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Judicial affairs lays down rules Dean Bryan says off-campus crimes fall under Duke's purview Ashley Dean THE CHRONICLE

Art museums host parties, security hassles by Leslie

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A priceless painting, one ofmany, lies in state at the National Gallery ofArt in Washington, D.C. Across its canvas are layers of paint, detailed brushstrokes—and splattered drops of Coca-Cola. It’s not modem art, and it’s not the beginning of Dan Brown’s latest novel. It’s just one of several “astounding” incidents Martha Blakeslee witnessed during her time as a registrar at the National Gallery. “Someone threw a Coca-Cola at a painting for some reason,” she said. “They must have gotten mad at that particular painting.” Soda-tossing philistines are not the only threat to valuable collections. As museums nationwide draw visitors to galleries with glitzy special events, some struggle to balance art enjoyment with art preservation. The Nasher Museum of Art is no exception, and since its opening last year the museum has used swanky parties to draw in students and foster art appreciation. “It’s designed to be a classy cultural experience,” said Nasher Student Advisory Board Co-Chair Anne-Marie Angelo, a graduate student studying history. “We want to get people in the door who might not otherwise; come to the museum.” And come they have—in droves. Angelo said 2,000 students came to the first of two SEE NASHER ON PAGE 7

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The Nasher Museum of Art hosts evening events to draw students to its galleries but must take extra precautions to protect its artwprk.

Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of judicial affairs, verified that Duke can and will punish students for many legal violations that occur off campus at a Duke Student Government meeting Wednesday night. “There’s a difference between criminal conduct and University expectations,” Bryan said. “There is an obligation of the University to develop moral citizens.” Bryan clarified that students charged with crimes around Durham orat Dukemustmeetwith theU ndergraduateJudicialßoard. Off-campus charges are punished by the court system in addition to the University, but oncampus citations are generally dealt with only through the Judicial affairs, whose worst possible punishment is expulsion, he said. Bryan highlighted the necessity of University sanctions. “I don’t know about you, but I don’t think I’d want to go to class with someone who is a convicted shoplifter,” he said. “I go to the bathroom and I come back and my laptop is gone.” Bryan noted that despite student concern, Judicial Affairs PETER

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Judicialaffairs confirmed Wednesday it can and will sanction studentsfor off-campus violations.

Law prof challenges Bush by

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Madeline Morris, professor at Duke law school, will challenge a White House bill that would further expand the president’s wartime power if passed. Morris, a lead defense counsel at the Office of Military Commissions in the Department of Defense, is currendy championing legislative efforts against the bill, which would legitimize White House specifications for trying suspected terrorists. “What the Bush Administration is seeking to do is have Congress enact by legislation a system that previously existed by executive order,” Morris said. “It isn’t the case that just because you get congressional approval, it means that anything you do is okay.” The bill was proposed in reaction to the Supreme Court’s June 29 ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that the president lacked the authority to establish military commissions. Morris heads a group known as the Guantanamo Defense Clinic, currendy composed of 15 law students at Duke. Now in its third semester of operation, the clinic works to assist the lead defense counsel of detainees. The clinic also seeks to provide hands-on

experience for law students often restricted to theory in their classes. “This is something that’s happening now. It’s an opportunity to be a part of a historical process, and that’s really what’s exciting about it,” thirdyear law student Christopher Murray, a member of the Guantanamo Defense Clinic, told WUNC in a radio interview Tuesday. “It’s moving from the theoretical to the practical.” For right now, Morris said the clinic is mainly working legislatively She said the clinic’s main activities have included drafting, re-drafting and lobbying legislation, in addition to responding to White House proposals for the bill. “Once [the military] commissions get up and running again, then we’ll be back in litigation SEE GUANTANAMO ON PAGE 7

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65 bodies found in Baghdad

Student dies in Montreal shooting by

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MONTREAL A young man in a black trench coat and a mohawk haircut opened fire Wednesday at a Montreal college, slaying a woman and wounding at least 19 other people before police shot and killed him, witnesses and authorities said. Police dismissed suggestions that terrorism played a role in the lunch-hour attack at Dawson College, where scores of panicked students fled into the streets after the shooting began. Some had clothes stained with blood; others cried and clung to each other. Two nearby shopping centers and a daycare center also were evacuated.

“I was terrified. The guy was shooting at people randomly. He didn’t care, he was just shooting at everybody,” said student Devansh Smri Vastava. “There were cops firing. It was so crazy.” Witnesses said the attacker started firing outside the college before walking in the front door. Much of the shooting was in the second-floor cafeteria, where students dropped to the floor and lay in terror. At times the gunman hid behind vending machines before emerging to take aim—at one point at a teenager who tried to photograph him with his cell phone. Teachers ran through the halls, telling everyone to get out of the building.

Police rushed to the scene, hiding behind a wall as they exchanged fire with the gunman, whose back was against a vending machine, said student Andrea Barone, who was in the cafeteria. He said Che officers proceeded cautiously because many students were trapped around the assailant, who yelled “Get back! Get back!” every time an officer tried to move closer. Eventually, Barone said, the gunman went down in hail of gunfire. Police Sgt. Francois Dore said that the attacker was a 25-year-old man from the Montreal area, but he did not provide a name or any further details about the man.

Bush, GOP clash on CIA legislation by Anne Flaherty THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON The White House and three powerful GOP senators reached an impasse Wednesday over a plan by George W. Bush’s administration to allow tough Central Intelligence Agency interrogations, underscoring election-season divisions among Republicans on the high profile issue of security. In a direct challenge to President Bush, Sen. John Warner, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said his panel would meet Thursday to finalize an alternative to the White House plan to prosecute terror

suspects and redefine acts that constitute war crimes. Warner, R-Va., said the administration proposal would lower the standard for the treatment of prisoners, potentially putting United States troops at risk should other countries retaliate. The White House said Warner’s proposal would undermine the U.S.’s ability to interrogate prisoners and set up a conference call for reporters in which the nation’s top intelligence official criticized the plan. “If this draft legislation were passed in its present form, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency has told me that he did not believe that the (interrogation)

program could go forward,” National Intelligence Director John Negroponte said. The unusually public dispute between the White House and the senators comes as Republicans face a robust Democratic challenge this November for control in

Congress.

The GOP is trying to sell voters on its stance on national security, and Bush has said legislation allowing him to prosecute insurgents is a key component to winning the war. The dispute echoed last year’s showdown between Bush and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

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The leader of Iraq's biggest Sunni Arab group demanded Wednesday that the beleaguered Shiite-led government take steps to disarm militias after police said the bodies of 65 tortured men were dumped in and around Baghdad.

Missing boy's mom kills self

Two weeks after telling police that her son had been snatched from his crib, Melinda Duckett found herself reeling in an interview with TV's famously prosecutorial Nancy Grace, The TV personality grilled Duckett, who was found dead Wednesday, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Gov't slow in beating obesity

One-fifth of children are likely to be obese by 2010, but efforts to turn that tide are scattershot and underfunded, and the government kilted one of the few programs proven to work, specialists said Wednesday.

Houston, Brown to separate

The tumultuous 14-year marriage of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown—which withstood drug addiction, Brown's numerous arrests, the decline of Houston's oncesparkling image and domestic abuse allegations—is coming to an end. News briefs compiled from wire reports "Cafe latte. Twist of lemon. Sweet ’n low." Boondock Saints

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DPU hosts forum on Iraq war BY ZakKaZZAZ THE CHRONICLE

As press coverage continues to surround the war in Iraq, the Duke Political Union held a forum Wednesday night entitled “Voices from Battlefield Iraq” in which five speakers detailed their opinions on Iraq. Junior Aaron Johnson and sophomore Oliver Sherouse, members ofDPU’s board of governors, organized the event with sponsorship from a number of campus organizations. “[The forum] is an idea we’ve had for a long time and it definitely covers an important concept,” Johnson said. “War is too often made an abstraction. The idea’s to put some kind of human face on the war and violence. Until you can view that on a first-hand basis, you can’t comprehend the war.” The panel members included: Patrick Campbell, Air Force medic and national reservist; Chuck Hodges, an Army lieutenant colonel; Abdul Sattar Jawad, a former professor and department head at University of Baghdad and a current Duke professor; Kimberly Olson, an Air Force colonel and author of “Iraq and Back: Inside the War to Win the Peace”; and Father Matthew Clark, a military

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Panel members began by detailing their personal experiences and views and continued into an open dialogue

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NC schools make time for Pledge Students not required to recite allegiance by

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to Duke medical school, 30 of whom—or nearly 18 percent—were admitted, Kay Singer, associate dean of Trinity College ofArts and Sciences and director of the Health Professions Advising Center, wrote in an e-mail. Although only about 4 percent of total applicants are accepted to the medical school, Singer said the figure does not indicate that undergraduates are given preference when applying to Duke medicalschool.

North Carolina public school students found a new activity on their daily schedules when they arrived at school this year. Thanks to a law ratified in July, public schools are required to allot time for the Pledge of Allegiance every day. Classrooms now must display the United States and North Carolina flags at all times. The previous law only encouraged both the recitation of the Pledge and the display of the flags but did not make it mandatory. The law states that schools must allow time for the Pledge—individual students are not required to say it. “These policies shall not compel any person to stand, salute the flag or recite the Pledge of Allegiance,” the bill states. Almost immediately after the bill was ratified, questions of its constitutionality arose. In the past, bills requiring the Pledge of Allegiance have been challenged in federal court. “In order for a law of this type to be considered constitutional, the bill must make it clear that students are free to join in or refrain from saying the Pledge of Allegiance,” said Jane Wettach, clinical professor at the School of Law, who teaches a seminar on educational law. Several groups have protested reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in schools because of the religious connotation of the phrase “under God.” Jehovah’s Witnesses famously have refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance because of their religious belief to pledge allegiance only to God and not to the state.

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Four Experts on the war in Iraq discuss thefuture of the battle atthe SanfordInstitute Wednesday night. with audience members. Throughout the forum, which approximately 30 students attended, every speaker said it was important for American forces to remain in Iraq for a significant amount of time. U.S. intervention presents the only feasible option for eventual peace in Iraq, they argued.

“The actuality now is pressing us for a solution,” Jawad said. “Any swift removal of American troops will cause more chaos. We need to increase instead of decrease.” The speakers’ varied perspectives gave a breadth of information regarding SEE

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mates, said she is unsure of the advantage that an undergraduate Duke education

Before sophomore Maya Salwen ever arrived on campus, she knew she wanted to go to medical school. Like many Duke undergraduates, Salwen is considering Duke’s School ofMedicine as one ofher options. “I’ve heard that [Duke medical school] is one of the top schools in the country,” Salwen said. “They have a unique structure unlike other medical schools.” But Salwen, like many of her class-

will give her in the application process. She said she was concerned that medical school officials may be looking for students from other universities to increase their student diversity. “I don’t think the admissions staff will discredit me, but I don’t think [coming from Duke] will help either’” Salwen said. Of the 119 Duke seniors who applied to medical school in 2005, about 89 percent were accepted nationwide. In the same year, 169 Duke under-

graduates and alumni applied

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Students get paid to be research guinea pigs by

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Sophomore Breanna Gawrys estisigned up for more than 30 paid research studies during her first

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hair loss, she had bruises for two weeks after having her blood drawn. Sophomore Daniel Shankle, who regularly participates in research studies that involve minimal exertion and virtually no health risks, estimated that he has earned about

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time soon. “It’s cash,” “I don’t like “If they felt [the compensation] she explains needles,” Shankle What began said. was unreasonable for the discomas a mandatory At the Center fort caused by the experiment, the requirement for for Hyperbaric Medicine and EnGawrys’ psycholexperiment would not be allowed.” vironmental Physogy class has now become a regu—Neal Pollock iology, Research lar part of her Associate Neal Research Associate Pollock is conweekly schedule. Every year, ducting one of students like the more involved Gawrys spend dozens ofhours and receive research projects on campus now. The Diving Research Study is a U.S. anywhere between $lO and $1,200 for participating in the research studies. Gawrys Navy-sponsored effort to determine whether diving accidents have occurred joked that the experiments serve as a substitute for work study, and estimates that because of a high concentration of carshe had made up to $l,OOO already. bon dioxide in the blood. The Center for Cognitive NeuroDuring the study, the venous and artescience currendy conducts tests that last rial blood of participants is monitored between 45 and 90 minutes involving while they exercise in a swimming pool puzzles, memory studies and visual and which is inside a hyperbaric chamber. But the compensation for the Diving spatial tests. In addition, the center is currently Study is considerable. Participants are hosting a more-involved study in which paid $3O for the initial health screen, and participants perform cognitive tasks $270 for each experiment done in the while in an MRI machine for one to hyperbaric chamber. They can receive up two hours. to $1,200 for their time and energy. The Fuqua School of Business conducts To ensure safety, all research studies brief studies that involve filling out surveys must be thoroughly evaluated by overseeand answering questions on a computer. ing review boards. “If they felt [the compensation] was Gawrys said she usually signs up for one such test every week. unreasonable for the discomfort caused Although she has had her blood by the experiment, the experiment drawn during two invasive tests, Gawrys would not be allowed,” Pollock said. said she tries to avoid the more intense, This semester, Gawrys said she hopes and generally more lucrative, studies. to make a little bit more cash by helping to conduct research studies. But she said “I haven’t done any drug trials because they’re dangerous,” Gawrys said. she’s always on the lookout for a research She noted that in a clinical study of study opening. ■■

Army ROTC cadets must decide after their freshman years whether to commit to the U.S. Army for four years.

ROTC cadets face early signature dilemma by

Steven Chartan THE CHRONICLE

Many incoming students wouldn’t think to sign up for four years of active duty in the military, but freshman Sean Quinn, a scholarship cadet in the Army Reserve Officer’s Training Corps, has done just that. “[ROTC] is a big commitment,” Quinn said. “It’s something you definitely have to think about, but I’ve... wanted to do it my whole life.” This year, 39 cadets comprise the Army ROTC in the joint program between North Carolina Central University and Duke. Taken as an elective curriculum, ROTC allows a student to graduate from college as a second lieutenant in the Army. The student must then serve in active duty, the Army Reserve or the National Guard for a certain amount of time. A student on scholarship must sign a contract by sophomore year, and students not on scholarship may wait until junior year. Scholarship recipients, who apply as

high school students, receive full tuitionand academic fees. Once a student signs, that student also receives a monthly stipend. Of cadets who received a scholarship when they came to Duke as freshmen, 95 percent complete the program. In comparison, 85 percent of non-scholarship cadets go on to military service after graduation.

Students and faculty have cited a number of motivations for entering into a contract with the ROTC program. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hodges, chair of Duke’s Military Science Program, said that the average student is motivated by “the sense of service and wanting to serve the country.” Students said they were motivated in particular by the scholarship opportunities offered by the program. For others who are similarly determined to contract, additional obstacles exist. “Parents probably play the biggest obstacle [for students] to contract,” Hodges said. SEE ROTC ON PAGE 8

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ing that 12 students have already been transported to the hospital this semester for excessive alcohol consumption. does not go out ofits way to punish students In the 2005-06 academic year, 46 stuwho have already been punished by the dents were admitted to the emergency deDurham courts. “The University is not partment for alcohol-related incidents. searching for or waiting for things to happen Affairs also deals with fake idenJudicial off campus,” said sendfication, fire ior Jimmy Soni, DSG safety, drug use vice president for aca‘You are contractually owned and academic demic affairs. “This is dishonesty. Last not a witch hunt.” by Duke University.... I don’t year, 62 stuDSG President Eldents were acthink that’s consistent with liott Wolf, a junior, cused of cheathowever, said judicial what Duke’s done in the past.” ing, and 12 affairs’ policy to punultimately Elliott Wolf were ish off-campus crimes suspended, that have already President, DSG Bryan said. He been adjudicated is acknowledged unfair. that despite the ‘You are contracnumber of viotually owned by Duke University,” he said lations, fewer than 10 percent of students acafter the meeting, adding that students tually commit transgressions that require Judon’t have a say in University regulations. dicialBoard attention. Wolf said he didn’t think the policy is in In an additional presentation, Judith the best interest of an academic institution Ruderman, vice provost for academic ador the education process. ministrative services, shared the results of “I don’t think that’s consistent with the 2005-2006 survey on academic integriwhat Duke’s done in the past,” Wolf said. ty in undergraduate life. He blamed complaints from Durham resiThe results indicated a decline in aldents for the increase in sanctions and most all forms of academic dishonesty, noted that the DSG constitution currendy though two areas of continued concern states that judicial action should not be are unauthorized collaboration and falsisubject to community pressure. fied lab data. Wolf sent Bryan a memo Tuesday op“Duke is a research institution,” Soni posing the regulations, but said he believes said. “These numbers absolutely have to change is not imminent. “The University go down.” He noted, however, that the controls the judicial process,” Wolf said. numbers have improved almost by half ‘We’ll obviously keep working on loosensince 2000. ing the noose around everyone’s neck, but at the same time they control it.” In other business: Bryan also spoke of other violations The DSG Senate unanimously voted to that fall under the purview of the Judicial allocate $2,600 from the Student Activities Board. The majority of cases the board Surplus Fund to bring the band OfMontrehears are alcohol related, he noted, stat- al to campus at the end ofSeptember. from page 1

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The Career Center held an information session Wednesday to discuss some falsehoods about the job world.

Career Center debunks job, internship myths Lucee Zhang THE CHRONICLE

Why is the belief that underclassmen can’t get internships like Bigfoot? Both are myths Four panelists from the Career Center hosted a discussion entitled “Exposing Top 10 Career Myths” and offered advice and explained the resources available to students seeking guidance on life after Duke. Although only four students made it to the East Union Building for the panel Wednesday night, the speakers remained unfazed, and the event continued as planned. “We just want to let [students] know that we’re there for them as a resource at all stages of their career development,” said Career Advisor Abby Vargas. “We’re not just there for certain students at cer-

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tain times, but we’re there for all.” Joining Vargas on the panel were three member of the Career Advising Team: sophomore Sabrina Chaudhury, sophomore Willie Du and sophomore Clay Duva. Discussion centered around the top-10 myths and concerns that Duke students have about finding a job. The myths included; “majoring in a subject without direct, practical application will make you unemployed;” “you don’t need to bother and can’t get an internship until the summer after your junior year;” “an internship has to be paid and in the field you think you will go into;” “networking is sleazy and only really outgoing people can do it well;” and “all Duke students know what they want to do after graduation and stick SEE MYTHS ON PAGE 8

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PRE-MED from page 3 “You really can’t compare this number,” she said. “It is important to recognize 'that 139 [Duke graduates] who applied did not get in.” Of the 30 students accepted in 2005,13 chose to attend and now comprise 13 percent of the first-year class. Liza McClellan, Trinity ’O6 and nowa first-year student at Duke medical school, said, however, that she feels that applying as a Duke graduate benefited her. “For me it helped,” McClellan said. “Most of my recommendations were from people in the medical school, and I believe that worked to my advantage.” Singer also emphasized that the.health professions advising at Duke does not give preference to Duke medical school and works with students applying to medical schools across the country. “I believe the Health Professions Advising Center does a good job in advising Duke students who apply

health professions schools,” Singer said. “We don’t, however, tailor our advising to particular medical schools, including Duke Med.” Mike Lee, Trinity ’O6, who gained acceptance to Duke medical school but now attends Washington University School of Medicine, also said his Duke background worked to his advantage. “I do feel applying to Duke Med as a Duke undergraduate helped because I was more familiar with the community,” Lee said. “But whether it played a part in a more concrete or quantifiable way, I’m not sure.” Lee also added that although the health profession services at Duke are helpful, there are no guarantees. “It’s still an admissions process, and medical school admissions is random,” he said. Despite the low number of acceptances and often daunting application process, McClellan said a Duke education prepares students for applying to medical schools. “Duke is very difficult,” she said. “Ifyou make it through, you have a good chance of getting in.” to

PLEDGE from page 3 More recently, atheists have challenged similar laws on the grounds that the recitation of the Pledge in schools may promote different beliefs than what children may experience at home. No case has yet come before the United States Supreme Court, but several cases are working through the court system at the moment, Wettach said. “It will take a few years, but eventually a law similar to the one just passed in North Carolina will come before the Supreme Court,” Wettach said. The new law has resulted in an acute shortage of flags. Hardware and the two flags for each classroom can cost up to $623, The Herald-Sun reported Sunday. Currently, organizations like the American Legion are providing flags for many areas of the state. “Administrators of individual schools are handling the shortage of flags at schools right now,” said Heidi Carter, a member of the Board of Education for Durham County Public Schools. “This could be a serious problem, especially the North Carolina flags, because I know that there aren’t enough of those to go around.” Teachers have resorted to drawing flags on the board or having the class face in the general direction of the school’s flag, she added. State Senator Martin Nesbitt introduced the original version of the bill, initially entitled “An Act to Establish the Customized Industry Training Program.” It assumed its current form only after it was sent to the education subcommittee, where the proposal was reworked extensively. The bill was passed into law this past July with only one dissenting vote and 27 votes in favor. “There actually wasn’t an overwhelming majority of congressmen who supported the law,” said Jan Lee, Nesbitt’s legislative secretary in Raleigh. “But since it was inspired by a high school student in the area, and it was set to take effect right around the anniversary of 9/11, both representatives and senators felt that it would be unpatriotic to vote against it.”

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parties held last year. Two-thirds of the freshman class, 1,100 students, attended a freshman-only party held during orientation. Museum Director Kimerly Rorschach said the Nasher takes precautions during special events to protect the artworks, like roping off statues and not serving red wine. “We’re very cautious and security con- r scious,” she said. “We do want to do engaging and interesting and fun events, but we need to always strike the balance between fun and protecting the facility.” The museum places between four to five security guards in each of their three pavilions during parties, Angelo added. Despite these measures, however, the Nasher’s soirees are not always incident-free. At the orientation party, a student nearly knocked over a statue, only to recover it at the last moment, said sophomore Moe Boggan, who works as a security guard. Boggan, who was not working that night, explained that for the most part, visitors are respectful of the art and understanding when he stops them from entering the galleries with food or drinks. “I haven’t had any altercations,” he MICHAEL CHANG/THE CHRONICLE said. “Mosdy people are nice, and say The Nasher Museum of Art hosts parties but has had to deal with rising insurance costs to protect its art. thanks after we talk to them.” Museum officials admit large crowds um grapevine back to Durham present a risk, but say the benefits of gen“We would never hold an event focused erating interest in the Nasher outweigh the hassles of taking extra precautions. around alcohol, like Martinifest,” Contemporary art insurance rates “There’s definitely risk involved, but in Rorschach said, explaining that the Nasher have increased 17.7% per year over terms of the museum’s partnership with is careful to regulate guests’ consumption. the University, the benefits are really Both Angelo and Boggan said drinking at the last five years the museum’s parties is generally moderate. strong and important,” Angelo said. “StuAverage art insurance premiums dents are the museum’s target audience.” “People don’t generally come to the are about $l5 per year per Alcohol is available at most of the NashNasher to get drunk,” Boggan added. sl,ooo—a premium that is quickly er’s evening events, but the added ambiSo far, Angelo said, the student parties climbing seem to be achieving their goal—exposing ence of a cocktail carries additional risks. The Milwaukee Art Museum learned students to the art world. "Old Master" paintings—those this lesson the hard way when they hosted “There’s a lot ofinteraction with the art,” painted by European artists such as she said. “Museum employees see more inMartinifest, where for $3O guests received Da Vinci between 1500 and 1800 all the martinis they could drink, TheWall teraction at these than at some adult parties.” have had their prices increase by Boggan, who said working at the NashStreet Journal reported. more than 40% in the past two years end, the had vomited er has his for appreciation art, night’s heightened By guests next to famous glassworks and “Standing called the parties “a win-win situation.” Victorian painting prices have “People tend to socialize at first,” BogWoman,” a bronze sculpture by Gaston more than 10%—resulting dropped gan said. “Then they see Ron Mueck’s Lachaise, had been climbed on and groped lower insurance in premiums by rowdy guests. self-portrait and they’re drawn into the galleries.” News of Martinifest traveled the muse•

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mode,” she added But critics say that the clinic is aiding terrorists and undermining U.S. intelli-

gence-gathering. Murray disagrees with the argument that the clinic’s activities are helpful to terrorists. “I would analogize it to any criminal case where, no matter how bad the accused is, no matter what they’re accused of doing, they’re entitled to have a lawyer, and that lawyer plays an essential role in keeping the government in check and ensuring that the Constitution is upheld,” she said. Similarly, Morris takes exception to the idea that defeating the White House’s version of the bill would subvert U.S. national interests. Morris asserts that a version of the bill thatwould preserve most of the protocol of the court martial process would ultimately better serve the national interest. “The reason is that if we apply this methodology, this set of procedures, it would be a bill tailored to the needs of the situation, doing it in away that would not undermine our basic domestic system of government and would not undermine our foreign relations with so many countries, including close allies,” she said. Morris added that the military lawyers appreciate the clinic’s help. Murray agreed. “Some of the most vociferouscritics of the military commission process are the JAGs,” Murray said in reference to military defense attorneys. “All of them are against certain... procedures—excluding the accused from his own trial, admitting evidence that was coerced or extracted by torture. The U.S. military doesn’t want those standards applied to our men and women abroad,” he added. Still, Morris remains confident about the clinic’s prospects for success. “The good news is that if [the Bush Administration's bill] is not constitutional or otherwise deeply flawed, it will end up back in the Supreme Court,” she said. “That’s what I found uplifting about Hamdan. It worked. The system worked,” Morris added.

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your fellow Americans might be over there,” he said. The physical demands of the program also prove to be a more concrete roadblock for cadets. “Probably our own worst enemy is our physical requirements,” Hodges said. Freshman Sean Li said such obligations caused difficulty for him. “They found out I had asthma, so there’s a complicated medical process, but they’re helping me out,” he said. “I will contract, if I can.” Hodges stressed that the ROTC’s primary mission is not to specifically develop an army leader, but to develop a leader in general. “The Duke students... will be the leaders of this country,” he said. “Whether it be in industry, government or the military, Duke students are leading the way.”

“Their [parents] don’t want them to pursue a military career.” Sophomore Patrick Canning said the statement held true for him. “My parents [would] prefer me not to contract until I have to, at the last possible moment,” he said. “I think the current war has a lot to do with it.” Students, however, responded confidendy to the possibility of serving in the Middle East. “That’s why [the military] is there in the first place,” Canning said. “To protect America and everything that our country stands for.” Freshman Philip Cotter expressed similar sendments. “If anything, [the war] may act as an inspiration, knowing that

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IRAQ from page 3 the war and its effects. “The Air Force does most fighting 25,000 feet above the ground, so we never see the carnage and pain we inflict,” Olson said. “War is an ugly, devastating, brutal event. If you make it too clean, too surgical, it makes it too easy,” he added. Speakers said American and Iraqi youths were the future peacekeepers and leaders. Every speaker looked hopefully toward the additional progress to be

MYTHS from page 5 with that plan all four years.” The panelists refuted all these myths and encouraged students to follow their interests, rather than pursuing a major perceived as being more lucrative. They also directed students to resources within the Career Center ranging from an alumni database to funds to supplement an unpaid internship. Freshman Abhinay Sawant, who attended the panel, said that though some of the information was generic, it was helpful to hear repeated. “The thing I found most useful was hearing about the resources available in

made in Iraq, yet acknowledged the necessity of patience by the American

people. “My opinion on the future is bright,” Hughes said. “I’m an eternal optimist. We expect instant gratification, MTV, pop-culture, give it to me now, but it takes time.” Students said they found the forum and informative. m helpful “I felt like this was an amazing opportunity,” sophomore Audrey Fenske said. “We had five speakers with real-life experience in Iraq. It was what I expected and more.” the Career Center, such as the advising teams, and what the Career Center can do for you,” he said. The panel was organized in response to feedback on freshmen concerns from administrators in charge of orientation, students and staff, Vargas said. As for Sawant, he said he’s currendy undecided about his major, although he’s currendy considering engineering and economics. He said that Wednesday’s event helped him get a better grasp on the Career Center’s function. “I think you’ll probably get the most help just going to the Career Center itself,” Sawant said. “It’s good advertising for the Career Center.”

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those guys that every college coach in America dreams about coaching because he’s got such a good basketball IQ that the game almost comes easy to him.” Singler averaged 19 points and eight rebounds per game as a junior in leading South Medford High School to the Southern Oregon Conference Championship in 2006. Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski was scheduled to visit Singler at his home in Oregon last night, and the recruit will visit Duke September 22-23. The Blue Devils are competing for Singler’s services with Kansas, Washington, UCLA and Arizona. He has already visited UCLA and Washington and will travel to Arizona next week and Kansas in mid-October. “The behind-the-scenes chatter for the last few months is clearly that people feel that the pendulum has swung toward Duke, and that they’re the team that has to be beat to get him,” Telep said. If Singler decides to play his collegiate career at Cameron, he will join small forward Taylor King from California and point guard Nolan Smith of Virginia, both scout.com four-star recruits that have already committed to Duke. Krzyzewski also visited West Virginia power forward Patrick Patterson Tuesday. Patterson, a five-star recruit on scout.com, will visit Duke the last weekend in

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men at that time, the bar was set high and their performance followed suit. They reached the championship game for the second consecutive time in 2004 and once again last season “When you come in as a freshman you don’t know what to expect,” Stopford said. “Now we all hold our team very high and very SEE SENIORS ON PAGE 10

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When Virginia Tech takes the field Saturday against Duke, Branden Ore will be lining up at tailback, a fact that seemed

obvious to Hokie fans at the conclusion of last season. But when Ore, a redshirt sophomore, did not return to school for the spring semester, his Duke's presence in the backopponent field this season no longer was a given. According to press releases, Ore missed spring practice to rehabilitate his injured right shoulder. The fact that he was not en-

rolled at the university for the semester and that he chose to rehab at home—was the unusual part. “The decision came down to me and my position coach, coach [Billy] Hite,” Ore said. “The week before I was supposed to come back to school, he came down to Chesapeake, [Va.], and we just sat down and that’s what we came up with.” Though the redshirt sophomore needed the time off to rehabilitate his shoulder, his break from the school and the program helped him develop off the football field. was a growing experience for me,” —

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SENIORS from page 9 accountable. We have certain expectations in the way we should perform.” The seniors’ experience and leadership have had a strong effeet in shaping this season’s team. Individually, Bozman

noted the increased ease at which the seniors handled the ball compared to the way they did as freshmen. Additionally, the relative youth of the rest of the team has prompted guidance and motivation from the veterans. “We are a pretty young team and [the seniors] bring a lot to

the field,” Bozman said. “They have all been to the championship game and they balance out some of the experience that we are lacking.” With their improved skills and the confidence that comes with three years of play, the seniors have begun to feel the bite of their last season and final opportunity for a championship title. “You get more of a sense of urgency as the years go by—this is our last year to win a championship,” Lopresti said. “Every game that you play you realize, this is the last time we will play at Wake Forest.” But those feelings have also come alongside one that any experienced Duke student can relate to—the pride of being a Blue Devil. “I’ve gotten more proud each year,” Linton said. “The first year you come in Duke is this new thing, but as you keep playing every year, just wearing the jersey you really feel a part of something.” Bozman, who began her coaching at Duke the same time as the class of 2006, shares a particularly close relationship with the seniors. Having watched them develop as players and young women, she acknowledged that their work at Duke is not yet over. “I feel very fortunate to have had them for four years and to have had the privilege to work with them,” Bozman said. “I think they are all incredibly talented but they are also great people. We’ve still got a lot more to do.”

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Admissions is a key tool in every overachieving establishing any college’s schooler’s worst high reputation, The Wall Street nightmare. After perfecting the violin, Journal reported, and Duke’s has strategy” acing the SATs and curing a “winning minor strand of cancer, Duke proven to be a successful means of bringing turns you down the young Univerbecause someeditorial sity to its current body else’s parents can sign a bigger check. prominence among schools several times its age. issue, its 9 The Wall In Sept. Donations made by the Street Journal reported Duke’s long history of systemically ad- families of wealthy students, mitting students ofrich and faJohn Burness, vice president mous parents —regardless of for public affairs and government relations, said in the arUniversity des and alumni connections—simply because the ticle, help to improve faciliparents of those students are ties and fund financial aid able to help the University’s initiatives—both key components of any successful instireputation and endowment. tution of higher education. The question, however, reThe handful of students mains; does a seven-figure donation that helps hundreds of who are brought in through students justify the nightmare the system will not bring down a class and one could of one student?

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make the argument that having sons and daughters of the rich and famous adds something to the uniqueness of a place, bettering the overall college experience of all students. Although this justification may be an afterthought used to defend policies that bring bad publicity, it may still have some merit. Duke community members may not support the method of boosting University coffers, but they should understand the importance of the process. Duke just turned 80 years old, and it now finds itself competing with institutions that have been around for centuries. Needless to say, on an institutional level, the University has to play catch up somehow. Looking at it through this lens, Duke’s winning strategy

The University controls the judicial process.... we’ll olh viously keep working on loosening the noose around everyone’s neck but, at the same time, they control it. —DSG President Elliott Wolf, a junior, on the Office of Judicial Affairs’ oversight of off-campus student life. See

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choosing to emphasize the admissions policies under former President Terry Sanford. Although little light has been shed on how the University approaches “development cases”—as they’re called in the admissions world —in the recent past, the University’s use of systemized recruitment should begin to level out now that Duke has secured its place in the top tier. Certainly, the method is a bit utilitarian. But the bottom line is that that overachieving high schooler is going to get into a top-flight school even if he or she is rejected from Duke, and the one out ofevery 100 students who makes it in because of money will, in the end, make a huge difference for the future of this institution.

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is smart. Due in part to this admissions philosphy, the University’s endowment have become strong and the institution’s ranking, in a number of national polls, continues to be top-notch. undesirable Although and even questionable on a number of levels, Duke’s winning strategy of seeking out the wealthy has historically been a necessary evil of the college admissions process. Setting aside pragmatic concerns for idealistic aspirations was the standard for elite schools. Duke and Brown—the schools focused on in the Wall Street Journal article—are not the only schools that subscribed to this philosophy. The article notably lacks recent admissions facts, instead

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is a double-edged sword. With astonishing clarity we are able to preserve our most cherished memories, but as time goes on and the good begins to lose focus, it is the truest of sorrows that the mind—as if it reveled in the reliving of pain—will recall most sharply. Enter Duke, an elite university with everything going its way: Top-tier rankings, the best stu-

dents, outstanding athletic success, a relatively hip social scene for a school 3jo n of its caliber and a line In the sand Tom Wolfe’s dream school. Then the story broke. The 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team threw a party during spring break where a stripper claimed that three white men had raped her. The team, the players, the campus, the students—Duke was changed forever. Unfortunately after nearly six months of hyperexaggerated and partisan media and community outrage —and a summer of continuous investigation, fact-checking and, above all, debunking —we are still consumed by the legacy of one of our darkest hours. As a result, our reputation is in jeopardy like never before. Our name has become synonymous with words like rape, privilege, alcohol abuse and prejudice. The innocent days of “work hard, play hard” are over, since to the outside world that mantra only seems to justify the alleged crimes of the lacrosse team and the Duke mentality they purportedly personify. Sadly, the days of “work hard, play not so much” are at hand. The issue dominates our collective consciousness. And I am sick and tired of hearing about it. Last summer we all had to deal with new acquaintances asking us one of a bevy of childish questions—Are you on the lacrosse team? Do you know anyone on the lacrosse team? What do you think, did they do it?—and we all honed our ability to make sufficientyet evasive answers to those awkward questions without starting controversy. We need to agree as a university to get over it. We have to come together as a school and stop walking around as if our closets have skeletons or with our tails between our legs. We need to stop covering it in our media, stop talking about it in our classes and stop tolerating it. Period. Then we have to change the Campus Culture Ini-

tiative. Really, what are they hoping to find—some kind of subversive, exclusive element of campus society, comprised of truly nefarious students who are undeniably behind every “dangerous” act that happens on campus? We all know the lacrosse players were Just normal Duke students, perhaps who partied a little too hard. But haven’t they had to deal with enough already? At best, the initiative will conclude that sometimes college students go to extremes when trying to have fun, and these are the ones we ought to inhibit to preserve some fun for the rest of us. The problem is we already know that. And if/when the three players are acquitted of the charges, the issue will be—and should be—a moot point. But at worst, it could become a referendum on our greek-centric social scene. Fraternity presidents are already creating a committee to investigate and report their members’ opinions of campus culture. What they say could very well determine the entire future ofon-campus partying. Destroying entertainment options for the large majority as a belated response to save face for the small minority of kids who sometimes go out of line is truly the wrong approach. Sure, Duke has a lot of rich white kids; it also has an incredible amount of diversity for a top-notch institution (37 percent of the Class of 2009 registered as minorities) and a tremendous number of students on financial aid (42 percent of the Class of 2008). As the success of the Class of 2010 shows, our incredible good outshines the little bit ofbad. That freshmen weren’t deterred proves our worries were misguided. Every college has racial and class tension, and most every college has a drinking-problem. That’s what happens when you combine a whole lot of different kids from different states and different circumstances in one place. Duke isn’t even the worst offender; it’s quite clear that large public schools, who dominate the top spots of Princeton Review’s list of the country’s best party schools, have significantly more dangerous alcohol and drug abuse problems than we do. Real tragedy, emblematic of real culture, merits real change. To that end, we owe it to ourselves to take responsible measures to curtail truly unsafe campus drinking. But the lacrosse scandal is not the proper impetus. Reliving the pain is an unnecessary exercise—we all remember. Now the trick is, trying to forget. That’s the way to move on.

Jon Detzel is Trinity junior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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guys finish last,” or so the age-old cliche tells us. As a woman, I am apt to quickly dismiss that statement with a, “Please, I always date nice guys.” But if I were to honestly examine my encounters with the opposite sex, I would have to surrender to the truth of that statement. Why do we do this to ourselves? Why do good giris fall for sarah hostetter ba< fe- Kfe- or something like It male, I would like nothing more than to blame the guys. The good guys are just too few and too far between. Besides, the good girls far outnumber the good guys. But after a brief lunch with three of my best guy friends at Duke—who I would, by the way, consider incredibly nice guys —I realized that just can’t be the case. The 10 minutes I spent in the Blue Express with these guys may have raised more questions in my mind than the biology lecture that followed (that’s an impressively large number). The conversation started simply enough, when one of them jokingly asked if I had any ideas for my Thursday column and suggested 750 words explaining why girls should date him. Though this was a tempting offer, I instead rattled off the ideas that had been streaming through my head during the past two weeks. Apparently my mistake was commenting that I didn’t really like any of these ideas enough to write about them. That was their cue to pull out their figurative soap boxes and read me the riot act. They asked a time-old question, but somehow it hit home this day. “Why is it that it would take an ad in the paper to find a girl who wants to date a good guy?” asked one. “Don’t girls realize that the guys that they nonchalantly hook up with are just using them?” another chimed in. Since this conversation, I have done some thinking, and I have three answers for those of you good guys out there who are asking the same questions.

(1) Girls want adventure. Bad boys offer a risk and spontaneity that most of the nice guys out there don’t quite grasp. This is why most of the nice guys I know end up as nothing more than friends. Girls need the dichotomy of risking it all on a date with a guy while still knowing that in the end he will be there to save her. (2) Girls want to be wanted. As John and Stasi Eldredge claim in their New York Times Bestseller Captivating, “When we are young, we want to be precious to someone—especially Daddy. As we grow older, the desire matures into a longing to be pursued, desired, wanted as a woman.” Because bad guys tend to be risk takers, they also tend to put themselves out there. The good guys of the world invest their hearts in a girl when they fall for her, and thus have much more to lose if their pursuit ends in rejection. The bad boy changes girls more than most college students change their sheets. Pursuing a girl is just part of the fun, and without an invested emotion, the bad boy can risk rejection without a second thought. (3) Girls want an emotional connection. At first glance, this seems like something the good guy would be able to easily supply. The problem is that the bad boys convince us (or we convince ourselves) that hooking up will bring this. Time and time again we realize that this isn’t true, yet we consistently fall back on it. This most likely stems from our desire to be desired. We tell ourselves that it is better to be wanted for one night than not wanted at all. But beyond all of these reasons, I believe that it is our preconceptions of nice guys that prevent us from dating them. Sure, some of the nice guys out there are nerdy. Sure, some of them are unattractive. And sure, some of them are meant to be nothing more than friends. The problem with stereotypes, though, is that they are seldom completely true. There are nice guys out there who are daring, pursuing and willing to establish meaningful connections. Perhaps we female Dukies should reconsider our words the next time we share Diet Cokes and girl talk as we explain, “He was so nice, but I just don’t think there’s anything there.”

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lettertotheeditor Racially charged incident unfortunate We write to deplore a breach in civility between the Duke and greater Durham communities. Last Saturday, at the conclusion of the WXDU Backyard Barbecue held on the West Campus Plaza, three Duke undergraduates mocked and physically intimidated a group of WXDU volunteers. These actions had racial overtones, and the Duke community must join in rejecting them. WXDU, Duke’s radio station, is a unique organization at the University. It’s one of the few groups where Duke undergraduates, grad students, faculty and staff work in close collaboration with Durham residents otherwise unaffiliated with the University. We planned Saturday’s event—which offered students free food, music and WXDU merchandise—to underscore these connections. It was largely a success. For four hours, Duke and Durham dined together and got down with each other. Unfortunately, a scheduling mishap quickly replaced scenes of unity with something much more ignominious—a disgrace to our Duke community. A band—an acoustic duo booked by All Campus Entertainment as an opening act—arrived around 7:30 p.m., believing their set to b6gin at 8:15. (Like WXDU, ACE is a committee of the Duke University Union.) WXDU personnel explained to the pair that the radio station had reserved the space until 9:00, and according to all printed materials, the ACE event was scheduled for 9:30. The duo became petulant. They interrupted a reggae deejay performance with shouts of “You suck!” and, when that proved impotent, mocked the dance moves of the deejay crew. This mimicry was not simply immature. It was unmistakable minstrelsy, a racially inflected insult to the black performers onstage, which proved to be a hallmark of their performance. The duo, both white, granted themselves the pleasure of repeating the N-word while covering Dr. Ore’s “Bitches Ain’t S—.” (African Americans were not the only victims of this act’s malevolence: they followed “Bitches Ain’t S with a lament about the unsuitability of the female Duke undergraduate, an “anorexic bitch.”) The ACE representative acted no better. Faced with an agitated audience, he attempted to resolve the situation through physical intimidation. He took the stage as the reggae sound system continued-performing, confronting one member after another, puffing out his chest, and yelling abusively. Regardless of the circumstances, we must deplore the behavior of these students. WXDU and Duke University work jointly to improve relations between the Duke and Durham communities. And it is our shared human task to build a place where dancehall reggae and warbling Tenacious D covers are equally tolerated.

Sarah Hostetler is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Thursday .

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Searching for Brody Ruckus

2:45 p.m. last Tuesday, someone going by the name some. This time, Brody announced that if his group’s of Brody Ruckus started a group on Facebook named membership surpassed “The Largest Group’s,” his girl“If this group reaches 100,000 my girlfriend will have friend would agree to have the event broadcast on the Internet. a threesome.” Eight days later, Brody and his group were removed Tor violating FaceAs Brody continued to push back the date of the threesome, doubts arose as to whether Brody was real, and book policy. It had, bewhether the group was really a marketing scam for some fore it was killed, more kind of product. No one ever came forward to say that than 400,000 members they knew a Brody Ruckus. He had no friends listed, the Brody, that fateful school that he originally claimed to attend, Georgia Tech, Tuesday, wrote that one had no record of him—and most tellingly, after winning day he and his girlfriend his bet, he set new goals for the group’s membership were discussing the rather than collect. Yesterday, Facebook removed Brody’s largest Facebook group 3SllGr group, reportedly saying they found out Brody was not a Facebook (“The Largest real person. As of now, one Charlie Stell, an Atlantan Ever,” 840,000 cucumber sandwiches Group model and alleged spam scam artist, is the leading suspect members strong), and among Brody Ruckus scholars. his girlfriend said it must It is, then, almost certain that Brody Ruckus was a pseuhave been rather difficult to create such a big group Brody exclaimed that anyone could make a large group donym and the group was a scam, though to what end exwith the right idea, and bet her that if a group he would actly it is too soon to tell. But, though Brody Ruckus was as start got 100,000 members, they would have a threesome. fictitious a character as Rip Van Winkle or Jack Bauer, his story is a meaningful one. She agreed. members, Brody was bom into the world, for all intents and purreached a mere 100,000 But when the group three days after its inception, there was no threesome. poses, on Sept. s—the5—the same date as the rollout of the Brody announced a new goal—that when the group was much-maligned News Feed. And without News Feed, 300,000 members strong, his girlfriend would agree to much fewer people would have heard of him. I, like most have pictures taken of the “dirty deed.” This goal was of the group’s members, joined upon seeing a message on my home page to the effect that three of my friends had reached in another three days. just joined the threesome group. threemet, there was no But again, when the goal was .

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What Brody’s rapidly ascendant popularity showed is groups that support a popular cause can grow at astronomical rates. As unlikely as it may sound, Facebook may become a powerful forum for our generation to organize political movements. The best example so far is, ironically, the “Students Against The News Feed” group, which ballooned to 750.000 members in just three days before Facebook gave in and agreed to allow users to hide their information from the Feed. With its planned expansion to include non-student users, Facebook may well become as important a site in shaping the way we see the world as Google. But the much more profound lesson that can be gleaned from Brody’s brief career is that God is truly dead. 400.000 students joined a group solely to enable a guy whom they never met to have a threesome—and then to broadcast it over the Internet. Of them, many attended religious schools and universities. To be fair, people did start a number of anti-Brody groups. But almost all of them only denounce Brody’s misogyny, and are lightly populated. One group, “monogamous people offended by Brody Ruckus,” vaguely alludes to moral concerns. It has 80 members. Meanwhile, over on Brody’s page, there was, until this afternoon, a 12,000-post thread dedicated to that eternal question: spit or swallow.

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Asher Steinberg is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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Dance Masterclass Tuesday, September 12, 6:00 to 7:30 pm The Ark Dance Studio, East Campus A dance class taught by Dance Exchange company members for advanced student and community dancers. Contact the Duke Dance Program to register to participate, 660-3354. Observers welcome. Free of charge.

Optional post-performance ‘talkbacks’ with the audience each evening, facilitated by

special guests: Thursday night: Liz Lerman, choreographer, MacArthur Fellow; Robert CookDeegan, Director, IGSP Center for Genome Ethics. Law & Policy; Priscilla Wald, Professor of English Friday night: Liz Lerman, choreographer, MacArthur Fellow; Dr. Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director, National Human Genome Research Institute

CAMPUS FORUM To Be or Not To Be: Searching for Self In the Genome" Wednesday, September 6, 4 to 5=30 pm

Reynolds Lecture Hall, Westbrook Building, Duke Divinity School (directly below Goodson Chapel) Free and open to everyone: students, faculty, staff, community Panelists: Gregory Wray, PhD. Dir. IGSP Center for Evolutionary Genomics; Brian Bantum, MTS. PhD Candidate. Graduate Program in Religion; Lauren Dame. JD, MPH, Assoc. Dir., IGSP Center for Genome Ethics. Law & Policy; Liz Lerman. Choreographer, MacArthur Fellow

“Humanities in Medicine” monthly lecture Wednesday, September 13, noon to 1:30 pm Medical Center Amphitheater Room 0196, Duke South, Basement Level (by food court) This talk, targeted to medical students and residents, will be led by Liz Lerman and other members of the company. Free and open to the public. While in residence, Liz Lerman and other company members will interact with students in the FOCUS Program "The Genome Revolution & Its Impact on Society," participate in workshops for health professionals and DUMC caregivers, and lead workshops during the NIH-sponsored Community Genetics Forum; Finding the Genome, to be held at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. The Ferocious Beauty: Genome residency and performances are produced by Duke Performances, in collaboration with the Duke Institute of Genome Sciences & Policy, with support from the Office of the Provost, the Office of the President, the Dean of Trinity College, the FOCUS Program, Health Arts Network af Duke (H.A.N.D.I, the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the Duke Dance Program, the Nancy Hanks Artist Residency Endowment, the Eleanor Naylor Dana Endowment, and grants from the North Carolina Arts Council and the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The Ford Foundation.

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Lauren Fischetti recess When seen in person, Georges Rousse’s art looks like a tangled mass of detailed angles, sharp lines and color. When seen through a viewfinder set at a mathematically calculated point in relation to the art, it all makes sense to the eye. This month, the famed French installation artist and photographer is working to transform the interiors offour abandoned buildings in downtown Durham. Starting Friday, the public is invited to view the installations at the Baldwin Building and Liberty Warehouse. Next weekend, Bargain Furniture and the Chesterfield Building will also be open to general audiences. Rousse uses complicated mathematics and geometry to create these indoor installations. “He takes a three-dimensional space, alters it by painting, building and taking matter away and then he takes a photograph that makes it look like a two-dimensional plane,” said JulietJensen, Trinity ‘BB and educational community outreach coordinator for the project. “It looks like he hung a transparent sheet over the space.” Rousse’s visit to Durham was initiated by local couple Frank Konhaus, a photographer, and Ellen Cassilly, an architect. Cassilly recalled that when her husband first saw one of Rousse’s works in a magazine he wondered what the big deal was. “It was a picture of a building in Seoul, South Korea with a huge white spot over it,” Cassilly said. “It just looked like he used Photoshop. Then we realized it was actually painted on.” After seeing Rousse’s work live, the cou-

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and strip malls that somehow manages to get filled up with tourists every day of the week. And, of course, this is why I was there last weekend; because to get into heaven, every once in a while you need to poke your toes into the fiery pit of hell. Mission accomplished. That, and I was on a business trip to test-drive some General Motors automobiles. My weekend couldn’t have started out much worse than a 6 a.m. departure from RDU, but the benefits of waking up before the entire population of North Carolina are great: empty planes, even more lackadaisical security checkpoints than normal, flights that depart on time. The first bright spot ofmy day came in realizing that I had unintentionally snuck a full two-liter bottle of water through se-

curity and onto the plane. You would’ve thought that would have shown up in the old X-ray. Upon arriving in Vegas, one is immediately treated to the stank smell of blown paychecks and ancient human skin. Since the sense of smell easily takes a back seat to sight and sound, the putrid odor only stays in your conscious for a moment before you get hit by a load of “Gaudy”. This consists mainly of thousands of quarter-gobbling slot machines attired in pink, lime green and purple metallic outfits. And then you get to baggage claim. Yikes! My first stop of the day was the fun, completely transparent advertisement-ofa-theme park called the GM Drive Course, where for $lO one can drive two spanking SEE VEGAS ON PAGE 7

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4. Pink is the new Blog (www.trent.blogspot.com): The author of this blog takes its name to heart, literally writing in a bright pink font. The site is more of a traditional blog—the blogger writes about her experiences and adds colorful commentary to her celeb sightings and interactions. Bright pink conversation and thought bubbles embedded in snapshots of celebs bring even more personal flair. 3. The Superficial (thesuperficial.com): As the name implies, the Superficial’s goal is to make fun of as many people as possible. Between an army ofreaders/submitters and the editors’ snide remarks, anyone in Hollywood should fear the day their name appears on this site.

2. Gawker (www.gawker.com): Although Gawker is Manhattan-focused, it has become popular everywhere from NYC to Boringsville, USA. The site is a balance ofpop culture and media gossip updated up to two dozen times a day. Because of its broadcoverage, the site should be required reading for those in the pop culture know.

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Janet Wu Film Editor Class: 2009 Major: English/Literature Hometown: Cary, N.C. Favorite Genre: Fantasy/Adventure Favorite Movies; The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Moulin Rouge, Almost Famous, Batman Begins, Fight Club, The English

The great discipline collision Carla Ranno recess Trinity and Pratt students’ brain waves are often thought to be formed by different genes. However, Liz Lerman’s Dance Exchange and the Duke Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy bring the arts and sciences together on the classical stage. Partnering with Duke Performances and the University’s Dance Program, Lerman —artistic director of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange—has brought a new project to life. Ferocious Beauty: Genome is an examination of scientific thought expressed through contemporary movement, artistic animation, sound, lighting, videography and music. At the completion of a two-week residency at Duke, her ensemble will perform Thursday and Friday. During this multimedia endeavor, Lerman’s Dance Exchange will be rehearsing, holding lectures and hosting panel discussions in an effort to bring the evolutionary ideas of genetics and selection into a conversation. “I believe that artists have a large role to play, not just in the studio and on stage, but in the world,” Lerman said. Lerman added that her idea for Ferocious Beauty: Genome stemmed from her by

great interest in understanding other fields of knowledge. Researching and developing her project over a three-year period, Lerman worked with a group of scientists from the University of Chicago who posed ethical questions about the genetic revolution to arouse creativity Jack, the fairy-tale character of beanstalk and expression. fame. The third is a woman with no de“Along the way, we came to understand fined identity; it is left to the audience to a lot, not just about genetics, but about decide her persona. dance,” Lerman said. “Not just about sciLerman’s hope to provoke awareness entific method, but about artistic process.” about the genome revolution will be enThe scientists who Lerman interviewedhanced by a pre-performance “Insights” also became a part of the videographer’s talk given by Huntington Willard, director inspiration, allowing the piece to take on a of the Institute for Genome Sciences and myriad of artistic dimensions. Videos of Policy and Nanaline H. Duke professor of their interviews were used as imagery that genome sciences. Concluding the perwill appear in the performance on large formance will be an optional “talk back” screens that stand alongside the dancers session that will allow the audience to reon stage. spond and comment on what they think “We had to study scientific processes in the artwork represents. order to understand how to translate these By working with experts, Lerman strives concepts into movement,” said Cassie to combine movement, music, imagery Meador, a dancer who has worked with the and the spoken word to understand scienDance Exchange for the last two years. tific ideas that are often questioned. The piece is presented in a two-act “In the end, I hope the performance is form, the first act exploring evolution and like a great non-fiction read,” she said. the second delving into the concepts of selection, perfection, diversity and aging. Ferocious Beauty: Genome will be perWithin the work, the audience sees three formed Thursday and Friday, Sept. 14 and 15 main characters come to life, including at 8 p.m. in the Bryan Center’s Reynolds TheGregor Mendel, the first geneticist, and ater. Tickets are $2O and $25, $5 for students.

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situation and circumstances—as well as color coordination, ofcourse—in order to adapt to unique conditions. Think twice before ordering a Screaming Orgasm or Slippery Nipple when out to dinner with your new boyfriend’s parents, for example. And as delicious as Southern Comfort and lime is, whether as a shot or on the rocks, it’s strictly for south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Appreciating the alcohol-to-cost ate

by Michelle Stansbury and Bryan Zupon photos by Vanin Leila ratio of a Long Island Iced Tea is a good move in that college dive where you pregame. But when enjoying an evening at a swanky up-scale bar, why not try something more fun and luxurious, like a Bellini? For most nights out, however, you need a go-to creative concoction that conveys your style and flair without hesitation. Here are some up-and-coming cocktail innovations to test out on your quest for the

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pie decided they wanted to bring him to Durham, Cassilly said. They thought downtown Durham was a perfect

match for Rousse, who does most of his work in abandoned buildings slated for demolition or renovation. Rousse’s work is inextricably linked to Durham because the realization of the project is a direct result of the efforts of the local community. “The project was not planned years in advance,” said Caroleigh Robinson, a project-university liaison. “There was no grant money; the whole project was made possible by donations. Community members jumped in with passion and soul to deliver support, materials, energy and expertise to make Rousse’s work known to the public and to engage the public.” The community continues to be involved with Rousse’s project, with over 200 volunteers assisting the artist. Students of all ages from a variety of Durham schools and programs are painting, building, calculating and advertising for the installations. The education committee has also provided students with special learning experiences and docent led tours of the sites. Jensen said she hopes to connect students from Duke and North Carolina Central University through documentary work and work as docents and site volunteers. “Rousse’s project already has mobilized and energized a significant portion of the Durham community, even before the project itself has actually been realized,” William Noland, associate professor of the practice of visual arts, wrote in an e-mail. “The enthusiasm generated is a healthy boost to our city and its increasingly lively downtown scene.” The Baldwin Building and Liberty Building installations can be visitedFriday, Sept. 16as part of Culture Crawl and on Saturday, Sept. 17 and Sunday, Sept. 18 as part of CenterFest Arts Festival. All four sites will be open Saturday, Sept. 23 and Sunday, Sept. 24.

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Steed Taylor's work isfeatured outside the Nasher Museum of Art. Artist Steed Taylor’s media of choice are road paint and blood. However, his road design leading to the Nasher Museum of Art is composed of white paint. The 100-foot-long design features Taylor’s skills in road tattooing. recess' Christine Schellack sat down with Taylor, who lives in New York City, after he spent a day relaxing on the Nasher lawn. recess: So, are you actually from North Carolina? Steed Taylor: Yes! I was born in Cumberland County. And what exactly is behind the idea of road tattoos? Perhaps you could explain why North Carolina is in need of body art. Well, this is the first piece I’ve done in North Carolina. I look at roads as being the skin of a community. People mark their skin to commemorate or memorialize something. The idea of tattooing a road is the same idea. I specifically created this one for the Nasher and it

represents indigenous flora and people from North Carolina. Very cool. Designs and names are painted into the larger design and then painted over. In this case, I said a Cherokee prayer [over] the piece once it was finished—the Cherokee would have been the native people in this area. A lot of your past work has been for the means of commemorating pain. Why is this? I mean, there are many hardships in this world. Honoring people with AIDS in a specific community is something I’ve done work with. There’s one wonderful piece for a woman who died ofbreast cancer. It was put on the road in front of the house of her best friend who had adopted her children. But the paint medium that you use is purposely made so that it wears away with time. How is this appropriate when you’re creating a memorial? Yeah, the designs are ultimately temporary. They usually wear away in a couple years. Time passes and pain passes. I feel that there’s a need to memorialize something and it is time specific. September 11 is important to memorialize now, but how important will it be in 20 years? 100 years? Maybe what’s really needed is something right now that doesn’t last forever. People need to process pain and let it pass. Anything you would want Duke students to know about your piece? Tell all the folks out there to drive on it. It’s meant to have that done to it. Turn on down here toward the Nasher, pull a U-turn, and come back over it again. That’s what

Steed Taylor focuses on the oft-overlooked media of road paint and blood. it’s all about I’m sure students will take that to heart. On a closing note, do you have a favorite piece of yours from across the years? Anything you’d like to share with us? Yeah. I did a design for the first forty kids bom [in the maternity ward] in Hartford, Connecticut on my 40th birthday. The clock was ticking, but we got all the names painted. It was super sweet.

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We live in an age where the proverbial ball-andchain has morphed into a straightjacket of monotony. The mere threat of commitment and its formal counterpart —that fearsome “m”-word—send men hightailing to the local gentleman’s club in search of revelation. It’s this not-so-mid-life onset ofcrises that drive the twenty-something characters of the dramedy The Last Kiss to infidelity, separation and a generous amount of teary tirades. Somebody dial Dr. Phil. The central commitment-phobe in question is twenty-nine year old Michael (played by the endearingly goofy Zach Braff). With a stable career, beautiful girlfriend Jenna (Jacinda Barrett) and a baby girl on the way, Michael’s life is picture perfect—or is it? Enter cute brunette, in the form of college sophomore Kim (The OCs Rachel Bilson). It’s not long before Michael sheds routine and clothing for the possibility of something new. And it’s not long before he finds himself sleeping on the porch in a torrent of regret (and on the second day, rainfall). There are a series of functional subplots scattered throughout the film, whether it’s the marital spats of best friend Chris (Casey Affleck) and his wife or the lackluster relationship of Jenna’s parents (Blythe Danner and Tom Wilkenson). Although at times it seems that everyone’s relationship is conveniently falling apart, the film remains quite authentic and the notable cast does a decent job channeling their character’s flaws. Penned by Oscar nominee Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby), the script’s only real flaw is that the characters seem a bit too wise and sensible for their own cinemade good. In many instances, the characters totter between the cutthroat authenticity of base emotion and the borderline poetic rationality that is a consequence of talking too much. It’s clear that The Last Kiss has no intention of offering clean-cut solutions. Still, while the film admirably showcases relationship qualms in a sincere and brutal light, the lack of resolution is almost a scapegoat way out of avoiding the real grit of love and life. But then maybe that’s the problem —no one really wants to find out —Janet Wu

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BELSON from page 1 chemistry in The OC? GardenState. But to be able to work with him was a treat for In movies, you want me and I really wanted to wait and take it very seriously for things to be as natural and realistic as possible while my first movie from television. I feel like I’ve been lucky. in television you get away Do you feel that this movie is bringing the midlife crisis down from the 40s to the 30s and close to the 20s? with more broad and exOh gosh, I guess if you put it that way. Maybe—I think treme manners and interthat the transition into turning 30 has become a little bit actions. In a movie you reharder then 40. Thirty is the new 40,1 guess, in that way. ally want it to come across How your character in The Last Kiss differ from Sumas real life. mer on The OCi Were you worried that people wouldn’t be Was it helpful and comable to separate you from your character on the show? forting to work with Zach That was why I really loved this role. [Kim] is different Braff and other actors with and more grown-up and much different from Summer. a lot of movie experience? I just think it was really helpful to work with a talented Kim’s in college and I feel like where she and Summer are the same in the sense that they are pretty much both goactor who was so fun to play off and made the scenes so getters. Kim just seems older. She has more adult situations much more fun and natural. to deal with. What was it like working with Director Tony Goldwyn? What do you think you’ll feel like when you turn 30? Tony Goldwyn is amazing. He’s an actor as well and to I just thought I would throw a big party. That’ll be my have that on the other side of the camera is kind of special because he’s such a hands-on director and really so much next turn to have a big blowout, so I look forward to it. How would you say your character evolves in the movie? interested in what you’re doing, what you’re going I really like that [she] is going through a minitransition through and what you need to get there. So, to have him on your side was really helpful and he really spent time as well. I think all the characters in the movie go through this and it was nice to play a character like that. It was nice with me to get me where I needed to go. to play a character that is on-screen for that amount of He was really supportive and inspirational. And this whole situation about being realistic and to show relationtime but shows that much. Music plays such a big role on The OC. Is music imporships at such a true distance, [in the film] you can really tant as an invisible character on movies or TV shows? look into relationships and feel what they’re going Definitely. Music really makes you feel certain things through and relate to the fights and feelings. and when a song is in a movie and you hear it again, it In the film Zach Braff’s character has an affair with bhngs you right back into that movie. It can be really pow- your character. Do you think that true monogamy is even erful. You think about songs like the song from Titanic and possible? I think it’s definitely possible as long as you’re in the you’ll always cry. You know what I mean? So yeah, music is right spot in your life to commit to that. I think it’s defireally important. How was making the adjustment in your background in nitely possible. theater and TV to your first full-length feature film. What the Last Kiss is so centered on relations and the troubles that come with them. Were you able to identify with your was different and what did you like better? It was so much fun. You get more time to work on the character or any of the other characters? I haven’t had to deal with the issues really. I mean, work in movies because it’s the only time you’re going to do it and then the character’s gone and the movie is done maybe from the other end, I have had boyfriends that have and you’ll never do that again. So that was nice to be able cheated so in that sense, I have. to have that time to really perfect it. So who’s a better kisser: Adam Brody or Zach Braff? Ooh. I’ll never tell. How was the chemistry different in the movie from the •

By this juncture in the cinematic game, there’s no point harping on the inadequacies and unrealities of the inspirational sports film genre. It’s not mind-boggling that a movie starring The Rock as a football coach is going to stick to a standard playbook to get ahead. But football puns aside, Gridiron Gangis everything it should be. Sure, there’s an egregious number of stirring speeches—even an occasional pump of the fist in the air. And yes, there’s the miraculous improvement-through-montage moments, but it’s a necessary spectacle and in this film, it’s a well-executed, thoroughly entertaining one. The film is based on the true story of juvenile detention camp probation officer Sean Porter (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson). Faced with the harsh reality that most of his adolescent inmates will end up incarcerated or dead by the age of21, Porter resolves to knock some sense in the kids by letting them knock into each other on the football field. Although the ensemble of hooligans from the hood is composed of unknowns, the cast gets the job done with distinct flair and charm. Take, for example, the scrawny water boy who flirts with one of the team’s girls’ penitentiary cheerleaders, or the speedy runner who is able to rally the team behind him. The fdm sheds the need for subtlety and showcases the heroic feats of the underdog. Add the sound effect-laden crunches of several satisfying game sequences set to soaring music, and the audience can’t help but root for what is essentially an assembly of gang bangers and thieves. And that’s what makes Gridiron Gangso enjoyable: it revels in its emotional cheap shots, rather than faltering beneath them. —Janet Wu *

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Elton John remains a major figure in popular music despite the fact that his 1970 heyday is far behind him. But after an uneven ‘Bos and much of the ‘9os spent on film and stage collaborations with Tim Rice, Sir Elton has returned to form. Since 2001’s Songs from the West Coast (Universal), he has reunited with lyricist Bernie Taupin, and their latest offering, The Captain and the Kid (Universal), is a solid collection of songs that harken back to John’s classic period. The album is a sequel to 1975’s Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, a concept album on which John and Taupin looked back on their ascent to superstardom. The Captain and the Kid has a similarly playful, self-referential tone in both its music and lyrics. The tide track, one of the album’s best, makes reference to past hits: “Waiting for the plan/ to turn you into the Brown Dirt Cowboy/ and me into the Rocket Man.” Unfortunately, Taupin has always been a somewhat erratic lyricist, and there are a few cringe-worthy moments here. One has to do better than “this city’s got a thing about it” to sell the drippy, I-love-New-York ballad “I Wouldn’t Have You Any Other Way.” But despite these lyrical faults and the occasional over-the-top production —the canned choirs on “The Bridge” come to mind—this is a thoroughly enjoyable listen, and stands tall among John’s latter-day recordings. —Jack McDonald

Continuum (Aware/Columbia) deftly grapples with politics, religion and the mistakes lovers make—all while delving deeper into the world of blues and soul. The first single, “Waiting on the World to Change,” is a slow, bodyswaying, finger-snapping song that beckons images of friends sipping drinks and mellowing out on beatup furniture. Nonetheless, it still packs a lyrical punch. Lines like “and when you trust your television/ what you get is what you got/ ‘cause when they own the information, oh/ they can bend it all they want” demand deeper introspection among listeners. Mayer’s lyrics remind the Facebook generation that someday they will be the ones in power. Mayer also explores a more mature take on relationships, distancing himself from heartthrob status with songs like “I Don’t Trust Myself (With Loving You)” and “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room,” which draw attention to his own fallibility. While the former serves as a warning to future lovers, the latter chronicles the death of a relationship, recognizing that both partners are guilty of its failure. A mellow, pensive album that skillfully avoids inducing boredom, musicreviews Continuum is what fans of pop-rock and blues have been saving up for. —Liz Williams

Rarely do the words “good music” and “radio” end up in the same sentence, but we’ll make an exception for art-rock quintet TV on the Radio and their latest release, Return to CookieMountain (Interscope). From its first jarring beats, this album thrusts a bold collage of noise intoyour face and dares you to look away. Their sound—a brawny mix of guitars, synths, drum machines and haunting layered vocals—may take a little getting used to. But what this album lacks in immediate accessibility, it more than makes up for in dazzling origi-

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Part of producer and electronics-whiz David Sitek’s brilliance is his ability to create songs that simultaneously sound rough and refined. This is especially apparent on “Dirtywhirl,” where scuzzy guitars meet jingling bells and bowed string bass. Return to Cookie Mountain reaches its peak on “A Method,” where a simple intro of whistling and handclaps gives way to rolling, spiritual-sounding vocal melodies and an all-out assault of synthesized drums. Even with a couple of disappointing tracks, this record is a refreshing burst .of creativity from a young band on the rise. —Eric Bishop

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new GM cars of your choice around a track at low-to-medium speeds 4O seconds (twice). This is much more fun than it sounds—the highlight was flooring a near 500-horsepower car. My next stop was a car show spectacular entitled Hot Import Nights. The concept of HIN, as it is affectionately known, seems to be to round up as many scummy teenage and 20-something men as possible, trick a bunch of wannabe models into joining them, add a few hundred souped-up, modified cars, then mix all three ingredients in the middle of the desert under more than fOO-degree temperatures and see what kind of crazy stuff the men can be convinced to waste their money on. Back in downtown Vegas I finally checked into my hotel, the kitsch-mecca New York, New York, where the Big Apple seems to be faithfully recreated by the same set designers who created Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory in the 2004 Tim Burton film. As I prepared for my departure the next day for the return to Durham, I was only $3 poorer (not bad, eh?) and about 40 IQ points stupider. At the airport, I briefly considered giving Vegas another chance (Read: I gave one of those bloody slot machines a go). But it was here that I noticed what would become the nail in the coffin: the security videos featured celebrities like Carrot Top and the Blue Man Group acting out asinine scenarios. Carrot Top wore a backpack that was as big as he was, attempted to enter the metal detector and fell over; the Blue Men flashed LCD signs that instructed only ticketed passengers to continue to the gate area. I’m pretty sure there was at least one video involving a feather boa. I attempted to smuggle another water bottle back onto the flight, more for sport than for drinking. This time they caught me. A point for Las Vegas, at last. As my plane climbed towards its cruising altitude, I took one more glance down towards the neon oven I had just left and for a second, just a fraction of a moment, I thought I saw the trim visage of Nicolas Cage staring blankly at me. Oh Leaving Las Vegas, how easily you lend yourself for story-ending puns!

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Lauren Flschetti recess We all have a guilty pleasure, be it food, romance novels or reality television. Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler turned their guilty pleasure into a successful magazine, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, which critiques popular culture from a feminist perspective. “Popular culture is a pleasurable thing,” Jervis said. “We have a love/hate relationship with it, but we don’t want to give it up. That’s what drew us to it.” To celebrate the magazine’s 10th anniversary, the duo recently released BITCHFest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine. They will read from their book Saturday at The Regulator Bookshop in Durham. In the 10 years since Bitch's launch, popular culture criticism has seen a dramatic transformation. Once seen as frivolous and fluffy, it is now a legitimized, pervasive force, Jervis said. “Popular cultural criticism continually examines the world we live in by pointing out effects of particular actions, and how ideology is ensconced in everyday practices—from music and movies to iPods, cell phones and Facebook,” Anne Allison, professor and chair of the department of cultural anthropology, wrote in an e-mail. Jervis said she believes Bitch helped legitimize the exploration of popular culture. “We have taken pop culture seriously and treated it in an intellectual yet accessible way,” Jervis said. “The actual [TV shows, fads, etc.] themselves aren’t important, but the cultural moments that create them are.” Bitch has especially critiqued the current portrayal of feminism. “Feminism has a serious image problem,” Jervis said. “There is a lot of misinformadon circulating that facilitates these tremendous problems,” Jervis said the magazine’s ardcles addressing die identity offeminism have helped change some peoples’ perceptions about feminism and provided a “way in” by

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for a lot of people. ‘Young women today are loathe to call themselves ‘feminist’ but their lives—gendered and sexualized as women—remain very particular ones that are also prey to structural inequities,” said Allison. “It is critically important that readers of both/all genders learn to engage, see and challenge the world they live in from a position that makes note of how gender is positioned Through power relations and how power is genderized.” The essays in Bitch provide a model for thinking critically about feminism and a plethora of other issues, Jervis said. “The magazine puts popular culture and feminist politics in a context that encourages people to do more,” she added. “I see the magazine as training in critical thinking.” In a society that is so saturated with messages from an endless variety of sources, critical thinking is our only defense, Jervis said. “If we don’t learn to interrogate the messages from these sources, we are totally at their mercy,” she said. Jervis and Zeisler aimed to select, categorize and organize the 54 essays used in the new book to match the sense of what the magazine is about. They included introductions to discuss how each section’s theme relates to the past 10 years’ developments in feminist identity. Since Bitch does not have die budget to post back issues online, the book will fill that void for its readers. “This puts the ardcles in perspective and helps tie together issues,” Jervis said. “It creates a narrative through time.” Although the essays deal with very important topics, Jervis emphasized multiple times that die book is humorous and fun to read. “I definitely should say that the book is really funny,” Jervis said. “These are very serious issues, but we have always brought humor to our work.” Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler will read from BITCHFest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine Saturday, Sef)t. 16 at 7 p.m. at The Regulator Bookshop, located at 720 Ninth Street in Durham.

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