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Nine months after the announcement of a 45-percent increase in the student activity fee, it remains unclear how the University is using much of the $900,000 in additionalfunds.

The Office of Student Activities and Facilities has an approximately $1.3-million news budget this year, after receiving more than analysis $600,000from the fee increase, according to The Chronicle’s calculations.

The remainder of the increase went to an

approximately $90,000 surcharge for Last Day

of Classes festivities and to standard inflationary adjustments for Duke Student Government and Duke University Chris Roby Union budgets.

Although DSC and the Union both agreed to disclose their line-item budgets, OSAF Director Chris Roby—who was hired July 1 from Florida State University—declined to do so, saying his office has no obligation to break down its budget in detail.

“AtESU, everything was transparent—I’m SEE OSAF ON PAGE 6

Dave McClure and theBlue Devils had to fight theirway past Holy Cross in Wednesday's 57-45 win.

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Up 35-34, Gerald Henderson rebounded Brian Zoubek’s missed freethrow and kicked it out to DeMarcus Nelson, who drained a three-pointer from the baseline to put the No. 7 Blue Devils up four, eight minutes into the second period.

Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said Henderson’s rebound was probably

the biggest play ofWednesday’s game a game in which the Blue Devils trailed at halftime for their second-straight contest in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Sinking two three pointers within the next three minutes, Henderson helped to turn a six-point deficit at intermission to a 12-point, 57-45, win over Holy Cross Wednesday night.

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Duke Student Government suggested several changes to ameliorate past concerns about fairness and cronyism in the Young Trustee Nominadon Committee at its meeting Wednesday night.

A proposal put forth by sophomore Jordan Giordano, DSGvice president for community interaction, suggested equal representation for DSG and the InterCommunity Council both on the YTNC and during the final voting process.

“The Young Trustee is the most powerful undergraduate at Duke,” Giordano said. The Young Trustee is a regular voting member of the University’s Board of Trustees and is essentially President Richard Brodhead’s boss, he added.

The 16-member YTNC currently consists of members of ICC, which is composed ofleaders from a number of student organizations.

YTNC winnows down the applicants to three finalists and then all DSG and YTNC members vote in the final selection.

“I don’t think DSG is involved enough in the process,” Giordano said.

The new proposal entails DSG and ICC each selecting 10 electors to sit on theYTNC. ICC and DSG’s votes for the final three candidate would also be weighted in order to give both sides equal representation.

“We didn’t want any single group, whether it was DSG or ICC, to have a final say in the process,” said DSG President SEE DSG ON PAGE 6

Union sets aside $25,000 for LDOC Planning committee seeks to secure more fundsfor end-of-year event BY

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The University Union Board approved $25,000 last week for daytime programming during the Last Day of Classes event, Union officials confirmed Wednesday.

“Last year we gave $20,000, so we consider $25,000 very generous,” said juniorKatelyn Donnelly, chief financial officer for the Union.

The money will be designated to fully fund four nonDuke-student bands to perform throughout the day, Donnelly said.

“It was more than we expected,” said LDOC Committee Chair Beth Higgins, a senior.

The LDOC committee is also in the process ofseeking additional funding from other sources within the University Last year, Guster headlined LDOC, which featured a total budget of about $70,000.

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10 U.S. troops killed in Iraq Ten U.S. troops were killed Wednesday in four separate incidents in Iraq,and a mortar attack that killed at least eight people and wounded dozens in a secondhand goods market was followed closely by a suicide bombing in Baghdad's mainly Shiite district of Sadr City, authorities said.

Taco Bell pulls green onions Robert Gates was confirmed as secretary of defense in a 95-2 Senate vote. The 2 'nay'votes were Republican.

Del., Evan Bayh, D-Ind., and Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C.—did not vote. Two Bush allies, Sens.

Rick Santorum, R-Pa., and Jim Running, RKy., voted against Gates, citing his criticism

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WASHINGTON The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to confirm Robert Gates as defense secretary, with Democrats and Republicans portraying him as the man who will help overhaul President George W. Bush’s Iraq policies.

The 95-2 vote was a victory of sorts for Bush, who named Gates to replace Donald H. Rumsfeld at the Pentagon on Nov. 8, a day after voters gave Democrats control of Congress for next year.

Even so, much of Gates’ support stemmed from his pledges to consider new options in Iraq. Overshadowing the vote was the. release of an independent study lambasting Bush’s approach to the war, increasing pressure on the White House to change course.

“I am confident that his leadership and capabilities will help our country meet its current military challenges and prepare for emerging threats of the 21st century,” Bush said in a statement after the Senate vote.

He said Gates had shown during his confirmadon hearing this week before the Senate Armed Services Committee that he is “an experienced, qualified, and thoughtful man who is well respected by members of both parties and is committed to winning the war on terror.”

Overall, 52 Republicans, 42 Democrats and one independent voted for Gates.

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lems our troops currently face,” Running said. “We need a secretary of defense to think forward with solutions and not backward on history we cannot change.”

Santorum, who lost his re-election bid last month, mocked the idea of engaging dictators and talked at length of the evils of “radical Islamic fascism.” Santorum said of Gates, “I think he is in error.”

Taco Bell ordered scallions removed from its 5,800 U.S. restaurants Wednesday after tests suggested they may be responsible for the E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least three dozen people in three states.

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Local Planned Parenthood branches celebrated the first month of over-the-counter emergency contraception distribution Wednesday with a free giveaway of the pill.

The Food and Drug Admin; tion approved over-the-counte sales of the morning-after pill ii August, but widespread distribi tion of the re-packaged drug di not begin until Nov. 6. Planned enthood officials said they wan. ensure women are aware of the new availability of the pill, which is also known as Plan B. “Every woman deserves the chance to avoid unintended pregnancy, and it’s wonderful to have it at home just in case,” said Alex DeSousa, site manager for the Chapel Hill Planned Parenthood clinic.

The Durham and Chapel Hill branches gave Qut an estimated $3,125 worth of the pill to more than 125 people, Jennifer Ferris, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina, said in a statement.

She said many clinics across the counwere also participating in the giveaway, which the Chapel Hill clinic was celebrating with cake and balloons. The Durham Planned Parenthood clinic was also involved in marking the event, “The giveaway is for awareness, but aside from that it’s also a celebration,” DeSousa said, referring to Plan B’s newly increased accessibility, To receive the pill, visitors filled out a briefform and consulted with an emergency

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Several freshmen have said the employees at the Marketplace improve thefirst-year dining experience.

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freshman Zach Graumann said. “It makes it nice to come back day after day.”

Many freshmen said the staff make the Marketplace experience worthwhile.

“One time, a Marketplace worker called me over and asked me to try the turkey stroganoff,” said freshman Julia Garces, who added that she is the Marketplace’s biggest fan. “So even though I knew I didn’t like turkey stroganoff, I still tried it—it was delicious.”

Bradley Moore, a one-year Marketplace employee, said freshmen and employees form strong bonds over a year of food service.

“The students and staff have a wonderful relationship,” Moore said.

He added that the Marketplace staff members are encouraged to reach out and interact with the students.

“I see a lot ofkids outside ofwork, especially at the mall or Brodie Gym,” Morris

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The Durham Police Department will present its long-term master facility plan for endorsement by the Durham City Council at a work session today.

The plan, which is still in its preliminary phases, proposes moving DPD stations into new buildings and a restructuring of the department’s field plan.

“This is very much a conceptual plan.

All that we’re asking from the City Council is to approve the concept of the plan,” plan supervisor Lew Wardell said. “We’re just trying to say its time to organize new facilities.

Wardell added that the current DPD SEE DPD ON PAGE 6

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“The interaction is great. I know a lot of students personally,” said Shawn Morris, a longtime employee of the Marketplace. “The. friendliness of the Marketplace staff adds to the allure of the entire eating experience—l think it makes students feel more comfortable.”

Morris said he hasn’t heard of any complaints this year by students, a noticeable difference from past years.

“The food is sometimes subpar, but the staff members are great all the time,”

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Initiative urges battery, cell phone recycling Cate Harding THE CHRONICLE

of the East Union Building and various computer clusters on both East and West.

Smith added that she thinks the convenience of the new locations will make recycling batteries from electronic products more accessible to students and help to increase the visibility of the program.

Many students, however, said they were unaware of OESO’s new recycling containers or about the dangers of improper battery disposal.

“I usually just throw away batteries,” said freshman Julie Segner. “If I knew the bins had existed and that they were in convenient places, I would definitely use them.”

Sophomore Carina Barnett-Loro, vice president of Duke’s Environmental Alliance, said many students who need to dispose of batteries and cell phones do not take them to the designated spots, and instead throw them out in the ment

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The Environmental Programs Division of the Occupational and Environmental Safety Office is expanding its initiative to encourage students to recycle old cell phones and batteries by increasing the number of recycling containers on campus.

On Earth Day last spring, OESO partnered with the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation —a non-profit organization that recycles used batteries from different electronic devices—in order to create a recycling program specifically for batteries and cell phones.

At the beginning of the school year, OESO extended its program to also include alkaline batteries. To date, OESO has collected more than 3,700 items, according to its website.

“The turnout increased drastically with the addition of alkaline batteries,” said Emily Smith, a safety and health specialist for OESO. “Hopefully, students will re-

spond positively.”

After the success of the alkaline battery expansion, OESO decided to continue to enlarge the program. With the help and support of Residential Life and Housing Services, OESO has added a number of recycling bins at convenient locations around the University.

These include the Bryan Center, the RLHS office on West Campus, the base-

garbage.

Incorrect disposal of such items can lead to severe consequences for the environment because of the toxic chemicals they contain, she said. Barnett-Loro praised OESO for expanding its initiative in making battery recycling easier for students.

“Improper disposal ofbatteries leads to leaching of toxic metals from landfills and subsequently the pollution of groundwater, lakes and streams, it’s great that the

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OESO took on this initiative.” BarnettLoro said. “The disposal sites that I have seen around campus are placed in convenient locations, so hopefully students will respond and utilize them.”

Many students said they see OESO’s program as a positive example of extending recycling accessibility to students,

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but added that they are frustrated by the lack of recycling containers for glass, plastic and paper.

“Everyday items are still not being recycled. In the [Levine Science Research Center], I know there is a place to recycle phone batteries but nowhere for my plastic bottles,” said freshman Dan Certner. can lead to the same end,” Morales said,

adding that she did not consider the two equivalent.

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though customers under the age of 18 still have events planned about the issue, but need a doctor’s prescription, they were also may be doing some education-focused eligible for the giveaway because of the spe- events soon, Morales said.

On-campus pro-choice group Students cialist consultation.

In addition, each customer was offered a for Choice was not involved in the givephysical exam or a birth-control consulta- away, but the organization’s president, sention at half price. Emergency contraception ior Christine Jamieson, said they strongly typically costs $25 for Planned Parenthood approved of the event. customers 18 and older, Ferris said.

“Over-the-counter availability is esOn campus, the reaction to both the pecially important for people who are disadvantaged for financial reasons or giveaway and Plan B’s increased accessibiltime pressures,” she said. “I’m not sure ity was divided.

“We’re against the use of it overall, but how many people are aware of it. I think we’re especially wary of it being handed it is very important that everyone realize out for free,” said junior Margaret it is available.”

Morales, who is on the executive board of Jamieson said she did not think people pro-life organization Students for Life. “It would switch from whatever form of birth makes it easier for people not to think control they were currently using to increased use of emergency contraception. through their choices.”

“I personally can’t predict what peoBecause Plan B not only prevents fertilization but can also prevent a fertilized cell ple’s personal decisions will be, but the from implanting on the uterus, Morales point is that it’s a choice and it’s important for it to be available, especially for people said she considers the pill abortive.

“There’s no difference on my stance for whom it would be too difficult to obbetween EC and abortion, because they tain prescriptions,” Jamieson said.

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and hopes to have a finalized amount within the next couple of weeks, HigginS said.

The Union’s funds will add to the LDOC committee’s existing $90,000 from the increased student activity fee and $20,000 from Campus Council. Donnelly added that the allotted Union funds constitute a significant portion of the Union’s $70,000 programming fund.

“We worked with Beth to meaningfully contribute to the general vision for LDOC,” Donnelly said. “DUU, as a co-sponsor of LDOC, commits its programming experience and additional financial resources to ensure a successful event.”

Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a senior, said the Council may still allot up to double the $20,000 it has already committed to LDOC after the committee makes a presentation to the Council tonight.

“Looking at our budget, I don’t know that we’ll be able to do a full other $20,000, but potentially another $lO,OOO is possible,” Ganatra said.

Higgins said negotiations for finding daytime and evening bands are on track, but will not be finalized until next semester. “We have a list [of bands], but we haven’t defined exactly who we’re looking for,” Higgins said.

“We’re hoping to have a very recognizable band at night that people will enjoy.”

In addition to the four daytime bands funded by the Union and the big-name evening bands, Higgins said there may also be other daytime programming, including inflatable activities. Daytime programming was cancelled last year because of rain.

The money from the student activity fee increase alone exceeds last year’s LDOC budget of $BO,OOO, which brought Guster, guitarist Matt Costa and rapper Rahzel to campus for the event.

Duke author wins religion award Duke historian Tim Tyson has been awarded the prestigious Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion, a $200,000 international cash prize for his book “Blood Done Sign My Name.”

The award—given annually by the University of Louisville and theLouisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary—recognizes an idea in a book or documentary published in the past eight years.

Tyson’s book revolves around the true story of the killing of a black man in the 1970 in the South, which led to the controversial acquittal of murder defendants.

Tyson is a research scholar in the Center for Documentary Studies and an adjunct professor ofAmerican studies at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Student wins $5,000 short story prize Senior Billy Kennedy has been awarded Grand Prize in the St. Louis Short Story Competition for his story “Make You a Man.” He completed the story last spring for English Lecturer Christina Askounis’ creative writing class.

The $5,000 prize is the largest cash prize offered by any short story competition in the country, Joe Porter, English professor and chair of the creative writing committee, wrote in an e-mail.

said. “Some nights, I play basketball against freshman boys.”

Freshman Joe McMurray is one of many students that have formed personal relationships with a Marketplace staff member. McMurray said he usually talks withMoore everyday, either in the Marketplace, Lilly Library or Brodie Gymnasium.

“Bradley is a very personable guy and I enjoy lifting weights with him a couple times a week,” McMurray said.

“He also helps lots of other people in the gym if they aren’t doing something right, or just need a spot. It’s fun to watch girls attempt to work out with him —sometimes he’ll do his special ab workout with them, which is extremely entertaining to watch.”

Students said Marketplace employees are constantly joking around.

“Wallace, the omelet guy, is always willing to show me his T-Shirt artwork—he’s really talented,” McMurray said.

“There is also a guy who walks around singing all day, which is hilarious to watch.”

Morris said the jokes add a level of comfort to the

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“The staff brings a friendly atmosphere that’s necessary for what they do,” freshman Duncan Amos said. “It’s fun to come to the Marketplace because it’s away to get away from the stresses of classes—l’m always entertained.”

Moore said he frequently speaks to the students as if he were their friend.

“Bradley always talks to me for 20 minutes, so when I’m in a rush, I’d prefer to just go without seeing him,” joked freshman Olivia Patterson.

Students said Marketplace employees frequently speak in funny voices and sing along with the popular rap and R&B songs that play over the Marketplace speakers.

“The songs they play are always great,” freshman Emily Ice said. “I always find myself dancing along to them.”

Ice said a Facebook group, called “I Want the Marketplace to DJ My Next Party,” is extremely popular with freshmen.

“When I hear the staff singing along to Christina Aguilera and Yung Joe, I feel strangely comfortable,” freshman Luke Chapin said. “It makes the coming here so much more fun.”

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“This building is at the end of its useful life and is beyond what we are able to maintain,” Warded said. “We are looking for a headquarters building that provides us better features and enables us to operate

efficiently.”

According to the plan, which is available on the Durham city website, the building is beyond full capacity and unable to accommodate modern police operations. The plan also outlines the functional results of new facilities, such as improved beat integrity and a more efficient use of staff.

“This building was not designed to be a police station in the first place,” Captain Lee Russ said. “We constandy have to adapt the building to fit our needs. And when you do that, some of the systems suffer.... This building has served its purpose.”

With its current facilities under lease, the DPD hopes that the plan will allow it to build and own its own buildings instead of leasing them.

“We hope to get out of some long-term leases and we hope to build and own our own buildings,” Deputy Chief Major Ron Hodge said. “We hope that the life of

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very used to having open books,” Roby said, contrasting it with his experience at Duke.

Roby split his budget into several categories and provided the percentage of funds each receives, but declined to supply further detail—although he noted that he believes his 14-person office is not given the financial support it deserves.

“This is my fourth institution and I’ve never seen projects so woefully underfunded,” Roby said, adding that two staff positions remain unfilled.

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said he supported the $123 student activity fee increase even though the funds seem to be directed more at OSAF administration than at specific student groups.

“Let’s remember that as a private institution, tuition and fees are all in one pocket—it’s simply a label,” Moneta said, noting that as a compensatory measure, requests for general tuition increases have been reduced and die student health fee has been frozen.

“We’ve been restrained and are trying to be responsible,” Moneta said. “It’s important not to isolate this.”

He added that line-item budgets are not available for any of the University’s administrative budgets.

those buildings will result in some savings for the taxpayers.”

The headquarters’ relocation would also change the functional layout of policing operations.

With the new station, the DPD would move from a district configuration to a precinct one.

“The idea is to combine the resources that we have in those district stations under a precinct commander who will be able to use those resources a little bit more efficiently,” Warded said.

He added that the plan has already been approved by the five Partners Against Crime committees, which are district-based groups that act as liaisons between Durham neighborhoods and the police.

“We have really had to do very little revision of the plan at the draft stage,” Warded said. “Our plan will be good from the taxpayers’ standpoint and it will be an efficient and good way to do business.”

Both Wardell and Russ said that the restructuring of the DPD would not affect its relationship with the University. Wardell added that the relationship would “continue almost transparently.”

Aaron Graves, associate vice president for campus safety and security, also said the change would not affect Duke.

“I do not see any impact as to where they are physically located within the city and the reduction of crime,” he wrote in an e-mail.

Zoila Airall, an assistant vice president of student affairs who supervises OSAF, said some of the increase went toward hiring additional staff, adding that it would not be appropriate to reveal more specifics about the financial distribution.

“We don’t have to say, ‘We pay $lO for this curtain,”’ Airall said.

The debut of the West Campus Plaza has created new funding pressures for OSAF, Airall said.

“We’re pouring money into the Plaza,” she added.

Over time, the activity fee increase will pay for more Plaza programming initiated by student groups, Airall said.

Melinda Roper, senior associate director of OSAF, said Plaza programming for the first five weeks of the semester was not her organization’s responsibility, but it has been ever since.

Some student leaders whose groups have held events on the Plaza said OSAF is often helpful in arranging their events.

“A lot of groups get money if they need a stage or something like that,” said Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a senior.

Campus Council, however, did not receive any funding for its “Fridays on the Plaza” event in November, Ganatra said.

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In addition, any ICC member who runs for Young Trustee would be ineligible to be on theYTNC and could only be replaced by the president, vice president or second-in-line of the organization he or she represents.

“We were worried... that there was conflict of interest running for Young Trustee and having the ability to appoint people to the nominating Committee,” Wolf said.

The proposed plan would lessen concerns of cronyism on the part of DSG as well, Wolf added.

“We felt this was a lot fairer in that DSG couldn’t push through its candidates,” he said.

The Senate will not vote on the changes until its next meeting Jan. 17. A timeline for the nomination and selection process was approved by unanimous consent.

In another presentation, senior Jimmy Soni, vice president for academic affairs, spoke about a pilot project he hopes to implement in the spring to address the University’s lack of a core course for all students.

“The idea with our project right now is to develop some common intellectual currency,” Soni said.

Students would be able to select one class from among six or seven large lectures taught by an esteemed faculty member, he said.

DSG Chief ofStaff Paul Slattery, a junior, said he felt the program would be a positive addition, as the course would provide a common ground for all students.

“I think [Duke] is the Wal-Mart of universities,” Slattery said. “You pick the classes that you need.”

Although the project is still in its nascent stage, Soni said the administration is supportive of the idea. He wants to accept submissions from faculty for proposed courses this spring, and implement the program in Spring 2008.

He hopes it would eventually become a requirement for sophomores and part of the “sophomore-year experience.”

The Senate also approved a resolution to establish a Duke Undergraduate Business Advisory and Resource Committee.

Duke lags behind other universities in helping students seize business opportunities, said senior Jason Gross, co-president ofThe Duke Entrepreneur. “[DU-BARC] would make student businesses viable via vis-a-vis funding,” Gross said, adding that it would provide students with advisors, as well.

DSG also unanimously approved a resolution that would streamline the process of recognizing new student groups and

providing event funding.

DSG, but none from OSAFfor its “International FoodFest 2006,” an October event on the Plaza, said senior Yubo Gong, the

organization’s president.

OSAF did provide logistical expertise,

Gong said.

“They have a detailed map.... They know exactly how many tables will fit,” he said, adding that OSAF helped set up the event.

Roby said the student activity fee increase was necessary because OSAF is taking over control of the Bryan Center and paying for its ongoing remodeling.

New couches, a fresh paintjob, computer kiosks and new furniture on the patio are some of the recent improvements, Roby said, although he declined to specify the cost of any of the renovations.

“We want to continue upgrading the BC,” he said Overall, Airall said the additional money creates a new funding model that pays in advance for student groups’ expenses.

As an example, she noted that use ofthe Von Canon meeting rooms in the Bryan Center is now free for student groups.

“We’re hearing students say they want more venues, more opportunities for social life,” Airall said. “[The BC] needs to have less of an airplane hangar feel and be more of a student center.”

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Growing up, freshman Joy Cheek knew the importance of rules. No elbows on the table, no cookies before dinner.

And certainly no roughing the passer.

That was a 15-yard penalty.

For the last 11 years, Cheek’s father, Boris Cheek, has served as an NFL field judge, spending fall weekends traveling around the country.

Last winter, Boris Cheek’s weekend profession rubbed off on his daughter.

Through the assistance ofher AAU coach, Joy Cheek began refereeing children’s Christian league basketball on Saturday afternoons in her hometown of Charlotte.

“It was really fun, but it was a job,” she said. ‘You really had to make calls. The kids were into it.”

Clad in a striped shirt and shiny black shoes, Joy showed up with a whistle around her neck, ready to handle the wrath of prepubescent bailers.

Working these games, Cheek said she learned more about the rules than she ever knew before. She finally figured out the ever-complicated backcourt violation rule and discovered a different set of technical foul violations.

She also learned that officials don’t watch the ball at all times.

‘You have a section of the court to look at, but the ball might not be in that section, and you still have to look for fouls,” Cheek said. “I had a tendency to watch the ball, so I’d be missing fouls—kids pushing on the other side.”

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Freshman forward Joy Cheek has begun to take after her father, whois a field judge each weekend in the NFL She added that this awareness has helped her own basketball game, which has gotten off to a solid start so far at Duke, averaging 7.1 points and 4.6 rebounds per game.

One of the quickest lessons Cheek learned about youth basketball is that the adults are the ones who often act the most like children.

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in which she made the Big East all-freshman team, Sherwood transferred to Vanderbilt, where she won the “Sixth Woman of the Year” award from the SEC coaches in 2006 after sitting out a season.

“I’m really happy she’s doing well out in Vanderbilt,” Waner said. “It’s really fun to have those kind ofrelationships in middle school and high school and then to be able to play against her again in college.”

Sherwood, however, will not be Waner’s responsibility tonight. Instead, Waner and senior Lindsey Harding must deal with Vanderbilt senior Dee Davis, who Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said is one of the best point guards in the nation. Davis is also a player that Harding knows well—the pair were roommates at a past adidas All-American camp.

“She’s great at passing and she sees the floor so well,” Harding said. “We’re going to try and limit her vision.”

Dee’s court vision directs Vanderbilt’s high-octane offense, which has scored more than 80 points in all but two of its games. The Commodore offense ranked ninth in the nation for scoring—is also ranked third for its 51.3 field goal

“Three plays that he made equaled nine points,” Krzyzewski said. “And in this game, nine points was a lot.”

The Blue Devils (8-1) were held under their 69.5-point scoring average in their third-straight home contest as Holy Cross (6-3) dictated the tempo for much of the game.

Struggling to establish themselves offensively in the first period against the Crusader’s 1-3-1 zone, Duke turned the ball over 12 times, including several missed lob passes down low.

Holy Cross capitalized on the Blue Devils’ miscues and lackluster play, scoring 12 points off turnovers and six on the fastbreak.

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“Most teams we play have a great inside game or a great outside game,” Goestenkors said. “We’re really going to have to use our pressure and try and make them uncomfortable.”

Goestenkors said the Blue Devils will try to switch up their looks on defense to confuse the Commodores, changing from the 1-3-1 zone they used against Rutgers Monday to a man-to-man style at times. The Blue Devils’ defense has been stingy all season, as only one team has reached the 50point mark against them.

“Our defense has almost been stifling the past couple of games,” Waner said. “Our defense is really what generates our offense.”

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“My dad jokes about it, ‘Did the parents yell at you?’” she said. “Parents get really upset. Even for little kids, they really get into it.... You get yelled at sometimes, but you just laugh it off.”

Her father should know.

As a parent, Boris Cheek is an intense fan, his daughter said. Many times, Joy

“They took control of the tempo of the game and made you play every possession, and they played more of those possessions better than we did,” Krzyzewski said.

Josh Mcßoberts went into halftime having attempted only two shots and with three points—even with the advantage of playing on the baseline against the 1-3-1.

But the Blue Devil team that came out for the second half was completely different than the one that went into the locker room trailing, 28-22.

And although shooting nearly 30 percentage points higher from the floor helped to solidify its second-half scoring output, Duke’s 20-6 run in the first 9 minutes was fueled by its stronger defensive play.

In the first half, the Crusaders ran a series of pick-and-rolls, hitting the open man off the roll. In the second, however, Duke continuously switched defenders, shutting down the looks Holy Cross had been getting earlier.

“I thought our defense in the second half was excellent,” Krzyzewski said. “They weren’t able to get ahead of us—get an angle. In the first half, we didn’t do a good job of that and they got by us.”

The Blue Devils forced 20 turnovers on the night and contained the Crusaders’ leading scorer, senior guard Keith Simmons, to 13 points.

Additionally, DeMarcus Nelson, Greg Paulus and Henderson all took charges within a critical three-minute stretch at the beginning of the second half when the Blue Devils were still trailing.

“Our defense has saved us, and thank goodness for that,” Krzyzewski said.

Nelson and Mcßoberts led Duke with 13 points apiece, scoring a combined 19 points after halftime.

“They made their wide-open looks in the second half and we didn’t,” Holy Cross head coach Ralph Willard said. “When you get good looks, you have to knock them down—and we didn’t.”

Despite the 12-point margin of victory,

him a look to tell him to quiet down.

“At [my] games, he was always trying to ref, even basketball games, he was always calling calls,” Joy Cheek said. “Going to a football game with him is horrible. At high school football games, he’ll always try to be making calls. It’s horrible.”

As an NFL official, Boris is on the other end of the jeers. Whatever town he visits, he said, the fans always consider him the enemy.

When Joy Cheek went on the road with her dad, she tuned out all the negative things people around her were saying. But sometimes, the heckling was simply too loud—or too personal.

“We could never go to Oakland,” Joy said. “They would look in the programs and check the bios about [our family].”

Boris Cheek, who played college basketball at Morgan State, began his journey working in the Canadian Football League and has experience in NFL Europe. In his time with the NFL, Cheek has officiated several playoff games, including one NFC Championship game, but he is still waiting for the chance to officiate a Super Bowl.

“Hopefully he can get a Super Bowl this year,” Joy Cheek said. “Hopefully I can go to the Super Bowl.”

So with all her experience, watching the intensity her father puts into his work and experiencing the difficulty of making the right call, does. Cheek sympathize with officials she meets on the court?

“Nope,” she said with a chuckle.

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Josh Mcßoberts nails a long two-point jumperas the shot clock winds down late in thesecond half. however, the Blue Devils were not satisfied with their play.

Duke players turned the ball over a collective 20 times, while only dishing out nine assists.

“I’m not satisfied—and the rest of our team isn’t—with the way we won,” Nelson said. “We didn’t play 40 minutes the way we can. Until we do, 1 think everyone in this locker room is not going to be satisfied. It’s not winning or losing, it’s the standard that we play at and the way we win.”

NOTES: After beating Holy Cross Wednesday, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski improves to 2-4 all-time against the Crusaders.

His four losses to Holy Cross came when he was head coach at Army, now a Patriot League rival.... With its win Wednesday, combined with Oklahoma’s 67-51 loss to Villanova in Norman, Duke now holds the nation’s longest non-conference home winning streak with 47 consecutive victories.

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The plan for such a studio requirement —administrators said it will also provide is certainly welcome news. Although perhaps a small step, an area in which Pratt and the studio is in keeping with Trinity students can work tothe University’s $1.3 billion gether on projects.

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sign studio, however, will begin to address this issue by creating a common shared space can help to solve this.

And indeed the studio is not the only effort that has been made to unite Trinity and Pratt. The symbolic connection of the interdisciplinary CIEMAS quad as well as cross-listed humaniclasses ties-engineering such as last spring’s course on Hurricane Katrina are all tremendous steps in the right direction.

The School of Law also recently announced that it would be offering a joint-degree program with Pratt—another example of interdisciplinarity.

Some in the past have com-

plained that it traditionally has

been easier for Pratt students to enroll in Trinity courses, and more difficult for Trinity students to enroll in Pratt courses. Hopefully, the new studio can set aside space for courses that are geared more for Trinity students interested in classes that are now exclusive to Pratt.

Furthermore, the choice of Southgate as the location for this new studio is a smart one.

For one, it allows for what would otherwise be under-utilized space to become a vibrant learning community, a step that is in keeping with Duke’s apparent push to make more use of residential ,spaces as academic ones.

In addition, by linking the two schools on the fresh-

man East Campus, students from both schools will exposed to elements interdisciplinarity at an early stage in their college careers, allowing students to explore options that might not have otherwise considered.

Increased cross-enrollment in each of the two schools will help to break down an evident wall on both academic and social levels, as students from both schools will be able to share more classes together.

In sum, then, the addition of the design studio in Southgate is, in many and varied ways, a positive step that promises to do a lot for future collaboration between Duke’s humanities majors and its engineers.

China’s sunshine boys

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here’s a little news quiz: Guess who’s the seventh-richest man in China today, with a fortune estimated by Forbes magazine at $1.43 billion?

Answer: Shi Zhengrong. Now guess what he does.

Real estate? No. Banking? No. Manufacturing for Wal-Mart? No. Construction? No. Shi is China’s leading maker of silicon photovoltaic solar cells, which convert sunlight into electricithomas friedman ty. Yes, the sevthe new york times enth-richest man in China is a green entrepreneur! It should only happen in America.

Shi thinks, as I do, that renewable clean power wind, solar, bio-fuels—is going to be the growth industry of the 21st century, and he wants to make sure that China and his company, Suntech Power Holdings, are the leaders. Only 43 years old and full of energy himself, Shi hopes to do for solar energy what China did for tennis shoes: drive down the cost so that millions of people who could not afford solar photovoltaic panels will be able to do so.

As an environmentalist, I wish him well. As an American, I worry that if we don’t start doing everything we can to develop our own clean power, we’re going to miss out on the green industrial revolution.

Today, most of our hybrid cars are imported from Japan. Tomorrow, if Shi has his way, most of our solar panels will come from China.

What Shi understands is that China is going to have to go green. Its rivers and air are becoming so polluted that it has no choice. In fact, as he and I spoke in his 66th-floor office in Shanghai, the air was so dirty you could barely make out the skyscrapers down the street. America, alas, still seems to think it has a choice in going green. So while China will be compelled to move into this industry, U.S. companies may or may not, depending on whether states, or Washington, require power providers to generate energy from renewables.

For years our brain-dead Congress thought it was helping our power companies and manufacturers by not imposing tough energy-efficiency standards on them. In fact, it was just helping some of them commit suicide. Congress’ idiotic decision not to impose higher mileage standards on U.S. carmakers helped Detroit miss the market and almost go bankrupt.

China already has higher mileage standards for its autos than we do.

“People at all levels in China have become more aware of this environment issue and alternative energy,” said Shi. “Five years ago when I started the company people said; ‘Why do we need solar? We —

have a surplus of coal-powered electricity.’ Now it is different; now people realize that solar has a bright future. But it is still too expensive.”

Shi founded Suntech in Wuxi, China, near Shanghai, after earning a Ph.D. in engineering in Australia in 1992. As The Wall Street Journal put it in a recent profile, Suntech combines “first world technology and developing world prices”—so effectively it has become one of the world’s four top solar manufacturers, along with Sharp and Kyocera of Japan and BP. The key, Shi, explained to me, is that he uses more low-cost Chinese labor, rather than high-tech machines, to make his solar modules and handle the fragile silicon, and he takes advantage of the subsidies offered by different Chinese provinces dying for him to open a Suntech factory in their region.

Roughly 90 percent of his business today is abroad. But as he brings the price down, the China market will open up, and he expects to use that to gain much greater scale and drive the price of his solar modules down further.

“If we have a market here, we feel confident we will be a cost leader,” he says. “Now we are at around $4 per watt. In 10 years time, I’m pretty sure we will be below $2 per watt,” which would make solar competitive and scalable.

Thanks to Suntech’s success, “now there is a rush of [Chinese] business people entering this sector, even though we still don't have a market here,” added Shi. “Many government people now say, ‘This is an industry!’” To help, the Chinese government just passed a law mandating that China get 10 percent ofits energy

China’s emerging green power entrepreneurs could clean our clock in the clean power business. from renewables, like solar, by 2020.

China is setting high standards for renewables, but is still weak on enforcement. America is better at enforcement, but still weak on setting high standards. We need to get our act together, because eventually China will bring its enforcement in line with its regulations—or it won’t breathe. And when that happens, China’s emerging green power entrepreneurs could clean our clock in the clean power business.

Oh, well, you can always buy a share. Suntech is already listed on the NewYork Stock Exchange.

Thomas Friedman is a regular columnist for The New York Times. This column was previously printed there.

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group offriends and I went to dinner Friday at the Washington Duke Inn to “kill some Food Points.” While leaving, we were stopped by some of Duke’s Trustees, including two Young Trustees. After being asked to ratde off our hometowns and majors, we were advised by the Young Trustees to enjoy college while it lasts because the real world is no fun.

We laughed politely and then exited, immediately dismissing their cliche advice. But I have since begun to ponder the recent graduates’ insight.

After all, college is far from the real world, and we are far from grown up. If I were really grown up, I would not have to hesitate when asked to call a professor by his first name offer my sarah hostetter hand so awkwardly upon life... or something like it a first meet-

ing, feeling that such a gesture is too formal. Or, just as I felt this past weekend as I was adorning myself to go to our fancy WaDuke dinner, I would not believe that I was playing dress-up in both my attire and the setting.

The bottom line is that we are what psychologists call “young adults.” Most Duke students are not teenagers, as I suddenly realized when a friend of mine turned twenty a few months ago. But we are also far from being “real” adults. Do you know any adults who pay for food with what we so endearingly refer to as “Monopoly money” or complain when they attend a social function that does not offer unlimited alcohol?

College is often viewed as a time of transition from childhood to adulthood, so it seems to me that this feeling of not fitting into either category is natural. But there are times when we take our roles as both youth and adult too far.

We do what we can to be young while we still are —because it’s a fact that as we grow older, we will probably no longer be able to manage on three hours of sleep or party on Thursdays.

We recognize that we will one day have responsibilities that we cannot solve with an allnighter or skip because of a hangover. Many of us have thus decided to live up our college years as much as we can. We adopt lifestyle choices that in the real world would be deemed sexually promiscuous or alcohol-dependent but are acceptable in the college world.

And then there are those of us who act like we are already in the real world, or push hard as hell to make sure we are ready once we get there. We treat every assignment as if it will determine the entire course of our lives, and in doing this, we place far too much real-world, survival-necessity value on things that are really only of the college world. As friends have often said to me in my times of stress, “Sarah, when you are on your death bed, are you honesdy going to remember what you got on that one orgo test your sophomore year of college?”

We have our lives all planned out, knowing when we will fill all of our major and minor requirements, which law schools we want to apply to and where we intend to live as adults. But who knows how relevant all of that will be once we encounter the real world?

Even if so many of us act exclusively as youths or adults, I would be willing to bet that the vast majority of us fit into a category that rests somewhere in the middle of the two extremes. We have our fun on the weekends but spend our finals weeks trapped in the library.

We spend our “Monopoly money” like it has no end but also hold down a ten-hour-per-week job. We embrace both sides of our young adult-ness, but rarely ever do so at the same time.

In this way, many of us live two lives here—one as children on the weekends and one as adults on the weekdays. But as I realized when the Young Trustees we met asked if we were seniors, the real world really is not far off. And before we get there, we need to figure out how to balance our two extremes. Because one day we are going to have to wake up and have legitimate responsibilities, and we need to learn now how to maintain an adult lifestyle without losing some of what has made our youthful days so much fun.

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

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get one thing straight—the worst thing Duke students can do is give in. Since March, our “campus culture” has been under assault

from the media, from Durhamites, from critics around the country and especially from the administration. Unfortunately, playing hard is now being attacked from within by an insidious segment of the student body, the group known as DukePlays.

This organization has one—and only one —good idea: that the best and only way to make real change is for the student body to unite in defense of its own ideals. But this movement has to be in defiant opposition to whatever top-down solution the <*rrt University administration may seek to impose upon us, lest we end up withjon detzel out any real playing at all, and it certainly has to proclaim vehemently our a iine in the sand right to play hard.

Nevertheless the Great Play-In was a serious setback for those who desire to maintain any semblance of collegiate fun here at Duke. By suggesting a change from “play hard” to “play well” and hoping to do so in part by bringing back playground antics, those who promoted the Play-In seem to be implying that nonalcoholic, fourth-grade-level games are how the student body ought to entertain itself under a new system.

So if playing well is better than playing hard, and playing well means being childish, then playing hard is infantile. And those who do play hard have, by extension, the maturity level of toddlers. You might as well require our moms to live with us at college or organize mass bottle feedings. I can’t wait to get home and tell my friends I won the DukePlays chess, four square and tiddlywinks championships instead of partying on LDOC. It’s about as silly as, well, there isn’t even a good enough simile out there. Maybe it’s as silly as trying to disprove global warming, or, better yet, as silly as thinking we can save Iraq from thousands ofyears of religious persecution. I just don’t know.

The problem is that DukePlays has actually worsened our campus culture instead of benefiting it. As a newfound voice of the student body, it has institutionalized and officially expressed the revolting notion that there is, in fact, something wrong with our campus culture and that the situation needs to change.

This fallacious claim that started with the lacrosse incident, which, do recall, happened off campus, is misguided on both positive and normative grounds. With recent cracking down by the administration on fraternity partying and the deregulation/minimization of tailgate, social life on campus is waning and tame, at its best; we are no doubt a far cry from the raucous alcoholic paradise ofyears past.

Moreover, the point that the culture Rolling Stone magazine de-

No one is forced to party. If

people don’t like

the lifestyle, they don’t have to join in; they can “play well” or play in Bostock or not play at all if they so choose. scribes is wrong in some ethical or moral sense is dubious. For the most part, health emergencies are rare, given the sheer magnitude of drinking-to-excess events that occur over the course of the school year; and no other harms result either: Hard players on average have solid GPAs, are active on campus in organizations or athletics and tend to secure superb careers after graduation.

And let us not forget the obvious point. Hard players do so because they want to, because it’s fun and exciting and advantageous, because it’s more beneficial than it is harmful. No one is forced to party. If people don’t like the lifestyle, they don’t have-to join in; they can “play well” or play in Bostock or not play at all if they so choose. Our mantra might as well be “work hard, be bored” if the Play-In is a sign of what’s to come.

This situadon goes beyond the fraternities’ desire to drink themselves stupid every weekend. I personally am offended that some group on campus decides that what I like to do for fun is wrong and seeks to end it.

The student body has a lot of power, if it acts together. Let’s not allow splinter groups to destroy the majority’s right to party however hardcore it wants. The lesson is straight from the Beastie Boys: ‘You gotta fight for your right to party.”

Join together in protest. We could redefine the mantra as “work hard, play harder” or even, for shock value, “work hard, play dead.” I already have some slogans, both fitting rebukes to DukePlays: “work hard, play hard, f you” and “DukePlays can play with itself.” Who’s with me?

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Jon Detzel is a

Trinity junior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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Santa thought it was an ordinary bludegeoning Menorah weapon, slapChristmas Eve when he parked Rudy ping Santa upside the head with nine pointy metal candle holders of doom. on the roof and slid down ChristoWell, now Santa was really pissed. pher Rosenlevystein’s chimney. But scanned the area for ammo. To his had he reached the He no sooner gas-lit-fake-log fireplace then he re- left a stash of needly misdetoe; to his alized he was not alone. Someone was right a glass of long-since curdled stirring, someone far deadlier than milk. Since misdetoe is not a particularly deadly weapon, he grabbed the any mouse. Who could it be? Christopher had fallen asleep hours ago. milk and poured it over CharYy’s head.

“Take that,” he said. “I hope you Santa would know —he always knows.

“Who goes there?” Santa bellowed. had meat for dinner.”

“I didn’t have time, I was too busy Santa knew little Christopher came household, mixed but on with your mom, haha,” Charry this, from a Santa’s big day, he was caught quipped in response.

Now Charry had crossed the line. off-guard by the response, coming the Chrismaka tree.

Not Santa’s mom. Not on Christmas. from just beyond Santa felt a rage fdl him like never be“It is I, Chanukah Gharry.”

“Reveal yourself,” Santa said in fore, and ripped the Chrismaka tree strong booming voice, even though from its stand. Charry saw what was on the inside he was shaking in his coming and had to resort to his last... well-polished boots. Everyone knows resort. He took off his ice and starting is Chanukah one to twirl it like a sling.

Charry bad-ass-mother-P**** Just as they were about to connect, And so Gharry, bedecked in his they noticed Chris huddled peacefully blue and white suit and yarmulke, his in a comer, snuggled beneath his dreibling-bling star of David hanging del blanket, with a Santa hat covering from his neck, stepped into the room. his head, craddling an inflatable baby The two stared at each other and said Jesus. Instantly they were healed of their holiday malcontent and realized nothing. Awkward Silence.

Then Santa spun his red velour if little Chris could find peace in such sack, fortified with the weight of a twisted amalgram offaith-based symcoundess wooden trains, and took a bolism, they too could look beyond mighty swing, knocking C.C. flat on their differences for just one night.

“I’m sorry, you cynical construct of his tuchus. But the fight was far from over. Oh yes, that Gharry is a figher commercialism,” Gharry said.

“Happy holidays, Jesus-killer.” (well, except for on Shabbat). Harry —Lexi Richards and Alex Wan reached into his suit pocket to draw a

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1. Best Non-Alcoholic Holiday Drink: Spanish Chocolate Stir two cups of milk with two ounces ofsweet chocolate (broken or grated) and half a teaspoon of cinnamon in a pot over low heat undl the chocolate dissolves. Add two egg yolks, beat until the mixture is thick and enjoy! Add a little flair byadding a cinnamon stick or a Spanish churro.

2. Best Alcoholic Holiday Drink: Wassail Try this hot, spiced punch, originally from northern Europe, for a little kick of flavor on a cold night. Simmer one gallon of apple cider, one lemon, one orange (both washed and sliced), one tablespoon of whole cloves, one tablespoon of allspice and eight cinnamon sticks in a pot for one to two hours. Then add one gallon of white wine and two cups of white rum 10 minutes before serving.

3. Best Holiday Movie: Home Alone classic a This 1990 pits Culkin Macaulay against cherub-cheeked the bumbling Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern attempting to rob his neighborhood. Pop it in and reminisce about the days when Culkin was not known for his teen marriage or friendship with Michael Jackson 4. 12/25 Alternatives: For those ofus who don’t spend Dec. 25 opening presents after a night of anxiously waiting for Santa, there are plenty of alternatives. Try catching a flick, with major releases such as Children of Men and Dreamgirls opening that day. And if that doesn’t work, there’s always Chinese food.

5. Favorite Holiday Dish: Turducken Sometimes it’s hard to decide what kind of meat to serve during a holiday meal. Turkey? Duck? Or maybe chicken? Try a turducken (a chicken stuffed in a duck stuffed in a turkey) and you can have all three. Recipes are available on websites such as Allßecipes.com, or can be bought on BuyLouisiana.com.

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recess Now that Thanksgiving is over and tacky ornaments adorn Wal-marts across the land, the time has come to commence the holiday festivities.

Apart from swilling eggnog and decorating a tree, one of the most popular ways to celebrate the season is by attending a performance of The Nutcracker. Seeing children, mouths agape, watching the antics of dancing sugar plums and gingerbread men can turn even the Scroogiest of men merry.

For many families, especially those with young dancers, The Nutcracker is more than just another Tchaikovsky ballet (see Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty). It’s also a family tradition.

Most ballet dancers begin their training at the age of eight, and many of the roles in The Nutcracker—which is, after all, the story of a little girl’s dream—are written for young children.

Carolina Ballet auditions children in late September for roles as gingerbread men, mice, partygoers and of course, Clara. Triangle Youth Ballet, located in Chapel

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Hill, rehearses once a week until November and then twice a week until the performances. Both companies end with multiple weekends of performances during the months of November and December, which is called “Nutcracker Season” in many ballet circles.

If it sounds tiring, that’s because it is. Many companies have two performances a day on the weekends. Even the professional dancers at CarolinaBallet take time off during the week between performances to avoid exhaustion.

But they see it as a tradition too.

“All of the 32 dancers in the Carolina Ballet have danced the piece before, with studios while they were growing up, with the company or while on tour,” said Elizabeth Parker, assistant to director Robert Weiss.

The Nutcracker Suite, which was composed from 1891 to 1892 and later choreographed by Marius Petipa, is based on the book The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffman.

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Thursday is the new Friday at the Nasher Museum of Art. The museum’s extended curfew Thursday nights invites visitors to dine late and peruse the galleries for an additional four hours, but it is only on the first Thursday of each month that the museum sponsors presentations by local artists and speakers.

“It’s a very casual event in which each week’s speaker will give a tour of one of the galleries, and probably hone in on a few of the pieces that he really likes and talk about them,” said Wendy Bower Livingston, manager of marketing and communications at the Nasher.

The first Thursday events have steadily gained popularity since the museum opened. However, Livingston gauges the success of the program not only by attendance, but also by the enthusiasm exhibited by both artist and visitor.

“I measure success by the feeling I have when I’m there listening to the speaker. It’s an inspiring, uplifting feeling,” she said. “I’m surrounded by people who are very engaged and interested in what’s around them.”

As an added bonus for those of us who thrive on competition, each week’s artist reveals five additional clues to the museum’s “Illuminator” game. Each clue leads to a work of art on display in the pennanent galleries. After correcdy matching a total of 20 clues, players are eligible for a free Nasher T-shirt.

This week’s speaker, Pedro Lasch, assistant professor of the practice of visual arts, will reveal the next five clues tonight. Lasch’s work centers around the concerns of Hispanic immigrants within a global context.

He has worked extensively with the Queens Museum of Art, where his exhibition Open Routines: Recent Projects was on display earlier this year.

Livingston hinted she has heard rumors that Lasch may have something up his sleeve for this week’s presentation. Though for most avid art aficionados, anticipation of the unusual is almost as exciting as the promise of a free T-shirt.

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TOPALBUMS of THEYEAR 2006 Arctic Monkeys, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (Domino) It was hyped. And then it was hyped some more. But these British teens surpassed all expectations with Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. Combining a gritty drugs-and-rock ’n’ roll vibe that puts even Pete Doherty to shame, with danceable indie-rock melodies in the vein of Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys prove that British rock is still alive and well. (Alex Frydman) Brand New, The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me (Interscope) Brand New has rightfully gained the title “the Smiths of the new millennium” with its third release. Dark, brooding lyrics mix with equally somber bass lines and melodies, creating dirge-like songs that would even make Morrissey swoon. But dark can also be catchy, as Brand New proves in the chorus to “Not the Sun.” Melancholy never sounded as good as it does here. (Frydman) Beck, The Information (Interscope) No one else could get away with making an album enclosed with stickers for listeners to design their own cover art and not be labeled a complete circus clown. Then again, no one else could get away with most of the things Beck Hansen does, including his current obsession with on-stage puppetry. With The Information, Beck delivers a solid slice of hipness that finally fuses the sensibility of Sea Change with the retro eccentricity of Midnight Vultures.

(Eric Bishop) Clipse, Hell Hath No Fury (Re-Up Gang/Zomba) This album puts Clipse on the big-time map in a great way. Sure, they’ve released another album that made it to the top ten on the Billboard chart, but this one still impresses. Given the seal of perfection from XXL Magazine the sixth album ever to receive an “XXL” rating— Hell Hath No Fury belongs among the greatest hip-hop albums of all time, including Common’s Be, Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Laury n Hill and Jay-Z’s The Blueprint. (Matt

scale is a departure from Ghost’s other albums and a return to the original Wu aesthetic, and the result is incredible. It easily rivals GZA’s Liquid Swords as the best album from a member of Wu-Tang. And that says a lot. (Dearborn)

Jay-Z, Kingdom Come (Roc-A-Fella) While Kingdom Come finds Jay-Z at his most pompous, it is nevertheless a nearly perfect album. Jay just proves again that in the hip-hop world, you really can’t touch the HOV. The man is a musical genius. But will he become too pompous? Or will he finally retire from the game, this time for real? We’ll just have to wait and find out in the next few years. (Dearborn) Ray LaMontagne, Till The Sun Turns Black (RCA) LaMontagne’s second album doesn’t seem to be anything more than a solid sophomore effort—for the first 10 listens or so. Then it gets exponentially better with every listen, and the layers that LaMontagne and producer Ethan Johns have created begin to stand out. It’s an album that combines stunning lyrical ability (“Empty”), classic ballads (“Can I Stay”) and some good old down-home soul-folk (“Three More Days”). (McGinn)

John Mayer,

Continuum (Aware/Columbia) Like a lot of people, I dismissed John Mayer as an acoustic-loving pop heartthrob years ago. But one listen-through ofContinuum shatters this image once and for all. With songs infused with old-school blues and a hint of soul, Mayer takes on love, war and even a cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Bold as Love” with equal capability. Mayer should also be awarded hook of the year for his soulful ballad, “I Don’t Trust Myself (With Loving You).” (Frydman)

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The Decemberists, The Crane Wife (Capitol) Excellent melody, a good story to base a concept album around and the best production on a Decemberists’ album to date make The Crane Wife one of this year’s best. “O Valencia!” and “The Crane Wife, Pt. 3” are great. (Brian McGinn) Bob Dylan, Modem Times (Columbia) He may be less culturally relevant than in the ’6os, but much of Dylan’s recent work is better than the iconic early records. This album showcases 10 excellent compositions and outright borrowings with alternately profound and nonsensical lyrics; I’ll take them both. One of America’s two greatest artists ever—with Miles Davis—Dylan, unlike Davis, refuses to become an artifact and remains vital as he nears old age. (David Graham)

Bill Frisell/Ron Carter/Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motion (Nonesuch) The best and most innovative guitarist in jazz, and one of the best in the genre overall, teams with elder statesmen Carter and Motian for an all-star outing, his greatest since 200Ts Blues Dream. Almost any Frisell release is a lock for my top 3, and although he always sounds strangely cautious on straightahead releases, his brilliance is manifest. (Graham) Ghostface Killah, Fishscale (Def Jam)

Arguably the most prolific member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Ghostface is the master of the stream of consciousness (yes, even better than MF Doom). Fish-

Joanna Newsom, Ys (Drag City)

Her voice, which sounds like a cross between the Wicked Witch of the West and your six-year-old cousin, is strangely satisfying and somehow perfectly complements the silky harp strings under her fingers and the full orchestra backing her up. The lush, intricate arrangements (the majority of which clock in at upwards of nine minutes) show a newfound maturity for this rising star, making Ys one of the year’s most pleasant surprises. (Bishop)

Justin Timberlake, FutureSex/LoveSounds (Jive) I have a bad feeling that this record is going to sound very dated and very corny in 10 years, but I don’t care right now. Why? These songs get under your skin, thanks to Timbaland’s lush and sympathetic production. As good as the singles are, the best song on the album is “LoveStoned,” a nearly perfect seven-minute pop confection of the highest quality. (Graham) TV on the Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain, (4AD) Spooky, electronic experimentalism and scuzzball atmospherics give this album a fresh, robust sound. You’ll probably hate it the first time you hear it—takes awhile for the ears to adjust to something so peculiar—but after a few listens this album will make nearly everything else sound stale. David Bowie, who contributes backing vocals on “Province,” told Rolling Stone he listens to the album three times a week. Wouldn’t be a bad idea to follow in kind. (Bishop) Roddy Woomble, My Secret Is My Silence (Pure) The Idlewild lead singer’s solo debut is a beautiful folk record with a little bit of an electric edge. Scottish songwriting poetry, a mix of lore and melody, is at it’s best in the phenomenal tide trackand “I Came In From The Mountain.”

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� ���� There’s always something unsettling when an artist releases two albums in the same year.

Inevitably, the second lies in the shadow of the first, and brings up many speculative questions: is this album just B-sides? Why not release a double album? What makes this one different?

Ghostface Killah’s More Fish is no exception. Objectively, the

album sounds great: Ghost is at his best, again—tight production from likes of MF Doom and Madlib, spot-on rhymes and delivery.

The first single, “Good,” is excellent (ironically), and songs like “Blue Armor” and “Block Rock” are destined to become classics.

However, because More Fish was released just months after Fishscale—widely considered one of the best records of 2006 in any genre (see recess’ Top Albums of the Year on page 4) and because conceptually and creatively (not to mention their

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names), the two albums are very similar, More Fish will never be a truly memorable album on the level of Supreme Clientele.

It’s a strong effort, no doubt.

Some might even call it great.

But it will never be what it could have been. A far better decision would have been for Ghost to, for example, take the best tracks from More Fish and put them in Fishscale, replacing the weak tracks of that album.

With that arrangement, there is no denying that Fishscale would have easily been compared with the all-time greats.

—Matt Dearborn

GWEN STEFANI SWEET ESCAPE INTERSCOPE

� � � iz � After receiving five Grammy nominations for her 2004 solo debut album, Love. Angel.

Music. Baby., Gwen Stefani’s The Sweet Escape has secured her position as an R&B, pop and hip-hop artist. The new album touches upon each genre and offers tracks for each, giving fans a range of different sounds.

Similarly, the songs on The Sweet Escape each seem reminiscent of a different decade.

The track “The Sweet Escape,” featuring Akon as producer and back-up vocalist, follows Stefani’s new sensitivity and gives the impression of a throwback to the Supremes, with its soft, flirtatious beat. Then “Fluorescent” takes the listener toward the ’Bos, with a heavy synthesizer and Prince-like sound.

The album also includes hip-hop tracks, like “Yummy,” which actually sounds like the album’s attempt to imitate “Hollaback Girl.”

However, almost all the songs on the album sound like something we’ve heard before.

Even the first single, “Wind It Up” is based on sounds from The Sound of Music and features Stefani’s attempt at a yodel.

The tracks offer a diverse range of sounds and ultimately, Stefani does stem out to different genres and does offer a “sweet escape” from other pop albums on the market.

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recess' reading guide meg cabot chews fat

Cabot is the author ofboth teen novels andadult works.

recess’Jacqueline Detwiler joined in on a conference call with Meg Cabot, author of Size 14 is Not Fat Either, sequel to the best-selling Size 12 is Not Fat. recess; Who are you trying to reach with your writing?

Cabot: I’ve fallen into this genre that is kind of called chick lit mystery. People who pick up my books the most tend to be people who read my young adult books [i.e.

The Princess Diaries] originally and aren’t finding books about the concerns that they have in their 20s about figuring out what they want to do in their lives.

How much of your experience working as a dorm director at New York University went into the character of Heather in your new novel, Size 14 is NotFat Either?

I saved all the files of students that I thought were funny, and I used a lot of that. I’m not actually sure that’s legal, but I try to make it so they don’t recognize themselves. It had a huge huge impact, I don’t want to say everything came from that, but it’s all true, except

the murders So how did you get the idea for the murder?

Right when I first moved to New York, in 1989, Dan Rakowictz murdered his roommate, boiled her head in a pot on the stove and fed her body to the homeless. It*was terrifying to me because I was from the Midwest and things like that just don’t happen there. Originally, I had the girl’s body being made into the school meatloaf in the book, but I took it out because I thought it was too gruesome.

You’ve said that a big part of these novels is about the self-esteem of college students, yet your character Heather seems to want to fit into the [smaller] mold, why is that?

I think that’s because of our society. There’s so much pressure to be thin. Thin people even get better service at restaurants. I don’t think it’s good to have characters who are like “I’m fat and I’m proud” because that’s just not realistic.

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Tapas: A Taste of Spain in America

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Now that “small plates” have become übiquitous in restaurants across the country, Spanish super-chef Jose Andres sheds light on tapas, the traditional Spanish take on this international small-plates phenomenon.

Organized in chapters that highlight the versatility of ingredients like olive oil, garlic and rice, Andres’ book presents an assortment of over 100 recipes accessible to both novice and expert gastronomes. Although Spanish cuisine remains woefully misunderstood in this country, Andres’ modern but simple take on the tortilla—made from just eggs, potato chips, salt and olive oil—and other tapas classics are sure to win the soulful fare plenty of new followers.

For cooks (and readers) looking to experiment with the tasty yet unfamiliar this winter break, Tapas proves to be an engrossing work.

Armed with a few of the book’s recipes and a couple bottles of Spanish wine, you’re just steps away from impressing friends and family with a trendy tapas-themed holiday party.

—Bryan Zupon

Meg Cabot’s new novel/thinly-veiled memoir, and sequel to her unfortunately best-selling Size 12 is Not Fat, is a self-indulgent piece of garbage.

In her purported quest to bolster the self-esteem of overweight college women, Cabot creates a catty main character who stereotypes not only overweight women, but also fit women, New Yorkers and the Greek system.

Her writing is atrocious—on one page, four paragraphs begin with the phrase, “And, okay” and it’s obvious she hasn’t researched a single word. Size two or size 26, you will finish this book feeling worse than you did when you started. Our advice? Don’t start.

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Bill Bryson’s first release since his widely-acclaimed popular science book A Short History of Nearly Everything takes the reader back to the days when all seemed right in America; the 19505. In ThunderboltKid Bryson gives us a memoir full of colorful anecdotes from his own idyllic childhood in Des Moines mixed with interesting stories relating the eccentricities and anxieties of that era. It may not quite reach the heights of his travel or science work, but Thunderbolt Kid still provides enough of Bryson’s trademark subtle satire to keep the reader giggling the whole time.

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The Children’s Hospital

By Chris Adrian The latest novel by McSweeney’s writer Chris Adrian begins with a Noah’s-ark-like flood and only gets wilder and more fantastical over the course of the book’s 600-plus pages. Yet Adrian manages to make what could be a ridiculous plot (a modern-day apocalypse in which the only survivors are the inhabitants of a magical, expanding children’s hospital) into an intriguing and emotion-ridden tale.

Although there are magical elements—like a replicator machine that can produce anything for the hospital’s residents and four angels who observe them—the characters are genuine and experience realistic reactions to the apocalypse.

Interludes by the omniscient angels add to the surreal and religious elements of the novel, but their chapters—written in first person—interrupt the story and take away from the flow of the plot. Despite the angels and the slow-start. The Children s Hospital is a fascinating examination of human character, relationships, and groupthink.

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By Marisha Pessl Marisha Pessl’s debut novel takes us into the world of Blue van Meer, a 16-year-old girl genius who has spent the better part of her life wandering the country with her college professor father. Blue becomes fascinated with Hannah Schneider, a teacher at her new high school, and the Bluebloods, a group of students who make up her inner-circle. This page-turner is equal parts mystery and English 101. The copious amount of quotes from other novels and essays weighs the book down at the beginning, but the twist ending is well worth the wait.

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NUTCRACKER In the ballet, a little girl named Clara is given a nutcracker by her magic uncle Drosselmeyer that comes alive to defend her from a legion of evil mice and their mouse king. The nutcracker then whisks her off to a magic land of sweets where the sugar plum fairy—who, for the uninitiated, is the lead part in the ballet—presents Clara with dances from all different types of sweets. The sweets hail from different lands, including Spain, Arabia, China and Russia, and they perform dances based on the style and music of their various homes.

Without question, the climax of the ballet is the spectacular pas de deux of the Sugar Plum fairy and her cavalier that ends Clara’s magical dream.

Although the gist of the nutcracker is always the same, each company choreographs its own version that they perform year after year, Parker said.

Carolina Ballet’s features real snow at the end of the first act and a Christinas tree that extends to 26 feet during the fight with the mouse king. Their mesmerizing Arabian solo begins and ends in a real giant coffee cup. The Triangle Youth Ballet, on the other hand, uses a tea pot for their Chinese dance and brings theArabian dancers in on a litter.

From the proud grandpa to the little girl who fell asleep during the tea duet in the balcony during Sunday’s performance

by Carolina Ballet, ballet-goers delight in the ease with which these hardworking dancers seem to float across the stage.

Bring a little girl to the performance, however, and you may be in for a lifetime of ballet lessons.

“The kids on stage are having the time of their life,” said Lauren Lorentz de Haas, artistic director of Triangle Youth Ballet.

“They love this production. But they just love to perform.”

Local residents have patronized the Regulator book store for 30 years, supporting the community feel that has kept this small-town shop alive and kicking.

Local book store stands strong Lauren Fischetti recess When the Regulator Bookshop opened its doors 30 years ago, Durham was still a sleepy southern town, said owners Tom Campbell, Trinity ’7O and John Valentine, Trinity ’7l, a former Chronicle editor and features writer, respectively.

The city has changed dramatically since then, and the Regulator has been here through it all.

“The focus switched to off-East,” Valentine said. “We are downtown, we’re where it’s happening. We’re the funky side, with so many small businesses.”

Neither owner, however, began the venture as a businessman. They got involved with the bookstore because of their love of books, culture and community and picked up the business part as by

they went, Campbell explained.

He was quick to point out, though, that making money is just a means to an end for them.

“It’s about keeping the focus on serv-

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When the bookstore expanded into its downstairs space in August 1996,the owners didn’t receive final clearance from the building inspectors until the day before Duke classes began. Because they intended to sell textbooks downstairs, there was one day to move in.

“I sent out an e-mail offering free beer and pizza for help moving the books, and within an hour all these people came here—and the air conditioning wasn’t even working,” Valentine said. “That was really neat, that type of community.”

In a world saturated with booksellers—from Barnes & Noble to Amazon.com and even Kroger—this focus on community is what makes the Regulator a success.

“We’re the living room,” said Valentine.

“We’re the commons room; we’re face to face with the world all the time.”

For a living room, the Regulator has had quite an impressive list of visitors, in-

eluding Jimmy Carter, R.L. Stine and Dave Eggers. This summer, Asheville native Marisha Pessl—up-and-coming “it” author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics (reviewed on page 8 this issue)—held her first-ever reading at the Regulator.

Valentine said meeting their heroes has been one of the most rewarding parts of owning the bookstore, but when asked which author they’d most like to hold a reading at the store, both agreed their dream author is one they don’t even know about yet.

Though the Regulator just celebrated its 30th anniversary Saturday, Campbell said they still take everything one year at a time. But it can’t hurt to dream.

“I’d add on at the back a bed-andbreakfast, cafe and wine bar,” Campbell said.

He also joked of their plans for a hostile takeover of big-name booksellers like Barnes & Noble and Borders.

Valentine has even loftier aspirations “I wish I was 25 again,” he said.

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APOCALYPTO ICON

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��� � � If you can dispense with the baggage that now comes with a Mel Gibson film, the rewards of Apocalypto are great—Gibson has, simply stated, crafted one of the best films of 2006, and one of the most entertaining action films in decades.

The setting is pre-colonial Mexico, and the main players Mayan tribesman that share the land with monkeys, snakes and panthers. Taken from his family by a band of mercenaries, Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood) and many of his tribe’s men are taken to the great Maya City, where they are to be used in ritual sacrifice. Able to escape. Jaguar Paw spends the remaining half of the narrative desperately escaping attempts to recapture and kill him.

Gibson and co-writer Farhad Safinia have taken the time to ground their story in Mayan myth and history, and their attention to authenticity lends the film the feeling that what is on screen is merely a small part of a larger world. It’s a remarkable achievement for a film so heavily reliant on the traditional chase narrative. And chase is an accurate description of film’s driving plot —Gibson keeps the pace high and the violence gory and ever-present and never lets the film get boring.

Youngblood invests Jaguar Paw with an immediacy that makes connecting with his situation—despite the film’s use of original Mayan spoken language —a non-issue. By the end of Apocalypto, the film has become not merely the story of Jaguar Paw and his family nor a harbinger of the looming threat of European imperialists, but instead has grown greater, encompassing societies all throughout history, from the Mayans to today. Let’s all thank our lucky Sun Gods that despite his extracurricular, Gibson hasn’t lost his ability to craft gold on the screen —Brian McGinn

VOLVER DIR. P. ALMODOVAR SONY PICTURES CLASSICS

��� � � Pedro Almodovar is one of the greatest modern auteurs. His films weave elements of the supernatural into seemingly mundane events of daily life, creating aspects of the extraordinary out of thin air. Volver is no exception.

Raimunda (Penelope Cruz, in a blessed respite from Hollywood typecasting) is a Spanish woman who finds herself scrambling to cover up the accidental murder of her husband and hold her family together after the death of her beloved aunt. The return of her deceased mother in spiritual form (or is she?) adds to the melodrama.

Volver is a moving film about women who often seem to be teetering on the edge of sanity. While it sometimes dabbles in the popular Spanish form of telenovela, the honest performances by the women, notably Cruz and her daughter Paula (Yohana Cobo, who gives a subtle, witty performance), ground Volver in Almodovar’s own version ofreality.

Almodovar uses the titular word “volver,” Spanish for “to return,” as a recurring motif, offering at each repetition the opportunity to examine the emotional progression of the film in the faces of his actresses and the palette ofhis compositions. The best use comes in the film’s strongest scene, set at the bar Raimunda manages. As the film crew she has been feeding for weeks gathers around her, Raimunda sings a plaintive folk song for her daughter, a talent she has rarely exposed.

While the film lacks the shock value of some ofAlmodovar’s previous works like La Mala Education (The Bad Education) and Liable con Ella {Talk to Her) , Volveris hardly less moving. The Almodovar touch, combined with a strong, powerful female cast, allows Volver to stand on equal footing with the auteur’s strongest efforts.

—Danya Taymor

CHILDREN OF MEN DIR. A. CUARON UNIVERSAL PICTURES

��� � � What would happen if twenty years from today humans found themselves unable to procreate? If the events ofChildren of Men, the latest feature from director Alfonso Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien) turn out to be real, you might want to start hording disaster supplies right now—you’re going to need them.

An adventure story that seems to take place mere days before the apocalypse (all hell has already broken loose in England, and it appears that all other countries have already self-destructed in one way or another), Men follows Theodore Faron (Clive Owen), as he escorts a very special

member of society towards the coast of Britain, shuttling the individual towards a meeting with a groupknown only as “The Human Project.” To divulge any more of the plot would be to take away the film’s power, but suffice to say that Cuaron’s work manages to pack quite a punch, reflecting the fears of today and the rampant destructive possibility of the future.

Owen and co-stars Michael Caine and Julianne Moore all turn in fine performances—Caine in particular as Owen’s hippie mentor—but Children of Men is all about the world that Cuaron, production designer Jim Clay and director of cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki create on screen.

They render a futuristic London that differs from modern London only in small details—plasma televisions are everywhere, cars all resemble hybrids, dirt and grime cover more territory than ever before. But the finest work comes

as the story moves towards the British coast, where the filmmakers have built one of the most magnificent sets in new millenium cinema—the seaside town Theo and the traveller he escorts travel to resembles an internment camp of the future—groups separated by religious sect, violence conquering all. The culminating action sequence is one of the most impressive things put on screen this year.

Lubezki deserved the Oscar for his work on Terrence Malick’s The New World in 2005; in 2006, he cannot be denied for Children of Men. His work is by far the greatest achievement in cinematography this year and one of the largest breakthroughs in photography since the D-Day landing scenes of Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan. His work alone would make Alfonso Cuaron’s Children ofMen a hypnotic piece of filmmaking; with everything else it has going for it, it’s looking at Oscar nominations.

—Brian McGinn

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William Greaves applies science to film by

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Imagine this: it’s a sunny day in New York’s Central Park and a camera crew shoots two actors performing a screen test. Another set of cameramen follows the cameramen filming the actors. Still more cameramen proceed to film the mottled assortment of curious bystanders before cutting back to the director hovering near his cast as they repeat the same scene in various environments.

This scenario is no ordinary “making-of’ featurette, but rather a full-length experimental plunge into the depths ofhuman spontaneity and improvisation. And you won’t believe the title; Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take 2 1/2.

So who’s the mad scientist behind this intricately innovative approach to cinema?

His name is William Greaves, an Emmy Award-winning virtuoso who has been praised as one of the premier black independent filmmakers in America. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take 2 1/2, which will be released on DVD this month, is the sequel to Greave’s original multilayered project that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take 1. Call it a reunion of sorts, since Take 1 was shot 35 years ago with the same two lead actors.

Greaves describes his directorial position in Take 1 as a Machiavellian effort to experiment with a host of concepts, from the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle to the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

“I became interested in various scientific theories: the camera and its role as an intruder in the psychic space of the actor—the emotional psychological space,” Greaves said. “I like the concept of the role of the electron microscope being an analog to a camera on a movie set.”

Not quite sure how the theory works? Here’s a quick physics lesson: the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle describes how the electron microscope, in the process of examining the atom, emits a stream of electrons that proceed to batter the atom and knock the electrons out of their orbits. We, as observers, are thus prevented from an unbiased examination of the very entity the microscope is made to observe—whatever that means.

The inability to survey the “essence ofreality” is one of the issues at stake in the Symbio project, Greaves said. Because the actors are under constant scrutiny, they experience a sense of tension and anxiety—feelings Greaves complicates with his myriad of cameramen.

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Symbio is a mystery story because it sends these talented actors into a fit of anger because they don’t understand what it is I brought them on a location in Central Park for—what they considered to be nothing,” Greaves said.

In fact, Take 1 featured the self-described mutiny by the crew, who filmed their private meeting without knowledge of this experiment in fiction and reality, and later submitted the footage to Greaves for inclusion in the film.

The second time around, Greaves said he sat back and let his intuition guide him through the filmmaking process, instead of actively pursuing a specific agenda. He also gave the actors free reign to explore their characters to an immense depth.

The two actors resumed their roles after the nearly four-decade-long hiatus. In the original, Freddie (Shannon Baker) is a wiry man attempting to apGreaves'Symbio project has spanned threeand a half decades, exploring the time gap for both pease his resentful wife Alice (Audrey charactersand the actors who portray them.

Heningham). Alice accuses him of having a homosexual affair and reproaches him for pushing her to get an abortion, what Greaves calls a before... the utterly incredible rage was so much there “metaphor for the killing oflife” and which he equates with that the two actors practically wanted to kill each other.” the Vietnam War, which persisted at the time the film was The sequel was co-funded by director and producer shot in 1968.

Steven Soderbergh {Erin Brockovich, Oceans 11), who had The emotional heat generated by their argument been advised by friends to check out Greaves’ distinctive harkens another of Greave’s interests, the Second Law of independent project. Also on-screen in Take 2 1/2 was Thermodynamics. In one scene in Take 2 1/2, the male actor Steve Buscemi {Fargo, The Island) . actor’s improvisation pushes him to such entropic anger “Buscemi is a very fine human being and he was very that Greaves quickly steps in to break the aggressive contaken with the project,” Greaves said. “He saw Take 1 at frontation.

Sundance and became very enamored with it and asked Greaves also attributes this level of emotional investthat the next time I do something like that he might be ment to a concept called “knowledge by identity,” where a part of it.” human being becomes deeply involved with another Enamored, intrigued, perplexed —all are suitable human being. feelings in reaction to Greaves’ meditative experimenta“The actor rummages through his or her psyche and tion with cinema verite, scripted drama and documentary. emotional life, and finds out in his or her repertoire of exWith director and cast caught in the divide between human spontaneity and active performance, the Symbio periences what, in fact, is like what the character is confronting in the play or in the movie,” Greaves said. “It took projects explore reality without obscuring the mode of them into a place in their psyches that they hadn’t visited exploration.

recess' holidayfilmguide

by Janet Wu Who needs chestnuts roasting on an open fire when you can butter up a tub of popcorn? With the best lineup in recent holiday season history, audiences will be able to choose from a buffet of deliciously diverse offerings. From a black-and-white historical drama set in post-war Berlin to the opulent landscape of a dragon-themed fantasy flick, this season has something for cinephiles ofany taste, recess rummaged through the lists of upcoming winter releases to help you better arrange your cinematic game plan.

Fantasy/Sci-Fi: Eragon: Wide release, Dec. 15: Based on the beloved fantasy book of the same name, the film follows the boy Eragon who discovers a dragon egg on his parents’ farm. Soon the prophesied dragon rider is swept off on epic adventures in an effort to protect his country from a tyrant king.

Historical drama: The Good Shepherd Wide Release, Dec. 22: A fictionalized take on the birth of the CIA, the story is seen through the eyes of a young man fresh from Yale University, played by Matt Damon. The film, directed by Robert De Niro and starringAngelina Jolie, is sure to excite history buffs with a taste for Cold War intrigue.

Musical: Dreamgirls. Wide release, Dec. 25: This adaptation of the twenty-five-year-old musical of the same name stars the likes of Beyonce, Jamie Foxx and Eddie Murphy. Packed with song and dance routines, glittering costumes and a soul lurching rendition of“And I am telling you,” this musical will drown out jingle bells playing on repeat in your head.

International: Pan’s Labyrinth: Limited release, Dec. 29: This fantasy from the mind of visionary director Guillermo del Toro won widespread acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival and has been described as a “fairy tale for grown-ups” by Roger Ebert.

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Family: ThePursuit of Happyness-. Wide release, Dec. 15: The spelling is intentional as is the unabashed tearjerking. Will Smith acts alongside real son, Jaden Smith, in a heartfelt tale that makes us think Wall Street bankers aren’t so bad, after all.

Sports: Rocky Balboa: Wide release, Dec. 20: With the tagline “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over,” this Rocky revival needs little description. Needless to say, Sylvester Stallone decided to tap back into the source ofhis success in this sequel to the sequel to the sequel to the....

december 7,2006

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Duke takes on No. 11 Vanderbilt

BY STEPHEN ALLAN THE CHRONICLE

Duke and Vanderbilt have, only played each other three times in their histories. But for some Blue Devils, Cameron Indoor Stadium will play host to familiar faces tonight.

When the No. 11 Commodores (8-0) battle the No. 4 Blue Devils (6-0) at 7 p.m., Abby and Emily Waner will greet an old friend in Vanderbilt junior Liz Sherwood.

Growing up in Colorado, Abby Waner first played against Sherwood while the sophomore was in fourth grade, and they r have been together on the v_j court ever since. The pair yg played on the same travel team and completed their high school careers at TONIGHT, 7 p.m. rival schools—Waner at Cameron Indoor Thunderßidge and SherStadium wood at Highlands Ranch.

“On road trips we would room together,” Waner said. “When we were in high school, I played against her for two years, and the Highland Ranch-Thunderßidge games were always the biggest matchups of the year.”

Since then, however, the two have not had many opportunities to play against one another, and their paths to success have taken different routes.

While Waner had the fortune of helping Duke to a national title game appearance last year as a freshman, Sherwood has played for two schools in three seasons.

A McDonald’s All-American out of high school, Sherwood committed to Connecticut after leading Highlands Ranch to back-toback state titles. After her freshman season, -

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Defense carries team in 2nd half by

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Michael Moore THE CHRONICLE

In the first half against Holy Cross Wednesday, Duke couldn’t seem to find any way to spark its offense.

So in the second half, the Blue Devils decided to just use their defense.

Duke scored 14 points off turnovers and was able to push the tem P° 35 forced €131116 the Crusaders into 7-ofanalysis 24 shooting in the second period The faster pace did not allow Holy Cross to consistently set its defense, resulting in a number ofopen looks from threepoint range. The Blue Devils knocked down 5-of-9 three-pointers in the second half, making up for the fact that the Crusaders outscored them in the paint.

In an ugly game in which both teams had more turnovers than field goals, the young Blue Devil squad once again used its defense to mask an offense that has yet to find its rhythm. Wednesday marked the fifth time in nine games that Duke held its opponent under 50 points.

“If you play defense, you’re always going to give yourself a chance to win the ballgame,” junior DeMarcus Nelson said.

“Our defense has kept us in a lot of games and won a lot of games for us.”

The Blue Devils’ offense looked stagnant and inept in the first half as the seventh-ranked team in the nation appeared in danger of becoming another top team to fall to a veteran mid-major **

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Abby Waner and her sister Emily face a hometown foe tonight in Vanderbilt juniorLiz Sherwood.

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Gerald Henderson drew a charge to shift the momentum in thesecond half, and soon after, hehit two three-pointers to help theBlue Devils pull away from Holy Cross.

squad. Duke shot 8-for-25 from the floor and committed 12 turnovers while tallying just two assists.

The Blue Devils’ six-point halftime deficit could have been even greater, except that they grabbed nine offensive rebounds and Holy Cross missed a number of open threes late in the first half.

“Their defense was not a pressing defense, but it forced us into standing,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

“We didn’tattack it well, and to their credit, they played it well.”

Duke quickly went to work erasing the deficit in the second period, led by the defensive efforts of Dave McClure and Gerald Henderson. The two athletic wings closed up the passing and driving lanes that had been present in the first half and helped the Blue Devils turn that defensive effort into an offensive attack.

Henderson shut down Keith Simmons, who had sparked the Crusader offense in the first half with seven points and three offensive boards. Simmons’ only score with Henderson on him after the break was a layup off a steal.

With Henderson locked onto Simmons, Nelson was able to pick up point guard Torey Thomas, providing more pressure to slow the Crusaders from initiating their offense.

“It helped a lot, because their guards were extremely fast and quick,” Nelson said. “That was tbe first time we had seen that style of offense, so when they came out strong, it kind of set us back a little

bit, and we just had to make adjustments.”

Henderson was the spark for the Blue Devils on both ends of the floor. With Duke down 34-30, Lance Thomas was stripped inside to start a three-on-one break the other way. Henderson ran to the left block and drew a charge on Lawrence Dixon.

“That was a big momentum builder for them—it got the crowd into the game,” Holy Cross head coach Ralph Willard said. “Playing in this building, you have to keep them from gaining momentum, and that play was a deflater for us and an inflater for them.”

Less than two minutes later, Henderson grabbed the rebound off Brian Zoubek’s missed free throw and kicked the ball out to Nelson, who knocked down the open three to put the Blue Devils up four. Henderson hit two threes of his own over the next three minutes as Duke went on a decisive 16-2 run.

Duke’s second-half comeback, however, came against a team whose most impressive win so far may have been against Harvard. With a matchup against No. 18 Gonzaga looming, the Blue Devils know they have to improve their offensive production.

“We’ve got to keep getting better,” Krzyzewski said. “This 20 turnover-nine assists, 18 turnover-12 assists —somewhere along the line, you’ve got to pay the piper for that, and you usually pay the piper in losses.”