September 24, 2009 issue

The Chronicle T h e i n d e p e n d e n t d a i ly at D u k e U n i v e r s i t y

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH YEAR, Issue 25

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K-ville’s rigor to be reconsidered Report shows some crimes down in ’08

by Ethan Marks The chronicle

Students tenting this year may be able to avoid previous tenters’ experiences, such as rushing back to a thin sleeping bag for a 10 p.m. curfew.

In a few weeks, Head Line Monitor Zach White will propose Krzyzewskiville policy changes to the Duke Student Government Senate for approval. Many of the potential changes are designed to reduce the rigors of tenting requirements and encourage continued student participation.

“Some people who tent freshman year leave with the feeling that tenting was an unbelievable experience but that they would never want to do it again,” said White, a senior.

“That’s not what we want to see this year.”

One of the biggest changes being discussed is a reduction in the number of students required to sleep every night in each K-ville tent from eight to six. Other likely proposals include allowing students to stay out until midnight on Thursday nights and raising the minimum temperature needed for line monitors to award grace.

“It’s important to strike a balance between a challenging and a unifying K-ville experience,” said sophomore Pete Schork, DSG vice president for athletics and campus services.

“Tenting is a very rigorous experience, but we don’t want it to interfere with students’ academics or their quality of life.”

The push for changes this year is in large part due to a perception that it is extremely difficult to get into basketball games, White said. Two years ago, the first tenters arrived in See k-ville on page 6

by Lindsey Rupp and Zachary Tracer The chronicle

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Krzyzewskiville may see lessened requirements this tenting season. Head Line Monitor Zach White, a senior, will propose to reduce the number of students required to sleep in a tent at night from eight to six.

The Duke University Police Department released the latest crime statistics in its annual Clery Security Report, which shows that although reports of some serious crimes were down, drinking and drug violations were up in the 2008 calendar year.

In 2008, 51 burglaries were reported—14 fewer than in 2007. The number of reported robberies decreased to two in 2008 from seven in 2007. Reports of forcible sex offenses remained steady at five.

The report, which universities are required to publish each year by Oct. 1 under the federal Clery Act, only reflects crimes committed on campus and immediately adjacent to it. The report does not include incidents that occur off-campus—such as the January 2008 murder of graduate student Abhijit Mahato.

According to the report, 34 of the burglaries reported in 2008 occurred in residential facilities.

“In just one or two cases was there forced entry,” DUPD Chief John Dailey said. “If students would lock their doors—and I understand it’s inconvenient—most of those would be prevented.”

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Freshman describes robbery as ‘a surreal moment’

by Zachary Tracer The chronicle

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Freshman Neha Sharma was robbed at gunpoint on Campus Drive near the East Campus Bridge Tuesday night.

The Duke University Police Department is increasing patrols after a student was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday night, DUPD Assistant Chief Gloria Graham said.

Freshman Neha Sharma was walking near the East Campus Bridge when a man with a gun got out of the passenger seat of a dark car and robbed her of her backpack, she said. Sharma was not hurt in the 9:45 p.m. incident, which occurred as she walked from West Campus to East Campus.

“I think I was just really shocked. It was kind of a surreal moment,” she said. “I’ve never seen a gun that big.”

Duke Police have been working closely with the Durham Police Department to investigate the armed robbery, DUPD Chief John Dailey said.

He added that the incident may be connected to a robbery in Durham that occurred after the robbery at Duke. He declined to release further details to avoid jeopardizing the investigation.

“We’re working very closely with the Durham Police Department,” he said. “We typically do that any time we have any type of crime.”

In a news release, Duke Police describe the suspect in the on-campus robbery as a bald, large-built black

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“Wireless is a solution that health care desperately needs.” ­—Medical Innovation and Strategies Conference Coordinator Dr. Gopal Chopra on medical technology. See story page 3.

man in his 30s wearing dark pants and a dark baggy sweatshirt. Dailey said police do not have the license plate number of the vehicle involved.

Sharma said she was most upset about losing her books and notes, which were in her backpack along with an iPod. “They were very good textbooks and very good notes and very good annotations,” she said. “Even if I don’t get my notes back, all he gets is a malfunctioning iPod.” When the attacker demanded her backpack, Sharma said she asked the man if she could keep her books.

“He told me to turn around and keep walking, and don’t look back,” she said.

A DukeAlert e-mail about the incident was sent to the Duke community Tuesday night at approximately 11 p.m. The message was the first DukeAlert since Aug. 28 when a female employee was robbed at Parking Garage II on Erwin Road.

Tuesday’s robbery is the third on or near East Campus in recent months. A senior was robbed at gunpoint two blocks from East Campus Aug. 8, and then shot in the abdomen when he fought back. A junior was robbed at gunpoint July 28 behind the East Union Building, which houses the Marketplace.

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CAIRO — Conspiracy theories hummed through Egypt’s media and political elite Wednesday as Cultural Minister Farouk Hosni returned from Paris after facing accusations of anti-Semitism and losing a bitter fight to become the first Arab to lead the United Nations’ cultural organization.

The 71-year-old abstract painter and ally of President Hosni Mubarak had carried the hopes of an Arab world seeking cultural prominence and closer ties with the West.

But Hosni’s bid to become general director

Water discovered on moon

HAWAII — Scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that water exists on the moon, a discovery that helps complete a picture of a water-rich solar system and could make colonizing Earth’s nearest neighbor much easier than previously thought.

Using data from three spacecraft that have made close flybys of the moon in recent years, research teams in the United States have found proof that a thin film of water coats the surface of the soil in at least some places on the moon.

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of the U.N. Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization unraveled in part because of comments he made in 2008 in which he told Parliament he would burn any Jewish books in Egypt’s Alexandria library.

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by Hosni and the Egyptian government muted some criticism, but in subsequent rounds his early supporters abandoned him, as the Bulgarian candidate Irina Bokova won the post in Tuesday’s fifth round by a vote of 31-27.

Obama decides not to create new detention policy WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s administration has decided not to seek legislation to establish a new system of preventive detention to hold terrorism suspects, and will instead rely on a 2001 congressional resolution authorizing military force against al-Qaeda and the Taliban to continue to detain people indefinitely and without charge, according to administration officials.

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Conference touts tech solutions for health care

by Samantha Brooks The chronicle

Chief executive officers, entrepreneurs and medical professionals gathered at the Fuqua School of Business Wednesday for Duke’s Medical Innovation and Strategies Conference.

With multiple companies represented by attendees from around the country, the conference’s success largely exceeded organizers’ expectations, said Ana Quinn, associate director for the Business Development for the Health Sector Management program.

“We’re extremely excited,” Quinn said.

“We were expecting 50 attendees and we surpassed 120 [attendees.]”

The focus of the conference was primarily to encourage discussion about technology within the health care system.

Speakers relayed ideas covering wireless and mobile health care technology advances and gave references to other areas around the country where progress is being made in the field.

Jim Sweeney, CEO of Patient Safe Solutions and the keynote speaker for the conference, gave an example of hospitals in Hawaii that have mobile pediatricians— doctors who are available on call at any time—suggesting that attendees look to this kind of innovation for inspiration.

Attendee Dr. Wesley Valdes, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said he was particularly interested in Sweeny’s presentation.

“I came especially to see Jeff Miller [Managing Partner at Versum Health Advisors] and Jim Sweeney,” he said. “Most of their ideas will actually be implemented, the only question now is how.”

In addition to Sweeney, the confer-

by Alexandra Wexler The chronicle

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Keynote speaker Jim Sweeney, CEO of Patient Safe Solutions, discusses the importance of wireless communication in the medical field at the Medical Innovation and Strategies Conference Wednesday. ence hosted George Savage, chief medical officer of Proteus BioMedical, as well as representatives from Microsoft and other health care corporations.

“This is great exposure for the students, we didn’t realize how big it would be,” said Fuqua student Ankur Seth. “I’m most excited about the Microsoft presentations, they’re doing big things in the field”.

Coordinator Dr. Gopal Chopra, adjunct associate professor at the Fuqua School of Business, said he was also inspired by the conversation.

“Wireless is a solution that health care desperately needs,” Chopra explained. “Without a clear conversation

Learn about mission trips to Belize, Costa Rica and Honduras during Spring Break ‘10 Information session about this year’s mission trips, as well as our retreat to the Monastery of Christ in the Desert in New Mexico. Find out more about PathWays, pick up an application for our trips, and hear from other students about their fantastic experiences!

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with politicians and capital, it makes it difficult to implement. [Through conferences like these] we can bring more focus to the issue. Everyone was surprised by the caliber [of the attendees].

There are executives here who should be at other meetings in other places, but instead, they’re here.”

Attendees were particularly pleased with the “non-combative atmosphere” of the conference, Chopra said. Valdes noted that it was refreshing to see a positive discussion occurring at the event.

“There’s so much negativity in the field,” Valdes explained. “It’s great to know I’m not crazy.”

The High Holy Days are not the only things the Freeman Center is celebrating this week.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Freeman Center for Jewish Life as the home of the Jewish community on campus.

The festivities began with the observance of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which was attended by 200 students, said junior Scott Gorlick, student board president of the Rubenstein-Silvers Hillel. The board provides Jewish programming throughout the University community.

“We are honoring the past, celebrating the present and investing in the future,” Director of Jewish Life Rebecca Simons said.

Next Monday, the Freeman Center will host the Jewish community again for Yom Kippur, the day of atonement. In addition to the High Holy Days, the center is commemorating the first two known Jewish students to attend Duke, Fannie Gladstein and Louis Jaffe, on the Center’s High Holiday card. Gladstein and Jaffe both graduated from Trinity College in 1911.

Since then, the Jewish community at Duke has grown to include students from 32 states and eight countries.

“What we’re focusing on is telling the story of the Jewish community at Duke over the last 100 years,” Simons said.

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May you be inscribed for a good year Yom Kippur

Sunday, September 27th (eve.) - Monday, September 28th (eve.)

All meals and services take place at the Freeman Center for Jewish Life

Schedule of Services and Meals for Yom Kippur Sunday, September 27th, 2009 Pre-Fast Dinner 5:30pm, $18* Reform and Conservative Kol Nidre Services 6:30pm Monday, September 28th, 2009 Conservative Service 9:00am Reform Service 10:30am Conservative Yizkor Service 11:00am Conservative Minchah 5:00pm Reform Yizkor 6:15pm Conservative Neilah 6:30pm Reform Neilah 6:45pm Communal Shofar Blowing 7:45pm Break the Fast Bash 7:45pm, FREE* *All meals require reservations.

Limited space still available for all meals; please e-mail jewishlife@duke.edu to RSVP Tickets for services are free to all students with Duke ID. Tickets for services for non-students are available by contacting Jewish Life at Duke.

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Guests are strongly encouraged to take the bus.

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Police link DSG raises transparency issues recent break-ins to past incidents Duke student government

by Lindsey Rupp The chronicle

The six car break-ins that occurred across three campus parking lots Sept. 19 are thought to be linked to a string of break-ins March 6, said Gloria Graham, assistant chief of the Duke University Police Department.

Two female suspects and one male suspect broke into six cars across the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club, R. David Thomas Conference Center and Parking Garage II lots Saturday and took $3,715 in valuables, according to Duke Police investigation reports.

Based on Sept. 19 and March 6 surveillance video from the R. David Thomas Conference Center lot, Duke Police believe the same suspects also broke into three cars in the same lot in March. The suspects stole $8,346.60 in March, according to investigation reports. Both the Sept. 19 and the March 6 break-ins were reported in the early evening, beginning around 5 p.m.

In the March 6 report, the suspects are described as two young, short black females and one older black male of average build. They were seen driving an “older mini van, green or dark in color,” according to the report.

After the March beak-ins, Graham said Duke Police released a safety alert asking the community to be on the lookout for the suspects and their vehicle.

Graham said she hopes the Sept. 19 video might yield the suspects’ identities or license plate number. She added that Duke Police plans to solicit the public’s help in identifying the suspects in the Sept. 19 video feed, but that the images are not yet ready for release.

“We are still waiting for the video,” she wrote in an email. “We are at the mercy of the folks who own the equipment, unfortunately.”

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DSG Executive VP Gregory Morrison, a junior, speaks in front of DSG at its meeting Wednesday night. DSG senators repealed the by-laws governing the Inter-Community Council after the position of VP for the ICC was eliminated as a result of the Sept. 14 student body referendum.

by Dayna Uyeda The chronicle

Duke Student Government conducted the swearingin of 12 new at-large senators at its meeting Wednesday night. After an application and interview process, the students were selected from a pool of 27 applicants.

DSG members debated transparency regarding advertising senator at-large positions to students at the beginning of the year. Junior Ben Bergmann, athletics and campus services senator, questioned the effectiveness of DSG’s methods of advertising open positions. The newly sworn in senators said they were notified via blast e-mails

from DSG, word of mouth and the DSG Web site.

Bergmann expressed concern that “a normal” student would not have known about the open positions because of a lack of DSG advertising.

Student Affairs senator Daren Miller, a sophomore, said that from now on, DSG will try to be more clear in its blast e-mails that positions are available.

“Obviously, the individuals here were qualified,” Miller said.

DSG senators decided that transparency in their proSee dsg on page 6

Homecoming September 24-26 From pep to step, from talks to walks, from dancing and bands to cheering in the stands: Celebrate fall, football, and friends who are back on campus.

Highlight Events Thursday, September 24 5:30 – 11:00 p.m.

Bull City Football Fest Durham Athletic Park (original Bulls stadium) A pep rally with coaches, players, bands, and cheerleaders from Duke and NCCU. Food vendors, music, artists, games, and an area for kids.

9:30 p.m. – 1:00 a.m.

President’s Homecoming Dance Wilson Gym and IM Building See the transformation to party palace, featuring performances by Blue Devil dance and a capella groups, and Right On!, music for all generations!

Plentiful wine, beer, nonalcoholic beverages, light hors d’oeuvres, and desserts. Attire: festive, from business casual to cocktail.

Friday, September 25

Saturday, September 26

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Campus Council Pep Rally

10:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Graduate & Professional Student/ Alumni Speed Networking

Main Quad, West Campus Musical acts Andy Grammer and Tyrone Wells, cheerleaders, Dancing Devils, DUMB, and Coach Cutcliffe. Free food by Cookout, inflatables, and free T-shirts. Root for your quad at the first Campus Council Dodgeball Tournament.

7:00 – 9:00 p.m. NPHC Step Show Page Auditorium, West Campus This annual event is a crowd-pleasing, foot-stomping show presented by Duke’s National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC).

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Returning graduate and professional school alumni share their experiences in a variety of fields with current students.

1:30 – 3:00 p.m.

The End of Civilization As We Know It? The Future of Reading Griffiths Film Theater Duke Magazine celebrates its 25th anniversary with a conversation among key thinkers: Sven Birkerts, the author of The Gutenberg Elegies; Lynn Neary, who covers books and publishing on the national desk for NPR’s Arts and Information unit;

Julie Tetel Andresen ’72, associate professor of English at Duke, author of Linguistics Reimagined: Language Study for the 21st Century; Philip Bennett, former managing editor of The Washington Post; Andy Berndt ’89, managing director, Creative Lab at Google.

Moderated by Deborah Jakubs, Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian and vice provost for library affairs.

4:30 p.m. Blue Devil Walk The procession of team and coaches, from Perkins Library to Wallace Wade Stadium.

7:00 – 10:30 p.m.

Football: Duke vs. NCCU Wallace Wade Stadium Cheer for football and Coach Cutcliffe as the Blue Devils take to the gridiron against the Eagles.

11:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m.

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In other business: Chief of Staff Mike Lefevre, a junior, introduced a proposal to appoint a non-voting Campus Council representative to the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee. This representative would act as a link between Campus Council and DUSDAC. Dining committee members approved the addition.

“Since some events last year, which involved pretty drastic changes to dining policies and board plans, DSG and DUSDAC invited some people from Campus Council,” Lefevre said. “And as they got involved, they saw an integral connection between dining and residential life.”

He noted that DSG joined forces with DUSDAC because there was a lack of transparency. Since DUSDAC became a part of DSG, two open forums have been created to garner student feedback, Lefevre added.

New members for the Rules Committee were also appointed. Freshman Gurdane Bhutani and sophomores Lauren Moxley, Ubong Akpaninyie and Harrison Comfort, a Chronicle sports associate editor, were elected to serve on the committee.

DSG members also repealed the by-laws governing the Inter-Community Council because the organization no longer falls under DSG’s jurisdiction.

“DSG is a policy-making body. The ICC is a forum for student collaboration,” said Executive Vice President Gregory Morrison, a junior. “In order to do what each organization does best it would be effective to separate the two.”

The Arts and Sciences Council appointees were sworn in too. Sophomore Kaveh Danesh, junior Matt Stansky and seniors Ayrenne Adams, Jason Preissig and Chelsea Goldstein, a member of The Chronicle’s editorial board, were appointed.

Junior Ben Getson was confirmed to serve as Undergraduate Representative to the Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees and sophomore T.J. Hu was appointed to the Judicial Affairs Student Advisory Group.

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k-ville from page 1 K-ville as early as Dec. 6. This year, the official start date for blue tenting is tentatively set for Jan. 3, immediately following the Wisconsin basketball game.

Now, only about a week after the selection of this year’s line monitors, White is already talking to past tenters and planning visits to student groups in order to get a sense of how Duke students feel about the issue.

Junior Lauren Kottis has tented each of the past two years and said she fully supports the new changes. Last year, trying to coordinate rush for selective living group Ubuntu and tenting at the same time, Kottis said she often found herself strapped for time.

“It doesn’t affect going out that much, but it’s your work that suffers a little bit,” Kottis said. “[The proposed changes] are definitely positive changes.”

Much of the discussion about tenting has centered around issues related to the spread of the H1N1 virus— commonly known as swine flu—and other seasonal flus.

Jean Hanson, administrative director of Duke Student Health, noted that K-ville poses unique health challenges for keeping illnesses in check.

“The recommendation is to try to stay six feet away from someone who is infectious, but in K-ville that is pretty much impossible,” Hanson said. “It is a prime location to spread anything.”

Last year, 60 students tenting in K-ville sought help from Student Health, Hanson wrote in an email. She added that she expects the number to be even higher this year.

“As it is, we don’t give students medical excuses to go back to their dorms,” she said. “When kids are sick in Kville, let’s not make them stay there.”

White recently created a new Health Team within the Line Monitor Committee. The team will be responsible for working with Student Health and University administrators to keep everyone aware of health concerns as they develop.

Senior Spencer Eldred, DSG vice president for student affairs, has talked with White about setting up health stations with hand sanitizer and first aid kits throughout K-ville. He said he would like to see the focus shift more toward preventative care, with kits filled with condoms, bandages and books with health tips that are handed out earlier in the year. He is also looking into getting a health clinic set up in the Intramural Building where students can receive flu shots.

“As the season progresses, we are going to work with [students living in] K-ville, see what their health-related needs are, and come up with more ideas as needed,” he said.

White said he has high expectations for this season.

His vision of K-ville this year includes more entertainment than in past years, and he is already talking about bowling parties, concerts, movies and nights at Shooters II. “The tenting experience is going to be a lot more exciting than it has been,” he said. “K-ville is going to be a bumping fantastic place.”

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Tonight, we came into the evening without having a Sandbox written. It was a mistake of our weekly budget. No one was assigned the Sandbox. There was a void in our creative spirits, dampened by hump day and the far-too-distant fall break. There is no humor to be had in this week’s Sandbox.

We sat around, talking about the promo video for the Kanye West and Lady Gaga tour—Fame Kills. We talked about WHY? who just released an album that we should have reviewed in this week’s print edition.

But we didn’t. WHY? (Get the joke?) Because your plebeian music tastes wouldn’t appreciate that. So we run Mika instead.

It’s no Mariah Carey. It’s in between. We’re pandering and hoping you like it.

We talked about professors, the kinds that use words like “phat” to describe the Link and somehow pull it off. The ones who say, “If you remember the ’60s, you weren’t a part of the ’60s”. And the kind that say things like “ekphrasis” and talk about the compartmentalization of poststructuralism in academia. These things that hold weight in our small lives. These

things that are as culturally significant as You’ve Got Mail. We talked about Duke Performances Director Aaron Greenwald too. We talk about you every week, Aaron, because you, the Nasher and that publicity company in Atlanta drive our publication.

But these aren’t suitable topics. This is the process, and you don’t care about that.

It’s hard to come up with something to write every week. Our lives here are inane.

We get excited about sonically inspired Owen albums, out-of-print books and Luna bars (I really like the peanut butter cookie ones). These are the humorless existences we lead.

This is why we write. The words are all-consuming. Our commitment to quality renders our work difficult. We don’t want to be so-last-week. So we can’t write about Kanye. We can’t write about the Emmy’s. We can’t even write about that “Dear Duke” track.

At the end of the night, what we came up with was this. This week, it’s not the result that matters, it’s the action. It’s the process.

—Andrew Hibbard

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By the time you read this column, I will have gone 31 days without having sex. To be more specific, that’s 744 hours, 44,630 minutes or 2,678,400 seconds—and counting.

Although the average celibate individual is considered unlucky, an abstinent sex columnist is wholeheartedly pathetic. This indignant irony cannot be absolved by memories of a bygone era of sexual gluttony. I once prided myself on maintaining a solid sexual average of 1.6 orgasms per day, a statistic I wish I had never taken for granted.

That said, my predicament is not unique.

Rather, it’s a fate shared by anyone who has ever been cockblocked by the Atlantic Ocean.

Since basic parameters of human nature dictate that going four months without a blow job is too much to bear, most study abroad participants opt to institute the perilous policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Put simply, these individuals choose to navigate the dangerous terrain of the “open relationship.”

Trying to understand the motivations behind these decisions and assured that one month’s worth of study abroad experience qualified my friends as experts in the field of “non-exclusive love,” I surveyed tonight’s collection of beer-saturated companions. When asked about the meaning of an open relationship, one friend inquired, “If you like the person with whom you’re in a relationship, why is it open in the first place? Why not just hook up and not have the pretenses of a relationship?

Seriously, what does ‘open relationship’ even mean?” I wish I had an intelligent answer.

As my friend, a card-carrying member of Open Relationships Anonymous, explains, “There are two credible reasons for being in an open relationship. You were having trouble before you went abroad, or you’re unsure if there’s enough of a foundation to sustain the relationship for a period of separation

that is longer than you were going out in the first place.”

My cynical side convinces me that the majority of romantic affiliations do not meet these specifications. What about the pair that wants to ensure they’re right before they invest in a life-long commitment? Or the couple that has never been naked with anyone else?

What if horniness afflicts you like the plague?

Are any of these thoughts unsanctioned by the universal laws of “openness?”

For all the analytical energy most couples invest in the face of flexible sexual boundaries, most rarely understand the factors that led them to such conclusions in the first place. Why do you want to have sex with someone else? In the “closed relationship,” such a question behaves like flesh-eating bacteria on one’s romantic infrastructure. Redefine a personal connection as an “open relationship,” however, and the question itself is irrelevant.

Skype your significant other. Profess your love. Sign off and sleep in a bed that’s not your own. This is the accepted cycle when you decide to play the “study abroad game.”

The rules ensure that no one gets hurt. Still, in the face of all this ambiguity, I’ll accept my sexual frustration and count the days since I last got laid. Arithmetic is easy. Solving for the unexplained variable is not.

Brooke Hartley is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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Bass beats pound from outside the door. The faint smell of a nearby beer keg wafts through the air. With DJ Paradime mixing records while break dancers from Swoon Unit perform on the floor, the opening reception of LabourLove Gallery’s Bombed: Panels, Picks, and Kicks introduced a youthful and energetic art exhibition to the Durham community.

Bombed: Panels, Picks, and Kicks features the work of artists Franco, Greg Davis, Victor Knight III, Sean Kernick and Matt Scofield. Most of the artists presented tagged graffiti panels. In a deviation from the norm, Franco exhibited illustrative works that focus on issues of race and power, displacing the human figure with the image of multi-colored hair picks.

The reception did not only offer graffiti, beats and beer, however. Bombed: Panels, Picks, and Kicks is coupled with the charitable campaign of Shoes-4-Souls. Sneakers decorated by the artists hang from the gallery’s ceiling as a reminder to viewers to donate their own used shoes to the charity.

The interactive and multi-dimensional aspect of the exhibition reflects LabourLove’s mission to not simply function as a retail art gallery, but to create a welcoming arena for the young artistic community. In its art and its attitude, LabourLove’s newest offering is for the people and of the people.

Bombed: Panels, Picks, and Kicks is on display now through Nov. 14 at LabourLove Gallery, located in Golden Belt’s Building 2.

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Kristine Stiles (second from right) curated a show by Jean Toche concerning what he considers the imperialist policies of the Bush presidency.

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Artist Jean Toche is known for his controversial and reactionary work, and his new exhibition at the John Hope Franklin Center is no exception. Titled Jean Toche: Impressions from the Rogue Bush Imperial Presidency, the collection includes expressionist photography coupled with vehement political statements and various news excerpts.

Kristine Stiles, professor of art, art history and visual studies, curated the show, drawing the works from her own archives.

The collection is comprised mainly of four-by-five-anda-half inch cards, each featuring a distorted photographic image displayed above a written statement from Toche.

The works comment on a range of topics from excess consumerism to “Bush: Brutal Butcher of Fallujah!” Many of the photographs are abstracted images of Jean Toche himself, from dramatic and confronting close-ups of his face Low Newspaper Ads v1:Layout 9/20/09 11:43 PM PageToche 2 to pictures of his3 exposed backside. uses his own Special to The Chronicle portrait to add visual potency to his radical statements. On Bombed: Panels, Picks, and Kicks continues the tradition of formalizing one card, Toche quotes a New York Times article and surgrafitti and bringing it into a gallery setting.

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mises the possibility of an unchecked Republican dominance, asking the question, “Another Thousand-Years Reich?” These words are paired with a photograph of Toche’s back, with his bare buttocks visible under a black T-shirt marked with only one word: UTOPIA. This is but a single example of Toche’s mix of stark humor and radical political observances. The works do not just attack Republicans and the Bush administration.

Toche also calls attention to ignorance and apathy among the American people, a growing and worrisome xenophobic attitude in Europe and an art market overrun by the principles of consumerism.

Impressions from the Rogue Bush Imperial Presidency is an exhibition that makes no amends or compromises and forces the viewer to react. Whether viewers agree with Toche or not, the works offer a personal and intimate summons to engage in today’s sociopolitical debates.

Jean Toche: Impressions from the Rogue Bush Imperial Presidency is on display now through Nov. 29 at the John Hope Franklin Center Main Gallery.

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Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn and Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground 1954 – 68 is on display now through Oct. 18 in the CCB Gallery, 120 Morris St.

they p u s h forward and reference the past, you’ll see a bunch of places where they overlap.”

The Arkestra’s performances are in accordance with this dedication to something beyond; they encompass a visual aesthetic that allows the instrumentalists’ wardrobes and the use of color to alter the aural experience.

This link to visual art makes even more sense when seen in the light of the paintings, costumes and similar artifacts Sun Ra left behind, all currently on display at CCB Gallery downtown.

“There’s this synergy with the exhibition of the Durham Arts Guild, which is really a pretty massive exhibition, pretty critically acclaimed and a real coup for the Arts Guild to get,” Greenwald said. “So, it seemed like there was going to be a campus-wide, if not community-wide, conversation around Sun Ra and the Arkestra that we wanted to participate in….

[The exhibition] gives you the visual angle on the Sun Ra universe.”

But despite the intricate layering of music, mythology and visual and performance art, the serially inflected jazz of the band still astounds in its own right. And it speaks wonders to the sheer competence of Sun Ra and his successors that they managed to convey his unique vision and maintain such an unwieldy apparatus as a big band for so many years.

“Both Sun Ra and Charles Mingus are ideal examples of folks who have created new, bold music and, in Sun Ra’s case, a bold mythology that centers on a certain modernism,” Greenwald said. “There’s a newness to what they’re creating, a sense of imagining what the future of jazz or African-American music in general sounds like.”

The community is certainly recognizing the Arkestra’s importance, but for Allen, the band’s mission can be stated far more simply.

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This month, the Durham Art Guild hosts Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn and Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground 1954 – 68. The exhibition presents artwork created by and about Afro-Futurist musician Sun Ra and his associates, salvaged from a condemned house after the death of Ra’s business partner, Alton Abraham. Together Ra and Abraham founded El Saturn Records, one of the first artist-created labels. El Saturn was meant, in part, to further the ideal of black power and the vision of a separatist community of black artists creating for black consumers.

Much of the exhibit documents El Saturn’s approach to printing album covers, mainly with an intergalactic theme. The pieces include brainstormed sketches for LP covers, linoleum stamps, silkscreen designs and final album covers. A documentary features Ra preaching his belief that if things on Earth got any worse, humans would have to move to Saturn and start over. At one point, the documentary swells chaotically into the big band-style jazz music Ra composes and plays. His music is meant to transport listeners out of this world and into “the space feeling” of happiness, which he believes humans have lost the ability to perceive.

The exhibition is part of a larger celebration of Sun Ra, which includes an upcoming lecture and a performance by the latest iteration of the band. Informed by prior knowledge of Ra and his beliefs, the art show becomes more compelling.

The works, however, are unexplained aside from a brief cataloged list. Some of the art is graphically interesting and contains traces of Ra’s aggressive individualism and eccentricity, yet the display lacks the agitated energy with which Ra tried to move people into seeing the world and living differently.

—Lori Vogt

Taking the reins of a jazz band numbering over a dozen musicians is challenging enough. But Marshall Allen faced a unique obstacle after eventually replacing the deceased Sun Ra as director of his eponymous Arkestra.

“The whole band left the planet,” Allen said.

This is just another aspect of the Sun Ra mythology, as told by an Alabama musician born Herman Poole Blount, legally named Le Sony’r Ra and commonly regarded as one of the most influential jazz composers ever.

It isn’t the unique backstory that will be on display, however, when the Arkestra comes to Page Auditorium this Saturday, featured on a double bill with the Mingus Big Band.

It’s the revolutionary avant-garde take on American music that will come center stage. This abrasive and exotically futuristic wielding of the big band format has exerted an inestimable influence on Ra’s contemporaries and disciples.

The last five decades have seen the Arkestra work in the midst of an aggressively evolving musical landscape, but Allen is able to offer a concise evaluation of what’s different for the group since he joined 51 years ago.

“It’s changed because Sun Ra’s not here,” he said.

The founder’s presence is still a tangible and vital aspect of the group despite his death—or his “ascension,” in band lore—in 1993. Shows involve a substantial amount of his compositions, and the theatrical tradition of performing in colorful costumes is one he originated.

“We like to tell a story, different ages of music, you know,” Allen said. “Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, ‘Count’ Basie, we play some of those things, old stomps and things.

We play modern arrangements, we play Sun Ra originals and I play my originals too. And then we play avant-garde and all the rest—mix it all up.”

The Arkestra has always been cognizant of the artistic atmosphere it existed within, and the group hasn’t lost this awareness in its current stage. Along with the Mingus Big Band, the two outfits are able to use their legacies and abundant technical skills to articulate a past, present and future of music.

“You’ll have these two different musical languages, both existing within jazz, both related to the roots of a sound, but also then both pushing boldly forward,” said Aaron Greenwald, director of Duke Performances. “My thought would be as

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Max dishes dirt on Duke, Hollywood debut i hope they serve beer in hell

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midst the craziness and protests of the Raleigh, N.C. premiere of the Tucker Max-penned I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, recess’ Charlie McSpadden had the chance to exchange a few words with the blogger, author and general offender of common decency. But in the calmer aftermath, McSpadden spoke to Max about his new movie, his alma mater and persona, fratty Duke bro to former Duke bro.

What was it like seeing someone else interpret you and then instructing him to be more like you?

[Max portrayor] Matt [Czuchry] is complete opposite from me in real life. He is empathetic, compassionate and literally the nicest dude I’ve ever met. Getting him to the point where he could accurately play me was definitely interesting.

Other than comedy, is there anything else you want your audience to take from the movie?

The movie is about Tucker’s narcissism, and it’s about how his narcissism impacts his life and his friends’ lives.

Tucker’s friends dump him because he’s such a narcissistic prick… but no one can go from a narcissist to not a narcissist, so Tucker learns how to model the appropriate behavior, he learns how to act the appropriate way.

What do you make of the NC State protestors’ claims that your movie promotes rape culture?

The idea that I promote rape culture is just ridiculous, it’s actually offensive. It’s so wrong and so preposterous and so politically motivated, it’s offensive. Not just to me, but to women.

You’ve said in the past that the best thing about Duke is its proximity to UNC-Chapel Hill and its female population. Do you still hold that opinion of Duke?

The only thing I liked about law school was that I had great friends. And to be totally honest, none of us liked

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Duke as a university. We liked hanging out with each other and going to Franklin St. and partying. We went to grad school, which was definitely different from going to undergrad there. I think undergrads have a better expe-

The Hangover has a bastard cousin. Its name is I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.

Based on a few of the “famous” antics of bloggercum-screenwriter Tucker Max, the film follows an ambiguously factual Tucker (Matt Czuchry) who goads his two best friends, soon-to-be-wed Dan (Geoff Stults) and recently dumped Drew (Jesse Bradford) to embark on a stripper- and booze-filled bachelor weekend. The eventful visit to a strip club pegged as “the Superbowl of carnal pleasures” leads to a disastrous end for Dan—ejected from the club, he urinates on cops and wakes up in his own vomit in jail. Finally tired of standing up for his friend’s constant selfishness, Dan disinvites Tucker from the wedding celebration, and Tucker must find a way back into his friends’ good graces.

The movie’s foremost problem lies in its protagonist, a less charming Van Wilder who brings nothing but womanizing to the table. The panty-dropping charisma of the Max from his blog stories does not translate into the film, leaving the fault lying either with his maiden screenplay or the authenticity of his stories. As a writer who became famous for his ludicrously lewd behavior, Max leaves most of his best stories out of the film, aiming for a stronger narrative flow. But these conflicting goals—trying to maintain the outrageousness while also being “real”—leave the film in limbo.

He’d be better off retelling vignettes of his blog.

Tucker’s glaring lack of characteristics and faux complexity are further highlighted when compared to the surprisingly well-written characters of Drew, Dan’s fiancée Kristy (Keri Lynn Pratt) and hooker/ closet gamer Lara (Marika Dominczyk). Save for a few Tucker-related one-liners, only some moments between these characters give the movie any sort of emotional punch.

Despite the efforts of these actors (especially Bradford, whose misanthropic humor is dead-on) and a few comical moments, nothing can overcome the lack of an interesting protagonist. Furthermore, the film’s main message—that Tucker is such a narcissist—makes it impossible for the audience to care. What would be more worthwhile is a look into Tucker’s past to see how he became the douche he is today.

The film exists in a state of self-delusion. Tucker, we can’t stop caring if we didn’t care in the first place.

—Charlie McSpadden

Whom do you see as your peers?

No one. I am so far ahead of everyone in terms of what it is I’m doing in my field, there’s no one even in my field I can think of or speak.

“My model for my career is hopefully going to be like Dr. Dre’s.... What I can do is help the next Tucker Max. Dude, I invented this genre, I started it and I’m f—ing great at it.”

— Tucker Max rience. I mean, Durham is just a s—hole.

Do you still use your education in what you do now?

Not really, man. To be honest, I didn’t go to class a lot in law school, and I didn’t do a lot of the reading because it was stupid and boring. They say law school teaches you how to think, but I already learned how to do that s— in undergrad.

Do you think that the organic nature of your original stories has disappeared as you become better known?

It’s not just my stories that have changed necessarily.

My style has changed, and my life has definitely changed.

About 95 percent of the girls I hook up with now meet me to hook up with me. As long as I make sure my art and my voice change with my life, then everything will be OK. If I try to hold on to something that is gone, then it’ll get kind of lame.

Is there anyone that inspired your antics or career?

From a personal standpoint, Eminem. From a business standpoint, Tyler Perry. From a writing standpoint, Chuck Palahniuk and John Kennedy Toole.

You came in the right place and at the right time, at the beginning of blogging and you took it and ran with it.

It is so much easier to do now what I did. The idea that a blog could even become a book at all was laughable in 2002. My book is the second book to ever go from blog to bestseller. The first one was Julie & Julia.

You’ve become very good at self-branding. Do you think you can take your model and help other people out?

That’s exactly what I want to do. My model for my career is hopefully going to be like Dr. Dre’s. He helped invent a genre the way I did and was one of the pioneers, one of the best in his day. But better people came along.

What I can do is help the next Tucker Max. Dude, I invented this genre, I started it and I’m f—ing great at it.

But I’m telling you, right now, unequivocally, that someone can do it a lot better than me. The Eminems and the Biggies of this genre have not come along yet. But when they do, they are going to need a Dre to help them. And I’ll be there to be that Dre.

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Volcano Choir is the collaboration between post-rock instrumentalists Collections of Colonies of Bees and fellow Wisconsonite Justin Vernon, the brains behind indie darling Bon Iver. The pairing, by no means an obvious one, proves on their debut album Unmap to be remarkably fruitful.

To be sure, this is not a Bon Iver album, nor does it sound like one. The woodsy ambience remains, as does Vernon’s ethereal, haunting tenor, but not much else. The emotional immediacy of Bon Iver’s LP For Emma, Forever Ago is absent on Unmap, and Vernon’s folk tendencies are subverted in favor of a far more experimental project, one that takes turn after unexpected turn.

Given the inherent risk in departing from his critically acclaimed sound, it is

surprising just how few missteps Volcano Choir make, from the wandering acoustic guitar of opener “Husks and Shells” to the gospel-tinged vocal of closing track “Youlagy.” “Sleepymouth” and “Island, IS” are the clear standouts, the former adeptly adding and paring down layers to make way for Vernon’s soulful wail, the latter propelled by the kind of looping instrumentals that wouldn’t be out of place on an LCD Soundsystem record. The second half of the album is willfully inconsistent from song to song, but never loses its way. There’s a welcome reworking of “Woods” from the Bon Iver EP Blood Bank in “Still,” as well as the drum-machine stomp, “Cool Wanderings,” featuring some out-of-nowhere harmonies.

Vernon is diversifying his portfolio here, and Unmap is a testament to the kind of roll he’s been on since For Emma was released in 2007. And with a new Bon Iver album on the way, there’s a lot to look forward to.

—Ross Green

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The album’s composition is over-processed and underdeveloped. The lyrics seem to have been chosen for their convenience and try unsuccessfully try to offer various insights.

Synth keys and distorted guitar are the crutches of Vapours. Every possible space is filled with some sound straight out of a five year-old’s toy keyboard. Nick Thorburn’s vocals are strained and overload the album with a piercing falsetto that even Mika would disdain. His voice occasionally slips into a folksy twang, which feels as affected as one of Madonna’s British accents.

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Despite all this, the album does have a few bright spots. The lead song, “Switched On,” is emblematic of the rest of Vapours: catchy chorus, an interesting arrangement, but ultimately mediocre.

The next real achievement doesn’t appear until “Devout.” A steady beat coupled with evocative lyrics creates a musical maturity unmatched elsewhere on Vapours.

The effective juxtaposition of an ephemeral, airy chorus with driving verses showcases Islands’ skillful arrangements.

Also a strength is the percussion. Aaron Harris, Sebastian Chow, and Jamie Thompson all play some part in the exemplary rhythms used throughout the album. The percussion fits the songs, adds to the music and isn’t overpowering.

Still, their penchant for the electronic, the true priority of the album, smothers any human feeling that the songs otherwise create.

In truth, Vapours’ new direction sounds like Islands attempt to “discover themselves.” They need to keep looking.

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book review

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The name Bunny Munro might seem a little too charming and bubbly to have come from the mind of a man as dark as Nick Cave, but if his wide-ranging career has shown an inclination toward anything, it’s unpredictability.

Best known for fronting rock band the Bad Seeds, Cave’s previous written works include the screenplay for Australian western The Proposition as well as his fiction debut, And the Ass Saw the Angel. The Death of Bunny Munro is his second novel, and the misldeading name belongs to a middle-aged Brit with a mean penchant for sex—the book’s unlikely protagonist. Anyone familiar with this previous work will recognize his twisted black humor, which includes snarky remarks about Kylie Minogue and deranged fantasies of Avril Lavigne.

This time around, Cave’s seedy comedy introduces us to doomed antihero Bunny Munro, marked by his

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Thank God California rock duo Girls named their debut LP Album, because, you know, a real name might be difficult to remember. Also, it’s really great that a band named Girls is actually made up of two guys. Those annoying bits of pretension aside, Album helps Girls make a strong claim for their place in a glutted indie-rock scene.

The record has trappings of Iggy and the Stooges in its grating guitars and guttural vocals, but augments that sound with more inviting percussion arrangements (read: hand claps). Although it has become the trend to spend a lot of effort and money to sound like you’re not trying at all, Girls avoid that affectation and proceed instead with an unassuming authenticity that feels natural and uncalculated.

Album runs the full gamut of emotions, from wistful and forlorn on tracks like “Laura” to the effervescent and ebullient “Summertime,” which has a nice, aimless quality. “Lauren Marie” takes a page out of defunct L.A. rockers Dios Malos’ book, determining the cadence via the vocals and using the instruments as ornamentation. It works. The literal middle track, “Hellhole Ratrace,” is also Album’s center of mass, with a slowly building refrain that is admittedly a bit too long.

But this misjudgment is one of the record’s few.

Some appraisal of Girls must be reserved for their second album; they don’t seem to try too hard and therefore don’t entirely prove themselves either. To be called “promising” might sound like a compromise, but it’s far more than most of the bands creeping out of the MySpace woodwork these days deserve. Girls have surely earned their praise.

—Alex Fankuchen

lack of compassion and corrupted humanity. Bunny is Cave’s Frankenstein monster, culled from radical feminsist Valerie Solanas’ view of men as seen in her S.C.U.M Manifesto. He is a creation that will inspire visceral revulsion—and recognition—in both men and women readers alike.

Set in three-parts, titled “Cocksman,” “Salesman” and “Deadman,” the novel shows Bunny’s swift regression into sexual perversion, drug use and madness in the aftermath of his wife’s suicide. Left with a decaying house and an emotionally abandoned son, Bunny travels through English seaside towns with the intent of selling beauty wares out of his Fiat Punto.

The son in particular is a tragic character and the only individual who sees Bunny in a good light. He finds his dad funny and overlooks his failures as a human being, to his own detriment. It’s one of the few ways in which Cave redeems Bunny, and it allows the reader to identify with the son and empathize with the father.

The problem is, the novel’s plot becomes so muddled

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and confused that it obscures any distinguishable emotional center. Without this, Cave severs the connection between the reader and Bunny, and his attempts to bring father and son closer together fail in producing the intended emotional delivery.

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We open on a wad of crisp Belgian francs being counted at a bank. Our pupils dilate in a Pavlovian trance. Money.

How much is it really worth? A hunger for cash-flow has been cultivated in all of us. But with our hearts in our wallets, what’s left to show love for thy neighbor? These are the questions examined in Lorna’s Silence, the latest awardwinning feature from the Belgian director duo Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne.

Lorna (played by a richly subtle Arta Dobroshi) is an Albanian immigrant who has relocated to Belgium in the humble hopes of setting up a snack shop with her boyfriend. Desperate for cash, Lorna becomes a bargaining chip in a plot to gain Belgian citizenship for a Russian Mafioso.

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As striking as the script is the film’s use of the aesthetic to highlight Lorna’s struggle through a maze of male oppression. The Dardennes choose their hometown of Liege, Belgium as the backdrop for this industrial nightmare, and shoot in a style that draws heavily from their background in documentary.

Intrusive close-ups and the absence of a score force the audience to focus on the piercing performances of the actors. Dobroshi rises to this challenge and does an exceptional job suppressing and burning with the fire that is Lorna, a woman whose passion and preserving nature ultimately outweigh her silence.

As the Bible says, “For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also.”

—Emily Ackerman

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Mika might tell us he is “golden” in his lead track, but if his second album, The Boy Who Knew Too Much, were a color, it would be shimmery yellow.

The infectiously upbeat music seems like it’s on a oneman mission to lift your mood. Its second single, “Blame It on the Girls,” even starts out with a brief monologue that has Mika telling a man down on himself that, “Dude, your perspective on life sucks.”

And when lyrics like, “Life could be simple but you never fail/To complicate it every single time/You could have children and a wife, a perfect little life/But you blow it on a bottle of wine” come across over catchy, handclap beats, Mika proves that a spoonful of sugar really does help the medicine go down.

The album’s strongest tracks are those that continue the dance-friendly sound he cultivated on Life In Cartoon Motion, and fans of this vibe will love “Touches You” and “One Foot Boy.” But Mika isn’t all just fun and games. The Boy Who Knew Too Much shows him trying for a more serious side.

Songs like “I See You” and “Blue Eyes” slow the pace down some, providing a nice breather from the dance party, and tracks like “Pick Up Off the Floor” injects his normally youthful sound with a bit of soul.

Despite these attempts at maturity, Mika continues to be the Peter Pan of pop. And hopefully, he’ll be in no hurry to grow up.

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Senior Josh Bienenfeld, who has played nearly every position on the field for Duke, took part in the Maccabiah Games this summer.

Few people can say that they have represented their country, their heritage and their family on a global scale at any point during their life. But Josh Bienenfeld can claim all three.

This past summer Bienenfeld played for the United States in the 18th Maccabiah Games hosted in Israel. Not only did he develop his skills playing against high-level opponents, but Bienenfeld found a deeper connection with his history and family.

“I guess I didn’t understand the importance of what the Holocaust meant, in terms of the gravity of it, until I was about 14,” Bienenfeld said. “And after taking a class on the Holocaust at Duke, I kept reading and I really started to comprehend the magnitude of it.”

And for the Bienenfeld family, the Holocaust is all the more real. Josh’s paternal grandparents are both Holocaust survivors, and his grandfather spent some of his internment in Auschwitz, the most infamous of all the Nazi concentration camps.

So for Bienenfeld, representing his nation and his family in the Maccabiah Games was an honor and a testament toward his grandfather’s will to survive.

“Going to Israel and actually seeing a Jewish state after what the Jews had been through 70 years ago is just something that you can’t really read about or understand until you’re really there,” Bienenfeld said, Bienenfeld was able to share the experience with his sister, Tracy, who played Division-I soccer at Pennsylvania and also played for the United States in Israel.

“I don’t get to spend much time with my sister, so being able to watch her play was awesome,” Bienenfeld said.

“Getting to hang out with her, touring around Israel, experiencing the same things was amazing. This was the first time I hung out with her in a long time, and probably the See Bienenfeld on page 8

The North Carolina men’s basketball team isn’t the only team in Chapel Hill defending a national championship, and Thursday, Duke gets a shot at the other one.

The Blue Devils take on the No. 1 Tar Heels, the 2008 national champions, tonight at Fetzer Field at 7 p.m. This is the first of many games in Duke’s grueling ACC schedule, as the matchup with the Tar Heels is the first of four straight contests against No. 1 ranked opponents for Duke (4-3-2).

UNC North Carolina is coming off a tie vs. with Auburn Sunday at Koskinen Stadium as part of the Duke/Nike ClasDuke sic, but that might have been its worst performance all season. Led by forTHURSDAY, 7 p.m. ward Jessica McDonald, North CaroFetzer Field, Chapel Hill lina (7-0-1) has rolled through many of its opponents this season. The Tar Heel defense has also performed well—North Carolina has allowed only two goals all season, and those scores came in a blowout win against UCLA over a month ago.

North Carolina will be without two star players, goalie Ashlyn Harris and midfielder Tobin Heath, who are both at U.S. National camp, and forward Nikki Washington, who tore her ACL Friday.

Duke is coming off a 2-2 tie with LSU Sunday. In that game, the Blue Devils allowed two unanswered goals in the second half, but Duke plans to avoid a similar letdown against their local rivals.

“We don’t want that to happen again,” senior KayAnne Gummersall said. “Once we get that lead we want to keep it.

Going into the ACC, if we’re getting a two-goal lead we’re going to have to keep it if we want to succeed.”

To bounce back against the top-ranked Tar Heels, Duke will need to be aggressive in creating scoring chances.

Trouble finishing have plagued the team all season.

In their first nine games, the Blue Devils have taken 203 See W. Soccer on page 8

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Freshman goalkeeper Tara Campbell has played in seven games for Duke, but has yet to face defending champion and No. 1 North Carolina.

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Forward KayAnne Gummersall and Duke take on No. 1 North Carolina Thursday night in Chapel Hill.

W. Soccer from page 7 shots, more than 22 a game. But shots have not always been converted into goals. Against the Tigers, Duke dominated play and outshot LSU 33-10 but could not secure the win.

Though the offense has sometimes struggled, Duke has had solid play in the back four and in net. So far, Duke has only allowed three total goals in the first half, but six in the second half. Head coach Robbie Church emphasized the need to maintain consistency for 90 minutes, especially against a team of North Carolina’s caliber, because even a minor lapse could cost Duke the game.

“You’ve got to play at a very high level

against them,” Church said. “And if not, then they’re going to expose you.”

Duke’s freshman play could be key in tonight’s contest. Defenders Nicole Lipp and Erin Koballa have started all nine games and Maddy Haller has started seven, but none has experienced the type of challenge a trip to Chapel Hill will present.

Starting goalie Tara Campbell, also a freshman, seems up to the challenge.

“I’m just really excited. This is the big game that everyone talks about,” Campbell said. “I think it will be a great atmosphere, a lot of fun and hopefully we can come out with the win.”

Duke has lost 31 of its last 35 matches against North Carolina. The last win came October 9, 2005 in a 2-1 victory.

last chance we will ever get to hang out for a month together.”

The Maccabiah Games were first held in 1932, but were halted in 1938 when Nazism swept through Europe. It wasn’t until 1957 that the Games were established as a quadrennial event.

Now, the Games are the third-largest sporting event in the world.

In 2009, the best Jewish athletes in the world, representing 50 countries, competed in 29 sports ranging from lawn bowling to taekwondo for 10 days under the sweltering Israeli summer sun.

While experiencing his heritage was paramount for Bienenfeld during his trip, he still had to prepare for the competition.

The men’s soccer team trained together for a few weeks before the Games to get back in shape and come together as a team.

“We had two-a-days for the first four days or so, then training once a day until the games started,” Bienenfeld said. “It was a lot of soccer with really skilled coaches and players.”

The men finished in fifth place, despite only suffering one loss to Great Britain.

Although the results were disappointing, they did not take away from Bienenfeld’s pride following the Games.

“It was a privilege to wear the United States colors,” Bienenfeld said. “I worked extremely hard and I was proud—anytime you get to wear your country’s crest it’s a huge honor.”

Since returning, Bienenfeld has exhibited a new level of confidence in his play for Duke this season.

Bienenfeld has anchored the outside midfield position this year, stopping opposing counterattacks and supplying scoring opportunities to the likes of Cole Grossman and Ryan Finley. Bienenfeld has tallied one goal and one assist in the Duke’s six games this season.

Regardless of how the Blue Devils’ season concludes, the senior from Huntingdon Valley, Penn. will always remember his monthlong trip to Israel, where he not only discovered a new sense of history, but realized his potential to lead a young Duke team to success.

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Josh Bienenfeld and his sister, Tracy, represented the United States in the Maccabiah Games this summer.

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UHCSR’s growing pains While the overhaul of the In the months since UHhealth care system has domi- CSR has taken over, many nated headlines in recent students who rely on the Unimonths, Duke is dealing with versity’s health care plan have a health care debate of its been upset by the insurance own. At issue company’s inis the switch to flexibility and editorial UnitedHealthpoor coverage, care StudentResources as when compared to BCBS. the University’s Student For many graduate and Medical Insurance Plan ad- undergraduate students, ministrator.

University health care is the As part of the regular se- most affordable option, and lection process carried out for international students, every three years, UHCSR it is their only choice for was selected in 2008 by the insurance. As such, these Student Health Insurance concerns with UHCSR’s Advisory Committee, which coverage should be taken is composed of students and seriously. administrators.

The root cause of dissatUHCSR replaced Blue isfaction seems to lie not in Cross Blue Shield of North the actual health care UHCCarolina, the health plan SR is providing, but rather in administrator the University administrative glitches and had used for 30 years. miscommunication caused

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In the long term, Duke should strive for continuity in insurance providers. Frequent changeover leads to administrative problems, as evident this past year with the switch to UHCSR. Instead of accepting new bids every three years, it would make sense for the University to negotiate with the current provider to ensure that their bid remains competitive.

Another sensible option in the future would be moving to a partially self-funded

system, like the one in place at Dartmouth College. Under this set-up, students pay directly to the University, and the University is in charge of disbursing claims to doctors and pharmacists. Doing so would allow for greater flexibility and responsiveness in coverage.

But at this point in time, such a plan seems unrealistic. A partially self-funded plan, at first, is a financially risky endeavor. Given the current national economic situation and the state of finances at the University in particular, making such a large upfront investment would not be prudent.

And with the nation embroiled in a debate about changing the health care system as we know it, it would

be ill-advised to invest in any new plan that could be affected by future legislation.

In dealing with this matter, we commend the Graduate and Professional Student Council for bringing to light the health care issues that have plagued students. We also commend the University for proactively addressing these problems.

Relying on GPSC to communicate student complaints, though, is not a sustainable solution. In the future, Student Health should explore further mechanisms that allow students to voice complaints as they arise.

With better communication among UHCSR, students and health care providers, the prognosis for the future could be positive.

The trouble with T-Reqs

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ife is hard for them. Students and faculty call them pointless and unimportant and fake They are the least-loved, the butt of cruel jokes.

The very mention of their name elicits rolled eyes at best, and a scoff at worst. Everyone demeans them; everyone points at them and ha-ha-has right in their face.

Life is hard indeed for the courses that exist solely to fulfill distribution requirements.

We so wish to jordan rice come to their dereal talk fense. We so wish to say that, in the end, they left us wiser than before—better people even. How we wish to say those things! But are we lying to ourselves? Lying to them?

Maybe they deserve better after all they have given to us. Did they not save us from failing physics or chemistry? Were they not there for us in our time of need to stand in and fill a quantitative studies requirement? Did they not provide a safe-haven from arts, literature and performance or from ethical inquiries?

They did all of this for us, and still, we denigrate them, even deny our association with them out of shame.

A friend of mine used to tell his parents that he was off to biology class. This was half-true. It was a class in the biology department, but to call it biology is a slap in the face to those who have endured Bio 118: Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Throughout his semester in the course, my friend did some light reading and completed a single five-page essay. He and his classmates devised a schedule of who could skip class each week in order to send a semi-respectable contingent to sit before the professor (actually it was professors as the majority of weeks there was a guest lecturer). Needless to say, his parents were pleased to learn that he received an A in bio.

This course was an extreme example of the punchline requirement-filler, but its existence illustrates the

trouble with T-Reqs. As Trinity students, we must take classes in all the Areas of Knowledge. Few students, however, are interested in all of the five areas, and many would choose to avoid a particular area or two if given the choice. The result: Areas of Knowledge loophole-courses like the one I described above.

The Trinity College Web site’s stated purpose of the Areas of Knowledge requirement is “to expose Trinity College students to a broad array of course work in a variety of academic disciplines even as they concentrate their focus on the area of their major.” A noble purpose, I think we can agree, for a liberal arts education.

Certainly, there are courses that attract students who simply want to fulfill requirements that are interesting or somewhat academically rigorous. Perhaps some of these courses even excite students to further explore the subject matter. It is for these courses that the distribution requirement exists.

But seasoned ACES-users can find the path of least resistance through the Areas of Knowledge requirement with ease, and who can blame them?

Few are so righteously devoted to the principles of T-Reqs as to suffer through two courses they are not interested in when there is an easy way out in the form of the requirement loophole-course.

Such courses undermine the purpose of the Areas of Knowledge requirement. They are, simply put, a waste of time—not only for students, but for everyone involved in the collective wink between students and faculty that brought them into existence.

On one hand, we are truly thankful these courses are available. No doubt there would be far more complaints about the Areas of Knowledge requirement if they did not exist. On the other hand, they are a farce. Perhaps they are good for a $200 question on Jeopardy! down the road, but that is a big perhaps.

The courses we take to fulfill distribution requirements should pass muster as academically substantive, or we should do away with the requirements altogether. There is no need to participate in an Areas of Knowledge charade.

Jordan Rice is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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nderstand that it is time to become who you are. Accept this, and do not cloak yourself in fear any longer.

The beginning will be rough—it will take you some time to adjust to college life. You will see the parties, and the girls, and the boys, and you will want to hide like you’ve done before—snap out of it.

The first friend you tell will be a girl. She will smile, nod and tell you she has many gay friends back home.

She will make jokes from the very beginning. That night, look at yourself in your mirror. You know what you’ve begun, and there is no going back thomas now. gebremedhin Tell your other friends over the next few weeks: in a cab or at a preword-by-word game. They will drink in your honor.

They will tell you that they’ve always known; that it was “obvious.” Let this pass. You will all smile at one another, at this secret that has been shared. They are pretty girls who have only gotten prettier to you.

Keep them around.

People will start to find out on their own. Some will ask, while others won’t. It will seem like the air you are breathing is cleaner, easier somehow.

The years will roll onwards, and you will find a voice that had been buried for so long, like a bone in dirt. Speak openly and freely about your wants and your needs—you will find that people will relate.

You will come to feel, as time passes, and as people begin to come together, fit together like puzzle pieces, that you are lonely. You will look around and finally begin to see that there are people missing.

When you look at someone, you will no longer expect to see someone like you. They do not exist. You will feel like tumbleweed, drifting through a desert.

Make jokes, and laugh. Nothing is the matter.

You will go to a party and you will meet him. You have seen him before. You have asked about him to others, but they will only tell you that he is not like that. Like you, they mean.

You will catch him staring at you, but he will look away. The music will be loud and the people will be dancing, but as the night progresses, it will all slow down and begin to disappear. He will come up to you and ask your name. He will tell you that he lives here, that this party is actually his. You will tell him you have never seen an apartment quite like this, and he will ask you to his room.

In the morning, you will wake up and he will be there. He will tell you that nobody knows, and nobody will know, right? You will nod.

He will text you and you will go to him, and this will continue for some time. You will begin to recognize something inside you that is familiar, yet you have never known. It may be love. But let it go. You must understand that he is not ready to be honest, and that you are no longer able to lie. Tell him quietly, one night, all of this. He will protest, but you will already be out the door.

You will return to your room, sad. Cheer yourself up—order some Cinelli’s, and let yourself laugh at a classic episode of “The Golden Girls.” Think to yourself: Misery certainly loves company.

You will heal quickly; you are stronger than you know. But something is being forgotten—avoided—something that must be done. Phone your parents one night, when a storm is raging beyond your window—you’ve learned that anything worth doing is done “on a dark and stormy night.” They will be upset and they will yell; try to convince you otherwise. Think to yourself: What would Bette Davis do?

Hang up. Expect 34 missed calls throughout the night. Do not answer a single one.

They will call you back in the morning; tell you that they are sorry and that they love you. Understand that this will take time. Nothing happens over night—except online shipping. Count your blessings; you have it better than most.

At night, as you fall asleep, you will think of many things: of your friends, of your family, of your want. Understand that though things fall apart, they will come together again, as they always do.

Thomas Gebremedhin is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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Keep students behind the scorer’s table

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s one of the self-anointed patriarchs of the non-TV side of Cameron Indoor Stadium, I was surprised to learn that undergraduates would no longer be allowed to sit behind the scorer’s table in Section 19.

In its Sept. 13 press release touting this “enhancement” to the arena, the athletic department said these rows of seating are galen vaisman to be used as “premium seating for guest column sponsors, donors, alumni and prominent guests.” The department even included a pretty picture of said section covered in comfy blue pads, as if to emphasize the fact these VIPs will not have to stand during the game. After all, what place does standing have in Cameron?

Naturally, I assumed I had been grandfathered into this seating under the “donors, alumni and prominent guests” portion of the clause. My glee, however, was short-lived. It turns out a career spent in investment banking and unemployment is not enough to distinguish myself from the standard Duke graduate.

Moreover, I accidentally earmarked my $20.08 class gift to be sent to the ’Dillo Bar instead of the Iron Dukes.

You see, it’s the small things you pick up on when you aren’t knee-deep in the main student section that make the game day experience at Cameron something special. It’s taking a peek over the official scorer’s shoulder at the tiny replay monitor, signaling to the kids across the court in Section 17 that UNC has been upset

by Maryland, and listening to them explode in chants of “Go to Hell Carolina.” It’s the proximity to the post-game handshake that lets you heckle former number-one recruits that spurned Duke, eventually provoking them to look you dead in the eye and tell you to go procreate with yourself.

It’s calling the center court phone during halftime and watching people intently debate whether or not to answer it. It’s cracking a smile when you see Tech Support, the security guard who keeps three Blackberries clipped to his belt at all times. It’s watching plus-sized reporters flop over the press row table like the

climatic scene of Free Willy.

But above all, the non-TV side lets you marvel and appreciate the breadth of Duke fans of all backgrounds who spent more nights sleeping outside to get into a basketball game than Noah did on the Ark. Certainly, the view of the players and action on the court is great, but what makes it unique is the backdrop view of the Crazies decked out in armor, sporting Mohawks, horse manes and hair parts, doing the Rock Lobster in spite of stubby arms, brought together by their love of Duke Basketball. In short, it’s the best of all worlds.

Coach K has spoken about the need to preserve the building that houses his namesake court. But, it’s hard not to notice that with the new video board, blue seats and soon-to-be LED-powered press row, Cameron Indoor Stadium is becoming less Hoosiers and more Madison Square Garden. Although Cameron and MSG both share great history, stepping into Cameron transports you back to a different, simpler era of sport. In short, it has character.

And while change is necessary, replacing your most die-hard fans with visiting celebs, older boosters and the guy who makes the Harris Teeter VIC card, leaves you with an arena that lacks pizzazz. Just look at the moat of empty seats around the field of the new Yankee Stadium if you believe otherwise.

Rather than go state-of-the-art with signage and seating, the athletic department should focus on preserving what matters the most: The environment that is created when students literally surround the entire court, creating a 360-degree nightmare for an opposing team. So how about a trade then? Let the sponsors, donors, alumni and distinguished guests have the back row that the ticketing office has so generously set aside for students’ use in Section 19. They can even provide them with the cushy pads to sit on as they stare at people’s backs for 40 minutes.

In return, let the students keep the hallowed zone directly behind the scorer’s table. Because although our antics were not televised, they were always heard.

Galen Vaisman, Trinity ’08, is a former sports associate editor of The Chronicle.

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freeman from page 3 She added that the Freeman Center now serves as a home away from home for Jewish students.

Rabbi Zalman Bluming of Chabad of Durham and Chapel Hill said the Freeman Center has helped bolster Jewish life and has allowed many to consider Duke as a school rich with Jewish life.

“Coming from the north, it made me feel more comfortable that there was a place for Jewish students on campus,” senior Stephanie Bazell said.

In an effort to extend this feeling of community, the Freeman Center’s Jewish FirstYear Advisory Mentor program expanded to 130 JFAMs this year, who serve in much the same capacity as a regular First-Year Advisory counselor, Gorlick said.

The Freeman Center, however, is more than just a center for the Jewish community, he added.

“Our events are geared toward Jewish students, but open to all,” Gorlick said. “We see a lot of non-Jewish students come and we encourage that because we want their curiosity to be sparked a little bit. It’s really just a center for interaction.”

Simons noted that other on-campus groups use the Freeman Center as well.

Last year, the LGBT Lavender Ball and the Office of Student Affairs and Activities’ student leadership awards where held at the center.

Shabbat dinners on Friday night are also well attended by Jewish and non-Jewish students alike, Gorlick said.

“The Freeman Center has become much more than just a center for religious life, but a center for campus life,” he said.

Chronicle file photo

Freeman Center for Jewish Life celebrates its 10 years serving as the home away from home for Jewish students. The festivities began with observance of the Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah last weekend.

All members of the Duke and Durham communities are cordially invited to the

Founders’ Day Convocation

A Reflection on Duke University’s Heritage Thursday, October 1, 2009

4:00 P.M.

Duke University Chapel

Honoring employees, students, faculty, staff and alumni with an Address by

Joel L. Fleishman Professor of Law and Public Policy and Director, Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center for Ethics, Public Policy and the Professions

and recipient of the University Medal

CLERY from page 1 Larcenies are another prevalent and preventable campus crime, Dailey noted. The Clery Report does not have a category for larcenies, but Dailey said there were 490 as of September 2008 and there have been 426 to date in 2009—including motor vehicle break-ins.

There were 111 car break-ins as of September 2008 and to date there have been 125 in 2009, Dailey said.

Other crimes, however, increased in 2008.

Incidents of aggravated assault rose from three to six incidents, but none involved students, Dailey said.

Reports of illegal use of substances also increased.

The report includes referrals to campus disciplinary authorities and arrests for liquor law violations, drug law violations and illegal weapons possessions. Referrals primarily come from residential and other staff as well as DUPD. The Office of Student Conduct saw 19 more referrals for alcohol law violations in 2008. Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of the Office of Student Conduct, said the increase in referrals is not a large statistical difference from 301 and 294 referrals reported in 2006 and 2007, respectively.

He added that the number of referrals varies year to year with the personalities of the residence staff and how strictly they enforce alcohol policies.

In addition to the 320 referrals, violation of alcohol policy Decrease in number of burresulted in 10 arrests in 2008. glaries and robberies from 72 Sue Wasiolek, dean of stuin 2007 to 53 in 2008 dents and assistant vice president for student affairs, said the increase could reflect greater student responsibility.

“My hope is that what these Increase in number of refer- numbers reflect is also a wider rals for illegal substance use and longer safety net, either with students calling in things or with from 308 in 2007 to 352 in community members making us 2008 aware of their concerns about students drinking too much or using drugs,” she said.

Drug law violation referrals were up from seven to 32, and arrests increased from 17 to 20 from 2007 to 2008.

Like alcohol referrals, increases in drug law violation reporting could be a product of more stringent policy enforcement, said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residence life. Residence Life and Housing Services standardized its policy for drug referrals in the 20082009 academic year, which could have affected 2008 numbers, he said.

Gonzalez said RLHS enforced its existing drug policy more aggressively last academic year and required residence staff to report suspected drug use to DUPD and document incidents to submit to OSC for investigation.

“That was more standardized last year than previous years—so it was more likely than not that a report would have been filed last year than in previous years,” he said.

The increases in alcohol and drug law violation referrals and arrests will not significantly change the University’s approach to those issues on campus, Wasiolek said.

“We will continue to engage in education approaches related to alcohol and drugs,” she said. “I don’t know that we can ever do enough or that we can ever do too much.”

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Ernest Mario Trustee Emeritus

recipient of the University Medal

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Judy Woodruff WC ’68; HON ’98 Trustee Emerita recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award

Mbaye Lo Lecturer in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies recipient of the Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award

Daniel J. Lew Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology recipient of the University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award