of a six-game road trip for the Blue Devils.

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K4 raises house model issues Administration officials be rewards in public relations met with the Duke University and recruitment from having Student Dining Advisory Com- a shiny, brand-new dorm like mittee Monday to discuss plans K4 complete. The “see-andto integrate the K4 dormitory be-seen” glass structure that currently under construction will be part of the residence with the broadhall should er social and have the same editorial dining experiallure as von ence on West Campus. der Heyden Pavilion The plans have considerThe von der Hayden Paable relevance due to the up- vilion is a wonderful place of coming implementation of interaction and academic disthe new house model. The vi- cussion between undergrads, sion of Rick Johnson, assistant graduate students, faculty and vice president for housing staff. However, its location in and dining, will play a signifi- the library limits its ability cant role as well. to host interactions that are We believe the house purely social. We hope the model proposals made pub- new glass social space in K4 lic so far are encouraging, will fill that void. but serious questions regardGroups ought to be allowed ing dining and housing still to easily reserve the space for need to be addressed. social programming events to There will undoubtedly further promote community

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Even when construction is completed, K4 will still pose important issues for Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta and, more specifically, the recently appointed assistant vice president, Johnson.

This is probably the last dorm that will be built on West Campus in the conceivable future. If its proposed social spaces are indeed successful, administrators need to make sure elements of that plan can be incorporated into other existing campus residences as the house model develops.

How the existence of a dorm with clearly superior amenities will affect interhouse relations remains to be seen, particularly in a system that assigns students to the

same house for three years.

Furthermore, the stark juxtaposition between the sparkling new K4 dorm and Edens Quadrangle just behind it highlights the need for considerable changes to be made to the dorms farthest from Main Quad.

The widespread lack of social or common spaces in Edens needs to be addressed.

Better lighting, more open walkways and avenues of access and the construction of some sort of central focal point along the lines of recent upgrades on Central Campus would go a long way toward closing the considerable gap between the experience of living in Edens and most other dorms.

The fact that these issues have not been considered

until recently—nine months before K4’s opening—is troubling considering the pivotal role that access to dining and social spaces plays in the residential experience. In the future, these types of socialand dining-based concerns should carry a higher priority and should be incorporated into construction plans from the outset.

Given how central the living and dining experience is at Duke, the construction of K4 and its incorporation into the social and dining environment of West Campus are critical issues.

Administrators and students alike should prioritize the plans for K4 going forward as a test run for many of the issues the house model is likely to face.

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here’s been an overwhelming prevalence about a likely unpaid summer internship. I may of young men in newly bought suits, be able to get a small stipend, given I write up briskly walking around in pairs with a grant proposal, but in all likelihood, as I said some pamphlets and the same soft-cover book earlier, it will be totally unpaid. Yes, woe is me. lately. At first I thought there was And while we non-econ majors a Jehovah’s Witness convention on will work equally hard, and apcampus, but when my non-existent ply for equally competitive prodoorbell wasn’t constantly ringgrams, the rat race for sectors ing, I looked for other clues to this outside of I-banking and conmystery. They gathered together slutting are so much less high in ornate conference rooms wearschool. They also seem much ing similar uniforms, so it could be less lucrative. some sort of cult, but the meetings Now call me a dirty liberal, but were often catered by Panera. Ev- david rothschild should a 20-year-old kid who can eryone knows that after the whole no one said otherwise afford one of the most expensive Ubuntu debacle last year, no geprivate educations in the world, neric food franchise would sponand whose daddy “knows peosor a cult meeting. What could it be? I needed ple” at Goldman be given 15 grand for a sumsome answers, so I turned to some people who mer job while America’s unemployment rate is already wore suits and walked around with near record highs? Yes, Duke students are some unfounded confidence: I asked my friends in of the most able people in the world, and we DSG! (And who said The Chronicle doesn’t deserve high-paying jobs. Yes, there are plenty dig deep for its investigative reporting ... in of people getting these top jobs whose daddies opinion pieces?) don’t know people at Goldman, and yes, who Well, I got the scoop. Turns out, it’s just a the hell am I, because I too am getting one of bunch of frat boys trying to get summer intern- the most expensive educations in the world, but ships. Yup, all the big banks who violated the doesn’t something seem a little out of whack?

American middle class for the past couple of Isn’t it a bit front-loaded? Most pre-med kids years decided they would give back. They de- won’t be making much more than a waiter’s salcided to continue giving outrageous, pro-rated ary until they’re well into their thirties. Students summer jobs to the sons of the guys who filed who want to go into academia will have to somefor “early retirement” from their top-level jobs how scrape together enough money to pay for just a couple of years ago. I would be gender- grad school, then hunt across the country for a neutral and say sons and daughters, but let’s be teaching gig. Even then, they will probably have honest; they call it a boy’s club for a reason. So, to work several years before they get hired by a while the Duke student body is made up of some top-notch institution like Duke. And if you’re a of the best and brightest young stars in Ameri- creative type of any sort, well then you’re pretty ca, the whole ordeal seems a bit ridiculous to much just SOL. Period. me. Wasn’t there a recession or something like As the sage Stuart Scott once taught me that? “don’t hate the playa, hate the game.” I can’t Now I’m not going to pretend to know about blame the finance kids, and that’s not just beWall Street, because I really only know two cause they’re my friends and the only loyal things about economics: First, 99 percent of readers of my egocentric musings, it’s because the countries in the world only produce guns they’re just following the prescribed path. and butter, and second, I know jack about eco- However, even though I’m sure Timothy Geinomics. Although my plan to somehow make thner, Ben Bernanke and the rest of the heads enough money to just pay you frat bankers to of the business world read my column, I think I handle my personal finances may be unreason- need a little more than 800 words to fix the imable, I’m the one with the soapbox, so I profes- balances of Wall Street and its internship pracsionally say to you—you can make comments tices. So do I have a solution? No. But much that I won’t read on the website later. like your favorite Tea Party candidate, I’m just As these guys get flown out on the compa- gonna yell that there’s a problem and then ny’s dollar to kiss some hands and shake some have no idea how to solve it. babies (oops, did I get that wrong?), I currently sit on an airplane seat that I paid for, coming David Rothschild is a Trinity Junior. His column back from meeting with a doctor in New York runs every other Thursday.

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lettertotheeditor Thanks to the Mad Men and Mad Women Party The Mad Men and Mad Women Party in Perkins and Bostock Libraries Friday, Feb. 25 was an amazing undertaking—a good time for 3,000 people, weaving the libraries’ rich historical advertising collections into the evening. Such an event does not happen by magic, but through very thorough planning and much hard work. I would like to highlight the superhuman efforts of the Duke Marketing Club, and thank them for pulling off an event that will, as President Brodhead said, “give us all a happy memory of Duke at its best.” The Marketing Club’s original proposal to the Libraries was irresistible, and it all came true Friday night. My deepest thanks to Emma Donaho, the club’s chair, Alison Lane, Brandon Putnam, Erica Washington, Jerica Elmacioglu, Jessica Brown, Marianne Schroer, Tammy Leung, Ted Li, Tracy Vallejo and their generous and tireless faculty advisor, George Grody.

Numerous library staff also contributed time, ideas, and enthusiasm to the party. Thanks go especially to: Aaron Welborn, Mark Zupan, Jacqueline Reid Wachholz, Meg Brown, Charles Beck, Rick Collier, Lynn Eaton, Jameca Dupree, Ann Elsner, Lynne Grossman and Tom Hadzor. And very special thanks to the Duke housekeeping staff, who stayed

until close to 4 a.m. to restore Perkins and Bostock to their normal state: Robert Jones, David Malone, Irene Peña, Beverly Harris, Dawn Haughton, Chad Mills and supervisor Kathi Turbeville. Their efforts are especially appreciated.

Finally, our sponsors were key partners in Mad Men and Mad Women. Sincere thanks go to: The Office of the Provost, the Duke University Union , the Student Organization Finance Committee, Campus Council, Roy and Merilee Bostock, George Grody, the Pratt School of Engineering,the Duke Annual Fund, the Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History in the Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library and the Program in Women’s Studies.

The Duke University Libraries are proud of and grateful for the collaboration with student groups that brings to our entire Duke community such enjoyment and opportunities to learn through the annual Party. Mad Men and Mad Women will be a tough act to follow, but let’s try. Thanks to all!

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he ongoing popular uprisings in the Middle East cy. Before you draw your own conclusions, be advised have left observers in the West scrambling both that there’s a long and prominent history of Middle to figure out what is happening and to form opin- Eastern political thought that seeks to merge Islam ions about what should happen. It’s not and liberal democracy. Look up Mehdi surprising that Westerners have struggled Bazargan and Mohammad Khatami, just to interpret a distant regional movement, for starters. but it is cause for concern.

Or, someone—like former Vice PresiIt isn’t the first time that Americans dent Dick Cheney, talking about Egypt’s have been reminded that we both don’t Hosni Mubarak—might try to tell you understand the Middle East especially that US security interests have consiswell and that we make clumsy use of what tently been served by our dubious alliwe do know. If you don’t believe me, ances with dictators like Mubarak and Google “Mohammad Mossadegh”—and, connor southard Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi. If this if you’re still not convinced, “Iraq War.” happens, ask him or her what he or she dead poet Yes, failures of foreign policy (a fun euthinks of the end result of America’s forphemism) are more directly the fault of mer alliance with the autocratic Shah governments than of the people as a whole. But we’re Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in Iran. How’d it work out, a nation of ninth-grade civics requirements, a nation in both in terms of U.S. interests and otherwise? (For which even those who are still unclear about where the those of you still playing Google scavenger hunt with president was born can quote the Constitution from me, go ahead and jump from the Shah’s Wikipedia memory. We pride ourselves not only on knowing what page to that of “Iranian Revolution.”) our government can do, but on screaming at it about It’s unclear how many Americans, even well-inwhat it should do. And good for us—Libyans are liter- formed ones, can actually describe the basic distincally fighting to enjoy the same privileges. tions between, say, Sunnis and Shiites or Persians and So, here’s a modest proposal: As long as the Middle Arabs. Legislators in my home state of Wyoming reEast continues to have direct relevance to U.S. foreign cently attempted to pass a bill that would have banned policy, we as individual citizens, should take responsi- Shariah law within the state’s borders. I badly wanted bility for better understanding the region. to ask them if they could actually tell me a single tenet What would a “better understanding” look like? of Shariah.

Not all of us need to become foreign policy experts, That particular bill would have been a ridiculous nor am I proposing that being a good citizen requires idea even if it had reflected mere kookiness, rather you to switch your major over to Asian and Middle than ill-informed xenophobia. But both our security Eastern studies. and the morality of our foreign policy depend heavAnd no matter how intensely you study modern ily on our understanding of the Middle East, and the Middle Eastern history, the various distinctions be- Muslim world more broadly, in terms of history, relitween Sunni and Shiite Islam, the doctrines of Egypt’s gion and culture.

Muslim Brotherhood and Israeli YouTube spoofs of Few of us will ever exercise much direct power over Muammar el-Qaddafi, you probably won’t magically U.S. foreign policy. But we should all pay enough honreach any conclusions about What Should be Done est attention to the intellectual and cultural currents About the Middle East. That’s not the point: The of the Middle East so that we can at least understand point is to know enough that you’re not subject to why the claim “dictators can be good for us” might be weak arguments that could only effectively be made to problematic in more than the most obvious sense. For a misinformed citizenry. those of us who are citizens of the world’s pre-eminent For instance, someone might make the common power, the generic phrase “civic duty” has particular claim—as discussed by Charles Kupchan of the Coun- global implications. cil on Foreign Relations in a recent New York Times op-ed—that we should for some reason doubt Islam’s Connor Southard is a Trinity junior. His column runs basic capacity for compatibility with liberal democra- every other Thursday.

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f you want to look for an example of how to hobble into the future, you need look no further than your own backyard. Chances are your governor or policymakers are staring down, sizing up and taking aim at their feet—and your future.

The old saying, “no pain, no gain,” certainly applies to spending cuts. Every American has heard how we have spent beyond our means for too long and paul horak need to start reeling in. We have, and we do. the road ahead But we also need to replace the near-religious fervor for “austerity” in spending with wisdom in spending.

There has been a lot of talk recently about the United States trying to “win” the future over the next few years but it is more likely that we will “lose” it in that time. Myopic politicians everywhere are content to slash spending where it is politically easy and forget about tackling the prickly, and on the whole more important, issues.

The problem is that they aren’t taking aim with pistols; they’re pulling out bazookas.

Education, in particular, has come under fire.

Over the next few years, states will spend billions of dollars less on teaching more students than ever before. Having fewer teachers, fewer textbooks and fewer school days hardly seems like the best way to improve American competitiveness in the classroom.

The sheer stupidity of investing less in our children—and by extension our future—is outdone only by the glaring absence of any creative will on the part of politicians to get more bang for the taxpayer’s buck. They should not only be looking for ways to spend less, but also for ways to do more with less. That’s wise spending, and it takes more creativity and guts than a lot of our politicians have to offer.

For example, one of the items on the chopping block is the early intervention program Head Start.

Started in 1965, it has had mixed reviews linked to the high variability in program quality: Some offices do stellar work, but others do not. The answer to the problem offered by politicians: Don’t fund it. What would be wiser is to take a look at what makes some offices under perform relative to others and have them compete for the funding that could make them better.

Head Start is just one of many programs that Republicans want to take an ax to. Together these programs represent only a small piece of the pie, but their effects have disproportionate impacts. If we really want to get somewhere in shoring up our public finances then we need to look at Medicare and Medicaid, and more specifically, the incentives we give doctors for doing their work. (Those incentives favor more expensive and intrusive measures rather than cheaper preventative ones.) That evaluation will require a lot of wisdom and even more bravery.

Some assert that people remember the intensity of pain more than they do its duration. Policy makers should take this point to heart because it applies in the economic realm, as well. Rather than concentrate all their efforts on maximizing pain now in return for less pain in the future, policy makers should distribute cuts and tough choices across a number of years. It’s not an excuse to do nothing, but rather a safeguard against reckless behavior.

It’s the reckless behavior that we constantly read about in the news that could cause America to limp into the future.

Paul Horak is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Thursday.

12 | thursday, march 3, 2011

the chronicle

NASHER MUSEUM OF ART AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in New York City,

1957-1965

February 3 – July 10, 2011 The Nasher Museum presents The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in New York City, 19571965, an exhibition of photographs and recordings of some of the jazz world’s greatest legends. In the late 1950s, W. Eugene Smith lived and worked in a New York City loft building with an amazing list of visitors–jazz musicians, filmmakers, writers and artists. In photographs and audio recordings, Smith documented an era and rare moments with Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, Norman Mailer, Salvador Dali and others, presented here in photographs, video and audio.

LEFT: W. Eugene Smith, Zoot Sims, c. 1957-1964. Collection of the W. Eugene Smith Archive, Center for Creative Photography, the University of Arizona and © The heirs of W. Eugene Smith.

Upcoming Events All events are free with admission and open to all in the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Lecture Hall at the Nasher Museum, unless otherwise noted. Co-sponsored by Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies. For complete listings, and the latest information, please visit our website: www.nasher.duke.edu.

Mar. 17

Duke Performances: Steve Reich and David Harrington in conversation at Pinhook (117 W. Main Street, Durham), 6:30 PM.

Mar. 31

Lecture: Photography archivist and historian William Johnson on W. Eugene Smith, 7 PM. Reception to follow.

Apr. 1

Duke Performances: Watts Project (Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts, Christian McBride, David Sanchez, Nicholas Payton at Page Auditorium (West Campus), 8 PM. Tickets: www.dukeperformances.org.

The Jazz Loft Project at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University was made possible through the generous support of the Reva and David Logan Foundation, with significant additional support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (The Grammy Foundation), the Duke University Office of the Provost, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Ken and Amelia Jacob, and Kimpton Hotels.

At Duke University, major support for the exhibition is given by David Lamond, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass, the Robert K. Steel Family Foundation, Sally and Russell Robinson, Bruce and Martha Karsh, Charles Weinraub and Emily Kass, Drs. Victor and Lenore Behar, Barbara T. and Jack O. Bovender Jr., G. Richard Wagoner, the Bostock Family Foundation, Laurene M. and Scott M. Sperling, and Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams Jr. Additional support is given by William H. and Lorna Chafe, John A. Forlines Jr., Tom and Margaret Gorrie, the Graduate Liberal Studies program at Duke University, Peter and Debbie Kahn, Patricia and John Koskinen, Peter Lange and Lori Leachman, Ann Pelham and Robert Cullen, Barry Poss and Michele Pas, Tom Rankin and Jill McCorkle, Alan D. Schwartz and Nancy C. Seaman, Mary D.B.T. Semans, and Courtney Shives. We also thank Patty Morton, Joy and J.J. Kiser, Cookie and Henry Kohn, Michael Marsicano, Susan M. Stalnecker, Sallyan Windt, Karla F. and Russell Holloway, Jim Roberts, Robert J. Thompson, Jr., James L. and Florence Peacock III, W. Joseph and Ann Mann, Charles and Barbara Smith, Louise C. and Waltz Maynor, Joy and John Kasson, Dr. Assad Meymandi, Leela Prasad, and Alan B. Teasley.

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