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Select students will have the opportunity next semester to learn about leadership from a man who helped organize Operation Desert Fox, served in the military for more than 35 years and acted as the U.S. special envoy to Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni was named the Sanford Distinguished Lecturer in Residence for this spring.

The retired four-star general and former head of the United States Central Command will teach a new course in the Hart

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Arguing that South Asia is playing an increasingly more significant role in world affairs, a group of students is advocating an expanded academic curriculum focused on the region.

Some students have complained about the lack of resources available at Duke for studying the area and have formed the Duke South Asian Studies Initiative group on Facebook to address their concerns.

The group’s profile states that Duke offers fewer study abroad opportunities, courses, faculty and foreign languages related to South Asia than its peer institutions.

“I think that Duke is trying to give us an education that is globally relevant, but this is a part of the world that isn’t getting the attention that it has deserved,” said senior Shawn Kwatra, creator of DSASI and copresident of Diya, Duke’s South Asian students association.Kwatra is also a member ofThe Chronicle’s independent editorial board.

There are approximately 230 members in the group.

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“The thing that attracted me the most [to Duke] is the emphasis on leadership,” Zinni said in a statement.

A public critic of the Bush administration’s decision to go to war in Iraq, Zinni spoke at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy in January, delivering the 2007 Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecture, “Iraq: Failures, Realities and the Future.”

Approximately 250 students attended the lecture, and Zinni spent more than 10 hours talking to various students and faculty groups after the speech, said Bruce Kuniholm, a professor of public policy and history and director of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy.

Kuniholm’s interest in Zinni for the President Richard Brodhead, Deputy Consul General of Japan Masanobu Yoshii and the mayors of Durham and sister city Toyama, Japan, were among the half-dozen speakers at a dedication ceremony for theDurham-Toyama Sister CitiesPavilion in the Sarah P. Duke GardensWednesday afternoon.

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Study touts exercise to cure blues by

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Not only does exercise improve your health, it may also improve your mood.

The American College Health Association’s National College Health Assessment reported that in the fall of 2006, 12.5 percent of the total Duke student population was diagnosed with depression.

And a recent study conducted at Duke shows that exercise may potentially serve as an alternative to medication in treating them.

James Blumenthal, a professor of clinical psychology at Duke University Medical Center, was the author of the Standard Medical Intervention and Long-term Exercise study, which examined the effects of four different treatments on 202 depressed adults.

“What we found was that people who got exercise or the antidepressant did better than the group

A study hasfound that regular exercise can be an effective treatment for clinical depression.

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Guards working for an BAGHDAD Australian-owned security company fired on a car as it approached their convoy Tuesday, killing two women civilians before speeding away from the bloodshed blamed on the deadly mix of heavily armed protection details on Baghdad’s crowded streets.

The deaths of the two Iraqi Christians came a day after the Iraqi government handed U.S. officials a report demanding hefty payments and the ouster from Iraq of embattled Blackwater USA for a chaotic shooting last month that left at least 17 civilians dead.

The deaths may sharpen demands to curb the expanding array of security firms in Iraq watching over diplomats, aid groups and others.

“We deeply regret this incident,” read a statement from Michael Priddin, the chief operating officer of Unity Resources Group, a security company owned by Australian partners but with headquarters in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Priddin said the company would disclose more details of the shooting after “the facts have been verified and the necessary people and authorities notified.”

But initial accounts suggested the guards opened fire as the car failed to

heed warnings to stop and drifted closer to the convoy near a Unity facility in central Baghdad’s Karrahah district.

The victims were identified by relatives and police as Marou Awanis, born in 1959, and Geneva Jalal, bom in 1977. Awanis’ sister-in-law, Anahet Bougous, said the woman had been using her car to drive government employees to work to help raise money for her three daughters.

Iraqi anger has grown against the private security companies—nearly all based in the United States, Britian and other Western countries—as symbols of the lawlessness that has ravaged their country for more than four years.

Teen injures four in school shooting by

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CLEVELAND A 14-year-old suspended student, dressed in black, opened fire in his downtown high school Wednesday, wounding four people as terrified schoolmates hid in closets and bathrooms and huddled under laboratory desks. He then killed himself.

A fellow student at SuccessTech Academy alternative school said Asa Coon, who was suspended for fighting two days earlier, made threats in front of students and teachers last week.

“He’s crazy. He threatened to blow up our school. He threatened to stab everybody,” Doneisha LeVert said. “We didn’t think nothing of it.”

Coon was armed with two .38 caliber revolvers, and police found a duffel bag stocked with ammunition and three knives in a bathroom, officials said. Parents were angry that firearms got into a school equipped with metal detectors that students said were intermittendy used.

Officials said two teachersand two students were shot, and a 14-year-old girl fell and hurt her knee while running out of the school.

Witnesses said the shooter moved through the converted five-story downtown office building, working his way up through the first two floors of administrative offices to the third floorof classrooms.

Officials said he was wearing a black Marilyn Manson concert shirt, black jeans and black-painted finger nails.

Coon had been suspended since Monday for fighting near the school, said Charles Blackwell, president of SuccessTech’s student-parent organization.

He did not know how Coon got into the

building.

Iran's former chief nuclear negotiator delivered an unusually sharp rebuke to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's policies Wednesday, saying they are turning more nations against Iran and failing to fix the struggling economy.

People blamed for high humidity With global warming, the world is not just getting hotter—-it is getting stickier. And people are to blame, according to a study based on computer models. The amount of moisture in the air near Earth's surface rose 2.2 percent in less than three decades.

Giuliani and Romney quarrel Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney squared off over war,taxes and spending Wednesday,focusing on each other as they sought to turn the quest for the GOP presidential nomination into a two-man contest. The sniping comes a day after a contentious debate.

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Catotti, Brown and All lead Council field of 6 With a whopping 10.5-percentvoter turnout at Tuesday’s City Council primary elections, six candidates won spots on November’s ballot for three open council seats.

Democrats Diane Catotti and Eugene Brown ran to defend their positions against challengers competing for their seats and a seat vacated by Republican council member Thomas Stith, who is contending for mayor.

The two incumbents finished first and second in the race, with Catotti reeling in 7,228 votes—approximately 20 percent of the vote—and Brown pulling 5,945 votes, according to unofficial totals from the Durham County Board of Elections.

“I’d like to continue a lot of the work

I have done, particularly in affordable housing and cleaning up some of our blighted neighborhoods,” Catotti told News 14 Carolina Wednesday.

Challenger Farad Ali, who is unaffiliated, came in third with 4,891 votes.

Republican Laney Funderburk trailed Ali by more than 1,000 votes and Democrat David Harris, a first-time candidate, followed Funderburk in fifth place.

Republican Steve Monks, who ran as a write-in candidate against former Durham district attorney Mike Nifong last year, came in sixth.

Not making the cut were neighborhood activist Victoria Peterson, David Thompson, Joe Williams and Melodic Parrish.

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Since Tuesday, the Duke varsity swimmer’s shirtless, beach-framed picture and brief biography has graced the magazine’s Web site, along with the profiles

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Scott Champagne has been named the top bachelor from his home state of Delaware by Cosmopolitan.

of his 49 other competitors for “Bachelor of the Year.”

Until Oct. 11 at midnight, anyone can go online and peruse each state’s representative hunk and vote for whom he or she thinks should be one of the six finalists.

The issue of Cosmo featuring the bachelors will hit newsstands Oct. 16.

The winner, selected by a panel of Cosmo editors, will be announced Oct. 18 at the annual Bachelor party in New York City and will win $lO,OOO in prize money.

Champagne said Kelsey Doorey, a friend from his hometown of Wilmington, Del., nominated him for the contest.

“Scott is not only hot, funny and an amazing athlete, but he is also genuine and makes

everyone feel important,” Doorey told Cosmo.

She said he is the “hottest guy” she knows in Delaware and added that she decided to nominate him after a conversation with a friend who was an intern at Cosmo.

Champagne said he has known of his state tide since the summer.

“I didn’t know that many people read this magazine, but apparendy it’s one of the biggest girl magazines,” he said. “I was surprised there wasn’t really an interview process. The next thing I knew I was on a plane on my way to a photo shoot in the Hamptons.”

The perks in New York included a hair cut by a famous stylist, free food and access to a beachside mansion’s pool.

“We took about 600 pictures on the beach and then we could chill the rest of the day,” he said.

Champagne said he noticed that he is one of the contest’s younger men. Contenders’ ages range from 19 to 34.

“They have to appeal to all age groups for the magazine,” he said. “I was one of the only guys still in college.”

Champagne added that the other con-

testants represented a wide variety of occupations, ranging from a ski instructor to a radio disc jockey.

Champagne’s friends, however, said he will stand out from the Cosmo crowd with his Division I athleticism and genuine personality.

Many of his friends said they have shown their support by casting their votes in his favor.

“Scotty’s commitmentto Duke and Duke athletics separate him from the rest,” said Fritz Woelfel, Champagne’s friend since freshman year and fraternity brother.

Woelfel, a senior, added that Champagne once beat Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps in a race.

Emily McClintockand Liz Bellew, sophomores on the swim team, said he deserves to win, and added that they consider him to be one of the more “datable” men at Duke.

“Most girls perceive Scotty as a funny and interactive guy—playful [and] easy to get along with,” Woelfel said.

Senior Andrew Burns, another fraternity brother of Champagne’s, also said he SEE COSMO ON PAGE

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Grad works to boost youth social activism by

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Matthew Bennett, Trinity ’O5, is battling disengagement among the youth of today.

In 2006 the recent graduate began the Purpose Project, a nonprofit organization based in Hartford, Conn., dedicated to engaging young adults in overcoming social challenges.

Bennett said the project was inspired by his experience working with Plowshares Institute, a nonprofit that specializes in international peace-building training.

He said the organization seemed to reach a standstill as Bob and Alice Evans, who founded Plowshares, grew older. He said this slowing was similar to a growing trend among social leaders of the 20th century.

Bennett said he found that as the “founders generation” was retiring and no longer able to produce social change, the current youth were being criticized for their apathy.

He found, however, that youth did care, and developed the project to help inspire them to act.

“Rather than dismissing the older generation as has-beens, [the project seeks to engage youth] to inspire others,” Bennett said.

At the center of the project is a book called “Passion and Purpose,” which will focus on the stories of 10 social leaders, beginning with the Evanses.

Bennett, along with Michelle Cote, codirector of the project, uses the older generation of social change-makers as exam-

pies for young people to learn from and create better future strategies, he said.

Bennett and Cote said they hope the book can bridge the gap between generations because it is written by the younger generation for the younger generation.

They are also developing a curriculum to accompany the book as well as a Web site to “find a clearing house of ways to get involved and take action.”

Joel Fleishman, professor of law and public policy studies, said the project could provide a useful model for youth to build on to get involved.

“We all are influenced by examples,” he said. “Too many of these examples are celebrities, people living meaningless lives.

We need models engaging to better the lives of others.”

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Matthew Bennett,Trinity 'O5, and Michelle Cote are working on a bookabout aging social activists.

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ZINNI from page 1 distinguished lecturer position, though, preceded last winter.

Zinni was on the staff at the United States Marine Corps Basic School in Quantico, Va., when Kuniholm was a young lieutenant there in 1968. After hearing Zinni speak at a conference a few years ago, Kuniholm approached Zinni, and the two talked about Kuniholm’s son, a marine officer who was wounded in Iraq in 2005.

After Zinni sent Kuniholm’s son a copy of his book “The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America’s Power and Purpose” —a work that calls for new ways to operate in a post-Soviet Union world—Kuniholm said he began reading up on Zinni.

“I discovered what a really smart and thoughtful person he was,” he said. “As a result, I consulted with a wide range of people and invited him to Duke to give the Sanford Lecture.”

After January’s lecture, Kuniholm invited Zinni to teach at Duke in the Spring 2008 semester.

As part of his military career, Zinni served all over the globe, including time in Japan and Germany and two tours in the Vietnam War. From 1997 to 2000, Zinni was the head ofU.S. Central Command. After Zinni retired from the Marines in 2002, he was appointed the U.S. Special Envoy to Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Zinni’s course, “Leading in a New World,” will look at recent worldwide trends such as globalization and how leaders and organizations across the globe have responded to these changes.

“He has a wealth of experience as a public servant from which he can draw,” Kuniholm said. “He has been an extraor-

Anthony Zinni's speech at Duke last January led to an invitation to teach a course at the Sanford Institute. dinary leader in extraordinary times. He has the kind of sensitivity to situations that I wish more leaders had.”

The course will only be open to Hart Leadership Program students and public policy studies majors and will require an application for admission to the class.

“The thinking [behind restricting enrolment in the course] was that we are bringing him down for the public policy department, which has 180 majors graduate every year,” Kuniholm said.

Kuniholm added that along with teaching a class, Zinni will be available to students and will participate in community events throughout the next semester.

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South Asian concentrations and at least three modem South Asian languages, with Penn offering 13.

In order to promote a stronger emphasis on South Asian studies, DSASI has outlined a few short- and long-term measures that the University could take. Its foremost suggestion is that Duke create a South Asian concentration or certificate program that would facilitate an interdisciplinary approach to studying South Asian history, economics, politics, culture, religion and literature.

The group has also recommended that Duke broaden its SouthAsian-related foreign language course offerings, recruit more visiting professors specializing in the discipline

Senior Scott Champagne is a member ofthe Duke varsity men's swimming team.

COSMO from page 3 has perceived Champagne’s popularity among females.

“I wasn’t even that surprised [that he got nominated] because he’s such a goodlooking guy,” Burns said. “It’s probably part of his everyday life that stuff like this happens. I think [his new tide] will definitely help his status, but he’s already a

highly sought-after commodity.”

Despite his noted desirability, Champagne said he has not dated many girls at Duke because the swim team keeps him too busy.

He added that if he were to ask out a girl at Duke,’ however, he would take her to a basketball game and dien to dinner.

“Dating is rare,” he said. “If you find somebody you click with then you’ve got to take advantage of it.”

Duke South Asian Studies Initiative, boasting a Facebook group with approximately 230 members, has set out both short- and long-term measures the University could take to promote a stronger emphasis on South Asian studies: Short-term: Create a South Asian studies concentration/certificate program Expand foreign language course offerings Increase the number of visiting professors specializing in South Asian studies Create a South Asian studies committee that is comprised of students and faculty •

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Despite receiving numerous requests Campus. Kwatra said the center would ideally to hire faculty resemble the Freeand establish proman Center for “Whatever... can be done exgrams, ThompJewish Life Premlata Vaishceeds a university’s capability. At son said eight new certificate pronava, a lecturer in Duke we have expectations of grams have been Asian and African created in the last and Languages really doing something well.” who three years, so the Literature Robert Thompson, dean creation of a certeaches elementary tificate program and intermediate in South Asian Hindi, said there has been an increase in student interest in studies is feasible if faculty interests align studying South Asian culture and languages. and offering the specialty is shown to be Although she said she would like to see at advantageous for Duke.

“There has been a history of students least two nonlanguage courses offered per semester on South Asia, there are currendy being interested in having courses that adonly two professors who teach these courses. dress their particular cultures and experi“We don’t have enough faculty to teach ences,” he said. “One would have to make South Asian courses,” Vaishnava said. the intellectual argument in the competi“Since I came here, the number of students tion for University resources that it isn’t [taking first- and second-year Hindi] has just thatit’s a good thing to do, but that it’s gready increased. Between [me and Associ- beneficial forDuke in the sense of meeting ate Professor Satendra Khanna] we teach a strategic objective and doing it well.” all of the language courses, and so we don’t Thompson said he would welcome have dme to teach [additional courses that meeting with DSASI about its proposal. address culture and society].”

He plans to meet with Duke Student Kwatra said having a strong connection Government, gamer student interest and with South Asia would also allow the Pratt then present his plan to the administration.

Freshman Daniel Moss said he has noSchool of Engineering to profit from partnerships with leaders in technology, help the ticed a high population of South Asian stuFuqua School of Business enhance its global dents at Duke, adding that the University programs and assist the health and outreach should try to accommodate student interest in the area if it can. efforts of Duke University Medical Center.

Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity Col“I don’t know the process of creating a lege of Arts and Sciences, said although new major, but it seems inconvenient,” he there are many interesting opportunities said. “But instead if you could try to create Duke can pursue, it cannot allocate rean independent study or certificate for the sources toward all of them. particular area that could work.”

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his office job and a “bad boss.”

“I wasn’t getting much exercise and was not eating right, I even reached 269 pounds at one time. Eventually, I worked out a deal to retire,” he said. “But when [people] ask how I got off depression, I tell them a lot of it was exercise,” he said. “I really feel like exercise makes you feel better.”

Stansbury, 64, suffered from a heart attack after falling into depression and was chosen for UPBEAT, which studied cardiac patients suffering from depression.

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that got the placebo pill,” he said. “And it also showed exercise was comparable to medication.”

According to the study, there was a 26-percent remission rate of depression symptoms for the placebo-pill treatment group, a 44-percent remission rate for the antidepressant treatment group, a 46percent remission rate for the supervised exercise treatment group and a 38-percent remission rate for the home-based exercise treatm grOU P “When [people] ask how The c omparable results for ing compared to I got off depression, I tell and exercise cardiac patients r medication treat- them a lot of it was exercise. who are not dement led experts pressed, BlumenI re ally feel like exercise to believe that exthal said, makes you feel better. w ercise can be an “i didn’t feel alternative treatllke 1 George Stansbury, rpatient sion whiledeITpres ment tor depreswas ■■■■■■■■■——^i sion. The results [exercising],” of the study were Stansbury said. inconclusive in regards to whether exercise “For the first month [after my heart atneeds to be supervised or not. tack], I just stayed at home and went out “Potentially, as an alternative, exercise once to go to the doctor’s. But once you could be the sole treatment for depres- notice how much good it does you, you sion,” Blumenthal said. “If we give patients start thinking. ‘Hey, what’s 30 minutes more options, it is better for the patient, a day?’ I enjoy it while I’m doing it. I feel like I have more breath, and I was Depression is very common but antidepressants don’t work for everybody. There are just glad to get off medication. To me, side effects, it’s expensive and some people exercise, when you get to my age, is a just don’t like medication.” lifestyle change.”

George Stansbury, a patient of the UnMandy Singer, a Counseling and Psyderstanding the Prognostic Benefits of Exchological Services counselor, said alercise and Antidepressant Therapy study—- though there are several theories as to a follow-up to SMILE—advocated exercise how exercise helps treat depression, the as a viable alternative to medication. exact mechanisms are still uncertain.

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“We are less certain about the mechanisms because to test the brain chemistry, we would need to be very invasive,” Blumenthal said. “We need to develop relationships first with the patients.”

Singer also expressed concerns regarding the use of exercise as an alternative treatment. “[Exercise] might be a good treatment for low- to mild-grade depression,” Singer

said. “But it is dangerous to just prescribe exercise for moderate to severe case padents. Such patients may be suicidal and need to seek more professional help.”

Blumenthal said conclusive differences between the effects of the two active treatments—exercise and antidepressants could not be made unless at least 300 patients were studied from each group.

“With more studies and evidence, exercise could potentially become an alternalive to medication,” he said.

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Crouch chats on changes, legacy Not often does a jazz critic earn the designation “firebrand.

But Stanley Crouch isn’t yourfather’s jazz critic. A closefriend of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and a member of his Jazz @ Lincoln Center cadre, Crouch is outspoken about what jazz is (it must swing and be based in the blues) and who can’t play (trumpeter Dave Douglas, mainly). But in addition to a notoriously hot temper, he brings one of the subtlest and best voices to the field.

He spoke with recess David Graham ahead of his lecture on TheloniousMonk’s 1959 Town Hall Concert Friday.

What was your introduction to Monk?

There were these guys who lived behind me when I was living in so-called South Central L.A. and they were always playing records. When I was 10,12, 13, you know, I went over there one day, and they were listening to Coltrane’s My Favorite Things, which had just come out, and no one had heard anything that sounded like that before. So I started going back there, and they told me about the music.

Eventually, one day they put on Thelonious in Action, which was recorded in 1958 at the Five Spot in NewYork City. So they talked about Monk and who he was and how way out he was supposed to be and how one day that record we were listening to would be a classic. I didn’t know what he was doing then and I don’tknow what he was doing now. There’s always something that an artist ”

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“Our Western diets are literally killing us.” This sentiment, expressed by Dr. Steven G. Pratt, author of SuperFoods Rx, has gained momentum in recent years in response to skyrocketing obesity rates and unhealthy lifestyles. Many fad diets aim to decrease this trend by focusing on low-calorie, low-nutrition foods, resulting in an overall inclination towards food deprivation. However, the healthiest way to reverse this alarming development may in fact lie in what is added to the diet instead of what is taken away.

Dr. Pratt’s book focuses on 14 key “super foods” and their immense influence on both nutrition and overall health. While the precise definition of a super food is quite elusive, each of these foods follows the general trend of having exceptionally high nutritional value with

respect to caloric content. These foods are often rich in key vitamins and minerals needed for healthy living as well as disease fighting capabilities.

“By choosing these foods more often, your diet is packed with disease fighting nutrients, such as fiber, antioxidants and phytochemicals” said Anna Lutz, a Duke Student Health dietician. She added that studies show a higher intake of these nutrients reduces your risk of certain diseases, like cancer and heart disease.

Super foods are also all “whole” foods, meaning they have not been processed in any way that alters their nutritional characteristics.

While there is no single cut-and-dry strategy for finding the healthiest foods, many of them do follow similar trends.

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Frank tells secrets of Post Secret Nancy Wang

Currently, Frank receives around 1000 postcards weekly from all over the world and chooses approximately 20 The “most trusted stranger in America,” according to postcards to be displayed online at his blog every Sunday. the Knoxville News-Sentinel, is a 42-year-old small business The postcards all vary in content—some are heart-breakowner whose love for sharing other people’s secrets has ing, some are hilarious or inspiring and there are even some that are incriminating—but all provide an intensely propelled him into the spodight.

Frank Warren started out 2004 as a suburban husband, personal look into individuals from all walks oflife. supplying medical records to businesses and companies, “I see the project as a collection of secrets that I share and ended the year as the founder of PostSecret, one of with people in different ways,” Frank said. “It’s artwork, the top-20 most popular blogsites according to Technorati. it’s away to feel connected, a possible journey of self-recOriginally, PostSecret was supposed to be a short-term ognition if you want to participate. It is what you need it art project. During a personal rough period, Frank went to be.” out onto the streets of Washington D.C. and handed Free from all annotation and judgment, the Post Secret out 3000 self-addressed blank postcards. He encouraged blog is a simple sanctuary. Despite the intense responses people to write a personal and true secret that has never that some of these postcards elicit, especially those involvbeen spoken before on the postcard, add a touch of arting rape and murder, Frank believes that his job is “not to work and mail it in to him. The subsequent 300 postcards react or judge, but to just reflect the secret back for oththatFrank received were exhibited as an installation in the ers to see.” The only comments that are ever posted are 2004 multi-media arts event “Artomatic.” However, even some responses and reactions from other viewers and the after the event had ended, people continued to mail in by

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Editor’s Note 8: stress’n it Last Friday, Lindsay Lohan aka Li-lo aka Firecrotch aka The Big Easy —or was that New Orleans?—checked out of rehab. Much to the dismay of various narcotics dealers in the SoCal area, Lohan has vowed to stay completely sober, avoiding the treacherous pitfalls of substance abuse, recess has decided to give the Herbie: Fully Loaded star foolproof ways to cope with kicking the habit Halo 3 As discussed in the Editor’s Note (see right), there is nothing more relaxing than an epic game of Halo 3. Now if your hands are too jittery, you may not be capable of taking out Brutes on Legendary mode. So get those drug-shakes under control!

Milk and Cookies One word, four letters, three syllables: Oreo. While you are chillin’ in Utah, you are going to have to cut back on the caffeine. That means no large mocha frappes from Sbux. A nice large glass of whole milk and eight Oreos ($2.99 at Dain’s Place) will do a

body good.

recess' Managing Editor Alex WanSpeaking of doing a body g00d... please consider Lex as a viable altemalive to drugs. He is charming, humorous and affectionate. What’s not to love? He likes long walks on the beach, smooth sounds of yacht rock and making fun of Hilary Duff.

Babies Everyone knows that babies are the perfect cure-all. You always hear about wild hooligans turning their life around with the birth of their first child. Look at Britney Spears.

She was drugged up and doing gross things with K-Fed on hotel balconies and now that she has kids, she is perfectly mature and

well-adjusted.

Give up Sometimes you just gotta sip that Gin V Juice. Don’t feel bad, everyone slips. As long as you stay out of rehab until 2008, we win the office pool. For the sake of $25, stay strong Li-10, stay strong.

I can not possibly be any more stressed this moment.

Between the classes, the independent study, the internship, the extracurriculars and the job search, I feel like I am steadily going crazy. Yet, this is the arduous path most seniors seem to face year after year.

We ask ourselves, “Do we study for this test or do we prepare for the interview?”

If we are lucky enough to prepare ahead of time, we manage to do both —but not without stressing out for a full week and complaining to all nearby friends who will listen.

Duke is one of the few places where students can already have a 100 grand job at a top-rated bank stowed away, and they still stress about that B on their last midterm.

We trick ourselves into thinking that the minor stuff really matters, that we must please this invisible force with 4.o’s and distinctions. at

I am also guilty of the overextension game, ripping at the metaphorical seams, but I learned that an hour a day can go a long way.

Just taking a single hour per day can make you productive and keep you from the edge. For me it has been exercise and Halo 3—nothing is more de-stressing than a good game ofbasketball and blasting away a few members of the Covenant. For you it may be Frisbee or television or underwater basket weaving (hey, they’re your hobbies, not mine).

The rhetoric may be simple, but it is amazing how many weekdays we can go from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. without a moment to breathe (or 12 p.m. to 4 a.m. if you’re my roommate).

I can not possibly be any more stressed at this moment, but I am coping with it pretty well.

—Varan Leila, Editor

Reasons to go "into the wild" Varun Leila Alex Warr Baishi Wu Irem Mertol.

Bryan Zupon Bryan Sayler, Janet Wu Nancy Wang Lucie Zhang....

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So news realizes how much they’ll miss us Lindsay Lohan ln search of DG’s natural habitat because I’m an alcoholic Wild mushrooms! that a LOTR reference?

Was Do dogs pee on fire hydrants?

I am more of a cat person.

By person do you mean lady? As in scary cat lady?

Because the sky is really orange... I swear. It’s so orange.

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INTO THE WILD

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I find myself perpetually on the brink of trudging off into theibrested distance—midterms be damned.

But alas, responsibility (and an egregiously expensive tuition) moves me to hole up and plug in when I’d rather be whirling and twirling through a grassy meadow. That’s why Chris McCandless (Emile Hirsch), the Emory-graduate-turned-adventuring vagabond in Sean Penn’s film Into the Wild, caused me to peep out of my study booth in hopes of some spiritual catharsis.

Disillusionment evolves into Wall Street or law school for most graduates. But for Chris—a neo-scholar, mind flowered with transcendentalist poetry—the anti-society apoplexy translates into a hobo hairdo and a hitchhike quest for Alaska.

Actor Sean Penn (/ am Sam, Mystic River), known for his politics and acidic anti-Bush rhetoric, steps behind the camera and navigates between film medium and Krakauer text. Lines from journal entries are scrawled across stunning landscapes. Lyrical narration is paired with a voyeur’s view of intimate isolation. At times, the textual and musical literalness is a bit jarring, appearing too deliberate in our scruffy protagonist’s moments ofuncivilized bliss.

McCandless bonds with a colorful assortment of individuals during his feral pilgrimage. From a groovy hippiecouple (Catherine Keener and Brian Dierker) to feeble loner Ron (Hal Holbrook), each encounter is patiendy portrayed, vibrating with a rare note of authenticity.

The scenic path-not-taken is a joy to experience. Penn disrupts linearity by cutting from McCandless’ tragic desperation in the Alaskan wilds to the initial ecstasies of his self-dependence. Hirsch is McCandless incarnate. His

easy grin and startled eyes communicate the pains of the disenchanted.

McCandless’ motivation seem clear: escape materialism, escape his stifled domestic troubles, escape insufferable society in all her lusty excesses. But there’s something more complex about the journey. I’m reminded of a line from ‘9os indie-comedy Kicking and Screaming, where witty graduate Max declares, “I wish we were just going off to war. Or retiring; I wish I was retiring after a lifetime of hard labor.” Into the Wild speaks to this dilemma of the privileged. Barred from complaint, guilty at our own dissatisfaction, we pursue the paths of the greats before us fearful that the little we do is redundant. How exquisite savage nature must seem by comparison?

The film leaves us with a sense of uncertainty. Are we, the disillusioned young people, frauds or heroes? Was McCandless a desperate kid imitating the past ora poet fulfilling his purest work? Penn offers no answers but paints the questions in two and a half hours ofcinematic beauty.

—Janet Wu

Penn, Hirsch head Into the Wild What inspired you to make this film?

SEAN PENN; The quickest answer is Jon Krakauer’s book. I bought the book and I found myself reading it

twice. There was something that spoke, for lack of a better word, freedom about it—something that seemed very present at the time and all the years that it took before I was able to make it and just stuck with me.

And those things are what dominated the way I chose to tell the story.

Chris is an extremely complex character. How did you even begin to get into his head?

SP: The thing about Chris McCandless that was very helpful was that he left a lot of clues behind. There was a wealth of very deep understanding between he and his sister, and so his sister was very helpful. There was also the journal and the photograph that Chris took on his cover-to-cover

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Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder takes a quieter vocal route in the soundtrack to Into the Wild. Recruited

by Director Sean Penn to pen and perform the score, Vedder’s acoustic solo debut is the musical counterpart to Chris McCandless’ journey—rough, genuine, at times radiating a far-flung sense of adventure, at others a simple solitude set against the gentle plucking of a ukulele.

The sweeping pace of “Setting Forth,” with its bold declaration, “Keep setting forth in the universe,” winds down to a poignant campfire melody in “Long Nights” and its lonesome verses, “Long nights allow me to feel/I’m falling, I’m falling/The lights go out/Let me feel/I’m falling.” Main track “Hard Sun” is a folksy anthem that showcases Vedder’s sweeping range: it’s the kind of folk rock that you could only hope to soar above McCandless as he hitchhikes his way to the fantasized Alaska.

Vedder and Penn create a powerhouse of art and politics. Vedder adds words to Penn’s visual narration. Lyrics such as “Society, you’re a crazy breed/I hope you’re not lonely, without me” seem to emanate from McCandless’ head, articulating what the audience sees as a forlorn gaze or wistful glance.

There’s something uncultivated, something sweeping and feral and profoundly broken about Vedder’s voice. He literally howls in “The Wolf,” a brief but chilling release in the otherwise domesticated tracks. Although the lyrics sometimes match the film too obviously, exposing mystery with articulation, the soundtrack is nonetheless imparted with the raw and innocent tenor so central to the film.

—Janet Wu

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ACROSS THE UNIVERSE DIR. J. TAYMOR COLUMBIA PICTURES

Lady Chatterley is one of few recent films that steps gracefully away from exorbitantly expensive computer-generated images of, say, giant robots or battling armies.

Instead of using big-budget special effects, French director Pascale Ferran does something antiquated and perhaps forgotten by the American audience—she uses old-fashioned cinematography and relies on the talents of her actors to tell the story.

Morina Hands stars as Lady Constance Chatterley, the wife of an affluent nobleman, Clifford Chatterley (Hippolyte Girardot) in post World War I England. Together, the two portray perfectly the standard stuffy marriage between two members of the English upper class. Girardot conveys the sort of distance and arrogance one might expect from a rich industrialist, while Hands brings to life the stifled and

quiet misery of Lady Chatterley.

Things change when Constance embarks on a journey of self-discovery by opening both her mind—and her body to her husband’s gamekeeper, Parkin (Jean-Louis Coullo’ch). As her first hesitant trysts with Parkin develop into a torrid love affair, the audience witnesses a prim aristocrat, estranged from a sense of wonder and vitality, reawaken and rediscover what it means to be a woman.

This deliberate and sensuous movie is not for the impatient. Its value comes from absorbing every shot, mild or vibrant, from people engaging in menial domestic tasks to passionate love scenes amidst the lush countryside of Chatterley’s estate.

Those looking for the fast-paced action and over-the-top explosions of Hollywood blockbusters may find Lady Chatterley to be a three-hour snooze-fest punctuated by titillating scenes of nudity. For the rest of us, the film serves as an astonishingly realistic glimpse of a woman’s life in a society far removed from our own.

—Braden Hendricks

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to be part of a film that I felt was a real adventure. Just making it, you get to know a

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road trip. And then on top of that we went on the road and met all the people he ran into at the time the story’s being told.And so we take all of those things and at the very least [they] make human sense in the broadest sense.

And then you’re telling a story. This is a story of Chris McCandless, and it’s also a story primarily of those couple of years he was on the road. In the broadest sense, I think I was borrowing his complication to dramatize things that are part of all our lives.

What did you personally gain from this movie and what were your favorite scenes or favorite scenes to film?

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different part ofAmerica.

I went to places I don’tknow if I would have ever been to and got to meet a lot of interesting people. For me, it was an adventure of a lifetime and I was happy to be a part of it. And really, it was everybody—not just me —but everybody on the crew got a chance to step outside their comfort zone and do things they maybe they didn’t think they could. We were doing rapids on a kayak—me and Sean both did rapids in kayaks on the Colorado river in the Grand Canyon. This isn’t the kind of stuff you normally get to do when you make a film.

SP: And I would say for my part again that the feeling out there is that we all have this baggage from society, if you

If you chop Julie Taymor’s Beatles-inspired musical into its 33 individual tracks, you would have a treasure trove of superbly psychedelic mini-music videos. But as a story-oriented whole, Across the Universe is more feeble than funky.

Universe struggles to forge a plot out of its pre-destined soundtrack. Jude of “Hey Jude” and Lucy of “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” fall conveniently into love during the Vietnam War and those strawberries of “Strawberry Fields Forever” make a satisfactorily squishy appearance as the object of Jude’s artistic desperation. Not so bad, right?

But then Taymor arbitrarily introduces Prudence of “Dear Prudence”, an entirely irrelevant lesbian Asian girl who sulks and sways and has nothing to do with anything and eventually disappears into a traveling circus presided over by Mr. Kite aka Eddie Izzard and his host of long-faced blue puppets.

With the sparseness of original dia-

want to call it conditioning or fraud, that we carry around on our backs—our own baggage placed on us that when you go out into the relentless circumstances of the natural world you get outnumbered.

And no place does that like Alaska, no place for me anyway. This was something where the mountains were steeper, rockier and bigger. Rivers were more muscular and everything was what I call “nature on steroids.”

It was so alive and big and a wonder you never got bored of it. It didn’t take a naturalist to stay interested in the environment there. It was an exciting place to be and in the best sense you would feel small. And that felt more accurate then what you can feel in other places when you think you’re controlling something.

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logue, the actors are forced to depend on the film’s music as a crutch. Still, boyishly handsome Brit Jim Sturgess carries the role of Jude with a noticeable ease, falling into song and choreography with a jaunty charm his opening ballad is worthy of a swoon. Evan Rachel Wood is a delicate activist-nymph who strikes up a dreamy chemistry with Sturgess. Guest star Bono makes —

a neon appearance during a trippy spin through the countryside (goo goo g’joob!) and Dana Fuchs and Martin Luther McCoy storm the stage as sexy soulful band/bed mates Sadie and JoJo. Universe is pleasant enough how could it not be with the Beatles as a creative muse?

Taymor infuses the film with that dizzifymg hippy rnake-love-not-war sensibility that we need a little more of these days, The inventory of beautifully outlandish scene snippets, although nonsensical, make for an agreeable visual spectacle. But the film stumbles in its Journey for the trufy spectacular by lapsing into the literal or diving too venturously into its lyrical script, The dose of psychotropics lose their edge and even singing a sad song won’t make it much better.

—Janet Wu

as rebellious, intelligent and uncompromising, sort of like Chris is in the movie. Was this movie autobiographical in any way?

SP: Well, I think that any autobiography that’s of any value is an autobiography of all of us and that we each contribute to it or design it in away that... it means something. My movie means something if the audience of the movie—if their interpretation— means something. So yes, it’s personal and it’s universal.

What were some of the emotional triumphs or struggles involved in the family and the friends that Chris encountered on the road that had to be overcome in order for this film to be made?

SP: Clearly, there were difficulties in the family that did not shine favorably on the parents in the film and they were all true. Everything I put in the film was true and I think that represented an enormous amount of selfless courage on behalfof the parents... allowing me to be relatively unflinching in the portrayal.

In fact, I should say in terms of allowing me to do this, there were no stipulations on what I could or couldn’t do. The spirit of the movie I wanted to make, I was clear about, and then [his parents] had to make a decision about gambling how that would portray them or not. They stuck with it throughout the difficult times.

It was a big roller coaster of emotions, but ultimately I think everybody was in it for the same reasons, which was to celebrate the spirit of their son’s journey and to do that there’s going to have to be some blemishes. And so they took those things and let the story be told. And if they had not dramatized those things I think that we would have let Chris down because those are important aspects of what drove him.

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KID ROCK ROCK N ROLL JESUS ATLANTIC

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Why? Just, why?

Its identity crisis aside, the ironic thing about Kid Rock’s latest album, Rock N Roll Jesus, is that its very existence proves that Rock certainly isn’t one. Instead, a more appropriate name might be: Country Music Half-Heartedly Disguised as Rock & Roll with Contradictory Underlying Social Messages and a Touch ofSynthesizers for Good Measure. But that might be too many syllables (although let’s face it, it really shouldn’t matter when iTunes automatically imports song and album names anyway—hello, Panic! at the Disco and Fall Out Boy).

In all seriousness, though, the album is honestly confused. It starts

JENNIFER LOPEZ BRAVE EPIC

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J-Lo. Jenny from the Block. The former “niffer” of Benniffer. All of these are names for America’s favorite singer/dancer/actress/entrepreneur: Jennifer Lopez.

Following up two years of quiet musical missteps—including a largely-ignored Spanish-language album—J-Lo returns to the English speaking scene in an attempt to revive her once-glowing pop career. Brave, which abides by the same formula Lopez used to create her pop career, is a collection of dance hall anthems with a few ballads thrown in to mix things up.

Lyrically and musically, Brave is unexciting and stays within the confines of formulaic R&B-pop fusion. The lead single, “Do It Well,” and the “The Way It Is” both beg to be blasted at clubs. However fun they may be, these tracks are instantly forgettable, lacking the punch of J-Lo’s biggest hits like “Waiting RADIOHEAD IN RAINBOWS INDEPENDENT

This week Thom Yorke and company, the band commonly known as Radiohead, return with their seventh studio album, In Rainbows, an industrydefying response to the creative constraints enacted by big-name labels. Commemorating the fulfillment of theirrecord contract, the band was able to release In Rainbows completely on their own terms, meaning free from any and all studio involvement. Fortunately for us, no record companies also means no hefty price tag. The album is available for download on inrainbows.com, where each user is free to decide for himself how much to pay for the album—and Radiohead makes it clear that free is most certainly an most

option.

Thom Yorke has described the new album as “about that anonymous fear thing, sitting in traffic, thinking, T’m sure I’m supposed to be doing something else.’” Radiohead are masters at creating this paranoid atmosphere by utilizing a combination of Yorke’s falsetto, Johnny Greenwood’s guitar workand heavenly orchestration.

The up-tempo opener, “15 Step,” teems with paranoid, chugging backdrops for Yorke’s quavering voice. Guitar-driven tracks such as “Bodysnatchers” and “Reckoner” compliment slower ones where Yorke’s wailing reaches its full potential. “Nude” is the

recess similar to Rock’s 1998 “Cowboy.” Unfortunately for Rock, this standard and mediocre song makes the only thing he’s really bringing back seem to be bad Bon Jovi imitations, rather than “Sex, drugs, and rock ’n‘ roll.” The story doesn’t get better with his latest single, “So Hott” (note the two Ts), which is likely to become the anthem of a night at Shooters.

It’s trashy Southern, only catchy when drunk and exclusively centered on the hook-up, with a chorus that screams: “I wanna get you alone/I wanna get you stoned/I don’t wanna be your friend/I wanna f—you like I’m never gonna see you again.” No matter how many times it’s played, it would be obnoxiously overdone. Let’s not even talk about the next song, “Sugar,” which starts to get painful at around 50 seconds.

Otherwise, the album leans towards the line-dancing crowd with forays into the strangely, hypocritically philosophical, with songs like “When U Love Somee” that are reminiscent of “Picture,” his duet with leryl Crow. Religion’s strong influence on the alum can be seen in the lyrics and titles of songs like Blue Jeans and a Rosary” and “Amen,” which even has an all-out gospel choir thatkicks in at 3:57 with a chorus of amens.

Overall, it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what Kid Rock is trying to express about Robert James Ritchie, or really if he’s trying to say anything at all. Basically, if you’re about to download Rock N Roll Jesus, please refer to the first line of this review. You’ll probably hear him an offensive amount of times at Shooters anyway.

—Lucie Zhang

for Tonight” and “Jenny from the Block” which boasted better beats and more enjoyably inane lyrics.

Lopez does, however, shine on the album’s final two tracks. Her personal empowerment anthem, “Brave” is the best written and performed track on the album. More importantly, the song has the makings of the perfect guilty pleasure. The bonus track, a remix of“Do It Well” featuring Ludacris harps back to collaborations like “I’m Real.”

The album falters most with the slow jams. While the dance tracks tend to hide the lyrical faux pas of Brave, the ballads shine a bright light on them. “Wrong When You’re Gone” illustrates feeble attempts at rhyme like “Heaven knows if you were here/I’d be all up in your ear.” These tracks amount to a painful robotic droning.

If hashing out weaker versions of earlier albums is considered valiant, J. Lo has earned the right to name her album Brave. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

While not the musical equivalent of Gigli, J. Lo’s musical career has seen better days.

—Andrew Hibbard

simplest yet most terrifying track on the album. The combination of Yorke’s voice against Greenwood’s gliding guitar creates a feeling of uneasy calm before some impending chaos, as if in the eye of a storm.

The album properly ends with a signature Thom Yorke solo piece, “Videotape,” a haunting melody about a man recording his good-byes to his family before reaching the “Pearly Gates” of Heaven. Yorke’s quaver and morose piano work infuse the valediction with a peaceful longing.

Radiohead have been able to do whatever they want to for years, mostly because whatever Thom Yorke touches seems to turn to gold. This time, they’ve taken it to the next level. Unfettered by the pesky middleman that is the record label, Radiohead has again managed to release an album that is introspective yet culturally relevant.

—Stefanija Giric

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THE PIPETTES WE ARE THE PIPETTES MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES

Fun, flirty and fantastically infectious, the U.K-trio The Pipettes’ debut album, We Are The Pipettes, delivers retro-pop with a

brand new wrapping.

Formed in 2003, the band brings back ’6os Phil Spector-inspired pop with a dash of promiscuity and a modern rock twist.

Headed by Riotßecki, Gwenno and Rosay, the gals are breaking into the U.S. market with their polka-dot dresses and choreographed dance moves.

Simple, repetitive lyrics and melodic harmonies guide most of the dance-oriented tracks. In their song “Pull Shapes” words such as “Dance with me baby boy tonight/Dance with me and we’ll be alright” accompany power-pop melodies that make for easy grooving and smooth moving.

Adding on to a solid batch of dance songs, The Pipettes aren’t afraid to push the sweetheart-envelope. The strongest track on the CD, the sassy sing-a-long “Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me” displays a perfect balance of in-your-face attitude and sugary chords that turns even the brattiest comments into tasteful fun. In the youthful ballad, “One Night Stand,” lyrics such as “I don’t love you/If you think that this is cruel/Then you should see what my friends do” have away of making the girls deliciously cruel, while clapping and snapping reverberates in the background.

However, the overdose of lubby-dubby ballads could potentially lose their luster if you don’t prefer bubblegum pop. Thankfully, most songs are under three minutes, ensuring that all the tracks don’t turn from catchy to catastrophe.

In contrast to the heavy, abstract dribble that flows out of most mainstream emo/indie bands these days, The Pipettes don’t take themselves too seriously and instead concentrate on having a good time.

—Jessie Tang

Shows of the week Del Tha Funky Homosapien Saturday 10/13 Cat’s Cradle ,

Hip hop legend slings rhymes sans Gorillaz sidekicks.

Charles Tolliver Orchestra Saturday 10/13 Page Auditorium ,

Part of the “Following Monk” series, acclaimed orchestra pays homage to 1959 Monk show.

Cat Power 8c Dirty Delta Blues Tuesday 10/16, Cat’s Cradle Cat Power brings melodic minimalism to Cat’s Cradle.

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In the small town of Brookhaven, Mississippi, orphan Carnelle Scott dreams of being crowned Miss Firecracker in her town’s Independence Day beauty pageant.

Add Carnelle’s odd-ball costume designer and crazed cousins and what follows is The Miss Firecracker Contest, a frank

and comical look at small-town life in Mississippi.

Beth Henley, the Pulitzer-prize winning playwright of Crimes of the Heart, wrote Miss Firecracker in the 1980s. And in its 23-year history, it still manages to engage and entertain, which is why local theater group Ghost & Spice Productions chose this show to perform at Durham’s Common Ground Theatre.

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Carnelle Scott aims to be the next Miss Firecracker in The MissFirecracker Contest a comedy set in thesouth. ,

POSTSECRET from page 1 occasional call by Frank for an English translation.With PostSecret receiving millions ofhits every week, Frank’s biggest concern is keeping the site safe, which is why apart from a legal notice, instructions on how to send in a postcard and a link to the suicide help-line Hopeline, there is nothing but secrets, not even advertisements.

So why postcards?

“I like linking the use of modern technology with the old technology of snail-mail postcards,” Frank said.

While using the blog as a convenient way for people to experience Post Secret, Frank also works to preserve the intimacy of each secret by refreshing the site every Sunday, never using a postcard twice and not keeping any accessible archives on the site.

“I check PostSecret every Sunday because it’s interesting to see the way that people express the things that matter to them,” junior Erica Gropp said.

PostSecret can be a voyeuristic experience for some, a form of self-counseling for odiers and even a source of comfort for those who are depressed or suicidal. Indeed, many “confessors,” such as the notable Cassie—whose picture has been a staple at die bottom of the PostSecret blog—have cited PostSecret as their source of hope in dieir time ofneed. Although depression is not the dominating theme among the postcards that are sent in, it is clear dial loneliness is. Having been a volunteer at the

Miss Firecracker consist of two acts.

The first act focuses on Carnelle’s entry into the beauty pageant world and the second on the backstage events of the pageant. The actual beauty pageant is never a part of the play, which focuses the audience’s attention onto the dynamics of the characters, especially the family members.

The emphasis on character, as well as the small six-member cast, fit into Ghost & Spice’s mission. Ghost & Spice’s Managing Director Rachel Klem, also the director of the Common Ground Theatre, is directing Miss Firecracker.

“We have six in this play, which is a lot for us. We usually only have two or three actors,” Klem said. “It gives our actors something to really sink their teeth into. We think ofourselves as an acting company so there’s really no small parts.”

Klem added that she has a personal preference toward small casts.

“You get to focus on characters and their relationships and a lot of really good acting techniques,” she said.

With a capacity of just over 50 people, the Common Ground Theatre gives the audience a more intimate experience.

“One of the nice things about Common Ground is... people get a really up-close perspective,” Klem said. “It’s really interesting to be ten feet from the actors.”

Hopeline suicide hodine for years, Frank strongly supports the help that they offer and hopes to introduce other help services to his website in the near future. Far from being a simple promoter for these services, Frank genuinely believes in the good work that they do. So much so that, when the All American Rejects offered to pay Frank $lOOO in 2006 to use some of the secrets in their music video for “Dirty Litde Secret,” Frank refused.

He instead offered them access to the secrets only in return for a $2OOO donation to Hopeline.

An engaging and deeply personal look into the demons and hopes of unknown strangers all around us, Post Secret has come very far from its humble origins as an installation. The winner of eight Bloggies—including “Weblog of the Year” for the second consecutive year—and the muse for a pop music video, Post Secret has become a modern phenomenon.

Even the PostSecret books, compilations of neverbefore-seen postcards, are a success. The fourth installation, A Lifetime of Secrets, came out on Oct. 9 and is “a full story arc of a biography of all of us, from age eight to 80, as told through our secrets,” Frank said.

Widi a secret keeper who loves and lives to share, it’s no wonder that PostSecret is the worst-kept secret on the internet So how does Frank deal with his weighty task?

“I really feel as though I’m haunted by other people’s secrets, but I don’t see it as a bad thing,” Frank said. “It helps me to feel more compassion towards people. I’ve gained more empathy.”

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Klem said the play was chosen democratically by Ghost & Spice’s nine board members. As a group, they read over the play and found the it’s comedy perfect for the production company. When the scheduling came around, the play unexpectedly landed into Klem’s lap.

Although directing the play came as a surprise to Klem, it is one she has enjoyed because of the play’s unique mix of physical action, comedy and rich characters.

Miss Firecracker, like works by Tennessee Williams and Harper Lee, is often characterized as Southern Gothic, and Klem also notes Henley’s reliance on what she calls a “southern mythology.” Klem said that the play includes some racist remarks that are delivered casually, though they are not meant to be causal. She said these elements are just a part of the southern experience.

“The mythology of the South —the heat, the actions, the situations—it becomes certain things we identify as Southern,” Klem said.

With the small venue and “larger than life characters,” The Miss Firecracker Contest offers audiences an entertaining and upclose look at the ways of the South.

The Miss Firecracker Contest will run at Common Ground Theatre on Hillsborough Road on Oct. 11-13 and Oct. 18-20 at 8 p.m. with a special Sunday matinee Oct. 14 at 2 p.m.

CROUCH from page 1 creates that’s music. Hemingway once said that all great writ-

ing has in common that aspect that resists analysis.

What do you as a critic have to say about Monk as opposed to the musicians?

[The] thing about Monk is that he played in away that actually allowed you, the listener, to feel that you were working out the problem with him. No matter what style you play, you have the same problem that everyone else has. You still have to figure out the note, the rhythm, the phrasing that has the most musical quality to it. He played with a lot of space and he allows you to hear the phrase. When one starts listening to him, he’s a lot easier to follow than other players.

What is the significance of the Town Hall concert you’re lecturing on?

One tune: “Little Rootie Tootie,” because that was a transcription of Monk’s original piano improvisation from about 10 years earlier. To hear that played by the band was so exciting and so startling, ’cause no one had ever heard anything like that, because no one had written anything like that. When you heard it, it was so staggering. Everyone I know who was playing that record was playing that track. I think Monk’s Town Hall concert was equally significant to what a lot ofwriters attribute to the combination ofMiles Davis and Gil Evans.

You wrote in your essay “At the Five Spot” that European technique was simply irrelevant to what Monk was doing, and at Town Hall we have him collaborating with a Julliard composer [Hall Overton]. How does it all fit?

Monk had perfect pitch, so if he didn’t like the stuff, he would have said, ‘No no no, that’s wrong, or that note isn’t right.’ One thing we know is that the notes used were the right notes. Secondarily, the thing about European technique usually means velocity technique, that those musicians can play in tune and get all the notes.

Monk had velocity technique, which he didn’t necessarily use too much of that often. He was focused on developing a style that the audience could hear, so he never bought into the racehorse tempos of the bebop era. He had some fast tunes. Bip-de-bip-da-da —no, he didn’t play that. He was more influenced by the Count Basie tempos. Secondarily, I think he was affected by the Basie tempos on one hand and I think he was also struck by the extraordinary clarity of playing that one heard in Louis Armstrong. Armstrong could do as much if not more with one note than anybody. There are some great Monk solos when he plays just one phrase, and then he’ll hit one different note and it’s like the roof falls in. ‘Damn! He played another note!’ He was also looking for a tone on the instrument that paralleled that of a horn.

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SUPER FOODS from page 1 “Focus on a lot of different colors so that you get a nice variety of plant pigments’ benefits, antioxidants and nutrients,” advised Franca Alphin, Duke Director of Health Promotion. This concentration on color variation has long been cited as a necessary component of healthy eating.

This single trend applies to many of the most nutrientdense super foods—spinach, sweet potatoes, blueberries and is one of the most reliable techniques for identifying the healthiest choices.

While each super food is a powerhouse in and of itself, a few of them pack a superior nutritional punch. Nutritionists agree that adding three foods alone—blueberries, spinach and salmon—can significantly enhance well-being and health status.

“There are some that are better as they have a higher nutrient density than others,” Alphin added.

Nuts, particularly walnuts and almonds, are also key providers of this fatty acid and should be included in the diet in moderation (one small handful per day). The growing array ofbenefits for nut consumption is quite astounding, with a greatly reduced chance of coronary artery disease topping out the list. Plus, nuts are so filling that they help prevent overeating and lengthen satiety.

Additional super foods such as broccoli, tomatoes, beans and yogurt each have their own “super power” and should also be included in any diet for maximum health.

“Balance and variety are a big part of eating a healthy diet... vary your diet, choose all different colors of fruits and vegetables and balance your meals and snacks with protein, fat and carbohydrates,” Lutz advised.

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Many large food corporations are using this new focus on health to jazz up their product lines. For instance, in the fall of 2004, General Mills began making all their cereals out of whole grain instead of the nutrient-deficient enriched flour, with this change becoming prominent in recent commercials.

Kraft Foods’ Crystal Light beverage line offers another example of this movement. Their new “enhanced” line of flavor combinations subsists on key ingredient add-ins, such as the incorporation of pomegranates in the new immunity-boosting cherry pomegranate flavor. Pomegranates entered the spodight not long ago with discoveries of their extremely high levels of antioxidants and their ability to gready lower blood pressure and cholesterol. And food corporations are seizing the opportunity to play on this newfound celebrity.

However, there are many pitfalls in place for unwary customers. It is not uncommon to see the words “whole grain” printed in large, bold font and “with” printed negligibly right above it. In other words, these foods that appear to be made of whole grain often still have enriched flour as their main ingredient, with small amounts of whole grains added further down the list. Therefore it is necessary to be mindful of these traps and careful in food selection.

It is never too early or late to start adding these extremely beneficial foods to the diet. There is no doubt they are critical to well-being—increased energy levels and reduced sickness only touch on the resulting benefits.

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Spinach is another key food with a high nutrient density. The subject of many studies, spinach is linked to lower blood pressure as well as a lower risk for almost every type of cancer. Cooked and raw spinach each have unique nutritional benefits, so it is best to eat both if at all possible. Foods containing similar benefits, and considered more palatable by many, include romaine lettuce and orange bell peppers. Recommended daily —2 cups raw or 1 cup cooked.

Salmon ranks right alongside the previous two in nutritional value and health benefits. This tasty fish is extremely high in omega-3, a polyunsaturated fatty acid which along with monounsaturated fat is actually needed in the body. Unlike saturated and trans fats, polyunsaturated fats are necessary for normal bodily processes such as cell membrane growth. Lack of this essential fat is tied to high rates of cellular-level diseases including cancer, stroke and insulin resistance.

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Sometimes timing is everything. And for Duke, the time is just right to take on No. 11 North Carolina.

The Blue Devils (7-2-3, 2-1-1 in the ACC) travel to Fetzer Field on a roll, having won seven of their past 10 games and outscoring opponents 19-7 over that same stretch. Their only two loses have TO GHT ; ?' come to then-No. 2 ChapelHl Texas AfcM and No. 4 Virginia, losing 2-0 in each contest.

The Duke offense has been firing on all cylinders, with Elisabeth Redmond and Kelly Hathorn leading the goal parade with four tallies each. The freshman class has been key as well, with four first-years on the roster contributing at least one goal.

North Carolina (9-3-0, 3-1-0), on the other hand, has lost three games in a season for the first time since 2000. The Tar Heels were blanked 1-0 by South Carolina, William & Mary and Miami.

The Blue Devils, however, are still treating their Tobacco Road rivals as if they are undefeated.

“I’ve watched them on tape all week and they’re not vulnerable,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “They’re as good as anyone in the country.”

Despite the team’s uncharacteristic losses, North Carolina is still the defending NCAA champion and currently sits atop the ACC standings.

So far, the Blue Devils have had an in-

jury-plagued and inconsistent season—but that may very well change tonight.

And the relief could not have come at a better time.

After surrendering VS. the most goals it has all season in a 4-2 loss Boston College Oct. 5, Duke will be bolstered by the return of TONIGHT, 8:30 p.m.

Chapel Hill defender Tim Jepson tonight against North Carolina (3-3-4, 1-2-0 in the ACC).

The senior co-captain has been out for six weeks with a hamstring injury and has not played yet this year. Jepson will replace freshman Christian Ibeagha in the starting lineup for the Blue Devils (7-3-0, 2-1-0) at 8:30 p.m. at Fetzer Field.

“Christian has done an incrediblejob back there,” head coach John Rennie said. “But you take out a freshman and put in your senior captain, it’s going to make a difference.”

Duke hopes Jepson’s presence leads to greater consistency. The Blue Devils have had an up-and-down year, and the longawaited return of their veteran leader could be just what they need —especially against the rival Tar Heels. In the last three DukeNorth Carolina contests, one total goal has been scored—an own goal by the Tar Heels in the Blue Devils’ 2006 victory.

“They’re always close games,” Rennie said. “Having a senior captain leader back there is* huge for us. You can make

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In a year when top-ranked teams seem falling by the bunches to unranked opponents, No. 12 Virginia Tech’s contest against Duke (1-5, 0-3 in the ACC) looks less like an automatic win and more like a terrifying trap game.

With his Hokies (5-1, 3-0) heading to Durham Saturday to take on the Blue Devils, head coach Frank Beamer could not agree more.

“They just scare me to death,” Beamer said of Duke. “They’re better and to be

they’re scary.”

The Blue Devils have suffered close

loses to Navy, Miami and Wake Forest this season, and Beamer acknowledged Duke is primed to get over the hump. After witnessing No. 1 Southern California fall to

Stanford despite a 41-point spread, Beamer prays his team is not the next in a long series of Herculean upsets this season, realizing the possibility is all too real.

“I do think that teams are closer than ever,” he said. “I just think the ability level is closer. I’m a believer in what you think mentally. When kids see they’re favored by 41 points, kids start thinking, ‘Well, let’s just show up and get this one.’ Well, you can’t just show up and win anymore.

“The realistic part of it is there’s just about anybody in the country that can beat anybody else.”

The Hokies learned that lesson the hard way nine years ago. Undefeated and ranked No. 14 in the country, Virginia Tech was atop the Big East and full of naSEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE 10

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Bailey likely donefor season Defensive end Patrick Bailey is out indefinitely after suffering a knee injury in Duke’s 41-36 loss to Wake Forest last weekend.

Although the coaching staffwould not say with 100 percent certainty that Bailey is finished for the season, head coach Ted Roof said the 6-foot-4 senior is “done for a while” and that his prognosis appears bleak.

Bailey is the fifth starter the Blue Devils have lost this season, and Roof said that his team needs this run of injuries to stop.

Losing Bailey, however, will be especially tough for Duke, as the senior had 37 tackles, four and a half sacks and clocked significant minutes on special teams.

‘You’re talking about a guy who’s made a lot of plays for us over the course of the years,” Roof said of Bailey. “He gave us some flexibility to play some different packages because he could play with his hand on the ground and he could drop [back].

“It’s a shame that he has to end his college career that way. It’s tough on him because he cares so much, and he’s invested in not only his career but in our program. He’s a great example of what we want our football program to be about.”

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tional title hopes when it played host to a winless Temple The Owls, who had lost two weeks early to Division I-AA William and Mary, pulled off the miraculous upset over the Hokies, 28-24.

Despite the stinging memories, Beamer said he has never let his team forget, which has helped the Hokies avoid taking weaker opponents too lightly since then.

“We’ve got to have a great week in practice to get ready,” he said. “They are a much better football team [than years past]. Coach Roof has them a better football team.... This game is a tremendously important game for Virginia Tech this season." team.

Virginia Tech is coming off a big 41-23 win over thenNo. 22 Clemson, in which the Hokies scored three nonoffensive touchdowns byway of a 32-yard return off an interception, an 82-yard punt return and a school recordtying 100-yard kickoff return.

That was the difference in a game where Virginia Tech continued to show growing pains on offense, gaining a total of just 219 yards. The Hokies, though, may have their best offensive game to date this weekend—despite being ranked last for total offense in the ACC—because of Duke’s weakness on defense, which is also at the bottom the conference.

But the key issue for Virginia Tech Saturday will be focus as the Hokies will have to execute well in order to prevent Wallace Wade Stadium from becoming an unforgettable trap.

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But the Tar Heels’ recent scoring drought is good news for the Duke defense, which has been playing excellent as of late. The back fourfor Duke has been stifling its opponents, surrendering only three goals in four conference contests.

But the matchup against itsarch rival has a bit of a twist.

Carolina plays in a 4-4-3 formation, meaning they have an extra attacker instead of four defenders—a set the Blue Devils have not seen from any opponent this season.

Midfielder Lorraine Quinn and Duke remain unconcerned, though, insisting that they do not make drastic changes in preparation for any team, not even the Tar Heels.

“We’re not going to change our formation for them,” Quinn said ofUNC. “We’re going to try to play our game.”

The Blue Devils maintain they are not doing anything more to ready themselves for the Tar Heels than they would for any other opponent. Although, after practice, it was clear which game was next on the slate.

Church warned his team to watch what they say to avoid giving North Carolina any extra motivation in the form of locker room bulletin board material.

As Church said, the Duke-North Carolina game is a great rivalry, a fact that is not lost on his players.

“It’s a game that people would love to play,” Church said of the Tobacco Road showdown. “We are all very fortunate to be a part of this great rivalry. It’s what college sports is all about.”

This particular meeting, however, offers the Blue Devils a chance to pick up only their third victory in 32 games against the Tar Heels. For Duke, there is no time like the present.

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Although Duke does not know how long Jepson will be able to play, he will start and go for as long as he can. Rennie said that even if Jepson can only play for a half, he would rather it be the first.

“I’ll probably be running off pure adrenaline,” Jepson said. “It’s definitely a plus that I get to come back for UNC.” As welcome as his soccer skills will be, Jepson’s leadership may be even more important in what is sure to be a charged game in Chapel Hill. At times, the Blue Devils’ lack of a defensive leader has been apparent.

“Timmy brings a great personality back to the team,” senior goalkeeper Justin Papadakis said. “Having him back...brings not only a lot of talent to the field, but a big presence.”

Jepson and the Blue Devils, however, will be going up against a very different North Carolina team than they have seen the last few years. The Tar Heels have nine new players this year and return just six starters from 2006.

“This Duke team hasn’t played against this Carolina team,” Rennie said. “They’re a very good possession team—that won’t change. We like to play the same way, so it’s going be who ends up getting more possession of the ball is going to have more chances.”

The Tar Heels are unranked, but the Blue Devils are not taking their archrivals lighdy. They know that North Carolina is a talented team and that anything can happen in a rivalry game, especially one of the greatest in college sports, Rennie said.

For many players, this game is one of the main reasons they came to Duke.

“We could both be ranked No. 1 and 2, we could both be out of the top 25—it doesn’t matter,” Jepson said.

“It’s still going to be exciting, and it’s going to be a great game, to say the least.”

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At the end of career as years he served as dean.

Widi Curriculum 2000, dean, his role as a chair of the Campus Culture InitiaThompson revised the undergraduate curriculum to its tive Steering Committee current form to include the marred his years of out-

was an unfortunate blemish on Thompson’s otherwise admirable record as dean.

We can only speculate on the reasons behind Thompson’s announcement —one that came a week after the Board of Trustees met early this month—of his departure from deanship. It would be reasonable to conjecture that the failures of the CGI Report contributed to his decision, and it seems possible that a newly created deanship has also played a role.

President Richard Brodhead created the position of dean of undergraduate education this fall and appointed Steve Nowicki to fill it.

The new position was—and still largely is—undefined, which may have created differences and overlaps with

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Thompson’s responsibilities as dean.

Despite whatever reasons Thompson has for stepping

down as dean, he has had a

lasting impact on the Duke community for more than a decade, and he will continue to mold Duke students

through his appointments in the Departments of Psy-

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Sciences and Pediatrics.

Thompson will be a valuable addition to the Duke faculty and we are certain we will be hearing about his academic accomplishments in the future.

We also look forward to meeting the new dean of Trinity College. Whoever is chosen will have some very accomplished shoes to fill.

Delving into health disparities in Durham

ontherecord Senior Andrew Burns on his friend Scott Champagne, also a senior. Champagne has been named Delaware Bachelor 2007 by Cosmopolitan.

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standing service to the University. Highly controversial for both its proposals and methods, the CCI Steering Committee Report reflected the misguided efforts of the committee led by Thompson in a time of intense passions. Often criticized for its impractical, unrealistic and vague suggestions, the incomprehensible CCI report lacked sufficient and meaningful input from the undergraduate student body.

A product of its time, the CCI report lost sight ofits underlying purpose and lacked the depth exemplified by the Coleman Report and the Interim Report directed

by Provost Peter Lange. The CCI Report did, however, spark fruitful discussion in the Duke community and

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than the state averpart Vin 3 Series age. Our community has high rates ofevery sexually transmitted disease, including syphilis and gonorrhea. Our state also bears a huge burden from chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease and mental disorders, and we received a grade of ‘D-plus’ from theNational Alliance on Mental Illness for mental health services. Finally, one fifth of Durham adults do not have health insurance.

One of the unique features of the town-gown relationship between Durham and Duke is that Duke is the primary source of health care for the Durham community and the primary employer for the area.

This is different from other major medical centers and universities in cities such as Boston, New York or Atlanta. When Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs at Duke, says, “We are committed to bringing better health to Durham and the Triangle,” more than medical center clinics and services are required.

What does it take to make a healthy community?

Decades of research demonstrate that a community’s health is determined primarily by education, income, types of job opportunities available and environmental conditions, including such things as the ability to safely walk and play outside. A community’s sense of empowerment is also important And of course, there is the issue of the availability and accessibility of health care, which includes facilities, insurance and culturally appropriate care.

What would it take to improve the health of a community with health disparities like those that we see in Durham, N.C.?

It would take interventions that influence education, housing, living status, safety, social-support networks and health services for teens as well as adults.

Imagine community centers or wellness centers in die poorest neighborhoods in Durham that offered legal services—provided by the law school—that addressed issues of housing, employment, insurance and ——

disability services. Imagine the Fuqua School of Business offering seminars in management, microfinance principles and accounting skills. The arts and sciences could offer after-school classes in the arts for children as away to build self-esteem and creativity and reduce stress, or history classes focusing on the amazing music that came from this area and the power of black businesses. As away to take back the streets, evening outdoormovies couldbe shown as is currendy done in Southern Village. Mothering groups could form and be supported and organized by students. Elder care could be offered during the day. Each center could have a library, computers and game rooms.

A model currently demonstrating success in South Africa combines such activities with clinical services.

Teens are more willing to talk with other teens about their problems and concerns, so teen or young adult screeners are available for young men and women to discuss issues concerning sexuality and other diseases that they or their family members might have. The screeners then accompany the client to the clinic to act as their advocate. This is the kind of center that was proposed two years ago by my public policy class when it was charged with identifying ways that Duke could help improve the health of Durham. These ideas were not dreamed up in academia. They came from interviews conducted in the poorest zip codes in Durham, on street comers, in small shops, at church dinners.

In fact, Duke has started programs like this—educational programs, after-school programs and medical clinics. We need to expand such programs and work in a coordinated way. Faculty, staff and students who are working on educational initiatives can be working with health staff who are working on clinical interventions. An example of this synergy is the wonderful work being done in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences to help Durham identify less-than-safe housing.

We need to coordinate our activities with local community organizations such as local governmental initiatives, the YMCA and churches. These organizations have much to teach us about Durham and about community work generally.

As we educate students on conducting global health work, we should first examine what we can do here in Durham and other resource poor areas of the United States. There is so much to be done.

Associate Professor Kate Whetten holds appointments in public policy studies, nursing and community andfamily medicine. She is the director of the Duke Global Health Institute’s Center for Health Policy and also director of the HealthInequalities Program.

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student’s relationship with a top-10, private univerjunction with Provost Peter Lange, former Dean of the Facsity normally goes something like this: ulty of Arts and Sciences William Chafe and his successor, Student pays about $35,000 a year in tuition George McLendon, Thompson promoted a wide array of (less financial aid) for the right to attend four or five renovations, programs and support structures that many of courses per semester along with approximately 30 other us take for granted. students; each of those Lange described Thompson as the “driving administracourses is taught by a sin- m tive force” behind several programs that provide crucial academic support for undergraduates. One of them, the gle faculty member, who Peer Tutoring Program, allows undergraduates to receive likely makes herself available outside of class to all free tutoring in core subjects, a service formerly granted of her students at once only to athletes. Another is the Writing Studio, where students can meet with graduate and postgraduate tutors to during office hours But at Duke, at least for get feedback on their papers and projects. several hundred seniors givIn conjunction with the Community Service Center, elliott wolf en the opportunity to purvarious academic departments and community leaders, q.e.d. sue graduation with distincThompson helped generate a wide array of opportunities integrating community service and academic coursework. tion, that relationship has been turned on its head.

Chafe pointed to the development of such opportunities Many of us are being paid to work one-on-one with a as one of Thompson’s biggest accomplishments, setting professor, studying something that we want to study. The the stage for the recent launch of the $3O-million Duexperience ofwriting a thesis is an extraordinarily stimulat- keEngage program.

In 2005, amidst bickering on the Arts and Sciences ing one that can also serve as a valuable academic qualification; it is an unprecedented opportunity, and it easily tops Council on the issue of student access to course evaluations, Thompson and McLendon funded a student-run any internship.

If only I could find the time to sit down and actually course evaluation system that is still operating today. finish mine...

And next year, students will have access to the TeachDuke is unique in that multiple departments offer ing and Learning Center, currently under construction in such financial support to undergraduates, and in that Perkins Library.

“It’s a classroom complex that’s very well equipped. faculty are given incentives to mentor such research projects. And thankfully, increasing numbers of students While it allows more traditional forms of teaching, it’s also are able to take advantage of Duke’s status as a major extremely well equipped to enable more informed and research university. advanced forms of teaching,” Lange said. He added that Recent efforts to bolster financial support and faculty the project was largely due to the “enormous attention mentorship have more than tripled the number of under[Thompson has] given to teaching, to independent study, to team research.” graduates who are graduating with distinction in their maIn summarizing his tenure, Chafe said, “What Bob did jors or engaging in other forms ofmentored research.

Much of this is thanks to the efforts of longtime Dean was to bring together a superb group of people to elevate of Trinity College Robert Thompson, who announced his the quality of Duke’s undergraduate education to the point retirementlast week following an 11-year tenure as dean of where it became one of the best and most recognized experiences in the country.” undergraduate affairs and then dean of Trinity College.

His retirement, effective in August, comes on the Thompson and I have not always agreed on everything. heels of the administrative restructuring associated with As a member of the Campus Culture Initiative Steering the newly created position of dean of undergraduate Committee, which Thompson cochaired with Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, I was strongly opeducation. Whether there is a causal relationship between them is something that the Allen Building will posed to several of the committee’s key recommendadons. never discuss publicly —and something that is ultimately As a student in Trinity, which implemented Curriculum 2000 in 1999,1 was not pleased (to say the least) to have to irrelevant.

Eleven years is a long time to be dean, and Thompson sit through three semesters ofLadn.

But in the end, it all comes back to my thesis. has a lot to show for his efforts.

He has spent more time in the trenches expanding the Elliott Wolf is a Trinity senior. His column runs every academic opportunities available to undergraduates than perhaps any other administrator in recent memory. In conThursday. '

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you think you have family problems?

What? Your parents are alcoholics? Abusive?

Don’t hug you enough? 800 hoo. Go find a shrink and whine about it.

Come to think of it, I’ve got two for you, and they are my parents. Need a referral?

How about this, let’s trade. Please, even just for a week. Go ahead.

Try having two practicdan belzer ing, clinical psycholow.w.j.d. gists for parents. Then we’ll talk.

Sure, they’ll tell you every day how much they love you. And hugs, good Lord I get lots of hugs. For the love of God, I’ve had the number for child protective services since I was five years old, and have been under strict parental orders to call it at any point if I felt abused.

Doesn’t sound so bad, right? Wrong! There’s a catch. Everything I do—every little transgression—is analyzed, judged and clinically diagnosed. In high school, I was a “dope addict.” Now, I’m an “alcoholic”—and only because they can’t prove anything else.

During my senior year of high school, their solution was to condition my enrollment at Duke with the successful passing of piss tests. This morning, my dad suggested I check out an AA meeting, and that I’m going to find my monetary supply curtailed significantly. He called my antics a “problem.” And my tendency toward risk-taking behavior—well, duh—that’s a personality disorder.

Then there are the talks. My parents don’t simply punish. They want closure, they want sincerity and they want to beat a dead horse into the ground until it stops twitching.

I’ll admit, I’m not the simplest of children. I’ve probably done enough in my adolescence to shave a few years off my parents’ lives—let alone what they will never know about. Looking back, most of it seems funny to me. However, I don’t think my mom laughs when she recalls the time I spent the morning of my 21st birthday getting my head sewn up in a makeshift Spanish clinic, or the day I called to tell her I was stuck in Santa Barbara because I lost my cell phone, friend’s cell phone and our only set of car keys over the Fourth of July weekend. They’ve never let me forget about those two unfortunate strokes of bad luck.

My sister thinks I do it on purpose—that I actually gain a personal satisfaction by pissing my parents off. Well, OK, maybe a little. I’ve never been one to respond well to rules and punishment. Admittedly, my natural tendency has always been to find away around, through or underneath unfavorable terms.

And when all else fails, I’ll make my acquiescence as painful as possible for my oppressors. According to Dr. Belzer, I live my life in loopholes. And that, in his words, is no way to live. But hey, at least I’m going to law school.

So here I am, set to graduate Duke with above-average standing and staring down the barrel of a threeyear rear-end kicking. Not to mention the prospect of a career slaving away behind a desk crunching contracts.

Pardon me if! want to live it up while I can still get away with it.

My dad says I need to re-evaluate my life, but I have. The analysis: Time is running out. The real world is coming, and if I want to borrow the car and drive to Vegas for the night—well, I’ll deal with the minor consequences.

At this rate, by my third year of law school, my parents will be threatening to check me into rehab for cocaine abuse. Lucky for them I hate pills and am scared to death ofneedles.

Meanwhile, Daniel needs a job and there will be a collection can with my name on it outside The Chronicle office. Donations appreciated.

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

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