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Law school gets center for justice Wrongful convictions will be a major focus

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When sophomore Marie Aberger applied to be on this year’s Wannamaker Quadrangle Council, she wasn’t exacdy sure how everything worked.

“I was just curious, because I didn’t know about thatwhole process until then,” she said.

As she campaigned, Aberger, who is now the vice president of the council, said she noticed that selective living group members tended to be more involved in both campaigning and voting for quad councils.

“It definitely made me a lot more nervous—I thought I wasn’t going to win,” said Aberger, who is an independent. “I concentrated more on kids not in selective living groups to get them to vote.”

According to data compiled by The Chronicle, for the 2007 quad council executive elections, selective living groups are overrepresented on quad councils, and independents are underrepresented.

Of the 34 executive positions on the councils, approximately 60 percent, or 20 positions, are filled by members of selective living groups. In contrast, only about 30 percent of students living on West Campus are part of selective living groups, Deb Loßiondo, assistant dean for residence life on West, wrote in an e-mail.

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Students speak with a recruiter from one of the dozens of companies at the Career Fair Wednesday.

Students, employers flock to Career Fair by

Diana Sheldon THE CHRONICLE

Abuzz with free goods, black suits and nervous handshakes, the Bryan Center hosted approximately 2,000 students and 111 employers at this year’s Career Fair.

The employers represented numerous fields, including finance, nonprofit, healthcare, government and advertising organizations. Yolander Albert, associate director for employer relations at the Career Center, approximated that 50 percent of the employers brought at least one alumni representative.

Some students came to simply browse;

others arrived with a plan ofaction. While seniors spent their time more seriously pursuing opportunities, underclassmen circulated through thje room hoping to get face time with important recruiters.

Addison Ferrell, a senior, said thefair was helpful for students unsure of their path.

“I’m still deciding between graduate school and a job, so the Career Fair is a great resource to help my decision,” he said. “I’ve learned a lot more about numerous companies. I think it is very important to get face time in with people.”

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President Richard Brodhead announced Wednesday the creation of a new criminal justice center at the School ofLaw. The law school will invest $1.25 million over the next five years to create a center devoted to expanding education against wrongful conviction and promotingjustice in the criminal justice system.

The idea behind the new center—recommended to Brodhead and Provost Peter Lange by David Levi, dean of the law school—was formulated in the wake of the 2006 lacrosse case and other instances of injustice in the North Carolina legal system.

“What we hope to be able to do is certainly educate more of our students on the causes of wrongful convictions and other aspects of the criminal justice system,” said Theresa Newman, associate dean for academic affairs. ‘We’re also hoping to reach out beyond the walls of the law school to theDurham community, the Piedmont region, the state of North SEE LAW ON PAGE 4

Nowicki to address judicial policy by

Nate Freeman THE CHRONICLE

Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki will be initiating discussion among studentsand administrators to evaluate Duke Student Government President Paul Slattery’s effort to change un-

dergraduate judicial policy.

Slattery, a senior, sent a memo-

randum to administrators and the Board of Trustees earlier this month. In it, he argues for reinstituting procedural rights into the official written record of judicial policy, “Duke Community Standard in Practice: A Guide for UnSelective living groups are disproportionately represented in West Campus quadrangle councils.

dergraduates.”

Nowicki said he has been in contact withSlattery throughout the pro-

cess and will work with him to discuss how to evaluate the findings.

“I’m taking it on myself,” Nowicki said. “We need to bring this dialogue out into the open and take a careful look at it. It can’t be back-bumered—it’s of too great an interest to the students.”

Slattery said he is confident Nowicki will work effectively to engage student response regarding the proposed policy review.

“I’m happy the administration has gotten involved, and Pm glad that Nowicki has picked it up,” Slattery said. “I think he’s the

right man.”

Larry Moneta, vice president see nowicki on page

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OJ. Simpson released on bail

Senate blocks troop rotation bill Anne Flaherty THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

“The idea of winning the war in Iraq is be-

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WASHINGTON Democrats’ efforts challenge President George W. Bush’s Iraq policies were dealt a demoralizing blow Wednesday in the Senate after they failed to scrape together enough support to guarantee troops more time at home.

The 56-44 vote—four short of reaching the 60 needed to advance all but assured that Democrats would be unable to muster the support needed to pass tough anti-war legislation by year’s end. The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., was seen as the Democrats’ best shot because of its pro-military premise. to

ginning to get a second look,” said Sen. Lindsey

Graham, RS.C., who led opposition to the bill

alongside Sen. John McCain.

Webb’s legislation would have required that troops spend as much time at home train-

ing with their units as they spend deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Members of the National Guard or Reserve would be guaranteed three years at home before being sent back.

Most Army soldiers now spend about 15 months in combat with 12 months home.

“In blocking this bipartisan bill, Republicans have once again demonstrated that they are more committed to protecting the president than protecting our troops,” said

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Wednesday’s vote was the second time in as many months that Webb’s bill was sidetracked. In July, a similar measure also fell four votes short of advancing.

Democrats said they were hopeful additional Republicans, wary of the politically unpopular war, would agree this time around to break party ranks. It had already attracted three dozen co-sponsors including Republicans Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Olympia Snowe ofMaine and Gordon Smith ofOregon.

But momentum behind the bill stalled Wednesday after Sen. John Warner, R-Va., announced he decided the consequences would be disastrous.

Beirut bombing kills lawmaker, 6 BY

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BEIRUT, Lebanon A powerful bomb killed an anti-Syria lawmaker and six others Wednesday in a Christian neighborhood of Beirut, threatening to derail an effort by an already deeply divided Parliament to elect Lebanon’s next president in voting to begin next week.

‘Antoine Ghanem, a 64-year-old member of the Christian Phalange party who had returned from refuge abroad only two days earlier, was the eighth anti-Syria figure and fourth lawmaker from the governing coalition to be

assassinated in less than three years.

Coalition members blamed Syria. Damascus denied involvement, as it has for the previous seven assassinations, including the 2005 bombing death of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri—a killing that ignited huge protests that forced Syria to withdraw its troops after a three-decade occupation.

Security officials said at least 67 people were wounded in Wednesday’s blast, halfof whom had left the hospital by day’s end.

The explosion occurred at rush hour on a busy street in the Sin el-Fil district, severely damaging nearby buildings, setting

several cars on fire and scattering blood and debris along the street.

Explosive experts were seen checking the engine of Ghanem’s car, which was thrown more than 150 feet. A security official said the bomb was likely detonated by remote control near Ghanem’s car.

“I have never seen a more cowardly regime thanthat ofBashar Assad’s,” lawmaker Saad Hariri said, blaming the Syrian president for Ghanem’s death. Hariri replaced his father, the assassinated ex-premier, as head of anti-Syria forces, which now hold a majority in Parliament.

OJ.Simpson was released from jail Wednesday after posting $125,000 bail in connection with the armed robbery of sports memorabilia collectors at a Las Vegas hotel.

Simpson, 60, faces 10 felony charges and one gross misdemeanor.

Oil prices hit record high Oil prices rose Wednesday to a record high for the seventh straight session. Prices reached nearly $B2 a barrel in New York following news that the United States crude reserves tumbled last week.

Rather sues CBS over ouster Dan Rather filed a $7O-million lawsuit against CBS and his former bosses Wednesday, claiming they made him a "scapegoat" for a discredited story about President George W. Bush's military service during the Vietnam War.

Top Pol Pot aide arrested Nuon Chea, Cambodia's most senior surviving Khmer Rouge leader, was arrested and charged with crimes against humanity on Wednesday—three decades after the murderous regime left 1.7 million people dead.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER

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Two cafes to stay open later by

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Newly elected freshman DSG senator Alex Wang is sworn in Wednesday.

Duke Student Government representatives heard Wednesday from junior Sunny Kantha, vice president of athletics and campus services, about plans to expand healthy late-night eating options on campus.

At DSG’s meeting Wednesday night, Kantha said Saladelia Cafe in von der Heyden Pavilion and the Bella Union in McClendon Tower will be open until 3 a.m.

Monday through Friday for one month as a test run for a possible expansion.

“We received a lot of complaints [from] people who are looking for healthy late-night eating, and since Saladelia and the Bella Union have wraps and various other healthy beverages, it makes sense to keep these two open,” Kantha told The Chronicle.

The Bella Union is currently open until midnight every day, and Saladelia Cafe serves until midnight five days a week.

Quenchers, another healthy food option, will not be included in the pilot but also is a target for the changes, Kantha said.

He added that the test run will begin two weeks before Fall Break and end two weeks afterward, a period of midterm-exam time when many students will be seeking late-night food.

“Ideally, we can keep [the new hours] going for the rest of the semester and rest of the year, but it’s all contingent on the [test] run,” Kantha told DSG members.

The success of the expansion will be determined by the amount of revenue the two restaurants generate, he later told The Chronicle.

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Caroline McGeough THE CHRONICLE

Students in Craven and Kilgo

quadrangles met Monday and Wednesday, respectively, with University administrators to discuss fresh ideas about the Interim Report on the

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ing, dining and social life on campus.

Peter Lange The meetings—hosted

by Provost Peter Lange and Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki—were well-received by many students, who said they were unique opportunities

discuss lasting issues of campus culture in an informal setting. “[Monday] nightwas more productive than I imagined it could be,” said juniorJordan Giordano, also executive vice president of Duke Student Government, who attended the meeting in Craven Quad. “The provost was very open to what we had to say, and people were willing to explain themselves and be more blunt” Both conversations centered on the idea of space and how residential, dining and social areas impact the way students live and interact Although students agreed there is a strong demand for more late-night dining and social options on campus—citing Jazz at the Mary Lou and The Loop’s new laterhours as popular to

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Smart Home prepares for November open in by

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Living in a dormitory that is friendly to the environment and has a high-tech media room is no longer a dream at Duke.

The Duke Smart Home Program, an organization affiliated with the Pratt School of Engineering, hopes to unveil the Home Depot Smart Home in November.

Located behind the Freeman Center for Jewish Life, the house is a miniature version of a futuristic dorm and serves as a live-inr laboratory where some projects engineered by students will be implemented, said junior Scott Steinberg, construction manager of Smart Home.

The house features a media room and full laboratory benches in each bedroom along with regular amenities, such as a laundry room and a computer cluster.

Ten undergraduate students have been

selected through an application process to live in the house next semester.

“Our goal is to stray away from the museum aspect and embrace the new technology by having students actually live there,” Steinberg said.

“It’s great that people are excited about being a part of new innovative projects that will help us solve our energy-crisis problems,” said senior Jeff Schwane, vice president ofSmart Home.

The house also has a roof garden—called a “green roof’—that contains an assortment offlowers and moss, which will keep the roof cook “The green roof also acts to minimize the footprint of construction,” Steinberg said. “Looking down from the sky the house isn’t a concrete slab that takes away RACHEL

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The Smart Home, featuring many-cutting edge technologies, is located behind the Freeman Center.

MEMORIAL CELEBRATION Doris Duke Center, Sarah P. Duke Gardens

3 p.m., Tuesday, October 2 We will begin with remembrances and

conclude with a reception.

Elizabeth “Jody” Clipp, Ph.D., R.N.

The memorial is open to anyone who would like to remember and celebrate Jody’s life and xmtnbutions. Invitations are not needed; however, please RSVP to valerie.duke@duke.edu.

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Franklin receives annual award The Foundation for the National Archives announced Tuesday that John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke professor emeritus of history, is the fourth recipient of its annual Records ofAchievement Award. The award recognizes ah individual who reflects the Foundation's mission by enhancing public understanding of the United States and its history.

“John Hope Franklin has worked tirelessly to illuminate the history of the United States, especially articulating the African-American narrative and issues of race,” said Tom Wheeler, president of the Foundation. “His inspired work provokes us to take up the difficult questions of inequality and oppression faced by Americans from the nation’s beginnings, and to bring to this task a more complete understanding of our national heritage.”

Charges against two professors dropped The Durham County district attorney’s office dropped

trespassing charges Thursday against Anne Allison, professor and chair of the department of cultural anthropology, and Orin Stam, another professor of cultural anthropology.

The two Duke faculty members were given misdemeanor citations Sept. 1 for returning to The Streets at Southpoint shopping center soon after security guards and a sheriff’s deputy had asked them to leave.

They had been protesting the “BODIES... The Exhibition,” which was on display at the mall, by distributing fliers and holding placards to voice concerns about the origins of the human remains from China and whether those dead had consented to having their bodies displayed.

DUMC agrees to improve Asian medicine Duke Medicine has teamed with Peking University Health Science Center to assist efforts to improve health care and broaden its scope in China.

The agreement, which is the first ofits kind, was signed

by Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of the Duke University Health System, PUHSC President Qide Han, vice president of the People’s Congress and a Peking University professor, and Professor Yang Ke, executive vice president of Peking University and PUHSC executive vice president.

The program calls for Duke Medicine to help introduce techniques to improve health performance in China. It also commits Duke administrators, faculty and researchers to shuttling between Durham and Beijing during the seven-year period. Another phase of the agreement will involve creating a Duke-Peking University Heart Center and a Duke-Peking University Center on Global Health.

“By working closely with the most prestigious medical institution in China and Asia, we also believe that Duke Medicine can advance its mission of becoming more instrumental in solving global health issues,” Dzau said.

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Although the center has gained much of its momentum in the aftermath of the lacrosse case, the idea behind a criminal justice center has long been considered by professors at the law school, said Coleman, who led a University committee examining the behavior of the lacrosse team last year.

The center will incorporate existing programs at the law school such as the student-led Innocence Project and the Wrongful Convictions Clinic as well as the independent North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence, and will create an opportunity for these programs to expand, Newman said.

“As far as I know there is no center that is going to combine teaching of undergraduates, the kind of seminars and discussion we are planning to have and the opportunities for fellows to work during the summer and after gradation,”, she said. “We hope this is a somewhat unique center and we’re planning to make it so.”

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natural greenness.”

Other environmentally-friendly features of the Smart Home include a rainwater-harvesting system that will collect water that hits the roof, treat the water and distribute it throughout the house, as well as solar panels that will heat the water to minimize energy expenditure.

“We’ve thought a lot about the details of the house,” Steinberg said. “The wind generally comes from the south, so we’ve placed windows and doors such that a natural flow of air would be generated throughout the house when the windows are open on the first floor.”

Smart Home as an organization has a variety ofother project teams that aim to improve the quality of life for people.

The Duke Smarter Living Competition, which funds student team projects, is hosted by Smart Home and will announce winners Friday for the upcoming semester.

“Our theme is smarter living and improving the quality of life for people,” said junior Tim Gu, president ofSmart Home.

The organization is seeking to expand the number of professors with relevant research.

“We want to be a hub for research and industrial innovation,” Gu said. “We are interested in products that either students invent or companies want us to test.”

Some projects include voice recognition and control systems, where mundane tasks are automated in people’s lives, he added.

“We have a project called Wisdom Door [that] aims to create a system for a house to detect who you are when you walk in the door and maybe work with the control system to turn on the air conditioner to the temperature you want,” Gu said.

The organization currently has 60 active members and has grown larger every semester.

examples—the groups’ opinions were split when the conversation turned to the rearrangement of selective-housing space.

Residential policy ideas introduced in the meetings ranged from creating a modified “ffat row” on Central Campus for all selective living groups to enabling co-educational blocking to creating unified “houses” for independent students to facilitate a sense of community.

The turnout to Monday’s meeting—around 20 students was impressive given the density of the topic, said Mike Adams, residence coordinator for Craven Quad, although he noted that the group could have been more diverse.

“Most of the people that ended up coming to the discussion were males in selective living groups,” said sophomore Leigh Soares. She added that the discussion, which —

skimmed over issues of gender and diversity and centered around selective living, reflected the make-up of the group.

The meeting in Kilgo Quad, however, drew fewer than 10 students, predominantly independents.

Lange said meeting with students by quad, instead of by interest group as in the meetings following the Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee Report, enables the University to gather the broad range of student opinion needed to shape policy changes.

“Not all students want change, not all students want the same amount of change and certainly not all students want the same changes,” he said. “This time, we’re bringing different groups together into the same conversation.”

Quad meetings about the Interim Report will continue through Oct. 24, with meetings in the remaining West Campus quads, on East Campus and in Richard White Lecture Hall for off-campus and Central Campus residents.

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CAREER FAIR from page 1 Mike Lowenthal, recruiter for The Bear Steams Com-

panies, Inc., said the chance to meet students in person is helpful to recruiters as well.

“We like when students stop by,” he said. “Meeting someone for 30 seconds has more depth than simply reading a resume or application.”

Students arrived with a slew of questions. Recruiters said they were quizzed on what opportunities were available to stu-

dents and what divisions students might best be suited for.

“Our goal is to try to give students a good sense of company culture to see if we are a good fit for them,” said Mark Cohen, Trinity ’O6, a representative of Capital One. Jermaine Scott of Google added that students were not only attracted to particular job opportunities butalso enjoyed hearing about his personal experiences at the company.

Students weren’t the only ones excited by the chance to

Students met with 111 prospective employers from a wide spectrum of industries at the Career Fair, held Wednesday in the Bryan Center.

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both their academics and in the community. We feel that there is really a desire for global experience here.”

Anthony Vetere, a recruiter for Bank of America. He said he was impressed by students’ preparedness.

“At a fair like this you normally very rarely see two to three years of work experience,” he said. “However, you 1 see that here at Duke.”

Along with quality, company representatives said they were also impressed by the sheer numbers that turned out for the fair.

Recruiters said they were delighted by the large number of students that showed up and were particularly thrilled by the number offreshmen and sophomores who stopped by. Similarly, students said they were pleased with the wide breadth of organizations that were present.

“I think there is a very comprehensive display of companies at the fair,” senior Priscilla Hwang said.

The Career Fair was overbooked by July and included 28 new employers at this year’s fair, said Megan Wilson, programming and marketing coordinator for the Career Center.

“We have been trying to generate a buzz,” she said.

“We have done a lot of outreach to alumni and their employers to generate more recruiters. We have also been working very hard to get industries other than banking and finance.”

Wilson added that alumni recruiters were eager to return to their alma mater for the fair.

“I think that employers are also very happy with Duke students and Duke alumni are really pushing to hire Duke students,” she said.

Twenty companies were put on a waiting list in July, only one of which was able to make it off the list, Wilson said.

“Duke students can compete with anyone,” Lowenthal said. “They have a very high level of energy. They are the reason there are so many companies here today.”

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QUAD from page 1 this disproportionate representation to be a trend. In 2006, about 17 out of the 34 positions were filled by selective living group members, according to data complied by The Chronicle.

“Members of [selective living groups] do make up a majority of quad council executive officer positions,” Loßiondo said.

She noted that independents do have a voice on quad councils as hall representatives, who have as much voting power as executive officers. Loßiondo added, however, that sometimes hall representatives get discouraged and stop attending meetings.

The election process Sophomore Sudha Patel called the quad council election system “flawed” and said it is unfair to independents.

“I think it turns [independents] into the silent majority, and I think it gives thema lack of organization that is vital for them to have their voice heard,” said Patel, an independent. “There is obviously a flaw in the system because the majority isn’t being represented.

So how can you say that’s a fair system?”

Independents tend to be at a disadvantage when running for quad council, said sophomore Adam Barron, president of Kilgo Quadrangle council and a Recess staff member. Selective living group members usually have the support of their group before campaigning begins, added Barron, who is unaffiliated.

“An independent like myself has to build up a social network whereas ifyou’re part of a [selective living group] you [have] instant votes,” he said.

Barron added, however, that the absence of a pre-existing support group for independent candidates should not prevent them from running.

“If you’re an independent, you should recognize that [it] is a potential obstacle V for you and overcome it,” he said.

Sophomore Michael, Freedman, vice president ofCraven Quadrangle council and a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, said being in a selective living group makes campaigning easier because of a “base vote.”

He added, however, that this by no means guarantees a position, noting that although there are 30 students in the ATO section and 50 people in Mirecourt, there are approxi-

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20.2007 to $7,600 per semester, Todd said. mately 500 people in Craven Quad.

“It does seem that there’s a lot of money Ryan Todd, president of Campus Council and a former quad council member, said he in the quad council banks. [Executive] has heard of selective living groups holding boards controlled by selective living groups meetings prior to quad-council elections to could use [the money] a lot in coordinadetermine who to vote for. tion with the selective living group instead “When you only have 100 or 200 people of for the entire quad,” said junior Aneesh come out in a quad and you get an entire Kapur, president of Keohane Quadrangle fraternity of 60 guys to come vote for you, it council and a member of Maxwell House. really helps,” said Todd, a senior.

“We’re trying to keep that in mind as much Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for resi- as possible and to make sure events are dential life, said although he has heard of quad events and not Maxwell.” selective living group coalitions forming Students said there have been incidents in during elections, he is unsure how “stratethe past where funding was misappropriated. gic” these arrangements were.

“I have heard stories of maybe a presiJunior Michael McHugh, president of dent being from a selective living group Sigma Nu fraternity, noted that being in a and siphoning funds to his or her personal selective living group can hurt a candidate’s selective living group,” Barron said. chance for winning.

“I think if a guy from our fraternity runs Influence of selectives on the council for any quadKapur said the council position an m< he will have the “If more independents were on pendent voice on support of the quad council can quad council, fnctions thrown make organizing people from his but fraternity, quad-wide profor the dorm would seem more even though he grams harder. accessible to all students.”

“When the may have our wants the support, I’m sure quad Sudha Patel, sophomore there are a numpeople who are ber of students on the [execuwho feel that betive] board to ing in a fraternity is reason not to vote for take in the consideration of other people’s him,” he said. “So as much as I see that workviews, [not having independents] makes it harder because we know that Maxwell ing for him, it might work against him.”

Members of the Kappa Alpha Order are House wants to do certain events but we encouraged to run for quad council and don’t know what other people want to do,” he said. vote during the elections, KA President Neil Patel, a junior, wrote in an e-mail. He Brownstone President Laura Anzaldi, a added that the fraternity wants its members senior, said events thrown by a council with on the Few Quadrangle council but noted many selective living group members tend that a diverse leadership on quad council is to be attended by selective living group members, which may discourage indepenthe most desirable outcome.

“I believe that quad-council elections are dents from showing up. a democratic process, but it’s understand“If more independents were on quad council, functions thrown for the [quad] able that a selective living group or fraterwould seem more accessible to all stunity would vote for one of its own members,” he said. “This can extend outside of dents,” Sudha Patel said. the individual group, as greeks might vote Anzaldi said quad councils need an indefor other greeks because we might share pendent voice in order to run effectively. the same goals and values.” “[Brownstone] was just afraid that if the council is completely comprised of people from one group, then they will favor that Quad council finances Every semester each quad council regroup,” she said. “What you have to worry ceives $l9 for every resident in its respective about is to have a fair representation on quad to be spent on programming—quad the quad council.”

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Having several members from the same selective living group on a quad council can be an advantage for the quad, Freedman said. He noted that Craven Quad council runs more efficiently because the three ATO members already know each other.

Todd said having a predominantly selective living group quad council does not really affect its operations.

“If anything, it may be a benefit... because they have experience hosting parties,” Todd said. He added that most selective living group members are trained party monitors, but independents are not.

Todd said during quad events last year, fraternity members on Few Quad council enlisted their brothers to help with events.

“They were definitely an asset and I don’t know if the events would have been as good without them,” he said.

The impact of a quad council with mostly affiliated members depends on how the members’ affiliation affects their decision making, Gonzalez said.

“If [affiliated quad-council members] approach their roles as Duke students, then I don’t see a problem,” he said. “If they approach it through their role as a selective living group member, then there is a chance for the voice of independents to be lost.”

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NOWICKI from page 1 for student affairs, said his office will collaborate with Nowicki as the dean begins to organize a response to

Slattery’s proposals.

“The transparency of our judicial process is critical to its credibility and effectiveness,” Moneta wrote in an e-mail.

“I have always endorsed open review of our disciplinary system, and the first time Paul brought to my attention his concerns about some elements of our process, I immediately proposed the creation of a student-faculty group to go over the issues and propose changes. Dean Nowicki’s partnership in this process provides another objective viewpoint, and I look forward to our collective effort.”

The Slattery-penned memo includes a general interpretation of how an undergraduate judicial code should function within the society of an educational system. The document also compares the rights given to Duke students to those at other universities and provides an in-depth analysis of why students deserve certain procedural rights.

Along with his memo, Slattery compiled a spreadsheet that tallies the number of procedural rights included in Duke’s judicial policy—a total that Slattery’s research found to be lower than that at both peer institutions and Duke during the 1999-2000 academic year.

Nowicki said he has scheduled meetings with administrators within Student Affairs to plan away to best solicit student opinion regarding Slattery’s proposals but does not yet know what form this evaluation will take.

Slattery said the formation of a committee to evaluate the spreadsheet and the ideas in the memo would be an appropriate way to facilitate discussion—as long as the committee’s suggestions are acted upon.

“A committee is fine, provided that it’s generally representative and has a clear and meaningful mandate,” he said. “It could be a sort of paralysis of analysis. A committee goes through and makes a series ofrecommendations—and then what?”

Slattery said he will be working with Nowicki in the coming weeks to ensure that any changes made tojudicial policy come from thorough discussion with students and faculty.

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Freshman senators, who were elected Tuesday and sworn in earlier in the meeting, said they did not know where Saledelia Cafe or the Bella Union were located, raising concern about how the expansion would benefit freshmen.

Kantha said the test run will determine whether the later hours would be expanded to other dining areas.

“If we find that this is a hit, then we can consider keeping Trinity Cafe open later because it’s the analogue [to Saladelia Cafe and the Bella Union] over on East Campus,” he said.

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Every year it seems a new fad diet emerges in the ongo-

ing battle against rising obesity rates. From Atkins to South Beach, everybody who’s anybody jumps on the bandwagon—throw in a celebrity or two, and the trend becomes a craze. The next regiment in line for celebrity diet-dom is known as the Master Cleanse. Superstar Beyonce’s 10-day master cleanse successfully shoved the idea of using the traditional detox as a diet into the limelight, revolutionizing the way people approached the process.

The Master Cleanse, created over 60 years ago by natural healer Stanley Burroughs, is a simple and straight-forward fasting program with a few specific requirements.

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And although Waters never disappoints when it comes to outrageous subversion of social standards, his roguish “good bad taste” is hardly predictable.

What’s next from the man who brought you spirited filth-fest Pink Flamingoes or that “back door” sex scene a la Catholic Church-pew in Multiple Maniacs?

A children’s film would be the perverse guess. It also happens to be the correct one. Waters’ new project—he calls it a “wonderful children’s adventure” that’s still a John Waters film —has yet to be greenlit, but the plans are to begin shooting this winter.

Although it’s safe to say that Waters’ audience hasn’t

been composed largely of children, it has included a more youthful majority—one that he has and continues to re-

ceive with enthusiasm.

“It’s amazing to me how the kids in the Upper East Side Manhattan and the kids in the South and the kids in Middle America are almost exacdy the same,” he said. “I like to be in touch with a younger audience because that seems to be who has been my audience always. That’s the only kind of crossover I’m looking for, is the next generation.”

Waters has welcomed the college audience for almost 40 years—most recendy traveling through the South for a series of lectures. He will arrive at Page Auditorium Sept. 21 for a scheduled talk courtesy of Duke University Union.

“I’m looking forward to coming there,” Waters said. “I live in Baltimore, which believe me, is the South. People SEE WATERS ON PAGE 4

Comedian Dane Cook speaks of women, wackiness With 17 years of experience, stand-up comic Dane Cook has now made the transition to film, appearing in movies like Mr. Brooks and Employee of the Month. His latest project, Good Luck Chuck, pairs him with Jessica Alba as the cursed guy women date immediately before they find their true love.

In GoodLuck Chuck, your character seems to have a a lot of women flocking towards him. Do you have any stories of crazy fans that may have gotten a little too close?

Oh sure. I have some crazy-ass Looney Tune fans. I have to go under aliases now at the hotels because, last year, I had a girl show up nude at my door at like two in the morning yelling my Kool-Aid bit in the hall. She was kicking my door naked. She was like, “Oh yeah. I want to bag you Dane Cook.”

And I opened the door slightly, and she was latterly naked, screaming, “Oh yeah,” in the hallway. I have crazy, crazy fans.

But, hey, it keeps life entertaining, right?

Your character also has a good luck charm for every woman that he sleeps with. What would you say is your good luck charm, if you have one?

What I’m really good is getting dumped. I have the power to be dumped by any woman. If you date me, you will dump

me. I mean, hopefully, I’m embellishing about myself, and that’s a bit of a joke. But playing a guy that may have this blessing-curse, depending on what your stance is, was certainly far, far out of the world I live in.

Believe it now, and it’s always something I have to fight to defend, I’m pretty shy. And I’m not a guy that, like Chuck, can even really go full-tilt-boogie and just get any girl that he wants. I’m a little bit more of a romantic type and I guess I believe in serendipity and things of that nature. I got to play a guy who was kind of like a bad-ass in that aspect.

And obviously, the turn being when he figures this may be legitimate, to have Jessica Alba’s character come at me and say, “I love you. I want to be with you,” and then I have to repel this woman. That’s the whole second act of this movie is me repelling Jessica Alba, and just all the comedy that comes from having to do that. Could I do that in my real life? No. I’d probably let a train run over me to have a girl like Jessica Alba come and want to spend a little bit ofher R&R time.

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Editor’s Note 5: Bad Tonight I made a bet that I know I am going to lose.

I told Chronicle head honchos David Graham and Sean Moroney that recess would be doneby midnight. It is 11:28p.m. and we have more than an hour’s work to do in 30 minutes. The bet is a bet ofhonor, but since this publication has been pretty dishonorable when it comes to deadlines, it is important to win.

You may say, “Hey Varun, is this time bet the reason why you didn’t write Sandbox and you just have a silly picture of 0.J.?”

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Okay, so that last rant only bought me 80 words... maybe I should get back on topic.

So why is recess bad at keeping deadlines?

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So do you like touring?

Oh God, yeah. I mean it can wear on you like anything, but yeah, I really like being on tour.

You guys are touring pretty hard, something like a show every day.

Absolutely. The overhead is high, so you just have to

keep touring.

What’s been your favorite place so far?

We’ve had some really fun shows. I would say that Tucson really ended up being a really wonderful show because we had a lot of time off there. Fresno was amazing. It was mind-blowing. We’d never played Fresno before, so it was great to be there and play a city that is a couple hours away from me, that I’d never been to. I couldn’t believe it. The Central Valley is really different. It’s completely unlike the rest ofCalifornia.

What makes a good show for you?

The audience. You could be playing anywhere, and if the audience is there with you, they’re absolutely on your side, they can really make you play better. I mean, you can be a really good audience. It’s really all about being enby Allison Gianino gaged in the performance—you could be rowdy and crazy, THE CHRONICLE or you just could be very attentive, John Vanderslice has been around the block. Since breaking How’s it been touring with Bishop Allen? into the indie scene as frontman for the now-defunct mk Ultra, It’s great. They’re awesome guys. We listen to a lot of he’s worked with pretty much everyone, from Spoon to the Mouncurrent music, and we listen to a lot of bands that we retain Goats to Sunny Day Real Estate. In addition to running his ally like and respect. Then we ask them to tour with us. own recording studio, Vanderslice now boasts an impressive solo Before Bishop Allen, we were touring with a band from career, the most recent addition to which is his sixth album, EmerNorth Carolina actually, called Bowerbirds. We’re always ald City, a moody contemplation on the travails ofpost Sept. 11 finding and touring with new bands. We’re very particular America, recess recently spoke with him about his upcoming Duke about who we take out.

Coffeehouse show, David Bowie and the similarities between song Row’d you decide to come to Duke? writing and pig butchering.

We change where we play all the time. We’ve played the So you’re from California, but you were bom in Local 506, we’ve played Cat’s Cradle. I actually know DurGainesville? ham pretty well. My mom and my brother live in Chatham Yea, I was born in Gainesville. That was the first city of County. The Coffeehouse asked us to play, so I said cool, my life, and really, it was very influential for me. Especially absolutely. But we’re actually playing less colleges on this then, pre-internet, you had a feeling of being very isolated. tour than we usually do. think we’re I only doing three colFlorida is a really odd state that I don’t think people relege shows on this tour. There’s Duke Coffeehouse, [Talspect enough, personally. I’m always getting on my friends lahassee] and then Athens, Ohio. and people I know in bands that say they don’t want to play Tell me about your new album. How did it work out for Florida, or give the usual party lines about it. I think its a you, how do you feel about it? great place to play. But, for me, I grew up very isolated, and That’s tough. It’s almost like saying, “Tell me about your when I left I realized how much I loved it there. son, how do you feel about him?”

When did you start playing music?

Yeah, how do you like this thing that you created from Pretty much the first band I was in was called mk scratch?

Ultra. It was in 1994, and it started as a real local band I mean I love it, because of exactly that. I mean, its my in San Francisco. I mean, we had no traction. We would son. However much he tortured me during his upbringbook our own tours. We went around the country a couing, I love him. So that’s the first thing. The second thing ple times, mostly because we were asked to tour with is that its an absolute pleasure to be touring on the record.

Sunny Day Real Estate, and that was like the biggest It feels different and it feels really good. There’s a totally thing that ever happened to us. When you’re opening different vibe on this tour. I mean, we start our set list off for another band, its great. We had our own audience, with three completely new songs. who were mostly there because of Sunny Day. It kind The album is pretty political. Are you trying to be a of gave me a taste of touring though, and that never, political motivator or is the album more of a personal never went away. statement? ,

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To be honest with you, like all songwriters, I’m an egotist. So I really don’t care what other people think. I have very strong and transparent political views, and I’m completely fine if people agree with them, but I’ve never wanted to change anyone’s mind. I’m of the opinion that it’s pretty much impossible to change peoples’ minds. I mean, basically, when we went into this situation, it was pretty obvious that we were getting into it so that we could steal people’s resources, but there was a 90 percent approval rating. I’m not going to try to help, I mean, who can help, a country that is that gullible? It’s a personal album for me.

All the political stuff is just refracted ideas and emotions that I have about being alive right now.

So how did you set out with the album, were you trying to get thoughts out there about what’s going on?

Well, the label called me and said, “Hey, we need you to turn in a record by this date,” and I thought, “Ok. Sh—.

I should start writing songs.” And that’s exacdy what happened. You know, I like writing songs, but its a tortuous process. Its arduous, and honestly, somewhat boring.

For me, it would be a lie if I gave you a song and dance about how inspired I was to make this record. I mean, this is my job, it’s my life. It’s a great job, and I’m lucky to have it. I fought a long time to get it, and I’m definitely not going to give it up. But the truth is that sometimes writing a record is a very down-and-dirty process. It’s ugly and there’s no “sex” whatsoever in the process. It’s sometimes just like slaughtering pigs.

No sex in the process?

I was definitely under the impression that it would be a little more glamorous. Which is fine. I mean, I just want to be accurate and truthful in what I say. But unless you’re in a heavy metal band, it’s not there. Even the most swinging indie-rock band’s always disappointed by how little debauchery there really is in tour.

So, I hear that you’re really into David Bowie.

I definitely like David Bowie. I definitely was very influenced by him, as much by his process of making albums as by his music itself. It’s the way he put together his bands, and his albums, and the sounds ofhis records—l really appreciate him, as an artist.

So how does that tie into your music?

It doesn’t that much. I wish I had the balls to pull off what he did live. You look at Ziggy Stardust concerts, that was just the coolest thing in the entire world. I wouldn’t say that I’m like a Bowie fanatic, I don’t go to bed dreaming of holding and stroking him every night, but I love Bowie.

There’s a lot of great music out there, and Bowie was definitely a big part ofit.

But no spiders from Mars in the future?

I love the energy of that record so much, but no. No spiders from Mars.

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COOK from page 1 Did the physical aspect of the comedy come naturally to you as a stand up comedian or not?

Physical comedy is my forte, and I love words and I love jargon. I love vernacular and I try to have a nice mix, a nice dance of both. When I was a kid I’d watch Buster Keeton or old Charlie Chaplin stuff and I also come from a family [where] my mother was very physical and just very silly. So I grew up just adoring physical comedy.

And the great thing about GoodLuck Chuck is when you see a transformation. It’s almost like in the first act you’re seeing elements ofhow I am in my regular life, which is very reserved and renal. And then by the second act, you’re seeing a lot of physicality and you’re seeing elements of what I bring to my stand up. So it’s an acting piece, and yet I have the luxury of throwing in 17 years ofknowledge of how my body works and how I know how to communicate feelings through physicality. It’s all up there.

When you were young, did you realize your comedic talent or was that something that developed later on?

Well, I realized that I came from a funny family. I had five sisters and a brother. And I was more of an observer.

I was not the the school cut-up or anything like that. But with my family specifically, we were always watching HBO specials and listening to old hard albums and comedy and Carlin. But really I just started to realize very early on that some of the toughest parts of our life, the dark stuff, we were always cracking up together.

Meeting up in our kitchen at 2:30 in the morning and eating cold Chinese food and just throwing out whatever we could to keep each other light, to keep each other positive through some pretty sh—y stuff that happened in my family. And right there, early on, I had that again epiphany, where I said, “I don’t want to do comedy because I want it to be about me, me, me... It’s narcissistic.” And I want to make families and other people feel like my family does at two in the morning, quoting Bill Cosby himself.

I want to make other people feel like how I feel when my brother’s first girl broke with him, and he came home, and we all sit and reenacted breaking up with [him], pretending we were the girl, instead of just sitting and there and being glum. It set a ripple effect off in my life and it definitely inspired me to want to make

WATERS from page 1 might think it isn’t, but if you’ve ever been here, it is.”

Waters’ name has long been associated with the city of his upbringing, Baltimore. His attentions have gone to the city’s extremes, an effort he said is shared by Baltimore’s other creative outlets—HßO’s The Wire, which he said loves, and the films of Barry Levinson, although his vision takes a more “serial killer suburban housewife” approach {Serial Mom).

Waters and his troupe of native Baltimoreans, gathering under the moniker Dreamland, have for 40 years pro-

people feel good creatively.

What do you look for in a woman?

I love a girl that is independent. I have my stories that I bring to the table and I like somebody who also brings a lot oflife experience to the table. I don’t like a needy girl.

I don’t like a girl that sits around and says, “I’ll be here for you. I’ll wait here.” Let’s see. I don’t like cleft lips. I don’t care for that. Yeah, I don’t like peg legs. Let me Just go through all the things I don’t like. I don’t like the pirate look. I don’t like one-legged. In humor, if you don’t get my humor, you’re in a for long, boring ride.

Is there a quote or part of your routine that people quote to you so much that you’re now sick of it? And if so, what is it?

Never sick of it. I get emails all day, every day [where] people sign off with their favorite quote. I don’t think that I can take off my shoes without somebody saying, “F—-shoes” to me. It’s like I hear “F— shoes” every day. Listen, let me tell you, man. The goal of any comedian, whether they will tell you this truthfully or not, is you want somebody somewhere sitting with their friends going, “He said, quote, blah, blah, blah”.

That is the most flattering thing that you could possibly ever want as a live performer. That makes me feel awesome. That makes me feel like I’ve really contributed to some of the fabric of somebody’s life for a minute. And I sound like a goon, because I get so excited talking about it, but it’s like, that’s the sh— right there. If I ever get sick of it and I tell you I’m sick of it, punch me in the balls. I don’t deserve to be quoted then.

Did your sisters really bedazzle your clothes when you were younger?

Yes. They bedazzled me. They slapped on lipstick. I would wear jellies and wigs. I mean, just you name it. I had strawberry shortcake sneakers and a pink huffy. I’m not even kidding you. [Having] five sisters was brutal. I hung around with them so much, I finally started getting a period.

What are your opinions on censorship?

Censorship. F it. I don’t like [it], especially in the world of live performance. It scares me having somebody tell me what is or is not funny. When the advertising people get too close, and they start having that say, and those are the corporations, the line gets blurry to me. yes, I’m

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in it. I know I’m a part ofit. I’m a part of the machine. I’m a product too, in some respect. But what you try to do is to the best of your ability, give back to your community and to people in ways that you’ve benefited from those appearances or those movies or whatever and try to do as little as possible that you feel like is just for the financial gain. My dad used to always say, “Dane, the money will be there if your heart’s in it.”

And I try to stick to that to the best I can. I’m not going to be a hypocrite. It’s Hollywood. It’s all a big ad for white teeth.But we still tell stories, and it’s still glamorous. When you see a movie, you still go there to get moved in a dark room. So, as much as I can play the game and as much as I can keep my fans and new fans safe from all that stuff, we all do the dance—but we’re laughing.

What’s the funniest thing to you in the entire worldper-

sonally?

A baby making a really serious face. It gets me every time. A baby that has a face that looks like it wants to talk about, like, home equities.

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and entertained with a blend of counter-culture comedy and—to refer to his famous Simpsons cameo—’’the tragically ludicrous, the ludicrously tragic” camp.

He drolly shelves the term “camp” as outdated and evocative of “an 80-year-old man in an antique shop” or more pointedly, a Hollywood code word for “faggy.”

Waters’ appeared in the episode “Homer’s Phobia” as a look-a-like antique shop owner whose sexual preference throws Homer into a fit of prejudice and eventual acceptance. Waters didn’t write the part, but thought the cameo might do some good.

“They called me up and I was thrilled to be asked to be in The Simpsons,” Waters said. "Humor is the best way to change anyone, and anybody who would be homophobic would still watch that show. Usually the way to change people’s minds is to make them laugh first and that’s why I did it.”

Kiddies may flock to Waters for his animated cameo—and Chucky bit part —but the rest of the world knows him best for writing and directing the original cult film Hairspray (1988).

Starring man-in-drag Dreamland star and Waters muse Divine, the film was adapted into a hit Broadway musical with Harvey Fierstein and more recently reinvigorated as a celebrated and star-studded blockbuster yoked

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A less abrasive telling of the Baltimore-based tale of prejudice and segregation, the film nevertheless offers a distinctly Waters-esque cameo: seedy flasher man.

“It’s the only dirty thing in the PG movie, which I was proud to be,” Waters said. “And it’s right in the first minute of the movie so the audience sees me and thinks, ‘Oh, he must approve!’”

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And approve of the film Waters did, joining the cast premiers in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles (“Johnny Knoxville was my date,” Waters added with a laugh).

Waters, who actively consulted in the creative process, was nevertheless “amazed and delighted” at the final product. And far from taking offense at its transformation from movie to musical to movie-musical, Waters is proud of the reinvention in all its acquired finesse—includingjohn Travolta’s less-grunt, more-prance approach to Edna Turnblad.

“Each time it had to be different or it wouldn’t work,” Waters said. “I think when they reinvent it every time it’s hard to do, but it’s the only way it can be successful.”

For the consummate Waters’ collector, however, Hairspray was the friendly aberration in a career of violent and sexual extremes, one which drew on artists as diverse as Iggy Pop and Ricki Lake, and served as launch pads for actors such as Johnny Depp ( Cry Baby), Adrian Grenier and Maggie Gyllenhaal {Cecilß. Demented).

“And they’ve all gone on to be stars,” Waters said. “I love working with young people. Casting is the most important thing in a movie to me—casting and writing.”

With a paired knowledge of highbrow and lowbrow cinema culture, this long time fan of art house and exploitation films wouldn’t mind seeing a few more genre films added to the modern mix. Waters’ favorites from the pickings this year include David Lynch’s InlandEmpire, German drama The Lives of Others and psychological thriller Zodiac.

But it’s the Rodriguez-Tarantino double feature Grindhouse that wins the place ofhonor in his list of recent favorites.

“I think it was excellent and perfect. I went to those theaters. I saw them all,” Waters said. “But I’m afraid the audience didn’t know what it was and had never been to a double feature. Certainly I was amazed the film was not a success because to me it was a brilliant art movie that captured what that experience was like.”

But always a man of the times, Waters noted that with the demise of the midnight showing, creators have to adjust to what moviegoers like and want without being to

repetitive.

“I think I’m always reinventing myself,” Waters said.

“I made my first movies 43 years ago. You have to keep reinventing yourself every decade to keep up with your audience.”

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Soulwax’s rendition of “Get Innocuous” proves the point that most dance music doesn’t need to be updated. Despite an added emphasis on an overly heavy beat, the retooling only results in a more digitized, repetitive and longer version without offering anything new. This is a recurring problem on A Bunch ofStuff where even the most discerning LCD fans may be hard pressed to differentiate the new from the old.

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Unfazed and unaffected by all of the recent debate surrounding the ever-so-nebulous Campus Culture Initiative, the Duke University Union has simply continued to do what it has always done: initiate differentways of—and programs for—bringing Duke students together to have fun. The Campus

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The track’s enthusiasm and intensity stand to reaffirm the fact that dance music is best listened to live.

A Bunch ofStuff is just another example of an unnecessary album, full of music inferior to that which is already available. The digital EP is available only in the US. But don’t get caught up in thinking that you’re getting a worthwhile special offer; there’s already better stuff out there than A Bunch of Stuff —Liz Tramm

It>s heer\ mo re a decade TREES OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY and about a doz ECSTATIC PEACE en son i c Youth albums since 1995’s ����� Psychic --':k Hearts, the first solo album from SY frontman Thurston Moore. Now, 12 years later, half of the ‘first couple ofrock’ returns sans-Kim Gordon and with a whole different set of cohorts. His latest, Trees Outside the Academy, features Dinosaur Jr.’s legendary J. Mascis shredding on guitar while newcomer Samara Lubelski’s violin playing compliments Moore’s hushed vocals.

On Trees, Moore tries to step outside his role in Sonic Youth while still preserving the essential elements that have raised them to cult status: the dissonant chords, feedback loop intros and fluid guitar work are all present, accompanied—most importandy—by the man himself. However, the Moore on this record is less concerned with melting your face off as he might have been a decade ago. On Trees, he explores all facets of the sound spectrum while maintaining his dark, whimsically lyrical style. The tide track “Trees Outside the Academy” ends in a swirling noise-fest. On “Silver>Blue,” flowing guitars Lysol spray and rubber bands, a time capsule foreand a crooning Moore melt seamlessly into Lubelsshadowing the future of a rock V roll legend. Now, ki’s sighing violin. On “Honest James,” Moore and 30 years later, Thurston Moore has yet again proven Christina Carter’s voices compliment each other as that he doesn’t need to prove anything. With Trees, they sing: “Let love take over, you know the devil just he has made a record that is true to both himself ain’t that smart.” and Sonic Youth, and given these past endeavors, The album closes with a hidden track of Moore that’s not a bad thing at all. at 13 years old making a sound theater from cans of —Stefanija Giric

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Concert Series, which kicked off with student band Hopus last Saturday on the Bryan Center Plaza, is DUU’s latest program.

The goal of the Campus Concert Series is to use music to unite, something that isn’t a new concept, but has yet to really take root on campus. An evolution from last year’s All Campus Entertainment Program, the Campus Concert Series has a new home, a new schedule and even a new vision this year. For now, the program has a two-pronged goal.

It will consistendy feature Duke and regional artists every Friday at Armadillo Grill’s new back patio from 4-8 p.m.

Secondly, the CCS committee aims to bring student organizations together. Through inter-group collaboration, the committee plans to co-sponsor several events all over campus, similar to last spring’s Beta-DUU SoundFest music festival. However, this year, the program will especially focus on bringing a musical element to events that are already in place and already have a built-in audience, such as Tailgate.

“I think it’s a great program,” Hopus guitarist and junior Manick Bhan said. “I think that there isn’t enough stuff that goes on on campus... where people all come together and just have fun.”

For Cameron Harms, the programming director SEE CONCERT ON PAGE 7

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critically acclaimed Feels. A couple of solo attempts later, the quartet of Panda Bear, Avey Tare, Deakin and Geologist reconvenes to once again produce an album that strips pop of all of its conventions yet leaves just enough familiar sweetness to seduce the listening ear.

Listening to an Animal Collective song is like stepping into a dream world, and Strawberry Jam certainly does not disappoint those with inquisitive ears. The record manages to create soundscapes out of electronic reverb and show beauty in gorgeous guitar drone and

Panda Bear’s contagious, intermittent screams. “Peacebone” uses these techniques along with whimsical vocals about dinosaur bones and jugular veins against electronic gurgling that could have easily bordered on annoying withoutproper control. ’’For Reverend Green” builds with asymmetric guitar and percussion and culminates in a chorus of screams and “whoos” that bottle up and release Avey Tare’s pure, ecstatic joy. “Fireworks” is about the pleasure of simple things, and not being too caught up with yourself to appreciate “a sacred night where we watched the fireworks.... They make me feel that I’m only all I see sometimes.” This back-to-back combination of the two creates a high-point for the album, which ends with the simple narrative of “Derek” a song about a childhood pet whose climactic ending seems to tie up the rest of the album perfectly.

What the quartet has created over the years is its own, distinctive sound. Nobody can argue with that. Their presentation of it, however, has been tweaked and fine-tuned by producer Scott Colburn. Straxvberry Jam s layers of sound and vocals work together to masterfully convey exactly the emotions that Animal Collective intended, be they overwhelming, spiritual or surreal.

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Rogue Wave returns in all its jangly, indie-pop glory with Asleep at ASLEEP AT HEAVENS GATE ££.its folHength alBRUSHFIRE RECORDS bum. While Rogue Wave’s last album, DescendedLike Vultures, acquired a fair amount of attention with its constant airplay on the third season of the O.C„ the band has spent the last two years as quiet as the show’s dead main character.

Asleep at Heaven’s Gate breaks the silence with an evolved sound that is more polished and less discordant than the band’s previous releases. Gone are the random cacophonous noises that accented the older songs. What remains is a showcase oflead singer Zach Rogue’s voice, which is melodic with a welcome aftertaste of surprisingly nonobnoxious melancholy.

The album is undoubtedly strongest at its beginning. It gets off to a more-than-promising start with “Harmonium,”'where the catchy-without-being-annoying beat and gradually escalating vocals meld into a progression that is rich and variant enough that its lengthy six minutes seem to go by in a fraction of the time. The album continues to gain momentum, climaxing at the fourth track with the most upbeat of Rogue’s offerings, “Lake Michigan.” A track so enjoyable with its twitching, hand-clapping indie-pop sound that you can forgive and embrace the fact that even your roommate, who only listens to Shania Twain and Gwen Stefani, likes it too.

The problem is that the album disintegrates from there, going from remarkable to unmemorable before the next song, “Lullaby,” hits the two-minute mark. The streak of faded, repetitive melodies persists through the final song, transforming Asleep at Heaven’'s Gate into the ideal cure for insomnia. Granted, it’s a pleasant sleep-inducing experience, but the substantial fact remains that the album fails to fully reengage the listener over the course of the last eight tracks.

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LEMONS from page 1 flush—no imagination needed—after which there is little doubt the body will be 100 percent toxinfree.

Clinic director and entrepreneur Peter Clickman’s recent bestselling book Lose Weight, Have More Energy & Be Happier in 10 Days is entirely devoted to the Master Cleanse and its detoxifying powers.

“The body accumulates toxins from three different sources: external (Mercury, Lead, DDT), artificial sweeteners and normal digestion,” Glickman said, adding that uric acid, usually from meat and dairy products, is an especially difficult toxin to eliminate.

“People misunderstand toxins, they either think they kill you or leave you alone.”

According to Glickman, the vast majority of toxins make you tired, miserable and contribute to annoyances such as headaches and rashes. These relatively minor disturbances are often passed off as byproducts of everyday factors such as lifestyle or stress level while they may actually be attributable to a much more obscure event.

The buildup of toxins in the body mosdy occurs in the fat cells. During the detoxification process, toxins abandon fat cells as they are expelled from the body. Since the fat cells are no longer needed as storage, they are also disposed of during the process. Although the Master Cleanse is often criticized for extreme weight loss in a short amount of time, supporters cite the above reasoning as proof that the Cleanse is a completely healthy way to lose weight quickly. However, they also emphasize that weight loss should not be the motivation behind participating. Instead, the focus should lie on the health benefits, including releasing of pressure in arteries and blood vessels and the complete expulsion of toxins.

The Master Cleanse also claims emotional benefits as part of its extensive repertoire ofrewards. Users cite greatly increased energy levels, lower stress and bettermemory, all in addition to an overall sense of mental clarity and calm. Furthermore, the diet claims to help break unhealthy eating habits including high-fat food cravings.

Nevertheless, Glickman acknowledges how the recent publicity has changed the base motive for many

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appreciate the detox symptoms.

If a person knows when the worse days are, they can make it through.”

He said lack of education and understanding of the diet is why most people last a max of eight days.

Glickman’shook and website (www.themastercleanse. com) offer sources of support and knowledge necessary for anyone undertaking the diet.

Regardless of the positive acclaim, the Master Cleanse raises a slew of questions about possible detriments to overall health and nutrition. Many Cleanse practicioners experience cravings, tiredness and irritability as well as physical aches, nausea and vomiting while on the diet. Of course the latter, more distressing side effects only occur when an individual is, according to Glickman, “severely toxic” and appear to dissipate in a day or two.

Contrary to Glickman’s explanation, most dieticians attribute such side affects to factors such as change in eating patterns, low blood sugar or simply the lack of consuming anything with nutritional merit. Furthermore, some experts question the need for such a drastic cleansing ritual.

“There are no specific foods that help us remove toxins from our bodies. Moreover, the liver is very effective at breaking down toxins,” wrote Lisa Miles, nutrition scientist for The British Nutrition Foundation, in an e-mail.

Duke dietician Franca Alphin supports a lifestyle change in eating habits over a quick and drastic fix.

“The reality is eating a diet high in fiber and fruits and vegetables is better than any detox diet,” Alphin said. ‘Your body has unique mechanisms to deal with what we eat, we don’t need to detox it.” worst and leam to

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Having eaten his way through many of the best and worst restaurants the in Triangle, recess Tastes editor Bryan Zupon ventures into territory strikingly unfamiliar to a devoted food writer. Here is his story of 10 grueling days on the Master Cleanse.

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Out to dinnerwith friends, one ofmy party mentions a bizarre detox plan called the Master Cleanse. “This has to be the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” I say, “I have to try it.”

9/10/07, Day 1 Some Googling over the weekend offers insight as to the symptoms I might encounter over the next ID days. The prospect of nausea, vomiting, headaches, fainting, and cramps do not faze me, the cleanse must begin.

Trips to Food Lion, Whole Foods and Uncle Harry’s allow me to procure the necessary supplies. The manager at Uncle Harry’s gives me a strange look when I ask to place a special order for two-dozen lemons. I feel somewhat embarrassed explaining the reason behind my order. This is nothing, however, compared to the mortification of having a salesclerk at Whole Foods explain to me the virtues of various laxative teas.

I settle on Smooth Move, apparently an excellent and effective choice.

I make my first batch oflemonade—60 ounces of water, 12 tablespoons each of organic grade B maple syrup and freshly squeezed lemon juice and a half-teaspoon ofcayenne pepper —and take a sip.

The concoction is not that bad, at once acidic, spicy and sweet.

9/11/07, Day 2 The first day passes without incident and little hunger, my body apparently content to run off of this new elixir. In class, a professor offers us homemade cookies that I must regretfully decline. Besides this one temptation, the second day passes easily.

Later that evening, I brew my second mug of Smooth Move.

The tea itself is actually quite tasty, pleasandy evoking grass, green wood and licorice. My stomach is slightly unsettled, however; there’s not much left in it.

9/12/07, Day 3 The worst day so far. The day begins with an early start at about 5:00 am as my entire intestinal tract is wracked with cramps. I stand up, walk around, and wait for the pain to subside. After falling back into fitful sleep, I wake again, now bestowed with the double whammy ofboth cramps and a faint headache. I wonder if the Lobby Shop sells Midol.

A dull but not overwhelming hunger persists throughout the day. My body is sore and my headache lingers. I dutifully suck down the lemonade and hope that the sugar will do me good.

Thankfully, it helps.

9/13/07, Day 4 It seems that the worst is over, and now boredom sets in. My friends meet up for dinner; I stay in. They go and get groceries; I stay in. It’s a Thursday night and everyone is at Satisfaction’s; I stay in. Too weak to work out, but not tired enough to sleep, the lemonade is my only friend.

When brewing my cup of tea for the evening, I forget about it and let it steep for 30 minutes, as opposed to the recommended 15. It tastes especially potent. I hope this isn’t a problem.

9/15/07, Day 6 A bout of cramps begins at about 6:00 am and continues persistently until past 10:00 am. The hours I spend curled up in the fetal position are the most unpleasant of the cleanse so far. Damn you, Smooth Move. There will be no more tea for me; I’m switching to the saltwater flush.

Nevertheless, I soldier on and face the day. My friends and I go to Raleigh for a day of go-karting, mini-golf and laser tag. Between shooting little girls in back with my laser gun and the sweltering heat on the links, I feel faint.

9/16/07, Day 7-1 wake up on Sunday morning, sore from the previous day’s activities. It is highly unadvisable to exert one’s self while on the Master Cleanse. I should have listened. Still, I’m not that hungry and have a good amount ofenergy.

9/19/07, Day 10 It’s the last day of the cleanse, and I feel great. My energy is up—I even walked from my Central Campus apartment to ePrint forgoing my usual habit of driving the 25 seconds it takes to get there—and I don’t even feel all that hungry.

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“Before Beyonce, approximately 70 percent of Master Cleanse dieters did it for detoxification purposes. Now, I would say that number has dropped to 50-55 percent with the second largest group doing it purely for weight loss.”

Junior Stacey Blase used the Master Cleanse this summer to recharge and revitalize for the stressful fall semester. Although she struggled for the first day, she said she gained plenty of energy. For Blase the weight loss was the one glaring negative.

“I lost too much weight too quickly, so I stopped before the ten days were up,” Blase said.

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CONCERT from page 5 of the Campus Concert Series, these Friday concerts are only the beginning.

“Hopefully these concerts will gain enough popularity with the students that Duke will eventually become an area where traveling bands will want to stop and perform,” Harms, a junior, said.

Eager to build Duke up as a venue in its own right, Harms is also optimistic that the success of the program will encourage the administration to work on and build more venues around campus, adding to the BC Plaza and the Dillo patio.

In addition to solidifying Duke as a musical venue, DUU President Katelyn Donnelly wants the committee to further establish itself as a source of aid for student musicians or any other group who is planning an event. Not only is the Campus Concert Series committee eager to help groups find Duke and regional bands to book for events, but they are also willing to loan out their sound equipment or help fund studentorganized events.

As for Duke artists on the rise, Donnelly hopes to combine the Campus Concert Series with DUU’s Small Town Records to “offer up a whole package of publicity,” including funding, marketing and studio support to help the growth of Duke bands. However, for now, the focus is just on spreading the word and actually getting students to come.

Low levels of student attendance at campus performances have always been a formidable obstacle for music programs, so Donnelly and Harms are both hoping to harness the power offree food and beer. In order to lure students to their upcoming co-sponsored music events, Donnelly is working to tap into the Campus Keg Fund, and Harms is counting on the Armadillo’s “Social Hour” food and micro-brewed beer specials.

Several students, when asked about the program, agreed that the Friday afternoon timing and the location make it more likely that they will check out the concerts.

“I haven’t heard anything about the program yet,” junior Brett Rosenthal said. “But I eat at the Dillo enough that I’ll probably be there, so I will check it out.”

With free food, a consistent schedule and the optimal pre-weekend time slot secured, the Campus Concert Series seems to be off to a good start. However, the success of the program rests on student turn-out and support, which remains to be seen.

“I think DUU is really making an effort to provide entertainment and intellectual stimulation with our speakers, music programs and Broadway shows. And I think CCS is simply another way for students to gather together and have fun,” Harms said.

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Urban artist gives classics new by

Claire Finch

THE CHRONICLE

Where can you find LL Cool J, sperm cells, Titian and bling all in one place? No, not at some fetishistic porn site,

but in the work of contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley.

The artist has achieved acclaim for his works depicting black men dressed in street clothes assuming the position of figures in famous works from art history. Wiley spoke at the Nasher Museum of Art Sept. 15, and his work “Saint John the Baptist II” is currently on display at the Nasher as a part of the show Collected Identities.

Wiley’s works maintain a distinctly contemporary flavor thanks to their modem subjects, and yet illustrate his interaction with the canonical pieces of artists such as Velasquez, Titian and Ingres. “[My work asks,] ‘How do I specifically feel impotent in the face of all that matter?’” Wiley said.

The painting “Saint John the Baptist II” exemplifies his interplay with history. In Wiley’s version the saint is represented by a black man dressed in an oversized polo and drooping pants. His cell phone and blinged-out watch are prominently displayed as he flashes something reminiscent of a gang sign at the viewer. The obvious connection between Wiley’s art and that of established masters questions our perception of power, effectively removing the contemporary models from the streets where Wiley found them and entrenching them in the glorified prominence of historical paintings.

Power, and particularly how it is established, is a pervasive theme in all of Wiley’s pieces, often symbolized by images of sexual potency. In Wiley’s earlier paintings, the main figures are completely overwhelmed by phallic Afros that sprout from their heads and shoot crazily into the picture plane. In some of his more recent works, however, the central figures emerge out of a cloud of painstakingly-painted sperm cells.

Wiley broke away from his typical representations of the under-represented when VHI commissioned him to paint the portraits of the nominees for the 2005 Hip Hop Honors.

“Initially I said no, and then they offered me more money so I said yes,” Wiley said. “I couldn’t find away to talk about power and celebrities using powerful celebrities—it was just too redundant.”

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grate the commissions into the themes of his work, using the celebrities to comment on the human insatiability for authority.

“Who would LL Cool J choose to be if he could go through all the art history books?”

Wiley said, “He chose John D. Rockefeller.”

Currently the artist is extending his influence worldwide, leaving the streets of New York and traveling to foreign countries in search of inspiration.

His most recent works use foreign models, fusing their cultures’ historical poses and COURTESY KEHINDE WILEY imagery with his estabWiley uses classic pieces as inspiration. lished painting style.

“Right how I’m doing a project that has me moving from country to country, using the idea of taking models off the street and really going where hip hop culture is going, which is globally,” Wiley said.

Whatever the artist comes up with next, whether it’s portraits of celebrities or Chinese peasants, rest assured that it will present a provocative fusion ofmodern ideas and artistic traditions, further identifying Wiley as an artist you can’t help but watch out for.

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Usually by the fourth week of the football season, most Duke fans are counting down the days to the first jump ball at Cameron Indoor Stadium. But while that anticipation has been tempered by the Blue Devils’ victory over Northwestern on the gridiron, Duke’s basketball coaches are already setting their eyes on the 2008-09 season.

The Blue Devils are looking to secure their future on the hardwood by pursuing power forwards Greg Monroe and Olek Czyz, along with shooting guard Elliot Williams and center John Riek.

Monroe is thejewel ofhis class, ranked the top prospect in the nation by scout, com. The 6-foot-10 power forward from Harvey, La. is long, athletic and an excellent rebounder. He relies on that athleticism for much of his offensive game, but once he polishes his post moves, the forward should become an even bigger force on the block.

Monroe could fill a large void in the Blue Devils’ frontcourt, which has lacked a dominating post presence since the graduation ofShelden Williams.

Duke, however, is far from alone in its quest for Monroe. Kansas, LSU, Texas and USC are among the teams actively recruiting the high schooler.

Czyz —a 6-foot-7 power forward from Reno, Nev.—is not as dominant offensively as Monroe. The native of Poland is a hustle player with high energy and a penchant for throwing it down. “[Czyz is] a jumpingjack athlete with SEE BBALL ON PAGE 10

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Senior Paul Dudley scored in the seventh minute ofWednesday's game, giving theBlue Devils an early leadand confidence on offense en route to a 2-1 victory.

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The Blue Devils entered Wednesday night’s game against South Carolina look-

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Senior Paul Dudley scored in the seventh minute and junior Mike Grella converted a second-half penalty kick to give Duke a 2-1 victory over the Gamecocks (4-3-

of the net.

“We were 1-1 with South Carolina,” Grella said. “We should be able to dictate the game and dictate the pace and be crisp all the time. They shouldn’t get on the board, and we shouldn’t have problems with a team of that caliber.”

Duke made adjustments at halftime, and the results were clear. The defense was more compact, allowing the Blue Devils to

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But this time, they were finally able to take advantage of that edge and record a win.

“We got a lot of chances throughout the game, and we got good chances early,” head coach John Rennie said. “We finished one, and that’s what we needed to do. That made it a lot easier for us —not playing the whole game either even or behind.”

Dudley’s goal, which came off a Grella header that hit the crossbar, relieved some pressure on Duke. But the Gamecocks responded less than 20 minutes later, as Sam

Arthur rifled a shot past Blue Devil goal-

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0). Once again, the No. 12 Blue Devils (4-20) outshot their opponent—this time 29-9.

When the Duke defense lines up against Navy Saturday, it won’t be too tough to figure out the Midshipmen’s offensive game plan. Stopping it, on the other hand, will be a whole different matter.

Navy boasts a befuddling triple-option attack that could present major difficulties for a Duke run defense that ranks 70th nationally. The Midshipmen, meanwhile, lead the nation in rushing with 378.7 yards per game, and are fresh off a 521-yard rushing effort in an overtime loss to Ball State last week.

“We’ve got our work cut out for us,” Duke head coach Ted Roof said. “When you make a mistake against an option offense, you pay for it immediately because they’re reading you. It’s not like they have to call to the press box and [say] ‘Hey, the

guy didn’t do this last time, or didn’t do that.’ It’s all in the read, so if you make a mistake, you’re going to pay instandy.”

Navy returns four members from a backfield that ran for 435 yards in a 38-13 drubbing of Duke last season in Durham.

The Midshipmen’s dangerous quartet of quarterback Kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada, fullback Adam Ballard and slotbacks Shun White and Reggie Campbell combined for 354 of those yards. Stopping this group.will require Duke’s defensive players to stay with their assignments and not be fooled by misdirection plays.

“There has to be someone for every phase of the game —the dive, the quarterback and the pitch phase,” Roof said. “If you miss a tackle, or if you’re supposed to be a quarterback player or a pitch player, SEE NAVY ON PAGE 12

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When long-time head coach Rod Myers passed away last spring, the Blue Devils still had plenty of golf left ahead of them.

Although it may have been difficult, the team had no choice but to move on. The players did not choose the situation—the situation chose them.

This summer, when former UCLA head coach O.D. Vincent was hired to take the helm of the program, the Blue Devils again found themselves in an unfamiliar position, but were ready to move forward.

So was Vincent.

“They didn’t sign up for me as their coach,” Vincent said. “They were recruited by and committed to someone else, and I respect and understand that... So knowing that, we are trying to do things in whatever style our style is.”

Vincent’s coaching methods are, by all accounts, innovative. He describes his coaching style as somewhat unorthodox, but his players have bought in to his system and voiced theirapproval. Vincent has been less stringent about players adhering to a schedule of practice and team meetings.

Instead, he has demanded several pieces of written work from his players. Sophomore Jeff Edelman spoke of the team outlining its goals for the month and the year, and of writing a mission statement for the team in which their coach had no input. “[Vincent] said our mission statement could be anything we value, and I found that interesting because we have always had a coach tell us what to value,” Edelman said.

“He is very creative and he doesn’t want

Vincent’s achievements as both a player and a coach make him more than qualified to implement his philosophy at programs like Duke and UCLA. After winning the California high school state championship in 1985, he went on to Washington, where he led the Huskies to their first Pac-10 championship in 25 years. Vincent’s playing career peaked in 1992,when he played on the professional European Tour and appeared in the British Open.

In 1995,Vincent became head coach at his alma mater, and then took the topjob at UCLA six years later. There, Vmcentreceived numerous individual honors, including two Pac-10 Coach of theYear awards, and led his team to four top-ten NCAAfinishes in five years.

“I wasn’t looking at leaving UCLA,” Vincent said. “But in our sport, Duke should be the very best place to be a student-athlete and the very best place to coach so I think Duke is a step up for a lot of reasons.”

When Vincent jumped at the chance to be the Blue Devils’ head coach lastjune, he cited several major factors in his decision to come to Durham, including the tradition built by Myers, Duke’s top-notch facilities, the ability to raise two young children outside of the rush ofLos Angeles and the chance to work with women’s golf coach Dan Brooks—one of the most successful coaches in the sport’s history.

“I have a dream and a goal of having the two programs stand shoulder-to-shoulder,” Vincent said. “And having him be very successful is very motivating to me to get our men’s team to that same level.”

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Czyz took his official visit to Durham last weekend, but the Blue Devils are competing for his services with the likes of defending champion Florida and Louisville.

Although Monroe and Czyz both play the same position, their recruitments are not contingent upon one another.

“They’re two recruits brought in to do differentthings,” Telep said. “Greg Monroe is the program’s top target at this point. Czyz can be a complementary player.”

The 6-foot-4 Williams is scout.com’s fourth-ranked shooting guard, due to his quick first step and his overall athleticism. Williams is versatile enough to play either guard spot, although his midrange shot needs some work.

The Collierville, Tenn. native visited Duke earlier in September, but is “committed to the process” of recruitment, Telep said. Hometown teams Memphis and Tennessee, along with Virginia, are currently challenging Duke for Williams.

If one thing is clear at this point in the recruiting season, it is that Duke’s reputation has not suffered after last year’s early exit from the NCAA Tournament. The Blue Devils are in the running for the top player in the country along with some key complementary pieces.

“No matter what the win number is, there’s consistency.” Telep said ofDuke. “It’s not a roller coaster over there; it’s a straight line.”

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Rather than chasing down the Gamecocks on second chances, Duke had control and was ready to attack.

The defensive improvement let the offense turn up the heat in the South Carolina zone, finally resulting in a Blue Devil goal. After being fouled in the box, Grella knocked a penalty kick into the lower left comer of the net to give the Blue Devils a one-goal margin they did not relinquish.

“I like to put it like, ‘The bucket’s full, and sooner or laterit’ll tip over,’” Grella said.

“We put a lot of pressure on their back line. I kept getting through in there, so I tried one more time and I got taken down in the box.

It was a little bit soft.... [Penalty kicks] are kind of my specialty. I don’t miss very often,

so it was pretty simple from there on in.”

Grella’s game-winner came on a penalty kick, but the Blue Devils had plenty of other opportunities—theyjust did not find the back of the net, a trend that is becoming all too familiar. Rennie said the upside, however, is that at least his team is not wasting its opportunities.

“When you have possession, possession, possession, and you don’t get chances then you’re going, ‘Well, the other team’s doing what they want to do,”’ Rennie said. “We had possession and we had scoring chances, so we did everything we wanted to do. We just obviously want to score more goals.”

But Wednesday, Duke was content just to take a win over the Gamecocks.

“It wasn’t the prettiest victory, but it’s a win,” Papadakis said. “That’s the only way to get back on track is [with] a win, so we’re happy.”

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and you bite with your eyes on the dive, you can’t get there.

That’s the discipline. You have to really be disciplined, not only with your assignment, but with your eyes.”

Due to the complexities of Navy’s option offense, Roof noted the difficulty in accurately simulating the Midshipmen’s offense with a scout team. Monday’s team meetings were heavy on film study as Duke’s attempted to familiarize themselves with the Navy offense.

“It’s unlike anything we play against, which makes it tough to get it simulated in practice with the scout team,” Roof said. “[lts] execution is not going to be anywhere close to what Navy is going to give us.”

The Blue Devils are not alone in their struggles to prepare for the Navy option. Some of the Midshipmen’s other opponents have employed unusual strategies to gear up for Navy’s Attack. Rutgers, which defeated the Midshipmen 41-21 earlier this month, began preparations for Navy as soon as its summer training camp opened and the players spent at least some time each week familiarizing themselves with the option.

The Blue Devils are hoping thatjunior fullback Clifford Harris can provide a credible representation of Navy’s Kaheaku-Enhada in practice. Harris saw some time last season as a run-oriented quarterback, and he and the rest of the scout team have done a fine job this week, junior defensive end Ayanga Okpokowuruk said.

Even last year’s embarrassing loss may pay dividends for Duke this season. Okpokowuruk said that he feels more confident about facing the Midshipmen’s unique option attack for the second time it in a game situation.

“It’s just so fast, the way they come out,” Okpokowuruk said. “Before you know it, you’re looking at the sky. [But] as the game went on, you kind of got used to it.... I feel like I’m better prepared this year. I know what they’re going to do.”

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protest events.

Today, through the efforts of many vigilant students, the West Campus Plaza will host a support

rally organized by various

student groups.

Here at Duke, we know from experience that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We know all too well the dangers of an overzealous district attorney, and understand the perils of hasty statements (the district attorney of Jena, Reed Walters, allegedly told a group of students, “I can end your lives with the stroke of a pen”).

Clearly, the Duke lacrosse case and the Jena Six events that are now unfolding are vastly different, but injustice is a central part of both cases. The lives of the young men in Jena will be forever changed no matter the outcome of their trials.

As we have seen in the past, the heart of a story maybe lost with the frenzy of the national media. Let us remember that

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a very deep sleeper. Two years ago, I slept through the Death Cab for Cutie concert in Cameron despite the fact that, awake, I found the noise levels painful. Last year, I slept through a fire alarm. In high school, my mother knew my

alarm had gone off when the wall between our rooms would start shaking.

I would still sleep through it.

Which is why, when I woke up at 740 a m the first david rademeyer Saturday after classforty-tWO es started, I knew was serisomething ously wrong. It had been a long week; I was on a waitlist, and therefore needed to attend more classes than I was planning on taking, all while catching up with the many friends I hadn’t seen in four months. It had been a late night: It was Saturday morning, after all.

And yet, there I was, lying in bed, wide awake, and thinking thoughts that would make the NRA rethink their support for the Second Amendment.

What the h— was going on? It took me a while to orient myself, but when I got up and peered out the window, what I saw made me angrier.

The quad was empty. Nevertheless, on the second floor ofKA’s section, two speakers were perched on the outside of the window, blasting music at volume levels normally associated with air raid sirens... for no one. Apparendy, the good brothers of Kappa Alpha had decided to give everyone a violent and unsolicited wake-up call for Tailgate.

At my and a friend’s request, my resident assistant, Carson Denny (who wasn’t on call), asked them to turn down their music. Over the course of the next few hours, he had to repeat the request twice. Another RA called Duke University Police Department. Both Carson and I contacted the resided! coordinator. In the end, however, Carson had to move to a commons room in the other part of Few Quad to escape the noise.

Admittedly, this was an extreme incident, not necessarily typical of greek groups at Duke. As Carson noted in an e-mail to his residents, “For those of us who have rooms direcdy across from KA’s section, the first two weeks of school were, frankly, hell”—hardly the status quo in the Gothic Wonderland. Ultimately, KA responded to student and RLHS complaints, and turned down the volume.

This attitude ofreckless disregard for neighbors, though, is often seen at Duke.

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portional to the punishments given to their white peers.

White students who hung the nooses—a symbolic threat that located in the historicity of our nation—were merely suspended from school, and other attacks on black students, including the pointing of a shotgun, produced no charges at all for alleged white attackers.

This miscarriage of justice has led to a national outpouring of public support for the boys, especially from college students around the country. Many of these students have rallied through Facebook by signing online petitions through groups and spreading the word of

it is these six young men and their futures that are central in this growing story.

We commend the American Civil Liberties Union, Black Student Alliance, Center for Race Relations, Duke Democrats, Duke Student Government, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Panhellenic Council for doing their part in this struggle for justice.

Scrutiny from the Duke community represents our recognition that, in some regions of the country, overt racism still exists and indicates our determination to eradicate such racism.

The Jena Six may not have their own resources to fight the charges against them, but a nation united against injustice will prevail.

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was right to decry the “awful mess” left behind in the parking lot after Tailgate. However, the “‘pleasure’ of seeing the parking lot shordy after the crowd has dispersed” is opt-out, at least.

The pleasure of seeing the quad I call home completely covered in trash, however, is not. Off campus, if a gang of drunken louts threw beer cans all over my front lawn, I’d have a restraining order against them by lunch, and I’d make sure the police

brought charges.

The problem isn’t restricted to KA or Tailgate.

Every time I walk by a section party with a band or DJ outdoors, I marvel at the fact that everyone at the party is indoors, listening to whatever music is being blasted on their individual room’s speakers.

The quad outside is empty, the music played only for other residents, who can neither sleep nor talk at normal levels over the din.

I don’t mind fraternities playing music they listen partying in public spaces they clean up. I really shouldn’t have a problem.

Not all fraternities want to play loud music to empty quads or to trash those shared spaces, but those that do should share in each other’s squalor and not subject the rest of us to their antisocial behaviors. What I am proposing is a DMZ of sorts, a quad, “frat row” or other space for them to inhabit on their own terms.

Each fraternity would have the choice to move or to stay on West, but then only on more restrictive terms. For many fraternities, this will require to. I don’t mind fraternities

This attitude of reckless disregard for neighbors, though, is often seen at Duke.

no change, as most greek-affiliated students, like most Duke students generally, are respectful neighbors. Independents and non-greek selective living groups who like a wilder environment could move, too.

For those that did choose to move, the “DMZ” would allow them more freedom from the tyranny of noise restrictions, the inalienable right to submerge their benches under a sea of Busch Light cans, and, generally speaking, the right to pursue happiness as they see fit.

Because, ultimately, I don’t care what they do.

Just not in my backyard.

David Rademeyer is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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is a term in philosophy, prima facie, which is used when some statement is immediately self-evident.For instance, it is prima facie true that two and two make four.

Here is another truth: It is prima facie wrong to directly and deliberately destroy an innocent human life. To put it another way, murder is wrong. This is such a fundamental truth that it takes a Ph.D. to object to it, albeit

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with ease, it hasproven a source of insuperable confusion for some philosophers. Many are uncertain of what sort of “truth” it is. It is not a mathematical truth, the product ofabstract proof.

Nor is it a natural truth, the fruit of the scientific method. But if we are to regard it as true, we ought to know in which realm of reality it resides, because what is true is, after all, real.

But there are further problems for the philosopher: What does it mean for something to be “wrong”? Is there some universally binding rule that it violates? Or is it merely violating human ideology, in which case it’s not *really* wrong. I can think that wearing shorts with letters on the buttocks (however callipygian the wearer) is wrong (and I do), but my thinking it does not make it so.

So let’s establish some simple philosophical ground rules. For something to be wrong, it must really be wrong, by which I mean that it must really be. Since the prima facie principle I have stated (let’s call it the principle of innocent life) is not physical, it must be extra- or meta-physical; since we did not generate it, Something Else—with the ability to make it universally binding—did.

Now, we all react with singular disfavor toward hypocrisy, which is why we all react in some way unfavorably toward ourselves. We tend to be most conscious of those faults in others that we have most despised within ourselves, and there is a struggle within each of us that renders all of us hypocrites; the struggle between our desires and our ideals, in which the latter are too often sacrificed for the former.

There is, absurdly, a lot of hypocrisy among people who accept the principle ofinnocent life, in a country with law that explicitly professes it. So if we really believe the principle—and we all should—and if we want to be (I’ll be frank) morally consistent individuals, there is a lot in the modem world of which we must be intolerable.

Consider abortion, for instance, which is plainly the direct and deliberate destruction of an innocent human life.

Since all clear-thinking—and even most unclear-thinking—people find the violation of the principle abhorrent, the easiest way to convince them that abortion is tolerable is to convince them that the child in the womb is somehow less-than-human.

This is a tactic often employed in genocide, in which a race—be it African slaves, Jews, kafir—is portrayed as subhuman.

Let’s consider the principle of innocent life applied to an embryo. Is she a human life?Well, she is alive, and she is neither bird, nor frog, nor dog; and while she may not possess every instrument and faculty common to the developed species, these are also lacking in delivered babies. Even the brains of teenagers undergo natural and dramatic anatomical changes. The embryo is a developing human life, a continuously replicating “clump” of cells, just like you. Thanks for that one, biology.

Is she innocent? Surely; she has committed no wrong.

Were the baby killed outside the womb, then, the action would be called murder. Inside the womb it’s called abortion, and it’s particularly brutal, involving a lot of ripping, cmshing and grinding.

Still the sense persists among many pro-abortionists that the embryo is not quite human.

But in order to oppose murder, support abortion and maintain intellectual and moral consistency; Either (1) you are certain that the child in the womb is not a human life (where, incidentally, do you draw the line?); or (2) you believe that there are instances in which the directdestruction ofinnocent human life is not murder, and is thus morally permissible. I should be loath to think, however, that there are among my peers those who would equivocate regarding murder.

If you’re struggling with this issue and, as I suspect, you assume there is a gray area in which the embryo is so developmentally immature that she is not human, ask yourself if you are willing to risk murder; because if you support abortionwithout complete certainty thatshe is not a human life, that is what you have already risked.

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took quite a bit offlak during the past year because through unlawful search and seizure.” it Med to stand up for its students’ due-process rights.

The University’s current position with regard to such eviIt seems someone was asleep at the wheel, as the dence: “We will not ignore informationbecause some other University (through the Office ofjudicial Affairs) may now be agency obtained it illegally. Our interest as an educational institutionis education,” saidVice President for Student Affairs actively undermining those ' rights through its own poliLarry Moneta. To that end, the University has pursued judicies and practices. cial action against students on the basis of illegally obtained evidence on numerous occasions—most notably against 75 In the fell of 2005, ‘Judicial Affairs began systemstudents cited by Alcohol Law Enforcement agents in 2005 -”j*j an illegal search of a home in Trinity Park. atically initiating formal following ;fP&T And in the 2006-2007 judicial code, written the year afmm disciplinary action for all alter the lacrosse incident, a student’s right to “confront any legations of undergraduate misconduct occurring offwitness presenting information against him or her” was downgraded to a right to “rebut” witness testimony. This elliott wolf campus,” Director of Judicial Affairs Stephen Bryan allows the University to, among other things, take action Q.E.D. wrote in a 2006 memoranagainst a student on the basis of a police report without dum. Previously the Unirequiring the officer to personally corroborate the facts versity only pursued off-campus violations that constituted a of the case or be confronted by the accused. “direct or indirect threatto the University community.”

“I’ve never been summoned [to a hearing] and we don’tdo This practice was made possible by a Durham Police that I can’t tell you about any officer that has,” Gunter said.

At the very least, the University is not doing everything Department policy requiring officers to forward citations issued to students to Judicial Affairs and a similar Alcohol in its power to ensure that Duke students are afforded Law Enforcement agency policy. the same rights as every other Durham resident. At the “Duke asks us that we keep them informed.We make a worst, it is actively encouraging law-enforcement officers to violate students’ rights by providing a means to punish copy of the booking sheet and forward it to the [district] captain,” said DPD Sgt. Dale Gunter, a supervisor in the students with neither due process nor accountability.

Where we lie on that continuum depends wholly on police district surrounding East Campus.

In itself, this practice is little more than a transparent, petty the integrity of Durham law-enforcement agents, whom attempt to pacify members of the Durham community at stuUniversity officials inexplicably, and blindly, trust. dents’ expense. In conjunction with other policy changes en“Overall we have expectations that officials—be them uniacted between 2000 and 2006, however, it creates a dangerous versity, city or state—respect appropriate parameters in carryset of incentives for law-enforcement agents that undermine ing out their duties,” Bryan wrote in a March memorandum crucial, constitutionally imposed limits on their behavior. denying a Duke Student Government request to exclude illeWhen dealing with any suspect, an officer must (1) gally obtained evidence from Universityjudicial proceedings.

Last week, Bryan completely discounted students’ wellrespect his/her right against unauthorized search and seizure (Fourth Amendment), (2), collect evidence sufdocumented complaints of mistreatment by law enforceficient to prove his/her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt ment officers, arguing (circularly) in The Herald-Sun, (common law rooted in the 14th Amendment) and (3) “Given that a lot of these students are under the influence of alcohol, there’s a propensity to question whether they personally bear witness against him/her (Sixth Amendhave an accurate perception of what happened.” ment) No violations of these or myriad other constitutional protections can be used against a defendant.

“For theadministration to take the position that students The government is not allowed to break the law in the are not being mistreated, I think they have their head in the course of enforcing it, and the Constitution was carefully sand,” said Bill Thomas, a local attorney who successfully crafted to ensure that government officials have no insuppressed the evidence obtained in the illegal ALE raid. centive to do so. This is America.

He added, “Given the events of the last year and a half, Except, apparently, in the case ofDuke students. Officers one would certainly think that Duke University would know that any one of us can be punished even if they foil to have a great appreciation for due process.” afford us our most basic ofconstitutional rights. The judicial One would hope. code has never required that students be proven guilty beNext week: the coup de grace. yond a reasonable doubt, and the other two of theaforemenAll documents on which this column is based are ontioned protections were expunged from the code. line at http://www.duke.edu/~egw4/ Consistent with the fourth amendment, the 1999-2000 Elliott Wolf is a Trinity senior. His column runs every Thursday.

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