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Black, femalefaculty lacking in sciences Duke may be hit with lacrosse suit by

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As an undergraduate, former Black Student Alliance president Malik Bumett never had a black professor in his science classes.

Across campus, students like Bumett, Trinity ’O7 and a firstyear student at the Duke School of Medicine, have expressed increasing concern about the lack of women and underrepresented minorities in the science faculty.

“I believe it’s important for both African-American and non-black dents to have black professors in classroom,” Burnett said. “This w< serve to work against many miscon dons about blacks in the sciences.’

Professors and administrators echoed the importance of having m ity faculty members in the classroor “We have a diverse student poj don at Duke and it is extremely portant that students from all w; of life can find role models in t faculty,” said Dan Kiehart, chair the biology department.

Unindicted players families retained lawyer ’

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Anna Lieth

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Current and past Duke lacrosse players are looking into the possibility of a new lawsuit—this time against Duke

Exploring the diversity However, the numbers of female and minority tenured am tenure-track professors in physf chemistry and biology at Duke fal far behind the nationwide popula tion percentages of these groups and the overall percentages of SEE SCIENCE ON PAGE 7

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Washington, D.C., lawyer Charles Cooper told ABC News Wednesday that “a large majority” of current and former lacrosse players and their families have hired him to investigate the possibility of a lawsuit against Duke.

“Duke University has been in discussions with representatives of the families for many months and is happy to continue discussions with their new representatives,” John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, said in a statement. “We hope to reach a fair resolution that will allow the families and the University to move forward.”

Family members of the players told ABC News that they were disappointed in the treatment of not only the three indicted players, but also the team as a whole.

Cooper and President Richard Brodhead declined to comment.

Act could ease Transfer students adapt to Duke textbook prices by

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Congress may have an answer for college students tired of paying high prices for their textbooks each semester.

In March 2007, U.S. Sens. Richard Durbin, D-IIL, and Norm Coleman, R-Minn., introduced the College Textbook Affordability Act, a bill that would regulate the college textbook market by forcing publishers reveal wholesale prices of all

Stepping onto campus for the first time may be nerve-wracking for freshmen, but for the 27 newly arrived transfer students, coming in as upperclassmen presents a different set of challenges.

Still, transfer students said their first month at Duke has been made easy by a successful orientation program, extracurricular opportunities and students’ willingness to get to know the new faces

textbookformats and editions to professors, and “unbundled” options without priceboosting extras like CDs and DVDs. “This legislation helps students purchase more afford)le textbooks by making sure

around the University.

‘You’re coming into something late in the game, so everyone has their group of friends and the life they’ve created here—it’s going to take a little bit for you to be completely included,” said sophomore Kaidin Rogers, a transfer student who spent her first year at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. “But there’s no question this is a better fit for me. I haven’t looked back since.”

Some transfer students said the Transfer Advisory Counselor Program, which resembles the Freshman Advisory Counselor Program in

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'Jena Six'case moved to juvenilecourt

by Doug Simpson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BATON ROUGE, La. Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Wednesday that the prosecutor in one of the so-called “Jena 6” cases has decided not to challenge an appellate ruling that sends the case to juvenile court.

LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters had earlier said he would appeal the state appeals court’s decision that 17year-old Mychal Bell’s second-degree battery conviction be set aside. The court ruled thatBell could not be tried as an adult.

Blanco said she had spoken with Walters and asked him to reconsider push-

ing to keep the case in the adult courts system. She said Walters contacted her Wednesday to say he had decided not to appeal the ruling.

“I want to thank him for this decision he has made,” Blanco said.

Bell, who remains behind bars, was one of six Jena High School teens arrested after a December attack on a white student, Justin Barker. Five of the six teens initially were charged with attempted second-degree murder, though charges for four of them, including Bell, were later reduced.

One teen hasn’t been arraigned, and the case of the sixth, handled as a juvenile, is sealed.

Blanco made her announcement at a news conference with activists Martin Luther King 111 and the Rev. A1 Sharpton.

Sharpton said he hopes a bond will be set low enough to allow for Bell’s release, and he thanked Blanco for getting involved in the matter.

“I want to congratulate her for showing leadership,” Sharpton said. “And I want to congratulate the district attorney for good

judgment.”

Blanco said Walters gave her permission to announce his decision, and that he planned to discuss his decision publicly on Thursday. A phone call placed at Walters’ home went unanswered Wednesday.

Six nuns excommunicated in Ark. by

Andrew DeMillo

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Six Catholic LITTLE ROCK, Ark. nuns have been excommunicated for heresy after refusing to give up membership in a Canadian sect whose founder claims to be the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, the Diocese of Litde Rock announced

Wednesday.

The Rev. J. Gaston Hebert, the diocese administrator, said he notified the nuns Tuesday night after they refused to recant the teachings of the Community of the Lady of All Nations, also known as the

Army of Mary.

The Vatican has declared all members of the Army of Mary excommunicated.

Hebert said the excommunication was the first in the diocese’s 165-year history.

“It is a painfully historic moment for this church,” Hebert said.

The six nuns are associated with the Good Shepherd Monastery ofOur Lady of Charity and Refuge in Hot Springs. Sister Mary Theresa Dionne, one of the nuns excommunicated, said the nuns will still live at the convent property, which they own.

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for us we are doing the right thing,” the 82-year-old nun said. “We pray that the church will open their eyes before it is too late. This is God’s work through Mary, the blessed mother, and we’re doing what we’re asked to do.”

At a news conference, Hebert said the nuns “became entranced and deluded with a doctrine that is heretical.” He said church officials removed the sacraments from the monastery on Tuesday night.

Excommunication bars the nuns from participating in the church liturgy and receiving communion or other sacraments.

GM won its struggle to unload $5l billion in retiree health costs and improve competitiveness in the latest round of contract talks with the United Auto Workers, but not without a short-lived strike that wrung promises out of GM to keep jobs at U.S. plants.

Falcons QB faces prison time Michael Vick, already looking at a federal prison term for bankrolling a dogfighting operation in rural Virginia, now faces two state charges that could get him more prison time if he's convicted.

Bill O'Reilly defends remarks Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly said his critics took remarks he made about a famed Harlem restaurant out of context and "fabricated a racial controversy where none exists."He criticized Media Matters for America as "smear merchants" for publicizing statements he made on his radio show last week.

Patriot Act violates amendment Two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

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Senate debates new line policy by

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Duke Student Government representatives vigorously debated Wednesday night the proposed line policy for entering men’s basketball games in preparation for a vote on the change in the next couple weeks.

The validation process—presented by Head Line Monitor Roberto Bazzani, a senior, and junior Sunny Kantha, vice president for athletics and campus services—would require undergraduates to register online starting three days prior to each game and show up a least one hour ahead of tipoff to claim their spots.

A full senate evaluated the weaknesses of the system as well as its alternatives, some of which were proposed by juniors Barry

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DSG President Paul Slattery listens to the presentation of the new line policy.

Wright and Craig Reason —non-

members who voiced their opposition to the policy at the beginning of the meeting.

“I’m concerned that the system will cause people to validate just in case, and then have people not show up [to the game],” Wright said, adding thathe thought the system would not increase attendance to games.

Some representatives also expressed concern about how to ensure that registered students will attend the game.

Bazzani said a “courteous” email will be sent to no-show students to enforce attendance.

“The first time we’re doing it we’re going to make it as studentfriendly as possible, but punishment is definitely a possibility in the future,” Kantha added.

DSG President Paul Slattery, a senior, said concerns about a loss in student spots because offull registration were unfounded, adding thathe does not expect a rush toregister given the low attendance at past games.

“If you’re not particularly fond of this system or you’re worried about losing student seats, there is one and only one very easy solution: Get all your friends to go to the games,” he said.

Matt Drummond, head of the DukeCard office, demonstrated the online registration process and the “Validation Counter,” which counts the number of registered students who swipe into the game and displays the count online.

The new policy was drafted in response to a decrease in student attendance at basketball games over the past five years. The athletics department told DSG that a

‘Passion’ group comes to Duke

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Brett Farmiloe and fourfriends are touring the country in anRV, speaking with students and professionals to promote jobsatisfaction.

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Sara Park

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Pursue the Passion is a group offour recent University ofArizona graduates, an RV and a vision to inspire students to find careers they will love.

For a few hours Wednesday afternoon the four crew members parked their colorful vehicle in the Bryan Center parking lot and set up camping chairs outside, prepared to talk to any student willing to give them a few minutes.

Three months into their fivemonth tour, they have already interviewed approximately 135 people who are crazy about their jobs and have found away to combine their passions with their profession.

Their Web site, pursuethepassion.com, presents the interviews,

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a blog about the journey and an ebook compiled by thefounderof the group, 22-year-old Brett Farmiloe.

Farmiloe envisions FTP being “a resource for aspiring individuals to learn about life, passion and careers,” according to pursuethepassion.com.

“The coolest part is that we’re helping students exacdy how they need it,” he said.

The tour’s original idea was conceived by Farmiloe, who upon graduation in 2006 found himself in an auditing job he hated. He sent an e-mail to the vice president of Jobing.com detailing his idea for the tour. In a matter of days he had found a sponsor who gave him five times die amount of financial support he originally requested and even an RV to re-

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Farmiloe set out for the road with his crew and interviewed a wide variety ofpeople with interesting jobs, including a Playboy playmate, the Chicago Cubs’ in-house organist and Sea World’s killer whale trainer. Over the course of the tour, the group has learned the importance of networking and established a wide web of contacts who have recommended other people to interview.

In addition to performing interviews, they visit college campuses to find out what students want to know and what kind of questions the group should be asking in interviews with happy professionals.

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grouping new students with older mentors who have had similar experiences, helped to form a tighdy knit group of transfers as soon as they arrived.

The smaller size of the TAG Program gives it the flexibility to schedule year-round events —such as weekly dinners and off-campus outings—that help transfer students get acclimated and connected to the larger community, said TAG Chair Jeff Schwane, a senior.

Although some transfer students agreed that the TAG Program provides new upperclassmen with a valuable welcome to die University, some also said the program is too focused on grouping transfers together, rather than on helping them to assimilate.

“The orientation was focused less on getting integrated in the Duke community as forming a transfer community that you could go back to,” said Elizabeth Hoyle, a junior who transferred from Harvard University.

Rogers said transfer students would remain excluded from the student body if they relied solely on TAG events to help them adjust, adding that she met many non-transfer students through friends from high school who were already attending Duke.

“Hands down, you’re at an advantage if you know people,” she said.

Some transfer students, however, said the nature of the program—which begins during orientation, before most upperclassmen arrive on campus—makes it difficult to include non-transfer students in events.

Although some transfer students remain close throughout the year, many make connections with other students through social events and extracurricular activities, Schwane said.

“Usually toward the beginning of the year, the transfer students are still really close with one another,” he said.

“As time progresses, they become more and more integrated toward Duke as a whole.”

Some transfer students said their living arrangements in which they are randomly assigned to dorms throughout West and Central campuses—can be isolating at first. But sophomore Sean Johnson said dormitory life has allowed him to meet non-transfers who live in the same area.

Clay Adams, program coordinator for New Student and Family Programs, said organizing a residential block of transfers might prevent them from interacting with other students.

“The reality is that there’s a lot of strength in actually having them integrated throughout the entire community,” he said.

And after dissatisfying experiences at their previous institutions, transfers at Duke can be more grateful for the University’s charms than the average student, said sophomore Mariel Beaumont, who came to Duke from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. “We can appreciate things about Duke that other people can’t,” she said.

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Brain study affirms malleability, utility by

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Organic chemistry students complaining they cannot cram

any more information into their beleaguered brains may have to think up a different excuse.

A recent study—conducted by researchers at Duke University Medical Center in conjunction with scientists at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill—has further demonstrated the efficiency of the brain in maintaining old information while remaining malleable and able to store new knowledge.

Dr. Michael Ehlers, an associate professor of neurobiology at DUMC and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, led the research team that explored new questions, contributing to a growing understanding ofhow the brain learns and stores memories.

Ehler said that previous investigations in neurobiology established a connection between the efficacy of memory and the number of receptors found among neurons in the brain.

Associate Professor MichaelEhlers studied the memory power of human brains.

The receptors catch the neurotransmitters sent from neuron to neuron across the synapse. These vital receptors, however, can sometimes escape from their designated synapses.

Ehler and his colleagues examined what precisely happens to these rogue receptors.

The team discovered specific molecules in the brain capture loose receptors and transfer them to a “recycling center” on the dendritic spines of the neurons. There, they are restored to working order and then returned to the synapse where they resume their role in the neurotransmission process.

“Certain connections between cells are activated by certain memories,” Ehler said. “Depending on the number of receptors between cells, a memory can be easier to recall and activate.”

He added that a malfunction in this system may be associated with certain neurological disorders ranging from autism to dementia.

“We find that the recycling of receptors is abnormal in Alzheimer’s patients in the very early stages,” Ehler said. “Before any gross pathological change, we see these subtle defects.”

In addition to possible medical benefits, Ehler said his focus on memory is a subject of importance to the general public.

“Everyone has had the experience of not being able to remember a name,” he said.

Ehler added that the complicated network of neurons and receptors regulates daily life.

“All common, everyday experiences arise from these much more basic microscopic cellular events,” he said. “This is what makes neurobiology so fascinating.”

Research

on odor receptors led

by Duke scientists has generated much interest in the blogosphere.

Here’s a sample of what people have been saying in response to the findings;

"That's all fine and good (yay geneticists!).

But what I'd like to know is how on earth this evolved in the first place. I mean how is it that associating manly man smells like androstenone with piss is an evolutionarily winning strategy? How does that increase your survival orreproductive success?? Really."

—The Inky Circus "I, for one, look forward to the day when

1 can pop one of Dr. Matsunami's odor pills

and walk through the gym locker room without gagging."

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"Androstenone is used by some mammals convey social and sexual information so if you know a girl who doesn't like the way you smell, it may be genetic variations in a single odorant receptor called OR7D4-“-don't take it personally, it's in her genes."

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A member of the faculty-in-residence program and a studentrelax in a dorm—the type ofout-of-classinteraction HOPE aims to boost.

Meals to link faculty, students by

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Students now have a new mechanism for approaching their professors outside of the classroom —other than sending them the awkward late-night e-mails.

Officially launched last week, the Honoring Our Professors Engagement program was created

by Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residential life, in an effort to encourage a stronger connection between students and faculty through sit-down meals.

“Ideally, it would be more than just an interesting conversation over a meal,” Gonzalezsaid. “A faculty member involved in research might give a student awareness of a research opportunity they never had, and they might then follow up with that faculty member and say, ‘You know, you mentioned this research you do.’”

Faculty had previously expressed

interest in participating in hall-readded that he hopes to face the lated activities but were struggling challenge of a funding shortage to do so since they do not have the for the project by demonstrating same connections as someone actuhigh levels ofinterest to elicit further funds. ally living there, he said.

Gonzalez added that HOPE Resident assistants may choose will help strengthen connections to host as many meals with faculty that already exist between stumembers and students as they dents and faculty and use those like. The meals, however, must relationships to give students the take place at a location on camchance to meet faculty they never pus, excluding the Washington met before.

Duke Inn. Resident assistants can invite “I think it’s a critical part of the faculty members to breakfast, Duke undergraduate experience, lunch or dinner with a group of that every student should be forgsix students or fewer at no cost to ing what I’ll refer to as a special either party. The meals are comrelation with a faculty member,” pensated by prepaid cards, which Gonzalez said. “And I guess the are funded by Residence Life way I’d define that is that you and Housing Services, that the have no hesitation to ask that facresident assistants must check out ulty member to be a reference for prior to the gathering. you, that you’re that comfortable Although no requests have with them and that they know you been made yet, Gonzalez said he that well that making that request hopes applications for meal cards SEE HOPE ON PAGE 8 will begin trickling in soon. He

‘Stop, hey, whats that bloggers ask smell? ’

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Lisa Du

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When a team of Duke researchers unveiled a study that showed the smell of sweaty men can actually range from stinky urine to they didn’t anticipate the media attention that followed.

“I think it is a very relatable phenomenon that we studied,” Andreas Keller —a postgraduate fellow at The Rockefeller University in New York City who contributed to the study—wrote in an e-mail. “When I talk to people about our project they very often find it easy to relate to and have some story.”

Led by Hiroaki Matsunami, an assistant professor of molecular genetics and microbiology at Duke University Medical Center, the researchers published the finding on Nature magazine’s Web site Sept. 16 and in its Sept. 27 issue. The study reported that the human perception of androstenone, a steroid found in male sweat and urine, varies by huge degrees depending on the genes of the odor receptor OR7D4.

“This is the first finding that any human odor receptor is associated with an actual sense of smell,” Matsunami said.

The team started by exposing the receptors to various chemicals and studying the ensuing reactions, he said. OR7D4 responded to androstenone and caught researchers’ eyes, he added.

When Matsunami presented his findings at a conference in 2005, he was approached by Leslie Vosshall, an associate professor of neurogenetics and behavior at Rockefeller, for a collaboration.

Matsunami said Vosshall’s team had rounded up 400 NewYorkers and were studying how they reacted to different odors.

“They sent the genomic DNA [of the test subjects] to us, and we knew which receptor to look for,” he said. “So we actually amplified that receptor gene and sequenced it, then found out that there are different variants of this gene.”

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Duke still seeks stand-in for clean bus biodiesel by

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DUU officers Lauren Maisel, Katelyn Donnelly and Rob Carlson lead the group's general body meetingWednesday.

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At Duke University Union’s first general body meeting, members introduced the organization to the approximately 20 students—mostlyfreshmen—present and held discussions regarding programing ideas.

“It was a great brainstorming session to generate new ideas and also receive outside feedback on programs under consideration,” DUU President Katelyn Donnelly, a senior, told The Chronicle after the meeting.

DUU officers came into the meeting with 13 programming ideas to be discussed, including new venue performances, keggerskating—an activity that combines kegs and rollerskating —creation of a microbrewery, visual art spaces and social-cause parties.

Among the more popular ideas with students were “Amazing Race,” the microbrewery and hookah bars.

One student said DUU should host social-cause marches as well as social-cause parties, because the marches help raise awareness about serious issues.

Other new ideas students suggested were speed dating, school-wide beer pong tournaments and “Taste of Duke,” a cultural food fair.

Freshman Chris Venters, a participant in DUU’s Freshmen Intern Program, said he came away with a good impression of

the Union “I just wanted to get a more broader view about what the programs of the DUU were like,” he said. Venters added that he liked the ideas raised and was willing to participate in the programs.

In future meetings, Donnelly said she hopes students will continue to generate excitement and involvement in the arts on campus.

DUU officers also encouraged students to be active and take charge in making their ideas into real programs, even if the ideas are not fully thought-out. As long as students generate ideas, officers said they are willing to help them actualize the idea into a program.

“All students are technically in this organization if they want to be in it,” said junior Rob Carlson, DUU vice president of internal affairs.

Carlson and the officers added that the application process to become a member of the Union is easy and is only used to understand people’s strengths and interests.

The officers began the meeting by introducing DUU —with 14 existing committees—as the largest student-run organization on campus, with focuses on activity programming, positive impacts on campus social and intellectual culture and allowing members to gain experience in administrative work.

University officials have made repeated efforts in recent years to ensure that Duke facilities are environmentally sustainable, but on at least one front, progress has not only stalled but slid backward.

Following significant maintenance issues, the use of clean-burning biodiesel, which is made from renewable resources such as soybeans or corn, for buses was discontinued by Duke Parking and Transportation Services in February, and efforts to return to cleaner fuels have still not gained traction.

Biodiesel was replaced by ultra-low sulfur diesel, which has proved to be problem-free so far, Chuck Catotti, interim director of Parking and Transportation Services, wrote in an e-mail. He noted that the University is still endeavoring to return to more environmentally friendly fuels.

“Duke Transit is currendy reviewing options for the future. We are in discussions with a new supplier ofbiodiesel and plan to conduct tests with some of our buses later this year,” he said. “Development ofalternatives is an ongoing process and Duke Transit is committed to helping make these changes.”

Duke began to use 20-percent mixture biodiesel fuel on its entire bus system by April 2004. The fuel, however, tended to gel up, clogging fuel filters and tanks during the winter, Catotti said, noting that by 2006, Duke made the decision to switch to 5-percent biodiesel.

When problems recurred in early 2007, Duke chose to discontinue biodiesel altogether and switch to ULSD, a diesel with lower sulfur emissions than standard diesel, he added.

In addition to searching for local biodiesel suppliers, Duke has also looked into the option of hybrid buses and placed an order for two “clean-diesel” buses, which are set to arrive in 2008, for the Robertson Scholars route, he added.

Environmental Sustainability Coordinator Tavey McDaniel said Duke has been working hard to find solutions.

“Regarding the environmental effects, I dothink it is important to put this in context with the way the entire campus behaves,”

she said. McDaniel noted that the Duke bus fleet is only a small part of transportation’s environmental impact at Duke, as students and employees can choose to drive, walk or bike to and around campus.

Although some students said they do not really consider the change in fuel to be significant, others said they are disappointed that biodiesel was dropped.

“Though it is understandable that the University discontinued its use of biodiesel in school vehicles, we do not feel that this was the only solution to the problem,” Chelsea Conover, program coordinator of the Duke University Greening Initiative and a second-year student in the masters program in environmental management, wrote in an e-mail. “When climate change groups and environmental groups talk about green campuses, our biodiesel buses are frequently mentioned.”

She added that although the discontinuation of biodiesel was “unfortunate,” DUGI has no plans to press the administration for a return to the fuels.

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Of the two variants, or alleles, one was determined to be more common than the other, the study showed. People with two copies of the more common allele perceived androstenone as having a strong odor, but those with one common allele reported androstenone as odorless.

Those with two of the less common allele, however, reported androstenone as having a sweet odor like vanilla.

Researchers connected to the study have also been receiving e-mails from people around the world thanking them for doing the study and revealing personal secrets about their attraction to bodily smells, said Hanyi Zhuang, a graduate student in Matsunami’s lab.

“They actually want to know if there is a genetic basis to that and if it’s related to our study,” Zhuang said.

For example, one e-mail from an anonymous female revealed that she was aroused by the smell ofmale sweat, Matsunami said.

The researchers said studies concerning OR7D4 will continue. Matsunami said his team wants to study the role of the receptor in human evolution. The receptor is also now being studied in various primates like chimpanzees and orangutans.

“We are planning follow-up studies in which we ask if the physiological effects of sniffing the related steroidal odor, androstadienone, correlate with variation in 0R7D4,” Vosshall wrote in an e-mail.

to increase attendance was its only option if it wanted to keep all 1,200 seats in Cameron Indoor Stadium reserved for undergraduates, Slattery said.

“I think the registration policy is the best-case scenario for what could have come out of the demands that the athletics department placed upon us,” Slattery told The Chronicle. “Ultimately, if students don’t like the new registration system or it’s going back to the old [Krzyzewskiville], the best solution is to fill Cameron every time so that the registration system becomes irrelevant, at which point it’s very easy for us to go to the athletics department and say, ‘Why are you bothering us?”’

Wright and Reason proposed allowing one person to swipe in for three people —instead of only two—at games, but Kantha and Bazzani said they did not think this would improve attendance.

Another alternative senators discussed was the creation of a waidist for validation.

“Waidisting [is] something we might consider adding in future periods, but right now we want to present as simple a system as possible so that people don’t get bogged down in the details,” Kantha told The Chronicle.

After the meeting, Reeson told The Chronicle he still opposed the policy but understood why it is DSG’s only option.

“I don’t think this is going to raise attendance, but at least it’ll get the athletics department off their back for a while,” he said.

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Two newly selected at-large senators are sworn in at Duke Student Government's weekly senate session Wednesday night.

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probably very good or better in comparison to most other colleges,” Kiehart said.

“Fifteen years ago, before I came to Duke,

those faculty in the Trinity College of Arts I was at Harvard and the numbers didn’t and Sciences. even come close to comparing.”

Kiehart added that at lower levels of acaAccording to the Faculty Diversity Initiative Update, published by the Office of the demia—graduate students and introductoProvost, in 2006, 30 percent of the Arts and ry professorships —there are approximateSciences faculty were female and 6.3 perly the same number of males and females, cent were black. but looking at the tenured professors, that Of the 32 tenured or tenure-track facratio skews more toward males.

“When you look at a stable scientific ulty in the physics department, only four professors, or 12.5 percent, are female and faculty, there’s only a quarter women,” he one is black, Physics Department Chair said. “And that’s a problem.”

Daniel Gauthier Althoui :h the wrote in an e-mail tion offemales in biology “I would give us ‘"When you look at a stable are still far below that of a grade [on diverthe population average, scientific faculty, there’s sity] of fair to good,” professors stressed that he said. “Our deonly a quarter women. there is equality among are far mographics the males and females in And that’s a problem” from that of the genthe department. eral U.S. population, Heather Stapleton, Dan Kiehart, biology which is not good, assistant professor of but our diversity is environmental science, better than many other physics departsaid she went through college and graduate ments around the country.” school in environmental chemistry hearing Likewise, the chemistry department stories of inequality and prejudice against also lags behind in the number offemales women in academia, but said she has not and minorities, with only 10 percent of seen this bias at Duke.

“From my experience, I feel like it is regular-rank faculty being women, Warren Warren, chair of the chemistry dedefinitely equivalent between males and partment, wrote in an e-mail. In addition, females here,” she said. “I think at my curthere are no black faculty members in rent level, most of my colleagues that are female are very successful and doing well.” chemistry at Duke.

“There are a variety of reasons for this lower fracdon, most of which trace back to perAdministrative response sonal choice,” Warren said, adding that the Although the science faculty is lacking number of female applicants for most junior in the number of females and blacks, administrators said they are working to corfaculty posidons in chemistry is very small.

The graduate program in chemistry, rect the imbalance. however, is almost evenly split between Chairs of the biology, chemistry and males and females, and all recitadon teachphysics departments all said they have ing assistants for general chemistry are feimplemented programs to recruit more dimale, he said. verse faculty members.

In addidon, Warren said there is one When a position within the biology deminority, a female Hispanic student, in his partment opens, Kiehart said he notifies own research group. prominent minority scientists at different In contrast to the physics and chemistry universities so they might refer other qualidepartments, the biology department has a fied minority applicants. higher proportion of females. However, it still “We will always try to change the numfalls behind in the percentage of minorities. ber of minorities,” he said. “We feel that we Out of 41 tenure-track or tenured faculcan do better.”

In addition, the University is working to enty in the biology department, 12 professors, or 29 percent, are female, one is black and hance minority recruitmentand hiring efforts one is Hispanic, Kiehart said. as away to increase the numbers of underrep“My feeling is that these statistics are resented groups in the faculty, Dr. Nancy Al-

len, professor ofmedicine and vice provost for faculty diversity, wrote in an e-mail.

The Office of the Provost and the department chairs are enhancing career flexibility policies such as parental leave and tenure clock relief to help women.

They have also begun a minority mentoring program and new diversity Web site, Looney added.

“The University has worked hard toward change,” she said. “No, there are not enough minorities in the sciences.

But we’re working on it. Eventually, we’ll see a change.”

Many of the science departments implemented a program in 1996 to recruit minority students from around the country and expose them to the sciences, said Jacqueline Looney, senior associate dean for graduate programs and associate vice provost for academic diversity.

“The program is designed to attract students of color into the sciences in hopes that they will pursue a career in academia,” she said. “We are adding to the national pool of scholars which may in turn help us hire more colored faculty.”

But current efforts to attract more mi-

nority and women candidates in the sciences falls short of some students’ expectations.

“I definitelyfeel that Duke, as a top-level institution, can do more to recruit African American and women faculty in the sciences,” Burnett said. “It is, however, a nationwide problem that needs to be addressed.”

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they have complete information about course requirements and enabling them to purchase what they need without costly supplemental

materials,” Coleman said in a statement “It will also help educators make informed choices about less costly textbook options.”

Several states, including California, Arizona and Tennessee, are either in the process of passing similar legislation or have already done so. Legislators in North Carolina, for their part, have given the 16 institutions in the University ofNorth Carolina system until January to either set up a textbook rental system or create a system to buy back the books of large entry-level classes.

Increasing tags at the register are being felt at Duke, too. “[Textbook prices] seem to be spiraling out of control,” said Bob Walker, general manager of book operations at Duke. “It used to be maybe one increase a year. Now, it seems to increase more than once a year for the same tide. Unfortunately, it has to get passed on to the retail price.”

According to a 2005 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on the price of textbooks, prices are increasing more rapidly than those ofother U.S. goods.

“In the last two decades, college textbook prices have increased at twice the rate of inflation,” the report read. “Increasing at an aver-

age of 6 percent per year, textbook prices nearly tripled from December 1986 to December 2004, while tuition and fees increased by 240 percent and overall inflation was 72 percent.”

A 2006-2007 College Board survey found the average annual price of college textbooks at a four-year public school to be $942.

Though Duke does not offer a figure on the average cost of textbooks per student, the Office of Financial Aid budgets $1,050 for books per student each year, said Financial Aid Assistant Lisa McClain.

“What publishers tell us as an industry... is that it’s all the technology components they’ve had to invest in,” Walker said. “It’s not just a book anymore.”

Walker said though the bill is a step in the right direction, he is unsure if it will perform as expected. He added that if faculty members adopted a standard edition of textbooks for a set number ofyears, student book buybacks could be maximized.

“I don’t think the act in itself is going to do a lot,” he said. “But I think it will help. A lot ofit too will be the same old things.”

Charles Clotfelter, Z. Smith Reynolds professor of public policy studies and a specialist in higher education and education finance, said he also has reservations about the bill.

“Transparency and devices to unbundle would both be good,” he said. “How much effect they’ll have [on prices], I don’t know.”

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“Actually, it’s kind of sad because what we’ve discovered is that students don’t know what they want or need to know,” said Noah Pollock, one of the members of the crew and a 2007 Arizona graduate.

Farmiloe also said students were clueless about what to do after graduation.

“It’s okay, because we are, too,” he said.

“That’s why we’re doing this.”

Although theother crew members are not sure of their long-term plans with the tour, Farmiloe said he sees a future for PTP and is passionate enough to make it his career.

ing his passion a part ofhis career.

Their Web site states that half the American work force is not satisfied with their job and only a fifth apply a passion toward their career.

“Passion can be anywhere. It’s whatyou make of it,” Pollock said. “I’ve learned on this tour that what some people consider a boring job can be a job someone else absolutely 10ve5.... Passion is just a deeply personal thing and requires a certain honesty with yourself.”

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maybe learn more about internships or job openings in the future,” said fresh-

man Krystina Wallis. is not cause for stress.”

The concept of the program originated Gonzalez said he hopes by the end of from the HOPE Banquet, a similar effort their Duke career, students will have a spetwo years ago where resident assistants had cial connection with a faculty member as a the opportunity to invite faculty members result of the introductory meal sponsored who had had a significant impact on their

by HOPE. He added that he foresees lives to a banquet with other student-faculmore significant relationships forming, ty pairs to thank the faculty for their work allowing students to discover research op- and dedication, Gonzalez said. portunities they never would have heard of or a discipline that makes them think more about the academic opportunities they wish to pursue.

“I think it has the potential to change the culture to some degree if it is utilized at a high level,” Gonzalez said. “I feel like for some students, especially when they first arrive, connecting to faculty isn’t necessarily something they know how to do easily.”

Sophomore Michael Worsman, a resident assistant in Jarvis Residence Hall, said he feels the same way.

“I think it’s a really awesome program and a great opportunity for students to get to know their professors better,” he said. “Even faculty members that aren’t necessarily professors of a particular student are very important links on campus and crucial to helping students finding great careers.”

After hearing about HOPE, a few students said they are interested in being a part of the program.

“I’m really excited to participate in MAYA ROBINSON/THE CHRONICLE it because it’s a fantastic opportunity to integrate the students and faculty and Associate Dean Joe Gonzalez based the new HOPE help us get to know the faculty better and program on a banquet held two years ago.

A new law may serve to slow therise of prices of academic textbooks at outlets like Duke's Textbook Store.

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Revamped Coffeehouse offers escape by

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The Nasher Musuem of Art's Nasheßevolution, a response to Dan and Lia Perjovschi's States ofMind exhibit, builds upon last semester's Nasher Noir.

The Nasheßevolution won’t be televised

It’s essential for any hard-working Duke student to find a place to study when your room becomes just a hide too stifling. Maybe your roommate wants some time with their boy/girlfriend or youjust can’t stand the smell of your laundry anymore, but, for whatever reason, you have to find a personal safe haven.

Most students will go to Perkins, Bostock or the Bryan Center, but rarely will a student venture out to the Duke Coffeehouse to study. The Coffeehouse, located in the Crowell building on East Campus behind Wilson Dormitory, is known to students as a place where bands come and play, but as a place of study, its reputation is almost nonexistent.

In past years, the Coffeehouse was run by SHARE, a selective-living group currently located in Edens Quadrangle. In 2005 it was closed down and then reopened as a Duke University Union program. Since the reopening, the Coffeehouse, which is run and managed by students, has sought to establish itself as a popular venue, where students can study or socialize.

Joe Clark, director of the Coffeehouse and Chronicle SEE COFFEEHOUSE ON PAGE 6

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following the 1989 Romanian Revolution, leading Sarah

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In the words of the famous revolutionary Vin Vfor Vendetta, “A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having!”

With their own rug-cutting title, the Nasher Museum of Art will host their own mini-revolution with Nasheßevolution today from 9 p.m. to midnight. The soiree is in response to Washer’s latest exhibit, States of Mind by Dan and Lia Peijovschi.

Bom in 1961, and educated in the Romanian socialist system, Dan and Lia Peijovschi ‘s work resides at the nexus of art, society and politics. Dan is internationally renowned for large and small-scale drawing installations of hundreds of cartoon-like figures that comment on local, national and international cultural and current affairs.

Lia is well known for her performance and conceptual art. The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, videos, installations and conceptual art from 1986 to the present.

Both artists belong to the first avant-garde movement

Ball, co-chair of the Nasher Student Advisory Board and Towerview editor, to pick revolution as the theme. “We are thinking of red and black colors to represent revolution,” Ball said.

The States ofMind gallery will be open to the public for the Nasheßevolution. Ball hopes that the event will have a huge turnout to both showcase the exhibit and establish the Nasher Museum as a gathering place. The party is one of the two annual parties—one each semester —that the Nasher throws with its museum funds.

Each party tries to pick a theme based on the featured exhibit. The Nasheßevolution will offer hors d’oeuvres, desserts, a cash bar, live jazz music from the Peter Lamb/ Paul Rogers quartet and music by student band Smooch and the Big Hug. Washer’s previous events have built up a reputation among students.

“I think that many students are looking forward to the RACHEL

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The Duke Coffeehouse hosts concerts and Open Mic Nights.

Animal Collective’s Avey Tare to capture Cat’s Cradle by

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New York City experimental quartet Animal Collective has ripped apart and stitched back together the concept ofmodem pop music, recess recently sat down with Dave Partner, aka Avey Tare, to talk about the release of their new album, Strawberry Jam and

COURTESY ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

Animal Collective will appear at Cat's Cradle in Carrboro tonight

their U.S. tour.

Cat’s Cradle is a relatively small venue. Do you like playing small clubs or does the audience react better to the music at a bigger location?

I think the set that we’re playing right now, which is more electronic is a little tougher because we use these six speakers behind us just so we can monitor ourselves.

I think just because of the setup and the way some of the sounds are it’s been going well at a bigger venue, about 1000 capacity or so. But it’s really fun to play more intimate shows. Sometimes we end up at smaller clubs and are still able to get a connectionwith the crowd, and sometimes really big shows can still seem awkward, in terms of trying to reach everybody, but it usually works out these days.

So where does the name Avey Tare and all of the other

nicknames come from?

Ah yeah, it’s just something that we adapted to when we were younger cause we didn’t really have any set name growing up. High school and college is really where the names came from. We just thought we would use the individual names that we recorded and worked with each other under and never really have a band name. So one by one we started making music and calling ourselves by the nicknames. And my name. Avey Tare, is my name Dave, Davey without the D and Tare, like you tear your name apart. I just came up with it, outside, once in high school and thought it would work for what we were doing.

What’s the evolution been like from album to album?

The contrasts between earlier albums like Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’re Vanished to Strawberry Jam are pretty stark. How do you get to-that point?

I think it’s just taking into consideration where we are at a certain time and a conscious decision to move to a different location when we record each record, but I think SEE AVEY TARE ON PAGE 5

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Editor’s Note 6: Rap Rainbow Columbia University President Lee Bollinger is under fire by some—and praise by others—for his strident introduction ofIranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. However harsh his words, they do not match the vitriolic first draft, which recess has uncovered.

Ladies, gendemen, unpatriotic hooligans and you riff-raff from NYU, I am here today to introduce the most evil man on the planet since Hider and Stalin’s secret love child.

I heard Ahr madinejad is so stupid that he thinks Iran is the first word in the dde to a Flock of Seagulls song. A litde past your dme, eh? Tough crowd... tough crowd

Ahmadinejad is

responsible

Steve Irwin, Jim Henson, Marcel Marceau and coundess numbers of Calico kittens. That is right kittens.

This was the man who got Michael Wick hooked on to dog fighting. He recently forced OJ. to break away from his

clean and sober life. He convinced Flavor Flav to do Flavor ofLove 3.

Pure, unadultered evil I tell you.

And the smell! Oh God, the smell!

I can smell him here on stage and he hasn’t even left the dressing room yet.

He smells like bitter, hypocritical old-man sweat.

Sony, that’s just me.

How about thatname? Ahmadinejad? I don’t even want to get started there.

He might as well been named Mister Mxyzptlk.

You are in America, buddy. How about changing it to Anderson?

There’s something about human rights violations, but I’m

busy being distracted by the

too

man’s clothes.

Hello?

Steve Carell from the 40 Year Old Virgin his outfit back. Hi-

called. He wants yooo!

With that said, it is my distinct honor to present the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

—VaranLeila

A story that slipped the front-page headlines earlier this month, amidst Alberto Gonzales’ retirement and Britney Spears’ return, was the outrage—mostly media manufactured—over a little song called “Read a Book.”

The cartoon video, created by BET with Bomani “D’mite” Armah’s song, is a parody of everything wrong with modem rap culture.

The beat and lyrical flow is purposely simplistic, a “homage” to the crunk and snap music that made Nas declare the death of hip-hop. We are all guilty of tapping out feet to “Get Low.” Heck, most of us have pointed to both the window and the wall on Lil Jon’s command.

The content is friendly and innocuous.

D’mite encourages listeners to read books, raise their kids, drink water and more universally agreeable advice. Arguably, the advice plays into negative neo-gangster stereotypes ofblack Americans, but Armah argues that it is aimed at the way the rap industry creates and cultivates such stereotypes.

Although the advice the lyrics provide is family-friendly, the verses are littered with a consortium of curses, another trademark of the Crunk genre Armah mocks. Combine that with a video with animated hos and chrome-obsessed homies, and you have a satire worthy ofSwift.

Apparently, parents are outraged that such lyrically explicit (although censored) videos are available to children on BET in the afternoon. And because it is animated, it is clearly aimed at kids (insert my obviously witty response here).

I don’t have time to rant about at how ridiculous this “outrage” is. Attacking someone who tells the truth is away for any community to avoid problems.

XL had children sing chorus parts in “Rubberband Man” (use Urban Dictionary) and he gets Duke money. Armah tries to enlighten and gets slammed by CNN. It’s frustrating enough to make anyone want to quit TV. and “read am— f—ing book.”

—Varun Leila, Editor

Things we'd start a Revolution over: Varun Leila Alex Warr Baishi Wu Irem Mertol Bryan Zupon Bryan Sayler..

Janet Wu Nancy Wang...

Lucie Zhang..

David Graham

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Bees!

Who is Lauren Jones? lnability to rid myself of recess

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Co-star, directors of The HeavtbimkKid spill on Stiller, scenes Ever since his breakout performance on

Comedy Central Presents in 2002, edgy

you’re inevitably going to make a movie

that doesn’t make that much money and then you’ll go through the doldrums and then you’ll come back up and have a resurgence and then it’s all up to your choices and whatnot. But what I’d love to get on that roller coaster ride to be honest with you, This acceptance to getting in this movie was my hope that it’s the beginning of thatroller coaster ride, notjust something that I did for fun, one time here or there.

I would probably stop doing the TV show in a couple ofyears, maybe three or four, and completely put myself into the movie stuff if that is how the career dictates it.

I would love that because it is different and it’s fun and it’s fresh and it’s a place that I can see different work that I can’t do while doing stand-up or while doing my TV show.

What was it like being behind the scenes with the Farrelly brothers?

It was so fun. I mean, we’re playing poker, we’re playing liar’s poker with dollar bills and stuff. We’re laughing our asses off at stuff. We’re talking about anything and everything crazy. But believe it or not, you’re talking about people that take their job very seriously on the other hand.

comedian Carlos Mencia has seen his career undergo a meteoric rise. Mencia is the host of his own show on Comedy Central and plays the shady Uncle Tito in the soon to bereleased The Heartbreak Kid, alongside Ben Stiller.

Have you ever worked with Ben Stiller and how was it?

I’m going to be honest with you, actually working with him and being across from him and reacting to him and acting with him, he’s amazing. He is such a giving actor. And what I mean by that is, the best acting is reacting. It’s lines. And as an example, if somebody wants you to flinch and they flinch a little bit, you’ve got to react.

You’ve got to pretend to be flinching because you’re not really scared. But if somebody actually throws a punch at you, even if they don’t connect, you’re going to flinch, that’s kind of what acting is all about. And he is just unbelievably astute at being able to deliver that, which makes your character react better and his character react better.

Are you going to try to keep with the transitionfrom comic to actor?

I would love to do that. I would love to attempt to do that. The one thing that—look, I understand one thing and this is it. What I would like to be in three or five years from now, what I’d like to be where some of the comedian guys, comedic actors that have gone before me, we’re aghast.

I mean, the way I look at it, one of my favorite people growing up was Robin Williams and he did stand-up, then he did more acting and then he moves on to movies and he still does stand-up here and there because what you really need in any career, but especially movies is to make good products and to make a movie where you’re a star, you’re the lead character that makes money, at least once or twice in the beginning of your career. And then after that you’re SPECIAL TO RECES! irlos Mencia plays Uncle Tito in The HeartbreakKid. inevitably going to make a movie,

Directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly, responferent girl, but he leaves a girl who is really siblefor bringing us such masterpieces as Dumb not very attractive for drop-dead gorgeous and Dumber and There’s Something bombshell. And we thought, well, what if About Mary, have once again teamed up for the first girl, what if—in today’s story —he The Heartbreak Kid— a remake of the 1972 goes now with a gorgeous woman and he comedy about a man who experiences a conflict ends up meeting a girl who is a much better of love with two women. The Farrelly brothers fit for him emotionally with more ground recently answered questions about working with and cool. So that was a major change we Ben Stiller and remaking a classic. made.

Has Ben Stiller changed since the last You’ve worked with really funny actors time you worked with him? in the past such as Ben Stiller, Jim Carrey, Peter Farrelly: He has changed, but GregKinnear and Jack Black. Say you were it’s all good, you know, now he’s become doing a movie right now, which funny actor a—this is Peter talking by the way—he’s that you haven’t had a chance to work with become a huge worldwide conglomerate would you choose? since we last worked with him. Last time BF; Go on. You know, I got to think he was an actor. And now he’s everything. that— I’m drawing a blank. Sorry, guys, but But, and he’s more hands-on, but he makes Borat, what’s his name? it better. The guy’s instincts are so right on PF: Sacha Baron Cohen. that it was like having a third director to be BF; Yes, Sacha Baron Cohen. He’s a guy honest, but it was great. that I wouldn’t kick out of one of our movWhose idea it was to do the remake? ies. That’s for sure.

How do you approach that differently from PF: Yeah. I’d also like to work with Vince films you write yourself?

Vaughn. I just think Vince Vaughn, we could Bobby Farrelly; Now, we really thought do something really great with him. the original Heartbreak Kid, it was a Neil Simon movie directed by Elaine May. It was one of the movies that really had affected us. And it was, but we considered it a classic. So we were very reluctant to get involve with redoing a classic. But after showing it to some friends and looking at it, we thought, we started realizing that we probably couldn’t redo the original shot-for-shot today just because the society has changed.

We got the thinking about how you would redo it. And the main difference we, the main change we made in the original is that in the original, he goes on in honeySPEC!ALTO RECESS moon and falls for a dif- Farrelly Brothers, Peter and Bobby, directed There's Somethingabout Mary.

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lion’s GATE ����� GoodLuck Chuck is the cinematic equivalent of standing in front of an automated pitching machine. It’s a generally painful

experience.

Of course in this case, instead of being pummeled by tiny leather projectiles, you and your long-term memory have to cope with three-boobed girls, grapefruit masturbation scenes and corpulent (I mean ludicrously, man-eating corpulent) women doing the dirty, dirty.

Would-be funny man Dane Cook plays Chuck, a scruffy-handsome dentist whose member-down-under has the power to grant women instant marriage and happiness—with another man. Adding to the general misery is Cook’s inability to portray a regular human being. When he’s not mimicking some sort of predatory animal or gesticulating wildly, he’s sputtering love-sick philosophies that should have been left to rot on a Lifetime special’s editing floor. Combine a sex-crazed, stock side-kick Stu (Dan Fogler) —with his expansive vocabulary of genitalia-related slang—with twenty split screens of

Cook illustrating the Kama Sutra and any shred of decency you had left is blown into oblivion.

Jessica Alba as Cam, the klutz love interest who Cook refuses to lose to the curse, is as sunny, gorgeous and bland as ever. And for all you fellows out there still reflecting on the benefits of a three-boobed girl, the only person in the film who doesn’t get naked and raunchy is the only one you paid to see get naked and raunchy.

Somewhere in the midst of this slapstick soft pom are the microscopic threads of a plot with substance, tackling penguin research in Antarctica, box allegories, and the message that what is most vital in life is allowing yourself to be vulnerable in order to have a long-lasting relationship built on trust and acceptance.

Unfortunately, the closest Chuck comes to accomplishing this is having Dane Cook dressed as a penguin, popping out of a box to deliver a surprise message via Beyonce song.

It’s not that raunchy comedy makes for a bad film. But without the coming-of-age charm of Superbad or the bawdy wise-guy originality of The Wedding Crashers, Good Luck Chuck is just another catastrophe waiting to be shelved.

—Janet Wu

Writer-director-actor Julie Delpy’s 2 Days in Paris uses every convention of the American-couple-visits-Europe brand ofromantic comedy—mostly hating on the French. It’s a formula that might make for a perfectly enjoyable and perfecdy forgettable film.

Delpy’s sharp humor, however, lifts the film above any cliches of the genre.

Delpy (Before Sunset) plays Marion, a Parisian-tumed-New Yorker on a European vacation with anti-French boyfriend Jack {Entourage’s Adam Goldberg). Marion drags Jack through the twisted world of her sexually liberal parents, deranged sister and former flames in a French-i-fied version of Meet the Parents. The trip is meant to reawaken their passions, beleaguered after two years of dating.

The language barrier prevents Jack from understanding Marion’s explicit interactions with old boyfriends. Jack’s stomach, sensitive to French food, fear of terrorist attacks, and Marion’s father (a painter of perverse sex scenes) is consistendy entertaining and his xenophobia provides most of the humor. Although the film contains its fair share of crass humor, Delpy never lets vulgarity taint the overall tone The comedy moves the plot along rather than dis-

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tracting from it. Each scene around Paris, which could stand on its own as a vignette, reveals the depth of their relationship.

Jack’s paranoia over Marion’s sexual history escalates every time he spots her with another man. Likewise, Marion’s annoyance with Jack’s dismissive attitude toward Paris is exacerbated by his obsessive prying.

The general atmosphere of animosity climaxes in the last 20 minutes of the film when a radical vegan unleashes hell in a Parisian burger joint a clever commentary on the American fear of terrorism.

Delpy could have recycled the average Meg Ryan chick-flick ending. Instead, she manages to give a sophisticated treatment of the relationship between two mature, if slightly neurotic 35-year-olds.

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Duke in LA. offers star-studded alternative to abroad dia Arts and Industries is worth serious consideration.

A four-course interdisciplinary program One of the great things about Duke is the opportunity to study abroad in just about offered for the spring semester, the annual program lets students get a taste of life in any place that has two people and a hut.

Students who want to get out and see Los Angeles while learning the ins and outs the real world, broaden their horizons and of its chief industries. Students spend time find out first hand the unique traits of a interning at companies based in Califorforeign land but who dread die logistics of nia, including the American Film Institute, Columbia Pictures, CNN America, E! Netinternational study now have another opworks, Entertainment Tonight, NBC Entertion: Hollywood.

For anybody who ever thought about tainment, New Line Cinema and even The working in the entertainment industry, Tyra Banks Show.

The media internship functions as a the Duke in Los Angeles Program in Meone-credit course at Duke. In addition to the internship, students take a one credit seminar on the United States culture industries. Students also take a half-credit seminar for seven weeks of the semester. The remaining credits come from University of Souther California courses that range anywhere from screenwriting to basic production to costume makeup.

“I had never been out to Los Angeles and I thought that ifI wanted to work there after graduating, I would need to know my way around a little bit and make some contacts with people in the business out there,” said senior Ben Zisk, who participated in the Spring 2007 program.

“Everyone I met was really nice and I still keep in touch with several people from my internship and University of Southern California classes. I don’t know what I’m going to do after I graduate, but I would definitely like to live in L.A. again sometime soon.”

The benefits for students who participate in this program are manifold, said Jim Thompson, the head faculty member of Duke in L.A. “It’s the best of both worlds—the repuJANET WU/THE CHRONICLE Duke studentspay homage to Marilyn Monroe's star. tation of Duke and the experience ofLos by

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Angeles and USC courses,” he said. “The ly, despite its location,” said Carolyn Leith, staff assistant in Film/Video/Digital. “It’s contact potential out here is enormous.” and like any other experience, the more you participant A practicing attorney since into it the more you get out of it. One will pour 1999, the Thompson in program visit Duke in late October to meet with stu- of the most valuable things is learning what LA is like and making contacts there dents interested in the program.

But with a program based in Los Angeles, a city of glamor, fun and beaches, just Application deadline for Duke in Los Anhow much work is involved? geles Program in Media Arts and Industries is “This is an academic program, definite- Sept. 30. ”

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FOO FIGHTERS ECHOES, SILENCE, PATIENCE, AND GRACE RCA

It’s now been more than 10 years since Dave Grohl engineered his unlikely transition from unemployed drummer to iconic frontman. It’s pretty much impossible to deny that the Foo Fighters have had a good run.

The group has successfully cemented its place in music history as the late-’9os altrock answer to the early-’9os grunge which Grohl himself helped popularize. But now, after a decade of successes, the Foo Fighters are finally starting to show their age on Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace.

Where their rage was once genuine and inspired, it now seems muted and misplaced. Grohl roars through tracks such as “Erase Replace” with a resdess abandon that ultimatelyrings hollow, in spite of the effort he’s obviously exerting to scream as loudly as possible, almost as if it were an intentional return to form, the track contrives its own angst in a manner more reminiscent of the Foo’s imitators than the source itself.

The album’s single, “Pretender,” is similarly uninspired. While it hammers with all the requisite fist-pumping beats and lightning-quick progressions, the frontal assault strips it of the emotional gravity seen on older tracks such as “Everlong.” With its mellow lows and flat, protracted highs, the result is merely a mildly enjoyable reference to the group’s former efforts.

Fortunately, out of their aging a newfound maturity is born. Alongside their standard fare, Echoes showcases the Foo Fighters delving into an expanded breadth of genres, with a surprising degree of success. The melancholy “Stranger Things Have Happened” demonstrates an uncharacteristically sparse sophistication as it riffs alternately on blues and alt-rock.

“Summer’s End” borders on a Southern rock vibe, right up to its extended guitar solos and references to “moonshine in your hair.”

The album even features a bluegrass instrumental, “The Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miner,” which was included to honor Grohl’s promise to a trapped Australian miner. This is the album’s biggest departure from form —more like an accidental interlude than an actual Foo Fighters track. Still, though its consistency with the rest of the album is dubious at best, the track displays an uncanny degree of musicianship.

Midlife crisis implications aside, these variations are a welcome expansion to the Foo Fighters’ established sound.

Rather than simply lingering on past conceits, the group has opted to explore new territory on Echoes. The result—while scattered, disorganized and occasionally confusing—is a surprisingly listenable reminder that Grohl’s still got a few tricks up his sleeve.

—Bryan Sayler

AVEYTARE from page 1 it’s a matter of wanting to try something different each time and hoping that each record can have a sound or a world of its own. All the records we liked when we were growing up were all different and we like a lot of bands whose records would sound different which is something that’s influenced us as well.

The band moved to different physical locations while recording, or do you mean more mental locations?

Well both really, yeah (laughs).

Whatkind of music did you listen to growing up? Any favorite bands or albums?

You know, from being really young ‘til now, it’s hard to pick records. I really liked the band Pavement growing up when 1 was in high school and I’ve always liked late-’6os psychedelic music, British psychedelic music, so it’s really all over the place, yeah (laughs). We’re kinda just coming from all over the place. I really like African guitar music from the ’6os and folk music and a lot of techno.

Are the solo projects of the members, like your recent Pullhair Ribeye, affecting the band? Are they kind of your own personal extensions of creativity?

I mean, not really, I think everything forms what we’re doing. Every experience and breaking off and having time to do the solo projects makes me realize and remember the freedom of what you can do and not being too blinded by repetition, makes you realize everything can be open, that there are still a lot of possibilities. Solo stuff happens on free dme, or because of the extension of a friendship you might have. I record with my wife and I play with my friend Eric sometimes, and it just evolved out of us living together and having nothing else to do.

So I think it’s stuff that comes up because of friendships or time offfrom Animal Collective and wanting to always play music.

So how would you describe your recent one?

I would describe it as ambient, acoustic music, I guess.

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Iron and Wine, the recording name of singer-songwriter Sam Beam, first achieved recognition with so many other lesserknown artists when he appeared on the Garden State soundtrack. Regrettably, Iron

and Wine is more often associated with its cover of the Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights” thanBeam’s stellar solo work.

With his third release, The Shepherd’s Dog, Iron and Wine intersperses his signature melancholic tone with more upbeat efforts. However, Beam does not always decide which approach to take. On the first track, “Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car,” there is a tenuous struggle between the vocals and instruments to determine the pace of the song, as the faster instrumental tempo fights the restraint of the vocals. This lack of direction is most likely a product of Iron and Wine’s newly ex-

panded repertoire, especially considering thatBeam personally produced his debut album, The Creek Drank the Cradle, which he also recorded in his own basement.

Although most fans will be pleased by Beam’s more conventional efforts, one of the album’s stand-out tracks is distinct mostly because of its experimentation.

“House by the Sea” is dreamlike, though it is tethered to the earth by interceding kazoos. It sounds like what you might imagine a pack of wanderers would sing around a late night campfire, genuine and nostalgic like the label soaked off an old bottle of moonshine.

Nevertheless, Beam is careful to wanderaway from formal structure only occasionally and makes concessions by often referring to his classic, mournful style

mean, some people are into it, some people aren’t. But to us it’s just a really melodic, electronic sounding record that’s got warm melodies. So we don’t really notice that it’s backwards so much or anything (laughs).

Are there any subliminalmessages?

Well, if you reverse the songs and put them back to normal you would hear other songs, I guess, with lyrics, but there’s nothing sensical in the backwards version. No subliminal messages (laughs).

What’s you favorite Animal Collective album?

I dunno, it’s hard to say. People always hate on Danse Manatee, and I heard Robert Altman, the director, say once that you usually feel more for the ones that people don’t like so much. It’s like wanting your child to do better. They’re all really different experiences so they all pop out for their own reasons. I don’t really listen to them that much, so it’s hard to say in that respect.

What can we expect at the show tomorrow?

It’ll be a good time I hope. About 40 to 50 percent of the show will be new stuffwe’ve been working on the last half-year or so. It’ll be a mixture of a lot of stuff.

Animal Collective will play tonight, Sept. 27, at Cat’s Cradle, tickets are $l5.

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The most beautiful song on Shepherd’s Dog is without a doubt “Carousel,” a somber lament on the sensation of leaving the place you love only to return to a place devastated by time. Its structure bears remarkable resemblance to the best song off 2004’s Our Endless Numbered Days, “Each Coming Night,” with plunging chord progressions that sink your heart lower with each beat.

“Resurrection Fern” is vintage, vocal-driven Beam at his sentimental best.

He crafts a Faulknerian mythology that anyone can long for as their own; it’s like looking back on the train tracks that lead to the house you grew up in.

Contrasting the struggle of the first track, the final song, “Flighdess Bird, American Mouth,” represents a compromise of sorts. It forgoes the melancholy, but the instruments continue to serve the vocals, and not the other way around.

Beam is a lyrical artisan, but he too often hides that strength beneath more generic instrumentation. It brings the album full circle, like a crown, which Iron and Wine could proudly wear as the newfound royalty offolk-rock.

—Alex Fankuchen

DEVENDRA BANHEART SMOKEY ROLLS DOWN THUNDER CANYON

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Devendra Banhart is a unique spirit and old soul often noted for his surreal, naturalistic lyrics and idolization of Tropicalia innovator Gaetano Veloso. On Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, his latest full-length release, Banhart both stays true to and expands his “freak-folk” style, classified as “New Weird America” or “Naturalism©” by some.

Each track on Smokey seems to effortlessly evoke the spirit of a different artist and time, undoubtedly influenced by the bohemian enclave ofits recording location —Topanga Canyon, a ’6os hot spot for artists such as Neil Young and Jim Morrison.

Banhart creates a record thatremains light even with deep, husky vocals characteristic of a young Bigfoot. A cast of collaborators is present to aid in this accomplishment, including Gael Garcia Bernal of The Motorcycle Diaries and Nick Valensi of the Strokes. The music ranges from the clean, subdued melodies of “Cristobal,” to a colorful samba on the Portuguese Tropicalia homage “Rosa.” The album even turns jazzy on the hushed, reincamation-themed epic “Seahorse” which features Banhart sweetly crooning “I wanna be a little seahorse.”

The track “Lover” is peppered with funky guitar and couplets so adorable that you can’t help but swoon when he sings “I just wanna be your cow, give you all the milk around town.” Moments of sheer bliss on the syrupy, piano-driven “I Remember” and the endearingly simple “Freely” highlight Banhart’s eccentrically buoyant sound. However, some motifs just end up sounding too silly. The Jewish love saga “Shabop Shalom,” in particular, provides a strong case for omission from the album’s cumbersome 16 tracks. The same can be said for the hallelujah-chorus inspired “Saved.”

Devendra Banhart surely has never been afraid to explore the spiritual and mystical in his music. On Smokey, he definitely takes a crack at a more playful image, experimenting with different genres and sounds by, paradoxically, backing offof from the “freak folk” label that he has shouldered for many moons. However, with its 16-track length, Smokey’s real gems tend to get lost in the periphery.

—Stefanija Giric

September 27,2007

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Has the fear of being imprisoned in a playhouse and forced to watch a production you found unbearable after the first 10 minutes kept you from exploring the world of theater?

Those bored by traditional plays should look no further than Misterioso—an unconventional theater experiment better described as a stroll through a museum exhibit. Here the theater experiences are many and varied, as the audiences possess total responsibility to create their own adventures once they step into the world of 1960 Manhattan. Misterioso seeks to challenge preconceived notions of modem theater as it recaptures the mood of New York City’s jazz scene—where creativity flowed like wine, confrontation was encouraged and boredom stricdy prohibited.

Misterioso continues the six-week-long homage to jazz great Thelonious Monk and is also part of the Center for Documentary Studies’Jazz Loft Project. The Loft’s focus is on cataloguing and documenting cultural treasures found in legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith’s New York City loft space. Approximately 3,000 hours of sound, recorded on 1,740 reel-to-reel tapes, and nearly 40,000 photographs were recovered. Smith’s Manhattan loft was an epicenter for major jazz musicians of the day, including Monk, who would come to justhang out and play.

Artists such as Monk, Bill Evans, Roland Kirk, Chick Corea and even a young Bob Dylan could be typically

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Misterioso features three, 90-minute plays running simultaneously.

found in the photographer’s haven, playing music while an obsessed Smith recorded everything. The result is a monumental archive of the New York jazz scene from about 1957 to 1965, encompassing everything from musical genius to the NYC traffic below the 821 Sixth Ave. loft space.

Inspired by Smith’s tapes, Misterioso was commissioned by the Theater Studies department with the goal of creating a “jazz play to recreate W. Eugene Smith’s jazz loft scene,” said Jay O’Berksi, play director and Department of Theater Studies Lecturing Fellow. The play comes together in Duke’s own Smith Warehouse, an appropriate setting for this creative representation of original writing by students and faculty.

Within the confines of this warehouse space, nine separate 90-minute pieces all take place at the same time.

Everything happens at once—actors portray the junkies, musicians and “hangers-on” that would be typically seen frequenting the loft space. Meanwhile, the audience is free to move between the works, similar to the way one meanders through a museum and its various exhibits.

“Misterioso is not just your dusty, chestnut type of theater that people are used to,” O’Berski said. “This play is for people who are bored by passive theater and who enjoy an interactive experience that is a confrontational, dark and evil thing.” The show culminates after an hour as the entire cast of musicians, singers and dancers come together for a live jazz concert.

Monk’s legacy is revived in this unique fusion of pieces. O’Berski said he encourages the Duke population to come to Misterioso in order to experience the jazz loft culture and take advantage of the often overlooked Smith Warehouse space.

“Misteriosois not justShakespeare in a construction site,” O’Berski said. “It’s Shakespeare in astronaut diapers.”

For those that are seeking a break from the ordinary, are bored with the traditional and are prepared to expect the unexpected, Misterioso is a satisfying escape to the past.

Misterioso runs from Sept. 26-29 at 8p.m. at the Smith Warehouse. Tickets are $5 for Duke students, $lOfor non-students.

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Anyone who’s ever taken the C-l bus has seen the Sketchy Staircase.

The Staircase is located on the fringe of East Campus across the street from the Sketchy Warehouse—it’s that graffitied walkway that goes from the friendly Duke sidewalk into the darkly ominous unknown of the forest. In actuality, the Staircase does not lead to some crazed sex offender’s rustic lair but to the bucolic Lyndhurst building, the home of the Center for Documentary Studies. And now that the CDS is currently displaying an exhibition of faculty and staff documentary artwork entitled Stories from the Center, everyone has a reason to make the climb.

The muldmedia show is interactive and presents a sample of the diverse documentary work that goes on at

Lyndhurst.

“It’s a great opportunity for students to see what they’re getting into if they want to take classes here,” said Courtney Reid-Eaton, the Exhibitions Director at the CDS. “If they weren’t interested in documentary work before, this is something that can maybe open them up a little and let them know that it’s more complicated that just a Ken Burns film —there’s more to it than that.”

Indeed, Stories includes much more than dry documentary films. On one wall is Ava Johnson’s photographic work “Good. Grief.,” an achingly personal chronicle of the artist’s temporary mental deterioration after losing most of her possessions in an apartment fire. In addition to photographs, the piece includes two small charred items that the artist salvaged from her apartment, adding a poignant, tactile engagement with the art. Nearby, headphones dangle from wall-mounted CD players, inviting you to listen to audio documentary works ranging in subject matter from the experience of eating the perfect peach to the emotional trials of teen pregnancy.

Still further into the gallery, you will encounter Bryant Holsenbeck’s piece “Handmade (mosdy) and well-used journals”—a glass case containing stacks of old journals

that offer a colorful and almost voyeuristic glimpse into the artist’s psyche.

The display is not just an ideal overview of the multifaceted nature of documentary studies; it also showcases the talents of the faculty who fuel the program.

“Many of the people that teach and work in the center are practitioners of the documentary arts—some are filmmakers, some are writers, that’s actually what they do,” Reid-Eaton said. “And yet there aren’t opportunities for people to always get a chance to look at the work that they do. We have people here... who are well-known photographers, who have works out and have exhibited all over the country and in some cases internationally, but everyone’s not in that situation. So it’s an opportunity for people outside the center to see what we do.”

Talented faculty and impressive artwork aside, the exhibition is worth visiting as an introduction to CDS. “I think that a lot of the students that find us think of this place as a sanctuary—it’s not so Duke-ish,” ReidEaton said.

The CDS boasts a huge, shady front porch and the opportunity to engage with intellectual ideas on a practical and artistic level. Sounds like the perfect place for a study break.

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staff member, notes the difficulty of being located on East Campus.

“It’s definitely our biggest hurdle,” he said. “We have to reintroduce ourselves to freshmen. We are working on that, and expanding our marketing strategy.”

Still, the Coffeehouse is not without its loyal patrons.

“I’m from San Diego, and there’s this one coffeehouse that I really like,” said freshman Summer Puente.

“When I come here, I’m reminded of that coffeehouse and ofhome.”

DUU President Katelyn Donnelly emphasized the importance of the student-only management in creating the Coffeehouse’s atmosphere.

“This place is legit student. It’s the only place on campus that is completely student run,” she said. ‘You can come here and escape from the institutions of Duke or Greek life or whatever.”

One of the many features the Coffeehouse offers, besides its student-rendered murals, retro furniture, 48-inch television with DVD player and projection screen, are Open Mic Nights. The event allows students and members of the Durham community to read poetry aloud or perform short musical acts. According to Donnelly, a senior, more than 50 students appeared at the last Open Mic Night on Sept. 20.

And then, of course, there are the concerts “We had John Vanderslice [on Sept. 21], which was a huge show. We had maybe 200 to 210 people show up,” Clark said.

Last year Jason Mraz performed on the day before his Last Day of Classes concert and Beirut visited during the fall semester.

Musical acts such as Scissors for Lefty, Pedro the Lion’s Dave Bazan and the Lucksmiths will perform later this semester, as well as a number of Triangle-area bands.

In addition to booking its own schedule, the Coffeehouse will assist in hosting the Troika Music Festival, a series of concerts that run from Nov. 1-3. Students can purchase a single pass online to gain access to all the shows at any of the multiple Durham venues.

“We really try to support local bands and the local community in general,” Clark said.

And the local community responds in turn by attending shows and even performing.

“On the last Open Mic Night, we had this guy from Durham come and rap about racism. It was amazing,” said Donnelly.

With its high ceilings, multi-colored couches and heavily graffitied restrooms, the Coffeehouse invites one to sit back and relax before delving into to the next pressing midterm. Completely informal, far differentfrom your average Starbucks, the Coffeehouse offers a charm that even West Campus residents might find difficult to ignore.

“People don’t know the potential of this place,” Donnelly said. “It’s the subculture Duke didn’t even know it had.”

Duke Coffeehouse is open daily from 6 p.m. to 2 p.m. For upcoming shows, events and ticket prices visit www.duke.edu/web/

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Burgers and beer are simple staples of American cuisine.

Place a well-seasoned beef patty in a soft bun, serve with a cold microbrew and a satisfying meal is almost

guaranteed.

Dain’s Place, a small restaurant and bar on Ninth St., attempts to capitalize on this simple recipe for success by offering burgers, beer and a limited assortment of preprandial snacks. But what sets Dain’s Place apart are not the übiquitous Fryolator favorites—fried cheese, fried mushrooms, fried perogies—but the restaurant’s emphasis on customization. For each burger or sandwich, diners may choose from a list of over 30 toppings. Turning to the beer list, over 50 selections are offered with an emphasis

worth the potential hassle. The burgers themselves are appealing, and the “Dainer” especially so. Although lacking in satisfying char, the patty is hefty and beefy enough to stand up to most toppings. The bread—a pleasantiy light ciabatta derivative—has just enough durability to hold everything together with minimal glop-factor.

Besides the burgers, however, other offerings fall somewhat short. The pierogies were severely under-salted; a steak soup became cloying due to a strange excess of sugar and nutmeg-like spice. At least the restaurant’s only permanent dessert is a classic that doesn’t take too much attention away from the savory cooking.

After all, it’s rather difficult to mess up a plate ofOreos and glass of milk.

on domestic microbrews.

On a recent visit, Dain was not present and it appeared that the restaurant suffered without its namesake at the helm. Only one overtaxed server worked the full dining room and, based on how long it tookfor meals to be served, it seems unlikely that the kitchen was staffed any more generously. Even procuring additional drinks to ease the wait was nearly impossible. As the orders and requests from other tables piled in, our group was seemingly pushed further and further down the queue. And while burgers are not difficult to cook, keeping orders straight—cheddar sauce, yellow mustard, guacamole for one diner, ranch dressing, Tabasco, spicy chili for another—must present an entirely different challenge for the already taxed staff.

The inevitable confusion was made all the more apparent when each unique burger finally arrived at the table.

Based on our visit, when the right burger was delivered, the requested side dish was absent. When a special request for a side salad was dutifully granted, it was served with the wrong burger. And the simplest order of themaala

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so the event should be a success.”

Juline Chevalier, the Curator of Education for the Nasher, said she hopes to appeal to students’ desire for a

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“Our aim is to really get students into the museum, get them into galleries and justbe aware ofit more,” Chevalier said. “And our events are always a classy affair. People enjoy getting [dressed up] to go to Nasher events.”

The Nasher Student Advisory Board’s goal is to keep the ties between the museum and the students strong with these events. Chevalier is also looking forward to what the museum will receive back from the students.

“What’s exciting are the conversations the students have about the artwork. The student events are the places where we love hearing students discuss the art,” remarked Chevalier. “We want this event to be a start off point of intellectual pursuit, while also being really fun.”

The hope is that the museum can eventually become a normal alternative to the current weekend activities at Duke.

“Parties at the Nasher provide an upscale alternative to section parties,” said sophomore Tracy Gold. “I’d much rather spend my Thursday night having fun in a museum than in a dorm that’s crowded and sticky with alcohol.”

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With just over a month before the exhibition season tips, the Blue Devils are still nursing some injuries, particularly in its already shallow frontcourt.

Sophomore Brian Zoubek, expected to play a much larger role after the departure of Josh Mcßoberts, is still recovering from July surgery on his left foot. Duke, however, hopes Zoubek will be cleared for full-contact drills perhaps as early as next week.

The future seems murkier for juniorDave McClure, who had surgery on his right knee in late August McClure, who sat out the entire 2005-06 season with an injury to his left knee, underwent an operation to alleviate lingering pain in his right McClure has been cleared to start light conditioning drills.

“We’re hoping over the next three weeks, we can get him back little by little, and he’ll start doing more and more,” assistant coach Chris Collins said.

The rest of the Duke squad is fully healthy, and that includes senior DeMarcus Nelson, who suffered an injury to his left wrist in July.

The injuries to Zoubek and McClure, though, complicate the Blue Devils’ plans in the frontcourt. Last season, Duke struggled to find a consistent complement to Mcßoberts in the post With the 6-foot-10 center now in the NBA, the Blue Devils appear to be an even more perimeter-oriented team.

“Both [Zoubek and McClure] are going to be guys we feel are going to be in the mix to be heavy contributors to this year’s team,” Collins said. “So we know it’s important to get those guys back healthy, so as we start practice and get going, we can develop lineups and how we want to use rotations.”

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The NCAA. Fall Preview is hosted on New Mexico’s Championship Course in Albequerque, N.M., home of the 2007 national championship. And if Duke’s performance in the tournament is any indication, the team is well on its way to its fourth consecutive national championship.

Led by runner-up Amanda Blumenherst’s 11-under208, the Blue Devils won theFall Preview Wednesday, finishing at 16-under to best second-place finisher USC by one stroke.

For the Blue Devils, it was encouraging to win on the links where they will aim for their fourth straight national title in May. “It’s always good to win, particularly on the course where the NCAA is going to be played,” head coach Dan Brooks said. “We kept learning the course, which is a good thing. We’re better able to play this course now than when we started.”

Duke had plenty to find out about the playing conditions in New Mexico. The Blue Devils led wire-to-wire for their sixth win in their last eight tournaments, but they utilized the three rounds to further understand the course’s whipping winds and the effects of the links’ elevation.

‘You really have to figure out the change,” said Blumenherst, a junior. “It’s kind oflike a game, the par-3s especially. It definitely gets you thinking.”

Blumenherst—who tied for the lowest

Junior Amanda Blumenherst finished in second place at NCAA Fall Preview to lead Duke to the title.

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Fancy footwork Midfielder lack Pope brings his quickness to the dance floor by

Joe Drews

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On the soccer field, it seems as if Zack Pope can outrun anybody.

On the dance floor, however, he is perfectly in sync with everyone else.

The senior midfielder started stepping last year, joining a group started by some of his neighbors in his Edens Quadrangle dorm. The step team is not an official organization—what started as a group offriends dancing transformed into a team that received requests to perform in various venues, ranging from the Nasher Museum of Art to Cameron Indoor Stadium. And Pope, despite never having stepped before, joined in for the ride.

“It’s kind ofcool because we do it with a lot ofthe guys that we live with,” Pope said. “It’s always fun just to get out there withyour boys and put on a good show for everybody.”

Pope has never been one to shy away from attention. A prom king in high school, the midfielder did not need much prodding to get up in front ofcrowds and start stepping.

“He wanted to do it,” said senior Omari Wallace, one of the other steppers. “We did no recruiting....

There were some people who already did step. It was just like, ‘Oh, weTe trying to do this, we’re trying to step’ and that was it.”

Even though he lacked experience and was limited in the amount of time he could dedicate to practice because SEE POPE ON PAGE

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Senior Zack Pope turns in his soccer cleatsfor dancing shoes in the spring when he performs at various campus venues with his step team.

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The Hurricanes have struggled recently to close out games but hope to play four solid quarters against Duke.

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In the first three periods of its games this season, Miami looked like it did in its championship years, forcing turnovers and scoring points at a rapid pace. Unfortunately for the Hurricanes, a game lasts four quarters, and inconsistent play in the fourth quarter has plagued the Hurricanes.

So far this year, Miami has outscored opponents 91-34 in the first 45 minutes of the game but has seen that advantage shrivel to a 46-10 deficit in the fourth. Late turnovers have plagued the Hurricanes, who sport a plus-five turnover margin in the first three quarters and a minus-two in the last.

In what appeared to be a blowout of then-No. 20 Texas A&M Sept, 20, Miami conceded all 17 of the Aggies’ points in the final period.

Even though the Hurricanes came away with a 34-17 victory, head coach Randy Shannon was not pleased.

“We didn’t finish the game,” Shannon said. “Some guys didn’t respond and that cost us points. I was disappointed in that because you work so hard to play like that and end on a good note, then something like that happens.”

Much of Miami’s struggles in the fourth quarter of that game —and in its entire season—came from the lack of defensive discipline. After allowing just 115 yards of offense over the first three quarters of their tilt with the Aggies, the Hurricanes gave up 125 yards in the fourth, allowing two touchdowns. In that same frame, Miami only gained 46 yards on offense, amounting in

a field goal and a fumble.

The late-game miscues also cost the Hurricanes any chance of coming back against then-No. 5 Oklahoma Sept. 8, as the Sooners put up 20 unanswered points in a 51-13 rout.

Despite some high-scoring games, Miami’s secondary has shown flashes of strength this year.

Strong safety Willie Cooper leads a defensive backfield that has allowed 181.2 yards per game in the air—fourth in the ACC—and has recorded seven interceptions.

“Those guys understand that we can’t give up big plays,” Shannon said. “We have had busted coverages. I think the defense is doing a great job now in the secondary.

Those guys are competing around here.”

After nearly losing in Durham last year, the Hurricanes cannot let their guard down against Duke. In that game, it took a lastsecond, goal-line Cooper

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For Duke, the real test is juststarting.

The Blue Devils (5-1-2) open their conference schedule tonight at 7 p.m. against No. 5 Virginia at Koskinen Stadium. The game marks ys end of a successful non-conference run and the beginning of the that is their TONIGHT, 7 p.m. challenge Koskinen Stadium ACC slate.

“Our confidence is the all —and I think even it’s been season biggest since last season,” juniorKelly Hathom said.

‘Virginia is a huge game every year, regardless of what we’re ranked and what they’re ranked. It’s just going to be a challenge.

“Once the ACC starts, the batde begins.

Every game is a batde.”

Duke enters the contest on a roll, having won five of six games, including its last four. Over that four-game stretch, the Blue Devils netted 15 goals while goalie Alison Lipsher and the Duke defense conceded only two.

While potent, Duke’s offensive attack has also been balanced. On the season, 10 different Blue Devils have found the back of the net.

“We have different types of players but we’re finally gelling,” Hathorn said of the team’s recent play.

Still, Duke knows that Virginia is a formidable opponent. The Cavaliers are active on both sides of the ball, so the Blue Devils may have a harder time keeping posses_

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sion, yet Hathom said the offense thrives when Duke maintains control of play.

The Blue Devils will also be hard-pressed to score against a Virginia defense that has allowed only two goals all season. Duke posted 29 shots in two wins last weekend, and continuing to finish those chances will be crucial. Head coach Robbie Church also emphasized set pieces as a great opportunity to score on Virginia.

Defensively, Church said the Blue Devils will have to be aggressive to prevent the Cavaliers from establishing control.

“We’ve got to make sure we’re close to our marks,” Church said. “We close them down and we don’t let them get into a rhythm of play. We must be good individual defenders and good team defenders at the same time.”

The team also continues to focus on sustaining a high level of play for the entire game. Defender Kelly McCann noted the importance of having the mentality to play a full 90 minutes.

“They’re a good team, so there will be parts of the game where they have control and parts where we have control,” McCann said. “[We can] not get down if it’s not going our way.”

Even with such a critical game, Duke is not feeling the pressure. Although the ACC is highly competitive, the Blue Devils feel like they can compete with anyone.

They said they have continued to improve throughout the season and are eager to gauge themselves against an opponent of Virginia’s caliber.

“We have the momentum, we have the energy,” Hathorn said. “It’s going to be fun.”

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of his soccer schedule, Pope became a skilled dancer in no time.

“From my perspective, Zack picked things up very quickly,” Wallace said.

“He didn’t have as much time as some other people to actually put towards learning the step, but when he set out to learn it, he learned it.”

One of the most athletic players on the soccer team, Pope said his transition into dancing was easy. Although he is the only student-athlete on the step team—a disadvantage because of an athlete’s demanding schedule Pope is able to balance reduced step practice time by using his natural athleticism to compensate. “[Stepping and soccer are related] to a certain extent,” Pope said. “You obviously have to be coordinated. You have to have rhythm. You can’t ever do it without rhythm.”

But the connection between the two activities extends beyond mere physical abilities. The chemistry associated with a team sport like soccer is equally vital in group dancing. Just as soccer teammates must communicate CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO to be effective in a game, the dancers have to be on the same page to put on MidfielderZack Pope spends some of his spare time off the field practicing with his step team. a professional production.

Because Pope has been so successsaid. “Darrius is too cool to do it.”

“I started going to the games afful, the steppers have tried to recruit his Pope is not deterred, however, by ter I got to know Zack,” Wallace said. the occasional barbs from his team“The first game I went out to was one teammate, defender Darrius Barnes, mates. In fact, the senior has tried to but the junior declined the invitation. of the most fun experiences I have had at this University altogether. It “I’m not really into that,” Barnes bridge both worlds. said. “I’m more of a low-key kind of As the soccer team gets into the was mind-blowing.”

And when the step team starts guy. Zack likes being in the public eye heart of its conference schedule, a little bit more than I do.”

Pope’s step teammates have come to performing again in the offseason, Pope had a slightly different take Koskinen Stadium to support him. perhaps some of Pope’s soccer teamWallace, the de facto leader of the step mates will be able to say the same on Barnes’ decision.

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Blumenherst’s 11-under 135 was also the tournament’s lowest combined total from Tuesday and Wednesday. It was a stark contrast from her even-par Monday round, when the altitude often carried her shots 10 yards farther than she wanted. The difference on the last two days?

Simply playing the course more.

“It was a big change to get used to,” said Blumenherst, who missed several short putts that would have lowered her score even more. “By yesterday’s back nine and today, I had dialed it in.”

Complementing Blumenherst was fellow junior Jennie Lee, who replicated her Monday score of 3-under 70 on Wednesday to finish tied for sixth overall. In thefinal round, Lee posted seven birdies to add to her two-day total offive.

The Blue Devils return to action Oct. 5 for the Tar Heel Invitational in Chapel Hill, where they will compete on the familiar Finley Golf Course and won’t exactly have to struggle with altitude.

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In the meantime, Duke is working on its conditioning and defense before practice officially begins next month.

The three incoming freshmen—guard Nolan Smith and forwards Kyle Singler and Taylor King—have also been integrated into the team.

“We’re very happy with all three of those guys,” Collins said. “We recruited them to be guys that could contribute as freshmen. They fit in well with the other guys, and they complement what we already have on the team.”

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hostile and his description of Ahmadinejad as a “petty dictator” was ill-conceived.

Bollinger is entitled to his opinions, but this was not the time or place to assert his personal reprehension for the Iranian leader. His inclination to clarify his views is understandable in light of heavy pressure from student groups and influential outside voices protesting the event. But while challenging Iranian policy is one thing, name-calling is another.

By insisting on providing a public forum for even the most controversial of figures, Bollinger demonstrated a firm commitment to upholding the tenets of academic and intellectual freedom. But Bollinger’s remarks were par-

ticularly inappropriate given

that his message was about en-

Ifyou’re not particularly fond of this system or you’re

worried about losing student seats, there is one and only one very easy solution: Get all yourfriends to go to the games.

DSG President Paul Slattery, a senior, on objections to the new men’s basketball line policy.

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thing I have come to realize about Duke over the years is that some times, you just need to get the hell out of Dodge.

If I stay here long enough in succession, I seem to forget that life at a small, elite private university is hardly reality.

For me, it’s always therapeutic to meet up with my friends from high school for some sort of adventure. In _L the case of this past weekend, I deciddan belzer ed to meet with BJ w.w.j.d. and Maxtreme Testosterove. The plan was for BJ and me to rendezvous in Chicago with Maxtreme at Northwestern with tickets to watch our beloved, although currendy disappointing, San Diego Chargers walk into Lambeau Field and trounce the Green Bay Packers.

I understand that for some of you, this may mean nothing, but for the any real football fan Lambeau Field in Green Bay is the last beacon of purity in the NFL. Getting tickets and trekking out to practically Canada to watch your favorite team there—now that’s a pilgrimage.

Because Bill Simmons is one of my current idols, I’ve decided to do as he did and keep a little journal of the journey. Sorry, Bill, for ripping you off.

6 a.m.: After spending two nights at Northwestern during their new-student orientation week mingling with what BJ calls the “morally casual” segment of the female population, my pleasant slumber on the frat-house couch was rudely interrupted by our escort to the game, •»

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of American academics condemning a proposed boycott of Israeli academic institutions by British academics.

There will always be those who argue that academe is not the place for despots and dictators to be granted public forum.

But the sanctity of the university lies wholly in its commitment to upholding intellectual freedom. Providing safe spaces for free discourse lies at the heart of the university’s mission.

The bottom line is that in an age of globalization, there is nothing more pressing than the need to challenge students to ask hard questions of themselves and of those with whom they may or may not agree.

Being part of a college community means recognizing and reaffirming that need, whether it comes into dispute at Duke, Columbia, or anywhere else.

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couraging the open exchange of ideas and his responsibility as opening speaker was to even-handedly frame the discussion to follow.

As Bollinger himself said, the purpose of Monday’s public forum had less to do with Ahmadinejad’s right to share his ideas and more to do with the students’ right to be exposed to them. And although Bollinger undermined the effectiveness ofhis introduction in reaffirming those rights, the effectiveness of the larger forum remained intact—something critics of the event failed to appreciate.

Bollinger deserves special citation for upholding free speech in multiple contexts—the speech by a prominent foe of Israel came only weeks after Bollinger authored a letter from an array

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6:30: We board John’s car, a bright orange Hummer H 2 with the license plate “GB PCKRS.” It didn’t take long to realize just how much the car and the man were one and the same.

7:30: John decides that the Chargers’ fans do not need to sleep and begins to blast music.

My stomach hurts, I need food. I am informed that there will be no stopping until Lambeau, where I have no choice but to eat something called a “butter burger.” Further explanation to come.

7:40-9:15: I gradually progress from “still drunk” to “holy Jesus I am hungover get me the hell out of this car.” Meanwhile, John has spent the last hour and a half pontificating about how Lambeau Field was like Mecca, except “not gay.”

I comfort myself during the agony by staring out

the window and reminding myself how lucky I am BJ and Maxtreme share similar sentiments.

9:20: There are signs of life, barely. We cross a bridge and exit the freeway into a quaint middle-class residential neighborhood. There is a “Welcome to Green Bay” sign. Population; 102,000. Where the hell am I? 9:30: We arrive to the middle of nowhere, and it is beautiful. The stadium, small by NFL standards, towers over the houses and fields of Green Bay. The place smells of history. I think my loins are tingling 9:40: John leads us to Kroll’s West, a bar located under the shade of the stadium, and home of the butter burger. Our guide walks right up and orders two, along with two brats and a sixpack of beer, expecting us to do the same. I also learn that the butter burger is named such due to the thick slab of butter squeezed between the cheese and mayo on the burger. I’m already having heartburn.

9:45: Maxtreme and BJ seem intimidated by the food. I am starving, screw it, it will form a nice base for what’s to come. I suck down a burger and a brat.

9:50: I think I am going to die, and I need to poo. My friends are peer pressuring me to begin drinking heavily, I am not smiling.

10-11:55: Perseverance. Jager. Beer.

12: We take our seats, engulfed in a sea of dark green and yellow. Our sign made it inside and beers are only $5 in the stadium, great success.

12:35ish: TOUCHDOWN CHARGERS! Out comes the sign we spent Saturday afternoon painting which reads “REAL CHEESE COMES FROM CALIFORNIA.” Yes, we were THAT guy, and it was friggin’ awesome.

2:4sish; Phillip Rivers just threw an interception that is returned for a touchdown. The Chargers are done. I want to cry. No, I want to fight.

No, I just want to be as far from Green Bay as not to have ever lived in Wisconsin.

humanly possible.

BJ

and I remind ourselves that we live in San

Diego. It doesn’t help. Meanwhile, a female Packers fan, whom my editors will only allow me to call morally casual, has positioned her mouth about

six inches from my ear and is screaming at the top of her lungs. Breathe. Breathe.

I came to somewhere near the Illinois border.

Was I depressed? Absolutely. Was it worth it? No doubt about it. The funny thing is, all I wanted to do was get back to Duke.

Dan Belzer is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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am a biologist by training, but I do not think that biology, or medicine, or any of the life sciences, will solve global health problems by themselves.

Take, for example, the issue of vaccinating children against preventable diseases. Several decades ago, scientists at Duke developed a measles vaccine, yet over 500,000 children still die every year of measles. A polio vaccine has almost eradicated the disease, but polio vaccinators were recendy driven out of Pakistan r ?wforfear they were sterilizing children. Whether an inadequate health infrastructure or cultural distrust causes the problem, a —

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multidisciplinary approach to reducing deaths from vaccinepreventable deaths is essential.

For many people, a multidisciplinary approach conjures

Dude, where're my rights? (the coup de grace)

The

catatonic horse I’ve been beating for the last three weeks will be dead by the conclusion of this column. I promise.

A quick recap: Since 1999, the Office of Judicial Affairs has watered down or eliminated every major due process right afforded students feeing adjudication; it has so broadened its policies and procedures that almost any student could be summarily subjected to judicial action for any reason; it has eliminatedall representative student involvement in making and enforcing undergraduate policy; and lastly, it has begun colluding with local law enforcement in ways 'zrnmam: that arguably undermine students’ basic constitutional rights.

These changes were elliott wolf detailed in my three preq.e.d. vious columns, posted at

won’t be jettisoned at the whim of the administration But students once were The protections Judicial Affairs deliberately expunged from the code ensured that students were presumed innocent and treated as such; they afforded students who were actually innocent every opportunity to exonerate themselves; they reassured students that they would not be subjected unduly to judicial action; they helped ensure law enforcement officersand University officialshad no incentive to overstep their bounds; and they invested the wider student body in the Undergraduate Judicial System.

No self-respecting bastion of academic freedom should voluntarily dismiss these ends, particularly Duke at this point in its history. And given that the vast majority of students adjudicated probably did violate University policy or the law, procedural protections formerly precluded critics (like me) from raising questions about the fairness and accuracy of a process that is ultimately indispensable for the University.

All of this is a significant price to pay to preserve the “teachable moment,” as Bryan described it, that a http://www.duke.edu/ ~egw4/. What happened is clear. Why it happened is not. student being adjudicated experiences. But ironically, Director of Judicial Affairs Stephen Bryan, Dean of Judicial Affairs has gready undermined the very thing it Students Sue Wasiolek and Vice President for Student was trying to cultivate.

Affairs Larry Moneta offered varying justifications for Afailure to respect basic due process rights is almost certhese changes. I gave Bryan a chance to explain them tain to engender frustration and resentment, rather than from Judicial Affairs’ perspective in this space next genuine contrition. Convicted students who were treated week, but he declined. A rough transcript of my inter- fairly and respectfully by the judicial system can do little view with him, in which he defended the changes while else besides “think through their moral development” Conversely, those who felt “Nifonged” by a complete disfrequently contradicting himself and making demonstrably false statements, is posted online. regard for due process have every reason to be frustrated The sole cogent rationale presented was the belief, about the system, not about their alleged misdeeds.

And by expunging the University’s equivalent of the as stated by Bryan, that a system with enumerated prorule of law, Judicial Affairs is now using violations of cedural rights and stringent procedures precluded students from “[accepting] responsibility for their behavior, University policy and the law (namely illegal searches and we can’t get to the ultimate goal of helping students and seizures) to “educate” students about the imporlearn from their actions and help them be better citizens tance of upholding University policy and the law.

Some education. and think through their moral development.”

This pits Student Affairs’ doctrine against every basic Thankfully, Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki has agreed to “bring this dialogue out into the ofWestern Civilization and the better of tenet judgment our peer institutions. open and take a careful look at it.” All we have to do is Faithfully fulfilling the role of “bureaucrat,” Judicial look to our past and to our peers.

Affairs has managed to expand its role to include lawBut until that happens, the Undergraduate Judicial Sysmaker, investigator, and in all cases that are handled tem warrants neither our support nor our cooperation.

Until written protections are in place to ensure that through the administrative hearing process, judge, jury and executioner. It has amassed more power than any accused students are treated fairly, students should reone entity should have, particularly without any codisist cooperating with the system in every way possible.

Until we have a judicial system worthy ofDuke Univerfied limits on its authority.

Bryan was correct in arguing that, legally, “We don’t sity, staff and faculty members should think twice about have to give you any rights.” As he noted, students have “a referring students to the one we have. Until the Unicontractual relationship” with the University, and we agree versity sees the value of due process in its own judicial upon matriculation to abide by the University’s policies, system, there is ample reason to doubt its commitment whatever they may be. In making that argument, however, to due process in the criminal justice system. he devalues students’ status as members of the University Elliott Wolf is a Trinity senior. His column runs every community, suggesting that we aren’t entitled to even a Thursday. semblance of self-determination or an assurance that we

stIGITVI bfOVGriTISn global Health at dllke:

up images of a team of many part |V in a SGlieS people working together on a particular project; nurses and physicians, historians and computer specialists, students and faculty, all bringing expertise to bear on a specific problem, whether it is working with street children in Tanzania or HIV-positive women in India.

Those interdisciplinary working teams are wonderful, and I have been part of a few of them. But I also believe that every individual working in global health needs to foster their own intellectual connections across disciplines.

So, for example, when I teach a biology class on AIDS, I teach the classical scientific process for identifying the causal agent of a disease as first described by Robert Koch in the 1870 and still used today. However, if understanding Koch’s principles were all that were required for a community to accept that HIV causes AIDS, we would not have had the last seven years of furious international debate over the contention by President Thabo Mbeki ofSouth Africa that “a virus cannot cause a syndrome.”

To fully understand the AIDS crisis in South Africa, to develop any successful health interventions for its people, one needs to understand not only the biology ofAIDS but also the history of colonialism and apartheid, and the hope of an African Renaissance. By teaching students the biological intricacies ofretroviruses and the social context in which they thrive, I encourage them to avoid compartmentalization of their learning and intellectual activities and to see the problem through the lens of many disciplines. Duke explicitly encourages this sort ofintellectual connection-making for undergraduates through programs such as Focus and the many certificate programs on campus, both of which have new Global Health offerings.

Duke’s emphasis on global health recognizes that research is strengthened when natural science, social science and humanistic understanding are not divorced. Cultural competency is required for community acceptance of new technologies. Ethics and engineering should not be strangers. Evolutionary analyses should shape vaccine design.

Don’t get me wrong, disciplinary depth is necessary, but so is being able to see how different disciplines need each other to solve challenging questions. And in the end, people who have this kind of intellectual curiosity about making connections between disciplines turn out to be the very sort of people who make excellent interdisciplinary team members.

This summer I worked in Kenya with 16 Duke undergraduates.

While some of them were biology majors and some are planning to go to medical school, the group also included students majoring in religion, economics, cultural anthropology, human rights, international comparative studies and biomedical engineering. This group continues to work as a team back at Duke, each bringing their disciplinary knowledge and passion to a joint project They even recruit new faculty as advisers when they need new expertise.

This problem-based, team-based approach to applying knowledge in the service of society is a powerful way for students to internalize learning, connect their personal passion with their academic coursework and develop the collaborative skills that are necessary for global health projects.

The cross-fertilization of ideas and ability to work with people of different backgrounds is critical for the next generation of leaders. I am excited to be teaching at a school that encourages students (and faculty) to actively pursue these intellectual connections, within our own disciplines, on our own campus, in our community and across our globe.

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Sherryl Broueman is an associateprofessorof thepractice inbiology. She di-

rects the undergraduate GlobalHealth programs, advises DuheEngage and is cofounder ofa girls ’ boarding schooland community center now being built in

rural Kenya, the Women’sInstitutefor SecondaryEducation andResearch.

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FERPA Workshop

TRANSLATING PRIVACY INTO PRACTICE The purpose of this half-day workshop is to raise awareness of the limits and options regarding student privacy as

governed by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

Monday, October 1, 2007 Bryan Center, West Campus 9 am

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Opening remarks by Steven J. McDonald, General Counsel at Rhode Island School of Design and editor of NACUA s The Family Educational Rights

and Privacy Act: A Legal Compendium Presented by the Offices of Student Affairs, Registrar and the University Counsel.

Free and open to Duke University faculty, staff, and students.

Please RSVP to FERPA@studentaffairs.duke.edu

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