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No plans forpanels like PCOBA in the works by

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Although the diversity of Duke’s student body increases every year, minority student representation to the administration has not kept up.

The only official committee representing an ethnic group to President Richard Brodhead is the President’s Council on Black Affairs—a situation some minorlieWS ity groups would like to see change. analysis “It’s definitely reaching a time when we need something like [PCOBA] for other minority groups, especially because of the large Asian population at Duke,” said Asian Students Association President Cristian Liu, a senior. “It’s not like Asian students don’t get their voices heard, but representation by a specific organization is something we need.”

According to the Office of Institutional Research, Duke’s undergraduate student body for the 2006-2007 academic year consisted of 34 percent minority representation—l 6.7 percent Asian, 10.3 percent black and 6.5 percent Hispanic.

“Given Duke’s and the South’s particular history of race relations, it follows that the University would put special emphasis on addressing issues related to the African American community on

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Women's basketball head coach Joanne P.McCallie speaks to students, such as junior Denis Dupee (right), about her history as a basketballcoach and her excitementabout being at Duke.

Coach P reaches out to students, discusses team by

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Students don’t often get the chance have a face-to-face conversation with the head coach of a top-10 basketball program.

Last night, however, new women’s basketball head coach Joanne P. McCallie spoke to a group of about two dozen students in a Few Quadrangle commons room about her history with Duke, her hopes for this season and her thoughts regarding the student-athlete experience, through an event organized

by Round Table members.

“At a school like Duke you have to be an excellent student and an excellent athto

With April’s Virginia Tech massacre in mind, the University has revamped its campus security system, administrators announced Wednesday.

Changes range from infrastructural adjustments to concrete alterations including installation of campus-wide sirens and a Web-support agreement with Stanford University.

For the past seven months, a group of administrators has collaborated in an effort to evaluate the University’s existing emergency response Richard Riddell system. The changes the group has instituted—many of them involving administrative responsibility more than material

changes—are far-ranging.

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lete,” McCallie said. ‘You have to pull your weight both ways.”

She said the University had recruited her to play basketball, and after seriously considering the offer, she decided to attend Northwestern University.

“This is a very special place to me,” McCallie said. “Although I didn’t end up here, I thought about it a lot. I’m really proud to now be at Duke.”

Sophomore Andrew Zonderman, one of the coordinators of the event, asked McCallie to speak in order to personally acquaint her with students.

Richard Riddell—who will become vice president and University secretary in January—will take on the role of emergency coordinator, placing himself in the center of the chain of command.

He will be responsible for coordinating communications as well as overseeing individual crisis management.

Paul Grantham, assistant vice president for communications services, will head the communications department.

A newly-launched Web site will feature real-time updates, and Grantham said he is looking into text messaging as a

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Prof wins award for tumor vaccine by

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A new nontoxic vaccine for

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ASA President Cristian Liu (right) said a group like the President's Council on Black Affairs is needed to represent Asian students on campus.

tients a year in the United States—can improve the quality of life for those whose previous treatment options could be harmful. m Dr. John Sampson, assodate deputy director of fßk the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at TP Duke, recendy received the Tug McGraw Foun\ dation’s Researcher of \ the Year Award for his contributions to this

vaccine for brain tumors The award is given to individuals who have made advancements in the fieldofbrain tumor research and taken the study to adapt to something useful, said Jennifer Brusstar, CEO and president of the Tug McGraw Foundation.

Sampson, who is also an associate professor of neurosurgery at Duke University Medical Center, is the second doctor from the University to receive the award. Dr. Darell Bigner, executive director of the Tisch Brain Tumor Center received the award in 2006.

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John Sampson invented a vaccine forfighting brain tumors that has earned him the Tug McGraw Foundation Researcher of the Year Award.

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NORFOLK, Va. To all those people who blurt out “Wow, you’re tall!” as they stare up at George Bell: He knows.

And now, the world will know, too The lanky, 7-foot-8 Norfolk sheriffs deputy is being recognized Thursday by Guinness World Records as the Tallest Man in the United States.

That makes him 2 inches taller than the NBA’s current tallest player, Yao Ming, but too short to be the world’s tallest living man. He stands below Ukraine’s 8-foot-5.5 Leonid Stadnyk and China’s Bao Xi Shun, who is 7 feet 8.95 inches.

To answer the inevitable questions: Bell wears size-19 shoes, pants with a 43-inch inseam and shirts with 45-inch sleeves.

He did play basketball, in college and with the Harlem Wizards and Harlem Globetrotters show teams.

And as for how he feels being so tall?

“I have no choice but to like it,” Bell, 50, said in an interview with The Associated Press as he paced the sidelines of a Pee Wee football game at a city park, where he was providing security.

“I’m used to a small man’s world,” he added in a deep voice that suits his stature.

“I’ve been dealing with a small man’s world

since I was a kid.”

Bell was to be revealed as America’s tallest man on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday, when 200,000 people worldwide were expected to celebrate Guinness World Records Day by attempting to set records of their own.

The Guinness record book now lists only the tallest man in the world, but Bell will be noted in the edition to be published next year.

He credits his late great-aunt, Etonia Johnson, with his positive attitude: “She always told me, ‘Don’t feel ashamed ofyourself. Stand tall. God made you. Be happy and show your pride.’ “

Finnish teen shoots eight to death by

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TUUSULA, Finland An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at his high school in this placid town in southern Finland Wednesday, killing seven other students and the principal before mortally wounding himself in a rampage that stunned a nation where gun crime is rare.

Police were analyzing YouTube postings that appeared to anticipate the massacre, including clips in which a young man calls for revolution and prepares for the attack by test firing a semiautomatic handgun.

Investigators said the gunman, who was not identified, shot himself in the head after the shoodng spree at Jokela High School in Tuusula, some 30 miles north of the capital, Helsinki. He died later at Toolo Hospital in Helsinki.

The teen killed five boys, two girls and the female principal with a .22-caliber pistol, police said. Officials said one person was wounded by a bullet and about a dozen others suffered cuts and other injuries while fleeing the school. Officials said more than 400 students ages 12 through 18 were enrolled.

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Witnesses described a scene of mayhem the school in this leafy lakeside community, saying the shooter prowled the building looking for victims while shouting slogans for “revolution.”

Police Chief Matti Tohkanen said the gunman didn’t have a previous criminal record. “He was from an ordinary family,” Tohkanen said. He said the teen belonged to a gun club and had gotten a license for the pistol Oct. 19.

Gun ownership is fairly common in Finland by European standards, but deadly shootings are rare. at

The House Wednesday approved the first federal ban on job discrimination against gays, lesbians and bisexuals. Passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act came despite protests that the bill does not protect transgender workers.

A shot could help smokers quit A shot that robs smokers of the nicotine buzz from cigarettes showed promise in mid-stage testing. In a study, more than twice as many people given five of the shots stopped smoking than those given fewer or phony shots.

Stocks fall,dollar sinks to new low Wall Street suffered its second big drop in a week Wednesday, with investors worried, about spreading fallout from the credit crisis at banks and about a dollar that just keeps getting weaker. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 360 points.

Bush pushes Musharraf to act President Bush, personally intervening in the political crisis in Pakistan, told President Pervez Musharraf he must hold parliamentary elections soon and step down as army leader. It was Bush's first contact with Musharraf since declaring emergency rule Saturday.

News briefs compiled from wire reports "We make war that we may live in peace."

—Aristotle

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‘Beauty’ holds N.C. try-outs; no Dukies audition for show by

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for were “total polar opposites” of the geeks, said Findlay-Shirras, who is also a Chronicle photographer. She noted that the search for contestants, especially in finding beauties, was difficult, “It’s harder to find beauties at Duke, but it’s not because there aren’t beautiful people,” she said. “Usually the beauties that appear on the show / M are not very

Socially inept men are not often associated with beautiful women, but these two groups will soon be given the opportunity to interact and transform each other in front of millions of Americans.

The hit reality TV show, “Beauty and the Geek,” held a castm f intelligent ing call for while girls 7 its fifth seaM Jm,fJi'i IjF here are.” son at the r| f#7 The lack Top of the "W—! of Duke stuHill Restauand THE dents at the rant A Brewery casting call can also be in Chapel Sunattributed day. A long line oflocal residents to the location of the audition, formed outside the restaurant Ho-Guanipa said. with hopes of being cast for the Because possible contesshow, but very few college stutants for this show are not brave dents attended the event. enough to audition, FindlayShirras said she had to direct No Duke students were present, and only one student from advertising efforts to specific the University of North Carolina people she believed could be on at Chapel Hill and two students the show. from North Carolina State Uni“I have to think about people that auditioned.

I know that I think should versity Although Duke students did be on the show, which means I’m not try their chances at the aucalling someone stupid or socialdition, some helped to promote ly awkward, which are not the two the event. of the greatest compliments that Interns, such as sophomore I can give someone,” she said.

Kate Findlay-Shirras and junior For the past few seasons castJose Ho-Guanipa, were hired ing for “Beauty and the Geek” to advertise the casting call to in North Carolina has been sucthe Duke student body. They cessful. A waiter from Top of the distributed and posted flyers Hill restaurant is currently on around campus. the show and has achieved local “The flyer was basically lookcelebrity status.

In choosing the contestants ing for beauties who are very attractive girls and a little more for geeks and beauties, Casting superficial and not the smartest Director DJ. Feldman said he academically,” Ho-Guanipa said. looked for certain distinguishThe beauties they searched ing characteristics. *

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“For the guys who we usually geeks, we look for people who are highly intellectual and very socially awkward,” he said.

“As long as they are a geek of some sort, whether it be a sports geek, comic geek or book geek, we will consider him.”

To make the show more intriguing, Feldman said he is looking for “unique geeks.” In seasons two and three, Feldman cast both the Rubik’s Cube record holder and the pi-recitation champion. Feldman added that he was really looking for geeks who are genuine and want to change.

During and after the show, Feldman said geeks and beauties alike undergo considerable transformation.

“Every single person on the show changes,” he said. “It’s an experience of a lifetime. The beauties wouldn’t hang out with some of the people they have and learned how wonderful geeks are. The guys have also blossomed and become more socially assertive.”

The biggest change the geeks undergo is in their interaction with girls, he added.

“Most of the people we encounter are proud of being a geek,” he said. “To them, geek is more of a badge of honor, not a loser but an endearing term.

Self-esteem was never an issue, but they lacked the confidence cast as

to meet girls.”

Ho-Guanipa, however, said he doubts the show has a lasting effect on the contestants.

“A lot ofthese reality TV shows are scripted,” he said. “[The contestants] are doing this for media exposure, and so I doubt these

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Students enjoy queso for $1 in the Armadillo GrillWednesday night. Kappa Alpha Theta sorority organized the annual event to raise money for Court Appointed Special Advocates, a group that helps abusedchildren in court.

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COACH P from page 1

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Coach JoanneP. McCailie speaks in a commons room in Few Quadrangle Wednesday at an event organized by Round Table, a selective group.

McCallie said she hopes to continue to increase support for women’s basketball, adding that many members of the Duke community are devoted to the issue. This year, 1,100 more season tickets have been sold, but student numbers need to remain high, she added.

‘You’ve got to want to support Duke every time Duke hits the floor,” McCallie said. “One of the ways to move forward to greatness when adversity strikes is by sticking together and supporting each other.”

Students asked what changes McCallie has made to the team and whether the team members have encountered difficulty adapting to these changes.

McCallie answered that the team has had consistently aggressive man-to-man defense but plans to work more extensively on their strength and conditioning. She explained her belief in building on methods, in lieu of discarding them.

‘You will see different things, and you will see the same

things,” she said. “Hopefully you will see a lot of good things overall.”

McCallie’s enthusiasm was visible when she spoke about the players on the team.

“The women are just so great—they’re so personable, they work hard, they’re excited to do great things,” McCal-

lie said. “There’s a lot of great things left to be done for women’s basketball, and that’s what we plan on doing.”

She continued to speak about her respect for men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski, adding that she has used his techniques as an example through her entire coaching career.

“What Mike has done is all the things I want to do in my life,” McCallie said. “He’s got banners, he’s got books, he’s got buildings. I would love to do that too.”

She recalled a visit she had with him when she was considering to move to Duke.

“I told him I wanted to learn from him,” she said.

“I told him I don’t have anything but great, great love for what he’s done at Duke and that I want access into all of this.”

McCallie said she is now content to be immersed in the world of Duke basketball, stressing to students the importance of finding a profession that they love.

“I really missed the collegiate environment,” McCallie said. “I strongly suggest that you choose a career path where you don’t have to wear pantyhose.”

Joanne P. McCailie was hired as Duke's women's basketball headcoach in the spring after Gail Goestenkorsleft for a job atthe University ofTexas.

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feasibility of implementing the suggestions before writing the plan next August.

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After soliciting input at the Graduate and Professional Student Council’s body meeting two weeks ago, the chairs of the University’s quality enhancement plan committee heard from undergraduates about the plan during Duke Student Government’s meeting Wednesday night The quality enhancement plan is a document prepared every 10 years to reaccredit

In other business: After some debate, representatives passed an election bylaw, a judiciary bylaw and a legislative bylaw proposed by Executive Vice President Jordan Giordano, a junior.

The election bylaw requires candidates running for executive positions to attend two general body meetings before election day to gain exposure to the projects and workings of DSG. Some senators who opposed the bylaw said the requirement may deter individuals from running.

Representatives unanimously endorsed a resolution presented by Senator Portia Boone, a sophomore, calling for coed blocking as an option for living arrangements on West Campus.

Members also endorsed a resolution to add a vending machine containing juices, yogurt and noncarbonated drinks to the Great Hall. Junior Sunny Kantha, vice president for athletics and campus services, presented the proposal and said the vending machine would reintroduce the previous variety of snack and drink options, which were removed this year with the addition of the salad bar.

Representatives approved a resolution presented by Senator Chinwe Atkinson, a sophomore, to create half-creditvisual arts classes similar to courses offered by the music and dance departments.

Members unanimously endorsed a resolution presented by Senator Clarke Hitch, a freshman, to fund a driver for a van owned by the Community Service Center so student volunteers would have transportation to their projects.

the University. It is submitted to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

A committee of faculty members met over the summer and decided to theme the plan around “re-imagining liberal arts education in the 21st century,” said Prasad Kasibhada, the plan committee’s co-chair and associate professor of environmental chemistry at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.

“We haven’t really honed in on anything yet,” he added. “We’re in the very early stages.”

Kasibhatla said he wanted to engage DSG members to discover what changes students wantto see in theliberal arts education. Mary Boatwright, committee co-chair and a professor ofclassical studies, said the committee had discussed ways to make preprofessional or large classes as engaging as liberal arts curricula such as theFocus program.

Senators discussed expanding the pass/fail option for classes, reevaluating Curriculum 2000 to include fewer requirements and improving the-premajor advising program. Kasibhatla and Boatwright responded favorably to many of the suggestions, noting they had also experienced problems in some of the areas.

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SECURITY from page 1 mode ofcommunication The approach, he noted, must be multifaceted, including an informational phone line, where students can call in for updates and campus-wide sirens that will notify students not near computers.

In addition, the University has also entered into a reciprocal partnership with Stanford in order to avoid problems due to high traffic on Duke’s site.

If the site were to shut down because of too much traffic during a crisis, the Palo Alto, Calif, university would immediately resurrect it, keeping updates coming for students. “[We want to] work in advance, [in] anticipation of events,” Grantham said, adding that students need to be informed of what to do ahead of time.

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incidents have also been drafted and formalized, said Vice President for Campus Services Kernel Dawkins.

“There’s a variety of levels of crises,” he said. “On the lowest level, [it will be] managed within individual departments.”

He said, however, in the case of a university-wide incident—the largest level of crisis—plans of action would be determined and passed down by President Richard Brodhead.

The group aimed to unite a variety of departments relevant to crisis management.

Members worked within the current emergency structure, revamping the system with new technology for communication and a defined line of command for emergency situations, Grantham said.

“The majority of the [present] infrastructure is good,” he said. Grantham noted, however, that the group recognized specific areas where improvement was necessary.

The changes were based not only on reviews of Duke’s response system, but also on studies of how other colleges across the country plan for catastrophes.

“We’ve done quite a bit of work,” Dawkins said, adding that the he has travelled across the country to survey security systems at various universities.

The coming months will include a number of educational activities in order to increase student awareness of the new features. Grantham said he hopes to hold siren drills within the academic year to help students learn how to react in a real situation.

‘You need someone at the administrative level keeping an eye on this,” said Aaron Graves, associate vice president for campus safety and security.

In addition, a crisis advisory council will continue to work with senior administration to review and revise the system.

SAMPSON from page 1 Research involving the vaccine started several years ago when Bigner identified a mutation in the epidermal growth factor receptor variant lll—a commonly active receptor within cancer, Sampson said. The mutation caused a large segment of the gene to be deleted and brought two generally separate parts of a molecule together to create an original protein sequence, he added.

He said that the original protein marker would eliminate a common immunotherapy problem where the drugs would attack receptors on the tumor cells but also on normal cells throughout the body, creating an overall negative and toxic effect on the patient.

“It’s totally tumor-specific,” Sampson said. “So the immune response produced will only be against tumor cells because this mutation is present nowhere else on the adult human body.”

Even if the vaccine has shown good progress in killing all tumor cells with the protein sequence, it will not eradicate the whole tumor because the sequence is not expressed on every tumor cell, he said.

Sampson added that although mutations in cancer vary greatly from patient to patient, this specific protein sequence has been very common in many patients, and another goal would be to find another protein sequence that is repeated often in all tumors.

The vaccine is now entering a Phase 111 trial where it is being tested on 400 to 500 patients with randomized placebos.

“If that trial is positive, it will become the standard of care with this disease,” Sampson said. “And that will be a real

breakthrough because it will be the first tumor-specific approach in this disease, and it’s a very nontoxic therapy.”

He added that the hope for the vaccine is to eventually replace the harmful chemotherapy and radiation cancer patients go through, but that for the time being a combination treatment of both chemotherapy and the vaccine also seems beneficial.

“We know that EGFRvIII actually in some way makes tumor cells resistant to chemotherapy,” Sampson said. “If you have this marker in your tumor, the standard chemo we give to patients doesn’t work. And so, using this vaccine, we think, is eliminating cells that are not sensitive to the chemo and allowing the chemo to kill the other cells.”

The Tug McGraw Foundation commended the vaccine’s nontoxicity and ability to preserve the quality of life of the brain tumor patient, Sampson added.

‘You could ask 500 different institutions what its quality-of-life-for-braintumors definition is and you’re going to get 500 answers,” Brusstar said. “And I think that we as an organization and foundation have a responsibility to deem quality of life.”

The Tug McGraw Foundation will hold the first-ever Quality ofLife Summit in February aiming to set a criteria and eliminate the obscurity surrounding the meaning of quality oflife for brain cancer patients, Brusstar added.

“I think that having the Tug McGraw Foundation and having their focus be on quality of life keeps the researchers aware of the fact that there’s a patient involved and that patients can’t be poked, prodded and abused,” Sampson said. “They actually have to have some quality of life because it is a devastating disease and we’re not curing everybody.”

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Discovery and its crew returned to Earth Wednesday and concluded a 15-day space station build and repair mission that was among the most challenging —and heroic—in shuttle history.

The space shuttle touched down on a crisp and bright fall afternoon after safely crossing the continent in the first coast-tocoast re-entry since the Columbia disaster almost five years ago.

The seven shutde astronauts and three residents of the international space station teamed up during the docked mission to save a mangled solar wing. It was one of the most difficult and dangerous repairs ever attempted in orbit, but the future of the space station was riding on it and Scott Parazynski pulled it off in a single spacewalk.

“It was an extraordinary feat,” shutde program manager Wayne Hale said.

Discovery’s commander, Pamela Melroy, was quick to thank everyone who helped pull off the mission.

“It really was a beautiful moment for NASA,” she said.

Added Parazynski, a mountaineer: “It certainly was a summit push and I think we attained the summit and then some.”

On its way home, Discovery crossed over Canada’s British Columbia and made a di-

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Discovery lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.,Wednesday after a 15-daytrip to the international spacestation.

agonal descent over Montana, Wyoming, the Great Plains, the Deep South and, finally, down into Florida. NASA opted for the more populous route to avoid a riskier landing in darkness, and to give the crew some extra rest after such a long and strenuous

flight.

Double inspections of the spaceship’s wings in orbit confirmed the thermal shielding would hold up to the 3,000-degree heat of atmospheric re-entry.

A quick look at the shuttle on the

landing strip showed little if any damage.

Discovery’s journey spanned 238 revolutions of Earth and 6.25 million miles.

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said the flight demonstrated “NASA at its very best.”

He described the landing as “spot on” and also “just as pretty as it gets —if that matters.”

Even before the mission began Oct. 23, the astronauts knew they were in for one of the most challenging and complicated space

staUon construction missions ever.

They had no trouble installing a pressurized compartment and moving a girder from one side of the space station to another, and even managed to peek into a clogged joint needed to turn the right-sided set of solar wings.

But the flight took a dramatic turn Oct. 30 when it came time to unfurl the solar wings on the relocated girder on the left side of the space station. The first wing popped out fine, but the second one became snagged in a clump

of tangled wires and ripped in two locations.

Flight controllers rushed to come up with a repair plan. On Saturday—just four days after the damage occurred—Parazynski floated outside with wire cutters, pliers and some homemade tools and fixed the tom wing.

No one had ever ventured so far from the safe confines of the space station before or worked right up against a solar wing coursing with more than 100 volts of electricity and swaying back and forth. He was propped on the end of a 90-foot extension beam that just barely reached the wing’s damaged section.

Parazynski admitted Wednesday night that he had more butterflies than usual before venturing outside that day. The fine print in the procedures sent up from Mission Control read, “You may expect some sparkling or sparking in the damaged array,’ and I thought, wow, that’s pretty exciting. That’s more exciting than I bargained for.”

Already, the mission seems a little bit like a dream, Melroy told reporters. But she recalled how she and her crewmates cheered when Discovery undocked Monday, allowing them to admire their makeshift patches to the wing.

“That’s one thing that we’ll always look at the station and remember,” she said. “So it feels a little more real to us in that way.”

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DIVERSITY from page 1

Although Asian students make theirpresence felt through events like Lunar New Year, ASA wouldlike an official channel to President RichardBrodhead.

related to the African American community on campus,” Special Assistant to the President Richard Riddell wrote in an e-mail.

PCOBA, which was established in 1974 by then-president Terry Sanford in response to student demands for black representation, addresses issues of racial discrimination and academic and social disparities on campus, said senior Simone Randolph, a PCOBA representative and president of the Black Student Alliance. The council also includes representatives from BSA, the Duke Student Government, faculty members and administrators.

President Richard Brodhead, who is the current chair ofPCOBA, does not plan for the addition of new councils to represent the growing minorities, Riddell said.

“While [Brodhead] has no plans to create any new presidential councils at this time, he continues to work with others to improve the experience ofall undergraduates and will take whatever actions in the future he thinks are necessary to promote an environment of respect and tolerance, on campus,” Riddell said.

He added thatthe Office of StudentAffairs can be valuable in encouraging understanding of students from all

backgrounds.

Junior Andrew Tutt, who was appointed a PCOBA representative last month, said councils representing other minority groups may not exist because students have not shown an interest in the creation of another council.

[PCOBA] was founded because black students got together on campus and demanded it,” he said. “It may just be that President Brodhead doesn’t have the time to meet with every group on campus.”

In contrast to Liu, Mi Gente Co-president Arturo Ortega said his organization was not clamoring for a president’s council on Hispanic affairs. The Hispanic community already has an umbrella organization—El Concilio—that represents the interests of various Hispanic student groups, he said.

“I don’t think it would be very smart or practical to create a completely new entity,” said Ortega, a junior. “It would be nice to meet with President Brodhead and have that kind of access to him like the Black Student Alliance does, but we do have this organization already, and right now we’re focusing on working together to target the issues we have on campus.”

Some students agreed that creating a new council to represent other ethnic groups would not be beneficial.

“The racial problems that we have at Duke are in the subtle things such as the things that people say, which may not be discrimination, but ignorance,” sophomore Samyel Lee said. “Those things can’t be solved through organizations and councils. Even if we did form a council, it wouldn’t do anything to solve the real problems.” “

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volume 10, issue 13

November 8,2007

Improver follows way of the Samurai by

Claire Finch

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Any undergraduate who has ever contemplated pursuing a well-paying career has been subjected to countless examples of why networking is essential to his or her ultimate job-induced happiness. Evidendy it’s true—just

look at Duke alum Bret Runestad.

No, Runestad is not a technology prodigy rich enough to rival the benefactors of the French Science Center, nor is he a venture capitalist celebrating his success by buying Madonna’s old house in Beverly Hills. In fact, he is a preschool teacher in Durham. But thanks to the connections that he made through Duke University Improv, he is now able to realize his acting ambitions, as a member of the improv group Four String Samurai. The group performs their show, The Samurai Hour, every month at the Broad Street Cafe, with the next performance, for which DUI is opening, set for Nov. 10.

Runestad was a member of DUI when he was a student at Duke. In 2002, newly graduated and uncertain of what he wanted to do, Runestad went to join two older DUI graduates in New York. The three formed an improv group that performed regularly in the city. This chance collaboration gave Runestad enough experience to firmly entrench him in the world of improvisational acting.

When Runestad returned to Durham three years ago in SEE SAMURAI ON PAGE 6

COURTESY JOSH GIBSON

Josh Gibson's experimental documentary, I and I, tellsthe tale of Eng and Chang Bunker, the original Siamese twins, who moved to North Carolina.

Experimental film follows first “twins”

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COURTESY SAMURAI HOUR

Four String Samurai attack theBroadStreet Cafe this Saturday.

For Duke Film/Video/Digital professor Josh Gibson, a mother’s eßay obsession led to five years of dedicated documentary work.

While making a documentary in India, Gibson had a conversation with his mother about a figurine of two Siamese twins she found on eßay. A few days later, Gibson found a version of the same figurine, and the coincidence sparked an enduring interest in the twins.

The conjoined twins were Cheng and Eng Bunker, the siblings from which the term “Siamese twins” is derived.

Gibson quickly turned this interest into a new experimental documentary I and I. Chang and Eng Bunker were born in 1811 in Siam (modern day Thailand) and are considered to be the original Siamese twins. American explorer Robert Hunter bought Chang and Eng as children from their mother and

toured them in Europe and America where they quickly became stars.

“This was... a time when there was an interest in displays of the extraordinary body and the Orient and the East,” Gibson said. “They became at that time more wellknown than Abraham Lincoln.”

Although they were exploited, the twins managed to take control of their own business affairs and, using their newly acquired wealth, settled into a tobacco plantation in Mount Airy, N.C. where they employed 28 slaves. Both men married local women and together had a total of 21 children.

Gibson’s documentary focuses on the twins, but the film’s distinguishing character is its experimental structure. Gibson’s film combines a variety of film media such as Super 8, high definition and 16 mm, as well as a variety SEE TWINS ON PAGE 4

Tastiest tacos: a guide to the Durham’s authentic taquerias Bryan Zupon THE CHRONICLE

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Behind the chain restaurants and big box retailers that line many of Durham’s busiest roads and highways lies another breed of eatery. In place of frozen margaritas and sizzling fajita platters served by too-ffiendly waitresses, the city’s numerous ethnic dives offer honest food for the expats and recent immigrants looking for a taste of home.

Too often such locales are ignored by the populace at large, but in the rare instance that the public spotlight turns its attention to these restaurants the result is nothing short of frantic. Durham’s taquerias have recently moved from relative obscurity to the center stage of North Carolina’s gastronomic universe thanks to a slew of recent press. Just two months ago, Gourmet unveiled an entire feature story on Durham’s notable Mexican cuisine, calling attention to several top taquerias. With this national press, self-proclaimed foodies from across the country are weighing in on the merits of tortillas and tortas served just minutes from Duke’s campus. It seems that barbacoa, not barbeque, is the en vogue topic of debate for the area’s food cognoscenti.

Two years ago, recess crowned Super Taqueria the king

of the taco thanks to its generous condiment bar and notable consistency. While not every item impressed, SuperTaqueria was perhaps the go-to spot for a Mexican fix. Since then, however, Super has fallen in the pecking order. The once abundant condiment bar looked barren on a recent visit, and an asada taco was stingily filled and lacked any distinguishing traits. The quality at Super has fallen marginally, but, more importantly, the competition has clearly raised the bar.

Taqueria Lopez is a relative newcomer located steps from Duke student favorites Cookout and Bullock’s. Lopez attempts to distinguish with a focus on traditional seafood dishes, including a signature soup with seven types of seafood. The tacos here, priced at $2.00 each instead of the going rate of $1.50, are worth seeking out, too. The campechanas taco, a combination of braised beef and chorizo sausage, is perhaps the single best taco in the city.

The moist ground sausage and unctuous beef are perfectly foiled by the addition of a heavy squeeze of lime and bites of crisp radish. A cabeza taco, filled with beef cheek, was satisfying but less impressive, bordering on bland. Each COURTESY LOS

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Editor’s Note 13; On News So the basic idea of journalism is

to

create the news. Some may argue that

The Writers Guild of America is on strike. Those words filled me with dread.

What does this mean for me? How am I going to make it to next week? My Monday nights are anchored by Heroes. Wednesdays are for Gossip Girl. Thursdays I setde in for the Office and Fridays are reserved for Numb3rs. I take Tuesdays off—I am at Duke after all. But that’s beside the point.

If the writers are on strike, that means instead of fulfilling my weekly addictions, I’m going to be left out to dry with stale, cold reruns. Yes, this includes the Office, starting after next week’s episode. I would rather do Math 108 problem sets for the rest of the year than suffer this fate.

Seriously. I am going to crumble and so is the rest of the nation. Do you know that, according to one important-sounding study, Americans watch on average around 30 hours of television every week?

That’s an awful lot. In other words, Americans spend about 25 percent of their waking hours sitting in front of the TV.

following lives and stories far more

interesting than their own. It’s what makes America what it is.

The news isn’t all bad though. For all you lovers of reality television, your world just got a whole lot better. Reality TV. writers are not a part of the Writers’ Guild for some reason, so even more mind-numbing shows like Kitchen Nightmare and the Hills will be aired.

Since I, if nobody else, am aware of how much reality TV blows, I can only resign myself to patience and daydreams. Trying not to think about how the last strike, which happened in 1988, lasted for five months, I make believe I could call Chuck Norris to deal with the situation. Or better yet, I am Chuck Norris, and my sole purpose is to punish those pretentious life-ruining scribes in Hollywood, too busy picketing and drinking lattes to uphold their end of American culture.

—Braden Hendricks

news is an objective concept and that reporters are the conduits of making it known. However, in reality, what people receive in papers and on T.V. is a construct of conscious decisions made by a body of editors. Presumably, in some seedy, poorly-lit room in the basement in the New York Times, if you care to believe Pat Robertson’s side of the story.

At recess, our goal is to bring Duke students a blend of both local and national arts and entertainment news. Hopefully, the information can make them a little more active in the Triangle’s vibrant arts community and help students make informed choices.

At least that’s the goal we aspire to reach.

Since we are a student publication we often miss stories, make amateur mistakes and sometimes can’t control how much

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we can put on our pages. On today’s front cover is an interesting story about Josh Gibson’s documentary I and I. Although it is great that we can run a story on a faculty member’s film project, it is lamentable that we didn’t get a chance to publish the article during the summer issue (where it was sup-

to run).

Next week we will be running a story about the Troika Music Festival (ideally with an interview with Les Savy Fav). However, the story should have ran last week, so students could be prepared to participate in the festival that was held last weekend.

There will be one last bill of bands at the Duke Coffeehouse a week from Friday, but the lack of coverage was a huge oversight on our part.

But you learn to take your licks and move forward. Today you miss the big story, tomorrow you scoop the New York Times.

—Varan Leila, Editor

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Isn’t it that crunchy stuff you find under landfills? better sandbox topics sexier Halloween costumes lf I was a writer I’d suck it up Right-facing, vertical photos

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What was cool ten years ago on the Dreamcast is definitely still cool today—NEVERSOFT or is it “rad” now? Regardless, Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground, while never earthshattering, proves itself to be a solid step forward in the franchise’s history. Everything about this game is over-the-top, from the grittiness of the environment and dialogue to the tricks themselves.

The mainstay for Proving Ground is the game play. The tide does justice to its history as well as to the newest generation ofconsoles.

For anyone who has played a previous Tony Hawk title, the control system has changed little, so no guesswork is needed on how to pull off the “sickest” combos and rack up the highest points.

Character development is through the performance of tricks, which increase core stats (jump higher, grind harder), and the completion of plot objectives and side challenges, which give points to spend on stats that unlock abilities such as climbing fences, bowling over unsuspecting pedestrians and even initiating bullet-time. Newcomers will have a small learning curve as the game seems focused on exploring new game play mechanics, but the controls are intuitive enough and do not require the hair-tearing tedium of Electronic Arts’ Skate's tutorial mode. Multi-player, while seamless, is lacking in drive, missing the old magic of dramatic one-on-one’s.

Beyond game play, Proving Ground has all the extras you expect from a recently-published sports game. Fully-customizable characters—down to the shape of the eye—allow for the creation of the most thuggish of ‘toons. Versatile camera control, including the ability to add film effects and overlays to recorded shots, will let all your friends know how great you are at armchair skateboarding.

Large amounts of clothing, board designs and items are available for unlocking to customize both your character’s look and his personal skating hangout.

The few annoyances, such as trying to take a picture while flying through the air to complete a goal, are few and far between. The only consistent sources of discontent are the reused motifs, too and cheesy encouragement many recurrences of “dude” force fed to the player.

However, reasonable graphics, intuitive game play and the ability to fast forward through most of the explanations are enough to make this top the list for those looking .'or an arcade skateboarding ;ame. If you are looking realism... well, since when get that from a Tony Hawk colliding with an oncoming ain, or grinding on electripulling off that 1080 Rodeo 'arkslide into a Nollie?

—Chen Li

TONY HAWK’S PROVING GROUND

TIMESHIFT VIVENDI GAMES

Fanboys beware: Halo 3’s reign as Lord of the Next-Gen Shooter may soon be contested. Fortunately for would-be Spartans everywhere, it won’t be

by Timeshift.

Developed by Vivendi Games, Timeshift is the newest addition to an increasingly overpopulated genre—the first-person shooter. You play as an enigmatic scientist who dons a suit capable of time travel in order to stop a crazed rival from destroying history.

The game’s release date is unfortunate, sandwiched between Halo 3 and Call ofDuty 4. With such stiff competition, any game that isn’t absolutely revolutionary tends to fall by the wayside. And while fairly well-constructed—and a vast improvement over its beta-build Timeshift just doesn’t reach its full potential.

Many elements of the game are either borrowed from, or strongly inspired by, other titles. Your character’s suit has a regenerating shield system identical to Master Chiefs, you wield an explosive crossbow ripped from Gears of War and the dystopian setting features a main bad guy, egotistical dictator/physicist Krone, with a penchant for wide-screen propaganda a la Half-Life 2.

Even with these “similarities,” the game should still have an ace in the hole with its unique exploration of time distortion game play. The mechanic is built right into the story with a truly compelling opening sequence and, by adding the power to pause and reverse time, the developers actually created game play that feels fresh... at first.

You as a player are really allowed to enjoy the power that comes with time manipulation —freez—

ing enemies in mid-shot, reversing time to avoid grenades—and those elements are very well-designed.

Unfortunately after a few hours you notice that the enemies lack variety, and most fights devolve into the same slow-motion gun play we’ve seen in older titles, albeit with near-seamless transitions and stun-

ning visuals.

There are even light puzzles, such as slowing time to cross moving propellers or reversing time to fly up an air shaft, that seem to break the action in an interesting way. But again it isn’t too long before you notice thatalternate time streams and advanced technology mean almost every level has some giant, inconveniently placed fan or ridiculously inefficient elevator timing that would surely spell doom for anyone not sporting digs capable of manipulating space-time at a subatomic level.You might as well sit back and watch Krone’s empire crumple under the weight ofmillions of personal injury lawsuits.

In the end, things just get repetitive. It doesn’t matter how pleasantly gritty the controls feel, or how gorgeous the action looks, if you are basically doing the same thing a hundred times. Eventually you just feel bad for the nameless henchmen who don’t really have a chance.

At such moments players look to the story to keep them intrigued, but this is where Timeshift really cements its mediocrity. Enticing memory fragments hint at a deeper plot, but the narrative is never really fleshed-out. The potential is there, with a dark and rich subject matter, but the game ends without ever utilizing the deeply compelling setting or even giving your character a name.

With solid visuals and generally enjoyable game play, Timeshift is at least worth renting. But players hunting for a reason to put down the plasma sword will just be wasting their time.

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superficially tense—far too contrived to channel new insight. As usual, Cruise takes himself a bit too seriously in his role, turning his chin from side to side while asking sweeping questions concerning the War on Terror. When Streep’s Roth leaves the interview and looks thoughtfully

Ever had an essay you started the night before, pumped at the White House from her cab window, the film should full of glossy BS and handed in expecting recognition of reverberate with meaning; instead, Streep simply looks your 3 a.m. brilliance? That’s what Lions for Lambs feels upset that she got talked into doing the film.

Amidst'the sea of lessons and important questions like—an alarming truth considering it’s the latest project raised, a few have great promise. The interaction between to come from film icon Robert Redford.

Redford tackles our current War on Terror from three the professor and his intelligent but apathetic student is distinct but connected story lines. Seasoned reporter socially relevant. However, instead of expanding on the stronger points of each of the three storylines, Redford Janine Roth (Meryl Streep) has an exclusive, one-hour allows the conversations to stray and the momentum to interview with conservative Senator Jasper Irving (Tom fizzle. tells Roth about new for a plans Cruise). Senator Irving Redford and screenwriter Matthew Carnahan successU.S. assault in Afghanistan, one that directly affects Army soldiers Ernest Rodriguez (Michael Pena) and Arian fully questions every aspect of American culture and who Finch (Derek Luke). Arian and Ernest are past students of to blame (the media, the government, the students—the college professor Stephen Malley (Redford) who, against usual), but that’s the only feat they accomplish. Because his wishes, decided to enlist. In contrast, Malley’s current of its lack of focus, the film fails to make any impression on the viewer. The little passion Lions for Lambs has, con“student of promise” Todd Hayes (Andrew Garfield) is infined in the two students-turned-soldiers, is diluted by the but apathetic. telligent The film feels like a morning lecture that confuses pendantic ramblings of the rest of the characters.

The film runs for a mere 88 minutes, providing no time and overwhelms rather than teaches. Roth and Irving’s interview, which quickly turns into a debate, is brimming to properly flesh out the characters, but quite enough with smug laughs and self-conscious political banter that time to aggravate the viewer.

—Charlie McSpadden comes across as deflated and fake. The conversation is

THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES

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A film about the life of notorious outlaw Jesse James would oblige noisy train robberies and all the folksy bravado of the gun-slinging Western genre. But director Andrew Dominik’s film The Assassination of Jesse James by the CowardRobert Ford chronicles the end, not the height, of the desperado’s career. And such a story of death and betrayal requires a campfire telling—a long, drawn-out cinematic whisper that is unnerving behind its smoky silver screen.

Cinematographer Roger A. Deakins {A Beautiful Mind, Jarhead) weaves one dreamy shot into the other, pulling focus with each descent into narration. Every now and then, the visual poetics are suspended by a fit of dialogue or gunshot; but the stark violence halts, and the haunting score spurs methodically onward.

Only a small sampling of films has managed to summon the sensory as a means of storytelling (the most recent that comes to mind is Terrence Malick’s woodsy reverie New World). In these movies, the sounds linger, the dialogue is deliberate, the surroundings seem almost ethereal. Jesse James (Brad Pitt) cuts a hazy, black figure against the western panorama, his entourage lurking on the sides as blanched ghouls.

Pitt assumes the infamous role with easy charisma, while still managing to impart the vibrations of insane ruthlessness. Wielding a roughened pretty-boy visage, Pitt’s nuanced performance makes it easy to accept why history —so familiar widi the robberies and murders of this 19th century gangster—nevertheless, revered him as a hero.

But Dominik’s fable centers not on James, but on Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) —a 19-year-old would-be bandit with a treasure box of Jesse James collectibles. At the outset of the film, Ford has die honor of tagging along on a legendary James’ brothers train robbery. Ford makes every sycophantic effort to ingratiate himself to the youngest James. But obsession turns to steady reproach and ultimately ambition. Affleck’s bashful boyishness is a perfect fit for Ford, the eager, young pup whose ironic legacy is cowardice.

The film is at once too pristine to fit in with the standard western grime, yet at the same time, made genuine by its lonesome tenorand spells ofcool violence. A talented supporting cast of conspiring outlaws (Sam Rockwell, Jeremy Renner, Paul Schneider) add to the film’s refined authenticity, allowing Dominik’s perfected dialogue to function in spite ofhis too-frequent narrative exposition.

If the title isn’t indication enough of Dominik’s affection for detail, the two hour and 40-minute run time will make sure of it. But even if Dominik is attentive to the point of overindulgence—the film is about five epilogues too long—it’s this attention that adds dimensionand humanity to legend.

—Janet Wu

idea with his sister Liz (real life sister Joan Cusack), David decides to adopt an unusual boy named Dennis (Bobby who believes he’s a martian and stays under Coleman) NEW UNE a cardboard box to keep clear of the sun. Much of the film focuses on the struggles David encounters as a father, in particular a father whose child collects bugs, eats only Perhaps due to a long list of roles in sub-par romantic comedies, John Cusack has never received the respect Lucky Charms and lacks any semblance of social skills. that films like Bullets over Broadway and High Fidelity should Cusack succeeds in making us care about his character have given him. Yet Cusack’s serious side is on full display and whether the orphanage board will allow him to remain Dennis’s father. We can admire how excited David gets this year with the forthcoming Grace is Goneand the nowwhen Dennis first arrives at his house. We can sympathize playing Martian Child.

Martian Child, in which Cusack plays David, a popular with how he struggles to get Dennis to like him while at science-fiction writer who lives alone after the death of the same time trying to be a responsible parental figure. his wife, is much better than the considerable negative Yes, Martian Child can at times be overtly corny, with David buzz surrounding it would suggest. Having discussed the delivering lines to his son like “I deserve you,” at a baseball game. And yes, the film does at times beam out its “Be Yourself’ message with painstakingly little subtlety, such as when the president of David’s book publishing company asks him, “Why can’t you just be what we want you to be?”

But it would be hard not to feel some sympathy towards David’s character who, having felt alone and rejected as a child, tries desperately to connect with one of the few people he is close with; his child. If you can look past an ending that runs on too long and cheesy lines that almost run the film into the ground, Martian Child has a good heart and characters you can root for.

—Greg Bobrinskoy

MARTIAN CHILD DIR. M. MEYJES

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ofnarrative styles. Gibson calls this a “collage” effect. that it uses a lot of dif“It’s experimental in the ferent formats,” Gibson said. “It’s not going to be something that’s going to be completely obscure. It’s not a PBS documentary. There’s a clear story that evolves. It takes a more sort of lyrical approach.”

The experimental techniques are a direct result of two factors in Gibson’s life, the first being his evolving interests over the years since his trip to India in 2002. Gibson never structured the film and spent most of his vacations working on it.

“In a period of five years, your interests change considerably,” he said. “It’s been this sort of epic journey that wouldn’t have been practical to do in a short period of time. It’s been this sort of organic process a little bit and it’s been good for the film as it exists now.”

Specific events in the film also correspond to budding interests in Gibson’s life. A reenactment scene, for example, features the twins’ wives during their first pregnancy, which parallels Gibson’s life (his wife is about to have a baby).

Gibson’s second reason for the experimental nature of the film is the difficulty of telling the story of the Bunker twins. Most of the information on the Bunker twins concerns what Gibson calls their “mythology and mystique,” but there is almost no information on the day-to-day affairs of the twins. Because of this, Gibson has focused elements of the film on the creative representation of the twins.

“I’ve been sort of trying to document a living history of Cheng and Eng because there’s a lack of primary information about people,” Gibson said. “I’m focusing [on] how they existed in the contemporary imagination and in the various [historical] periods of imagination. It’s a film about trying to unravel the history and complexity of these primary documents which were geared toward entertainment.”

Gibson has done copious amounts of research on the film, visiting everything from an exhibit featuring the Bunker twin’s shared liver and molds of their corpses to visiting their family reunions year after year. Gibson said that the family has not been the easiest group to talk to, and only in the past ten years have they begun to talk about this “dark secret.”

The film also deals with the complexity of the twin’s lives. Among other topics, I and I tackles the racial complexity of the twins’ interracial marriage, Chang and Eng’s role as immigrants and the parallel between their enslavement as performers and their enslaving of plantation workers, all of which are themes that still resonate with modem audiences.

The sum effect of the experimental methods in the film is a challenge to the lines of narrative and documentary.

Because the film blurs these lines of filmmaking, it is characterized as a docudrama.

“The distinction between documentary and narrative is kind of an arbitrary one,” Gibson said. “There’s always this sort ofconstmction to the way you approach something.”

Gibson is finishing the film at the end of the month and submitting it to the Full Frame Documentary Festival, aiming for an April premiere. When it premieres, it will offer a new perspective on the story of Cheng and Eng. “It’s a fascinating story that hasn’t been documented properly,” Gibson said. “There hasn’t been anything that has really been done that has tried t0... hint at not just them as men but them as a phenomenon. I don’t think anything like this has been made about them for sure.”

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The first track aside, Angels & Airwaves’ sophomore album 1-Empire is pure pop-confectionary. It takes nearly a minute for frontman and former blink-182 member Tom Delonge to rain in on the lead track, “Call to Arms,” and it’s obvious that the album is trying to establish a momentum with the slowly building tempo sans vocals.

When Delonge’s nasally voice does finally emerge, the song proves to be undeniably catchy, which is odd considering you almost need the lyrics in front ofyou just to decipher what Delonge is trying to say. It’s almost as if he decided that pronouncing words strangely is an adequate substitute for actual meaning. Rather than endearing, he

SIGUR ROS

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There’s something about Iceland. Maybe it’s the fjords, but somehow the quiet north-Adantic nation has managed to put out some of the best music of the past fifteen years, Sigur Ros being a prime example.

In their usual grandiose fashion, the Icelandic post-

rock quartet has returned with a double CD entitled Hvarf-Heim. The album’s material is not so much new as it is different.The first disc, Hvarf (meaning “disappeared” or “haven”) is a five-track collection of unreleased songs and reworked material from older albums. Disc two, Heim (meaning “home”) contains acoustic versions of six songs from the Sigur Ros catalogue.

While the album maintains the ethereal mood that has come to characterize Sigur Ros’ work, the recycling ofmaterial is anything but boring. Rather, revisiting their earlier works adds a new dimension to Sigur Ros’ music.

comes off as pretentious and unnecessary.

The album is definitely rooted in the ’Bos electropop tradition—namely The Cure, which comes as no surprise since Robert Smith contributed vocals to the last blink-182 album. However, while superficiality and sheen may have been hallmarks of the genre, 1-Empire goes far beyond homage to the point of farce.

The group relies on certain techniques far too often, from increasing the tempo to force a momentum that just isn’t there to leaving last syllables off words, so that each song sounds virtually the same. “Love Like Rockets” is textured, with faded samples layered over crunches and under-darting chords, to the point of being too ornate. Riffs cross over one another to bear the weight of the song like cables on a suspension bridge: the problem is that—like on many of the album’s songs—there is no weight, no significance or meaning for these cables to bear.

—Alex Fankuchen

“Hafsol,” a revamped version of a song from 1997’s Von, manages a completely different sound. Coming in at almost 10 minutes, the song opens with a bass string and flows into Jonsi’s transfixing vocals, building energy until it erupts into chaos. At the end, it quietly fades out with a piccolo, but the epic track is a clear example of the band’s musical savvy, incorporating a variety of sounds and instruments while achieving a symphonic effect in under 10 minutes. Even more impressive is that the track is so different from the original version that it is hard to even identify the source material.

The acoustic tracks on disc two provide a fitting counterpoint to Hvarfs complexity. While the stripped-down songs allow Jonsi’s voice to shine, classics “Staralfur” and “Agaetis Byrjun” cannot hold up without the electric edge. The other four tracks, “Von” and “Vaka” especially, demonstrate an elegantly simple functionality, even without the elaborate overflow of their studio versions.

Hvarf-Heim is clear evidence of Sigur Ros’ musical aptitude. Without writing a single new song, the band has crafted a stunning reevaluation of their best works on par with the majesty of the originals.

—Andrew Hibbard

collaborators the Neptunes well-polished tracks courtesy The masterful, sample-heavy Hddy needs to stay out of the ick to the mixing table. Howlighlight is the climactic final oduced by Mr. JanetJackson ermaine Dupri. somber but fast-paced track lates on the seemingly inevie downfall of most gangsters, hypnotic beats are the pert accompaniment to Jay-Z’s lable-filled lyrics. Onlyjigga .an can make rapping about High Definition and Sudoku ;eem cool. But I guess it’s a talent that naturally comes along when a Young Hova fades to gray.

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The Raveonettes, once-hailed as part of music’s “Next Wave,” return to the rock & roll scene with Lust, Lust, Lust their fourth full-length release. In addition to gathering attention in the States, the duo has already achieved relative success in their native Denmark. In 2003, guitarist Sune Rose Wagner and bassist Sharin Foo won the Danish Grammy-equivalent of “Best Album of the Year” for their noise-infested first effort, Whip It On. Moreover, Blender Magazine even named Blondie look-alike Wagner one of “Rock’s Hottest Women.”

As an album, Lust isn’t too different from the band’s previous efforts. The 12 tracks of noise are hardly distinguishable, aside from the obvious major/minor key juxtapositions. The opener, “Aly, Walk With Me,” is one of the better tracks on the album and is also the longest, rounding out at about five minutes. The remainder are mostly ’6os surf-rock throwbacks, lasting around the three-minute mark and overrun by background noise.

The listener will definitely experience a strong sensation of deja vu after hearing “Hallucinations,” “Dead Sound” and “Black Satin,” tracks that blur together thanks to Wagner’s lethargic vocals and a gross abuse offeedback.

‘You Want The Candy” is a laughable, cliched analogy on love with lyrics as bad as the name suggests.

It’s been several years since the Raveonettes recorded their first two albums, each composed of songs performed in a single key (B flat major and B flat minor, respectively). Technically, the material on Lust was not subjected to such musical restrictions, but the ‘Nettes don’t do much to make the listener think otherwise.

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get his master’s degree in theological studies from Duke’s Divinity School, he started acting at the Dirty South Improv Comedy Theater in Carrboro, where he met the other members ofFour String Samurai.

The group now consists of five performers, in addition to Runestad: Ryan Locante, Chris Conklin, Ben Birkin, Paul Overton and Eric Hirsh. The Samurai Hour is made up of two halves, with the first part being the opening act in which a local comedy group will perform. In the second half, Four String Samurai act out a 25-minute-long, continuous piece, exemplifying the style of improv that is aptly termed “long-form improv.”

“What this group does is iong-form improv,’just like it’s one, 25-minute chunk. It’s not like Who’s Line is it Anyway, where there are games and contests,” Hirsh said. “It’s more a montage of scenes that are connected. It’s almost more of a show like Curb Your Enthusiasm, where one scene goes into the next, and characters come back, and it’s more organic in away.”

Long-form improv may be a completely novel experience for those who have only been exposed to the more gimmicky, game-based, short-form version, which is favored by TV. shows and college improv groups as an effective way to capture and maintain an audience’s attention.

Yet what establishes Four String Samurai as more than just any old professional comedy group is that they incorporate improvised music into their acting. Hirsh plays the keyboards as the others act, resulting in a synthesis where music and theater play offof one another. “[Hirsh is] not just there to add, he’s there to play with us. We have to adapt to what he’s giving us, and he has to adapt to what we give him, so he’s improvising along with us,” Locante said.

The Four String Samurai’s consistent appearances in Durham are a more recent phenomenon, resulting from their decision to move away from Carrboro’s DSI Comedy Theater.

“We were a part of the DSI theater for a little while in Carrboro, and I don’t want to get too much into that, but it didn’t really work out,” Locante said. “We’re independent now, and I like that better. We don’t really have too many limitations. And so we went to Broad Street and we thought that maybe since they have a stage that maybe we could use a stage.”

Four String Samurai have indeed found a use for Broad Street’s stage with Samurai Hour. And what better way to further integrate themselves into the Durham theater scene than by featuring Durham-based DUI as a guest opener in their upcoming show?

Members of DUI, having performed frequently for hordes of freshmen and parents, have expressed excitement about the show, yet seem nonplussed at the idea of performing alongside professionals.

“I honesdy think that we’ve performed for bigger crowds at Duke and so really as far as pressure goes, it’s actually a lower key event,” said Brandon Curl, a senior in DUI. Rimestad expressed his confidence in the group’s abilities.

“DUI is great because it’s Duke students, so, Duke student to Duke student, it’s all these really smart people, which you need, and it’s a lot offun because we’re able to reference a lot of stuff,” Runestad said. “It’s a lot of quickwitted and clever people, and so it’s a great training ground for just being kind of funny and making people laugh.”

Runstad’s use of Duke connections to enter into the acting community goes to show that even if I-banking doesn’t work out, at least that Duke education’s good for something.

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Four String Samurai will be performing Samurai Hour at the Broad St. Cafe on Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. Cover is $3 at the door.

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From painting and drawing to film and virtual design, senior Andrew Harkins seems to do it all. He doesn’t restrict himself to one medium, but instead continues to find new ways to express his passion through art.

Even as a young child, Harkins’ main form of communication was through doodling.

“One ofmy earliest memories, of anything, is in preschool drawing these Ninja Turtles with my friends,” he said. “I went to an international preschool where my friends didn’t speak the same language as me. I feel like the medium through which we were able to converse was visual arts and Ninja Turtles.”

A visual arts major, Harkins has contributed to the Chronicle and Towerview, as well as designed T-shirts for campus events. Although outreach on campus is important, he feels he should take advantage of the opportunities that the University provides, part of which includes reaching out and giving back to the Durham community.

During the past two semesters, Harkins has been working closely with a dozen third through fifth graders at Carter Community Charter School. For his collaborative art class last spring, he developed a business plan with the kids, apdy named “Ultimate Kid Komics,” and helped them create their own comic strips. Their work will be displayed at the Chapel Hill Comics store early next year.

In addition to bringing art to these kids, Harkins decided to go a step further by giving the students a taste of what Duke has to offer. Last semester, he designed a city construct for the Duke Immersive Virtual Environment tank and brought the kids to DiVE to experience the virtual treat.

“After they spent a semester dreaming up their own superheroes, I told them, after all this time, they were are all superheroes too,” he said.

By combining DiVE with his teaching curriculum, Harkins is providing a unique opportunity for the kids, while expanding his own scope as an artist. As one of three in the U.S. and one of seven in the world, DiVE combines both the technical and visual aspects of art.

In his current independent study distinction project entided “Wonder,” Harkins integrates painting, conceptual sculptures, animated cartoons and documentary

film to convey his theme “‘Wonder’ is the aesthetic combination of wonder and familiarity,” he said. “Even in the most familiar things, there can be this concept of wonder. My project tries to heighten that sensation and bring that out.”

The film portion of his independent study involves what he is currently working on with the Carter Community students. He gave each of the kids a camcorder, some basic technical direction, editing tips and simple objects like Styrofoam balls to jump-start their own sto-

rytelling.

“I’m presenting them with these really familiar things like basic shapes,” he said. “But as far as the stories are concerned, what they do with the props is up to them.

Their stories will inevitably not be about the Styrofoam ball—it’ll be a crystal ball or basketball. So it’s about imagination and creativity and finding some sense of wonder in these things.”

Harkin’s own sense of wonder has led him to also incorporate writing into his project as well. By including the film aspect, he is able to add dialogue, sound and even music to his creations.

A master of many crafts, Harkins uses his art to not only transcend artistic limits, but also to inspire other’s creative pursuits.

Harlem Theatre revisists classic by

Braden Hendricks THE CHRONICLE

This Friday and Saturday night at the Reynolds Theater, in the Bryan Center, the Classical Theatre ofHarlem

will be performing Shakespeare’s masterpiece of young love and romance, Romeo and Juliet.

“Other than being set in Harlem in 2007, everything else will be the same, including the language,” director Christopher McElroen said.

The thought of watching a Shakespearean play through the lens ofmodern Harlem dispels those images of actors, wearing tights, mournfully soliloquizing to the skull resting in their hands. The Classical Theatre ofHarlem’s interpretation will likely be lively and dynamic, as it is meant to capture the minds of the modern generation.

If the performance lives up to its potential, then it will be the best of both worlds.

McElroen added that the Theatre’s mission is cultural

complementation, not transplantation.

“It’s a classic, an icon, that needs revisiting, not revision,” he said.

Founded in 1999 by McElroen and Alfred Preisser, the Classical Theatre of Harlem has brought more then 30 classic plays by William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, Euripides and others back to a neighborhood that, until recendy, was marked by severe poverty.

“Our idea is to be the next great theater company,” McElroen said. “We are dedicated to returning the classics to the stages ofHarlem.”

Once the site of a 17th century Dutch setdement, Harlem has since undergone several cultural rebirths, the most notable of which is the Harlem Renaissance of the ’2os and ’3os. Since then, however, Harlem has lost a good deal of its artisdc clout.

In an effort to build upon the legacy of the Harlem Re-

naissance, the Classical Theatre operates as a non-profit organization focused on revitalizing the culture ofHarlem.

“We have the youngest, most diverse audience in town.

Because of that diversity, [the audience] truly represents NewYork. It’s exciting to have that impact,” he said.

By performing outside of Harlem, the Classical Theatre also helps to spread awareness of Harlem’s thriving community of artists.

“Our brand of theater is unique. We want to showcase our work at places like Duke, show the strong artistic activity of Harlem to people who may not know about it,” McElroen said.

Besides time-honored classic works, the Classical Theatre takes on more recently written plays and musicals as well. Last week the Theatre came to Duke to perform Melvin Van Peebles’ Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death, written in 1971.

The Classical Theatre of Harlem will be performing Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Nov. 9 and 10 at 8 p.m. in Reynolds Theater.

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natural flavors come through and therefore spice their proteins minimally. Here, pork somehow tastes perkier, beef is beefier. Even the tortillas themselves are more subtle and tender.For some this is a refreshing draw, for others it may actually be unsettling. A chicharon, fried pork belly, taco was at once pleasantly chewy and faintly crisp. A buche, pork stomach taco was served in its tomatillo cooking liquid and was an interesting textural experience, not unlike very tender tripe—worth trying once, possibly twice, but not a third time.

Camiceria Superior Taqueria is located in what some call a Mexican Disneyland. Occupying a colorful corner of the Mexican grocery Camiceria Superior, a taqueria takes up one wall where a Mexican bakery, tortilla shop and agua fresca and ice cream stand also hold court. Superior offers not only the typical stable of tacos with various beef and pork parts but also braised goat.

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its tender contents, La Vaquita, formerly known as Miranda’s, recendy went through a change in ownership, and the results have been marked. What was previously a serviceable taqueria is now putting out some of tastiest and most consistent Mexican food in the area. The barbacoa is the perfect blend of meaty and tender. The chicken with mole is smooth and harmonious, topped with a light sprinkling of toasted sesame seed for a faint toothsome quality. What Vaquita lacks in indoor seating, chairs or an actual menu with prices it makes up for with quality cooking. Unfortunately some of this newfound success may be going to its owners’ heads.

The prices of platos have gone up, tacos are smaller than at other restaurants and salsas are seemingly a precious commodity given how the cashiers refuse repeated requests for extra containers.

The best part about any of these taquerias is that even on a bad day, they serve up distinctive and cheap cuisine.

This is not easy food in the sense that it may be far from familiar, but Durham taquerias largely deserve all the praise they get. to

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Blue Devils Duke kicks off exhibition season bow out to Deacons by

Ben Cohen

THE CHRONICLE

At least unofficially, the McCallie Era

begins tonight.

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Callie will coach her first game as a Blue Devil tonight at 7 p.m., when Duke takes on Team Reebok in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

It is the Blue Devils’ only exhibition game before the regular season starts Sunday.

McCallie, the former Michigan State head coach, leads a fairly green squad into the preseason. Last season’s National Player of theYear Lindsey Harding and 6-foot-7 Alison Bales graduated in May, as did former head coach Gail Goestenkors, who left Duke to become the head coach at Texas.

“Expectations never change,” McGallie said. “You want excellence, but there is a process, and we’re at the very beginning of that process. We’re fundamentally trying to get to know each other and trying to work a little bit harder and know that we can do great things but without hard work and focus, great things won’t occur. We’re pretty basic and fundamental right now.”

Naturally, there are plenty of questions surrounding this year’s Blue Devils, ranked No. 10 in the preseason rankings.

The answers to those questions start against Team Reebok. a more formidable squad than Anderson University and Premier Players, two foes the Blue Devils flattened by a combined 119 points in last year’s exhibitions. Tonight’s visitor—made up of former college players from topranked programs —could pose more of a challenge. ACC rival North Carolina

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Duke and Wake Forest battled for 95

long minutes Wednesday night in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., waiting for someone to come through with the winning goal. In the 96th minute, Demon Deacon defender Kaley Fountain DUKE SL found the back WAKE 1 of the net, lifting No. 18 Wake Forest (12-5-3, 7-2-2 in the ACC) into the conference tournament semifinals with a 1-0 victory.

Now, the Blue Devils (8-5-6, 3-4-4) will begin an even longer wait to see if they receive a berth in the NCAA tournament.

Duke could have strengthened its case with a win Wednesday, but the Blue Devils could not get the goal they needed.

“It just rips your gut out,” head coach Robbie Church said. “It was a tough locker room afterwards.... It’s a cruel game sometimes.”

Duke is no stranger to overtime this season, as the contest marked the eighth time the Blue Devils have gone beyond

regulation. They had not, however, experienced an overtime loss yet this season.

“I’m very proud of our girls,” Church said. “We played some really good soccer against a really good team.”

Duke had its chances throughout the contest. Sophomore forward Elisabeth Redmond recorded six of the Blue Devils’ 13 shots, including one that went wide left in overtime. Four minutes later, Kay Anne Gummersall fired a shot from just inside the box that was saved by Demon Deacon goalkeeper Amanda Barasha.

On the Wake counterattack, forward Sarah Winslow found Fountain on the top left corner of the box. The sophomore SEE W. SOCCER ON PAGE 10

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Junior guard Abby Waner and theBlue Devils play their only exhibition game tonight against Team Reebok.

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Yellow Jackets yearn for consistency by

Stephen Allan THE CHRONICLE

It is not much of a stretch to say that Georgia Tech has played inconsistently this season.

After falling to Wake Forest in the ACC Championship a season ago, the Yellow Jackets were picked to finish second in the Coastal Division of the ACC. But Georgia Tech has not been able to build any momentum this season, frequently following a great performance with a poor one.

The Yellow Jackets’ expectations rose considerably following their 33-3 dismantling ofNotre Dame in the season-opener at South Bend. They held the Fighting Irish to 122 net yards of offense, including

negative-eight yards rushing.

Georgia Tech has been unable to replicate that kind of performance with any consistency since, slipping to a 5-4 record and going just 2-4 in the ACC.

When the Yellow Jackets are at their

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Sophomore forward Elisabeth Redmond had six shots in Duke's 1-0 loss in the ACC quarterfinals.

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best, their defense has stifled opponents like the Fighting Irish and Clemson. In a 13-3 victory over the then-No. 13 Tigers in late September, Georgia Tech’s front seven held Clemson’s vaunted running duo of James Davis and CJ. Spiller to just 34 net yards on the ground.

During the team’s worst moments, however, the offense has struggled to overcome the departures of star wide receiver Calvin Johnson and four-year quarterback

Reggie Ball. The Yellow Jackets have especially had trouble in the air. In last week’s 27-3 loss to No. 11 Virginia Tech, junior quarterback Taylor Bennett completed just 11-of-26 passes for 157 yards while tossing four interceptions.

“If you’re any kind of competitor you get over things quickly,” head coach Chan Galley said. ‘You’ve got to handle the good times, and you’ve got to handle the bad times.”

Georgia Tech has seen the full spectrum of good and bad in the past four weeks, having lost by two, won by three, won by 24 and then lost by 24.

Gailey, however, expects some of the unsteady play to resolve itself with the return of senior running back Tashard Choice. Oct. 20 against Army, Choice injured his right knee and had surgery three days later. Choice missed only the game against the Hokies, but not coincidentally, it was the Yellow Jackets’ worst offensive performance of the season.

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Riding a six-game winning streak, the No. 14 Blue Devils head into their toughest conference road trip with one thing on their minds—vengeance.

Duke (20-4, 15-1 in the ACC) will get the chance to avenge its only ACC loss when it competes against ClemVS. son (22-3, 15-1) Friday, but first, the Blue Devils syJ&M will take on third-place Georgia Tech (17-9, 115) tonight in Adanta at THURSDAY, 7 p.m.

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When Duke faced the Yellowjackets earlier in the season, the Blue Devils narrowly earned ya 3-2 victory thanks to the hitting prowess of senior Carrie DeMange.

In that contest, Duke rallied from an 0-2 hole Jervey Gym to capture the win.

To avoid a potential conference loss, the senior leadership of DeMange, Ali Hausfeld and Jenny Shull will once again be key for Duke. DeMange continues to dominate defenses with a conference-best 5.05 kills per game. Hausfeld, the conference leader in assists, has become an offensive threat, with 24 kills and only one error in four matches. On the defensive ,

side, Shull is ranked second in the ACC in digs with 5.4 per game.

Outside of the senior class, the Blue Devils have had a number ofcontributions from junior Jourdan Norman and sophomore Rachael Moss. Norman has become the defensive specialist on the team, averaging 1.39 blocks per game. The junior is no slouch on the offensive side, either, as she leads the conference with a .405 hit-

ting percentage.

Duke’s defense will have its hands full with Georgia Tech’s outside hitter, Talisa Kellogg. The junior currently leads the Yellow Jackets in kills with 3.92 a game, good enough for seventh in the ACC. After the Blue Devils go down to Georgia, the team will head out to battle the Tigers for the top spot in the conference. Clemson is the only ACC team to beat Duke this season, knocking off the Blue Devils 3-2 in Cameron Indoor Stadium Oct. 18.

Duke had rallied back from down two games in that match as well, only to drop the deciding fifth game 15-10. The loss ended the Blue Devils’ 18-game conference winning streak and their 38 straight wins in home matches.

Despite the loss, Duke is still tied with Clemson for first in the ACC. This weekend, however, will go a long way toward determining how the conference standings shape up before the final two weeks of the regular season.

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Senior Allison Lipsher made six saves in net for theBlue Devils, but Duke fell 1 -0 to Wake Forest in overtime.

W. SOCCER from page tallied her first goal of the season by placing the ball over senior goalkeeper Allison Lipsher’s head.

“We just didn’t finish,” Church said.

“We had a number ofreally good opportunities, really good looks on goal.”

Lipsher was outstanding in goal for Duke, making six saves to keep the Demon Deacons off the board for 95 minutes.

“Ali did a good job connecting with our backs,” Church said. “She’s a big-time goalkeeper. The goal was nothing she could do. We just hope we have one more game for her to play in.”

That hope now rests solely in the hands of the NCAA tournament selection committee. Church said the Blue Devils present an interesting case because of their high number of ties.

“We’ve just got to cross our fingers and pray a little,” Church said. “But we’re in kind of uncharted territory with all those ties we have.”

The coach is more certain ofhis team’s ability to perform if it does make the field.

“There’s no question we’re one of the top 64 teams in the country,” he said. “If we get into the tournament, we can do a lot of damage.”

The 64-team NCAA tournament field will be announced Monday night at 8 p.m.

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crushed Team Reebok 102-75, but a respectable Florida State squad eked out a 12-point win over the team. The all-star squad nipped Georgia Tech by one and also beat Georgia 81-64.

Not only is the outcome of tonight’s game uncertain, but the team’s lineups and preferred style of play are still up in the air.

After Duke’s inaugural Blue-White scrimmage, McCallie hinted that the team’s three returning starters—senior Wanisha Smith, junior Abby Waner and junior Carrem Gay—will account for three of the starting five. The rookie head coach was also impressed by 6-foot-5 junior Chante Black, who redshirted last year due to a knee injury. Joining those four on the Blue team in the intrasquad scrimmage was senior point guard Emily Waner.

“It is [the starting lineup] at the moment, but we’ll analyze this game and see what needs to be done,” McCallie said.

While the returning starters seem to have cemented starting roles, the point guard position looks to be undefined.

Last season, Harding was the consummate floor general, making others better and stepping up to score against the best competition. This season, that role is still in flux.

McCallie has said she plans to employ a guard-by-commitee strategy, using Waner, Smith, freshman Jasmine Thomas and junior Brittany Mitch.

The Blue Devils begin their regular season on the road, traveling to Denver Sunday at 6 p.m. before heading to South Florida Nov. 15 for the first ESPNU Women’s Basketball Invitational.

still leads the ACC in rushing by 66 yards and is fourth in the conference with seven touchdowns on the ground.

The senior’s greatest impact, however, comes from the morale boost he gives the team.

“He’s an emotional leader, and he’s a part of everything we do,” Gailey said. “Anytime you have the leading rusher in the conference back on the field, it helps the psyche ofyour team.”

Although the situation at running back appears to be settled, a quarterback quandary may be brewing in Atlanta. With Bennett’s ineffective game against Virginia Tech, backup Josh Nesbitt came into the game with 9:10 remaining. Although the freshman was equally ineffective in the air, completing just one pass and throwing an interception, he showed off his scrambling ability, gaining 32 yards on four carries.

Gailey has already promised that Nesbitt will see some action Saturday.

“It’ll be a change-of-pace deal,” Gailey said. ‘You can’t push him too fast. It’s not fair to him or the team. But at the same time, you don’t want to take him too slow.”

Nine games into the year and flirting with bowl eligibility, Georgia Tech cannot afford to take anything slowly at this point. There is still the possibility of playing late in December, and Gailey has done all he can to make sure the team forgets about its erratic play.

“We talk about a 24-hour rule,” Gailey said. ‘You’ve got to get over it or else it will affect you and your preparation for the next week. It’s hard to get over it, but you must.”

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If all college-aged stua few dmes a year, and this editorial board, along with dents were allowed to drink nearly all college students, legally (and, we would hope, has time and again called for responsibly) the University a reduction of the drinking could provide a safe setting for alcohol consumption age from 21 to 18 years old. and play a greater role in adThe strongest rhetorical reason for changing the dressing the effects of drinkdrinking age is that if you ing on campus culture. Alcould die fighdng for your though administrators know that underage drinking is country and are able to vote, you should have the right to rampant and unpreventkick back and have a couple able, they are discouraged of beers once in a while. from advocating for studentPerhaps not as apparent but friendly solutions for fear of

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Duke and at colleges across the United States—are in a unique position to advocate for a reduced drinking age, since they have a respected position in society and also bear the responsibility for the safety of 18- to 21-yearolds. Such a grassroots effort from University administrators would have to be seriously considered.

Some current and former college administrators have already spoken out about the issue. John McCardell, the former president of

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in a 2004 guest editorial in The New York Times that the current law needs to be changed because it does not appear to have served the intended function of discouraging underage drink-

ing—on college campuses and elsewhere.

McCardell also argues that colleges need to be more progressive in teaching students about drinking responsibly. He writes that “colleges should be given the chance to educate students, who in all other respects are adults, in the appropriate use of alcohol, within campus boundaries and out in the open.”

This board urges Duke administrators to take a strong stand on this issue and help lead the charge to reduce an outdated and ineffective law.

A few days ago this board suggested that President Brodhead needed to redefine his legacy. A strong stand on this issue would be a bold statement toward that.

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This sentiment was expressed by Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta in a letter to the editor he wrote addressing Tailgate. “The legal drinking age is 21 and whether I like it or not (I don’t), I have a legal and ethical obligation to acknowledge it,” Moneta wrote. “Don’t waste your time encouraging me to support on-campus activities that encourage and promote underage drinking. That’s just not an option for any faculty or staff member.”

While administrators cannot be expected to endorse underage drinking activities at the moment, this board feels that university administrators—both at

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is an important focus of global health efforts today because it is a premorbid state that can be preventable with increases in our scientific understanding of the sources of its sprea< How prevalent are overweight and obesity? What is the history of changes in their manifestation? In the United States today, 66 percent of all adults are lobal health at duk( obese, overweight or part vii in a series with 34 percent being obese. By the year 2012, it is widely estimated that more than 70 percent ofall U.S. adults will be overweight or obese, with more than 40 percent being obese.

These are staggering statistics—particularly so when one considers that since the 1970 these percentages have more than doubled.

And this apparent epidemic is evident for children as well as adults. In the United States the prevalence of children prone to obesity has increased from about 5 percent in the 1970 to more than 17 percent today. These rapid changes in American obesity prevalence are not unique—almost all of the nations ofWestern Europe have witnessed two- to threefold increases in obesity prevalence in both adults and children during the past three decades.

Beyond the developed nations ofWestern Europe and North America, there has been a sharp increase in obesity among children and adults in China, India and the Third World nations of Africa. In some of these nations, malnutrition and obesity seem to go hand-in-hand—sometimes occurring within the same household. In China, the threefold increase in childhood obesity over the past two decades is largely concentrated in urban areas, particularly Beijing.

Obviously, there are unique aspects of the manifestation of the spread of obesity that are pertinent to different nations and regions of theworld.

In a technical sense, obesity is not a communicable disease. In simple terms, it is a regulatory anomaly brought about by consuming more energy in food than one expends in activity. There is no apparent biological medium of transmission from person to person, nor is it an illness defined by lesions or insults to our biological systems.

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municable scourges such as bubonic plague, tuberculosis or AIDS—to cite a few painful examples from various eras in history.

In contrast, obesity seems on the surface to be the result of individual behavioral processes that create an imbalance of energy consumption and expenditure and the biogenetic and social phenomena that usher in that behaviorally determined imbalance.

There are no “germs” or microbes that humans transmit to each other that make us obese.

In short, one might argue that obesity is an individually isolated phenomenon that follows from habits and their determinants. However, this argument is a tenuous one. As a nation and as an entire planet, we have been getting fat in unison during the past 30 to 40 years—as if the state of obesity has been spreading from person to person with remarkable speed.

The speed of the spread and the impact that this has on the formation of norms, habits and fixed preferences that are shared by many renders obesity an epidemic every bit as “contagious” as those transmitted by germs or toxins. Further, while obesity is not a disease in its own right, it is a correlate and harbinger of multiple diseases affecting multiple systems. The diseases with which it is associated, such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, stroke, some forms of cancer, etc., are compelling diseases that can result in serious disabilities and shortened life spans.

Indeed, some have forecast that owing to the high rates of obesity in Western nations, we are likely to see an unprecedented decline in the average lifespan in the next decades.

The study of an epidemic of worldwide proportions that has a nonbiological means of transmission in social collectives requires that we engage in crossnational comparisons to discover unique and common social pathways for its spread. Such study should not be confined by the premises of any single discipline. The solution ofproblems ofworldwide obesity requires an understanding of economic, political, sociological, psychological, cultural, genetic and biological phenomena and their interaction.

The Global Health Institute at Duke would like to have the scientific study and the prevention of childhood obesity both locally and globally as one of its priorities. It is hoped that scholars from multiple disciplines and both graduate and undergraduate students will participate in the emergence of this focus at Duke.

Philip Costanzo is a professor of psychology in the Department ofPsychology and Neuroscience. He is also an associate director of the Centerfor Child and Family Policy.

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letterstotheeditor Carolina Central University. Validation for this game closes tonight at midnight. Validated seats for this game were in very high demand, but I must stress that even if you were not able to validate you should still come to the game. It is not essential that you validate for you to be able to get into the game. The option of the secondary walk-up line is still available to all those that were for one reason or another unable to validate.

I reiterate what I have said in the past; The line monitor committee will do everything in its power to get as many students into Cameron Indoor Stadium as possible. Please do not be discouraged regarding your validation status. Remember to check the line counter on the validationWeb site (dukecard.duke.edu/bball) to see in real time how many people of those validated have actually shown up in line.

This secondary walk-up line will start at SchwartzButters plaza and continue down the sidewalk to Towerview Drive. Groups of six will be allowed to form, with half the group being there at all times, up until two hours before tip-off when the whole group needs to be present. All students must have their DukeCards to get into Cameron and will be wristbanded while standing in line.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jamie Deal Trinity ’OB me at rbs9@duke.edu.

Intellectual discrimination in hiring practices Wheeler Frost’s Nov. 1 guest column, “History at lowa was history at Duke for Mark Moyar,” highlighted a grave problem in university hiring practices. While there are probably exceptions, it is clear that history departments have discriminated against Republican historian Mark Moyar because of his views.

Some of my classmates have proposed other reasons for Moyar’s troubles. They say he might have a personality issue, or he might give boring lectures. But since when have major research universities cared that much about a professor’s social skills or teaching ability? The answer is never. And if they did, a lot of professors would not have their jobs.

By virtue of his credentials alone, Moyar is not automatically entitled to a professorship at Duke. But when such an academically accomplished and prolific a historian cannot find a job at most colleges and universities, it should disturb anyone who truly cares about intellectual diversity.

There should not be affirmative action for conservatives; there should just be fair treatment. Moyar has not received it.

reasons: The RIAA and its Hollywood counterpart, the Motion Picture Association of America, use automated programs to scour the Internet for material that might be copyrighted by those they represent. These programs have initiated legal threats after erroneously flagging free software, academic papers and other items that happen to be contained in files named similarly to any one of tens of thousands of song titles, band names, movie titles and television series claimed as copyrighted by the entertainment industry.

If the programs find a truly offending file, there is still no guarantee that the computer IP address submitted to the University corresponds in the University’s logs to the name of the person actually responsible for it. Adept users can subsume an address from another person, guests can use computers tied to registered users and viruses can take over computers to distribute copyrighted material without the knowledge of the owner. Last week, the University ofOregon refused to comply with 17 subpoenas because there was no way to verify “whether the content was accessed by the individual assigned that USCF name or by someone else using the Computer associated with the user name,” according to Dale Smith, Oregon’s director of network services.

And even if said user(s) distributed said copyrighted work(s), there are numerous questions surrounding the il-

a month ago I received an e-mail from a Duke alum named Matt Ivester. I didn’t know the kid when he went here, although with a little research I do know he was the one-time president of Sig Ep fraternity in ’O3-’O4, if that is at all relevant.

Anyhow, thee-mail informed me of a new Web site he was promoting—which many of you have probably heard of by now—endan belzer titled JuicyCampus. com. After showering w.w.j.d. me with unnecessary ... .

compliments regard-

As Student Health constantly reminds us, use protection.

Elliott Wolf is a Trinity senior. His column runs every Thursday.

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

Roberto Bazzani DSG HeadLine Monitor Trinity ’OB

Use protection!

In

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ing my previous work as the DukeObsrvr, he asked me ifI would be interested in dropping some of my “signature commentary” on his site.

At first, I didn’t think much of the e-mail. I had seen another site like this pop up before and it was not getting any traffic. Me being me, and being pretty much broke at the time, said that if he would pay me we could talk. Thankfully, I never heard back from him and let the e-mail slip into the back of my memory.

Then, maybe a week ago I started seeing ads on Facebook about this site. I clicked. Why not, right?

Curiosity killed the cat.

To my surprise, there were already four pages of message board posts, along with a substantial amount ofcommentaries within the various threads.

There were also already several online aliases who apparently made it their prerogative to deliver our campus’ “juice” to the World Wide Web. The entire Web site is anonymous, unregulated and posts are being added consistently. I think at last count there are more than 20 pages ofmessage boards, with easily more than 1,000 comments.

On the one hand, I was shocked and horrified by the comments I was reading. On the other, I was mesmerized. One look and I was unknowingly sucked into an addiction. I wanted more. More names, more dirt, more hate. I knew it was wrong, and I couldn’t morally justify adding to the hateful insanity, but I also couldn’t and can’t stop reading.

OK, I admit I’m being a hypocrite. Who am I to talk, right? I got this campus hooked on this kind of garbage two years ago with my blog.

Maybe, but if anyone has the credibility to say something has crossed a line, it’s me. I am already guilty of pushing the line of acceptability farther than it had ever been. And although I value free speech, truth, dirty language and funny zingers, I have serious issues with personal attacks explicitiy by name. If we allow that, then were does it stop?

The possibilities are endless. Anyone with a grudge, or a sick mind, can maliciously and often libelously attack defenseless students. I am aware that a lot of times the posts are not be taken seriously, but I am also aware that certain posts lack any sort of intent other than malice and hate.

Truthfully, there’s not much we can do. I am pretty sure the site is legal, and it would be difficult to win any sort of lawsuit or to subpoena the site to release the IP addresses of the anonymous posters.

Knowing this school’s love affair with gossip, status and elitist superiority, I don’t foresee this site dying any time soon.

I also realize that there are a few individuals who may have felt individually targeted by either things I wrote or comments on DukeObsrvr that I didn’t manage to delete. To those people, I apologize. Anything written by me was not meant to be personal.

I had no vested interest in who people thought was cool or un-cool, or hot, or whatever. My only agenda was to show this school how full of sh— it really was.

Then again, I guess JuicyCampus only further proves my point.

Procedure for NCCU men’s basketball game am I pleased to announce that our first regular season home game is tomorrow at 7 p.m. against North

May, the Recording Industry Association of America sent 28 subpoenas to the Office of Information Technology, seeking personal information on students whose computers were monitored distributing allegedly copyrighted material on peer-topeer file-sharing systems.

Over the summer, in stages, the Office of Legal Counf ifiSSSSSV sel complied.

It first relayed “prelitigation notices” to the 12 stuelliott wolf dents identified in the Unias the owners of versity’s logs q.e.d the computers whose IP addresses were identified in the subpoenas. The students were given the option of paying an out-of-court settlement of approximately $3,000 or spending potentially much more defending themselves against a civil copyright infringement suit. Six students chose to reveal themselves to the RIAA and settled.

Several months later, the counsel’s office revealed the names and other personal identifying information of the six who refused to settle, subjecting them to litigation and effectively throwing them under a very large bus driven by a very drunk driver.

These actions are extremely problematic for several

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legality of sharing material online, the legality of the RIAA’s enforcement efforts and universities’ responsibility to protect students’ privacy rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. In response to those concerns, Harvard law professor

Charles Nesson wrote in The Harvard Crimson in May: “We should be assisting our students both by explaining the law and by resisting the subpoenas that the RLAA serves upon us. We should be deploying our clinical legal student training programs to defend our targeted students. We should be lobbying Congress for a roll back of the draconian copyright law that the copyright industry has forced upon us.”

One would hope that such concerns would encourage Duke to at least try to protect its students—the same way Verizon protects its users, who pay as little as $14.99 a month, by going to court to quash subpoenas and refusing to pass on litigation threats to users. Resistance from Harvard Law School faculty and Harvard Information Technology resulted in the RIAA avoiding Harvard students in its latest round of subpoenas and legal threats, which targeted the 35 students at Duke and students at 22 other schools.

Instead, the administration favored a dubious “responsibility to teach the ethical use of intellectual property,” according to an article in The Herald-Sun. That “responsibility” has extended not only to serving RIAA and MPAA subpoenas, but also to internally punishing students on the basis of the same dubious computer-gener ated cease-and-desist and prelitigation letters. In the 20062007 school year, 22 students were adjudicated for violations of the “Computing and Electronic Communications” policy governing copyright infringement, a marked increase from the one student adjudicated the previous year.

As is the case with indiscretions by Durham police officers and Alcohol Law Enforcement agents, Judicial Affairs acts outside of the legal system to punish us on the basis of nonsubstantive or questionable information. At the same time, we are left to protect ourselves from undue legal action.

One way we can is with PeerGuardian (Google it), a freely available program that blocks the set of Internet addresses tied to the recording industry and the motion picture industry. It prevents automated computer systems from probing what files may be available, legally or illegally and with or without your knowledge, from a computer tied to you in the

University’s logs.

But most importantly, it prevents the entertainment industry, with the complicity of the University, from railroad-

ing you for something you did not be

or didn’t do, that may or may

perfectly legal.

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