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When sophomore Amanda Tong enrolled in Math 32 last year, she found herself having a hard time with the professor and soon switched out of the class.

“I didn’t understand a word he said,” Tong said. “His delivery wasn’t confident and he was always

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mumbling.”

At the front of the classroom was a graduate student instruc-

Residence Life and Housing Services is

launching a new model for group housing—the Group Living Initiative—that will take effect in January.

In a document sent to Campus Council members and RLHS employees last February, Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, out-

tor—something typically associated with large, impersonal

state schools but in reality not uncom-

mon at Duke.

The Chronicle found that in some departments it is possible to take a halfdozen courses and satisfy 50 percent of requirements for a major without being taught by a faculty member.

Administrators justified the prevalence of graduate instructors and many students said some of their best classes had been led by graduate students.

There are certain economic realities at hand and it is important to provide graduate students with teaching experience, said Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and vice provost of undergraduate education.

“We always try to get the highest level of instruction and sometimes there’s a real supply-and-demand issue,” Thompson explained.

The decision is not simply financial, he said.

“Having graduate students teaching is just one link in a chain of what a research institution is all about,” he said. “The chal-

Graduate students teach many entry-level classes in disciplines such as the romance languages. lenge is to have it be mutually rewarding for both graduates and undergraduates.”

The money issue Why doesn’t the University simply dip into its billions of endowment dollars and put a tenured professor in every classroom?

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Residents ofcertain Edens buildings lost theirair conditioning because of mold and were granted reimbursements by RLHS Wednesday.

Students whose air conditioning service had been terminated Sept. 4 will receive compensation, Eddie Hull, dean ofresidence life and executive director of housing services, said Wednesday.

Students living in a double room will be refunded $389 per person and students living in a single room will be refunded $513 per person, Hull wrote in an e-mail sent to Edens residents late Wednesday. He added that the credit will be posted Oct. 6.

The figures were calculated by the percentage of days during

lined the four elements of the GLI. These are location mapping, policies and procedures, evaluation criteria and governance.

Criteria for the new assessment are scheduled to be finalized at the end ofOctober. Htill sard hie will review and approve them in November.

Approximately 72 spaces on West Campus have been identified as suitable for selective living groups, said Marijean Konopke Williams, director of housing assignments and communications.

This “menu of options” will be presented to Campus Council Sept. 28, she added.

Hull noted that none of the options will be on the main quad. “There isn’t space for everyone,” he said. “The main quad is more visible, which would seem to give the feeling that [the groups] are favored, which isn’t true. r A task group formed by faculty, RLHS employees and members of Campus Council, Interfratemity Council and Selective House Council said they hope to finalize the second element of the GLI—policies SEE LIVING ON PAGE 5

which air conditioning was available. Students had air conditioning for 12 of the typical 54-day

cooling period.

For a double room, each student pays $5OO more per semester than those without air conditioning and students in a single pay $660 more, Hull said.

The cooling system was shut off due to the discovery of mold contamination—with no hazardous effects to student health—in the air handler unit.

Students said they are pleased with the administration’s decision.

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Alleged 9/11 planner to stand trial

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, is expected to face a hearing at the Guantanamo prison camp within three months, a military official said Wednesday.

Mohammed and 13 other “high-value” detainees recently transferred from CIA custody to the United States Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba will face Combatant Status Review Tribunals, said Navy Capt. Phil Waddingham, director of the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants.

The 14 new detainees will be invited to appear at the hearings, held in a small room inside a prefab building here, which will determine whether they are combatants, Waddingham told reporters. If Mohammed appears, it would mark the first time he has been seen since he was captured more than three years ago.

Detainees can refuse to appear but the tribunals will be held regardless, Waddingham said.

Army Brig. Gen. Edward A. Leacock, the deputy commander of Guantanamo, said the 14 new detainees are being treated

humanely.

“They’re all adapting well

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environment,” Leacock told reporters,

adding that they’re fed three times a day, have recreational opportunities and have opportunities to pray five times per day.

They have been given materials to write letters, which will be given to the Red Cross for mailing after they have been censored by the military, Leacock said. The Red Cross announced in Geneva Wednesday they will visit the 14 new detainees next week.

Waddingham told reporters visiting Guantanamo that preparations were being made for the Combatant Status Review Tribunal for Mohammed and the other 13 detainees.

Congress votes'yes'on voter ID bill by

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WASHINGTON The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to require Americans to show proof of citizenship in order to vote, and the Senate moved to build a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border as Republicans sharpened attacks on illegal immigration before the midterm elections.

The 228-196 House vote on a new photo ID plan and the Senate’s consideration of the fence were both part of a get-tough policy on illegal immigrants that Republicans have embraced after Congress’ failure to

agree on broader legislation that would set a path for undocumented workers to attain

cidzenship.

House GOP leaders have insisted that

tighter borders and tougher laws must precede more comprehensive immigration changes.

The House passed the fence bill last week and plans votes Thursday on other enforcement measures: to increase penalties for people building tunnels under the border, make it easier to detain and deport immigrant gang members and criminals and clarify the ability of state and local authorities to detain illegal immigrants.

Republican sponsors of the voter identification bill said it was a common sense way to stop fraud at the polls. People need photo IDs to board planes, buy alcohol or cash checks, said Rep. Vernon Ehlers, R-Mich., chairman of the House Administration Committee. “This is not a new concept.”

“This is what Americans want,” said Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., “They want safe borders and they want safe ballots.”

But Democrats assailed the legislation, saying it could hurt minorities, the poor and the elderly, who might have trouble producing a photo identification.

his verbal battle with the United States to the floor of the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday, calling President George W. Bush "the devil."

Arrest made in Colo, killing A man was arrested in the gruesome dragging death of a woman after a stained and tattered photograph of him was found at the crime scene, police said Wednesday.

Jose Luis Rubi-Nava, 36, was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of murder and jailed withoutbail.

E. coll found in New Mexico The nationwide E. coli outbreak spread to two more states Wednesday, and investigators reported finding contaminated spinach in the refrigerator of one victim.

The outbreak has sickened at least 146 people in 23 states.

Oldest child skeleton found Scientists have discovered a remarkably complete skeleton of a 3-year-old female from the ape-man species represented by "Lucy." The discovery should fuel a debate about whether this species, which walked upright, also climbed and moved through trees easily like an ape.

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Nine months after its opening, students are giving The Oasis, a center for student health and stress management, mixed reviews.

Housed in the first floor of the Bell Tower Dormitory, students said the biggest problem the facility seems to face is visibility.

“I didn’t even know what it was,” said senior Allana Strong. “I had no idea.”

Kevin Harrell, Student Health education specialist at The Oasis, estimated that on average about 25 students come in every night during the facility’s operating hours from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday.

To address the problem, The Oasis has recently added a set of new programs and attractions to bring in more students. The most popular of these are two fully automated, massaging lounge chairs that offer Swedish, Shiatsu and stretch massages.

“That has been a huge draw for people,” Harrell said. “People come in sometimes just so they can relax in the chairs.”

Still, upperclassmen and freshmen said SEE OASIS ON PAGE 5

The Oasis relaxation room opened in the Bell Tower Dormitory ninemonthsago but has limitedpopularity.

Representatives from Compass Group Duke’s new dining service—addressed Duke Student Government Wednesday night to discuss their dining concept and plans for the upcoming months.

The company said its primary focus is supplying local, socially conscious food to the University. “We’re very much into trying to use fresh, locally grown produce when we can,” said Paul Weinberg, general manager of East Campus eateries. “The farther you take the food, the less flavor it has.”

The Marketplace is taking several measures to ensure the quality of their food, said Executive Chef Mike Aquaro. The dining service, managed by Bon Appetit—the Compass Group subsidiary that replaced ARAMARK, Corp. July I—already provides antibiotic- and hormone-free poultry, all-natural hamburgers and is hoping to have a 100-percent-local salad bar and hormone-free dairy products soon.

In addition to local food, students now have more vegetarian options, Weinberg said. “Growing up for me, vegetarian items were really things that didn’t taste good—well, that’s certainly not the case.”

The Compass Group representatives also spoke about several grievances they have heard and changes they are planning.

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The Bryan Center teems with well dressed prospective employers and employees Wednesday.

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officials could talk to the Central Intelligence Agency.

For junior Alex Huang, the fair had become more significant this year than in years past. A double major in biomedical engineering and economics, Huang said that in his third visit to the fair he had a clearer picture of what he wanted to do and came prepared.

“It’s really how you approach it,” he said. “If you have some really good questions, you can get a lot out of it.”

Huang looked at consulting firms that could combine his interests in finance and engineering. A veteran of the Career Fair, Huang plans to come again next year as a senior.

For underclassmen, still a long way off from entering the “real world,” the fair mainly offered an opportunity to mill around, hear what the representatives had to say and grab some free stuff—including the coveted Wachovia Rubik’s cube.

Some companies were more sought after than others. A busy hub of interested students surrounded the Microsoft table, while the Mississippi Teacher Corps table remained rather quiet.

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Students in need of a free pedometer needed to look no farther than the Career Fair Wednesday afternoon.

Of course, career advice and job opportunities were also available at the Career Center’s annual event.

More than 100 recruiters from a wide spectrum of companies, agencies and organizations set up tables on all three levels of the Bryan Center Wednesday.

Representatives talked to interested students, answered questions and distributed pens, key chains and water bottles—all emblazoned with company logos.

The fair was organized for both undergraduate and graduate students.

Many arrived dressed in professional suits to impress potential employees, while others opted to show up in everyday jeans and T-shirts.

About 1,500 students came to the fair between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., a Career Center organizer said.

At peak hours, navigating through the crowd was difficult, especially for those who just wanted to reach Alpine Atrium.

But the fair’s broad range of offerings attracted students pursuing a wide array of jobs. Future bankers could talk to Wachovia, future educators could talk to Teach For America and future gov-

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While handing out carrot- and green bean-shaped pens, members of Healthy Devils and Educating Students to Eliminate Eating Misconceptions offered fresh-

men information about how to eat healthily at the Marketplace Wednesday.

Fear of gaining the “Freshman 15” has prompted many students to consciously avoid early college weight gain, and the University' has provided a number of ways for students to be mindful of their health.

“I don’t think it’ll be an issue for me because I exercise a lot and try to eat healthy,” said freshmanLuke Chapin, who is a member of the “Duke 2010 Anti-Freshman 15” Facebook group. “But I definitely have that in mind when I’m eating, and that’s part of the reason I exercise and try to stay away from the dessert bar.”

Along with providing a variety of handouts, student health dieticiansToni Apadula and Anna Lutz manned a table in front of the Marketplace Wednesday, where interested students could request a tour.

The tours, which varied in length, mainly emphasized the importance of eating a balanced meal with the food offered by the new Bon Appetit vendor.

Freshman Kana Hatakeyama, who chose to go on the tour, said the information provided was useful, but noted that it would have been equally helpful to have students read the information themselves.

Like Hatakcyama, Chapin said he felt he already knew most of the information and therefore did not go on the tour.

Lutz said that generally she has received a lot of positive feedback from a variety of students about the quality of the food at the Marketplace this year.

Chapin agreed, adding that he feels the Marketplace serves a variety of healthy and non-healthy options, allowing students to decide how they want to eat.

He added, however, that his one complaint about the Marketplace was that the freshman meal plan only guarantees breakfast and dinner each day.

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freshmen, that’s the only two meals they’re going to eat during that day,” he said. “And two meals a day, two large meals, is not nearly as healthy as several smaller meals.”

In order to eat healthily, Lutz said she recommends a well-balanced meal or snack every three-to-four hours, eating breakfast within an hour of waking and eating in moderation.

Both staff and students said pressures from the media and Duke’s social atmosphere resulted in an increased focus on eating habits.

“I think there’s social pressure for one to be healthy and to be fit just to fit into the crowd at Duke,” Chapin said. “I think the University also does a good job sponsoring healthy choices and holding discus-

sions about health. It’s coming from both the University and the student body themselves—the pressure of being fit, being healthy, just to fit in.”

Lutz said that many students have unrealistic body expectations.

“Oftentimes there is a focus on a certain body type, a certain ideal body type,” Lutz said. “Students will wonder what they can do to achieve that body type when oftentimes it’s not realistic.”

Lutz added that the media places a lot of emphasis on the Freshman 15.

“We see a lot of articles written lately about that,” Lutz said. “I think it’s not something that happens to everyone. Studies have shown that it’s not usually 15 pounds; it’s usually less than that.”

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For many Duke students, exercise seems simple—the more hours spent working out, the more calories burned and the more weight lost.

But Ralph La Forge, Duke physiologist and consulting associate in endocrinology, metabolism and nutrition, would say otherwise.

La Forge, managing director of the Duke Lipid Disorder Preceptorship Program, recently published a review of current fitness literature in which he found that “there’s not a linear, perfect relationship” between the volume of weekly exercise and the number of pounds lost.

Citing the misconception that calories burned are directly proportional to weight loss, La Forge said people should instead consider the net energy cost of their exercise.

He said they should be aware that some calories are burned while being idle, so the readout of burned calories on exercise machines, for example, overestimates the number ofcalories actually used.

La Forge noted, however, that changes in weight can be misinterpreted.

“In the early stages of an exercise program, it may be difficult to judge what is fat loss and what is muscle gain,” La Forge said. According to his report, water loss can also be misleadingly reflected in body weight changes.

He said people too often fail to consider these facts. “Too many people let the weight scale dictate their exercise, when the exercise itself is the most important factor [for health reasons],” La Forge said.

By directing his report at medical professionals, La Forge said he hopes to SEE EXERCISE ON PAGE 6

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Other factors that will be taken into consideration include group sizes, objectives and budget, among other things, said senior Dave Lee, Selective House Council and procedures—by the end of September. president and a member of the task force.

The task force plans to evaluate groups at the end of Students from various organizations will join Deb Lo each calendar year and score them based on the new asBiondo, assistant dean for residence life and housing servsessment’s criteria, said senior Jay Ganatra, president of ices on West Campus, in supervising the evaluation of Campus Council and a member of the task force groups and the governance of the GLI. Every three years, the average Hull said the GLI will allow scores of the 25 selective living RLHS to share governance over groups will be compared. selective housing issues with stu“We want to make [relocation] Groups that score highly will be dents. able to request squatter rights, not so random and make the “This will give students a relocation, expansion and other greater vested interest, but it’s choices based more on what benefits. Those with a lower very complex to design,” he score will be punished accordadded. “This will give students you’ve done.” ingly and may even get kicked off a deeper understanding of —Jay Ganatra what a community is, and how campus, Ganatra explained He said that this will be a fairthey both impact and are imPresident, Campus Council er way to determine how groups pacted by the community.” are placed around campus.

Selective living group leaders “We want to give the incentive for a good location but also said they applaud the administration’s move. ensure movement [among the groups],” Ganatra added.

“It’s great that it’s student driven and students are so Some selective house leaders are worried about the involved,” said senior Daron Gunn, president of Chi Psi possibility of relocation. fraternity.

“The history of an organization and its relationship This will also prevent well-behaved groups from being with the quad should also be taken into account,” said senshifted to Edens Quadrangle or kicked off campus by the ior Peter Williams, president of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. administration, Ganatra said.

“I want our alumni to come back to the same place Students in selective groups said the new assessment [where] they lived 10years ago.” will allow them to prove that they deserve a desirable The task force will start to finalize the criteria for the housing section on campus. assessment—the third element of the GLI—after the pro“I remember people in Brownstone were upset when cedures are finalized. Groups will be evaluated on what they cancelled the annual review,” said senior Rebecca Miller, president of Brownstone. “We didn’t have a chance they bring to and take from the community, Hull said.

“We want there to be as little subjectivity in the criteria to show the administration what we were doing and why as possible, but also allow flexibility for the different we deserved to have housing.”

The last shuffling of groups occurred in fall of 2002, groups,” Ganatra said. “We want to make sure the process is perfect.”

Konopke Williams said, adding that 22 selective living Some students said they believe gauging a selective livgroups were moved. ing group’s contributions to the community is a good Groups were assigned sections based on the preferences they submitted as much as possible, but not everyway to evaluate the group.

“It’s a fair assessment,” said junior Robert DeHaas, one got their top choice, she said.

“We want to make [relocation] not so random and president of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. “It makes you responsible for your actions —if you don’t benefit the make the choices based more on what you’ve done,” Ganatra said. quad, you should be punished.” from page 1

OASIS from page 3 they did not take advantage of The Oasis’ programs because of the facility’s inconvenient location.

“I definitely think there’s a big disincentive for upperclassmen... not only in it being on East [Campus], but in being so far removed from the bus stop and Lilly [Library] said senior Allyson Johnson. “I feel like if they could convert a space on the Main [East] Quad for that same purpose, they might get more attendance.”

Freshmen who live on East also said they are often unwilling to make the trek to Bell Tower to enjoy the amenities offered by The Oasis.

“I think it’s a great idea,” said freshman Vivek Upadhyay. “I just haven’t been taking advantage of it.”

Also new to The Oasis this year is a seminar series entided “In the Know,” which is co-sponsored by the Women’s Center and educates students about various aspects of campus living Seminars, including “KnowYr Laundry” and “KnowYr Place,” cover a wide range of topics that pertain to the college students.

Thursday, The Oasis will launch the Healthy Competition Challenge, which offers an end-of-semester social for the neighborhood with the highest attendance at Oasis programming.

Students who have made it to The Oasis responded favorably to the facility and its programs.

“I absolutely love it. As soon as you walk into The Oasis, you feel relaxed,” said freshman Rebecca Yu. “It’s such a calming environment.”

First-time visitor Ashni Parekh, a junior, said she took advantage of the sparse crowd in attendance at The Oasis Sunday afternoon to take an extended massage.

She added that she will definitely be coming back in the future.

As for what some students characterize as The Oasis’ inconvenient location, Harrell offers a different perspective.

“I really like that we are on East, an all-freshman campus,” he said. “I think this is a great place to start a message about self-care and making sure that students come in and relax when they need to.”

“Starting with freshmen will help get that message across and hopefully students will take that with them throughout their years at Duke,” Harrell added.

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Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong has submitted a motion questioning the role of defense attorneys in the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse rape case in conducting a survey that he says tainted the potential jury pool.

In the motion, filed Wednesday afternoon, Nifong asked Superior Court Judge Osmond Smith to order the defense lawyers to detail their involvement in a survey conducted by New York research firm Central Research Services, Inc. Nifong also asked that Smith order the surveying be stopped.

According to an affidavit attached to the motion, a surveyor called Nifong’s wife, Cy Gurney, Sept. 11 and spoke to her for about an hour. The interviewer asked about her knowledge of the lacrosse case and her perception of the guilt or innocence of the three players charged, she wrote in the sworn statement.

“Many of the questions asked, however, actually constituted a thinly-disguised attempt to influence the opinions of the respondents,” Nifong wrote in the motion. “The survey activity... if allowed to go unchecked, would pose a substantial impediment to the ability of this court to guarantee that all parties in this case be given a fair trial.”

When she realized the nature of the survey she started writing down as many of the questions as she could, Gurney said, adding that “the surveyor seemed more interested in telling a story than in getting my answers.”

Defense attorneys representing the three accused players filed a motion later Wednesday afternoon stating the survey had been limited to 300 interviews and that they participated equally in approving it.

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“I think it’s the appropriate response,” said sophomore Gregory Caiola, Edens 3A resident. “We paid for AC,

didn’t get it and got paid back.”

Some residents, however, said the administration should have acted faster.

“It’s annoying how long they took,” said sophomore Rebecca Wong, Edens 3B resident. “[Their cost analysis] did not include inconvenience.”

Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a senior, said the University handled the problem very well.

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funds],” Ganatra said

“I’m glad they did it without having to wait for our input on it.” The only further action needed is to fix the problem as soon as possible, he added.

Hull said the cleaning of the ducts is planned for winter break, when the rooms are not occupied.

Earlier last week, 41 window units were installed into commons areas and rooms where residents have an established medical need for air conditioning.

In addition, 160 fans were placed around the buildings and given to students, Hull said.

Students said the situation is much better now that the outside temperature is cooling down.

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Puig, Jessica Tung and Min Park were elected to the Student Organization Finance Committee, as well as upperclassucated in customer service and cashier regmen Nathaniel Minott, Mayowa Ajayi, isters will face students so they can ensure Sagar Sanghvi and Andrew George. they are being charged correcdy. At the Sophomores Kimberly Cheeseman, Blaise Marketplace, reviews are being made to ad- Cote, Youngjoo Ha, Daniel Houghton, Audress long lines and overcrowding. rora Lopez and Andrew Tutt were elected In another presentation, senior David to the Auditing Committee.

Snider, vice president for athletics and Presidential and University Committee campus services, said there has been a 14 Representatives were confirmed. Transpercent increase in bus usage since last portation Advisory Committee: sophomores year, and now two students serve as repreEdgar Mkrtchian and RJ PathrofFand senior sentatives at meetings for parking ticket Josh Posen; Harassment Grievance Board: appeals. junior Jeremy Marshall; Committee on FaSnider noted complaints about the high cilities and Environment: junior Lee Pearcost of parking tickets. “I bring it up freson and senior Vijay Brihmadesam; Advisory quently, but it doesn’t seem to go very far,” Committee on Investment Responsibility: he said. junior Paul Slattery; and Athletic Council: sophomore Scott McKenzie and junior Leslie Voorhees and Paul Zarian, a freshIn other business: Freshmen Brian Humphrey, Jacqueline man, as an alternate.

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spread information about the other-health benefits of exercise, such as risk reduction for chronic illnesses like heart disease and diabetes. “There’s a direct relationship between how many calories you burn and [reducing] the incidence of any obesity-related disease,” he said.

“There’s a fairly linear relationship between the two.”

At Duke, though, that concern may not weigh heavily on students’ minds.

“It’s just not very salient,” said Kim McNally, program coordinator for health, physical education and recreation. “[Students] care, but they don’t really care. The emphasis is on the aesthetic, and also on quality oflife.”

McNally added that many students are more motivated by short-term visible effects of exercise than long-term health benefits.

“I exercise to have more energy and to be able to fit my clothes,” freshman Danielle Johns said. “And I’m less stressed.”

Freshman Alyssa Dack also said physical fitness is important, but disagreed that “staying in shape” is a virtue in and of itself.

“I’d say the campus as a whole is a pretty active campus,” Back said. “So people are more interested in having that kind of lifestyle than really being conscious of needing to work out and stay in shape.”

And working out habitually without necessarily focusing on weight loss is the kind of understanding Duke health professionals said they ideally want students to have. McNally, however, said she doesn’t think a clear majority of students feel that way.

“I think that at Duke you tend to see a lot of extremes,” McNally said. ‘You see some studentswho don’t have an exercise program at all and perhaps don’t have the knowledge to start one. At the other extreme, you have students who may over-exercise and perhaps don’t have enough knowledge to develop a safe exercise program.”

La Forge said, however, that as students learn more about fitness, they might be curious as to what exactly they should do to lose weight. “Don’t try to micromanage every pound of body weight loss with exercise,” he said.

“Let physical activity itself be the benefit and the outcome measure, and if it is, you’ll find more reward in terms of risk reduction, and ultimately, weight management.”

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After having a bad experience in a class taught by a graduate instructor last year, sophomore Naomi Schwartz said she now refuses to take a class with anyone other than a full-time faculty member. “I actually was in a class this semester with a graduate student and I switched out of it,” she said.

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“It wouldn’t be feasible—it would cost Language programs at both UNC-CH and N.C. State use fewer enormous amounts,” said Mark Stern, graduate students than Duke, and the Jury’s still out as to whether chair of the Department of Mathematics. that puts the Gothic Wonderland at a disadvantage.

There is not clear evidence that graduate students are inferior instructors, At UNC, romance language classes are taught by 40 percent gradStern explained, noting that in many uate students and 60 percent non-tenure-track lecturers with Ph.D.s. course evaluations, graduate students outperform professors.

At N.C. State, there are a total of four graduate students who “At the lower-level classes, sometimes A closer look serve as teaching assistants for lower-level classes, but all other lanthe undergrads like having someone who The Department of Romance Studies guage classes are taught by non-tenure-track faculty. is closer to them in outlook,” he said. makes for an interesting case study.

This semester, 66 percent of first-year Every Trinity College student is reDuke’s Department of Romance Studies graduate instructors mathematics classes—which cover materiquired to take three semesters of a forteach one course per semester—UNC allows up to two—and N.C. al through Calculus ll—are being taught eign language or prove proficiency in State is not comparable because it does not have a large graduate one, so there is a steady demand for by graduate students. program, said Margaret Greer, chair of the department.

Stern defended the practice as neceslower-level classes in Spanish, French, sary, adding that no one teaches without Italian and Portuguese.

Duke has no graduate programs in the more out of that course when they’re actuThe graduate students each currently training, which includes teaching a lab under an experienced professor. teach only one course per year, said Joseph classroom,” latter two, but the 767 students currently the Greer explained. ally in Harris, current director of the University “If we have someone who we deem not enrolled in beginner or intermediate More prevalent than graduate instruca good teacher then we don’t put them in Spanish and French classes are more likely tors, she said, are non-tenured adjunct Writing Program.

With mentoring from senior faculty, a classroom right away,” he said. than not to have a graduate student as professors with master’s degrees who are not working toward a Ph.D. they can be effective, Harris said.

But Jason, a senior who asked his last their instructor for a few semesters.

“I’m very happy to have a small cadre of name be withheld, said he currently has a Because graduate students take classes “Getting enough Spanish faculty is a limited to one students be part of our prograduate instructor who is not to said. while are ready teaching, they graduate challenge,” Thompson teach.

The idea that graduate students are inclass per semester, but adjuncts may teach gram,” he said.

“She’s not used to delivering lectures, ferior language instructors is untrue, up to three—and they actually are paid The end result so she’ll just ask a lot of questions,” he said. though, said Margaret Greer, chair of the less per course, she said.

Still, if the solution to Writing 20’s woes “It’s a system that’s taking over at many “There is usually just dead silence.”

Department of Romance Studies. to replace the graduate instructors, was Graduate students in English teach The syllabus for beginner and intermediU.S. universities,” she noted. why not apply that philosophy to the rest classes only after they are finished with ate language courses is set departmentally, of the University? their own coursework and are working not by the individual instructor, she added.

Lesson learned Administrators said it’s not only about “Students sometimes get the wrong idea The Writing 20 program is a corneron their qualifying exams and dissertathe undergraduate experience, but it is stone of the first-year experience. tions, said lan Baucom, chair of the Engthat graduate students are fully in charge of the classes,” she said. “They are superEvery freshman, regardless of school or also about the need for graduate students lish Department. coordinator.” academic interest, must take a seminar to to have time in front of a classroom.

Even then, only one of 10 required vised by an experienced “There’s no such thing as the gentleman student takes a oneshore up the basics of college writing. classes for the major can be taught by gradgraduate Every uate instructors, whom Baucom called week workshop before their first teaching Revamped in 2000, the program has scholar, where you just research and work “teachers in formation.” experience—no small consideration, as won national awards for excellence. Only for a living,” explained Larry King, interim chair of the Department of Romance Lanthe majority are not native English speakeight of its 140 sections are taught by grad“The University understands the imporuate students. guages and Literature at the University of ers, she said. tance of doing that,” Baucom said, referNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. century, however, are someBack the 20th Writin Although foreign graduates ring to the prevalence of full-time faculty Stern echoed that sentiment.

Ameriless lauded. times unfamiliar with the difficulties 20 was significantly ing “There are other departments in English.

“A university can’t survive without “What was happening wasn’t of the [at other universities] that don’t receive can students face while learning a language, teaching its graduate students to teach,” Greer said the increased cultural enrichquality that we expected because we hadthat type of support.” it,” he said. worthwhile. n’t made the investment Thompson in his ment makes the department exchange said that since Baucom Eliminating all graduate instructors is The first year is always tough, Greer recalled. “We had previously relied almost does not have a lot of lecture classes with secsimply not an feasible option, said Bautotally on graduate students and we needtions, many graduate students design their said, adding that graduate students are recom, of the English department. that.” to ed to do better than teaching students. take a methodology courses, aimed at quired first-year own “We have a responsibility to help them in The University re-conceptualized the “It hasn’t ever been an item of concern course in their first semester as instrucmillion dollars their movement to become teachers themthan the secseveral who which comes no earlier course by providing tors, unthat we’ve had graduate students selves,” Baucom said. and the replacing school. of additional funding he ond of graduate year to,” haven’t responded dergraduates “The graduate students are theAmerican “We’ve tried it both ways —methodolo- graduate students with post-doctoral felexplained. said. of the future,” he added. faculty lows, think get Thompson students are then they That may be because some teaching—but I gy, •

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“We were clicking really well, we just couldn’t score goals,” senior midfielder Lauren Tippets said. “We still created a lot of opportunities. I think it was just a lack of finishing last weekend.”

The defense, on the other hand, flourished in the tournament, holding traditional powerhouse Florida and scrappy Marquette to just one goal apiece.

Junior goalkeeper Allison Lipsher played particularly well in the loss and the tie, Church said.

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“As a whole, we need to put everything together,” head coach Robbie Church said. “When we do that, we’re going to put a hurting on somebody. And I think we’re going to put a hurting on somebody soon.”

When Duke takes the field in Blacksburg, Va. the focus will be on revitalizing a struggling offense. Church said he will not make any positional changes, and the team does not seem too worried about its anemic output, even though the Blue Devils only scored once last weekend in the Duke/adidas Classic.

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Freshman quarterback Thaddeus Lewis was looking downfield at tight end Nick Stefanow when Virginia Tech’s Aaron Rouse nailed him in the head with a helmetto-helmet hit Saturday.

Now, recovered from what he called a “very, very, very mild concussion,” Lewis is still looking forward, hoping to move on from the incident that knocked him out of Duke’s 36-0 loss in Blacksburg, Va. “It’s out of my hands,” Lewis said Wednesday, the first time he has spoken to the media since the hit. “I can’t do anything about it, but I guess it’s all just a part of football.”

Lewis finally got a chance to watch tape of the play during Duke’s film session Tuesday, and he said it looked a lot worse, on tape than it actually was. Still, he admitted SEE LEWIS ON PAGE 10

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Freshman quarterback Thaddeus Lewis returned to practiceWednesday after leaving Saturday's game against Virginia Tech with a concussion.

This summer, NCAA officials altered some of college football’s rules concerning clock management with the aim of shortening games. Three weeks in, ACC coaches are learning to appreciate every second.

The NCAA instituted the changes during the offseason in an attempt to cut out between 10 and 15 plays per game in order to shorten television broadcasts. So far, average game times have fallen about 15 minutes.

The clock now starts when the ball is kicked-off, as opposed to when the ball is caught. Also, time starts on the referees whistle when possession changes, rather than when the ball is snapped.

“It’s something new,” North Carolina head coach John Bunting said. “You’re more alert to it. I know I’m going to SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE 10

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had to “waste a timeout” earlier than he would have liked.

“I think [the rule changes are] makask the referee before every game how he ing us really see how important timeouts is going to call it because it’s always a little are,” FSU head coach Bobby Bowden bit different. At the end of the game and said. “We’ve got to be more careful with end of the half, you have to heighten your them now. They seem more precious than they were before..,.. I can see why awareness to what’s going on.”

In making the change, the NCAA rules some teams are having problems with it.”

Other ACC coaches had other concommittee was hoping to limit games to about three hours. In the past few years, cerns, such as the players’ health.

Auburn head coach and NCAA rules games have lasted closer to three and a half committee member Tommy Tuberville hours.

The rules played a significant role in said games that drag on this long in exweek one, as rivals Miami and Florida State treme weather each week could be detrimental to the athletes. were in a three-point game with time windIn order to ensure his players’ health, ing down. The Hurricanes were trailing and had just given the ball back to the Georgia head coach Chan Gailey takes Seminoles. special precautions before games.

“We feed a guy a pre-game meal four In previous years, Miami head coach Larry Coker could have burned each of hours before game time because that’s his timeouts after FSU’s three downs, what’s been proven over the years to be forced a punt and lost relatively little time. the most effective thing,” Gailey said. “In But the clock continued to run after the the fourth quarter of a four-plus hour change of possession, so Coker said he game, you’re putting a young man in jeopardy. His energy level is low, and his nourishment is low.”

Although some fans have complained about shorter games, and other coaches have voiced the added difficulties the rules puts on them, Gailey said this should not be the focus.

“Is it harder on us? Yes,” he said. “But are we in this for us, or are we in this for the players?”

In another rule change in April 2005, The NCAA added the option to schedule a 12th game for Division-IA schools as a financial boost to the schools individually and the sport as a whole. Given the statistics so far this season, Duke head coach Ted Roof said he believes that about a game’s worth of plays will be eliminated by the time rule changes, thereby making up for the additional game.

With or without the extra game, injuries and late-game weariness will likely decrease with players on the field for a shorter time each game.

“I’m sure glad the game’s being sped up,” Bowden said. “It’s a long time to stay out there. I think we’re taking a lot out of players, so anything to shorten the WEIYITAN/THE CHRONICLE games and get them off the field is a The NCAA changed its rules for football this seagood thing. There’s other things they son in an attempt to shorten the length of games. want to do rather than just play football.”

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Rouse’s hit knocked him out for 10 seconds and left him with headaches.

“I didn’t really see it coming,” Lewis said. “It actually wasn’t that bad.... I was focusing on my teammate—I saw him catch the ball and then I got hit.”

After several minutes down on the field Saturday, Lewis walked to the Duke locker room on his own power. Medical staff examined Lewis and performed an xray on his jaw.

When the x-ray came back negative, Lewis and his mother, who had rushed down from the stands to make sure her son was okay, breathed a sigh of relief.

The quarterback returned to the field to be with his teammates.

“I was just hurting to be a cheerleader and not being out there helping my team,” Lewis said. “The best thing I could do was try to lift up my team and encourage them to keep playing hard.”

Because of the bye week, head coach Ted Roof gave his team off from practice until Wednesday. When the Blue Devils returned to the field, Lewis participated fully in the team’s drills. Lewis said he would be ready to play by Duke’s next

game, at home against Virginia Sept. 30.

In that game and beyond, Duke will rely on the freshman to lead its offense, which has been held scoreless twice in three games so far this season. The Blue Devils’ coaching staff needs Lewis, one of two scholarship quarterbacks on the roster, to stay healthy.

“My coaches are telling me that I need to learn how to slide sometimes instead of going in head first,” Lewis said.

Lewis has thrown for 463 yards so far this season, including 305 in Duke’s 14-13 loss at Wake Forest. But he struggled before getting hurt at Virginia Tech, throwing for just 10 yards on six attempts. His longest completion of the game was on the pass to Stefanow—the play on which he was knocked out.

With Saturday’s incident now in the rearview mirror—Lewis said even the headaches from the concussion are gone—Duke will lean on its freshman quarterback and his continued improvement as the team searches for its first victory of the 2006 season.

“I’ll never forget it, but you can’t think about it,” Lewis said. “We just have to take it one game at a time and focus on the opponent and our game plan and just go out there on Saturdays and execute.”

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“Every ACC team is going to be tough,” senior Rachel Rose-Cohen said. “No master where they finished last year, every game is full of an aggressive environment, and everybody wants to win.”

Virginia Tech’s head coach Kelly Cagle especially wants a victory against her almamater. Cagle graduated Duke in 1996 and was a three-time All America and ACC Player of the Year in 1995.

Duke’s defense will try to halt the Hokies’ scoring attack led by freshman Emily Jukich, who has scored six goals this season.

Despite Virginia Tech’s relative success this season, Duke still feels confident it will put its offense and defense together to begin its run for an ACC regular season

W. SOCCER from page 9 Church’s squad has already faced challenges this year. After its 1-1 draw with Marquette Sunday, Duke dropped out of the top 25 for the first time all season.

To prepare his team for the brutally competitive ACC, Church compiled a tough non-conference schedule to open the season. Four of Duke’s first nine opponents qualified for the NCAA tournament last fall.

“We’ve learned a lot about us,” Church said. “I think we’re very, very close to being a very good team.”

Virginia Tech is not ranked in the top 25 and is coming off a 3-0 loss to Evansville, but that does not mean Duke is taking the Hokies lighdy. The Blue Devils have never lost to Virginia Tech, beating the Hokies twice in the last two years. But Church’s team has played the Hokies in Durham both years.

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From Crowell to Craven, Few to Edens, quads on West have been plagued in recent months with everything from collapsing ceilings and exploding toilets to mold infestations. Before any other projects are green lighted, these pressing problems should be addressed.

In addition, the decision to increase the presence of faculty members in residence halls renews the ageold, unanswered concept of the “quad model.” Although no definitive plan has been put forth providing a blueprint of what the quad should be and what it might become, the present plan has all the markings of a “college system,” which exists in a variety of forms at other institutions, most notably Yale.

However, we are not Yale

and our architectural infrastructure will not allow for our residential model to imitate Yale, or for that matter, the residential experience on East Campus.

In addition to the obvious lack of kitchens and classrooms, there are too many entrances to quads, the hallways are too narrow and the commons rooms too small to hope to achieve the same sort of identity in quads on West that Duke fosters in its residence halls on East or that exist at other institutions.

If, then, the expansion of the faculty-in-residence program on West Campus is just a precursor to greater changes to quad life on West, such a policy should be rethought with students both in mind and in the decision-making loop.

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such confrontations The changes will unavoidably disrupt the delicate balance of fraternities and selective living groups as they exist in their current form.

Adding faculty-in-residence to the fold in advance of the implementation of the new Selective Community Assessment is poorly timed. It will only complicate the jobs of Campus Council and the newly established student committee entrusted to oversee selective living group housing on campus as they look to make changes to residence life on West Campus.

Furthermore, before RLHS spends any money to convert commons spaces and student rooms into faculty apartments, it should focus on much-needed and long-overdue renovations to West Campus.

other day, I went to have dinner at the Loop she insists on bringing this abuse up. Unfortunately with a longtime friend from freshman year, a for her, none of her siblings recalls it happening or good-natured but not particularly astute selec- cares to hear about it. Nevertheless, she presses on tive living group bum. You know the type—not the and gets them all very angry.

I said to her that what her relationships suffer most suave or well-dressed, but, more than capable of charming mildly attractive members (albeit only from is her excessive candor. Upon realizing that her curious conversational strategy of focusing on mildly attractive members) of the opposite sex. past and, as we waitfamily traumas doesn’t work, she should, I said, We sat outside, drop it completely. ed for our food, watched the many I, on the other hand, never reveal passersby. Each time I recognized what I really think. I am the only persomeone someone, especially son in the family who doesn’t laugh worth knowing, he would ask, at her ideas, not because I think “how do you know so-and-so,” in they’re reasonable but because I the most surprised tone, as if it value the health of our conversation were a shock that I should know over my being honest with her at any anyone. I found this reaction asher Steinberg rather peculiar. given moment. This is why I am the cucumber sandwiches only member of the family who gets This went on for a while, until along with her—because I am willing finally one of his living group friends came by to discuss girls and things. My to be dishonest.

My theory, then, is this. In any relationship or infriend mentioned that he was in mass last Sunday and met the cutest girl from a certain sorority teraction, you must constantly ask yourself the following question: What matters to me more—my named “Amanda.” Amanda who, I asked? No sooner could I get the question out of my mouth than honesty with this person or our relationship? If you did my friend make a snickering grin and mutter, do not care at all about the person, then you are, of course, free to be as candid as you like.

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But if you do care, there are many situations It was all I could do to prevent myself from either punching him in the face or coughing up my deli- where you should lie or keep your mouth shut. The cious Loop Burger —for the reason that I inquired latter, in particular, is a lost art. I find it very aggraafter Amanda’s surname was not so I could go look vating to hear that my grandfather, whom I greatly her up, but to see if his charming church-girl was admire, had a habit of beating his dog, especially the same Amanda with whom I hooked up, last year, when I know that it isn’t true. But if I told my aunt after a costume party. And, as it happened, she was. she was delusional, we would cease to be on speaking terms at all.

For the boy whose story I just told, and for oththemselves from Similarly, my friend may be shocked, out of igers, who, like him, don’t stop norance or possibly just plain stupidity, that I remarks—indeed, offensive similarly out blurting who don’t know when they are being offensive —I know so-and-so. But if he had a mind, he would fear this guide will have no use. It can only be of stop and ask himself what matters to him more his sharing his surprise with me, or our friendship, aid to the self-aware. If you consider yourself a reawhich may not be able to withstand his constant sonably self-aware individual, do, please, read on.

This theory came to me during an intolerably long expressions of shock that I should know anyone on campus. phone call with my aunt. My aunt gets along with noIn the end, then, friendship, like so much in life, body in my family but me. I get along with everyone comes down to cost-benefit analysis. Do the benefits in my family. I tried to figure out, as the conversation wore on, just why this was, and I realized that it comes of sharing whatever’s on your mind outweigh the down to a difference in honesty. Let me explain. potential costs? If not, a rational person will be careMy aunt is sick, and is very angry that no one ful with his words. And to those who, like my friend, seems to care. She believes that the estrangement are not even capable of making this kind of analybetween her and the family is due to a pattern of sis—good luck. child abuse on the part of her father, which someAsher Steinberg is a Trinity junior. His column runs how caused the rift between her and her siblings.

Whenever my aunt speaks to any of her siblings, every Thursday.

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recently encountered a friend in the Regulator Bookstore who had just sent his son off to college. He told me a revealing story. “I have always told my children that it is better to fail than to lie or cheat. Imagine my surprise when looking through an old college diary, I realized that I had both lied and cheated on more than one occasion, and what most surprised me was that I had absolutely no memory of having done so.” I think almost every parent has found him or herself caught in similar michael gillespie embarrassing conguest column tradictions, even though few of us have the strength to admit it.

While useful and very well intended, the current efforts to improve campus culture in the wake of the lacrosse case often seem to me to have a similar element of amnesia about them.

The complaints are familiar: “Students drink too much!” “They’re not serious enough about their studies!” “They don’t really love ideas?” “They are not committed enough!” And especially, “Athletes get away with murder!” Many of us on the faculty grew up or came of age in the 1960s and 19705, and in the light of nostalgia we remember our high-intentioned political activism, the fight for civil rights, the protests against the war, our dedication to making the world a better place—on occasion we even talk about all of this with our students—but few of us recount those horrible Sunday mornings, the often embarrassing and at times dangerous things that not we (no it couldn’t have been us) but our friends, or other students we knew did. I sometimes think that like my friend we have forgotten what we were like when we were that age.

But many of us have been parents and to our students we seem often so parentlike that they can hardly believe that we were once like them (“Like us, those old farts; it can’t be true!) Ah, but it is true, and in many ways we are still more similar to our students than either we, or they, would like to admit. It is this that makes it difficult for us to be more than phantom judges and moral exemplars for our students. Better simply to admit that we were not so different “back in the day.” Like old soldiers amid a group of civilians we save our war stories for one another. Perhaps we would all be better friends if we spoke with greater candor. Perhaps we could shake off the false cloak of in loco parentis that fits us so poorly and wrap ourselves in in loco amicus. Perhaps we could be friends with our students and speak to them not only from the podium, but across a table with a few (root, it has to be root) beers.

Then we might tell them about our mistakes and errors of judgment, about the nights we got carried away (in more ways that one), about our foolishness and stupidity. It might make it easier for them to hear our advice. A colleague of mine is fond of remembering one of her college friends who accidentally articulated what seems like a reasonable moral goal for undergraduate life: Be moderate in your excess. This is good advice. Being in college and young and free is an excessive time. Life overflows. A young body soon turns that horrible Sunday into a tolerable Monday (unlike older bodies that take a bit and sometimes more than a bit longer to recuperate). Vitality carries the young through and over their

mistakes, and their idiocy. Usually.

But not always. And that is an important point.

Excess does not moderate itselfwithout some planning and help. Especially when we are surrounded only by others who are similarly excessive. Here the presence of some sympathetic adults can actually be useful, older students, RAs, coaches, faculty in residence and even deans who are there not to enforce the rules, or be “fun police,” but to make sure that fun does not become dangerous and (more than

moderately) destructive.

So as we begin to consider what can be done to improve undergraduate life at Duke, let’s not for-

get who we are and were. Students will continue to be excessive. This is an old, old story going back the riots in medieval university towns between excessively drinking and womanizing students (many future clerics) and townsfolk, passing from generation to generation (including, for example, the great German philosopher Hegel who was nearly kicked out of school for consuming too much Madeira and pursuing too many late night adventures), down to our own raucous but so much more permissive time. I refer, of course, not to today but to the 19605, before AIDS, herpes, the 21-year-old drinking age put a crimp in the youthful style, and drove desire underground, or at least off campus.

Let’s also not forget who our students are. Most of them will not follow in our footsteps but find pathways of their own that are less bookish and less intellectual but not for that reason less valuable or admirable. Students work hard, even if they don’t work as hard as we would like. Not surprisingly, they work harder at the things that are more meaningful for their future lives than the things that are only meaningful for us.

Some are made better and more well rounded by our requirements, others simply figure out how to get by in those subjects that seem merely tangential to their lives. Students at times are also immoderate in their excess—some all-too-often—and we can do something to influence that, but not from the podium or by establishing new rules, or writing new codes of behavior and then like Rousseau’s lawgiver departing the scene. We can in other words make a difference if we can be better friends to our students. This is more difficult than being absentee parents, but also more effective.

And as for athletes, we should get off their backs. Most of them toil very hard in relative obscurity, meeting the demands of coaches, administrators and the NCAA, while trying to keep up in class and earn a degree. It’s not easy; it requires more drive than most of us have; and it puts more pressure on them than on most other students.

And even for those few who do get their moment in the spotlight, it’s not always golden, for the spotlight also reveals the shadows that they like all the rest of us cast.

I am convinced that we can change the culture at Duke for the better, but I am also convinced that we can only do so if we change our own way of dealing with our students. So as we form our committees to consider ways to improve undergraduate student life, let me encourage us all to remember who we were and are, and not to become in our maturity the distant authority figures we derided in our youth.

Michael Allen Gillespie is a professor and chair of the political science department.

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Victory Early

in the morning of Nov. 3, 2004, I was waiting at the West Campus bus stop for a ride back to East. My emotions were running high. The palms of my hands were still stinging red from

countless high-fives, and my throat was sore from shouting “Four More Years!” It had been an exciting night for this young neoconservative.

After hearing the frightening results of the exit polls, the man I voted for had came out on top.

Several feet away, an upperclassman was screaming into hercell phone, “Mom, these f—ing hicks don’t understand anything! They shouldn’t even have the right to vote.”

The major networks were hesitant to call Ohio, but she knew exactly what J had happened. Somehow—even with Fahrenheit 9/11, left-wing news reporting (save Fox News) and coundess books and articles on why Republicans are evil—Dubya had pulled it off again. And despite what Robert F. jamie deal Kennedy Jr. and other Ohio conspirastrategery cy theorists would later say, this one was fair and square.

As I listened to this girl rant and rave, I flashed a wide grin.

Hearing this bitter, dejected Kerry supporter reveal her appalling prejudices against half of the United Sates just made the victory that much sweeter.

But now, almost two years later, the Republicans are at risk again, and as the midterm elecdons grow closer, my attitude has changed. I no longer parade around with a smug grin on my face. My orange “W 2004” hat, which I once wore proudly, is stashed away. The conservative posters that once decorated my wall are resting on my bedroom floor back home, gathering dust.

Having won control of the federal government at the expense of student activists like me, the Republicans have accomplished little.

Every day the Iraq war is wearing down the will of the American people. The agenda of compassionate conservatism has pretty much been abandoned. Our immigration laws are still not enforced. Old problems remain, and new problems appear all the time. According to the latest USA Today/Gallup poll, President Bush’s approval ratings have risen slightly, up to 44 percent. But they will surely fall again once people inevitably forget the horrible violence terrorists are capable of unleashing here and abroad. After working for half a century to gain power, conservatives are at risk of losing everything.

So what are we to think of this? Is there a chance that the Republicans will succeed in outwitting the Democrats once again? Will this 21year-old neoconservative once again have the chance to celebrate a GOP victory on a cold November morning?

I think so.

Republicans may not entirely represent conservative interests, but they are a far better alternative to the Democrats—and better at winning, too. Unlike the GOP, the Democratic Party remains a hostage to its base, which aims to take control of the party and shape the country in its own image. In addition, the base refuses to let go of any ofits beliefs for the sake of politics Republicans, on the other hand, are more pragmatic, and that is why the conservative agenda—although plagued by incompetence and corruption —has advanced well beyond the liberal one in recent years.

Just look at the primary elections.

Although many prominent Democrats supported Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., they did so halfheartedly because the far left believed he had betrayed them in his support for Bush’s foreign policy. The base is so powerful that, in the recent Democratic primary, Lieberman was ousted by Ned Lament, who opposed the war. As far as the extreme left is concerned, anyone who strays from its ideology must be purged from the party.

The story is different with Republicans. Although a powerful base exists, the party is not overpowered by it. And although fractured in ideology, the Republicans remain an appealing alternative to the Democrats in the eyes of most conservatives. But more important, conservative voters understand that one must sometimes sacrifice conviction to win, and only with victory does anything get accomplished.

The reelection of Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.1., to the Republican ticket is a perfect example. The Rhode Island moderate is disliked by party conservatives, but they quickly realized that he was the only one who could succeed in the general election. As a result, top Republicans eagerly gave him their full support, and he won.

As I look back to two years ago, I understand that it was not the best display of sportsmanship, but I flashed that self-righteous smile at the bus stop because I had invested so much emotional energy into that election, and I truly did not expect a victory for Bush.

As the midterm election approaches this year, I am even more worried. I fear that apathy and disappointment have overwhelmed conservatives who see few results from the government they worked so hard to elect. But looking to the last three elections, I remain hopeful that, despite policy failures, the Republicans will triumph once again.

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Lexi Richards recess After nine years of sold-out performances, six Tony Awards and 200 puppets, The Lion King is still entertaining audiences, stirring up theatrical controversy and setting theater-goers back three digits per ticket.

The acclaimed Broadway show opened in Raleigh Sept. 15, as part of the Broadway Series South. The six-week limited engagement will be performed at the Raleigh MemorialAuditorium until its close Oct. 22.

Although the show has been extremely popular on Broadway and around the world, some theater traditionalists are wary of the Disney-led evolution ofAmerican musical theater.

“Now most big musicals are remakes of movies,” said John Clum, chair of the Theater Studies department. “The reason is that musicals are now so expensive to produce that they take a couple of years of sellout business to break even. No one can afford to gamble on something truly original or challenging.”

The Lion King, known for its elaborate costumes and scenery, is certainly no exception to the rule of rising costs of production. There are more than 200 puppets used in the show, requiring two 48-foot semitrailer trucks to transport them across the country. Together, the

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Beirut @ Duke Coffehouse Friday, Sept. 22, 9:30 p.m mdon, Beirut frontman, is a 19-year-oldsinger/songwriter whois performing at the Duke Coffeehouse Friday.

David Graham recess :h Condon’s story is enough to make the average high school guidance counselor cringe.

At the tender age of 16, the now-lead singer of folk-rock outfit Beirut dropped out of school and took off for Europe. Five months later, he returned home with the seeds of an album planted—an unlikely fusion of indie pop and Eastern European folk music that would make him the toast of the hipster critical establishment.

“I’ve actually dropped out of four different schools,” he said. “I guess I’m not much of a student.”

Despite his undistinguished scholastic history, Condon will bring his self-described “ramshackle garage orchestra” to campus Friday night when it performs at by

the Duke Coffeehouse, “We’ve been a band now for only two months, but we already sound a litde less ramshackle,” he said, with at least a little reassurance. The band consists ofbetween eight and 10musicians, playing accordion, trumpet and assorted percussion, among other instruments.

Beirut’s music is an unlikely favorite sepia-toned indie pop layered thick with dust and nostalgia. Even Condon wouldn’t speculate about why his Gulag Orkestar (released this spring on Ba Da Bing! Records) has been so well received.

“I don’t know—l can only spout off cliches, really,” he said, before gamelys but cautiously offering, “There’s just something about it that’s old-fashioned.”

Condon speaks with disarming nonchalance and understatement—two qualities —

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that stand in contrast to the romantic, Old World bombast of his music. The album serves as an elegy to a time that long ago ceased to exist, a feeling which is reinforced by the low fidelity of the recording and a quiet foreboding. Gulags antiquity is only occasionally disrupted by a modern signpost like the reggae drum fill on the title track or the peculiar electronica on “Scenic World.”

It’s all a very superficial veneer —strip away the mandolins and trumpets, and the result isn’t that different from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah or Neutral Milk Hotel, to whom Beirut is often compared.

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Recess Finagles Its Way Into N.Y. Fashion Week Matt Dearborn recess I crashed New York Fashion Week, Before this past weekend, I knew nothing about fashion. I mean, I knew who the major designers were, and I knew that brands like J. Crew and Lacoste and Target were far from the height of chic. I didn’t know anything about the world of fashion itself.

Sneaking into Fashion Week is a lot easier than you would expect, but you have to know your way around.

Certain phrases will get you past the security guards, and other phrases will get you a seat at one of the major productions. One slip-up, though, and you get expelled.

I got to Fashion Week Thursday morning wearing a $lOO Banana Republic suit and a Target undershirt.

My whole outfit probably cost the same as the other attendees’ leggings. But as I learned, it’s not what you wear, but how you wear it.

I walked up to the entrance at Bryant Park, strode confidendy past the mass of bystanders taking pictures and hoping for that one glimpse of their favorite celebrity (Mischa Barton, Kate Bosworth and the by

Olsens all attended shows), and up to the security guards whose suits were worth more than their own internal organs on the black market. One phrase—that’s it—and I was inside. I am of course not going to share this phrase with you. That would be cheating.

Once you’re inside the tents, you’re a celebrity. You belong. The real fashion world celebrities—the Queer Eye guys, the Project Runway folks, Vogue's editor-inchief (and the Devil from The Devil Wears Prada) Anna Wintour, celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe, models, designers—mingle with the regular folk. Well, not Anna Wintour, but she’s an anomaly.

If you’ve made it inside the tents, you’re someone.

The average Joes off the street can’t get in—they’re outside with their cameras and jeans and miniskirts and faux-Chanel sunglasses. If you’re in the tent, you’re not average. And everyone knows it. Ifyou want to fit in, you have to stand out.

Getting into the tents is one thing, but that’s not why Fashion Week is so great. What makes Fashion Week the life-changing experience that it is are the runway shows and presentations. Those are a lot SEE

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Sometimes alcohol makes you vomit and collapse on your friend’s velveteen couch; other times, it makes you yearn to caress the soft fur of a beautiful black and white panda bear. And you never know what’ll happen —that’s the beauty of tossing back a shot of whiskey or enjoying a few beers with your friends. And,

as Zhang Xinyan, a migrant worker in the great country of China found out, the combination ofalcohol and panda bears doesn’t always go together.

Here’s Xinyan’s story: he had a few too many Tuesday, went to the Beijing Zoo, and, attracted {as we all are) by the allure of the panda bear’s soft fur, hopped into the enclosure and attempted to pet its head. The bear wasn’t too keen, and took a little nibble on young Zhang’s leg. Zhang yelled “An eye for an eye!” (unconfirmed) and bit the bear right where it hurts the worst (No, you sicko, not there! In the back!). Then he kicked the bear, and the bear bit his other leg. The Associated Press adds that “a tussle then occurred.” Lord knows what that means. Zoo workers came in and controlled the panda by spraying it with water, which seems more like away to control a pet bird than a fully grown bear, but whatever. After this instance of Panda Bear vs. Human, recess is proud to present a few other biting matchups we’d like to see:

Ruben Studdard vs. Gray Whale— Largest appetite wins, although a lot will ride on food selection. If it’s gumbo, I’ll hand the title to Studdard right now. If it’s plankton, I’ll still hand the title to Studdard right now.

Seagull vs. Joan Rivers Both scavengers, this should be a close battle. I’ll give it to Rivers, but I’m rooting for the seagull to bring on da funk (whatever that means).

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Nicole Ritchie vs. Hamburger— This could be a draw. Hamburger has no teeth, but Ritchie refuses to eat. friend or ofevil?

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A movie news site made appealing through a cartoonish aesthetic. It’s packed with features, interviews and upto-date film buzz courtesy of contributing Hollywood insiders. But what really distinguishes this e-realm is its eccentric ruler Harry Knowles —the man Quentin Tarantino referred to as “the Wolf Blitzer of the Internet.”

2) The Movie Blog: http://www.themovieblog.com/ It’s the first blog that disappointed its blog parents and went into the movie industry. But, as the fairy tale goes, the site has garnered attention and accolade for its podcasts that featuring the site’s witty Joe Schmo editor and some other random dudes getting stirred up over recent movie news.

3) Box Office Mojo: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/ If you possess a numerically oriented brain, this is the movie site for you. On top of the regular jazz, this easy-tonavigate website offers all the digits that surround your favorite films, so that even the anti-entertainment and mathematically inclined will find something familiar to compute in their noggins.

4) Drew’s Script-O-Rama: http://www.script-o-

rama.com/ Calling on all AIM users lacking in hip, artsy, pop cul-

quotations for away messages: Check out this hotbed of movie screenplays, transcripts and scriptwriter info.

Want to memorize V for Vendetta’s all-V speech for no particular reason? Look no further.

5) Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com All bow to the Lord of All Movie Sites. If information-severe IMDB mated with video-happy apple.com/trailers, then the multi-talented offspring would be rottentomatoes.com. The site is home to the illustrious Tomatometer, a rating system based on the collective reviews of online critics. The world is not right until every person understands an allusion to a film’s “freshness.” ture

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Serena’s strange hours suggest the restaurant is in something of an identity crisis. It’s closed on Saturday and Sunday, taking a weekend siesta when it might otherwise become known as a culinary hot spot for its unique, though limited, offerings. On the other hand, Serena’s odd location—a strip mall skirting Research Triangle Park—makes it an unlikely candidate for nighttime foot traffic.

On a recent Friday night, the restaurant was eerily empty, the wait staff obviously shocked at the arrival of my party. But perhaps they had proper cause for concern, as the kitchen staff lagged in getting much of the food out to the table. It should also be noted that, of the limited offerings, two of seven appetizers were unavailable and only four non-sandwich entrees were on the menu. When we were finally served, one of my party was left without the burger he ordered. As our waiter noted, apparently the kitchen has a hard time counting orders.

The food itself, however, is Serena’s saving grace. If one wants American cuisine filtered through the Spanish lens, this is the only place to go Serena Restaurant and Bar in Durham.

While the blueberry dressing 5311 South Miami Blvd. #A on a salad of mixed greens and Durham, N.C. cheese was cloying, the goat 919-941-6380 =S quince, an apple-like fruit, preserves were a welcome addition. The signature Serena burger was made memorable with the addition of piquillo peppers, Fontina cheese, and roasted garlic.

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A new site asks users to gamble on which new shows won’t make it. Brilliant posts odds weekly and rewards prizes like iPods to those who pick correctly.

Fans of FOX’s new comedy Happy Hourmay be out ofluck: Brilliant gives it 3:1 odds it will survive the weekend.

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VarimLeila Music, Film and Tech Reviewer Class; 2008 Major: Public Policy Hometown: Tyler, Texas Favorite Genre: Comedy Favorite Movies; Pulp Fiction, Mystery Men, and Taxi Driver Favorite Director: Christopher Nolan Movie That Should Have Won An Oscar But Didn’t: LaGaan Favorite Artists: Radiohead, Muse, We Are Scientists, Weezer, The White Stripes Favorite System: Nintendo 64 Favorite Game: Goldeneye David Graham Music Revieiuer Class: 2009 Major: History and Spanish Hometown: Akron, OH Favorite Genre: Jazz, alt-coun-

YouTube revenues to be shared Popular video sharing site YouTube has signed a deal with Warner Music Group to distribute music videos on the web.

WMG will now share ad revenue with YouTube from videos that display its content.

Instead of being removed from the site, home-made videos posted on the site that include music by Warner-backed artists like Madonna and Green Day will generate royalities for both companies.

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N asher’s First Year in Review

Tonight’s Noir Celebrates One Year Anniversary

Happy Birthday, Nasher.

All of us at recess have to give it to you—you’ve given us a lot to write about. Although die balloons and streamers don’t officially come out until Oct. 2, tonights gala marks the anniversary of a similar party that took place last fall, the first time the museum opened its doors to Duke students. Since then, the doors have barely had a chance to close.

Kim Rorschach, Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans director of die Nasher Museum ofArt, was one of the museum’s very first success stories. Rorschach has put an enormous amount of work into the museum, vowing to increase awareness of contemporary and modern art.

During the museum’s first 11 months, more than 90,000 people have come through its doors—representing 50 states and 16 countries. Although the museum only has one year under it’s belt, the Nasher team has already learned valuable lessons.

Though she is thrilled with the successes of the museum, Rorschach admits that it has taken museum staff some time to leam to use the new spaces most effectively. Different factors must be taken into account for each medium of art displayed, such as video which necessitates blocking out light from the doorways, and it often takes time to get it right, she said.

Another one of their biggest problems has been showing too much art. “We wanted to show as many works as possible,” Rorschach said, “but there were too many in some of the early exhibits. There definitely is a learning curve.”

While any museum’s first year is one of tentative discovery and learning, it would be an understatement to say the Nasher has had a good first year. Take a walk down memory lane as recess recalls the highlights of the year. As for the Nasher—-well, it turns out you can have your cupcake at the cafe and eat it too. j *

Tonight Nasher Noir From 9 p.m. to midnight, the museum will host Nasher Noir, a black-andwhite-themed party. Nasher only hosts a party once a semester and it is worth

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“There are so many great memories from the year, but my favorite was the opening event for students,” she said. “There were so many of them and there was such a great response.

They really enjoyed looking at the art and partying. It was very rewarding.”

March4-July 16, 2006 Something All Our Own: The Grant Hill Collection of African y American Art v Eight TV crews show up to cover last spring’s opening of Something All Our Own: The Grant Hill Collection of African American Art. The exhibit displayed art from the personal collection of Duke basketball legend Grant Hill.

Forty-six paintings, collages and sculptures selected from Hill’s 15 years of art collecting comprised the show, which began touring the country in 2003. The art was displayed in five other cities before making its final stop at the Nasher.

attending.

“The Nasher party is going to be incredible,” said Emily Rotberg, president of the Nasher Student Advisory Board and a Chronicle staff member. “Past events at the museum have been some CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO of the most rewarding experiences durThe Nasher Gala has become a semester event at Duke. ing my time at Duke.”

Instead of hiring a disc What’s To Come jockey for the evening, the Between Past and Future: New Nasher board opted for Photography and Video from China live jazz, featuring the music of well-known camRorschach has her eyes on the future, anxpus group the Pulsar Triyo iously anticipating the opening of Between “We’ll have student Past andFuture: New Photography and Video from bands, free food and China Oct. 26. The exhibit will display more drinks, a great theme and than 100 works of video and photography by of course world-class art in more than 60 artists.

“The exhibit has great work from a counan incredible setting,” Rotberg said. “There’s no extry that’s becoming so important in the world,” Rorschach said. “The artists are enercuse for missing it.”

With free drinks for gized by the social and economic changes seniors from 9 p.m. to 10 taking place and this is reflected in individCOURTESY GRANT HILL ART COLLECTION ual and fascinating ways in their work.” p.m., there really is no rea"Confrontation" is part of Grant Hill's son to not go.

—Lauren Fischetti, Christine Schellack and collection, Something All Our Own. Cathy Kaelin

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masks and puppets took 17,000 hours to build.

Add in the labor necessary to maintain the costumes, scenery and lighting, and the show employs the efforts of 143 people on a daily basis.

Audiences are the ones who bear the burden of such elaborate production—tickets to the current Raleigh performance can cost up to $126 at face value.

One aim of shows delivering animation-driven, Broadway-caliber entertainment is to transform an upper-class outing into a fun-filled family affair. Appealing to a wider audience can help bridge the gap between neophyte and connoisseur.

However, critics like Glum remain skeptical. “I can’t see any positive effects [except for Disney’s coffers] of turning a musical cartoon into a stage musical,” Glum said. “And I’m not sure audiences for Disney musicals then become interested in anything else but more mindless Disney musicals.”

The so-called magic of The Lion King stems from artistic use of its costly elements rather than from a satirical message or lyrics chalk-full of political commentary.

Under the direction of Julie Taymor —the first woman in Broadway history to win a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical—the show employs a number ofinternational art forms in an effort to create a work of high art.

Taymor took inspiration for the masks from traditional African styles that are both artistic and socially important,

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Conjuring Bearden Conjuring Bearden highlighted not only the work of world-class artist Romare Bearden, but also showcased student involvement in the arts. Four Duke students worked closely with Richard Powell, professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies to research Bearden’s life and works and to curate the show.

Emily Rotberg, president of the Nasher Student Advisory Board and a Chronicle staff member, said the Bearden exhibit was the most exciting part ofher work with the museum.

“It was a collaboration between student curators and Professor Powell and when I got to the auditorium for the opening it was so packed that I didn’t have a place to sit,” she said. “It just made me smile.”

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she said in a press release. The puppets in The Lion King are also reminiscent of Japanese Bunraku puppetry. As is the practice in traditional Bunraku performance, the audiences of The Lion King are able to see the puppeteers.

“When the human spirit visibly animates an object, we experience a special, almost life-giving connection,” Taymor said. “We become engaged by both the method of storytelling as well as the story itself.”

Scenery from the movie, such as Pride Rock and Elephant Graveyard, is vividly rendered and adds a colorful dimension to the performance.

“The scenery, costumes and puppets are beautiful, but as one critic said about another show many years ago, ‘You can’t sing the scenery,”’ Glum said.

But not all critics abhor TheLion King’s soundtrack—it won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album.

The music is also flavored with African flair (if you ignore the five songs by Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice).

The debate over whether The Lion King is an artistic masterpiece or an example of Broadway being dumbeddown by corporate movie studios may never end. But thanks to traveling companies, audiences in the Triangle can finally make up their own mind on the matter—assuming they can stomach paying three figures to see 39 hyenas, a couple blades of grass and some fancy puppeteering.

The Lion King shows at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium through Oct. 22. Tickets are $29 to $126.50. For more information, call 919-831-6060 or visit ■www.broadwayseriessouth.com.

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i~izi Choosing cinematic beauty over a script with brains is an error too often made by film directors who are overly lovey-dovey with the subject material. Unless you’re George Lucas with a fabricated empire under your belt, not even the latest visual effects will cut it if the dialogue is stilted and the characters even more so. Alas, the World War I flick Flyboys falls victim to this act of mutual COURTESY MGM STUDIOS love and neglect.

JamesFranco stars as a young American pilot in Tony Bill's World War I flick.

The movie follows maverick Blaine Rawlings There’s no question that the best parts of the film take {Spidermaris James Franco), an American volunteer for a French air squadron. The so-called “Lafayette Escadrille” place up in the great blue yonder. It’s visually breathtaking is a hodgepodge of young and inexperienced American to watch the original models of the modern jet fighter camen with a taste for flight, each with his own set of personreen through the sky. It’s also cinematically fulfilling to al demons, which will be prompdy sorted out with endearwatch as the attached machine guns rip apart enemy crafts ing speeches and man hugs. against the backdrop of soaring orchestral music.

Franco is adequate but forgettable as leading man, not But whether you’re an avid jet fighter fan, WWI afifor lack ofheartthrob charisma but because the film fails cionado or James Franco enthusiast, there’s just not to establish a genuine relationship between him the other enough content in Flyboys to survive in a high-tech world purely perfunctory characters (including the local French starving for quality writing. How unfortunate that a film gal he falls for). And let’s not forget the inclusion of Jean that shows an evident love for the subject neglected to Reno, the obligatory French man in seemingly every film, make the emotional investment needed for it to reach whose character seems plucked straight from the Pink cruising altitude.

Panther set.

—Janet Wu At first glance, Fearless looks like the typical Jet Li film: guy goes around engaging in spectacular fights. But Fearless is an oddity within the kung-fu genre because it has a plot that actually keeps up with the action.

The film is loosely based on the life of Chinese martial arts master Huo Yuan Jia, founder of the Jin Wu Sports Federation. Li stars as Huo, whose only goal is to become the number one fighter in his city. But after he loses his mother and daughter over a senseless argument, he begins to question his goals in life. The film follows Hue’s spiritual transition from arrogant fighter to wise master.

The action sequences in Fearless owe their near-flawless choreography to Yuen-Wo Ping (the Matrix trilogy, Kill Bill) . The fight sequences combine the grace of Hero and the brutality of Unleashed. The film gets a kick start with three spectacular fights and interweaves several more throughout the rest of the film.

But there is a lot more to Fearless than just action. Hue’s journey for redemption set amidst a stunning countryside engages the audience both visually and emotionally. We also get to see Li’s capacity for the dramatic as he portrays Huo’s internal battles.

Fearless is similar to Li’s last movie, Unleashed, in thatLi’s

character is a talented fighter who, by coming to terms with himself, is able to use his skills to aid others. However, Fearless and its authentic story of a man in search of redemption, provide the film with a reason, not just an excuse, for kick-ass action.

—Paul Huang

As if the first batch of idiotic stunts weren’t enough to eliminate all future extraterrestrial belief in the worthiness of the human race, the producers of Jackass have come out with a sequel to rival the original. Indeed, the Jackass cast has brought their collectively stoned heads together to create a series of painstakingly planned “skits” that test the limits of stupidity.

Turns out, there is no limit.

There’s really no point in summarizing the Jackass: Number Two, as it mostly consists of the Jackass originals ingesting foreign liquids (take for example, horse semen). Or alternatively, there’s the requisite masochistic sketch that may or may not involve Chris Pontius inserting his manliness into a hole in the wall disguised with a mouse-like cover. Why, you may ask? Naturally, in hopes of attracting the attentions of a python on the

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It’s been more than 40 years since a film about World War I aviation was made. But Tony Bill, producer of the Academy Award-winning film TheSting, was on a mission. After six years of waiting, Bill finally accomplished that task with Flyboys, a heroic tale about the young American men of a French air squadron, recess’ Janet Wu and Shirley Lung talked about the epic film with Tony Bill and cast member David Ellison, who plays the not-so sharp shooter, Eddie Beagle. Check out a few of their stories: Tony Bill, on what attracted him to the story: “[The pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille] were romantic and adventuresome and patriotic and altruistic and they got to go to France at die turn of the century and fly airplanes, which sounds like my ideal. I was a student of the literature and aviation and have been a pilot since I was 13, so I was very familiar with the subject. I never thought it would get made into a movie because it was so difficult and expensive. But lo and behold, seven years ago or so Dean Devlin [producer of Independence Day and The Patriot] called me and said, Tjust read a script about the Lafayette Escadrille. Do you know anything about them?’ And I said, ‘Do I!?’ So he said, ‘l’m sending it over to you. It’s the movie you were bom to direct.’”

David Ellison on the thrills of flight: “I started flying when I was 13 years old and then I flew aerobatics and I used to compete nationally... To be able to combine my two passions [of film and flying] is really unbelievable. There’s not really many aviation movies made, but there are even fewer made from a pilot’s perspective. [Bill and his team] captured what it’s like. It’s all the passion, exhilaration of flight—what these guys actually went through, how close they went before they started shooting and the chivalry that existed during the period. It was really unreal. The coolest thing was I grew up with guys like Bob Hoover and Chuck Yeager being heroes at the air shows. And then, to go back and play in a period where they all existed was sort of unbelievable.”

Ellison on the chance way he got casted: “I was training for nationals, which took place in late September and school at Pepperdine started at the end of August. I didn’t have any place to keep my airplane—there were no hangars... My coach Wayne Hanley, who had also coached Tony Bill, told me he knew of a guy who lived down in L.A. and he said that I could keep my air plane in his hangar and the card he handed me was Tony Bill’s.”

other side! And let’s not even go into the beer funnel that gets jammed into Steve-O’s you-know-where. See, there’s really no point in summarization, but you all know you were curious.

And therein lays the problem. Everyone who watches the film will probably laugh—ether in true adolescent masculine delight or on a morbid moronic impulse. It’s a natural tendency for people to be amused by the stupid stuff other people do. But it’s not a quality to be proud of, much less one you pay $lO to see projected onto a 40’ x 40’ screen in a theater near you.

It’s bad enough the quality of films rolled out of Hollywood have degenerated over theyear; we don’t need to underscore the lapse in creativity by reverting to inanity.

—Janet Wu Mike Whidby contributed to this story

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longer a blues guitarist; often minimal and almost always secondary to the instrumental arrangements, and Condon’s pleasantly lethargic voice trumps the bleat of NMH’s Jeff

he’s a rocker. Or so his iTunes genre designation says —it was “Blues” for his previous albums but “Rock” for his latest, Turn Around (A&M).

Except “Rock” doesn’t really grasp it. Is “Gospel Funk With Wailing But Sometimes Overbearing 'oca Is an Not Enough Guitar” a genre?

Since burstin onto the scene in 1997 as a guitarist who sounded wiser than his years, Lang lias shied away from guitar-driven blues shuffles, favoring a funkier, more vocal-centric aesthetic. It’s a shame—the

Mangum.

The songwriter speaks with clear ambivalence about his home life. He now lives in Brooklyn, far away from

the New Mexico desert where he grew up, and doesn’t have much to say about his childhood beyond music.

“There’s basically only one thing in my family’s life, and that’s music,” he said, adding that he was weaned on the Beach Boys and Van Morrison.

Condon said Gulag is actually the third album he’s recorded, dabbling with Pro Tools in his room as a disaffected teenager. His first efforts were a Magnetic Fields-esque electronica album and a doo-wop record, which he described as “listenable, but a mess.”

Don’t look for it in record stores any time soon After the doo-wop project, Condon decided to use the funds he’d earned while working in a Santa Fe frame shop to go to Europe, much to his parents’ horror.

“They’re all about the music, but none of them really had any faith in me,” he said of his decision to drop out of school. “Of course they were upset. It’s not what people in my family do, so they must have been confused.”

He went to Europe, traveled extensively and heard a myriad of vernacular musical forms before returning to the States. With a second trip overseas, the music crystallized and he signed a record deal after his return.

Condon played most of the instruments on his selfrecorded album, forcing him to go through the difficult process of finding surrogates before going on tour.

“It was really nerve-racking,” he said. “I have a really specific sound I want from the brass, for instance.

But they’re all close friends of mine, so we’ve been able to get it together.”

With the band in tow, he set off for the rest of his musical career: the highs and lows oflife on the road, including the one-month, four-country swing that brings him to Durham.

“Getting out ofNew York is good, but what are you supposed to wrap your head around?” Condon said, explaining that a large, appreciative audience may be followed by an indifferent handful at the next stop.

‘You don’tknow what to expect. In some places, I’m just some guy playing in a bar and maybe they’ll buy me a drink.

“On the other hand, I had a moment on a stadium stage in Moscow where there were all these Russians out in front of me and they were all singing along—they know all the words.”

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man can shred, but he doesn’t on Turn Around. Granted, he does use his impressive set of pipes to howl on tunes such as “The Other Side of the Fence.”

Sometimes the embellishments are too much, especially on “Only a Man” and other falsetto ballads. And he takes his spiritually-infused optimism too far on “Anything’s Possible,” singing “Martin Luther King/Did some beautiful things/All because he had a dream/Just like you and me,” before setting an excerpt ofKing’s famous speech to a ‘7os funk beat. I think I just threw up a little in my mouth—can I say that?

For all its shortcomings, the album’s foot-tapping, high-energy grooves suit Lang’s powerful vocals well. And at only 25, he’s got lots of potential.

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The prodigous Ben Kweller is back with his selftitled fourth album. Did we mention that this is his fourth release in six years—and that he’s only 25?

Like his other efforts, Ben Kweller (Red Ink) showcases an eclectic batch of indie rock songs that are simultaneously hummable and heartbreaking. A range of human emotions are explored from melancholic frustration in the piano-fueled “Nothing is Happening” to unbridled optimism in the quick and catchy “I Gotta Move.”

Many ofKweller’s other albums have this same range but the difference this time is its more mature and continuous sound—not coincidentally the most enjoyable part of this album. While indie rock may be popular for its cracked vocals and grungy guitars, Kweller has often relied a bit too heavily on these trademarks. On this album, Kweller maintains a smoother tone in his voice which makes his occasional warbles all the more poignant, such as in the piano ballad “Thirteen.”

With these changes the overall tone of the album is more similar to an album by the Monkees or the Beach Boys than The Strokes or [insert your favorite trendy indie rock band here]. Add in lyrics that are bit more sardonic and self-conscious and some 21st century production and you get Ben Kweller, an album with layers both sour and sweet.

—Alex Frydman

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Fueled by two album leaks and a formidable list ofpowerhouse producers, Lupe Fiasco was primed to be the new hip-hop king. With his debut album Food & Liquor (Atlantic), Fiasco just might fulfill these expectations.

The first single off the album, “Kick, Push”, hints at Fiasco’s versatility. As a skateboarder, Fiasco unabashedly pulls from his roots, and on top of smooth beats, transforms skateboarding into a dope hip-hop ode to the tenacity needed for success in life. (Yeah, you heard it here: skateboarding is going to be the ‘O7 equivalent of grills.)

Food & Liquor shines as a modern hip-hop accomplishment. From the soulful jazzy sound of “Daydreamin’,” featuring Jill Scotf, to the nu-metal beats of “Instrumental” (a.k.a. “Never Lies”), Fiasco shows his skills by internalizing several different styles and tailoring his lyrics to fit the form. Additionally, with socially conscious tracks such as “American Terrorists,” along with revamped hard knock stories like “Just Might be OK,” the album’s cohesive strength establishes Fiasco as one of the best new rappers of the year.

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harder, but not impossible, to sneak into. All it takes is a little fraternizing with those people wearing $BOO Louboutins and $6OO Swarovski-encrusted thongs and knowing, again, exacdy what to say to the hundreds of

people running security.

Once you’re in the show, with the fluorescent lights and pounding music, watching as the waifish models swish their hips, you become mesmerized. This is a world of beauty and perfection, where creativity flows like water. The designers are prophetic, predicting and knowing exactly what will become popular two years

down the road and acting on it.

I made it to four shows, and by the end of them I knew exactly what looked good and what didn’t. Erin Fetherston’s collection looked like a bunch of bedding cut into nightgowns. Vena Cava’s presentation was cute, but too safe. Doo.Ri’s show was by far the best —her designs showed patience and experience. And then there was Project Runway.

Everyone—literally everyone —who knows anything about fashion, considers Project Runway to be a joke. In fact, many call it a travesty and refuse to even acknowledge it exists. Everyone laughs at Heidi Klum with her stock phrases (“Either you’re in, or you’re out,” “Everyone’s on pins and needles,” etc.) and balks at designers like Michael Kors and Vera Wang who judge the collections. And so it is with the fashion world—everyone inside hates the outside world. They take fashion seriously, and see any commercialization as a crime.

And then there’s Anna Wintour, the great guru of fashion. She strides in with her entourage, not looking anyone in the eye, hiding her face behind her trademark bob. It is a great honor to a designer if she attends their show, and she has the absolute power to make or break any designer’s career.

She sits in the front row of the shows she attends—heaven forbid that she would be seated one row back.

Doo.Ri was the only show I went to that Anna also attended, with her huge Chanel sunglasses and poker face in place to prevent anyone else from reading her reactions to the collection. She is, indeed, the Devil. Or maybe she’s God. It all begins to make sense when you examine the history of fashion. The entire industry is a fight between good and evil. Satan created it: He told Adam and Eve to eat the apple, that they would know the difference between good and evil if they did. They took a bite, and then realized they were naked. Then came clothes.

Fashion Week is therefore a testament of how mankind learned to make good of this evil and turn Satan’s work into perfect beauty. It makes you forget about the pain and suffering in the world and restores your faith in humanity.

As I was waiting for my plane to Durham, I looked around and saw exactly what the attendees at Fashion Week abhorred—regular people. Unoriginality. I felt a stinging sensation as I sat there, because I realized I, like Adam and Eve, had lost my innocence.

I won’t be able to buy clothes at Target or J. Crew anymore, because I know that it’s the easy way out, and that’s just not good enough. But as I boarded the plane, I began to realize that knowing the difference between good and bad clothes, eating that proverbial apple in Bryant Park, really isn’t that bad at all.

COURTESY MATT DEARBORN

Anna Wintour, the real devil wearing Prada, seen in her trademark glasses (left) analyzing last week'sfashion extravangza in New York City.

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Duke Student Party at the Nasher Museum Graduate, Professional, and Undergraduate students welcome

Thursday, September 21

9pm-12am Live Jazz Music Sponsored by the Nasher Student Advisory Board

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