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Sanford receives mixed review By WHITNEY BECKETT The Chronicle

The Sanford Institute of Public Policy should reconsider the number of its professors of the practice, its organization of teaching and research, and its areas of concentration, according to a February 2002 external review that was obtained by The Chronicle. Administrators responded that neither of the review’s first two critiques were well thought out or likely to be implemented, but that the review’s most relevant point was reexamining the areas of concentration. “The important thing to identify is where they have a point and where do we think the^re wrong,” said Bruce Jentleson, the institute’s director. “The overall message was positive, showing we are on the right track.” The institute, like most of the

University’s academic divisions, undergoes a peer review about every five years. Faculty The review’s harshest criticism targeted the number of professors of the practice, which it recommended capping at 25 percent of the total faculty. Currently, those professors—who do not have tenure and are often chosen for their real-world experience—make up between onefourth and one-half of the institute’s faculty, Jentleson said. “[Professors of the practice] are rarely recruited with the same kind of discussion of departmental need and systematic search process as academic faculty,” the report read. “Most importantly, there is an inescapable danger that experienced practitioners may rely exclusively on anecdotal reports of their own experiences, rather than distilled les-

sons and insights from the research literatures that students can apply in their own professional lives.” Jentleson said the review committee’s comments stemmed from a misunderstanding and that no such

changes will be made. “They really suggested a formula that didn’t fit reality,” Jentleson said. “They Bruce Jentleson under-appreciated the contributions that professors of the practice and other non-tenured faculty make/’ William Chafe, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, said the See PPS REVIEW on page 8

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A NEW PARKING PLAN will integrate parking at the University and Medical Center. Officials are expecting the plan tp be implemented by next September.

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Victory last time the Victory gy |QSS6 COlVill l was Durham. in Bell Bell, the prize awarded Thn n nromc,e 11,6 l h nnj Created by a Duke cheerto the winner of the anleader interested in spicing up nual Duke-North Carolina football game, resided in Durham, the annual grudgematch with North Paula Abdul was atop the Billboard Carolina, the Victory Bell is mounted music charts with her album “Forever on a wheeled platform and currently Your Girl.” The number one movie in painted in Carolina Blue. It travels the country was “Batman,” “Roseanne” back and forth between the schools dewas the most popular show on televipending on who won the game that sion, and the Berlin Wall in the midst year. During the game, the team who of coming down. Finally, here at Duke, has the cup that year rolls it around Alaa Abdelnaby and Phil Henderson the track. Other rivalaries around the were taking Coach K to his second country compete for prizes and trophies—some of the more famous ones Final Four. the time The year was 1989, last See VICTORY BELL on page 9 Duke beat North Carolina in football

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Officials aim for improved parking system with merger By ANDREW CARD The Chronicle.

For most members of the University community, winter break will provide a welcome respite from parking hassles. However, transportation officials will use those weeks to try to formulate a long-awaited plan that will merge the Medical Center and University parking systems. The plan, now in its preliminary stages, will consist of a complete overhaul of both systems, placing control in the hands of a single transportation

DSG legislators voted Wednesday to submit residential safety proposals to the University and passed resolutions on parking and an Asian American Studies program. See page 3

services office. Improvements will include changing lot designations, reallo-

cating existing spaces, unifying access systems, coordinating bus routes and schedules and making Duke parking more predictable. A draft of the proposal is expected in early January, and the anticipated switch will occur by Sept. 1, 2003. The merger will be a collaborative effort between administrators from the University, Medical Center and See PARKING MERGER on page 7

Professors spoke Wednesday night on the future implications of U.S.-lraqi tensions at a third discussion panel of the week. See page 4

World & Nation

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Turkish party chief appeals to E.U.

NEWS BRIEFS •

Workers attempt to clean up after spill

Spanish navy staff members and civilians worked Wednesday to clean up the viscous black oil That has coated the Spanish coast. The mess was part of a vast trail left by the aging tanker Prestige, which sank 133 miles off the coast Tuesday. •

President Bush encourages NATO allies

President George W. Bush, recalling Europe’s grim history of “excusing aggression,” challenges skeptical NATO allies to stand firm against Saddam Hussein as the.alliance expands in size and might to combat terrorism. •

Ammunition site explodes in Ecuador

An ammunition storage site at Ecuador’s largest military base, Galapagos Mechanized Base, exploded injuring scores of people, officials said. At least 5 people were killed and 300 were injured. •

Israeli tanks destroy homes of militants

Dozens of Israeli tanks entered three villages in southern Gaza early Thursday, residents said, and destroyed the house of a suspected militants. Officials said four Palestinians were slightly wounded. •

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Recep BRUSSELS, Belgium Tayyip Erdogan says he will do almost anything to get Turkey into the exclusive 15-member club known as the European Union. As leader of Turkey’s new governing party, Justice and Development and probably the most popular politician in the country, Erdogan has promised to change laws and amend the constitution, to root out graft and to make concessions on Cyprus. Starting last week, he took his campaign westward, selling himself, as much as his cause, on a tour of seven member states of the European Union. Wednesday, he knocked on the

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American and foreign officials said Wednesday that the discussions with most nations were still in the early stages and that few, if any, governments have committed troops or other resources.

The preparations for war had two objectives, officials said: to pressure President Saddam Hussein of Iraq to comply with weapons inspections, and to have a force in place for quick action in case Iraq violates U.N. resolution 1441 requiring disarmament. “In dealing with Iraq, it’s clear that only the credible threat of force and serious consequences are likely to elicit Iraqi cooperation and compliance,” said Philip Reeker, the deputy State Department spokesperson. “In that vein, we’re engaged in discussions with a large number of likeSee IRAQ on page 6

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how it can join. “If the results are negative,” Erdogan said, “it will create the provocative thought of the E.U. as a club of Christian countries.” The summit leaders are set to formally invite 10 countries to join in 2004--Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Turkey has a long way to go before the European Union embraces it. In 1999, the organization accepted Turkey as a “candidate” for membership, issuing a warm statement saying it was “destined to join the union.” There has been a cooling since then.

doors of the organization headquarters here, warning it not to discriminate against a country whose people are overwhelmingly Muslim. “Turkey has been waiting at the gates of the E.U. for 40 years, but countries that applied only 10 years ago are almost becoming members,” he complained at a news conference in a hotel. “We think we have to go beyond that and not look at the E.U. as a Christian club.” On his first trip abroad after the stunning victory of his Islamist-based party this month, he urged E.U. leaders to agree at their summit meeting next month in Copenhagen, Denmark, to give Turkey a fixed date for the start of formal talks on when and

Iraq, if weapons inspections fail. The countries are among more than 50 nations that American diplomats have been contacting this week in foreign capitals and at the NATO summit meeting in Prague to discuss participating either in an invasion or postwar reconstruction effort in Iraq, administration officials said. While the United States is asking some nations to provide troops and military equipment for a war, it is requesting others for support for peacekeeping, relief and reconstruction operations following a war.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2002 � PAGE

Test history DSG weighs in on safety, parking, AAS now reported with MCAT By MOLLY NICHOLSON The Chronicle

� Officials speculate that medical schools applicants will take the entrance test with less frequency now that all scores will count. By ANDREW COLLINS The Chronicle

The medical school admissions pressure-cooker known as the MCAT just got a whole lot hotter. Among the changes approved for 2003, the most significant is that medical schools will now receive an applicant’s entire testing history—not just the highest score—when a student applies. This means that the days oftaking the MCAT “for practice” are all but over. “It’s a good change for everybody,” said Albert Chen, executive director of graduate programs for the Kaplan test -

prep company. “Do it once, do it right—that’s mostly our take on it.” Previously, if a student fared poorly on the test and wished to withhold the results, subsequent score reports would indicate that the test was taken but would not reveal the score. That option is no longer available.

Chen said schools will benefit from

more information. “[Admissions officers] will have more opportunity to look

See MCAT on page 5

CLARIFICATION In a page one story in the Nov. 19 edition, The Chronicle stated that administrators placed students involved in a drinking game in the Theta Chi commons room earlier this semester on social suspension. Their suspension resulted from an agreement between those students and University deans.

As students and administrators continue to consider residential safety, Duke Student Government legislators unanimously voted to submit their rec-

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a meeting Wednesday night.

In addition, legislators adopted two other resolutions—one recommending improvements to undergraduate parking and transit and the other supporting the establishment of an Asian American Studies program, specifically curriculum and faculty development. Presented by junior Cliff Davison, DSG vice president for facilities and athletics, and junior Alex Niejelow, a legislator, the safety resolution calls for card access to bathrooms, more blue safety phones—including strobe lights on the phones to alert officers when activated—and a minimum standard of lighting for all areas on campus. Niejelow said camera surveillance was not included because legislators wanted to hear from students before they took a position on the issue. Both Davison and Niejelow said card access to bathrooms would probably be safer and cost less than keys in the long run. “If someone loses a physical key in a dorm, you can’t cancel that,” Niejelow said. “Someone out there has that key.” Around campus, Davison hopes to encourage students to use blue phones more frequently by listing all appropriate uses on each device. “[A blue phone] is not just to call 911 for an emergency, but it can be used for safe rides, a safe escort and campus police,” Niejelow said. The resolution also recommended in-

stalling comer mirrors and motion-sensitive lighting in bathrooms, considering bathroom panic alarms, trimming shrubbery that blocks safety devices, increasing campus police bicycle patrol and raising student awareness of existing safety precautions in the Blue Zone. Campus Council is scheduled to consider its own safety resolution tonight. Presenting a resolution on parking and transit, Davison, senior Will Fagan,

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WILL FAGAN, DUKE STUDENT GOVERNMENT ATTORNEY GENERAL, speaks to the DSG Legislature Wednesday night regarding the body’s parking resolution.

DSG attorney general, and sophomore Emily Brady, chair ofthe transit advisory subcommitteeoffacilities and athletics, hope to influence administrative

policy decisions in February. Legislators accepted three parts of the resolution—increasing buses for East-West and Science Drive routes during peak hours, incorporating DATA or TTA routes to service off-campus students, and opening the Bryan Center garage to undergraduates to make up for lost parking spaces when the Duke University Road lots close next fall. However, legislators voted to strike a fourth part of the resolution, which recommended incorporating the Edens B and C lots into the Blue Zone and giving employees access to the Blue Zone on the condition that undergraduates who wished to park there had spaces. DSG members were concerned that employees would be relegated to the back ofthe Blue Zone. “If I was a house-

keeper and not in the greatest shape, I probably wouldn’t want to walk all that way, something that they would have to do every day,” senior Graham McWhorter explained. “I don’t have much sympathy for the students,” he said, adding that they are younger and more physically fit and do not use their cars as much as faculty do. IN OTHER BUSINESS; The Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee presented the first draft of a bylaw that DSG will vote on next week. Representatives from the USA Today newspaper readership program also presented, and legislators suggested placing newspapers in more locations around campus—for example, putting dispensers in the Sanford Institute of Public Policy and increasing the supply at the Marketplace. Legislators also agreed to supply $6OO to Duke Coffeehouse’s programming fund request for the Karate Band.

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Third Iraq panel of week features spry debate ers questioned political motives. “’War is good politics and... President [George W.] Bush and the Republicans could run on war,’” Professor of History panelist Alex Roland said, quoting Bush’s chief political adviser Karl Rove. Roland equated the current environment to “a sort of Wag the Dog

situation.” In contrast to these concerns, other panel members intimated that Iraq’s threat to the U.S. was

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STEPHEN SMITH, retired brigadier general, and Jacob Vigdor, assistant professor of public policy, speak at the third and final panel discussion on U.S.-lraqi relations Wednesday night opened the discussion by examining the letter submitBy CHARLES LIN The Chronicle ted to the United Nations by Iraqi Foreign Minister A dynamic and lively group discussed the future efNaji Sabri Nov. 13. The letter, which referred to British Minister Tony Blair as a “lackey,” attacked the ofAmerican and the current state of affairs Prime policy fects justifications of war. at the third and final panel discussion ofU.S.-Iraqi relations Wednesday. “What will this war be about, besides killing peoThe five panelists each presented a unique stance ple because all wars are about that?” she asked. on the debate, creating a mixed atmosphere of both “Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden have little support and criticism for the ongoing conflict. The in common besides the fact that they were trained panel, comprised of a retired general and professors and supplied by the [Central Intelligence Agency].... from various disciplines, spoke to a group of about It is indeed difficult to establish just who is an 50 people. enemy and who is a friend.” In addition to questioning the motives of war, othAssistant Professor of English Ranjana Khanna

very real. “Iraq poses a threat to the U.S. and the world order,” said James B. Duke Professor of Political Science Robert Keohane, alluding to the country’s past record with weapons of mass destruction. Keohane, another panel member, offered four possible policy strategies including containment and deterrence, unilateral preventive war, multilateral coercive diplomacy and appeasement, defense and delay. Ofthe four, he argued that multilateral coercive diplomacy, the course upon which the U.S. is currently following, was the best possible solution. He cited failures in past policies of containment and the detriments of unilateral preventive war, which he said would not only be costly but would also increase antiAmerican sentiment and violate the UN. Charter. Retired Brigadier General Stephen Smith warned against unilateral war as well during the panel. “Acting unilaterally, we run the risk of winning the war and losing the peace,” said Smith, who is also currently the Director ofHuman Resources at Duke Hospital. The audience responded well to the discussion. “I thought the discourse was very positive. As students, the most important thing is to educate ourselves, understand the problem and to get past the rhetoric,” sophomore Joshua Nelson said. Following the panel, Keohane urged students to be politically conscious. “It really is the obligation of everyone who is a voter to make up their mind, and having made up their mind, it is their responsibility to act politically,” he said.

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China’s new party leader reveals plans for future

The new Communist Party chief said he will heed advice of his predecessor in Friday speech By ERIK ECKHOLM

New York Times News Service

described in briefings this week to party-affiliated institutes and agencies, ensuring that Jiang’s special status as “party sage” is widely known among officials, not just an inference they should draw from Jiang’s celebrity treatment in the state-controlled

In his secret acceptance BEIJING speech after being appointed China’s Communist Party chief Friday, Hu Jintao pledged that on important matters he would “seek instruction and listen to the views” of his predecessor, Jiang news media. Zemin, according to two party officials Hu’s pledge brought to mind the inwho attended briefings on the meeting. formal power wielded by the late Deng The words Hu used were stronger Xiaoping, who in the 1980s and early than customary farewells to retiring 1990s could single-handedly change naleaders, the officials said, and amounted tional priorities or unseat leaders who to a promise of deference, declared bedisappointed him, even though he did fore the new senior leadership. not hold the titles of party or governHu’s speech, to a closed caucus of ment leader. party leaders Friday morning, has not Jiang lacks the prestige that Deng enbeen released to the public. joyed and no one expects him to have such But its contents are being officially sweeping influence. But Hu appears to

MCAT from page 3 at the student,” he said. “If a student does consistently bad for a while, then does well, that’s something a school may consider

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Likewise, he said students will benefit in that they will no longer be tempted to take the examination frivolously and pay the $lB5 registration fee. With a likely decrease in the number of tests taken per year, it is unclear whether the change will negatively or positively affect the Association of American Medical Colleges—the non-profit organization that manages the MCAT—and test prep companies like Kaplan. While admitting the move seems counterintuitive at first glance, Chen said fewer careless test-takers will cause scores to rise on the whole, helping the industry. “You’ll automatically make money when peo-

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pie are succeeding,” he said. Many students were wary of the change, which adds more pressure to an already nerve-wracking test. “Going into the first time taking the MCATs, people are definitely going to feel more pressure,” sophomore Michael Hatch said. “Students will no longer have the luxury to take it just once to see what it’s like.” The test is normally taken only once, but many viewed the withholding option as a safety net in the event of unpreparedness or simply a bad day. Jessie Brotherton, a junior who took the MCAT last summer, said she would have prepared differently if the new changes had been in effect. “I think I would have been more serious about it,” she said. “There was always the option that if I screwed up, I could always take it again, which I think is kind of necessary.” Both Hatch and sophomore Lindsay Chaney said

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face major constraints on his authority as he takes over the party now, and the state presidency in March. “For at least two or three years, the relationship between Hu and Jiang will be like that between Jiang and Deng in the past,” said a scholar at a party institute after hearing the official description of last Friday’s plenary meeting of the new Central Committee, which formally appointed Hu and other top leaders. “Hu will continue to report to Jiang about important work,” he said. Wu Guoguang, a former party official who now teaches political science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said Hu would have to proceed with exceptional care for now, not openly straying from Jiang’s ideas.

A potential problem, Wu said, is that “there does not appear to be a clear division of labor.” “What kind of issues will be defined as important or not?” he asked. For now, the apparent fuzziness in executive authority may not matter much because all the senior leaders seem to agree on China’s basic strategy: to keep opening the economy to market forces but to keep a tight grip on politics; and to seek good relations with the United States while keeping pressure on Taiwan to be reunited with the mainland. Jiang, many experts say, thinks of his experience as particularly vital in See CHINA on page 7

the change may make them rethink when they take the test. “I had been planning to take it this August and so if I did poorly on it, of course I would prefer to hide that score and be able to take it again in April,” Chaney said. [The change] could possibly make me rethink taking it so soon. If I don’t feel I’m prepared enough to take it, I probably won’t.” In addition to eliminating the withholding option, the AAMC will be changing the MCAT in several other ways. Three questions on DNA and genetics will be added, and the verbal reasoning section will be moved from the first to second section and reduced by five questions. The price of the examination will increase by five dollars from last year’s price of $lBO. Because of the changes, Chen advises students studying for the MCAT to ensure that their test materials are the most recent available.

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TURKEY from page 2 Turkey has been praised for laws adopted in August to abolish the death penalty in peacetime, permit greater freedom of expression and increase the rights ofethnic Kurds. But some members of the European Union have resisted setting a date for talks, saying Turkey must prove it is improving its human rights record and carrying out other reforms. This month, the former president of France, Valery Giscard d’Estaing, who is overseeing plans for the future of Europe, said that Turkey was “not a European country” and that inviting it to join the union would mean “the end of Europe.” Afterward, Erdogan, a former mayor of Istanbul, stayed cool, dismissing the remarks as “inopportune” and “emotional.” The waters were muddied again last "

Thursday, when Pope John Paul II gave his advice to the European Union as it prepared to expand eastward. He called on the group to remember that its “common European house” was built with “the cement of that extraordinary religious, cultural and spiritual heritage that has made Europe great down the centuries.” The effects of the remarks, whether intended or not, was to reinforce the perception of Turkey as an outsider. Erdogan was received Wednesday by the president of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, and the European Union commissioner for enlargement. Gunter Verheugen. Giscard d’Estaing was in Vienna for a birthday party, his spokesperson said. Chris Patten, the European Union commissioner for external relations, kept long-scheduled plans to be in Paris. Javier Solana, its foreign policy chief, who was en route to the NATO summit

meeting in Prague, went to Ankara last week to meet Erdogan. Erdogan took with him 12 Turkish business and civic leaders to prove his good faith. Turkey is desperate to accelerate its bid for membership in hopes of attracting foreign investment, as it tries to recover from its worst recession since World War 11. Much to the annoyance of members, the United States has pressed hard for Turkey, the sole Muslim member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and a much-needed ally in any military campaign against Iraq, eventually

to become a member. President George W. Bush telephoned the president of the union, Prime Minister Anders Rasmussen of Denmark, and urged him to advance Turkey’s candidacy. Erdogan praised Turkey as a model

of coexistence between Islam and democracy.

IRAQ from page 2

President George W. Bush discussed Iraq with Presi-

minded governments around the world about what may need to be done if Iraq does not comply with the Security Council resolution. And this includes participation in and support for a future coalition.” But the United States also has a political objective in recruiting partners for a possible military strike: to demonstrate that it is not acting unilater-

clav Havel ofthe Czech Republic. Bush is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain and President Jacques Chirac of France in Prague Thursday, before traveling to Russia. Geoff Hoon, the British secretary of state for defense, said Wednesday that Parliament had scheduled a debate for Monday on the United States’ request for

ally against Iraq. The participation, even nominal, of other countries in a military “coalition of the willing,” as the White House has called it, would be particularly important to the administration if the United States chose to attack Iraq without authorization from the UN. Security

military assistance against Iraq. Britain has consistently been the United States’ closest partner in the war on terrorism, and British troops would probably play a major role in a U.S.-led

The effort continued Wednesday in Prague, where dent Ahmet Necdet Sezer of Turkey and President Va-

Council, officials said. The US. diplomatic blitz began Monday when the

State Department sent cables to more than 50 US. embassies asking them to open discussions with their host governments about joining a coalition against Iraq.

coalition.

“What is important is that we are prepared, that we maintain that preparation, that we are there to underpin if necessary the UN. Security Council process, and that continues to be the case,” Hoon told reporters. In Sydney, Australia’s prime minister, John Howard, said Wednesday that Australia has partici-

“The Turkish population is Muslim,” he said, “and we are trying to have a positive impact on the way the Muslim world looks at the European Union. We want Turkey to be proof of how we can live side by side.” With Turkey as a member, he added, “the European Union will be able to expand to the Caucasus, to Asia.” “It will be a gate,” Erdogan said. That is exactly what many Europeans fear, although they are reluctant to say so out loud. A concern is that if Turkey joined the union, it could become a “gate” for a flood of terrorists and immigrants from eastern neighbors like Iran and Iraq. He told reporters that a solution to the 28-year division of Cyprus between Greece and Turkey has to be examined as part of Turkey’s effort to join the European Union and that membership will require compromises on both sides.

pated with the U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. forces in the Middle East, in planning for a possible military strike against Iraq. Australian officials also said that Australia plans to withdraw 150 special forces commandoes from Afghanistan, where they have helped hunt for al Qaeda and Taliban forces, for possible redeployment to Iraq. “During these discussions, it has been made clear that any Australian contribution in a new theater such as Iraq would need to be within our resources and not detract from immediate defense and national security

needs,” Howard said. French, Canadian and Dutch officials said their governments have also received requests for assistance from the United States. It was not clear Wednesday night whether Germany would be asked to participate. Pentagon officials said there have also been discussions and some informal agreements with some Persian Gulf countries about using their bases as staging areas for troops and aircraft.

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PARKING MERGER,™^ Chance Management Advisors, Inc., a Boston-based consulting firm that Duke has used for years and that specializes in the design and implementation of efficient transportation schemes. The majority of Duke’s parking problems stem from day-to-day irregularities, said Barbara Chance, president and CEO of Chance Management. “We need to have a parking structure that can be proactive in predicting needs, arranging the use of spaces and addressing continued growth,” Chance wrote in an e-mail. “As far as possible, people need to have parking be predictable, since it is one of those functions faced by people every day.” That sentiment is in line with the perceptions of administrators, who emphasize that creating uniformity between the systems is the merger’s primary goal. Duke’s leadership in biomedical research involves continuous interaction between the University and the Medical Center, making parking an extremely relevant issue, Chance said. These changes will require communication between the two institutions. “Basically, the current system is confusing to people. There are several subtle differences between parking at the Medical Center and parking on campus, including lot designation and permits, that can make parking complicated,” Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said. In addition to making parking a more constant and reliable process, Chance Management has already identified specific problem areas in the existing scheme. “Duke is not maximizing the use of its existing spaces,” Chance wrote. “This is very important since there is high parking demand, and building additional parking [lots] is very expensive compared with most of the existing parking. The access control system needs to be coordinated across the campus, with the DukeCard in use for all those affiliated with the University.” Trask also emphasized that the merger will likely result in an increase in permit prices, but that the costs, at least for Medical Center employees, would be offset. “We plan to charge employees on a pre-tax basis after the merger. That way, they pay with money before the government has a chance to tax it,” he said. “The nominal rate may go up, but people need to understand that in long run, the parking system must be self-supporting.” Director of Parking and Transportation Services Catherine Reeve said the project was not far enough along for her to be involved, and declined comment.

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CHINA from page 5 the arena of foreign policy. But he may also wish to head off any moves toward what he might consider a risky political

liberalization, or any questioning of

the violent 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square or his campaign to crush the Falun Gong spiritual movement. The machinations over the last year that left Jiang in such a strong position are known to few, but one result is that Jiang placed at least five of his close allies on the nine-member Standing Committee of the Politburo, the top governing council. Jiang also remains, until March and possibly longer, the chairperson of the military. If divisive issues arise, Hu is vulnerable to being outvoted within the top circles. So he may have decided that his best tactic was to get out front with his own pledge to consult Jiang, experts surmised. “Jiang’s people are in the majority on the Standing Committee, and Hu Jintao will have to show proper

deference to him,” said an official of a major party institution in Beijing who also heard details of Friday morning’s meeting. By saying it first himself, Hu may have prevented other senior leaders from standing up to propose some special advisory status for Jiang. He also established that it would be he himself who does the consulting, not any other official with his own agenda. Notably, Hu did not promise to follow every opinion offered by Jiang, just to give them respectful consideration. “Seeking instruction isn’t the same as seeking orders,” the second party official said. “It suggests respectfully seeking out a teacher. “I think Hu understands that his situation is delicate and he doesn’t want to offend Jiang,” the official continued. “An offended leader can create trouble.” It may be March before it becomes clear whether Jiangwill continue as chairperson of the military. Retaining that title would ensure him a prominent role on many issues.

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PPS REVIEW from page 1 committee misinterpreted the role of professors of the practice, believing they do more teaching and less research. Some of those professors primarily research, teaching only part-time. Susan Tifft, a Patterson professor of the practice of public policy studies, said those professors connect students to the professional world through the classroom, professional contacts, career advice and real-world counsel. “Pure academics is not the essence of a public policy institute,” said Francis Lethem, a professor of the practice of public policy studies. Kenneth Dodge, William McDougall professor of public policy studies, agreed there should be a mix of tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty but said he did not know whether the current proportions were optimal. Both the review and the institute’s faculty cited a need for overall growth—the institute’s strategic plan hopes to increase the faculty from 17 to 25. Organization

The review found that the institute’s organization exacerbates challenges to balance teaching, individual research and larger, multi-investigator research projects. It urged the consideration of two models—the “traditional model” and the “twin-silo model,” both of which would separate large-scale research centers from routine teaching

and research responsibilities. Chafe and Jentleson agreed that the institute’s current system enables superior integration of research and teaching than either of the recommended models, although the reviewers found that current integration is still “quite limited.” “The twin-silo model is a flat-out bad idea,” Jentleson said. “It flies in the face of public policy as a field.... We’re using the traditional model but with an even greater degree of integration,” Dodge added that spreading the faculty over multiple divisions would weaken the institute’s ability to involve students in research. The review also recommended considering transforming the institute into an independent school. “It would the ' profile enhance of the Institute/School beyond Duke, making recruitment of students, identification of employers, and even interaction with alumni, markedly easier,” the committee wrote. The review team said the change could be a semantic one with minimal financial costs, but Chafe said budgetary concerns made the suggestion nearly impossible in the foreseeable future. “Undergraduates come to a university like Duke because a liberal arts education is an effective and comprehensive way of dealing with a whole set of issues,” Chafe added. “[Separating Sanford from Arts and Sciences] undermines the holistic education and the ideals of a liberal arts education.”

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“Undergraduate instruction is clearly passing a market test—enrollments are large and have been rising.... But we are concerned that the reasons for the increases in enrollment and with student satisfaction may signal problems,” the report read. “Many advanced courses in the institute are taught by professors of the practice; the students enjoyed these and learned from them but saw them as not very intellectually rigorous and definitely not following up systematically on what they had learned in the tools or analytic courses.” The report was optimistic about the masters in public policy and the midcareer international development poli-

cy programs. It also acknowledged the financial obstacles of adding a doctorate program. Lange said he is not worried that the lack ofa doctorate program will hinder competitive faculty hirings. “They have an excellent faculty now without it,” he said. The review recommended developing joint doctorate programs with other schools at Duke, such as the Fuqua School of Business and the School of Law. Such programs are currently under consideration and might become a reality in two to four years, Chafe said. “Everything it said was consistent with the strategy we’d already embarked upon,” said Frederick Mayer, director of the institute’s graduate program. “[Joint programs are] the right way to go.”

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heads and give thanks for these little entertainment gems: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets It grossed the third-highest box office totals for an opening weekend, ranking just behind Spiderman and—surprise, surprise—Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It's official: We are a planet of argyle sock-wearing, taped-glasses nerds. Fans of the Potter books undoubtedly responded with a spirited by a collective their asthma i MMMBop Fatherhood Taylor Hans 19-year-old ke' boardist (farth left) for the sim larly named trio, just became a father. Hmm. So you're saying he's mar-

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that hot guitarist chick with the braces what's her name? Isaac? Ice Cube He sacrificed his legitimacy a long time ago, and now he's got his eye on the trilogy. Friday After Next, his third installment, may not win any Oscars, but it will certainly go down in history for the cleverest title. Friday, Next Friday and now Friday After Next... utter genius only rivaled by Robert De Niro's aptly titled sequel to Analyze This —Analyze That. Whoever thinks up this stuff deserves a fat raise. Double Rs Nelly's "Hot in Herre" and Christina ';ra's "Dirrty." I'm not ■ed. It's not cute, it's not -er—use a dictionary, teven Seagal's Hip Hop inection irst it was Seagal and DMX in 'xit Wounds. Now it's Seagal :o-staiTing with Ja Rule and Cumpt in Half Past Dead. Where's Suge Knight when 'ou need him? Pee-wee Herman On second thought, nevermind. Happy Thanksgiving! —David Walters —

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was more helpful for Shakespeare because it's harder to decode some of the stuff. If this on her stomach for sound were a [Tennessee] Williams play or effects and the boy moon-walksomething like that, it wouldn't have been « I ing across the floor of the as useful." Another aspect of the class, Alumni Lounge. besides tablework, was establishing "the This is not your typical a capworld of the play," a phrase used both by pella group. Where others have Berger and the production's scenic coordivocal talent, Billy's Goatee has nator, Carl Pearson humor. The energy in the room Berger noted, "We weren't having a is contagious and group specific time period for the show, so founders Jenn Davis and William before rehearsal we had to 'build the Lynam—who go by Jennie and world of the play,' and we decided that it WHERE ARE THE GOATEES?: Sophomore Billy when performing—have was a world where women can be docMargaret Worthington sings a happy tune. everyone in stitches. Why expect tors and war heroes, but at the same anything less from this group that named themselves after time men are the kings." the Blue Devil's facial hair? Pearson, in discussing his duty of taking the Billy's Goatee formed after Billy found a copy of a class' ideas and turning them into a scenic Vanessa Carlton song last summer during Project WILD design, said "my role was not to come up with staff training, and gave it to Jennie. The duo jokingly chorea design, but to take what individuals read into ographed a dance to the song, and when they presented it the play, and what we saw in the play and the with their trademark goofiness to the PWILD freshmen, world we generated in the class, and make that others instantly wanted to join. This inside joke went public into a design." after recent performances on Clocktower Quad and with This is a very experimental form of theater Rhythm and Blue during Parents' Weekend. They now one where the director must relinquish a lot of boast a repertoire including "Baby Got Back," "The Lion jL control. It is also a bold move on the part of the Sleeps Tonight" and both rap and Michael Jackson medTheater Studies Department, considering that leys. They're insane, and it's fabulous. their budget has been placed largely in the hands However, for all of their antics, they're not here to trash on of students, most of them majoring outside the Duke's other a cappella groups. To illustrate, Jennie shares a department. How will it turn out? Tonight's soldmathematical equation: "Billy's goatee a cappella good out crowd will be the first to decide. singing skills g00f.... I can't be in other a cappella groups an Valerio because it's well." I sing —

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Interpoft Interrogation And audiences have been receiving the material well? It's just fantastic. Interpol aside, I've been playing music at different levels for a decade. This is the first time that I've walked onstage and connected with the crowd from the very first note. We have a great bond with the audience, and the energy is there. You guys got pretty huge pretty quick; do you anticipate getting bigger? I try to stay in the now and keep my feet on ground. So far the progression has been positive, and it's been going in the right direction—the next tour is going to be bigger. You do need growth since the band, as a unit, is something that is living and breathing and has to progress. Popularity is a whirlwind and if you hype on it, it can be a really scary thing and cause bad inertia. For better or worse, you've been lumped together with this year's massive wave New York City band hype. How do you see yourselves within that? Maybe this will give you a clue as to the excitement: We have three sold out shows coming up at the Bowery. That is a really good feeling. It makes you want to hug your hometown. We're definitely looking at a rejuvenation of New York c angry because there's been something going on there all the time, and the media just began to pay attention. But at least in this case there's something to support the attention. Still, there's always talent that goes unheard, the scary thing is what happens if it dies next year. These things happen all over the place. Take Chapel Hill, for instance, or in the '9os when Seattle got big, whereas New York didn't. I guess I've got to thank The Strokes. They blew the door open—fortunately, there were people standing behind it ready to walk through, if I took you out on the town throughout the East Village, you're not going to find The Liars and the Yeah Yeahs Yeahs and The Strokes all hanging out at one bar. When it first happened it was like being in the eye of the storm: really calm, with madness all around.

Four months later, the hype dust settles and the towering Interpol monument still stands—the debut album of the year, Turn on the Bright Lights. A few weeks before their Dec. 9 Cat's Cradle show, Senior Editor Greg Bloom caught up with Interpol's drummer Sam Fogarino. You just just got back from Europe, and now you guys pick up the American tour again. What was the difference in Europe? Touring in Europe was really nice. Their whole way of doing things there is quite different. From the way they look at the art form to how they treat you... it's just a very different system of operation. Why is that? Because the grass is greener on the other side? 1 don't know, it's just age-old. There's more of a palate for something different. A lot of kids in America want something new, -but the proportion to the number of such kids in Europe is quite small. Europeans are reared for it; I mean, the facilities are funded by the government. [Venues] are run like clockwork, with great service and sound systems. It's like pop music is state-sponsored. Here, it's spoon-fed and MTV dictates what people are going to like. The new album has on tour. Were all of them already set to go before you came to record an album? Some songs are pretty new, some have been around since the band's inception. For us, a song is ready when it's ready It has to go through the "Interpol process." "Interpol process?" Yeah, a song has to be approved by all four of us. It can be a very easy way of doing things, or very argumentative. At the end of the day, that' what makes Interpol Interpol, though.

Gilt "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times—the gift and the curse." All artists must struggle to establish themselves in relation to those who have come before them, and hip hop artists are no exception. Jay-Z's newest release, The Blueprint, Vol. 2: The Gift and the Curse, a massive two-disc effort, demonstrates that this struggle is still GRADE: alive and well. On The Blueprint, the only man in rap today who could unite two coasts, sample everyone from Shrek and Sinatra to Big Boi and 8.1. G., and refer to himself as J-HOVA, has solidified his spot in the lyrical canon of hip hop music. The first disc, The Gift, begins with "A Dream" in which Mr. Z speaks to a vision of Biggie about the problems of being on top. Nevertheless, he moves quickly from megalomanical prophesy to the radiofriendly "'O3 Bonnie & Clyde," featuring Beyonce Knowles. "I Did It My Way" showcases Jay-Z's talent for producing complex beats with unlikely samples as he spins a lounge-singer’s rendition of the Sinatra classic into a catchy chorus. The Curse follows with slightly darker songs including "Guns & Roses," which features Lenny Kravitz and offers a guitar-driven exploration of the contradictions of life that rhymes "guns and roses" with "friends and foes-es," but which will probably join "Bonnie & Clyde" on the radio. The three bonus tracks at the end of The Curse bring the total number of songs on The Blueprint to 25, making a few skipover tracks inevitable. Jay-Z, however, carries the massive project with aplomb. If there was any doubt as to his place in the register of rap today, The Blueprint has removed it. —Macy Parker

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Superchunk's deal with Matador Records ended, and rather than look for a larger label with increased distribution, they chose to retain all artistic control, and put out their own material. Since then, Merge has grown to put out records for over 40 bands. What makes this label so unique is the utter simplicity of their methods. They have remained in business for roughly 12 years despite relying on album sales to a small, selective fan base and essentially no mainstream radio airplay. In fact, they've even grown steadily. There's no way to define the label's sound, because they don't select their artists that way. As Martin tells me, "We don't think about how much the album will make for us, we simply ask ourselves, Would we buy this?'" 1 walk away from the Merge Records office a little lighter on my feet. Right in our own backyard there's a little piece of music heaven, untainted by the massive mainstream machine, selling great sounds for the absolute love of it. —Alan Amerault '

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to another third-world cause. ancially lucrative fan base, hit singles it needs to worshippers, Pearl Jam same fates as many of emporaries. Epic Is would have done betdemand a few crowd pleasers in the midst of the album's artistically valid, yet rather unmoving, 15 tracks. In short, if you're a Pearl Jam fan, you should buy this album. If you're not, Riot Act sure won't change your mind. —Garver Moore

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MUSIC For four hours Saturday night, Kilgo Quad will turn into the venue for the most intense musical brawl this University has seen in years. The 2002 Duke Battle of the Bands will feature six of the best groups the school's got, and don't think for a moment that this is going to be a friendly event. "It's gonna be vicious, Walk Alone bassist Mike Sacks said. "We definitely want people out there throwing their bodies around and flashing the metal sign." Other bands on the ticket include Glass Handle and The Fog, and they're playing for a not-so-paltry $5OO. Admission is free. 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

FILM It may try a little too hard at points, and it may not be as good as American Beauty, but Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition was still one of the summer's best. If nothing else, go for the amazing performances byTom Hanks and Paul Newman. Griffith Theater. Saturday at 7 and 10 p.m. Sunday at 8 p.m. $4.

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very y ear/ many Duke students and graduates go on to Jobs in the financial, consulting or computer programming industries. While these may be dream jobs for some, there are others who choose to break out of the mold and pursue careers and internships in the arts and entertainment industry. We've profiled five of these creative minds and asked them about the best and worst parts of their positions, how they landed their dream jobs and what the future holds.

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Dana WahrUmmt HBO Media Relations brikant, Trinity 'O2 ions department of HBO t is responsible for reviewing and writing press releases for all ig, for assisting in the preparation for premieres and special events a press digest of current HBO and AOL/Time Warner news. "This HBO series like The Sopranos, Sex and The City and Six Feet HBO's acclaimed documentaries," she said, lere; Fabrikant knew early that she wanted to go into the entertain/ecause Duke does not offer a major in communications, 1 decided fepartment of public policy studies]. coupled my studies in the PPS in internship at HBO, and worked in the media relations department *rk City the summer after my sophomore year—where assisted in ling of press campaigns," she said. Fabrikant loved her internship, spoke with her co-workers at HBO. When she was offered a posiiped at the chance to return to the media relations department. "I think that my outgoing personality and my people skills make me for both my specific job at HBO and a general career in entertain-

merit and media. I love working with people, and in ti est minds, but also some of the most creative," Fabn A word from the wise: She recommends the PPS t< classes like Television Journalism. The Film and Documei industry, Fabrikant said. She also counts drama and perf* Where you'll see her in the future. While Fabrikan law, for now, she is enjoying her time in New York Cit always said that my dream job would be one in which estly say that I look forward to going into the office went from watching my favorite television shows, to to promote them. As far as I am concerned, I have a now," Fabrikant said.

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Duties included manning the front How she got there: Kari went! Dancing Devils and took classes." more classes while visiting her sisl she found out about the internship the job. Kari's been dancing herwl learned as a child; then, she movei Raleigh. At Duke, she's been study How Duke helped: Since veryi schools —most were from state sc recognition helped her land the jot also aided her in the eyes' of othei Tips on landing a similar posit city—such as New York or Los Ano structured environment or a less s Internet to find jobs or auditions ar Cool stuff: BDC gives interns a The employees there keep interns from BDC is now a Rockette. She who choreographed Britney Spear instructor at BDC, Jermaine Browi in a Bottle" video. Tough stuff: Many of NYC's prc| their da^

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view York City ange for 10 free classes per week, helping organize visiting groups, in January as a member of the much fun; I loved it!" She took over spring break, and that's when pleted the application and landed ip and jazz were the first types she idem dance at Enloe High School in in addition to Dancing Devils, items have come from top dance programs—the name -management skills she's acquired

scommends going to a larger know whether you want a more me—like BDC's. She also uses the opportunities for networking, connections in the dance world, auditions, and a friend of Kari's take classes from Brian Friedman, "I'm a Slave 4 U." A regular graphed Christina Aguilera's "Genie

ncers take classes at BDC on 3 classes were challenging. "You'll dio that will have 80 people in it; ioning in it. Everybody's just going trying to make their way to the lass system allows anyone to take )eware, Kari warns, many people tudents at home aren't ready for

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Name: Vinny Eng, Trinity 'O3 Job: Production management intern at the Williamstown Theatre Festival Duties: At Williamstown, Eng would rise at 9 a.m. and run the errands for the, day—going to production meetings, shuttling actors, sitting in on technical rehearsals, taking care of finances or moving in a show, which had to be done each weekend within 48 hours. Perks included meeting established Broadway and film actors, such as Tate Donovan and Diane Venora and attending opening-night galas and late-night company shows. How he got the job: While working as a producing intern on Paper Doll for Theatre Previews at Duke last spring, Eng met Broadway producer Randall Wreghitt, who mentioned that Williamstown might offer an interesting summer experience. Eng applied to the program and was accepted for an 11-week theater season in Williamstown, Mass. How Duke helped: Williamstown is a premiere regional theater festival—and has a Tony Award to prove it—but Eng hadn't heard of it before talking with Wreghitt and Theatre Previews producer Zannie Voss. Both Wreghitt and Voss wrote Eng recommendations for the competitive internship program. Eng also credits his work on Paper Doll for preparing him for such an intense program. "The theater program here is great, because everyone is so involved with the national theater community, so they can give you contacts." he said. "Opportunities exist for that in one way or another, especially through the Theatre Previews program.... You can work on a show in a professional setting, and they have internships on everything." Future plans: Although he is an economics major, Eng plans on entering a life in the theater behind the scenes. He's especially excited to work again with folks he met in Williamstown. "The people there—the interns and apprentices—work alongside established professionals. In 10 years, they're going to be working in New York, as the new professional community. It was a great place to go and meet people with such a passion for the art," said Eng. What WTF experience translates to Duke now: Eng is active in Duke's drama community, currently working as stage manager forTheater Studies' production of Macbeth. At Williamstown, he also helped with the Greylock Theatre Project, which brought high-caliber theater to underprivileged students from North Adams, Mass. He hopes to continue a similar project at Duke, producing for Hoof 'n' Horn's production of Schoolhouse Rock.

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A Preview of Holiday Madness Science/Fantasy Oscar Hopefuls and Oscar Wannabes Two Towers

Rabbit Proof Fence Poised for another epic Oscar run, the Released in Australia over a year ago, Fence has been second installment of The Lord of the Rings redone to suit American audiences. In this much buzzed will deliver as film, three Aboriginal girls are kidnapped and forced to promised. Expect serve white families. Eventually though, they escape their captors and trek 1,500 miles across the Outback all the surprises, in search of freedom. Originally meant to shed light stunning special on Australia's own imperialistic faults, this movie now effects and the imaginative creahopes to serve as a message against Mc-World impetures first found rialists.—Nov. 29 (limited release) in The Fellowship About Schmidt of the Ring. This Brought to you by ain't no Chamber fabulous Election, th of Secrets, and old Nebraskan insun am why trying to run his dau* I writing You know that need to see own has turned out to b* already you this? it —Dec. 18 hoped. If rumors bear ti Star Trek: Nemesis land Jack Nicholson an t about Space doesn't end tion. Keep your eyes op* If Solaris up being (Frodo concurs), catch Captain Picard (along art theatres—this is one with LeVar Burton) and the old “Next missed.— Dec. 13 (limit* Generation Crew" for intrigue and RomulansGangs of New York lots and lots of Romulans. Dec. 13 After being delayed f Solaris Martin Scorsese is read' Hollywood has been snatching classic sci-fi his big-budget vision of books off the shelves recently, like this project street violence in the fo adapted by Steven Soderbergh from a Polish ative years of our great* novel by Stanislaw Lem. Put George Clooney city. Pitting Daniel Day in a spaceship, start messing with his head Lewis against Leonardo and you get a psychological thriller that could DiCaprio, Gangs of be the biggest surprise at the Oscars this New York could be just spring. Nov. 27 the kind of epic drama Compiled by Tom Roller and Jacob Usner that the Academy —

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seems to fall in love with every year Dec. 20 Catch Me If You Can Two Steven Spielberg movies in one year? Compared with Minority Report, this is just kid's stuff for the prolific director, giving him a chance to relax in between his seemingly annual —

parade of sci-fi epics. DiCaprio will be competing with himself at the box office, as he plays a high school stu\ who poses in vari■ofessions, forgv/checks as he the world and tries to dodge the long arm of Tom -Dec. 25 e Pianist iking for an Oscar favorite? This one has Best e written all over it. The Pianist combines the thepower of the Holocaust with the sheer directorial ice of Roman Polanski for a gripping, moving i. Usually films that garner the top prize at Cannes embraced as easily by American award-givers, but ;ould be an exception.— Dec. 27 (limited release) Chicago Looking to recoup their losses after surprising tombs such as Full Frontal earlier this year, Miramax topes to turn the heads of audiences and critics ike with this adaptation of the popular Broadway musical. The cast is formidable, headlined by Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere, tut will audiences really take a movie with singing nd dancing seriously?— Dec. 27 (limited release)

The Spy Who Loved Me No mere skeptic am I; I've reread all four novels AND visited filming locations at Oxford's Christ Church College. Slowly but surely, the world I created in my head is being eroded away by the ingeniously unimaginative picture of Hollywood hack Chris Columbus. The mental picture I drew of Harry Potter is now one that oddly resembles Daniel Radcliffe. Must... avoid... Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. But wait... special effects! The CGI is exciting and well done—Quidittich is more fluid and the giant spiders childishly terrifying. But the GRADE: SC enes are anti climactic and fruitless as B- the novel is etched too firmly into my mind—the howlers smolder and Moaning Myrtle ends up much too annoying. Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley} may have the facial expression down, but he and Daniel are no Haley Joel Osments. The real acting comes from Emma Watson (Hermione) and the adult cast—Kenneth Branagh (Gilderoy Lockhart) is brilliant. Still, the fault lies within the story itself. The Chamber of Secrets is easily the weakest of the four books. Hagrid is sent to prison, Hermione is petrified and only one game of Quidittich is played. The story itself is not conducive to the actors —so why so little Lockhart? Regardless of my HP love, I found myself constantly fidgeting while the eight-year-old next to me sat motionless, eyes glued to the screen, for a full 161 minutes. This is a child's movie: made solely for children, as it should be. 1 just expect too much—one has to accept that the magic of the books will never be replicated on screen. Meanwhile, J.K Rowling is cackling all the way to the bank. —Tom Roller

...with His Golden Gun

Like expensive wine and Harrison Ford, the finest things in life only improve with age. The James Bond dynasty is no exception. After 40 years, 20 feature films and five bodily reincarnations, Bond still reigns supreme in the world of h : explosions, fast cars and faster worn Bond flicks are traditionally political, Die Another Day centers on our Asian the, uh, "axis of evil" (still referred to i cles as North Korea). Jn accordance w ation protocol, I am unable to reveal ti of 007's mission in Die Another Day. I matters. Half of you just want to see 1 naked. Half of you want to see Pierce Brosnan naked. Anyway, even the ave moviegoer couldn't understand the p 1 came down from a massive satellite-i ed solar-powered weapon of mass de tion, wiped out a North Korean demik zone and kicked him in the ass. Of Brosnan's four Bond flicks, only one lives up to the standards set by 1995's Goldeneye. Tomorrow Never fizzles, The World Is Not Enough play like a schizophrenic puppy on speed, Die Another Day serves up the old gi gadget-car standbys in a surprisingly coherent little package. A word to th wise: Observe the limits of Bond-dom Take this stuff at face value. The sam critics who squeal about inadequate character development are also unab to appreciate the difficulties one

encounters while riding an Arctic tidal wave to freedom while balanced on the wreckage of a rocket-powered drag-racing sled. Three thumbs up for an all-star cast. Judi British intelligence le Berry is the hottest tven overshadowing Richard's uncanny yants and nuclear more serious note, Bond film since the icnd Llewelyn, gadg"Q" in the last 18 John Cleese of Monty in fame fills the role ably, but Llewelyn's nee still leaves a void, er 20 films, Bond is the man. A little griz*d and MaM GRADE: rn, but like it old vel;een bunny yore, he's been well'ed. My poor James, :h your slick impersony and little-boy insecules. Would that I could me your wild, wild /ays. You cut to the ieart like a 7.65 mm 'alther PPK. —Katie Latanich

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Saturday Night Scandalous

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week, in his interview with Jim Breuer, Editor Greg Veis confused the Saturday Night Live alum by asking if former cast member Will Ferrell was a "bitch." Aside from the assurance that he did not, in fact, "take it," Breuer wasn’t too keen on dishing the dirt on his fellow SNL-ers. Lucky for us, not everyone that has been involved with the legendary show is as tight-lipped, and the seamy underbelly of sketch comedy is but a pageturn away. Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live ends up being a surprisingly comprehensive collection of tell-all interviews with the show's stars, writers and guest hosts In its 27-year history, SNL has had its fair share of scandal and behind-the-scenes rumor-milling, and compilers Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller omit

nothing—the drugs, the parties, the cast rivalries and romances.- From the highly publicized reckless lifestyles of John Belushi and Chris Farley to the vocal dissatisfaction of Janeane Garofalo and Chris Rock, readers are treated to a no-holds-barred retrospective. Writers such as A1 Franken and Conan O'Brien and cast members as diverse as Jane Curtin and Adam Sandler offer a personal take on what makes the show so successful—and volatile. It's all in here: a firsthand .report from Dan Aykroyd admitting that Beldar Conehead "consumed mass quantities" of blow in the 70s, a candid admission from Julia Sweeney that she had no idea what sex the androgynous Pat was and a disappointing confirmation that Mike Myers and Dana Garvey didn't get along

Wayne and Garth weren't really friends?! No way! Way. In fact, the manner in which Live from New York unravels the seemingly unstrained group dynamic is the most interesting aspect of the entire book. It's not always evident from the light-hearted finished product that shows up onscreen every Saturday night, but SNL has always been a breeding ground for comedic egos, and inevitably some have clashed in a big way. What caused Bill Murray to punch host Chevy Chase or Billy Crystal to walk out the night of the 1975 premiere? Is executive producer Lome Michaels more like a supportive dad or a suppressive despot? It all depends on whom you ask, and this book provides some entertaining answers. —David Walters

Not a Heartbreaking Follow Up Remember that quote from lit class in high school, "The best-laid plans of mice and men oft go awry?" Throughout their whirlwind globe-trot, the two main characters in You Shall Know Our Velocity—Dave Eggers' highly anticipated follow-up to 2001 's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius—epitomize Robert Burns' Eggers, one Will and Hand naivete that is

dishearteningiy accurate commentary on life. of the literary world's whiz-kids, chronicles the misadventures of as they attempt to travel around the world in a week. With a shocking for two characters who have just experienced the death of their best friend, the indecisive pair fashion various routes around the world, always attempting to target the hot spots of poverty. How's Chicago to Saskatchewan to Mongolia to Qatar to Yemen to Madagascar to Rwanda to San Francisco back to Chicago sound for a brief get away? The notions of the International Date Line in the Pacific, the lack of direct flights between Greenland and Rwanda or the need for visas to enter many countries simply baffle the men, and they are constantly forced to amend their plans. Through Will's repeated flashbacks, Eggers finally answers the obvious question: Why is Will joyriding to six countries in seven days? Apparently, Will earned $BO,OOO posing as the logo man for a lightbulb company, but feels an overwhelming urge to hand his unjustified windfall over to the world's needy. Will's plans are immediately foiled at the airport, however, when the flight to Greenland, their first destination, is postponed indefinitely. Losing time, the duo opt for Senegal instead. Once they arrive, they begin their search for unassuming people who most deserve the money. Their idealism runs out of steam—"the grand design was movement and opposition of time" —and Hand and Will are distracted by clubs, strip bars and beautiful strangers.

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Administrator Fashion Peer into the ciosets of Duke's heavy hitters presidential look when necessary. ("Read my

dministrator fashion—the ultimate oxymoron? Not at Duke. Hoping to persuade donors to contribute to The Campaign for Duke and faculty to trade Cambridge for Durham, Duke administrators have gone back to school to get their doctorates in fashion. President Nan Keohane finally places Duke ahead of the Duke of the North: Surely, she dresses better than Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard. Keohane sets the bar high for the rest of the administration with her perfectly pieced together business casual. Blazers paired with smart buttondown dresses or authoritarian pants make her a rde model to college co-eds —and not only for being a successful female, but also a successfully dressed female. Rumors are swelling that Keohane plans to create a Dressing for Success Initiative, a subtask force of Duke Inquiries on Gender. And perhaps when she steps down in two years, she will take the much-discussed leadership role at the prestigious northern organization vying for

lips, no fewer faculty.") Provost Peter Lange approaches dressing with a cross-disciplinary approach, using his international perspective not only in the boardroom, but also in the wardrobe. With his olive complexion, Lange favors greens, but the big debate in the morning is not color choice; it's the tie. Preferring a more comfortable style to the more stuffy multi-piece suit, Lange makes a policy of coordinating his wardrobe with his schedule. A Chronicle interview, for example, does not require a tie; a Board of Trustees meeting does. Go figure. Keeping the love—and money—in the family, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask has one fashion maxim: H. S. Trask shoes. The question for Trask is not about the tie—it's about the socks. The shoes are surprisingly casual for the cheerful stripe and pattern combinations of his Brooks Brothers dress shirts and ties On the other end of the quantum spectrum is the self-described retro Pratt School of Engineering Dean Kristina Johnson. She subscribes to the "Johnny Cash maxim of dress," preferring black and even donning occasional tie-dye shirt. Those WHAT I WOULDN’T 00 FOR A PIECE OF A-- LIKE THAT: Two hot dames—NanKeohane and Kristina Johnson—strut their stuff in today's hottest fashions. crazy engineers! But by far the best-dressed alien to Duke, suspiciously reminiscent of his alma administrator in the Gothic Wonderland—which is mater Stanford. With five-piece suits and regal so preppy a J. Crew catalogue was shot here—is black hair, Breeden could model for Business the pristinely dressed Fuqua School of Business School GQs Dean Douglas Breeden. He clearly brings a style —Whitney Beckett

her Vogue. The first vice president for student affairs on Keohane's senior administrators council, Larry Moneta prefers to buck the suit-and-tie trend. A fan of sweaters, polos, bold colors and open shirts with chest hair, Moneta describes his style as modern —the "student-friendly" senior administrator dresses more like his constituents (albeit the welldressed ones) than his bosses. Faced with the looming gloomy cloud called the Arts and Sciences budget, Dean of the Faculty of A&S William Chafe likes to pretend he's in a happier, more tropical place. Seen sporting Hawaiian shirts, Chafe, in his white beard looks like Santa taking July vacation on the beach. But when the occasion demands it, the former flower child believably pulls off well-tailored suits —smartly sticking to the blues, reds and blacks that match his complexion. He perfects the —

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Outfitters ($32 at www.urbn.com). It's a little bit sweet and a little bit yeah, that too. And if you like to wear your PJs to class, check out the printed sleep pants from Anthropologie ($4B at www.anthropologie.com). Stamped with Russian nesting dolls (you know, the ones with a smaller doll, inside the bigger doll, inside the bigger d011...), these pants can pair with your favorite tank top and a hoodie for The Morning After whatever. When it's finally time to unplug your alarm clock, bedeck your bed with the latest sheets from Joe Boxer. Available online or at K-Mart, Joe Boxer sheets are fun, comfy and best of all, clean —come on, we know you're too tired to do laundry. Your bed is one place where d.ots and plaids can't clash, so mix and match for a complete Joe Boxer set (www.Kmart.com). —Sarah Brodeur and Faran Krentcil

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you can't imagine Life With(out) Bonnie now or you've become swept up in American Dreams, but for every show that gets picked up, another gets canned. These

effort to establish URN as the sci-fi net—a task you think would be a lot easier considering the lack of shows in that genre. Even Party of Five's Matthew Fox's sex appeal couldn't save this show from an outlandish and confusing plot in which an enemy's dead spirit is trying to block other spirits from communicating with him in the living world. Sure, buddy. Bram and Alice (CBS): People read writers; they don't watch them on TV. If this show doesn't prove that producers should stop funding shows with long-lost family members—this one featured a daughter, about to give up on writing, locating her Pulitzer-Prize-winning father —I don't know what will. They should've stopped at Sister, Sister. —Meg Lawson

gies, noogies and the oh-so-clic tape on the glasses. Push, Nevada (ABC); Did ABC—currently the low-man of the Big Three—really expect they could knock off CSI and Will and Grace with this thing? An IRS agent lead character sure didn't draw me in. The idea, combining a Twin-Peaks- style drama with a game show, was interesting, but ABC should never have expected to find a strong audience against two powerhouses, especially with a show that required tuning in every week to solve the mystery. Haunted (URN): We may want to see dead people, but not every week. Haunted is another series created in an

ing to sing REM with' his band (how embarrassing was that?) and trivia —like to see if you know what color hair dye Angela uses and what night it is that Brian calls the Teen Helpline. I also have a Jordan Catalano FAQ and some top-10 lists of why he's the perfect guy, 'cos he totally is. Plus, there are a lot of dreamy pics! We at Recess don't have the heart to tell Meghan that My So-Called Life went off the air in middle school and continue to encourage her denial. —Meghan Valerio

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Raymond Felton and UNC move on to the Preseason NIT semifinals with a 71-67 vic-

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� Coming tomorrow: Previews of the men’s and women’s basketball team’s openers. The Chronicle � page 9

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Taking on Terps: Duke to open ACC Tourney Blue Devils try for year’s third victory over Maryland in first-round volleyball matchup By ADAM SCHMELZER The Chronicle

When the volleyball team makes its trip down to Atlanta today, it hopes it can disprove the old maxim that it is

impossible to beat a team three times

in one season. Duke (23-8, 11-5 in the ACC), which finished its regular season last weekend, is ready to take on just such a challenge as it prepares to play Maryland (18-13, 7-9 ) Friday night in the ACC Tournament at O’Keefe Gymnasium. The Blue Devils have defeated the Terrapins twice, both wins coming in fivegame, heated matches. However, head coach Jolene Nagel said her team is not particularly worried about this game, even in a tournament environment. “I think we have quite a bit of confidence being able to go in there and to play Maryland,” she said. “Personnelwise, we feel like we know them pretty well. We feel like we match up pretty well against them. We weren’t at full strength the last time that we played them because of some injuries, and so we’re optimistic that we have to go ahead and play against them because we have been able to to play well and win against them, not necessarily when we’re playing our best.” Duke, seeded third going into the tournament, is coming off a 3-1 loss to

No. 2 Georgia Tech last Saturday night. UNC received the No. 1 seed.

The Blue Devils have focused this

week on analyzing videotape of their game, as well as studying tape of Maryland and Georgia Tech. One of the team’s primary emphasis has been on keeping two feet on the ground and not looking too far ahead, Nagel said. “I think that we’re being realistic in how we approach this, and that’s going to be our focus for the rest of the week until we play [Marylandl,” she said. “A lot of videotape and a lot of rest, because I want them to be fresh, to have fresh legs and be ready to go this weekend.” The team’s roster sports three seniors this season, including defensive specialist Josie Weymann, who was named to the All-ACC second team yesterday and the first team the year before. A number of younger players have also played well in games: junior Krista Dill, who is sixth in the ACC and leads Duke in hitting percentage with .311, and junior Katie Gilman, who has posted double-digit kills in the last 16 matches, and 19 over the course of the season. Both of these players were also named to the All-ACC second team. Nagel said that the individual stars have helped her team as a whole to grow

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STEPHANIE ISTVAN AND KRISTA DILL lead Duke into the ACC Tournament

See VOLLEYBALL on page 12

Wrestling looks to exceed last year’s 6-12 record Majority of team starts season Sunday at University of Pennsylvania’s Keystone Classic By JAKE POSES The Chronicle

After a rough 2001 season, the wrestling team enters this year with three returning NCAA qualifiers. However, two of the three, along with a pair of other top Blue Devils, are ineligible for competition until the beginning of the spring semester. Consequently, head coach Clar Anderson understands that Duke could struggle, especially with its difficult early season schedule, but he believes his team can improve on last season’s 6-12 finish. “I don’t expect the team results to be as good as they could be because we have two NCAA qualifiers sitting out,” head coach Clar Anderson said. “Overall on the year it should be a better year for us.” The team is headlined by Michael Mitchell who placed third in the ACC at the 165-pound weight class as a freshman, but missed last season due to injury. “Michael is a really really hard worker, a very tough individual that pushes himself”Anderson said. “I think the surgery that he had on his knee definitely impacted the way he trains, but as far as the competition and wrestling it shouldn’t impact him besides making him a little more weak and vulnerable.”

CAMERON LAWLER and the other members of the Duke wrestling team open their season

Deng, Humphries sign Luol Deng and Kris Humphries signed national letters-of-intent during the signing period that ended Wednesday. Both are ranked first at their positions by Sporting News.

All-ACC volleyball Duke volleyball players Josie Weymann, Krista Dill and Katie Gilman were named second team AllACC. Sarah Salem was picked for the AllFreshmen Team.

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Virginia Tech running back Lee Suggs ran for a touchdown in his record-breaking 24th straight game Wednesday as the No. 13 Hokies lost to West Virginia 21-18.

NBA Pistons 79, Heat 68 Pacers 97, Raptors 95 Celtics 96, Nets 79 Timberwolves 103, Hawks 93 Spurs 95, Lakers 88 Sixers 95, Grizzlies 88 Jazz 96, Nuggets 79

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21. 2002

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UNC wins, advances to Preseason NIT semifinals Freshmen-led Tar Heels vanquish sloppy Scarlet Knights with 23-8 game-concluding run By DAVID DROSCHAK The Associated Press

71 CHAPEL HILL Matt Doherty gets a 67 trip home and North Rutgers Carolina an early-season confidence builder in advancing to the semifinals of UNC

the Preseason NIT. Rashad McCants scored eight of his 18 points over the final 6:25 and North Carolina rallied for a 71-67 victory over Rutgers Wednesday night to improve to 12-2 all-time in the tournament. The Tar Heels, despite 20 turnovers, are off to a 2-0 start off last season’s worst-ever 8-20 record and now head to Madison Square Garden next week with a matchup against the winner of N.C.Greensboro and Kansas. That game will be played Friday night. “I’m so proud of my young team, the poise they showed when they could have easily folded,” said Doherty, who is from East Meadow, N.Y. “They are fighters and they hung in there and hung in there and hung in there and made plays—in spite of ourselves at times. It’s nice to gut it out.” Rutgers (1-1) led 59-48 with 7:26 left, but fell apart down the stretch against a North Carolina lineup of three freshmen and two sophomores. “I told the team at one point that Carolina is known for comebacks,” Doherty said as the Tar Heels closed with a 23-8 run. “This may not rate as one of the best comebacks in Carolina history, but it’s the best comeback for this team.” McCants, who scored 28 points in his collegiate debut in a 30-point win over

Penn State Monday night, was quiet most of the night before his late heroics. In fact, Doherty took McCants out of the game in the first half after a series of poor decisions. “I was playing outside of my game and I had to regroup and play for the team,” said McCants, who is 18-for-27 from the field in two games. “That’s what I did and we came out and won.” A fastbreak slam by McCants brought the Tar Heels to 67-65 with 2:48 left and his two free throws with 9.2 seconds left helped seal it after Jawad Williams’ go-ahead layup with 31 seconds remaining. Sean May led the Tar Heels with 19 points and 10 rebounds, while Williams added 13 points and 11 rebounds. Herve Lamizana scored a careerhigh 20 points and Ricky Shields also added 20 for Rutgers, but leading scorer Jerome Coleman was 2-of-18 from the field and had five points. “I felt like every time he caught the ball I was there,” Jackie Manuel said of his defensive pressure on Coleman. “He told me in the game, ‘ls this like the plan, for you to just guard me face-to-face the whole night?’ I was like, T guess so.’” Scarlet Knights head coach Gary Waters used the last of his timeouts with five minutes left and could do nothing but watch his team lose the

lead down the stretch. “This is a game we should have won and we let it get away from us,” Waters said. “We outplayed that team for 30 minutes and 10 minutes we crumbled.” Lamizana scored 13 points over a seven-minute span of the second half as

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SEAN MAY, who led the Tar Heels with 19 points and 10 rebounds, and UNC advance to the Preseason NIT semifinals with a 71-67 win over Rutgers Wednesday. Rutgers built a three-point lead to a 5746 advantage with 8:20 left.

The Scarlet Knights started l-for-8 from 3-point range, but made seven of eight over one stretch to stay in the game in the second half. The Tar Heels ran into a little more defensive opposition than in their 8555 blowout of Penn State Monday as North Carolina turned it over 12

times in the opening 20 minutes Raymond Felton, with 10 assists in his collegiate debut, had five turnovers by the half in this one and finished with seven giveaways and nine assists, McCants also got off to a rough start. After making his first seven shots in the opener, the freshman began l-for-4 with two missed free throws as North Carolina’s offense sputtered.

VICTORY BELL from page 1

Victory Bell return to Durham appear to be better than ever. The Tar Heels have won the previous are the Little Brown Jug Minnesota three games by a combined 104 points and Michigan play for and the After Wednesday’s practice both the Seminole War Canoe over which Miami Blue Devil coaches and players and Florida battle. The Blue Devils, described how much taking the bell however, think a little more highly of back from North Carolina would mean their Bell than its counterparts. to them, the program and the “The Victory Bell is a symbol,” University itself. “[Winning the game] would mean Duke head coach Carl Franks said. “A symbol of who wins the game, and I the world to us, our team.” Ruff said. think it is a little more significant “It would the world to our alumni, forsymbol than a trophy or some of the mer Duke players. If we won the game different things that go in a trophy this weekend, it would be amazing.” case and sits there. This thing travels And while the Blue Devil players with the team wherever it goes. It is will not need any extra motivation for something that is recognized as being the game, the Victory Bell will provide as part of your team.” some anyway. Not only do they want After the 1989 victory in Chapel- to reclaim it for Duke, but they espeHill, then-Duke head coach Steve cially want to take it away from the Spurrier took a picture of his team Tar Heels. with the Victory Bell while posing on “I think they have definitely taken Carolina’s Kenan Stadium’s field. it for granted,” junior center Luke That picture now hangs on Franks’ Bayer said. “I don’t think they really office wall. realize the true meaning of it because “When we won in ‘B9 at Carolina, they have had it for so long. I think the team took, a big picture with the most of the guys, especially now, Bell under the scoreboard at Carolina,” assume its theirs and probably never freshmen running back Malcolm Ruff have even known that is goes back said. “When Coach Franks first got and forth. here, that was the first thing he put up “I know its in their poster this in his office. He did not put up his year—them sitting on it, their heldiploma—he put up that poster. That’s mets on it. I think it is time for it to how important it is to us.” come back to Durham. It would make It has been twelve years since Duke the season a little sweeter. It would beat North Carolina, and now, with give us some good feelings coming the Tar Heels seemingly more vulnerinto the offseason.” able than ever before—they are limpAnd should Duke win Saturday? “If we beat Carolina, I think there ing into Saturday’s game at Wallace Wade stadium with a 2-9 record, will be many parades and parties, and including blowout losses in their last I think the Victory Bell will get its fair four contests —the chances for a use that night,” Bayer said. *

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WRESTLING from page 9 Mitchell competed last week, for the first time in over a year, at the West Virginia Open where he went 5-1, placing third in his weight class. “It was a good opportunity to get the bugs out,” he said. Tommy Hoang, another of the team’s NCAA qualifiers from last year, has spent the fall in Colorado Springs, Colo., practicing at the Olympic Training Facility. He will return to school and begin competition once the spring semester starts in January. During Hoang’s absence highly touted freshmen Brandon Ayers, who posted 120 high school victories will fill in. “Tommy had a great year last year,” Anderson said. “I have great expectations for him this season even though he is competing in the strongest weight class in the ACC.” -

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FRANK CORNERLY will compete for time at the 174-pound weight class this season.

After a year layoff, Tom Cass, an NCAA qualifier from two years ago, returns to the Blue Devil’s lineup to wrestle at 184. Cass posted a 2-2 record in last weekend’s competition. The team will be both strong and deep at the 133 and 149 weight classes. At 133 team captain Stuart Holzer will compete with Andy Soliman for time on the mat. Soliman, dropping from the 141 weight class, is one of several Blue Devils who have switched weight classes during the offseason. “Both of these men have had a lot of success at the college level and we are looking to their leadership this year,” said Anderson.

At 149 Jason Fink will start in the early season but will be challenged by a trio of talented freshmen, Brandon Foose, Mike Kecman and Philip Wrightman. As with the 157 and heavyweight classes, the 149 class has no clear-cut starter as the season begins.

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in a myriad of ways between the beginning of the season and now, as it prepares for the tournament. This growth has also given the team a sense of selfconfidence and unity that is bound to result in good play this weekend. “I think we’ve continued to make progress throughout the season,” she said. “We’ve come together as a team. I think the team is a group of people that really work well together and are all working very hard to improve their own individual game. I couldn’t ask for anything more going into the ACC tournament.” This effort has become readily apparent in the Blue Devils’ statistics, which includes first place in the conference in digs. The team has developed a better offense, as well as communication on the court and game sense, which Nagel said led to Duke’s solid digging. The players will need to bring all of their acquired skills to Georgia with them as they face a number of formidable ACC opponents. Nagel is somewhat worried

The Chronicle Although a few Blue Devils began their season last weekend, most of the team starts Sunday in the Keystone the of University Classic at Pennsylvania. There Duke will face some of the best squads in the nation, and Anderson said he hopes his squad can do well and gain valuable early season confidence. “It is a pretty tough tournament,” Mitchell said. “I am just looking to go there and do my best and hopefully put my name on the map.” With a number of tournaments coming up before Hoang and the other fifth year seniors return to action, different wrestlers will have the opportunity to prove themselves. “We have got a lot of good results out of these guys; however, will it play out with more wins this year? Maybe, maybe not, just because I have stepped up a little in our tournament schedule,”

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that the team could get into a rut and fall behind during a game, making it difficult to regain the confidence necessary to pull out a win. However, if Duke can overcome this obstacle, Nagel thinks the team will perform well during the weekend. “I think we have to play steady and we have to play consistent,” Nagel said. “We have to minimize our errors and be aggressive, and not let the other team get a big run on us. I think we have a really good shot at winning the championship.” With such lofty goals, the Blue Devils are focused on avoiding another fatal flaw—overconfidence. But Nagel said she does not think that problem will ever become an issue with her team. “We have confidence in our abilities, but at the same time we’re not necessarily cocky or anything,” Nagel said. “That’s what is going to keep us working harder and continuing to get better.... It’ll be challenging every step ofthe way.” If Duke wins against Maryland, it will play the winner of the Georgia Tech-Wake Forest game Saturday. The conference championship will take place Sunday at 3:30 p.m.

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Student Discussion Groups: 12pm and spm. Office for Institutional Equity. “Iraq and Us.” Open to 10-12 students, contact: polly.weiss@duke.edu. Women’s Center, West Campus.

Systematics Seminar: 12:40 pm. Randy Small, University of Tennessee. “Gene family evolution and molecular systematics in Malvaceae.” 144 Biological Sciences.

Joseph M Bryan Research Lecture: 3:3opm. Presents George L King, MD. Resident Lecture

Popßio SuperSpeaker Seminar: 11:30am. Sarah “Sally” Otto, University of British Colombia. “Limits on the rate of evolution.” 144 Biological Sciences. UPEcology Seminar: 12:45pm. Jim Kitchell, University of Wisconsin. “Fisheries and food webs in the Lake Superior ecosystem.” A247-LSRC. Panel Discussion: 4-6pm, Upper East Side (above the marketplace). “East Meets South: Asian American Issues in North Carolina and the South.” Brought to you by the Asian American .Studies Undergraduate Working Group. Questions? Contact n.lee@duke.edu

Campus Wide Fast: spm, Faculty Commons (above Chik fil-A). The Muslim Students Association would like to invite you to fast on Thursday from sunrise to sunset along with 1.2 billion other Muslims around the world. At spm, have dinner with us and share your experiences from the day.

Wesley Fellowship Eucharist: s:3opm, Thursdays Wesley Office Chapel Basement. Intercultural Christian Fellowship Weekly Gathering: 7:3opm, Thursdays. ‘Tell Us Your Story” Guest series. Chapel lounge. More info: www.duke.edu/web/icf/, contact: dsw9@duke.edu. -

EOS Seminar Series: 4pm. “Control of Atmospheric CO2 and Climate Through Earth History,” Daniel Schrag. Griffith Film Theatre, Bryan Center.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22

Teer House: 7 p.m. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Pam Spaulding. Call 416-DUKE. 4019 N. Roxboro Rd.

Shabbat: 6pm. Connect with Jewish tradition, get spiritual, eat a dinner that’s like your mom makes! If you’d like to join us for Shabbat Dinner, rsvp by 12 pm Friday

Poetry Reading: 4pm. Award-winning, critically acclaimed poet Nick Garbo. Mary Lou Williams Center, 02 West Union. Popßio SuperSpeaker Seminar: 5:30 pm. Sarah “Sally” Otto, University of British Colombia. “The population genetics of sex and recombination.’ 144 Biological Sciences.

Religious THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21

Duke Divinity School Choir: 10:10am. The Choir under the direction of Dr. Sue Klausmeyer, will present Antonio Vivaldi’s sacred choral work “Gloria.” Duke Chapel. For more information, please contact Rev. Sally Bates, Divinity School Chaplain 660-3459.

Presbyterian/UCC Campus Ministry Drop-in Lunch 12-1 pm, Thursdays. Chapel Basement Kitchen.

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Wesley Fellowship Bible Study: 12noon, Fridays Wesley Office.

“Similarities and Differences Between Diabetic Retinopathy and Other Microvascular Diseases of Diabetes.” spm, Reception. s:3opm, Faculty Lecture “Protein Kinase Inhibitors Rational Design for New Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy.” Hornaday Conference Room, Duke Eye Center.

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Penalty Forum in Honor of Pedro Figari.” Figari worked to outlaw the death penalty in Uruguay nearly 100 years ago. “Figari” Exhibition runs through February 2, 2003. DUMA.

Duke Red Cross Club Blood Drive: 12:30-6pm. Von Cannon in the Bryan Center. Contact Paul Colavita at 613-2364 or pdc2@duke.edu to schedule an appointment. Walk-ins welcome, appointments recommended. Freewater Films: 7, 9:3opm. “Charade” with Cary Grant. Free to students, $4 for employees and $5 for the public. Call 684-2323, Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus. Institute of the Arts: Bpm. Yair Dalai Ensemble. Yair Dalai is a leading figure in the Israeli music scene. Call 684-6422. Freeman Center for Jewish Life, East Campus. Theater Studies Workshop Presentation: Bpm. “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare. Dave Worster of the Theater Studies faculty directs a student cast in Shakespeare’s timeless story of desire and loss. Call 684-4444. Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus. Beer and Latkes Party: 10pm-2am. Celebrate Chanukah like never before- with a crispy, applesauce-coated latke in one hand and a Bud in the other (for those over 21.) Bring all your friends to party at this wild annual event! The Hideaway.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Parents @ Duke: 12noon-Ipm. Join us to discuss being a parent and a Duke employee or student. Bring a lunch. Children welcome. Women’s Center. Freewater Films: 7, 9;3opm. “La stanza del figlio (The Son’s Room),” directed by Nanni Moreti. Call 684-2323. Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center, West

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Athletic Department’s recent vision statement’s call to action, although barely audible, sj)eaks volumes. The document explicitly and passionately recommends... nothing, except that the University continue its current path with respect to funding, admissions and other forms of support. This is the correct vision because the benefits of athletics on balance outweigh the concerns That the University administration would seriously consider aiming for an award such as the Sears Directors’ Cup is itself curious. The vision statement notes the extreme financial and academic costs that such a Quixotic crusade would require, and, indeed, no other elite university besides Stanford attempts to win the athletics program ranking. Duke officials and fans should get over their apparent and unjustified Stanford Envy. Moreover, the Sears Cup’s ability to quantify the strength of an athletics program in any meaningful way is seriously questionable. There are perhaps better ways—counting championships differently or adjusting the weight given to revenue sports—but any attempt to simplify success to one number is doomed to failure. What makes Duke athletics successful is its competitiveness in a few sports and its wise decision not to invest many resources in others. Duke can compete for championships in sports such as women’s golf and men’s soccer, and, of course, men’s and women’s basketball, without breaking the financial or academic banks. Other sports, such as track and field, are fun and valuable but require too many scholarship or walk-on athletes for Duke to be able to realistically afford them. The vision statement is understandably silent on one of the most pressing and sensitive issues that the Athletic Department is facing: what to do when its seeming one man show, Mike Krzyzewski, leaves. The Hall of Fame men’s basketball coach has dropped hints that he may retire soon, and his loss would be potentially devastating for a department that has made him the center of attention. Athletics would do well to promote more strongly some of its other successful programs, such as women’s golf. Still, the most pressing question for Duke athletics is whether it can sustain success without sacrificing academic standards. As the vision statement itself subtely notes, Duke has lowered its standards as much as it can without appearing to do so by using graduation rates as nearly its only standard: “We have probably adjusted our admissions standards as much as possible consistent with our desire to ensure satisfactory academic performance and high graduation rates.” As an elite university, Duke should not be “adjusting” its standards any more and must act to keep athletics from further destroying the University’s core mission

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Letters to

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SAE section thrives as it entertains independents In response to Monday’s article regarding Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, we couldn’t agree more with the piece’s main point. Yes, we can affirm that SAE does still have a presence on campus. We should know—we live in House G (Crowell Quad), a

sort of“pseudosection.” SAE not only continues but thrives here on the third floor, bringing along with them all the benefits associated with such a group, such as the drunken female callers (side note: Thanks to the imbibed girl screaming to the third floor for her boyfriend to let her inside on Saturday at exactly 4:26 a.m. Those of us who had to be up http:

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around 8:30 a.m. appreciated those 20 minutes) and live entertainment (the ridiculously loud stereos playing an all too repetitive rotation of songs by Daft Punk, Alabama and Peter Gabriel). The bonuses of living as an independent block adjacent to the “section” of a dissaffiliated frat are endless: Aroma therapy (beer spills abound and no maintenance on Sunday),

increased hallway traction (sticky floors) and superior interior decorative skills (permanent marker writing and spray-paint stains on the walls—all which will cost Crowell house funds.) Will Brown’s statement that “Instead of having a fra-

temity that is punished, it’s the individuals that are punished,” is half correct. It’s the former ffats neighbors that get punished, whether it’s a loss ofhouse funds due to a fine for vandalizing the hall or the disrespect of the

overworked cleaning/maintenance staff. So, freshmen guys, rest assured, SAE is still very much an active group here on campus,

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activites right here on the Main Quad. Personally, we can’t wait until rush begins. Julius Powell Trinity ’O5 Jon Donahue Trinity ’O5

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Student athletes should not be excuses for Sears Cup Athletic Council Chair Kathleen Smith’s remarks on the Sears Cup only serves to show how “marginal” her opinion really is of studentathletes. I find it difficult to believe that “no one in the University cares about” our team. Considering our team consists of over 50 Duke students and we had a packed house for our only home meet this semester, I would say a few hundred care. Maybe I should point out that at Stanford, a national powerhouse for swimming, a home to several Olympic swimmers and coaches, and the Sears Cup champion multiple times over, swimming is

one of the most popular and cared about sports on campus. Furthermore, I find it hard to comprehend why the

Athletic Council would allege that athletes such as ourselves are academically marginal, when at the beginning of the school year, both the men’s and women’s swim teams received national recognition from College Swimming Coaches Association of America for having two of the highest grade point averages of any swim team in the nation. I guess spending 20 hours per week training,

members of fraternity/sororities and maintaining our high GPAs do make us students of

limited capability. I find it strange I don’t hear other schools insulting their student-athletes’ academic capabilities and propounding negative commentary about their

athletic teams. Instead of using their student-athletes and smaller sports programs as excuses about letting other schools beat us in the Sears Cup, I suggest Duke and the Athletic Council strive to make us as competitive as possible.

spending many weekends away at swim meets, holding down part time jobs, being

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Kathleen Smith is precisely what’s wrong with Duke’s ath-

letics administration. Her claim that “no one in the University cares about [swimming]” is bogus and epitomizes Duke’s lack of commitment to sports other than bas-

ketball and football. Duke’s lame treatment of its swimming program has resulted in the loss of several dedicated and nationally ranked swimmers—myself included. Just one year ago, my

swimming career peaked with two University records and a national ranking of 16th. This year, however, through great deliberation I decided not to continue my swim career at Duke. I understand that swimming is a non-revenue sport, but

for no reason should that indicate that the athlete or team is unimportant, attitudes that our athletic department has (now publicly) assigned to swimming. Swimming, until now, has

always played an important role in my life. I sacrificed this life-long passion precisely because I felt that my commit-

ment to Duke athletics had been violated and unreciprocated. Smith has only confirmed the athletic department’s pathetic and lackadaisical commitment to nonrevenue sports that thrive elsewhere and deserve to thrive at Duke. Ryan

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What’s in that bottle? I fondly remember my introduction to fraternity parties on a hot September night freshman year. A bunch of us bright-eyed freshmen, hundreds of us. excitedly boarded the bus with alcohol fresh on our breath. We traversed West Campus from frat party to frat party, reveling in the minimal amount of alcohol we managed to find from sympathetic frat brothers. This became the routine for the first months of school. We knew about the “dry” East Campus, and West Campus was a safe haven for drunken debauchery. The only word of caution we received: cups not cans. Those useful blue and red Solo cups. Occasionally, we delighted in finding a white and blue Sam’s Quick Shop cup. After a few weeks of cup-bearing we understood the apparent reason behind the unofficial “cups not cans” pi Christopher rule on West Campus: Duke Police. Stories of students getting caught Scoville drinking alcohol on West started per- Topher’s Parade vading the conscience of freshmen as quickly as MGD through a cheap beer bong. A few stupid freshmen were probably jumping around and yelling “die pigs die” as they party-hopped. We were safe with cups and water bottles with clear liquid resembling water. Moving to West Campus this year as one of those sophomores dominating Main West, I quickly discovered that the Solo cup rule was not as hard and fast as we oblivious freshmen once thought. I have been shocked at the arbitrary enforcement of the alcohol policy. Let me describe a scene most us are all too familiar with. It’s a pleasant Friday October evening on West Campus. Several fraternities and selective living groups throw splendid parties outside the view of the independent corridor. Freshmen, realizing the burden living groups have of throwing parties for the whole campus, quickly pre-game back on East. And there are-surely a dozen or so Pegramites being written up. As the night progresses and swarms of freshmen are herded to the East bus stop by the collective conscience—the freshmen desire to kick it with the big dogs—no doubt Duke Police begin to warm their engines and batons. Upperclassmen slowly start wandering offcampus or to their friend’s room to be first in line for Tequila Sunrise or [insert frat name here] punch.

The party hosts bemoan the absence of party guests, namely freshmen, without publicly mentioning their desire for drunken freshmen to arrive. The clock goes tick-tock when suddenly Pink blares, “so you better get this party started” from the commons room and the buses packed with freshmen screech to a halt on West. Duke police emerge from the bushes. Freshmen stare in amazement as they chug their friends’ water bottle. The party starts. Minutes later, the cops snatch thenfirst victim: innocent Molly yelling loudly with no fake ID. The scorecard—Cops: 1, Dukies: 999. Suddenly, Johnny from Pegram throws his red Solo cup at, a wall. Cops: 2, Dukies: 998. The game goes on; inevitably, Dukies will win by a huge margin. Everyone crawls into a bed, not forgetting to salute those Dukies who took it for the team and now get to go see some dean. I do understand the drinking age of this country. I do understand the University’s potential liability issues. However, arbitrary enforcement of the alcohol policy does nothing productive for the University. There are hundreds of under-age drinkers every weekend frolicking about the campus. I have no idea how many actually get caught, but I know the police do not generally get more than a couple of points on their scorecard. The “deterrence” of cops walking around does not decrease binge drinking, does not prevent alcohol poisoning, does not discourage crazy drunken behavior and does not even keep under-age students from drinking in the first place. I’m not even sure these apparently benevolent reasons are why police walk around to begin with. This weekly routine is just another show the University puts on to appease the public. Every weekend few under-age drunken kids get “chosen” to bear the wrath on everyone else’s behalf. It’s time for the University to devise a more reasonable and fair method of enforcement, perhaps only targeting drinkers causing harm to themselves or others. The current seemingly arbitrary system of police patrols harms more people than it helps. And until the system is fixed, I again salute those who’ve taken one for the team. Christopher Scoville is a Trinity sophomore. His column appears every other Thursday.

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Continue to question I would like to suggest that instead of a constant pursuit of answers, we take a step back and think of some important questions. We are so trained to come to conclusions, think up solutions and formulate proposals that we don’t often have enough time to really understand what the consequences of these decisions are. You might think that lam not being 1 J £ concrete, that I’m going on a philosophiA cal rant. Maybe I am. But maybe we ■ need to sometimes, especially in times such as these. When we implement soluJessica tions to problems, when we believe that Rutter we can work hard and change things, 7r T D , P , Left Turn on Red most otr the time we are using BandAids. We are figuring out how to cover a gushing wound with a small strip of plastic. Not only does this not work, but it also doesn’t really change anything. I fall into these traps myself. I try and think of solutions to the millions of problems I see around me. I think about what is effective and what is efficient. But what I have realized is that right now I don’t need to solve these problems, simply asking questions is important enough. After hearing various opinions on going to war with Iraq I have to ask “What will we accomplish?” and ‘Who will benefit?” When I try to understand what the United States’s relationship is to Iraq today, I have to look at history. The economic sanctions that have been placed on Iraq since 1990, that killed thousands of children, come to mind. In 1996 when a reporter said to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: “We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And—and you know, is the price worth it?” Albright responded: “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price—we think the price is worth it.” Now that is a million dollar question. I would follow up by asking Albright whom she represents when she says “we think the price is worth it.” So half a million children are construed as non-humans. They are the *

collateral damage in a foreign policy solution. They are a price. We always have to pay a price in war, right? After all, we pay the price so we can prevent more

death and destruction. As Rashmi Varma, English professor at the Univeristy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said on a recent panel, we have a situation in which nonhumans are killed in the name of human rights. How is the discourse ofhuman rights transformed to aid in

justifying killing? What kind of paradoxical logic is that? In many cases today, the excuse of human rights is used just as the excuse of civilization was used during colonialism. Invade for our own interests and say weTe saving people. As long as we’re supporting human rights, let’s look at the United States’s present record of human rights. We continue to execute people through a barbaric death penalty and imprison thousands of people of color, including the detainment of immigrants. Harsh drug laws and a growing prison industrial complex have created a booming prison population. Our government refuses to give U. S. citizens health care, welfare and equal educational opportunities. In addition, we have access to weapons of mass destruction. Perhaps another nation should invade the United States and force a regime change? Obviously this logic sounds crazy to most Americans. However, to many people around the world, the logic of United States foreign policy sounds equally insane. Two weeks ago, half a million people protested in Florence, Italy against a U.S.-led war with Iraq. Though the United States has passed its resolution in the United Nations, it has done this mostly through coercive power: bribes and implicit threats. I’m not going to lay out a plan for how to save the world (at least not yet). But I am going to continue to question what I see going on around me. What are you going to do?

Jessica Rutter is a Trinity junior. Her column appears every other Thursday.

Beer, beef jerky and brotherhood Hazing. Brotherhood. Alcohol. Bonding. Service. Athletics. Parties, Parties, Parties. Friends. Ritual. Commitment. Probation. Love. Fading away. These are words and

stereotypes that have been used around campus to classify fraternity life at Duke. But it’s apparent that

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some of these terms are used less often, while others dominate public sentiment. These classifications, however, are by no means a complete and accurate representation of fra-

ternities and the greek community. I find it laughable to hear the new

rumors about which fraternity is considering dissolution or about Larry Moneta’s divine plan to rid Duke of any fun. I find it hilarious to read and hear the comments about how fraternities on campus think they’re so cool because they are able to throw awesome parties, get lots of women and get rowdy. But while I find such descriptions amusing, I also see their inaccuracies; I doubt any member of a fraternal organization would ever classify his experience in a fraternity in such away. When I was a freshman, wondering about whether to participate in the Inter Fraternity Council recruitment process I admit I had my reservations. How could I, a lowly freshman, live up to the high ideals and standards of getting wasted every weekend and hooking up with every girl I could get my hands on? Deciding to push through this social barrier was the best decision I’ve

made here and probably in my life. I can’t explain how being a member of my fraternity has impacted me. During the past two and a half years I have developed relationships founded upon trust, friendship, commitment and brotherhood. These words are vague, but any member of a fraternal organization holds these ideals true to his heart. Certain members of former Sigma Alpha Epsilon proclaimed that being disaffiliated from nationals puts more responsibility on the individual rather than the fraternity. Is that a good thing? I do not view having to look out for the welfare of my brothers and my fraternity as a burdensome responsibility; rather, I take on this duty willingly. What makes a brotherhood thrive is that every member depends and relies on every other brother, through good times and bad. The emotional and psychological bonds created through living together, working together, playing sports together partying together, and simply growing together are things that will be a fundamental part of me long after I leave Duke. Last summer, a brother of mine lost his sister in a car accident. Being home and without his usual support network made it difficult for him to cope. His fraternity brothers scattered around the country, instantly dropped their commitments to come lend support. Such a response wasn’t surprising, for it depicted the commitments and awesome responsibilities that each brother takes on when building the bonds of brotherhood. It’s true, fraternities throw some great parties and are a vital aspect of the social scene at Duke. But we’re ,

involved in a lot more at this school than what is regularly publicized. Fraternities at Duke thrive because we engage in community service

activities, participate and succeed in intramural sports, perform well in class because we’re forced to properly manage our time and commitments and hold elite leadership positions across campus, from the owners of Devil’s Delivery Service to last year’s Duke Student Government President to the Head Line Monitor. It needs to be said that former SAE and former Kappa Sigma are no longer IFC fraternities; they are

no longer members of something bigger than themselves; they are no longer part of the greek community that will thrive at this school for a long time to come. It has been proclaimed that they throw amazing offcampus parties, and I applaud them for that. But this makes them merely social clubs. Without the responsibilities of caring for, depending upon and loving each brother, no organization can truly call itself a fraternity. Whether the growing trend is fraternities dissolving and moving offcampus, my answer is an emphatic “No.” It is false that more fraternities getting in severe trouble and consid-

ering dissolution. Fraternities have been here for over 100 years and they will thrive and prosper, long after Nan and Larry’s time at Duke is over, because brothers love being members oftheir respective fraternities and love assuming the responsibilities that make them part of a

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the Thanksgiving holiday rapidly approaching, it's important to take time to remember the good things in life. So as we at Recess sit down to our bountiful dinner of potted meat and canned cheese, we'll surely bow our heads and give thanks for these little entertainment gems: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets It grossed the third-highest box office totals for an opening weekend, ranking just behind Spiderman and —surprise, surprise—Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It's official; We are a planet of argyle sock-wearing, taped-glasses nerds. Fans of the Potter books undoubtedly responded with a spirited by a collective their asthma if MMMBop Fatherhood Taylor Hans' 19-year-old ke' boardist (faith left) for the sir larly named trio, just became a father. Hmm. So you're say ing he's mar-

ried and enjoys sex with women? Weil, so much for old theories. I hope the mother is that hot guitarist chick with the braces what's her name? Isaac? Ice Cube He sacrificed his legitimacy a long time ago, and now he's got his eye on the trilogy. Friday After Next, his third installment, may not win any Oscars, but it will certainly go down in history for the cleverest title. Friday. Next Friday and now Friday After Next... utter genius only rivaled by Robert De Niro's aptly titled sequel to Analyze This —Analyze That. Whoever thinks up this stuff deserves a fat raise. Double Rs Nelly's "Hot in Herre" and Christina ira's "Dirrty." I'm not -ed. It's not cute, it's not er—use a dictionary, teven Seagal's Hip Hop Election rst it was Seagal and DMX in 'xit Wounds. Now it's Seagal :o-starring with Ja Rule and lirupt in Flalf Past Dead. Where's Suge Knight when 'ou need him? Pee-wee Herman On second thought, nevermind. Happy Thanksgiving! —David Walters —

For some, the biggest jive' about the Blue Devil. Beanery isn't the java but the guys behind the counter serving it. Sam Clowney and Rob Clay—better known to some as "the hot coffee shop guys"—are two intelligent musicians who have come together through the local music scene. Their band Parklife will soon release a CD, but both had major record deals in the past with bands The Veldt and Cravin' Melon. On campus their alternative style and friendly demeanor caused an unauthorized fan club even before playing Few Quad two weeks ago. 1 asked them how it feels to be known as the desirable guardians of Grande’Mocha Lattes, "ft's a bit strange. I never thought people would respond to us that way," Sam said. Modest Rob replied, "This seems more-about curiosity than attraction because we just definitely stand out; 1 mean, look at Sam's big hair!" They tell me they see lots of regulars in the coffee shop. Rob proposes it's to get their caffeine fix. I suggest that some girls are more addicted to the coffee shop guys than the coffee. "Isn't it sad that the two greatest guys at Duke University aren't even students," observed one sexy college co-ed, who wishes to remain nameless so she can order her Caf6 Au Lait embarrassment-free. Candy by the pound and now eye candy—the walk down to Edens was never sweeter.

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was more helpful for Shakespeare'because it's harder to decode some of the stuff. If this were a [Tennessee] Williams play or something like that, it wouldn't have been as useful." Another aspect of the class, besides tablework, was establishing "the world of the play," a phrase used both by Berger and the production's scenic coordinator, Carl Pearson Berger noted, "We weren't having a specific time period for the show, so founders Jenn Davis and William before rehearsal we had to 'build the Lynam—who go by Jennie and world of the play,' and we decided that it WHERE ARE THE GOATEES?: Sophomore Billy when performing—have was a world where women can be docMargaret Worthington sings a happy tune. everyone in stitches. Why expect tors and war heroes, but at the same anything less from this group that named themselves after time men are the kings." the Blue Devil's facial hair? Pearson, in discussing his duty of taking the Billy's Goatee formed after Billy found a copy of a class' ideas and turning them into a scenic Vanessa Carlton song last summer during Project WILD design, said "my role was not to come up with staff training, and gave it to Jennie. The duo jokingly chorea design, but to take what individuals read into ographed a dance to the song, and when they presented it the play, and what we saw in the play and the with their trademark goofiness to the PWILD freshmen, world we generated in the class, and make that others instantly wanted to join. This inside joke went public into a design." This is a very experimental form of theater one where the director must relinquish a lot of control. It is also a bold move on the part of the Theater Studies Department, considering that their budget has been placed largely in the hands of students, most of them majoring outside the department. How will it turn out? Tonight's soldout crowd will be the first to decide. an Valerio —

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you're a student actor interested in trying out for a play. You see the Department of Theater Studies is producing Macbeth. and think, "Cool! Shakespeare!" Then you look closer: Not only were the first round of auditions last April, but the actors have been rehearsing and meeting as an actual class since August. Ordinary Duke productions usually go up and down within seven weeks, and sometimes as little as three. This weekend, Duke's Department of Theater Studies will present Shakespeare's Macbeth in Sheafer Theater under the direction of faculty member David Worster, The process behind this production is a bit different from the traditional rehearsal process—as a "workshop," it is the fruition of an experiment in total collaboration. Everything from the set to the iambic pentameter is a result of class discussion and development, rather than the ideas of the director. The result? In this Macbeth, there aren't any corsets or powdered wigs, but slinky dresses and a set featuring foreboding columns, rather than a castle or a forest. The ensemble was cast in April, with a few additions at the start of this year, but specific roles weren't assigned until September. After everyone read the play, cast members and designers created collages of different acts, which were then put together to form a physical, representative collage of the entire play. Working from themes found in the collage and in class discussions, the ens their focus for the play. In an ordinary rehearsal pn completes this sort of thematic sorting in pre-production, in collaboration with a few designers. Actors are am the last ingredients added to The rest of class time was d' tablework, as the ensemble play line-by-line, before cone meetings in favor of regular Dana Berger, a cast member witches and Lady Macduff, consi weeks of tablework useful, saying "the tablework

In the middle of a Billy's Goatee practice, one member shouts out, "Wouldn't it be hilarious if we did this?" The 10 other people in the room turn to look at the girl pounding on her stomach for sound effects and the boy moon-walking across the floor of the Alumni Lounge. This is not your typical a cappella group. Where others have vocal talent, Billy's Goatee has humor. The energy in the room is contagious and group

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Interpoft Interrogation Four months later, the hype dust settles and the towering Interpol monument still stands—the debut album of the year, Turn on the Bright Lights. A few weeks before their Dec. 9 Cat's Cradle show, Senior Editor Greg Bloom caught up with Interpol's drummer Sam Fogarino. You just just got back from Europe, and now you guys pick up the American tour again. What was the difference in Europe? Touring in Europe was really nice. Their whole way of doing things there is quite different. From the way they look at the art form to how they treat you... it's just a very different system of operation. Why is that? Because the grass is greener on the other side? I don't know, it's just age-old. There's more of a palate for something different. A lot of kids in America want something new, but the proportion to the number of such kids in Europe is quite small. Europeans are reared for it; I mean, the facilities are funded by the government. [Venues] are run like clockwork, with great service and sound systems. It's like pop music is state-sponsored. Here, it's spoon-fed and MTV dictates what people are going to like. The new album has on tour. Were all of them already set to go before you came to record an album? Some songs are pretty new, some have been around since the band's inception.. For us, a song is ready when it's ready It has to go through the "Interpol process." "Interpol process?" Yeah, a song has to be approved by all four of us. It can be a very easy way of doing things, or very argumentative. At the end of the day, that 1 what makes Interpol Interpol, though.

True Gift "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times—the gift and the curse." All artists must struggle to establish themselves in relation to those who have come before them, and hip hop artists are no exception. Jay-Z's newest release, The Blueprint, Vol. 2: The Gift and the Curse, a massive two-disc effort, demonstrates that this struggle is still GRADE: alive and well. On The Blueprint, the only man in rap today who could unite two coasts, sample everyone from Shrek and Sinatra to Big Boi and 8.1. G., and refer to himself as J-HOVA, has solidified his spot in the lyrical canon of hip hop music. The first disc, The Gift, begins with "A Dream" in which Mr. Z speaks to a vision of Biggie about the problems of being on top. Nevertheless, he moves quickly from megalomanicai prophesy to the radiofriendly '"O3 Bonnie & Clyde," featuring Beyonce Knowles. "I Did It My Way" showcases Jay-Z's talent for producing complex beats with unlikely samples as he spins a lounge-singer's rendition of the Sinatra classic into a catchy chorus. The Curse follows with slightly darker songs including "Guns & Roses," which features Lenny Kravitz and offers a guitar-driven exploration of the contradictions of life that rhymes "guns and roses" with "friends and foes-es," but which will probably, join "Bonnie & Clyde" on the radio.The three bonus tracks at the end of The Curse bring the total number of songs on The Blueprint to 25, making a few skipover tracks inevitable. Jay-Z, however, carries the massive project with aplomb. If there was any doubt as to his place in the register of rap today, The Blueprint has removed it. —Macy Parker

And audiences have been receiving the material well? It's just fantastic. Interpol aside, I've been playing music at different levels for a decade. This is the first time that I've walked onstage and connected with the crowd from the very first note. We have a great bond with the audience, and the energy is there. You guys got pretty huge pretty quick; do you anticipate getting bigger? I try to stay in the now and keep my feet on ground. So far the progression has been positive, and it's been going in the right direction—the next tour is going to be bigger. You do need growth since the band, as a unit, is something that is living and breathing and has to progress. Popularity is a whirlwind and if you hype on it, it can be a really scary thing and cause bad inertia. For better or worse, you've been lumped together with this year's massive wave New York City band hype. How do you see yourselves within that? Maybe this will give you a clue as to the excitement; We have three sold out shows coming up at the Bowery. That is a really good feeling. It makes you want to hug your hometown. We're definitely looking at a rejuvenation of New York I get a little angry because there's been something on there all the time, and the media just began to pay attention. But at going least in this case there's something to support the attention. Still, there's always talent that goes unheard, the scary thing is what happens if it dies next year. These things happen all over the place. Take Chapel Hill, for instance, or in the '9os when Seattle got big, whereas New York didn't. I guess I've got to thank The Strokes. They blew the door open—fortunately, there were people standing behind it ready to walk through. If I took you out on the town throughout the East Village, you're not going to find The Liars and the Yeah Yeahs Yeahs and The Strokes all hanging out at one bar. When it first happened it was like being in the eye of the storm: really calm, with madness all around.

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The cover of Audioslave's self-titled debut album depicts a man staring at a gold flame amidst a desecrated landscape. Dude, what you're looking at is not fire. It's a sculpture of fire. One that is both lu and somewhat deteriorate with searing edges, and ydespite its air of motion, has no incendiary power, This image represents everything right and wrong with Audioslave Audioslave combines the musical talents of Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford with the gru rock, er, icon, Chris Come Soundgarden fame. On a array of tracks, the band s melds meticulous, searin' licks and powerful percus with Cornell's expressive scratchy vocals, creating » plex compositions. Come distinctively grunge voice ders some of the harder. tracks like "Show Me How Live" and "What You Are," making them sound like rejects from the Soundgarden sessions.

However, the benefits of this collaboration become apparent on several slower tracks. On the unadventurous, yet mellifluous "I Am the Highway" and "Getaway Car," the former >assionate performance gives ngs an air of complex!: ke A Stone" simmers , a meticulously flowB rhythm that creates an eresting contrast with Cornell's >intive vocals. The song also teaes choruses drenched with motion and a luminous bridge lete with searing, high-pitched .ar riffs. espite the album's musical ingey, Cornell's apolitical stance has ' his lyrics with, at best, muted overtones on the cautionary and the "Bulls on Parade"■et it Off." 'dioslave highlights the musical "

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wrinkled, photocopied picture of the Merge Records label taped above a doorbell is the only confirmation that I've come to the right place. The unassuming entrance on this even more unassuming Durham streetcorner is shocking. I mean, this is the House that Superchunk Built for crying out loud. Merge puts out albums from Spoon, who played on the Conan O'Brien Show two weeks ago; The Magnetic Fields, whose album 69 Love Songs was ranked No 4 and No. 9 in 1999 by Spin and Rolling Stone' respectively; and of course Superchunk themselves, arguably one of best long-standing indie acts in the business. I buzz the bell and walk to the staircase. Martin Hall, the public relations director for Merge greets me at the top of the stairs. As we round the comer I start to smile. Promotional posters, shrink-v\frapped CDs-and music videos line the inside of the office. The setup resembles an old radio station, where every room has a large glass window next to the door. Most of the desks and furniture look dated, and add to the independent flavor of the building. As I stand there, Matt Suggs, former lead singer of the band Butterglory who is doing a solo project, walks by, toting his guitar. "What's up?" he asks, and shakes

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Superchunk's deal with Matador Records ended, and rather than look for a larger label with increased distribution, they chose to retain all artistic control, and put out their own material. Since then, Merge has grown to put out records for over 40 bands. What makes this label so unique is the utter simplicity of their methods. They have remained in business for roughly 12 years despite relying on album sales to a small, selective fan base and essentially no mainstream radio airplay. In fact, they've even grown steadily. There's no way to define the label's sound, because they don't select their artists that way. As Martin tells me, "We don't think about how much the album will make for us, we simply ask ourselves, ' Would we buy this?"' I walk away from the Merge Records office a little lighter on my feet. Right in our own backyard there's a little piece of music heaven, untainted by the massive mainstream machine, selling great sounds for the absolute love of it. —Alan Amerault

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band's fan base is composed of two kinds of people. First, twenty-somethings who are too busy getting jobs and starting families to keep up with the music of their youth. Second, ultra-loyal cult fans, 50 percent of whom have heart attacks and die whenever Eddie lends his name to another third-world cause. nancially lucrative fan base, hit singles it needs to worshippers, Pearl Jam same fates as many of emporaries. Epic Is would have done betdemand a few crowd pleasers in the midst of the album's artistically valid, yet rather unmoving, 15 tracks. In short, if you're a Pearl Jam fan, you should buy this album. If you're not, Riot Act sure won't change your mind. —Garver Moore

The great bands of our era are disappearing. With the Pumpkins smashed and Rage machine-less, we must treat each group's release as if it were the last. We have been pleasantly surprised this year by the Chili Peppers' By The Way and sorely disappointed by REM's Reveal. And so when a band like Pearl Jam puts out a new collection, the quesuKAUe: -(-jopg are essential, not just for the artist but for contemporary music in general. Will it please drown out Nickelback? Has the group "sold out"? Has their music changed? Has our music changed? Pearl Jam fans need not fear. The Seattle group's latest, Riot Act, is, for the most part, more of the tried and tested five-piece's same. Eddie Vedder, as always, is only semiintelligible, and the songs are driven by Matt Cameron's percussion with Stone Gossard's, Mike McCready's and sometimes Vedder's guitars melting into the drum track. Almost entirely, it's the same

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MUSIC For four hours Saturday night, Kilgo Quad will turn into the venue for the most intense musical brawl this University has seen in years. The 2002 Duke Battle of the Bands will feature six of the best groups the school's got, and don't think for a moment that this is going to be a friendly event. "It's gonna be vicious," Walk Alone bassist Mike Sacks said. "We definitely want people out there throw ing their bodies around and flashing the metal sign." Other bands on the ticket include Glass Handle and The Fog, and they're playing for a not-so-paltry $5OO. Admission is free. 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

FILM It may try a little too hard at points, and it may not be as good as American Beauty, but Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition was still one of the summer's best. If nothing else, go for the amazing performances by Tom Hanks and Paul Newman. Griffith Theater. Saturday at 7 and 10 p.m. Sunday at 8 p.m. $4

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very year, many Duke students and graduates go on to mU ' jobs in the financial, consulting or computer programming industries. While these may be dream jobs for some, there are others who choose to break out of the mold and pursue careers and internships in the arts and entertainment industry We've profiled five of these creative minds and asked them about the best and worst parts of their positions, how they landed their dream jobs and what the future holds. vri

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IfBO Media Kefndons brikant, Trinity 'O2 Jons department of HBO it is responsible for reviewing and writing press releases for all , for assisting in the preparation for premieres and special events a press digest of current HBO and AOL/Time Warner news. "This HBO series like The Sopranos, Sex and The City and Six Feet HBO's acclaimed documentaries," she said. iere; Fabrikant knew early that she wanted to go into the entertain,ecause Duke does not offer a major in communications, I decided lepartment of public policy studies]. coupled my studies in the PPS in internship at HBO, and worked in the media relations department irk City the summer after my sophomore year—where assisted in ijng of press campaigns," she said. Fabrikant loved her internship, spoke with her co-workers at HBO. When she was offered a posiiped at the chance to return to the media relations department. 'I think that my outgoing personality and my people skills make me for both my specific job at HBO and a general career in entertain-

th: .bri A word from the wise: She recommends the PPS t< classes like Television Journalism. The Film and Docume industry, Fabrikant said. She also counts drama and pert Where you'll see her in the future. While Fabrikan law, for now, she is enjoying her time in New York Cit

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Name: Seth Davis, Trinity '92 Job: Sports Illustrated columnist, covering men's college basketball and professional golf lt may Duties: He spends his summers on the links and winters taking in the best college b-ball around the am someone not going to try to convince be a dream job, but "there are parts to every job that aren't so cool. But that it's not [great]." onnecticut and covered high school sports. Davis said he'd working at the Register, covering a Duke-Connecticut ;overing from back surgery, but he still returned Davis' call, taper in Connecticut," Davis said. "He had every reason not yet he still did it, and I'll really never forget that." j; Davis was a columnist and sports assistant editor at The a creator and producer of Cameron Corner on Cable 13. "I ig in my office of me and Coach K standing in front of the i [at Cable 13]," he said. .n his career: "When you cover college basketball, Duke a very big presence in the sport. Obviously, got interested in college basetball because I was a Duke student. Certainly a lot of people in the busies know me as the 'Duke guy,' and it's something that I am a little wary of because I don't want to be biased, but I am certainly proud to have that label .ached to me." Opinions on Duke: "1 am proud to be a Duke graduate, and have great ffection for the experience and the school, but 1 definitely feel disconnected to >e current version of Duke." Davis said he feels the University's recent trend of longer creating well-rounded students and no longer giving students a wellfunded experience has affected Duke negatively. Does Duke get to the Final Four this year? "If I had to predict, I would say He places Arizona, Pitt, Texas, and Florida ahead of us. —Yoav Lurie

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Job: Intern at Broadway Dance Q Duties: Worked 10 hours per wee Duties included manning the front! How she got there: Kari went to Dancing Devils and took classes. "It more classes while visiting her sisti she found out about the internship, the job. Kari's been dancing her whi learned as a child; then, she moved Raleigh. At Duke, she's been studyii How Duke helped: Since very fei schools—most were from state sell recognition helped her land the job, also aided her in the eyes' of others Tips on landing a similar positil city—such as New York or Los Angr structured environment or a less sti Internet to find jobs or auditions am Cool stuff: BDC gives interns alt The employees there keep internal from BDC is now a Rockette. She® who choreographed Britney Spears instructor at BDC, Jermaine Browne in a Bottle" video. Tough stuff: Many of NYC's

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liniitf Ettg HiHR mmimum Theatre ik*siirmi intern Name: Vinny Eng, Trinity 'O3 Job: Production management intern at the Williamstown Theatre Festival Duties: At Williamstown, Eng would rise at 9 a.m. and run the errands for the day—going to production meetings, shuttling actors, sitting in on technical rehearsals, taking care of finances or moving in a show, which had to be done each weekend within 48 hours. Perks included meeting established Broadway and film actors, such as Tate Donovan and Diane Venora and attending opening-night galas and late-night company shows. How he got the job: While working as a producing intern on Paper Doll for Theatre Previews at Duke last spring, Eng met Broadway producer Randall Wreghitt, who mentioned that Williamstown might offer an interesting summer experience. Eng applied to the program and was accepted for an 11-week theater season in Williamstown, Mass. How Duke helped: Williamstown is a premiere regional theater festival—and has a Tony Award to prove it—but Eng hadn't heard of it before talking with Wreghitt and Theatre Previews producer Zannie Voss. Both Wreghitt and Voss wrote Eng recommendations for the competitive internship program. Eng also credits his work on Paper Doll for preparing him for such an intense program. "The theater program here is great, because everyone is so involved with the national theater community, so they can give you contacts," he said. "Opportunities exist for that in one way or another, especially through the Theatre Previews pro-

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mcers take classes at BDC on Ie classes were challenging. "You'll Jdio that will have 80 people in it; itioning in it. Everybody's just going I trying to make their way to the -lass system allows anyone to take beware, Kari warns, many people students at home aren't ready for saving dancing altogether, she her get into directing and produc-

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gram.... You can work on a show in a professional setting, and they have internships on everything." Future plans: Although he is an economics major, Eng plans on entering a life in the theater behind the scenes. He's especially excited to work again with folks he met in Williamstown. "The people there—the interns and apprentices—work alongside established professionals. In 10 years, they're going to be working in New York, as the new professional community. It was a great place to go and meet people with such a passion for the art," said Eng. What WTF experience translates to Duke now; Eng is active in Duke's drama community, currently working as stage manager for Theater Studies' production of Macbeth. At Williamstown, he also helped with the Greylock Theatre Project, which brought high-caliber theater to underprivileged students from North Adams, Mass. He hopes to continue a similar project at Duke, producing for Hoof 'n' Horn's children's theater, a touring production of Schoolhouse Rock.

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ArMst?s Assistant Name: Ashley Hollan, Trinity 'O5 Job: Artist's Assistant How she got into it: Hollan found Jules Jewels studio by coincidence. "It started the winter of my sophomore year of high school. A good friend and decided to go check out some art galleries around Atlanta one Saturday afternoon, and we stumbled into one called Jules Jewels. It's a gallery and an artsy gift store. We ended up speaking to the lady behind the counter not knowing that she was the artist who had done all the work —on the spot, she offered me a job. ■> we nt in and interviewed with her and started out working, running one of her two locations as the assistant manas one of her studio assistants," Hollan said. is, and Hollan was able to contribute to many of those pieces. She and ie studio in which to work, and each had their own part of Jewels' ited. "Then we were also free to work on pretty much anything we n said. She continues to correspond with Jewels while at Duke. "1 i work out of her store for a while and pulled it out right before college, ngs and floor cloths out of her gallery. She was on the Today show and about the work that she's done. One of the projects that we worked the show Friends. Some of the pieces that all of us in the studio n the show," Hollan said. I advises Duke students not to be daunted by a lack of contacts in the ;ually a great example of this—she had no formal training as an artist »f the better self-taught artists, especially in the South. So, no matter don't stop doing it—for any reason," Hollan said. ier Duke experience: "I think it has let me see what the art community is and bad things about it—it's definitely made me want to be a part of it" here: "Jules is a pop-artist—I'm more of a photo-realist. But it was a hat the art community is looking for and the challenges that local artist

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A Preview of Holiday Madness Science/Fantasy Oscar Hopefuls and Oscar Wannabes Rabbit Proof Fence Released in Australia over a year ago, Fence has been redone to suit American audiences,. In this much buzzed film, three Aboriginal girls are kidnapped and forced to serve white families. Eventually though, they escape their captors and trek 1,500 miles across the Outback in search of freedom. Originally meant to shed light on Australia's own imperialistic faults, this movie now hopes to serve as a message against Mc-World imperialists.—Nov. 29 (limited release) About Schmidt Brought to you by fabulous Election, thi old Nebraskan insura trying to run his dau' own has turned out to b*. hoped. If rumors bear tru land Jack Nicholson an 0 tion. Keep your eyes opei art theatres —this is one i missed.—Dec. 13 (limitei Gangs of New York After being delayed fo> Solaris Martin Scorsese is read' sci-fi has been classic his big-budget vision of Hollywood snatching project the shelves like this recently, books off street violence in the foi from a Polish Soderbergh ative Steven adapted by years of our greate novel by Stanislaw Lem. Put George Clooney city. Pitting Daniel Day his head, a with Lewis against Leonardo in spaceship, start messing that a thriller could psychological DiCaprio, Gangs of and you get be the biggest surprise at the Oscars this New York could be just —Nov. the kind of epic drama 27 spring. Compiled by Tom Roller and Jacob Usner that the Academy

Two Towers Poised for another epic Oscar run, the second installment of The Lord of the Rings will deliver as promised. Expect all the surprises, stunning special effects and the imaginative creatures first found in The Fellowship of the Ring. This ain't no Chamber of Secrets, and why am I writing this? You already know that you need to see it —Dec. 18 Star Trek: Nemesis If Solaris doesn't end up being about Space (Frodo concurs), catch Captain Picard (along with LeVar Burton) and the old "Next Generation Crew" for intrigue and Romulans lots and lots of Romulans. Dec. 13

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seems to fall in love with every year. Dec. 20 Catch Me If You Can Two Steven Spielberg movies in one year? Compared with Minority Report, this is just kid's stuff for the prolific director, giving him a chance to relax in between his seemingly annual parade of sci-fi epics. DiCaprio will be competing with himself at the box office, as he plays a high school stu' who poses in vari—

ofessions, forgychecks as he the world and tries to dodge the long arm of Tom —Dec. 25 e Pianist iking for an Oscar favorite? This one has Best e written all over it. The Pianist combines the thepower of the Holocaust with the sheer directorial ice of Roman Polanski for a gripping, moving Usually films that garner the top prize at Cannes embraced as easily by American award-givers, but ;ould be an exception.— Dec. 27 (limited release) Chicago Looking to recoup their losses after surprising iombs such as Full Frontal earlier this year, Miramax iopes to turn the heads of audiences and critics ike with this adaptation of the popular Broadway musical. The cast is formidable, headlined by Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere, iut will audiences really take a movie with singing nd dancing seriously?— Dec. 27 (limited release)

The Spy Who Loved Me No mere skeptic am I: I've reread all four novels AND visited filming locations at Oxford's Christ Church College. Slowly but surely, the world I created in my head is being eroded away

by the ingeniously unimaginative picture of Hollywood hack Chris Columbus. The mental picture I drew of Harry Potter is now one that oddly resembles Daniel Radcliffe. Must... avoid... Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. But wait... special effects! The CGI is exciting and well done—Quidittich is more fluid and the giant spiders childishly terrifying. But the GRADE: scenes are anti climactic and fruitless as the novel is etched too firmly into my

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Moaning Myrtle ends up much too annoying. Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) may have the facial expression down, but he and Daniel are no Haley Joel Osments; The real acting comes from Emma Watson (Hermione) and the adult cast—Kenneth Branagh (Gilderoy Lockhart) is brilliant.

Still, the fault lies within the story itself. The Chamber of Secrets is easily the weakest of the four books. Hagrid is sent to prison, Hermione is petrified and only one game of Quidittich is played. The story itself is not conducive to the actors—so why so little Lockhart? Regardless of my HP love, I found myself constancy fidgeting while the eight-year-old next to me sat motionless, eyes glued to the screen, for a full 161 minutes. This is a child's movie: made solely for children, as it should be. I just expect too much—one has to accept that the magic of the books will never be replicated on screen. Meanwhile, J.K Rowling is cackling all the way to the bank. —Tom Roller

...with His Golden Gun

Like expensive wine and Harrison Ford, the finest things in life only improve with age. The James Bond dynasty is no exception. After 40 years, 20 feature films and five bodily reincarnations, Bond still reigns supreme in the world of higi explosions, fast cars and faster women Bond flicks are traditionally political; t Die Another Day centers on our Asian the, uh, "axis of evil" (still referred to i cles as North Korea). In accordance wi ation protocol, I am unable to reveal th* of 007's mission in Die Another Day. N matters. Half of you just want to see H naked. Half of you want to see Pierce Brosnan naked. Anyway, even the aver; moviegoer couldn't understand the ploi came down from a massive satellite-m ed solar-powered weapon of mass des tion, wiped out a North Korean demilita zone and kicked him in the ass. Of Brosnan's four Bond flicks, only t; one lives up to the standards set by 1995's Goldeneye. Tomorrow Never D. fizzles, The World Is Not Enough plays like a schizophrenic puppy on speed, b Die Another Day serves up the old girl gadget-car standbys in a surprisingly coherent little package. A word to the wise: Observe the limits of Bond-dom Take this stuff at face value. The same critics who squeal about inadequate character development are also unable to appreciate the difficulties one

encounters while riding an Arctic tidal wave to freedom while balanced on the wreckage of a rocket-powered drag-racing sled. Three thumbs up for an all-star cast. Judi '

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more serious note, Bond film since the ibnd Llewelyn, gadgQ" in the last 18 /ohn Cleese of Monty fame fills the role

'ably, but Llewelyn's ice still leaves a void, er 20 films, Bond is the man. A little grizand GRADE1 toH,lutß n, but like old veleen bunny /ore, he's been well'ed. My poor James, ;h your slick imperson•y and little-boy insecules. Would that I could me your wild, wild /ays. You cut to the ieart like a 7.65 mm either PPK. —Katie Latanich

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Saturday Night Scandalous

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week, in his interview with Jim Breuer, Editor Greg Veis confused the Saturday Night Live alum by asking if former cast member Will Ferrell was a "bitch." Aside from the assurance that he did not, in fact, "take it," Breuer wasn't too keen on dishing the dirt on his fellow SNL-ers. Lucky for us, not everyone that has been involved with the legendary show is as tight-lipped, and the seamy underbelly of sketch comedy is but a pageturn away. Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live ends up being a surprisingly comprehensive collection of tell-all interviews with the show's stars, writers and guest hosts In its 27-year history, SNL has had its fair share of scandal and behind-the-scenes rumor-milling, and compilers Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller omit

nothing—the drugs, the parties, the cast rivalries and romances. From the highly publicized reckless lifestyles of John Belushi and Chris Farley to the vocal dissatisfaction of Janeane Garofalo and Chris Rock, readers are treated to a no-holds-barred retrospective. Writers such as A1 Franken and Conan O'Brien and cast members as diverse as Jane Curtin and Adam Sandler offer a personal take on what makes the show so successful—and volatile. It's all in here: a firsthand report from Dan Aykroyd admitting that Beldar Conehead "consumed mass quantities" of blow in the 70s, a candid admission from Julia Sweeney that she had no idea what sex the androgynous Pat was and a disappointing confirmation that Mike Myers and Dana Garvey didn't get along

Not a Heartbreaking Follow Up Remember that quote from fit class in high school, "The best-laid plans of mice and men oft go awry?" Throughout their whirlwind globe-trot, the two main characters in You Shall Know Our Velocity —Dave Eggers' highly anticipated follow-up to 2001 's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius—epitomize Robert Bums' dishearteningly accurate commentary on life.

Eggers, one of the literary world's whiz-kids, chronicles the misadventures of Will and Hand as they attempt to travel around the world in a week. With a naivete that is shocking for two characters who have just experienced the death of their best friend, the indecisive pair fashion various routes around the world, always attempting to target the hot spots of poverty. How's Chicago to Saskatchewan to Mongolia to Qatar to Yemen to Madagascar to Rwanda to San Francisco back to Chicago sound for a brief get away? The notions of the International Date Line in the Pacific, the lack of direct flights between Greenland and Rwanda or the need for visas to enter many countries simply baffle the men, and they are constantly forced to amend their plans. Through Will's repeated flashbacks, Eggers finally answers the obvious question: Why is Will joyriding to six countries in seven days? Apparently, Will earned $BO,OOO posing as the logo man for a lightbulb company, but feels an overwhelming urge to hand his unjustified windfall over to the world's needy. Will's plans are immediately foiled at the airport, however, when the flight to Greenland, their first destination, is postponed indefinitely. Losing time, the duo opt for Senegal instead. Once they arrive, they begin their search for unassuming people who most deserve the money. Their idealism runs out of steam —"the grand design was movement and opposition of time" —and Hand and Will are distracted by clubs, strip bars and beautiful strangers.

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Eventually Will realizes "nothing we did ever resembled in any way what we imagined." Achieving satisfaction after having given away the money is extremely difficult because they fail to make even an ephemeral connection with another person. Although Eggers attempts to develop both Hand and Will through Will's flashbacks, the evolution of the characters is very one-sided. Will's mental stability is questionable when he talks to himself, and his memories concerning his best friend's death and his recent beating constantly haunt him. Hand's outward self-assurance is merely a mask for his confusion about the world Stylistically, Eggers' book is very uni' featuring the very beginning and end o the story on the front cover: "Everythf within takes place after Jack died and before my mom and I drowned in a burning ferry...." Eggers also incorporates sketches pertinent to the story throughout, such as the note that bear the lyrics to "Jawbreaker" by The Scorpions—"Here I am/ Rock you like

hurricane."

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Administrator Fashion Peer into the closets of Duke’s heavy hitters

dministrator fashion —the ultimate oxymoron? Not at Duke. Hoping to persuade donors to contribute to The Campaign for Duke and faculty to trade Cambridge for Durham, Duke administrators have gone back to school to get their doctorates in fashion. President Nan Keohane finally places Duke ahead of the Duke of the North; Surely, she dresses better than Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard. Keohane sets the bar high for the rest of the administration with her perfectly pieced together business casual. Blazers paired with smart buttondown dresses or authoritarian pants make her a role model to college co-eds —and not only for being a successful female, but also a successfully Mm

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The first vice president for student affairs on Keohane's senior administrators council, Larry Moneta prefers to buck the suit-and-tie trend. A fan of sweaters, polos, bold colors and open shirts with chest hair, Moneta describes his style as modern—the "student-friendly" senior administrator dresses more like his constituents (albeit the welldressed ones) than his bosses. Faced with the looming gloomy cloud called the Arts and Sciences budget, Dean of the Faculty of A&S William Chafe likes to pretend he's in a happier, more tropical place. Seen sporting Flawaiian shirts, Chafe, in his white beard looks like Santa taking July vacation on the beach. But when the occasion demands it, the former flower child believably pulls off well-tailored suits—smartly sticking to the blues, reds and blacks that match his complexion. He perfects the

presidential look when necessary. ("Read my lips, no fewer faculty.") Provost Peter Lange approaches dressing with a cross-disciplinary approach, using his international perspective not only in the boardroom, but also in the wardrobe. With his olive complexion, Lange favors greens, but the big debate in the morning is not color choice; it's the tie. Preferring a more casual, comfortable style to the more stuffy multi-piece suit, Lange makes a policy of coordinating his wardrobe with his schedule. A Chronicle interview, for example, does not require a tie; a Board of Trustees meeting does

Go figure. Keeping the love—and money—in the family, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask has one fashion maxim: H. S. Trask shoes. The question for Trask is not about the tie—it's about the socks. The shoes are surprisingly casual for the cheerful stripe and pattern combinations of his Brooks Brothers dress shirts and ties. On the other end of the quantum

spectrum is the self-described retro Pratt School of Engineering Dean Kristina Johnson. She subscribes to the "Johnny Cash maxim of dress," preferring black and even donning occasional tie-dye shirt. Those WHAT I WOULDN’T DO FOR A PIECE OF A-- LIKE THAT: Two hot dames—NanKeohane and Kristina Johnson —strut their stuff in today's hottest fashions. crazy engineers! But by far the best-dressed alien to Duke, suspiciously reminiscent of his alma administrator in the Gothic Wonderland—which is mater Stanford. With five-piece suits and regal so preppy a J. Crew catalogue was shot here—is black hair, Breeden could model for Business the pristinely dressed Fuqua School of Business School GQs. Dean Douglas Breeden. He clearly brings a style —Whitney Beckett ....

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itives. f buying PJs, and this .Yeamy. If you're not hitting the sack 'till after finals, slip into some slippers while you wait. Alice Sparky's cashmere slippers are soft and sleek, perfect for those midnight treks to the Snapple machines. You can get them at Girlshop ($154 at www.girlshop.com), and bonus, they come in two shades of pink! If you're sharing the sheets with someone else, check out the Strawberry Shortcake camisole set (with matching thong) from Urban +

Outfitters ($32 at www.urbn.com). It's a little bit sweet and a little bit... yeah, that too. And if you like to wear your PJs to class, check out the printed sleep pants from Anthropologie ($4B at www.anthropoiogie.com). Stamped with Russian nesting dolls (you know, the ones with a smaller doll, inside the bigger doll, inside the bigger d011...), these pants can pair with your favorite tank top and a hoodie for The Morning After whatever. When it's finally time to unplug your alarm clock, bedeck your bed with the latest sheets from Joe Boxer. Available online or at K-Mart, Joe Boxer sheets are fun, comfy and best of all, clean—come on, we know you're too tired to do laundry. Your bed is one place where dots and plaids can't clash, so mix and match for a complete Joe Boxer set (www.Kmart.com). —Sarah Brodeur and Faran Krentcil

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you can't Imagine Life With(out) Bonnie now or you've become swept up in American Dreams, but for every show that gets picked up, another gets canned. These

are their stories: Girls' Club (Fox): Probably the flashiest and most well-known of the canned shows, other TV critics said this is the show that proved David E. Kelley has lost his golden touch. But I'd like to point to Exhibit A: the last two seasons of Ally Mcßeal. Fox, next time you get an idea from Davy E., take a night and sleep on it—and if it has whiny female lawyers, throw it straight in File 13. That WasThen (ABC): 'Muff said. No really, pick name a that inspires at least some confidence that move on to the next season. I guess Gen X-ers it'll aren't quite ready to relive their teen years of wedgies, noogies and the oh-so-clid tape on the glasses. Push, Nevada (ABC): Did ABC —currently the low-man of the Big Three —really expect they could knock off CSI and Will and Grace with this thing? An IRS agent lead character sure didn't draw me in. The idea, combining a Twin-Peaks- style drama with a game show, was interesting, but ABC should never have expected to find a strong audience against two powerhouses, especially with a show that required tuning in every week to solve the mystery. Haunted (URN): We may want to see dead people, but not every week. Haunted is another series created in an

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fansite, www.angelfire.com/jordan_catalano_ is_my_god and get the addresses you need, plus other cool stuff. For instance, you can find the mp3 files of Jordan's song "Red" and Rayanne trying to sing REM with his band (how embarrassing was that?) and trivia—like to see if you know what color hair dye Angela uses and what night it is that Brian calls the Teen Helpline. I also have a Jordan Catalano FAQ and some top-10 lists of why he's the perfect guy, "cos he totally is. Plus, there are a lot of dreamy pics! We at Recess don't have the heart to tell Meghan that My So-Called Life went off the air in middle school and continue to encourage her denial. —Meghan Valerio

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