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Right-wing political guru Karl Rove will speak on campus Dec. 3, political sci-

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“He’s one of the most consequential recent times,” Feaver said. “People who liked what he has been involved with and who didn’t like what he’s been involved with both would find it fascinating to come hear him firsthand.” Feaver worked with the former deputy chief of staff and chief political strategist for President George W. Bush while working on the National Security Council from 2005 to thisyear. During “A Conversation with Karl Rove,” which will be held in Page Auditorium, Rove will likely discuss his involvement with the 2000 presidential campaign, his career within the Bush administration and his perspectives on the 2008 presidential election. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” said Duke College Republicans Chair Sam Tasher, a junior. He added that he hopes students of all political persuasions will attend the

Last week’s re-election of Mayor Bill Bell and incumbent City Council members Diane Catotti and Eugene Brown in Durham’s municipal races leaves the City Council almost unchanged from 2006. The departure of conservative Thomas Stith, who vacated his council seat to run for the mayor’s office, and the election of newcomer Farad Ali, however, may have significant consequences for the city’s major governing and policy-making board. “[Ali] is a bit of a wild card,” said Kevin Davis, a close follower of Durham politics and the author of the blog “Bull City Rising.” “[He] has many of the same sensibilities that Stith brought to the Council... but he comes from a place where he has much more knowledge in the community.” Some council members said they hope Ali will be able to work with the rest of the council more effectively than his predecessor. “Farad is going to bring a lot of energy and a lot of good ideas... and I hope he’ll work well with others and participate,” said Catotti, “Frankly, Thomas didn’t do that.” Stith often cast lone opposition votes and publicly criticized his colleagues on contentious issues in his eightyears on the council. “Thomas liked therole thathe played as the SEE COUNCIL ON PAGE

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The Blue Devils fell to theTar Heels 1-0 in the quarterfinals of the ACC tournament held in Cary Wednesday night. Duke lost to UNC by the same score in Chapel Hill earlier this season.

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Every morning, Marketplace employee Wallace Burrows offers

Marketplace employee Wallace Burrows said he applies the same philosophy to designing T-shirts that he does to making omelettes.

up more than just eggs with mushrooms and cheese—he serves up size-medium airbrushed T-shirts. Most easily recognized for his skills with a spatula, the Marketplace’s affectionately dubbed “omelette guy” also applies his dexterity to the world of fashion with his T-shirt company B and W Creations. “Our motto is, ‘Our only limitation is your imagination,’” Burrows said between a rush of breakfast orders. “Almost all of the designs are [the customers’] ideas.” His design book, which lies on the side of the omelette station,

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contains both Duke-related graffiti and street-style prints of cartoons, pop culture symbols and basketball players in action. From caricatures of Tupac to SpongeBob SquarePants and Winnie the Pooh donning full-on gangster gear, Burrows’s T-shirts offer something for “anybody who wants to buy one,” Burrows said. “I try to make sure all my customers get treated the way I’d want to be treated,” he said. “I don’t know anybody who wants to get treated badly.” Burrows said he applies this philosophy every day, whipping up fresh egg batter and chopping vegetables from 6 a.m. until the SEE

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Karl Rove, former deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush, will speak in Page Auditorium Dec. 3.

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Judge calls OJ.for trial in Vegas by

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LAS VEGAS OJ. Simpson must face trial on kidnapping, armed robbery and other charges stemming from a suspected sports memorabilia heist, a justice of the peace ruled Wednesday. Defense attorneys had argued during a preliminary hearing that the case was based on the accounts of con artists and crooks, and they asked for the charges to be dropped. Justice of the Peace Joe M. Bonaventure ruled all charges in the 12-count complaint would remain against Simpson and co-defendants Clarence “C.J.” Stewart and

Charles “Charlie” Ehrlich “This is what we expected,” Simpson told TheAssociated Press before he left the courtroom. “If I have any disappointment it’s that I wish a jury was here. As always, I rely on the jury system.” Bonaventure acknowledged that the testimony of the witnesses was an issue to be weighed by the court and that the defense had raised questions of “bought” testimony. He said that there were a number of motive and credibility issues, but that they were “not so incredible or implausible” to keep the case from ajury. Kidnapping convictions could result in a life sentence with possibility of parole.

Armed robbery convictions would require some time in prison. The defendants were ordered to arraignment on Nov. 28. The case stemmed from a Sept. 13 confrontation in a casino hotel room where Simpson and a group of men are accused of stealing items from two sports memorabilia dealers. Outside the courthouse, Simpson’s attorney, Yale Galanter, argued again that the former football star was trying only to reclaim family heirlooms and that he believed no crime was committed. SEE SIMPSON ON PAGE 8

Earthquake, magnitude 7.7, hits Chile by

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SANTIAGO, Chile A major earthquake struck northern Chile Wednesday, toppling power lines, closing roads and

sending terrified residents into the streets. Authorities reported 20 injuries but no deaths from the quake, which was felt in the capital as well as neighboring Peru and Bolivia. The earthquake, which struck at 12:40 p.m. local time (10:40 a.m. EST), measured magnitude 7.7 and was centered 780 miles north of Santiago, or

25 miles east-southeast of Tocopilla, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The USGS said it occurred about 37.3 miles underground. The U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued, then canceled a tsunami warning for Chile and Peru. It said the quake generated only a 2-foot wave. Aftershocks were felt in several cities, according to media reports from the area. Some houses were damaged in the port city of Tocopilla, according to Deputy Interior Minister Felipe Harboe, “and some people were injured,

apparently none seriously.” He gave no figures but the government’s Emergency Bureau said at least 20 people were

injured in the small town of Maria Elena. A number of houses were damaged there, said Mayor Eduardo Ahumada. Presidential spokesman Ricardo Lagos Weber said power was cut in several cities in northern Chile. The region is home to some of the country’s largest copper mines. A statement from mine operator Codelco reportSEE QUAKE ON PAGE 8

Government investigators smuggled liquid explosives and detonators past airport security, exposing a dangerous hole in the nation's ability to keep these forbidden items off of airplanes, according to a report made public Wednesday.

Dems push for troopwithdrawals House Democrats defiantly pushed ahead Wednesday with a $5O billion war spending bill that calls for troops to leave Iraq, despite concerns raised by some party

members and a veto threat issued by the White House.

Stem cell breakthrough claimed Scientists in Oregon say they've reached the long-sought goal of cloning monkey embryos and extracting stem cells from them, a potentially major step toward doing the same thing in people.

French transport workers strike Transport workers shut down most trains Wednesday, testing the patience ofParisians forced to walk, bike or skate to work with a strike aimed at derailing President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to strip away labor protections he says hurt France's competitiveness. News briefs compiled from wire reports

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Larry Moneta, vice president for studentaffairs, uses Facebook to interact with students.

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book group profile, this year’s Delta Sigma Phi annual Reggae Jam kept the music and the dreads, but lost the booze pitch. Flanking ajar of strawberry jam in dreadlocks, the event’s page explains that the group is the second to publicize it because the first was too “awesome” for Facebook. The group selected a tamer name for the event after Delta Sig President David Furfaro, a junior, received an e-mail from Todd Adams, assistant director of students for fraternity and so-

rority life, Furfaro said. “I’m quite disappointed with the Facebook group for Reggae Jam,” Adams wrote in an e-mail to Furfaro obtained by The Chronicle. “I hope it’ll be changed or taken down given the inherent message it conveys and the violation ofrisk management policy.” Furfaro said he changed the name of the group without complaint and saw “no real harm in [it].” He added that the basic message of the group remained on the group’s profile. Though Adams does not have a Facebook profile, a number of other Duke administrators have pages on the site along with thou-

sands of Duke students who frequent the site daily. “What I don’t do is lurk in places I’m not invited,” said Larry Moneta, vice president for students affairs. “I welcome having morefriends, but I don’t want to intrude.” Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said she is “more of a responder” on

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es from students and accepting their friend requests. “I’m sort ofembarrassed to say I’ve never asked anyone to be my friend,” she said. “Maybe one of these days I will branch out a bit.” Wasiolek and Moneta said they SEE FACEBOOK ON PAGE 7

Scholarship program to redouble recruitment by

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After failing to award one of five Trinity Scholarships lastyear, program director Don Taylor said he will be making a renewed effort to locate eligible candidates this year. The University typically awards between three and five Trinity Scholarships, which include funds for full tuition, fees, room and board and summer study, work, service or travel experiences. Last year’s problem resulted from the criteria of one of the Trinity Scholarships that required the awarded student be a resident of Guilford County and show “substantial financial need”, said Taylor, an assistant professor of Don Taylor public policy. The program looks for students with high academic ability and a demonstrated affinity for leadership and community service, he said. The scholarships are funded by donors

who determine the qualifications for selecsense to go ahead and fill out the financial tion, which often include criteria such as need form even if you think there’s absogeographic region and financial need. A lutely no chance because most of the peodifferent donor endows each Trinity scholple who think there’s no chance are probar for his or herfour years at Duke. ably wrong,” he said. “The Trinity that we could not give away In order to ensure that all of next year’s last year had to meet all those criteria plus Trinity Scholarships are awarded, Taylor said have what was he hopes to intermed ‘substantial crease awareness “We had several kids [from financial need,’” of both the scholGuilford County] we might Taylor said. “That arships and Duke’s was where the probFinancial Aid have been happy to give the Initiative, adding lem came about. We had several kids that he is in close Trinity to, but they had no Guilford contact with high [from demonstrated financial need.” schools that have County] we might have been quite produced past Don Taylor Trinity scholars. happy to give the Trinity to, but they Freshman had no demonstrated financial need Molly Walsh raised concerns about failing to Taylor added thatpart of the problem is award the scholarship at all. that not enough students apply for finan“It seems like they could at least have ofcial aid, including students who may have fered the scholarship to someone, regardqualified for the extra Trinity last year had less of whether they needed financial aid,” she said. “The scholarship is a lot more they filed for aid. “If you’re from North Carolina, it makes than just money. It is frustrating to see ”

those resources go to waste.” Taylor, however, stressed the importance of awarding the Trinity scholarships to students with financial need. “I think identifying students with financial need is keeping with the purpose of the University and the desire of the scholarship,” he said. “We would rather redouble our efforts and try to make sure we don’t have that problem in the future as opposed to go back and try to get the [donors] to change away from a desire to benefit kids with financial need.” The program intends to give away four Trinity scholarships this spring, including one for Greensboro, N.C., one for Guilford County and two others open to all of North Carolina.

CORRECTION A story on page 3 of today's Chronicle should have stated thatthe Melcher Family Journalism Award is funded by Richard Melcher,Trinity 73.

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FormerWhite House deputy chief of staffKarl Rove will be thefirst bigname political speaker to come to Duke since Colin Powell in 2005.

the policies of such a high-profile and controversial figure, Rove’s speech presents a rare chance for those students to engage him in discussion and gain more insight on current issues, said Duke Democrats President Samiron Ray, a sophomore. “As chief architect of many Bush administration policies from the past few years, hopefully this will allow Duke students to question him in a very pointed way,” Ray said. “We don’t want this to turn into a glorified revisionary speech —we want this to be pretty down-toearth and raw.” Rove is the first big-name political speaker to come to campus since former secretary of state Colin Powell in 2005, Tasher said, adding that Duke’s struggles to attract influential political thinkers may contribute to the perceived political apathy of the student body. But senior Isel Del Valle, Duke University Union’s Major Speakers Committee chair, said although Duke has not attracted as controversial a figure as Ira-

nian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who visited Columbia University this fall, a roster of provocative speakers—including conservative author David Horowitz, who visited in 2006, and Ross Wilson, U.S. ambassador to Turkey —have held talks on campus in recent years. She added, however, that Rove is the first “amazing political speaker” to come this year and that the interactive format of the presentation will encourage students to get involved. “It’s a conversation, not a canned speech,” she said. Feaver said although he will conduct a public interview with Rove during the event, students will have the opportunity to ask questions at the conclusion of the talk. “He’s very capable of communicating and engaging the audience, whether they agree or disagree with him, at a pretty high-caliber conversation,” he added. The event will be co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science, the Sanford Institute ofPublic Policy, the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost and Duke University Union.

MARKETPLACE from page 1 end of the Marketplace’s lunch service. He personally greets hungry and sleepy freshmen from behind the omelette station with a smile and some speedy sprinkling of cheese, students said. Freshman Blake Horowitz, who said he gets omelettes nearly five days a week, noted that he considers his morning visits with Burrows a “staple in [my] diet.” “He always calls me ‘ham and cheese,’” Horowitz said. “[The kids] come in and he knows their orders. He loves interacting with people here.” A member ofDuke’s fencing team, Horowitzfirst heard of Burrows’s designs during a casual discussion about Tshirts in the omelette line. The two are now working on shirts for the entire team. “I was extremely impressed [with his portfolio],” Horowitz said. “I’m going to bring him some ideas about swords and a cool Duke logo.” Although Burrows has been a staple at Duke for nearly 22 years, few students said they know much about the man behind their morning egg beaters. The designs are a good example of how to help students connect with staff members who work outside the classroom, freshman Sam Klein said. ‘You could say that the shirt was given to you by a member of the Duke community,” he said. Omelette fan RobertKratdi, a freshman, said he agrees that the idea of designing T-shirts for Duke students is a potentially lucrative one. Burrows, however, said he plans to extend his profits beyond his own pocket. With the proceeds from his T-shirt sales, Burrows said he hopes to support an art class for the youth at his church and help his community financially. “I’d rather give than receive,” he said. “People are not used to seeing people giving from the heart.” From donning a chef s apparel at the Marketplace to volunteering at his church and spending time with the five children of his own, Burrows is familiar to giving. “People see the finished picture, but they don’t see the BST: blood, sweat and tears,” he said. Despite a hectic schedule, Burrows said he makes time each day to share his artwork, friendly conversation and signature egg dishes with the Duke students and faculty members he calls his “family.” “I’m blessed all the way across the board,” Burrows said.

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Duke hosts lower-key beach house tributes than UNC Ryan Brown THE CHRONICLE

In the aftershock of the Ocean Beach, N.C., house fire that killed seven college students last month, greek organizations throughout the state have come together in grief and solidarity for the victims. But on the campuses of Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the mourning took different forms. At Duke, the tragedy hit closest to home for members of the Panhellenic Association, an umbrella group for the 10 sororities on campus. Delta Delta Delta, one member sorority, lost three sisters from its University of South Carolina chapter in the fire. A student from Clemson University also died. “Whenever something so tragic or unexplainable happens, particularly to other college students, we feel a shared sense of loss,” said Panhel President Kate Guthrie, a senior. Members of Panhel expressed support through cards and flowers sent to the USC branch last week, Guthrie said. She added that the group also plans to make a contribution to a fund set up in memory of the victims. “This is a terrible tragedy for any family, sorority or campus to have to go through,” she said.

fire, several APO members were staying in a nearby house for their pledge retreat. The group met and interacted with the USC and Clemson students who died, and some even witnessed the fire, she said. The proximity of UNC students to the tragedy is probably the reason for the greater public response on Chapel Hill’s campus than Duke’s, said the Rev. Craig Kocher, associate dean of the Duke Chapel. Kocher organized last spring’s vigil for the Virginia Tech shooting. “Personal relationships are so important in these things,” he said. In the past, Duke’s campus has responded on a large scale to many tragic events. Recently held vigils and memorials include those for victims of the Virginia Tech massacre, Hurricane Katrina, and the southeast Asian tsunami. Larry Moneta, vice president NATHAN GRAY/THE INDEPENDENT MAIL for student affairs, said that Clemson students and members of the Delta Zeta sorority become emotional after recounting memories of Emily Yelton, Duke’s more quiet response to who died Oct. 28 in a beach house fire on the coast of North Carolina. A vigil was held Oct. 31 at Clemson. the beach house fire tragedy is not a reflection of disinterest Down highway 15-501, UNC orange, garnet and blue—the chose to hold the event to allow among students. students paid tribute to the fire colors of Clemson, USC and the healing process to begin for “There’s a sense of numbing victims with a public vigil. Ap- UNC—and were invited to leave those on campus affected by the that goes on after a while,” he said. “We hear of these tragedies proximately 40 students were flowers and notes. tragedy. UNC senior Rebecca Wood, “People expressed a need for so fast and so often from all corpresent for the memorial, held last Wednesday in the univer- president of co-ed service frater- closure and away to pay tribute,” ners of the world that it makes it sity’s arboretum. Those who nity Alpha Phi Omega, organized she said. difficult to know when and how attended received ribbons in the memorial. Wood said she During the weekend of the to respond.”

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Slattery delivers end-of-semester progress report by

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Duke Student Government President Paul Slattery, a senior, gave senators an end-of-semester report on his projects at the organization’s meeting Wednesday night. His report included the creation of a committee on judicial affairs, online party monitor training and a Web site to facilitate faculty-student lunches. Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki has set up the Judicial Affairs committee that will examine, in a three-phase process, the procedural rights granted by the Office of Judicial Affairs, Slattery said. In the “discovery” phase, the committee will familiarize itself with the judicial policy and compare it with those of peer institutions. In the second phase, the committee will review the policy and garner input from undergraduates and faculty. In the final phase, the committee will draft concrete policy recommendationsbased on their analysis. Noah Pickus, director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, will chair the committee, which will also include faculty members Thomas Nechyba, chair of the Department of Economics, Peter Feaver, professor of political science, and Professor of Law James Coleman. Slattery added that he had specifically pushed for Coleman’s appointment to challenge the legal arguments made by the Office ofJudicial Affairs. “I wanted someone who was neutral and could speak about the law,” he said. Student representatives to the committee will include Vice President forAcademic Affairs Gina Ireland, a senior, Vice President for Student Affairs Lucy McKinstry, a

sophomore, and at least two other student representatives, with one from the Pratt School of Engineering, Slattery said. He added that the new process for party monitor training, which students can now complete on Blackboard, may be changed so that all students are enrolled automatically in the course. Currently the process requires that students e-mail Leslie Grinage, program coordinator at the Office of Student Activities and Facilities, before beginning training. The third major project Slattery discussed was the production of a Web site as an easy way for students to request lunches with specific faculty members. After students name on the site which professors they want to meet with, the professors would be sent an e-mail request and could then click “yes” or “no” in reply. Administrators have approved the creation of the Web site, and it is slated for release next semester, Slattery said. “We just need to ensure the design is implemented as close to specification as possible,” he added. Slattery also briefed senators on his ongoing projects, which include streamlining event registration, loosening policies for underloading and strengthening majors’ unions at Duke. He acknowledged that the process for implex menting these ideas can be slow at times. “The pace at which universities change can be a bit excruciating, but I thinkwe’ve accomplished a lot over the semester,” he said.

In other business: Kevin Davis, senior manager of Student Technology Services, updated representatives on the ePrint soft quota—which limits students to printing 3,600 double-sidedpag-

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Mary Ashton Inglis (left) will serve as DSG advocate for the arts after being approved by the Senate Wednesday. es—and various other programs controlled

by the Office of Information Technology. Based on data collected through October, the number of pages printed through ePrint has been reduced by 25 percent and the number of sheets printed by 35 percent, Davis said. Only 63 students have requested to add more pages to their account, he added. Senators elected senior Hasnain Zaidi, junior Lauren Maisel and sophomore Vivek Upadhyay to the DSG Judiciary. Representatives approved Slattery’s appoint-

ment of sophomore Mary Ashton Inglis as DSG advocate for the arts. Inglis said she will coordinate arts programming and advocate policy to give artists a greater voice on campus. Members unanimously endorsed a resolution proposed by Senator Mike Lefevre, a freshman, for the creation of an outdoor, French-themed cafe between the Marketplace and Brown Residence Hall. “I’m figuring we call it ‘Le Marche,’ which is like the Marketplace but with a little French twist,” Lefevre said.

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sole dissenting voice,” Brown said. “But what we need now are people who communicate with each other and people who are work horses and not just show horses... This is serious business.” Ali first demonstrated his crossover appeal in the elections. While the contest between Bell and Stith divided much of Durham along partisan lines, Ali ran with no party affiliation, drawing support from bodi liberals and conservatives to win his seat, Davis said. In addition, the Durham native has extensive connections within the business community, has long advocated for the advancement ofminorities and has worked for multiple nonprofits in the community. He is also the vice president of the North Carolina Institute of Minority Economic Development. “I have more business and community experience than anyone currendy on the council,” Ali said. “I want to ensure that everyone gets a chance to share in prosperity in Durham.” Despite his heavy community involvement, Ali faces a sharp learning curve, as he has never previously held office or worked for city government Many council members, however, said they do not believe his inexperience will have a negative impact on his performance. “Being smart and energetic is allyou need,” said Cattoti. “I expect he’ll, justlike all of us, read a lot of reports and get up to speed.”

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Some council members sayFarad Ali will be easierto work withthan ThomasStith (above). She added that most of the current council members did not have prior government experience before being elected to office. “We’ve been very lucky to see people who are civically engaged get involved in local politics,” Davis said. “This is a person with the kind of leadership experience that [is] going to bring some good thinking to the council.”

Stith, who served as the vice

president of the John W. Pope Civitas Institute, a conservative think tank, was placed at a disadvantage on the council by of his strong partisan ties, Davis said, “Ali will be able to make more

connections,” he said. “It is not a drastic shift... but probably an improvement for the overall

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no damage. At the nearby Agua del Desierto Hotel, administrator Paola ed no “relevant” damage, but Barria said she felt like she was said its mines in the region were riding on “a floating island.” without power and only emerShe reported downed power lines, cracked windows and fallgency teams were operating. Only mi- mmm— en pieces of nor landhouses near “I was very frightened. the hotel. slides were reported, it “I was very It was very strong. said. frightened. I’ve never felt one Te 1 eviIt was very sion images strong,” she that strong.” showed cars said. “I’ve Paola Barria never felt one crushed by the collapse that strong.” of a hotel the In entryway in Antofagasta, 105 Bolivian capital of La Paz, 385 miles south of the epicenter. A miles northeast of the epicenter, reporter for Radio Cooperativa some high-rise buildings were evacuated, but there was no apsaid she saw cracks in the tarmac at the airport in Antofaparent damage and people soon returned to their offices. gasta. Schools, hospitals and other Stretching along the earthbuildings were evacuated in sevquake-prone Pacific “Ring of Fire,” Chile has suffered many eral cities. “It was horribly strong. It was destructive temblors. A 1939 very long and there was a lot of quake killed 28,000 people and underground noise,” said Anin 1960 a magnitude-9.5 quake drea Riveros, spokeswoman for killed 5,700 people. That rethe Park Hotel in Calama, 60 mains the most powerful quake miles from the epicenter and on record. site of the large Chuquicamata On June 13, 2005, a magnitude 7.8 quake near Tarapaca in copper mine. She said the quake knocked northern Chile killed 11 people out power to the hotel, but caused and left thousands homeless.

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Ex-child slave speaks on genocide

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Simon Deng, a formerchild slave, delivered a speech called "Does'Never Again' Apply to Sudan?" at Page Auditorium Wednesday as part of Sudan Awareness Week. Deng discussed the current situation in Darfurand what people can do to help.

SIMPSON from page 2 Galanter rejected the idea of a plea agreement and estimated it would take a year to bring the case to trial. Stewart’s lawyer, Robert Lucherini, said he may seek to have his client’s trial separated from

Simpson’s.

“We’re disappointed, but we understand the judge’s decision,” Lucherini said. Ehrlich’s attorney would not comment.

Bonaventure ruled hours after listening to 3Vfc days of testimony by witnesses.

Another Simpson lawyer, Gabriel Grasso, argued it was unclear whether prosecutors considered as kidnapping the act of luring two sports memorabilia dealers to a hotel room or whether the charge was based on a confrontation that followed. “This is clearly overcharging,” he said. Simpson, 60, has maintained that no guns were displayed during the confrontation, that he never asked anyone to bring guns and that he did not know anyone had guns. He has said he intended only to retrieve items that had been stolen from him by a former agent, including the suit he wore

the day he was acquitted of murder in 1995 in the slayings of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. Simpson and the other defendants did not testify in their own defense at the hearing. In their closing arguments, attorneys for Stewart and Ehrlich questioned the credibility of the prosecution’s witnesses. But prosecutor Chris Owens said the witnesses corroborated each other’s stories and recordings, video and photographs supported the case. A defense lawyer contended that the case was based on the accounts of “crackheads and group-

ies and pimps and purveyors of stolen merchandise and gun carriers and con artists and crooks.” “These guys are bad. The court can’t ascribe any credibility to what came out of their mouths,” said attorney John Moran Jr., who represents Ehrlich. “Every witness up there was looking to sell testimony and make money off of this case,” Moran said. Owens offered no defense of their character but said, “It’s not like the state out and found the witnesses. These are people aligned with OJ. Simpson. These are the people he surrounds himself with.”

Earlier, sports memorabilia dealer Alfred Beardsley, 45, testified that he tried to make clear to an “irritated” Simpson during the Sept. 13 confrontation that he had not stolen items from him. When the men came in the room, “somebody yelled out, ‘Police,’” Beardsley testified. “I was ordered to stand up. I was searched for weapons.” Beardsley testified that he did not steal any of the items and that he told Simpson the memorabilia came from a former partner of dealer Bruce Fromong. Simpson “felt violated and gave me a lecture,” Beardsley said.

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Having a nationally-known headliner can help any local band grab attention, but sometimes things do not work out as planned. Such is the case with this Friday’s show at the Duke Coffeehouse. Originally the finale for the Troika Music Festival, the show was cancelled due to booking complications with national bands. In organizing the festival this year, the volunteer who roped Les Savy Fav had to drop out of organizing to tend to a family crisis. When the remaining volunteers were going over the show with the band’s.booking agent, they realized they did not have enough money to secure a performance. “We tried to negotiate... and the booking agent was not too happy with that and backed out,” said Zeno Gill, one of Troika’s organizers. “We don’t know whose decision it was. It was probably a mutual decision between the band and the booking agent.” After Les . Savy Fav and L.A.-based Boy/Girl dropped

Des Ark without backing for their show. Despite this setback, and the loss of the Troika label, Veronique Diabolique bassist Carl Weisner contacted the other Triangle artists to see if they were still interested in performing. “We had the time blocked out and just said, ‘Hey, [we’d] still like to do it,”’ Weisner said. After contacting the Coffeehouse, Veronique Diabolique, Cantwell, Gomez and Jordan and Des Ark signed on again for the show and added Polynya, another Triangle-based act, to the bill. This focus on the local music scene is actually in line with the festival’s roots. Back in 2002, the Durham Music Festival was a small, one-day event in downtown Durham celebrating the city’s music scene. The festival then grew to encompass the entire Triangle. Since then, it has developed into a full-fledged event, encompassing multiple

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European officials dealt a painful blow to criminals everywhere with last month’s Operation Ark Royal—a daring series ofraids and arrests in Britain and Amsterdam. But the crimes in question weren’t exactly the standard sort. The contraband seized was more akin to Dell than dope, and the alleged criminals look more like that sweaty kid from history class than characters from a Guy Ritchie film. This all took place on Oct. 23, when an international group of law enforcement agencies made headlines by shutting down OiNK’s Pink Palace, a leading player in the world of illegal file sharing. The site’s Amsterdam-based host’s servers were seized, and its 24-year-old creator, Alan Ellis, was arrested on fraud charges. With a user base over 180,000 strong, OiNK had long been a target of anti-piracy groups. The site—which operated as an invitation-only BitTorrent file-sharing community—was seen by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry as the “primary source worldwide for illegal pre-release music.” Some reports estimate that, in 2007 alone, OiNK was the original source for over 60 leaks. “I think the biggest problem that people in the record industry had with OiNK was that, if something leaked, it leaked on OiNK first,” said one Duke student, a former OiNK user who wished to remain anonymous for legal reasons. Because ofits reputation, the site became something of a lightning rod within the artistic community. Some artists, such as Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, were active proSEE FILE SHARING ON PAGE 7

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Editorial cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher proves generations of preschool teachers wrong by creating cutting political cartoons that illustrate how words (and in this case drawings, too) can be far more painful than sticks

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Kevin Kallaugher, who workedfor The Economist, is a veteran of satire.

or stones—at least as far as the ego is concerned. An exhibition including nearly 100 pieces ofKallaugher’s workentitled Mightier than the Sword: The Satirical Pen of KAL is on display now in Duke’s Rubenstein Hall, located in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. Kallaugher graduated from Harvard in 1977, at which point he went on a bike tour that started in the British Isles and led, unexpectedly, to a job at The Economist as the first resident cartoonist in the 145-year-old-newspaper’s history. Kallaugher remained in London for the next 10 years, an experience that informed his subsequent commentaries on American society. “When you’re an American living abroad, you are held

personally responsible for everything that goes on in this country,” Kallaugher said. “...And what this means is if

you’re conscientious or concerned about the world, you start to reflect and assess those things that go on in your country in a comprehensive and critical way. And because you’re far away, you get a different perspective.” Kallaugher, now residing in Baltimore, still regularly creates illustrations for The Economist. Cartoons in the exhibit drawfrom this work, as well as those that he produced from 1988 to 2006 when he was the editorial cartoonist for The Baltimore Sun. As a result, Kallaugher’s exhibited drawings span decades of history. However, the politically illiterate need not be daunted—notes that clearly explain the social context in which the drawings were made accompany many of the works. Topics addressed in the display range from the funny to the serious, with humorous satirical commentaries on politicians and their actions sharing SEE CARTOONIST ON PAGE

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Editor’s Note 14: on selling out aren’t going to be the polished projects I wanted for my reel. Being a second semester senior without much film product will be somewhere between disappointing and

People tell me that I don’t have to

After hearing all the news in The Chronicle and on the streets about this JuicyCampus.com, recess has decided to see first hand what all the hub-bub is about, recess sat down one-on-one for an intimate interview with JuicyCampus.com to see ij he could explain the controversy surrounding him. So, Juicy—do you mind if I call you Juicy?—how are you this morning? I am so sick ofguys slobbering all over my face.... Sticking your fingers in places they shouldn’tbe while people are sleeping is also not sexy. I totally agree and understandyour wise insight, Juice.** What do you find sexy? Dog the Bounty Hunter is racist. I guess that makes sense. Sigh. Moving on. What do you do in your free time, when you are not ruining lives? I’ve! heard thatit really turns girls on to see guys studying every once in a while. Can’t argue with that. What really frustrates you, JuCa? I don’t see how cocaine use is negative. Could someone explain that? No one seems to have a problem with drink*

ing and smoking. People trip ’shrooms all the time, too. So why the bad rep for a little nose candy? Death? Waste of Money? Makes you act like Lindsay Lohan? Anything other hot buzz before I go? I heard yellow polos give you mystical powers and the ability to woo any woman (or man) you desire. I am pretty sure that might be the cocaine talking. *AU real quotesfrom Duke’s JuicyCampus site. I’m not kidding. **Editor’s Note: Seriously, Duke? Is this how we are going to spend our time? Hopefully, through this interview you have come to the conclusion that it is a vapid Web site not really worth our time. Go read a book, walk the Gardens. Even YouTube is worth more time than this. It’s not our job to be preachy, but we’re all better than this. I am sad that we gave the site even a smidgen of attention, but maybe it was necessary to point out its ridiculousness. I am sadder that I just used the word smidgen. —Vanin Leila

worry any more about school, now that I have a job for next year. However, the Duke-bred stress that four years of GPAbuilding, deadlines and internship hunts creates is hard to shake. The worry comes from the fear I won’t complete my leaving-Duke goals. As someone who wants to eventually work in the film industry, making films and building a reel is necessary. However, the constant busyness of my Duke career has left me with very litde to show. My senior goal was to walk away with at least two or three de-

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Yeah, I know... I’m whining. I just don’t place with any regrets, without using the resources that will only be available to me now. Having a reel or at least one or two good shorts is just away for me to feel that I am not totally selling out. It is what makes me think that I will be one of the few that will take a stable job now and still pursue my dream later down the road. Maybe it will happen, maybe it’s youthful naivete, maybe it’s a lie we tell ourselves just to get by. Yet, after four years of trading fun for work, I’m still optimistic and think I will eventually see my name on the big screen. And maybe that’s enough. —Varan Leila, Editor want to leave this

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Academy-nominated Kahn invades Griffith Theater reasons on why he is a filmmaker and what he finds so inspiring about Fleisher’s story. Why are you documentary filmmaker? I began writing and directing plays. I’ve always been interested in drama and in making movies. I’ve always found dramas especially fascinating because real people are just so amazing and interesting. I got into making My Architect, my first featurelength documentary, because there were always some questions that were lingering in my mind about what my father [famed architect Louis Kahn] was really like. It just seemed right to do a documentary, so I took that journey with a camera. It taught me a lot about drama, and what good drama is all about. As a filmmaker, in away, SPECIAL TO RECESS real people are very humbling. Their way Kahn started his career with a docabout his father. of expressing themselves is so unique, so Two-time Academy Award-nominee Nathaniel individual, that many actors spend their Kahn will visit Duke tonight to screen his most entire lives trying to be as real and interesting as a real person is. I found making recent documentary Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story (nominated for the Academy the documentary not only was a marvelous Award for Best Documentary, Short Subject). cinematic experience for me, it was also a Joining the acclaimed filmmaker will be Fleisher transformative experience for writing and himself a world-renownpianist who lost the use of making fiction drama. How didyou come upon Leon Fleisher’s his right hand for many years before reversing the his condition with a combistory? effects of neurobgical I had heard Leon Fleisher play recordnation of massage therapy and botox injections. In a recent phone interview with recess’ ings as a little boy and I really liked them a Braden Hendricks, NathanielKahn shared his lot. Later on I heard about what had hap-

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him. I had worked at Baltimore Paramount and I asked if they knew Leon Fleisher. They said of course, he’s a local hero, and in the end he agreed to meet me and to do the film. I’m lucky as a filmmaker to have been able to do this film about him. I think we found some truths, realities, that I think he may not have shared before some emotional realities. Another reason I wanted to make this film is because I read this magazine about poisons, and there were stories about Medieval poisons and one about snake bites and spider bites, and one of them was about Leon Fleisher. Botox is very poisonous, but it had been used on him and, instead of making him sick, it made him well. The idea that through the use of this poison, paradoxically, he was able to play again. It just seemed like such a fascinating story. What would you like students to walk away from this film with? This is a fantastic story. It is a story about transcendent talent, great joy, great sorrow, great loss, great lows and rejuvenation, like the phoenix. Leon has lived a wonderfully dramatic and exemplary life. It’s the kind of story that people find enormously inspiring. This is a story for people from all walks of life because we all have problems, and —

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Fleisher, a master pianist, is the subject ofTwo Hands. we all suffer. It encouraged me to move on doing things, even through these kind of problems, and continue doing good things in the world.

Nathaniel Kahn and Leon Fleisher will be in attendance to discuts Two Hands after a screening at 8 p.m. tonight in Griffith Film Theater. The discussion is moderated by Assistant Professor of Music Anthony Kelley and is free to thepublic.

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marriage of Robbie (Ledger, as an actor who plays one of the Dylans in a fictional DIR. T. HAYNES to French painter Claire (Charlotte movie) WEINSTEIN COMPANY Gainsbourg), and a second, focusing on Billy the Kid (Gere) —another Dylan, but It’s been said that I’m Not There is not a more abstract one. Not making sense? a movie about Bob Dylan. That might be That’s OK; neither does the movie. Haynes, like the viewers, like Dylan’s realso, but it is most certainly a movie life and on-screen entourages and probably Dylan —so much so that it’s hard to imagine anyone other than a hardcore Dylan like Bob himself, seems to be struggling to fan fully enjoying it. Even if that’s the case, keep his head above water to avoid being director Todd Haynes’ opus is a fantastic washed away by the self-created and othercreated Dylan mythologies. piece of experimental cinema. Let’s pretend it’s a real movie and begin The movie is hill oflittle details that seem with a plot summary; Bob Dylan navigates meaningful but are too opaque for the avera world that’s mostly biographical, stretchage viewer to crack. Why does fire recur as ing from Dylan’s Woody Guthrie-obssessed a symbol so often? Why, after pulling up beteens to his fundamentalist Christian side Dylan in a car, does Allen Ginsberg peel days in the late 19705. To make it all that off into a graveyard? Listen back to some much weirder, Dylan is played by Christian Dylan songs; like their lyrics, maybe all this Bale, an outstanding and convincing Cate has an elaborate inner fSgic, or maybe it’s Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin. Richard just some beautiful, exquisite nonsense. And Gere, Heath Ledger and Ben Wishaw just like the lyrics, it doesn’t really matter. each of whom is a clearly distinct character Haynes’ own fanaticism is manifest with his own name. throughout the movie. Names in songs are But that summary doesn’t really suffice. subtly assigned to characters. Other puns The film is really about the many Dylans are larger; the Billy the Kid thread—which working through the creation of his mysHarvey Weinstein apparendy tried to kill—is an elaborate play on Dylan’s own (very tique and his musical transitions, all accompanied by Dylan’s songs, sung by him and bad) movie Pat Garrett and Billy theKid. And how does Dylan come across by a star-studded array of others. Some of the movie is shot like a standard feature, through all this? He’s sympathetic, then other parts are A Mighty Wmrf-like mocan a—hole; grisded, then vulnerable; kumentary; some are in grainy black and righteous and smart-alecky—running the white, others in crisp color. whole gamut of the real Dylan. Maybe Pm Overlaid on this are two major fictional Not There makes sense after all. —David Graham plot strains: one, concerning the dissolving —

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demption and The Green Mile, Frank Darabont returns with his third Stephen King film adaptation, The Mist. Known for his long-winded dramas, Darabont wields the same patient storytelling this time in a sci-fi/horror film. But a horror film with massive flying bugs and body slicing tentacles is not an effective place for what becomes a series of lengthy and dramatic character examinations about the evils of Christian fundamentalism. The film follows David Drayton (Nathan Gamble), a movie-poster painter in a small coastal town in Maine who takes his son to the grocery store to buy supplies the morning after a severe storm. Soon enough, a small mist emerging from a nearby lake begins to spread over the town, preventing anyone from seeing outside the store’s glass windows. That’s when the creatures in the mist begin ripping people to shreds (in gory detail) and hostility ensues among the townspeople trapped in the store. What could have been a great horror film instead becomes an awkward com-

mentary about corrupt human nature,

comprised of obscure snippets covering even the morality of abortion and stem

cells. Much of the scenes in the grocery store revolve around a religious zealot (Marcia Gay Harden) who in increasingly wild rants claims the mist and its creatures are God’s revenge against sinners. Darabont was at his best in Shawshank and The Green Mile when his characters didn’t preach the story’s message in an overt manner that compromised the natural progression of the film. Unfortunately, his two lesser and more recent films, The Majestic and now The Mist do just that. In some ways, the film brings to mind M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs, the 2002 film in which a family also hides from invading aliens but, through faith, saves itself and brings a father back to the priesthood. The Mist tells a similar story about people hiding from invaders of another world—but with an opposite message. In this case, faith manipulates the fears of people in danger and unleashes the darkest side ofhuman nature. But where Signs succeeds in intertwining message with story, The Mist seems utterly lost in its effort to be both an entertaining horror film and a didactic drama. —Greg Bobrinskoy

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days and venues, with the Duke Coffeehouse being one of the primary sites. While the festival has kept a local focus and retained its non-profit status, organizers have added the draw of national acts over the past four years. This year’s acts included David Bazan of Pedro the Lion, Phosphorescent and Bellafea. A finale show with Les Savy Fav would have rounded out this festival’s emphasis on national bands. Now that the final show is again centered on Triangle artists, however, students may find it more accessible. The show, which originally cost $2O, has now dropped to $5 and is free to all Duke students with an ID. “We made it free for Duke students just because we can,”Weisner said. Of the bands in the show, Veronique Diabolique might stand out as the most eclectic. The band developed in 2004 as the result of a group of friends wanting to play a costumed Halloween show together. ‘We were relatively unknown, and [costuming] was a way to make ourselves interesting, at least at first,” Weisner said. “It stuck because we weren’t really sure how to get out of it.” Since 2004, the band has hatched an elaborate, fictitious story explaining their French Gothic costumes and names. While the costuming is one of the bands more noticeable qualities, they are still focused on the music. “It’s nice to add a little bit in every wayyou can,” Weisner said of the costumes. “I like to think the music’s okay. It’s fun for us, and I hope it’s fun for people who come to see us.”

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New York City art rock groupLes Savy Fav recently bowed out of a show at Duke Coffeehouse. Concert sponsor Troika eventually did the same. The rest of the bands will offer something different. Polynya, for example, will present a more electro-indie sound to the Coffeehouse audience, while Cantwell, Gomez and Jordan will meet Des Ark’s Aimee Argote in a batde of the bands-flavored face-off. Unifying all these artists, though, will be the essence of the local scene. Polynya’s Pat Johnson said that the Triangle area, with a diverse group of music fans and several college radio stations, has been extremely beneficial.

“It’s rare to find an area with three good college stations,” he said. “There’s a fairly large support network. I can’f say anything bad about [the scene] at all. It’s quite remarkable.” Weisner promises that in spite of the absence of Les Savy Fav and Boy/Girl, the show will still entertain. “It’s a great show. It’s a good lineup,” he said. “We’re sort of sad it’s not a part of Troika, but underneath it there’s still sort of that spirit of local music. It’s nice that we still get to do it.”

Sold-out Spektor haunts Duke lend themselves well to such unconventional lyrical delivery. Spektor has been known to sing, play piano and drum out percussion beats using just a drumstick and her chair all at once. Other songs are solo, a capella efforts with nothing but Spektor’s voice and the occasional tap or snap of the fingers. Prodigious musical talent aside, Spektor is widely acknowledged as a humble and gracious performer, often conversing with fans and showing effusive thanks. Joanna Hayes, a senior and longtime Spektor fan, agrees. “She was so human, and it made me appreciate her music all the more,” Hayes said of a previous performance. “No matter how much people have listened to her music beforehand, everyone who sees her in Page is going to be shocked by her vocal range. You won’t even realize how good it is until you see it in person.” —Bryan Zupon

Regina Spektor performs in Page Auditorium on Monday, Nov. 15 at 7p.m. Tickets are sold out.

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The Hives may be Sweden’s answer to the boy band, if your definition of one includes five Swedes in pressed black and white suits singing about their status as everyone’s “Favourite Band.” Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist and the rest of the cast first broke into the U.S. rock scene in the early 2000 as part of the garage-rock revival. This week, the nouveau boy band return with the appropriately titled The Black and White Album, their third full-length endeavor. The Hives are most certainly back and ready to rock, and on the first couple tracks they maintain their status as garage-rock kings. The single “Tick Tick Boom” instantly conjures up images of previous hit “Hate to Say I Told You So” with Almqvist’s pompous lyrics (‘Yeah, I’ve done it before and I can do it some more”) and the rest of the band’s invigorating energy. However, it starts going sour with “A Stroll Through Hive Manor Corridors,” an unnecessary twominute organ solo. “T.H.E.H.1.V.E.5.” sounds too much like N.E.R.D., courtesy ofproducer Pharrell Williams, and makes the Hives sound like they belong in a club, surrounded by strippers and copious amounts of drugs. These tracks disrupt the flow and energy that has become so characteristic of the band, but tunes like “Square One Here I Come” and ‘You Dress Up for Armageddon” manage to tie the album up quite nicely. Throughout their previous albums, the Hives have managed to cultivate their own distinct sound. This has become so much a part of them that any deviation from this norm sounds uncharacteristic and simply forced. We’ve gotten used to seeing the Hives trying to blow our faces off all of the time, and that’s what we like about them. On Black and White the band maybe trying out a new image, but what they really need to do is tell Pharrell to leave themalone and go produce J. Timberlake instead —Stefanija Giric

Regina Spektor’s eccentric musical stylings will come to Duke this coming Monday with her highly anticipated concert in Page Auditorium, sponsored by the Duke University Union. The 27-year-old singer-songwriter arrives on campus after what many would consider a breakout year—the fact that tickets to the Page concert sold out in less than a day speaks to her wide appeal. 2006 saw the release of Spektor’s acclaimed album, Begin to Hope, and in recent months the artist’s videos have been YouTube and VHI staples. One of Spektor’s songs, “Music Box,” was even featured in a television commercial for J.C. Penny that aired this fall. But despite the critical and commercial success, Spektor has remained true to her quirky, anti-folk roots. Rising from Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Spektor is best known for the intimate yet austere themes her songs explore and for the distinctive vocal idiosyncrasies she sprinkles throughout her albums. A single song might include beatboxing, operatic wails and the occasional verse sung in French or Russian. Spektor’s piano-driven live performances often

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Russian-born Regina Spektor performs piano-driven anti-folk that combines a variety of genres from hip-hop to jazz to punk.

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CARTOONIST from page 1 wall space with intense, insightful chronicles of important and often tragic global events. For example, one cartoon in the show depicts an elephant-eared George W. Bush nonchalandy snacking on pretzels while a swarm of security personnel look on anxiously. A nearby drawing sets a much more somber tone, showing Uncle Sam and The Statue ofLiberty arm-in-arm, both gazing at the smoke emanating from a gap in the New York City skyline. Though the two illustrations differ drastically in mood, they both do what Kallaugher wants them to do—they force the viewer to think about Kallaugher’s intended message. “I tell people that I’m a cartoonist. But my job as a political cartoonist is not to make you laugh, my job is to make you think,” Kallaugher said. “And I do use humor, of course, but I use humor as a vehicle for a message. So the humor is not the end, the message is the end.” Once the initial laughter subsides, Kallaugher’s cartoons effectively increase political awareness. Yet Kallaugher says that the majority of his cartoons would be more successful if he were given more time to work on them. “I know that if I had a chance to do virtually every one of those cartoons again, if I could redraw it again from scratch, then I could improve it,” Kallaugher said. Viewers of the show have the opportunity to see one of the few drawings Kallaugher deems an exception—a cartoon from 1989 entitled “Black and White.” “It was a very simple stock cartoon that really captured the spirit of the moment. It was right at the time when the Apartheid regime was ready to fold, and yet those in power did not seem to see the portending changes,” Kallaugher said. “And the cartoon really seems to capture that in a powerful way. So I look at that cartoon and say, ‘Wow.’” Because nearly all of the drawings in the exhibition are originals, Kallaugher’s working process is rendered transparent —you can see Kallaugher’s individual marker strokes, as well as where he corrected his mistakes with white-out. The resulting imperfect images contrast strongly with the flawless mechanized reproductions that appear in magazines and newspapers. Consequently, the viewer is forcibly reminded of the artist, and the opinions, behind the drawings. Technical mastery and thought-provoking subject matter aside, the exhibition illustrates that Kallaugher’s talent is his ability to create such a large effect just by wielding a pen. Looks like it’s about time to change that old adage.

Mightier than the Sword: The Satirical Pen of KAL will be on display at the Sanford Institute throughout the 2007-2008 academic school year.

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Seniors band together for Betrayal by

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For most seniors, writing a paper to graduate with distinction is burdensome enough. Three theater students, however, decided a paper was not their style and decided to do a performance. These three seniors-Ross Buckley, Davis Hasty and Madeleine Lambert—are performing Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter’s Betrayal under the direction of theater studies professor Jody McAuliffe. Having collaborated on past productions and developed relationships, the decision for the three seniors to work together was an easy one. Their past experiences with McAuliffe also made her the easy choice for the director

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What was more difficult was the decision to work with Betrayal After reading through several playwrights and styles, the three chose to work with Pinter because of the challenges presented in his work. “Pinter’s probably one of the most challenging playwrights for actors... because ofhis use ofpauses and silences, specifically whatis unexpressed and left unsaid,” Lambert said. Written in 1978, Betrayal comes in the middle of Pinter’s career. McAuliffe described the drama’s characters as more “upscale,” which is differentfrom the less affluent people in Pinter’s earlier works, but he added this distinction was an important one in the context of Pinter’s development as a playwright. The play focuses on old college friends Jerry (Hasty) and Robert (Buckley), and Robert’s wife Emma (Lambert). Told in reverse, the play tells the story of Jerry and Emma’s affair. With each scene, viewers gain a piece of how the relationship came to be, and the last scene packs a surprise punch. McAuliffe said the “wicked humor and sense of menace” that pervade Betrayal is one of the play’s best features. With just nine scenes and no intermission, Pinter condenses a lot ofmaterial into Betrayal. “I think it’s about a lot of things,” Lambert said. “It’s a play about nostalgia... about longing for the past, coupled with the idea of living in the present, the present being your existence. It’s really about what we share and what we leave unexpressed.” The unexpressed element of the play has been one of the most challenging aspects for the cast. Just a few nights before the play’s opening, Lambert reworked a scene which she had previously felt comfortable with and now sees the scene in a whole new light. Figuring out the motivations of every character has been a major challenge for each actor. “It’s definitely been the most challenging piece I’ve

ever worked on,” Lambert said The undertones of the play’s language have been such an important focus for the actors that they drift in and out of their adopted British accents and even incorporate lines from Betrayal in their everyday patois. “The writing itself is so organic,” Buckley said. “The language has an obvious flow to it. Pinter is so exacting in his choice of words, his diction. You have to honor it.” After spending more than three months reading the play and rehearsing it, the actors will continue working with Pinter, performing scenes and writing about him, but this experience will stand out as a major moment in their Duke acting careers. “This experience has been one of the most helpful in terms of future acting,” Hasty said. “Pinter’s on the extreme of what’s going on underneath the text.... I will carry that with all the plays I act in.”

Betrayal is playing in the Brody Theater on East Campus with a special matinee on Nov. 18 at

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South meets East at Brown by

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Combining two different cultural phenomena and presenting a stark yet thoughtprovoking juxtaposition, Southern Expressionism and the Spirit of Zen is now on display at the Louise Brown Art Gallery located in the Bryan Center. The exhibit features photographs by award-winning photographer Paul Dagys. One half of the exhibit depicts

the American South, while the other half presents the Zen aspect of nature. The inclusion of these two different cultural manifestations in the same exhibit is purposefully done. “Well, they’re different,” he said. “But there is a time for every purpose, a time to laugh, a time to cry. The south side is the high stimulus side, while the Zen side is more the reflexive side.” The Brown Gallery is unconventional in how it is designed, which is part of what motivated Dagys to come to Duke to display his work. “When I applied for the exhibit, I realized thatthe spaceis divided into two rooms, and I thought that it would be great to be able to put this exhibit into two modes,” Dagys said. Dagys hopes that students who come to see the exhibit will embark on a mini journey of stimulation and reflection. “In away it does seem logical for me to do the South first, because it’s more in tune with where your mind is at,” he said, “and then you go to the Zen side and hopefully have a more contemplative and reflective experience before you leave the exhibit.” Dagys’ philosophy, when it comes to photography, is to capture and display beautiful scenes of ordinary places. During his 20 years of working as a freelance photographer, he has worked for publications like Time, Life, People, Smithsonian and Newsweek. For Dagys, the American South has always attracted his attention. His photographs include poverty and wealth, a Ku Klux Klan rally, an Elvis vigil and a couch burning taken on a certain campus following the 1991 NCAA championship game. “Religion is very important to the South, but it has social problems and complica-

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tions,” Dagys said. “The religion of hatred, of Elvis, of basketball. It seems the rest of America is becoming more like the South, particularly in her musical, religious and political trends.” Also, Dagys emphasizes the close proximity of most of the scenes depicted in his

photography. “A lot of this stuffis very recent and close to my home [in Cary],” he said. But the South doesn’t exemplify all of what Dagys wants to display. He also wishes to help people de-stress their lives though his photography. “The thing that people have so much stress about is something they think is going to happen in the future, or they regret something they screwed up in the past,” Dagys said. “So the future and the past are things that you cannot control, so if you focus on the present and take care of the present, the past and future will take care of themselves.” Dagys encourages focus on the present through shots of nature inspired by Zen teachings and philosophies. For example, he presents us with the image of a twig’s reflection as it floats in a lake. The simplistic beauty captured in this photograph allows viewers to lose themselves in the moment. The particular dichotomy of Southern Expressionism and the Spirit of Zen serves to stimulate awareness of the South and to provide a transient sanctuary from our everyday stresses.

Southern Expressionism and the Spirit of Zen will be on exhibit at theLouise Brown Art Gallery t through Dec. 6, 2007.

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FILE SHARING ponents of the site, though most rallied against it. David Phipps, keyboardist for electronic group Sound Tribe Sector 9, publicly denounced OiNK in a open letter to fans, saying: “When you steal my music, YOU ARE STEALING FOOD FROM MY DAUGHTER’S PLATE. Consider sts9 via OiNK to be triple-hexed.” With such attention fixed on it, the site was forced to take extreme measures to stay alive. Earlier this year, it went so fer as to relocate its domain from the United Kingdom to the (all but) Democratic Republic of Congo. The move forestalled its shutdown, but ultimatelyproved only to be a temporary fix. Today, OiNK’s Web site greets visitors with a call for alms. Beneath an image of the site’s iconic pig shedding a single tear, Ellis has posted links to PayPal accounts dedicated to his legal fund. On another part of the page, he asks for a job to replace the one he recendy lost. But amidst all this lamentation, there’s also a link to a list of suggested OiNK alternatives—probably the most resonant feature of the postOiNKfallout. “OiNK was the file-sharing destination,” said the former OiNK user. “Now there’s this huge divide between supply and demand. People want to share music—they’re Just trying to figure out where to do it” A number of potential replacements have popped up in the past weeks, though none have made clearly determined advances towards taking OiNK’s place. In order to accommodate the influx of homeless pirates, many Torrent sites have expanded their servers, making room for new users during open sign-up periods. Fully aware that a successful file-sharing site is dependent on a robust user base, the Recording Industry Association ofAmerica has waged a very long and very public war against individual uploaders of copyrighted music. In the process, they’ve targeted a wide array ofoffenders, ranging from college students to 13-year-old girls to dead people. The RIAA finds violations through

searches of peer-to-peer servers. Using the IP address in question, they then will attempt to contact the responsible party and threaten suit against them. Director of Judicial Affairs Stephen Bryan estimates that Duke receives at least 25 notifications of copyright infringement from the RIAA each semester. In an effort to protect students, the University refuses to release the name of the student associated with the IP address in question. But they do forward theRIAA’s request to the student These letters—which pinpoint specific tracks, times and servers—often simply request that the student stop sharing the file immediately. If the student continues to share music and subsequent letters are received, the University takes judicial action. Two letters merits a meeting with a Residence Coordinator. Three leads to formal disciplinary action, though this is often just a documented warning. “The University doesn’t condone illegal downloading of copyrighted material, but we are not actively monitoring servers for violations,” said Bryan. “Frankly, this kind ofviolation is in the lower scope of Judicial seriousness. Mostly, we talk to them about it because of their personal liability.” Unfortunately, the RIAA’s reaction isn’t quite so tempered. In addition to the warning letters, the University has also received a number of prelitigation threats from the organization. These too are forwarded on to students, as was recently reported in The Chronicle. At least six students have settled thus far, while others still face the threat of litigation. “I don’t agree with [the RlAA’s] tactics,” said Bryan, “They say, ‘We’re about to sue you, but if you want to settle, go to this Web site. And, by the way, we accept all major credit cards.’” Most of those who receive letters from the RIAA trade music over peer-to-peer servers such as Limewire. BitTorrent servers such as OiNK make it harder to pinpoint BP addresses, because files are downloaded from a number of sources simultaneously. Still, access to backlogs following the seizure of OiNK servers bode ill for some former users, especially those who shared unreleased content As one intellectual property lawyer told the Idolater blog, “They should be very, very scared.”

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CARY Paul Dudley lay face-down on the ground for several seconds, his lastchance header having just sailed wide left of the North Carolina net. As the clock wound down on a 1-0 Tar Heel victory in the ACC tournament quarterfinals, Duke’s season to date was , captured in that UNC J 1 one lasting inw Q The No. 21 Blue DUKE Devils (11-7-1, 4-41 in the ACC) came up just short, unable to cash in on their last-ditch scoring opportunities. “We had a great chance there at the end with one of those storybook kind of deals with a header to tie it just before the buzzer, but it wasn’t to be,” head coach John Rennie said. “We put ourselves in a hole and didn’t get out of it.” Dudley’s header with 17 seconds remaining was not the only Duke chance in the final minutes. The third-seeded Blue Devils inserted forward Spencer Wadsworth and midfielder Zack Pope for defenders to increase their offense, and the team responded with scoring chances from midfielder Michael Videira, forward Mike Grella and Dudley. But Duke was unable to convert against sixth-seeded North Carolina (7-7-5, 4-5-0) and was knocked out of the tournament, ending its two-year reign as conference

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New head coach Joanne P. McCallie may be the most noticeable fresh face on the Blue Devils’ bench, but she is not the only one. The former Michigan State coach brought assistants A1 Brown and Samantha Williams with her from East Lansing. And although Brown and Williams may be new to Duke, they are far from new to the game. Brown, who has been coaching for 40 years, boasts something that very few coaches can; success in both the men’s and women’s games. In his tenure in coaching women, Brown was a part of three NCAA championship teams with Tennessee, in addition to four runners-up and eight Final Four finishers. On the men’s side, Brown led Ball State to its first two NCAA tournament appearances, once as an assistant and again as head coach in 1986. Healso served as a men’s assistant coach for Purdue, Western Michigan, Minnesota and Tennessee. McCallie said Brown’s experience with both levels is essential to the diversity and strength of her staff. “That was definitely part ofthe equation,” McCallie said of Brown’s range of experience. “And being a part ofnational championship teams is incredibly important” The veteran assistant works on a oneon-basis with several of the Blue Devils, breaking down film and instructing them in fundamentals. With McCallie’s renewed focus on the details of the game, the players feel as if they have a lot to learn from the man who has seen the ins-and-outs ofbasketball for as many years as their parents are old. “I’ve never talked with someone who understands the X’s and O’s as well as he does,” junior Abby Waner said. “Just things you’ve never thought about that SEE COACHES ON PAGE 10

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Youth, inconsistency plague Irish by

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Last weekend against Air Force, Notre Dame freshman quarterback Jimmy Clausen had his best day in the navy and gold, completing 22-of-40 passes for 246 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions. The performance by last year’s consensus top recruit in the country was unusual for the Fighting Irish this season. In his seventh start of the year, Clausen set team season-highs in completions, attempts and yardage. The result, however, was usual for Notre Dame this season—a ninth loss in 10 games. Over the course of those tumultuous 10 contests, the Fighting Irish have changed quarterback three times, shifting from Demetrius Jones to Clausen, to junior Evan Sharpley and finally back to Clausen before last week. The uncertainty under center has represented the team’s woes as a whole, as Notre Dame has struggled to develop an identity on the offensive side of the ball because of a lack of leadership and consistency. Even with two consecutive strong re-

cruiting classes, the team’s young players have failed to live up to expectations. “A recruiting class is all on paper,” head coach Charlie Weis said. ‘You still have to get them in there. Those guys still have to go through growing pains.” In the offseason, the Fighting Irish lost eight starters from an offense that averaged 31 points per game in a 10-win season. The most notable loss was at the quarterback position, with Brady Quinn’s graduation to the NFL. Notre Dame also lost both starting wide receivers, Jeff Samardzija and Rhema McKnight, and running back Darius Walker. In the beginning of the year, however, Weis refused to call this season a rebuilding one. “May God strike me dead if I use that word,” Weis said in his preseason press conference Aug. 6. “It’s easy for me to throw in the towel, start playing a bunch of young guys, take the pressure off of me and buy me more time. But that’s garbage.” At this point in the season, though, ON PAGE 12

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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Duke travels south to run with Bulls by

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The Blue Devils take on South Florida in the ESPNU Women’s Basketball Invitational tonight at 7 p.m., but their focus isn’t on the event or even their opponent. Instead, the team needs to listen to the words ofhead coach Joanne P. McCallie and play its own game. “It’s about Duke first,” McCallie said “We’ve got to do what we do well.” As the lOth-ranked team in the country, the Blue Devils (1-0) are confident that they have the talent level to compete with the best teams in the nadon. But, at the start ofa new season, the team is still coming together and working on Xr the nuances of its game. THURSDAY, 7 p.m. McCallie and the players Sun Dome no ted that what comes as second nature to experienced squads is not as automatic for a team that has just started to learn a new coach’s system. “We need to focus on the little things setting our screens, working through our plays and not being in such a rush all the time,” sophomore Brittany Mitch said. McCallie has set targets for Duke to reach and ideally surpass in each game, including 20 offensive rebounds, 20 assists and fewer turnovers than in the previous game. The players have done their best to internalize her message. “We just have to focus on what we’re doing,” forward Joy Cheek said. “Make sure we keep our turnovers down, we really rebound and just be the aggressor and the attacker.” The attacking starts on the offensive end as Duke will look to the push the tempo and establish a fast pace early on. The team likes to run up and down the floor and utilize its speed while still taking care of possession. “We’re a transition team,” Mitch said. “But at times, we need to slow it.down and set things up and know how to control the ball.” Turnovers were of particular concern in the Blue Devils’ last game, when they gave the ball away 23 times, allowing Denver to lead for 23 minutes. Against a South Flori\

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Head coach JoanneP. McCallie has Duke focusing on limiting its turnovers when it plays at South Florida. da team that put up 84 points in its season opener, Duke will have to restrict its turnovers so that the Bulls do not have as many easy scoring opportunities. Defensively, the Blue Devils are also working on improving their court awareness. Denver was able to spread the floor well and create open looks, hitting six three-pointers in the first half. Cheek said that Duke was caught over-marking some players and leaving others open before the intermission. Against South Florida (TO), the team will also have to deal with the absence of leading scorer Abby Waner, who will sit out due to an ankle injury sustained in

practice. Waner will likely miss only the one game.

Despite the miscues of the first game and the loss of Waner, the Blue Devils are ready to improve on their play against South Florida. Cheek mentioned that the best part about this year’s squad is its willingness to get better and keep learning as the season progresses. And Duke remains confident that it will show that improvement on the floor in Tampa. When asked if the contest would end in Duke’s third victory over South Florida in as many tries, Mitch didn’t even hesitate as she said, ‘Yes.”

COACHES from page 9 he watches over and over. He knows the exact footwork or the exact timing. I’m looking forward to picking his brain.” Despite his success at powerhouses like Tennessee, Brown said he is excited about the talent level on the current Duke squad, noting that Blue Devil post players are in a different league than those he worked with on the Spartans. Given the ability of the Duke players, Brown has high expectations. “I want us to win the ACC tide, go on and take the [conference] tournament tide and batde our way to earn the NCAA Championship,” Brown said. “And with this talented group, I think we can get there.” Although Williams may appear novice in comparison to her coaching counterpart, her resume is nothing to scoff at. Before accepting McCallie’s offer to join the Michigan State staff in April, Williams was an assistantfor a DePaul squad thatreached the program’s first Sweet Sixteen in 2006. A former Auburn guard, Williams set the Tigers’ record for three-point field goals with 161. At Duke, the coach will stay in her comfort zone, working specifically with the Blue Devil guards to improve the quality of perimeter play. “It’s nice to have someone who can relate to you,” Waner said. “She’s already started working on my jump shot, and I can already see the improvement.” In light ofall the coaching changes, the shooting guard also emphasized the importance of maintaining a sense of continuity. Assistant coach Shannon Perry, who worked under former head coach Gail Goestenkors for three seasons, chose to remain at Duke after the coaching change. Both Perry and Williams work predominately in recruiting and had a large hand in piecing together the class of 2008. Brown focuses more on scouting, reviewing tape to find opponents’ weaknesses and ways to exploit them. For the players, adjusting to new coaching styles is just the beginning. “There’s a new feeling and it all starts from the top down,” Waner said. “We have such great people here, and we’ve already bonded a lot. We have a long way to go on the court, but it’s nice to have that foundation of getting along off the court as well.”

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Head coach CharlieWeisand the Fighting Irish have struggled this season after two straight BCS appearances.

FOOTBALL from page 9 Weis may wish to revisit his words. His offense did not score a touchdown in its first three games and did not gain positive rushing yardage until the fourth game of the year against Michigan State. For the season, the Fighting Irish have averaged just 14.8 points per game. Even in their only win, the Fighting Irish struggled when they had the ball. Against UCLA Oct. 6, Notre Dame won 20-6 despite gaining only 140 yards of total offense and scoring just one touchdown, which came on a two-yard drive. Normally an innovative offensive coach full of misdirection and trick plays, Weis has had to scale things back to a simpler, more fundamental level due to the team’s youth. “We have to start gearing things to make sure that everyone from the bottom up, whoever might end up playing in a game, is getting it,” Weis said. “It hasn’t

been the volume of things we’ve tried to do. They just haven’t had enough of the right answers at the right time.” The Fighting Irish have at least shown signs of life the last two weeks, scoring 68 points in their previous two games—albeit losses to Navy and Air Force. In the 46-44 triple-overtime loss to the Midshipmen, Notre Dame ran for 235 yards and four touchdowns. Clausen’s performance last week against the Falcons was a marked improvement after the true freshman had thrown only one touchdown compared to five interceptions in his first six starts. With a young team still learning, however, anything can happen out on the field—even if the Fighting Irish happen to look good before game-time. “Usually the execution on the practice field has been at a much higher level than the related games,” Weis said. ‘You feel deficient because you see it coming, you say we’ve got this nailed and we don’t have it nailed. That’s a bit confusing.”

the Tar Heels wasted little time in taking advantage. They got on the board in the 13th minute, as Scott Campbell drove down the right side and centered the ball to Michael Callahan eight yards from the Blue Devil goal. Callahan onetimed it past a diving Brendan Fitzgerald for the only score of the contest. “We made a little bit of changes to where I have a little more freedom,” Campbell said. “Bill [Dworsky] just played me a great ball through, and that’s a goal 90 percent of the time.” Three minutes later, the Blue Devils sustained another blow, this one the latest in a season-long list of injury problems. Midfielder Cole Grossman, who started in place of the injured Videira, suffered a concussion on a Duke corner kick. He was replaced by Tomek Charowski and did not return the rest of the game. “You’re putting Band-Aids on problems,” Rennie said. ‘You can’t win big games if you have to do that very often.” At the start of the second half, however, the Blue Devils received a lift with the return of Videira. The senior midfielder had been out since Oct. 31 with a torn quadriceps. He was not at full strength, but his presence provided a psychological boost for the team, Rennie said. “After watching the first half, I just wanted to get in and pick everyone up,” Videira said. “It seemed like when [Wadsworth] came in, the play kind of turned around a little bit more in our favor toward the end of the first half. That’s exactly the same effect I wanted to have on it.” The Blue Devils played more effective-

ly with their senior co-captain back on the pitch, but they were unable to avoid their second consecutive loss to North Carolina. Duke lost a double-overtime 1-0 match in Chapel Hill Oct. 11. The Blue Devils expect Videira and the rest of the team to be completely healthy when the NCAA tournament starts in nine days, a stretch that will give Duke some much-needed rest before Rennie begins his final quest for his second national title. “It’s part of the season—one-and-done,” Rennie said. “Now we’ve hopefully got another one-and-done. So if nothing else, that means I can only lose one more game as a coach, so I guess that’s a good thing.”

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What I don’t do is lurk in places Fm not invited. I welcome having more friends, but I don’t want to intrude. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta—one of several Duke adminstrators on Facebook—on how he uses the site. See story page 3.

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simply misguided. Attempts to educate smokers in this top-down manner

have not worked and will not work. Smokers already know that smoking is bad for their health, and it is their prerogative to decide whether or not they would like to smoke. In feet, smoking cessation classes held at UNC since the announcement of the pending restrictions have failed to gener-

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interest, according to The Daily Tar Heel. It is unlikely that further cessation campaigns will have any impact Indeed, this attempt by UNC to legislate and impose antismoking morality on its students for the sake of education is imprudent and strikingly reminiscent of the recent policy justifications give by Duke’s Office of JudicialAffairs—changes this editorial board has criticized in the past Thankfully for us, though, Duke seems to have tackled this issue the right way. Credit should be given to Vice President for StudentAffairs Larry Moneta, who has defended the right to smoke outside

University buildings.

Moneta has avoided a paternalistic approach, opting instead to strategically position ash ums at a reasonable

distance from entrances to buildings. This policy protects the rights of smokers as well as the rights of other students who do not wish to inhale second-hand smoke when walking into their classrooms or residence halls.

Additionally, we commend Duke for continuing to offer tobacco products in the Duke Stores like the Lobby Shop even when some said they should not. Tobacco is a legal substance for those over 18, and the University should not move to restrict its distribution. Such efforts would be quite hypocritical for an institution that regularly distributes free alcohol to students ofage. So let’s face it: At school built upon the fruits of tobacco, a ban on smoking just wouldn’t work.

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smoke outside of the buildings in which they live, they should have every right to do so. UNC has adopted paternalistic policies that Duke should avoid. By instituting the arbitrary 100-foot smoking ban, its administrators seem to hope to educate students of the harms of smoking and ultimately reduce the number of smokers. UNC administrators are

Wednesday, Nov. 3,2004, there were a lot of distracted and unhappy people on this campus. The night before, we had found out that President George W. Bush would be returned to the White House for four more years. That night, I had dinner with my Focus cluster, HuChalmanitarian lenges at Home david rademeyer and Abroad. forty-two We had originally been scheduled to listen to Jonathan Glover, who was visiting Duke to deliver the Kenan Distinguished Lecture in Ethics. However, in light of the circumstances, a change was made, and instead the professors each gave a brief speech on their personal feelings regarding Bush’s re-election. On one extreme of the represented political spectrum, one of the faculty made a call for greater understanding and cooperation across ideological and party lines. In the center, one of the faculty berated our generation for not voting in even higher numbers than our already record-breaking turnout; he also confessed a suspicion that the Diebold CEO’s Republican affiliation may have had something to do with the result in Ohio. At the other end of the political spectrum, yet another professor said that he could no longer countenance living in America. In spite of the “broad” range of opinions voiced that evening, the Republican student in our Focus, and several others, complained to Professor Elizabeth Kiss, the Focus program chair, that the views might have been ever so slightly one-sided. And so, in the interest of political correctness, a token right-wing professor was sought out to argue for the other side. The next week’s programming was cancelled to make way for a guest lecture by Professor Michael Munger. Next Wednesday’s dinner started off on a rather gladiatorial note, with Munger given barely enough time to introduce himself and explain his goal (to show how a rational person might vote Bush/Cheney), before two of our professors started verbally abusing him. The whole experience soon took a turn for the absurd when Munger announced that he had not, in fact, voted for Bush. The sorry mess concluded with Kiss apologizing for not having brought a real Republican to feed to the liberal lions.

I have long nurtured a feeling that there was something very wrong with this anecdote, something far deeper than the mere lack of a professor

who voted for Bush. What disturbs me is not that professors shared their opinions: I prefer to know what a person’s biases are so I can evaluate their analysis accordingly. What disturbs me is not that only one side of the argument was presented: I flatter myself that I am not so easily brainwashed, and I would rather learn about opposing viewpoints from those who hold them. What disturbs me is that class time was devoted to something so completely irrelevant to the subject matter at hand, humanitarian challenges. Worse, once the mistake was made, it was compounded out of a desire to provide “diversity of opinion.” I don’t think it matters whether my class time was wasted on a lament for John Kerry or on a discussion of current research in quantum mechanics. Certainly, if we had spent a week’s worth of class time on quantum mechanics, I wouldn’t want the next week to be similarly wasted by a lecture on relativistic mechanics. Too much of the debate on the issue of politics in the classroom has been focused on increasing “diversity of opinion.” What I dislike most about groups, like Students for Academic Freedom, that have lobbied for affirmative action to promote hiring Republicans, is that they seem to accept the idea that party politics is inseparable frotn scholar-

ship.

I share in the unease felt by many when I read about the ratio ofregistered Democratic to Republican faculty in the humanities. I share in the contempt felt by many when I hear that some Duke professors may believe that “conservative historian” is an oxymoron. However, I don’t believe that a conservative historian is any different from a liberal historian. Recent evidence indicates that more hedge-fund managers contribute funds to Democratic candidates than to Republican ones, but this doesn’t mean that investors would get a better return on investment if hedge funds hired more Republicans. What we need is not “balance” or “diversity.” What we need is professionalism. Faculty must be free to hold whatever view they wish and to pursue any topic of research they see fit. But Duke must ensure that job applicants will be evaluated based on their teaching and research only, and that, in the classroom, professors stay on topic. David Rademeyer is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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his thoughtful columns—Oct. 31, “Seeking recommendations,” and Nov. 7, “Solving the interaction problem”—

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lists a number of existing institutional ap-

proaches to student-faculty interaction—required seminars

and research classes, the advising system, mentored research, Writing 20, faculty-in-residence, administration-supported social events and house courses —and finds them lacking. Can students and faculty be brought together without recourse to the cumbersome and coercive methods of curricular reform? carol flath Fortunately, the problem of instituting a new graduation guest commentary requirement is way above my pay grade. In any case, institutionalizing one-on-one interaction in the curriculum is probably undoable because of the mathematics ofthe student-faculty ratio. More importantly, though, there’s something about a requirement that will demean any noble goal; it’s already hard enough to have a good conversation with your adviser when the purpose of your meeting is to get a PIN number—how can you focus on the “Big Questions” whenyour subconscious keeps sending up toxic messages about grades? All that aside, any institutional reform will be implemented after the current seniors have left, clutching those hard-won letters of recommendation. So as we waitfor Duke to change the system, may I recommend a bottom-feeder approach? There are a number of ways for students to get together with faculty—and faculty to get together with students—on an individual basis. Here are just a few: at that mandatory advising meeting, initiate a conversation that moves beyond the bookbag; attend a lecture, concert or film —and stay afterwards for the post-event schmoozing; go to a language conversation table; stop in to see your professor or TA during office hours to talk (hint about an idea, not a grade); see what your facultyin-residence is up to and stop in for some of that; get a group of neighbors together and inviteyour professor or TA over (do this not to fulfill a real-estate requirement, butbecause it might be intrinsically interesting). Take a class in something you don’t really need—you’d be surprised at how many utterly fascinating courses here (arts, literatures and performance, anyone?) enroll fewer than 10 students; check ACES today. And some professors are quite willing to get acquainted with you. The stomach has a direct line to the brain. Ask your philosophy professor what this has to do with the mind-body problem. In practical terms, this means that at Duke you can have your interaction and eat it, too. Funds are available for advisers, instructors of first-year seminars, faculty-in-residence and, in fact, all professors in Trinity College to share a meal with students. On the student side, you would be amazed at the resources out there.What sort of professor-person would you like to meet? It can be done. Ask your resident assistance, graduate resident or residence coordinator if there might be funding for this kind of quality time. And in addition to being very smart and interesting people, TAs are hungry all the time: ask the Graduate School for 10 bucks and take them out to lunch. Over the past couple of years, Duke has done a good job in organizing high-profile events aimed at bringing faculty and students together—big shindigs in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, the libraries and the Nasher, for example—and for these events, student initiative was essential. Is there away to talk to your professor without having to get all dressed up? How might we build community somewhere in between these huge celebrations and the timid, stressful little encounters we all find ourselves engaging in? This year, faculty and students alike might take advantage of some new initiatives. This year, the University has opened new social spaces; Upstairs@The Commons and the patio at the Armadillo Grill, for example. Stop in or take over some other space—a coffee shop on or off campus, a porch or your commons room. Upstairs@The Commons might be the place for you if your time falls into what used to be called the “cocktail hour:” between 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday. Fridays would be nice, too, somewhere. All these things require your initiative, but the effort-to-payoffratio is on your side, and it’s not that hard: Get a group of students together and come up with a question or topic ofinterest Ask some faculty members to stop by. Stir and mix. Carol Apollonio Rath is associate professor of the practice ofRussian and faculty-in-residence in Wilson Residence Hall.

Physician, heal thyself

2006, Duke student Christian Kunkel, Trinity ’O6, founded theAmerican Beerpong Association ofAmerica. According to its Web site, the ABAA seeks to “embody all the greatness that is the sport and aim to aid its ascension to itsrightful place in American lore.” In addition, “the ABAA fights for beerpong rights as it has been declared illegal to play this great sport in many bars across America.” In 2007, Duke senior Kenny Larrey founded GlllOtt WO It Duke Students for an Ethical Duke. q.e.d. DSED was founded as a directresult of the lacrosse case and concerns about the subsequent administrative, faculty and community response. Its mission statement claims, “Whenever hatred, racism, prejudice, slander,' or plain administrative and academic incompetence manifest on Duke Campus, we are listening not as personal advocates but as advocates of principle, fairness, and equality.” Unfortunately, one of these redundantly named organizations has failed to live up to its stated mission. As further evidence of Duke students’ insatiable gusto for beer pong, it wasn’t the ABAA. DSED has used campus events, guest speakers, public statements, blogs and published articles to raise awareness of the issues surrounding the lacrosse case. But despite its broad and very necessary organizational imperative, it has failed to articulate or enact any specific policy objective. It has succeeded in offering incessant criticism of President Richard Brodhead, with nothing constructive beyond, “he has an awful lot of explaining to do,” as the DSED blog states. The administrative, police and community responses that DSED assails were all predicated upon individuals’ “rush to judgment based upon unquestioning faith in what a prosecutor had told them,” as described by Lane Williamson, chair of the Disciplinary Hearing Commission of the North Carolina State Bar. Thus, most alarming is DSED’s failure to internalize this principal catalyst of the “hatred, racism, prejudice, slander, or plain administrative and academic incompetence” seen during the lacrosse case. DSED, largely through statements by Larrey, has used hearsay, paraphrasing from anonymous sources, gossip, apparent misrepresentations and other questionable information to advance its arguments (sound familiar?). The best and most recent example of this behavior came in Larrey’s recent article “The Last Straw,” published in the student publication the New Right Review. Using only two vague references to secondary sources, Larrey made a variety of highly contentious claims without direct attribution. Among them was the assertion that “administrators handed over troves of players’ confidential information that was later used to frame suspects and obtain indictments... ...

[and] Nifong went out of his way to do favors such as his

attempted cover up for this illegally leaked information.” Larrey said of his article, “Almost all of that is based on ‘Until Proven Innocent,’” a book by Stuart Taylor and KC

Johnson.

Asked his thoughts, Johnson wrote in an e-mail, “The book presents no evidence that Nifong ‘went out of his way’ to do anything for the Duke administration.” Larrey also stated authoritatively, “It was Duke that collaborated with police and [Alcohol Law Enforcement] to illegally raid student off-campus houses without warrants —well in excess of 100 instances—so that Judicial Affairs could subject them to Duke justice.” His source: “I’m not sure ifI can exactly tell you where I’m coming up with that.” “Until Proven Innocent” was silent on the matter. But having extensively researched the relationship between Judicial Affairs and the Durham Police Department, I found no evidence thatwarranted such a statement Larrey proceeded to chock up any ambiguity to “sloppy writing.” A more extensive parsing of the article is posted at

http://www.duke.edu/~egw4/

DSED’s behavior is all the more remarkable following an Oct. 12 letter to the editor in The Chronicle, in which Larrey wrote, “if we are going to move forward in all of this, we must speak with accuracy and precision. We must be courageous in challenging untruths, but we must be prepared to substantiate our claims and accusations.” As one potential and two currently pending civil suits against Duke and Durham progress, many details will come to light that may corroborate or refute DSED’s asyet unsubstantiated claims. In the meantime, however, said claims are greatly undermining the credibility of all of us who want to see institutional change as a result of the lacrosse case and rapidly costing DSED support. Michael Gustafson, assistant professor of the practice of electrical and computer engineering and a highly regarded commentator on all aspects of the lacrosse case, was originally tapped as DSED’s faculty advisor. He has since dissociated himself. “I am in favor of the concept of Duke students discussing ethics and ethical dilemmas and breaches,” he said. But he added that “I am not sold, as yet, that the organization so named is approaching it in the most constructive manner.” “I told them that I will not be part of this lynch mob,” he said. Johnson’s reaction to Larrey’s statements: “In my critiques of the Duke administrationand Duke faculty, I’ve tried to be very precise in what I say, and always to have direct corroboration.... I believe that any serious critic of the administration’s handling of events in the past 18 months must adhere to such a standard.” DSED is obtuse, but not off base. These issues matter, and they matter enough to do it right. Elliott Wolf is Thursday.

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THE CHRONICLE

16 I THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15,2007

Saturday, Nov. 17

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1-4:30 pm LSRC •

Love Auditorium

The first-annual, fall DukeEngage “Big Event” will be held Saturday, Nov. 17, in the Levine Science Research Center (LSRC) on Duke’s West Campus. The morning session is set aside for DukeEngage “alumni,” while the afternoon session beginning at 1 pm is open to students, faculty and staff interested in learning more about the myriad collection of DukeEngage experiences from the students themselves. The afternoon session opens with a keynote address at 1 pm, delivered by Duke alumna Marguerite W. Kondracke, president and CEO of America’s Promise Alliance. Following the address, DukeEngage students will host back-to-back panel discussions on various topics before welcoming all in attendance to view and visit with them at the “DukeEngage Stories: A Public Display” reception.

A full schedule can be found

http://dukeengage.blogspot.com.

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