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by Shaoli Chaudhuri THE CHRONICLE

“We really wanted to capitalize on what it meant for Duke to be really the world’s first legitimate business school,” Hargrove said, adding that Fuqua employs staff in five regions of the world to help with recruitment. “Having a physical presence gave us more manpower and it also enabled us to relate that strategy to prospective students because we were able to see more people in person and connect them with our alumni.”

It was a record year for the Daytime MBA program, which received a total of 3,551 applications—the most it has ever received, she noted. Specific GMAC data was not released, but Sam Silverstein, GMAC manager of media and public affairs, confirmed that Fuqua was one of the programs surveyed.

Silverstein added that 13 percent of all full-time MBA programs surveyed saw a “significant increase” of 21 percent or more applicants.

The Duke University Marine Lab has issued a mandatory evacuation of all dormitory residents effective Thursday afternoon, in preparation for Hurricane Earl.

Cindy Van Dover, director of the Marine Lab, wrote in an online announcement Wednesday morning that classes will be held at the Beaufort campus until 1:30 p.m. today. Twenty-seven undergraduate students and a visitor must leave Pivers Island by 2 p.m., the statement says.

According to the National Weather Service, Hurricane Earl—designated a Category 4 hurricane as of Wednesday evening— will pass over the North Carolina coast tonight through Friday morning.

“Different models have the hurricane [eye] going offshore by 60 miles or so,” Van Dover said. “It’s a large hurricane, so we’ll get hit by something.”

Gov. Bev Perdue declared a state emergency Wednesday afternoon, issuing mandatory evacuations for the Outer Banks starting with locations accessible only by ferry. Although Beaufort is not included in the areas identified as most vulnerable, administrators prefer not to take any risks with students’ safety, Van Dover said.

“We want to get undergraduates off the island the night of the storm,” Van Dover said. “We tend to be pretty conservative when students are involved.”

The lab’s Pivers Island location is accessible only by a bridge that is susceptible to flooding. The hurricane is predicted to reach coastal North Carolina during high tide, which could easily result in 2- to 5-foot waves, explained Van Dover.

“We don’t want students on the island where we can’t get to them in an emergency,” she said.

The Marine Lab is no stranger to hurricane alerts and evacuations, said Dominick Brugnolotti, assistant director of auxiliary operations at the lab, who estimated that he has to facilitate hurricane evacuations at least once a year.

“I know, going back through history, I think the most they’ve had to do was [evacuate] five times in a semester. It’s always better to be safe than sorry,” he said.

Students were notified by e-mail of the hurricane and evacuation alert Wednesday morning, and the majority of students will most likely leave the island by carpooling.

While students are not required to return to Durham, arrangements have been made to accommodate them on Central Campus

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by Joanna Lichter THE CHRONICLE

In its first meeting of the year, Duke Student Government approved a new timeline for the 2010-2011 DSG elections, creating one election for all DSG Executive Board candidates and a separate one for senatorial candidates.

This reverses last year’s reshuffling of the election calendar in which vice president and Senate candidates were elected in a different election than the office of president and executive vice president.

“The turnout in the election for vice president [and Senate] was actually very low, about 25 percent,” said DSG Executive Vice President Pete Schork, a junior.

“It was really discouraging. Usually we have a combined election combining all of [the DSG Executive Board] at one time and the turnout... is comparable to all of our peer institutions.”

Last year’s split was an attempt to raise voter turnout in Senate elections and allow losing DSG presidential and executive vice presidential candidates to run for a vice presidential position.

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Students enjoy drink specials and 50 cent wings and answer trivia questions Wednesday at Trivial Wings, an event hosted by Devil’s Bistro and Pi Kappa Phi fraternity.

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Fuqua applications buck national trend

by Matthew Chase THE CHRONICLE

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Against national trends, the Fuqua School of Business received a 21 percent increase in applicants this year.

At a time when many business schools are seeing slow, if any, growth, the Fuqua School of Business’ global approach has allowed it to attract a record number of applicants.

Many of Fuqua’s programs enjoyed large increases in the number of applicants last year, including its Daytime MBA program, which saw a 21 percent increase, said Liz Riley Hargrove, associate dean for admissions at Fuqua. The rise can be partially attributed to Duke’s global strategy and recruitment efforts across the world, Hargrove added.

Fewer business schools across the world are reporting such increases, however, according to an Aug. 25 Graduate Management Admission Council study. Only 44 percent of the 476 programs offering MBAs reported gains in the number of applications, as opposed to 66 percent in 2009 and 70 percent the year before.

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“In a break with protocol, the Blue Devils decided this year to elect three permanent captains: Redshirt seniors Abraham Kromah and Chris Rwabukamba and senior Bryan Morgan....’I’m very appreciate of those young men,’ Cutcliffe said yesterday.

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After FBI Director Robert Mueller III’s 10-year term expires in 2011, Timothy Murphy will take over as chief of operations in the division. A self-proclaimed “behind-the-scenes, fix-the-problems type of guy,” Murphy currently runs the FBI’s day-to-day operations with Mueller.

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Obama pushes for peace Worried Afghans withamong Israelis, Palestinians draw Kabul Bank deposits President Barack Obama urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders Wednesday to take advantage of this moment and make peace after decades of conflict, pledging his administration’s sustained support to help them do so.

Appearing in the Rose Garden, Obama spoke sternly to both parties and to the Middle East’s Arab leaders, whom he tacitly scolded for endorsing the creation of a Palestinian state in principle while often doing little to help bring one about.

But he warned that, ultimately, only Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, with whom he met individually earlier in the day, could make the compromises necessary to secure peace between their peoples.

“The hard work is only beginning,”Obama said.“Neither success nor failure is inevitable.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — With Afghans clamoring to pull their cash from their nation’s biggest bank, Washington risks a politically perilous decision: Is it ready to step in to help shore up a wobbly bank critical not only to Afghanistan’s economy but also to the battle against the Taliban?

A swarm of customers at the headquarters of Kabul Bank in the Afghan capital Wednesday raised the prospect of a fullscale bank run that would further alienate already dispirited Afghans from their government and imperil American efforts to contain the insurgency.

The tumult in Kabul and reports of crowds at other branches suggested that a decision earlier in the week by the Central Bank to purge the management of Kabul Bank and rein in its freewheeling ways— which included disastrous property speculation in Dubai—could backfire and set off the very crisis officials hoped to avoid.

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Downtown entrepreneurial hub set to open in October

by Michael Shammas THE CHRONICLE

The American Tobacco Campus is about to get a lot more crowded.

Set to open in October, a new space in the complex called the American Underground will house the Council for Entrepreneurial Development, Joystick Labs and LaunchBox Digital. Additional tenants are expected to eventually move in.

The communal space will include a 60-person classroom, conference rooms, tenant suites, offices and an arcade. It is located in the lower levels of the Crowe and Strickland buildings in the ATC complex.

“This project is extremely exciting,” said Michael Goodmon, vice president of real estate for Capitol Broadcasting Company, which owns the ATC. “It will introduce a new wave of entrepreneurs to the Durham community.”

CED will relocate to the space in October from its current location in the Research Triangle Park. The company, which was founded in 1984, promotes highgrowth companies and aims to foster entrepreneurial culture in North Carolina.

CED President Joan Siefert Rose said she believes the new space in downtown Durham will benefit the community.

“This concentration of entrepreneurial companies, business accelerators like LaunchBox Digital and Joystick Labs and nonprofits serving the community like CED, gives the area a critical mass that heretofore has been missing,” she said.

“CED is excited to be part of the entrepre-

neurial hub that is forming at the American Underground.”

Joystick Labs provides teams of video game developers with money to sustain projects, and LaunchBox Digital provides capital to technology-focused companies.

Rose had an earlier experience with the ATC when she was a general manager of North Carolina Public Radio, which built its broadcast studios there, but noted that the campus has become even more successful in recent years.

“Back then, in 2006, it was still more of a big vision than reality, but the finished space and campus exceeded all our expectations,” she said. “Employees loved working there.”

The American Underground is opening during a decade of significant growth for Durham and North Carolina. In 2009, Forbes Magazine ranked North Carolina the No. 5 best state for business. CNBC also gave the state high marks, ranking it fourth on its list of the best states for business.

A number of students have noticed the development of Durham; East Campus is a short walk from the ATC and downtown.

Sophomore Emily Mendenhall believes that the city’s economic development is important to Duke students.

“There has been an effort to revive downtown with live music festivals, clubs, the farmer’s market, local eateries, better public transport and so on,” she said.

“The concept of continuing that revival is very appealing.”

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She has rowed solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and in 2010 became the first woman to row solo across the Pacific.

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Complaints over old introductory biology lectures have led to the addition of new, more hands-on courses.

Bio dept. introduces new ‘gateway’ courses

by Jenny Hu

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Dan Kiehart, chair of the biology department, knew his undergraduate program needed a change.

In the past, many students have found the biology courses at the University to be just like high school courses—except harder, he said. Changes to the major’s requirements this Fall aim to provide a more hands-on learning experience.

“A large fraction of students plan on being science majors, but don’t. Why?” Kiehart said. “We found the old model of lecturing not really effective.” He added that the new courses will integrate “scientific teaching, active learning and group interaction.”

The new courses are BIO 101L: “Gateway to Biology: Molecular Biology” and BIO 102L: “Gateway to Biology: Evolution and Genetics.” The courses are required for students who matriculate to Duke in Fall 2010 and later in order to complete the biology major. BIO 25L, 116 and 118 will no longer be offered.

The new courses will cover fewer topics than previous introductory classes but will go more in depth, said Paul Manos, director of undergraduate studies for the biology department.

Students who enrolled at the University before 2010 will also be affected by the changes.

For undergraduates who have not taken any See biology on page 5

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MOP favorite moves to West Village, changes name “Cinelli’s was a great place to get food near campus, but now it’s so frustrating that they moved kind of far away,� said sophomore Alyssa Ogle.

Cinelli’s management, however, said they had little choice in the move. “Our lease had expired, and though we wanted to renew it, they wanted to give our space to Whole Foods so they could expand. I guess they wanted to turn the whole place into a Whole Foods complex,� said owner Gaetano Cinelli.

Cinelli added that the transition was a challenge, especially given the short time frame—the restaurant had about five weeks from shutting down the old location July 18 to opening the new restaurant Aug. 29. But

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Although Cinelli’s has changed its name and location, it is still aiming to satisfy the appetites of Duke students.

The Italian restaurant, now called 604 West Morgan Italian Eatery, has moved from its original location adjacent to East Campus and next to Whole Foods to the West Village location that was previously home to Tosca Ristorante Italiano.

Although still part of the Merchants on Points program, Cinelli’s is no longer a short walk from East. Some devoted Cinelli’s fans among the Duke student body are annoyed at the prospect of having to make the longer trek.

the restaurant has used the new location to create a new dining experience. “We now have two concepts going.

There’s 604 West Morgan Italian Eatery, which is more upscale, and the more traditional Cinelli’s as well,� Cinelli said.

Cinelli is not the only person affiliated with the restaurant excited about the new location and concept. His staff, too, said the change of venue has afforded a number of new opportunities. “We have more complex flavors and a new city chic atmosphere in addition to the traditional family restaurant,� said general manager Clarissa Kussin. “We also have a bigger space for Duke students to host parties.�

Cinelli noted that some of the restaurant’s costs, like rent, have increased since the move. Although Cinelli said he anticipates the bigger space will allow him to appeal to a broader consumer audience, he added that he has some concerns about the numbers of Duke students frequenting his restaurant.

Some customers, like Durham resident Milton Bearfoot, said they will remain loyal to the restaurant even after the move. “I’ve been a regular here for 10 years,� he said. “My doctor put me on a strict diet, eating the same thing everyday, which would be hard for anyone to follow, [but] See cinelli’s on page 6

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fuqua from page 1 In addition to having business school staff throughout the world, Hargrove said Fuqua gave students attending information sessions an application discount. Students who attended an information session or who visited Fuqua paid $50 as opposed to the regular $200 fee, she said.

“We definitely increased the volume of applications and we also increased the quality,” Hargrove said, adding that the average Graduate Management Admission Test score among applicants increased from 688 to 697 and that program selectivity increased as the acceptance rate fell from 30 percent to 24 percent.

For first-year Daytime MBA student Brad Sawchuk, the application discount encouraged him to consider Fuqua.

“I was not seriously looking into Fuqua, but when I found out about the discount it motivated me to come here... and then it was my first choice,” Sawchuk said.

Fuqua executive MBA programs also experienced an increase in applications.

The Cross-Continent, Global Executive and Weekend Executive MBA programs saw 42, 11 and 12 percent increases in applications, respectively, according to Fuqua’s media relations office. The enrollment of all three programs also grew.

But the situation was different at many other top business schools.

biology from page 3 biology classes, BIO 101L and BIO 102L— the new “gateway” courses—are required in addition to a class in ecology. Information for students who have taken some but not all of the introductory courses is available on the department’s website.

In order to ensure that all biology majors establish a good foundation in the subject, Advanced Placement credit will not satisfy the new requirements, Manos said.

“I think that AP credit is uneven,” he said. “Every high school biology curriculum is different. It is important that students begin on the same page.”

Bloomberg Businessweek reported that of the top 30 full-time MBA programs surveyed, 10 reported application declines. Nine universities declined to supply application data.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, recognized as one of the best in the country, reported to Businessweek a 9 percent decrease in applications.

According to the GMAC survey, the downward trend was to be expected because of the “cyclical nature of application volume trends.” The pattern is partially due to the economy, Silverstein said.

“When people make the calculations and say, ‘OK, I’m going to give up my job and go to school,’ the calculation might be that when people start to see the economy get worse, the [motivation] to take a breather from working and go to business school is higher,” Silverstein added, explaining that job availability is a major indicator of the economy.

Pinar Aycan, a second-year Daytime MBA student, said Fuqua’s strong relationships with business industries are part of the reason why the school was able to recruit successfully last year.

“There is a disconnect with some schools and their industries,” Aycan said. “There is a reason as to why people chose to come here as opposed to somewhere else.”

Both new classes have been in high demand this Fall. As of Wednesday night, 312 of 320 seats in BIO 101L and 114 of 120 slots for BIO 102L were filled. Additional labs had to be added over the summer to accommodate all of the science majors and pre-med students, Kiehart said. The department initially underestimated the number of seats that would be filled in the Fall but has worked to ensure all students interested can enroll in the course.

“I was lucky enough to get off of the waitlist over the summer,” said sophomore Mason Reynolds. “The biology department went to great lengths to accommodate student demand for space in the course.”

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dsg from page 1 Instead, Schork said voter turnout actually decreased by about 10 to 15 percent due to “voter burnout,” and no losing presidential or executive vice presidential candidate sought a vice presidential position.

“It’s important to note the combined election worked relatively efficiently,” Schork said in an interview after the meeting. “The endorsement process [last year] was very difficult for endorsing groups [of people].”

DSG also established a Student Group Constitution Review Committee, a subcommittee within the Student Organization Finance Committee.

The Review Committee will be responsible for reviewing all student group constitutions to ensure they uphold election laws and rules as well as the Duke Community Standard.

The committee is composed of SOFC chair Max Tabachnik, a senior, three SOFC members and three DSG senators who were appointed in last night’s meeting.

In other business: Senior Ben Bergmann, a senator in the athletics and campus services committee, was elected president pro-tempore.

The president pro-tempore is responsible for enforcing house rules during discussions and stepping in for the executive vice president when he participates in Senate debate.

“Part of the [pro-tempore] job is to make sure things run smoothly in a nonpartisan way,” Bergmann said. “But even though that’s a central part of the job, you don’t want to not take a stand on issues, not talk them out. I want Pete to be able to speak.”

The Senate also added a new part to DSG meetings called “question time” during which senators have 10 minutes to ask DSG vice presidents questions of interest.

DSG also selected three senators to sit on SOFC’s Member Interview Committee.

The committee will intensify the SOFC application process, requiring candidates to submit an application and resume and go through an interview process before acquiring membership.

“In the past, for SOFC members, you just came in to speak for a minute [and] you got questioned for 30 seconds in front of the whole Senate,” Tabachnik said. “I wanted to make it more rigorous, having a more thorough application process. I thought this [committee] would be a good idea with senators as well.”

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At Duke Student Government’s first meeting of the academic year, members voted to reverse the Spring election timeline in order to increase voter turnout, after a change last year was ineffective.

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Thursday night as well as to provide them with temporary meal cards.

“They’ve been good about keeping us up to date... and making arrangements,” said Kiki Contreras, a junior studying at the Beaufort campus. Contreras says she will most likely stay in Durham until students are allowed to return to the Marine Lab. The campus will be assessed for damages on Friday morning, and Van Dover said she hopes to be able to invite students to return that day. Monday classes will be held as scheduled.

they make this wonderful meal here [to satisfy those requirements].”

Bearfoot, who said he is familiar with many Duke students, hopes the venue will still attract members of the University’s community.

“I know a lot of Duke students and parents liked Cinelli’s, and, in the new location, it’s still very inviting,” he said.

Cinelli said there has certainly been a dropoff of Duke students visiting the restaurants, but added that he hopes business among students will pick up as students discover the restaurant’s new location.

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theSANDBOX. I had heard the rumors. Central was under the knife for a long-awaited facelift, which had finally been put in motion.

Then I drove down Erwin and saw it. All 100 yards of it. The monumental barrier they built as a reminder to the beautiful, sprawling lawns and magnificent architecture of the campus within.

I personally like to think of anything and everything as a possible metaphor.

And if you ever needed a tangible Duke bubble, well, here it is. A giant “KEEP OUT!” to Durhamites and a few strategically placed bars for that nice claustrophobic feeling of incarceration that Central residents will embrace as much as they do their moldy air ducts, sickening fluorescent lights, fake tile floors.

When I was writing this, I went for dry sarcasm on my first go. Then realized it wasn’t working, which threw me off, ‘cause I have that down pat. But I thought why it might not be hissing out easily and had a revelation that I am actually excited to be back. And while I have learned to appreciate Durham, the reason I’m pumped to be here is that I love Duke. It took me

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editor’s note. three years to be fine with that.

I was the kid who never wore Duke tees and when asked where I went to school would reply “out east” or, if pushed, “in North Carolina.” I didn’t want to talk about basketball, our rivalry with UNC, or how everyone else seems to hate us. I honestly didn’t care. And while I remain indifferent about those three things, I no longer am able to shake off the monkey on my back— Duke. This school has become more of an influence on me than any other community, with the exception of my family.

I like everything I see when I walk through campus—the Chapel, Lilly Library, the tailgate lot, Edens 2A, the gardens, the Dillo. And the people. We have unparalleled school pride. We may have nothing else in common, but we do have Duke.

Next time you read me, I’ll probably be ranting about everything I hate about this place. But for now, while I still am overcome with this warm giddiness, let’s celebrate Duke. Who needs a National Championship. Let’s burn a bench for us.

Why is there a Duke bubble? Why not?

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Every other week, when Brooke’s not holding it down, I’ll be writing an Editor’s Note. I’ll try and use my space to write about things that I think are good. Now, enough about that.

Hopscotch is on the horizon—all you need to know about that you can find herein Recess—and 9th Wonder, Duke professor and hip-hop producer, is curating his own club for the festival.

I had the opportunity to take 9th’s course last semester, and aside from the chance to make a fool of myself at the helm of his turntable, the class watching and trying not to laugh, my favorite takeaway from 9th was his obvious passion for hip-hop.

One guy he was passionate about: Jay Electronica.

A rapper from New Orleans, Jay comes with all the baggage that implies. New Orleans rap is becoming a genre in and of itself: long have rappers worked seemingly with whole neighborhoods, cities and coasts on their back. But at least in the past, they could convincingly point blame to help bear the weight. There were suppressors that needed indicting, and often, the indictments were justified.

But how do you face the brunt of a hurricane? That’s hardly a foe worth igniting yourself against, and getting indignant over the aftermath isn’t quite the same. Nothing’s forceful like a force of nature.

Electronica’s approach is to become the hurricane. Contrary to Wayne’s hectic, freeassociation style, his Joycean mania, Jay has the most deliberate and powerful delivery of any rapper in recent view. Anyone who has even the slightest interest in hip-hop, the smallest desire to be dazzled, go to YouTube right now and cue up “Act 1: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge).”

What you get is just over 9 minutes of virtuoso wordplay atop a looped clip from the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind soundtrack—not the first source you’d expect a rapper to stretch. But, in four primary segments, broken up by snippets of dialogue from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and kids yelling in another language, Jay pours out a remarkably cogent, unbelievably fast torrent of rhymes about Judaism, Islam, Voodoo, UFOs and a dozen other scattershot topics.

If Lil Wayne’s modernism, Electronica’s postmodern, welding Doom’s schizophrenia to the weapons-grade focus of Nas or Jay-Z. And there are others, don’t worry.

“Uzi Weighs a Ton” is a twist on a classic Public Enemy track, produced by none other than Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, and it’s a burner—compared to “Eternal Sunshine,” Jay more or less saunters around the stuttering, shaker-anchored beat, and the canted weight of the Uzi sounds just as much a lamentation, a weary statement of fact, as it does any sort of boast or machismo. Where other artists might advertise their gunpower for its own sake, Electronica just seems like he wants to put the weapon down, as though he has no choice but to wield it.

After this, check out “The Ghost of Christopher Wallace,” a new single enhanced by Diddy’s yelling goofily all across the track, and his verse on “The Day,” the best song off of Curren$y’s Pilot Talk, the year’s best rap album so far. Until Jay breaks from his idealism and records an album, you’ll have to subsist on these, and his earlier, seemingly accidental mixtapes.

Not that these aren’t worth possessing on their own. Enjoy.

—Kevin Lincoln

Congratulations!

The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation is pleased to announce our spring 2010 grant recipients.

John French, Department of History: “Beyond the Battlefield: The Labor of Military Service in Latin America and the Caribbean”

Dante James, Center for Documentary Studies: “Free to Speak” Negar Mottahedeh, Program in Literature: “ ‘Abu’l Baha in America or How Did a Middle Eastern 19th Century Reformer Impact American Cultural Life and Politics?”

Mehul Mankad/Warren Kinghorn, Department of Psychiatry: “From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac: The Necessity of Humanities Education in Psychiatry Training”

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Thomas Polascik, Department of Urology: “Evaluation of Sexual Function after Primary and Salvage Prostate Cryoablation for Localized Prostate Cancer” Rebecca Stein, Department of Cultural Anthropology: “New Media and the Israeli Military Occupation” Guillermo Trejo, Department of Political Science: “Organized Crime in New Democracies the Political Foundations of Narco Related Assassinations in Mexico”

The Trent Foundation makes grants in the $3,000-$5,000 range to Duke faculty and staff for projects related to human sexual function, medical history, ethics, and humanities, and international studies. The next deadline is September 30, 2010.

For more information, please contact Beth Eastlick at beth.eastlick@duke.edu or visit our website http://giving.duke.edu/cfr/trent/.

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Hopscotch prepares for its inaugural festival

by Kevin Lincoln THE CHRONICLE

What happens when the curatorial drive of the local alt-weekly grows beyond its physical pages? The nation’s largest music festival, for one, South by Southwest, is run by the Austin Chronicle; the Village Voice’s Siren Festival is a New York City mainstay; and now, Raleigh has Hopscotch, brainchild of the Triangle’s Independent Weekly.

Hopscotch is slated for the weekend of Sept. 9 to 11, with shows spread out over 10 different venues in downtown Raleigh. Headlining the festival will be two shows in City Plaza: on Friday, Baltimore experimentalist Panda Bear, Toronto indie-collective Broken Social Scene and Raleigh act the Rosebuds; and on Saturday, legendary NYC hip-hop group Public Enemy, Los Angeles-based No Age and Raleigh’s the Love Language.

Two Indy staffers—Hopscotch Director Greg Lowenhagen, who also works as the paper’s marketing director, and Music Editor Grayson Currin, who serves as Hopscotch’s curator—played the main role in filling out Hopscotch with actual musicians, venues and the more deliberate minutiae that come tied to a production of this size. Lowenhagen conceived the idea for Hopscotch shortly after coming to the Independent in the summer of 2009.

“It was Greg, really,” Currin said. “I believe he joined the staff in, June, I think? And very quickly he looked at the paper and thought that one of the things that was missing was us using our place in the Triangle, as sort of a cultural voice... We’re the only alt-weekly here, and we weren’t really using that brand to have events that could feed back into the image of the paper [or] using the image of the paper to feed into these exciting events.”

From there, Lowenhagen brought the idea of a festival to the Indy’s owner Steve Schewel and the publisher Sioux Watson and then to Currin, who was instructed to come up with a “fantasy list” of bands he’d like to see play the weekend.

What resulted is a line-up that, though naturally not identical to Currin’s initial brainstorming, contains a diverse group of bands in both location and genre: noise and Pacific Northwest, pop and the South, hip-hop and New England, and a significant portion of homegrown Triangle outfits—120 in total.

The number includes the aforementioned headliners, as well as buzz bands like Atlas Sound, Best Coast, F***** Up and Harlem. Then there’s the more esoteric, unusual acts, the ones Currin sought out in the corners of the world and invited to North Carolina, many for the first time: He mentioned Portland doom-metal act Ocean, Iceland-byway-of-Australia avant-garde composer Ben Frost, radical saxophonist Ned Rothenberger and Toronto pop band First Rate People.

“The one thing that I want to emphasize about this festival, that I’m really proud of, is that—it’s kind of weird,” Currin said. “There’s no one sound, no one theme.”

All of the bands involved were approved by both Currin and Lowenhagen, and they shared the goal that drove them through the initial stages of booking, planning and convincing agents and musicians that Hopscotch was a legitimate effort.

“We thought that there was a certain part of the population in the Triangle, really from D.C. to Atlanta, [for whom] there wasn’t really anything like this,” Lowenhagen said. “And that if we could pull it off by getting the clubs involved, getting this city get on board, getting the City Plaza space, that we were going to be able to get a list of bands that a certain segment of the population would be superexcited about immediately… Because of that, we were able to sell some tickets right off the bat.”

Currin, in his role as curator, took on an interesting set of duties beyond his usual tasks as editor of the Independent’s music section. He’s not worried, however, about his picking bands to play the festival as being a job that might interfere with his journalistic responsibilities to the paper.

“It’s, to me, if I have to write a somewhat negative thing about a band that’s playing Hopscotch, that’s what it is,” Currin said. “It’s the same as any band getting mad at me in any bar, any night of the week, for not writing about their band or for picking on their band.”

From the initial ticket sales, which began as soon as Currin and Lowenhagen chose the core line-up, Hopscotch has grown into more than just the concerts at night. Additional programming includes free parties during the day hosted by local businesses and bands—featuring one by Durham’s Troika Music Festival—and the Edward McKay Artists and Authors Series, which will take three in-depth, critical looks at the contexts in which many of the Hopscotch artists work (one talk is entitled “Hip-Hop Planet: Music and Its Work in the World”).

Lowenhagen said the bands are just as excited for the festival as the Indy is, and at least for the Love Language’s frontman, Stuart McLamb, this seemed to be the case—his headlining spot will likely be the most important show of his band’s career.

“As we all know, this music scene is just exploding right now,” McLamb said. “I love that the guys, Grayson and Greg, sort of rolled the dice booking acts that they truly believed in… There’s not one act that’s going to let you down.”

Hopscotch Music Festival will be taking place in downtown Raleigh from Sept. 9 to 11. A variety of different passes for the festival can be purchased on Hopscotch’s website: hopscotchmusicfest.com/tickets.

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by Sanette Tanaka THE CHRONICLE

Digital files may have superseded vinyl in the mainstream music market, but the record’s influence on the art world is here to stay. The Nasher Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, includes works that draw inspiration from the vinyl record and explore its cultural imprint on society.

Featuring work by 41 artists over the past 50 years, The Record is a multifaceted exhibition and includes drawings, sculptures, performance art, videos, photos, sound work and paintings. The works all use records as the focal point—whether as the artistic medium or as the subject matter—though very few are literal records or album covers, said Wendy Livingston, manager of marketing and communications at the Nasher.

The exhibit was first envisioned in 2005 by Curator of Contemporary Art Trevor Schoonmaker. He said he sifted through 600 to 1,000 works from around 300 different artists.

“I tried to look at as much as possible,” he said. “[There is] so much work out there that engages records. This exhibition is simply about uncovering the artwork and presenting it in a new way.”

Artists range from the well-known to the obscure.

Schoonmaker said he chose a wide selection of pieces to expand the metaphorical implications of the exhibit, adding that “the more variety [there is], the better.”

Several pieces from New York-based visual artist Christian Marclay are featured in the collection, including his most recent video on records, “Looking for

Love.” Schoonmaker said he would like to more piece from Marclay, who has worked w for the past 30 years, before the exhibition run in February and moves on to its next Boston.

Iconic work from artist and Talking founder David Byrne is also on display. H 7.5-foot Polaroid photomontage was used o of the group’s 1978 album, More Songs Abo and Food.

Other memorable pieces include Laurie violin-and-record-player hybrid, William Co ering stack of records and Taiyo Kimura’s comedic video, “Haunted by You.” Japanese artist Lyota Yagi used the idea to create his own physical manifestation o In his nine-minute video, he used a silico create a record of ice, which he then playe table.

“Records can illustrate the passing of tim real way,” Yagi said. “Perception is constantl When the ice melts, the sound melts, too.”

Two pieces were commissioned for the including Satch Hoyt’s “Celestial Vessel,” a noe made out of red 45 rpm vinyl record era Simmon’s “Thundersnow Road, North which includes photographs of people posi North Carolina and accompanying songs the images. Musicians featured in the pi Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan, My Morn Jim James and TV On the Radio members K

Nasher channels vinyl medium

by Jessie Tang THE CHRONICLE

It’s easy to dismiss the resurgence of interest in vinyl as another hipster or steampunk revival, but the record holds more cultural significance than one may think. The Nasher Museum of Art’s ambitious new exhibit, simply titled The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, focuses on the iconic medium through a well-chosen compilation of works that will appeal to more than just music junkies.

The Record succeeds on many fronts: As a collection, it holds up, making a cohesive unit with a powerful unifying message. Individually, the 41 international artists bring fresh, entertaining and often overlooked perspectives to the (turn) table.

One of the overarching themes of the exhibit is a nostalgic tribute to the changing relationship listeners and collectors have with music in today’s high-tech world. Brazilian artist Felipe Barbosa’s “Autographs” features 36 index-sized album cover cutouts, each inscribed with the signature of the previous owner. The work illustrates the ritualistic process of handing down music, where the history of the record is just as important as the record itself.

Ralph Lemon’s “Walter Repairing Records” expresses a similar reminiscence of the past. The video features an old man struggling to fix up broken records with duct tape in a manner that is both endearing and depressing.

Many of the pieces also bring into question

the ways in which we listen to music. Highlights include “Pour des dents d’un blanc éclatant et saines” by Jeroen Diepenmaat and “Viophonograph” by Laurie Anderson, two sculptural works that represent the disconnect between live and recorded sound. Diepenmaat’s work shows a bird producing the sound of the record by placing its beak to the vinyl, while Anderson reconstructed a violin to play records.

Some of the most interesting compositions involve the direct manipulation of vinyl as the medium of the works. Yukio Fujimoto’s “Delete” features grooveless records created by sanding down the plastic on both sides, making them unplayable. This time-consuming activity of ridding a record of its musical qualities contrasts with the painfully easy process of obtaining and deleting songs from the Internet as an example of changing cultural norms.

Similarly, the aptly named “Burn Out Sun”

by Sean Duffy uses copies of Elvis Presley’s “Sun Years” LPs to construct a geodesic dome sculpture. Not only does the piece stand alone as an aesthetically appealing work of art, but it also illustrates the fluctuating nature of trends that come and go through time.

No artist, however, has dealt with the medium of records in his or her work more than Christian Marclay, a pioneer in turntablism and the conceptual nature of sound visualization.

Works such as “Recycled Records” capture his essence—the various vinyl discs have been painted on and re-pieced, physically highlighting the

“Frankenstein” qualities of today’s mash-up artists and DJs. The strengths of the Marclay works on display lie in the performance video pieces. “Looking for Love” captivates audiences by focusing the camera on the turntable needle, which he methodically moves back and forth on the record.

“Record Players” features humans as the literal agents who are facetiously forming sounds by scratching and flapping the disk around. These videos are mesmerizing, evoking a constant reevaluation of how noise and sound are produced and represented.

To balance the abstract and conceptual works, several artists took a more whimsical approach.

For example, Japanese artist Taiyo Kimura’s sketches and performance pieces are absurdly comical, imbuing an amusing quality to record listening. The pieces from Dario Robleto, including groups of satirical, imagined album covers, are also refreshingly entertaining while still conveying thoughtful commentary.

Whether the vinyl serves as the medium or the inspiration, The Record breaks new ground as a cultural touchstone spanning generations of music.

The Record will be on display at the Nasher Museum of Art until Feb. 6, 2011. The Nasher is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.

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Schoonmaker said he gave the artists few restrictions in creating their pieces.

“I try to give [the artists] a lot of room to work with,” he said. “If you have faith and trust in them, they really do an exceptional job.”

On the flip side, corresponding with so many artists posed the hardest logistical challenge.

“This show required so much research,” Schoonmaker said. “And for every artist, you might have to work with him or her, the assistants... there were hundreds of people you had to coordinate with.”

Although records may never reclaim the popularity of their heyday, they will maintain their significance in the artistic community.

“People like records because they are tactile objects, the visuals are large and they create a warmer, richer sound,” Schoonmaker said.

Livingston said records have timeless, universal appeal and are experiencing a slight resurgence in the music industry.

“People miss vinyl,” she said. “It’s nostalgic, the sound is worn and crackly and you can hold it in your hands. You can’t do that with a download on iTunes.”

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Guatemalan art collected at local gallery

by Ashley Taylor THE CHRONICLE

The newest exhibit at the Scrap Exchange in downtown Durham features a series of photographs by a group of unexpected artists. Safe Passage Guatemala: Fotografia desde la zona 3 displays the works of eight teenage Guatemalan students, as well as a small selection of jewelry hand-made by a group of mothers. Although photographs taken by teenagers with no previous artistic experience may not sound appealing at first, the exhibit is a cultural and strikingly emotional experience.

The social context surrounding Safe Passage Guatemala adds to its charm. After Durham artists Bryant Holsenbeck, Julia Gartrell and Bonnie Wright taught an art workshop in Guatemala this past summer, the artists partnered with the non-profit organization Safe Passage to showcase and sell some of the students’ works. The proceeds from the photos will provide additional income for the Guatemalan families who live around and work at the city dump, Gartrell said.

The rawness and simplicity of the display allows viewers to move beyond solely critiquing the pieces and identify with the emotional aspect of the exhibit.

Upon entering the Scrap Exchange, the exhibit is not clearly marked, and the viewer must walk through the maze of odds-and-ends for sale to finally reach the gallery hidden at the back of the building.

The small square room that houses the display consists of four walls of varying textures and a concrete floor—sparse conditions reflecting the living situations of many developing countries. The photographs by each student are strung along individual strings and hung on the walls, accompanied by large, framed biographies of the artists. The simplistic nature of the exhibit creates an atmosphere appropriate for viewing the works of the newly trained photographers.

The ambience invites the onlooker to connect with the individual artists by reading their touching biographies that explain the challenges they have overcome in life. The distinct personalities of each of the students become apparent through reading about the individuals and observing their unique style of photography.

Even though the photographs depict the mundanity of daily life, they have a definite Guatemalan flair.

Taken from the lens of natives, the photos hold a feeling of authenticity and sentiment. After observing each individual string, the observer begins to identify with the artist not as a foreigner, but as someone simply using art as a mode of expression.

Though the teenage artists had just begun experimenting with the visual arts several months prior to creating these pieces, their works and stories are a source of inspiration. The Scrap Exchange merits a visit for memorable insight into bonafide Guatemalan culture.

Safe Passage Guatemala: Fotografia desde la zona 3 will be on display at the Scrap Exchange until Sept. 11.

The gallery is open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.

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Topless girls, prehistoric fish and underwater ballet: No matter what type of nonsense you like, Piranha 3-D delivers, offering audiences gory B-movie fun.

Director Alexandre Aja, who also directed The Hills Have Eyes, presents a wilder and bloodier remake of the ’78 cult classic. The premise is simple—prehistoric piranhas invade an Arizona lake during spring break, and madness ensues.

The local sheriff’s department attempts to combat the carnivorous fish, and as the movie peals on, the piranhas tear into the helpless spring break partiers with vigor.

Aja makes full use of the 3-D medium to deliver sheer dumb fun in a surprisingly coherent way. The film recognizes what its target audience wants and gives it to them

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Listeners drawn to Mike Posner by way of his mixtapes are going to find a much different artist occupying 31 Seconds to Takeoff.

Posner’s major-label debut—following two wildly popular independent compilations—monumentally fails to live up to its pre-release hype. Several songs are similarly forgettable synth-pop confections meant to be played loudly on dance floors across the country. “Cooler than Me,” the album’s first single, is a simple thumping-bass dance track that would be largely interchangeable with anything on a Ke$ha or Buckcherry record. “Cheated,” about a failed relationship, is in its rhythmic monotony equally onenote and manufactured. Within this model, Posner does manage to score points with the infectious and incredibly catchy hook of “Please Don’t Go.” He also dabbles in genre-bending experimentation, but with dismal results. “Gone in September” is an airy softrock ode to scoring with girls that sounds like Sugar Ray at their worst—saccharine and over-processed. “Synthesizer,”

without reserve—where some B-movies shy away, Piranha goes all out with liberal amounts of blood and nudity.

As with many B-movie thrillers, there are certain recognizable trappings: forced dialogue, a contrived plot and the ungodly amounts of gore. Aja supplements these essentials with mediocre stars and a brilliant supporting cast. Steven R. McQueen turns in a thoroughly unmemorable performance as the sherriff’s son, who takes Derrick Jones (Jerry O’Connell) on a fateful tour around the lake. O’Connell’s over-the-top performance as a “Girls Gone Wild”-type filmmaker, combined with an appearance by Christopher Lloyd as a local scientist, make up some of the funnier small roles; throw in cameos by porn stars Gianna Michaels and Ashlynn Brooke, and Piranha 3-D has it all.

Piranha 3-D unapologetically goes where many B-movies have gone before, but it does so with enough verve and energy to make for an enjoyable experience.

—­Ben Shantz meanwhile, plays like a misguided attempt at an R&B ballad, in which Posner fumblingly combines Usher’s sensuality and Beck’s video-game sound effects without capturing the appeal of either. And in “Bow Chicka Wow Wow,” a guitar-driven slow jam, he tries to fashion himself into some kind of frat boy lothario with lines like “Cause I’m three shots deep and I ain’t tryin to sleep/Get your Red Bull on cause I’m ready.”

Contrary to the superficial machismo of these tracks, Posner concludes the album with two lovely introspective moments. On “Falling,” a plaintive reflection on the fragility of fame and fortune in light of his own meteoric rise to hip-hop stardom, Posner sings, “Every word that you say keeps on bouncing around in my head/When all my delusions of grandeur have turned into bad jokes instead.”

This track and its predecessor, “Delta 1406,” grapple with the ramifications of attaining musical celebrity immediately after graduating from college.

Posner’s skills as a producer are unfortunately dwarfed by his sophmoric songwriting in 31 Seconds to Takeoff. He’s always been a talented hip-hop producer, and with any luck, this is more of a misstep than a complete change of direction.

—Josh Stillman­­­­­­

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Many bands find themselves struggling to juggle the competing demands of innovation and marketability. Far too many albums are dragged down by this weight, losing the energy and drive that debuts often have. In their sophomore effort, Ra Ra Riot maintains glimpses of their original ineffable energy, but not enough to sustain the entire record.

The Orchard’s highlights find the band in pop-music overdrive, with frenetic drumming and lilting strings alternately clashing and meshing with one another. It is these standouts, such as “Too Dramatic” and “Shadowcasting,” that also find singer Wes Miles and his distinctively angelic voice in top form, as he utilizes his impressive range to its fullest extent. In their few dabbles into new territories, including the sprawling centerpiece “You And I Know,” they thankfully manage to maintain some of this infectious joy, hinting at future life for the band.

On too many tracks, however, the music languishes as the group sinks into complacency. The slow, wandering ballads like “Keep It Quiet” and “Do You Remember” suffer the most. Ra Ra Riot’s stagnancy since 2008’s The Rhumb Line becomes all too apparent without its distinctive high octane. The strings begin to sound like tired loops, Miles’ voice becomes unnecessarily melancholic, and the usually impressive rhythms falters and slips by the wayside.

Aside from a few catchy standouts, The Orchard is bit of a forgettable misfire that strays too far from comfort.

—Jeff Shi

September 2, 2010

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Graphic novel adaptations, especially superhero films like Ironman and The Dark Knight, rarely acknowledge the format from which they are derived. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, however, playfully incorporates its comic book and gamer roots into a fun, fast-paced and visually elaborate film that lets everyone in on the joke.

Michael Cera is yet again typecast in the role of the insecure, awkward kid who finagles his way to manhood by the end of the film. In Scott Pilgrim, however, he does more than just finagle. Scott has to fight his way through the seven evil exes of his new girlfriend, Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). He enlists the help of his bass-playing skills, the vegan police (who knew?) and the power of love to conquer his various adversaries. All the while,

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The star-studded indie comedy The Kids Are All Right delves into the normalcy of unconventional family life. The film explores the dynamics of a lesbian couple raising two teenage children, who are secretly seeking out their spermdonor father. Through caustic wit, it juggles the trials of married life, children vying for independence and the notion of a “traditional” family.

The characters, rather than the plot, make the film worthwhile. Joni (Mia Wasikowska) and Laser (Josh Hutcherson) aren’t the only ones who fall victim to their biological father Paul’s (Mark Ruffalo) bad-boy charm. It comes as no surprise that Jules (Julianne Moore) doesn’t resist him, or his motorcycle for that matter. No matter how consuming at first, the Paul-Jules saga climaxes in a family dinner that only leaves the audience uncomfortable.

Annette Bening, who plays Jules’ partner Nic, and Julianne Moore take seamlessly to their complex roles as matriarchs, although Joni and Laser both manage to hold their own. Breakthrough actor Wasikowska, who recently starred in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, shines more through her physical expressiveness than in her actual line delivery, especially in the final scenes as she leaves home for college. In his character’s own quest to manhood, Hutcherson equally makes his mark with a strong performance opposite Mark Ruffalo.

The only actor to disappoint is America’s Next Top Model Cycle 3 contender Yaya DaCosta, who appears briefly in a poor performance as Tanya. Leave the acting to the actors and the rest will be all right.

—Genevieve Werner

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At one point during the neon, candy-coated video for single “California Gurls,” Katy Perry is shooting icing straight at the audience while wearing a rehearsed, cheeky grin. Welcome to Teenage Dream. This is the perfect visual metaphor for her entire new release: an automated provocateur recklessly spraying too much sugar on her listeners.

The opening, eponymous track immediately signals hazy misadventures. Thumping beats and poppy-sweet synths are sprinkled throughout the album, lending an undeniably summery feel.

Perry’s libido fuels much of the content in Dream. There’s the completely non-genius innuendo track, “Peacock,” and the anthem to blackout evenings, “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.).” It is easy to say that none of the tracks aim for demure.

The biggest problem with the album is that it doesn’t work as a whole. Perry went a little wild with the bin candy, and now everything is too jumbled and synthetically sweet.

Her few attempts at serious material are the album’s more successful tracks. “Circle the Drain” deals with a significant other who has a drug addiction, and its poppy punk lyrics and pounding beats work well. The album ends with the emotionally resonant “Not Like the Movies,” a slow demi-ballad about unmet relationship expectations.

Most of the songs are genuinely enjoyable, just not memorable. They push the boundaries of decency and appeal to massive audiences, but no more. It’s like waking up from a dream, but as soon as you try to remember what happened, it just slips away. ­—Nathan Nye

Ramona remains a distant femme fatale, but by the film’s resolution she melts through her icy facade into sweet, likeable character.

The narrative is enhanced by frenetic graphics overlays and seamless edits that carry the audience through the confusion that is Scott’s life.

Taking cues from American Splendor and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the visuals unify the film in a way that mitigates the line between the plausible and the fantastic, grounding the story in the personal narratives while at the same time heightening the playful gamer motif. Even at its most heart-wrenching moments, Scott Pilgrim doesn’t relinquish its levity— for instance, showing the rhythmic “thonks” as Scott bangs his head against a pole.

Overall, this ambitious film succeeds at incorporating a variety of creative exploits.

Quirky, fresh and innovative, Scott Pilgrim will “BAM,” “THWACK” and “POW” more than just Ramona’s seven exes.

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Just like in the opening game for his first two seasons at Duke, head coach David Cutcliffe is preparing his team to take on a Football Championship Subdivision opponent.

Last year, the Blue Devils found out how tough these smaller schools can be when they were upset by Richmond, the defending FCS national champion. The Phoenix, while not defending a title, had a 9-3 season and postseason appearance in 2009. They definitely have Duke’s full attention as it prepares for the Saturday night tussle.

“We have to be ready for this game,” quarterback Sean Renfree said. “Richmond was a great team, and Elon is a very, very good team. We’re not going to overlook anyone.

We’re going to come out and play.”

Everything that Elon does offensively starts with its fouryear starter at quarterback, Scott Riddle. The veteran signal caller is a traditional drop-back passer who has already broken many of Elon’s passing records.

Although he will be without one of the FCS’s top playmakers from last year, graduated wideout Terrell Hudgins, Riddle will be a tough test for the Duke secsylvie spewak/Chronicle file photo

Elon boasts quarterback Scott Riddle, who has broken many of his school’s records, as well as other playmakers. Cutcliffe said they’re not to be overlooked.

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Defender Miller moves back to the frontline

by Nicholas Schwartz THE CHRONICLE

For three years, the one constant in the Blue Devil back line has been the hard-nosed play of Gretchen Miller. Miller, who made an immediate impact on the team in 2007, has started an astounding 67 of Duke’s 68 total games over her career and helped Fran. M guide the Blue Devils to 31 shutouts during that period. vs.

But while Miller No. 18 was recruited by Duke head coach Robbie Church to come THURSDAY, 7 p.m. and play in the Koskinen Stadium back, the Fairport, N.Y., native was renowned for torching defenses in high school. She scored 34 goals through her first two seasons before being sidelined with a knee injury as a junior, made a comeback her senior year and earned All-Rochester honors in the process.

With a position change back to forward this year, Miller will seek to regain that scoring touch that made her unstop-

pable in high school.

“We knew what she could do in the back, but now we have some depth with the return of Ashley Rape and the emergence of Libby Jandl,” Church said. “So we thought ‘Let’s try it and see what happens.’”

The switch might have come sooner if not for the strength over the years of the Blue Devil front line. Miller’s services were more urgently needed in defense, despite her scoring acumen. Due to numerous season-ending injuries to the defensive unit last year, Miller was called on to mentor a green group of freshmen along the back line and helped change what was a team weakness into an asset. With those then-freshmen now comfortable in their roles, and the return of upperclassmen from injury, Miller has the opportunity to shine up front.

“The decision was one that I’d been thinking about for a while,” Miller said.

“This year seemed like the best opportunity [to make the switch], and Robbie was very open to the idea.”

After spending the spring season training See miller on page 8

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Gretchen Miller is switching from defender back to striker, a position she thrived at in high school, this season.

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Duke’s men’s and women’s cross country teams competed against N.C. Central in a 4k dual meet Wednesday on the Al Buehler Trail at Duke. Taking the top five spots in both races, the Blue Devils claimed their first win of the season.

In the men’s race, Duke freshmen Clint McKelvey and Brian Atkinson took the top spots with times of 11:51 and 11:58, respectively. The third spot also went to a Blue Devil, sophomore Dominick Robinson, who timed at 12:16.

“We were pleased today with the way the race turned out,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said. “We had two of our top freshmen finish one and two in the race in their first time wearing a Duke uniform, and this was a chance to get the rust off for some of our guys.”

The women’s side was similarly successful. Seniors Katelyn Bastert ran won the race with a time of 14:15, and Devotia Moore who finished second at 15:35, leading the pack for Duke. Freshman Ashley Berry completed the top three with a time of 15:59.

“We were excited to get the season started today,” head coach Kevin Jermyn said.

“We used this race as a structure run, and we aren’t in race shape yet. We used this get ready for what we’re trying to do in November, win a championship.”

Both the men’s and women’s teams will next run in Winston-Salem on Saturday, September 11, in the Wake Forest Dual.

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Duke took the top five spots in the men’s and women’s 4k in its duel with N.C. Central.

CORRECTION Yesterday’s season preview of Duke Women’s Golf contained two errors.

Duke has won five national championships, not three, and Kim Donovan, not Lindy Duncan, was pictured.

The Chronicle regrets the errors.

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ondary if he is given time to find receivers Lance Camp and Sean Jeffcoat. To combat this passing attack, Duke will need its front seven to get into the backfield and pressure Riddle.

“He’s the one that makes the offense go,” linebacker Damian Thornton said. “I feel like if we can get to him, we’ll disrupt their offense.”

While Elon will definitely look to move the ball through the air early and often, it also has a pair of competent running backs. Jamal Shuman and A.J. Harris will split carries. Shuman is more of a scatback with big play potential, while Harris is a bruiser who also excels as a receiver out of the backfield.

In addition to its high-powered offense, the Phoenix excel defensively.

They return seven players from a unit that relinquished just 248 yards and 13 points a game last season. They also lead the Southern Conference in takeaways, and ball-hawking cornerback Terell Wilson has the ability to make a game-altering play.

“They don’t do a whole lot of stuff from a scheme standpoint,” Renfree said. “But, what they do, they do very well. They’re clearly very well coached.”

As the Duke coaching staff continues to put more emphasis on having a balanced offense, the season opener will be a good opportunity to see what kind of push the offensive line can get up front.

While Elon performed well against the run last year, they certainly won’t have the same size that future Division I and ACC opponents will.

“This matchup is good for us,” Cutcliffe said. “I think it’s great for us to play a quality team that knows how to win. We need to measure ourselves since we’re such a young team building a program.”

exclusively as a forward, Miller offers a valuable option to Church as a striker off the bench, and may yet move into the starting lineup as the season progresses. The senior faces stiff competition in the form of freshmen Laura Weinberg and Mollie Pathman, but for now, Miller is reveling in the chance to score goals.

“It’s my favorite position. I love the creativity you can have as a forward,” Miller said.

Gifted with a deep understanding of the game and a sledgehammer-like shot— the hardest on the team, Church said —Miller should prove invaluable to the No. 18 Blue Devils (2-1-0) as they move towards the challenging ACC season.

Though she has yet to register a goal in 2010, Miller leads the team in shots through three games, and should see her fair share of chances against unranked Francis Marion (14-0) tonight. The Patriots, who won only three games last year, are the first opponent of a seven-game home stand for Duke.

With only one ranked opponent on the horizon before the Blue Devils face ACC rival Wake Forest September 23, Duke has a great chance to stockpile wins and form an attractive record for the NCAA selection committee. Church, however, knows a successful team takes time to mesh and sees the next month as a pivotal stretch in the schedule.

“One of our goals this year is to go undefeated at home,” Church said.

“We’ve got a very high winning percentage at Koskinen Stadium. . . and I think the girls are starting to realize that we can play with anyone in the country.”

The Blue Devils play Francis Marion tonight at 7:00 in Koskinen Stadium.

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Prepare for an unstimulated future The federal stimulus re- tegic outlook of its research search funding that Duke funding. Duke ranked sixth University receives as part of among peer institutions in the American Recovery and the amount of funding it reReinvestment Act of 2009 ceived from the stimulus. In will soon begin to dry up.

2009, out of the 854 proposals The cessathe University tion of a key Nasubmitted, 237 editorial tional Institutes received fundof Health funding program ing, totaling approximately Sept. 30 could cause a 15 $147 million. Most of the percent drop in the portion funds were applied toward exof the NIH budget set aside isting projects. for research, according to This is highly commendBloomberg News. The NIH is able and a testament to one of the primary sources of Duke’s commitment to Duke’s federal funding, along world-class research. In adwith the National Science dition, Vice Provost for ReFoundation, the Department search James Siedow and the of Energy and the Depart- Office of Research Support ment of Education. have ensured that Duke’s agThis is significant news for gressive pursuit of stimulus Duke researchers, and should grants has been a transparsignal the need for the Uni- ent process. Information is versity to re-evaluate the stra- conveniently available on a

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Without proper planning, universities risk facing large resource inefficiencies or layoffs, and Duke research support should be prepared to adapt.

Yale University was also a top receiver of federal stimulus research funding, with its Medical School alone securing $137 million, according to Bloomberg. With that money, the university expanded its Center for Genomic Analysis and created 335 new jobs.

As federal NIH funding declines, however, the research projects will reduce in size, and the Center for Genomic Analysis will run on a much more constricted schedule. Those researchers are now finding themselves

seeking help from corporations. Moreover, Yale anticipates having to make layoffs, as the new jobs created appear to be unsustainable.

Under the conditions of many stimulus grants, funding was to be used up in two years, but this alone does not justify Yale’s poor planning. The sudden spending combined with a lack of foresight as to the sustainability of the projects may lead to the termination of innovative research.

Duke can learn from Yale’s mistakes. It is obvious that the stimulus funding was a boon to University research, and it especially allowed riskier projects to get off the ground. In a month, however, funding opportunities will decline and soon revert

to pre-stimulus conditions, in which senior researchers with projects of higher chances of success receive priority.

Duke must continue its commitment to outstanding research and its prudent approach to stimulus funding.

The projects and jobs created under the stimulus must be sustainable and able to ride out the decline in research money.

Perhaps corporate grants can help maintain research projects once the program ends, but researchers should put their emphasis on studies that can be conducted in shorter time periods. Duke should not lose its dedication to innovative research, but there is no question that in troubled economic times an emphasis on proper budget planning should be maintained.

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n a rousing FDOC, awkward, insubstan- his summer because, well, he didn’t do anything. tial and boring conversations were com- How can you make that interesting? Also, juxtamonplace with second-tier friends. Many pose the amount of time it takes to say “nothing” students will ask the question “How was your versus even giving a vaguely descriptive job title summer?” or other recurring favorites such as such as “metabolic research assistant”.

“Where are you living?,” “How is Speaking of blog making, you your significant other?” or “Have should make a blog to write out you beaten Starcraft II yet?” I’ve what you did. People will either a) devised multiple methods over the know what you are doing by reading years to avoid these pointless quesyour blog or b) disassociate from tions and conversations so we can you because your entertainment all delve back into our conversainvolves writing a blog. Blogging is tions lamenting the fall of Ruckus OK for comedic purposes or if you Player, Juicy Campus and the New jeremy steinman are in a foreign country and want York Knicks. to share all the “weird stuff” you einsteinman The first method to starting do like eat healthily and use wella good conversation is being designed public transportation. around your friends over the summer so you You could also go one step further and just don’t need to rehash the obvious; although, ad- don’t come back until classes actually are startmittedly, it’s probably too late to implement this ing. Everyone knows we all go to the first day of plan. I saw many of my friends in “The Dirty D” class even though it likely involves absorbing useover the summer, although I mostly served as an less information. How many classes have you had extra nerd person for LAN parties. A second part in which they actually do stuff on the first day? of this plan is to continually tweet what you’re (Pratt students: 5 this semester) I mean, I’d love doing, so hopefully everybody will already know to play name games and read the syllabus out the narrative arc of your summer when you re- loud in class, but I have better things to do like turn to school. write columns.

Of course, the lazy alternative is to simply Of course, you could go the normal route and walk around with a sandwich board explain- simply come back and have to explain what you ing what you did; I pioneered this strategy after did at least once per hour. Just know that means breaking my arm. On the outside of my sling, I you also have to listen to other people’s stories at wrote “Freak Knitting Accident” to explain how least four times as much. In spite of everything I injured myself. Aside from being kicked out I just said, it’s nice to have a built-in conversaof the extreme knitting club, this idea had few tion starter at the beginning of the semester with ramifications while eliminating useless babble. everyone.

If you advertise what you did this summer, perBut imagine: if you never had to talk about your haps explaining to people that you built homes summer, you could quickly move on to more intelfor underprivileged barnacles will make you ligent conversation starters like “I love Writing 20 seem a little less bizarre. because I don’t have to choose between awesome If you want to take laziness to the extreme, classes!” and “The freshman meal plan is nice bethere is the Office Space strategy: don’t actually cause you don’t have to choose where to eat!” do anything. Last summer one of my friends made a blog, in which he tried to tell us how boring doJeremy Steinman is a Trinity senior. His column runs ing nothing was. Nobody really asked him about every Thursday.

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f Sarah Palin really can see Russia from her backyard, then I should have at least as good a view of her home state of Alaska from my hometown of Vancouver.

There are many tempting topics to address this week on campus, like the Bull City Connector that is too far away even when sober, or the fun tidbit that this year’s DSG cabinet has two women... the Executive Secretary and the representative to Women’s Life. Yet to end this meta-monstrosity samantha of a paragraph, I’d rather lachman point out some idiosyncrasies in voter logic across the favourite things nation.

Hysteria over the rise of the new conservative Republican wing, The Tea Party, strikes me as both terrifying and entertaining—seemingly contradictory adjectives for the upcoming midterm elections. I wouldn’t have counted Alaska as an example of What 2010 Will Bring, but Lisa Murkowski’s probable loss to Joe Miller (who is accusing national Republican authorities of tampering with the vote) in the state’s senate primary represents this year of surprises.

Anger at incumbents is the feeling of the moment (or at least everyone who writes in public forums thinks so).

Supposedly, governors run the state when not “hiking the Appalachian trail,” congressmen represent their constituencies and senators are left to... well, that part is debatable.

With those responsibilities in mind, one would expect voters to pick the Senate candidate that will bring back the most for the state’s coffers. I would argue that incumbents are more likely than their opponents to bring the pork home. They are more established, more likely to caucus with their incumbent peers and less reliant on making their name a brand.

And for decades, that’s the way it was for Alaska. Ted Stevens, who died in a plane crash on August 9th, was famous for securing billions in federal funding during his 40 years in office. That loyalty translated into re-election after re-election. Regardless of what you think of his personal ideology (or uh, criminal convictions), you have to admire Alaskans for understanding that it was in their interest to keep sending him back to D.C. But American anger at Capitol Hill rages on. Glenn Beck’s Lincoln Memorial rally on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (because when I think strong African-American man, I think Glenn Beck) drew an estimated 300,000 people. They weren’t tossing boxes of tea into the sea, but instead kvetching at government handouts and the like. The broader consensus is that incumbents, responsible not only for the Oil Spill but gosh, reprimanding BP executives, are the reason for this current economic disaster.

Strategic primary voting has fallen by the wayside. As a Canadian (you probably read: communist), I should be overjoyed that Sharron Angle is the Senate Republican nominee in Nevada. She thinks the United States should pull out of the U.N., alcohol should be illegal and Social Security should be “transitioned out.” Hopefully, Nevada voters find these positions extreme (Yet, her opponent is Harry Reid, and I’ve heard he’s, like, not all that good and whatever.). Although the rational thing would have been to nominate a moderate Republican to challenge him, instead we have a a right-wing Prohibitionist.

Anyway, to finish off, here are a couple of pretentious references to illustrate my point (what is my point?) about how the Tea “Party” is whack in its quest for whatever “Small Government” is supposed to be. First, as George Carlin once said, “Have you ever noticed that their stuff is shit, and your shit is stuff?” Second, Woody Allen, paraphrasing Groucho Marx: “I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member”” Why can’t we all acknowledge that we want as much as possible but don’t want to suffer for it collectively? I guess that’s a topic for another Thursday.

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f you’re a freshman, you probably think yourself than adapted. And more than ever, we’re in love pretty smart. You’re planning to take this school by with numbers and statistics. It’s easy to forget that storm in every way—socially, academically, maybe being human is messier than any dataset can begin even athletically. to reveal.

Chances are that you’ll do many smart things over You have two options as you begin to become a functhe course of the next few months. But chances are tioning adult. You can either shrink from the difficulties even better that you’ll do several disof being human, or you can admit that tinctly dumb things, as well. Plenty of your life will be tangled. You won’t be those moments of stupidity will have able to rely on physics or economics— nothing at all to do with academics. or even neuroscience and psychology— As for academics, if you do something to lift every veil. Some complexities are really stupid—like sleeping through just too tightly tied to our mercurial an exam—you’ll get a bad grade or emotions and to the strange interacmaybe even a raised eyebrow from tions we have with one another. your prof.

Study a little English for two reaconnor southard But you will have the chance, this sesons. First, no good English profesdead poet mester and for the next four years, to sor is going to claim to have all the do something fairly stupid without your answers about the text you’re reading grades suffering and with no chance that anyone will or any other topic of debate—if your professor does chastise you for it. You’ll have the chance to totally have some comprehensive, exclusive system that avoid taking an English class. bears no questioning, consider that a red flag and No, you can’t escape from Writing 20. And Trinity leave the course. An openness to mystery and a willstudents, at least, have to satisfy the desires of all of ingness to hold a discussion—elements of academic those acronyms: ALP, CI, etc. But Writing 20 is a flex- English at its best—are important things. ible course that can mean any number of things in its The second key reason is that, while data and thevarious sections, and none of those strange little T- orems know many things, they do not know a single Reqs letters can specifically force you into an English person. Good novels—and poems, plays, stories— classroom. know about people. They’ve looked into them and Well, why should you take an English class, anyway? they’re ready to tell you about them. Not just the The study of English is often viewed as tainted. You’ll statistically measurable or favorable parts, but the hear it called “impractical” and “useless.” No young ineffable, screaming, nothing-but-passion bits, too— English major can escape this question: “So, what are see Macbeth or Absalom, Absalom! or The Brothyou going to do with that?” ers Karamazov. Actually, even bad books know more Statistically, the humanities in general have suffered about the human condition than the Chicago School a steep decline in the past few decades. In 1970, 30 per- of Economics. cent of college students majored in a humanities subOf course, you don’t need to study English in the ject. By 2003, that number had dropped to 16 percent. classroom in order to benefit from all that literature Over the same period, the percentage of English ma- has to offer. But if you’re not going to major or minor jors among the national student population declined in English, I’d still recommend taking at least one good from 7.6 to 3.9. class in the department. It will complement whatever There’s no doubt that the fact that the English ma- else you’re studying. jor is often casually dismissed has aided in its decline in And of course, there are plenty of small-minded popularity. But something more sinister is afoot. people out there who hate mystery and who can’t proAs a culture, we’re becoming less comfortable cess any complexity. They would like you to spend your with ambiguity and complication. Both the social tuition dollars becoming just like them. There is, sadly, sciences and the natural sciences—the humani- much more of that kind of malice out there than you ties’ pure academic companions—encourage us to might expect. That’s why studying English is more than look for and understand binding laws and theorems just a good way to become smarter than you might oththat can be applied over and over again without de- erwise be. It might make you smarter than you’re supviation. For their part, professional schools are in posed to be. the business of teaching students how to function within the confines of professions that have many Connor Southard is a Trinity junior. His column runs evclear rules and mainstays that are imposed rather ery Wednesday.

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