April 8, 2010

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The Last Day of Classes may have a budget that is “down like the economy,” but the committee is still trying to make it a day to remember.

The LDOC Committee is working with fewer resources, as a number of sources of funding are providing less financial support than in the past.

“A smaller budget for LDOC just means we have to think more creatively and focus on using our resources differently,” said Duke LDOC Committee coChair Liz Turner, a senior.

The LDOC committee’s base fund comes from a part of the student activities fee. Duke Student Government increased the fee in April 2005 to provide financial support for the event. In addition to the base fund, the committee receives monetary support from the Duke University Union and Campus Council.

LDOC Treasurer Maria Pavlova, a senior, said the committee has spent $115,000 on LDOC so far. She estimated that each student contributes about $20 to the fund. And although the total fixed budget from student activity fees jumped this year to $106,331 from last year’s

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Former vice president Al Gore will speak in Page Auditorium today at 6 p.m. in an event sponsored by the Nicholas School of the Environment. Tickets to the event, part of the Duke Environment and Society Lecture Series, are no longer available.

Gore will be speaking about global warming, according to a Nicholas School news release.

“Since the beginning of his career, Al Gore has been relentless in his quest to bring the truth about global warming to the world, even when the world wasn’t listening,” Bill Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School, said Al Gore in the release. “We are fortunate and thrilled to have him bring his message to Duke.”

Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his efforts to raise awareness about climate change. He shared the honor with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the organ of the United Nations assigned to dealing with global

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Full Frame returns with 106 documentaries from Staff Reports THE CHRONICLE

Documentary filmmakers, fans and journalists will descend on downtown Durham today for the 13th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

The 2010 iteration of the festival kicks off this week and will run through April 11. The festival will span six theaters and bring new documentaries from celebrated filmmakers such as Michel Gondry and Steven Soderbergh. Alex Gibney, Oscar-winning director of “Taxi to the Dark Side,” will also premiere his new documentary on lobbyist Jack Abramoff “Casino Jack and the United States of Money.”

Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker’s new film “Kings of Pastry” will be the ceremonial opening night event, screening at 7 p.m. in Fletcher Hall at the Carolina Theatre, the main site for the festival.

This year’s festival marks Executive Director Deirdre Haj’s first year in charge. Haj was appointed to helm the festival in January.

The festival also brings new documentaries from Duke’s Gary Hawkins and Steve Milligan as well as a new film written and directed by Rodrigo Dorfman, son of Ariel Dorfman, Walter Hines Page Research professor of Literature and Latin American Studies in the Center for International Studies. special to the chronicle

In its 13th year, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is bringing more than 100 films to downtown Durham for the four-day festival.

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“John’s always been a hero of mine, so going over and doing a home visit at John Elway’s house was a big treat for me.”

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Senate deadlocked over Va. governor apologizes Appeals Court nominee RICHMOND, Va. — After a barrage of nationwide criticism for excluding slavery from his Confederate History Month proclamation, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell conceded Wednesday that it was “a major omission” and amended the document to acknowledge the state’s complicated past.

A day earlier, McDonnell said he left out any reference to slavery in the original seven-paragraph proclamation because he wanted to include issues he thought were most “significant” to Virginia. He also said the document was designed to promote tourism in the state, which next year marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. The declaration called on Virginians to “understand the sacrifices of the Confederate leaders, soldiers and citizens during the period of the Civil War.”

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A battle is intensifying in the Senate over the appeals court nomination of Goodwin Liu, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley whom some Democrats consider a potential nominee to the Supreme Court.

Democrats vowed Wednesday to press ahead with plans for an April 16 Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. A day earlier, the GOP demanded a delay and suggested that Liu’s nomination might be in jeopardy because he had not provided enough information to the panel.

Activists on both the left and right view Liu’s nomination as a practice run for the next Supreme Court vacancy, which could come as soon as this year if Justice John Paul Stevens retires.

MARJA, Afghanistan — Thousands of Afghan migrant workers arriving in the next few weeks for the spring opium harvest will find at least as much work as last year.

According to a recent U.N. survey, a multimillion-dollar U.S. program that was started last fall to persuade farmers to plant wheat instead of opium poppies did not make a dent in the amount of cultivation in Helmand province, the heart of Afghanistan’s poppy region. U.S. Marines, who arrived here in force seven weeks ago to wrest control of the province from the Taliban, are under orders to win over the population and leave their poppy fields alone.

“You may have landed in one of the only wheat fields in Helmand,” Brig. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson, the Marine com-

mander here, said last week as he greeted a visiting Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Mullen’s V-22 Osprey set down amid soft, foot-high green shoots beside the headquarters of the Marja district governor for a meeting with local leaders.

Beyond the wheat, pink poppies were blooming in every direction.

The Obama administration decided last year to stop alienating Afghan farmers by eradicating poppy fields and to concentrate instead on arresting drug lords and interdicting drug shipments on their way across and out of the country. At planting time last fall, impoverished residents in accessible areas of Helmand were offered seeds, fertilizer and agricultural assistance to grow alternative crops, primarily wheat.

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Programming fund to triple under new SOFC policy

by Matthew Chase THE CHRONICLE

Some student groups will see major changes when they receive their annual budgets for next academic year.

Changes to the Student Organization Finance Committee’s budgetary policy will move all events-related programming for student groups in the 2010-2011 academic year from Duke Student Government’s annual budget to its programming fund.

This means that SOFC, whose annual budget is funded by a portion of the student activities fee, will have a smaller total annual budget and a programming fund that is more than three times the size of last year’s fund.

“Some groups have put a lot of events on their annual budget and a lot of those don’t happen. It’s difficult and sometimes impossible to get that money back,” said junior Max Tabachnik, SOFC vice president of the programming fund. “With this giant increase in the programming fund, we are going to be able to look at events on their own merits instead of worrying about how much money we have at the end of the semester.”

This year’s programming fund has a surplus of $43,184.73, something Tabachnik said the policy should avoid in the future.

He added that SOFC has been “stingy” when budgeting events in the upcoming year to avoid running a deficit. As a result, student groups will apply for events on an individual basis next year.

“By having student groups submit budget requests several weeks prior to an event via the programming fund (as opposed to six to 10 months in advance, which

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the annual budgeting process essentially mandates)—SOFC can better ensure that well-organized events with detailed budgets receive sufficient funding,” reads the executive overview of the change.

Although the change in budgeting procedure is set, the annual budget allocations are not. Senators conducted a first reading of the budget Wednesday, which will be reviewed in the Senate budget committee next week. The committee, which is chaired by sophomore Price Davidson, an athletics and campus services senator, will hear student groups’ complaints about allocations, potentially make budgetary changes and return the budget to the Senate for a vote.

“It’s a way for us to actually hear from [the student groups] instead of them just coming for a minute of public forum,” said Executive Vice President Gregory Morrison, a junior, after the meeting.

Morrison added that the Senate will vote on the budget either April 14 or April 21, depending on the number of complaints.

Senators also did a first reading of a bylaw amendment that would allow the Duke Partnership for Service to act as an umbrella organization, and apply for and distribute annual budget allocations for community service groups that are chartered by DSG and that opt into dPS’s funding structure. dPS’s mission is to connect students interested in service to service organizations on campus, according to its Web site.

Groups that are a part of dPS will still apply to the programming fund for event funding, according to the proposed bylaw.

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The legislation also allows dPS to allocate a discretionary budget to “foster collaboration between groups.”

“One of the things we want to do is encourage flexibility. We want to encourage groups to join this structure,” said DSG Treasurer Sam Halls, a senior. “It’s a sounding board to bring groups together, and let’s be honest, that takes money.”

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The archive will also allow for more indepth criticism by groups outside DSG, according to the proposed bylaw.

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LDOC Budget from page 1 $101,000—due to the increasing number of students on campus, reduced funding from student groups and increasing costs have resulted in less spending money for the committee.

“I see this as an opportunity to make LDOC better, allowing for the party atmosphere to continue but also giving opportunity to people who just want to enjoy the day,” Turner said.

The committee had to repay a loan taken last year of about $13,000 from DUU because LDOC went over budget by about $17,000, according to a letter sent by DUU and LDOC leaders last December. DUU provided the loan from its reserve fund, separate from its operating budget.

Earlier this year, DUU offered the committee $15,000 for LDOC 2010 and an optional $5,000 to be repaid at a later date. The LDOC committee took the contribution, but declined the loan.

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$15,000 from last year’s $25,000 to be conscious of the economic downturn and to hold equal financial stake in the event as DUU. Out of pocket, DUU and Campus Council together contributed $30,000 without factoring in this year’s loan repayment. Last year’s contribution from the two groups totaled $40,000.

The committee has also significantly reduced its spending on headliner artists in order to meet its smaller budget.

This year’s LDOC concert features music artists Jay Sean and Flogging Molly. Turner declined to comment on the exact costs of those artists—citing potential legal issues—but acknowledged that this year, the committee spent “nearly half as much” on artists as last year and 75 percent as much as the year before.

Turner said that reducing the spending on artists will allow the committee to provide a different range of activities for students to enjoy throughout the entire day.

“The big-name artists are awesome, but spending as much as we have in the past is absurd,” she said. “This year, we want quality artists that are realistically within budget.”

Turner said that although the committee looked at top

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performers, it did not ultimately consider hiring musicians like hip-hop artist Drake, who she said would have cost almost as much as this year’s performers combined.

End-of-semester trouble away from Duke The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill experienced similar budget problems in booking musicians for this year’s SpringFest, said UNC senior Amanda Kao, president of the Carolina Union Activities Board.

The activities board puts on concerts for the university’s annual SpringFest that usually takes place in April.

Two years ago, Boyz II Men performed inside the Dean Smith Center for $75,000, Kao said. Such performances will no longer be possible because UNC’s union does not have its usual financial support from other student organizations: the Student Congress and the Residence Hall Association.

“The artists have also been raising their contract prices, and it has gotten much more difficult,” Kao said. “We really have to get lucky to find an artist who offers a reasonable price and has wide recognition.”

Northwestern University also hosts an end-of-the-year celebration called Mayfest, said Northwestern’s Mayfest co-Chair Katie Halpern, a senior. Mayfest holds events throughout the month but culminates in an LDOC-equivalent called Dillo Day, which boasts a budget of about $250,000, Halpern said.

In previous years, the Dillo Day budget has been increased to adjust for inflation and rising costs, but that did not happen this year, Halpern said.

“Finding big headliner artists was definitely an uphill battle this year,” she said.

Halpern said that about six headliner artists perform throughout the day and night during Dillo Day, and past headliner artists have included N.E.R.D., Lupe Fiasco and DJ Vega.

“We work with a budget of about $250,000 for Dillo Day, but we receive funding from student organizations,” Halpern said. “Dillo Day really takes priority because it’s such an important part of the culture at Northwestern.”

To account for a flat budget this year, Halpern said her committee had to seek more co-sponsorships than ever and had to work extremely hard to receive extra funding from different campus organizations. Dillo Day also receives financial assistance from the university. For example, the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs funds security for the event, Halpern noted.

LDOC footing more bills Unlike Mayfest organizers, however, Duke’s LDOC committee found itself covering more costs than usual—even after facing reduced funding from campus organizations.

Turner said the committee will be paying for Duke Police, emergency medical services and Staff One Services to provide security for the event. These costs were previously covered by Student Affairs, Turner said, adding that she was not sure how much these expenses will cost the committee.

Duke’s LDOC committee has been forced to get creative to cut expenses. LDOC T-shirts will be sold for $3 to $5 instead of being given out for free, said senior LDOC Committee co-Chair Christie Falco, a senior. Charging for shirts will save the committee about $10,000, she said.

The committee also actively pursued corporate sponsors and struck deals with Coca-Cola and Vitamin Water, Falco said. The two corporations will donate their products, which will allow the committee to save money on beverages. “[Corporate sponsorship] is something we started this year and in the future we should able to save a lot of money from corporations,” Falco said.

gore from page 1 warming issues.

In the years following his 2001 failed presidential bid, Gore has been actively involved in environmental issues.

In 2006, he wrote “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It,” which was thereafter made into an Academy Award-winning documentary film. Additionally, he completed “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis” in 2009 as a sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth.”

The Duke Office of Sustainability is encouraging students and other attendees of the speech to wear green Tshirts as a show of support for Gore’s message of environmental sustainability.

“Al Gore will be delivering a powerful message from the stage, and participants can also send a powerful message by collectively showing their support for our efforts to become a climate-neutral campus,” Tavey Capps, Duke’s environmental sustainability director said in a news release.

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Critics say push for output compromised mine safety

by Jerry Markon, David Fahrenthold and Kimberly Kindy The Washington Post

The company that owns the West Virginia coal mine where at least 25 workers died this week has pressed its employees for higher productivity rates, sometimes at the expense of safety, according to regulators, lawyers who have sued the company and documents.

The 98-year-old Massey Energy Co., which went public a decade ago, has been acquiring reserves and bolstering its strong presence in the Central Appalachia coal basin. Its chief executive, Don Blankenship, has consistently asked for production updates as often as every two hours, according to court documents and interviews.

Some former regulators say the company did not pay enough attention to safety issues, especially those piling up at the Upper Big Branch mine where Monday’s explosion took place.

The company was tied to eight fatal accidents at West Virginia mines in 2001 and was blasted by investigators for failing to prevent a 2006 fire that killed two miners. It was cited by federal regulators for 1,342 safety violations over the past five years, including two the day of the explosion.

Davitt McAteer, former head of the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration and chief investigator of the earlier Massey accidents, called that “a huge number” and said that Monday’s explosion “should not have happened. It was preventable.”

At the mine Wednesday, workers drilled holes and found high concentrations of toxic gases, setting back plans to send in rescue teams to look for four missing miners and recover the bodies of others who died in the explosion Monday.

Air samples taken from the first borehole to reach the mine shaft nearly 1,100 feet underground showed “really high” concentrations of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, a federal mine safety expert told an afternoon news conference near the site of the Upper Big Branch mine. The air contained about 3 percent highly combustible methane, when mining is considered unsafe above 1 percent. While the methane was “not in the explosive range by itself,” it

could be when combined with the other gases, said Kevin Stricklin of the MSHA. As a result, authorities could not immediately say when rescue personnel would be able to re-enter the mine for the first time since they were forced to abandon their efforts early Tuesday because of the danger of setting off another blast.

“We just can’t take any chances of the rescue teams going into an area that could ... cause a problem or an explosion” or put them at risk of getting disoriented in smoke and losing contact with other rescuers, Stricklin said.

“Based on the numbers we’re seeing,” he said, the chances are “even more minuscule” that any of the four missing miners could survive outside a special rescue chamber with its own air supplies.

For now, the air inside the mine is so bad that it affected the men at the surface who were drilling the boreholes, Stricklin said. Drilling had to be stopped until the air could be vented away from them.

The agency said Wednesday that it would dispatch a team of inspectors and Labor Department lawyers to West Virginia to evaluate potential causes of the explosion and whether Massey was in compliance with federal health and safety standards. Team members will come from outside West Virginia and will be led by Norman Page, a 25-year agency veteran from Kentucky who has investigated previous accidents.

Federal officials would not speculate on possible causes, but they pledged a thorough investigation. They said the review could take months.

Blankenship has declined to comment since Monday’s explosion, other than to tell a West Virginia radio station that accidents are “unfortunately an inevitable part of the mining process.”

The accident highlights the perils of mining in the competitive coal industry and the constant pressure on companies to meet expectations.

A Citigroup analyst report on the company in February said that “for the past five years, (Massey) has tended to set stretch targets that they have been unable to achieve.” In 2009, partly because of the weak economy, Massey shipped

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only 36.7 million tons of coal, about 9 million tons less than it forecast.

Blankenship became president of A.T. Massey Coal Co. in 1992, then part of Fluor Corp. Massey Coal became Massey Energy Co. and began to be publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 1, 2000. Blankenship was named chairman and president.

He vowed to fix safety violations in a meeting with McAteer after the 2001 accidents, McAteer recalled, and the company’s Web site today says: “S-1 means Safety First.

Massey’s safety innovations, developed and implemented over the years, demonstrate our continuing commitment to operating safe coal mines.”

Blankenship is well-known in the industry for requiring a steady stream of production updates for each of Massey’s mining operations. He personally reviews the updates and sends frequent notes to managers if rates have fallen, according to court records and interviews.

The company says that attention to detail has helped Massey grow rapidly over the years — it now controls about 36 percent of the proven coal reserves in Central Appalachia. Tim Bailey, a Charleston attorney who has handled several mining industry lawsuits, including one filed against Massey, said Blankenship “is a complete micromanager. If your production blips off the screen, you will get a phone call from someone who can roll your head.”

During the first 10 months of 2001, 13 miners were killed in accidents in West Virginia, six of them by falling rock. Eight of them worked at Massey-owned mines or for Massey contractors, said McAteer, who filed a report on the accidents to West Virginia’s governor.

McAteer said in an interview that investigators found the company’s safety practices “inadequate.”

In January 2006, the fire along a conveyor belt at Massey’s Aracoma Alma Mine in West Virginia killed the two miners. The investigative report, written by McAteer, blamed a malfunction along the belt and strongly criticized Massey for failing to take steps to prevent it, such as properly removing accumulated coal dust and installing carbon See mine safety on page 6

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Bernanke sounds warning on growing deficit

by Neil Irwin and Lori Montgomery The Washington Post

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Wednesday that Americans may have to accept higher taxes or changes in cherished entitlements like Medicare and Social Security if the nation is to avoid staggering budget deficits that threaten to choke off future economic growth.

“These choices are difficult, and it always seems easier to put them off—until the day they cannot be put off anymore,” Bernanke said in a speech. “But unless we as a nation demonstrate a strong commitment to fiscal responsibility, in the longer run we will have neither financial stability nor healthy economic growth.”

His stern lecture came even as the economy is emerging from the worst recession in years, sending the stock market up considerably over the past year and raising

public hopes for a return to prosperity. But the economic downturn—with tumbling tax revenue, aggressive stimulus spending and rising safety net payments like unemployment insurance—has driven already large budget deficits to their highest level relative to the economy since the end of World War II. This has fueled public concern over how long the United States can sustain its fiscal policies.

The health-care bill signed by President Obama last month has further stoked the national debate over government entitlement programs, though the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has projected the legislation would actually reduce future deficits.

Barely two months after Bernanke was confirmed by Congress for a second term following a bruising fight, he used his bully pulpit to tread into an area of economic policy that is usually the province of the presi-

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dent and Congress. He characterized the budget gap as the biggest long-term economic challenge the nation faces, even as he acknowledged that reducing the deficit immediately would be “neither practical nor advisable” given the still-weak economy.

While the immediate audience for the speech was the Dallas Regional Chamber, his message was intended for Congress and the Obama administration. Officials in both branches have spoken of the need for a more sustainable fiscal policy, but few have proposed concrete plans to achieve it. A deficit commission created by Obama is scheduled to begin meeting at the end of the month.

With his warning about what could be the next economic crisis, Bernanke offered a contrast to Alan Greenspan, his predecessor as Fed chairman. Greenspan did little to sound an alert about the housing and credit bubbles that brought on the financial crisis and was pilloried on Wednesday by a special Congressional commission for the Fed’s lapses during his tenure.

Bernanke did not endorse any particular approach to reducing the deficit. But he laid out the “difficult choices.”

“To avoid large and ultimately unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above,” he said.

His remarks highlighted the difficulties posed by funding these entitlement programs over the long term. With the population aging and medical costs rising faster than inflation, Medicare is set to become a major drain on the federal budget in the coming decades, though the recently passed health-care bill has delayed the date when the program will begin to require big infusions of cash.

Social Security is already draining resources from the broader federal budget, as spending on benefits has risen above this year’s Social Security tax collections.

While that gap is expected to be fleeting, the program,

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monoxide detectors. Rescue efforts were hampered by an absence of water, the report said.

“Conditions existed which caused the fire to burn, creating dangerous smoke and heat which resulted in the deaths,” the report said. “These conditions should have been detected and steps taken to remove the risks, but they were not.”

Three months earlier, Blankenship had told mine superintendents to “ignore” requests to build overcasts—devices that are important for ventilating deadly gases from mines. “We seem not to understand that coal pays the bills,” he wrote in the memo, which was quoted in McAteer’s report.

Seven hours before the fire, court records show, a report sent to Blankenship noted that a section of the mine would not be in production for one day because crews were stabilizing the structure with blocks and timber. In response, Blankenship wrote that he wanted production to resume.

“Call in second crew ... if need be,” a copy of a handwritten note shows. “Stay on coal.”

Some industry experts have faulted the Mine Safety and Health Administration for failing to do enough to prevent Monday’s disaster, noting that inspectors served the Upper Big Branch mine with blizzards of paper violations but never sought to close the facility.

But efforts to strengthen the agency’s authority have faced resistance in Congress. Though the first significant mine safety reforms in almost three decades passed after the 2006 Sago, W.Va., mine blast that killed 12 workers, follow-up legislation the next year died in the Senate after a veto threat by from the Bush administration. It would have given the agency subpoena authority for the first time and permitted officials to stop production at a mine if a company failed to quickly address violations.

“How many times does the federal government need to fail before somebody on Capitol Hill gets it?” said Brookings Institution scholar Paul Light, an expert on federal regulatory policy. “We’ve got a systemic problem where we’ve got these breakdowns coming faster and faster.”

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Comcast ruling raises net neutrality question

by Cecilia Kang and Frank Ahrens The Washington Post

WASHINGTON, D.C. — At first glance, Tuesday’s federal court ruling on Comcast looked like a clean win for the cable giant and for competitors including Time Warner and AT&T. The court, after all, ruled that Comcast could regulate high-speed Internet traffic over its own system and that a company that wanted to push its content through Comcast’s pipelines could not.

But the ruling might be only be the beginning of a long campaign between Internet service providers and companies such as Skype, Google and Microsoft. The outcome is far from certain.

At issue is the wonky-sounding phrase “net neutrality.” In 2008, the Federal Communications Commission told Comcast and other big high-speed Internet companies that they must treat content that flows through their pipelines equally, whether it’s digitally lightweight e-mail or hefty movie files, by pushing it all through at the same speed.

Comcast complained that certain kinds of Internet traffic are so heavy that they slow down the entire system. Essentially, Comcast wanted to be able to enforce speed limits on its information highway, moving the big, traffic-clogging Internet traffic into a slower lane. Comcast sued the FCC, and Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit sided with Comcast.

The immediate impact is on the FCC. The agency said Wednesday that it will scrap cybersecurity, privacy and consumerprotection policies it had wanted to pursue under its net-neutrality authority. Now the FCC must decide whether it wants to appeal or try to work around the ruling.

Experts wonder what the court’s ruling

might mean for the pending $30 billion merger of Comcast and NBC-Universal. Netneutrality advocates fear that NBC’s online content, such as episodes of “30 Rock,” would be waved into the fast lane on Comcast’s pipes, while content from rival companies— say, videos on the Google-owned YouTube— would get slowed down. Comcast says that it manages congestion on its Internet network only by volume, not by the type of content. In other words, Comcast sees only a line of slowmoving trucks. It does manage traffic based on what’s inside the trucks.

The head of the big cable companies’ trade group called Tuesday’s ruling a victory, at least for now.

“While in the short run it’s clearly a reaffirmation of status quo, which is good news, it raises uncertainty in terms of a regulatory or legislative response,” said Kyle McSlarrow, chief executive of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association.

The ruling frees the big cable companies from the threat of net-neutrality rules, which they say would significantly hamper their ability to manage traffic on their own networks and prioritize certain applications, such as those that block spam.

“Some public interest groups and nonprofits have pointed to some kerfuffles over network owners interfering with traffic that was sent by a reproductive rights group and a charity; in both cases the broadband providers cleared things up quickly, but those are other examples of areas of concern,” said Rebecca Arbogast, head of research at Stifel Nicholaus. “The broadband providers make the argument that on the other side, if net-neutrality rules are adopted, it may interfere with their ability to prioritize traffic in order to provide Kindle- and

Garmin-type services,” she said, referring to the Amazon e-book and the Global Positioning System navigation system.

But the FCC could work around the Tuesday ruling with a vote of the five FCC commissioners. Currently, Internet service providers fall under a lightly regulated area of the FCC. It would take only a 3-to-2 vote to move high-speed Internet into one of the FCC’s more heavily regulated areas, where the agency could set tough rules on companies such as Comcast.

The FCC said Wednesday that the ruling would hamper key portions of its national broadband plan, such as its goal to bring high-speed connections to rural and lowincome areas.

On the other side of this Goliath vs.

Goliath tale is Google and companies that want a freer information superhighway.

The search giant has pushed for the FCC to impose conditions on an auction for airwaves that would require that a wireless network built from that spectrum be open to any device and any Internet application. The company hasn’t weighed in on how the FCC should proceed after the court decision.

Comcast took on the FCC after the agency said the cable and Internet giant broke the law in 2007 by throttling BitTorrent, a popular online peer-to-peer file-sharing service that not coincidently allows users to download pirated movies and television shows.

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deficit from page 6 the largest single item in the federal budget, is projected to require sustained support within the next 10 years.

Bernanke argued that if the government develops a “credible plan” to reduce long-term deficits, it could help boost the economy before long. Such a plan could enhance investors’ confidence in the financial health of the United States and make them more willing to lend the government money at lower interest rates. That in turn could lower long-term interest rates in general, making it cheaper for Americans to get a home mortgage or for companies to borrow money to build a factory.

Investors still view U.S. government debt as among the safest investments in the world. But the perceived creditworthiness of nations depends on fickle market forces, which can change quickly as Greece and other several other European countries have learned in recent months. Doubts about Greek debt, for instance, have driven up interest rates there and damaged the economy.

The Obama administration is in the early stages of crafting a strategy to reduce U.S. deficits, which are projected to hover around $1 trillion a year for much of the next decade. The presidentially appointed commission, known as the Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, has been assigned the task of helping develop that strategy.

Obama has said he expects the commission to look at all options for reining in deficits, including cuts to entitlement programs, reductions in other spending and tax increases.

On Tuesday, White House adviser Paul Volcker spoke in favor of higher taxes,

telling an audience at a New York Historical Society event that the nation may have to consider a European-style sales tax, known as a value-added tax, to close the persistent budget gap. In answer to a question, Volcker said a VAT “was not as toxic an idea” as it has been in the past, according to a Reuters. “If at the end of the day we need to raise taxes, we should raise taxes,” he added.

Pointing to Volcker’s remarks, Republicans in Congress accused Obama of plotting a big tax hike. “To make up for the largest levels of spending and deficits in modern history, the Administration is laying the foundation for a large, misguided new tax, a first-time American VAT,” Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a statement. Administration officials, however, said Volcker was not speaking for the president, who campaigned on a pledge to protect the middle class from higher taxes.

“The President has passed historic tax cuts for middle-class families and continues to push for more tax cuts. The president is not proposing to cut the deficit at the expense of middle-class families,” said Kenneth Baer, spokesman for the White House budget office.

Bernanke has urged Congress to address long-term fiscal imbalances in congressional testimony before, but usually only when he is asked about them by lawmakers. His speech Wednesday aimed to reach a broader audience, steering away from technical economic speak and using plain, sometimes wry, language—a rare thing for a Fed chairman.

“The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead,” Bernanke said. “If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.”

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IN ITS 13th YEAR, FULL FRAME BRINGS MORE THAN 100 DOCUMENTARIES TO DOWNTOWN DURHAM FOR FOUR DAYS. INSIDE: RODRIGO DORFMAN COMES HOME, CHARLIE McSPADDEN TELLS YOU WHAT TO SEE AND MUCH MORE.

theSANDBOX. I know that I wrote a last-minute, morose Sandbox last week about Recess columnists.

And I know that I’ve probably dragged down the quality and the entity of the Sandbox from its heyday (if it ever had one), turning it into a venue of self-promotion and diary entries, expressing my displeasures, inappropriate fandom of the Ph.D class and more.

Perhaps I’ve done the same at the helm of Recess (if it likewise ever had a heyday. And I’ll keep my capital R).

But this space must be filled, and I feel a compulsion to do it.

Just before I began writing this, I received a lovely e-mail from Brooke Hartley. Attached to the e-mail was her last column of the semester.

I am at once thrilled at this signifier of the end of my reign of misery as Recess editor and shocked at how soon the end of the semester has arrived. This means I’m not nearly far enough in my attempts to rewrite posthuman performance and yet it is too soon for Brooke and me to be ending our strange online relationship.

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To be sure, the relationship is odd.

Here is this person whom I hardly know, yet know so well. I have first access to her sex life, however public it becomes the next day. It is without question the most intimate cyber relationship I have ever had. So intense that it might be more meaningful than any of my relationships in the so-called material world.

And herein lies a paradox: earlier this evening, I commented on how odd it is the way we commodify and destabilize our identities by choosing Twitter or Gmail handles. The interweb might be foreign to us, it might be a different place for relationships. But these relationships do not have to be between doubly commodified versions of ourselves. As I have learned from Brooke, they can be quite lovely.

Nostalgic as I might be for the end of our e-mail-based relationship, I’m pleased to know it amounted to something. Online, in-person, it has been lovely. And most importantly, it was meaningful.

—Andrew Hibbard

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At just over 21 years old, I am wise. I have grown. I know things.

Events have happened to me.

I’ve become cultured watching hundreds of illegal Friends episodes online in Spain. I’ve matured by drinking boxed wine with a wellbalanced dinner and cleaning my dishes with a legitimate dishwasher.

I’ve expanded my horizons and sometimes wear jeans instead of mini-skirts. I leave a glass of water on the nightstand before bed on the weekends. I’ve mastered every difficult Mario Kart course. I was blonde and now I’m brunette. I’m preparing to write a senior thesis on sex.

Time and my Duke education are gradually shaping me into a real human being, but sometimes college fights back. Looking toward my final year in the playpen, I feel stuck in the limbo of college’s peculiar breed of adulthood. And in this world, I’m a village elder, growing old in my youth.

Preparing my final column of the semester, I’ve chosen to impart my wisdom, the product of many unwise experiences and the contributions of the friends who have always allowed me to exploit them for the sake of The Chronicle and the greater good. Take it or leave it.

Just remember, I’m basically your grandma.

They can hear you in the other bedroom.

And in the apartment next door.

[Insert location]. They heard you.

Puking isn’t necessarily a deal-breaker.

People have names for a reason.

Reasons like helping you realize that your mouth is attached to your friend’s little brother.

Be nice. Swallow.

Be nice. Last longer than two minutes.

Invest in paper towels. Trust me.

Sexiling is unnecessary. Commons rooms

have locks. And classrooms are empty at night. And bulldozers… exist.

Signs the night did not go well: You need to swallow Advil to ease the pain in your swollen lip.

You wake up in your closet.

You wake up in a fraternity boy’s closet.

Signs the night shouldn’t have started: “I’m ready to commit and have children... let’s have sex.”

“I’m great at sex. I just rarely get any.”

“You remind me of my mother... and my sister.”

No matter how drunk you are, don’t forget the four stages of oral hygiene.

On that note, save the environment.

Brush your teeth after head.

Don’t wear a skirt in the Shooters’ cage.

Please.

Sex in a section bathroom is a collegiate rite of passage. If you want athlete’s foot to be an STD. Save the vibrator for the second date.

Quantity is measured in minutes, not inches. But inches are nice.

Why don’t the bedroom walls in West Village go all the way to the ceiling? Who thought this made sense in a student apartment?

Sex in the IM gym bathroom is low.

Sex in the IM gym bathroom during EBall is brilliant.

The term “boning” should be removed from the sexual vernacular.

Duke spends your tuition dollars on condoms. Get your money’s worth. Don’t buy from the vending machine.

I really am a 32C. Seriously.

It’s called making love for a reason. Too bad that phrase is a buzzkill.

Happy summer. I’ll miss you.

Brooke Hartley is a Trinity junior. This is her last column of the semester.

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Duke hosts Kronos Quartet’s world premiere

by Andrew Walker THE CHRONICLE

If you still think there’s a defining line around what can be called classical music, prepare to expand your conceptions.

The Kronos Quartet will perform the world premiere of Maria Schneider’s String Quartet No. 1 as the centerpiece of their concert Saturday night in Page Auditorium. The work, which was commissioned by Duke Performances, marks the first collaboration between these giants of contemporary music.

Saturday’s concert is the newest chapter in an ongoing relationship between Duke Performances and the Kronos Quartet, comprised of founder and principal violinist David Harrington, violinist John Sherba, violist Hank Dutt and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler. In September 2007, the ensemble played two performances at Duke, one for the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and another as part of Duke Performances’ Following Monk series, which celebrated the work of North Carolina-born jazz pianist Thelonious Monk.

“We’ve worked with them so much because the integrity they bring to the work is so high,” said Director of Duke Performance Aaron Greenwald. “As an ensemble leader, Harrington has built an institution around Kronos. It’s a model organization for arts innovation.”

Since its founding in 1973, the Kronos Quartet has sought to redefine the role of the string quartet within and across the limits of popular, classical and traditional music.

As Harrington explained, the evolution of the music world over the past 37 years has allowed the quartet to participate in an infinitely wider sphere of exchange between different genres and cultures.

Indeed, having performed the work of such diverse artists as George Crumb, Bill Evans, Sigur Ros and Nine Inch Nails, the ensemble does not shy away from unorthodox collaborations and new sonic territory. Their latest album, 2009’s Floodplain, explores the musical traditions of lowlying areas throughout the Middle East and Central Asia.

“Harrington is obviously in love with the string quartet; he believes it’s an essential music-making unit”, Greenwald said. “He’s a tireless musician with incredible passion, but most of all his ears are wide open to an incredible range of different music.”

Harrington’s ears eventually led him to the work of Maria Schneider, the celebrated composer, arranger and bandleader whose most recent recordings have earned her two Grammy awards, for Best Large Ensemble Album and Best Instrumental Composition.

“It was the eloquence of her music that originally caught my attention,” Harrington said. “There’s a certain confidence in her own voice that I sensed the very first time I heard her music, something very natural that comes from a fertile imagination and lots of experimenting.”

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Kronos Quartet has been at the vanguard of contemporary music since its founding more than 30 years ago. They will premiere a brand new string quartet from composer Maria Schneider commissioned by Duke Performances Saturday. This is their first appearance at Duke since 2007.

Harrington and company first approached Schneider to so much flamenco music that it just kind of comes out with the proposal of a string quartet commission more in my writing.”

Harrington said the rest of Saturday’s performance than five years ago, but she was initially wary of the idea.

Schneider said the unique vocabulary of big-band jazz will serve to frame the presentation of Schneider’s work. composition is not immediately translatable to a string Beginning with Ben Johnston’s arrangement of the legendary hymn “Amazing Grace” and ending with Serbian quartet palette.

When she finally warmed up to the offer, it meant Sch- composer Aleksandra Vrebalov’s “…hold me, neighbor, in this storm…,” the performance will traverse centuries and neider had to teach herself an entirely new craft.

“All of the things that I’m used to are suddenly absent,” continents, with Schneider’s artistic statement at the very she said. “Normally, my music is full of wide, sonorous tex- center to provide direction.

For Harrington, performing new pieces such as this tures. I’m used to a rhythm section and soloists. I’m used one with Kronos is about more than stretching the string to writing for chordal instruments.”

Despite these challenges, Schneider looked at the writ- quartet tradition or exploring the intermediary space being process as a learning experience and soon found a way tween genres.

“We’re aware of the fragility of things, of how short life to channel her compositional voice through the string quartet. Among other elements, she cited the piece’s har- is,” he said. “We’re aware that the world that we share is full monic fluctuation and overall lyrical quality as particularly of strife and tension and environmental disaster, but that there are also moments of absolute beauty. These things unique to her style.

Furthermore, the work’s unmistakable Latin flair re- need to be expressed, explored and celebrated. That’s flects the diverse array of Schneider’s own compositional what we want to do.” influences.

“My music has been influenced by Brazilian music and Kronos Quartet will perform with Maria Schneider April 10 flamenco music for such a long time,” she said. “The fla- at 8 p.m. in Page Auditorium. Tickets are $5 for students and menco rhythms that I use are divisible by three, rhythms $22 to $42 for general admission. For details of their April 8-10 that turn inside out from one another, like buleria. I listen residency, visit dukeperformances.duke.edu.

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documentary film festival For the 13th year, Full Frame comes to Durham.

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New director takes reins of Full Frame

by Andrew Hibbard THE CHRONICLE

Deirdre Haj was appointed as director of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in January after Peg Palmer departed from the helm following the 2009 festival. A documentary producer and well-connected Hollywood ex-pat, Haj moved to Chapel Hill with her husband, who is the producing artistic director of Chapel Hill’s Playmakers Theatre, in 2006.

What are your goals for the festival and how do you hope to see it grow?

The first thing I want to do is not change anything. In other words, to watch how the festival unfolds and see where we are this year. The festival continues to grow annually, both artistically and financially, so part of what I’m going to do is just observe, because it was really up and running before I got here. Every year, the staff sits down and reviews what works, what could maybe be done differently, and I of course will be a big part of that.

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Always a hot documentary topic at the festival, the environment will primarily be chronicled in Peter Bell’s Dirty Business, which follows Rolling Stone writer Jeff Goodell as he unearths lies about clean coal. Additionally, Sun Come Up, a short about the residents of a South Pacific island whose bucolic existence is threatened by rising ocean tides, and Waste Land, which chronicles Brazilian artist Vik Muniz as he turns a Rio de Janeiro landfill into art, both look promising.

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Recess film editor Charlie McSpadden navigates through the 100+ documentaries to give you his FF picks

The Carolina Theatre in downtown Durham will play host to many of the 106 films in the thirteenth annual Full Fra As we move forward, I would love to see our year-round tor but intended to go to film s programming broaden because it’s pretty narrow at this point. tion by Ed Sharon, who was one I’m very excited to look at possibilities of us working educa- Law & Order and is married to tionally in the community. That means acquiring grants and ran the NEA, and he told me, money to support that. I feel very passionately—and there’s I went to SUNY-Purchase, whic data to support this—that putting cameras into the hands of there, it was known as the Purc youth keeps them in school. And I think we really need to be with Edie Falco and Ann Tucc a part of that, especially being here in Durham.

Posey. It was such a small progr It’s a difficult time to step in as director given the economy mediately came out and worke and the loss of the Times deal last year. Do you have plans to So I was in New York those seek new sponsorship, especially at the presenting level?

And even when I was a regula We’re going to be fine, but it’s hard for me to say. We’re Kapsen said, “You’re a lovely a very much fine where we are, but there’s always room for ducer.” I would sit on the set a growth and new relationships to be made, and I’m eager to erly and don’t you want to light make those. The time frame is such that when I came in, that not the microcosm from the ac can only be mitigated so much for this festival. That’s a quesA few years later, when I wan tion I’d be eager to answer a year from now when we’re going that come up for me was prod into next year’s festival. lywood and tobacco. And that The Times loss that happened last year is just a changed And I knew so many people, relationship, and that’s true across the sector. For everybody very prominent people on bo literally in every arts organization. I’m optimistic—confident, on camera. And I think a lot actually—we’ll make new partnerships. That’s part of why I you could have a film about sm was brought on. I have different relationships with people in camera to talk about it. I was m the sector than people who have been here before.

That film alone drove 10 years How did you come into being interested in film and grow it was really dialectic. It drove into a career producing documentaries?

I was always interested in film. I started my career as an ac-

THE BIG NAMES

D.A. Pennebaker, the cinema verite do mentarian whose past subjects include B Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie, k off the festival with Kings of Pastry, an ins into the intense competition for the Fre pastry world’s most esteemed award. A the screening, Pennebaker, co-director C Hegedus and pastry chef Jacquy Pfeiffer participate in a conversation moderated New York Times dining reporter Julia Mos A similar level of festival buzz surrounds di tors Michel Gondry and Steven Soderber who step back from fiction and tap into th documentary palette. Soderburgh’s And Ev thing is Going Fine honors the late monolog Spalding Gray, a collaborator and close fri of the director, and Gondry’s The Thorn in Heart centers around Gondry’s aunt Suz

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ame Documentary Film Festival. school and was seen in an audie of the executive producers of o Jane Alexander and of course , “You need to be trained.” So ch of course in the years I was chase Mafia. So I was in school ci and Wes Snipes and Parker ram yet so many people just imed. years and then on a TV show. ar on Dallas, the late Leonard actress but you’re really a proand say, that’s not written propt this. I saw the macrocosm and cting standpoint. nted to make that shift, the job ducing a documentary on Holfilm was Scene Smoking [2001].

I was able to get a lot of very oth sides of the issue to come of people were surprised that moking and get Sean Penn on meant to do that kind of a job. s of other work for me because e so much dialogue that I was See deirdre haj on page 7

ull Frame may be a documentary film festival, but “documentary” hardly covers all that Rodrigo Dorfman does.

Generation Exile, a film that Dorfman, Trinity ’89, both wrote and directed, has its world premiere today as a part of Full Frame. The work Rodrigo Dorfman refracts his own experience as an exile and multinational through the stories of four women in flux.

Rodrigo uses the four very different perspectives—that of a Taiwanese pianist, an Afro-Caribbean Whirling Dervish, a Latina artist and an American woman confronting spiritual abuse—to comment on his own life and the lives of his family, forced out of Chile in 1973 due to the activities of his father Ariel Dorfman, Walter Hines Page Research professor of Literature and Latin American Studies in the Center for International Studies.

Rodrigo said he recognized the need to tell a good story, but at the same time he wanted to find new ways of expressing his narrative that didn’t fit one particular format.

“One of the ways that I try to describe [Generation Exile] is ‘fictionary,’” he said. “As in, it’s fiction and it’s documentary at the same time.

Because to me, this whole discussion about what is real—is documentary more real than fiction and vice versa—to me what really matters is that the emotion is real.

Then it’s a good story regardless of how you tell it.”

Aside from their status as exiles, the four women shared something else: they were all friends of Rodrigo.

“They all reflect a different aspect of my journey,” Rodrigo said. “My understanding was that I couldn’t just tell my journey about myself. I needed to have other people reflect different stages of my own journey, and to amplify it and to echo it.”

Generation Exile also includes footage from two spiritually oriented

as she tours the camera through the locales of the family’s past.

Casino Jack and the United States of Money, the latest from Oscar winner Alex Gibney who helmed the memorable Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, details another astounding American scandal. Gibney looks to be on top of his game as he recounts how Jack Abramoff bribed over 20 members of Congress and swindled six Native American casino-owning tribes out of tens of millions of dollars. Perhaps benefiting from the Durham basketball fever will be Dante James, who returns to the festival with No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson. James, who helped curate a series of sports films at last year’s festival, is back with a look at the racially charged fight that sent the high-school-aged Iverson to jail.

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projects Rodrigo attempted earlier: a documentary about the American Sufi, which saw the dissolution of its subject community and never reached completion, and a film called Gnawa Stories, in which he became the first Western journalist ever given access to an isolated group of Moroccan mystics.

This explicit spirituality is an area in which Rodrigo’s work differs in focus from that of his father’s.

“I’ve always been very spiritual but not overtly so,” Ariel said. “He’s the first member of the family that engages in this sort of overtly spiritual quest.”

The two have long collaborated on artistic efforts, often with Rodrigo working as Ariel’s dramaturg, and Ariel said the strengths of each complement the other well.

“We’ve won major awards as screenwriters together, but he has a visual style which I—I almost have a sickness in a sense, I’m almost unable to imagine anything except in words,” Ariel said. “So even if we codirected a short film together, it’s really Rodrigo’s, and I think that what’s most interesting about my work with him... is that none of it is territorial. And just as he renews me with a vitality that he’s got, I think I renew him and the other son [author and filmmaker Joaquin] with a certain knowledge of writing and of how you tell stories.”

Although Generation Exile does largely tell a story of displacement and transience, Rodrigo said it is also about finding your home. And as an alumnus of Duke, a former member of the Full Frame selection committee and now a participating filmmaker, both the festival and the town represent a distinct home for him.

“This is the place where I’ve lived the longest my whole life consecutively, this is where I’ve raised my children, and in many ways you need a community in order to create,” Rodrigo said. “Part of what I create is due to the community of Durham and of course of Duke University, which has always been helping me and sustaining me and opening the doors.”

THE WAR FLICK

Restrepo, Grand Jury Prize winner at Sundance, looks to be a gritty, alarming depiction of the lives of American soldiers in Afghanistan, and fellow Sundance alum My Perestroika presents a portrait of Russia during and post-Soviet Union collapse. Enemies

of the People takes an investigatory look at the slaughter of millions of Cambodians during the Khmer Rouge regime and Rebecca Richman Cohen’s War Don Don charts the war crimes trials after a decadelong internal conflict in Sierra Leone.

THE MUSIC DOC Music lovers can look forward to Do It Again, in which formerly Raleigh-based reporter Geoff Edgers tries to reunite British rock band the Kinks in order to escape a mid-life crisis, seeking out help from Kinks supporters like Sting and Zooey Deschanel.

Edgers and director Robert Patton-Spruill will speak after the

screening, and cover band the Kinksmen will perform. Strange Powers offers a rare insight into the life and musical process of Magnetic Fields’ lead singer Stephin Merritt, while Thunder Soul sheds light on the famous all-black highschool jazz and funk group Kashmere Stage Band that took the nation by storm.

THE INTERNATIONAL

Generation Exile will screen today at 4:40 p.m. in Cinema Four.

Full Frame appointed filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichart as curators for a series of films about labor for this year’s thematic program. Standouts include 1990’s H-2 Worker, about Jamaican sugar cane workers, 2000’s Live Nude Girls UNITE!, about San Francisco peep show workers trying to form a strippers’ union, 2005’s

Chinese jean-factory expose China Blue and Man Push Cart, a film about a Pakistani rock star who ends up selling coffee and bagels on the streets of Manhattan. After presenting their poignant new documentary The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant, Bognar and Reichart will moderate a panel discussion with many of the program’s filmmakers.

The festival’s global flair once again burns bright this year, with filmmakers hailing everywhere from Finland to Iran to Sierra Leone, with topical countries ranging from Guatamala to Cambodia to Kazakhstan. Albert’s Winter, the latest offering from Danish filmmaker Andreas Koefoed, who won Best Short at last year’s festival for 12 Notes Down, documents a young boy dealing with his mother’s illness. Summer Pasture follows a young Tibetan couple as they choose between continuing a life of herding yaks at an elevation of 15,000 feet or raising their newborn girl in the modern world. David Christensen’s The Mirror takes place at a similar altitude, depicting a smalltown mayor as he tries to enlighten his hamlet in the Italian Alps. And new Iranian doc The Poot might entice the interior decorators of the world, chronicling the intricate process of how Persian rugs are made.

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Duke prof brings class project to silver screen

by Michael Woodsmall the chronicle

By Molière Translated and adapted by Elisabeth Lewis Corley Directed by Joseph Megel Original music by David Garner and Alex Kotch, performed by Duke New Music Ensemble

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Professor Gary Hawkins and his intermediate documentary filmmaking class never imagined that their Spring 2009 class project would be premiering at the Full Frame Festival. But this weekend, their collective work In My Mind will take center stage alongside documentaries of internationally acclaimed filmmakers.

In My Mind is an on-stage and behind-thescenes look at celebrated pianist and composer Jason Moran’s revival of jazz icon Thelonious Monk’s now legenderary 1959 concert at New York City’s Town Hall. With the support of the Center for Documentary Studies’ Jazz Loft Project, Moran has helped contribute to the public awareness of the concert. Hawkins, an awardwinning documentary filmmaker and self-proclaimed jazz enthusiast, saw the show as a perfect opportunity to offer his students hands-on experience. Along with lecturing fellow Steve Milligan, Hawkins led a series of workshops to prepare his students for the shoot.

Although the students were excited to be going to New York City in February 2009 for Moran’s concert, Hawkins made sure that they realized what was required.

“You get to go to New York,” said Hawkins.

“But you go on a mission: to go get footage.”

Once they arrived in Manhattan, the class had to learn on the run. Although equipped with the necessary technical skills, the students had received no training on how to handle an aggravated Monk estate and musicians more concerned with the concert than a student project. But the class embraced the challenge.

“They tore down the wall of tension,” Hawkins said. “They walked right up to the performers. They were not just detached flies on the wall.”

It was this confidence and commitment that allowed Hawkins and Milligan to concentrate on their own responsibilities while trusting the students’ judgment. Hawkins simply advised his students to “just shoot what [they] think is cool.”

Hawkins confessed his expectations and ambition for the footage were humble, that which you would expect of a student project.

“I wanted to come away with one song that proves we were there,” Hawkins said. “Something to add to the Jazz Loft website.”

Back in Durham, Hawkins, Milligan and producer Emily LaDue sat down and watched the footage, hoping for enough raw material to legitimize their trip to those holding the checkbooks. But what they saw was more than anything they would have expected.

“I am astonished by the images. It was a very difficult show to shoot [and] the lighting was very dynamic,” said Milligan, a seasoned cinematographer. “You would be hard-pressed to pick out the angles that were shot by students.”

With a newfound energy for the film coming after looking over the footage, Hawkins and Ladue began cutting together the footage, becoming more and more excited as it came together.

“At some point it became very personal for me and [Emily],” he said.

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dEIrdre haj from CENTERSPREAD then one of the key people involved in adding tobacco to the rating system but at the same time standing up for the First Amendment and believing that an R-rating was not what was called for, which is what a lot of the health groups are calling for. With that film, I ended up really getting known in that circle.

Full Frame is very much national but also very local.

How do you plan to negotiate this local/national balance?

Obviously the Duke relationship is paramount and that’s not going anywhere. For me personally it’s a matter of getting to know those people. It’s about meeting those most prominent sponsors and asking, “What does this do for you?” What they do for us is obvious. What we can do for them is less obvious. I feel passionately though about Durham, about us being a tentpole in the Durham community. I know we have so much more to offer to our neighbors besides bringing in $3 million in four days—and that’s important. It’s vital.

At the same time, we are still considered one of the preeminent documentary festivals in the world. And one of the first. It’s important to not only nurture our past but also embrace what our future is. I think a lot of that has to do with that local relationship. I look forward to hearing people say, “Durham equals Full Frame.” It’s a little bit of that mentality you deal with in New York and L.A. They refer to it as the people we fly over. It’s a very careful dance.

I’m loathe to push any agenda that a sponsor has about a film. And at the same time, to be able to nurture those films that are chosen. I want to move the festival closer to the marketplace without it losing its soul. That’s really key for me.

We’re a different fest and that has to be protected. Just the way we program our fest is so different and that’s why so many of the filmmakers love us. If you look at that recent piece that was in the New York Times about the film Cool It, which was at Sundance, we’re the only festival quoted.

People still know, if you want an opinion about documentary, ask us. And a lot of that has to do with CDS because some of the best minds in the field are in our backyard and are our friends.

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in my mind from page 6 of doing much more with the film, they soon realized that what they had in front of them was no ordinary project.

When they saw the final edit, they began looking at film festivals, and the one they felt would be most appropriate was Full Frame.

Now, a year later, Hawkins, Milligan, Ladue, and his intermediate documentary film class will see their small student project become a silver-screen reality.

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Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art is organized by the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. The exhibition is curated by Wu Hung, Smart Museum Consulting Curator, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, and Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago, in consultation with Jessica Moss, Smart Museum Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, and Stephanie Smith, Smart Museum Director of Collections and Exhibitions and Curator of Contemporary Art. The exhibition and related programs have been supported by Dan Bo, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, the University of Chicago Women’s Board, and the Center for East Asian Studies. The accompanying publication was made possible by a generous gift from Fred Eychaner and Tommy Yang Guo. At the Nasher Museum, the exhibition is supported by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute Duke University, Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment, the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina, Diane Evia-Lanevi and Ingemar Lanevi in honor of their daughter Sammy Lanevi, the North Carolina Chinese Business Association and The Chronicle.

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It came down to the very last match to decide the winner between Wake Forest and Duke. Afstar freshman DUKE 4 ter and the Blue DevWAKE 3 ils’ No. 1 singles player, Henrique Cunha, scraped through in a tiebreaker to even the match ledger at 3-3, attention

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turned to the sixth-seeded singles tie to determine the winner.

In the final match of the night, Luke Marchese won in straight sets and No. 20 Duke (12-6, 5-1 in the ACC) narrowly pulled through to bounce back from its loss to No. 1 Virginia last Sunday.

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Sophomore Luke Marchese’s convincing win at No. 6 singles gave Duke all the margin it needed Wednesday.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Home heartache

Doubles win not enough in UNC rematch

by Dan Ahrens THE CHRONICLE

One of the two streaks had to end. North Carolina entered Wednesday’s match against Duke undefeated in ACC play. The Blue Devils, meanwhile, had not lost at Ambler Stadium in 29 matches. In a marathon match befitting its significance, the No. 2 Tar Heels emerged victorious, scraping out a 4-3 win.

The day started out well for the No. 7 Blue Devils (17-3, 5-1 in the ACC) as they managed to sneak out a 4 win in two doubles UNC matches to secure the DUKE 3 first point. Despite being down a break early, Elizabeth Plotkin and Reka Zsilinszka stormed back to take No. 3 doubles 8-5. Senior Amanda Granson and junior Ellah Nze couldn’t match their teammates, falling behind the Tar Heels’ top duo and never recovering. Duke eventually bowed out 8-3.

The doubles point came down to Duke’s surprise pairing of Mary Clayton and Monica Gorny at No. 2 doubles. The two only began playing together days ago but had to match up against North Carolina’s undefeated duo of Katrina Tsang and Shinann Featherston. Down 7-6, Clayton held serve, and the Blue Devils rode the momentum to an enormous 9-7 victory to start Duke’s upset bid on the right foot.

“It was by far the best doubles we’ve played all year, which was great to see,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “I thought we played with a lot of emotion.”

The Blue Devils couldn’t quite carry the

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Amanda Granson held off UNC’s Sophie Grabinski for a straight-set singles victory Wednesday afternoon. momentum into singles, though. Three different Duke players raced out to first-set victories, but none of the Tar Heels (20-3, 7-0) would go down without a fight. No. 39 Zsilinszka took the first set 6-4, but then had to See w. tennis on page 10

FOOTBALL

Lubick’s hire marks new era for Duke recruiting

by Ryan Claxton THE CHRONICLE

Matt Lubick may be the newest member of Duke’s coaching staff, but he is no stranger to the game. His father, Sonny, was the head coach at Colorado State from 1993-2007, amassing a career record of 108-74 for the Rams. Lubick’s brother, Marc, spent five seasons as an assistant at Colorado State before taking a job as an offensive assistant for the NFL’s Houston Texans in February.

“I know I use my dad, as does my brother, as our number-one resource,” Lubick said. “We have a really closeknit family and it’s neat right now, the fact that [our father is] retired and he can still come out and be involved in football, spending time with [Marc and] the Texans and have a chance to come down here.”

Matt Lubick For the greater part of the 1980s and early 1990s, Sonny Lubick was regarded as one of the finest assistants in Division I football. His rising popularity ultimately led to his hiring as defensive coordinator at Miami under head coach Dennis Erickson in 1988.

In four years with the Hurricanes, Sonny won two national championships. But just as was the case for Duke’s own David Cutcliffe, he still sought the opportunity to lead his own program. Then in 1993, at age 56, Sonny Lubick was hired as head coach at Colorado

State—a program many considered to be among the worst in college football.

Not unlike Cutcliffe, Sonny began assembling a coaching staff of budding assistants he had come into contact with over the years. For the next three seasons, the Rams’ wide receivers coach would be a bright young offensive mind by the name of Urban Meyer.

“The key at Colorado State, and it’s a lot like here [at Duke], is getting people to believe they can win,” Lubick said. “Once you start winning, it’s contagious. It wasn’t like they were that far off, they just needed to get over that hump, which is a hard hump to get over. Then once you do start winning and that belief becomes contagious with the rest of the players, it follows through in recruiting—and I see that happening here.”

As his own coaching career has developed, Lubick hasn’t strayed far from his family ties—until his move to Durham. After bouncing around early on, Lubick coached on his father’s staff at Colorado State for four years from 2001-2004. Then, following two years under Cutcliffe’s successor Ed Orgeron at Mississippi, Lubick headed to Arizona State and served on Erickson’s staff as safeties coach and recruiting coordinator—and eventually was named assistant head coach in Tempe, Ariz.

Even though he is now outside of his father’s coaching circle, Lubick said the similar styles Cutcliffe and his See lubick on page 10

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New Duke assistant coach Matt Lubick served under David Cutcliffe for two seasons at Mississippi before moving on to Arizona State.

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lubick from page 9 father share played a part in drawing him away from the southwest.

“Career path-wise they’re very similar, but also in fundamental values and beliefs,” Lubick said. “They’re both Catholic and the way they speak to the team, the way they treat other people, the way they treat coaches—they have great people skills and they have no egos. They’re just great people down to the core and I think that’s why people want to play so hard for guys like that, because they genuinely feel that this guy cares about me more than just a football player or a coach.

“Once you start winning, it’s contagious. It wasn’t like [Colorado State was]that far off— they just needed to get over that hump, which is a hard hump to get over.... And I see that happening here.”

— Matt Lubick “That’s one of the things I took for granted when I was coaching with my dad [and] then went on to other places. That doesn’t happen everywhere. And now that I’m here, it reminds me a lot of that.”

Lubick is widely considered to be one of the best young coaches in the collegiate ranks as well as a top recruiter, earning nationwide respect for his recruiting

efforts with the Sun Devils. He squared off in recruiting battles with Pac-10 rivals USC and Oregon, and is credited with drawing five-star linebacker Vontaze Burfict—the highest-rated recruit in program history—to the Sun Devils.

Even with Burfict’s signature on the dotted line, perhaps the most high-profile recruit to sign with Arizona State during Lubick’s tenure was snagged right out of his father Sonny’s territory in south suburban Denver—Jack Elway, son of NFL Hall of Famer John Elway.

“It was a great experience,” Lubick said of recruting the younger Elway. “John and Janet were really involved in Jack’s life.

John’s always been a hero of mine, so going over and doing a home visit at John Elway’s house was a big treat for me.”

At Duke, Lubick will serve as receivers’ coach, passing game coordinator and recruiting coordinator. In moving back to the offensive side of the ball, Lubick indicated that his experience coaching in the secondary at Arizona State has given him a better understanding of how offenses operate, which should prove advantageous in recognizing and responding to different coverages opposing defenses may throw at Duke.

Perhaps most importantly, the Blue Devils hope that Lubick can bring his recruiting charm to Durham as the program continues to grow. While Cutcliffe has focused on in-state recruiting during his tenure, Lubick may be able to give Duke a national recruiting presence.

“We want the recruit to believe that when they come here, they’re becoming a part of a football team that’s going to compete,” Lubick said. “You’re not only going to get one of the best educations in the country, you’re going to have a chance to compete for the ACC championship, and our kids believe that.”

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Junior Reka Zsilinszka’s straight-set win in singles play was one of only two for Duke in a 4-3 defeat.

w. tennis from page 9 battle through a tough second set before eventually finishing off North Carolina’s Jelena Durisic at 6-4 once again.

A big forehand winner down the line clinched a 7-5, 6-4 win at No. 4 singles for Granson as she overcame No. 118 Sophie Grabinski. The upset gave Duke a 3-1 lead with three matches still up for grabs.

Senior Elizabeth Plotkin wasn’t able to clinch the victory for the Blue Devils, however, even after a hot start. She demolished No. 51 Tsang 6-2 in the first set, but then the Tar Heel senior found another gear. She passed Plotkin at the net time after time and leveled the score with a 6-2 victory of her own.

Tsang then raced out to a five-game lead in the third, finally finishing off Plotkin 6-2 in the decisive frame.

Gorny’s singles match likewise went the distance. After falling 6-2 in the first, the Blue Devil sophomore came back to even things up in the second. An epic third set followed, but eventually Featherston avenged her doubles loss, pulling out the 7-5 win to even the match at three wins apiece.

The match of the night was Nze’s battle at the top of the ladder. Nze and No. 32 Sanaz Marand slugged it out, splitting the first two sets 4-6, 6-4. Marand then got an early break in the third, and quickly built a 3-0 lead. Nze could never recover, and Marand closed out the match 6-3 in the final set.

“It was really the first time all year that we just could not get up in a singles match quick,” Ashworth said. “We won some matches but we couldn’t build off the momentum. That’s something we’ve concentrated on all year. That’s something we just have to keep working on.

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Freshman Henrique Cunha pulled out a contested third set to push Duke to victory.

out of here with a win,” Duke head coach Ramsey Smith said.

After the No. 20 Blue Devils took the doubles point by winning all three matches, No. 18 Wake Forest (11-6, 5-2) showed its resiliency and stormed back to win the first set in three of the first five singles matches.

David Holland and Reid Carleton leveled their matches in the second set, setting up what would be a gripping end at Leighton Stadium.

“It was one of those matches where it looked like we didn’t have a chance to win,” Smith said.

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Reid Carleton did one better than his brother and managed to come back from a set down to beat Wake Forest’s Steve Forman—a player whom Smith described as one of the hottest players in the ACC—4-6, 6-1, 6-4, for his 15th victory of the season. The Blue Devils’ close wins set up a showdown in the final match with the win on the line.

“We needed that desperate-

ly,” Smith said. “Without Reid [Carleton], we would have had no chance.”

Leighton Stadium is only able to feature five singles matches at a time, meaning sophomore Marchese would have to wait to face Zach Leslie until a court opened up.

The Blue Devil would prove the wait was worthwhile, however, as his win over Leslie in straight sets cemented the victory for Duke. At the meet’s conclusion, Smith paid tribute to the attitude and poise of his players, citing those traits as the key to the victory.

“This was a hard-fought match,” Smith said. “Our guys competed so well.... We lost some tough three-setters, but just hung around and found a way to win.”

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A victory that speaks volumes Athletic excellence is a field—or on the basketball fundamental part of the Duke court—to unify the student identity, and as the men’s bas- body, spark enthusiasm across ketball team’s stunning Nation- the University community and al Championship victory on ultimately boost the value of Monday night showed us, it’s a the Duke brand. tradition well worth keeping.

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dent body, and it underscores that fact that the Duke basketball experience as a whole is inclusive and that Cameron is one of the most democratic and universally accessible social spaces on campus.

But to focus on athletics’ impact on the student body alone shortchanges its broader potential. More than any other event, more than any research breakthrough, winning sports teams can bring students and faculty together and breed a sense of the Duke community that transcends the physical campus in Durham, N.C. Students and administrators often lament the lack of meaningful faculty-student interaction on campus. By no means is athletics a panacea to this problem, but common interest in the University’s sports teams

can help to spark conversation and bridge the divide between students and their professors.

These conversations can lead to long-term mentorship.

Success on the playing field can also promote a sense of unity among the University’s many stakeholders. Students watching the game live at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis and on the scoreboard in Cameron, along with alumni across the country and the world, took pause from their daily lives to cheer the Blue Devils on to victory. It is hard to understate the loyalty and pride a National Championship can bring to the broader Duke community.

All of this can translate into a very practical benefit, too. In a time when the University is struggling financially and donations have

slumped as a result of the economic downturn, Duke’s big win could mean a boost in alumni giving.

It can also bolster the strength of the Duke brand and provide free, positive publicity of a national and international scope. Along these lines, it’s important to note that the University’s rise to prominence as a world class university was very much linked to the success of the men’s basketball program.

Critics will continue to raise questions about the place of big-time sports within the American higher education landscape. But this University has an unrivaled school spirit— and soon, four banners hanging in Cameron—that prove the pursuit of athletic excellence is ineed a worthy aim.

Confessions of a Cameron Crazie

onday night, I stood on tiptoes in an oversized Duke blue T-shirt, surrounded by classmates on the floor level of Lucas Oil Stadium. We were all nervous. My entire body geared for battle, I chanted familiar cheers at the top of my lungs.

If noise was a contest, the other school was clearly winning. Judging by the different shades ying-ying lu of blue, Butler fans outnumbered Duke fleeting moments fans at least five-toone, giving them an automatic advantage. But that contrast only increased our sense of unity and urgency. Every Blue Devil’s voice mattered. We were a sea of solidarity in the ocean of opposition, and we moved as one.

With 13 seconds left in the game and the scoreboard showing 60-59 in Duke’s favor, the crowd was soaked in the thickest wave of tension I have ever felt. At three seconds remaining, Gordon Hayward launched his now-famous final shot… and missed. Duke fans went nuts. We jumped on seats, hugged everyone in sight and generally went crazy. The next minute was a euphoric blur—we absolutely could not contain our happiness.

It was a perfect moment.

As Coach K and the players were honored in the trophy ceremony, many onlookers, myself included, shed a few tears. Our team had come a long way.

The occasion was significant because a few months ago, we could not have predicted that we would be standing here in this moment. We had needed this win—hungered for it, and finally gotten it. As the last game of the season, the championship served as a fitting cap for all that had come before—and for seniors, there could not have been a better way to end four years of Duke basketball.

I, like most Dukies, will look back and forever remember that night as something truly special. But the ironic part is that I never could have predicted that things would end this way for me personally.

I did not enter Duke as a fan of men’s basketball.

In fact, I wasn’t a huge sports fan, period. While I ran track and played soccer in high school, I rarely watched professional sports and viewed basketball as a game that my brother was into—I had no desire to meddle in that territory. While I enrolled at Duke well aware of its reputation as an academic and athletic powerhouse, that dual-prowess was nowhere near one of the top reasons I chose to attend. Although it

was a perk, I never imagined that a sport could become a defining feature of my college experience.

Freshman year, first under the influence of classmates and then increasingly of my own accord, I started watching men’s basketball games, invested in a “Go to Hell Carolina” shirt and decided to blue tent. In Cameron, I felt the painful sting of losses, the prideful joy of victories and the adrenaline rush of close games (as the Facebook group states, “I Will Never Forget the Night Dave McClure Beat Clemson”). I discovered blue and white face paint, lined up to purchase and get autographs for multiple copies of Coach K’s new book and began purging my closet of all things light blue. The transformation had clearly begun.

But the funny thing is that I never consciously acknowledged it. Even after four seasons of tenting and countless games attended, it wasn’t until the final moments of Monday’s championship game that I truly took ownership: “I am a Cameron Crazie!”

I thought to myself as a chill traveled through my bones. I am a proud supporter of one of the greatest college basketball programs to ever exist.

Why was this realization so belated? What allowed things to change? And, what the heck—why does it even matter? Isn’t a Cameron Crazie just a label, just one component of a person’s identity?

It is. But for me, taking on that identity meant letting go of another one: that of the non-sports devotee I had cultivated for myself prior to college.

In a larger sense, it meant finally acknowledging that many things had changed in college, and that I am no longer the person I was in high school.

Of course, growth for me has come in other forms that I had more readily acknowledged: through love and heartbreak, fallen friendships and fresh new ones, academic challenges and eye-opening summer experiences.

People change. You will grow while at Duke; this is the wonderful thing about college. And truly embracing that change requires being open to new identities: remaining true to your core self, but also staying adventurous and optimistic on the rocky journey of becoming Who You Will Be. It requires recognizing that things don’t always work out as planned, and that sometimes, the most valuable experiences are the ones you didn’t expect. In some cases, growth can even be painful.

But in the process, you just might become a Cameron Crazie—and that wouldn’t be all bad, especially now that we’re National Champions.

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

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n between basketball games and egg hunts this past week, you may have noticed an annual occurrence: Everything turned green, seemingly overnight.

I find it hard not to link this profusion of pollen and photosynthesizing surfaces with another event last week, one slightly less noticeable.

It all started over a cup of coffee.

Amy Morsch, former president of Duke University Greening Initiative and a graduate student in the Nicholas School, and I, coffee drinker, met one morning last semester in Joe Van Gogh. We were there to discuss projects and campaigns, and the hurdles student groups face in marketing them to the Duke community. We wondered what the undergrad groups were working on, and if they felt like they were doing the same leg work liz bloomhardt year after year.

To answer that quesgreen devil tion, last Wednesday, the first ever Duke Student Environmental Leadership Summit was held in the Doris Duke Center at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens. Leaders from nearly 22 campus environmental groups were in attendance from all corners of the University. Attendees networked, met faculty and staff and discussed opportunities for collaboration. Maybe it wasn’t Copenhagen, but it was a summit.

Each student in the room represented a larger organization of students working on a diverse set of projects, in a unique population at Duke. If the idea here goes something along the lines of “it takes a village,” Duke has a lively village. Leaders in sustainability come from across campus, including graduate and undergraduate students; Law, Fuqua, Nicholas; staff representing recycling, purchasing, facilities, offsets and communication.

Opportunities abound to become more involved in campus groups that plan events and programs. For those not able to commit to a group, there are endless opportunities to participate. Maybe it’s joining a carpool, getting an office recycling bin, participating in a farm share or just turning off the lights when you leave a room.

And, the main theme that was echoed throughout the morning—students drive change at Duke.

The keynote speaker, Tavey Capps, Duke’s environmental sustainability coordinator, pointed out in her speech, that her position was created by a graduating senior who had been an active member of Environmental Alliance and wanted to continue the great projects started as an undergrad (and who wanted a job). That was in 2004.

Students also started Duke Recycles in 1989. Material could be dropped off at four locations around campus. Now housed in the Facilities Management department, Duke Recycles serves more than 180 locations on campus. Students still work there, but now it has a dedicated staff and director.

Students also initiated the Duke Bikes program, Eco-Olympics, Farmhand and many other programs you have heard of and recognize from your time on campus.

This comes as no surprise. Duke and institutions of higher education can be excellent breeding grounds for fresh ideas and experimentation, as well as a place for students to cut their teeth on projects at manageable scale. They are a crossroads where students, faculty and professionals can interact across disciplines.

Perhaps what makes Duke unique, then, is the real willingness of the administration and staff to listen, to be receptive of new ideas and to work with students, allowing them great freedom to shape the institution.

To borrow a mighty turn of phrase: At Duke it’s not always about what your university can do for you, it’s about what you can do for your university. With this, of course, comes great responsibility. So, fellow students, wield your influence wisely and with good judgment.

Let us be good citizens of this community, and together we can leave behind more than just an academic legacy; we can leave behind a better, greener Duke than the one we all enrolled in.

After all, it is the season of green.

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

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ore than words, food tells our story.

I am notorious for my monstrous appetite. At first glance, one can only see my scrawny arms and chicken legs. But sit down for a meal with me, my friend, and you will see what I eat, and learn who I am.

There is a noticeable change in my demeanor when I am talking with someone over a bowl of goulash or a plate of short ribs. I open up like a cracked egg. I reveal everything. This thomas characteristic is not unique to me, as I’ve learned from gebremedhin experience. Eating a meal word-by-word with someone is much akin to lying flat on a therapist’s couch, your chest and neck exposed. I understand that breaking bread with another is no new concept, and I make no attempt at claiming otherwise. Food, however, much like reading, has played a large part in my (and I’m guessing your) life, serving as the centerpiece for many of my most potent memories.

Recently, doctors found two polyps in my dad’s colon: One polyp was benign while the other was determined cancerous. Being a man of extraordinary gentleness, my father broke the news to me over the phone only after my mother threatened to tell me herself. After her own battle with stage 3b breast cancer—one hell of a contender, let me tell you—she now believes in nothing other than complete honesty.

Dad underwent surgery this past week in order to remove the section of his colon where the polyps were found. Though the doctors suspected that the cancer had not made its way down to the tissue, they preferred to remove the segment so that they could examine it and confirm their suspicions. Thankfully, the surgery went smoothly, but all the while I could not help but think of how much I would miss my father’s food if something were

to happen. This is not a new idea. I thought the exact same thing during my mother’s own tribulations.

My parents have always been fabulous cooks—culinary wizards. They cook dishes that grace tables all across the globe—Indian, Italian, Eritrean. Never once have they consulted a cookbook, instead they consult one another— each the other’s Rolodex of recipes. Acerbic cheeses, roasted tomatoes, creamy oils—these are the tastes and smells on which my home was built, a home in which something is always brewing but never burning.

In my family, we end each of our conversations over the phone with “I love you,” but beyond that we avoid gushing. Sentimentality is cheap. So we put our love in other things, like food. My parents make it, and my brother and I eat it. This is the exchange, simple and routine. On the surface it appears as nothing more than a familial and biological tradition/necessity, but in it one can find traces of something bigger.

One’s love of food is intrinsically tied to one’s own personality. In my home we taste everything once, our palates almost completely non-discriminating. I don’t trust picky eaters because what they fear in food, I fear in them.

What does it say of a person when he or she completely eliminates the possibility of experiencing something new?

When we think of food, we think of one another and the moments in our lives that are ours together. Our first dates, where the food goes untouched, either out of sheer nervousness or a bright conversation that leaves no room for anything else. Our funerals, where food is slaved over for hours because that is all one can offer. Our first nights on our own, where we eat the delivered pizza while thinking of our mother’s casserole.

So this is why when I think of my parents not being there, I think about food—because the wealth of their love is tasted, more than heard. And why, when I sit over a plate of baked rigatoni, I am willing to divulge anything—because I am with family once again.

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

letterstotheeditor Damages to eateries disappointing I was as excited as anyone after Coach K and the team brought home Duke’s fourth National Championship on Monday night. But to read in The Chronicle that a possible $10,000 worth of damages was caused by Duke fans (according to the April 7 story “Celebrations leave eateries damaged”) is extremely disappointing.

What has typically separated Duke from the Marylands of the world is that we celebrate with class. By all means, drink and enjoy yourself. But the moment that enjoyment requires the destruction of property (outside of the planned benches, of course!) is the moment we become no better than the Maryland fans who needed to be teargassed by police. And, dear God, I hope none of us want to be like Maryland fans.

Nate Jones Divinity ’12 Trinity ’09 NPHC apology not enough In The Chronicle’s April 2 issue, the National Panhellenic Council printed an apology in the form of a paid advertisement speaking to the use of hate-speech at this past Black Student Alliance Invitational Weekend’s NPHC step-off performance.

The letter states that “offensive language that was perceived as a hateful and derogatory attack” on the LGBT community was used during the performance.

To clarify, during the NPHC Step Off, members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. yelled out “Gay Phi Gay” and “they’re just a bunch of f- s” to ridicule other NPHC groups.

The damage done by this performance is irreparable. Prospective black LGBT-identified students who attended BSAI weekend left with one impression of Duke after that performance: The use of hate speech in public Duke events is condoned, as per the laughter that followed the step-off performance. No NPHC officer made a statement to the audience immediately following the performance. The show went on as if nothing had happened. I imagine that any prospective black LGBT students in the audience left feeling alienated, knowing that they were not in fact welcome at this school.

There is no question of how this language was “perceived,” as the apology letter implies: Hate speech is hate speech. The apology fails to address the damage done to LGBT students who are also members of NPHC and were at BSAI weekend. The statements were made with the intent to hurt someone—whether it was another NPHC group or not, it hurt us all in the eyes of the prospective students.

So the NPHC apology and subsequent Omega Psi Phi e-mail are polite gestures, but too little too late. One letter is not enough to undo the damage done by hate speech. Let us begin a conversation. Begin by reading the stories of real students, on our blog at www.bluedevilsunited.com.

We look forward to working with any student (NPHC or not) who believes in the destructive power of hate speech.

Viviana Santiago President, Blue Devils United Trinity ’10

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Colucci DANZA will revolutionize the ballet pointe shoe market by offering shoes with superior value, safety, comfort

The Progress & Purity Project aims to improve quality of life in northern Afghanistan by empowering women to start businesses, help fellow Afghans through microfinance and handicraft fair trade, and decrease disease through chlorine purification.

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Michael McGroddy, Pratt Engineering ‘11 Mollie Oudenhoven Dr. Michael Richard, M.D., Duke Eye Center Dr. Nicholas Ramey, M.D., Duke Eye Center Jonathan Richard, MIT Sloan School of Business Alaina Pleatman, Pratt ‘10

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Rhexis Biomedical has developed a disposable surgical instrument that improves the accuracy and reproducibility of cataract surgery, the most commonly performed outpatient surgery in the US.

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