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Good grades, high SAT scores and a well-rounded high school experience will help you get into Duke. But so will proximity. In a highly selective admission year, only 21 percent of the more than 19,300 applicants to the Class of 2010 were accepted. nctu/c

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or about 9 percent —of the applicants were from North or South Carolina, 36 percent of Carolina applicants gained acceptance. “[The students] bring a particular cultural diversity to the University and often bring a good deal of loyalty to the University because of their regional locus,” Provost Peter Lange said. According to the undergraduate admissions website, 14 percent of this year’s freshman class is from North Carolina. But 14 percent is also from New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Rhode Island and Massachusetts combined. Another 11 percent comes from 13 western states, including California, Colorado and Arizona. But the University doesn’t try to hide the skewed distribution or keep die stadstics a secret. It proudly proclaims that it gives special consideration to students from the Carolinas, traditionally reserving at least 15 percent of spots in each class for those students. James B. Duke signed the Indenture of Trust in 1924 to create the University and SEE

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DSG debates off-campus infractions

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Marc Rotenberg, who specializes in electronic privacy, speaks to a crowd of more than 300Wednesday.

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regarding the issue of privacy.

“Last year’s series [on evolution and

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Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, addressed privacy in the post-Sept. 11 world at the kick off to the second annual Series Provost’s Lecture

Wednesday evening. This year’s series, entitled “Privacy at Risk? My Space, the Bedroom and the NSA,” was designed to provide the background required for those on

the Duke campus and in the broader community to better engage in debate

religion] was such a success that we decided to do it again,” said Provost Peter Lange, who attended the lecture. Rotenberg’s speech was delivered in Love Auditorium to a crowd of about 300 people. Rotenberg is the co-author of “Information Privacy Law” and “Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape” and frequently testifies before Congress on emerging civil liberties issues. SEE PRIVACY ON PAGE 5

A debate arose at Duke Student Government’s Wednesday night infecting about whether the Office of Judicial Affairs has the right to punish students for off-campus behavior. Senior Maggie McGannon, vice president for student affairs, introduced a proposal that stated there should be no punish- 1 ment for minor I infracoff-campus tions—a stance that differs from that of Judicial Affairs Her proposal fol- 1 lows a presentation I made by Stephen Bryan, associate dean Maggie McGannon of students and director of judicial affairs, at the Sept. 13 DSG meeting. McGannon’s objections particularly focused on underage drinking, fake identification and noise violations. “This is our opportunity to say as students that we don’t think it’s fair for the University to punish us for these minor offenses,” she said. McGannon added that any punitive measures on the part of the University for off-campus actions breach privacy and liberty, are a response to community pressure and are based on unrealistic expectations. “I don’t expect other students to not drink underage, to not use fake IDs,” McGannon said. SEE DSG ON PAGE

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Duke has snagged another number eight ranking —but this time it is for free condoms and STD prevention instead of class sizes and financial aid. Trojan Brand Condoms published its first annual Sexual Health Report Card last week, which was based on evaluations of 100 selected colleges and universities in the realm of sexual health. Categories such as sexual assault services, contraception and lecture outreach programs were each graded on a scale from “A” to “F” and averaged to calculate a GPA. Duke received a 3.4, making it the only southern school to receive above a 3.0.

“The inspiration [for the report card] began last year when we convened a roundtable discussion ofcollege newspaper editors to take the temperature of sexual health and of what the dialogue was taking place on campus,” said Jim Daniels, Trojan’s vice president of marketing. Duke received A’s in all the categories, with the exception of “advice column/Q and A’s,” which the University failed. Yale University topped the list with a perfect 4.0. The University of lowa and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor rounded out the top three. The survey was also conducted in response to alarmingly high statistics SEE SEX HEALTH ON PAGE 7

Duke received a high mark in a sexual health survey thanks in part to programs that teach students how to use condoms effectively.

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Curriculum changes at the School of Law are giving students more opportunities to take their learning outside of the classroom this semester. The changes, designed to enhance the educational experience of third-year students, include new U.S.-based externships and capstone projects. Administrators said the new offerings,approved in Spring 2005, are part of a continuing effort to help students pursue advanced practical and academic work based on their individual interests. Small numbers of students began to participate in the programs last year. “The Curriculum Committee has been really focused on making the third year a better transition year to wherever students are going to go next,” said Katharine Bartlett, dean of the law school. She noted that keeping students engaged during the third year, which often closely resembles the second year in structure and coursework, presents particular challenges. “By the time you get to the third year, it gets very repetitious,” Bartlett said, explaining the sentiments of some students. She added that the faculty’s primary aim is to give students more options rather than to redesign the curriculum completely. Both externships and capstone projects last one or two semesters, and each replaces between one-fifth and two-thirds of a student’s normal courseload, explained Kathy Bradley, senior lecturing fellow and administrator of the Capstone Projects program. All capstone projects require academic research, writing and’ some additional component, Bradley explained. One project last year involved creating a websijte. In another, students developed a model approach to working with prisoners, which they designed to address the specific issues facing one local inmate. Bradley said few students have undertaken capstone projects since the program began to advertise a year ago. “We only had a couple of projects, and we actually don’t have any [students] that

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The law school hasaltered its curriculum to try to improve thetransition of graduates to the working world. are working right now,” Bradley said. “It’s a very new program.” Although all of the approximately 210 third-year students are eligible for the capstone program, Bradley said she does not ever expect more than 10 percent of any class to participate. One reason Bradley does not expect higher participation is that students already have alternative ways to stretch themselves outside the classroom, such as volunteering and international exchanges, she said. The new domestic externship program, in which students work for an outside agency or firm while pursuing relevant research and writing a graded paper, has attracted more student interest than the capstone_program. Bradley said nine or 10 students currently have externship positions —as many as did last semester. Third-year law student Heather Johnson did an externship last spring assisting an attorney advocate at a Durham Coun-

ty organization representing the interests of children during court batdes. “In law school, you don’t get a whole lot of opportunity for practical experience.... You learn what the law is, what the law should be,” said Johnson. “In the externship situation, you see what sort of constraints these lawyers are facing.” Although Johnson said she appreciated how much the law school provides and values varied opportunities for involvement outside the classroom, others think students still need more support. “If you want to do something that’s outside the normal track... you really have to be sort of individually motivated,” said Danielle Bell, a third-year student doing an externship at a pro bono advocacy group. Bartlett said she is pleased with the gradual expansion of opportunities for advanced study. “It’s not mandatory, so it’s not something that we all-of-a-sudden have to have every student doing,” Bartlett said.

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serving up frappuccinos at his local Starbucks. “It was not my true calling,” he said. Although Rapp eventually auditioned for Rent, he was initially nervous about its classification as a “rock opera.” “From the first glance of the material, I was intrigued, but skeptical,” he said. After rehearsing the songs, however, Rapp said he became a believer in the optimistic message of the musical. He was further drawn in after learning about the story of Rent’s writer, Jonathan Larson, who was inspired to write Rent after several of his friends died ofAIDS. After struggling for years in show business, Larson tragically died of an aortic aneurism at age 35—the night after the production’s first dress rehearsal. Rapp himself suffered a personal loss when his mother died in the early days of the show. His book, “Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss and the Musical Rent,” chronicles Rapp’s experiences dealing with her death and performing as part of the original cast. Rapp also discussed last year’s movie adaptation of the musical, a film which drew mixed reviews. Although both audiences and critics asserted that the movie version was not faithful enough to the theater production, Rapp explained that he was generally satisfied with the film. “There’s the right kind of spirit in the movie,” he said. Following his speech, Rapp answered questions from the mostly student-comprised audience, addressing his relationships with castmates, his band and his favorite Rent songs. And by special request, he sang “Seasons ofLove” a cappella. Rapp also gave advice to students pursuing acting or any other profession. “If you are given opportunities, embrace them to the fullest,” he said. Students who attended the afternoon speech said they enjoyed Rapp’s anecdotes about the early days of the show. Many audience members attended a reception at the Bryan Center after the speech, where Rapp answered more questions, signed autographs and posed for pictures. “He shared a lot of insights both about the show, and about musical theater in general,” freshman Robyn Schmidt said.

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Although much ofDuke's campus is wheelchairaccessible, graduate student Claire Wimbush said it is difficultfor disabled students to access the CAPS office. how to hook the chair in... it’s a safety ing, the entire class is moved to a new location, she added. issue.” Wimbush said from experience that Lambertus also pointed out the imposneeds of a disabled individual, I couldn’t sibility of visiting friends who live on the other universities are not as accommodating as Duke. upper stories ofolder dormitories. stay there,” she said. differThe graduate ofWilliam and Mary Collike Lambertus wanted to visit on “If I people Handicapped students can’t beI in Virginia said it was difficult to navbuildings floors, that there is room for ent some lege imin however, added, cause not all are accessible —but they’re igate the more than 300-year-old campus provement. Some student services—including usually more than happy to come see in her wheelchair. “I just did the best I could,” Wimbush me,” she said. Counseling and Psychological SerOfficials explained, however, they said. Both Wimbush and Lambertus said vices—are not handicapped-accessible, make handicapped students a priority they have been pleased by the reactions of said Claire Wimbush, a second-year Diother students to their disabilities. with cerebral when they design future buildings. School student palsy. vinity “Students seem extremely, extremely “Any time a new project is in the develAlthough CAPS offers to meet handconsiderate,” Lambertus said. someone from our office icapped students in the Bryan Center, opment stage, Wimbush added that the only comthe setting is more public than the meets with the architects,” said Emma Swain, director of the Student Disability ments she has received have been about CAPS office, which could dissuade stuthe unique bumper sticker she has on the Wimbush Access Office. dents from using the service, The University recently spent $20,000 back of her chair, which depicts a pirate added. riding a wheelchair. to create an accessible apartment for a Another area of difficulty is transportaCenAs the University becomes more student on handicapped graduate tion, Lambertus said. Although the Unihandicapped stuwheelchair-friendly, Baker, said disability spe5 tral Campus, shuttles from 9 a.m. to Jim versity provides dents must grin and bear any problems p.m., disabled students must either call cialist at the SDAO. “It cost a lot of money, but that’s never like her glass elevator incident, LamberSafe Rides or take the bus after hours, she tus said. Baker added. transthat these of a problem,” types noted, adding “These kinds of things force me to In addition to physically altering the portation are not always reliable. for handigrow up and take a more adult perspecthe SDAO provides “I could call Safe Rides, but the one time campus, tive,” she said. “Little bumps in the road students other Lamberin ways, took come, called them didn’t so a capped I they I are helping me to become a self-suffibus,” Lambertus said. “It’s not the worst tus said. adult, and you can’t put a price on student cient rega disabled For example, if thing in the world, but the lifts don’t always buildthat.” inaccessible know isters for a class an in drivers don’t always work, and the

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He is often interviewed on CNN and NPR. During the talk, Rotenberg discussed issues ranging from the Patriot Act to the implementation of new, electronically readable forms of passports and personal identification cards. “At its core, privacy has always been about control over the disclosure of personal identity,” he explained. New electronic passports are being phased in, which will be machine-readable, enabling scanners at airports and federal buildings to quickly gather more personal data than they could with the earlier, analog passports, he said. Rotenberg urged listeners to renew their passports now in order to delay switching to the electronic versions—something that he said could happen within months. “What society and the government are doing now to privacy in response to the war on terrorism will remain with us long after the threat of terrorism has passed,” Rotenberg said. As an example of the problems associated with digital privacy, he also discussed the current situation regarding the popular Facebook.com networking website. Rotenberg said the complaints that Facebook’s new format violates privacy are perfectly valid. “Here are all these people, digitally creating aspects of their personality and making decisions about who to give access to their information,” Rotenberg said. “Then Facebook made a change, and suddenly everybody was allowed to see what everyone was doing. People were outraged. Why? Because their control was lost,” he added. He said it is the individual’s responsibility to protect himself against privacy invasion and to remain informed about current issues. “We are in the midst of an extraordinary debate that will change society, as we struggle to control not only our personal information but also our digital identities,” Rotenberg concluded. The next lecture will be held Nov. 15, at the same time and location. John Poindexter, former National Security Advisor, will speak on the topic of privacy as it relates to national security.

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DSG from page 1 Reactions to the proposal were divided, as many senaagreed that the University’s jurisdiction does not extend to off-campus. Others felt students should be held responsible for their actions. “The students who have been cited are not completely innocent,” said DSG senator Jeremy Marshall, a junior. “I would rather go to a school known for its academics, not its drinking.” Senior Jimmy Soni, DSG vice president for academic affairs, and sophomore Alex Crable, chair of the Student Organization Finance Committee, said media coverage of any negative behavior could be detrimental to the University. “Right now, I believe we’re dealing with a crisis of reputation,” Crable said. Soni added that the cumulative impact of off-campus policy violations has prompted the University to take harsh measures, including purchasing 12 houses near East Campus. He said other schools have much stricter guidetors

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lines for student behavior. “If you’re caught drinking offcampus and it gets back to Dean Bryan’s office—and it usually does—the punishment is minimal,” Soni said. He added that students at University of Virginia risk expulsion for underage drinking. DSG Chief of Staff Paul Slattery, a junior, advocated for the resolution. He said additional punishment from Judicial Affairs will not deter students who are already facing legal troubles. Duke is overly focused on public relations, Slattery said. “Just being an asshole off ofcampus is bad PR,” he added. DSG President Elliott Wolf, a junior, said the situation calls to question the role of Judicial Affairs. “I think what we’re objecting to is Judicial Affairs’ assertion that, ‘Anywhere and everywhere, we are your parent,’” Wolf said. The resolution was tabled with a vote of 14-3. It will remain in “legislative purgatory” until it is untabled, explained DSG Executive Vice President Joe Fore, a senior. The resolution may be re-addressed as early as the next meeting. Also during the meeting, Tom Wall, associate Universi-

ty librarian for public services, made a presentation about updates to Bostock and Perkins libraries. Wall said technological assistance will be available Sunday through Thursday evenings via a new collaboration with the Office of Information Technology. The library is in the process of developing guidelines for a new food and drink policy, which will advocate personal responsibility. Wall also deemed as successes several implementations from last spring—lM Reference and 24/5 hours at Bostock. recent

In other business: Elections for freshmen senators will be held as scheduled Thursday, but by means of a paper ballot. Wolf said OIT failed to fix the problem with web authorization, but a card swipe will be used to verify all voters are freshmen. Junior Jeff Buchan, chief justice of the judiciary Committee, appointed seniors Jeff Federspiel and Brittany Greenfield and junior Lee Kornfeld. He also elected junior Cleland Robertson and sophomores Adam Beauregard and Meredith McCoy to the judiciary Committee.

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business, finance, consulting and entrepreneurship “Students that have earned the certificate will be more competitive in the job search process because employers will view them as having the knowledge base necessary to join their organization and make immediate and significant contributions,” he wrote in an e-mail. Classes teach skills such as how to make a presentation and how to analyze a business plan. The program has a number of corporate sponsors, and companies regularly approach Duke looking to get involved, Spenner said. “They want access to good students for employment,” he said. “No question about it.” The program also facilitates internships—in past summers, students have worked at ESPN, RCA Records and Goldman Sachs, among other places. “Most of our students not only want the education, they want that set of contacts into the business world and non-profit world,” Spenner said. The program attracts a number ofathletes and is known for having easy courses, junior Serwaah Agyapong said. “As a general rule, everyone goes into an MMS course knowing that they’re going to get a good grade,” she said. Agyapong noted that the coursework is not necessarily easy, but the lack of competition among students makes the classes less intimidating. “If you wanted to sit in the back and be a ‘veg,’ you'could get away with it,” Bean said. Students who are passionate about the program find the classes more enriching, he added. “It’s one of those ‘you get out ofit what you put into it’ situations,” Bean said.

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established the Duke Endowment with $4O million He made specific provisions that the money be distributed within the Carolinas for a number of purposes, one of which was to to further the education of students from the two states. “Duke was put here for a reason,” Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said. “The biggest advantage we give is obviously to kids from North Carolina and South Carolina.” The University’s support of students from its own state is comparable, however, to that of other institutions. Seventeen percent of the Class of 2010 at the University of Pennsylvania is from the state—slightly more than Duke’s 14 percent of freshmen from North Carolina. But on the other hand, only 10 percent of Stanford University’s Class of 2010 consists of California residents, even though nearly half its applicant pool—4l percent was from the state. —

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mitted infections among students in the 18-to-24 age bracket, Daniels said. “With public health statistics in mind and the reality of condom use, we wanted to take a poll,” he said. “We wanted to get a sense of the overall health score, but we also wanted to get people talking [about sexual health].” First, one university from each state was chosen to be included, said Bert Sperling, president of Sperling’s Best Places, the survey company that conducted the research. “We then chose the largest universities, and the most influential in the country —like Duke,” he explained. Sperling’s company’s initial method of gathering information through interviews was unsuccessful, forcing them to change tactics and turn to electronic resources, Sperling said. “We contacted the student health centers and spoke to people, but they weren’t comfortable going on the record or they didn’t return our calls,” he explained. “What we realized then was to put ourselves in the position of students. We went online for the resources that were available.” Specific criteria were laid out for giving each category a letter grade. “The places that scored an A didn’t do a perfect job, but they did a good job,” Sperling said. “With condom use for instance, if there were free condoms available, the school received an A. If there were condoms, but students had to pay for them, the school received a C; and if there were no condoms for students, the school received an F.” Trojan found surprising results as well as correlations that they had not previously explored, Daniels said. “We found among single American college students, three out of four sexual acts do not involve a condom,” he said. “We have well-educated people who are choosing not to protect themselves.” Southern and western schools often do not offer sexual health education because conservative views are more prevalent in those areas, he added. Trojan views the current state of sexual health as subpar, Daniels said. “[Campus-wide] sexual health is quite poor,” he said. “It’s still somewhat a taboo subject. We’re trying to bring awareness in ways to campuses that wasn’t there before.” Duke Student Health is content with its ranking and plans to continue its counseling, educational and medical programs, said Lindsey Bickers Bock, Duke health education specialist. “We know there’s only one score we didn’t get an A in, so I feel we’re doing pretty well,” she said. “Otherwise, we’re always updating information on our website and we’ll continue offering [all of our services].” Students gave the report card mixed reviews, expressing surprise at some of the schools that ranked high and questioning Trojan’s methodology. “[Our ranking] just means we have the eighth least amount of sex,” sophomore Greg Tipton said. “Look at Yale, they can’t get anything.” Trojan plans to continue issuing the report card on a periodic basis in hopes that schools improve their sexual health services, Daniels said. “I don’t have kids who are college-aged yet,” he said. “But when they are, I expect their school will receive a 4.0 when they choose to be sexually active, so they’ll be safe,” he added.

About 16 percent of the undergraduate enrollment at Vanderbilt University as ofFall 2005 consisted of Tennessee residents, according to the school’s admissions website. Of the University’s six full-tuition merit scholarships, two—the Benjamin N. Duke Leadership Scholars Program and the Trinity Scholarship—are designated specifically for residents of North and South Carolina. “If you go back to the indenture that Mr. Duke signed to form the University and was part of the will, he designated that ‘X’ amount of the proceeds of his endowment must go to people of North and South Carolina,” said Barbara Wise, administrative coordinator and assistant director of the Office of Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows. Wise added that approximately 27 percent of the approximately 225 students receiving full-tuition scholarships are from North or South Carolina. “It’s an important part of the University to have that diversity and to always be meeting the needs of North and South Carolina,” Wise said. Students from the Carolinas are also eligible for four

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other, smaller merit scholarships, including the Carolina Honors Scholarship and the North Carolina Writing Scholarship. Seven other types of scholarships are also awarded to students from specific regions of North Carolina on the basis of merit or financial need. Wise added that most of the scholarships allotted for residents of the Carolinas are designated as such by the donors, who are alumni or friends of the University. In addition, every state resident who is a full-time student receives an annual North Carolina Legislative Tuition Grant of at least $l,BOO, based on the availability of funds. The 2006-2007 sum was $1,900. Though Duke has transitioned from a regional school that catered to southern students to an institution of international acclaim, Lange said it likely will not change its policies about admitting students from the Carolinas. “Duke supports students in North Carolina and South Carolina directly from the original indenture from Mr. Duke,” he said. “Given the origins, we are not likely to change it.”

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The Blue Devils may not have known their opponent too well, but that wasn’t apparent in their dominant performance Wednesday night. Duke’s lack of familiarity with N.C. State’s new coach DUKE 3 and young squad N.CSTATE 0 did not stop die Blue Devils from winning their third straight ACC game. Duke swept the Wolfpack, 3-0, in front of more than 1,000fans at Reynolds Coliseum. “We didn’t know much about them,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “We took advantage of a lot of opportunities they gave us to get a start on them.” Duke (10-2, 3-0 in the ACC) started fast and dominated N.C. State for the entirety of the match. The Wolfpack (2-11, 0-4) managed no more than 20 points in a single game, as the Blue Devils won, 3013, 30-19 and 30-20. From the outset, Duke set the game’s momentum, never allowing N.C. State the league’s last-place team—to gain the upper hand. “We talked beforehand about how we need to control the pace,” junior libero Jenny Shull said. “We made sure that we played our game instead of letting them take control.”

The Blue Devils ran out to an early 7-1 lead in the first game, prompting a Wolfpack timeout. Although N.C. State tried to fight back, it could never get the margin to within less than five points, eventually falling to Duke in the opening set. Neither team could break out to a lead SEE VOLLEYBALL ON PAGE 12

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In Boston College’s first season in the ACC last fall, Duke fell to the Eagles during the regular season but got its revenge with a 2-0 win in the ACC tournament. With Duke (5-4-1, 1-1 in the ACC) in need of a conference win, the Blue Devils face No. 25 Boston College (7-2, 1-0) tonight at 7 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium. Even though it’s still early in the season, Duke knows VS. how important this game is. “It’s a big game, no question about mm it,” head coach Robbie Church said. “We lost to them up there last year and then TONIGHT, 7 p.m. we beat them in the ACC tournament. Koskinen Stadium We’ve already developed a nice little rivalry with them.” Boston College is 1-0 in conference play after Sunday’s 3-0 victory over Clemson and Duke fell back to .500 in conference play after Sunday’s loss to Virginia. The Blue Devils were picked fourth in the ACC coaches preseason poll while the Eagles were picked fifth, making tonight’s matchup key for Duke in terms of helping its NCAA tournament case and cementing its status in the upper echelon of the conference. “Every ACC game is huge,” forward Chrisde McDonald said. “BC is a good opponent, so we always enjoy playing them. We’re really excited about the game.” In just their second season in the league, the Eagles

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In his first collegiate game, Virginia third-string quarterback Jameel Sewell threw one pass, an incompletion. Three weeks later, the Cavaliers are experiencing something familiar to Duke—attempting to complete the rest of their season with the freshman signalcaller leading the way. While the Blue Devils found their starting quarterback in Thaddeus Lewis after he threw for 305 yards in week two against Wake Forest, the Cavaliers have had a harder time fixing their problems at quarterback. They began the season with senior captain Christian Olsen under center. After totaling just 222 yards on 55 pass attempts in the first two games, Virginia head coach A1 Groh began auditioning junior backup Kevin McCabe. In week three, McCabe had just one of his 16 passes hit the ground, but two of his attempts were intercepted by Western Michigan—including one which Desman Stephen returned for the game-winning touchdown. The shuffling of quarterbacks was beginning to take a

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Searching for their sixth win of the season, the Blue Devils face off against Boston College at 7 p.m. tonight at Koskinen Stadium.

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W. SOCCER from page 9 are ranked in the upper tier of the conference. BC leads the ACC—and is second in the nation—in scoring with 3.56 goals per game. The Eagles’ Gina DiMartino leads the league in goals and Kia McNeil is the ACC leader in points per game. “They’ve got some talented attacking players,” Church said. “We’re playing well defensively. I think the last four games for us, I’m very, very happy with our backs and our midfieldersfrom a defensive standpoint and our forwards from a defensive standpoint. We’ve got to just play good, solid defense here.” On the offensive side of the ball, the Blue Devils will look to

put pressure on the Eagles. Virginia held Duke scoreless in last Sunday’s 1-0 game in Charlottesville, Va. “We’ve got to keep possession, create opportunities and score goals,” Church said. “When we create opportunities, we’ve got to be able to finish the opportunities and score the goals.” Over the past few days, Duke has focused on shooting and working to create scoring opportunities in the offensive zone. The Blue Devils will also focus on playing hard for the full 90 minutes, goalkeeper Allison Lipsher said. “That’s something we’ve sort of struggled with,” she said. McDonald agreed that mental toughness will be key. “We need to go out, play hard, play with intensity,” she said.

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Duke will try to stymie the Eagles' potent offense which ranks second nationally.

VIRGINIA from page 9 toll on the Cavaliers, as the huddle was missing a solid figure at the helm. “I think pretty much every team would agree it’s more beneficial to know who’s back there,” Virginia tight end Tom Santi said. “You want to know his mannerisms, his snap count and his personality in the huddle.” Enough was enough for Groh, who made last week’s game against Georgia Tech the first of the season in which his offense featured just one quarterback. Sewell, who had attempted only 11 of the team’s 104 total passes, was named the starter against the Yellow Jackets. Virginia lost 24-7, but Sewell played well enough to earn his second career start this weekend against Duke. “We’ve had some shakeups at the quarterback position so far this season,” Santi said. “But Jameel did an admiral job in his first game, I think. We’re looking for him to just get better from here on out.” Groh said he hopes his freshman quarterback will overcome his growing pains by learning from his early mistakes. For Virginia, the pain of a possible losing season may be soothed by the consistent face it sees leading the huddle. “It’s very important,” Sand said “The first third of the season is over. The excuse of ‘we’re inexperienced or we’re young’ is getting old. Now we find out who we are

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Virginia is still looking to fill thevoid left by Marques Hagans, who graduated last year. as team, and what we’re capable of this season and in the future.” The situation Virginia finds itself closely mirrors the one at Duke. Both teams have struggled on offense and have lost three games. True freshman Lewis and redshirt freshman Sewell were both listed as backups when the season began, but both have been handed the reigns from their respective head coaches. “You spend a lot of time talk-

ing to them,” Duke head coach Ted Roof said about mentoring a young quarterback. “[You are] preparing them for when they’re really on, and also for the days when they’re really off, because both of those things are going to happen.” And both teams hope their 18year-old starting quarterbacks are on more often than not Saturday as they search for their first ACC wins of the season.

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Junior setter All Hausfetd (left) paced Duke's passing, leading the Blue Devils with 31 assists against the Wolfpack.

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early in the second game, as N.C. State matched the Devils for the first 14 points. But N.C. State could not restrain Duke’s offense for long, as the Blue Devils overwhelmed their opponent to win the second game easily. The Wolfpack batded back to prevent a sweep in the third, tying the game at 10. The Blue Devils went on a 9-1 run, but N.C. State rallied and cut the lead to four at 2420. Eventually, the Blue Devils were able to hold their opponents off by scoring the last six points in a row, securing the victory with the 30-20 win. Throughout the match, Duke relied on its communication in its first ACC road match in a noisy road arena. “When everyone’s communicating and working together, it all just falls into place,” senior Tealle Hunkus said. ‘We did a great job of keeping the energy and intensity up.”

Junior Carrie DeMange recorded 12 kills to lead both teams, while freshman Rachael Moss recorded 10 and Hunkus added seven. Junior setter Ali Hausfeld recorded a match-high 31 assists. On the defensive end, Shull led the team with seven digs, while DeMange and Hunkus each added six. Sophomore Jourdan Norman scored three blocks, while DeMange and Hausfeld each recorded two. While the Blue Devils continue to improve each game, they are still working on mistakes, Nagel said.

“We served pretty well, but we had a lot of service errors,” she said. “We didn’tblock a lot ofballs either and our passing was OK, but we’re constan dy working on that.” The Blue Devils, who beat Clemson and Georgia Tech in a set ofhome matches last weekend to open league play, will try to continue their undefeated streak in the ACC Saturday, when they take on North Carolina in Chapel Hill at 6 p.m.

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would be co-sponsoring. Students approved the fee increase under the assumption that overall funding for LDOC would increase. If both Campus Council and the Union withdraw their funding, the budget for LDOC would be $90,000—a mere $lO,OOO increase from last year’s celebration. The Union’s reluctance to fund LDOC, its first major public decision of the year, reflects poorly, showing that the organization is out of touch with the students it is supposed to serve. The. Union’s slogan, “Fun for students by students,” seems hollow and misleading in light of its faltering support for LDOC.

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the reach of LDOC. For the Union to withdraw money from one function in which almost every single student is going to participate is antithetical to its purpose as an organization. If the Union retracts its financial support for LDOC, it will be as if the student activities fee increase is paying for more Union events, most of which can only accommodate a small percentage of the student body. This will certainly not be wasted money, but it’s also not what students signed up to pay for. The other ill effect of the Union’s hesitancy is that Campus Council is now wondering whether it should foot the entire remaining bill for an event that the Council thought it

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you having fun yet? What’s a matter? No sense of humor? You didn’t enjoy watching Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez addressing the U.N. General Assembly and saying of President Bush: “The devil came here yesterday, right here. It smells of sulfur still today.” Many U.N. delegates roared with laughter. Oh well then, you must have enjoyed watching Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahd b e » homas friedman gh N ew York City, lecturthe new york times everyone mg from the United Nations to the Council on Foreign Relations on the evils ofAmerican power and how the Holocaust was just a myth. C’mon then, you had to at least have gotten a chuckle out of China’s U.N. ambassador, Wang Guangya, trying to block a U.N. resolution calling for the deployment of peacekeeping troops to Sudan to halt the genocide in Darfur. I’m sure it had nothing to do with the fact that the China National Petroleum Corp. owns 40 percent of the Sudan consortium that pumps more than 300,000 barrels of oil a day from Sudanese wells. No? You’re not having fun? Well, you’d better start seeing the humor in all this, because what all these stories have in common is today’s most infectious geopolitical disease: petro-authoritarianism. Yes, we thought that the fall of the Berlin Wall was going to unleash an unstoppable wave of free markets and free people, and it did for about a decade, when oil prices were low. But as oil has moved to $6O to $7O a barrel, it has fostered a counterwave—a wave of authoritarian leaders who are not only able to ensconce themselves in power because of huge oil profits but also to use their oil wealth to poison the global system to get it to look the otherway at genocide, or ignore an Iranian leader who says from one side of his mouth that the Holocaust is a myth and from the other that Iran would never dream of developing nuclear weapons, or to indulge a buffoon like Chavez, who uses Venezuela’s oil riches to try to sway democratic elections in Latin America and promote an economic populism that will eventually lead his country into a ditch. For a lot of reasons —some cyclical, some technical and some having to do with the emergence ofalternative fuels and conservation—the price of crude oil has fallen lately to around $6O a barrel.

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Yes, in the long run, we want the global price of oil to go down. But we don’t want the price of gasoline to go down in America just when $3 a gallon has started to stimulate large investments in alternative energies. That is exactly what OPEC wants—let the price fall for a while, kill the alternatives, and then bring it up again. For now, we still need to make sure, either with a gasoline tax or a tariff on imported oil, that we keep the price at the pump at $3 or more—to stimulate various alternative energy programs, more conservation and a structural shift by car buyers and makers to more fuel-efficient vehicles. “If Bush were the leader he claims to be, he would impose an import fee right now to keep gasoline prices high, and reduce the tax rate on Social Security for low-income workers, so they would get an offsetting increase in income,” argued Philip Verleger, the veteran energy economist. That is how we can permanently break our oil addiction, and OPEC, and free ourselves from having to listen to these petro-authoritarians, who are all so smug—not because they are educating their people or building competitive modern economies, but because they happen to sit on oil. According to Bloomberg.com, in 2005 Iran earned $44.6 billion from crude oil exports, its main source ofincome. In the same year, the mullahs spent $25 billion on subsidies to buy off the population. Bring the price of oil down to $3O and guess what happens: All of Iran’s income goes to' subsidies. That would put a terrible strain on Ahmadinejad, who would have to reach out to the world for investment. Trust me, at $3O a barrel, the Holocaust isn’t a myth anymore. But right now, Chavez, Ahmadinejad and all their petrolist pals think we are weak and will never bite the bullet. They have our number. They know that Bush is a phony—that he always presents himself as this guy ready to make the “tough” calls, but in reality he has not asked his party, the Congress, the people, or U.S. industry to do one single hard thing to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Bush prattles on about spreading democracy and freedom, but history will actually remember the Bush years as the moment when petro-authoritarianism—not freedom and democracy—spread like a wildfire and he did nothing serious to stop it.

Thomas Friedman is a regular columnist for the New York Times; this column was previously printed there.

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an old shoebox in my closet at home lies a picture of my dad and me racing down the beach. I have no idea where we were running or what we were running from, but I do know that it looks like we are having the time of our lives. That old shoebox is home to hundreds of pictures, but whenever I open it to take a trip down memory lane, the photograph of me and my dad catches my eye a few seconds longer than the others. It does not spark any specific memory, for I have absolutely no idea when my mom captured this moment of fatherdaughter bonding on film. Instead, it makes me think. As children, we Duke students did not care where the end of a race ■ 4. 4.4. sdrdti nostetter with dad would lead us or 11fe... or something like it? how far we would have to .

we started—let alone the number of calories we were burning. We merely knew that we were chasing dad wherever he led us. Most college students have long escaped the time in our lives when our parents directed our every move. We are no longer chasing dad; he is chasing us. Because in coming to college, we reach a huge turning point —we start a new race, independently of dad. We live on our own; we select for ourselves each activity and class we want to be a part of (unless you are one of those unlucky pre-meds or engineers who has a handful credits to play with); and we encounter types of people who would have never crossed our paths at home. In short, we are given a great opportunity to figure out who we are. I think many of us come to college with a set of expectations and ambitions. I, for one, am petrified of change, and given this fact, I would say that the goals I set for myself upon arriving at Duke freshman year lasted for almost an entire semester. Since then, however, I have tried new things—both good and bad—and each new experience has framed the way I understand the world in one way or another. Looking at pictures ofmy roommate and me taken on our first night at Duke, I notice more than just how, since then, our hair lengths have changed and our facial features have matured. I also see two girls who have really grown up—developed our unique personalities and viewpoints. Unbeknownst to us, researchers at Dartmouth College were investigating the very concept of the changes that the brain undergoes in a student’s first year of college as my roommate and I were living it. Through MRIs and questionnaires, the psychologists discovered that the brain of an eighteen-year-old college freshman is markedly different than the brain of a 22-year-old college senior. Abigail Baird, an assistant professor of psychological and brain science, explains in a Dartmouth news release, “During the first year of college, especially at a residential college, students have many new experiences. They are faced with new cognitive, social and emotional challenges.” The changes in brain structure that result throughout the time we will spend here at Duke are of significant note because they are mostly under our control. We choose almost every situation in which we place ourselves in this Gothic Wonderland. When trying to make heads or tails of what this means to the average Duke student, myfreshman roommate offered the following analysis: “You don’t want to be afraid to try new things in college, but you also don’t want to forget who you are and where you came from.” Put a bit more eloquently, in the words ofAnais Nin: “The time came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” College is the time to grow out of the restrictive buds of our childhoods. We are, in a sense, just like I was when my dad and I raced barefoot across the sand. We have a lifetime of memories behind us and a lifetime ofmemories ahead of us. We now have the challenge to climb out of our comfort zones, allow new things to happen and make every moment count—because one day we will wake up, and it will be the last day of the four years of the race we call Duke.

Sarah Hostetleris a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Thursday.

Preventing tragedy, Duke style

Durham

A Dukefreshman died earlier today from alcohol poisoning after drinking heavily at a fraternity party last night. He was admitted at 3 a.m. and pronounced dead earlier this morning. President Richard Brodhead has just been inand the formed, students’ parents have yet to be contacted. Duke responds by. I don’t pretend to know what would happen next or what vs**' I would do. But I do know jon detzel what wouldn’t hapa | jne jn the sand pen—the party monitors at the party in question wouldn’t be punished. It is also far from certain that the fraternity who threw the party would be charged by the Greek Judicial Board. So who is ultimately responsible? Duke is. The reason is that the school assumes all liability when they allow fraternities to throw parties on campus controlled only by student party monitors (themselves members of the hosting fraternity), as opposed to top-down party management by University officials and/or campus police. It seems, then, that Duke has a tough problem to solve: It bears all responsibility so it needs a program that provides some legal cover; at the same time, it wants to allow the students some freedom to party, knowing that as their policies get more repressive, the students get angrier and ignore them. The first solution is to abandon the status quo. The next step is to consider the available alternatives. The key is to remember that rushing into a conservative decision is not the answer and that, instead, a serious discussion of the incentives of all parties involved is truly needed. The current system has two key flaws. First, the training program is inadequate: The information it provides is too general to be ofany particular use to party monitors because it prioritizes a variety of topics over indepth training in any specific area, the session itself is informal enough to allow most individuals to pay no attention at all but still receive certification and there is no test to ensure that the lessons are properly learned. The average person who attends a training session is no better equipped to be a party monitor when he leaves than before he came. The biggest problem, though, is one of conflicting assumptions. Duke has to comply with state law to re*"*•

ceive federal funding, so it has to maintain officially that every event is technically BYOB and thus distribudonfree. Despite the obvious fact that no event on campus fits this requirement, the peer educators in the training program tacitiy endorsed providing alcohol at events by teaching the proper rados of alcohol to mixer when serving drinks. The second failure is that fraternities have no incentive to ensure effective functioning of their party monitors. Because they are rarely (and likely cannot be) held accountable, fraternities merely have to meet the minimum standards in order to pass muster. That is, their monitors have to be certified, sober, and wear the orange shirt. The system is in truth a cop-out, an excuse groups can use in defense of their parties because they’ve complied with the Universi-

ty’s requirements.

Party monitors ostensibly exist to make sure parties are conducted reasonably and responsibly. But when the training is unrealistic and groups have no incentive to make the system work, in practice the program amounts to nothing if not a waste of time and a spoiled

Friday night. So how do we fix it? I propose two alternatives: Fraternity self-censorship and party monitors-for-hire. The former would work like this: The University establishes reasonable, clear guidelines for on-campus parties and have officials randomly stop by to inspect. If the University threatens severe and expedient punishments for failure to comply, especially if hospitalizations result (assuming a thorough investigation of the facts and potential mitigating circumstances proceeded first), fraternities’ incentive is to self-police their parties, which significandy enhances their autonomy in entertainment decision making. The latter model would require the University to construct a strenuous training program for party monitors, one that lasted several hours and provided profound instruction in the science of alcohol, first aid and CPR, conflict management and crisis response. Work study students would voluntarily sign up to be trained and then called upon when needed to monitor parties, of course being compensated with legitimate wages for the four hours the party lasts. This creates an objective group of properly-trained monitors who can easily be held accountable for unsafe drinking. Our party monitoring program is inadequate and something has to be done to fix it. Noting that there is little room for error, I leave the decision up to you.

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

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In the continual renovation of West Durham, only one thing stays the same:

things change. The challenge, said John Schelp,

president of the Old West Durham Association, has been trying to enhance safety and appearance while maintaining the local feel of the shops. The newest addition to Ninth Street—an art gallery and studio appropriately named Studio—may do just that. Studio is veteran entrepreneur and aesthete Pete Wyman’s fourth such venture. The others, located in South Florida, include one on trendy Lincoln Road in South Beach. Sick of aesthetically empty “McMansions” and the slick world of Miami, Wyman (Trinity ‘80) returned to the city where he earned his art degree from the University 26 years ago, planning to open a more “userSPECIAL TO RECESS

JamieGaramella, Trinity'99, is one of many Duke alumni trying to make their way in the music industry whether as performer,businessperson or writer.

friendly” shop. “Usually, you see the art on a white wall lit by track lighting, and it gives you no information about how it will look in

Alex Frydman recess Hilary Shaev spent her life wanting to be around music. But when she arrived at Duke as a freshman in 1985, she had no idea that she would actually do so profesby

sionally. Shaev, Trinity ‘B9, is living her dream as executive vice president of promotions for Virgin Records. A former WXDU disc jockey, she’s currently responsible for getting artists like Korn and Janet Jackson played on radio stations across the country. “When I entered Duke, I didn’t think

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it would be possible to get this kind of dream job,” she said. Shaev now stands as the example par excellence of a Duke graduate who has made it big in the music industry. When one thinks of the University’s academic fields of excellence, the list might include biochemical engineering, public policy or political science, but not the music business. Especially not the music business. And yet around the country, alumni are working throughout the music industry, proving that success after Duke doesn’t have to come in law, medicine

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or consulting. But not everyone has had the fairy-tale rise to success that Shaev has had. For her, it was the chance glance at a magazine article that really set her down the path. “As a sophomore I read about college reps projects through the music industry in Rolling Stone,” said Shaev. “I thought to be able to market artists and be a full-time student was really a dream job. I found out through my connections that CBS [now Sony Records], had

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recess The dawn of the motion picture industry began with a sneeze.

It’s no joke—or is it? In fact, the first flickering bud of cinematic magic was captured in Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, a short film featuring Edison’s assistant inhaling snuff and promptly, you guessed it, sneezing. The first motion picture was, in essence, a comedy. And ever since comedies have evolved to compliment a changing culture. Leap forward three decades and the world was introduced to Charlie Chaplin and the slapstick humor of silent comedies. Farther up the road, film comedy traversed the far-flung regions of human emotion, brandishing physicality or wit (or both) to survey the potency of romance or the allure of pessimism. “Some of the movies I grew up with— some of my favorite comedy movies—are like Planes, Trains & Automobiles and Uncle Buck,” said comedic it-guy Dane Cook, who will soon appear in the comedy Employee of The Month. “The comedy was broad and yet based in deep heart—almost sad.” When asked how he thinks comedies have changed

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over the years, Cook is open-minded but a bit nostalgic. “Movies like Anchorman or even Talladega Nights, I think rely heavily on a more skit-y type of comedy, which is fine,” Cook said. “I mean, there’s definitely a place for that kind ofhumor. But I like story. “I’m not saying there isn’t a place for just insanity in comedy, but I guess [story] is something I’d like to see even

more.”

Though Cook is still a young’un against die century-old backdrop of film comedy, he brings to light an interesting point. Have story and characterization been abandoned in

what seems to be the age of spoofs, skits and wanton sexual innuendo? The general consensus among older comedic talent is yes, according to the testimonies of comedic figures interviewed in 2005 for the American Comedy Archive at Emerson College. Project Manager Jennifer Matz, who conducted many of the interviews with icons such as Budd Fried-

man, Andy Rooney and Lewis Black, said many lamented the profusion of vulgarity and the loss of structure. “The overall sentiment that was shared by the bulk of the interviewees when they were asked direcdy about this was that comedy is becoming too vulgar without a reason,” Matz said. “They don’t think it’s any funnier that you can say the ‘F’-word and ‘goddammit’ and you can talk about sex acts. None of them could point out a case where that succeeded and that being an advancement for the comedic arts.” As for the factors that make for quality comedy, Matz said most of the comedians drew on old names like Sid Caesar and films like The Graduate, which 40 years later remains just as influential. Rather than focus on the actors, these classics thrived on story and characters. “All these old movies, it wasn’t about you,” Matz said. “It was about the character you were portraying. Today it’s like, T want to go see a Dane Cook movie or a Will Ferrill movie. It was so different in the ‘sos. If you wanted to go see someone like Chaplin, it was about the characters he was portraying. You went to go see what he was going to do, not just his name.” The classics also seem to have become prey to comSEE COMEDY ON PAGE 5

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=Sd recess ’Brian McGinn recently talked with Dan Kish, director of dinner at Pmmu Bread, to toft about the Crispani, Parma’s new pizza product, ready to serve just in timefor October, which isNar tionalPizza Month. Tastes Editor Bryan Zupon offers commentary after sampling the Crispani

That was incidental. What was the process like finding the right dough? Well, we have a pretty complex network of dough-mixing facilities, fresh dough facilities and a network of daily delivery so we

recess; How long haveyou been involved in the Crispani Project? Dan Kish: The project has been underway for two years —I was involved six months after it started. But the idea has been around for five or six years; it surfaced two years ago, and I began managing a year and a half ago. Bryan Zupon: When you consider that pizza has been around since about the third century B. C., Panera seems like a late-comer to the pizza world. Now, the Crispani Project created a pizza that is in the shape of an oval. What was the idea there? We wanted to go back to the roots of pizza. Pizza was traditionally away to use up summer vegetables, meat scraps and dough scraps —for hundreds of years it was never a big round thing anyway. They would just take whatever dough they had. It began as a Romantically-lit Crispani pizza is thelatest Paneraitem. snack, and so we took it back to the roots. Plus, the serving size we were looking for just can mix dough fresh. It goes through a cold couldn’t be accomplished in a round shape. fermentation period that develops flavor It’s abvays encouraging to hear that a new and structure, then gets delivered to bakmenu item backed by millions of dollars ofresearch eries every day. No, I mean the actual process of creatwas inspired by a snack comprised of scraps of ing the dough. Did you guys do anyresearch dough and meat of questionable origin. One of the benefits of the ovular pizza is in Italy? Yes, research was done in Italy, looking that there are no middle pieces without an edge of crust. Was this one of the reasons you for a dough—something thin and crisp with made the pizza an oval, or was that incidental? a slight amount of chew. There are some

the recess staff on: Favorite Film Comedies nutty characteristics from the wheatflour we use, and we use a sourdough starter so it has a little bit of pungency versus an instant yeast dough. The depth of flavor comes from the starter and fermentation. But the process involved lots of trial and error. Dough is a finite science. While a Neapolitan-style crisp crust may have been the dream, the reality is something closer to a floury water cracker. Throwing around baking buzz words like fermentation and sourdough starter does more to confuse most people than it does to bring up Panera s pizza cred. What was the post-creation process like on the Crispani Project? We did a lot of testing to see if people identified with the product. And do people identify with the Crispani?

Absolutely.

What’s next? Let’s take one step back. This is the first product in a series of things we’re doing for Panera so that folks who are tired of the options in casual dining can consider Panera as a viable option for dinner. The notion of Crispani is reallyjust an introduction. We want to give families a chance to reclaim dinner. Actually, let’s take a few steps back. The Crispani isn’t a bad product —the mushroom variety is actually downright tasty. But while the Crispani may be a chance for families to reclaim dinner, it sure isn’t authentic pizza. Better than Domino’s? Yes. A passport to Naples? Not quite. Maybe in a few years Panera will get it right. But for now, it’s back to the drawing board.

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�� Traditional Japanese art meets innovative game play in Okami, the lastest tide from development powerhouse Capcom. This single-player action game is one of the most beautiful in PS2 history, maximizing the console’s soon-to-be-outdated

graphical capabilities. Dubbed an updated Legend of Zelda by

the online community, Okami offers a similar but unique gaming experience that sets itself apart from Nintendo’s long standing franchise. Gamers take control of Amaterasu, the Shinto sun god. Reborn in the physical world as a snow white wolf, Amaterasu is accompanied by a spunky sprite guide, Issun. It is the gamer’s job to save the world from an evil demon and protect all the peace-loving citizens of ancient Nippon. The controls are smooth and the world is a joy to play around in—exploring ex-

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pansive fields and jum great experience by i kicks in when the play the Celestial Brush, a di you freeze-frame the paint over the world, enemies and enviro; alike to your godly will. The stylized anima of the game gives the pression of a living wate color tapestry. Eo friendly gamers wi enjoy painting fields of brant pansies and m: the sun shine—all with stroke of a brush. The camera is sligi side

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Okami will be one of the last great games for the PS2 and is a must-buy for any gamer. —Vanin Leila

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characters’ unique abilities. Droids can reprogram doors and Jedi can use The Force to break Lego structures apart and rearrange them. The pilots can build machines out ofleft-over parts. Character builds fit the silly feel of the game perfectly, while familiar scenes are brought alive with gorgeously rendered backgrounds. Each level contains a wealth of secrets, some of which can only be accessed by unlockable characters and defeated enemy bosses. Afreeplay mode lets you mix and match Lego parts to custom-build your own hero (think Darth Vader sporting Bobba’s armor and a crossbow). Although the fixed-camera can be unruly, and you might find yourself accidently hacking C-3PO’s arms off, Lego Star Wars II leaves little room for criticism. As if the replay factor, light-hearted humor and engrossing gameplay weren’t enough, train your midi-chlorians on this: Han shoots first. —Alex Wan

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an opening, and I got it.” Although alumni such as Shaev are firmly established in their positions, more recent graduates are still struggling to find their place in the music industry. “I cobble together income from several different sources,” said Jamie Garamella,

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producing and writing jingles for the radio.” Garamella decided to plunge into the music business after trying his hand at several other career paths. “When I graduated, I got a job with a dot-com and worked all day in a cubicle and on the side, spent the rest of my energy on music,” he said. “Since I spent all of my energy on music, I thought, why don’t I just do it?” As his experience shows, deciding to enter the industry doesn’t necessarily mean securing a job that can sustain a living. For that matter, it doesn’t mean securing a Job at all “There’s no annual turnaround here like in other fields,” said Ethan Schiffres, Trinity ‘O5, who works for Everfine Records and Red Light Management in New York City. “Unlike Goldman Sachs, they won’t always take a group of seniors every year. People who tend to get jobs have connections through reputation and establishment in the field.” Devin McGaughey, Trinity ‘O3, who is both an artist and co-founder of independ-

added that Duke grads face a further challenge to the entering music business because the University does not have a curriculum that pre-

pares them for the field. “Nothing from Duke really helps me in my work today—maybe some basic econ concepts that I find interesting to apply now, like supply and demand,” Schiffres said. ‘You can’t really teach [the music business] in college unless there’s a specific major for it.”

Kenin, a band comprised of Duke alums, plays at clubs in Washington, D.C. such as The 9:30 Club.

Karger, who visits yearly to speak to Duke’s magazine journalism class, added that the University has improved tremendously in helping students who want to enter the entertainment industry. “It’s ten better, since I was there, in

Yet other alumni said that the liberal education is preparation enough for at least some parts of the business. “The classes that really influenced me were the Hoilywood film class, music because it arts on campus fostering combined the arts on music and more and campus film, and a 4 more being of couple —Dave Karger, Trinity 95 well-roundclasses with ed,” Karger [associate professor of English and literature] Susan said. “For example, there was no journalWillis,” said Dave Karger (Trinity ‘95), a ism class at my point.” Despite Duke’s lack of coursework senior writer for Entertainment Weekly. “They taught me to look at pop culture specifically targeting the music business, alumni continue to flourish in the field. and media with a critical eye.” arts

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Take McGaughey, for example. With fellow alum Sean Gaiser, Trinity ‘O2, he plays in the band Kenin. The group has generated a sizable following throughout the Washington, D.C. area and is currently recording its third album. McGaughey is also a self-described multi-tasker. With Justin Fishkin, Trinity ‘Ol, he co-founded Holster Records, which released Kenin’s most recent album, Just Another Blast, in March 2005. “We’re ADD-scatterbrain industry people,” McGaughey offered byway of explanation. Whether established or still struggling, the alumni are all connected in their passion for music. Shaev credits this passion as the main influence in choosing her career. “Music is a magnet and you will find away to be drawn to it if you love it,” said Shaev.

Mexican guitar duo set to heat up plaza The duo started out playing clubs and busking in the street, traversing Spain, France and Denmark before finally setding in Dublin. They certainly weren’t looking to be (L/ “discovered,” they just wanted to travel the world and play music, Gabriela said. But they soon caught the attention *1 V metal-rockers-turned-spicy-acoustic-virtuosos continue to be labeled as such. Sure enough, the band’s of a young Irish record label called Rubyworks, which put out their debut album, ReFriday evening show on the Foc, in 2002. West Campus Plaza is being advertised as “Flamenco/Jazz That led to a series of Guitars.” tours in the U.K. and Ireland, opening for David “We don’t really care if people want to say that, but in Gray, Buena Vista Social Club and Damien Rice. the flamenco world, they hate Now, with a widely popular that we say we play flamenco,” album produced by John said Gabriela. “We love flamenco music. But they have Leckie (Muse, Radiohead, My Morning Jacket) under completely different aptheir belts, Rodrigo y proaches than us —they do their own traditions.” Gabriela are criss-crossing Their music is really more the U.S., even making an a blend of Mexican folk, clasappearance on CBS’s Late Late Show Oct. 6. sical guitar and surprisingly It’s a far cry from their enough, metal. The duo used to play in a Mexican thrash days singing for spare metal band before they change in Europe, living ditched their amps for more in less-than-ideal conditions, Gabriela said. portable acoustic guitars About three years ago, Now, they wow audiences she and Rodrigo found with prog-folk covers of out that the building they “Stairway to Heaven” and Metallica’s “Orion.” had been living in was a brothel, although they “It’s been quite successful, special to recess didn’t realize the true nathat fusion,” Gabriela said. “People really like it, and some Rodrigo y Gabriela, superstars in Ireland, have recently finished a tour of Europe and are now traveling through the United States on a full tour. ture of their residence until the police came people think it’s really funny.” In the past six months, they’ve taken Europe by storm quit the metal band and headed to the beach, playing knocking on their door late at night, with their chart-topping eponymous release—the first in- acoustic covers of metal songs as background music at “They sent a detective, and they made a lot of questions, and they found out this was a brothel,” she said. “I’m strumentalalbum ever to achieve No. lin Ireland. Rodri- swanky hotels. Still restless, they jetted off to Europe, guitars in hand, not that type of sehorita.” go y Gabriela will be released Oct. 3in the United States. Eric Bishop recess odrigo y Gabriela are not flamenco jazz guitarists. They can’t stress this enough, yet the pioneering by

Power chords and lightning-fast riffs don’t usually find their way into acoustic guitar stardom, but then again neither do a couple of Mexican drifters who only a few years ago were, “just hanging around, drinking beer and doing nothing for nobody,” as Gabriela put it. Frustrated with the lack of gigs in Mexico City, they

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Everyone knows that one guy—the one who still wears his cowboy pajamas, gets up early to watch his lineup of Saturday morning cartoons and couldn’t get a date with an actual girl if his life depended on it. In the new movie School for Scoundrels, Jon Heder is that guy—but not for long. For the few out there who have been living under a rock for the past couple years, Jon Heder is the titular Napoleon of the film Napoleon Dynamite. At the start of Scoundrels, Heder plays the familiar role of the quirky outcast—can he do anything else? But soon we can all breath a sigh of relief as we realize thathis character Roger is determined to make a change. Acting on the advice of a friend, Roger coughs up money to join a class that will turn him from zero to hero—from wimp to masculine master of his territory in a matter of weeks. Dr. P (Billy Bob Thornton) is his allknowing mentor. But when Roger catches the attention of the girl of his dreams, thenrises to the top of the male heirarchy faster than Dr. P might like, the competitive teacher moves in to prove his superiority with the ladies. The cast is packed with exceptional but little known comedic talents, such as Luis Guzman and David Cross. Add actors such as Michael Clarke Duncan and Thornton who exude attitude, and the film reaches a level of hilarity that Heder’s awkwardness could not achieve alone. With an appealing combination of slapstick physicality and witty banter, this film just might appeal to the comedic tastes of more critical viewers. But in the end, School for Scoundrels is a movie made for all the pajama-dad hopefuls searching for that special girl. —Mike Tunick

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�� Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep is the most sumptious visual treat of the year, a confection of handmade animation and old-school special effects filled with swirls ofcolor and a surprising amount ofheart. Gael Garcia Bernal is Stephane, a boyish twenty-somethng with a tendency to live in his own imagination. Leaving his apartment one morning, he is hit by a falling piano—literally and metaphorically. The owner of the instrument is Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg), his next-door neighbor and the woman who eventually occupies Stephane’s dreams. The rest of the film unfurls itself in much the same way as Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind—its plot is a fragmented road marked by confusion and misdirection, but it is also one that ends in richness and meaning for both characters and audience. Shards of reality slice into Stephane’s rich dreams, (where much of the movie takes place) where Gondry’s talents as a creator are best put to use.

Gondry (whose writing career debuts with Sleep) is able to concoct dream land-

phed the comedy scene into a culture of caricatures—entertaining, quote worthy, but somewhat uninspired. With the exception ofindie gems ( Little mercial Hollywood do-overs. Consider the like-named remake of the 1960British film, Miss Sunshine being the most recent), School for Scoundrels. When news of the 2006 mainstream comedy seems to be bereaved version of Scoundrels reached the press, of a couple IQ points. TimeOut London squirmed in protest and Wedding Crashers and Napoleon Dynamite urged viewers to see the original. might be the classics of the new age, but But Jon Heder, who plays the film’s loser their comedic luster pales in comparison protagonist, didn’t take the advice to heart to Oscar-winning comedies It Happened and said he had not seen the original. CoOne Night, or Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. star Billy Bob Thornton, though acknowlWhile these modern comedies might edging the quality of actors like Terry dabble too generously in the inane, they Thomas, also hadn’t studied the classic. are being swallowed whole by modern it a time but didn’t “I saw I ago, long youth in search of relief from the serious-

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ness of the past five years. After all, the function of comedy is relief. For now, the genre is doing its job, as long as audiences are still cringing in painful mirth—even if that requires Vince Vaughn getting walloped in the nether region by a dodge ball.

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scapes that don’t so much recreate the human subconscious as nod to its penchant for eccentricity. He creates cities out of corrugated cardboard and covers horses with velvet skin; the film’s most charming gadget is a rustic scrap of electronics that can move time a single second into the future or past. But Gondry’s attention to visuals never undermines the film’s heart. While Stephane is immature and his creation of Stephanie is simplistic, both characters fit perfectly in the world Gondry has built—their imperfections are naturally found within people seeking love in the modern world. And as the film comes to an end, the characters have begun to overwhelm the visuals—a magnificent achievement for a film featuring some of the most impressive eye candy of the last decade. —Brian McGinn

Imagine two nudists, a pair of failed tennis pros and a couple of musical aficionados competing to earn die dde of “most original wedding.” Now imagine this absurdity without the safety net of a script. Indeed, Confetti is an entirely improvised “mockumentary” featuring experimental humor in addition to typical British cynicism. And if you’re a fan of Christopher Guest movies (Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman), then this film is right up your alley. The couples are amusing in their own quirky ways: the nudist couple offer cheap laughs and the music couple add zest, while die tennis couple clash with the fdm’s generally jolly tone—they suffer tribulations over the bride-to-be’s nostril size and her touchy-feely tennis coach,

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But the best comedy radiates from the gestures of the chichi wedding planners, who are partners in more than one sense of the word. Ultimately, the film’s comedic quality is more “off” than “on,” but it does inspire the viewer to break away from the church wedding norm and dabble in a little spontaneity. After all, who wants to waste money buying a wedding dress when you can walk down the aisle in your birthday suit. —Kate Findlay-Shirras

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� �� Honoring the 20-year anniversary of her breakout JanetJackson has christened her new album 20 Y.0.. Although the album is a solid effort, there is nothing unique about any of the tracks. The first single, “Call on Me,” featuring Nelly, is just a mediocre song with a catchy beat. Despite Jackson’s undeniable vocal talent, the whole album sounds like old Janet songs that have been sampled and diluted. As if that isn’t enough, the track titles seem to be written by a 12-year-old who just discovered AIM lingo (i.e. “Enjoy,” “With U” and “Do It 2 Me”). Despite the bad titles and the uninspired song ideas, this album has one strong selling point: it is Janet Jackson after all, only the second highest-paid female entertainer in history! The fact that this album is filled with average JanetJackson songs (read: songs that are not single-worthy) will at least maintain the approval of diehard Janet fans. For everyone else, however, this album won’t be worth the money or even the time spent pirating the tracks. —Nancy Wang Control,

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Br\an Pooles of Of Montreal: We basically want to have a psychedelic dance party and make it thoughtprovoking, but still fun, you know? We cram a lot of melodies into our songs, and there’s definitely the influence of the old psychedelic music that we were really stoked about when we first started the band. But now we’ve involved new, more modern influences—you know, like electro-type stuff. Sunlandic Twins has been described as your “dance epic.” How would you characterize your upcoming release? It’s an arc. It started with Satanic Panic in the Attic, which had songs like “Rapture Rapes the Muses” and “Disconnect the Dots” that became the springboard for some of the things that happened on the Sunlandic Twins record. The new record is still on the same arc, except it’s a little stranger. But it’s definitely funky, and it’s definitely a dance record. There’s no acoustic, tender moments on the record—it’s pretty much still heavily influenced by Bowie and Prince. Some of Kevin’s lyrics may even be shocking or confusing, where you’re asking, “Did he really say that? What does he mean by that?” What kind of stuff can we expect on Friday? A very orderly show. I think we’re going to give a lecture about pygmies—pygmies that migrated to central Montana, and nobody really knew about them too much. There’s been some new evidence that we’ve uncovered, so we’ll be talking about that. And I think there will be some sort of carving contest, and then after that they’re releasing us some butterflies. There’s some things we’ve got worked out you just have to come and check it out. I’d say you might wanna bring some goggles. Are you a basketball fan? What’s funny is my parents went to Duke, so they’re big Dukies. I’ve actually never seen a game at Cameron Indoor. I have been to a couple of Duke football games, but those weren’t so thrilling. —Eric Bishop —

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starding. A few listens reveal that the music is not as different as the cover would suggest. The best track by far, the inevitable hit single “Money Maker,” is fairly familiar territory. That’s not to say it’s not an absolute killer—The Neptunes’ production is unreal. Cool, laidback bass and sharp stabs of electric organ carry a smooth Pharrell hook and a slinky Luda flow of sexual braggadocio. Elsewhere, the more adventurous, “serious” tracks are hit-and-miss. “Tell It Like It Is” is a cynical tutorial on survival in an unforgiving music business, refreshing in its subject matter and sincerity. “Runaway Love” doesn’t hold up as well—the childhood abuse stories come off as melodramatic and trite, despite the song’s best intentions. The middle of the album suffers too many slo jamz, but the strength of its singles —and of about half of its adventurous songs—make Release Therapy an interesting listen. —Jack McDonald

Sunset Rubdown [Thursday, Sept. 28, 9:30 p.m., Duke Coffeehouse] Wolf Parade’s Spencer Krug brings hauntingly dissonant, keyboard-driven indie rock.

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your living room,” he said. So instead of a chichi gallery, Wyman opened a store with plants, shelves and tables. In effect, he opened a living room customers can use to try out their art before they buy it. Wyman’s “user-friendly” mantra even extends to prices and scents. Wyman stocks small gift items, shells, furniture, jewelry and original artwork in an effort to appeal to a more economically diverse demographic. To avoid giving customers headeaches, Studio only carries candles and potpourri in one scent, Judy Havelka’s marmalade. Studio’s grand opening Friday, Sept. 29 will feature the store’s wares, fiddle-playing by Chape} Hill’s own Sarah Nagell and refreshments catered by George’s Garage. Original work by several local artists will be auctioned off with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the Jimmy V Cancer Foundation. In a refreshing change from traditional media-seeking charity auctions, Wyman has a personal interest in the foundation. Both Wyman’s mother and one of his close friends passed away from cancer. Although Studio has technically been open for two weeks, business has been “tentative” according to Wyman. He’s not worried, though. He says he has a good feeling about the way the store will be received—and he’s not the only one.

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This ceramic piece of art is currently on display in the Bryan Center. Clarinetist and pianist offer alternative Saturday night It’s safe to say that a college student’s Saturday night probably won’t include classical music recitals. However, this weekend’s performance by clarinetist Jon Manasse and pianist Jon Nakamatsu should not be overlooked. The performance itself is rare—not only are the musicians coming together for the first time, but they are touring only four cities within the United States. Although the eclectic duo is performing John Novacek’s “Three Rags,” a composition made specifically for them to play together, it will be intriguing to see how they combine their different styles. The musicians will perform Saturday, Sept. 30 at 8 p.m. in Reynolds Theater. Tickets are $25. Call 919-6844444 for more information. Ceramics and paintings adorn the Brown Gallery Ceramic sculptures and paintings by Bonnie Melton and Sarah Spencer White are currently on display in the Louise Jones Brown Gallery in the Bryan Center. The works reflect an aesthetic conversation between the two artists about the creation of art. The exhibit will be open for public viewing through Oct. 24. —compiled by Christine Schellack

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