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the most power to change that.” Giordano argued that as executive vice president and vice president for community interaction last year, he has not only spent the most time and energy working within DSG but also forged important relationships with administrators, leaders of student groups and students in general. “Because I’ve had the experience to know what’s worked and what hasn’t

Duke Student Government will postpone its presidential election until Friday, Attorney General Paul Zarian, a sophomore, announced early this morning. In an e-mail to' candidates and election commissioners at 12:42 a.m., Zarian wrote that glitches in software for the voting Web site had forced the move. The software, designed by CollegiateLink Corporation, typically forces users to create a profile on their site before using it, said DSG President Paul Slattery, a senior. He said a company employee had been convinced to override the option by Chris Roby, director of the Office of Student Activities and Facilities, after concerns that it would confuse voters. But the change was reversed when a ColJegiateLink employee realized it constituted a violation in company policy. “I immediately contacted the guy at the company but he was unable to get a hold of the IT guy who made the changes.... So basically, people weren’t going to be able to vote tomorrow without having to go through a fairly lengthy/confusing process to ‘create an account’ first. I thought that this would have horrible implications for voter turnout and would be unacceptable for a fair DSG election,” Zarian wrote. Earlier Wednesday night, Zarian decided to move the election window from a 7 a.m.-to-9 p.m. slot to a 10 a.m.-to-lO p.m.

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Candidate AndrewTutt speaks at a DSG presidential debate in the Great Hall Wednesday as candidatesKevin Troy (center) and Jordan Giordano (right) look on.

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The Great Hall was a little louder and a little tenser last night when three candidates for Duke Student Government president faced off in a pre-election debate. DSG Executive Vice President Jordan Giordano, DSG Chief of Staff Kevin Troy and DSG webmaster Andrew Tutt, all juniors, spoke to a crowd of about 20 students, many affiliated with the campaigns, along with some who stumbled upon the event while eating dinner. A fourth candidate, junior Lawrence

Chen, skipped the event, put on by The Chronicle and DSC. The debate began with opening remarks by each candidate, followed by six questions posed by moderator David Graham, a junior and editor of The Chronicle, and closing statements from candidates. All three candidates’ platforms stressed the importance of changing DSG’s culture to make it more effective and better integrate the input of senators and students. “DSG is only as irrelevant as the people within it,” Tutt said. “The students in DSG are the reason that DSG hasn’t been reach-

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A rumor hascirculated that a man with a FedEx box has been taking laptops in libraries, although DUPD officials said there is no evidence.

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Chance: Pay $1,200 to replace your stolen computer. No, it’s not the latest version of Monopoly, but just one attempt by Duke libraries staff to prevent laptop thefts. Many students’ laptops have disappeared from the campus’ libraries recently, including Perkins, Rostock and Lilly. Library administrators have tried to increase awareness of thefts, but efforts have not been a good substitute for student responsibility, they said. Karen Jean Hunt, director of the John Hope Franklin Collection, said she encountered a laptop thief in the library March 17. She said after leaving a meeting, she came upon an older, tall, black male acting suspiciously on the second floor of Perkins Library near the Breedlove Room. Ultimately, the man left the library and Hunt pursued him,realizing he was carrying a black laptop bag, she said. She approached the guard near the West Campus bus stop

from Staff Reports Chalita Thomas, the probation officer in charge of Laurence Lovette, never met the 17year-old now charged with the murder of two students, The (Raleigh) News & Observer reported Wednesday.

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Thomas went by Lovette’s mother’s Durham residence Feb. 28, but Lovette was not there. Thomas entered additional records detailing missed meetings and phone calls into computer records

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LOS ANGELES Republican John McCain Wednesday called anew for the United States to work more collegially with democratic allies and live up to its duties as a world leader, drawing a sharp contrast to the past eight years under President GeorgeW. Bush. "Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed," he said in a speech to theLos Angeles World Affairs Council.

WASHINGTON President George W. Bush, addressing an embarrassing flap that has strained U5.-China relations, told Chinese President Hu Jintao Wednesday that the shipment of nuclear missile fuses to Taiwan was a mistake.The president's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, said the matter came up whenBush called Hu. "It came up very briefly," Hadley told reporters. "Basically,thepresident indicatedthat a mistakehad been made.There was very little discussionabout it." China strongly protested Wednesday the mistaken delivery.

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora has been arrested for driving under the influence ofalcohol.The 48-year-old guitarist was arrested just before 11 p.m.Tuesday after an officer noticed his black Hummer weaving in traffic lanes, said Laguna Beach police Sgt. Jason Kravetz. Sambora was given field sobriety tests and arrested without incident. He was booked at the Laguna Beach jail and released at 4 am, Kravetz said Wednesday.

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Parachute may belong to hijacker SEATTLE The FBI is analyzing a torn, tangled parachute found buried by children in southwest Washington to determine whether it might have been used by famed plane hijacker D.B. Cooper, the agency said Tuesday. Children playing outside their home near Amboy found the chute's fabric sticking up from the ground in an area where their father had been grading a road, agent Larry Carr said. They pulled it out as far as they could, then cut the parachute's ropes with scissors.

WASHINGTON A chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, scientists said Tuesday. Satellite images show the runaway disintegration of a 160-square-mile chunk in western Antarctica, which started Feb. 28. It was the edge of the Wilkins ice shelf and has been there for hundreds, maybe 1,500years. ilt ofglobal warming, said Brit'ey scientist David Vaughan.

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TOKYO Split two games, get back on a plane. Rich Harden struck out nine over six innings and Emil Brown hit a three-run homer, leading the Oakland Athletics to a 5-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox Wednesday night in the finale of their season-opening series in Japan. "Last night we lost a heartbreaker.We won tonight. Now everyone's looking forward to getting back to the Bay Area and recovering," Oakland manager Bob Geren said.

ODDSAND ENDS Swan and paddleboat inseparable BERLIN Petra the swan has a new home and so does her beloved swan-shaped paddleboat In 2006, Petra, a black swan, became so attached to the boat—shaped like an oversized white swan —that she refused to leave its side at a lake near a zoo in the German city of Muenster. Zoooffidalsfinally parted birdand boat last week after Petra settled downwith a real white swan and the boat was returned to the lake. But the romance was short-lived.Saturday, her new beau flew offand sought out the company of other black swans.. A zoo statement says that Petra "appears to feel lonel/'and is swimming around in an agitated state. The solution? Friday, she will be taken back to the nearby lake and her faithful paddleboat.

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Duke Student Government presidential candidates participated in a debate in the Great Hall Wednesday.

A new student-exclusive events calendar will offer students more comprehensive, user-friendly service and clear up distress caused by the holes in the current calendar’s information. Deborah Johnson, assistant vice provost and director of student administrative services, presented a revamp of the current events calendar and suggested creating a new calendar accessible only for students, at

DEBATE from page 1 worked and to actually sit side-by-side with administrators, to advocate on the behalf of students, to work with more organizations... I would be the best Duke Student Government president,” he said. With a small group of supporters cheering after each of his responses, Troy emphasized his ability to reform DSG to include more participation from students if elected. “I want to make sure that this organization has a culture that’s open, has a culture that’s helpful, has a culture based on dialogue and debate in the best interest of students so that we can advocate on our own behalf,” he said. In his responses, Tutt said he would fulfill the promises ofhis platform immediate-

ly if given the opportunity to lead DSG, “If I was elected, the first order ofbusiness would be to start... making sure we have the biggest turnout we’ve ever had for a Senate election,” Tutt said. Sophomore Erin Bell said the importance of each student’s vote in the DSG elections attracted her to the debates. After hearing the candidates speak, she said Troy would be the most persuasive as president. “Kevin may be small, but he packs a lot of punch,” she said. As the debate came to a close, Troy encouraged everyone to vote and participate in student politics, regardless of their preference for the position. “Tell your friends to vote,” he said. “It’s really simple, it’s online, it’s a tiny bit of your time, but it makes a big difference.”

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In other business: JuniorAndrew Cheon, academic affairs senator, presented a new Web site for East Asian issues, which will launch Monday. “This Web site is an international forum and also an academic journal, focusing on political, economic and cultural issues of a particular region, which is East Asia,” Cheon said. The Web site will first feature academic articles by Duke students and Duke faculty members. Cheon said he hopes later to incorporate articles from faculty at other universities in America, East Asia and other parts of the world.

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The new student events calendar could include events such as student organization meetings, parties and lectures, Johnson said. “We could have a free-food button or a party button,” she said. Senators were responsive to a separate calendar to meet student needs. Johnson will create a focus group of six to eight students and plans to have an appropriate pilot in place by the fall semester, she said.

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LOVETTE from page 1 March 13—the day Lovette was charged with the murders of graduate student Abhijil Mahato and University of Carolina at Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson, a senior. The five late entries violate Division of Community Correction policies that specifies officers must record their entries by the end of the next business day, Keith Acree, a spokesperson for the state Department of Correction, told The N&O. Lovette was put on probation Jan. 16 after he pleaded guilty to larceny and breaking and entering charges. But because the Durham resident’s juvenile record was not available during his adult court hearing, he was given a probation sentence to contact his officer monthly. Thomas was charged with driving while impaired March 2006 and was charged with the same offense in December.

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12 laptops have already been stolen in libraries this year as of Tuesday. These laptops not been recovered, according and asked him to call the police. When he began to speak to DUPD reports. into his radio, the suspect started running toward and then Recent e-mails have circulated claiming that a man carrying a FedEx box is scouring libraries for laptops to steal, past the Chapel, she said. said Mary Jacobs, assistant to the By the time three police cars arrived, he was gone. The investidean of the faculty of arts and sci“We are an easy target for ences gation into the two laptops stolen is still pending, Duke University thefts because the library But DUPD Crime Prevention Police Department officials said. Manager David Williams said no is perceived as a safe place “We are an easy target [for one has seen the alleged delivery thefts] because the library is perthief, even after rebox-toting where people are here for ceived as a safe place where peoviewing surveillance tapes. reasons not like that.” Wall noted that there seems ple are here for reasons not like that,” said Tom Wall, associate Tom Wall, librarian to be a correlation between the number of students carrying university librarian for public services. “So there’s a sense of trust portable devices, the number of in libraries in general.” people entering the library and the number of thefts in In 2007, 12 out of 49 laptop thefts occurred in the li- the library. braries, down from 21 of 66 in the previous year. However, “More and more people are coming into the libraries, and more and more people are bringing portable devices. That probably makes [the library] a fertile ground for people who steal,” Wall added. Library administrators said thefts seem to occur periodically by organized individuals. “I’ve also gotten the impression that they happen in waves,” Wall said. “I think these people might be more organized than we realize, because sometimes it doesn’t feel as random as we’re led to believe.” Ann Eisner, director ofadministrative services for Duke University Libraries, said the libraries are doing all they can to prevent thefts short of closing the library to nonDuke users as some private schools do. “Campus security is providing roving security guards,” she said. “If there have been alerts, we will alert the staff to be aware that there’s been an increase in thefts. We’ve added signage. We’ve put the alert notices [by the entrances].”

Wall added that part of the solution is more “education,” teaching students that there are people entering the libraries who will steal their belongings. Williams said Duke police officers have begun patrolling the libraries in street clothes, but their efforts have gone unrewarded. “We’ve done some decoy operations in which we’ve gone in and run several operations in different libraries in an attempt to put out a decoy computer to get someone to bite,” he said. “That hasn’t proven very successful.” Some library staff are leaving themed slips like “Chance” cards from Monopoly on unattended laptops that read “Don’t take a chance! Never leave your belongings unattended.” Williams discouraged this strategy, however, because it signals to thieves that laptops are unattended and may make thefts even easier. Instead, he recommends students use a computer lock if they plan to leave a laptop unattended in public areas.

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take advantage of the FHl's active relationships with scholars at UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina State University, the National Humanities Center, and other institutions in the Research Triangle. Two one-year fellowships will be offered in each of the three years of the program (2008-11). Fellows will be provided with a stipend, medical insurance, a fully equipped office, library privileges at Duke and neighboring universities, and a pool of research and/or travel funds. Assistant and Associate Professors will receive a stipend of $40,000; full professors will receive a stipend of $60,000. The program also offers an option for one-semester fellowships, but proposals for full-year fellowships will be prioritized. Founded in 1999, the FHI is an interdisciplinary center dedicated to supporting research and teaching in the humanities, and interpretive social sciences. The FHl's mission also encompasses scholarship on issues of social equity, especially research on race and ethnicity in their most profound historical and international dimensions. In this mission, we are inspired by our namesake, John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke.

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Duke University Police Department officers are looking into a string of laptop thefts in Perkins, Bostockand Lilly libraries.

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ELECTION DELAY from page, timeframe after CollegiateLink told him the system could be ready by 10 a.m. But when Slattery called to elicit written assurance, he said, the employee retracted his guarantee. Aaron Severs, president of Collegiate Link, wrote in an e-mail that his company has been working with DSG and OSAF to perfect the software for a while. “Because the system is configured for a lot of features including student organization management tools, events calendars and online discussions—it is designed with the requirement that students create a profile when logging in for the first time,” he wrote in an e-mail. “DSG recently requested that we work with them to try to eliminate this requirement so that voting will be as easy and as fast as possible. We’re working to meet this objective and we’re hopeful that we’ll have a solution ready tomorrow morning.” Slattery placed the blame for the botched system on DSG Executive Vice President Jordan Giordano, a junior and candidate for president. —

“I made, for the second time, the mistake of trusting a certain vice president with an election, and for the second time it’s messed up,” he said, referring to errors in voting for senators in the Fall, when a candidate was omitted from a ballot. Slattery said the old system—designed by 2006-2007 DSG president Elliott Wolf, a senior and Chronicle columnist—would have worked fine, and said Giordano insisted on switching to a new system. Under an earlier plan, Wolf would have trained Student Aifairs staff to run the system, so as to assuage concerns about Wolfs partiality in die process. But there were concerns about irregularities in the software and about sustainability, sources told The Chronicle. “We were using temporary measures that wouldn’t have lasted,” Zarian said. “We were trying to get a permanent solution, and obviously it didn’t turn out. For the last two elections Elliott Wolf has made the software. He’s done a great job and I thank him, but he’s graduating and we needed something else.” Giordano, however, blamed Zarian for the collapse. “To be perfectly honest, I have very little to do with the election process. Paul Zarian is a member of [Slattery’s] own cabinet; he appointed Paul Zarian,” Giordano said. “Paul

Slattery has also openly endorsed an opponent of mine.” Giordano added that Office of InformatiQn Technology staffhad warned that they could not guarantee the accuracy of results with Wolfs system. Slattery said he could not recall what OIT had said, but said Roby had guaranteed accuracy. Presidential candidate Andrew Tutt, a junior, criticized DSG and said he felt the delay would hann his chances. “I’m actually kind of speechless on this one,” he said. “We can’t delay the election for the interest of getting to know the candidates, but we can bumble our way through an election.” Election rules prevent any campaigning after 11:59 p.m. Wednesday. Junior Kevin Troy, a third candidate, could not be reached for comment Thursday morning. A fourth contender, junior Lawrence Chen, said although he doubted the change would affect his campaign, it would depress turnout. “It’s ridiculous, yo,” Chen added. Zarian said he was hopeful that some software would be ready by Friday for an election, but could not guarantee it. “I was totally confident this afternoon,” he said.

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During the Movie Making Marathon, students plan, shoot and edit films in less than a day.

One of the most frustrating things about college is that there are so many opportunities to explore and such a limited time to do it. The Movie Making Marathon is designed specifically to combat this reality. The MMM consists of teams of students joining together to pump out a film in 24 hours. This year’s event, the second for the MMM, is set to take place on Saturday, but the idea for the MMM came to senior Annie Fleishman back in 2006 —and in an unlikely place at that. “I was at Wilson Gym on the elliptical reading a magazine and I saw an ad for [a] 24-hour play [event] in New York,” Fleishman said. “My passion is film, so I thought it would be really cool if we could do that with film [at Duke].” She mentioned the idea to her theater studies professor at the time, Elisabeth Benfey. What started as only an idea soon bios-

somed into a real event as Benfey voiced her support for the project. “I thought it was a fantastic idea,” Benfey said. “This was a time when Duke started the arts initiative, so Provost Lange readily gave his support.” Financed by groups like the Duke Digital Initiative, the offices of the President and the Provost and the Office of Information Technology to name a few, the MMM began to take form. “The Movie Making Marathon isn’t just one event,” Fleishman said, “It’s like 10 mini events that happen throughout both semesters.” The first of these is the screenwriting competition that occurs in the fall semester. Students can enter a short screenplay written for a film eight to 10 minutes in length. Usually, that translates to about eight to 10 pages of screenplay. “It’s a very challenging length,” Benfey said, “But with students watching YouTube videos, may-

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grasp.” In 2007, the second year of the MMM, the screenwriting competition began on Oct. 15 and ended on Dec. 17. From these entries, five winners were chosen. It is these five screenplays that will be made into films on Saturday. Each screenplay will have two student teams attached to it for a total of 10 teams in the field. “This is to show how the interpretation of a text gives different results,” Benfey said. Last year, more than 100 students participated in the MMM, and more are expected this year. The teams are to have seven people each. Four of these students are people who simply signed up to participate, but the other three members are slightly special. Of the remaining three students, one will come from Benfey’s directing class, called “Stories to Movies.” There is a symbiotic relationship through these students SEE MARATHON ON PAGE 4

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Each individual’s experience with a painting, fdm or novel is unique simply because we each delve into the world of art in different roles and for different reasons. Some are creators, some are spectators, some seek to dive headfirst into the world of their own making and some yearn to lose themselves in the conjured reality of their favorite artist or filmmaker. However, there are those that seek to uphold the notion that art is ultimately a reflection of the world around us —real life. Thus, documentary art, including films, photographs and theatrical performances, has itself made a comeback within the art world. Durham has had a hand in this movement by becoming host to the Full Frame Documentary Festival and housing several prestigious documentary institutes. With Durham quickly becoming what Duke Performances called the “nexus of documentary art in America,” the timing of their newest festival, Statements of Fact, is especially fitting. While featuring documentary art in many shapes, form and sizes, Statements of Fact particularly highlights the world of choreography as a documentary medium and its take on reality. Within a 10-day span during the festival, Duke is fortunate to play host to performances of the works of two world-renowned choreographers, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Ronald K. Brown/Evidence Dance Company. Fortunately, neither artist is a stranger to Durham —both are veterans of the American Dance Festival, which takes place annually at Duke University.

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Ronald K. Brown's "One Shot"draws inspiration from Charles"Teenie" Harris, an African-American photographer. The reality that is conveyed in “Chapel/Chapter” by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is not a particularly lighthearted or frivolous one. Jones’s production is centered on the telling of three stories: the mass murder of a family, a father’s killing of his daughter and a tale of two boys’ camping adventures. Through these stories, Jones explores the U.S. court and prison system, however grim it may be,

since the first two tales sound as if they are taken from headlines detailing previous atrocities. For “Chapel/Chapter,” Jones drew inspiration from everything from court transactions to jailhouse interviews, culminating in a full-scale dance production scored by Daniel Bernard Roumain. The production was praised by SEE DANCE ON PAGE 6

Dan Snailh is hard lo sum up. A humble man of Jew words, Snailh has become an indieelectronic sensation under the stage name Caribou (originally Manitoba). His work never seems to end: Snailh just released his seventh album, Andorra, last September and has been has been performing almost daily since. Somewhere in between producing and performing, he also found lime lo get a Ph. D. in mathematics. In a recent interview with recess' Jessie Tang, Snailh discusses his latest aUmm, how he got into electronic music and why he loves being a nerd. You guys are touring in Canada right now, right? Is their music scene different than the one in the United States or U.K.? I mean, not so much. I’m always struck by how similar the people are that come out to the show, and how easily cultures fuze rather than being different (Laughs). We’ve been flooded with your all-pervasive American media, so in away it won’t be too different out here. I know you guys put on really great visual shows. How do you think that adds to the music? It’s hard for me to say, because when I’m on stage I don’t get to look at it. It’s exciting to add because when I’m recording, there’s no visual component. I’m not a very visual person, and I’m not picturing things in my head when I’m recording. Playing live, obviously there’s that visual element. When we’re SEE CARIBOU ON PAGE

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Editor’s Note 26:

Indie Music, the force behind the most

significant musical trend since grunge and the figurehead of the hipster movement, died on Wednesday at its home in die Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, N.Y. It was 23. At present, the cause of death is unknown. Its body was found pack! like sardines in a crushd tin box, and some have cited it as Murder by Death. Its death was announced Wednesday morning by longtime friend Jeff Mangum. At a press conference, Mangum mumbled something that was reportedly a reference to Anne Frank. He then left the stage in a sea of applause but, predictably, returned for one final comment. “You Just don’t get it,” Mangum said before retreating to a hole in Holland, 1945. Indie’s death has been felt around the world. Hipsters, lost without their obscure hero, have traded in their plunging v-necks for ). Crew argyle. American Apparel stores around the world have shut down, recognizing their loss of clientele. ProductShop NYC' hits also closed its doors. Likewise, the blogosphere has imploded. Brooklyn Vegan was seen con-

suming Yoplait, and blog-sations such as Tapes ‘n Tapes and F Buttons have literally ceased to exist. Thankfully, this means Stereogum can stop reporting on Death Cab for Cutie, who was never that hip in the first place. Indie’s death is not a surprise to some. With the rise in popularity of the Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, the Shins and the Moldy Peaches, Indie’s demise was imminent. When asked if he had any involvement in the death, the Shins’ Marty Crandall, known for his violent past, only had two words. “Zach Braff,” the multi-instrumentalist said. Autopsy reports were inconclusive but pointed to many possible answers including Vampire Weekend’s stint as an MTV Band of the Week. Other evidence suggested a depression-induced overdose after Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan’s threat to continue making music. Indie is survived by its faithful life companions hip-hop, dancehall and Kelly Clarkson. —Andrew Hibbard —

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This weekend, the coordinated hop becomes as hip as the perpetually fashionable model walk, thanks to the return of two annual events. The main attractions of the Black Student Alliance’s admitted student recruitment weekend, the National Pan-hellenic Council’s step show and the BSA fashion show, are scheduled to captivate audiences this Friday at 5:15 p.m. on the chapel steps and this Saturday at 8 p.m. in Baldwin Auditorium, re-

spectively. The step show literally kicks off the weekend, featuring routines from individual National Pan-Hellenic organizations that are meant to introduce prospective students to black greek life. “The show we do isn’t a competition, it’s an exhibition show, so there’s no real competitive edge to it except for everyone trying to rep their organization,” said junior Cliff Goodwin, the second vice president of the National Pan-Hellenic Council that organized the event. This year marks a deviation from past shows. Due to a scheduling mishap, the event will not take place in one of the campus’s larger venues, like Baldwin or Page Auditorium, but in front of the chapel. Yet the location shift, far from being detrimental, has resulted in plans for a more informal, less structured event. “Generally, when we do the big show in Page, there’ll be something like a 15-minute time limit [on the routines],” Goodwin said. “This time we’re just doing a seven-minute time limit, and we’re having some senior vignettes—just seniors talking about Duke in general for a little in front of the p-froshes, getting them hyped and ready to come here.” Also meant to entice the prospective students is the BSA fashion showwhich in recent years has become “a staple of the [BSA] weekend in... showcasing what the black community at Duke has to offer,” said Simone Randolph, BSA president and senior. The theme of the event this year is “True Life: I’m a Blue Devil.” The show,

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following. “Typically [the show is] not even really advertised because it’s just one of those things that is supposedly known,” McCalmon said. Similarly, anyone who wants to attend the step show is more than welcome. “It’s one of our biggest public events,” Goodwin said. “It’s where all of us come together, so we really like for people to come out.”

Small Town Records, a subsidiary of the Duke University Union, will hold its first annual CD release party today at Alivia’s. The event will feature performances by Small Town rock bands Smooch and the Big Hug and Stella by Starlight and hiphop artist Mike Posner. In addition to the hands, Small Town Records will be giving away free T-shirts and compilation CDs and have an open bar. “The compilation is the tool that allows us to publicize student hands,” said Colin Tierney, the Small Town Records cofounder. “It allows the bands to get a little hit more publicity in a powerful way. It’s a huge whirlwind effect that helps promote the bands and create awareness of DUU, who funds us.” In the future, Tierney hopes to put out more than one compilation, and the group is in talks to make an a capella compilation. For now, Tierney said he is satisfied and excited about tonight’s event. “It’s all about bringing more music to Duke,” Tierney said. “This is something we’ve been looking forward to for a long time.” —-Andrew Hibbard As part of Global Health Week, alternative-rock band Calisus is performing on the Bryan Center Plaza this Saturday at 4 p.m. in an effort to promote hepatids B awareness. The event is a benefit concert for Team HBV, a campus group dedicated to raising awareness of hepadtis B and liver cancer. The group is a subsidiary of the Asian Liver Center, located at Stanford University. The performance is the grand conclusion to Global Health Week at Duke. The band will also be giving away free T-shirts and CDs. Calisus is fresh off of a nine school tour in California promoting the cause at other college campuses. “They are looking for away to promote a good cause and get the word out about their music,” said Lucy Gong, Team HBV president. “They feel ours is particularly worthwhile.” The group is supported by California State Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, who has recently authored a bill to urge AsianAmericans everywhere to get tested and vaccinated for hepatitis B. —Baishi Wu

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between the MMM and the class For the MMM, the presence of these students as coordinators, along with the various screenwritin_g.and directing workshops given separately by Benfey, comprise the major academic component of the exercise. “My screenwriting classes are the academic lotus of this activity,” Benfey said. For students participating in the MMM, the experience and guidance of Benfey’s students come as a boon to their efforts. “Each one of the 10 students in my Stories to Movies class becomes a mentor to one of the 10 teams,” the professor said. “It’s about students teaching students, sharing acquired skills.” Besides learning from their fellow students, participants in the MMM will have another source of information: industry professionals. Coming this week as guides and judges are Bill Teitler, producer of Mr. Holland's Of ms and Jumanji and Bob Balaban, the director of HBO’s recent Bernard and Doris, a story about Doris Duke, and a prolific actor with notableroles from Christopher Guest films. “Most of these people are interested in working in the film industry,” Benfey said. “These people are great contacts.” The last two students on a team of seven represent the expansion the MMM has undergone between its freshman and sophomore years. These two students on every

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the screen with Stop-Loss, the first war film to be produced by MTV. You do the math. Stop-Loss follows the struggle of Sergeant Brandon King (Ryan Phillippe). King returns from his second and what he had hoped to be Iris final tour in Iraq, only to discover he has been “stop-lossed.” Stoploss in the U.S. military is the involuntary extension of a service member’s enlistment contract in order to retain them beyond the normal end term of service. But don’t look for this definition in (he film. While one would think Stop-Loss should feel responsibility to discuss the meaning ofits title, MTV disagrees. In fact, Pierce’s film spends more time contemplating Phillippe’s flawless bone structure than the controversial issue at hand. The only unbiased truths regarding the stop-loss policy are squeezed into a five minute face-off between Philippe’s character and the shrewdly named, lit. Col. Boot Miller (Timothy Olyphant). The rest of the film is given over to the

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team are from North Carolina Central University. This is a result of an effort oh the part of Benfey and Fleishman to reach out to other schools in the Triangle area. “We contacted UNC and NC Central, and NC Central is the campus that really responded,” Fleishman said. Besides partaking in the filmmaking process, NCCU students made their presence felt in the screenwriting competition. One of the winning screenplays this year was co-written by a NCCU student. The MMM simultaneously compresses and

self-pitying odyssey King embarks on in order to evade his charges. King enlists the help ofMichelle (Abbie Cornish), the fiancee of his best friend Steve (Channing Tatum) . Yes, we thought that was fishy too. As Brandon’s best friends and fellow soldiers fall victim to alcoholism and memories of the horrors they witnessed in Iraq, Michelle and Brandon hit the road in the hopes of dropping by the Capitol to see if they can’t change a few things around. Hordes ofpropaganda and abysmal Texas accents later, Brandon finds himself trapped by a system he had joined in the hopes of broadening his horizons. Phillippe and Cornish prove strong in their rather farcical roles, but are lost to the film’s troublesome exclusion of one unavoidable fact: each of these soldiers has agreed to the possibility of stop-loss from the moment they enlisted in the army. “Backdoor draft” or not, John Kerry, learn to read the fine print. Stop-Loss does boast some striking cinematography and several homoerotic brawls Phillippe and Tatum fans cannot afford to miss. Pierce’s film makes a melodramatic mockery of its serious subject matter by relinquishing fact for blockbuster romance, a truly irresponsible act in a time of very real war. —Emily Ackerman

expands the idea of Froshlife. Froshlife lasts for two weeks, while the actual filmmaking aspect of the MMM is only one day. However, in a sense, it picks up where Froshlife ends. “Froshlife is great but it’sallabout thefreshman experience,” Fleishman said. “MMM is all about the filmmaking experience.” Likewise, the MMM includes students of all years. “I had heard nothing but great things from people who were involved last year about having fun on the sets, in the editing room and with the general experience of

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�� From Juno to Knocked Up, America is in the midst of nursing a tender love affair with cinematic pregnancy. All those films offer cutesy laughs and a warm, fuzzy feeling inside, but ultimately present a coy attitude and pussyfoot around the idea of illegitimate pregnancy. Enter 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. Winner of the Palme d’Or in 2007, 4 Months is a haunting film masterpiece. Set towards the fall of communism in Romania, writer/director Cristian Mungiu’s film takes place over the course of one day. It follows Oitilia (Anamaria Marinca), a college student helping her roommate, Gabita (Laura Vasiliu), get a late-term abordon—an act that was illegal in Romania during the communist administration. Mungiu dives right into the film, opening with no exposition and showing Oitilia and Gabita at the beginning of their tumultous day. Rife with subtlety, his script is demanding of the cast, but they all rise to the occasion. Marinca especially delivers with an astonishing performance as the tortured and responsible roommate. Marinca, the main character, spends little time away from the camera and emerges as the obvious star with her range of emotions.

the Movie Making Marathon,” said senior David Wagner, a first-time participant. At its core, the MMM revolves around giving interested students a chance to experience something they may otherwise be too busy to do. It is also intended to illuminate the world of filmmaking to students who have no experience with the art. “There should be nothing intimidating about this,” Benfey said. “The whole idea is to propagate the fun of filmmaking and de-mystify the whole process and make it approachable to everybody.”

Mungiu’s directoral work is the driving force behind the film. His cinematography is simple, the shots are straightforward and sustained and the camera seldom moves unless the location of the scene changes. Each shot, some of which last up to six minutes, is evocative and revelatory. Otilia’s emotions, already strong from Marinca’s performance, are enhanced exponentially by the camera work. Extending beyond the normal drama, Mungiu draws on elements of the thriller to enhance his film. From the unflinchingly grotesque imagery to the score-less sound design, 4 Weeks is, designed to haunt its audiences with palpable tension. As much about Romania’s cultural and political past and present as it is about abortion, Mungiu’s work is a refreshingly real and visceral on-screen experience free of the conventions of most independent

filmmaking. Mungiu has crafted a modem masterpiece that is at times uncomfortable to watch but also engaging and brilliant. Every moment of his picture is nuanced, layered and carefully considered. There is not a sound, a frame nor a line without immense significance to the film. The effects of 4 Months linger long after the credits end. Many have hailed the film as the dawning of a new age in Romanian filmmaking, but Mungiu’s work will resound through all of cinema. —AndrewHibbard

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Is Barkley’s 2006 debut St. Elseivhere cult act to follow, with a single that, of sales and übiquity, made “Crank >oulja Boy)” look like “My Pal Foot Although no songs on Gnarls’ newOdd Couple, quite match the irreexuberance of “Crazy,” Cee-Lo and ■ Mouse show growth and consistent while still delivering their unique »f hip-hop and classic soul. Danger production on The Odd Couple om an even broader musical palig ’6os pop percussion, dub echo nfully cheesy FM synthesis while continues to deliver his powerful, n-esque tenor. bulk of the album follows the model set on St. Elsewhere, catchy, ively dark R&B. In this vein, “Run Natural Disaster)” is a soaring, brass mgo ornamented Jekyll-and-Hyde r hile on the future-blues of “Who’s Save My Soul” Cee-Lo croons on nd despair, wondering “If I’ll live old/Getting high cause I feel so ;

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“Whatever,” “Surprise” and “No Time Soon” deliver psychedelic pop in the vein ofArthur Lee’s Love, while “Would Be Killer” suggests a Tom Waits influence. Here, they succeed as protean pop-craftsmen, melding disparate elements of American music from the last half-century. And while

The Odd Couple lacks a single of the magnitude of “Crazy,” they prove themselves to be more than a flash in the pan, continuing to produce catchy, quirky pop and showing potential for a lasting career. Who knows, sometimes lightning strikes twice. —Asher Brown-Pinsky

to believe this guy is an amateur. Hell, maybe he’s not. Track three’s “As Good

As It Gets,” with its Goldfrapp-y intro and catchy chorus, is the best pop-dance song I’ve heard since the radio hits on The Killers’ HotFuss. And unlike some members of the electronica genre, Pseudofed can hold his own on the vocals, giving the album a pleasing, melodic feel. You’ll find that singing along with these songs comes as naturally as bobbing your head to the beat (or waving your arms and throwing your rave-style glow stick in the air). The closest thing to a ballad is “Better Living Through Chemistry,” which pleads to an indifferent girlfriend and includes a guitar (breaking all the synth-music rules!). Quirky love-song “My Electric Robot Friends” features a funky rap (reminis-

of Blondie’s “Rapture”) with the wise line, “She’s the type of girl that you don’t take to the movies/She’s the kind of girl you don’t take out much/But it’s no secret no more/They’re just jealous of what I got.” But this isn’t an album you listen to on the couch. Textured with loopy sound effects, Timely plays like the aural embodiment of ’Bos cartoons: poppy! dancey! totally rad! However retro his roots, this guy is clearly a product of its generation. Who else could write “The Middle School Dance Song”? But for the sake of current events, there’s even a little Britney Spears shout-out at the beginning of “What Do You Please”: in case you weren’t sure by now, it’s Pseudofed, bitches. —Allison Gianino

strained pop rather than the high-intensity, guitar-driven rock that it began with. Granted, these songs are capable and diverse, with varied instrumentation (fiddle, horns, organ) and influences from all over the spectrum. The regrettable part comes from the fact that, while they are good, these more passive songs don’t deliver on the promise of “Consoler” and follow-up “Salute Your Solution.” ~~Akhough the difference in quality isn’t nearly as pronounced as it was on Broken

Boy Soldiers, Benson’s contributions still do not hold up to those of White. However, the crown jewel of the record doesn’t come until the end. “Carolina Drama” is genius, a blues and bluegrass-inflected narrative that demonstrates the heights the Raconteurs can achieve. Until they can come closer to this level more consistendy, though, the band will still be a more-developed but less-inspired younger sibling to the Stripes. —Kevin Lincoln

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Though Scarlett Johansson’s 2008 debut album might be the most buzzed about, another sultry starlet has entered ; the music world. has teamed Zooey Descfyanel up with indie star Matt '“M. Ward” Ward to foo® She & Him. Although pairing M. Ward with anyone seems odd, the two work well together, and their album, Volume One, is a surprisingly enjoyable debut. Anyone doubting Deschanel’s singing abilities needs only look back to her role in Elf, and she fulfills her potential on Volume One. Her voice is warm and sweet with a slight twang accentuated by Ward’s instrumentals. Sure her vocal skills may not rival Billie Holiday’s, but Deschanel is plenty deserving of an album. If that’s not enough, she even displays competency in song-writing, having penned nine of the album’s 11 tracks. Again, her lyrical skills might not compete with that of Jeff Mangum, but she avoids the inanity one might expect from an actress. Deserving the most praise however is Ward, whose compositions are written around Deschanel’s voice. Of course, She & Him pales in comparison to Ward’s solo work, but he lets tbe actress’ —nay, singer’s—voice shine through. “I Was Made For You” is a ’sos-inspired pop song about “waiting for a boy like you,” rife with “000-dum-de-dum”s. Under lesser hands, Deschanel’s song could have failed, but Ward gives it a playful treatment, making it a winner. Yet, the album’s best tracks are their duets, which consequently accentuate how perfect these two are together. The first of the duets and by far the album’s standout, “You Really Gotta Hold Me,” subdy blends Ward’s vocals and succeeds in every way a duet should. “I Should Have Known Better” hits the right notes, proving the two are good enough to cover musical legends akin to the Beades. A second volume for She & Him might be excessive. It’s not Post-War, but it’s worth a listen even if you just want to imagine Deschanel serenading you. —Andrew Hibbard ■.

INDEPENDENT RELEASE I have to admit, I was hooked on Pseudofed after seeing the ridiculous Facebook group photos, featuring a floppy-haired boy with orange pants, yellow sunglasses, a wheelbarrowand a keyboard (Nate Fowler). Pretty awesome. Perhaps that’s not the most authentic way to choose a favorite artist, but I’m happy to report that Pseudofed’s music turned out to be even better than its photo albums. Listening to his new album Timely. Accurate. Compliant. Integrated., it’s hard

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DANCE from page 1 The New York Times as Jones’s “most affecting, most disturbing, most powerful and most compassionate work.” In addition to the March 19 performance, “Chapel/Chapter” is presented with an exhibition featuring Bruce Jackson’s photographs from Cummins Prison Farm. On a slightly different end of the spectrum, Ronald K. Brown’s “One Shot” draws inspiration from the life of Charles “Teenie” Harris —an accomplished African-American photographer nicknamed “One Shot” because he rarely made his photographic subjects sit for more than one photo. Harris chronicled everyday AfricanAmerican life in Pittsburgh and also shot

celebrities that came through the area, including Louis Armstrong, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. As Brown and the Evidence Dance Company perform “One Shot,” original photographs from Harris will illuminate the back of the stage. “‘One Shot’ was just the metaphor I needed to create a new work about legacy,” Brown said. “The work itself is about lifting up the history of a community and people so they have something amazing to share, especially in Durham where the history is immense.” The New York Times calls “One Shot” an “attempt to reveal the stories of the photographs through Mr. Brown’s glowing mixture of ballet and African and contemporary dance.” The story is presented in seven sections, set to music by Ahmad Jamal and the songs of

Lena Horne As each section attempts to tell the stories of Harris’ photographs, “One Shot” ultimately succeeds in reflecting on the real lives and stories of the African-American population in a language of movement and bodies. “If we don’t document tradition, we don’t have a realization of what has come before us—we think everything is brand new,” Brown said. “We need that one shot, we need the evidence of what has come before us to really fully understand where we are today.”

After being presented as a 15-minute preview at the American DanceFestival in 2006, “One Shot” debuts in its entirety tomorrow. Teenie’ Harris’s: Rhapsody in Black and White is also on exhibition at the Duke Center for Documentary Studies.

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before actually recording. I’m making a pop song, in a sense. Andorra is also a lot more dreamy and psychedelic. Does that reflect your current state of mind? I love a big melody in the song, an emotive melody. The reason I enjoy making music so much because I get this sense of euphoria and happiness just in the process, and that ends up in the music. Are you exploring other concepts for future albums? I don’t thinkabout that until I get home and start recording and see where it leads me. The reason I write music is whatever is exciting me. You know, there’s always something in music I haven’t tried, and it makes me want to spend all my time doing music. I let myself be led by that. What were your musical influences growing up? I started playing the piano when I was five, but I didn’t really start getting into it until I changed teachers later, and emphasizing the improvisational way of hearing by ear, and making my own music. I spent all my time playing piano after that. All sorts of things, the real entry way was recording music. My friend introduced me to electronic music when I was 16 or 14.1 realized it wasn’t made in a million dollar studio, and as soon as I figured it out, that’s all I wanted to do. I guess I’ve been continuing on that process ever since. I was reading through other interviews, and I noticed you recorded everything in your own studio. (Laughs) It’s not that ridiculous. It’s a room, with speakers, a pile of records and a couple computers. Do you think the low production value adds to the appeal of your music? It means that I have to try and figure out how to do things differently, a lot of times. I can’t rely on having every piece of equip-

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word “Ph. D” on it. It’s a process, and I’m a big nerd—l enjoy learning, and trying to figure out things that I didn’t understand. And that’s what I like about studying. Can math processes of trying to solve equations and understand concepts be applied to the concepts of music? Definitely. They’re both a struggle to do something that is difficult to understand at first, and you must be able to paddle through and work on it. It’s a mental challenge that forces you to do it the way you want.

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6 seeds Jared Pinsky and Andrew BrasseDuke’s Pinsky dropped the first set 6-1, and ultimately lost the second in a tiebreaker to give Wake Forest the victory. Wednesday’s dual match marked the Blue Devils’ eighth straight on the road, a stretch that has lasted the entire month of March. Duke takes on Boston College Friday and Maryland Sunday, both on the road, before returning home for the month of April. aux.

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captain, who spoke candidly in the preseason about the anger he felt the season before. But after a 22-1 start, the Blue Devils lost a little bit of their edge, looking tired late in the year. And Saturday, the team that prided itself on its hunger was outrebounded by 20 and could never get the defensive stops it needed. Krzyzewski, however, focused on the larger picture. “That’s a great season,” Krzyzewski said Saturday. “You always have to look at the full body ofwork. And this team was a lot offun and great to work with, a young group. “It’s tough to end on a loss, but the season was a really rewarding one and a happy one for me.” Duke, however, is no longer judged by what happens from November to February. It’s what happens during that three-week stretch that bridges March and April that defines the Blue Devils. And too often in recent seasons, Duke has entered March like a lion and gone out like a lamb. “We had a lot of goals this year,and we really didn’t accomplish all of them,” Henderson said. “So we still have a lot of work to do.” One thing the Blue Devils don’t feel, however, is resignation. After all, a little extra motivation has helped this team before.

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would play on Saturday, and few to many, the Duke University Union put would have imagined that the second together Duke’s own Battle round would be the team’s last. But of the Bands competition this past regardless, it was unwise to schedule Saturday. Though the Union has a major performing arts event durmostly done a solid ing a weekend when the vast majority of job this year in puteditorial students have their ting together well-attended events, this weekend’s Battle eyes on another ball, so to speak. of the Bands competition was an exThe event featured a number of ception to the trend. quality performers and was a good The event’s poor attendance—at idea, but no amount of creativity will best only a few dozen people scattered get people to an event if it is schedthemselves across a wide-open expanse uled during a basketball game. The scheduling gaffe was a waste in front of the huge stage—was not a reflection of the event’s quality but with respect to, the financial and hurather a result ofpoor scheduling. man resources committed as well as The day-long event was scheduled for the people performing. On anfor the first weekend of the NCAA other day, perhaps Final Four weekTournament, a time when even the end, the competition could have most mildly interested usually tune been a great event on a beautiful day into watch some of the in total 48 and been much more well-attended. games played during the weekend. This board hopes that in the future Granted, the Union could not have bands won’t have to compete with predicted with certainty that Duke March Madness for an audience.

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to student parking Yet more importantly, the new are about as rare as vacant spots in plan makes sense for students who the Blue Zone. Fortunately, a new commute. plan may provide both next year. Off-campus students who drive to The new carpooling initiative, school each day should have priority in proposed by Duke parking since they have Student Government to make the trek to and GditOTldl Vice President for from campus on a Athletics and Campus Services Sunny more regular basis than on-campus stuKantha, gives seniors and juniors livdents. It defies logic and convenience to ing off-campus several incentives to give prime parking spaces to those who form carpool groups of four people. may only use their cars once a month. These perks include obtaining a Though it seems considerable free parking pass for the Blue Zone and planning went into constructing this guaranteed parking in the first Blue plan —evidenced by the clause callZone lot across from the tennis courts, ing for students to receive 10 free will by far the shortest walk to campus. passes each semester to drive to the This board feels the proposed plan Blue Zone by themselves in special has benefits on a number of levels. cases—some flaws may arise. DSG The carpooling incentive promotes must be prepared to adapt to highera cleaner environment, which fits in than-anticipated demand and with well with Duke’s Greening Initiative. potential accountability problems. This seems like a practical solution Also, if the new plan is widely used, the result will be a considerable reto a longstanding problem, and we duction in campus traffic. hope it lives up to its promise.

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your hand if you are reading this column right now because you are bored in class. Wait, don’t actually, because the teacher might call on you. Now that it’s that time of year again when our ACES bookbags are open for a new season of academic goodness, I have fimia»r nally decided that MS I am sick and tired of taking mediocre classes with mediocre professors. stacy chudwin I have spent stage of fools three years at Duke and countless hours logged on ACES agonizing over questions such as: Is it possible to arrange a four-day weekend? Will I ever wake up for an 8:30 on Monday? And why the hell are there classes in Trent? I have at last come to the realization that only one criterion really matters in class selection—the teacher. There is nothing worse than dropping $lOO on textbooks and showing up bright-eyed and bushytailed to an exciting new course only to find that you have an absolute dud of a professor. The sad part is that out of 23 instructors I have had at Duke, I can probably count on one hand the number who were actually engaging and outstanding enough to warrant the $45,000 spent on tuition. Granted, part of the problem might be the departments I am in or the professors I have chosen. I know there are many fine professors at Duke. But 1 also know that in any given semester, everyone I talk to seems to have one or two awesome teachers, and the rest are mediocre at best. You know the type. They do the absolute bare minimum required to constitute the label of professor. They read off slides filled with notes straight from the readings, they make every class exactly the same and they don’t engage the students in any way. They are just plain mediocre. To professors who are reading this, perhaps you are thinking, “No, not me!” Take a look around your classroom. If half the students only show up on test days, and if the half who are actually there are either typing on their laptops or reading this column in The Chronicle, you might want to rethink your methods. Coming from a very respected public high school with excellent teachers, I have been somewhat disappointed by the faculty here. The prob-

lem is that there is a big difference between high school and college teachers. Teachers in high school are generally there because they love to teach. Professors in college are generally there because they love their particular subject. While this means the professor may be an expert in their field, they don’t realize that students may not share their enthusiasm for the subject. In addition, professors have little incentive to teachwell. As long as they teach a minimum amount of classes with a minimum amount of effort, they can still get the research grants they desire. Furthermore, I have found that experience often has nothing to do with how good a teacher is. Some of my best have been grad students, and some of my worst have been tenured professors. And when the teacher is bad, it doesn’t matter how interesting the subject is. Nothing is accomplished, nothing is learned and it is a big waste of everyone’s time. It has been said before, and I’ll say it again: Duke needs to step it up with instructor accountability. We need the type of “shopping period” universities such as Harvard and Yale have adopted, where instructors must basically audition if they want to keep students in their classes. We need more clear and updated evaluations on ACES. And we need much better academic advising, especially from peers who have taken the classes. But beyond that, better instruction starts with the individual teachers, each and every one of them. So now I make a plea to the professors ofDuke (not all, just some): Take a look around your classroom. Do your students look excited, interested and engaged? Or do they look like they are about to pass out in a puddle of their own drool? And most of all, would YOU enjoy being a student in your class? Be bold. Shake things up. Remind yourself what it was like to be a student, and why you are a professor. You have been given some of the brightest minds in the country. Excite them! Make them love the subjects you are obviously passionate about yourselves. Make an active decision to be the best teacher you can be, not just to get through the semester. In the words of William Ward, “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” Duke demands greatness of its students. And now, we demand greatness of our professors.

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

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Rachel Nordlinger President, Panhellenic Association Trinity ’O9 Inter-Greek Council endorses DSG candidates The Inter-Greek Council, as an organization centered on multiculturalism and diversity, feels that it is important to endorse a candidatewho embodies our ideals and shares the same goals for the future. We believe that all three ofthe candidates, Kevin Troy, Jordan Giordanoand Andrew Tutt, who presented in front of the IGC general body tonight have strong leadership capabilities to fulfill the DSG president position (Lawrence Chen declined an invitation to present in front of IGC.). Through much deliberation, IGC has identified the candidate who we believe will best serve the diverse Duke community with his perceived ability to effectively push through his ideas. Jordan Giordano’s involvement within various campus organizations, along with his position in DSG, strongly qualifies him to take into consideration the concerns of all the student groups on campus. Additionally, his past experiences working with IGC and the greater greek community have always been exceptional. We strongly believe that his charisma and realistic approach to his platform ideas will result in tangible outcomes. The Inter-Greek Council is pleased to formally endorse Jordan Giordano for DSG president. Paul Youm President, Inter-Greek Council Pratt ’lO Black Student Alliance endorses DSG candidates On behalf of the Black Student Alliance I would like to announce our endorsements of DSG election candidates for this year. For the office of president, we endorse Jordan Giordano. His extensive experience on DSG’s executive committee sets Giordano apart from the other two candidates we heard, who both presented valid agendas for the position. Mike Lefevre’s work with athletics and campus services and interactions with administrators such as Eddie Hull, along with his engaging platform, have earned him our endorsement for the position ofvice president ofACS. Julia Chou’s outsider perspective and platform signal change for the academic affairs committee and BSA gives her our endorsement for VP ofacademic affairs. Finally, for the position of VP of student affairs BSA endorses Lauren Maisel. Her valuable experience as executive vice president of DUU and co-president of ACLU@Duke accompanies her platform, which is geared towards improving conditions for student groups to operate at Duke. BSA feels that these are the candi-

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letterstotheeditor Panhellenic Association endorses DSG candidates It is important to members of the Panhellenic Association that the Duke Student Government Executive Board candidates are aware offemale student interests and have included them in their platforms. With this in mind, the Panhellenic Association executive board, delegates would like to announce the following endorsement: For president, we endorse junior Jordan Giordano. His experience as both vice president of community interaction and executive vice president has helped him to recognize student needs and develop concrete goals to meet them. He distinguishes himself by presenting fresh ideas to tackle issues faced by females on campus. We only heard three of the four candidates as Lawrence Chen declined our invitation to speak. For vice president of student affairs, we endorse junior Lauren Maisel. Although her opponent Alex Wang, a freshman, has done much for the Duke community during his term as senator, we believe Maisel sets realistic goals, mainly focusing on the issue ofcampus safety. For vice president of academic affairs, we endorse freshman Gregory Morrison. Though other candidates Chelsfea Goldstein and Julia Chou are impressive, Morrison has experience working on the committee and plans to see current projects through. For vice president of athletics and campus services, we support junior Brett Aresco. He provides a unique perspective on Duke’s dining services and transportation issues. The leadership of the Panhellenic Association feels confident that these students will fill their respective positions effectively and work strongly toward further unification of the undergraduate population.

dates who possess the best combination of experience with administrators and tangible ideas to achieve what is best for the Duke student body. We encourage everyone to vote for them in the election on Thursday. Brandon Roane President, Black Student Alliance Trinity 'O9

Despite tourney loss, Duke still ‘great’ As a freshman thisyear, I had the opportunity to live in Tent Scheyer (#3O) for more than two months, and I loved every bit of it. Sure it was cold, miserably so at times, but the sheer magnitude of what we were there for was unbelievable.There are no fans more devoted to their team than the Crazies. That being said, 10 of my 11 awesome tentmates were seniors this year, and although they were heartbroken after the loss, none of them had the gall to suggest that our players did not give enough and that they deserved better as fans. To do so is utterly appalling. This year was, in no uncertain terms, a great year for Duke basketball. Duke bounced back from a very atypical Duke year to post a 28-6 mark, including a 133 mark in the conference ranked first in the RPI. And what’s more amazing than that? We did it all without an All-American on our roster. Carolina has Hansbrough, UCLA has Love, Memphis has Douglas-Roberts and Rose and Kansas has Rush. Of teams playing in power conferences, Duke posted one of the best records of a team without an All-American. Even more impressively, we did it with only two upperclassmen contributing significant minutes. That is nothing to be ashamed of. You can always tell who the fair weather fans are, because they’ll stop supporting our team the second we lose. The idea that Crazies deserve to see a win, or that this season wasn’t great smacks of sheer arrogance we Crazies tent for the joy of seeing one of the greatest basketball games on earth and follow Duke basketball because we love the game and our players, not because we think it is our birthright as Duke fans to see a win. So what? We slipped up in the round of 32 with a young team. To say that this season was anything less than great is not only a disservice to Coach K and our awesome players, but it reeks of the fair weather fanhood that has no place in Cameron Indoor Stadium. —

Daniel Simpson Trinity ’ll Andrew Tutt’s Web site resembles Obama’s

Recently, in talking about the current contenders for the DSG presidency, a friend of mine made the

comment that Andrew Tutt makes beautiful Web sites. I am quite interested in that field, so I took a look at the site for his campaign: http://andrewtutt.com. I immediately noticed some startling similarities to presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s Web site; http://www. barackobama.com/index.php. Digging just a little deeper, it became clear that he lifted large parts of the code from Obama’s site and used it in his own. Specifically, code controlling the styling of text and the navigation bar has been copied. You can view the offending code on Tutt’s site here: http://andrewtutt.com/content/index.css and the corresponding code on Obama’s site (designed by Scott Thomas) here: http://www.barackobama.com/ css/globa!v2.css. Comparing the two files makes it clear that not only did he copy without attribution the work of another, but he claimed that work as his own with his “Copyright 2008—Andrew Tutt” at the top. In addition to code, he copied the “look and feel” of the Obama site in otherways, most noticeably in the banner at the top of the page. If one looks closely, you can see that he has taken some of the background elements from Obama’s banner and reused them in his own. I thought that this was quite interesting and perhaps information that the Duke population at large would want to know. These kinds of practices are certainly not permissible in the web design community any more than they are in the academic community; they constitute the theft of another’s work in the same way plagiarism does.

MacßaeLinton Trinity ’O9

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right. I said it. OK, I don’t actually mean that (before I get my brains blown out at the West Campus bus stop by a pale 135-pound Pratt student wearing blue face paint and toting a shotgun). But dammit, I’m a senior, and am growing slightly tired of being upset in the Tourney. I don’t know about y’all, but I was under the impression that part of my birthright as a privileged Duke student was a men’s basketball national championshi at least a Final Four. You really think I came here for the academics? Well, I’m graduating and the best we could come up with is a disgraceful Sweet 16 exit four i years ago (to a team we adn h lzer had already beaten), back when JJ., Shelden, Ewing W.W.j.d. and Dock still graced our Gothic Wonderland Look, we went 28-6. We were not even ranked in the preseason top 10,and yet we spent almost the entire regular season in the top five. And, although this may be a Bush League excuse, this was a young undersized team that had no business beating Marquette, blowing out Wisconsin, taking down UNC on the road and nearly capturing the ACC regular season crown. All of this was awesome and the team and Coach K deserve a ton of credit for providing me ample ability to trash talk my non-Duke friends during the season. However, this season will always feel like a failure. Given everything that our young and tiny team accomplished all year and the near invincibility we played with through 23 games, Final Four dreams became too vivid to simply dismiss when shooting percentages dimmed and late-season losses began to pile up. Losing in the second round as a two seed is a disappointment no matter how you slice it. By midseason, I had some high hopes. However, when the brackets came out this year, I was legitimately worried about our chances of even making it to the Elite Eight to face UCLA. As a fan, I often find that it is worthwhile to hedge your emotional desires with monetary bets. Meaning, I picked Duke to lose fairly early so that if it did happen, I would still have my bracket to keep me company. Thank God for that. Do you know how much crap I have had to endure from my friends every time Duke has bowed out of the Tourney earlier than hoped? My best friends go to USC, UCLA and Georgetown. Needless to say, my phone has been “broken” since Saturday. This year, my only solace was correctly picking that Davidson would upset Georgetown after my friend guaranteed that a “group of undersized white boys” could never take down his mighty Hoyas. Suck it, Julian. According to the haven for obsessive Duke fans who make me slightly embarrassed to love Blue Devil basketball, dukebasketballreport.com, we should all lay off Coach K and the gang because apparently the team from K all the way down the bench—was suffering from a serious bout with the flu. While this certainly could help explain why DeMarcus regressed to his days as an ineffectual freshman, the entire team’s “tired legs” and an overall lethargy, I don’tknow if I am willing to simply pardon the gang for another disappointing end to a season. I realize I am acting like a spoiled fan, and all things considered (and by that I mean the fact we played the entire year without a big man), Coach K reinvented himself to lead this team to an awesome season. So, for this year, Coach, I’ll let it slide .

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