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Thirty eight of the 47 members of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team are expected to sue the University and other parties today, the media representative for their attorney confirmed Wednesday.

The 100-page lawsuit—the third civil suit in as many months against Duke—will be filed by Washington, D.C., attorney Charles Cooper.

A press conference will be held at 1 p.m. at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., with the players and their families, said spokesperson Bob Bork.

He added that a Web site, www.dukelawsuit.com, has been established to provide updates. It will also host the complaint and video from the conference.

Cooper, partner at Cooper and Kirk and a former U.S. assistant attorney general, told Legal Times in an article published last week that he planned to file suit by the end ofFebruary.

“We will seek recovery for the treatment—the really shameful treatment that the players received throughout the ordeal,” Cooper said, referring to the will-be plaintiffs’ experience after bogus allegations of rape were made against members of their team in March 2006.

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Point guard Greg Paulus walks off the court of the BankUnited Center in Coral Gables after the Blue Devils' 96-95 loss to the Hurricanes—Duke's first loss at the hands of Miami in 45 years.

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CORAL GABLES, Fla. Duke finally woke up, but it was too late.

A furious rally at the end of the game was not enough to overcome 30 minutes of deja vu from Sunday’s loss at Wake Forest, as the No. 5 Blue Devils (22-3,102 in the ACC) fell 96-95 at Miami (18-7, 5-6) Wednesday night.

“There’s something missing this week,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We’re not the same team the last two ballgames. It’s almost as if someone came in and invaded their

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The one-point final margin of victory hardly reflected the nature of the game, in which Duke fell behind by 20 in the second half before catching fire from 3point range to close the gap in the final minutes. After speaking about the need to play with increased intensity following the loss to the Demon Deacons, the same problems plagued the Blue Devils once again against the Hurricanes.

Turnovers, poor defense, uneven effort and streaky shooting all contributed to

Senior Ryan Todd was elected Duke’s newest Young Trustee at Duke Student Government’s meeting Wednesday night.

“I’m really excited, as well as surprised,” Todd told The Chronicle after the meeting.

“I’m especially excited for the new Central Campus. I feel like my work for Campus Council has been touching on the issues of Central Campus, and so I’m excited to really get into that and be a part of the new campus. I’m also excited to be a student voice on Ryan Todd the Board and help the Board make more informed choices.”

Junior Jordan Giordano, executive vice president of DSG and a Young Trustee Nominating Committee member, said the race was a particularly close one.

If either a voting member of DSG or the Intercommunity Council had changed their vote, the outcome may have been different, several sources said.

But senior Genevieve Cody, DSG’s vice president for community interaction and chair of the YTNC, would not confirm this.

Fifty percent of the votes for the appointment are reserved for DSG members, with the other half reserved for ICC members.

At the meeting, Todd and candidates Katelyn Donnelly and Bronwyn Lewis, both

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For the second consecutive year, Duke ranked ninth in private gifts received among U.S. colleges, according to the annual Voluntary Support of Education survey released Wednesday by the Council for Aid to Education.

The University received $372 million in charitable contributions, a 15.5-percent increase from the $332 million record set in the 2006-2007 fiscal year.

“It’s an expression of confidence in the school,” said John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations.

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SCIENCE/TECH U.S. NEWS WORLD NEWS Twin fighter jets crash into Gulf Pakistani prez will not step down Strokes in older women triple PENSACOLA, Fla.—Two fighter jets crashed into the Gulf of Mexico during a training mission Wednesday, but the pilots ejected and were later rescued, the Air Force said.

Eglin Air Force Base spokeswoman Shirley Pigott said the pilots were rescued after their single-seat F-TSC Eagles disappeared Wednesday afternoon off the Florida Panhandle, about 35 miles south ofTyndall Air Force Base.

The Air Force has not determined if the planes collided.Weather in the area was clear.

Atlantis lands safely in Florida CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew streaked toward Earth and touched down at 9:07 a.m. Wednesday morning, wrapping up a 5 million-mile journey to deliver a new lab to the international space station.

After an hourlong descent, the shuttle and its seven astronauts landed at NASA's spaceport, where their families and top space program managers eagerly awaited theirarrival.

President Pervez ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Musharraf will not step down as head of state and intends to serve out his five-year-term his spokesperson says, despite a sweeping election victory by his opponents —some of whom want to drive him from power.

With the final results from this week's par-

liamentary poll nearly complete, two opposition parties had won enough seats to form a new government, though they will likely fall short of the two-thirds needed to impeach the president.

Bush: No more African bases ACCRA,Ghana President George W. Bush said Wednesday that talk of the United States building new military bases in Africa to expand its influence is "baloney."

The Defense Department created Africa Command last October to consolidate operations that had been split among three other regional commands, a move that several African countries have expressed deep reservation about, fearing an unwanted expansion of American power on the continent.

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challenges Nifongdaim A federal court administrator said in a statement filed lasftveek that former Durham district attorney Mike Nifong should not be given bankruptcy protection.

The conclusion is only a recommendation to a judge and not binding.

Michael West, a bankruptcy administrator for the North Carolina Middle District of U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, said Nifong makes too much money to seek protection and the case should be “presumed to be an abuse.”

West noted that Nifong’s annual income would be higher than the federal limits for protection. Nifong and Mike Nifong his wife are listed to have a joint monthly income of $9,210 in his bankruptcy filing.

West has up to 30 days after filing his statement to ask a judge to dismiss Nifong’s case or convert it to another form of bankruptcy.

Nifong filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection Jan. 15, citing more than $lBO million of potential debt.

Federal Judge James Beaty temporarily removed Nifong from a civil suit filed By the three exoneratedformer Duke lacrosse players Jan. 28. Nifong’s name can be reinstated within 90 days of the suspension.

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The Pauly Dogs and Cosmic Outpost stands were shut down by the Durham County Health Department Wednesday afternoon. Both vendors will address the violations and will be open for business today.

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Pauly Dogs is bringing its old pushcart back today—but not by choice.

Phil Woodell, an inspector from the Durham County Health Department, told operators of the popular hot dog stand and of Cosmic Outpost, both located on theWest Campus Plaza, to shut down two hours early yesterday at around 4 p.m. due to health code violations.

“According to Phil Woodell, the way they’re operating is not a cart operation,” Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst said. “A cart operation is mobile, and even though [Pauly Dogs] is a cart on wheels, it’s

fixed in place.”

Wulforst added that because Pauly Dogs prepares fresh meals to-order, it must serve from a mobile cart so that at the end of the day it can be moved to a place where it can be cleaned.

Although the cart’s front section does rest on wheels, it is connected to a stationary back cart by a partition, and the structure is considered immobile by health-code standards.

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Stephen Oates, who is charged with the murder of graduate student Abhijit Mahato, was indicted Wednesday for a series of armed robberies dating back to November.

The 19-year-old was arrested Jan. 23 for robbing and murdering Mahato, who was found dead in his home at The Anderson Apartments on Anderson Stree, about one and a half miles from campus, Jan. 18.

A Durham County Stephen Oates grand jury indicted Oates in Mahato’s murderFeb. 5.

Prosecutors said Oates may have held up three others the same day.

They added that they believe Oates robbed Mahato, an engineering graduate student from India, at gunpoint and took $2OO, a wallet and cell phone, according to WRAL. Oates was charged with breaking and entering in 2005 and 2006 and assault on a female in 2006.

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For many students, the word “windmill” conjures up scenes from “Don Paul Quixote.” But to Nelson and Dianna busiof Raleigh, swinging turbines are a ness opportunity.

Near the town of Bettie in Carteret County, the Pauls plan to build a wind farm of three turbines that would generate enough power for about 900 homes, or about 4.5 megawatts. The 464-foothigh windmills would begin generating power in 2010.

“This project, as small as it is, is 90 times larger than the largest wind generation facility currently operating in North Carolina,” Nelson Paul wrote in an e-mail.

Before the project can begin, the North Carolina Utilities. Commission must approve the project and the couple must withstand opposition from neighbors who worry that the turbines will ruin the scenery, Paul said “I think it is really ironic that people have this huge objection to the aesthetics of a wind plant,” said sophomore Kelsey Shaw, co-vice president of Duke’s Environmental Alliance. “A coal plant is not only this huge, ugly smokestack, but it is also emitting pollution.”

The project faces obstacles other than complaints from Carteret County residents, Paul added, including conducting a wind study to confirm the financial details of the project and searching for the actual wind turbines, which are at a

world-wide shortage “This is not a government endeavor or a goodwill project proposed by a nonprofit,” he said. “This project has to stand on its own feet financially.”

Shaw said the windmills would be a good way to use the wind potential for energy.

“I think wind power is perfect where it exists, but the drawback is that not every place has the wind to support the farms,” Shaw said. “There is plenty of potential on the coast and in the mountains.”

In August, 'the North Carolina General Assembly passed the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard, becoming the first state in the Southeast to do so. The law requires investor-owned utilities in North Carolina to use 12.5 percent renewable energy by 2020 With the new law in place, renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power may see increased demand.

The law stipulates that companies can purchase renewable energy directly from sources or can purchase renewable energy certificates.

The University supports renewable energy through offset credits, Shaw said.

“Duke purchases all of its energy from Duke Energy, which is primarily coal and some nuclear, but we do buy offset credits,” she said. “We are not directly using the wind, but we are paying to support it” Shaw said the legislation mandating use SEE WINDMILL ON PAGE 8

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The Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy will need to raise $4O million by June 30,2009 to become a school, University officials said in Spring 2006.

Sanford: Change to'school' will not pose problems sition to raise money and be responsible for its own development. Sanford plans to douThe Terry Sanford Institute of Public ble the size of the faculty to reach 42 in total.

The transformation efforthas raised more Policy’s planned transition into a school has confused some students, who are unthan $27 million so far, Kuniholm said. certain about what the consequences will Though the program will have more facbring for both majors and non-majors. ulty members, Rogerson said he did not anBecause Sanford is slated to become the ticipate a spike in the number of students Sanford School of Public Policy this fall, declaring the public policy major, one of the administration is seeking to reassure Duke’s most popular. students that no significant changes will afKuniholm said the misconceptions may fect the undergraduate experience within have arisen from the complicated nature the curriculum and that the transition will of the transition process. He added that he had to secure a commitment from the only enhance faculty-student interaction.

“Going to a school will allow us to have administration, the Academic Council and more faculty to teach the courses and to the Board of Trustees. interact with stu“It is comdents,” said Ken plicated and it takes “Going to a school will allow us to some planning, you Rogerson, director of undergraddon’t just become a have more faculty to teach coursuate studies and a school—bam, like es and to interact with students.” lecturer in public a lightning bolt,” policy. “It should Ken Rogerson he said. give us more reDespite their sources to help dir. undergrad studies confusion, stustudents with indents aware of the ternships and retransjtion said they search opportunities.” were not worried about the shift for Sanford.

Plans to make Sanford a school began “I don’t think it is going to have a subcirculating in Spring 2005. A task force re- stantial impact on students,” said junior Jason Pate. “Public policy does a pretty good porting to Provost Peter Lange was favorable to the prospect, but administrators job of keeping class sizes small compared to decided in Spring 2006 that the institute some of the Econ classes. You are not going would need to raise $4O million byjune 30, to have a 500-person class in public policy.”

2009 to be recognized as a school.

Emily Loney, a second-year masters of pubSanford Director Bruce Kuniholm, a prolic policy student, said she was pleased with the fessor of public policy and history, said stucurrent Sanford community of students and dents should not be concerned about Sanford faculty but wondered how the school would becoming a school like the Pratt School of En- accommodate the large faculty increase. gineering, which has its own admissions pro“If they are going to expand and hire cess and bars non-majors from some classes. all these new faculty members, sometimes I The program does not intend to sepawonder where they are going to put them rate itselffrom the rest ofTrinity College of all,” she said.

Arts and Sciences and will continue its foSome freshmen considering the public cus on interdisciplinary learning, he said. policy major said they knew little about the “There apparendy had been a lot of rueffort to become a school but thought the mors about [the change],” Kuniholm said. transformation would bring Duke greater The charge to the task force was to ensure national recognition. diat the undergraduate major was in no way “The only way I can see it affecting anydiminished, and in fact it will be enhanced.” thing would be increasing the Sanford InstiHe added that becoming a school would tute’s standing in the eyes of potential emput the public policy program in a better poployers,” freshman Jonathan Amgott said. by

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The University added former U.S. deputy attorney general Jamie Gorelick to its legal team Feb. 6 to help its defense in ongoing litigations. Gorelick is a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, another Washington, D.C., firm.

Duke is already embroiled in a civil suit filed by an attorney for three other unindicted players.

The suit, which alleged the University and others directed a wide conspiracy against the players, was filed in December by Durham attorney Bob Ekstrand.

Former men’s lacrosse head coach Mike Pressler filed charges against Duke in January, claiming that the University had violated terms of a confidential financial settlement made after he was forced to resign during the initial fallout from the allegations.

He later withdrew those charges and refiled, alleging slander.

Wrongly-indicted former players Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and Dave Evans, Trinity ’o6,.settled with the University for an undisclosed amount in June.

Both Gorelick and John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, declined to comment further.

Pauly Dogs owner Paul Konstanzer will break out hisold portable cart, above, today because his new stand was found to be in violation ofhealthcodes.

VENDORS from page 1 Friday, but until then Pauly Dogs will use its old pushcart.

Cosmic Outpost, which carries ready-made items from Cosmic Cantina, violated the health code by serving unpackaged condiments, owner Jamie Sneeringer said. The stand, however, plans to remedy the problem by serving packaged condiments from the restaurant so that it will not need to switch to a mobile cart, Wulforst said.

Randy Evans, who was working at the Pauly Dogs stand when Woodell visited, said news of the violation came as a surprise. He added that he was frustrated because the stand had been inspected last fall and was not deemed to be in violation of the health code.

“When he told me to shut it down, I kept making hot

dogs because I was blowing him off, and he told me that if I didn’t stop there would be a lawsuit,” he said.

“When he told me to shut it down, I kept making hot dogs because I was blowing him off, and he told me that iff didn’t stop there would be a lawsuit.”

Randy Evans, employee The Cosmic Outpost stand has been running for more than a year, and Pauly Dogs replaced its former

pushcart with a new stand last fall. Wulforst said the Health Department approved plans for the permanent stands when they were first submitted.

“I’m having a hard time really understanding the legitimacy of this law,” he added.

Junior Shaunte Collins visited Pauly Dogs as it was shutting down yesterday and said she was disappointed she could not order from the stand.

“I haven’t had a Pauly dog all semester. I’m about to cry,” she said.

Wulforst said although both Pauly Dogs and Cosmic Outpost should be up and running today, the early closing yesterday could have been avoided.

“We’ll get it corrected, but it is unfortunate that the Health Department elected not to just give them a warning,” he said.

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communications, said the survey accounts for all private gifts given to Duke, which includes actual dollars and the value of intellectual properties and gifts in kind.

The survey does not include pledges for future donations, he added.

Although overall donations to institutions across the nation have increased 6.3 percent, the number of alumni donors has decreased 1.5 percent, according to the CAE survey. Alumni giving held steady from its 2005-2006 level, making up 19 percent of gifts in the 2006-2007 fiscal year, according to Duke’s Development Annual Report.

“I think that the fact that there are so many more large gifts than there have been in the past may make the more modest donors less likely to give a gift,” Vaughn said of the national trend.

He added that an increase in highprofile reasons to donate elsewhere may also account for the trend.

“There have been a number of very visible and compelling fundraising opportunities around the world,” he said, citing Hurricane Katrina and the South Asian tsunami in 2005.

Duke does not intend to change its current fundraising plan, Vaughn, noting that he expects total donations to decrease for the next fiscal year due to a sputtering economy.

“If in fact there is a recession or an economic downturn, it is certainly likely that it will affect economics at Duke too,” he said. “I really can’t compare at this point with the same point last year.

It would be a little hard to speculate about this year.”

Chelsea Allison contributed to the reporting of this story.

seniors, presented their platforms and answered questions about their qualifications.

Todd explained that as president of Campus Council, his experience in interacting with administrators while representing students is what set him apart from the other candidates.

“Administrators have turned to me and looked to my opinion to represent the students,” he said. “I think that I have shown time and again—and more often than the other candidates—that I’m capable of doing this.”

Todd added that he has the greatest knowledge base of all three candidates beacuse of his wide breadth of experience with various organizations. He specifically pointed to the various cultural organizations of which he has been a part of and noted that he is the only candidate who has lived on East, West and Central campuses.

“By selecting me you will get a person who continues to give his opinion and is committed to voting on his own conscience for the University as a whole,” he said.

Both Giordano and Cody said they were pleased with how the process went this year, adding that they were confident in Todd’s

appointment.

“He is going to be an outstanding trustee,” Giordano said. “He has great experiences, and they are experiences that are representative of the student body. I’m really excited that he was selected.”

In other business: Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki explained to senators his decision to suspend the activity of the judicial affairs task force because of ongoing litigation.

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Campus Council President Ryan Todd, a senior, was named to the Young Trustee position Wednesday night. process has turned out—through no fault of our own —not so,” he said.

Nowicki said that despite the taskforce’s suspension, progress will certainly take place regarding judicial affairs this semester. He said he has asked the Kenan Institute for Ethics to analyze judicial practices at peer institutions, namely the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and Cornell University.

“I understand that a lot of Duke

students—too many Duke students—think that the institution doesn’t listen to them or think that the institution doesn’t care about them,” Nowicki said. “That’s the past, perhaps. But I care. Hundreds ofDuke students have gotten to know me well over the years, and they would say that I am sincere when I say that I care.... I am ready to work on this and other affairs to try to demonstrate that there is away to get that feedback going between students and the administration.”

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She added that as a leader her main goal is “to help people feel empowered” long after her job is done.

As a Young Trustee, Ellerbee said she believes she could reach two constituencies: graduate and professional school representatives and the Board of Trustees. She said the primary role of the Young Trustee is to serve in an advisory role.

Through this position, Ellerbee said she hopes to work with differentBoard members on issues including the University’s competitiveness and the implementation of its strategic plan.

“Seeing how the strategic plan is being implemented and what that says about the new administration’s ability to implement and sustain a vision for Duke is important,” Ellerbee said.

She attributed her interest in serving as Young Trustee to encouragement from administrators as well as her experiences in GPSC—including her time on the Academic Affairs Committee and the Committee on Institutional Advancement. She cited the value she placed on the relationships she forged with students and Board members.

“The graduate and professional student body is very diverse. Having served in leadership I think I have an ability to articulate the positions and concerns of many different stakeholders,” Ellerbee said. “I think I also do well playing a kind of devil’s advocate, asking questions like, ‘Why aren’t we doing this?’ or ‘Why are we doing that?”’

Joseph Izatt, a professor ofbiomedical engineering and Ellerbee’s mentor during her graduate years, described her as “incredibly well-prepared in everything she does” and “very knowledgeable about Duke.”

He attributed her organization, groundbreaking research andresourcefulness to her ability to be an effective leader. “She’s probably one of the most well-organized and efficient graduate students I’ve had the pleasure to interact with,” Izatt said.

Ellerbee, who completed her Ph.D. in August, said she prides herself on the diversity of her friendships and understands the need to accept people’s differences. She added that she makes it a point to travel and expose herself to different cultures.

Before entering graduate school, the 2001 Princeton graduate chose to take a year off, traveling to Singapore to teach math and computer science.

While at Duke, she pursued a variety of interests, including linguistics, rugby, Latin dance in Sabrosura and mentoring in the University Scholars Program. She also served on the Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee. In 2007, Ellerbee was named Graduate Student of the Year by the National Society ofBlack Engineers.

WlNDMlLLfrompagel of renewable energy is important because of the potential to bring prices of wind and other renewable energy sources to a more comparable level with coal and oil.

Pen-Yuan Hsing, a sophomore, said wind power could be a big step toward developing alternative energy sources.

“If this couple is successful in implementing the project on a larger scale, then it could be a major development for North Carolina,” Hsing said. “I think they should be given that opportunity.”

Paul said he hoped North Carolinians would support the new source ofrenewable energy.

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“Dear Father, what day are you coming home? I am waiting for you. Okay,

Daddy?”

This is just one of the many heart-felt messages in a series of letter correspondences between a child and her father, who has been pulled away by the demands ofwork in the sugarcane fields of Brazil. A collection of letters, along with photos of these split families, are a part of Pai, Eslou Te Esperando/Father, I Am Waiting For You, a visual documentary now on display on the first floor of the Sanford Institute for Public Policy.

Emma Raynes, a visiting Lewis Hine Fellow for the Center of Documentary Studies, spent 11 months in Brazil interacting with these families whose fathers are gone six to 10 months of the year cutting sugarcane in Sao Paulo, a city along the southeast border.

During these working months, the rest of the family resides in Jequitinhonha Valley. The distance greatly weakens family ties, and with only their memories to keep them company, many children do not remember their fathers when they finally return home. The booming sugar and ethanol industry affords these men the opportunity to work, albeit for low wages, but the emotional strain the separation creates is an issue that is often overlooked.

Raynes worked closely with the staff members involved with Cidade Crianga, a project part of a non-govemmental organization that is interested in the development of children affected by seasonal migration.

She initiated the letter-correspondence program between seven fathers and their families and also recorded voice clips of the fathers and children interacting be-

Now that the writers’ strike is over, it’s back to business for Hollywood. As everyone knows, for better or for worse, The Academy of Motion

COURTESY EMMA RAYNE

Father, I Am Waiting For You explores thetrials ofBrazillian sugarcane laborersand their families.

fore the men went off to the sugarcane fields. The recordings were then burned to a compact disc and given to both workers and families as a tangible reminder of each other.

“The pieces are about human connections and how families connect with each other”, Raynes said.

Photos in the series are simple yet moving—the stoic expression of a father while he holds his child in his arms masks greater anxieties that the newborns may not yet fully understand. Other images are even more disheartening. In one case, a closeup shot of a family pet is paired with a letter that states, “Dear Father, our puppy was blinded in one eye.”

Such events, ones usually shared in the moment, must now be revealed through pa-

per and print and travel hundreds ofmiles in order for the message to be received.

But thisis a sacrifice workers make, a reality many of us have a hard time grasping. “[These families] live day-to-day on whatever money they have,” Raynes said.

‘You get a sense of the stress of ‘how I’m going to feed my children?’ which isn’t necessarily a stress that people who go to Duke or people like me have.”

Besides shedding light on the emotional aspect of seasonal migration, Raynes is also interested in the policy issues pertaining to

Picture Arts and Sciences Awards is the biggest night in the industry. The 80th Oscars, hosted by Jon Stewart, promises to be a night ofglitz, glamour and God shout-outs, recess weighs in on the nominees with Film Editor Andrew Hibbard and, the man-in-charge, Editor VarunLeila.

Actress A: Julie Christie gets nr but I’d like to see Laura ney take it for The Savages.

V: I don’t even know Cate Blanchett is on this Did anyone see Elizabeth 2?

A: No they didn’t, bul obligatory that the Acad nominate Cate Blanchett L categories every year, even it’s best documentary.

V: I think she’s bee nominated in at least om category for at least 50 years. I think that’s a fact.

A: Didn’t she beat Katharine Hepburn in ’52?

V: I think she did. She did beat Katharine Hepburn. I say that Julie Christie will get it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Juno fever—and we’ll be talking about this a lot—strikes and Ellen Page wins for playing somebody who has no intonation in their voice.

Screenplay (Original) V: I think we can both agree that not necessarily what should win but what’s going to win is Juno.

A: If Juno wins nothing else, it is going to win this one.

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Puestlove talks hip-hop. doo wop and his Roots

COURTESY 7UESTLOVE

Ahmir Thompson, betterknown as ?uestlove, DJed at the Nasher Wednesday.

In addition to cofounding the Roots, Ahmir Thompson (aka fuestlove) has played alongside a list of legends that includes just about everyone imaginable.

And John Mayer, recess s Bryan Sayler recently spoke with the iconic drummer about the Roots ’ upcoming album (Rising Down ), ringtones and groining up under the tutelage ofhis father, doo-wop frontman Lee Andrews.

You grew up surrounded by the soul and doo-wop movements. How has that impacted you as a musician?

I spent a lot of time backstage watching groups get their harmonies together, in terms 0f... there’s a certain incorrect way. I mean, no chord structure is correct or incorrect, but the be-all, end-all law of harmonics is this European mode of doing chords. And, of course, once jazz comes into play, then there’s different ways to look at a chord. But doo-wop is sort of the stepchild of jazz in that a lot of times the incorrect chord is used to do harmonies.

But it’s sort of an art form to me.

So, if anything, that’s what I learned from watching that era, a third way to use chord structure the same way that, once Coltrane got hip to Indian culture, African and Egyptian culture, he learned a whole new scale, scales that they weren’t using in America.

As far as the shows were concerned, I learned how to pace the show. I learned the high points and the low points of a show and how it should be paced. My father used to always say, “The two most important parts of a show are the first J 5 minutes and the last 15 minutes. No one ever remembers the middle.”

What do you think hip-hop as a whole owes to those movements?

It’s a continual domino theory.

Hip-hop—and I hate to be that guy that does the whole apartheid separation thing—really there are two definitions of it. I’m coming from the purist standpoint of what hiphop is, not the “let’s grab the remote control and see what’s on TV—oh —

that’s hip hop” definition. Hip-hop is the combination of all those cultures rolled into one, like a bowl of stew. If anything, from a record standpoint, the fact that they’re taking bits and pieces of every culture and turning it into their own, I think that hip-hop owes a lot to doo-wop, especially my brand of hip -hop, which I jokingly say is the new doo-wop, i.e. the beautiful culture that no one cares about anymore (laughing)—except for the chosen few. But it’s also its own world. Hiphop owes as much to doo-wop as it does to jazz as it owes to any type of music, because that’s where it comes from—other types ofmusic.

Is there a genre, in particular, that you personally are most interested in? Or is there someone outside the Roots you most enjoy playing with?

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Editor’s Note 22: On Shows Lindsey Lohan, best known for .her roles in Firecrotch Chronicles and In and Out: The Rehab Center Story, recently posed in New York Magazine in the buff.

The girl people —read: ‘creepy old dudes—have been waiting to see sans clothes since The Parent Trap (I said they were creepy) bared all for a recreation of Marilyn Monroe’s famous “The Last Sit‘6 mg. of pair-up Lohan for Monroe got recess to start thinking... what other celebrities should do photo shoots in honor of deceased legends?

Rosie O’Donnell as John Candy Stay with me for just a second. I know what you are thinking; “That is so rude to compare Rosie to a man, much less a Canadian man.” However, both Rosie and Candy have pant sizes that range somewhere between “jolly” and “step away from the buffet line.” The two are both known as family-friendly comedians with dark, not-so-family-friendly secrets. They both like women. Enough said.

Amy Winehouse as Anna Nicole Smith This is an obvious match for multiple reasons. Both sultry women are examples of what happens when white trash cracks under the pressure ofstardom. It’s sad to say, but at her current rate Winehouse is doomed for a similar fate as the TrimSpa temptress. Hopefully Winehouse will clean up her act (and her teeth) before it’s too late for her.

Chuck Norris as Gandhi Don’t tell Chuck who he can and can’t emulate. It doesn’t matter that Gandhi didn’t have a

beard,

People at this campus always complain about the type of shows being done partially or fully with student money. Why should we suffer through a crappy pop-rock band like Boys Like Girls, when we could get critic darlings Arcade Fire for the same amount?

The most recent clamor is over the Sex Workers’ Art Show. I won’t mention it any further, but to those who support it: Really?

That is art? To those against it: Why are you whining so much? Get over it.

Not everybody will be happy. I don’t think social conservatives were particularly happy when gay “basketball player”—l mean he averaged less than 20 minutes per game—was paid as a speaker last fall. On the other side of the coin, many females on campus were offended that the same Union would pay for the overtly-misogynistic Tucker Max to visit his alma matter.

My Last Day of Classes’ concert ex-

perience has been disappointing

to say the least. I—and I know I am not alone in this—feel that the choices have been pretty much geared to a vapid, yuppie white-washed culture that doesn’t appreciate “good” music. That is my subjective opinion, but for my LDOC I want to rock not soft-rock. Collective Soul, Custer, Jason Mraz and Third Eye Blind were all brought to Duke way past their prime.

They were expired like month-old fish.

Do I have any better suggestions? No, but we all whine. The point is that students are used to pointing out the shows they don’t want to go to while ignoring the quality events. Both the Duke Coffeehouse and Duke Performances bring outstanding artists, but shows are severely underattended. Maybe if we spent less time complaining, we’d have more time to attend the good shows.

—Vanin Leila, Editor

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glasses and was Indian. You can be the one to inform Chuck that you chose Ben Kingsely again and I’ll be hidBERT STERN/NEW YORK MAGAZINE ing behind this rock over here.

When Chuck Norris goes on a fast, food gets hungry.

Jon Heder as Napoleon Dynamite as Bob Dylan What? Bob Dylan isn’t dead. Really? I saw a picture of him the other day and I swear it was a mummy. How long are we going to have to wait around for that?

—Varun Leila

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Kal Penn... I mean the pool is limited Ricky Gervais Andre 3000 Winona Ryder Sean Penn Eric Bishop of the Pulsar Triyo Seth Cohen

Angelina Jolie Lucy Liu... she deserves it Chelsea Allison (the future is today)

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Best restaurants to mend broken Valentines by

Bryan Zupon

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Valentine’s Day has come and gone, and maybe you botched the dinner reservations for the big night. After a week of unanswered phone calls to that special someone, you’re still not out of doghouse.

But not to fret, Valentine’s Day is widely considered amateur night—perhaps second only to New Year’s Eve —by those in the restaurant industry. With pricey prix fixe menus and grossly inflated expectation, diners may be better off just staying in. recess presents a collection of unpretentious date spots for the (food) lover in all of us, perfect for a makeup meal or just an intimate night out.

Bar Dining Saddle up to the bar at one ofDurham’s cozy, chef-run restaurants, where a satisfying, elegant meal is available without a reservation. French bistros Rue Cler and Vin Rouge feature well-chosen European wine lists and hearty, classical cooking that is surprisingly affordable.

Blu Seafood offers happy hour specials at its bar every weeknight with $5 appetizers and salads from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. On

Tuesday evenings look for the city’s best raw oysters at bargain prices all night long.

The bar also offers unique sparkling wines available by the glass to accompany said briny bivalves. Keep an eye out for Spanish cava or a sparkling rose from Gruet, a French producer located in, of all places, New Mexico.

Piedmont’s daily-changing menu and warm, dark wood bar lend any meal here rustic appeal. Definitely order Chef Andy Magowan’s charcuterie, such as the country pate and smoked beef tongue on the current menu. Piedmont is also one of the few locations in the area where diners can savor fresh winter black truffles atop plates of beef tartare, risotto and pasta.

Late-night Dining Skip dinneraltogether and enjoy a memorable meal well into the evening hours at Watts Grocery or Six Plates Wine Bar. After 10:30 p.m. Watts Grocery unveils its short but noteworthy late-night menu, recess has already sung the virtues of the restaurant’s hush puppies and chicken gizzards but the sliders —mini-hamburgers—are worth a special trip. Season-appropriate cocktails, like a creamy Brandy Alexander and Old

Fashioned made with Southern Comfort, lend Watts Grocery a sedate, mature vibe.

Six Plates Wine Bar is an ideal date night stop for its lounge-like vibe alone.

Add to that a variety of wines available by the glass and small plates of haute finger food, and you have a spot that’s perfect for either a quick drink or a leisurely meal.

The menu includes dishes served “in-twos,” making for easy sharing with your date.

Wine and Chocolate For those looking for a bit of an education on their Saturday afternoons, Wine Authorities runs free wine tastings from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. A variety of artisanal cheeses, cured meats, bread and sweets from chocolate-maven Michel Cluizel are also sold in the store.

For those who prefer the privacy of their own room orapartment, A Southern Season is the date night one-stop shop. From flowers to gift baskets to the area’s best selection of chocolates, Southern Season is a smart, if pricey, destination.The vast cheese, deli and wine sections make throwing an impromptu dorm room picnic simple, and the catering department offers a variety of assemble-athome, multi-course meals.

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Given a Feb. 14 release date, it’s nice to know even Hollywood can be faithful to its sweet lover: the superhero movie. Such is the case withJumper, the latest from director Doug Liman (Mr: and Mrs. Smith).

Based on the novel by Stephen Gould, Jumper stars former Jedis Hayden Christensen as hero David Rice and Samuel L. Jackson as the fanatically religious villain Roland Cox. In the film, a genetic anomaly makes David a Jumper, allowing him to teleport anywhere in the world.

The film opens in a predictable manner. In this case, we get backstory. David is an awkward high school student preoccupied with bullies and his crush Millie {The O.C.'s Rachel Bilson). He attempts to be romantic, but of course is thwarted. Things turn from bad to worse as David finds himself in a desperate situation: trapped and drowning under a frozen pond. It looks like he won’t make it until, by some unknown force, he teleports to the library.

Bewildered, David experiments with his new abilities and eventually reaches the conclusion that he can leave his unsatisfactory life behind—which he prompdy does. With this uninspired opening, audiences get a taste of the miserable acting that is to follow.

Fast forward eight years. Da-

The nice guy may not always finish last, but it makes it mpre interesting when—as his 11year-old daughter puts it—he’s a smoker, drinker and man-slut.

Directed by Adam Brooks (Bridget Jones: The Edge ofReason), Definitely, Maybe offers a refreshing twist to the stereotypical romantic comedy by telling the tale from the male point of view. Told mostly through ’9os flashbacks, the movie’s plot centers on the past love life of charismatic Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds), an advertisement executive now living in New York City.

The audience meets Will just as he’s received his divorce papers —this is a 21st century love story after all—and just as he’s about to pick up his daughter Maya (Abigail Breslin) from her first time at school learning about sex. After nagging on his daughter’s part, he decides to tell Maya—in detail—the complicated stories of his three past, serious loves: the blonde, girl-next-door Emily (Elizabeth Banks), the intellectual, brunette Summer (Rachel Weisz) and the quirky, red-head April (Isla Fisher).

It’s essentially the birds-andthe-bees talk on steroids.

But what would have been a painfully awkward conversation

vid has become wealthy robbing banks and has established a dream life in which he jumps around the world at his leisure. This enviable existence is rudely interrupted by the Paladins, led by the nefarious Jackson. The Paladins’ sole purpose is to hunt Jumpers like David. with nifty machines that can trap Jumpers and annul their powers, the Paladins threaten David’s world. The story degenerates into standard good versus evil as David decides to fight back, finding an ally of sorts in Griffin (Jamie Bell), a fellow Jumper.

First and foremost, Jumper is an action flick and, at that, it’s not terrible in spite of overusing the teleportation gimmick.

Full ofcliches and plot holes but lacking in resolutions, the movie makes no apologies for what it is. But for an action movie, there is nothing special about the effects—the main attractive feature of this genre. It may just be better to wait for this one to come out on DVD —if, even then, it’s worth it.

—Braden Hendricks

becomes instead an entertaining mystery of who-did-who-when.

The younger Will is an ambitious, University of Wisconsin graduate who heads to the city to work for the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign. He eventually moves up from beingjust the “toilet paper guy” to a top political consultant in his own right Along the way, he finds out that politics, perhaps, is easier to understand than women.

As April astutely points-out, Will’s major flaw is his desire to be liked, and in fact, this is a quality that the entire film share! Extremely witty to the point of fault, the movie feels, at times, almost a little too forced, especially with the entire premise of an 11-year-

old girl serving as her father’s relationship counselor.

In the end, though, the sheer likability of the characters wins you over. Will is ultimately a

good-hearted, relationship-oriented guy and Breslin steals the show in the role of precocious and perceptive Maya, The writing is clever and sharp, the setting nostalgically familiar and the plot compelling—even if a bit incredible.

After all, the genre isn’t exaCtly known for accurately representing reality anyway, and this is one romantic comedy that will definitely leave you charmed. There’s no maybe about it —Lucie Zhang

THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES DIR. M. WATERS PARAMOUNT

����� Following on the successes of Harry Potof the Rings, The Spiderwick Chronicles marks yet another attempt of the movie industry to take advantage of audiences’ fleeting interest in fantasy movies based on novels.

The film revolves around the slightly dysfunctional Grace family, descendants of faerie enthusiast Arthur Spiderwick. Arthur collected and documented every last bit of information about the magical world that is invisible to most humans in a book, but the concentration ofknowledge is dangerous in the wrong hands. Protagonist Jared (Freddie Highmore) of course reads the book and, in the process, awakens an evil ogre hellbent on obtaining the knowledge hidden within the book to destroy mankind. In a plot cluttered with cliches, the three Grace children must defend the tome from hardly frightening, CGI goblins and the ogre to save the world.

Strangely, both Grace boys, Simon and Jared, are played by Highmore. While Highmore gives an average performance, the scenes in which he argues with himself are unusually creepy. His voice for both characters is eerily identical, making them indistinguishable. The rest of the actors perform adequately and don’t make the few serious scenes too awkward. The adults seem the most out of place in this world of children and make-believe.

Director Mark Waters (Freaky Friday, Mean Girls) has had success with movies targeted at young adult audiences in the past.

Unfortunately, the film’s plot is underdeveloped and the characters are stereotypical and thin.With a significant amount of deus ter and The Lord

STEP UP 2 THE STREETS DIR. J. CHU BUENA VISTA

����� FILM ����� DANCING If Step Up 2 The Streets were a candy, it would be a Gobstopper. Not an ordinary Gobstopper—with each flavor shell tasting great—but a Gobstopper with alternating shells of delectable apple (bottom jeans, minus the boots with fur) and rotten cheese.

Andie West (Briana Evigan) is a Baltimore-raised white girl who has loved street dancing ever since her mom took her to her firstjam session, where people moved “like they were from another planet.” After her mother dies from non-dance-related cancer, Andie brushes off school to pull subway pranks with her dance crew, 410, the kings of the underground Baltimore dance scene for the last five years.

However, her hooky-playing days might come to an end unless she shapes up academically, according to her mom’s best friend who acts as Andie’s guardian.

From here on, Step Up 2 pulls out all the formulaic tricks of the dance film.

Andie miraculously gets into Maryland School of the Arts, despite having her

style mocked by most of the stuckup panel she auditions for. Unfortunately for Andie, 410 disapproves of school (“410 don’t come second to nobody”) and kicks her out.

At her new schmancy-pants institution, Andie meets and flirts with the popular, trust-fund, oh-so-talented-prince-of-theschool Chase Collins (Robert Hoffman) and the two quickly start up their own crew to battle against 410 in the underground competition. The crew is full of MSA misfits, most notably the geeky Moose (Adam G. Sevani), who is at the school for light design but of course can moonwalk better than Michael Jackson.

The plot has about as many cliches as Baltimore has drug dealers, and there are some truly painful motivational speeches. Yet, the film entertains when the characters shut their mouths and move their feet. The dance scenes are both energizing and stylistically diverse, and the film’s climax—the MSA crew’s performance in the rain—is a wonder to behold.

It might be a bit hard to swallow, but Step Up 2 still makes you want to throw on some Reeboks with the straps and give stomping the yard a shot.

—Charlie McSpadden street

ex machina, the movie ends in just over an hour and a half. These shortcuts make the movie easy to handle for young children, but hurt the appeal of the movie to older audiences. Some older members of the audience, however, may recognize Seth Rogen, who infuses the movie with some life as Hogsqueal the hobgoblin. While the movie is enjoyable, it lacks the depth that made previous fantasy movies so successful.

The film is clearly targeted at a younger audience than The Lord of the Rings or even the more recent and notably darker Harry Potter films. While the children fight in typical Hollywood sibling rivalry fashion, the mood is mostlylight and focuses on themes of trust and cooperation. The - children never fire guns or arrows at their assailants, and the aftermath of the final scuffle looks more like the result of a massive food fight than a battle.

With the failure of the much deeper Golden Compass, it appears that America’s fascination with fantasy has ended, and it certainly does not appear that The Spiderwick Chronicles will change that.

—Caleb Seeley

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are some of the most in-depth of any in modem music. In addition to the acoustic guitar, a staple in the band’s historically Darnisparse compositions, elle employs a wealth of strings and a dynamic rhythm section.

While the instrumentationItself is rarely the focus of these songs, it is never anything less than commendable, and the electric guitars of “Lovecraft in Brooklyn” as well as the martial beat of“Sax Rohmer, Pt. 1” highlight Heretic Pride.

“Sax Rohmer, Pt. 1,” which Darnielle wrote in his self-described “cave-like office” in his home in Durham, is phenomenal. It tells the tale of a mariner

returning home that sounds as if it is coming straight from the lips of Odysseus. Darnielle’s passionate vocals are stirring, and the chorus reaches a level of ferocity that could only come from a desperate man. “Lovecraft in Brooklyn” is a perfect example of the insanity that seems to be bubbling just under the surface in many of the album’s other songs.

The alienation and fear of its protagonist is palpable. Nonetheless, this anguish in its many forms is a common thread to the beautifully and painfully realistic vignettes that make up Darnielle’s great new album.

—Kevin Lincoln

MURDER BY DEATH

FUEGO! EP VAGRANT

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by Thursday frontman Geoff Rickley, the band has been labeled everything from Western alt-country to Americana noir. True to their namesake (Neil Simon’s 1976 murder-mystery comedy), the band has created concept albums about zombies ( Like the Exorcist, But More Breakdancing) , the Devil ( Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them ?) and Dante’s Divine Comedy

JACK JOHNSON

SLEEP THROUGH THE STATIC BRUSHFIRE

����� With his newest release, Sleep Through the Static, Jack Johnson tries his hand at the whole reinvention thing. The album, his fifth studio release, was supposed to be a departure from the surfer sound that brought him onto the pop scene. While this is his first album recorded outside of Hawaii, the island native doesn’t seem to be able to leave the North Shore sound behind.

It’s in the subject matter where we see a glimpse of the desired change. With the title track, Johnson moves from the familiar territory of singing about bubbly toes and banana pancakes to singing about the war in Iraq. The lyrics may have changed, but his sound hasn’t; it keeps the same rolling feel as his early songs. This combination fails to create the desired effect. Instead of producing a serious political statement, the

which, to be fair, is Canadian).

Yet, while occasional songs show DO YOU JJKE ROCK MUSIC? signs of life, no distinct sense of ROUGH TRADE style ever emerges from Do You ����� Like Rock Music?.

Furthermore, the band’s lyrics Naming an album Do You Like are full of the vague, trite stateRock Music? is risky business, simply ments that leave many people because it prompts condescendtoday resenting the state of moding critics like myself to write the ern rock. On “No Need to Cry,” shortest review possible: “Yes, so vocalist Scott Wilkinson remarks don’t buy this record.” And don’t “When it’s good, it’s not bad/ get me wrong; I really want that to. When it’s bad, I don’t mind.” In be the entire discussion on British “Waving Flags,” he reveals that Sea Power’s third and most antici“We’re all waving flags, so don’t be scared/We’re only here for a pated album.

Unfortunately, reviews have while, and it’s all a joke.” Not exboth a word limit and a word actly my definition of useful or minimum. With that said, Do You worthwhile advice.

Finally, the record’s concludLike Rock Music? is the latest work from the four-man, Brighton ing piece, “We Close Our Eyes” group whose fame in England does not even qualify as rock muhas never successfully translated sic and instead consists of more than seven minutes of weird, unacross the pond.

Their music resembles a lot natural sound experimentation.

So there. After nearly three of other foreign bands that have found fame in America. Songs hundred words, I can now conlike “Lights Out for Darker fidently reiterate my first point: Skies,” “Canvey Island” and “No if you do indeed like rock music, Lucifer” all sound like British it’s best to avoid British Sea PowSea Power doing their best Ather and spend your time looking lete, Kaiser Chiefs or Arcade elsewhere.

Fire impressions (the last of —Jordan Axt

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John Darnielle, leader of the ever-shifting lineup of the Mountain Goats, doesn’t just sing his songs. He paints them.

His guitar is as much a brush as it is a musical instrument.

He peppers the lyrics that tell his myriad stories with subtle illustrations of scenery, describing the sweetness of the air and the effects of a sunrise with the vivid detail of a landscape. This background makes his feverish stories of lovers, depression and borderline insanity all the more poignant and realistic.

Unlike the majority of their most recent albums, Heretic Pride lacks a single, binding concept.

Instead, Darnielle uses the 13 songs to mine assorted veins of Americana in the same way the Mountain Goats always have.

He employs characters, ranging from a pair of young parents to a personification of H.P. Lovecraft’s xenophobia, that

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song sounds more like, well, when that stoned surfer guy you know tries to talk politics.

Don’t bring me down, brah.

If the thought of a Jack Johnson album devoid of nonsensical lyrics makes you uncomfortable, as it does me, don’t worry. Johnson can’t quite make a clean break with the silly sound that made him famous. “Monsoon” is a light, airy track centered on the refrain, “monsoon-er or later.”

Here, Johnson with his laidback, carefree attitude tells the listener not to sweat the small stuff.

As the lyrics go through an evolution of sorts, the music stays stagnant. Much of the sound is exactly the same as on previous albums. The instrumental breaks and solos seem a little timid as well. Instead of really jamming out, which could be possible with this type of reggae acoustic sound, the music holds itself back. There are no tidal waves on this beach, just the rocking motion of the ocean.

—Liz Tramm

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The Fuego! EP is the precursor to their fourth full-length album, The Red of Tooth and Claw, to be released in March. Murder by Death is characterized by their extensive use of string instruments, particularly Sarah Balliet on the cello, alternating with punky guitars. “Fuego!” perfectly captures it all —lust, sin and liquor—aided by lead singer Adam Turla’s sittin’-in-a-bar-drinkin’whiskey-and-smokin’ vocals. The band changes pace with “Theme (for Ennio Morricone),” an extended instrumental tribute to the film composer. The EP concludes with the Nancy Sinatra-revised, Kill ihY/-immortalized “My Baby Shot Me Down.” Turla sings “Bang, bang, she shot me down”

against twangy guitars with a perfect, ominous intensity that would make Johnny Cash proud.

It miy be presumptuous, though accurate, to say that Murder by Death records exclusively in minor keys. But they have an image to keep up —impending disaster and fire and brimstone and all that—and it wouldn’t be appropriate to sing about picking up Satan hitchhiking in the Mexico desert in a major key. Aptly called a “teaser EP,” Fuego! mesmerizes the listener with the undertones of some greater brooding—maybe vampires this time?

As Adam Turla puts it, watch out for a “Homer’s Odyssey ofrevenge, only without the honorable character at the center.”

—Stefanija Giric

ic’s tenth studio album, Free Somehow, a noticeable risk that provides only some reward.

The first song on the album, “Boom Boom Boom,” is a bluesy opener that doesn’t make much of a statement at all. Another in a line of so-so new Panic songs, don’t expect it to get dragged out during a show. The next song, “Walk On the Flood,” is, again, just a driving, distorted guitar line that brings nothing new or impressive.

The album really kicks off with the funky shuffling of “Angels on High.” Lead singer John Bell finally taps into the guttural and

singing the way you want to hear him sing, producing what will surely be a live staple. The album culminates with “Up All Night,” a rollicking song reminiscent of Warren Zevon or Steve Winwood.

It is great concert encore material, with an amazing chorus. Plus, any song that mentions Savannah will get a rise out ofPanic fans.

Ultimately, Free Somehowis a worthy effort and well worth a listen.

But —most importandy —it provides the groundwork for a couple of compositions that will surely hit their stride out on the road.

—Andrew Tunnard and Tom Aten

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Though never reaching the same heights of musical renown as the Grateful Dead or Phish, the Athens, Ga. jam band is supported by throngs of adoring hippies and southern frat stars, consistently selling out stadiums and amphitheaters across the country. Their music is as diversely influenced and realized as their fan base: a solid blues, jazz and rock foundation undergirds some of the more tenuously strung guitar and percussion solos. They even breach the psychedelic at times, but prefer ribs and whiskey to ecstasy and acid.

It is their live music that captivates, and as such, Panic’s studio albums are usually judged less critically, with fans considering how good a particular song would sound on stage. With this in mind, the band often tests songs in concert before recording them in the studio. This approach, however, was ostensibly abandoned for Pan-

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Osvaldo Golijov's /tyre, performed by soprano Dawn Upshaw, focuses on Spanish religious atmosphere. the air, she is the voice of the planet and I think it is such a great artistry that allows her to go places that no classical singer has gone before,” Golijov said.

Golijov’s Ayre (pronounced ai-reh) means “air” or “melody” in medieval Spanish, and centers on the religious atmosphere in southern Spain—an intermingling of Christian, Jewish and Arab cultures before the 15th-century expulsion of the Jews. The pieces are in Ladino, Arabic, Hebrew, Sardinian and Spanish and feature original music written by Golijov to accompany songs and poems from all cultures including traditional Sephardic hymns, contemporary Palestinian poetry, Christian Arab hymns and pieces written by his friend and collaborator Gustavo Santaolalla. In each piece, Dawn Upshaw’s soprano contorts to fit the role she is being asked to play, including mystical sighing and tremolo in the Sephardic romance “Ariadna and su Laberinto,” biting and mocking in “Tancas Serradas a mum” and both pained and graceful in the spoken poem “Be a String,

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Water, to My Guitar.”

Though some of these songs are based on ancient texts, their combined message is still tremendously relevant in today’s world. Also included in Ayre is Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs, a work for which it was originally written to accompany. In Golijov’s view, it is this striking similarity that may have lead to such reviews of Ayre as both “ecstatically beautiful” and “radical and disorienting” by the New York Times.

“I don’t set up to do something radical,” Golijov said. “I think that in this particular case these texts that were written 500 years ago are the same problems we face today, war between civilizations. In order to use those texts you have to re-imagine them in away that is not just a museum piece. Making the ancient past present and vital and wrenching again might be the way that it is called radical.”

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It is this concept of “simultaneous dimensions” that so aptly describes both artists and the piece as a whole. Golijov himself has known many different locations, and Ayre is a beautiful, frenzied chronicle of each ofhis periods of exile.

Osvaldo grew up in an Argentina-transplanted, Eastern-European Jewish family.

His mother, a piano teacher, and his father, a physicist, filled the household with “chamber classical music, Jewish liturgical and klezmer music and the new tango of Astor Piazzolla,” as his Web site says.

Golijov followed his mother’s example and studied piano at the La Plata conservatory until 1983, when he moved to Israel to study at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy.

“As I became an adult and lived in Jerusalem, I got to know all different types of music—Arabic music and later North African music. It’s like with everybody, music is like life,” Golijov said.

The piece was commissioned by Carnegie Hall for world-renowned American soprano Dawn Upshaw. As the story goes, Golijov was suggested to her by the Kronos Quartet, with whom he had collaborated on numerous occasions.

“She was looking for a new piece to commission, and the Kronos Quartet said, ‘Check out this guy,”’ Golijov said. They have been collaborating ever since, from his first piece for her, Lua Descolorida in 1999, to Golijov’s first opera, Ainadamar, in 2003.

“The piece was commissioned for her and, in fact, I don’t think that anybody else can do it; what she’s doing is stretching what a soprano is. She is the voice of

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poor families who are forced into such work.

“Brazil’s unregulated exploitation of workers contributes to its ability to be one of the world’s most cost-effective producers of sugar-based ethanol,” Raynes states in the documents describing her exhibit. “[lncreased monoculture ofcrops like ethanol produce] environmental degradation and tear at the economic and social fabric of rural farmworkers.”

Depicting more than just away of life, the showcase also seeks to raise social and political awareness.

“I think there’s an important way to see the human dimension of policy problems,” the artist said. “This is at the Institute ofPublic Policy for the reason of seeing how policy related to workers, the economy ofmonoculture, biofuels, sugar industry [and] how decisions on upper levels can affect families.”

Alex Harris, the creative director of the Hine Fellow Program, oversaw Raynes in her project and believes it is at the “heart of documentary tradition”and that it guides viewers to appreciate a different perspective.

“Documentary work can help us care about significant policy issues in away that wouldn’t otherwise be possible,” Harris wrote in an e-mail. “Raynes is a truly fine photographer, whose work and personal connection to the families help us to understand the often hidden human dimensions of large policy issues.”

Capturing a state ofaffairs where policy and personal stories intertwine, Raynes said she hopes students will be moved to bring about change. “[The exhibit is] an artistic practice, something that wouldn’t necessarily fit in a museum,” Raynes said. “The point is not to have just a certain art population see it.

I want it t0... encourage people who are engaged in projects.,, to reflect on how their work and future decisions are going to affect others.”

The playbill for each performance of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ayre begins with a quote from Edward Said’s Reflections on Exile.

“Most people are principally aware of one culture, one setting, one home; exiles are aware of at least two and this plurality of vision gives rise to an awareness of simultaneous

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V; Everyone knows the Academy loves strippers-turned-writers.

They loved Ron Howard, also a stripper-turned-writer, and they’ll love Diablo Cody.

A: They loved Matt Damon.

And Ben Affleck—although Hollywood has more or less forgotten about him.

V: I believe those are prostitutes-turned-writers.

COURTESY MIRAMAX A: I’dlike to see Lars and the Real (Daniel and Film Day-Uwis).

Director,Best nominatedfor severalOscars,induding Best Best Actor There Be Blood has been Will Girl take it. I think it’s very subde Western drama and emotional. It’s very funny, and year it’s Juno. It doesn’t deserve to withKeira Knightley as a lead ever it’s more in line with what the Osit’s very original. It probably decars are serves all of Juno s nominations. It win. And if it is that funny indie win? not.

She’s like V: But do you think it deserves Probably wins, that forever I will V: comedy Jesjust deserves to win. to win?

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It deserves But it V: win. will protest A: I do. I think they both do.

V: That’s a strong statement. I cause she’s British. And I think, be able to beat Juno? No. two have movies V: Ultimately, There Will Be understand this is a race between ultimately, you Best Film Blood visceral, raw, There that so so and is a fantastic film but it realOld Men and are Country So, last and No V: two categories for normal drives on its intensity. However, ly the most important—best film Will Be Blood, which are both from it’s just different than the of Mind No A Country —so gloss good job Mi- Academy and best director. Let’s start with the same studio Beautiful for Old Men is a movie be silent and still really and Titanic that takes the that can But, were saying usually Here we have a lot of ramax. people best film. movies that a lot of people didn’t that Atonement was really the big prize. And having such real films capture you and draw you in.

Best Director watch this year. Nothing new favorite going in. It did really well both be up for the best motion V: And then the last and most picture, it’d be a shame if neither about that. Who do you think is at the Golden Globes. Can we disimportant category is achieveone of them won. count Atonement at the Oscars? going to win? when have ment in directing. Right away I you shot Especially film.

A: A: It was a beautifully A: Again, this is a clash of the have to say if the Coen Brothbe-, two of best filmmakers today’s just It well acted. think the first I said, As Michael was you Claytitans. hind them. By far I think that the ers don’t win, I don’t know what ton was a great movie for George 45 minutes or so of it were defiClooney, but it was a very George nitely up there with There Will Be Coen Brothers and PT Anderson I’m going to do. One, they’re Clooney movie. The Oscar’s new Blood and No Country for Old Men, are going down in history. But brothers. That’s just an automatic my vote for who’s going to take it bonus for them. Two, it’s just put trend is to nominate that funny but the rest of it fizzled in comAnd really, will anything is No Country for Old Men because together so well that it would be a indie comedy that won’t win—this parison.

surprise if they didn’t win.

A: Yeah. I see what you’re saying. I’m a huge fan of PT —now Paul Thomas, maybe that’s why he’s finally made it into this category —Anderson but I see. I actually think that it’s a huge insult to PT Anderson, the Coen Brothers and the other directors that Jason Reitman is in this category.

V: There’s no reason for Jason Reitman to be in the achievement in directing category. Say what you will about Juno. It’s cute. It’s funny. Yeah, it’s something that white yuppies will love and cherish and go to the theater for, but it’s a movie that’s about its script and its quirky actors. It’s a movie that directed itself. By no means is the directing in Juno even close to something that should be considered in this category. Give the nomination to Tim Burton, give it to Atonement guy. Just don’t give it to Jason Reitman.

A: Yeah. I had high hopes for Juno going in, but I think that Thank You for Smoking was a wasted opportunity and Juno was too.

And, for the record, we hated Juno before that was the popular attitude.

V: And the biggest disappointment has to be no nomination for Ryan Gosling in Lars and the Real Girl. And the fact that our opinions won’t at all matter.

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Green record is going to do for my master plan. My master plan is really... when we turned in the initial demos for Game Theory to the label, I happened to be in the office the day that Loretta Lynn’s Van Lear Rose album came out and it was sitting on the desk, so I stole it. I was listening to it on the airplane and I was jealous, I was jealous of Jack White, because he gets to work with all his favorite artists and Rick Rubin gets t0.... It’s a beautiful thing when you get to give the most realized work, sort of a career highlight work, to the people that you grew up on, and that never, never happens in black music. And part of that is that black music is so disposable that you’re a legend after five years in the game. This is the reason why Wu-Tang Clan is seen as old school, because someone has told the lie that, somehow, after the age of 33, hiphop is no longer the game for you, which I think is horrible. No one gave that memo to the members of the Rolling Stones or any of the members of Radiohead or U 2 R.E.M., groups that have been doing consistent work for 20 years plus.

That said, I happened to be doing an inwith one of the writers for terview Austin Scaggs, and he’s like, Stone, Rolling “Ahmir, you keep talking,about thisLoretta Lynn record like it’s the best thing since sliced bread,” and I was like, “Man, I just want to do that for people that I grew up on,” and he’s like, “Well, why don’t you just call them and say that?” and I was like, “I don’t have an entryway to do it.” I guess one of the A&R cats at Blue Note happened to read that interview, and he was like, “Well, I’ve got a challenge for you. Would you like to produce the next AJ Green record?” I jumped on it immediately. We just finished a week and a half ago, and this is probably

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my favorite outside project that I’ve worked to be perfect. Everything has to be perfect. on since D’Angelo’s Voodoo. It’s really just That’s just how we approach it. I don’t an incredible record. Everybody that I’ve know what the future holds. This is techplayed it for is just failin’ out all over the nically our last record with Def Jam. The place. This is the true follow-up to The Belle result of this record will determinehow the Album, which most A1 Green purists claim is next Roots project gets to you, i.e. a major the quote, unquote “last” A1 Green record. label, i.e. the Radiohead way. Until then, So you kind of have to ignore the last 30 every breath is taken as if it the last.

I know it’s not an easy question, but of years and see this as his follow-up record.

Sort of along those lines, you mentioned all the Roots records, do you have a perhow hip hop’s disposibility. You see albums sonal favorite?

Again, that’s like asking me if I have a being sold by singles... favorite breath. I will say that, if anything, S—, ringtones are sold (laughs).

I have memories of making the records.

Yeah, exacdy. What do you think is goThere was absolutely no more favorite ing to happen to the hip hop record?

The funny thing is, even though I speak memory of mine than when we were makin the terms of an isolated member outside ing the Do You Want More?!!!??! record, bethe circle, which basically holds true now as cause we were fresh and new, we were in a it did 17 years ago, I’m a part of this world, studio environment where it was like, “Oh but it’s not like we were allowed to play in my god, there’s Q-Tip in the hallway,” or any reindeer games back in 1992. They sort going up to studio B, putting your ear to of looked at us with the “we don’t know the door and .hearing Method Man work what to do with this” demeanor, as they do on the Tical record, or hearing the RZA blowing out all the speakers. So that was now. Of course, the respect is bigger bereason, for we manage just a fun period. cause, some strange There was a feeling ofexcitement in the to still hold interest 17 years after we came out. But I guess the future is, at least my air when we did the Things Fall Apart record.

W felt like we were at the 3personal approach, is a sen ")f line and the regulation with every Roots album. I t was the size of Texas there’s ever going to be just every 3-pointer relaxed, where we feel or was going in. We could like, “Well, okay, we’ve got ave been blindfolded, songs, okay, label, here’s th drunk on Patron, facrecord. Where’s our mo ing the other way and album.

We treat every ey?” the ball still would have I’ll rephrase that. We use' ,one in the hoop. It was to treat every album like ist the excitement of was our debut record. No’ iething new. we treat every on of these ■aking the chains on cords like it’s going to be o )gy, the fact that we which has even twice the lective meeting and just I feel like we can’t leave Look, let’s make the ununturned. Tariq has to rl >ots album. Anything like it’s his last opportuni that’s not the Roots, let’s reach the masses. The mix :

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try it out.” We made a big list of s— that we hadn’t tried before. Of all the albums, Phrenology is the one where we took an approach to all the songs and all the unfinished demos, going to a record store and playing a bunch of prog rock s and seeing how far we could push the boundaries.

But I love all of my records.

Is there a particular slant you’re taking on the new one?

On no. 10, there’s a lot of firsts for this album. I’ve never seen a group in hip-hop release 10 very consistent records. And I’m not saying that there aren’t fan favorites. I’m not stupid. I know that die-hard fans think “Oh, they’ll never make another Things Fall Apart and some critics think we’ll never be as creative as they were with Phrenology. I feel as though we’ve never turned in anything less than a straight-A report card.

This particular record, it’s not as much of a downer—and I don’t say that as a bad thing—as Game Theory, where we wanted to make a downer record.

And it’s definitely your darkest.

Hell yeah. We viewed Game Theory the same way a Sly & the Family Stone fan would see There’s a Riot Coin’ On, the same way Me’shell Ndegeocello’s Bitter album is percieved. There’s a few albums in modern rock music that are seen as dark, anti-pop records. Game Theory is one of those, I think.

This new one is the sonic polar opposite.

This album is very, very aggressive—very loud, abrasive. It is the sound of the din. It’s not as soft and not as cushion-y and not as cotton. Some people still have it as synonymous with their favorite Sunday-morning, clean-up record. This album is more like your Friday-night, what-the-F—is going-tohappen-this-weekend record. It’s synthetic, and very mature sounding. And most importantly, it’s a great 10th record.

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CORAL GABLES, Fla It was all kinds ofbad Going into last night’s game against Miami, few people—including the players themselves—expected the No. 5 Blue Devils to play as poorly as they did in Sunday’s loss to Wake Forest, a contest that was defined by a surprisingly lackadaisical showing from the then-No. 2 team in the nation.

But instead of coming out with renewed energy and effort Wednesday, for almost 35 minutes Duke seemed to be caught in the same funk that doomed it in Winston-Salem.

From the game’s early moments, it was clear that the sloppy play that had plagued the Blue Devils against the Demon Deacons had yet to be exorcised. Duke committed five turnovers before the first media timeout 4:41 into the first half, and finished the period with 14 turnovers. The team also shot a paltry 5-for-l7 from behind the arc and were fortunate to find themselves down only five points at the intermission.

“We should have come out playing with unbelievable heart and passion, and we came out, played the exact opposite,” senior captain DeMarcus Nelson said.

“We were careless with the ball, I had a lot of turnovers, our defense didn’t get the stops from halfcourt and our offense was stagnant.”

The early part of the Blue Devils’ season was marked by big second-half runs to put teams away. But the reverse was true last night as the Hurricanes went on a 18-3 tear to start the half—including a back-breaking 15-0 run—that put Duke in a 20-point hole from which it would not bounce back.

Sophomore Jon Scheyer, who almost single-handedly brought the Blue Devils back from the brink with a career-high 27 points, said the loss was surprising.

“I did not think coming in here we wouldn’t be ready to play, and we wouldn’t come out with the win,” Scheyer said. “We needed this win just as much as them, if not more. To come out and play like that and lose like that is really frustrating and disappointing.”

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“That last 12 minutes means nothing if you don’t win the game,” said senior captain DeMarcus Nelson, who swished a meaningless 30-foot attempt as time expired allowing Duke to lose by just one.

Over the final 12 minutes, Duke closed the deficit, adding intrigue to the outcome of a game that had looked to be over midway through the second half. Led by Jon Scheyer, the Blue Devils got hot from deep, hitting 10 of their 20 three-point tries in the second half after making just 5-of-17 in the first.

Duke pressured Miami in the backcourt but struggled to create enough stops in the halfcourt—Miami shot 60 percent in the second half—to catch up.

Greg Paulus scored on a drive with 18.8 seconds left to pull the Blue Devils to within three at 93-90, but Brian Asbury and Jack McClinton hit 3-of-4 free throws to ice the win.

“Duke was not going to quit,” Miami head coach Frank Haith said. “We told our guys they were going to make a run.... We were able to hold them off.”

The Blue Devils found themselves down by double digits by committing many of the same errors they did against Wake Forest. Duke turned the ball over five limes before the game’s first media timeout and 14 times total in the first half, allowing the Flurricanes, who came into the game hot off two straight ACC road wins, to take a five-point lead into halftime.

It got much worse, though, before it got better for Duke. Miami opened the second half on an 18-3 run, which included holding the Blue Devils without a point for nearly seven minutes. Indicative of Duke’s struggles, Nelson airballed a free throw

with 12:53 to go before the Blue Devils finally began playing like a top-5 team.

Throughout that scoreless stretch, Duke continued to turn the ball over, and its big men got into foul trouble, with Lance Thomas picking up four over a four-minute stretch and Kyle Singler recording his fourth—three of which had been offensive—at the 10:18 mark.

Miami sophomore forward Dwayne Collins took advantage of the Blue Devils’ weaknesses in the paint, dazzling the sparsecrowd with an array of finishing moves on his way to 26 points on 12-of-14 shooting from the field. Collins, McClinton and Asbury were so problematic for Duke that even 59 second-half points did not lead to a win.

“We’ve given up 91 points a game,” Krzyzewski said of the past two contests.

“It’s not what we do at Duke, and it’s not what these kids have done. I don’t know whether it’s the time ofyear, orwe just took a deep breath, but we were not very good.”

Scheyer led all scorers with 27, including five treys, and Nelson also chipped in with 19 points and 10 rebounds, though he did account for six of Duke’s 22 turnovers.

“Something’s missing—it’s been a long year, and they’ve been a terrific team,” Krzyzewski said. “You don’t win 22 ballgames and 10 in the conference without being an outstanding team.

“Our strength is playing with a verve and playing together. Those two things have not happened in the last two ballgames.”

NOTES; Miami’s win over the Blue Devils was its first over Duke in 45 years.... Attendance and Miami’s on-campus BankUnited Center was listed at 6,670, with large portions of the bowl empty.... Miami’s PA announcer warned the Hurricanes’ student section about sportsmanship in the first half after a distasteful chant against Paulus.... With the loss, the Blue Devils fall into a tie for first place in the ACC with North Carolina.

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ANALYSIS from page 9 in its first 23 contests, Miami shot an eye-popping 60 percent from the floor in the second halfand finished shooting 57.4 percent.

In fact, the best defense of the night was the security guard staff that managed to keep a surging student section from storming the court.

The Blue Devils were also unable to get the fast-break points they feasted on earlier in the season, and it was not until their threes finally began to fall that the game became close again.

Even when Duke got it’s first fast-break points of the night—a steal and dunk by DeMarcus Nelson to bring the score to 7766—the Hurricanes responded 12 seconds later with a huge reverse slam by Dwayne Collins, who slaughtered the Blue Devils by going 12-of-14 from the floor and finishing

with 26 points.

Simply put, every time the Blue Devils tried to bounce back, the Hurricanes beat them back down.

“We have really good players, and we didn’t play like that,” Scheyer said. “We didn’t play like a really good team. You would have thought we had no confidence, and that’s what it looked like.”

As a result of the back-to-back losses, the Blue Devils will have to bank on a timely break from the ACC slate against St. John’s Saturday to allow them to straighten things out.

“We definitely have to regroup,” Scheyer said. “It’s not about X’s and O’s. For us, it’s about playing with heart, playing all on the line. It’s one thing if you lose and you put everything on the line, it’s another thing if you lose and you play passive, you turn the ball over like crazy. That’s what’s so tough about this loss.”

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The quartet, comprised of senior Danielle Spearman, sophomores Meredith Bannon and Shannon Beall and freshman Emily Lang, clocked in at 1:42.98, breaking the previous Blue Devil record of 1:44.54 from 2006 by more than 1.5 seconds. The old record was held by Spearman, Nora Stupp, Kade Ness andjulia Lewis. The team finished sixth in the event.

In the 800-freestyle relay, sophomore Jackie Fasano and freshmen Katie Magee, Jess Perry and Ashley Twichell finished seventh with a time of 7:28.73.

At the end of the first day of acdon, Duke is tied for fifth place with Miami with 50 points. Competition continues today, beginning at 11 a.m.

Future Duke player featured in Sports Illustrated The Blue Devils women’s soccer incoming freshman Ashley Rape is a “Face in the Crowd” according to Sports Illustrated. The defender is featured in the Feb. 18 issue of the magazine.

Rape attends Greenhill School in Dallas and is currently a member of the under-17 U.S. National Team. During her senior year, Rape netted 17 goals and 20 assists.

Blue Devils net more accolades Senior Caroline Cryer and junior Carolyn Davis were named to Inside Lacrosse’s Preseason All-America lists Wednesday. Cryer was placed on the first team while Davis earned a spot on the third team.

Davis was also named Womenlax.com’s Division I Player of the Week. Davis scored eight goals and dished out four assists to lead the Blue Devils to a 2-0 start. Thanks to her efforts to begin the season, the midfielderalso earned the ACC’s Player of the Week award.

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The 10 percent or more of give newly admitted students freshmen who will have expea chance to serve abroad for rienced a year abroad in social service will be a year before the mature, matriculateditorial engaged stuas freshing men. We applaud Princeton dents some feel are lacking in for recognizing the active this generation. role young people must take Princeton will be able to tap into the idealism of its incomin the international community—but we hope Princeton ing classes before students are also recognizes the challengpressured to pursue preprofessional paths. The students will es of such an endeavor.

The new program —as be allowed a crucial year of rewell as similar programs cuperation and self-reflection between the academic rigors like our own DukeEngage seeks to create not only an of high school and college. competitive This program may also attract academically student body, but students more engaged students to apwho participate as citizens of ply toTrinceton.

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ican higher education. For many students from middle and lower-income families, the gap year is not a viable option—a year off is a lost year of potential earnings.

Princeton has recognized but-not fully addressed diis problem so far. Even widi a high amount of financial aid, the program cannot relieve the financial burden that a family will be placed under when students will gain earning power in five years instead offour.

Social cohesion within Princeton may also become a problem, as students within each class will differ in age and maturity because of the program. This may prove disadvantageous for students who chose not to or could not enter the early year abroad program, though it may en-

rich the student body overall.

To achieve its purpose, this program needs to be a genuine independent experience. A sheltered international service program with similar college students cannot achieve the ends this program intends to meet.

What Princeton has certainly done, however, is legitimize the gap year as a precollege endeavor, which may convince middle-class families for whom it would otherwise be a luxury.

Princeton’s plan, though hazy on the details, is yet another indicator of higher education’s continuing and growing commitment to civic engagement. We hope that commitment is as solid on the logistics as it is on good intentions.

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But despite the program’s abstract appeal, there should be no rush to adopt a gapyear program here. Duke’s study abroad numbers are among the highest in the nation, and the new opportunities offered

by DnkeEngage are unique.

DukeEngage should be tested before international service funding and administrative demands are further expanded. Allowing incoming freshmen to use DukeEngage funding for a summer, a similar option, would only force them to pack too many activities into the summer before matriculation.

The early year abroad model also poses some serious problems, the most worrying of which is deeply related to the socioeconomic disparities that plague Amer-

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“Corrective action” can range from oral warning to first written warning to final written warning to termination. Based on the severity of the infraction, the first offense warrants one of the above four punishments, the second warrants the next most severe, and so on, all the way to termination.

But as far as anyone can tell, those policies do not apply to the 900-odd members of the American Federation of County, Municipal and State Employees Union Local 77. Local 77 represents employees of Housekeeping, Dining Services, Facilities Management and two other divisions in the Medical Center.

The provisions ofLocal 77’s contract mark a significant departure from the HR policies that apply to the University’s remaining 25,000 employees.

Like other employees, members of Local 77 who work for Duke full-time are guaranteed 12 sick days per year. The difference comes in the definition of a “sick day”: “In the case of illness or injury, absence of up to 5 consecutive days will be counted as one allowable absence.”

If union employees use up all of their sick “days,” the contract allows them an additional six “allowable absences” before commencing disciplinary action.

Up to two consecutive days constitute each unscheduled “allowable absence.” And union employees are permitted up to 16 “tardies” before receiving a written warning. A “tardy” is defined as missing no more than half of an eight-hour shift, or being no more than three hours and 59 minutes late for work.

All of this is in addition to 13 paid University holidays and 20 paid vacation days.

Doing the math, a Union employee wishing to

maximize his or her time off can be paid while missing the equivalent of approximately 101 full days, or 807 hours and 44 minutes per year—without disciplinary action. Ultimately, a hill-time union employee scheduled to work a standard 260 days per year can take about 40 percent ofhis or her scheduled-time off, and still receive full pay from the University.

Since most of the union employees work for divisions of Campus Services, their salaries are paid directly by the users of the services they provide (us). And in the event that an employee just doesn’t show up, the University (we) will pay for a worker from a temp agency to do his or her job.

Non-union employees can take off less than half that time, and will be fired for behavior exhibited by many of the members ofLocal 77.

Adapting Orwell, some employees evidently are more equal than others.

And Human Resources’ policies constitute yet another set of institutional practices that apply to some and not to others. Luckily, Local 77’s contract expires June 30 and will be renegotiated before then.

Various University officials declined to release data on employee absenteeism, but we are leftwith several unacceptable possibilities.

Some employees could be taking advantage of the policy and not others, thus rewarding workers for not showing up. (The contract stipulates that promotions and pay are based solely on seniority, which is determined by an employee’s start date.)

All of the employees could be working hours roughly consistent with others at the University, in which case the policy is unnecessary.

Or, all of the employees could be taking advantage of the policy (I would, given the chance), putting an enormous financial strain on those who have to pay for their services.

I know a great number of dedicated union employees in all of the operations represented by Local 77. Many have been recognized by individual students and Duke Student Government for their support of undergraduates and have shown a sincere commitment to thewider Duke community. But they have no more of a right to skip work than the thousands of other service employees who keep Duke running.

Over the past several years, the University has taken significant and necessary steps to ensure that all of them are paid something resembling a living wage. With Duke essentially guaranteeing them a salary, it’s not unreasonable to require that they all show up more than 60 percent of the time.

Applicable portions of the contract are available at http://www.duke.edu/~egw4..

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

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While that scene is great, for a somewhat redan belzer laxed night out with- close w.w.j.d. friends, it’s not the massive uninhibited hormone-infused 18-to-22-year-old booze-and-grinding fest that college is truly about. For these types of events (read: Shooters, Parizade of old or Metro 8/Club 9 on occasion), one has to resort to sucking off the proverbial teat of whatever greek organization happens to be throwing the party.

Moreover, attending a frat party means dealing with the BS of the host group who will undoubtedly be swarming around the venue attempting to assert their presumed “coolness.” Not to mention, your own organization (or person) may have some irrelevant and petty beef with the night’s host. It’s all quite an unnecessary pain in the ass.

The funny thing is that—minus rush and a few weeks after it—we all pretty much get along. This school is small, the scene is even smaller. We all know one another. You would think someone would take advantage of this opportunity. Does it really take a few greek letters plastered on an event flier to get people to show?

For my first three years it sure seemed like it. I think there was a promoter who successfully threw parties for “the other scene,” but let’s avoid that topic altogether because we 11... I do not feel like addressing the train tracks.

But this year, something changed. It started with Wednesday night beer pong at Shooters—the most disastrous thing to happen to my liver since discovering that college students party hardy on Thursdays.

A couple kids from different corners of campus got together and struck a deal with Shooters. Dirt cheap pitchers ofbeer combined with rows ofpong tables turned into my favorite night of the week to go venture out into Durham and knock back a few. I presume others may agree.

What emerged from these modest beginnings is Spartan Entertainment, a group dedicated to supplying the campus with non-partisan no-nonsense venues for debauchery. Now sponsored by Monster Energy Drinks and Budweiser, they continue to throw the normal Wednesday night events along with large-scale weekend parties that have yet to fail to pack the house.

What impresses me is that they have helped redefine the weekend and provided new opportunities for everyone to come together—transcending the usual boundaries of the Duke scene.

So I would just like to say, from the bottom of my heart, thank you to all of those people who make sure that, on some nights, I don’t have to go to someone else’s event.

Damn, I should be getting paid for this. See you out there.

Thursday.

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was enjoying some Sunday reading on a bench on Main West when I heard it—a strange clip-clopping sound ringing out into the still morning air.

Like the stray cats that prowl around or the skittish squirrels that dart from tree to tree, I saw yet another elusive creature of the Quad: a girl in high heels doing her Sunday morning Walk of Shame For those of you who J5-don’t know, the Walk of Shame is when a young man or woman has spent Ihe night in someone StaCV LNUUWIII clllldwill else's room and must make stage of fools that seemingly endless trek back across campus the fol-

lowing morning.

I was intrigued by this rare sighting (after all, Walk of Shamers usually cling to the shadows like cat burglars) and

put down my reading to see if I could spot any others. It was early Sunday after a Saturday night full of semiformals and mixers, so the picking was good.

Because we have all been there—and because we can all learn from their examples—I have created a guide to the different types of Walk of Shamers I saw Sunday and assessed their strategies for your future edification:

The Early Bird: The Early Bird awakens to find early morning sunlight illuminating the face of the person they spent the night with. If that face belongs to someone they neither wanted nor expected it to, the Early Bird then flees the scene of the crime ASAP. If particularly skilled, they can silently grab their stuff and creep out of the room, hopefully avoiding creaky floorboards on the way. Or, they can mumble some excuse about an early group meeting and run before further questions are asked.

Pros: The Early Bird gets to avoid any awkward “morning-after” conversation. Also, fewer people are around campus if the Walk ofShame occurs at 7 a.m. They say the early bird catches the worm, and this Early Bird can worm their way out of a potentially uncomfortable situation.

Cons: Lack of sleep after what was probably a long night. Just because they were early to rise definitely does not mean they were early to bed.

The Transvestite: The Transvestite chooses to employ camouflage methods in the same way that small animals do in the wild.

Realizing that semiformal attire would draw too much attention, they ask their bed buddy to borrow some clothes for the Walk. Garbed in enormous, tent-like male sweat

suits and flip-flops five sizes too big, they scamper back to their rooms clutching their dress and heels to their sides.

Pros: Men’s clothing, oversized as it may be, is still less conspicuous than a dress. Also, if the girl actually likes the guy, she now has an excuse to see him again by returning his clothes.

Cons: Sorry, but no one actually believes you are on the men’s lacrosse team and have the right to dress as such.

The Kamikaze: The Kamikaze, waking too late for The Early Bird and too embarrassed to borrow clothes for The Transvestite, has little choice but to say, “To hell with it!” and make a blind run. Or in this case, a blind stagger in heels.

The Kamikaze is always most humorous to watch.

Clothed in full semiformal or club attire, they hurry back across campus, head slung low like a receiver charging down the field. Models on the catwalks in Milan never walked so fast in heels as these girls on theirKamikaze missions of social suicide.

Pros: You gotta have some admiration for the gutsiness of these broads to make such bold and obvious statements on a Sunday morning, when most people are on their way to church. They are letting the whole world know that they went out with someone, they went back with someone and now they are going home.

Cons: I think it’s pretty obvious here.

Da Man: Da Man is an example of the gross double standard that exists between male and female college students. While the Walk of Shame is a cause of, well, shame, for young women, it becomes more of a Strut of Smut for the guys.

Da Man got some the night before. He wants the whole world to know. I saw one guy Sunday morning wearing an untucked dress shirt, a suit jacket and a tie untied around his neck, strolling across the Quad like he was going for a walk in the park. Taking his sweet time, he even stopped to send a text message, something probably along the lines of: “Yo dude, u’ll never guess what happened last nite...”

Pros: Da Man is lucky that man-whoring happens to be the desirable thing on campus, so he might as well milk it for all it’s worth.

Cons: Everyone who sees him thinks he is a total toolbag.

Hopefully this short guide will help you on your next Walk of Shame (maybe even this weekend!) And perhaps by starting a dialogue about this college phenomenon, women can even learn to own the Walk of Shame the same way that men have.

Stacy Chudwin is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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