February 18, 2010 issue

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2010

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N.E.R.D will headline UM 74 81 DUKE Cameron Rocks concert Blue Devils nearly get blown over

by Ray Koh

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N.E.R.D. and Kid Cudi will be rocking Cameron Indoor Stadium April 1 at 8 p.m.

Duke University Union’s Major Attractions Committee announced Wednesday that the Cameron Rocks concert will return to Duke after a three-year break with the two big-name hip-hop artists as its headliners.

“We got lucky with artists this year especially because we were working with a short list,” said Major Attractions Director Liz

Turner, a senior. “N.E.R.D and Kid Cudi agreed to perform at reasonable prices.”

N.E.R.D. initially formed as a funk hiphop collaboration between Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo. The band’s first album “In Search Of...” earned gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. N.E.R.D. has toured with Kanye West, opened for Rihanna and worked with Jay-Z. The group’s fourth album “Instant Gratification” is set to be released later this year.

See NERD on RECESS 6

Wait time lengthens after pharmacy closure

by Tullia Rushton THE CHRONICLE

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Senior guard Jon Scheyer’s scoreless first half was one of his worst of the season, but he helped Duke overcome a 12-point halftime deficit to get the win against Miami and improve to 10-2 in ACC play.

Since the Student Health Pharmacy closed exactly two months ago today, students have been filling their prescriptions at the news Outpatient Pharmacy.

The Outpatient analysis Pharmacy, which is located in the Duke Hospital South Clinic two floors above the Student Health Center, is also used by patients at Duke University Hospital. Because the

Outpatient Pharmacy caters to hospital patients as well as Duke students, many students wait longer in line than they used to for prescriptions, said Dr. Bill Purdy, executive director of Student Health.

Purdy said students have complained that the Outpatient Pharmacy is slower to process prescriptions than the old Student Health pharmacy. There are times when prescriptions can be filled quickly, but it depends on the time of day and how crowded See pharmacy on page 5

Study sheds light on birth control

by Shaoli Chaudhuri THE CHRONICLE

What is your preferred form of birth control—pills, condoms or other? And have you experienced an unintended pregnancy in the last 12 months?

Those were two of many health-related questions asked in the most recent National College Health Assessment survey. The survey was sent out to Duke undergraduates in a January 2009 e-mail and had a 23 percent response rate—or 730 respondents.

The Spring 2009 results reported that of the 39 percent of undergraduates who reported having used contraception during their last time having vaginal intercourse, 58 percent used birth control pills—or had partners who did.

Seventy percent reported using a male condom last time they had sex, and about 46 percent said they used both a condom and another contraceptive—such as the birth control pill.

Sarah, a freshman who began taking birth control in her See birth control on page 7

ONTHERECORD

“Marty directs like a lover. Everything is held together by affection for his craft, his actors, his crew, the material and affection for the great journey of cinema in our lives.”

­—Actor Ben Kingsley on director Martin Scorsese. See story RECESS 4

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Study links music, emotion, Page 5

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German residents rush to declare Swiss bank accounts

U.S. airports to implement ‘No Child’ rewrite planned new security procedures WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senior House Republicans and Democrats plan to announce Thursday that they will team up to rewrite the No Child Left Behind education law, a rare show of bipartisanship in the polarized Congress.

Last month, President Barack Obama’s administration launched talks with lawmakers on an overhaul of the 2002 law, which mandated an expansion of standardized testing and established a national framework for school accountability. This month, Obama’s budget proposed eliminating the standard of “adequate yearly progress” for schools to close test-score achievement gaps, a key element of the law.

Many analysts say time is growing short for passage of a major education bill before the midterm elections because Congress is consumed by the economy, health care and financial regulation, among other issues.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Transportation Security Administration will begin randomly swabbing U.S. air travelers’ hands and baggage for explosives at airport checkpoints and boarding areas starting Thursday, the latest increase in aviation security measures following a failed bombing attempt of a jetliner on Christmas, the agency announced.

The expanded use of explosives-tracedetection machines was tried at five airports for 17 days after the failed al-Qaeda attack on Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit, TSA spokesperson Kristin Lee said. In that incident, Nigerian suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried and failed to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear.

Passengers should notice expanded random checks at 450 airports nationwide that will be phased in over a period of weeks starting Thursday, Lee said.

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BERLIN — More than 2,000 German residents have declared their holdings voluntarily after the government said it would buy illicit data on Swiss bank accounts, rushing to escape punishment before a tax-evasion investigation begins.

With 15 of Germany’s 16 states giving figures as of Wedneday, at least 2,025 voluntary tax declarations had been made.

Just four of those states gave the value of holdings, amounting to $300 million.

Officials in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, have yet to give the number of declarations. They plan to do so this week.

“The declarations have surged in huge numbers,” Juergen Tostberg, a spokesperson for the Finance Ministry of Lower Saxony, said. Lower Saxony is processing 273 disclosures, he said.

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gang Schaeuble urged taxpayers Feb. 3 with undeclared money in Swiss accounts to come forward, the day after Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the way for tax authorities to buy the stolen data. Since then, more people have disclosed their holdings than the 1,500 names Handelsblatt reported to be on a CD of stolen account details offered to German authorities.

“I think a lot of people realize their window of opportunity is closing,” Christoph Klamp, a spokesperson for Hamburg finance authority, said. “Time is running out.”

While no date has been set for an investigation to begin, taxpayers who declare voluntarily can potentially avoid punishment if their holdings have not yet come under the government’s probe. If a case of illicit holdings becomes known to finance authorities, it’s too late, Klamp said.

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First lady Michelle Obama (right) enlists the Watkins Hornets, national Pee Wee football champions, as ambassadors for the nationwide “Let’s Move” campaign to decrease the occurrence of childhood obesity. A recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that kids are not as physically active as they used to be. The new campaign was launched last week to encourage children to exercise more.

The Sanford School of Public Policy and the Center for Documentary Studies present

Something More Out of Life A photography exhibit by Gretchen Ferber Artist’s talk and reception Thursday, February 18, 5:30 p.m.

Rubenstein Hall, Room 200 Photographer Gretchen Ferber created portraits of students in the Adult Literacy Program in Boston during her Lewis Hine Fellowship.

Introduction by Alex Harris, director of the Lewis Hine Fellows program. Remarks by Rebecca Shaffer of the Durham Literacy Center.

“What does this picture represent?

Change. Maturity. I’ve come a long way.

Even from this picture.” —Angela

The exhibit is on display at the Sanford School of Public Policy on the first floor of Rubenstein Hall during working hours.

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DUKE STUDENT GOVERNMENT

DSG enacts bill of rights for Duke undergraduates

by Christina Peña THE CHRONICLE

Duke Student Government senators passed a resolution to define the “essential and inalienable rights” of Duke undergraduates Wednesday night.

The resolution has been an ongoing project for the Student Affairs committee over the past year. It aims to provide students with an understanding of where their representatives stand on the rights of every student that should be respected by the University and administrators. The reso-

lution will complement documents that already exist, like the Joint Statement of Rights and Freedoms of Students.

Vice President for Student Affairs Spencer Eldred, a senior, e-mailed the resolution to administrators after the meeting.

The e-mail states that DSG hopes each division of the University that administrators represent would agree with these rights and alter their policies in accordance with the attached principles.

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Junior Gregory Morrison, Duke Student Government executive vice president , discussed the new resolution which defined “essential and inalienable rights” for Duke undergraduates at DSG’s meeting Wednesday night.

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Suspicious man sighted repeatedly on campus

by Samantha Brooks THE CHRONICLE

A suspicious person was reported soliciting money on Central Campus and in the Trinity Heights area near East Campus over the past several weeks.

The man, identified as Kevin Edward Ross, has been reported to adopt the false identity of someone in need of a phone and then attempt to convince students to allow him into their residences, according to a Feb. 9 e-mail sent to Central Campus residents from Terry Lynch, Residence Life and Housing Services assistant dean of staff development and Central Campus. So far, no reports have indicated that Ross has threatened or injured anyone. “[Ross] engages residents in conversation, claiming he is a fellow student or husband of a student with a vehicle problem,” Lynch wrote in the e-mail. “The individual then asks to use a telephone inside the residence. Once inside the home, he asks for money.”

Assistant Chief Gloria Graham of the Duke University Police Department said DUPD approached Ross and notified him that he was not permitted on campus and was therefore trespassing. DUPD has not received any reports of Ross on campus since then.

“He’s not affiliated with campus, and therefore was trespassed,” Graham said.

“As far as right now, I think that we have done just about all that we can as far as letting him know he is not permitted on campus.”

Ross currently has an active warrant

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Kevin Edward Ross was reported for trespassing and obtaining property by false pretenses on Central Campus over the past few weeks. from the Durham Police Department for obtaining property by false pretenses. Obtaining property by false pretense occurs when an individual uses fraud or trickery to obtain property that does not belong to them.

Ross has a criminal history dating back to 1996 for an arrest in Georgia for credit card theft, according to the North Carolina Department of Corrections Web site. Since then he has been charged with crimes including larceny, use and possession of drugs, obtaining property by false pretenses and obstructing justice.

As a precaution, Lynch sent another e-mail Wednesday with the suspect’s mug shot, asking students to contact DUPD if he is sighted again.

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U.N. officials criticize U.S. restrictions on Somalia

by Sudarsan Raghavan The Washington Post

NAIROBI — U.N. officials on Wednesday ratcheted up their criticism of U.S. policy in Somalia, declaring that recent restrictions intended to prevent al-Qaedalinked Somali Islamists from gaining strength are holding up humanitarian aid to some of the world’s most desperate people.

In recent months, the United States has withheld millions of dollars in funding to Somalia, citing concern that some humanitarian aid was being diverted to al-Shabab, an insurgent group that Washington deems a terrorist organization. But on Wednesday, the United Nations’ top humanitarian official for Somalia said that aid groups have seen little evidence of such diversion.

“What we are seeing is a politicization of humanitarian issues,” Mark Bowden told reporters here. “No U.N. agen-

cy has paid any money to al-Shabab.”

Bowden’s criticism of the United States, the largest source of humanitarian aid to Somalia, comes as conditions in the chaotic Horn of Africa nation appear to be worsening. U.N. officials said Wednesday that 100,000 Somalis have fled their homes since January amid an uptick in fighting and reports that the U.S.-backed transitional government is preparing a fresh offensive against the Islamists. Many more are suffering from malnutrition and drought-related food shortages; according to recent U.N. estimates, 42 percent of Somalis require aid.

Somalia has not had a functioning central government since 1991. The transitional government controls a small patch of the capital, Mogadishu. Its survival hinges upon 5,200 African Union peacekeepers deployed to protect the population. But human rights groups have accused the peacekeepers of indiscriminately killing civilians during

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mortar attacks. A.U. officials have denied the accusations.

U.S. officials say they had to stop food assistance to Somalia because contractors operating on behalf of aid agencies were forced to pay “tolls” to al-Shabab to gain access to many areas.

“We do have evidence that these payments can be more than negligible. And if that weren’t the case, we wouldn’t be grappling with this very tough policy issue,” an administration official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe the sensitive situation.

Kiki Ghebo, a top U.N. humanitarian official, said that last year only two-thirds of the $900 million needed for Somalia was raised. “If the U.S. is not a player in Somalia, it leaves a big gap,” Ghebo said.

U.N. aid agencies and other groups that provide humanitarian assistance in Somalia spent months last year in talks with U.S. officials over how to monitor the distribution of aid in the country. Bowden said the United States has asked U.N. agencies to enact impractical measures, which he said could further hinder aid delivery, but he gave no details.

He added that officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development, the government’s humanitarian aid arm, shared the United Nations’ concerns and wanted to resolve the dispute. But the U.S. restrictions appear to stem from higher levels of the administration. Concern about al-Shabab’s activities has grown since the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner allegedly planned by al-Qaeda’s Yemen branch, and many U.S. officials worry about potential links between the Somali group and militants in Yemen.

An investigation by the U.N. World Food Program concluded that there was no evidence that the agency’s Somalia staff had diverted food supplies to al-Shabab fighters, said Peter Smerdon, the agency’s spokesman in Nairobi.

Still, there is evidence that al-Shabab views humanitarian agencies as a potential source of income. The WFP pulled out of areas controlled by the group after commanders demanded huge payments from the agency in exchange for permission to operate.

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“It is to the University’s advantage to not have these rights established,” Eldred said. “They have a great deal of freedom right now. There is no incentive for the University to give students these kinds of rights.... We want administrators to publicly affirm these rights by speaking to the Senate or stating why or why not students should have these rights because they are not currently accountable.”

The resolution approaches student rights from a broader angle, which has not been done before, said freshman Christine Larson, sponsor of the resolution and a student affairs senator. The approach allows for more interpretation that is applicable to more situations, Larson said.

“Administrators are up front about their expectations for students, and students should be up front about their expectations from administrators and the University as well,” said Executive Vice President Gregory Morrison, a junior. “This resolution hopes to move conversations about judicial affairs and student issues forward because they have been stalled for an inordinately long time.”

Larson said there is currently no central location listing students’ rights, and she hopes this single document will be easy for students to reference.

Morrison said he hopes the resolution will be “a foundational document” in conversations about students’ rights at Duke.

“This is the beginning of a renewed pushed to codify and recognize student rights,” Morrison said. “This is reopening the battle and is going to be an incredibly high priority for myself and the current and future members of DSG.” In other business: The Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee, which is now a part of DSG, was allocated funds for the first time. DUSDAC is no longer receiving money from the administration, and it received $1,700 from DSG. Relay for Life, an event sponsored by the American Cancer Society, was allocated $4,627.

Duke Classics Club, Duke Statistics Majors’ Union and Duke Trascendental Meditiation Club gained group recognition status from DSG. In addition, Lasya, a club for classical Indian dance, was granted a charter.

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New study decodes music tones to specific emotions

by Paul Horak THE CHRONICLE

A small man, wearing a suit and tie and hunched over a Steinway and Sons grand piano, started his performance.

Last month, renowned pianist Anton Kuerti came to Duke as part of Duke Performances’ piano recital series.

For three hours, his music took those in the audience on an emotional journey, courtesy of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Anton Kuerti A recent study conducted by Duke neuroscientists found music’s capacity to affect our emotions might be linked to notes’ similarity to vocal tones.

“We were interested in why major [key] music makes people happy and why minor [key] music makes them sad,” said Daniel Bowling, a third-year Ph.D. student in neuroscience and co-author of the paper.

“Why should certain collections of music sound happy and others sad?”

Bowling’s group had 10 native American English speakers record vocal monologues in

both excited, happy tones and sad, subdued ones. The scientists then matched the monologues’ frequencies to those of 7,000 musical pieces. Frequencies of minor tones in the musical pieces corresponded to those of subdued monologues while major tones’ frequencies matched those of excited monologues.

Finding emotions in notes, however, is not restricted to the laboratory.

“Looking at different keys, Eflat has a warm, regal and rich connotation,” said Jonathan Bagg, professor of the practice of music and violist in the Ciompi Quartet.

“C-minor, on the other hand, reflects anxiety, unsettledness and darkness.”

Composers choose the appropriate key for a particular piece, Bagg said. Music performed at a dinner party, where the overall sentiment is one of frivolity, would be in a major key, whereas music performed at a funeral would be in a minor one, he added.

Emotions are channeled not only in notes, but in the instruments that play them, Bagg said.

Instruments take on a distinct character, and can be sorrowful and elegiac or jubilant and celebratory.

“The viola is an introspective

instrument—plaintive, reserved and darker than the violin,” he said. “It is the opposite of the flute, which is showy and more extroverted.”

A singer’s voice—particularly in opera—works to convey feeling like an instrument.

“In the opera, roles are assigned based on a performer’s vocal ability and type,” said Wayne Lail, a lecturer in voice and Baritone who performed in German opera houses for decades. “Sopranos, who reach the highest notes and can fluctuate and flourish vocally, are happy characters who convey warmth.

Tenors, who fall between sopranos and bass in the vocal range, are always youthful lovers—faithful or unfaithful. The bass, who have deep and powerful voices, play villains, kings, high priests and fathers.”

Director of Duke Performances Aaron Greenwald said he strives to bring performers who create intimacy with the audience and ratchet up the emotional intensity of a show.

“I listen to music for the way it makes me feel, and for the emotional places it takes me. On one level, what you want is for music to give you joy and be beautiful— from there you can go places,” Greenwald said.

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After the Student Health Pharmacy shut down two months ago, some students said that they experienced longer wait times at the Outpatient Pharmacy.

pharmacy from page 1 the pharmacy is, he added.

“The Outpatient Pharmacy is like every other pharmacy,” Purdy said. “You’re going to have to wait. We were all spoiled for a while, and students didn’t have to wait that long initially.”

In addition to the extended wait, students have also expressed frustration about the accessibility of the Outpatient Pharmacy.

“The [Outpatient Pharmacy] is also hard to find,” sophomore Destani Bizune said. “Even the woman on the first floor was a little confused. She didn’t know that students started using it. It’s a lot more inconvenient.”

The Outpatient Pharmacy has seen some minor inventory complications during the transition. “[Outpatient Pharmacy Manager Jim Stefanadis] said they had some problems right in the beginning with some refills that didn’t come through,”

Purdy said. “Some second transfers may not be valid, but they got that all straightened out,” Purdy said.

Duke Medicine Office of News and Communications failed to return numerous requests from The Chronicle to speak with Stefanadis, Chief Pharmacy Officer Paul Bush and other Outpatient Pharmacy employees.

“If the number of students increases that go upstairs, I hope they will have a separate line for students,” Purdy said. “We talked about that last Fall, but promised nothing. It depends on the volume.”

Purdy added that in order to cut down on time spent waiting for prescriptions to be filled, students are encouraged to drop off prescriptions if there is a long wait, and come back when they are filled.

“Student Health did not want the pharmacy to close,” Purday said. ”We had to cut back on some of the services. No one is happy about it, but that’s the way it is.”

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Conservative leaders call for return to founders’ principles

by Jerry Markon

The Washington Post

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Some of the nation’s most prominent conservatives gathered Wednesday at a Virginia estate once owned by George Washington and called for a return to the principles of Washington’s time to fight the political battles that lie ahead.

The conservative leaders unveiled and signed the “Mount Vernon Statement,” a manifesto of conservative values that cites the Constitution and “the ideas of the American Founding.” It is modeled after the 1960 Sharon Statement, signed at a meeting hosted by William Buckley Jr. in Sharon, Conn., which helped usher in the modern conservative movement.

The document—produced by the Conservative Action Project, a new group seeking to coordinate the movement—says the nation’s founders created a framework of limited government and “sought to secure national independence, provide for economic opportunity, establish true religious liberty and maintain a flourishing society of republican self-government.

“Each of these founding ideas is presently under sustained attack,” it says, adding that “the federal government today ignores the limits of the Constitution.”

The gathering of more than 100 conservative leaders at the Collingwood Library and Museum was as much a look backward as forward. A costumed George Washington amused the crowd as speakers cited Revolutionary War battles and the Declaration of Independence. Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater were extolled. President Barack Obama was not mentioned; neither was any policy proposal or candidate.

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An actor dressed as George Washington (left) looks on as former U.S. attorney general Edwin Meese (right) signs the Mount Vernon Statement, a declaration that defines the principles of a new conservative movement.

But bubbling under the surface was a satisfaction that the nation’s roiling political climate has left Democrats and perhaps moderate Republicans vulnerable for the 2010 midterm elections. “We are about winning elections,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group. “Conservatives are emboldened, and the movement will coalesce around candidates who reflect the principles of this document.”

The conservatives also held a four-hour private session that included a presentation by Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway. She said that Obama’s approval ratings have declined among all demographic groups outside of African-Americans, and that conservative candidates should “offer solutions, even when blocking the bad stuff,” according to a copy of her presentation.

Even as the movement’s many strands

have been unifying in opposition to Obama’s policies, tensions linger between the conservative establishment in Washington and younger activists. Some questioned whether a meeting of Beltway elder statesmen would accomplish much after a year of “tea party” protests, fiery town-hall meetings and the triumph of Republican candidates in Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey.

“It’s nice to make a statement, but without a strategy to implement these ideas, what does it really accomplish?” said Ned Ryun, president of American Majority, a grass-roots group that has trained nearly 5,000 tea party activists and conservative candidates. Two leaders of Tea Party Patriots, the largest national tea party group, attended Wednesday’s meeting and signed the document.

After the document was posted online for others to sign, the liberal group People for the American Way issued a statement blasting it as “yet another recitation of the same tired dogma we’ve seen for decades.”

“Maybe some day [conservatives] will move beyond the same old anti-government, anti-choice, anti-gay dogma,” said the group’s president, Michael Keegan.

“But not today.”

Organizers said they hoped the document’s principles of limited government and free enterprise would give candidates a framework. “The climate in this country for conservatives is extremely positive,” said Reagan-era attorney general Edwin Meese III, who led Wednesday’s gathering.

He warned that even Republican candidates “who don’t adhere to the constitutional principles in this document will have a very difficult time.”

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birth control from page 1 senior year of high school, noted that from her experience, girls tend to begin birth control not long after they start college. Sarah’s name has been changed to respect her request for anonymity to protect her privacy.

“I don’t know why, but it’s what you do when you go to college,” she said.

The availability of contraception From vending machines to the Lobby Shop to a generous friend, students have a variety of sources to obtain contraceptives from on campus—but one of the largest supplies of condoms exists at Student Health.

Every year, Student Health provides 40,000 male condoms to students free of charge, said Student Health Administrative Director Jean Hanson.

“The condoms are not used as much as they should be,” Hanson said. “We’ve got them out there so people just don’t have to ask…. Some sport teams designate someone to come over and [take] 40 or 50 of them.”

But the primary reason for putting the condoms out in the open is not to prevent unplanned pregnancies, she added.

“They’re more for prevention of [sexually transmitted diseases] than birth control,” Hanson said.

Female students can obtain birth control prescriptions from providers at Student Health after taking what is called a “well woman exam,” Hanson noted. The exam entails a review of the patient’s health history to ensure she is a good candidate for birth control.

Each school year, Student Health receives approximately 1,000 requests for birth control, said Dr. Devdutta Sangvai, director of medical services for Student Health.

The statistics come from data gathered before the Student Health Pharmacy closed last December.

“There’s almost no change year-to-year—every year we see the same number of patients,” Sangvai said. “We can’t say it’s 1,000 new people every year.”

Sangvai and Lindsey Bickers Bock, health education specialist for Student Health, said many freshmen likely start birth control because they want to exert their independence from parental supervision once arriving at college.

“I think the social culture does drive individuals to seek out healthy decision-making,” Sangvai said. “But I would

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say that the majority of the students we see are choosing to go on it because of the decision to [be healthy, and not] because they want to be promiscuous.”

Like male condoms, birth control pills can serve other functions besides contraception—such as treating acne or regulating the menstrual cycle, Sangvai noted.

Sarah, who has not had sex since coming to Duke, echoed Sangvai’s assertion.

“Being on birth control doesn’t mean you’re having sex,” she said. “You can control exactly when your period’s going to come, you’re not surprised.”

The pregnancy scare According to the NCHA survey results, 18.2 percent of sexually active Duke students said they or their partner had used emergency contraception—the morning-after pill, or Plan B—in the previous 12 months. The survey also reported that 2.1 percent of sexually active female students said they had experienced an unplanned pregnancy.

Julia, another freshman on birth control, said she does not find that statistic particularly common. Julia’s name has also been changed to respect her request for anonymity.

“I’m on the pill, yeah, but I also take other precautions,” she said. “I feel like the people who have to [take Plan B] have been unsafe in their practices. I guess taking Plan B is a safer option. That [statistic] is a little surprising.”

In the 2008-2009 school year, 47 people requested Plan B from Student Health, Hanson said.

But this number is not a strong indication of sexual habits at Duke.

“Any numbers procured from Student Health is only what we know,” Hanson said. “There’s a lot more activity than we even know about.”

About 115 to 120 students per year have requested Plan B in the past, she added. The dramatic decrease is likely due to the fact that Plan B was made available over-thecounter to women 18 years or older in 2006.

Sarah said she and some of her friends have had to use Plan B before.

“It’s not fun,” she noted of the experience.

Hanson said Student Health performed 278 pregnancy tests during the 2008-2009 school year. That statistic includes both undergraduate and graduate students, the latter of which, Hanson noted, could be married and hoping for a baby. The test results were not available for release.

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A Spring 2009 survey on Duke undergraduates found that 70 percent used a male condom the last time they had sex, and 46 percent used both a condom and another form of birth control.

For students who experience unplanned pregnancies, the Student Health Web site provides information and advice on a page titled “What if I’m pregnant?”

“There’s not anything that any student has to do at Duke if they determine they’re pregnant,” Bickers Bock said. “If students are looking for... health information– –what should people know, what’s available, we can help them. We also try to provide resources about other places that people might get [counseling] help.… [but] it’s not like they’re required to go to any particular place.

The Web site also gives information on adoption and termination facilities in the Triangle area.

The Ryan Family Planning Clinic, located in Hospital South, is among those listed as an abortion facility on the Student Health Web site. “I can’t think of the last undergraduate I’ve seen here, [though] I’m sure it’s happened,” said Sally Howland, a nurse program coordinator at the clinic.

The final decision on dealing with the pregnancy is up to the student and the student’s family, Bickers Bock said, adding that she does not follow up with the women she counsels unless requested.

“We’re not requiring people to report back about what their decision would be,” she said.

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Afghans greet Marja offensive with anger, hope

by Joshua Partlow The Washington Post

KABUL — Now that Abdul Ahad has lost his mother and father, two brothers, two sisters and four other relatives—all killed, he said, by a U.S. rocket—the young farmer is quietly seething over the U.S. and Afghan military offensive in Helmand province.

“The Marja operation will bring us nothing,” Ahad said from a hospital in southern Afghanistan. “And now I am alone.”

For another Marja resident, the tribal elder Haji Khalifa Mohammad Shah, the outlook could not be more different. He nurtures hopes that his town will be wrested from the Taliban.

“Fighting is not handing out cookies, it’s

gunfire and rockets, and there will be casualties,” he said. “But we are happy about this operation, and it will secure our area.”

The largest joint military operation of the war—involving about 15,000 U.S., NATO and Afghan troops—has elicited a broad range of reactions from local Afghans, who are less concerned about daily updates of road intersections secured than about whether life might look different when the fighting is done. There is anger and skepticism, but also guarded hope.

“The people of Helmand, the majority of them, welcome these kinds of operations, but what they are worried about is the local government after this operation is over. Who will be the local authority? How

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will they treat the people?” said Haji Mohammad Anwar Isakzai, a member of parliament from Helmand province.

The offensive has driven more than 1,200 families from their homes to the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, and fewer than half of them have received any type of government aid, according to the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.

Some have taken refuge in an evacuated school while others have moved in with relatives, or taken shelter in tents despite the bitter cold.

As fighting continues in and around Marja, residents said many people are afraid to venture far from their homes because the ground is seeded with explosives and the Taliban have warned people to stay inside. Afghan military commanders said Wednesday that insurgents were firing from homes, using civilians as human shields.

“The Taliban have banned people from leaving their houses,” said Shah Wali Khan, a tribal elder. Residents say, “ `We want this operation to be finished as soon as possible.

We are in trouble. We don’t have enough food. We need help,” he added.

The fighting has killed at least 15 civilians, according to U.S. and Afghan officials.

Many consider the number of civilian casualties—a concern that President Hamid Karzai has raised repeatedly—as relatively low, given the scope of the offensive.

Ahmad Nader Nadery, a member of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights

Commission, said the U.S. military’s decision to publicize the operation beforehand, giving residents enough time to leave, has helped minimize the civilian toll. He also credited the move to reduce the reliance on air power, which was done to protect noncombatants.

“So far, the promises that were made by both Afghan forces and international troops have been respected and observed in terms of the protection of civilians,” Nadery said. “The prime objective of this entire operation ... is, and should be, helping the population in those areas who are suffering, from lack of a government, oppression of the Taliban.”

The senior U.S. civilian representative in southern Afghanistan, Frank Ruggiero, said Wednesday that the new governor of Marja, Haji Zahir, will be taken to a government building in the “next couple days” to begin his duties.

A team of four U.S. civilians—who are among about 100 foreign civilians working in Helmand—will accompany him to try to set up development projects, including road construction and cash-for-work farming programs. The United States will finance much of the work.

“They’re trying to make it safe enough.

That district center was mined. The Taliban IED’d it,” Ruggiero told reporters in Kabul, referring to the use of improvised explosive devices. “They’re going in there and pulling those IEDs out of the wall.”

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I hover my mouse over the Play button for a few seconds, thinking about my childhood innocence. Play.

“Looking for a random stranger…” At least they’re being honest. “Connected, feel free to talk now” An Asian guy pops on the screen, probably a teenager. I yell nice and loud, “Where are you from?” (Later, I will realize the more pressing question is simply “Where are you?”)

Maryland. We talk about the weather—he had the week off due to snow. Next.

A series of four or five “rejections.”

That is, I was Next-ed after four seconds.

First girl pops up for a second before she hits next. Pretty cute. Next.

First penis. Next.

I begin to realize nothing here is lasting.

No matter what happens in one “encounter,” either of you can hit “Next.”

Second penis. Overhand. Next.

Two women from Liverpool sharing a joint. “Take it easy. You’re cool.”

I’m feeling more comfortable. I finally have the guts to check “Auto Reconnect.” I won’t have a breather between connections.

A couple more penises (different connections). Next.

I wonder what Alfred Kinsey would think of this (more penises). Next.

A sign reads, “Show us your t—s.” Next.

Cam is blacked out. Stranger types: “masturbate.” Next.

A woman, about 25, from Sweden. Tired of yelling, I type, “What do you think of the site?” “many jerks…ure nice.” Next.

The excitement of who you’ll be connected with next is addictive.

Two frat bros. “Hey captain ginger beard.” Next.

I wonder what I’m looking for. Next.

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Although all of us may believe we’re pursuing particular members of the opposite sex during our weekend exploits, the reality is we’re merely chasing orgasms.

The hook-up culture—though a loathsome term that unsystematically generalizes an entire sexual dogma—is nothing if not a doctrine defined by the precedence of carnal pleasure over romantic and emotional connection.

Consequently, the orgasm, representing pleasure at its most satisfying level, is essentially the ends for all our flirtatious means.

Every padded bra, every drop of cologne—all are pawns in the cunning strategy of coming.

Surely critics will suggest the goals of hooking up are complicated by personal insecurity, the desire for a significant other and other objectives you should probably talk over with your therapist. But when we control for these factors in situations of meaningless sex, the orgasm is the ultimate bait.

That said, predators in the collegiate jungle may argue the orgasm has become elusive prey. Globally, 48 percent of sexually active individuals regularly achieve orgasm through sex. The number is brought down by the 32 percent of women who enjoy consistent orgasms, but only a small majority of men—64 percent—habitually end on a climactic note. Although this survey is not limited to collegiate men in their prime, you’d think the older male population would be able to rub one out during one of those four-hour Cialis-induced boners.

Moreover, consider the so-called “whiskey-dick” phenomenon. In the cruelest

irony, booze grants a man the right to use a hard-on while simultaneously reducing his chances of having one. If the inebriated individual is lucky enough to get some wind in his sails, odds are still low he’ll ever make it into port. Many long minutes of exasperating thrusting ultimately conclude with an uncomfortable sigh and a sheepish, “I don’t think it’s going to happen tonight.”

From the female perspective, this syndrome is rather unhealthy for the ego. Accepting alcoholic handicaps is a large pill to swallow. Considering the limited number of female responsibilities in sexual activity, failure is significantly more bruising.

Given the relative elusiveness of the female orgasm, feigning the conclusion can often be tempting. Sobriety or boredom may kick in, but no one wants to end the evening with hurt feelings.

Although most men find “faking it” hurtful in its fraudulence, make-believe orgasms could be prevented if people were more appreciative of the vast differences in male and female orgasm experiences. People have no sense of how their orgasm compares to the orgasm of the opposite sex. I’ve participated in debates that try to resolve the question, “Is it better to have smaller orgasms all the time (like men) or huge orgasms on occasion (like women)?” No matter the answer, people need to stop peer-pressuring the female orgasm out of hiding.

So let’s be honest here. Tonight you want to head out to a bar, put back a few drinks, find a decent-looking girl or guy and come.

It’s both logical and biological. Don’t hate on Darwinism. Enjoy your evening and keep a box of tissues on the nightstand.

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

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‘Big Shots’ amalgamates three collections

by Naureen Khan THE CHRONICLE

Olympic ice skating champion Dorothy Hamill, doe-eyed and with her characteristic chestnut bob, holding up an ice skate.

Iconic fashion designer and Durham native Andre Leon Talley—now editor-atlarge for Vogue—almost unrecognizable in black and white, circa 1980, wearing a Christmas sweater. A youthful Bianca Jagger, bare-shouldered and sporting bright red lipstick, pouting for Andy Warhol’s Big Shot Polaroid camera.

The images on display in the Nasher Museum of Art as part of Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids are a titillating glimpse into the social life of pop art titan Andy Warhol, and the mystique of fame, glamor and celebrity excess of his heyday.

Thirty-seven thousand visitors have passed through the Nasher to see the exhibit between its Nov. 12 opening and Feb. 14, said Wendy Livingston, manager of marketing and communications. It will be on display until Sunday.

At first glance, Big Shots seems to have little to do with thriftiness. But strangely enough, the show—a collaboration between the Nasher, the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro—was born at least in part out of the need to do more with less in lean times. Even the high-brow world of art has been touched by financial concerns.

In 2007, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, in celebration of its 20th anniversary, launched its Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy project, presenting each of 180 colleges and universities around the country with approximately 150 Polaroid photographs and black and white gelatin prints taken by Warhol between 1970 and 1987—including the Nasher, the Ackland and the Weatherspoon.

After receiving the gifts, the curators at all three institutions decided to pool their resources to create the Big Shots exhibit—a move that would allow all three museums to put on a high star-power show from a big-name artist while minimizing costs to each. After its run at the Nasher, Big Shots will travel to Greensboro this summer and

be on display from June 6 to Sept. 19, and will finish off the year in Chapel Hill, from Oct. 2 to Jan. 2.

“We decided the exhibit would be richer and bigger than if we each exhibited our own individually,” said Kimerly Rorschach, director of the Nasher. “The exhibition doesn’t include everything we received, but we picked the most interesting ones that told the most complete story of Warhol’s work.”

Organizers from all three museums agreed that the collaboration adds a depth and breadth to the exhibit that may have been missing if each had only drawn from its own collection.

“It seemed like a natural thing. We had been talking for some time about ways to collaborate,” said Elaine Gustafson, curator of collections at the Weatherspoon. “We’d all received these gifts of Warhol and we were all required to exhibit them as part of the gift agreement.”

The partnership between three academic art institutions, all within an hour of each other, may not have happened had cost-effectiveness not come to the forefront of the curator’s minds.

“We’ve never done that before. Usually we think in terms of marketing. We don’t really feel that we necessarily compete with these other institutions,” Livingston said.

“We feel like they are great art museums and they help to create a good arts scene around the Triangle, but usually we think of collaborating with institutions in completely different markets. But because of the economy, we knew that it would be less expensive to collaborate with these institutions and we’d thought we’d give it a try.”

Indeed, the crunch of economic concerns can be seen in other places in the exhibit—multiple Polaroids are framed together in an effort to save on expenses.

“The economic issues caused us to be more creative in different ways,” said Emily Kass, director of the Ackland. “If the money was flowing and the endowments were booming, we’d be looking farther, to more lavish institutions but all of us have really decided—being so uncertain—to really be cautious and prudent about what we do.”

But the curators involved in organizing the exhibit said financial constraints were a blessing in disguise, allowing the three in-

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Olympic figure skater Dorothy Hamilton is one of the celebrites featured in the Nasher Museum of Art’s exhibition of Warhol Polaroids, which is the collection of three N.C. university museum’s holdings. stitutions to do something they had never In addition, the three institutions are done before, and allowing a North Caro- working to put their own individual spin on lina audience to see the exhibit in three the exhibits. The entrance to the exhibit of different ways. the Nasher iteration, for example, uniquely “[Our recent shows] are superstars of features Warhol’s paintings of the wife and the art world, but this is all original re- three daughters of Raymond Nasher—the search and original presentation,” said museum’s namesake—next to their accomTrevor Schoonmaker, curator for contem- panying Polaroids. porary art at the Nasher and one of the Curators emphasized the value of Big chief organizers of Big Shots. “Instead of Shots lies in its ability to offer insight into just having a huge Picasso painting show the creative process of a superstar artist. Inthat people can see at the MoMA or a show deed, Warhol’s Polaroids served as his prethat is Warhol’s greatest hits—which is also liminary sketches before he turned to the very expensive and difficult to get the loans final product. Most of the Polaroids have for—this enables us to do this in a way never been seen before. that’s new but that’s also now part of our “We’re all teaching institutions, and collection. It allows us to collaborate with it really shows Warhol’s work in progress two other regional museums that we never and how he flows an idea into a final get to collaborate with because they’re so product,” Gustafson said. “It’s an excelclose. So it’s a great opportunity.” lent teaching tool.”

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One of the best actor-director collaborations of today, Martin Scorcese and Leonardo DiCaprio have established a successful filmmaking formula. It’s most impressive, then, watching the powerhouse duo take on narrative and cinematic challenges­—and succeed.

U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) and his newly appointed partner Chuck Aule (the always-reliable Mark Ruffalo) arrive on the isolated Shutter Island, sent to investigate a patient’s inexplicable vanishing from a hospital for the criminally insane. Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley), accompanied by heavy fog and an atmosphere of pervasive anxiety, greets the detectives. He promptly provides guidance toward tracking down the disappeared murderess-of-her-children Rachel (Emily Mortimer).

Hindered by blinding migraines and nightmarish World War II flashbacks, Teddy nevertheless gets straight to work. But with each unveiling of the island’s truths, his perceived reality begins to crumble.

The intertwining of the present mystery on the island, Teddy’s hallucinations and his traumatic past establishes an eerily melodious rythym for the film. The narrative’s unfolding centers on Teddy’s viewpoint, which forces Scorsese to tone down his familiar expansive visual style.

Scorcese ably responds, often employing tight shots that enhance feelings of claustrophobia.

Quick cuts and edits are paired with jarring sound effects, especially during scenes within the asylum and prison walls. Scorcese’s techniques lead to further unease, enveloping the viewer in the recesses of Teddy’s psyche. The ghastly concentration camp scenes in particular highlight the effective work of cinematographer Robert Richardson.

DiCaprio, utilizing his furrowed brow to great effect, convincingly expresses each stage of his character’s psychological deterioration.

He pushes himself to previously uncharted terroritory; these labyrinthine depths would smother The Aviator’s Howard Hughes within seconds. Kingsley bequeaths professionalism and resolute care to Dr. Cawley, capturing his character’s unflinching belief in his patients’ right to therapy. The expertly cast supporting characters buttress the film, especially Michelle Williams as Teddy’s wife who appears in his dreams and visions. She literally and emotionally haunts, crafting a performance imbued with stark vulnerability and stained with almost too-realistic horror.

The few moments of superfluous confusion and slight gimmick barely detract from the captivating, gorgeous filmmaking. This is a nightmarish and elegant study of mental illness, interlaced with memory, emblematic of loss. ­—Charlie McSpadden

One of the most anticipated films of 2010 is Martin Scorsese’s latest Shutter Island. Film Editor Charlie McSpadden spoke with the director and other crew during a visit to New York.

by Charlie McSpadden THE CHRONICLE

NEW YORK — For all involved in the new psychological thriller Shutter Island, the film was, first and foremost, a discovery.

“I didn’t quite know where we would be at any given time,” director Martin Scorsese said. “That doesn’t mean I knew it was going to be a process of discovery.

I had an intimation of that.”

For a man who has become known for having an exact vision of how he frames his films—down to the detailed shot-lists he compiles the night before each production day—lending ambiguity to his process of storytelling denotes an artistic leap of faith, albeit an unexpected one.

“I sort of gave myself to the material along with the actors,” Scorsese said. “It was a process of discovery throughout.”

This unfolding parallels the narrative of the story, which follows Leonardo DiCaprio’s Detective Teddy Daniels as he arrives on Shutter Island to investigate the disappearance of one of the asylum’s criminally insane patients. Teddy’s uncertainty toward what to expect from the assignment mirrored a sentiment Scorsese and DiCaprio expressed as they embarked on their filmmaking journey.

“This process took us to places that there’s no way we could ever have foreseen,” DiCaprio said. “That was the real surprise for both of us making this movie.”

The noirish mystery, set in the McCarthy era, harkens back to older genres, most notably the great detective films of the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s. “[The film] draws a lot on a very long memory of films I’ve seen, books I’ve read and music I’ve listened to over the years,” Scorsese said.

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er’s Laura, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo Tourneur’s Out of the Past for the cast director also cited cinematographer nd writer-producer Val Lewton as key

anxiety and fear present in those films se’s characters. For DiCaprio, unraveling to psychologically challenging depths. ker and darker and more emotionally I think we ever expected,” DiCaprio e reliving trauma.”

DiCaprio researched the history of menatching many documentaries. Shooting ed Massachusetts institution and hiring a ecialized in psychological illness therapy t’s general atmosphere of insanity. he island, accessible only by boat and aximum-security prison for the more ients, is fictional, it’s grounded in innis Lehane based his 2003 novel on a ion in the Boston harbor where his unuring a blizzard in 1978, Lehane visited d island—closed in the 1960s—where ked the author and his brother. alking around the woods, truly thinkple in straitjackets running past us,” he d of stuck with me.” o also penned the novels-turned-films nd Gone Baby Gone, was influenced by c novels” and B-movies like Invasion of ers. Although this disparate pairing of an intentional departure from his preretained his narrative approach. internal novelist,” Lehane said. “My ys about the character’s minds and behere.” r Laeta Kalogridis, who harbors a similar thic, especially the novels of the Bronte he externalizing of the novel demanding. hallenge] to preserve that sense of disrror and that sense of being trapped in

these smaller and smaller and smaller boxes as the story goes on,” she said.

Kalogridis was not the first to attempt an adaptation of the novel. She expressed her gratitude toward Lehane for his ability to detach himself from the adaptation process.

“You do not find the sense of artistic generosity that you get with Dennis,” Kalogridis said. “And you certainly don’t get anything remotely resembling [his] level of trust.”

Once he finds talented artists to adapt his work, Lehane believes this confidence in his collaborators is key.

“I don’t get caught up in any of the specifics as long as the vision’s there,” Lehane said. “I’ve been really lucky at this point.”

Producer Mike Medavoy related a similar fortune in committing Scorsese and DiCaprio to the film, as the duo was the writers’ first choice.

Lehane and Medavoy also expressed wonderment at the incredible cast that came together, which includes Sir Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Jackie Earle Haley and renowned Swedish actor Max von Sydow. Scorsese put his cast’s immense fame and talent to the test.

“This was a brutalizing experience for them, for everybody,” Scorsese said. “But this is the way films are made.”

The demanding performances were worth their weight in pain.

“As an acting exercise, it’s absolutely thrilling,” Kingsley said. “The focus that we had to bring to each other echoed in life, echoed in art.”

Producer Brad Fischer added, “watching Marty work with actors generally is an amazing thing to behold.”

Despite the dark and complex material, Scorsese bound the group together with his trademark passion and care.

“Marty directs like a lover,” Kingsley said. “Everything is held together by affection for his craft, his actors, his crew, the material and affection for the great journey of cinema in our lives.”

Quite a journey indeed.

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Ye s Men Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno have made a name for themselves across the world through their wild stunts highlighting corporate wrongdoing. Part Michael Moore, part Borat with a dash of the United Nations, the Yes

Men have attacked Dow Chemical on the BBC and published a fake New York Times heralding the end of the war in Iraq. Tina Siadak spoke with Bonanno about the Yes Men and their upcoming visit to Duke for a screening of the documentary about their work.

How did you and Andy originally get involved in anti-globalization activism?

We were both originally activists working on a variety of corporate accountability issues. We kept noticing all these instances of injustices that were a result of the policies of the World Trade Organization and felt motivated to address that problem more and more, so we became invested in that issue.

How is The Yes Men Fix the World different from the original film about your work, 2003’s The Yes Men? It builds a lot on what we did in the previous film, but it’s also very different. We look at the effects of the entire system we live in, and we go meet the victims of these tragedies. The Yes Men is more of an observational documentary, while in The Yes Men Fix the World we are more the authors of the film. It’s more playful.

How have your lives changed since the release of the original film?

We’re a lot busier now. But beyond that, a lot is the same.

Nobody recognizes us. We’re not celebrities. We definitely haven’t shifted in our economic class.

Who would you say is your intended audience with your pranks?

I would say we have three different groups of audiences.

One is the audience present at the scene of our pranks.

The other is those people that read our interviews and articles about us. And the third is people who have seen our films. Each audience has their own experience.

What is your favorite forum for performing a prank?

The most interesting is a live news program because we are able to announce a reality, rather than just perform a dark satire. Since it’s live, there’s this immediate reaction that is really exciting. And then this forces the companies to actually have to come out to the public and deny whatever we’ve said.

Have you noticed a shift in American consumer attitudes since the economic crisis?

It’s interesting because I have noticed a shift in attitudes, but not in the way that I would have expected. I would think people would be clamoring for regulations right now, but they’re not.

Instead these CEOs are getting huge bonuses, and they’re just playing us. We’re being robbed blind. Unfortunately, the people’s frustration is being turned on the federal government, but not to protest for corporate accountability.

They’re not asking the right questions.

It seems the people are just protesting the federal government simply to protest. But maybe they just want to see the whole system thrown out, which would mean we have more in common than I thought.

The Yes Men Fix the World will screen in Griffith Film Theater Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. Yes Men Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno and Jennifer Jenkins, director of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law, will discuss the film and their work following the conclusion of the film.

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Dean & Britta score Warhol ‘screen tests’

by Brian Contratto THE CHRONICLE

This Thursday in Reynolds Theater, Andy Warhol’s spirit will be channeled through the modern rock of Dean & Britta, performing music to accompany a showing of the artist’s “Screen Tests.”

Duke Performances is sponsoring 13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol’s “Screen Tests” along with the Nasher Museum of Art. The show is a fitting realization of Warhol’s multimedia exploits and serves as a de facto capstone for Big Shots, the

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Dean & Britta will perform their music made for Andy Warhol’s “screen tests” tonight in Reynolds.

Nasher exhibition of Warhol’s Polaroids that closes Sunday.

Dean & Britta are a band with an achingly melancholic sound that’s been cultivated throughout the last two decades.

Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips played together in the dream-pop group Luna, and Wareham in Galaxie 500 before that.

With the newer Dean & Britta incarnation, the duo has released two acclaimed LPs. The show is titled in accordance with Warhol’s ’60s experimental film projects like “The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys.”

The Andy Warhol Museum and The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust commissioned Wareham and Phillips in 2008 to create musical accompaniments for 13 Screen Tests, which capture Factory-era stars like Lou Reed and Edie Sedgwick in unscripted, silent visual documents averaging three to four minutes in length—Warhol made almost 500 of them in total.

There is no plot or acting in a conventional sense, Wareham explained, which is why the addition of music makes this particular Warhol series more accessible for an audience.

“It’s challenging...difficult to sit the whole way through,” Wareham said. “The addition of music to the screen tests changes them—changes the mood of it.”

The transformation won’t take the form of narration for these otherwise silent films, though.

“You can’t start writing lyrics about what’s happening,” Wareham said. “That See dean & britta on page 7

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Over the years, Cameron Indoor Stadium has seen artists such as Death Cab for Cutie and Franz Ferdinand. The most recent Cameron Rocks, which took place in 2007, featured performances by T.I. and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

Turner said DUU has tried to plan Cameron Rocks every year but has encountered obstacles in the process.

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“Cameron Rocks is very expensive and it’s hard to set a date for it because we have to work with athletics to get the venue,” Turner added. “It’s also hard to get high-caliber artists—they’re often out of our price range or touring somewhere else.”

Taking potential roadblocks into consideration, DUU began working on Cameron Rocks earlier than usual, said DUU President Zach Perret, a senior.

“We started looking at artists for the Cameron Rocks mid-way last semester,” Perret said.

For the venue, the DUU Major Attractions Committee started talking with the athletics department last summer, Turner said.

She added that the committee has worked the whole year to make the budget and venue possible because Cameron Rocks was something DUU wanted to revive.

“Our biggest goal is to not go into debt while making [the concert] as cheap as possible for students,” Turner said. “We are doing this for the student body, so it’s highly unlikely that we will make profit.”

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Beyu Caffe adds shot of caffeine to downtown

by Claire Finch THE CHRONICLE

When Duke alumnus Dorian Bolden graduated in 2002 with aspirations of Wall Street, the last thing he saw himself doing was heading back to Durham to open a restaurant. But after eight years, a brief career in finance, a personal tragedy and a marriage, he’s back as the founder and manager of the newly opened Beyu Caffe— much to the Bull City’s benefit.

The overall feel of the place—the atmosphere, the music, the food—is comfort, plain and simple. Not anything overhwelmingly exceptional, but successful nonetheless in its ability to make you feel like you’ve stumbled into your second living room. As a combination coffeeshop, restaurant, bar and music venue, the general decor and set-up, characterized by ubiquitous wood paneling, softly modern lighting and the occasional leather chair, reflects a remarkable versatility. Beyu seems equally natural during the day, when the place is packed with caffeinated professional-types hunkered over their laptops, as at night, when the after-work crowd clusters around the bar, enjoying the frequent live music offerings.

In keeping with the ambiance, the dinner fare is consistently satisfying, if lacking in the palette-pleasing flare characteristic of nearby Durham culinary haunts. You go to Beyu for the experience, of which the food is merely a part. The best things on the menu are the simplest: the celery soup features a blend of spices and tang which nicely offsets the cream, while a mushroom pizette is a fresh and fulfilling take on the traditional pizza, but pleasantly lighter due to its flatbread base.

The savory crepes are less attention-worthy.

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Beyu Caffe, opened by Duke alum Dorian Bolden, Trinity ’02, brings a mix of baked goods, lunch and dinner fare and drinks to the downtown Durham bar scene. But its biggest sell is its variety of coffee beverages. stuffed with decidedly non-fresh shrimp— remains its caffeinated offerings. The vegetable or chicken filling would probably high-quality and full-flavored coffee will have been the better choice—and smoth- please the most discriminating bean ered in a formidable alfredo-like sauce that fiends, particularly when served in an leaves one feeling more ill than full. individual French press. The Mexican “Fresh vegetables” come, counterintui- Caffe, a well-excecuted blend of coffee, tively, fried in a light batter. The still-ap- spices and chocolate, would be an ideal parent flavor of the individual vegetables start to any morning—high praise comdo make the dish ideal bar food, though, ing from someone who rarely makes it particularly as Beyu serves food until 11 out of bed before noon. p.m. Paired with a Brooklyn Lager, one of Overall, Beyu Caffe is a welcome addithe cafe’s proffered draught beers, the un- tion to the main Durham drag, adding a healthy-seeming treat becomes particularly relaxed and unassuming hangout to Main decadent.

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dean & britta from page 6 always feels intrusive—too direct. This is a little more poetic. They are more oblique references.”

Director of Duke Performances Aaron Greenwald described the process of soundtracking the Screen Tests as a natural complement to Warhol’s other work, like the Big Shots display.

“Audiences have the opportunity to go deeper inside Warhol’s idiosyncratic process, where the line between a study and a finished piece was always blurry,” Greenwald said.

Wareham reflected on the difference between contributing to conventional film scores and soundtrack performances meant to engage a live audience. Unlike Dean & Britta’s past work for the soundtrack to The Squid and The Whale, where “you can sit there and play with a flute, cello, all this stuff,” Wareham said, for Warhol, “We had to keep it restricted: guitar, bass, keyboards, electronic stuff.” On this stop they’ll also have support from Lee Waters on drums and Matt Sumrow on keyboards.

This live soundtrack will be comprised of eight lyrical songs and five instrumentals. All are original except for two fitting covers—an obscure Velvet Underground track, “I’m Not a Young Man Anymore,” and “I’ll Keep It with Mine,” made famous by Nico. The result is a total work that “ranges from dreamy, swirling pop to ominous instrumentals,” Greenwald said.

The democratization of art and beauty, along with the combination of the audio and the visual, were two core components of Warhol’s innovation, which ranged from pop to avant-garde.

13 Most Beautiful sheds new light on these otherwise difficult and overlooked historical art documents and captures peeks into the ordinary lives of glamorous figures: Nico, Dennis Hopper and Mary Waronov, among others.

Need more endorsement? Lou Reed himself came to one of the shows and saw one of his own tests soundtracked

by Dean & Britta.

“He loved it,” Wareham said.

Dean & Britta will perform tonight in Reynolds Industries Theater at 8 p.m. Tickets are $22 to $28 or $5 for Duke students.

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Gorilla Manor, the first fulllength release from Los Angeles quintet Local Natives, sounds like the work of a much more accomplished band, well-formed and generally agreeable.

At the same time, much of it will strike the indie-rock-attuned listener as a pastiche of the oddly familiar, which makes sense: for all their strengths, Local Natives are a band dabbling liberally in the techniques of their contemporaries.

Would a Fleet Foxes album by any other name sound as sweet?

That’s an overstatement, but only because of the diffuse nature of Local Native’s influences.

At various points, Gorilla Manor experiments with the chamberpop tendencies of Ra Ra Riot, the taut, detailed compositions of Grizzly Bear, and those nowubiquitous vocal harmonies

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arts REVIEW: archipelago theatre’s ‘out of the blue’

that are likely the Foxes’ lasting legacy—not to mention opening track “Wide Eyes,” a spot-on approximation of an especially percussive Band of Horses track.

And with so many different elements at work, Gorilla Manor never realizes any single aesthetic as fully as many of their aforementioned peers.

Fortunately, though innovation is in short supply here, good taste is not. Local Natives display an impressive command of space, never cluttering tracks with excess, and they boast a true asset in drummer Matt Frazier, whose persistent clatter prevents Gorilla Manor’s most languid tracks from dragging.

Occasionally, as on standout “Airplanes,” this alchemy succeeds in producing compulsively listenable guitar-pop. More often, Local Natives show flashes of brilliance in melody or production but fail to craft a comprehensively enjoyable record.

—Ross Green

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Out of the Blue, presented by Archipelago Theatre, is not easy to sum up. But it shouldn’t be.

Presented as a montage of seemingly disparate scenes, writer-director and theater studies assistant professor Ellen Hemphill’s play positions itself around the central theme of chance and the tension that arises “out of the blue.” The play offers a fresh focus on a theme that far too often gives way to melodrama or frivolity. The scenarios stand on their own but also avoid the common pitfall of discontinuity which often accompanies productions of such a vignette-based structure.

From the mundane to the magnificent, some scenes feel more familiar than others, but they are all poignantly portrayed. A distressed couple’s struggle to conceive contrasts with a man’s frustrating journey on an automated customer service phone line. Yet somehow they both convey a similar battle toward a hopeless endeavor where free will seems to make no difference.

Out of the Blue’s visual and musical imagery enhances the play’s effect. Hemphill skillfully interjects video and sound clips into scenes to further highlight nuanced aspects of certain dreamscapes. A five-piece instrumental ensemble sets the mood, mediating the internal and external dialogue of the various scenes.

One of the most interesting— and entertaining—elements of the play was a constant cast of crows

which actors took turns playing.

Like the elephant in the room, they lurk in the shadows invisible to the characters, but highlight obvious truths that often go unseen in daily life. Besides offering comic relief between sets, the crows come to life in unexpected movements as bearers of words and songs of wisdom. When needed, they push the narrative forward.

A strength of Out of the Blue lies in the well-defined personalities brought to life on stage. The

actors played their various roles convincingly, helping to bring out the endearing quirks of each character. Viewers will begin to realize that even through the mundane, the magnificent can still be found.

Out of the Blue runs from today to Feb. 21 and Feb. 25 to 28 in Sheafer Theater. General admission tickets are $15 and $5 for Duke and UNC students. The show begins at 8 p.m. except for Feb. 21 and 28 when it plays at 2 p.m.

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Senior Brian Zoubek goes up for a block against Miami’s driving guard, James Dews, during Duke’s seven-point escape at the BankUnited Center in Coral Gables, Fla.

Team effort helps Duke brave storm

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CORAL GABLES, Fla. — The Blue Devils’ midweek voyage to South Florida was no trip to the beach. But thanks to a renewed effort after intermission, Duke won’t be coming home empty-handed.

Down by 12 points at halftime to a surging Miami squad, the Blue Devils roared out of the gates in the final 20 minutes with tenacity on defense and

an offensive onslaught from their big three to secure an 81-74 comeback win over Miami Wednesday night at the BankUnited Center.

Early on, the only thing that was slower getting going than Miami’s late-arriving crowd was the Blue Devil offensive attack.

Duke’s leading trio of Nolan Smith, Jon Scheyer and Kyle Singler was held to only nine points in the first half by a stingy Miami zone defense that choked the lane

and forced Duke to take low-percentage jumpers from outside.

Complicating matters on the other end of the court, the Hurricanes shot a net-scorching 60 percent from the floor in the first period, with forward Dwayne Collins and guard Durand Scott giving Duke defensive headaches. But Smith, Singler and Scheyer bounced back after the break with a combined 49 second-half points, providing more than sufficient firepower to give No. 6 Duke (22-4, 10-2 in the ACC) a hard-earned road win.

“Our perimeter had one of its worst halves of the year in the first half,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

“They played with a much different resolve, I thought, in the second half.

I thought we beat a really good team tonight, a team that played their hearts out against us.”

Miami (17-9, 3-9) retired the jersey of recent star guard Jack McClinton at halftime, perhaps as a nod to the ex-Hurricane’s penchant for showing up big in games against Duke. But Miami would have needed McClinton’s presence and more to counter the Blue Devils’ spurt right after the break, which started as Singler scored the first nine points of the half to cut the Hurricanes’ lead down to five.

But Duke finally left Miami in the dust with just over five minutes to go

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Miami’s Dwayne Collins scored 21 points and grabbed nine rebounds in one of his best games of the year.

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Last May, the Blue Devils waited with bated breath to see if their 35-24 record would be good enough to earn them an NCAA regional berth. While Duke wound up being left out of the mix, being in a position to potentially earn a bid represents the great progress the team has made under head coach Sean McNally’s tutelage the last four years.

“Our one team goal is to go to an [NCAA] regional—we were probably a game or two away from that last year,” McNally said. “We’d like to make the ACC tournament and also take that next step and be a regional team.”

Duke will need to make large strides this year to meet McNally’s goals after losing six seniors to graduation, including two of the Blue Devils’ top hitters, Nate Freiman and Matt Williams, and Andrew Walcott, a weekend starter. Add to that the departure of junior Alex Hassan, a statistical leader both at the plate and on the mound, and it’s clear that Duke has some holes to fill. “[Freiman, Williams and Wolcott] were our three best, but the key that we’re focusing on is the way they became key players—they got the chance to play. They grew into that,” McNally said. “As upperclassmen they grew See baseball on page 12

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Head coach Sean McNally (right), a Duke alumnus, is in his fifth season as the team’s head coach.

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Surge out of locker room gives Blue Devils control against ’Canes

by Jeff Scholl THE CHRONICLE

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Down by 12 points at halftime of Wednesday night’s game against Miami, Duke seemed destined for another road loss.

The No. 6 Blue Devils were struggling to get the ball inside against the Hurricanes’ 2-3 zone defense and settled for 3-pointers as a result, just Game like they did the last time they suffered a away from Cameron Indoor StadiAnalysis defeat um against Georgetown.

But this time, Duke found a way to turn the game around before the deficit became unmanageable—largely because of the Blue Devils’ refusal to

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Like fellow guard Jon Scheyer, Nolan Smith started slowly Wednesday against Miami, but he scored 18 of his 21 points in the second half.

settle for sloppy play.

“Everybody was mad,” senior center Brian Zoubek said of the atmosphere in the locker room at halftime. “Nobody was playing well. We weren’t playing together and it was just frustrating out there. We knew we had to do pretty much everything different in the second half.”

Head coach Mike Krzyzewski gave his players an ultimatum as they headed back onto the court—winning the game, he said, was up to them. Junior Kyle Singler was the first Blue Devil to answer the call.

He was the image of physical toughness on the floor, sporting a massive black eye he suffered during a scramble for the ball in practice earlier this week. Yet more importantly, he displayed his mental toughness out of the locker room by turning his anger into poise on the offensive end.

Singler scored nine straight points for Duke to open the second half, providing the initial boost for a 22-5 run that ultimately gave the Blue Devils a five-point lead they would never relinquish. He started off his second-half tear with a 3-pointer and followed that up with two layups, one coming off a tip-in and the other the result of a strong drive to the hoop through the Hurricane defense.

Duke still trailed by five points after his initial scoring spurt, but Singler’s next basket showed that the Blue Devils had begun to find ways to break down the defense that gave them so much trouble in the first period.

After a pair of successful Miami foul shots, Zoubek received the ball around the foul line and found Singler wide open under the basket after the preseason All-American used a backdoor cut to blow by his man. He finished with an emphatic two-handed slam, trimming the Miami lead back down to five points within the first 2:30 of the second half.

Duke’s movement away from the ball allowed penetration of the zone that was sorely lacking before halftime.

This new approach forced the Hurricanes to collapse under the basket rather than pressure the Blue Devil guards

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Brian Zoubek and the Duke interior defense struggled terribly in the first half but clamped down against Miami’s big men in the second. on the 3-point line. Consequently, the perimeter opened up for Duke and the team knocked down 9-of-15 shots from beyond the arc in the second half.

“The focus was just hitting people and cutting and just trying to get them to move in their defense,” Singler said. “Hopefully they would lose us and we were still going to shoot our threes. So it was just a matter of passing the ball and cutting.”

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analysis from page 10 been possible without the stops Duke generated on the other end.

Miami mustered only five points over the first eight minutes of the period, and the Hurricanes turned the ball over six times in that stretch.

Moreover, they coughed it up on three of their first four trips up the court, thanks in part to the active hands of Zoubek. The big man took the ball from guards James Dews and Garrius Adams on backto-back possessions, finishing the contest with a career-high five steals and setting the tone for a stifling defensive effort the rest of the way.

Junior Nolan Smith also played tougher defense on guard Durand Scott, a freshman who torched the Blue Devils for 11 points in the first half on 5-of-7 shooting.

“None of our guys played very well defensively in the first half,

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and Scott really was in control of the game,” Krzyzewski said. “In the second half, Nolan played the type of defense he’s played all year. That hurt them because [Scott] was having such a great game. He still played well, but he wasn’t able to influence it as much as he did in the first half.”

When the dust settled after Duke’s torrid run, the Blue Devils led 47-42—and the Hurricanes never found a way to get back on top.

Offensive adjustments and defensive intensity may have facilitated the turnaround, but for the most experienced Blue Devils, the comeback was simply an issue of pride.

“Coach of course got in us, let us know that we weren’t playing up to the capabilities that we’d been playing to all year,” Smith said. “As veterans, Jon, Kyle, Lance, myself, Zoubs—we went out there and said we’re going to win this game.”

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Kyle Singler’s black eye didn’t prevent him from scoring a game-high 22 points.

’Canes from page 9 in the game, when Scheyer finally found his shot—helped by a little dose of encouragement from a teammate.

Struggling through a 1-for12 shooting night through the game’s first 34 minutes—including an ugly line of 1-for-8 from behind the 3-point line—Scheyer went over to Smith right before a pair of Duke free throws and asked him to say something, anything, to perk him up.

Smith gladly complied, and Scheyer subsequently went down the court and sank a pair of 3-pointers to key a Duke run that would end with a crucially wide 10-point lead with just 3:11 to go.

“I was just in a weird funk, I guess you could say,” Scheyer said. “I went over to Nolan and just said, ‘Tell me something.’

And he told me something. It just gave me a little bit of confidence, just having someone say something [encouraging] to you, and I hit my next two shots.”

Scheyer was coy when asked about exactly what Smith whispered into his ear, but whatever Smith had to say sparked Scheyer, who has been hurting with back soreness for the past three weeks.

Krzyzewski thought the back issue had something to do with Scheyer’s scoreless, 0-for-6 shooting performance in the first half, but the time-

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Jon Scheyer overcame his early shooting struggles to hit two clutch threes late on. liness of Scheyer’s clutch shots late outweighed any concerns his coach had about the senior point guard’s early struggles.

“You always marvel at a guy in baseball who goes 5-for-5,” Krzyze-

wski said. “But sometimes the guy who goes 0-for-4, but in his fifth at-bat gets the winning hit—and he can also go 5-for-5—those are the guys that are special. Jon’s a special player.”

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However, the lack of offensive firepower is not necessarily indicative of disaster to come. The cornerstone of McNally’s Duke teams has been pitching and defense.

Over the last two years the Blue Devils have ranked first and fourth nationally in error percentage, and this year’s team may be the best of all.

“That’s what we hang our hat on. It’s our ability to throw strikes, pound the zone and play good defense,” McNally said. “We’ve got the best defensive outfield that we’ve ever had, potentially, going into the season, looking at the athletes we’ll have out in the outfield.”

The pitching staff is filled with a mix of veteran talent and leadership, including five seniors, the most in school history. The pitching class of 2010 is led by weekend starter Christopher Manno and bullpen anchor Michael Ness.

Sophomore lefty Eric Pfisterer will return to his place as weekend starter as well. Will Currier, Jeremy Gould, Jonathan Foreman and Michael Seander will provide relief from the bullpen.

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baseball from page 9 every year, and we’re going to replace those guys with some younger guys who are talented, but are not proven.”

Two of those younger guys will be freshmen Marcus Stroman and Eric Brady. Both have earned starting positions in the infield, with Stroman at second and Brady at third. The Washington Nationals selected Stroman in the 18th round of last year’s MLB Draft, while Brady carried a .512 batting average in his senior year of high school. McNally keeps their inexperience in mind, though, despite the gaudy statistics.

“Freshmen are tough to read. It’s such a grind, the 56-game schedule,” McNally said. “Generally there are a few guys who surprise you, and a few guys that maybe don’t achieve as well as you’d like. But you never know until you get started.”

Even with the new additions, the loss of Freiman may sting all year. Last season, the 6-foot-8, 245-pound senior led the team in batting average at .352 while mashing 20 home runs, almost three times more than his nearest teammate.

“Do we have a guy who will hit 20 home runs like Nate?

No.” McNally said. “On offense, there are a lot of ways to score and we’re going to have to really execute and do the

“Our pitching staff is deeper than we’ve ever been,” McNally said. “Our pitching and defense will be solid in the end.”

In stark contrast to last year, when Duke opened with series against weak opponents like La Salle and Dartmouth, it will be tested early and often. Including an opening weekend against traditional powers Baylor and Georgia, the Blue Devils will go on to play seven teams in the Associated Press preseason Top 25, three of whom are ranked in the top 10.

“This year will be really challenging,” McNally said. “We’ve taken on a little bit of a different start to this season, playing two elite teams to better get us ready for conference play.”

Duke will face many of these top-tier opponents at its new home away from home, the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. The Blue Devils will play 18 of their regular season games downtown, including series against premier programs North Carolina, Miami and Virginia.

“We like to think that we do a lot of outreach into our community, and this is just an extension of that,” McNally said. “Plus, it’s a great opportunity for our kids.”

The pieces are in place for a breakthrough season: an experience-laden pitching staff, a top-ranked defense, a professionally maintained field and a fully-returning coaching staff. But without Freiman and other mashers who can hit left field’s bull in Duke’s new stomping grounds, only time will tell if the pieces really matter.

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Elect Campus Council execs After screening written ap- CC general body, which is complications and interviewing posed of this year’s executive candidates, members of the board, three representatives Campus Council general body from East Campus, seven repwill gather a week from tonight resentatives from West Camto select its executive board for pus (one from each quad), the 2010-2011 school year. two representatives from CenAlthough CC’s tral Campus internal selection and six at-large editorial process is used by members. other campus organizations of But few of these members similar scope and size, a direct can truly claim legitimacy as election of executive board of- representatives of their conficers would increase account- stituencies. No one is directly ability and legitimacy, heighten elected by the student body student awareness and provide specifically to serve as a repfor greater transparency. resentative to Campus CounFor CC leadership to le- cil, and many run unopposed gitimately function as repre- for their positions. sentatives, it must derive its And although incorporatauthority from the student ing students from all three body through a participatory residential campuses in the election process. The current CC general body is designed to model fails to accomplish this. make the organization more Right now, next year’s lead- inclusive, residents across the ership will be selected by the three campuses do not receive

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In addition, the current process is rife with conflicts of interest that give current members of CC an unfair advantage in applying for an executive board position, as internal applicants have intimately worked with the very same individuals who have the power to push them into office.

Instead of an insider process that substantially favors those within the organization and fails to fully capture the student voice, Campus Council’s leadership should be chosen by a direct election of the student body.

Aside from endowing CC with greater representative legitimacy, an election would make the organization more accountable and force it to continually grapple with wideranging issues that plague

housing at Duke. CC has been a more vocal organization in recent years, but with a segregated housing system that often disempowers women, its leaders need to press for more substantive change. An election would force CC leaders to articulate their agenda for action.

Second, an election would help to increase the visibility of CC as a policy organization.

Many students do not feel a direct connection to CC beyond its programmatic initiatives, and yearly campaigns would raise the profile of CC leaders as well as publicize the organization as an instrument for change.

CC executive elections should be held concurrent with Duke Student Government Spring executive elections, and they should be

open to the entire student body, because all students are required to live on campus for three years and have a stake in continued improvements to housing at Duke.

Election critics would argue that internal selection prevents CC from being dominated by organized living groups. Under the current system, however, three members of the CC executive board are also members of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and one is part of Ubuntu living group. Their membership has not hindered CC’s work, and fears that an election would flood the council with greeks are unfounded.

An election for the CC executive board would ensure that of the few who would chose to run for these difficult leadership positions, only the best emerge.

Our intellectual challenge

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hen Kermit sings “It’s not that easy being green,” we can commiserate.

I asked Bill Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment, about feelings of environmental burnout.

Although he flatout admitted to having little real sense of the mood on campus, he noted that burnout is a problem in liz bloomhardt general. “It’s defigreen devil nitely true that the public has a hard time keeping their attention on a given issue for a significant amount of time, and I worry about that a lot,” he said.

Not only do we face burnout, but Chameides also explained that a contradiction exists between our intellectual commitment to being green and the way we act. Even the most intellectually committed environmentalists grapple with these contradictions.

A Feb. 13 Wall Street Journal article titled “Even Boulder finds it isn’t easy going green” painted a picture of this tricky challenge. I mentioned the self-professed environmentally progressive town in my last column, noting that the city provides curbside composting.

Turns out, they might just be a good indicator of the quantifiably uphill battle proponents of environmental sustainability face. According to the article, Boulder has a Climate Action Plan and citizens voted to levy the country’s first carbon tax in 2006. Residents bike to work in large numbers and many voluntarily pay a premium on energy to support wind power.

Between 2006 and 2008, however, the city’s carbon emissions decreased by about 1 percent. Not exactly an impressive statistic for a town bent on being a role model.

“I believe that part of the problem that we’re having is that we are typically talking to people about the environment as an intellectual, rational issue, and people are reacting to things much more emotionally,” Chameides told me. “I think that to some extent, what needs to happen is people need to be getting a message that’s on a more emotional level about the world.”

The people in Boulder may have that worldfriendly message, but they’re still buying 65-inch flat screen televisions, along with a power strip to make sure the TV doesn’t sip power while it’s off, according to the Journal. Whether those two decisions equate is perhaps less obvious.

Duke faces a similar battle for the hearts and minds of individuals.

Executive Vice President Tallman Trask explained that Duke has grabbed the low hanging fruit of sustainability by dramatically reducing its coal use, but its focus now will shift to individuals.

“Our next big moves are going to be behavioral.

If we could get 50,000 people to behave a little differently every day, that has a big impact.... It’s clearly around utility consumption, and it’s also around parking,” he said.

Let’s focus on the fact that individual behavior starts with one person theoretically making little decisions. A short survey of the leaders and conveners of the sustainability movement on campus indicates we might have just as much of a hill to climb as our mile-high friends.

Take Tavey Capps, Duke’s environmental sustainability coordinator, for example. She found and joined a carpool from her home in Raleigh through Duke’s GreenRides program, but because of scheduling issues carpooling every day is not always feasible.

Chameides drives a hybrid, turns the heat way down and wishes he could be a vegetarian, but doesn’t see giving up air travel any time soon, as he said travel is part of his job.

Trask has always been interested in historic renovation, and he’s moved to a renovated warehouse downtown to cut down his commute, but he still drives to campus because there is no bus. After a pause, he said he also recycles, but he mentions it skeptically, as if it should be obvious.

It would seem that on the one hand, individuals can make meaningful and obvious choices, while on the other hand, the same individuals accept as inevitable another decision or lost opportunity.

From this, we can conclude that Duke must be poised through its individual leaders to fight environmental burnout and tackle the contradictions.

“One of the things that attracted me to Duke is knowledge in the service of society,” Chameides told me. “That means a variety of things, but it also means that we need to walk the talk about serving society.

And I think that issues of the environment, issues of global warming, issues of sustainability, even energy security, are issues that are really important for society, and we need to step up to the plate.”

It’s an intellectual argument. It’s also a tall order if the experiences of the city of Boulder, Colo. are anything to go by. But if we can agree to it, that’s at least a start, and a challenge to our intellectual community.

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

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Too many Asians?

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uke’s entering Class of 2009 contained the highest percentage of Asian students that the University had ever enrolled, at least at the time.

Asian students comprised 21 percent of the class, according to an August 2005 press release. Director of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag confirms that this number has remained relatively steady, hovering between 20 percent and 25 percent within the past five years. ying-ying lu What do these numbers mean? Are they “too high” or “too low”? What are fleeting moments we using to determine this, and should it even be something we judge at all?

When it comes to college admissions, our society is far from colorblind. Race matters—and not just because universities, including Duke, use it as one measure of the diversity in their student bodies.

Universities like to say that they don’t admit students in categories— hypothetically, there is no ceiling to the number of Asian applicants they will admit. But the numbers don’t back this up.

Boston Globe reporter Kara Miller wrote about the discrimination Asians face in the college admissions process in a Feb. 8 article, “Do colleges redline Asian-Americans?” She cited research from a Princeton sociologist, Thomas Espenshade, who reviewed data from 10 elite colleges and found that, in terms of SAT scores, Asian applicants “typically need an extra 140 points to compete with white students.”

Granted, at selective schools, the admissions process is defined by its nuances, and it is never really a matter of the smartest kids getting in.

And many other factors—such as legacy status and athletics—come into play and distort the picture. But there’s no denying that, based on the pure numbers, it’s statistically harder for Asian applicants to gain admission to elite universities.

In many ways, this reality upsets me. I think of my younger brother, who will be applying to colleges in the fall. I cringe to think that nothing he does can change the fact that he is an Asian male, a label that automatically pitches him against other members of one of the most competitive racial groups for admission. Sure, he can check the “do not report” box, but his last name will likely still betray him.

I think of Asian friends from high school. They watched crestfallen as less academically successful minority and white peers gained admission to the most selective universities while they were denied. I think about the competitive nature of Asian communities in my hometown, and see clearly the sacrifices that many parents, including my own, have made to support their children’s educations. Why should these same families, many of which are immigrant households in which parents speak little or no English, be essentially punished for creating home cultures that place a premium on education?

So what is the alternative? What would happen if elite schools threw race to the wind and started admitting more Asian applicants?

The picture in my head—that of a Duke comprised of nearly twice as many Asian students than currently—is not appealing. To get a sense of what that might be like, we can look to California, where government institutions are banned from discriminating based on race. At public universities, Asians typically make up about 40 percent of the student body, though they account for only 13 percent of California residents.

Some of these Asian students have expressed that they feel less prepared for the real world in terms of intercultural skills than they would had they attended a school in which less people looked like themselves.

I feel strongly that I have benefitted from attending a diverse school.

While defining “diversity” should never be restricted to race—or culture, or background—I have personally grown so much from living and learning at a university that seeks to attract a range of students, with race as a factor. Sure, the racial landscape at Duke is far from perfect. Cliques exist, and self segregation is very real. Simply putting diverse students on one campus does not guarantee that they will mix and mingle—but it is a first step.

At Duke, we are often afraid to discuss these and other issues involving race, for fear of appearing politically incorrect. We censor our true opinions because their expression may paint us as insensitive to others’ experiences. Race can be a touchy subject.

The problem is that by shying away from talking about race in an honest manner, we shove these topics under the rug even more. We end up creeping around our true feelings, deferring to numbers and statistics at the expense of our own experiences. We should remember that a subtle difference separates constructive contributions from offensive ones: the existence of sensitivity and vulnerability. In other words, a distinction exists between political incorrectness and insensitivity.

It’s okay to talk with peers about race in a personal manner. It’s alright to ask questions in an effort to understand others’ experiences and how these have shaped their opinions. We should not feel confined to discuss race in an academic sense, as if it exists only in the abstract.

And in the end, it is okay to not know what to think. As long as we have allowed ourselves to feel.

So where do I come down in the debate about race-based admissions?

How should I reconcile my conflicting thoughts? I don’t know. I know how I feel, but I’m not quite sure yet what I think. And in the end, that’s OK. As long as we have allowed ourselves to feel.

Ying-Ying Lu is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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letterstotheeditor Apology and thoughts Two days ago, I wrote a controversial letter to the editor about the problems of the Marketplace and the buses. I have gained a lot of insight from the reactions.

First of all, I would like to apologize for the tone of this article. It came off as somewhat immature and harsh. To be honest, I am deeply regretful that it came off as a piece about privilege.

It was not my intention at all to attack the workers or focus on their mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes. I just wanted to point out the lack of respect or service that we sometimes receive. That is a valid problem and that shouldn’t happen as much as it currently does. As Jake Bullock wrote in a Dec. 4 letter to the editor, “Union workers are burden to Duke dining:” “It

seems that every Duke student has a dining ‘horror story’ from one of [Bon Appetit’s] establishments.” Conversely, we take a lot of things for granted as well, and every Duke employee probably has horror stories about us.

I am no journalist or writer. I wrote what I felt that morning. Although the issue is out there, I felt that few were voicing it publicly. I know I didn’t research or come up with solutions, but I thought a letter was just an outlet where to express your opinion.

However, the way I expressed my opinion was wrong. A lot was lost when I had to cut the article, and the final version was not how I wanted to convey my thoughts.

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Letter lacked perspective We have all waited in long lines at Marketplace, and we’ve all been late to class because that C-1 or C-2 did not show up on time. Kelsey Wang’s call in her Feb. 16 letter to the editor to “Replace inefficient employees,” whom she feels are at the root of these issues, completely lacks perspective. It is unfair to assume that inefficiency is the only factor at play.

Take, for example, the following scenario: A bus driver takes a few extra minutes to help a handicapped student board the bus on West Campus, resulting in a less-than-ideal arrival time on East Campus. I think we can forgive the bus driver’s tardiness in this case, because although he is not working with optimal efficiency, he acts with empathy.

Wang’s observation that “14-year-olds with no experience can make a sandwich more quickly than some Marketplace employees,” also lacks perspective. First of all, 14-year-olds do not make

sandwiches for long hours every day. Burnout is inevitable, and with burnout comes decreased efficiency. Secondly, I cannot count the number of times I have seen students leave full trays of halfeaten meals on cafeteria tables, expecting someone else to pick up after them. This kind of daily treatment might cause some Marketplace employees not whether they get your omelet order exactly right. And I don’t blame them.

Rather than fire employees who appear to be inefficient, we should take a closer look at why this is the case. In taking the perspective of a C-1 bus driver or Marketplace server, we can better understand what factors lead to late buses or imperfect omelets. The real question becomes what can we, as students, do to make employees’ jobs easier, and thus reduce that hour we waste every day waiting around.

Laura Anderson Trinity ’11

How to survive/fall in love at Mardi Gras

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hile at Mardi Gras this past weekend, I learned a few things and did a few things.

Certain sections of this column are no doubt only applicable when acted upon in New Orleans, while others, I feel, can be handy in almost any situation.

Bring laxatives— extra strength if necessary. Eating thomas rabbit and sausage gebremedhin jambalaya is sort of like having guests word-by-word over for a holiday party. At first, everything is spotless and in place, but then your guests arrive and get plastered, refusing to leave. And when they do leave, the mess that remains will remind you that holiday parties are best hosted once a year.

Take a Recreational Vehicle. Remember that while lying in the bed at the back of the RV, the slightest bump will be overstated. The ride to and from New Orleans will be rough—think Bolivia’s infamous North Yungas Road (“Road of Death”) or the back roads of Afghanistan.

Find a place to stay on Craigslist. It will be much cheaper and may, possibly, give you something else to talk about on your return home. For instance, my temporary home had a samurai sword on a glass shelf, an issue of Barely Legal magazine tucked between the pages of a birthday astrology book (oh joy!) and fake severed arms and legs hidden in the closet. All true.

On second thought, maybe don’t use Craigslist.

Make sure to try two of the most popular and potent drinks found at Mardi Gras: a Hurricane and a Hand Grenade. Both concoctions are rather sweet and can give you a stomachache if consumed too quickly. This may produce one of a variety of rather unattractive expressions on your face so Be Wise— Drink and Smize.

Along the same lines, make sure to keep track of

the time as New Orleans is allergic to sleep, and bars are open 24 hours. Word of advice: If the sun is rising, you need to take your drunk self home.

If, however, you have forgotten your watch and start for home in the early morning, make sure to stop at Cafe Du Monde and pick up some beignets (a powdered French pastry). Important: The ground surrounding Cafe Du Monde is blanketed in white powder. While waiting on your order, make sure to stand lest your bottom looks like Tony Montana’s most loyal buyer.

Get some sleep. I cannot emphasize this enough.

You’re on vacation!!

Fall in love! And by love I mean lust. For me, his name was Eric... I think. My friend claims that I’m wrong. We met on an iron rail in a bar called Pat O’Briens. “Eric,” from Tennessee, said he liked to write short stories, a passion true to my heart. When he had to go, my heart packed up its belongings and left with him. True, it’s a possibility that as the night progressed my 10-minute relationship with “Eric” became more and more exaggerated—“he was my first boyfriend,” “I wonder if he wants to have a Fall or Spring wedding,” but what’s love if not a fairy tale (emphasis on fairy)?

On the issue of getting beads—of course you can do that, but just keep in mind that Mardi Gras isn’t what it used to be. According to a U.S. Census on computers and Internet use from 2003, roughly 55 percent of all households in the United States have a computer with Internet-access. So unless you want to end up on XTube, keep your ish together.

Of course you can always do what I did. Proceed to walk around from person to person asking for beads because it’s “what ‘Eric’ would have wanted.” Say this mournfully enough, and you will reap the benefits of other’s drunken sympathy over an imagined loss.

If it wasn’t obvious already, take friends. Good friends. They are just as important in New Orleans as they are in Durham.

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

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