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Bell banks on record BSA leads demonstration of service to win race Adam Eaglin THE CHRONICLE

the while reiterating his promise to preserve Durham’s As Durham Mayor Bill Bell unique character. “I think the campaigns for his third straight city’s moving in the right direction,” Bell said. “The importerm in office, the Washington, D.C. native faces a number of tant thing is that we have a tough issues, from economic de- plan we’re trying to execute.”

Bell has been particularly convelopment to crime. Unlike his cerned with Downtown Durham. opponents, however, Bell has already had In one project, he oversaw the opporthe transformation of a 50tunity to year-old tobacco warehouse show citiinto a new commercial and inzens what dustrial hotspot—the Amerihe’s made can Tobacco Complex. of in the “The American Tobacco Promayoral ject is an example of public-priseat. vate partnership,” Bell said. “It “I think has been successful in being able people are to attract very good tenants... going to and has served as a catalyst for judge me further downtown efforts.”

In addition, Bell has supporton my performance, and I have a record of ed a progress report for local performance they can look at,” government called the CommuBell said. “I’m not an unknown. nity-Wide Results Based AcI’ve been here almost 30 years.” countability Initiative. The project has sought to increase Throughout this year’s camaccountability for City Council paign, Bell has focused his attention on the city’s continuing and the municipal government revitalization: a process he has in order to encourage the most efficient use of tax dollars. Local guided in his last two terms.

Bell has been at the helm of government has used the initiathe Bull City and its economic SEE BELL ON PAGE 6 development for four years, all by

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Students protested on West CampusWednesday, voicing outrage at former Education Secretary William Bennett's recent comments. by

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Waving banners and chanting “Black issues, American issues,” several dozen students and faculty members took to the Main West Quadrangle yesterday to denounce controversial comments made last week by former U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett.

On his rad o show, “Morning in America,” Bennett sparked

outrage over a racially charged statement.

“I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in the country, and your crime rate would go down,” Bennett said.

In response, several concerned students, many of whom are affiliated with Black Student Alliance, organized an hour-long demon-

stration to raise awareness about and protest Bennett’s comments.

The demonstration was part of a national effort that took place on several college campuses yesterday.

Rukayya Furo, a senior and executive vice president ofBSA, said she organized the protest at Duke in hopes of drawing as many students’ attention as possible.

“The main goal was to promote SEE PROTEST ON PAGE 8

Magazine hands out Durham candidates gear quirky trading cards up for Tuesday primary by

recognizable figures. The project, which THE CHRONICLE began about a year ago, is the brainchild Most Duke students probably don’t of the magazine’s 2004-2005 staff. by

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know thatPresident Richard Brodhead “We thought to ourselves, Wouldn’t it also known as El Prez—is capable of be cool if you had a trading card for one telepathy or that Isaac Cruz, counter of your professors?’” senior and Matter manager of The Loop, is highly skilled in editor Charles Lin said.

The cards were originally published the art of salad tossing.

But now, students can learn the seas cut-outs in the magazine until Matter crets of Duke’s most notable—and notophotography editor Jeremy Block, a graduate student in biochemistry and rious—faculty, staff and administrators. structural biology and biophysics, deThe staffof Matter, a student-run magazine, has just released a set of twenty-five cided to put his knowledge of baseball trading cards that divulge cards to use.

Block was inspired to re-model the cutation, g from outs after 1960 s baseball cards that he had received from his father. ial powto faThe Matter staff chose to feature o r i te Duke’s most notable professors to prodrinks, vide them with “the recognition they deabout serve,” Lin said. e of —

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Durham's 13 candidates for seats on the City Council cite gangs, violence, education, tax revenue and economic development as key issues to examine as they vie for victory Oct. 11. Offices in Wards 1, 2 and 3 are all up for grabs this Tuesday.

Over the years, approximately half of the municipal candidates have had legal charges filed against them, for offenses ranging from speeding to forgery to assault

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As Duke students make their way back to campus from Fall Break next Tuesday, Durham voters will be making their way to the ballot boxes.

As part of the City of Durham’s mayoral and City Council elections, a non-partisan primary—scheduled for Oct. 11—will narrow the field of contenders.

“The top two vote-getters will go on regardless of majority or plurality,” said Mike Ashe, director of the Durham County Board ofElections.

On the ballot this year are the three ward positions on the City Council as well as the office of Mayor.

Although the ward Council members must reside in the district they represent, they will be selected by the entire Durham electorate.

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a year. Three justices have had cancer and a fourth has a spouse who counsels children with untreatable cancer.

The outcome is hard to predict, in part because of the uncertain status of retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor who seemed ready to support Oregon’s law.

Her replacement may be confirmed before the ruling is handed down, possibly months from now.

Roberts repeatedly raised concerns that a single exception for Oregon would allow other states to create a patchwork ofrules.

“If one state can say it’s legal for doctors to prescribe morphine to make people feel better, or to prescribe steroids for body-

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New Chief Justice WASHINGTON forward Roberts Wednesday stepped John as an aggressive defender of federal authority to block doctor-assisted suicide, as the Supreme Court clashed over an Oregon law that lets doctors help terminally ill

patients end their lives.

The justices will decide if the federal government, not states, has the final say on the life-or-death issue.

It was a wrenching debate for a court touched personally by illness. Roberts replaced William Rehnquist, who died a month ago after batding cancer for nearly

building, doesn’t that undermine the uniformity of the federal law and make enforcement impossible?” he asked.

The Supreme Court eight years ago concluded that the dying have no constitutional right to doctor-assisted suicide.

O’Connor provided a key fifth vote in that decision, which left room for state-by-state experimentation.

The new case is a turf battle of sorts, started by former Attorney General John Ashcroft, a favorite among the president’s conservative religious supporters. Hastening someone’s death is an improper use of SEE ROBERTS ON PAGE 7

Parliament changes Iraqi electi on rules by

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past week in western Iraq, the Sunni heartland.

Also, a bomb exploded at the entrance of a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad, killing at least 25 and wounding 87, as hundreds of worshippers gathered there for prayers at the start of the Islamic month of Ramadan and for the funeral of a man killed two days ago in a bomb blast at his

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BAGHDAD Under U.S. and U.N. pressure, Iraq’s Shiite-led parliament Wednesday reversed its last-minute electoral law changes, which would have ensured passage of a new constitution but which the United Nations called unfair.

Sunni Arab leaders who had threatened a boycott because of the changes said they were satisfied with the reversal and were now mobilizing to defeat the charter at the polls. But some warned they could still call a boycott to protest major U.S. offensives launched over the

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It was the latest in a string of insurgent attacks —targeting Shiite Muslims in particular—aimed at wrecking the Oct. 15 referendum.

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“all-out war” on Shiites, has called for stepped up violence during Ramadan.

More than 270 people have been killed in the past 10 days.

Thousands of U.S. troops were waging two major offensives in western Iraq, the Sunni heardand, in an attempt to put down insurgents ahead of the vote.

Saleh al-Mudaq, a top Sunni politician, warned thatSunnis might still call a boycott if the U.S. offensives do not end soon, saying the turmoil will suppress Sunni voting.

The reversal of the election changes passed by parliament over the weekend was a political victory for U.S. officials.

Tom Delay deliberately raised more money than he needed to throw parties at the 2000 presidential convention, then diverted some of the excess to longtime ally Roy Blunt through a series of donations that benefited both men's causes.

Senators question nomination Not satisfied with President George W. Bush's word, conservative senators and others questioned Wednesday whether Harriet Miers was the best Supreme Court nominee a self-proclaimed conservative Republican president could find.

Tammy comes ashore in Fla.

The center ofTropical Storm Tammy came ashore in north Florida after skirting the coast and sending heavy rain and gusty winds toward Georgia and the Carolinas..

The storm's center came ashore near Mayport, home to a major naval air station about 15 miles east of Jacksonville.

Tour boat unreliable in test A tour boat nearly identical to the one that capsized here, killing 20 elderly tourists, became unstable after weight equivalent to just 10 people was placed at the edge of the vessel, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday evening.

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An attempt to spark discussion on issues of tragedy, politics and religion suddenly turned sour last week, when derogatory comments were scribbled on a bulletin board in Kilgo Quadrangle.

The remarks appeared after a Human Rights Campaign flag —a symbol for the Coming Out Project, which promotes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual equal rights —was posted next to a Bible.

- The board, which also displayed an American flag and quotations from Hurricane Katrina victims, was set up by Residence Coordinator Paul Naglieri to initiate week-long exchanges among passersby.

“It saddens me to know that, given the opportunity to spread ideas, some students in the quad will take advantage of a space to spread hate,” Naglieri said in an e-mail sent out to Kilgo residents Sept. 29.

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A residence coordinatorremoved imagesfrom a Kilgo boardafter offensive remarks were scribbled on it

Naglieri wanted the discussion board be a medium for dialogue rather than debate in Kilgo. Residents and those walking by the board were encouraged to write their responses to thematic issues presented every week.

“Particularly at Duke, we live in a culture where some students are afraid to put themselves out there to say what they’re really feeling,” Naglieri said. “And the board really provides an outlet for that.”

When it was first posted, Naglieri described participation on the board as “engaging.” In response to its success, Naglieri decided to juxtapose the HRC flag with the Bible.

“It was the very next day when we saw really derogatory things written mostly against LGBT issues,” Naglieri said. “It became an unsafe environment, in my mind.”

He said the occasional crude drawing or sophomoric response is to be expected from college students. But Naglieri said offensive material alienating specific groups on campus crossed a line.

Naglieri removed the images from the board, leaving empty butcher paper.

Even without the prompts, more derogatory comments were made.

He proceeded to remove the contents of the board, keeping it “blank as a symbol of the silence forced upon those by the remarks that were written.”

Many students in Kilgo, however, were unaware of the controversy surrounding the public discussion board until they received the Sept. 29 e-mail from Naglieri.

“I don’t think that many people walk by that archway unless you live in the back of Kilgo,” sophomore Scott Arnone said. “People are always going to write stupid stuff when you put up a forum like that.”

Seniors Anna Faircloth and Ashley Price were also unaware of the offensive opinions left on the board. to

Erwin Chemerinsky,professor of law, cites judicial decisions asreasons for racial disparities in Southern schools.

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The racial integration of American schools has stalled, some scholars claim.

In a recent essay, Duke Professor of Law Erwin Chemerinsky says the federal courts are to blame.

With the composition of the Supreme Court in flux, Chemerinsky said every appointment has long-term consequences for the state of civil rights.

An expert in constitutional law who has argued civil rights cases before the Supreme Court, Chemerinsky’s essay appears as a chapter in the recendy published book School Resegregation: Must the South Turn Back ?

“We see this throughout the South and throughout the country: American public schools are increasingly segregated and Unequal,” Chemerinsky said.

He added that the development rises from two sets ofSupreme Court rulings.

The first occurred in the 1970 s when

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the Court constrained the ability of judges to issue desegregation orders to school districts. The second cohort of cases came in the early 1990 and “put an end to effective desegregation remedies,” Chemerinsky said.

In his essay, Chemerinsky blames former President Richard Nixon’s Supreme Court appointees—including the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist—for limiting the judiciary’s power of desegregation.

He points specifically to the 1974 ruling in Milliken v. Bradley, which prevented enrolling students across districts to achieve ethnic balance.

“Milliken has a devastating effect on the ability to achieve desegregation in many areas,” Chemerinsky writes in his essay. “In a number of major dues, inner-city school systems are substantially African-American and are surrounded by almost all-white suburbs. Desegregation requires the ability

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CITY COUNCIL WARD 2

MAYORAL CANDIDATES Bill Bell Jonathan Alston Jackie

Incumbent Howard Clement is currently in his twenty-second year on the Council. His primary focus is on crime reduction and economic development. Clement said to further reduce crime, Durham needs more community involvement and more funding for DPD. "If [officers'] salaries were increased then they won't be tempted to go to other jurisdictions," he said.

Clement said he believes economic development should also spread from downtown to the surrounding neighborhoods.

John Holmes, owner of Unity and Love Fellowship Ministries, said if elected, he will work to reduce the problem of gang violence. He said he will "go to the community where the problems exist and form action groups" to get communities involved in reducing gang violence.

According to his website, Holmes also wishes to address probliems such as taxes, downtown development, teenage dropout rates ai government efficiency.

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"America allows people to have a home and work—[Durham] is not America," she said, adding that she also wants to focus on helping victims of abuse.

Jason Maynard, a technical support engineer, said he wants to restore residents' faith in City Council. He is running for office because of dissatisfaction with the way taxes are managed. Maynard also aims to make government run more efficiently, claiming the current allocation of financial resources is wasteful. He wants to increase wages for law enforcement officials to provide more incentive for them to stay in Durham..

"I will also reach out to businesses and leaders in the Triangle and let them know that Durham is a good place to bring their business," he added.

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Seven of 16 candidates running in the Oct. 11 municipal elections have been convicted of criminal charges in their pasts. Two of the convicted are already sitting

on the seven-member City Council—and that number could increase once election results roll in after the general election Nov. 8.

The two current Council members with criminal histories are John Best, who holds the Ward 3 seat, and Howard Clement, who is the representative from Ward 2. Best served 48 hours in jail earlier this year for failure to pay child support and alimony. He pled guilty in 1998 to a charge of driving while impaired.

Clement, on the other hand, admitted to being arrested several times in the 1960 s for a series of sit-ins during the Civil Rights Movement, although he said he was never in jail.

The successful campaigns of Best and Clement may give hope to convicted candidates searching for support in next week’s elections.

Vincent Brown, however, has already withdrawn from the mayoral race because of legal woes. The News & Observer reported that Brown has several alleged felony charges of forgery and 46 guilty pleas to misdemeanor charges. The local Republican Party withdrew their support from Brown’s campaign, and shortly after Brown bowed out of the mayoral race.

Subsequent to Brown’s withdrawal, public interest in candidates’ criminal records peaked at a Sept. 27 “Meet the Candidates” community forum where each candidate was asked whether he or she had a criminal record.

A number of candidates failed to mention some or all of their legal woes. Candidate Steven Matherly of Ward 3 did not mention a number of charges for writing worthless checks.

“That was a time I was having trouble paying rent,” Matherly said. “I honestly didn’t even think about it.”

He also has a charge of driving with a revoked license.

Candidate John Holmes from Ward 2 said he “misunderstood the question” about his criminal record. He admitted to being sent to jail once for driving with a revoked license at the forum, but he did not mention additional charges of driving with a revoked license.

“I don’t have a criminal record, period,” Holmes said.

“Traffic tickets are not criminal convictions.”

The News & Observer reported that criminal records show Holmes has been charged nine times for driving with a revoked license and pled guilty in four of the instances.

Candidate Joe Williams from Ward 1 did not mention a 1986 trial for assault at the forum.

“That was a family matter, not an individual matter with anyone else,” he said Wednesday, noting that the conflict occurred with his sister and that she eventually dropped the charge. “I was never convicted.”

“If I had been convicted of something I would have told them at the forum,” he added.

A News & Observer article Sept. 29 reported that Williams had been convicted.

Other criminal charges for candidates include 2002 felony counts against mayoral candidate Jackie Wagstaff for doctoring checks and using false pretenses to obtain property. Victoria Peterson, a hopeful for the Ward 1 seat, was arrested at a number of protests at abortion clinics.

Shawn Cunningham, a candidate for Ward 3 said a speeding charge was his only offense. The News & Observer later reported that Cunningham was arrested for embezzlement and carrying a concealed weapon.

“We haven’t had as many inquiries about candidates’ criminal records as we have had this year,” said Johnnie McLean, deputy director for administration of the North CarolinaBoard of Elections.

Susan Tifft, professor of the practice of journalism and public policy studies, championed the interest of the media and the Durham public in this case.

“It is important if you are going to be part of the governing machinery,” she said. “I think the public has a right to know whether you have observed the laws of that community or violated them.”

‘You have to evaluate the seriousness of the crime and how germane it is to the job,” Tifft noted with regard to the role criminal records should make in voting selections.

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course of the upcoming election exist in Durham’s re-

political history.

Since 2001, when he was elected by a margin of 1.5 percent, Bell has not faced significant competition at the polls.

In 2003, he received 83 percent of the total vote, with the rest of the ballots going to contender Jonathan Alston.

This year Bell will once again be running against Alston, as well as Durham School Board member Jackie Wagstaff.

Promising a new “hip-hop agenda” aimed at getting urban youth involved in the political process, Wagstaff—who is also known as “J-Dub” —hopes to make inroads into Bell’s support from the inner city.

Regardless of any new developments, precinct officials at Durham’s polling places are ready for Tuesday’s elecdon.

“Getting all of these supplies, die pens, the pencils, the T voted’ stickers—there’s a lot that goes into getting all of the polls open for business,” Ashe said.

“But this is obviously our Superbowl, this is our big time, this is what we do,” he added. cent

The primary turnout has traditionally been lower than that of the general November elections.

In the 2003 primary only 16 percent of the electorate turned out, compared to the 26 percent that voted in the general election.

Although debates and discussions in the current election season were initially focused on the candidates’ policy goals, the past month has seen a new emphasis placed on candidates’ personal histories—most notably, their criminal records.

After the discovery offormer mayoral candidate Vincent Brown’s criminal record, each of die remaining Council hopefuls was asked publicly about their past.

Seven of the 16 candidates have been charged with crimes ranging from carrying a concealed weapon to driving while impaired to felony embezzlement.

Due to its small size, polls are typically not conducted among the Durham electorate.

Consequently, the only hints about the possible

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Although overall crime numbers have dropped since Bell took office, some city polls suggest that local citizens do not feel safer.

As a result of the initiative’s findings, city law enforcement has sought to promote a broader sense of public security.

Despite these efforts, crime in Durham has been a central point of criticism throughout Bell’s tenure.

The Durham Police Department reported in September that the murder rate rose 20 percent during the first six months of 2005 as compared to the first six months of 2004. Shortly after, Court TV released the documentary “Menace

on Main Street,” in which Durham was used to highlight the nation’s rise in street gangs.

“I’m not someone with my head in the sand, not realizing that when you hear about a homicide [it] doesn’t present the best images,” Bell said.

He emphasized, however, that Durham’s gang problem is no more severe than comparable cities—like WinstonSalem or Charlotte. After the documentary, city officials have worked to better publicize the Bull City’s various efforts to combat the gang issue.

One such effort, the Mayor’s Youth Works Summer Program, has frequendy been provided as an example of Bell’s commitment to keep youth off the streets.

The mayor partnered with local businesses to offer employment opportunities for Durham’s young adults.

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Professor ofLaw Erwin Chemerinsky criticizes conservative justicesfor their decisions on education.

the suburban schools.”

Chemerinsky said desegregation was further weakened by a series of decisions in the early 19905. He said three rulings in that period terminated desegregation orders, even when the result was a resegregated school district.

“Across the country, effective desegregation orders have been ended as a result of these Rehnquist Court decisions.”

According to a study published by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, the percentage of Southern black students attending majority white schools fell from a peak of 43.5 percent in 1988 to roughly 31 percent in 2000.

Chemerinsky said there is a link between resegregation and Supreme Court rulings that have hampered judicial efforts

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plications than we’ve had jobs.”

The mayor has also been a fixture on Duke’s campus and a vocal proponent of Duke-Durham initiatives. Bell was on hand at the kick-off of this year’s annual Into the City community service’event, which had its highest turnout ever.

He also came to show his support at last weekend’s grand opening of the Nasher Museum ofArt. Bell has served on the Durham County Board of Commissioners from 1972 to 2000—excluding the 1994 to 1996 term—and was chair of the Board from 1982 to 1994. An alumnus of Howard University and New York University, Bell left his job as a senior engineer at IBM for a life in politics. to

desegregate schools.

self-identified progressive, Chemerinsky said he takes issue with conservatives who complain that judges are “legislating from the bench” when they mandate desegregation.

“Judicial activism is just the label that we all use for decisions we don’t like,” he said “I think that the Constitution was intentionally written in broad, open-textured language. In giving that language meaning, the justices have to make choices.”

Chemerinsky described Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Rehnquist as “anti-civil rights” activists.

“If you think of a court being active when it’s overruling precedent... the Rehnquist court cases with regard to desegregation were very active in that they decisions,” were overruling prior Chemerinsky said.

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Mayor Bill Bell, who is running for re-election, once served as chair of the Board of Commissioners.

Chemerinsky has criticized the selection ofChief Justice John Roberts, whose judicial philosophy he compares to Rehnquist’s.

He authored a letter in August opposing Roberts’ nomination that was ultimately signed by 160 law professors.

Chemerinsky said he was concerned about Roberts’ performance while serving in the solicitor general’s office of former President George H. W. Bush.

“Every indication is that he will be a very conservative justice,” Chemerinsky said.

Chemerinsky has drawn fire from conservative circles for his left-leaning politics.

A writer on the conservative judicial weblog ConfirmThem.com called him a “fiction writer,” and a contributor to National Review Online said he is “reliably partisan.”

“I hope that if you talk to my students they will tell you in the classroom I’m not partisan at all,” Chemerinsky said. “[When] I’m in the media, I’m certainly

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“It was pretty sad that it had to happen,” Price said after receiving the e-mail.

Kilgo residents and members of the administration spoke positively about the way in which Naglieri handled the situation.

“I let Paul know that I applaud his efforts and the way that he was handling this situation,” said Sue Wasiolek, dean of students and assistant vice president for student affairs. “I certainly support the notion of free speech. On the other hand, I think that Paul and Kilgo Quad has the right to respond and to manage that board in the way that they did.”

Naglieri plans to continue using the discussion board and hopes to eventually let students take over and generate their own thought-provoking images. “[Residential Life and Housing Services] and Kilgo staff in general take a very strong stance in protecting the rightful place of our residents,” Naglieri said. “A lot of what residence life is about here is to enhance the intellectual climate—even if that means taking risks.”

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Residence Coordinator Paul Naglieri put up the Kilgo discussion board to encourage student dialogue but took it down after it was vandalized.

ROBERTS from page 2 medication and violates federal drug laws, Ashcroft reasoned in 2001, an opposite conclusion from the one reached by Attorney General Janet Reno in the Clinton administration.

Oregon won a lawsuit in a lower court over its voterapproved law, which took effect in 1997 and has been used by 208 people.

The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided in hearing the Bush administration’s appeal.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has had colon cancer, talked about medicines that make a sick person’s final moments more comfortable. David Souter, in an emotional moment, said that it’s one thing for the government to ban date rape drugs and harmful products but “that seems to me worlds away from what we’re talking about here.”

On the other side, Roberts and Antonin Scalia appeared skeptical of Oregon’s claims that states have the sole authority to regulate the practice of medicine.

Roberts, 50, was presiding over his first major oral argument and thrust himself in the middle of the debate.

Over and over he raised concerns that states could underminefederal regulation of addictive drugs. He interrupted Oregon Senior Assistant Attorney General Robert Atkinson in his first minute, then asked more than a dozen more tough questions.

Roberts said the federal government has the authority to determine what is a legitimate medical purpose and “it suggests that the attorney general has the authority to interpret that phrase” to declare that assisted suicide is not legitimate. '

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Members of theMatter magazine staff are handing out their new trading cards to students for free. said Ybarra, whose favorite drink is a 'Bom-

CARDS from page 1 “It was trying to bridge the gap between professors and students,” he added.

bay Sapphire martini straight up.

If a favorite professor is missing from the pack, students shouldn’t be concerned—Matter may produce more cards

The cards include basic facts, such as height, age and years at Duke—but they also reveal more personal and quirky details, like worst comment made by a student in class and favorite spot on campus.

Lin said professors, faculty members and administrators were enthusiastic about the project.

Sue Wasiolek, dean of students and assistant vice president for student affairs, said she was honored to be included.

According to her card, the most amusing thing a student has ever said to Wasiolek in a class setting came in the form of a text message.

The student suggested Wasiolek try to stay awake during student presentations.

Gary Ybarra, associate professor of the practice of electrical and computer engineering, said the idea is a creative way for students to learn about Duke faculty.

“I appreciate any student having an interest in me as more than just a professor,”

in the future.

“Twenty-five [individuals] barely scratches the surface of people at Duke who deserve trading cards,” Lin said.

The project, however, is unlikely to include cards that feature students.

“It’s better to emphasize the people who have been here a while or will be here for a long time,” Lin said.

So far, students have eagerly embraced the project. Wasiolek noted a similar reaction among faculty.

“My only disappointment is that there is no bubble gum,” she said.

The cards are available in packs of ten and will be free to students for the next few weeks.

Distribution began Wednesday on East Campus and will start on West Campus after Fall Break.

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awareness because a lot of people had not heard about what happened, not just black students but students in general,” Furo said.

Though the event was coordinated by students who are members of BSA, Furo emphasized that participation was open to the entire Duke community.

“BSA put up flyers and passed out handbills, but we did not want to limit the demonstration to just BSA members,” she said. “We wanted other students to feel welcome, so it was an open protest.”

Demonstration organizers said the protest was meant to encourage community involvement, not undermine free speech.

“You just have to have some kind of sensitivity about what you’re saying.

Even though [Bennett] might not have meant it, he should have used a little more common sense,” senior Marcus Peterson said. “What people hear, what people see, that’s an affirmation. Who knows how many people heard what was said and were sitting there, nodding their heads? Our message was that we need to wake up as a Duke community and realize what’s going on.”

Bennett, who was scheduled to speak this week at the University of Cincinnati, cancelled his appearance Sunday due to the controversy and resulting protests planned by some UC students.

“The current controversy that has arisen around comments I made on my radio show, based on a willful distortion of what I said, will take away from the serious discussion I want to engage in with the students and community at the University of Cincinnati,” Bennett said in a statement released by the UC College Republicans.

Some students at the Duke protest said

Another concern for some was the appearance of flyers reading “Stop Self Segregating” on the Class of 1948 bench next to the West Campus Union—which many students refer to as “the black bench.” No one has claimed responsibility for the flyers.

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, recentiy told The Chronicle that although he encourages “interactive diversity,” he also supports the existence of“the black bench.”

“It’s a ceremonial opportunity for African-American students at Duke to feel like there’s a place that represents the difficulty it was for African-American students to come to Duke. That doesn’t mean that African American students are in isolation,” he said. “I think the folks who are critical don’t understand that symbolism. [They] also don’t understand that African- American students are with white students all the time—you can’t avoid it if you’re in class here.”

Senior Wintta Woldemariam, president of BSA, said she thinks students rarely reflect on themselves when accusing others of “self-segregation.”

“Self-segregation is a term that’s completely blown out of proportion,” she said. “Your friends are your friends, the cards fall how they fall. It’s a lot simpler than we think it is. I don’t think there are a lot of people walking around thinking ‘Oh, I hate white people, I hate black people.’”

Woldemariam and Moneta also noted that ethnic background is one of many fac-; tors that determine the interests that unite people in groups.

“People seek community in different ways, whether it’s through sororities, sports or other groups. It’s just one particular facet of your identity,” Woldemariam said.

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Star-studded oral ixation Thumbsucker director discusses trials and triumphs of making indie film Caitlin Donnelly recess How did you become interested in this project?

I read the book by Walter Kirn and was pretty taken by how honest and revealing it was about stuff that’s hard to talk about. At the same time, it was kind of funny. I related to the Justin character, especially his relationship with his mother.

What was the experience of writing your first screenplay?

Words have never been my best friend. But coming from music videos, where you write the idea, [the concept of] coming up with the content and directing the content are inseparable. Fortunately, I never had much ego invested in myself as a writer. I was very open to criticism.

How did you select what elements of the novel to adapt?

A movie is not a novel; it’s not even a novella. It’s more like a short story. There’s a lot of extraction to do. You could take the book that I took and make a different movie. I was really interested in the parts of the book that dealt with family and how complicated it is being a family and that our problems aren’t failures—our problems are part of us being human beings.

When did you begin working on the project?

I started it six years ago. The first [obstacle] was just writing it; it took a while to educate myself. The real stall was a year and a half of being told “no” by financiers. That was really trying. But by

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Now I Can Die In Peace Thaddeus Edwards recess The world needs another book written about the 2004 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox as much as MTV needs another reality series about celebrity families. Yet, despite its media-darling subject matter, Now I Can Die in Peace: HowESPN’s Sports Guy Found Salvation, With a Little Help From Nomar, Pedro Shaxoshank and the 2004 Red Sox by Bill Simmons is a welcome addition to the world of sports writing.

It is Simmons, known as “The Sports Guy” on ESPN.com’s Page 2, who makes the book worth reading. As Entertainment Weekly described, his work is “for anyone who worships at the twin altars of pop culture and sports.” It is this fusion that Simmons brings to Now I Can Die in Peace, differentiating it from the numerous quickie books released in the months following the reverse of Boston’s 86-year curse.

The book is a collection of 49 Red Sox columns, which Simmons wrote from 1998 to 2005, compiled into four sections; “Rejuvenation,” “The Abyss,” “Hope Is a Good Thing” and “The Great Escape.”

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that whole bad experience has proved to be really empowering. I had never dealt with that much rejection for that long.

How did you assemble such a well-known cast?

It wasn’t anything that I thought was going to happen. At the same time it was getting rejected by financiers, the script was having another life in the world of actors and agents. Many, many actors were interested beyond the ones in the film. And the amazing cast? I got to choose them. They kept me sane when I was dealing with all the rejection.

Tilda [Swinton] really became the catalyst. She was the first one that really stayed on and fought for the project.

Many of the actors play against character—particularly Keanu Reeves and Vince Vaughn. Why did you see them in these roles?

I think I’m always interested in playing against character. But, beyond that, there’s a sincerity to Keanu... and the most important thing for me was that his character is a sincere person. And Vaughn, I just loved meeting him. He was so funny—a smart, quick-mouthed person who is savvy enough to know how to play a character that’s weaker than the children.

What was it like as a first-time director working with such experienced actors?

They always made me feel like I was the captain of the ship, and it was a good ship to be on.

All these people you really respect respecting you back. I really lucked out.

How did Leo Pucci’s lack of experience affect his performance?

His newness and his youngness were all pluses.

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“You’ll hear about us as Aretha Franklin meets

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I think he wore an ascot or a normal tie of some sort.

Yeah. Tucker started the bowtie thing, but I was the first to wear a dickie.

How does it feel to be separated from The Daily Show and to be doing your own thing and still have major fan

support?

Well, that feels great. It feels precarious, to be honest. You know it’s hard to leave a show that is lavished, righdy so, with the accolades like that, but at the same time you want to try your own thing. So it’s exhilarating when it’s not

feeling precarious.

You have had so much practice at interviewing people from The Daily Show. What would Mo Rocca ask Mo Rocca and how would Mo Rocca answer his question? (long pause) I would probably ask—this is kind of boring —“What exactly would you like to be doing right now?” And I would answer, “I don’t know.”

I think that might be a cop out If you really had to bite into yourself, what wouldyou say?

In that case, I would ask, “Why do your pants not look quite right?” And I would say “I left earlier than I thought I would and I didn’trealize that there was a stain and a hole inside of them.”

I hear you are a huge fan of plants. What is your favorite shrub?

Actually, not the Rhododendron. You know I like coffee plants... I am half-Colombian.

All right. No cocaine though?

No n0... not coca plants... coffee plants. I do NOT like fichus trees, they are way too ’Bos for me.

You have been immortalized by VHI ILove The 80s The Top 100 This and That..

It’s only immortalization because they will never stop playing it.

Exactly, they have you on daily rotation now. What did you think you were signing up for?

It feels very claustrophobic, because I begin to feel that I am actually sitting in a small room in Viacom’s basement, endlessly talking about 80 ’s sitcoms.

Last Question. What is your favorite political jargon/phrase/buzzword?

Umm... (extremely long pause) s—t this is the kind of thing I should know. Probably, triangulation. Especially, because no one really knows how to use it correcdy. It means using your own tools to fix “their” car.

Can you use it in a sentence?

Clinton achieved the ultimate in triangulation when he reformed welfare.

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Sapphic Next Model amor. Last night T two of the aspiring models/future reality star hotties hooked up in a must-see moment steamier than any t.a.T.u. video, securing Top Model’s tide as America’s hottest reality show.

And it doesn’t hurt that every week the nubile Nancies (or Naimas) are judged by the “smoking, sensual, witty and chiseled” Nigel Barker, as described by Chronicle editor Seyward Darby.

The spawn of a certain dark master (Here’s looking at you, L. Ron Hubbard) has descended upon the Earth in what’s sure to be a certain Church’s bid to take over the world. Here’s to the future of the latest child celeb sure to outspook even rival and horror flick staple Dakota “Alien Eyes” Fanning.

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Ultimate Spiderman is the third Spiderman video game released in the past three years, but this game sets itself apart from its two predecessors, and it’s much better for that fact.

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the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants, X-Men II: Rise of Apocalypse sends players against the, invading armies of Apocalypse and his Four Horsemen in an effort to save the world. Alright, so fans of the series will balk a little at the storyline, but they certainly won’t turn down a chance to play as their favorite homo superior in Marvel’s latest addition to a widely respected line of comic-based video games.

Graphically, RoA follows the style of its predecessor with cell-shaded characters—recreating a comic book feel. Despite beautifully worked cut-scenes, however, the graphics are less than awe-inspiring. Thick black lines surround each character and a relatively low resolution takes away from detail and makes the simulated world seem glossed over. Nevertheless, unlockable skins for each character and crisp, goodtween

comic book, the game’s best feature is the ability to play as Spiderman’s greatest foe, Venom.

Every true fan of the Spiderman story will salivate at the chance to play as the symbiote-wearing behemoth. Ultimate Spiderman is able to weave the stories of Spiderman and Venom smoothly, fashioning a fantastic and unique video-gaming experience.

Ultimate drops the realistic graphics of the other two movie-inspired games and chooses to utilize the latest in cell-shading technology to make you feel like you are actually playing in a comic book. The game’s cartoony graphics are jaw-dropping enough to keep any gamer glued to the controller for hours on end.

One of the most developed features of the game is the control system. WetHslinging around the huge map of New York is easy and fun. Try swinging around Queens and the rest of Manhattan for a few hours to unwind after a long day.

Venom, on the other hand, doesn’t wield webbing ability but instead, can jump extreme distances (much like the Incredible Hulk in recent games), providing the player a thrilling rush. The

looking powers help make the visuals, if not eye-candy, at least functional.

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Before you go out and buy it, consider how you’ll play it. If you and a few friends need a break from your circuits homework, grab RoA, pick your old-time favorites and get ready for a thoroughly satisfying smash fest. But if you’re in the market for a solid single-player action/RPG, reinstall Diablo II and remember to shower.

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No one knows better what fashions are hot for the transition from summer to fall than the girls who are wearing them. So this week, trends editor Madeline Andrews planted herself at the West Campus bus stop to scope out what the local fashionistas are wearing to stave off the last of summer's heat while preparing for fall's chill—or just an over air-conditioned lecture hall. So what did we find? Functional pieces like flip-flops, sunglasses and soft knit tops dominated the sidewalks. The lesson: unlike the West Coast, when it comes to the West Campus, what's comfortable is always fashionable.

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Why We Love It: We are obsessed with the fact that the girl is wearing three shirts. It’s not easy to pull off, but there’s no bulkiness caused by the layering and the three colors mesh well; it absolutely works here.

How It Translates To You: As if you didn’t already own a thousand t-shirts, now you can put them all to use at once. It’s another great way to get more wear out of all the shirts you’ve managed to stain with late-night Cosmic—and no one will ever know.

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It; It’s a classic look that incorporates her own personal style, and it takes very little effort. The sandals, which are (sadly) covered up by her jeans, are completely wearable but also totally stylish.

Why We Love It: It’s one of the oldest combos in the book—jeans, white shirt, and a sweater—but the sweater-cum-jacket here is not only super cute, it’s completely functional. Cotton is an ideal fabric for these inbetween temperatures, so every bit of this outfit is weather appropriate.

How It Translates To Yon.* Start with your favorite jeans. Add a nondescript top and a snug jacket or cozy sweater. Add fabulous flats and toss on some homemade jewelry. Voila. A clean, crisp look with hardly any effort (unless you, and not your four-year-old cousin, were the one trying to get those tiny little beads onto their strings).

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recessfilm While die tide In HerShoes speaks mosdy to women, the movie is not a total “chick-flick.’ The movie is a family drama about two warring sisters (the well-cast Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette) and how they mend their differences. Sound like a Lifedme afternoon special? Don’t worry, men, there’s something here for you too. The second half of the movie has the Diaz character moving in with her grandma (Shirley MacLaine) in South Florida, and, you know what that means: Yes, Cameron Diaz is once again clad in only a bikini at least 90 percent of the dme.

The movie details the perilous sibling dynamic of rebellious, sexy Maggie (Diaz) and workaholic, lonely Rose (Collette). Maggie shows up one day on Rose’s doorstep, and the two try to get along. Even though Maggie and Rose are complete opposites, they share a sense of humor and devodon to each other that surpass their constant brawls and draws the viewer in.

Every Sex and the City fan will be impressed by the number of Jimmy Choos and Manolo Blahniks that Rose possesses—she has an overwhelming supply of outrageous shoes because “they always fit.” It becomes more and more apparent that she is very jealous of her sister, despite her own lofty accomplishments and shoe-purchasing power and masks this insecurity by setting even higher goals.

Rose gets fed up with her selfish sister when Maggie goes too far with Rose’s boyfriend. Rose kicks the backstabbing Maggie out, resulting in aforementioned bikini-clad Diaz in their long-lost grandmother’s retirement community. This portion of the movie provides pure comedy and leaves you wishing the movie showed more of the elderly cast members. MacLaine is particularly good as the grandmother, turning one of her best performances since her 1983 Oscar for Term ofEndearment.

Though the movie is overlong at two hours and 10 minutes, it leaves the audience with a strengthened sense of devotion to family, estranged or not.

—Carolyn Rubenslein

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Ever gone to Wal-Mart and seen the rack of "value-priced” movies? You know the ones I mean, those movies that, while maybe not terrible, just weren’t good enough for anyone to want them? DJ. Caruso s Two for the Money is a movie of this variety.

Slow-drawling Matthew McConaughey plays protagonist Brandon Lang, a wholesome ex-football player who is brought into the corrupt world of sports-gambling advising. McConaughey will have you grinding your teeth with his attempts at smooth-talking, but tries to compensate for his inability to act by taking off his shirt at every opportunity. As industry guru Walter Abrams, A1 Pacino plays a crooked mentor-type character reminiscent of his role in Donnie Brasco, but lacking the passion that made that film so enjoyable. Instead of putting forth the acting we all know he is capable of, Pacino seems content to scream out caricatures of his older roles. Completing the ensemble is Rene Russo, who must have (ahem) known someone to get in this movie—she is simply too old to be believable in the role of temptress.

If Two for the Money had to be summed up in one word it would be lackluster. Attempts at creating tension are sporadically successful, but the only times the audience is really on the edge of its seat is during the clips offootball games. At times, director Caruso hints at a desire to expand the plot—to delve, for example, into Lang’s troubled childhood or his surprise at discovering that a one-night stand was actually a prostitute. For some reason, however, these paths are revealed but never explored.

Two for the Money hedges its bets on an aging cast and an uninspired plot—and lost. Unfortunately, so does the audience.

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My graphics are simple—sparse setting and sparse elements. Even though I come from these visual things, my focus was on the emotions of the character. People think of [music videos] as visually hyper, and mine are all kind of slow.

How did your background in music affect the presentation of music?

Music is such a big part of how I understand the world. I didn’t just want a background score; I wanted the music to be present and part of the story. I wanted a film like The Graduate and Harold and Maude, where the musicians help provide an envelope to put the film into.

One thing bothered me—at the end Justin is accepted into NYU despite the fact that he lied on his application.

The curious question is whether he was really lying. I kind of like that—his success is complicated. I have a little trouble with the film being a little too happy ended. At the end when he’s running though the streets, I almost wanted him to trip. The idea is, ‘Yeah, he made it, but his problems aren’t over.” I like things that aren’t monolithically right or wrong; I like things gray.

The film has gotten a lot of attention. What has been the most memorable moment?

The most exciting thing was when I went to the paying theaters in New York and met the people that bought the tickets. It finally made it feel like this isn’t a figment of my imagination for six years. All the hoopla makes me nervous. It’s just a lot of sugar and caffeine it’s great, but it gives you a headache and is —

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How do you respond to those criticisms?

I wasn’t trying to be new or avant-garde. I was trying to be true to me. People say, “it’s just another coming ofage film about suburban alienation,” but I wasn’t thinking about other films. Or the market. I was just trying to be very simple, a smaller goal done well.

What do you hope people take from the film?

Tilda Swinton and Vincent D’Onofrio were so game to play adults who don’t know what they’re doing, and we’re not saying that’s bad.

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Thumbsucker lives in the world of the dirty Q-word. If you promise not to tell anyi rfii -Ifllllll.DSllCK.Gl* one, I'll tell you what the word is. It’s “quirky.” It’s a word that hip filmmakers these days don’t like to hear, because they consider their work deeper or more meaningful than the glossy indication of the Q-word.

Quirky means a sensibility skewed slightly toward the precious, toward the smallest detail and toward the magnification of minute character flaws for slight comic benefit. And so, in the case of Thumbsucker, there’s really no denying it’s innate Q-ness. It’s got your innocent young teenager (lovely acting here from Lou Pucci), who grows through run-ins with quirky characters played by Vince Vaughn, Benjamin Bratt, Tilda Swinton and Keanu Reeves. He and Reeves’ character have especially bizarre (dare I say quirky?) encounters in which the young teen discovers his “power animal.”

(Pucci’s power animal is a young doe, which allows the actor to actually touch a young doe, which has to be an exciting experience for anyone—they look very soft.)

Thumbsucker is not going to take you on a journey you haven’t been on before, mainly because we’ve already experienced puberty, but also because we’ve had dramatized versions of the teenage years shoved down our throats ever since The O.C. gave us the Fantastic Four sponsored byjuicy Couture. As a story and as a film, it falls in between Haroldand Maude (minus Maude, leaving just Harold, although without his strange obsession with suicide) and Thirteen (minus the teenage girl freakiness), which would imply that it is an absolutely excellent film. It is not quite that caliber of work, but it does contain aspects of both films, the dangerous edge of nearly all post -Donnie Darko teenage-angst films and the sweetness and pop-indie infused haze ofretro-cool filmmaking in films like Garden State.

Director/Writer Mike Mills is an acclaimed music video director, and his visual style is well suited to the big screen—it’s just that Thumbsucker is so derivative (and, almost happy to be so, which is refreshing in its own ironic postmodern way) that it’s hard to give it a hearty |

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His newest LP, Cripple Crow, revels in his trademark high-quavering voice.

When he holds a note he assumes a heart-wrenching and unique vibrato. His songs are imbued with folksy wisdom and anti-war sentiment, but never forget to include emotion in rhetoric. Yet Devendra’s best anti-war songs are those that revel in peace: “Don’t the flowers at your feet smell sweet? Well it sure smells sweet to me.” His songs have a wandering, slowpaced majesty, which lands Devendra in the familiar genre of “Music to Take a Nap to,” inhabited by Iron & Wine, Joanna The recen Ye Cripple Crow, Devendra is not terrified of occasi throwing down a beat. On the lively and inspired “I Like a Child,” he admits, “From my womb to my tom guess I’ll always be a child.” That is the pervading the of Cripple Crow, life and death—a sliding awe at th world recapitulated in a child-like curiosity belied b adult misgivings.

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Lead guitarist and Kekaula’s husband This devotion to pleasing fans in the Bob Vennum agreed. audience rather than ones who heave “The critics will never tell you about and sigh to the rhythm of ADD-stricken the jazz in our music. It’s because they radio stations is perhaps another sympwon’t see it unless they see us live, where tom of the band’s longevity. we’ll just randomly have an interlude in a “If we just wanted to crank out the song of fifteen minutes of jazz,” Vennum popular stuff that would stick immediatesaid. ly with fans but be out of their minds a The Bellrays’ claims to fame are just as week later, we could do that,” Vennum idiosyncratic. They’ve opened for the claimed. “That’s the easiest music in the Pixies, and Kekaula has cameoed on re- world to make. What we aim to do, cent Basement Jaxx and Crystal Method rather, is to have a legacy attached to our albums. music.”

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You Could Have It So Much Better proves that alt-funk-punk-pop-rock sounds best with a Scottish accent. Franz Ferdinand’s sophomore album demonstrates to all naysayers that the quartet is much more than just a one-hit wonder, as they improve the unique sound introduced on their self-tided debut.

According to metrosexually scrawny lead singer Alex Kapranos, Franz Ferdinand was about making “music for girls to dance to,” and this album is more danceable than the first. Listening to this album will inspire more head nodding than a Coach K bobblehead doll from the University Bookstore. The last album was fun, but retained some melancholy undertones.

Much Better brings back all the fun and pumps up the beat, throwing in the funk.

The album’s strength is that it channels other famous acts while simultaneously producing its own special brand of music. If you listen closely, you can hear Devo and Duran Duran mashed together with The Cure in a blender to create the best tasting dance smoothie ever. Homosexual sugar daddy narrative “This Boy” is a time capsule to the 80s, providing listeners with a short, singable masterpiece.

Franz greatly deepens their sound with their slower songs that sound extremely reminiscent of hippie-era Beatles. “Eleanor Put YourBoots On” sounds like an application for amendment to Abbey Road. The soft piano and acoustic on “Fade Together” is a marked departure from their old trance-y Pink Floyd sound.

Although the album gamers comparison to so many other musicians, Franz Ferdinand is clearly a band confident in its own sound, which may just be their biggest downfall. Albeit immensely enjoyable, Much Better falls into the repetitive sound of the band’s old album. Even the LP’s two acoustic love ballads don’t add enough range for Franz Ferdinand to be considered a musically diverse and adventurous band. The fast similar-sounding dance songs still dominate the album, although this time you can actually tell when the album switches between tracks.

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Jeremy Lange, son of Provost Peter Lange, took a at the CDS several years ago. For his final project, he made photographs of the barber shop near his apartment. “I have always loved barbershops, and this one has such an air of times past that I was intrigued,” Lange wrote in a printed explanation of the exhibit.

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era barber shop people,” Exhibitions Coordinator Courtney Reid-Eaton said.

The exhibit evokes a sense of time moving much slower than it does now—-the very soul of an earlier America—a time before every man had his own electric razor, a time "when “regular customer” meant loyalty for 20 years. “It’s a new view on a common occurrence,” Lange said about the collection. Images included are what might be expected of an exhibit with the title “Cutting,” “Shaving” and “Combing.”

What stands out, however, are the unexpected portraits of small-town farmers, war veterans and the homeless men with nothing in common except for regular visits to Mr. Green’s.

“What meant the most to me there were the people.

People create space, and they are why this space mattered to me,” Lange said.

“A Twenty-Year Customer” shows a man’s wrinkled, contemplative face. But in spite of his age, he still has a head of wispy, white hair—freshly cut and combed.

“Laughter” captures two men mid-conversation in a place where regulars come to take a break from their everyday activities and catch up with the neighbors.

After all, if women tell their hairdressers everything, why shouldn’t a barber shop be a hubbub of hearsays, sports talk and dreams of better days? The expressions on the patrons’ lathered faces, eyes closed, are ones of, literally, blind faith in the hands of Mr. Green’s time-proven expertise.

Lange’s black-and-white photo essay is a refreshing departure from photos that typically describe our society.

Pressing pause on the stream of movie star and pop artist icons in our present times, “Mr. Green’s Barber Shop” vividly captures the faces of ordinary, down-to-earth people from a time and place that is both in the present and a reflection of our past.

“Mr. Green’s Barber Shop’’ will be ongoing until Oct. 16 at University Gallery of the Center for Documentary Studies (located by the East Campus bridge).

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Donations for the $l5-million basketball training facility and athletic complex have increased over the past month, after fund-raising efforts nearly reached a standstill during the summer.

Earlier this year the Athletic Department announced its plan to build the new facility, which will house two basketball courts, an event space and the athletic department’s academic center. The new facility will alleviate some of the congestion in Cameron Indoor Stadium, where many of Duke’s teams practice and play their home games.

Athletic Director Joe Alieva said Wednesday that $7 million has been pledged to the project so far, and based on talks with potential donors, the totalcould increase to nearly $l2 million within the next month. Since Aug. 30, the Athletic Department has received approximately $2 million.

“Fundraising is going better,” Alieva said. “We’re making progress, and I’m encouraged about it.”

The facility received a major boost July 28 when former men’s basketball players Christian Laettner and Brian Davis made a $2-million contribution to the Legacy Fund, an organization devoted to capital improvements and scholarship endowment for the men’s basketball program. A portion of the gift went to endowing a scholarship, while the other $1.25 million went toward the new building.

This donation aside, however, the summer marked a slow period for fundraising, which Alieva said was partially the result of potential donors travelling and vacationing.

But the stall did not prevent the Athletic Department from making changes to

what it envisioned for the new building.

Space was allocated for the student-athlete academic center—which was not a part of the original drafts. The space is currendy located in the Schwartz-Butters Athletic Complex. Athletic officials said the current center needs to be enlarged. In addition to meeting that goal, the new location will be more accessible to student-athletes before and after their practices.

“The original plan was kind of a box with two basketball courts and some auxiliary space for a weight room and some audiovisual stuff,” Alieva said. “But as we looked at the box, we said... ‘While we’re doing this, let’s do it right.’ We started to look at what we could put on that wing, and academics was the perfect fit for it.”

By relocating the academic center, the Athletic Department will likely move its Sports Information Department from Cameron to Schwartz-Butters, which in turn will free up space to increase the size of the development office, Alieva said.

He also stressed that in addition to the benefits for the Athletic Department, the University could utilize the new facility’s event space, which will be available to host banquets and conferences.

The additional practice courts will provide space Duke’s basketball programs need. Under the current arrangement, the men’s and women’s teams have to coordinate their practice schedules, often having to alternate between morning, afternoon and evening practices in Cameron. The new courts will be used exclusively by the basketball teams and their alumni.

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Shavlik Randolph, who signed a free agent contract with the 76ers inAugust, is in town for training camp.

Just like every October for the past three years, Shavlik Randolph stood calmly at the foul line in Cameron Indoor Stadium, knocked down a foul shot, motioned to a Duke basketball manager for the ball and then buried another one.

This time, however, it was different.

Shelden Williams sat quietly in the stands, and JJ. Redick was nowhere to be seen. Instead Allen Iverson, Chris Webber and a new cast adorned in Sixers’ Black, rather than Duke Blue, shared Coach K Court with the former Duke forward.

“It’s kind of strange,” Randolph said.

“It just feels like one of Duke’s practices when the managers are rebounding for u5.... Then I look down, and I’ve got a Sixers’jersey on. I’m blessed. I feel fortunate, but it’s a little weird.”

Randolph has gone through a lot in his transition from Cameron Crazie icon to Philadelphia Sixer hopeful.

Cameron After averaging 4.4 points and 4.3 rebounds in the third year of a rocky collegiate career that Randolph himself deemed “mediocre,” the former Blue Devil forward decided to waive his final year of eligibility and declare for the NBA Draft despite strong indications that he stood little chance of being selected. Randolph went undrafted, and it seemed like the former McDonald’s All-American was destined to become another cautionary tale of unrealized potential.

Randolph, however, got the break he was hoping for when he signed a freeagent contract with the Philadelphia 76ers Aug. sth.

“Sometimes in your life you’ve got to follow your heart, and that’s what I did,” Randolph said. “I made a decision based on faith, and God has blessed me, and I’ve followed him to this point, and everything is working out.”

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Boston Red Sox second CHICAGO baseman Tony Graffanino went to the mound to apologize for his error and ask a simple favor of pitcher David Wells.

“I told him, 'My bad right there.’ I asked him to pick me up,” Graffanino said after the grounder he allowed to go through his legs helped the Chicago White Sox rally from a four-run deficit and beat Boston 5-4 Wednesday night.

“Everybody who’s ever been in the game has been in a situation where they screwed up the game. It crushed me.

We’re losing, and it’s my fault.”

A big-game pitcher who needed to pitch a big game to keep the Red Sox from reaching brink of elimination, Wells instead gave up a three-run homer to Tadahito Iguchi after Graffanino’s miscue, and the White Sox took a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series.

“If you’re going to point a finger, you point it at me,” Wells said. “He just said, ‘Pick me up.’ I said, ‘No problem.’ It’s called teamwork. I didn’t do it, so I’m the one who feels bad. I’m sure he does, but I feel worse.”

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Krzyzewski also said he hopes the new facility will encourage former Blue Devils to return to Durham for their summer workouts—something players have often avoided because Cameron provides little privacy, especially during the off-season.

“A lot more guys will come back in the summer time,” former Blue Devil Chris Carrawell said. “Instead of maybe just coming in for the K Academy, maybe you come in for a couple of weeks and work

in 1116 ’ S ll^8 since we re It’s to be huge.” same place. going Alieva also sees the new facility as an opportunity to create an environment that links past, present and future generations of Duke basketball.

“It’s really nice to get those guys to come back, and then they practice with our kids,” Alieva said. “It helps to pass down the culture and the good work ethic that they haye, so we really want to encourage them to do that.”

Before construction can begin, Duke must receive pledges for the entire $l5million cost of the project, Alieva said.

Duke’s Board of Trustees has given approval to continue to plan and raise funds for the facility, and Alieva said he hopes the project will be approved for construction at the Board’s February meetings.

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dolph has been working hard in Philadelphia to get his body in shape to try and avoid the injuries and illnesses that plagued him during his time in Durham.

The 6-foot-10 forward said he has focused on honing his perimeter game and regaining his quickness.

“He’s looked good,” 76ers President and General Manager Billy King said. “The one thing that he has that most big guys don’t have is a great skill level. He can handle it, he can shoot it, and all I’ve asked him to do is rebound, play defense and play hard.”

King added that Randolph will likely make the Philadelphia roster. Under the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, NBA teams are allowed to keep 12 players on their active roster and between one and three additional inactive players.

Teams can also send two of those players to the National Basketball Development League —the NBA’s minor league —provided they are in either their first or second year.

If he makes the roster, Randolph would make at least the league minimum of $398,762 in his rookie season. The terms of his contract have not been disclosed.

“Shav’s done a great job, he’s been up in Philadelphia for most of the summer, and he’s worked hard every day,” King said. “It’s his spot to lose, and I think he’s earned it up to this point, but now he can’t relax.”

Many of the other Sixers’ players, including forward Kyle Korver, echoed King’s sentiments and praised Randolph for his recent play and strong work ethic.

But forward Michael Bradley, who is entering his fifth season in the NBA, said Randolph’s batde has just begun.

“Right down on the bottom man, you got to start there and work your way up,” Bradley said. “I mean I was a first round draft pick, and I hardly ever played....

He’ll probably have to start at the bottom and work through everything to get up the ladder.”

King’s announcement that Randolph would likely make the roster at the start of training camp Tuesday was both apropos and vindicating for the former Blue Devil.

“I knew I could do it, and so many people told me that I couldn’t and I wouldn’t,” Randolph said. “I’m here, I’m doing what people said I wouldn’t be able to do, I have no regrets.”

Though he may not have secondguessed his decision, Randolph said there is still much that he misses now that he is no longer a Blue Devil. Randolph said he misses his interaction with teammates and the wisdom of the coaching staff most ofall. “[I miss] the camaraderie with the guys and hanging out and just that fellowship with them and going into war,” Randolph said. “Duke’s always going to be the best, so’ everyone wants to come after you, so just having a bond because of that.”

Several Blue Devils were quick to welcome their friend and former teammate back to campus with a good-hearted prank.

While Randolph was settling in at Cameron Indoor Stadium, they moved his belongings into the bathroom instead of the locker room, he said.

King, the 1988 National Defensive Player of the Year, knows about the strong relationship between past and present Blue Devils, having played for Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski from 1985-1988.

“Everybody that’s played here, it’s a special place for all of us,” King said. “Once you’re part of the Duke family, you’re always part of the Duke family.”

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After leaving Duke for the NBA, Randolph said he misses the companionship of his teammates and coaches.

WHITE SOX from page,o dropped to 10-4 in his postseason career.

The series moves to Boston for Game 3 on Friday, with Tim Wakefield facing Freddy Garcia, and the World Series champions needing a win to avoid a quick end to their tide defense.

“They’re not going to quit,” White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski said. “They’ve been down 2-0 before; they’ve been down 3-0 before. They’re not going to go away. We’ve got to find away to win one more game and it’s not going to be easy in Boston.”

The Red Sox have won eight of their last nine games when facing elimination, including an unprecedented four straight after trailing the New York Yankees 3-0 in the AL championship series. Boston ran off eight in a row to beat the Yankees and then sweep the St. Louis Cardinals for their

first World Series crown since 1918.

They appeared to start the game off right when they scored two runs in the first inning and two more in the third to take a 4-0 lead against AL All-Star starter Mark Buehrle.

But everything fell apart in the fifth.

Carl Everett singled and scored when Aaron Rowand doubled into the left-field comer, then Joe Crede bounced a single through the infieldwith one out to make it 4-2. Juan Uribe hit a slow bouncer to second base for a potential double play, but Graffanino let it roll through his legs.

He went to the mound and gave Wells a pat on the back. Wells responded in kind.

But after Scott Podsednik fouled out to third base, Iguchi homered to give Chicago a 5-4 lead.

“That’s a huge play right there,” Graffanino said. “He hit the homer and I felt like the game turned in their direction. It’s completely my fault.”

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'Oops' isn't enough Student Govern- participating members of the ment’s latest snafu committee charged with makneeds a lot more than a ing recommendations to enconfessional“oops.” Through a hance undergraduate life. In short, theserepreseries of grave misStaffedltoriai sentatives are inlcommunications portant. and some decepThe potential impact these tion, DSG—led by President Jesse Longoria —excluded sev- students could have is why DSG ought to have made a concerteral undergraduate applicants to ed effort to open up applicaconsidered from being fairly serve as representatives on the tions for these spots. While Undergraduate Experience DSG retains the technical power to appoint whomever it Task Force.

Sept. 12, Longoria and a wishes to committees it is small DSG committee offered charged with filling, an application process open to the full three students positions as offistudent body increases the likecial representatives on a Dukeadministration task force that lihood that the most apt stuwill consider the pros, cons and dents are chosen. But only a transparent and fair process enplan for the future of undergraduate life. These student sures that all appointed posirepresentatives are charged tions are not assigned through with conveying undergraduate DSG cronyism.

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Sept. 13, Longoria sent out an e-mail to the student body soliciting applications for a variety of University committees; one of them was the Undergraduate Experience Task Force. The problem? These committee slots were already filled. The application process was phony. Longoria said the email was a mistake. A myriad of other mistakes and miscommunications plagued the administration as it worked with DSG to find students for this task force; in light of these errors, Longoria’s claim is entirely plausible.

But it does not excuse what came next.

In response to the e-mail, several students applied to DSG for a slot on the Undergraduate Experience Task Force.

They wrote essays and came in for 15-minute interviews with a DSG appointments committee, which included Longoria, senior Chris Chin and junior George Fleming.

No one told the students that the positions they had applied for were filled. Instead, the students were considered for a different University committee. This part is more than a minor bungling. It’s a fiasco.

Fleming, who is DSG president pro tempore, attempted to downplay the fumble. Only five students, he said, were affected by the mistake. But the few students who applied for the position are only a small slice of the student body who should feel cheated by the process. With a closed application process, the variety of opinions and diversity of perspectives offered to the committee is diminished.

The administration had to send DSG back once to appoint a female student. Perhaps such an issue would not have occurred if there had been a fair applicant pool.

The lack of disclosure to the students who applied is more troubling. It is one thing for an organization to make a mistake but another thing entirely to try to hide it. DSG’s failure to tell the candidates the positions were filled calls into question its ability to represent students with honesty.

Someone should have to compensate for these errors by doing more than simply admitting there was a mistake made.

This community needs a sincere apology. And perhaps this event should call into question whether DSG is the right group to choose students for University committees.

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found themselves floundering at the size-six shoes of another stealth Supreme Court nominee. The Democrats’ leader in the Senate, Harry Reid, called Miers

“very personable”

eral courts take up—but it has the awesome potential of sending CSPAN’s ratings sky-high. It also carries with it the added bonus of keeping all you justices awake, kicking and motivated to render

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and “a very fine lawyer,” while Republican Senate Majority Leader Frist’s effusive endorsement clashed with conservative editor Bill Kristol’s lamentations that he was “demoralized” by Bush’s “weakness” for not choosing a candidate more in the conservative mold of Scalia or Thomas.

In other words, time plus two days after the Miers nomination feels a lot like the first days after the feel-good Roberts emerged two months ago. And if this similarity is' any indication of how the next eight weeks will unfold before Miers comes up for a full Senate vote, then we’re in for a yawn.

Unfortunately, I fear this time around will have the feel of deja vu all over again unless the Judiciary Committee comes up with some questions Miers may actually be willing to answer. Hey, if Mier’s confirmation is all-but-certain (barring some major scandal), then we might as well make the process entertaining.

Question #1: Do you support making Supreme Court cases more entertaining for the public?

I ask because the Court begins its new session with a doozy—Ana Nicole Smith’s decade-long crusade to get her late (and very old) husband’s fortune. Granted, the legal merits of the case are pretty mundane—what cases should fed-

intelligent, thought-provoking decisions in the

future.

Frankly, the last few have been snoozers. Would-

n’t you agree?

Question #2: Do you believe that a dog is a man’s best friend?

The president, with whom you seem to have an unflinching loyalty, has described you as a pit bull.

We all know about the president’s fondness for dogs, and his premium on loyalty among friends. Are you the ultimate combination—a loyal canine in human form? (Be careful now, as tempting as a “yes” might be, some could use such a response as evidence of cronyism playing a role in your nomination. Though a “no” would insult the president.)

Question #3: On a more serious note, are you a little man conservative or a little government conservative? I ask because, as I’m sure you are aware, the Supreme Court recently ruled in Kelo v.

New London that the town of New London, Conn., could ex-

propriate non-blighted private property for private development, a questionable use of the government’s power ofeminent domain.

Interestingly, the so-called liberals on the bench sided with the town, while Scalia, Thomas, O’Connor and Rehnquist supported the little guys. But aren’t conservatives for local rights and local decisionmaking? What is a conservative, anyway? You’d help everyone out by explaining that one in today’s

political jumble It would also be nice to hear how your views on property rights jive with free music downloading those clever kids keep taking advantage of. If it helps to know, you’ll be real popular with the Gen Ys if you fudge the property rights issue just this one time.

Question #4: Who frightens you more, David Souter or Antonin Scalia? Souter has a calm, deliberative demeanor that sometimes conceals the liberal disease he caught somewhere along the way. I’m sure you’ve heard that your steeliness as a conservative is in question, and hanging around Souter could be dangerous. It’s not so bad to switch parties once, as you did, but to go from Democrat to Republican and then back to Democrat again makes categorizing you really difficult.

On the other hand, Scalia has that foaming-at-the-mouth, hell-

hath-no-fury-like-an-Evangelical-

on-a-rampage rabidness that could raise fears of intra-court cannibalism to someone not accustomed to such a strong personality. You also have to watch out for Scalia’s opposition to encoding women’s rights into law, a position he defends precisely because a majority of Americans supports such a movement. In cases like these, you’ll have to dig deep to reconcile your inner woman and your inner conservative.

In any event, soon-to-be Judge Miers, I hope we can count on your answers to these innocuous questions. We don’t know anything about your judicial philosophy, why we should consider you qualified to serve on the highest court in the land or how your loyalty to the president may shape your career on the court. Why not at least tell us whose dog you are?

Jared Fish is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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falo Chicken sandwich. The cashier, obviously unaware that this selection was not available, wrote down the order anyway, I stepped up next to order the “Classic Hearty Ruben,”[sic] my personal mz favorite. In the middle of my ordering, the manager—or someone with better knowledge than the

It is actually a brilliant idea having a 24/7 diner at the bottom of McClendon Tower, particularly for those living in Edens. Duke students on West Campus cashier—interrupted to get hungry in the early tell me that they could only hours of the morning, and make a Reuben with all the food you need is just jdlTlie dCdl turkey.

(Make that eight a short walk away. But poor strat items Rick’s was not offerservice has taken away from the convenience Rick’s loing that evening.) He also cation provides, leaving customers like me took the opportunity to tell my friend the speculating whether a drive (or even a news about the Buffalo Chicken sandwich, Because I’m not too picky with my food, walk) to Cosmic Cantina would have been I went ahead and ordered the Turkey quicker and more rewarding.

My friends and I wondered just that last Reuben, and so did another friend with us. weekend, when after several hours of hit- The friend who wanted the Buffalo Chicken ting the books for midterms we went to get sandwich, now visibly irritated for having to a quick bite to eat at Rick’s. When I got order again, went ahead and chose a Chickthere, the first thing I noticed (other than en Caesar wrap instead. After a tedious 20 the two or three employees always smoking minutes of waiting, the two Turkey Reubens outside) was a sheet of paper taped to the were prepared and ready to eat—or so the cash register. The employees had posted cook claimed. What he presented us was what Rick’s was not offering that evening, not a Turkey Reuben, but rather some sort and that amounted to seven different of wrap with turkey thrown on it and mayitems —a large percentage of the entrees, onnaise squirted all over the place. Now I This list has become the norm for Rick’s, think there was lettuce in there, but it but one ofmy friends, oblivious to that sort looked like guacamole and chopped of thing, did not see it and ordered the Buf- onions—it was probably just a mix of what~

ever condiments the cook threw in there.

When I eat out, I feel uncomfortable complaining about meals. But my friend will not hesitate to do so. He glanced at the turkey wrap and immediately said to the cook, “This, my good sir, is not a Turkey Reuben!” (He may not have used those

end night, when we were all in a rush to get some studying done, Rick’s took about an hour and 15 minutes. Plus, the sandwiches were nothing to write home about Rick’s, which most recendy ranked 18 out of 20 in a student satisfaction survey, needs to clean up its act in several ways beexact words.) cause right now the service is too In response, the cook asked poor and too Kick S, which most recently what a Turkey slow for a restauReuben was i created for ranked 18 out of 20 in a student rant Ihe convenience. It repeat: cook asked my satisfaction survey, needs to clean needs to make friend how to an effort to serve U 115 aci m severai several wavs waY s because Decause do his job.

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If Rick’s does not do these things, stulightly battered....” The Rick’s cook, now informed how to make a “Rick’s Reuben,” dents will gradually realize that other opoffered to remake the sandwiches, to tions—even off-campus ones—are quicker which my friend and I agreed. and more worthwhile. The bottom of McOf course, the re-making of the Turkey Clendon Tower is too great a location for a Reuben sandwiches took another 20 min- poorly run restaurant to occupy, utes, and by the time we got them, our friend who ordered the Chicken Caesar Jamie Deal is a Trinity sophomore. His colwrap had finished his meal. So on that week- umn runs every other Thursday. ...

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Flushing seum of Art to the Nasher I could easily fault them all for being uncultured swine, given their Museum as “tremendous” —and the opporlukewarm reaction to my evening plans. But tunities the new space affords doubly so.

But bringing culture to this campus is the truth is, they aren’t. I’ve watched them a problem solved by simply building a Aunot go to concerts or attend lectures in Page ditorium. I’ve seen them make time for $24-million facility. The real issue comes in French cinema in Reynolds. They’ve been making this sleek, posh new museum—in After years of planning, the new Nasher Museum of Art opened to the local community Sunday. to Awaaz, to the Vagina Monologues, to the which the likes of Andy Warhol, Auguste Rodin and Henri Matisse are currently galleries—a huge accomplishment in only mouth publicity by holding events for stustep shows and to Hoof ‘n’ Horn producdents. The aesthetics and the roominess stashed—translate into a sleek, posh new two years. tions. function of the great hall, Schroth says, are what to be popAnd Nasher’s must it seek though primary arts scene.

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We But the visual arts? Forget but it is as a University museum, Schroth’s hopes make it appealing for nightlife. Book signmight have our token galleries—the ular with students in a social sense,educaextend beyond the Gothic confines. The ings or guest speakers? Exhibition openfunction as an also fulfill its Brown gallery in the Bryan Center or a few must ing parties? Lectures on the brooding namuseum will play host to a “very importional tool—all while a upholding strong showing spaces in Perkins Library. Still, ture of Rothko’s abstract expressionism? tant” exhibition of Chinese contemporary and international reputhere is nothing cool or popular about regional, national the near future, as well as Think it up, pitch the idea, and they just like in museums, photography university tation.

Other going to an art gallery on this campus critically acclaimed set of experimental might listen. and honestly, if the options are limited to Harvard’s Fogg Museum of Art, will soon a Will everyone trade yee-haw drunken videos

by Eve Sussman. “They’re very cutbecome our peers. stills and prints in the BC-tumed-ghostrevelry at Shooter’s for goat-cheese crostiNew York, and they’re comvery ting-edge, sweat, No right? town, there’s no reason viewing visual arts Indeed. Schroth will point out steps ing here first,” Schroth said, “Because how ni, chardonnay and an artfully displayed should be popular. I’ve never had friends set of Guatemalan textiles? No, not everyto do all of you earn that great reputation in the art tell me they spent their Thursday, Friday or that the museum is taking exhibione. But the beauty of Nasher is that it’s roundtabling with a world is by organizing your own Saturday night in the Perkins lobby, look- these things—from first.” an option—one that stands poised to to tions allowing kids, student advisory board ing at the mini-collection of out an increasingly one-dimensional flesh Well, to la-di-da. at large and learners eager professors books that were displayed there. that the beloved sasocial scene.

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Nah. I’d take the mechanical bull over study the entire dam classy, if you ask me.

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