January 21, 2010 issue

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2010

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Upgrades 74 DUKE NCSU 88 to Central Pack pounds defenseless Duke take shape

by Scott Rich The chronicle

Mill Village complex to open next month

by Paul Horak The chronicle

The first step toward making Central Campus a better place to live is almost complete.

Next month will see the opening of Mill Village, a place where students can meet to eat, talk and work out. The news project represents an efanalysis fort by University administrators to make Central Campus more appealing to students despite Duke’s tightened purse strings.

“We want to create a uniquely Duke model of residential housing and living with a diverse social scene for casual meetings and greetings with a real student center,” said Steve Nowicki, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education.

Mill Village will be home to a restaurant, recreation center and media center when it opens in February. Uncle Harry’s See central on page 6

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Duke guard Nolan Smith (center) has his shot blocked by N.C. State’s Tracy Smith (far left) late in the second half of the Wolfpack’s dominant performance against the Blue Devils. Smith scored 23 to lead N.C. State to an 88-74 win.

RALEIGH — Three road games, three losses, three courts stormed.

Behind forward Tracy Smith’s 23 points on 10-of-12 shooting, N.C. State (13-6, 2-3 in the ACC) exacerbated Duke’s woes away from Cameron Indoor Stadium Wednesday, upsetting the No. 7 Blue Devils 88-74 in Raleigh.

Dennis Horner added 20 for the Wolfpack, while Kyle Singler, Jon Scheyer and Nolan Smith combined for 61 of the Blue Devils’ 74 points. “[N.C. State was] terrific and we were not very good,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “They had great energy, a great game plan, and looked really fresh.

We didn’t look fresh at all, and we just couldn’t match their energy.”

Despite a slow start, Duke (15-3, 3-2) rallied to within three points at halftime thanks to Nolan Smith’s acrobatic put-back 3-pointer as the period expired. But on the first possession of the second half, Singler fouled N.C. State forward Scott Wood, who was scoreless at the time, on a 3-point attempt.

The ensuing free throws doubled the Wolfpack lead, quickly quashing any Blue Devil momentum.

“We made some mistakes you cannot make in the first couple minutes to let them get free points,” Krzyzewski said.

See Wolfpack on page 11

Volunteers package 50,000 meals for victims in Haiti

by Shaoli Chaudhuri The chronicle

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During the annual MLK Million Meals Service Event, local community members and Duke students pack meals for victims of the earthquake in Haiti. The volunteers packed a total of 50,000 meals Wednesday evening.

Students and Durham volunteers gathered in an effort to make Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream resonate abroad Wednesday night.

The hunger relief organization Stop Hunger Now, along with the Durham Rotary Club, Duke University, North Carolina Central University and Southern High School, sponsored its fifth annual MLK Million Meals Service Event, in which volunteers worked together to package 50,000 meals for the victims of this month’s earthquake in Haiti. Packaging took place at Southern High School from 5 to 9 p.m., with meals consisting of rice, dried vegetables and soy. The event—which is traditionally geared toward preparing packages for disadvantaged individuals and victims of crisis situations—was modified to specifically target those affected by the recent tragedy in Haiti.

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“...In the developing world, when the hospital equipment breaks, there’s no one to call. ”

­—BME Professor Robert Malkin on helping Rwanda technicians. See story page 4

At the event, there were different stations for filling, weighing, sealing and ultimately boxing the dry meal packages. A volunteer rang a gong to signal the group’s progress after the completion of every 1,000 packages.

Terry Brown, Stop Hunger Now program coordinator for Raleigh, said he has never had a problem in recruiting volunteers for the event, and he estimated that 160 volunteers participated this year.

“MLK Day is a day of service and getting people involved at a young age is important,” Brown added.

Amber Whitley, student outreach coordinator for the Duke Center for Civic Engagement-Durham Programs said she was satisfied with the turnout as well. Because of funding constraints and the limited amount of food that could be purchased and packaged, volunteers even had to be turned away, she said.

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“Next year, we hope to have more money to feed even more,” she added.

Whitley also noted that the diverse groups mixed and socialized together.

“You’re not seeing a table of just Duke or NCCU or Southern [High School] students... you see [them] all working together,” she said.

The scene of the meal packaging was “fun and [had] good energy,” said sophomore Allie Yee, a member of the Duke Hunger Alliance.

“It’s just a one-time exciting event thing, so I think that’s the draw,” Yee said.

NCCU freshman, Ashley Rugley, said she was uncertain about volunteering at first, but changed her mind upon arrival.

“It turned out to be really good, really interesting, and it’s so good to help the less fortunate,” she said. “We plan to come every year... before I graduate––and then I’ll have to start my own organization.”

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Terrorist threat continues Health bill pushed ahead to grow more dangerous WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Senate Democrats reconvened Wednesday at the Capitol, they vowed to press ahead toward enacting a health care bill, possibly with a scaled-back package of provisions that could gain Republican support.

But Democrats cautioned that discussion of such plans is just getting underway. “We’re not going to rush into anything,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.).“Remember, the bill we passed in the Senate is good for a year. There are many different things that we can do to move forward on health care, but we’re not making any of those decisions now.”

Scott Brown’s victory in a special election Tuesday “changes the math in the Senate,” Reid conceded. But just as Democrats face new pressures to reach across the aisle, he added, GOP senators must be willing to meet halfway.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The head of the FBI said Wednesday the threat of a terrorist attack against the United States is becoming more worrisome “with each passing day.”

Robert Mueller, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that law enforcement agencies have disrupted several plots in the past year as terrorists “remain determined to strike the United States.”

“As the Christmas Day attempted bombing illustrates, the threats we face are becoming more diverse and more dangerous with each passing day,”Mueller testified. “We not only face threats from al Qaeda, but also from self-directed groups not part of al Qaeda’s formal structure.”

President Barack Obama’s administration admitted mistakes in failing to stop an alleged bomber before he boarded a Christmas Day flight to Detroit.

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistan’s government reached an agreement Wednesday to hand back responsibility for maintaining order in the longtime Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan to tribal leaders after a three-month military offensive.

Elders from the Mehsud tribe, which dominates the area, endorsed a government proposal with a unanimous show of hands at a gathering in Tank, the tribal agency’s winter capital. The two sides plan to sign the agreement Feb. 10.

Mehsud leaders failed to prevent the rise of militancy since the United States invaded neighboring Afghanistan in 2001 and removed the Taliban in that country from power. Thousands of Mehsud men joined the Taliban to form the biggest terrorist threat in Pakistan, killing scores of pro-government elders.

Pakistan hopes that cooperation from the tribes will help quell violence that claimed more than 600 lives in nationwide suicide bombings and gun battles since 28,000 troops launched an offensive in South Waziristan in October. It would also pave the way for an eventual military withdrawal.

“First the government has to completely wipe out the terrorists from the area,” said Syed Alam Mehsud, an independent analyst in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan. “Then the tribes will be willing and able to implement the government’s demands.”

Pakistan has said 80 percent of attacks in its cities were planned by Mehsud Taliban. More than 3,000 people were killed in terrorist attacks in the country last year, according to the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies in Islamabad.

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Tareq (left) and Michaele (right) Salahi call upon their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at a congressional hearing Wednesday. The duo, which appeared uninvited at a White House state dinner Nov. 24, refused to answer a House committee’s questions at the hearing. They have not been charged, but a federal grand jury is probing the couple for possible lies they may have told federal agents in the matter.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2010 | 3

Three football Board to develop local arts, culture players’ trials postponed

annually to the city’s economic activity.

“There was a general awareness that one of our comDurham is taking steps to reboot its cultural image. petitive advantages in Durham was the diversity of our arts The Durham Cultural Advisory Board was created by and cultural offerings, and we wanted to make sure we the City Council at its Jan. 4 meeting. Beginning next were nurturing that,” DCAB chair Josh Parker said. month, it will advise the city administration on public art There are 12 DCAB board members—business leadand ways to use arts and culture to support economic de- ers and people affiliated with arts and cultural organizavelopment in Durham. tions, universities and local government—appointed by This new board is a successor of the Durham Cultural City Council for two-year terms, as well as three student Master Plan Advisory Board, an initiative created in 2005 members appointed by the board itself, although none are that was jointly appointed Duke students. by the Durham County “This is one of the places “The better those organizaBoard of Commissioners that I think our youth can get and the Durham City Countions do, the more people come involved,” Meek said. cil. Last year, the county deThe DCMPAB funded a to downtown. The more people cided to end its support for number of pilot projects, the DCMPAB, and Durham partnerships with local arts come to downtown, the more city officials chose to transiagencies and the expansion people want to eat in restaurants of several festivals in Durham, tion the program into the DCAB, which will adminincluding the Bull Durham or live downtown, and then the ister the remaining funds Blues Festival, the Bimbe Festifrom the DCMPAB. The val and the Festival Latino. The more restaurants there are, the DCMPAB was created only DCAB hopes to continue these more people come” to advise on implementongoing works and carry out ing the Durham Cultural — Josh Parker, the goals of the Master Plan, Master Plan, which the city Parker said. released in 2004 to outline Durham Cultural Advisory Board chair “The Cultural Master Plan goals that the community has given a hand to a lot of sigshould fulfill by 2020. nificant initiatives in Durham,” “I think [DCAB] is a more focused board, because we’ll said Michael Schoenfeld, Duke’s vice president for public be more focused on the city,” Beverly Meek, a board mem- affairs and government relations and a DCAB member. ber and Duke’s arts outreach and communications assis- “Everything happening in Durham in some way has a small tant, said of the transition. connection to what the Cultural Master Plan does.”

The goals of the Master Plan include building on DurParker pointed to the economic impact of the Durham ham’s existing cultural assets, improving arts and cultural Peforming Arts Center, which earned a profit of more than education and using arts and culture to increase commu- $1 million in its first season. nication among people of diverse backgrounds. The plan “The better those organizations do, the more people notes that arts and culture is a significant business sector come to downtown. The more people come to downtown, that could build on tourism and the quality of life in Dur- the more people want to eat in restaurants or live downham. In 2004, the Master Plan estimated that Durham’s cultural organizations and artists add about $103 million See DCAB on page 4

by Jessica Chang The chronicle

The trials of three former football players accused of firing a gun on East Campus were delayed until the end of March.

Lawyers for Freshmen John Drew, Brandon Putnam and Kyle Griswould were granted a delay in Durham County District Court Tuesday, to allow them more time to investigate the incident. The trials will now begin March 25.

Drew and Putnam are represented by James Williams and Griswould is represented by Edward Falcone. Williams has represented former Duke linebacker Michael Tauiliili and was part of the legal team defending Michael Vick when he faced dogfighting charges. Falcone defended a Duke football player accused of assault in 1996.

All three students are charged with discharging a firearm on educational property, a felony. They have been dismissed from the football team and are not allowed on campus until their cases are resolved. The athletes were jailed after being arrested Sunday, but were released on $40,000 bond.

Duke Police said Drew, Putnam and Griswould fired several shots from a car while driving around East Campus early Sunday morning. Police said the men fired the semi-automatic handgun into the air, but it is unclear how many shots were fired.

Duke University Police Department officers heard the gunshots while responding to an unrelated fire alarm in Aycock Residence Hall. They found a car belonging to one of the suspects near Blackwell Residence Hall and later arrested the three men. A fourth individual may also be charged in the incident. Police have not released his name, but have confirmed that he is not a student.

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BME project aids medical technicians in Rwanda

by Carrie Wasterlain The chronicle

A team of Duke students and faculty are aiming to improve the quality of medical equipment in the developing world.

Duke biomedical engineering students and faculty have been working on a curriculum that will teach local technicians in developing countries how to maintain and repair medical instruments. Funded by the General Electric Foundation, the program is expected to be implemented in hospitals in Rwanda by March.

Approximately 90 percent of medical equipment donated to the developing world does not work when it arrives, said Michelle Garst, a program coordinator in the biomedical engineering department.

“The majority of what we are teaching are very simple skills—cleaning a lens on a microscope, for example,” said senior Marian Dickinson, who began working on the project in August. “But even these simple skills require a bit of knowledge in the area, and many of the employees in the developing world haven’t had the training to be able to recognize the problem, or fix it.”

The curriculum will include a set of 107 different skills, each of which can be used to fix a particular piece of equipment.

Robert Malkin, a professor of biomedical engineering who is helping to lead the project, said the finished program will take two years for each trainee to complete, but technicians can begin to make tremendous contributions within several months.

Since reports on donated equipment malfunctions began to emerge ten years ago, Duke biomedical engineering students and professors have been compiling data on repairs done to various pieces of equipment in the developing world.

After gathering more than 3,000 repair reports from approximately 50 hospitals in 15 developing countries, the students began categorizing and analyzing data, breaking it down into individual modules.

But detailing simple skills sets is challenging.

English is the second language in Rwanda, making it difficult to ensure that the modules will be fully understood, said Garst, who has been helping students write out each part of the curriculum.

“Subtle things you don’t think about like choosing words that are easy to look up in a dictionary, and that come up as the first, not the fifth definition, make writing the modules difficult,” Garst said.

Maggie Finch, a senior who is working on the project this semester, said another issue is finding tools that will be available and inexpensive in poorer regions.

The research team hopes to receive funding to implement the curriculum in other developing countries, such as Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa.

“If your printer breaks or your computer doesn’t work you call a technician and he fixes it,” Malkin said. “But in the developing world, when the hospital equipment breaks, there’s no one to call.

This project fills an absolute need and it fills it quickly.” larsa al-omaishi/Chronicle file photo

The Hub, which opened in Fall 2009, was the result of a collaboration between the University and the Durham Cultural Master Plan Advisory Board’s university relations committee. Members of the Durham Cultural Advisory Board, DCMPAB’s successor, hope to continue the partnership to improve local arts and culture.

DCAB from page 3 town, and then the more restaurants there are, the more people come,” he said. “It all kind of feeds off each other.”

In going forward, the board would like to continue to develop its university relations committee, which aims to use arts and culture to engage students at North Carolina Central University, Durham Technical Community College and Duke in their community, Parker said. One of the initial outcomes of this committee was The Hub in the Bryan Center, which allows students to buy reduced price tickets for many Durham events.

“We had a meeting with [Provost Peter Lange], and he said that Durham has some of the most amazing restaurants in the coun-

try. If you look at award winners and features in magazines, we’re very highly regarded in terms of our culinary scene,” Parker said. “I just don’t think Duke students are aware of the diversity or quality of food in Durham, which is directly related to culture. He’s pushing us to find a way that we can better engage students in the restaurant scene.”

Schoenfeld said he would also like to create a deeper connection between Duke and the community in the area of arts and culture.

“Duke students benefit by having this very rich and cultural environment. The more vibrant the arts and culture sector is in Durham, the more opportunities there are for internships, to gain experiences and for performances,” Schoenfeld said.

“Anything that enhances cultural life of the community enhances student life as well.”

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2010 | 5

Remembering the lifelong historian

Big banks raise employee compensation by billions

by Tomoeh Murakami Tse The Washington Post

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Judge Allyson Duncan, Law ’75, speaks at a new exhibit in Perkins Library Wednesday afternoon.

The exhibit celebrates the legacy of John Hope Franklin, the late James B. Duke professor emeritus of history. The exhibit features the works of prominent 20th century black intellectuals.

NEW YORK — Morgan Stanley and Bank of America revealed their 2009 compensation on Wednesday, the latest of the major Wall Street firms to disclose closely watched payouts to employees.

Morgan Stanley said it had earmarked $14.4 billion for compensation expenses, a bulk of which is year-end bonuses. That amount is 31 percent higher than last year, but it translates to a slightly lower average payout per employee, $235,193, because Morgan Stanley added thousands of brokers to its payroll through its Smith Barney joint venture with Citigroup.

Bank of America, meanwhile, said its personnel expenses for 2009 would total $31.5 billion, up from $18.4 billion in the previous year after absorbing traders and bankers from Merrill Lynch at the start of the year. The 2009 figures also reflect the first full year former Countrywide employees have been on the payroll. The average pay per employee was up 45 percent, to $111,125.

The compensation pool disclosures comes after hefty payouts announced by J.P. Morgan Chase last week. On Tuesday, Citigroup released figures showing that it would pay slightly less compensation per employee compared with 2008. As a group, the nation’s largest banks and investment firms are expected to make payouts that would rival pre-crisis levels.

The numbers drew fresh fire from Washington lawmakers eager to address populist

anger ahead of the November mid-term elections. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., who recently introduced a bill to tax Wall Street bonuses and use the funds for small-business lending, said interest in the legislation was up Wednesday.

Morgan Stanley and Bank of America defended the pay plans, noting that a substantially larger portion of bonuses was being meted out in deferred compensation— which would be subject to “clawbacks.”

Morgan Stanley’s compensation pool represents 62 percent of its revenue, the highest in at least a decade. Typically, Wall Street firms have used about 50 percent of revenue to pay employees.

Colm Kelleher, a Morgan Stanley executive who was chief financial officer during 2009, said in an interview that the compensation ratio was higher in part because of a brokerage joint venture it introduced this year with Citigroup. “While I do believe compensation for the industry is inflated, there’s a competitive pressure,” he added.

Spokesman Rob Stickler noted that Bank of America’s compensation expense, as is the case with other firms, includes various items other than bonuses, such as 401(k) contributions and benefits paid to retirees.

“It only stands to be logical that the average compensation would go up at our company because we added an investment bank, a big markets operation and a big wealthmanagement operation from Merrill Lynch, all of which is paid higher than the average in the consumer bank,” he said.

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central from page 1 General Store will also move there. There is currently no place to buy prepared food or work out on Central Campus, forcing students to travel to East or West.

“Now people won’t have to go all the way to West to eat or spend time with friends,” senior Christen Harsha said. “As a senior, it’s coming kind of late, but it’s about time we had something like this.”

Nowicki said he hopes the village will become an active social and study space for all Duke students, not just those on Central.

He also noted how the decision to place selective living groups like Ubuntu and SHARE on Central is a sign of the progress already made toward improving the campus. He added that having SLGs on Central will contribute to further progress.

Once Mill Village is completed, administrators will address other issues affecting Central students, such as safety and transportation.

While Central is generally perceived to be less safe than East and West Campuses, administrators have said that statistically, fewer crimes occur there.

“Statistics aren’t what matter to students and parents,” Nowicki said. “It is the perception of safety that really matters.”

Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said Duke plans to make subtle changes to make Central feel safer. Those changes include recent renovations to many Central Campus buildings, new fencing and street lights and an influx of police officers.

Administrators hope that a safer feel will draw more people to Central. To help them get there, administrators are working on developing more efficient and convenient transportation options as part of the second phase of Central improvement.

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As construction of Mill Village on Central Campus winds down, administrators hope that the space will create a more active social atmosphere on Central.

Currently, the buses that run through Central Campus take a circuitous route traveling from East, through Central and to West.

There are few bicyclists and few walkers.

“Transportation remains the hardest part,” Nowicki said. “I know we’re not connected enough.”

Nowicki said he would like Duke to create a promenade connecting East, West, and Central Campuses to encourage students to walk and bike. He noted that encouraging students to walk and bike is both cost-effective and environmentally friendly.

The promenade would be the “defining feature” of Central Campus, Nowicki said.

He added that other additions could include a larger recreation area and a 24-hour coffee house, something that would mimic The Perk’s popularity on West Campus. “[I’m] most excited about approaching the improvement of resident housing with creativity, and upgrading everything from room interiors to campus landscaping,” Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said. “What we want to do is create the optimal residential experience for people all over campus.”

The current plans to improve Central Campus are a departure from Duke’s original plans to tear down the middle campus and build New Campus in its place.

The financial meltdown forced a rethinking of Central’s place in Duke’s future. Insufficient funds meant plans for New Campus had to be delayed—and that Central Campus needs to serve students for at least another 10 years.

“When the markets crashed we realized that we couldn’t ignore Central anymore,” Trask said. “So we decided that we would work on responding to students’ needs.”

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2010 | 7

Aftershock in Haiti spurs exodus from Port-au-Prince

by Manuel Roig-Franzia, Dana Hedgpeth and Theola Labbe-DeBose The Washington Post

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitians pushed and clawed onto rusty boats and dented buses by the thousands Wednesday, hoping to escape a capital city newly unnerved by the strongest aftershock since the Jan. 12 earthquake.

The death toll now stands at 75,000 and is rising, according to President Rene Preval. A sign that appeared outside an open mass grave at the city’s largest cemetery read: “Please. The hole is filled. It can’t take more bodies.”

Approximately 200,000 people are injured, 1 million are displaced and half the buildings in Port-au-Prince are destroyed, according to the Haitian Directorate for Civic Protection. A new Haitian government estimate says homeless people have congregated in more than 320 fetid encampments across the capital, where pigs and dogs scavenge in the same rotting garbage piles as naked children and their parents.

United Nations officials said an exact toll of the dead and injured may never be known because the powerful earthquake was so widespread and destroyed hospitals and morgues that traditionally track such figures.

The scale of the tragedy has overwhelmed a country illprepared to cope with disaster and outstripped the capacity of international relief agencies, prompting an exodus of poor Haitians who have no guarantee of finding shelter in the villages and cities outside Port-au-Prince.

At a ferry wharf in Port-au-Prince’s Boulva slum, Manie Felix—a 26-year-old mother of three—hoped to travel to Haiti’s Jeremie region with its boundless fruit trees. But she had no money to pay the inflated passage rate, which was equivalent to $15. “I have all these kids. I have no idea what to do,” she said. Felix was asleep at the port when Haiti was shaken by Wednesday’s aftershock, which registered at a magnitude of 5.9 and collapsed buildings in the capital.

Outside the U.S. Embassy, Josue Pierre’s 4-year-old daughter looked up at him when the earth started shaking and said, “Daddy, Daddy, are we going to die?” The tremor made the 33-year-old Haitian American all the more eager to get permission to fly to Boston to meet his wife. “Something else is going to happen here,” he said. “It is just too scary to stay. It is time to go away.”

Rayhold Phanore, a pastor, said he saw a roof collapse on two neighbors. “You think everything is done and then it keeps shaking,” said Phanore, a Haitian American who is hoping to take his 4-year-old daughter to Orlando, where he has family.

Nearby, in the Cite Soleil slum, where authorities say 3,000 people died and 15,000 were injured, police girded for the reemergence of gangs that held sway there before the quake. Police chief Azistude Rosemond returned to work after losing his wife, daughter and parents in the quake. Now he must cope without 17 of his 67 officers and is worried about escapees from a collapsed jail.

“They were in a tough fight before the earthquake,” Lt. Gen. Ken Keen, the top commander of U.S. military forces here, said after touring the slum with Ambassador Kenneth Merten. “The quake is like a kick in the teeth for them.”

The city has seen little violence, despite persistent fears that shortages of food, water and shelter will spark unrest. Still, looting remains a problem. Haitian SWAT teams patrolled the government buildings around the National Palace to keep away looters, said police Cmdr.

Simon Francois.

“The looters are looking for the government safes, computers, anything that works, and even things that don’t,” Francois said. “The people are stressed, and that makes it more difficult for us to protect and serve.”

Many business owners have refused to reopen because they fear being overrun by desperate quake victims. But several banks opened Wednesday; long lines formed and crowds grew agitated, mirroring the emotions after the morning aftershock.

The aftershock’s damage wasn’t limited to Port-auPrince—the United Nations said that an undetermined number of people were injured and that buildings collapsed in Jacmel, a seaside city known for its international film festival. While crews spread across Jacmel and Port-au-Prince to assess damage, the USNS Comfort arrived but stayed far from shore. Navy and Army divers plunged into the waters beneath the capital’s central pier to gauge whether it could withstand cargo and masses of people.

The damaged and sorely inadequate infrastructure is further delaying the arrival of desperately needed relief

supplies, and putting more pressure on Port-au-Prince’s congested airport, which is now handling 100 landings a day—four times the normal rate, according to the United Nations.

The air-traffic control tower was damaged in the initial quake, and there is just one runway to handle dozens of relief agency and military flights from around the world.

“More people wanted to come in here than there’s space, and they wanted to come in quickly,” said U.S. Air Force Col. Ben McMullen, deputy commander for the special operations unit tasked with improving airport operations.

The airport “was running on a first come, first serve” basis initially, he said.

To unload the planes, it was mostly “a bunch of good strong backs,” he said. Since then, more forklifts and loaders have arrived, and the military is now requiring flight plans, hoping that will end the hours-long holding pat-

terns imposed early on. A U.N. official said it is unclear when commercial flights might resume.

The Haitian government has signed an agreement giving the United States formal control of the airport, so U.S. officials have had to referee disputes between relief flights.

On Sunday, a French plane carrying a portable hospital was diverted because the landing space was full.

“Everybody thinks their plane is a priority,” said Maj. Nathan Miller, who helps coordinate air operations. Lionel Isaac, the airport’s director, said that crowding has been a problem and that planes need to do a better job of alerting authorities about cargoes and arrival times. “They don’t do it,” he said. “They just fly in.”

Once the planes are on the tarmac, they are Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adrian Jezierski’s problem. “They tell me the size, and I figure out where to park it,” said Jezierski, who is among those directing planes. “It’s like a jigsaw puzzle.”

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Obama blames Senate loss on middle-class economic pain

by Michael Shear The Washington Post

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama on Wednesday blamed the Democrats’ stunning loss of their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate on his administration’s failure to give voice to the economic frustrations of the middle class, a disconnect that White House aides vowed to quickly address as they continue to work to advance the president’s agenda.

Obama said the relentless pursuit of his domestic policies—and a failure to adequately explain their virtues—had left Americans with a “feeling of remoteness and detachment” from the flurry of government actions in Washington.

“We were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values,” he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

The admission came as the president’s top aides sought to come to terms with political disaster in the aftermath of the Republican Party’s Senate victory in Massachusetts.

The surprise outcome—Republican Scott Brown took the seat of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., in the heavily Democratic state—prompted crowing among GOP leaders and finger-pointing and recrimination among the president’s allies.

“The American people, the people of Massachusetts, last night have rejected the arrogance,” said Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va. “They are tired of being told by Washington how to think and what to do.”

Publicly and privately, aides to the presi-

dent repeatedly stressed that the White House has heard the message from angry voters. But they insisted that they are not backing away from key items on the president’s agenda, including health-care reform, energy and bank regulation.

“That anger is now pointed at us because we’re in charge, rightly so,” press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters. “I don’t believe the president thinks that we should stop fighting for what’s important to the middle class, that we should stop fighting for an economic recovery, that we should stop fighting for what we need to do to create and environment for the private sector to hire.”

As they huddled behind closed doors in the West Wing, Obama’s top aides were glum but undeterred. Several described an atmosphere of resolve not unlike the mood during the toughest moments of the 2008 campaign.

One top adviser insisted that “the White House gets it. We’re not oblivious. We’re not proceeding ahead as if it didn’t happen.”

But the early consensus inside the White House, they said, was to pursue a renewed effort to explain the difficult choices Obama has made. They said the election results will not force a radical rethinking of his agenda and that the White House will attempt to convince Americans that his policies on the economy and jobs will eventually turn things around.

“What the president needs to do is go explain to the people exactly why what has been done is going to get us on a better path for the future,” said former Obama White House communications director Anita Dunn, who still regularly provides advice on communications strategy. “What the president is doing now to create jobs, to build a better economic future—that is

something that contrasts very well with the Republicans’ refusal to do anything.”

The White House had already begun a determined effort to pivot its message to expressions of concern about the economy and jobs as it prepares for congressional midterm elections in November. Tuesday’s defeat made that shift in rhetoric even more urgent.

David Axelrod, the president’s senior adviser, said on MSNBC that the “main thing” coming out of the election results was a reminder that Obama and his party will be judged by whether people feel economically secure in the weeks and months ahead.

“The main thing that we saw in Massachusetts was the same sense of concern on the part of middle-class folks about the economic situation, about their wages being stagnant, about their jobs being lost,” he said. “That’s something that we have to pay a great deal of attention to.”

While some lawmakers and pundits began predicting a full-scale retreat from the president’s health-care reform effort, White House advisers said they were unwilling to accept defeat—yet. Obama’s closest advisers refused to express panic about the issue and vowed to find a way to proceed with some version of health-care reform.

Axelrod called the current health-care system “a real crisis” that is “part of what middle-class people are struggling with.”

Obama “believes we ought to deal with that crisis,” he said. “It’s not an option to simply walk away from a problem that’s only going to get worse.”

The president’s aides were quick to accept some blame for the loss of the Senate seat but also offered a long list of failings by Democratic candidate Martha Coakley and her team, including her decision to vacation

during the campaign and failing to vigorously pursue votes during the final weeks.

White House aides rejected the idea that the Massachusetts election was a referendum on Obama himself. The Democratic candidate was leading by double digits just weeks ago, an indication, they said, that the political environment set by the president was not dragging her down.

But they struggled to explain how a Democratic Party that found such success in 2008 has now lost three consecutive major races, including contests for governor in New Jersey and Virginia last November.

One senior Democratic strategist said that in conversations he had with party leaders, there seemed to be an unwillingness on the part of the White House to acknowledge the party’s new problem with independent voters, who were key to Obama’s victory.

“Democrats on the Hill and in the White House don’t seem to get that independent voters are upset with them,” said the source, who spoke candidly about the president and his team on the condition of anonymity.

Administration officials said the loss of the Massachusetts Senate seat might give upcoming races across the country a jolt, awakening state parties to the perils of fielding weak candidates and giving national Democrats justification to weigh in on problematic campaigns. If there is a silver lining, they said, it is that no Democrats are now unaware of how endangered their power— and their congressional majority—is.

Asked whether Obama was having a bad day, Dunn laughed and asked: “Why? Because he’s only got 59 votes in the Senate?

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the Harlem Renaissance great comes to Chapel Hill

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theSANDBOX. In a mostly unsurprising bit of news, that TV show about the garden state reminding everyone MTV still exists is being turned into a porn flick. Some further research on the topic reveals that Jersey Shore is not online.

Hustler Video (the folks behind Nailin’ Palin) is, in fact, responsible for a full series of TV show-cum-porno parodies. Titles include This Ain’t Happy Days, This Ain’t Saved by the Bell and the forthcoming This Ain’t Glee (a clear example of brand commitment gone awry). Naturally, we had our own ideas at recess: This Ain’t The Wire: If watching the sort-of abject looking Bubbles wasn’t enough to turn America’s HBO-subscribing, David Simon-loving youth away from heroin, one glimpse of the grittiest, porn flick ever will.

This Ain’t The NCAA: The Cameron Crazie version: not that different from the forthcoming Avatar XXX. This Ain’t CSPAN: In which Hustler

starts a gay division to accommodate the transgressions of Larry Craig. Thankfully for Hustler’s legal division, Mark Foley is out of office.

This Ain’t America’s Next Top Model: Tyra BanXXX is waiting by her phone.

This Ain’t Extreme Makeover: To each, his or her own fetish.

This Ain’t Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Proving to Twilight fans once and for all, Joss > Stephanie.

This Ain’t the West Wing I’m guessing Clinton/Lewinsky porn probably exploded and came down from its climax years ago (ed. note: entendre just happens.

I’m not that clever). But just like cassette tapes and Ellen DeGeneres, America’s ready for it again.

This Ain’t Big Love They say large casts are expensive, but expect a top-seller.

Jersey Shore XXX will be released in February 2010. Here’s hoping the Linda Williams essay follows shortly thereafter.

—Andrew Hibbard

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ometimes, I feel like I’ve made my way back across the Atlantic to an alien planet.

I was never more acutely aware of my return to Duke until I strapped on a pair of roller skates and attempted to traverse a rink coated in spilled beer without emptying my own Solo cup. The roller-skating date function is one of those peculiar Duke institutions that mixes highly dangerous activities with funny costumes, and thus ultimately results in pictures you later regret made it on Facebook.

This four-wheeled date function season lasts through the spring semester, peaking during Greek recruitment. This phenomenon can be explained by the correlation between man-flirting and one’s ability to perform cool tricks on wheels, and the result of the natural selection that occurs when anyone combines inebriation with athletic activities.

Themes for these events are usually retro in nature, though retro in this case means, “Dress in a way that would be humiliating in any other context.” I’ve found it’s useful to invest in a single hideous T-shirt for all skating events, ’80s parties, Tailgate and any themed festivities that have the word hoe in the title.

Putting the shirt to use once again and observing the orthopedic nightmare around me, I wondered how this event would be viewed in the eyes of the general, god-fearing public. Most of the words that came to mind were too politically incorrect to be printed in a college newspaper.

There are many other aspects of life on this eccentric collegiate planet that seem to be pulled from an addled mind’s psychedelic ad-

venture. After drunken bro-mantic pair skating comes to an end and the rush season nears its inevitable conclusion, there are some schools where the opposite sex takes center stage and all homoerotic undertones come to a screeching halt. These events involve movement between themed rooms expressed through genres of alcohol. And girls filled with primeval aggression and a proclivity for violence.

Chocolate condiments and power quickly go to people’s heads. Still, you can only shout in the faces of bid-seeking freshmen boys so many times before you’ve awkwardly run out of things to say and just demand they do some push-ups. The search for open-ended questions and ways to fill the time during these events blurs the distinction between this peculiar process and the general strategy of other kinds of recruitment.

The National Organization for Women would likely get their panties in an uncomfortable twist if they ever received word of such an affair. Most of what takes place, however, is no kinkier than what you saw on the Shooters dance floor last night (last time I checked public sex was still illegal).

The show may not be suitable for all audiences, but it just might make it past the censors of ABC Family (though things can get pretty racy on The Secret Life of An American Teenager). Such events are also one of the few venues refusing to pass judgment on displays of female dominance and otherwise unladylike behavior. Empowerment is in the eye of the beholder.

Roller skates and chocolate syrup and make-out sessions between strangers. All beautiful manifestations of an alien culture.

It’s good to be home.

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

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Famed pianist Kuerti to reprise Beethoven works

by Jessie Tang The chronicle

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Reefer reimagines 1936 film

by Sanette Tanaka The chronicle

Complete with campy musical numbers, a host of choral zombies, a suave, strutting Jesus and a mosh pit orgy, Reefer Madness is like a hit of the “leafy green assassin” itself. The show strings together songs at an unyielding pace, resulting in a fast-moving—though sometimes frazzled—parody of the dangers of marijuana.

Reefer Madness is a tongue-in-cheek reincarnation of the 1936 propaganda film designed to scare the American public away from growing drug trends. In the same manner as the film, the show begins with a narrator (senior Aidan Stallworth) warning wide-eyed parents about the drug menace that is quickly “turning our children into hooligans and whores.” He goes on to introduce Jimmy and Mary Lane, a pair of wholesome teens who venture over to the dark side after toking up.

The subsequent events are exaggerated to an absurd degree, resulting in cannibalism, dismemberment and widespread promiscuity.

Even the sobering claims displayed on written boards (“Reefer gets you raped and you won’t care” or “Reefer makes you sell your baby for drug money”) are paraded blithely by a vixenish chorus girl. Add in a mass orgy scene and a guest appearance from the Messiah himself, and we are reminded again and again that the musical ought not be taken seriously.

As comical as the show is, the message does not lean towards a pro-marijuana stance either. Instead, Reefer

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Madness cautions viewers to be wary of propaganda messages and to think for themselves. The original film’s lecturing tone and scare tactics are played up and seamlessly incorporated into the musical, mainly through the narrator’s repeated interjections. Unfortunately, the narrator’s incessant tendency to yank the audience away from the immediate story offers little continuity, further exacerbating an already fragmented storyline.

The energy in the songs helps draw attention away from the singers’ weaker moments. The group numbers are the most enjoyable, especially “Murder!” and “Listen to Jesus, Jimmy.” The former culminates in a ridiculous act of cannibalism and murder, while the latter features a slick Jesus Christ strutting about the stage with his Charlie’s Angels-esque accompaniments. In many of the numbers, the actors admirably utilized the small theater, creating an intimate space that blurred the line between performers and spectators.

Reefer Madness fits well with the splashy culture surrounding recent phenomena like High School Musical and Glee sans the cloying cheeriness. Quirky, infectious and sometimes downright deranged, Reefer Madness promises a few hours of good entertainment without the fleeting hair-pulling thought of, “Might they be serious?”

Trust me, they aren’t.

Reefer Madness will play in Sheafer Lab Theater Jan. 21-24 and 27-31.

Virtuoso Anton Kuerti, the fourth musician to play in Duke Performances’ current Piano Recital Series, will enliven Reynolds Industries Theater Friday with the savory sounds of Beethoven.

Now in its sophomore year, the program brings together some of the most vibrant pianists of our time to showcase music in an approachable and intimate setting.

“Piano recitals are a little of a peculiar thing in classical music,” Director of Duke Performances Aaron Greenwald said. “There is a great tradition in them, and [the performers] get to play whatever they want to play.”

The series is a relaxed way to immerse Anton Kuerti students and the community in the often intimidating realm of classical music, and piano is a popular instrument that most people have been exposed to previously.

Kuerti is someone who has taken the instrument’s practice to another level and is hailed as one of today’s finest interpreters of classical music. He’s released over 25 personal recordings, 10 of which are dedicated to the works of grand master Beethoven.

In contrast to the on-campus ubiquity of artists like Ke$ha and LMFAO, Kuerti believes that people are ultimately searching for something more substantial in their tastes.

“A lot of people, when they get to the end of their 30s, are looking for something that has a little more depth, genuine feeling and intellectual content than pop music,” Kuerti said.

The unusual program chosen for tomorrow’s concert perfectly highlights the caliber and range of Kuerti’s refined skill.

The sonatas, Appassionata and Les Adieus, are two of Beethoven’s most popular pieces. The bookend work, Anton Diabelli’s 33 Variations on a Waltz, is seldom heard but regarded by experts as the composer’s most adventurous and greatest work.

As a mature artist and musician, Kuerti has a long tradition of performing at lesser-known venues and choosing unconventional pieces. Although he may not be the most well-known pianist, Kuerti is one of the finest, surprising audiences with his seasoned but spontaneous interpretations, Greenwald said.

“He has points of view. [He] has written on them and has lectured on them,” Greenwald said. “But it doesn’t mean that when he plays it’s stale. It’s vibrant.”

Anton Kuerti will perform in Reynolds Industries Theater Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30 for the public, $5 for students. Kuerti will also be hosting a master class today in Baldwin Auditorium at 5 p.m. that is free and open to the public.

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Sarah Spencer White’s Spill is a meditation on the human role in technological innovation. Spill is intended to, as White writes, bring to mind ideas of “futility, fragility and dysfunction.” Her creations accomplish just that.

White works with clay, creating ceramic pieces that juxtapose abstract images of the body with forms that reference tools resembling prehistoric technology. Attempting to wed the human element with the mechanical, Spencer references the essential life force that is water in his works. In “Hydropathy,” a series of tubes and spheres are each fitted with perforations that are increasingly larger with each pipe, emphasizing their increasing inability to retain water. In fact, anything could be spilling out of these pieces.

“100 Ways to Spill Water” is the most prominent piece in the exhibit, simply because of its sheer size— 50 objects each spread between the two long walls of the gallery, aligned in rows of 10. This piece also exemplifies White’s own interest in exploring the oddities of the mundane. Some objects conjure up images of household items—a miniature bathtub, a baby rattle, a mortar and pestle—but each is rendered unusable or absurd by small perforations or gaping holes. Other knickknacks have more of an anthropomorphic quality, resembling human feet and mouths.

White’s choice of clay as a medium references earthen material, in turn alluding to humans’ symbiotic relationship with water. It is not obvious why there is spilling, but the artist’s message is clear— that which is spilled is most precious. Spill is particularly relevant in light of the recent earthquake in Haiti. Recognizing the shortage of clean water as one of the main risks to survivors, the artist is donating 15 percent of sales to the relief effort.

— Stefanija Giric

Remember “The Underdog” from Spoon’s 2007 breakthrough LP Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga? How it seemed like an overt metaphor for their whole career, given their previous struggles with Elektra Records and their forthcoming commercial success? How the song opened up one of indie rock’s most respected acts to a whole new audience? There’s nothing like it on their seventh full-length album, Transference, a curious yet satisfying step back into their own catalog.

Transference is Spoon’s first self-produced album, and frontman Britt Daniel makes it clear early on he’s not trying to recreate the feel of its predecessor. Transference won’t climb nearly as high on the charts as Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga— which reached number 10 on the Billboard 200—either. Spoon has always had a certain everyman swagger, but it’s somewhat muted

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here. In every respect, this is the most vulnerable, least assertive Spoon we’ve seen since 1998’s A Series of Sneaks. Daniel is grappling with some of life’s more perplexing questions (“Is Love Forever?”) and conjuring an alternate universe full of uncertainty (“The Mystery Zone”), both a far cry from the strutting, Jagger-esque funk of Gimme Fiction’s “I Turn My Camera On.” He only exerts total confidence on “Written in Reverse,” and even then it serves as a harsh rebuke of a former lover.

At the same time, Daniel actualizes a selfdescribed “uglier” sound—abruptly cutting songs off or dropping vocals from the mix.

For the most part, Transference contains all the elements one expects of a Spoon album (no band is more frequently labeled consistent). But here, they sound grittier, almost desperate. The pop sensibilities of previous efforts are mostly absent, but Transference is nevertheless as evocative an album as Spoon has ever made.

—Ross Green

Spill is on display at Golden Belt’s Room 100 in Building 3 until Feb. 14. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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Beck Hansen has been on a collaboration streak lately, covering albums by such artists as Leonard Cohen and the Velvet Underground with his record club. His latest team-up is with French actress/chanteuse Charlotte Gainsbourg, whose third album, IRM, continues Beck’s long march to indierock omnipresence.

And it is no exaggeration to refer to the album, which he wrote and produced, as his own. Beck provided instrumentation and also duets with Gainsbourg on the lead single, “Heaven Can Wait,” a dreamy piece of Gaulic ’60s pop. Beck seems to be playing Phil Spector to Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Ronnie Spector (minus psychological torture).

The album itself, meanwhile, gives a nod to Nico’s Chelsea Girl and the world of French-pop bohmenianism that Gainsbourg’s father Serge inhabited.

Beck and Gainsbourg acquit them-

selves admirably in most respects. Hansen has done his homework and bends his idiosyncratic style of instrumentation into something more suitable for his muse. On “Master’s Hands” and “Time of the Assassins,” Gainsbourg’s breathy voice masterfully encapsulates the lounge jazz of mid-century Paris.

The album errs too much on the side of style over substance.

It’s slick verging on sterile; although IRM’s atmosphere is pitch-perfect, the arrangement is restrained— Gainsbourg doesn’t have the vocal chops to carry the often inconsequential lyrics. It is only on the lead single, with the singers confident in the material, and on the uncharacteristically adventurous Kraut Rock-inspired title track, that the album satisfies.

The songs ultimately sound sophisticated and crafted but don’t leave an impression. It’s disappointing to have an entry in Starbucks Adult Contemporary, especially when taking into account Gainsbourg’s pedigree and Beck’s track record.

—Asher Brown-Pinsky

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grip guns so black they look like paper cutouts against his white hands. The three black men around him look much less fanatical, more resigned and suspicious, each depicted with hunched shoulders, frowning faces and a lone side-gazing eye.

Silk screen eight provides a welcome reprieve from the intensity, showing vaguely triangular mountains in the comfortingly familiar green and maroon against a sky comprised of cool blues—an emotional rest stop after which the action begins in earnest.

It is jarring to see a battle portrayed in basic shapes, a body bent backwards and rounded over or pikes, and daggers portrayed as mere yellow spikes. A slave owner, half-seated and surrounded by fallen men, appears to be perpetually dying.

One of the strongest silk screens manages to combine that emotional intensity with the earlier, eerie calm. Using those cool shades of blue, Lawrence details fugitive footprints pressed into snow and the hunched back of an escapee plodding out of the right corner of the frame. His figure is piled with brown and green triangles, laid carefully to look like a heavy load. The only bright color in the image is visible in four reserved dashes of red on the snow, a careful trail of blood and evidence of a wounded comrade.

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Jacob Lawrence’s bold use of color and simplified forms characterize his 1977 series of silk screens on famed abolitionist John Brown. The artist’s works are on display at the Ackland Museum through May. Each piece of artwork is captioned with a simple oneline explanation of the story as it moves from belief to action to consequence. The artist faithfully records an important moment in history in a simple, memorable way—revealing Lawrence’s celebration of a controversial hero and ensuring that John Brown’s sacrifices remain vivid and unforgettable.

—Lori Vogt The Legend of John Brown is on display at the Ackland Museum of Art, 101 S. Columbia St., in Chapel Hill through May 9.

Jazz trio brings music into downtown’s new Republic

by Nathan Nye The chronicle

Some things are inextricably tied to Durham. Certainly Duke, maybe baseball and of course tobacco. Modern jazz and live music aren’t generally on the list of things quintessentially Durham, but Eric Hirsh and recently opened bar The Republic are trying to change that.

Tonight, the Eric Hirsh Trio will be playing at The Republic, the latest addition to Durham’s downtown bar scene. Hirsh will be playing with two guests, saxophonist Ariel Alexander and guitarist Jon Bremen.

The show will be focused on modern, mainstream jazz. “[The music] has a postmodern sensibility. It may draw from pop and R&B, but still relies on jazz and swing,” Hirsh said. “The music is raw and intimate. There are no pretensions. It’s just really intense music.”

Hirsh knows what he’s talking about when it comes to music. His parents met at a musical conservatory.

“Music was just a part of my family. It was our culture,” Hirsh said.

He studied music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since graduating, he has lived in Durham where his day job is at Zenph Studios, a musically oriented tech firm.

Hirsh’s passion for music goes far beyond his job though.

In addition to solo performances, Hirsh is involved with Orquesta GarDel, a salsa ensemble, and the Beast, a jazz/ hip-hop collective.

“I think I just feel called to create, specifically through music,” Hirsh said. “Collaborating with other musicians and reaching out to other people and making them feel good is what I love.”

Hirsh is glad to be taking his inspiration to The Republic this week.

“It was a pleasant coincidence,” he said. “They wanted me to do a show with the Beast, but I knew these two friends were going to be in town, and I wanted to do a show with them. I thought it might be a special thing to do.”

The Republic proprietor Ahmed Yarbor hopes that it will be a special event as well.

Yarbor, who has a philosophy background, named the bar after Plato’s famed text. His intentions are egalitarian.

“We wanted to create an environment for the people,” Yarbor said. “We wanted to bring in the elements of furni-

“Collaborating with other musicians and reaching out to other people and making them feel good is what I love.”

— Eric Hirsch ture, design, sports and music to make individuals from different backgrounds feel comfortable.”

The Eric Hirsh Trio’s performance will be the first time that a live music group will play at the bar. Yarbor said he is excited for this performance and that it is something he has been wanting to do at The Republic since its opening in December 2009. With the bar’s mission in mind, the performance will be free.

“After all, it’s for the people,” Yarbor said.

The Eric Hirsh Trio will perform tonight at 9 p.m. at The Republic, 353 W. Main St. The show is free.

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Avatar leads slate of Oscar favorites after Globes

by Charlie McSpadden The chronicle

The Academy is on the brink of being overtaken by the Na’vi.

The Golden Globes, which aired this past Sunday, crowned James Cameron’s Avatar Best Picture and bestowed the selfproclaimed king of the world with Best Director as well. Although the ceremony seldom accurately predicts the Oscars, often choosing celebrity over talent (members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have daintily been nicknamed “starf— ers”), the 3-D epic has surged to the front of the race.

A few months ago, critics and fervent Oscar bloggers hesitantly placed Avatar high on their shortlist for Best Picture. Now, with the Oscar nominees to be announced Feb. 2, it’s nearly impossible to navigate anywhere without being surrounded by Pandora fever. Despite the expansion of the BP race from five to 10 films, the winner, sadly, is virtually determined (Duke alum and Entertainment Weekly Oscar guru Dave Karger agrees, tweeting, “I’m not sure anyone can beat Avatar”).

The only hope of a “human” film upstaging Avatar lies in the Iraq drama The Hurt Locker, directed by, interestingly enough, Cameron’s ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow. The critics’ darling has picked up numerous prizes, but features no bankable names and suffers from lack of exposure. Jason Reitman’s crisp and compelling meditation on today’s economy, Up in the Air, hovers close behind, boasting a relevant narrative and a trio of powerhouse performances. Rounding out the race’s surefire nominees are last year’s Sundance stunner—and in this critic’s opinion, the most powerful film of the year—Precious and Quentin Tarantino’s revenge-giddy Inglourious Basterds.

That makes five worthy films as locks, which brings excitement, but possibly tarnishes the other five slots. Most agree that the academically erotic An Education will slip in, and, if the Academy continues this scholarly trend, so will the Coen brothers’ A Serious Man. The ever-improving sci-fi genre could encroach on the category in the form of the revamped Star Trek or the outstanding South African political allegory District 9. A shoe-in for best animated feature, Up could appear in the top 10, as could Clint Eastwood’s performance-heavy Nelson Mandela drama Invictus. Look for the Academy to steer clear from HFPA favorites The Hangover and Nine, instead— fingers crossed—choosing the refreshing (500) Days of Summer.

The director’s race will mirror the five best picture locks. Bigelow, however, has the chance to beat out her ex. Academy voters might find Cameron’s general arrogance unappealing, or possibly view awarding Bigelow as a way to honor the breakthrough year it was for female directors, including strong works by Lorne Scherfig (An Education) and Jane Campion (Bright Star).

Women represent the last resort for any acting surprise on Oscar night (March 7). With the awards for best actor (Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart), Best Supporting Actress (the breathtaking and unstoppable Mo’Nique in Precious) and Best Supporting Actor (Basterds’ slick and deadly Chritopher Waltz) all but in the hands of their performers, Best Actress is the lone showdown. The heated battle between Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock rose a few degrees when both left with Globes on Sunday. Bullock, who has been riding a serious awards surge for her turn in The Blind Side, has now been pegged as the main competition for the greatest-living-actress. White-hot newcom-

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After Sunday night’s Golden Globes during which Avatar (above) won Best Picture, the slate for the Academy Awards has solidified. In addition to Avatar, The Hurt Locker (below) is expected to snag a few nominations. ers Carey Mulligan and Gabourey Sidibe have taken a backseat. Bullock could either barrel on like similarly middle-Americabeloved Reese Witherspoon did for Walk the Line in 2006 or pay for past flops a la Dreamgirls’ Eddie Murphy in 2007. Remember, Bullock did appear in All About Steve only months ago.

This leaves the writing awards, usually the best indicator of cinematic quality, especially the flexible Original Screenplay category which often sees foreign and indie favorites nominated. Other than Locker, Basterds and Up, look for (500) Days, Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces or recent critics’ favorite The Messenger to slip in. One can only hope Avatar fails to trick the Academy into believing it has narrative originality; we’ve all seen Pochantas Dances with Smurfs & WALL-E.

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Ghosts have been captivating audiences for millennia, from the first page of Hamlet to Patrick, Demi and that pottery wheel.

And who hasn’t dreamed of sticking around to tie up some loose ends? This notion of post-mortem limbo is explored in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones. With a doctorate in CGI and a handful of Oscars to prove it, Jackson seems the perfect choice to navigate the afterlife onscreen. But this time, the Lord of the Rings has bitten off more than he can chew.

Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan)

is on her way home from school when she is brutally murdered by neighbor George Harvey (an eerily unrecognizable Stanley Tucci). Rather than ascending to heaven, Susie remains in a magical purgatory called the “In-Between,” where she watches her parents (Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz) struggle to stay together in the midst of overwhelming loss. On call with the comic relief is Susie’s booze-guzzling grandmother (Susan Sarandon), countering grief with afternoon gin.

While the film begins as a moving story of love, death and family, its characters are soon set aside for the carnival kitsch of the In-Between. In this ephemeral netherworld, viewers are

bombarded with allegorical intercuts that are powerful in their imagery but one-dimensional in purpose. (Mr. Salmon smashes his collection of model ships; Susie witnesses a giant fleet shatter against seaside cliffs. Gag.) As a result, Jackson keeps his audience at arm’s length, smothering the performances of his star-studded cast with gratuitous graphics.

In a closing monologue, Susie finally throws us a lovely bone, breathily explaining that her family’s broken and healing relationships are “the lovely bones that had grown around my absence.” But after 135 minutes of muddled metaphors, purgatory has never looked less appealing.

—Emily Ackerman

Terry Gilliam’s latest film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a phantasmagorical morality tale set in modern-day London, but its prosaic hodgepodge plot is all over the map.

The namesake of the film is the wizardly old Doctor Parnassus (Christopher Plummer), née Gandolf, who, some thousand years prior, made a Faustian bargain with the devilish Mr. Nick (Tom Waits). Centuries later, Parnassus trades his immortality for youth upon meeting his true love (Lily Cole) by promising Mr. Nick his firstborn, Valentina (also played

by Lily Cole), on her sixteenth birthday. Is Gilliam the Girl Talk of fables?

Boozy gambler Parnassus has a fabulous “Imaginarium”—a rickety traveling show he runs with Valentina, sleight-of-hand expert Anton (Andrew Garfield) and the obligatory angry dwarf (Verne Troyer). The show offers passersbys a chance to enter their imaginations via a looking glass, eventually leading them to choose between good and evil. Costume, makeup and set design are dazzling, but fanciful whimsy alone does not preclude a distressingly tedious first act.

At some point, an outsider (Heath Ledger) comes around and kindly brings the less tedious second act with him. Mr. Nick is

bored—who isn’t—and re-propositions Parnassus: first person to win five souls in the Imaginarium keeps Valentina. Fortunately for the motley crew, Ledger’s shady Tony (who, due to the star’s untimely death, will later become Johnny Depp’s, Jude Law’s and Colin Farrell’s Tony in subsequent Imaginarium adventures) knows a thing or two about production value. He glamorizes the outmoded wagon show and relocates for new clientele, and the cash flow begins. Mr. Nick takes note and a riotous race against all time (!) commences.

Imaginarium certainly has, in typical Gilliam fashion, feverishly fantastical worlds and psychedelic visuals. But there were also times when, stuck in that one-note picture show for two hours, I wondered if I wouldn’t be better off with my iTunes visualizer.

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Cutcliffe sets example for coaches, NCAA

by Will Flaherty The chronicle

When news broke late last week that the University of Tennessee had its eyes on Duke’s own David Cutcliffe, the result could have been all too familiar for even the most casual observers of college football.

Here’s the pattern: Head Mercenary Football Coach at School A jumps at a lucrative offer to take over School B’s program. With School A’s recruits Will now wavering just weeks in advance of signing, other programs sweep in like vultures to pick off the best from their recruiting class, and School A is forced to dip lower into the college football food chain to find a replacement—thus sparking the same effect further down the line.

Duke fans were spared a nauseating ride on this coaching tilt-a-whirl when Cutfcliffe announced that he would remain at Duke and turn down the Tennessee position. In announcing his decision, Cutcliffe cited

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David Cutcliffe’s loyalty to his players and coaches, and to Duke, is a rare trait in the world of college athletics.

his strong affinity for the University as well as fierce loyalty to keeping together his assistant coaching staff as the decisive factors in his choice. But throughout Cutcliffe’s interview, it became clear that he also had little desire to abet the growing practice of disruptive college coaching transitions.

Noting that he had just witnessed three parents drop off their sons at Duke as midseason enrollees, Cutcliffe knew that a move to Tennessee would amount to a betrayal of trust that he couldn’t bear to stomach.

“We’ve got guys that have dropped any other recruiting from any other institution long ago How fair is that? I felt a little dirty even thinking about it.”

Cutcliffe only had to look a few hundred miles down I-40 to get an idea of the havoc his departure would wreak on Duke’s program. Before the USC jet had even picked up new coach Lane Kiffin, Tennessee’s coachless recruits quickly looked into Plan B. Further, many of those prep stars were lured to commit to the Trojans under questionable circumstances.

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Men’s basketball

Blue Devil defensive lapses leave upset door wide open

by Laura Keeley The chronicle

RALEIGH — After N.C. State entered the locker room at halftime shooting an unreal 64 percent from the field, it appeared like the Game Wolfpack were to cool down.

Analysis dueThey did– slightly–but not nearly enough.

N.C. State finished the game with a 58.2 percent shooting clip,

and, more importantly, with an 88-74 upset over No. 7 Duke. To pull this off, the Wolfpack took advantage of a rare off night for the Blue Devil defense.

From the opening tip, N.C. State did not play like the team picked to finish last in the ACC in the preseason. Instead, the Wolfpack came out with and sustained an energy that Duke, coming off a 20-point victory against Wake Forest, could not keep up with, and it showed on the defen-

sive side of the ball.

“We could not match their energy,” Krzyzewski said. “Coming off a really tough game, I thought we got rejuvenated, but we did not get rejuvenated enough to match their intensity…. There is a balance you have to have between getting [the team] energized and getting them ready, and I was not able to do that tonight for our team.”

Despite the first-half scoring onslaught by the Wolfpack and lack of answers from the Blue Devil defense, Duke was able to go into intermission down by only three, thanks to a last-second Nolan Smith 3-point shot. However, any hope at a comeback was gone within the first few possessions of the second half.

Junior Kyle Singler started the half by fouling N.C. State’s Scott Wood behind the 3-point line on the freshman’s first shot attempt of the game. Wood responded by making all three foul shots and doubling the Wolfpack’s advantage to six.

On the next possession, Mason Plumlee turned the ball over and committed his third foul of the game, sending him to the bench. Dennis Horner then scored to make it 46-39.

By that point the defensive tone had been set for the second half.

“We made some mistakes you cannot make in the first couple

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Sophomore Miles Plumlee failed to make an impact on either end of the floor Wednesday.

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N.C. State forward Tracy Smith made Duke pay for its lackadaisical interior defense with 23 points Wednesday night. Smith missed only two shots in the Wolfpack’s win.

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Cutcliffe from page 9 But at least those players had the flexibility to consider other programs.

Players already enrolled at UT were effectively trapped, forced to either stay and prove themselves once more to a new coaching staff or sit out a year if they chose to transfer.

Clearly, the biggest losers are the UT players who made commitments to a coach who ultimately showed nary a shred of commitment to them.

Although he wouldn’t address Kiffin’s rocky departure from Rocky Top in specifics, Cutcliffe came out strongly against the prevailing practice in his profession. Laying out a paradigm that valued both adherence to official, on-the-books bylaws and intense respect of more discrete ethical standards, Cutcliffe’s statements and actions sent a message that has often gone unheeded at other institutions.

“There are violations and there are ethics,” Cutcliffe said. “I don’t think either one of them should be crossed, particularly when you have a coaching transition.”

With Kiffin just the latest in a long line of coaches to make quick, tumultuous jumps away from their college programs (look up Petrino, Bobby and Carroll, Pete for two fresh examples), it’s clear that the same moral and ethical fiber embodied in Cutcliffe’s philosophy is missing from most of his coaching brethren. As a result, the ethical standards Cutcliffe touched upon are insufficient as a standalone deterrent to irresponsible behavior by departing coaches.

With coaching “tourism” endemic to college basketball as well, the NCAA needs to respond strongly with a new preventative framework. A great starting response would center around new rules that outlaw disruptive coaching changes in the midst of critical recruiting windows.

Although it’s an unlikely source, European soccer provides a template the NCAA could follow. By establishing a “transfer window” for coaches to switch teams immediately after bowl season or the NCAA tournament—as opposed to midseason or mere weeks before signing day—a new layer of predictability can be added to a coaching transition.

The system could work this way: After the season has been completed, schools have a set period of time—maybe the month of January—to court and hire a head coach away from another school. Teams that don’t abide by the transfer rules and poach a coach away early should be subject to harsh penalties.

By coupling these measures with a change in the recruiting calendar that pushes back National Signing Day to provide sufficient space for teams to finalize coaching changes before the home stretch of the recruiting season, the disruptive effects of a coaching transition can be more effectively mitigated.

The plight of current players left in the lurch during a coaching change must also be addressed. Players already enrolled who wish to transfer must be given greater flexibility to do so without penalty of a year on the sidelines.

These solutions certainly won’t get much support from coaches, who are in no hurry to have an additional restraint placed on their career flexibility. But based on his recent actions, Cutcliffe is one of the few in his profession to buck that trend, just as he did when he chose to stay.

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With UConn gone, ACC looms

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Jasmine Thomas’s 17 points were not enough to keep Duke close against Connecticut, but a similar performance could lead to a win Thursday.

by Alex Krinsky The chronicle

The Blue Devils are looking to rebound from a brutal contest against No. 1 Connecticut as they jump back into conference play against unranked Virginia Tech. No. 6 Duke is hoping to bring its high level of intensity from the Connecticut game to the ACC slate.

Va Tech The highly-touted matchup vs. against the undefeated Huskies was a chance for the Blue No. 6 Devils (15-3, 3-0 in the ACC) to Duke test their skills against the best THURSDAY, 7 p.m. team in the country. It was also Cameron Indoor Stadium a chance for the student body to show its support in Cameron, even in what turned out to be a blowout loss.

“It was really amazing to see how many people came out,” junior Karima Christmas said. “Most of the time we don’t have that many students at our games, but being able to see them come out and support us was a lot of fun.”

Despite outrebounding the Huskies, Duke could not stop their balanced and talented attack, losing by 33 points. Jasmine Thomas pestered the Huskies in the

first half, but her 17 points on the night weren’t enough to overcome Connecticut’s suffocating defense.

Still, the team is thankful for the high-profile contest against Connecticut as it resumes a tough ACC schedule.

“We know how close we came,” Christmas said. “We know what we did wrong and what we should have done at certain points in the game. I think we will grow from that and try to stay focused and get better as a team.”

The contest with the Hokies (11-6, 1-2) marks the the first of 11 straight ACC matchups, and Duke is focused on remaining undefeated in ACC play and capturing the conference championship.

The Blue Devils were relatively satisfied with their play for long stretches against Connecticut, and they are confident that a similar level of performance will yield better results in the upcoming weeks.

“It’s about conference play now,” Christmas said. “You have to have a short memory from the last game and just go out there and try to accomplish your goals.”

The Hokies are near the bottom of the ACC standings, but they are coming off a win at home against No. 10 North Carolina. Christmas said Virginia Tech is excellent in transition and on the defensive side of the ball, holding their opponents to just 57.5 points per game.

Duke will focus on shutting down seniors Utahya Drye and Lindsay Biggs, who lead the Hokies’ offensive attack and average 11.5 and 11.9 points per game, respectively.

“It’s going to be great to get our frustrations out on another team,” Christmas said.

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Karima Christmas has high expectations for the Blue Devils as they resume conference play despite their disappointing home loss Monday.

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defense from page 9 minutes to let them get free points,” Krzyzewski said.

“Probably the first two, three possessions defensively can then determine the outcome of the game. We continued to play defense in the way we did in the first half.”

Part of Duke’s defensive struggles were due to N.C. State’s dominance in the paint on offense. The Wolfpack scored 38 points down low, and by establishing the post game early, were able to open up the rest of the court and move the ball freely. N.C. State combined its offensive firepower with an early press that forced the Blue Devils into sloppy turnovers to keep Duke off balance for the entire game.

“I think any game you play, teams—the first couple minutes—they want to see what the game is going to be like,” senior Jon Scheyer said. “We always want to set the tone for the game and not let the other team get confidence right away.

We just gave them so much confidence, and they should have [had confidence]. They hit everything and they got whatever they wanted. Give them credit, they came out and punched us and we didn’t punch them back.”

The player who punched the hardest was junior Tracy Smith. On his 22nd birthday, the forward scored 23 points with most of them coming in the lane. N.C. State head coach Sidney Lowe said part of Smith’s success came because Duke had to focus on other Wolfpack players.

“They decided they weren’t going to help when Tracy got the ball,” Lowe said. “He was patient and picked his shots well. They focused on Scott [Wood]…. We took advantage of what was available to us.”

N.C. State also took advantage of the RBC Center crowd, as the fans helped their team knock out the Blue Devils by providing the Wolfpack with home court energy. Duke has yet to win a true road game, and junior Nolan Smith noted that the Blue Devils could have benefited from playing this game on their home court instead.

“In the ACC, every road game is tough,” Smith said. “If it is not in Cameron, then we don’t have the Crazies that give us energy. They have their own energy on the road.”

With future defensive efforts like Wednesday night’s, though, it will not matter where the game is played. And Duke will have to find its swagger outside of Cameron if it wants to avoid falling further behind in the tight race to end the season on top of the ACC.

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Wolfpack guard Javier Gonzalez was trapped here, but his clutch 3-pointer put Wednesday’s game beyond the Blue Devils’ reach.

wolfpack from page 1 That error spurred a 15-8 N.C. State run to begin the half, highlighted by two easy baskets for Tracy Smith in the paint that energized a packed RBC Center.

To stem the tide, the Blue Devils turned to the unconventional, switching to their rarely used zone defense in an attempt to prevent the Wolfpack from attacking the basket. The change seemed to energize Duke, as a Brian Zoubek block led to a jump ball and gave the Blue Devils possession.

But turnovers and ill-advised fouls prevented Duke from capitalizing, and a three by Wood, who finished with 10 points, quickly spurred another N.C. State run. An emphatic dunk by Horner concluded the spurt and ballooned the differential to 17 with nine minutes to play.

“We can’t just hope that they’re going to miss,” Scheyer said. “Throughout the whole game… they controlled the pace. They controlled everything.”

And Duke’s defense, the team’s calling card thus far this season, was decimated by the Wolfpack. N.C. State shot a scorching 58.2 percent for the game.

Prior to Wednesday, the Blue Devils had not allowed more than 73 points this season.

“Our defense was the worst it’s been all year. It was never, ever good tonight,” Krzyzewski said. We had to change our attitude on defense and we were never able to do that.”

Despite the defensive struggles, though, the Blue Devils were able to cut the lead to eight with just over four minutes to play. But just as time became a factor late in the contest, Javier Gonzalez was able to drain a long, contested 3-pointer as the shot clock expired to push his team’s lead to an insurmountable 11 points.

Gonzalez emphatically pounded his chest when the shot fell, once again giving the Wolfpack a double-digit lead that they would not relinquish.

“It was time for us to hit one of those,” N.C. State head coach Sidney Lowe said. “When [Gonzalez] hit that shot, because the clock was running down it gave our team a big boost, and the crowd got into it more, and we picked up on defense. That was a big play.”

The game had the looks of a back-and-forth affair early on, as Singler traded baskets with Tracy Smith in the opening minutes and the game was tied at eight with 15:35 to go.

An emphatic, coast-to-coast dunk by Mason Plumlee followed by a Scheyer three gave the Blue Devils a fivepoint lead, but it was their last of the contest. Plumlee proceeded to commit questionable fouls on back-toback Wolfpack possessions, allowing N.C. State to cut the deficit to one.

A subsequent jam for Tracy Smith gave the Wolfpack a lead that would gradually grow thanks to a suffocating press that gave the Blue Devils fits all night.

“I think everything caused us problems. We didn’t control the ball—we didn’t control the ball outside or when they got it inside,” Krzyzewski said. “It is very difficult to win the game when they have that type of freedom. They were strong with the ball.”

Duke’s inability to capitalize on its handful of opportunities to close the gap epitomized the team’s struggles away from Cameron thus far this season.

“There’s not a mental thing,” Scheyer emphasized. “It’s not like we can’t win on the road.”

If that is indeed the case, the Blue Devils will have an opportunity to prove it Saturday at Clemson’s notoriously hostile Littlejohn Coliseum.

But thus far, three stormed courts beg to differ.

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Duke Dining’s dilemma When it comes to on-cam- not quick fixes like “directed pus dining, Duke students choice.” have it made. The Loop, The In discussions with Duke Refectory and Blue Express Student Government leaders are a far cry from the dining and the Duke University Stuhalls found on most college dent Dining Advisory Comcampuses. mittee, administrators have But a dining system driven adamantly pushed for a “diby choice and rected choice” editorial quality comes dining plan at a high price. As a result of in which students would be the University’s two-year-old required to spend a certain contract with Bon Appetit number of food points at Management Company and Bon Appetit-operated dining other losses associated with venues. contracted vendors and the “Directed choice” is a Merchants on Points pro- short-sighted non-solution to gram, Dining Services oper- a complicated problem. Such ates with an annual deficit of a proposal rewards poorly perapproximately $2.2 million. forming vendors with greater The current dining model student spending, reduces any is financially unsustainable incentive for non-contracted and needs to change. In ad- eateries to improve or innodressing this issue, however, vate, and places the brunt of administrators should seek the deficit solely on the backs long-term, fair solutions— of students.

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cluded from meetings, and dining officials have been anything but transparent.

This is not reasonable, nor is it productive.

Students are Duke Dining’s largest constituency and possess the greatest on-the-ground knowledge of how the dining system functions from a consumer perspective. By incorporating more of their input into the process, administrators have a better chance at arriving at a workable solution that addresses the financial issues that plague the University’s dining system.

In the short-term, the University would be wise to consider a variety of strategies—not one cure-all policy—to close the deficit in the next year or two.

A reduction in contracted

vendors’ hours along with a limit on how many food points students can spend on Merchants on Points might help.

Looking to the longterm, more creative, systemic changes are possible.

A restructuring of employee contracts could help bring down costs and improve service. Additionally, eliminating Bon Appetit from the Great Hall and replacing it with contracted vendors is another option, as is scaling back the number of campus eateries.

Changing the dining system won’t be easy, but with collaboration and transparency, it might yield an outcome that both administrators’ pocketbooks and students’ palates can live with.

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More importantly, “directed choice” amounts to little more than a band-aid: it fails to address the underlying causes of Duke Dining’s deficit, including the preponderance of campus eateries, Merchants on Points vendors and excessive contracts.

Thankfully, this idea has lost traction due to vocal opposition from both DSG President Awa Nur and members of DUSDAC. But with “directed choice” essentially dead, the University still has a dining deficit to erase, and realistically, students will have to make some sort of concession. If administrators hope to successfully solve this dining dilemma, they must be frank and honest about the problem they are facing.

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o you feel inspired? Or, maybe you’re not the type to feel inspired, but you have hope. And not long ago, you placed your hope in Hopenhagen.

Maybe like me, you declined to join the Facebook group declaring your allegiance with the environment, but you can remember back to last semester, before the crisis in Haiti, when the world gathered its breath as delegates and dignitaries descended on Copenhagen, Denmark for a momentous liz bloomhardt summit on climate green devil change! If that’s the case, you might also remember that the summit was, well, a bit of a dud on the high expectations scale of environmental change and progress. Sure, some progress was made, but we probably learned most clearly that the problems being tackled at the summit are pretty sticky, and it might take more than a little inspiration and hope to go green and save the planet.

So then, should we, as conscientious, biased participants in our community take an interest in the benefits and risks of going—or not going— green? Oh, and what is “green” anyway?

The questions may be simple to ask, but as we recently saw, they are not so simply answered. Not only are there many forces pulling our opinions in different directions, there are many issues that all fall under this green umbrella. We’re talking about resources like water and trees. We’re talking about energy, from getting it, to using it, to what happens after. We’re talking behavior: how long was your shower this morning? And your commute?

Then, what we’re talking about gets complicated by the context and direction from which we approach. Are we a government responsible for setting regulation, or bartering a treaty? Are we a business marketing ourselves to customers, or profiting from a natural resource? Or perhaps we’re a special interest group bent on saving the Amazon.

So, what’s the world to do? The country? Our state? Never mind all that, what are we going to do, here on campus, at Duke University, home of the Blue Devils. How are we going green?

This is an interesting time to be asking that question. Because, it turns out, we are doing a lot.

Or, are we?

Let’s consider the following:

At the Board of Trustees meeting in October, the Climate Action Plan, or CAP, was approved by the Board. In sum, the CAP aims to have the University campus, not including the Medical Center, reach climate neutrality by 2024. The plan is broad in scope, touching on areas of energy, transportation, offsets, education and communication. The full plan is available for review on Duke’s Sustainability Web site.

Oh, and we have an Office of Sustainability.

That office houses two full-time employees, but don’t let that small number fool you—there are more green staff on campus. For instance, the University has a small, dedicated recycling staff.

There are also volunteers from the faculty, staff and students, who gather to discuss and recommend policy changes.

There are also numerous student groups on campus who are dedicated to green and sustainable issues. Some of these groups are brand new, like the Student Environment Sustainability Committee; some have been around a while, like the undergraduate Environmental Alliance and the graduate Duke University Greening Initiative.

Through these and other groups, students run recycling programs, composting programs, garden programs, energy audits, dorm wars… the list goes on and on.

So it would seem we’re doing great things, that progress is being made. But are we doing enough?

Are we doing the right things? How do we, as a community, feel about any changes in lifestyle, or the compromises we might be asked to make in the future to achieve the goals of being green and sustainable and climate neutral?

There are more of those pesky questions, and they are the reason I have set out on this journey that is a column. Over the course of the semester, I aim to explore the process of bringing our beloved and complex institution toward a sustainable future.

Duke will face some issues; let’s talk about them.

We’ll have to make choices; let’s discuss. Programs will be started, and some will end. Duke will spend some money, and ideally save some too.

Throughout the process, we’ll also learn valuable lessons. Hopefully we will share what we learn with others, because we also have a lot to learn from our neighbors and peers.

I hope you feel inspired, but if not, stick around, and together we’ll find some answers and understanding of what it means to be a Blue Devil in the green age.

Liz Bloomhardt is a third-year graduate student in mechanical engineering. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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Rewind and fast forward

The boy and the e-mail

f you could go back to freshman year, reflect on and articulate their experiences; what would you do differently? indeed, when was the last time you sat In March of 2009, a co-facilitator and down by yourself—perhaps with a journal I stood on the stage in White Lecture Hall and a hot cup of tea—and thought about and posed this exact question to a panel how to be more deliberate in your choices of seven seniors, members of the Class of at Duke, socially and otherwise?

2009. Titled “What I Wish I Knew FreshForums for this type of honest reflecman Year,” this Center for tion are often lacking at Race Relations event gave Duke, but luckily, these conthe panelists a chance to versations don’t have to take speak honestly about their place in the context of strucsocial experiences at Duke tured events. Rather, the best over the past four years. ones are spontaneous and The event’s unspoken occur with people we trust. theme was “TranscendFor example, I spent this ing Boundaries,” a fitting past weekend on a road trip ying-ying lu tagline for the questions with recent graduates, and we threw out: How would fleeting moments asked them what they wish you describe the Duke sothey’d known senior year. cial scene, and what boundaries do you They told me that, separated from the perceive to exist within it? Have you per- communities they cultivated at Duke, whatsonally transcended them? How have your ever insecurities they had in college are gender and your race affected your social magnified in real life. Whether adjusting experiences on campus? to graduate school, to an independent lifeThe seniors shared stories with the un- style in a new city or to a new job, the 20s derclassmen in the audience. They began are a time of limbo and a period in which by collectively acknowledging the existence one must come to terms with oneself. In of very real divisions on campus. As the our society of late marriages and shifting discussion progressed, it became clear that career paths, intimate friendships become each individual had different assessments more important and play a larger role in of how these boundaries had impacted shaping the people we will become. their ability to develop deep and meaningAs seniors, we sometimes feel as if we ful relationships with other Dukies. are supposed to have everything down pat The panelists talked about how some of and be completely comfortable with ourtheir most memorable and cherished so- selves. After all, we have had four years at cial experiences were the result of crossing Duke—plenty of time to figure out all the borders and taking risks in their personal answers. Second semester is all about fun: lives. A gay man spoke openly about his weekly Sati’s hangouts, seniors-only events, sexuality and how it had impacted some off-campus dinner parties and bucket lists. of his male friendships. A white girl in a This weekend reminded me that even sorority raved about having the time of her seniors need mentors. As seniors, we may life at parties hosted by black fraternities. feel more at ease on campus, and are even A faithful Christian revealed his ongoing approached by underclassmen for advice. struggle to live out his beliefs on a someBut that doesn’t mean we no longer times unforgiving campus. The women need advice. We are not done figuring talked about how truly difficult it can be out who we are and what we want in the to be female at Duke. Respected student world. leaders confided that it took years for them to finally feel comfortable socially on Ying-Ying Lu is a Trinity senior. Her colcampus—in the opinion of one girl, “not umn runs every other Thursday. until second semester junior year.”

In giving the above examples, I do not intend to paint a simplistic picture of the identity of the panelists and their experiences across four years. For the purposes of the event, the other event organizers and I had made an intentional effort to create a demographically diverse panel; we also took care to select panelists who were respected within their class and in their individual communities. But in reality, the panelists could have been almost anyone, any upperclassman, and had insightful thoughts to share.

At the beginning of this year, the CRR repeated this event in more intimate settings, and similar themes surfaced: form a community for yourself; don’t be afraid to create strong relationships with upperclassmen; don’t feel as if you have to try to be friends with everyone (indeed, don’t feel as if you have to do everything on campus); and know that your peers are going through similar social struggles as you. One of Duke’s dark secrets is that it sometimes pulls you down more than it lifts you up, but social life at Duke can also be a source of enormous growth and selfdiscovery.

I could tell that the seniors were not just methodically dispensing advice; they were actively reflecting and genuinely wanted to help the freshmen. Several told me afterward that they enjoyed the evening because it allowed them the rare chance to

few months back I noticed a status would capture everything I imagined update pop up on my Facebook him to be. I found one of him standing Mini-Feed. I went to high school next to a friend that I thought would do with the Boy responsible for the up- the job. Pasting the photo into a new date. We were never more than passing message, I wrote only “Left” as he was acquaintances, a nod and smile sort of situated on the left side of the picture. relationship, but I was bored and faintly I addressed it to my two friends… or so nostalgic so I began to I thought. I had correctly peruse his profile. sent it to one girl, but had The Boy had always included him in the mesbeen Hollywood handsage as well. some—blond hair, chisCompletely embareled features—but he rassed, degraded and had matured into somegood-as-dead, I tried to thing even more beautibacktrack. I called everythomas ful. He’d grown his hair one and anyone I had ever out, looked more ruggebremedhin met, looking for some adged, wiser, even—like vice on how I could possiword-by-word he’d learned something bly spin this—the Boy was important. going to get a message Looking through his pictures, I be- from me (someone he hadn’t talked to gan to get a sense that some of his male in years) that included his own photo. friends were gay—maybe it was the eye- Consistently, the advice I got was lie, brows or the hair, but something was lie, LIE. But lies work better in person, certainly getting my attention. And as I found out. then I noticed that his female friends The Boy responded, obviously not seemed a little too comfortable around buying it, but handling the situation him in the photos. I won’t go into de- with a lot of grace, asking me how I tails, but needless to say, I began to get was. We exchanged a few polite back the impression that everyone in the pic- and forths, but I was still scarred with tures was interested in the same thing. humiliation.

After a bit more studying, I discovered Around the same time, I read about that he was in several pro-gay Facebook two married Cornell University employgroups and pages. ees, John and Lisa, who were carrying It seemed I had stumbled upon a on an affair that included a lot of heavy personal fantasy. Yes, this Boy I had breathing and dirty exchanges via ebarely talked to in high school was now mail—it’s important to note that John located in a city more than 2,000 miles and Lisa were both married to DIFFERaway, and yes, to be quite honest, he ENT people. John, a tech consultant at was a bit out of my league, but some- Cornell—and obviously well-suited for how all of this didn’t matter. his job—accidentally cc’ed the entire Excited, I messaged my two Andover business school on a long thread of girl friends with the news, asking them e-mails between him and his mistress, whether they had heard anything over Lisa. Such quotable lines included, the years that might confirm my suspi- “…a bright blue thong. if you want cions. After sending the message, I real- more specifics you;ll have to just see ized they might not even remember who it for yourself.it could be your lunch” the Boy was, or not have access to his [sic] and “…so let’s see you like bats, profile, so I looked through his photos the dark and the idea of tying me up, once more for the perfect picture that kidnapping me and then mercilessly tickle torturing me!”

Obviously Cornell had two undiscovered poets in their midst.

So what does this all mean? In an age where it’s easier to communicate with anyone, anywhere, anytime it seems that the recent expansion in “freedom” is only pushing us further into ourselves. Maybe these technological accidents are more like Freudian slips— our unconscious trying to say and do what we’ve lost the nerve to say and do.

Maybe I wanted to tell the Boy that I thought he was cute, and John and Lisa wanted to be exposed and honest about what they were doing behind closed doors.

It’s easier now than ever to hide— behind computer screens, beyond your cell, and we’ve forgotten what it means to take risks. We’re afraid of getting what we want. With a few keystrokes we create a world for ourselves that is safe and comfortable, where the “what ifs” become reality and where we are the hero and the dragon of risk and possibility has been slayed.

But mistakes are bound to happen, and that fantasy world will always come crashing down sooner or later. So just remember that the hero doesn’t exist.

It’s only ever you and the dragon.

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Thomas Gebremedhin is a Trinity senior.

His column runs every other Thursday.

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