April 3, 2008

full fr ame

Annual Durh am documentaryfilm festival begin s today, RECESS W

■

mm

goldwater

pHB

Three juniors selected for science and math scholarship, PAGE 3

fcSSSf

"■

S

“■

w. lacrosse

Blue Devils take on Fighting Irish at 4 p.m. in Koskinen, PAGE 9

*

The Tower of'Campus Thought and Action

Tj-

'’ftSpflfcs

Ine Lnromcle\

f I

1

I

m

1

I

®

LSU search chair: Alieva

RLHSasks students to relocate

is impressive

Juniors, seniors offered rooms on Central Campus by

by

MAYA ROBINSON,

Students mix and mingle around the hors d'oeuvres table at Duke Royale Wednesday

Cocktails, dressy attire mark classy social event by

Cate Harding THE CHRONICLE

jazz and even a Harry-Potter-esque magician

Approximately 1,000 Duke undergraduates, graduate students and faculty members filled the Doris Duke

Center and Sarah P. Duke Gardens Wednesday to celebrate a beautiful spring night and the imminent end of the school year at the second-annual Duke Royale.

Students left their usual day attire in their dorm rooms and donned elegant suits and cocktail dresses for the Duke University Union-sponsored event that brought students and faculty together for a classy night complete with finger foods, cocktails, vine-draped walls, live

“People really like dressing up so we decided to use a venue that no one had ever used before,” said senior Katelyn Donnelly, former president of DUU. “It’s supposed to be a fusion of everyone on campus. As an independent there are really few times a year I have the ability to dress up, and this is a great place where whatever your background or affiliation you can come and see friends and enjoy a nice evening.”

Senior Rebecca Friedman, director

Report: Errors in

suspects'handling

SEE AT I EVA ON PAGE 10

Tobacco policies fire up students by

Mariel Beaumont THE CHRONICLE

An investigation into probation officers responsible for Laurence Lovette and Demario Atwater reveals many hands but not enough “hands-on” supervision..

North Carolina corrections officials have removed three managers from the Wake County probation office after an investigation found that Atwater and Lovette were inadequately supervised. Lovette has been indicted in the murders of graduate student Abhijit Mahato and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student body president and senior Eve Carson. Lovette and Atwater were both indicted March 31 for Carson’s murder.

in tobacco policies across North Following Carolina college campuses, area students had the opportunity to voice their opinions at a Town Hall meeting held in McClendon Tower Wednesday night.

Students from North Carolina Central University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke gathered to discuss the efficacy of tobacco policies on their campuses. The meeting was presented by Students for Tobacco and Alcohol Reform, Healthy Devils Peer Educators and the Duke Student Health Center.

“We are trying to influence the social aspects of smoking... to make people realize that it is not the cool thing to do, not the acceptable thing to do,” Jacob Spangler, a graduate student at the UNC School of Pharmacy, said.

All three schools have undergone changes in on-campus

SEE PROBATION ON PAGE 5

SEE TOBACCO ON PAGE 5

Kristen Davis THE CHRONICLE

Director of Athletics Joe Alieva was named one of four finalists Wednesday to become Louisiana State University’s next athletic director.

The 13-member LSU Athletic Director Search Committee interviewed six candidates on the Baton Rouge campus Wednesday, narrowing the field to four before presenting its final recommendation to Acting Chancellor William Jenkins later that evening.

In his interview with the committee, Alieva was asked a series of questions, including several pertaining to the circumstances surrounding the 2006 Duke Lacrosse case, said ADSC Chair Jack Weiss, chancellor of the university’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center.

Although he said he could only speak to his own impressions and not those of the committee as a whole, Weiss said he was taken by Alieva and his presentation before the committee.

“What made Mr. Alieva stand out to me [was that] he has extensive experience running a very successful athletic program at a school that has high academic standards,” Weiss told The Chronicle. “Mr. Alieva impressed me as a person of high integrity who would very much fit the bill here in terms of an athletic director with high standards for our department.”

SEE ROYALE ON PAGE 4

SEE RLHS ON PAGE 6

by

Meredith Shiner THE CHRONICLE

Ally Helmers THE CHRONICLE

All rising junior and senior females who chose singles on West Campus during Room Pix received e-mails from Residence Life and Housing Services officials Wednesday asking them to relocate to Central Campus apartments for Fall.

According to the email, RLHS officials hope 20 women will agree to be reassigned to Central apartments for the upcoming academic year.

As of Wednesday, 39 out of the 55 rising sophomore women who were unable to select rooms during Room Pix have been accommodated in West Campus residence halls, leaving 16 rising sophomore women without a room on West.

Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, said the notified women may relocate in roommate pairs, groups or on their own, in which case they would be placed with a random roommate. They have until Monday morning to opt for relocation.

“It is my understanding that every rising femalejunior and senior living in a single on West will be contacted [before that date],” said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residential life.

I

recent changes

Students from NCCU, UNC and Duke discuss tobacco policies on their campuses at a meeting held in McClendon Tower Wednesday.

THE CHRONICLE

2 I THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2008

SCIENCE/TECH

U.S. NEWS WORLD NEWS Man arrested in airport bomb scare Mugabe loses control of Parliament

Smoking addiction has genetic link

ORLANDO, Fla. A Jamaican accused of check bag to a trying containing pipe bombmaterials onto a plane told the FBI he making wanted to show friends how to build explosives like he saw in Iraq, according to documents released Wednesday.

Kevin Brown, 32, was arrested at OrlandoInternational Airport after Transportation Security Administration behavior experts spotted him acting suspiciously in the ticketing area. Investigators searched his baggage and found the unassembled bomb-making materials, authorities said.

BUHARARE, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's long-ruling party lost its parliamentary majority Wednesday, bolstering opposition claims that impoverished Zimbabweansvoted for change in this struggling southern African nation.

The opposition also claimed victory for leader MorganTsvangirai in Saturday's presidential vote, but the state-controlled newspaper predicted a runoff—the first official admission that Mugabe, thenation's autocratic leaderof2B years, had not won re-election.

WASHINGTON Scientists have pinpointed genetic variations that make people more likely to get hooked on cigarettes and more prone to develop lung cancer—a finding that could someday lead to screening tests and customized treatments for smokers trying to kickthe habit.

The discovery by three separate teams of scientists makes the strongest case so far for the biological underpinnings of nicotine addiction and sheds more light on how genetics and lifestyle habits join forces to cause cancer.

Irish PM to resign in early May

AIDS drug ups heart attack risk

McCain to pick mate before RNC PENSACOLA, Fla. Sen. John McCain disclosed Wednesday he is in the "embryonic stages"of selecting a vice presidential running mate and hopes to unveil his choice before the Republican National Convention.

"It's every name imaginable," he said of his list-in-the-making,about 20 in all. He disclosed none of them and declined even to identify the individuals he has approached.

DUBLIN, Ireland Prime Minister Bertie the common-touch Dubliner who tended Ahern, Ireland's economic boom and the blossoming of Belfast peace,announced his resignation Wednesday under a darkening cloud of financial scandal, The announcement stunned Ireland and much of his Cabinet, whose members stood by Ahern during an 18-monthbattle against allegations he accepted secret cash payments from businessmen in the 19905.

Ahern will step down May 6.

ecession is oossible —For the first time Federal Re. . n n Bernanke acknowledged i Ben that the US. could reel into from the powerful punches of .credit and financial crises. recession is possible," said mke, who is under immense ideal and public pressure to .... n things around. Our estiiates are that we're slightly owing at the moment, but 'e think that there's a chance at for the first half as a -/hole there might be a slight ontraction."

LONDON A commonly used AIDS drug appears to nearly double the risk of a heart attack, researchers said in a study published online by the medical journal Lancet. The researchers also said another less frequently used AIDS drug increased the chances of a heart attack by 50 percent. Experts said they did not recommend that patients abandon the two drugs, Ziagen and Videx.

AIDS drugs "are wonderful and lifesaving, but they do have toxicity problems," said Dr. Charlie Gilks, an AIDS treatment expert at the World Health Organization."lt may be that we them, but we need to be can cont' nue aware of their long-term problems.'

t 0 use

...

"

..

ENTERTAINMENT

Carey surpasses Elvis in NO.l singles

70sFriday.HaveaterrifoThursday!

—Jonathan Calendar

j Today Adventures of a Minstrel Geneticist Searle CenterLecture Hall, 4:30p.m.

Dr. Mary-Claire King of the University ofWashington,discoverer of the BRCAI bre< susceptibility gene, will give the address of the 2008 Annual Symi Duke's MD-Ph.D. program.

Self-Knowledge Symposium: Ha\

A film that attempts to lift the facad' We,allowing for ample opportunity ,

howindividualstrulyhytoobtaml SponsoredbytheKenanlnstrtutef

With her 18th chart-topLOS ANGELES per "Touch My Body," Mariah Carey has passed e a reas Elvis Presley for the most No. 1 singles on the eofre ' .

Billboard singles chart, and is now second only .

Hoofn Horn rpresents the classic 1 D ;to the Beatles.

-r "I really can never put myself in the category News briefs compiled from wire reports of people who have not only revolutionized music but also changed the world," Carey told 9™ Y™ “PThe Associated Press via phone from London. ou "That's a completely different era and time ...I'm justfeeling really happy and grateful."

-

_

f*

us^

„

.

.

COLLEGE SMOKERS Give Us Your Opinions!

Duke University Medical Center is looking for college smokers ages 18-24 years to take part in a study on learning more about smokers' beliefs about cigarettes. You will get paid $4O for about an hour of your time. For more information, and to see if you qualify, call 919-956-5644.

Duke University Medical Center

and Saturday.Temperatures will be moving into the

#7722

„

THURSDAY, APRIL 3,2008 | 3

THE CHRONICLE

Site connects students by skills, not show Scholarship awarded to by

Kristen Davis

THE CHRONICLE

Junior Daniel Roberts may have an online solution for students tired of the networking dictum, “It’s not what you know; it’s who you know.”

To coufiter that impression, Roberts’ start-up company Lanxer, LLC., launched SkillsTM, a Web site that connects people by professional skill rather than personal relationships, before Spring Break.

“It should be more important what skills you have than who you know,” he said. “We want to change the paradigm, so people network by skill instead of who they know.”

Unlike other career-oriented networking sites, SkillsTM is designed to be an open environment for users to create profiles that showcase their achievements, skills and goals, Roberts said.

Employers can post job opportunities on the site and will be immediately notified of the individuals who possess applicable skills. The site also automatically notifies members when opportunities arise.

“We want it to be the first place people look when they need someone to work for them,” said Robert Lancer, a self-taught computer engineer and Lanxer’s president and co-founder.

Lancer explained that users can search within certain parameters to find others in their community with specific skills—a feature that could be especially useful for student entrepreneurs.

“In a specific geographic area, if a student wants to put a team together, putting up flyers isn’t an efficient way to do it,” Roberts said. “Instead, you could go to SkillsTM and then limit the search to just Duke and find people interested in entrepreneurship. You can bring people together for various levels of projects and employment.”

PnaLCHted

3 juniors

SYLVIA QU/THE CHRONICLE

JuniorDaniel Roberts has started Lanxer, LLC, which operates a Web site that connects people by skills.

Students can also display their skills on their Facebook profiles with a SkillsTM application.

The advantages of SkillsTM over other networking sites come from new database technology developed by Lancer, said Roberts, who knew Lancer from high school.

“Our method of searching is unique,” Roberts said. “It is only possible through our database technology. On Facebook, for instance, you can searchfor a keyword withina network, but you can’t search on top of that.”

He said the site could be used for a variety of needs other than jobs.

Roberts said he plans to build up Lanxer’s user base, adding that he will promote the site at Duke and eventually offerit as an alternative to the eßecruiting site at the Career Center.

the Duke Center for European Studies and Duke Law Center for International & Comparative Law

C'UTUpc VIS

°'

RELATIONS

“Our biggest issue right now is getting people to see the advantage of our system over others because our technology is far superior,” Roberts said.

Sophomore Kateri Zhu said she thinks many Duke students would be interested in joining a site like SkillsTM. Although she has not used it or other networking sites, she said she is familiarwith Doostang and Linkedln, which do not offer many connections for people outside of the business realm.

Eventually, Lancer said he hopes to sell his database technologies and compete with what he calls “outmoded,” currently predominant systems developed by Microsoft, now used by most companies.

Three juniors have been selected for the Goldwater Scholarship in science, mathematics and engineering, the University announced Wednesday.

Mark Hallen, Nick Patrick and Daniel Roberts were among 321 undergraduate students chosen nationally for the award from a pool of 1,035 candidates. The scholars will be awarded up to $7,500 annually for tuition and expenses.

Junior Stephen DeVience, a fourth Duke nominee, received an honorable mention.'

“Each of these students is creating and applying robust mathematical and computational models to the solution of problems in their respective disciplines,” Mary Nihjout, associate dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, said in a statement.

“Theirwork exemplifies the trends in modem science and in engineering design.”

“I was really excited,” Patrick said. “I put a lot of time into research, so I was very excited to hear about it.”

A native of Bel Air, Md., Patrick is a computer science major. Hallen is a chemistry and mathematics major from Cary, N.C. Roberts, a Melville, N.Y., native, studies electrical and computer engineering and physics.

Two Duke students received the award for the 2006-2007 academic year.

—from staff reports

THE CHRONICLE

4 I THURSDAY, APRIL 3,2008

DSG

Changes to dining may come soon by

Diana Sheldon THE CHRONICLE

Director .of Dining Sendees Jim Wulforst updated senators on recently implemented dining changes and plans for next year at Wednesday night’s Duke Student Government meeting.

Things have been changing in the Great Hall and will continue to change next year, Wulforst said. Breakfast has already been extended until 10:15 a.m., and Wulforst said he hopes the dining hall will reopen Sunday brunch and dinner next Fall.

“We have a very Paul Slattery challenging environment, but I know that Sunday brunches and dinners are in the plan,” he said.

Wulforst said dining also plans to allow freshmen to have breakfast at the Great Hall instead of the Marketplace on weekday mornings.

“It’s a real initiative that I can’t imagine is not going to happen,” he said.

Also on the agenda are late-night dining options for freshmen on East Campus next semester. Wulforst said he hopes to SEE DSG ON PAGE 6

A live jazz band entertains students at Duke Royale, a late-night cocktail party held at the Doris Duke Center in the Duke Gardens Wednesday night.

ROYALE from page 1 of DUU’s Special Projects committee, which organized the event, said there were extensive changes in staff, catering and decorating since last year’s event.

She emphasized, however, that the chic and relaxed atmosphere remained.

“The idea is to say come out, and no matter what group you’re a part of dress up, have a good time, drink and be merry!” she said.

Many students appreciated the opportunity to attend an event that was open to the entire Duke community.

“It’s a really nice event. I’m not in

a sorority or involved in greek life at all so it was great to come dress up and hang out with everyone,” one sophomore said.

Others were thankful for a break from the typical Duke ,weekend social scene and the ability to see their peers in a different light.

Duke Royale built upon the success of the Fall’s Nasher Noir in a new push by the University to provide alternative social events for the Duke community.

“It’s just nice to come out and see Duke in another atmosphere,” sophomore Jessica So said. “I do the normal Shooters weekend thing but I like having the change of scenery, mingling and be-

ing grown up.”

Some attendees said they had simpler but equally important—reasons for attending Duke Royale.

“I think the free drinks and the free food were a good incentive by themselves,” junior Jillian Tellez said.

The event was especially well-attended by seniors, not only because of the five open bars but also for the opportunity it offered to bond with their classmates and friends before graduation.

“I came out because I wanted to dress up,” said senior Dewey Nguyen. “As a senior I wanted to be here for the last social occasion of the season to be with all my close friends.” , —

THURSDAY, APRIL 3,2008 | 5

THE CHRONICLE

TOBACCO from page 1

Tired of The Loop?

smoking policies. UNC banned smoking within up 100 feet of buildings Jan. 1. NCCU has also recently prohibited smoking within 25 feet of campus buildings.

Duke banned smoking in any University building and anywhere on the Duke University Medical Center campus July 4, 2007.

All schools also have adopted cessation programs to help students and employees break their habit, attendees said.

“We offer [free] education about options for quitting and also about the ramifications of smoking,” Spangler said.

DUMC also offers free treatment, nicotine replacement therapy and pharmaceutical treatment as a part of their cessation program, said an employee. She added that the program has had a 35.7 percent quit rate in the last six months.

Although the quitting programs have been successful, a Duke studentsaid she was concerned that the policy for smoking in designated areas has not been enforced properly.

“I wish the people who smoke would be more sensitive to those that don’t,” she said. “I often see people, sometimes teachers, smoking outside of buildings and we have to walk up the steps and breathe it in. I don’t see how they think that is okay.”

Students from NCCU, however, said they have been satisfied with the success of their program. Members of the university’s Student Coalition Against Tobacco said their policy is community-enforced.

The no-smoking policy on the campus of DUMC has been enforced successfully, which means thatboth employees and patients must leave hospital grounds to smoke.

“I see not only employees standing outside, but patients smoking and holding their own IV’s, which is a tragedy,” said George Jackson, Duke’s director for employee occupational health and awareness.

He said DUMC administrators are addressing the problem by looking at how other hospitals have handled it. Despite difficulties, Jackson said he remains optimistic about the new policies.

“The fact that we have made a move and made a statement is the most important thing,” he said. “We need to get the message out to the smoking population that this is an important issue.” to

KEVIN HWANG/THE CHRONICLE

Lyon Farms, a local grower, sold fresh produce near the West Campus bus stop Wednesday afternoon as part ofFarmworker Awareness Week.

PROBATION from page 1 Robert Guy, director of the N.C. Division of Community Corrections, released a report Wednesday detailing the failures of both the Wake and Durham county probation offices in overseeing Atwater and Lovette. The report represents the DCC’s first steps to fill in gaps of probation supervision, said Keith Acree, public affairs director of the DCC. According to the report, probation supervisors and officers interviewed about the two men cited concerns regarding staff vacancies, frequent reassignments and lack of training.

Lovette had been under the supervision of the Durham corrections office for two months prior to his arrest for the murders.

There was no face-to-face contact between Lovette and Chalita Thomas, his probation officer, during that time period. Furthermore, no case management requirements were met during the first month ofLovette’s probation, andThomas waited until the day of his arrest to report missed meetings and phone calls.

to pursue a course of study in which they will use a multi-disciplinary approach to analyze issues facing children, families, and the society responsible for their development. Students will have the opportunity to work one-on-one with a Duke faculty member as they research one or more issues, and they will learn skills to use the research to inform policy and practice.

Even now, Thomas has not completed basic training.

Although the Wake County probation office was responsible for Atwater at the time of Carson’s death March 5;Atwater had frequendy changed probation officers since he was first assigned one in February 2005 after felony convictions for breaking and entering, larceny and possession of stolen property, and oversight was insufficient “While the offender reported on a regular basis during the first eight months of supervision, officers did not always independendy verify criminal record checks, financial management system payments or residence status,” the report states.

The report noted that Atwater was not supervised as closely as the judge had ordered, and his supervision was not transferred to Durham County even though Atwater notified the Wake office in May 2005 that he was moving to Durham.

To avoid similar situations in the future, Acree said the corrections department will continue to evaluate employment, retention and case loads, and said personnel action against those involved in the cases is likely.

The CCS certificate program enables students

ATTENTION STUDENTS NOTICE OF HISTORICAL ELECTION EVENT

The certificate requires the completion of six courses. To learn more, please see the Web site, www.childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu/certificate, or contact Christina Gibson-Davis,

MAY 6, 2008

Faculty Director, cgibson@duke.edu.

Are you 18 or older, a U.S. citizen, and a resident of Durham for 30 days? If so, you can REGISTER and VOTE!!!

CCS 150.01 PUBPOL 124.01 Clara Muschkin TuTh 10:05 11:20 a.m. /

-

What does it mean to be a child in the 21 st century? Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course provides an overview of issues facing today’s youth, from childhood through adolescence.

Children in Contemporary Society Research Seminar CCS 1905.0 i Christina Gibson-Davis (permission required)

Research course in which students will engage in original research on a specific project with a faculty mentor. The course will culminate in a scholarly written project. Capstone course for the certificate program.

How Housing Matters for Low-Income Children and Families CCS 2645.04/ PUBPOL 2645.04 Sherri Lawson Clark W F 10:05 n :20 a.m.

-

Overview of housing policy in the U.S., beginning with precursors to the Housing Act of 1937 through present day legislation. Particular attention will be paid to the social, economic, political and regional contexts of housing policies and the impact policies have on children, families and communities.

>cial Policy CCS 2645.22/ PUBPOL 2645.22/ SOC 2995.22 Jenni Owen ¥F 11:40 a.m

Looking at a range of social policy issues, this course will focus on when and why policymakers use research and when and why they don’t. The course will expose students to current social policy challenges.

12:55 p.m

-

YOUR VOTE IS YOUR VOICE REGISTER NOW

&

VOTE

Registered students who have moved or changed information should notify the Board of Elections by FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2008.

SAME DAY REGISTRATION: With proper ID, students are allowed to register and vote at one stop sites. This is terrific, but it is quicker and easier if you pre-register NOW. When registering to vote in Durham County, NC, you must cancel previous voter registration. One Stop No Excuse Absentee Voting will be held at: Board of Elections Office at 706 W. Corporation St. North Regional Library at 221 Milton Rd. N.C.C.U. at 1400 S. Alston Ave. in Parrish Center Meeting Room •

•

•

Thursday through Sat, Apr 17-19 Monday through Sat, Apr 21-26 Monday through Fri, Apr 28-May 2 Sat May 3 *One stop ballots are exactly the same as counted and reported on election night.

9 am-5:30 pm all locations 9 am-5:30 pm all locations 9 am-5:30 pm all locations all locations 9 am-1 pm election day ballots. ALL ballots are

919-560-0700 irham.nc.us/eiec 706 W. Corporation St., Durham, NC, 27701

6 THURSDAY, APRIL 3,2008 I

THE CHRONICLE

DSG from page 4

Wulforst said he also hopes to bring demonstradon cooking campus but is still trying to find the appropriate locadon.

“Wine class kicked off on Thursdays and has been well received,” he said. “I can’t imagine that engaging in a cooking process would be something you wouldn’t want to do either.” to

keep a section of the Marketplace open until 2 a.m. and offer options such as pizza, subs and pasta. He noted that this addition would probably not be included in the freshman meal In other business: “Wine class kicked off on Thursdays Senior Gina Ireland, vice presplan He also updated senators ident for academic affairs, said and has been well received. I can’t on the Thai noodle restauthe Arts and Sciences Councilhas rant and coffee bar that will imagine that engaging in a cooking implemented changes to teacher be added to the Bryan Center evaluations for this semester.

All instructors will be reAug. 15, 2009. Cup A Joe, to process would be something that you be placed in the Gothic Bookquired to fill out a new form at wouldn’t want to do either.” store, will not be difficult to the endof the semester and will Wulforst, have the option ofchecking one implement, but Lemon Grass will be a much more challengdirector dining services of three boxes. Teachers will be ing issue, he said. able choose to make only one Lemon Grass, based in Sacparticular course’s evaluations ramento, Calif, has been in available to students, prohibit discussions with Duke about coming to campus for years, he the evaluations of a specific course from being viewed by said. students or make all their courses’ evaluations available.

—Jim of

RLHS from page 1 RLHS will offer females who relocate a $250 per semesbreak on rent, as well as the opportunity to be assigned rooms in Few Quadrangle next Spring. Despite these incentives, sophomores Emily Sherrard and Alex Ryan —who both received the e-mail—said they would not relocate.

An athlete on the track team, Sherrard said she would not move to Central Campus primarily because she would not be willing to live with a randomly assigned roommate who is unfamiliar with her demanding schedule.

Ryan said the economic incentives offered are not enough for her to consider moving.

“Money would definitely be an incentive,” she said.

“But $250 semester is probably not enough, unless they would be able to guarantee me a nice room—l’m sure the rooms that are left are not prime.”

Ryan addedthat she wants to be next to two ofher friends, also living in singles next semester, who would not relocate.

“It doesn’t hurt [for RLHS] to ask,” she said. “But I would be upset if they forced me.” ter

infill

DUKE INSTITUTE FOR

GENOME

SCIENCES

POLICY

&

/

Certificate

Charlotte

•

Durham

•

Raleigh

•

Winston-Salem

CALL TODAY!

V \

888-525-DUKE

\ \

genome sciences and

Explore the

eir

impact

www.dukesmoking.com

or^

E-mail: smoking@duke.edu (#1011)

Those interested in the GSR Certificate are encouraged to plan ahead. Certificate registration will begin in May.

Consider a Biology

237 L

W 2:sopm

-

Genome Course for Fall 2008

Systemic Biology

s:2opm

Lutzoni and Swofford

COMPSCII6O Intro Computational Genomics WF 10;05am 11:20am Hartemink

Bejsovec

Philosophy 114/Bioiogy 174 Philosophy of Biology MW 11;40am 12:55pm Brandon and McShea

Biology 260 Cancer Genetics

MWF 10:20am

-

11:10pm

-

-

BME 2581/CBB 222 Genome Science Technology Lab Tlan TTh 10:05am 11;20am

Philosophy 118 Issues in Medical Ethics WF I:lspm 2:3opm

CBB 241/STA 271 Statistical Genetics

Philosophy 142 Problems in Phil of Science WF I:lspm-2:3opm Sterrett

-

MW I:lspm-2:3opm

Hauser

-

Park

THE CHRONICLE

Tll UR S DAY, APRIL 3,2008 17

Nonprofit & Government Opportunities Fair Wednesday, April 9 r J

Internships

12.-00 300 pm -

Race: Bryan Center, Von Canon Rooms

What to bring: Over 30 Companies will be here to help you learn more about opportunities available.

Resume and your curiosity!

8 I THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2008

THE CHRONICLE

recess arts&entertainment

ff/wpis the

word SEE GREASE PAGE 3

volume 10, issue 27

april 3,2008

Taking Durham down to the Basement Full Frame films fill by

David Graham

THE CHRONICLE

Coming to Nelson Music Room this weekend: the new, weird America.

That’s one way to describe Howard Fishman, the maverick singer and guitarist who will bring a three-night revue of music from Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes to campus Thursday through Saturday.

The show examines the famous series of recordings Dylan and the Band cut in Saugerties, N.Y., in 1967, which author Greil Marcus described as capturing “the old, weird America.”

Why not alter that phrase to capture Fishman? After all, everyone seems to struggle to find a description for him—even Fishman himself.

“I get asked that question so much, and you’d think I’d have an answer for it, but I still don’t,” he said during an interview earlier this week, as he tuned his 1933 Gibson while charting and preparing for the trip south. “The music I play is very personal, it’s very—it runs the gamut stylistically. For me, genres are like the colors a painter would use. Playing music is about communicating and forging a sense of community.”

In fact, he said, it was this search for identity that led him to interpret The Basement Tapes, a record he’dknown since adolescence.

“What intrigued me about this project is people don’t always know how to categorize me,” Fishman said. “What I’m trying to do is create context for my music. I would never put myself or my band on a level with [Dylan and the Band], but it’s kind of what I’m emulating—American, irreverent, spontaneous, fun, deep.

Bull City by

GLEN GUTTERSON/THE

CHRONICLE

Singerand guitarist HowardFishman turned to Bob Dylan's work in an attempt to contextualizehis own music.

I just see a lot of similarities to what I’m trying to do.”

Although The Basement Tapes is one of Dylan’s more neglected albums, it contains a raft of classics, including “I Shall Be Released” and “You Ain’t Going Nowhere”— arguably better known from versions by the Band and the Byrds, respectively—as well as absurdities like “Million Dollar Bash.”

And although his versions of the tracks have become a popular draw for him, his Duke concerts will mark only the second performance of the full suite since its debut at Joe’s Pub in New York City in May 2006.

The three nights are arranged by subject material. Night one comprises the SEE FISHMAN ON PAGE 5

Awakening blooms i n Sheafer by

Claire Finch

THE CHRONICLE

Those who are eagerly awaiting the play Spring Awakening due to the hype sur-

rounding the musical of the same name will be in for an unanticipated, though not unwelcome, surprise. Gone are the sleek, former-pop-musician-composed songs and the single dominant love story.

The play, which serves as the basis for the musical, features the same overall plot

IREM MERTOL/THE

CHRONICLE

Spring Awakening is set in late 19th-centuryGermany.

but emphasizes a larger mix of characters and controversies, including a group masturbation scene deemed too illicit for the typical Broadway-goer’s eyes. Opening tonight at B'p.m. in the Sheafer Theater, the Department ofTheater Studies’ Spring Awakening is indeed a mental stimulant, impressive with its unexpected layering of palpable angst, sensitive humor and surreal absurdity.

Spring Awakening was first written in 1890, although it was not officially performed until sixteen years later. Its relevance despite its age is one of the reasons for the play’s great appeal.

“It [is] one of those plays that is actually a hundred years old but seems incredibly modern,” said Neal Bell, a professor of the practice of theater studies and the play’s dramaturgist who played an influential role in the selection and research of the play.

“It was doing certain things I didn’t think contemporary plays were doing in terms of subject matter and doing it in an unconventional way, poetically and comically.”

Chronicling the, lives and transformations of several young students as they experience sexual awakening in the midst of a repressive German society, the show certainly emphasizes issues that are anything but outdated.

“It was banned for a long time because of its subject matter of abortion, suicide, rape, homosexuality—all these big, weighty questions,” said junior Julie director. “So I think Berger, the that people tend to connect with the subject matter in general. It’s just as relevant today as it was then.”

Where the show is at its most controversial is in its unflinching portrayal of the consequences of a society that leaves its adolescents ill-equipped to deal with their rapidly changing identities. One of the protagonists, Wendla, played by senior Madeleine Lambert, gets disastrously pregnant without understanding why, as her mother refuses to tell her the truth about how children are conceived. Similarly, the stress of his parents’ disapproval upon his expulsion from school drives young Moritz, played by senior Dylan Parkes, to commit suicide.

“It really tackles conflicts that we deal with as we start to be sexualized, and as we start to gain information about sex and to make major life decisions based upon that information,” said Jeff Storer, the show’s director and a professor of the practice of theater studies. “In this particular society,

assistant

Emily Ackerman THE CHRONICLE

This weekend Durham’s most popular millimeter will be 35 as the world-renowned Full Frame Documentary Film Festival returns to Bull City for its 11th year. Founded in 1998 by Nancy Buirski, a former Duke Dewitt Wallace Fellow, Full Frame works to showcase over 100 documentary films each April in the hopes ofraising consciousness by educating its viewers on social issues both widespread and obscure.

Buirski began her career in the arts as a painter but transferred her medium of choice to photography as a result of her desire to be more interactive with the world.

This focus in photography led Buirski to 15 successfulyears at The New York Times where her love of documentary photography and photo journalism were further inspired as she rose to the title of foreign photo editor.

In 1996, Buirski studied at Duke University as a Dewitt Wallace Fellow, a program that “provides experienced journalists with the opportunity to expand their skills and interests in the role of the news media in democracies.”

It was during this residency that Buirski met her current husband and Chapel Hillnative Ken Friedlan. Leaving New York for North Carolina, Buirski brought along her newfound infatuation with documentary film and Full Frame was born.

Now heralded as the largest documentary film festival in the United States, Full Frame plays host to over 1,100 submissions and some 26,000 audience members. In its first five years as the Double Take Documentary Festival, the event thrived under the sponsorship of Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies before switching to the independent support of the nonprofit company, Doc Arts Inc. However under the supervision of President Richard Brodhead in 2005, Duke regained its personal connection with Full Frame, becoming a presenting sponsor of the festival alongside The New York Times.

“There’s growing interest in the arts at Duke, from the opening of the Nasher MuSEE FULL

FRAME ON PAGE 4

CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO SEE AWAKENING ON PAGE

3

The CarolinaTheatre is a yearly venue for FullFrame.

April 3.

recess

PAGE 2

2001 18

Editor’s Note 27: Contradictions Our mother publication, The Chronicle, recently caught flak for their choice of April Fool’s Day content. Beneath the Yale blue banner was a fictitious article documenting China’s takeover of Duke.

The article and accompanying photo of a panda scaling the Chapel played into the common stereotypes of high math proficiency, poor verbal skills, affinity for communist doctrine and overly studious habits.

There was an

expected amount of backlash as Asian students at Duke felt unfairly singled out and targeted as the collective butt of racist jokes. Here at recess we understand the justified outrage and see the inequity in the situation, which is why we are here to even the score with other offensive Chronicle stories.

Indians Strong pungent smells overwhelm Duke as National Conference of Indian Americans comes to Durham.

White Americans White students continue historical precedent of imperialism by handing out blankets doused with small pox on the West Campus Plaza.

Hispanics Duke cats mysteriously replaced by chihuahuas; Mi Gente claims innocence, too

busy driving low-riders and wearing plaid shirts with only the top button fastened and a white shirt tucked into baggyjeans.

Jews

Fight breaks out in Alpine over the price of a bagel with lox. Unidentified assailant with large nose is heard saying, ‘You call that a bagel? Oy vey, you’re such a putz.”

African Americans

Black students, easily offended by statementsfrom someone referred to only as “The Man,” march on Ninth Street. Whole Foods, subsequently, runs out of fried chicken, waffles and watermelons.

Christians New study notes that creepy people with silly religion weird out general population by insisting to let them be prayed for. Further research confirms “touching little children” up 20 percent, “inquisitions and crusades” down by 88 points.

Atheists Page Auditorium event massively underattended as philosophy students with too much time and not enough dates hold panel discussions confirming each others’ belief in nothing. Self-masturbatory high fives are handed out generously.

There are many double standards that persist in modern society.

Women are sluts, while men are considered studs. Aggressive men are confident and aggressive women (Hillary Clinton) are considered “female dogs.” You don't mind me saying hi to you at a bar, but when I sneak into your house it is all of a sudden stalking.

However, the double standard of racism in America is probably the most prevalent and the most troublesome.

There are certain groups that are not okay to make fun of (read: everyone but Asians), but it is okay for minorities to do so. Also the color ofyour skin makes it okay to say things about white people, but if you are white you better watch your words.

Probably the biggest example of the double-standard is the n-word. Unless you are black, the word has the power to get you fired from your job and permanently

tarnish your reputation.

However, many members of the AfricanAmerican community argue that it is about intent, but if even if you intend it to mean “best person in the world” it is not acceptable. Furthermore, many black individuals use it in a derogatory and divisive manner with as much fervor as a member of the Klu Klux Klan.

Whether you use -gga or -ger, the n-word and other words, phrases and stereotypes shouldn’tbe purported no matter the color ofyour skin or the intent in your heart.

Unless the words are used in hatred, it should either all be okay or none of it is

permissible.

My solution? Create so many false stereotypes and offensive phrases that eventually everything melts awayand blends together. That reminds me, did you hear that Native Americans love eggplant... those ffinsabaggers.

—Varan Leila, Editor

recesseditors Others musicals we might miss this weekend Varim Leila Alex Warr..

Baishi Wu. Irem Mertol Bryan Zupon Bryan Sayler Andrew Hibbard...

Nancy Wang...

Lucie Zhang...

The Life and Times ofVarun Kumar Leila Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter Autumn Hibernating ls that... a boob beneath the Sandbox? » Abb, Spring in the Rhineland ...Cats II: Electric Boogaloo What other great plays came out of Germany?

Schindler’s List: The Musical ...can’t we just keep running Rocky Horror? (has a musical always running in his mind)

David Graham

Courses in

African and African American Studies Fall 2008 AAAS 495.01; After Slavery: The Problem of Freedom Instructor: Thavolia Glymph MW: 10:05-11:20 AM W 4:23

5:40

Instructor: Bayo Holsey

AA AS I06A.01: Introduction to African and African American Studies Instructor: Michaeline Crichlow WF 8:30-9:45AM

AAAS 122.08: Culture and Politics in Africa TUTH It:4OAM-12:55 PM

Instructor: Bayo Holsey

.

AAAS 192H.07: The African Diaspora TUTH: 2:50-4:05 PM

Instructor: Bayo Holsey

AAAS 199.03: Special Topics: “Youth in Africa in the 21st Century” TUTH: 10:05-11:20 AM Instructor: Stephen Smith AAAS 1995.01: Special Topics: “Piggin Out TUTH: 2:50-4:05 PM

-

The Cultural Politics of Food” Instructor: Michaeline Crichlow

AAAS 1995.02: Special Topics: “Black Independent Film 1970-2005” MW: 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

Instructor:

Jennifer Brody

AAAS 1995.04: Special Topics: “Black Love” W 4:25-5:40 PM Instructor: Chanequa Walker-Barnes AA AS 299.15: Special Topics: “Dei TUTH: 1.15-2:30 PM

icy in

Africa”

:or: Stephen Smith

AAAS 2995.01: Special Topics: Freedom in the Americas”

blem of

W: 6:15-8:30 PM

Thavolia Glymph

AAAS 2995.04: Special Topics: W 6:00-8:30 PM

and the Law” r: Karla Holloway

recess

>n il 3, 2008

PAGE 3

Hoof'n' Horn shines with Grease

AWAKENING f o.page, the parents talking to children about sex doesn’t happen, and so what you see is the effect of that repression, and what happens when that information is not something that’s exchanged.”

Yet despite the play’s clearly conveyed message, the author Frank Wedekind did not mean for it-to be solely didactic—the favored interpretation of the work when it finally gained recognition.

“It’s [Wedekind] trying to tell an interesting story in an interesting way about these particular problems,” Bell said. “It’s not a problem play, it’s not a message play, it’s not a Lifetime movie of the week about teen angst.”

IREM

MERTOIVTHE

CHRONICLE

Hoof 'n' Horn brings the soundsand style of the 'sos with Grease, which was popularized by the 1978film version starring JohnTravolta and Olivia Newton-John by

Braden Hendricks THE CHRONICLE

Set in the context of a young generation struggling to find its identity, the classic musical Grease is a complex love story that has endured for decades. Duke’s own theater company, Hoof ’n‘ Horn, is bringing the perennial fan favorite to life in Reynolds Theater tonight.

Senior Matt Colabrese, Hoof ’n‘ Horn president and an experienced thespian, helms this latest rendition. As the director, he has chosen to present Grease in a traditional light, albeit with some minor changes.

“The set is a little more abstract than you’ll usually see for Grease,” Colabrese said. “But we have rented the rights for two major songs that weren’t in the original score [but are in the 1978 movie with

John Travolta].”

Those songs, ambitious choreography and a dedicated cast of veteran acand talented newcomers help Hoof ’n‘ Horn’s version of Grease capture the spirit of the movie—the format by which the story is best known. From the accents of the actors to some standout vocal talents, the sound aspect of this production tors

A

m (f o

is one of its strengths. In particular, the voices of juniors Carolyn Hardin as Sandy and Matthew Patrick as Teen Angel/ Vince Fontaine, respectively, are captivating and moving.

Paralleling the richness in sound is the accuracy of the faithfully-reproduced costumes. The T-Birds of Hoof’n‘ Horn wear the same black leather jackets, white Tshirts and blue jeans as their Travolta-led counterparts, and the same is true of the Pink Ladies. Even the hairstyles of Frenchy and Jan are meticulously replicated the characters look as if they could have stepped on-stage through a time portal from the ’sos.

Even though the simplicity of the set calls for some slight imaginative effort on the part of the audience, a few key props ease the process. Taking an important role is Greased Lightning itself—the car owned by Kenickie for the sole purpose of picking up girls—as an endearing, red, undersized convertible equipped with stolen rims. Along with this are the minimal but adequate sets thatinclude a bench, a table and a night stand. Although sparse, these props are artfully presented with effective lighting, an effect that smoothly draws the —

_

Exclusive

eye to the relevant areas on stage.

The casting of this play is also a major positive. It is tough to imagine two people more suited to the roles of Danny Zuko and Betty Rizzo than sophomore Matt Campbell and senior Kimberly Jerdan.

Tall, muscular and imposing, Campbell fits the bill perfectly as the leader of the T-Birds. Possessing a flair for dancing, Campbell pulls off the sometimes macho, sometimes yearning act of Danny as the character struggles to reconcile his position within the gang with his love for Sandy. Jerdan successfully brings all the sass and attitude that Rizzo’s part requires, and like Campbell, is able to incorporate tenderness in a believable, multi-faceted character. This is especially noteworthy, as both Campbell and Jerdan are first-time actors for Hoof ’n‘ Horn. In Campbell’s case, it is his first time acting in an official production of any kind.

All in all, this adaptation of Grease is incredibly upbeat, fun and undeniably

“electrifying.”

Grease will be performed in Reynolds The3-6, 10-13 and May 9-10. Tickest a $B. ater in the Bryan Center April

Unique

Luxurious

In the Duke production, the moments when the play deviates from the normal narrative are its strongest.

“The play is a very strange bird,” Storer said, “It goes from very naturalistic scenes to expressionistic scenes.”

An overall stand-out scene that also epitomizes the play’s shift into expressionism is the opening to the second act, when one character is brought into a tribunal of teachers as a result of a perceivably obscene note he wrote. The gray-wig-bedecked teachers stand posed like grotesque puppets on the upper level of the stage, chanting in unison and hissing at the boy, giving the scene the overall air of a surrealist nightmare.

The showalso does an admirable job capturing several key moments of the plot with an ideal amount of haunting poignancy. An effectively disturbing scene in which Wendla asks the other main protagonist, Melchior, played by Davis Hasty, Trinity ’O7, to beat her leaves the audience cringing. An equally powerful scene includes two boys sharing their first kiss, which succeeds in evoking a realistic, not cloying, tenderness.

The play’s highly successful execution aside, the show promises to be an interesting way to evaluate what Storer views as a central question: “Are we any better off now as a society than we were then?”

Spring Awakening will be performed in Sheafer Theater April 3-5 and 10-12with 8 p.m. showings Thurs.-Sat. and 2 p.m. showings on Sun. Tickets will be $5 for students and senior citizens and $lO for general admission.

FULL FRAME

April 3,

recess

PAGE 4

from page 1

of Art to the recent establishment of new arts facilities on Buchanan Street. The arts are essential to the education of our students and to the fabric of the University, as well as to the surrounding community.

We expect this new partnership with Full Frame to strengthen Duke’s presence in the arts, both on campus and beyond,” said Provost Peter Lange in 2005 to Duke Nervs.

Duke’s sponsorship allowed for discounted tickets for students and employees as well as the creation of the Full Frame fellows program, a unique opportunity for 25 Duke students to receive a first-hand glimpse into the world of documentary film through panels and workshops with the filmmakers and members of the industry.

Once a two-and-a-half day affair, the Full Frame Festival now fills seven venues over four days and has brought big names to Durham, such as Academy Award-winner Martin Scorsese, chair of the festival’s advisory board, and acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. The festival is divided into six categories: New Docs, the career award series, a curated series, a siderbar, special programming and panels and workshops.

Having served as the chair of the selection committee since the festival’s inseum

ception, Program in Film/Video/Digital Director David Paletz said the choice to continue to house the festival in Durham

TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE DIR. A. GIBNEY THINKFILM

It could be said that Michael Moore has done a lot for the documentary. He’s certainly not objective, but he has made it a more accessible genre. Still, his style of filmmaking is definitely not the norm.

That’s why it’s nice to see documentaries like Taxi To the Dark Side still making waves.

Writer and director Alex Gibney’s film is a by-the-books documentary with interviews, narration and archived film and photos. It is quiet and unexciting, but it does what it is supposed to do—tell a story.

Taxi to the Dark Side, which recently won the Oscar for Best Documentary, is a straightforward analysis of the United States’ relationship with torture in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay. The documentary does a fine job of tackling this salient issue. Each interview is carefully selected and insightful, as to the nature of torture. He treats torture not just as something only done by a handful of rogue soldiers, but as a careful result of Capitol Hill and White House

policy-making.

To say Gibney is completely unbiased

2001 18

in today’s feature films. Anyone with a camera of any sort can take pictures, but the best of these candid recordings transform the process into art,” Paletz said.

This cinematic achievement, as well as the originality of the subject matter of festival submissions, serve as the main criteria for Paletz and his committee when they determined the works that will be screened this weekend.

Highlighted in this years Full Frame selection are innovative oeuvres such as Glass: A Portrait of Phillip in Twelve Parts, an intimate, look at composer, Philip Glass; Lioness, a work that examines the place of female soldiers in Iraq; Daughters of Wisdom, an exploration of the lives offemale monks in a Buddhist monastery, and Academy Award-nominated La Corona (The Crown), which observes a beauty contest in a Colombian prison. An awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, the final day of the festival, to honor the outstanding documentaries in various categories. Thanks to Duke’s connection to the festival, the winners will be archived in Lilly Library.

Although Buirski stepped down as artistic director of the festival in 2007, she remains an ambassador and curator to the sidebar portion of the event.

“Using film as a catalyst—a language that is shared by all —we connect people in an effort to create greater understanding, heal conflicts and strive towards peace,” Buirski said. And with the Full Frame Festival’s astounding success so far, it seems she is well on her way to realizing this mission. #

COURTESY RITAMOLNAR

Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese is the Chairof Full Frame Film Festival's advisory board. brings a heightened sense of community to the experience.

“Durham is close enough to a film industry center such as New York but not too far in that it is easy to get to, and once there, most festival-goers remain for the full four days,” Paletz said.

Thus similar to film festival retreats such as Sundance, Full Frame succeeds in re-

would be false. Gibney fills the film with images and film clips of Bush-administration anti-terrorist patriotism speeches. However, by the nature of the film, there is little room for totally objective filmmaking. Gibney responsibly makes this film not an attack on the Bush administration but instead an analysis of the uses of torture by the United States. It is shocking and gruesome, but not sensationalist. The point of Taxi to the Dark Side is not to elicit chuckles at the idiocy of our government, but to present the plain truth of what is going on in the prisons of Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. All of that said, it is hard to imagine any merit to the U.S.’s argument in ambiguously-stated support of these goings-on.

Taxi to the Dark Side is full of unsavory images from Abu Ghraib. It is an example of detailed and responsible reporting and synthesis of information. It may not be as exciting as what’s playing at the megaplex, but it is a relevant and important study of what the government is actually doing.

The stories, the pictures and the individual people are all of great significance, but their sum effect in the context of this film is the truly worthwhile part. It is an important, revelatory documentary that exposes an important story much deeper than the headlines of The New York Times.

—Andrew Hibbard

moving its audience members from the unof city life in order to obtain their full attention. But in our blockbuster world, why the sudden interest in the documentary? Surely our buck would be far better spent on an hour and a half of today’s most stimulating Hollywood effects? Wrong.

“Documentaries illuminate subjects for their audiences that are seldom examined rest

21 DIR. R. LUKETIC COLUMBIA PICTURES

����� Remember that pesky catch phrase “Show, don’t tell” that your teacher would always write on your papers back in middle school? Well, it seems that none of 2Vs writing staff ever passed the sixth grade.

21, based on the best-selling book Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich, tells the true story of a group of

MIT students who card count their way to blackjack glory in Vegas. 4.0-student Ben Campbell (Across the Universe's Jim Sturgess) has a spot at Harvard Medical School but can only attend if he wins a full-ride scholarship or miraculously makes $300,000 in less than a year.

When the admissions board member tells Ben his essay has to “dazzle,” Ben realizes he hasn’t experienced any real excitement in his life that would make him “jump out of the page.” Ta-da!

Campbell’s unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey) recruits Campbell for his underground blackjack team, and soon Campbell knows all the secrets of card-counting and is taking weekend trips to Vegas.

Ben ditches his dorky robot-design friends, becomes infatuated with his teammate Jill (Kate Bosworth) and starts lying to his motherabout his whereabouts and the Harvard scholarship. His original motto—“$300,000 and I’m out”—and his poor-boy moral code slowly start to fade, while the glamorous, greedy Vegas lifestyle takes hold of him.

Unbeknownst to the far-too-attractiveto-be-realistic math squad is card-counting watchdog Cole Williams (Laurence Fishburne), who eventually catches onto the group’s hijinks and intervenes.

The framework for the film—the scholarship essay that has to “dazzle” the Harvard admissions board—is promising but disappears in the overly-extended subplots. 21 is in dire need of a thorough editing job and a greater infusion of morality into its characters. Moments like when Ben and Jill finally get together in a penthouse hotel room overlooking all of Vegas shine through the egregiously over-aware script, but are only impressive because of Vegas’ sumptuous visuals, not the filmmakers’ originality.

The film had the opportunity for greatness—think Casino meets Garden State—but proves to be as superficial as its setting.

—Charlie McSpadden

A|

recess

iril 3, 2008

FISHMAN

chop songs up for chopping’.S-sake.

“F-efon’t think they’re so ripe for interpretation, this group,” he said. “In the beginning, Tth ought, ‘How in the world am I going to interpret these?’ That’s what makes them so great, it’s that they’re so personal.

I just sort of came to the conclusion that the only way to dodt-was to see how it felt that night, and bring what I thought and felt, without being clever about it, not just doing some weird time signature—y’know, ‘This Wheel’s on Fire’ in 7.”

Fishman will perform his versions with his band—or rather, one of his bands. He likes to keep a staple of various musicians and mix and match them for shows.

“I pick people that I work with based on how I like them, not what [instrument] they play,” he said. So maybe it’s not surprising that he could end up with a combo of guitar, bass, drums, violin and trombone. The effect, Fishman said, is to ensure a spontaneous, improvisational feel on the bandstand. At any given time, all the musicians will know the song they’re playing, but may have never played it together.

Duke Performances Director Aaron Greenwald said he booked the show partly out of his own appreciation for The Basement Tapes.

“It represents an alternative history of American music, which is probably closer to the real history ofAmerican music, which provides a window to American history,” he said.

Greenwald added that he also wanted to

PAGE 5

want to

from page 1

folk tunes and covers Dylan and the Band recorded. The second night will include songs from the sessions that Dylan' did not release on the 1975 album (most of these tracks have gradually seeped out over the years, either through covers or bootlegs).

During the third night, Fishman will play songs actually from the record.

He sees a particular allure in the unreleased songs. One of them, “I’m Not There,” gained fame as the title of the Oscar-winning Dylan flick last year, but has long been a Holy Grail for Dylan obsessives, who consider it his unfinished masterpiece.

It’s a song Fishman included on the live album he recorded atjoe’s, and he’ll tackle it again Friday night.

“That song was really hard to approach,” he said. “You have to invest this intense emotion into words that make no sense, which is a trick.T listened and listened and listened and cobbled together some set of lyrics that felt like they had some continuity to them. I worried, ‘Maybe there’s going to be Dylan fanatics out there who say, “Oh this is heresy.’” When Greil Marcus sent me his notes, I said, ‘Well, if Greil Marcus likes it, who gives a s—?’”

Certainly, Fishman’s versions of the songs are not slavish. But he also said he didn’t

BLACK KEYES ATTACK AND RELEASE NONESUCH

�����

-

Apparently, the Black Keys really want you to know how flexible of a band they truly are. Why else would their newest release, Attack 6f Release, feature two versions of the same song placed back-to-back on the album? On both renditions of “Remember When,” the Black Keys effectively display their two vastly different but equally appealing styles. Side Ais a more acoustic, melodic and reflective, sound while side B replicates the electric style that has made

COURTESY HOWARD FISHMAN

The Black StudentAlliance weekendfor prospective students will feature a fashion showcentered aroundDuke life.

bring someone he says is a quintessentially cosmopolitan, “New York-y” artist to Durham in the midstof the Bull City’s most New York-y event, the Full Frame Film Festival.

So, for all this cosmopolitanism, does a quirky, peculiarly individual artist like Howard Fishman worry that he’ll be profiled as a Dylan repertory artist?

“I’m not worried about being pigeonholed as a Dylan interpreter because this is not a Dylan and the Band tribute band,”

the Black Keys a favorite amongst fellow musicians and advertising agencies (so far, their work has appeared in five different commercials).

Yet, even without their two. interpretations of “Remember When,” Attack & Release reveals how the Black Keys have no of genres, problem managing The laid-back sound represented in the opening tracks of the album like “Psychotic Girls” and “All You Ever Wanted” contrasts nicely with the more up-beat tracks that close out the record in “So He Won’t Break” and “Oceans and Streams.” But perhaps the best aspect of the album is the passionate and intense vocals of the Keys’ Dan Auerbach. The emotion with which

Auerbach sings “Lies” and “Things Ain’t Like They Used to Be” serves as the highlight of the album.

However, for all its welcomed tempo changes and passionate performing, Attack & Release has one glaring weakness in its lyrics. Sadly, the only word to describe most of the verses on the album is shallow.

For the most part, Auerbach succumbs to vague generalizations, nonsensical points and forced rhymes. But, despite this shortfall, Attack & Release should only help the Black Keys remain one of the music scene’s most admired and respected bands.

—Jordan Axt

“Shooting Rockets,” feels like the quintessential Destroyer song. Bejar abuses every technique he has been come to be known for, including meta songwriting (“A chorus is a thing that bears repeating”) and referencing his own music (“Saw you in Swan lake/You were great”). These laughable Bejar-specific cliches probably deserve criticism, but it’s these flaws that make Destroyer so lovable.

“Libby’s First Sunrise” ends the album. Though unremarkable compared to the rest of the songs, it echoes the first track. By bringing the album full-circle,

Bejar demonstrates his compositional savvy. He makes the album a complete work rather than just a compilation of mismatched songs.

By the end of the album, you still have no idea what Bejar is singing about. And for whatever reason, that’s okay. Dreams is not Bejar’s best, but it’s as cryptically brilliant as anything else Bejar has released. It may strike you as confused, but the best thing to do is sit back and enjoy the unintelligible beauty that is Destroyer.

—Andrew Hibbard

DESTROYER TROUBLE IN DREAMS MERGE

� ���� Any self-proclaimed indie hipster should be listening to Dan Bejar at least once a week. Not only does his resume include supergroups Swan Lake and the New Pornographers, Bejar is easily one of the most stupefying songwriters out there—a sure sign of his indie credibility.

For better or for worse, Bejar’s latest release under the Destroyer moniker, called Trouble in Dreams, finds him doing more of the same. Though Dreams unfortunately lacks the same zing as Bejar’s 2006 release, Destroyer’s Rubies, it is still an intriguing effort.

The album opens with the laid back “Blue Flower/Blue Flame,” a song that serves as a reminder to what kind of musician Bejar is. He teases his listeners with bizarre lyrics like “A woman by another name is not a woman/FH tell you what I mean by that/Maybe not in seconds flat/Maybe never.” However, the mysteries ofhis words eventually rope the listener in, and Bejar descends into a guitar-driven frenzy reminiscent of Pavement circa Crooked Rain.

After track one, each song feels like its own mini symphony. The six-minute “My Favorite Year” evinces Bejar’s ability to perfectly match musical composition with lyrical poetry.

Dreams’ longest track, the eight-minute

he said. “In this day and age I don’t think it would be a disingenuous thing to say it’s like Charlie Parker covering Gershwin.”

Plus he’s got several Other projects already in the pipeline —including a New Orleans brass band project. None of them has a release date yet, but it’s a fair bet that none of them will be commonplace.

“Anything that’sweird is good as far as I’m concerned,” Fishman said. “I’m all for it. The weirder and the more personal the better.”

VARIOUS ARTISTS caroijna

funk: first in funk,

ig6B-igyj

JAZZMAN ����� Rarities and obscurities are generally only the province of fanatics—obsessive vinyl-hoarding collectors who keep their prized archives in temperature-controlled vaults and sanctified reliquaries filled with the rich aroma of must. The prized wax, when actually spun, is about as musty as its home.

Not this disc.

It’s easy to slip into hyperbole about any CD; with that caveat, I assure you it is impossible to be bombastic about Carolina Funk.

The 22 cuts on the compilation—a drink’s on me for anyone who’s heard of any of these bands—make George Clinton sound like a sell-out to rock ‘n’ roll excess, make Rick James sound like smooth jazz and make Wild Cherry sound like square, white boys from Ohio (wait...).

The bands featured are all from the Carolinas, including acts from Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Columbia and Durham. Arguably the hottest track on the record is “Funky Soul Brother,” the only side ever cut by the Soul Drifters, of Harleyville, S.C. (population: 700). The song, like most on the album, is seeing its first release since its original, limited printing in the ’7os.

Emerging from the sea of saxophone bleats, breakbeats, deep bass and wahwah guitar, the songs paint a portrait of their time and place, their media the requisite get-down jams, heartbroken falsetto pleas and slick instrumentals, along with a healthy dose of militancy—just far enough removed to lend authenticity without scaring white collectors (zing!).

If the back stories for the songs elaborated in lavish liner notes —aren’t worth the price of admission (and they are), then the band names certainly are; the Black Exotics, the Tempo’s Band, Mongoose and the inexplicably named Gamith, to name a few. (Don’t even get me started on the cover photo.)

So in the words of Wally Coco, “get funky some” and buy this record.

—David Graham —

iril

recess

PAGE 6

SUPER SMASH BROS.: BRAWL WII NINTENDO

����� Super Smash Brothers: Brawl joins the ever-swelling ranks ofWii games that work better with GameCube controllers. Perhaps this is a limitation indicative of a larger problem with the system, but to me it is a serious flaw that the game experience is actually worsened when using Wii controllers. There is no motion-based game play as in Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi and there is no controller-specific advantage ( Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution). Aside from the graphical improvements, nothing defines Brawl as a next-generation title. ’Nowhere is this more apparent than in the single-player mode, which, for all intents and purposes, hasn’t changed since N64 days. Although an attempt at innovation is made with the new “The Subspace Emissary” adventure mode, the lack of voice acting means that any story must be developed via a series of

pokes, grunts and muted sexual tension.

The gameplay experience is an incomplete fusion of fighter and platformer that fails as both.

Making matters worse is the lack of real online capability. A terribly inconvenient online multiplayer mode makes trying to find a game harder than Zero Suit Samus makes me (which between you and me is “11” on a scale of “1” to “rigid”).

These limitations aside, the real meat of any Super SmashBrothers title has always been its offline multiplayer, and in this respect there is no better game on the market. A suite of new unlockable characters keeps players involved and the gameplay fresh while new maps like the WarioWare level, in which the background flips between small mini-games that net players mid-fight power ups, are much more interactive and keep the action high-paced.

There are more than enough new features to appeal to younger gamers, while series veterans will recognize all the traditional elements that made Super Smash Brothers so much fun in the first place.

—Alex Warr

battle for asgard XBOX 5 60, f PLAYSTATION

SEGA

Somewhere, somehow, Odin is rolling in his grave.

Sega and Creative Assembly’s latest ‘masterpiece,’ Viking: Battle for Asgard, is a slow, burdensome game that lacks refinement and gameplay, but has plenty of visual polish. There is so much wrong with this game that it is perhaps best to start with the good.

The opening sequence is interesting with a decent narration and comics reminiscent of Sin City's artistic flair. Once the comic panels fade away with clashes of death and scenes of pain, you find yourself commanding Skarin, champion of the goddess Freya. There are allusions to your past, and you expect the plot to thicken, but it does not. Then, from this not-sohumble beginning you find yourself picking your way through a world infested with demons and drudgery alike.

Once in the game, the graphics are the first thing to garner notice as they are one of the best parts df the game. The battle arena, framed by rolling waves in the background, is a sight to behold as both landscape and water are beautifully rendered.

Nevertheless, Viking suffers from problems in almost every other field. Make no mistake, Fable was the template from which this game was created, as almost every aspect of this game feels oddly familiar.

Whereas Fable was new, fresh and nimble in its gameplay, Viking is tired, tried and as bulky as the Norse men you surround yourself with. Basic fighting moves haveyou automatically cutting across large distances—immediately surrounding yourself with eaemies or uncontrollably falling off of a cliff. This programming flaw is es-

pecially disconcerting for a game based on death and destruction.

The rewards of utilizing sneak and killing blows are inconsequential. Things become tedious and lose their luster as you watch in amazement as finishing moves double as two seconds of invincibility.

There is not much to be said for the AI as the enemies come at you in the same predictable way every time. Moreover, everything noteworthy is cast in an ominous sheen to highlight its importance, leaving no room for player intelligence.

The sound is also subpar. There are no ambient sounds of nature or background music, leaving you in silence for the better part of the game with only terrible voice acting as an accompaniment.

All in all, this Fable clone is only worthwhile if you are suffering the ill effects of the drought of decent games after this past holiday season. If you cannot find it in yourself to pick up Army of Two where violence is celebrated with fist pumps and are awaiting Fable 2 with bated breath, then perhaps this distorted piece of Nordic legend is worth the rental fee.

—Chen Li

WITHOUT PRETENSION.

aipoWe. | MEXICAN

RD

&

2001 18

viking:

A GOURMET BURRITO,

ERWIN

3,

CAMERON

GRILL

LA KEVHEW

CTR

A|

inil

3, 2008

recess

PAGE?

Chapel textile exhibit weaves stories of Hope by

Bibi Tran

THE CHRONICLE

Currently featured at the Duke Chapel, Hollis Chatelain’s Hope for Our World exhibit is a dream-like portrayal of current social injustices in our world today. Showcasing from March 30 to April 14, these brilliantly detailed textiles each have a singular color theme and are suspended between columns, illuminated by the dim glow of the Chapel’s stained glass windows.

Drawing from personal encounters while traveling across the world, Chatelain brings to the Chapel an exposure to current issues related to poverty, immigration and drought. Moreover, her work underlines the importance of recognizing these issues by depicting poignant individual struggles. Upon entering the Chapel, viewers are greeted by the faces of another culture and are whisked into a realm where “activism art” is far from just the typical violent, jarring images, but is instead an extension of Chatelain’s dreams. Her inspirations are meaningful and the creation process is intricate. The final pieces are easy to gaze at and a little hard to forget.

“Many of my pieces are from my dreams of another place, such as ‘Exodus.’ Once I dream these pieces, I do more research to confirm my dreams. I then do the drawings, transfer them onto white fabric and paint them with thickened dyes, attach a backing and quilt it,” Chatelain said. “Most pieces are painted in just one hue with hundreds of different values.”

For example, “Hope for Our World,” the piece that shares the exhibit’s name, has 20,000 different types of thread representing 200 different shades of the same color scheme. What is most striking in these pieces is their medium and the way colors travel across the fabric, creating a warm ambiance for each particular story and evoking a “dream”-like essence.

“The reason I use textiles is that they not only give me away to do all the things I love—photography, drawing, painting—but they are also very tactile,” the artist said. “I really like that softness and how they make people want to approach the work just as we wear clothing, something we

COURTESY HOLLIS CHATELAIN

HollisCatelain creatively uses textiles to combinephotos, cloth and paint. like to have next to our bodies. I think that type of appeal comes through in this type of artwork.”

Housing this exhibit in the Duke Chapel further reinforces Chatelain’s appeal—the recognition of today’s issues, the instilling of the community’s concern—an ideal which the Chapel strongly supports.

“Duke Chapel strives to direct people’s minds, hearts and hands Godward. It is impossible to draw closer to God without drawing closer to those whom God loves, especially marginalized groups,” said Gaston Warner, the director of university and community relations. “The in-

'

dividual pieces which comprise the Hope for Our World exhibit draw our minds and hearts to issues of human need and environmental sustainability, and this is a primary role of the Chapel.”

Chatelain’s creations function as soft weapons and echo their messages in hopes of making viewers potentially stir some change by “starting to think about these issues.” The artist’s work inspires viewers to reflect on real life stories that are interwoven to the global social injustices we face now. Her art simply represents people.

“I want viewers to wonder and realize, ‘Wow, this is real, this is happening right now,’ so that they will be moved, touched and want to get involved,” Chatelain said. “People have told me that after seeing ‘Precious Water,’ it has motivated them to change their behaviors to conserve water.”

Through her insight not only as an artist but also simply as aiiuman being, Chatelain comments on these people’s stories, from Karen who is a Filipino economic refugee to Abudulai, a Tuareg ofWest Africa.

“We hear so many statistics and numbers. But it doesn’t become real until we know somebody who was killed, or maimed in the war, until it touches us personally,” the artist said. “If you can relate to any of these faces [in the pieces], maybe you will believe these are real people. They could be your mother or your lover. They are human, and no matter their race or religion, we all share the same feelings because we are just people. Maybe these pieces will make people have a little more humanity and a little more humility.”

Chatelain particularly notes the importance of engaging students, a population that she hopes will play an important role in impacting these issues in the future.

“It’s the young people,” she said. “We need the young people to get involved in this.”

Hope for Our World is actually only a part of a larger exhibit named Imagine-Hope (visit www.imagine-hope.com), which will consist of 12 textile pieces complemented by 15 to 20 black and white photographs depicting the reallife situations across the world. The full exhibit is currendy scheduled to premier in Islamabad and be presented in three other cities in Pakistan.

Howard Fishman Band Bob Dylan & The Band’s B tT

jIP Department of Duke University Stores®

07-1169

DUKE PERI

Presented at NYC’s Lincoln Center and Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre *Duke student ticket price

diikeperformances.org

684-4444

April 3,2 !008

recess

i

PAGES

Sleep Awareness and Stress Management Week MINDS Healthy Devil Peer Educators present: -

Saturday, Apr. 5* @ 3 pm Griffith Film Theater •

Come see his Inspirational comedy featuring THE EVOLUTION OFDANCE! "The i most viewed video on Youtube!" #

Look for the Healthy Devils on the Plaza Wednesday, April 2 Friday, April 4 to yet your FREE tickets!

-

Student H«llh Center

Sleep Awareness and Stress Management Week is sponsored by the MINDS Healthy Devil Peer Educators; Duke Student Health, Duke Student Government, Campus Council and the Multicultural Center.

april 3,2008

WOMEN'S LACROSSE Duke looks to avoid losing its third consecutive game when it hosts Notre Dame and its highpowered offense today at 4 p.m. ] q

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Blue Devils struggle through season of change by

LARSA AL-OMAISHI/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO

Redshirt junior Chante Black had a breakout season, returning from injury to lead the Blue Devils in scoring.

Laura Keeley THE CHRONICLE

Sometimes, you have to walk before you can run With so many new, uncertain elements—a new coach, a new system, new go-to players —Duke had many obstacles in its path to a Final Four berth. All year long, the Blue Devils had difficulty clearing the biggest hurdles, including the last one Sunday night against Texas a& m. season We are a growing team,” head coach analysis Joanne P. McCallie said. “[Texas A&M] is a seasoned team. We are a growing team trying to win championships. First-year coaches, changes, one senior, all those things [are factors].”

There were plenty of bumps along the road. The 10 losses Duke endured were its most since 1997. The Blue Devils’ 28 clip against opponents ranked in the nation’s top eight was a strong indicator that this year’s team was not quite up to par with the best in the country. Despite all this, Duke managed to advance just as far in postseason play as last year’s toprankecTsquad. After Sunday’s bitter loss, though, that achievement offered little consolation.

“Regardless of the kind of year we’ve had or the adversity we’ve faced, any year that ends in a loss, especially a loss before the Final Four, is not acceptable to Duke,” junior Abby Waner said. “That’s the good thing about this program. This hurts. And we expect more. That says a lot about the

goals we set for ourselves.”

For Waner, a natural shooter, this year was especially tough. After averaging 14.1 points per game and earning second-team All-ACC accolades as a sophomore in 20062007, she saw her scoring average drop to 10.3 this season and received third-team All-ACC recognition.

An even bigger change was in her success behind the arc. She shot an accurate 36.2 percent from downtown last year, but struggled all season to find her touch, finding the bottom of the net just 26.1 percent of the time this year.

‘You are never happy when your shot doesn’t fall,” Waner said after the final game Sunday night. “So yeah, it gets frustrating.”

Despite her shooting woes, Waner was able to help the team in other ways. She led the Blue Devils with 117 assists, and provided intangibles such as leadership and poise that went a long way toward Duke’s run to the Sweet 16.

While Waner struggled to find her shooting stroke, Chante Black emerged as the new go-to scorer for the Blue Devils. After redshirting last year due to a knee injury, Black exploded onto the national scene by leading Duke in scoring at 14.1 points per game. As the season wore on. Black drew double and triple teams —and comparisons to the best centers in the country.

“Chante Black is a toad,” Texas A&M’s head coach Gary Blair said after his team’s victory over the Blue Devils in the Sweet 16.

“We had as much trouble with her as we did with Courtney Paris [the Big 12 Player SEE W. BBALL ON PAGE 12

MEN'S LACROSSE

Quinzani adds new dimension for Duke offense by

Matthew Iles

THE CHRONICLE

Growing up in Duxbury, Mass., sophomore Max

Quinzani made the morning headlines by attacking the

dodging and shooting better than anyone else on his high school team —maybe even the country.

Before coming to Duke, Quinzani set the national high school record with 577 career points.

But when he tried to mesh his playing style with Duke’s system as a freshman last season, there was simply no room for him beside All-Americans Matt Danowski and Zack Greer. As a result, he had to adapt his game to one that originated from behind the net. And the Blue Devils couldn’t be happier.

Quinzani has scored in all 10 games this season, averaging more than a hat trick per outing. He leads the nation in tallies—his 33 are tied with Greer—as opponents have struggled mightily to account for Duke’s newest scoring threat.

“The majority of his points have come off the ball,” head coach John Danowski said. “There’s an art to that.

It’s not science, that’s a little bit more of an art. Just kind of knowing where to go and feeling the game.”

Even though his freshman year was a challenging transition, Quinzani scored 24 goals in just six starts. But he didn’t feel settled, at times concentrating more on not messing up than on making plays, Quinzani said.

A year later, he was still slightly uncomfortable in his new role. But then it all finally clicked for him when he notched a hat trick during the Blue Devils’ 15-7 throttling of then-No. 3 Maryland March 1.

“That’s when I really figured it out,” Quinzani said. “I definitely have a lot more confidence this year. I don’t just net head-on,

sit back and watch Matt and Zack.... Last year, I was almost in awe of them. Now this year, I’ve kind of learned to be forgotten—stay on the back side, work around the cage and be open for those guys.”

Matt Danowksi and Greer faced tough defensive pressure last season, but Quinzani’s improved play has immeasurably relieved that. With opponents unsure who to key in on—as they are almost certainly incapable of successfully guarding all three of Duke’s leading scorers at once— the Blue Devils have consistently lit up the scoreboard by taking what the defense has given them.

But it’s hardly been simple. Some of Quinzani’s goals have come off passes almost no one else would dare try.

“I can be 20 yards from [Danowski and Greer] across three lanes of sticks, and they can still get me the ball,” Quinzani said. “It took me a while to figure out how far away and how crappy the look could be, but they can make the passes. Now I have all the confidence that they can make them. I can be in lanes that would be impossible for other people, but we can hook it up.”

With a slew of fearsome attackmen initiating Duke’s offense from in front of the net, opposing defenses have repeatedly lost track of the 5-foot-8 Quinzani as he deftly sneaks around the crease to get in position. When his teammates dodge toward the goal and command the defense’s attention, Quinzani finds a spot near the cage and waits patiently for a quick pass through traffic for an easy score.

“There’s no way you can stop those as a defender,” Quinzani said. ‘You really just have to know that I’m going to sneak all the time around the goal. I know that when SEE M. LAX ON PAGE

10

PETE

KIEHART/CHRONICLE

FILE PHOTO

Sophomoreattackman Max Quinzani has scored in all 10 ofDuke's games this season and averages more than three goals per contest.

10 I THURSDAY, APRIL 3,2008

THE CHRONICLE

WOMEN'S LACROSSE

Duke aims to halt losing streak into its matchup with the Fighting Irish (8-3), the Blue Devils’ primary It’s been six years since sixthfocus will be on possessing the ball. ranked Duke last dropped three More than once this season, Duke straight games. But the Blue Devils has shown how overwhelming its face the possibility of adding on to powerful offense can be. their two-game losBut first, the Blue Devils need ing streak today at to control the ball against a Notre <£jß|r 4 p.m. against No. Dame team thatranks fourth in the 12 Notre Dame country in causing turnovers.

VS. at Koskinen Sta“When we have the ball, we can dium do great things,” freshman Sarah “Our group Bullard said. “Being able to mainas a whole is not tain possession] ust obviously gave us .

TODAY, 4 p.m. sed , ability to have a greater impact Koskinen Stadium |' >°s,nS- the head coach Kerin the game. Of course, you can’t do stin Kimel said. “We’re just learnanything without the ball, but once ing how you cope and regroup we were able to get the draws we and get back on the field and keep found our rhythm on offense.”

Much of Duke’s success on the working with tough games ahead.

We don’t want to dwell on the fact offensive end can be attributed to that we lost two games in a row.” junior Carolyn Davis. The attackDespite its losses to No. 4 Virer is leading the Blue Devils in ginia and No. 7 North Carolina both goals and assists, with 31 and 10, respectively. Davis has proven in the last two weeks, Duke (7-3) began showing its abilities in the herself to be a consistent scorer, second half against the Cavaliers. as she has found the net at least The Blue Devils trailed 8-2 at the once in every game thus far. intermission, but outscored their Although Notre Dame may at7-5 after the break to opponents tempt to limit Davis’ touches and make the game interesting. Duke scoring opportunities, Duke can also rely on Del Monte to add to the eventually went down 13-9.

“We were obviously upset that scoreboard. The junior has 24 goals we lost but we’re upbeat about and 10 assists so far this year, and has how we turned the game around,” recorded a goal in every contest. junior Megan Del Monte said. “We Regardless of the team’s oftried to put a positive spin on it, esfensive firepower, a strong outing pecially with the way we were able from Duke’s defense will be key in to come back in the second half.” avoiding the nonconference loss For Duke to carry its momentum against the Fighting Irish. Junior by

Madeline Perez

goalkeeper Kim Imbesi had one of her best performances in the last contest, recording eight saves against a Virginia offense averaging over 12 goals a game. Imbesi has a .420 save percentage this season.

Notre Dame has its own offensive star in reigning Big East Player of the Week Jillian Byers, who has scored 49 goals so far this season.

For theyear, the Fighting Irish average close to 15 goals per contest good for eighth in the nation.

If the Blue Devils can contain Byers and Notre Dame’s potent offense, however, they could get back to the winning ways they’ve grown accustomed to.

THE CHRONICLE

,

t0

,

—

„

SARA GUERRERO/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO

Junior Megan Del Montehas scored 24 goals this season for the Blue Devils.

I

Deloitte Curious about Consulting?

Are you considering Consulting as a career option after graduation? Or do you just plain want to know what "Consulting" is? Here's your chance to find out more!

Consulting 101 is designed to provide undergraduate freshman, sophomore, and junior students with a chance to learn, what "consulting" really is and to see what life is like for some of us in the Consulting industry.

Come join us tomorrow! We look forward to meeting you then!

Tomorrow: Friday, April 4, 2008 Old Trinity Room, West Union Bldg.

2:00 3:30 p.m.

Refreshments will be served -

Please e-mail Rishi Vasudeva (rivasudeva@deloitte.com) or Dan Edwards (danieledwards@deloitte.com) with any questions.

Deloitte

Weiss also said Alieva seemed

“passionately interested in the job.”

Of the four remaining finalists, only Alieva has experience as an athletic director. He was reappointed to his position by President Richard Brodhead in August and has been at the helm of Duke’s program for 10 years.

Alieva has served various roles within the Department ofAthletics since 1980.

The three other candidates include two Louisiana State senior associate athletic directors, Verge Ausberry and Herb Vincent, and University of Kentucky Deputy Athletic Director Rob Mullens.

Although Jenkins received the committee’s recommendation Wednesday, the timing ofhis final decision remains unclear.

“The committee expressed that the chancellor’s decision should come as soon as possible after the recommendations were made to him, but there was no set timetable,” said Rusty Jabour,

M.LAX from page 9

CONSULTING 101 DIBSS

ALIEVA from page 1

OUSSSI

our guys are making moves, the defenseman has to have one eye on the ball and one eye on me....

So I’m always cutting off the back of helmets.”

“Max is really shifty,” Greer said.

“He is small, but he can handle the ball in tight situations, which is key. We’re not scared to throw it in there.... He’s good at finding his

LSU’s vice chancellor of communications and university relations.

Jabour said Jenkins had not provided further-scheduling details as of Wednesday night, but that updates on the search could be found as early as Thursday morning on the university’s Web site.

Weiss said he was also unsure ofhow quickly the decision would be made, saying it could take hours or days.

A Duke official close to the situation confirmed Wednesday evening that Alieva would stay overnight in Louisiana.

When Jenkins makes his decision, it will still need to be ratified by the LSU Board of Supervisors at its April 25 meeting, where University System President John Lombardi will be present.

Dan Parker—president ofParker Executive Search, the consulting firm hired by LSU officials to build a list of candidates to succeed outgoing Athletics Director Skip Bertman—declined an interview with The Chronicle Wednesday.

Alieva was unavailablefor comment Wednesday. spots, and everyone’s got the confidence to throw him the ball.”

With the postseason approaching and dreams of redeeming last year’s loss in the national tide game very much alive, Duke will undoubtedly rely on its big names: Danowski and Greer. But the Blue Devils’ championship chances might just rest on the shoulders of theirlittle guy.

That is, so long as opposing defenses continue having trouble keeping tabs on him.

DukeSSiSS ENGLISH 63S Intro Creative Writing ENGLISH 100CS Writing: Poetry ENGLISH 101CS Doc Film/Video Theory/Practice ENG '.olonial ENG odigals ENG eng: oir

FVD FVD FVD

GERMAN

Check out

these great classes!

HIST' HIST ICS V LIT LIT LIT LIT LIT 150 S Fiction of the Sixties LIT 151 S Dystopias in Fiction & Film MATH 31L Laboratory Calculus 1 MATH 103 Intermediate Calculus MUSIC 120 Rock & Role: Theories of Performance

Space still available!

CLASSIFIEDS

THE CHRONICLE

ANNOUNCEMENTS

RESEARCH STUDIES

ATTENTION SOPHOMORES, JUNIORS Make a teaching license part of your undergraduate

RESEARCH ASSISTANTS WANTED Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center is recruiting three research assistants for NIH-funded studies investigating

studies and earn a Minor in Education at the same time! The Program in Education at Duke offers students the opportunity to earn a teaching license at the elementary (grade k-6) or at the high school level (grade 912). Students in the Teacher Preparation Program-also qualify for a Minor in Education. Applications for admission are now being accepted.

For elementary licensure, contact Dr. Jan Riggsbee at 660-3077 or jrigg@duke.edu. For high school licensure, contact Dr. Susan Wynn at 660-2403 or swynn@duke.edu

CASH 4 YOUR CAR TRUCK/SUV

exercise as an intervention for individuals with heart disease, COPD or hypertension. Responsibilities include patient recruitment, data entry and management, ensuring adherence to study protocols, and general administrative support.

Applicant must be self-motivated, detail-oriented, and have excellent organizational and communication skills. He/she will be involved in development of overall recruiting strategies, will work closely with interventioniststo see that study aims are met, and will be accountable for day-to-day administration of the study. Qualifications: B. A. or B. S. in Psychology, Pre-Med major, or related field. Previous research experience and knowledge of Access and Excel preferred. This position offers a great opportunity for gaining work experience before graduate or medical school. To apply, please email resume and cover letter to Mrs. Julie Johnson at julie.johnson@ duke.edu. 919-684-5487

/

A Lot of Cars Inc. wants to pay you top dollar for your vehicle. You can even continue to use it until yourlast day in Durham. Owned by a Duke Alum (Trinity 00’). 3119 N. Roxboro St.**next to BP gas** 919-220-7155

ESSENTIALS OF HR MANAGEMENT A two-day introductory HR course, open to the public, for those new to the HR field or with newly acquired HR responsibilities.

April 14-15, 2008. Offered by Duke Continuing Studies in partnership with the Society for Human Resource Management(SHßM). Visit www.learnmore.duke.edu or 919-668-1836

EARN UP TO $20!!! Earn up to $2O by participating in a psych study! The Duke Visual Cognition Lab is looking for reliable subjects to assist us with our research. Our experiments are easy, fun, and completely non-invasive. If interested, please go to http://participate.mind.

call

LOOKING FOR A NEW CAREER? There is a demand for

AT

The NC Coastal Federation has policy and education internships available for Duke students & enrollees. Earn $4,500 for 11 weeks while protecting the environment. jims@nccoast.org or 252-393-8185

MUSEUM BIRTHDAY PARTY EDUCATOR The Museum of Life Science is looking for people +

with interest in young children, and enthusiasm for science learning to lead parties for young children. HS graduate with background in education and/or science is preferred. Up to 10 hours per week, primarily on weekends. Position starts at $8.25/ hour. Send resume to leslie.fann@

ncmis.org

SUMMER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Are you a student desiring SUMMER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE? Busy cognitive psychology lab looking for 2 responsible, interested undergraduates.

One position will consist predominantly coding memories recalled by participants. Great for someone that loves to read! The second position will include tasks such as: coordinating and conducting behavioral experiments (from participant recruitment to data entry). Flexible schedule plus a fun working environment for 8-15 hours per week @ $B.OO/ hour, (work-study preferred).

Email memlab@psych.duke.edu or call Amanda at 660-5639 today.

FULL TIME PSYCHOLOGY LAB MGR Full-time Psychology Lab Manager Position Motivated individual needed for full-time Lab Manager position in memory research lab in psychology department at Duke University. The Rubin Lab conducts behavioral, functional neuroimaging, and physiological investigations of autobiographical memory in young and healthy older adults, and in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder. Duties include scheduling and testing human subjects, preparation of experimental materials, data imput and analysis, supervising undergraduate research assistants, and general lab management tasks. Successful applicants must work well independently. Prior research experience in psychology is encouraged but not necessary. Fluency with computers required. An excellent opportunity to gain research experience necessary for admission to grad school!

To apply, please email the following items to Amanda Miles at memlab@psych.duke.edu: cover letter including statement explaining interest in the position, expectations, long-term goals, and any unique skills or characteristics you feel would contribute to the lab; resume or CV; transcipt of undergraduate coursework; and contact information (email and phone number) for at least 3 references.

-

HILTON GARDEN INNSOUTHPOINT The brand new Hilton Garden Inn Durham/Southpoint has the following full time positions available: 3rd shift security, kitchen/restaurant supv., dishwasher/utility, housekeepers, housepersons, front desk.

Only those interested in providing outstanding hospitality and able to work flex, schedule including weekends/nights need apply. Competitive rates, medical/dental insurance quarterly bonus, hotel discounts available. Pre-employment background and drug test. Apply in person at 7007 Fayetteville Road, Durham NC, 27713. 919-544-6000

AUTISM

SUMMER

CAMP

Come spend an unforgettable summer serving folks on the autism spectrum Contact Sara Gage: 919-542-1033 www.autismsocietync.org

EARN BIG BUCKS distributing organic, nontoxic, nationally recognized, proven peppersprays. Email: fred@gordoncompaniesinc.com toll free: 800-433-0038

RESIDENTIAL STAFF No plans for the summer? Like working with young people? Duke Youth Programs has vacancies for female residential counselors. If interested, download application from website or call for more information. 919684-5387

PARTNERS PLACE APARTMENT Apartment for lease for next year. 3rd floor, 3BR, 3 bath. Available June 1, 2008 Contact owner @ JANANCECO@ lexcominc.net or by phone 336249-0296

HOMES FOR SALE 3-BEDROOM TRINITY PARK 818 West Knox Street $195,000.

Completely rebuilt cottage with master bedroom and bath upstairs.

Two bedrooms, living room, dining room, and kitchen downstairs. For pictures or more details, contact Dennis at 493-3983 or tricitysigns@ -

nc.rr.com

TRAVEL/VACATION RETREATMYRTLEBEACH.COM Spring Break/ Grad Week 1-800645-3618 VISIT US AT MYSPACE. COM/RETREATMYRTLEBEACH. $lOO AND UP FOR THE WEEK!

UPS Store 2608 Erwin Rd. 383-1400 next to Chipotle •

•

HELP WANTED BARTENDERS ARE IN DEMAND!!!

DEVELOPMENT

Animal welfare organization seeks student desiring website development experience. Great opportunity to hone your skills, help animals in need, and see your name in lights.

Little or no financial compensation.

Earn $2O $35 per hour. 1 or 2 week classes & weekend classes. 100% Job Placement Assistance. RALEIGH’S BARTENDING SCHOOL. Have Fun! Make Money!

Meet People! CALL NOW (919)6760774 www.cocktailmixer.com -

www.trianglecares.org.

The Chronicle class! led advertising

www.dukechronicle.com/classifieds rates

All advertising $5.00 for first 15 words lOtf (per day) additional per word 3 or 4 consecutive insertions -10 off 5 or more consecutive insertions 20 off special features online and print all bold wording $l.OO extra per day bold heading $1.50 extra per day bold and sub headline $2.50 extra per day online only attention getting icon $l.OO extra per ad spotlight/feature ad $2.00 per day website link $l.OO per ad map $l.OO per ad hit counter $l.OO per ad picture or graphic $2.50 per ad -

%

-

%

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

deadline

12:00 noon 1 business day prior to publication

payment

Prepayment is required Master Card, VISA, Discover, American Express,

cash or check ad submission

online: www.dukechronicle.com/classifieds email: advertising@chronicle.duke.edu fax to: 919-684-8295 phone orders: (919)-684-3811

No refunds or cancellations after first insertion deadline ADVERTISERS: Please check youradvertisement for errors on the first day of publication. If you find an error, please call 919-684-3811. The Chronicle only accepts responsibility for the first incorrect day for ads entered by our office staff. We cannot offer make-good runs for errors in ads placed online by the customer.

1 11

APARTMENTS FOR RENT

duke.edu and from there you may sign up for an account in our online scheduling system and browse through a list of our current studies.

919-668-6144

technical writers in the Triangle.

Duke Continuing Studies offers a Certificate in Technical Communication. Come to a FREE information session on 4/21. To register for the info session, call 684-6259, or visit learnmore.duke.edu and click on Professional Certificates.

WEBSITE

SUMMER INTERNS THE COAST

THURSDAY, APRIL 3,2008

09

|

THE CHRONICLE

12 1 THURSDAY, APRIL 3,2008

W.BBALL from page 9 of the Year].”

Black’s rise to the nation’s elite was the product of a change in offense instituted by McCallie and her staff. Instead of running at mach-speed and putting up jump shots from the perimeter, Duke slowed down the tempo and pounded the ball inside to Black as often as it could. As more teams started taking notice of her dominance, the Blue Devils started passing the ball back out to the guards to generate offense.

One of the guards who received the feeds from Black was Wanisha Smith, the lone senior on this year’s team. Smith battled back from early-season injuries to contribute 9.4 points per contest. Her real contribution, however, is not found on a stat sheet.

DukeClass of 2008

iGot iGive

“We are going to miss an awful lot from Wanisha,” McCallie said. “She is the energizer. ‘Nish is the kid who is playing hard and aggressive and demanding intensity. She is just such a tough competitor.... You never replace people, and we will never replace ‘Nish. You have to evolve as a new team.”

Duke will evolve, and next year’s team will be different from this year’s team, just as this one differed from the year before.

And next year’s squad will have plenty of motivation to come out of the gate sprinting. With another year’s worth of seasoning, the Blue Devils might be ready to take the next step toward their perennial goal of a national championship.

“I have a great belief in this team,” McCallie said. “[The loss in the Sweet 16] leaves you very sad, but it also leaves you very motivated for the lessons we can take from this experience.”

ZACHARY TRACER/CHRONICLE FILE PHOT(

The Blue Devils look on as their season came to a close Sunday night against Texas A&M in the Sweet 16.

BJ 2 0 08

Senior Week

M

9

DUKE

ANNUAL

Senior Gift Campaign

FUND

SAT

MON

TUE

WED

THU

FRI

NOON-2:OOPM

S:3OPM-B:3OPM

S:3OPM-7:OOPM

6:OOPM-8;00PM

9:OOPM-MIDNIGHT

3:OOPM-4:OOPM

Chapel Climb

Deans’ Reception Wine 6t Cheese

Senior Picnic

Senior Service Project West Campus Plaza

Climb to the top of the Chapel and see Duke in a whole new way!

Doris Duke Center Sarah P. Duke Gardens

4:3OPM-S:3OPM

Men’s LAX Pre-Game Cookout

10:00PM-2:00AM

Pub Crawl

Hosted by President and Mrs. Brodhead

Senior Regional Alumni Lounge @ Nasher 54 Networking Card Lot 3:OOPM-4:OOPM

Cameron Indoor Stadium

Parking available in Card Lot

Entertainment by Stella by Starlight Nasher Museum of Art

After-Party for Seniors at G-Loft

Duke Alums Who Broke The Mold Card Lot

Make your Senior Gift at http://annualfund.duke.edu/seniorgift

WHAT’S BEHIND

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATIO

I

YOUR MASK? A CAPS Personal Growth Workshop Do you feci there are parts of you that you aren’t in touch with as much here at Duke?

Have you lost Ever wonder

parts of who you are?

if everyone is wearing a mask at Duke?

spend

Join us fora two-part workshop £o some time exploring and discussing; the parts of ourselves that tend to stay behind our masks.

Room

performances all day by Soulless Dogs, Dhavnaka, DefMo, Sabrosura, Speak of the Devil, Luego, Inside |oke, Deja Blue, Pitchforks and Morel

FRIDAY 4TH APRIL -12 TO 6PM MAIN WEST QUAD & EC PLAZA CO-SPONSORED BY DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS

&

CAMPUS COUNCIL

21/ Page suilding April 14th and Erom 5:00 p.m. £;45 p.m.

Contact Lauren

21st

Rothwell,Clinical Social Work, with questions

intern, at CAPS

or to

You may

register.

also register online at

http://caps.studentaffairs.duke.edu CAPS

-

Division of Student Affairs

-

Duke University

THE CHRONICLE

THURSDAY, APRIL 3,2008 1 13

THE Daily Crossword

Edited by Wayne Robert Williams

ACROSS Fiddler in the sand Tarry

9 Picture holder 14 In good health

Ihoe Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins

15 Hot pair in poker

Kind of eagle?

Start of Will

6KVLER?

Rogers quote Fully in flames

Lassos Cherubic or seraphic

Presume Part 2 of quote Summer TV fare Couples' pedestal?

Clean air grp.

Web spots Search deeply

(into)

38 Fuss 40 Part 3 of quote 42 Smoke deposit 43 Some Eastern

jy.

ig

Huntington Beach, CA

Europeans

Dilbert Scott Adams d c

E

o o

PAY PROJECT IS ON HOLD. DO YOU NEED ANY HELP ON YOURS?

SURE. CALL THESE 1to CUSTOMERS AND TELL E THEN LJE CANT DELIVER ■o CO TltAE OR WITH THE s8 ON FEATURES THEY NEED.

)

/—ok f

1 yAk

E o

'

ti

/

vT

(I

id

li.

Z)

>.

<0 Q

c

DO YOU HAVE ANY TASKS THAT DON'T FEEL LIKE GETTING WATERBOARDED ON YOUR BIRTHDAY?

CO

AND TELL T THEN THE PRICE WENT (cri up

f

to

T3

\

o

L

CO

V

X o o CM

-

@

i

00

9

i-

Abs exercise Reverence DDE's arena Lions' prides Part 4 of quote Essence of roses 60 Tell the tale 61 Professional

Abbr.

Marked with a tab

Sports officials

Fast on one's feet "West Side

Story" tune

Put in the office Microsoft's man Bottom line

copyist

Maintain 63 End of quote 66 Stage whisper 67 avis 68 Plane front More rational A long ways off

24 25 27 29

Expanded

30

DOWN Bird sound Relation in degree

Police blotter

entry Rouse Obstacles Kind of cream or cap Narc org

Doonesbury Garry Trudeau IHSV MUST 35 VO)N6 A

on a

building

figure

Ballet skirts Former Tease UFO crew D.C. old-timer Oklahoma town Indian instrument Mauna volcano Solemn

44 46 49 51

promise

37 Hot time in Le Havre 39 Reverse, as a veto 41 Wine cask

Kind of clam Georgia fruit Single grain Like guitars

and tennis racquets 52 Peruvians of yore 53 Chip dip

54 Silo filler 55 Colorful fish 57 Lesser Sundas island 58 Humble 59 Freshen up 61 Brown quickly 64 Clumsy clod 65 Lingerie buy

BUTIHAVB

3BTT3R JOB IN IHS BARRIO HIGH SCHOOLS THAN TO dsils/B^.

IV

COUB6B

855 N LBV

THAT 5XPLAINS a rnr

UNDER /HV BELT!

I

,

'

(premature) sclafani predictions:

it

I

The Chronicle

00 0 0

dave will freak out by 8 p.m. (remember mt. fuji):... abby, yu, sean jia will be flush by 7:30 p.m.: shreya, jia, chelz, dave em, 8-minute vaisman a brian mcginn cameo: ...and a seyward-ryan love fest: leslie tim, gabe beezly will woo the photog froshies: tracer, maya ...until he starts dancing: irem will even by recess standards: sara shuchi will rally for a late-night shooters escapade: iysa Roily Millersays this is what you get for coming a day early:.... Roily ,

nk Pen Phil Dunlap wai, YOU'RE Ncrr

ANGERPPoH,

KAN, IHAN-

Ex/icny LIRE ME.

DLE ANGER. THE energy in here IS REAUY BAD

A)

C

fcß,€

6REAT Mother

my

FoR THE PLAYPEN...

w

T<f/ vL 7

is

I

-r

Sudolcu 1 3 7 9 6

6 2 7 9 5 4 3

9 2 4 6 5 1 4 3 8 1 9 6 8 1 5 2 6 7 3 9 7 4 8 2 9 7 6 3 8 1 5 4 1 9 3 8 6 6 8 2 3 7 6 1 3 1 5 6 7 2 9 4

8 5 4 1 5 2 2 7 4 9

a

8 7 2 3 5

Answer to yesterday's puzzle

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits

Student Advertising Coordinator

Margaret Stoner Lianna Gao, Elizabeth Tramm Melissa Reyes Advertising Representatives: Jack Taylor, Qinyun Wang v Kevin O'Leary Marketing Assistant: National Advertising Coordinator; Cordelia Biddle, Charlie Wain Keith Cornelius Courier: Creative Services Coordinator: Alexandra Beilis Creative Services: Marcus Andrew, Rachel Bahman Akara Lee Online Archivist:....

Roily Miller Business Assistants Rebecca Winebar Account Assistants:

9

1 through 9. (No number is repeated in any column, row or box!)

8 7 9

4 If Humpty Dumpty had put an ad in The Chronicle classifieds, he would have found someone to put him back together again.

www.dukechronide.com/classifieds

7 2 3 1 5 1 '

6 5 5 6 2 5 4

■

3 9 3 8 9 4

7 8

www.sudoku.com

THE CHRONICLE

14 1 THURSDAY, APRIL 3,2008

Sharing the cake over 75 years p p

<v E— l

As the report progresses T" n “Uniting Old and New: signed to social selective and I A Vision for the Inte- themadclivingcommunities—- from this encouraging beJL grated Development of will shape construction of the ginning, it describes a fully Duke’s West and Central new campus, but we have yet developed West and Central Campus,” Dean of Under- to see a significant bottomcampus but skims over how up surge in Duke will make the transition graduate Eddemand for into this final product. This ucationSteve editorial Nowicki lays this sort of crucial missing piece creates out quite explicitly the mohousing. Issues such as these the impression (perhaps untivations and preliminary require student feedback and fairly) that the University has careful consideration of stulooked past the next 25 years plans for the University’s ambitious vision for renovating dents’ needs before concrete of the undergraduate living our undergraduate campus. plans are made. experience.

The first public step in As a vision for changes of In this respect, the report what is said to be a 50- to 75- such awesome magnitude, the looks so far ahead that it foryear project, the report at guiding principles that Nogets the present, when in realtimes reads like an enormous wicki develops are welcome ity as much emphasis should hodgepodge of ideas. But to and necessary. We agree with be placed on next year’s class expect anything different at his assertion that inclusiveness, as one 40 years in the future. this stage would be unfair. If cross-generational connection, Most students care about change only as far as the conanything, the specificity in diverse housing options, physisome sections is unwarranted. cal connectivity and promotion crete impact that it has on For example, the proposed ofindividual connection to the quality of life during their distribution of bed spaces campus are all worthy goals to time at Duke. The classes that with 60 percent of beds asstrive toward. bear the burdens associated —

I think the free drinks and the freefood were a good incentive by themselves.

—Junior Jillian Tellez on why she went to Duke University Union’s Duke Royale party Wednesday night. See story page 1.

LETTERS POLICY The Chronicle welcomes submissions in the form ofletters to the editor or guest columns. Submissions must include the author’s name, signature, department or class, and for purposes of identification, phone number and local address.

Letters should not exceed 325 words; contact the editorial

Direct submissions to

Chronicle reserves the right to edit letters and guest columns for length, clarity and style and the right to withhold letters based on the discretion of the editorial page editor.

Phone: (919) 684-2663 Fax; (919) 684-4696 E-mail: chronicleletters@duke.edu

Es,. 1905

Editorial Page Department The Chronicle Box 90858, Durham, NC 27708

The Chronicle

Inc 1993 .

DAVID GRAHAM, Editor SEAN MORONEY, Managing Editor SHREYA RAO, News Editor MEREDITH SHINER, Sports Editor SARA GUERRERO, Photography Editor LESLIE GRIFFITH, Editorial Page Editor WENJIA ZHANG, News Managing Editor JONATHAN ANGIER, General Manager CHELSEAALLISON, University Editor SHUCHI PARIKH, University Editor LAUREN KOBVLARZ, OnlineEditor TIM BRITTON, Sports Managing Editor HEATHER GUO, News PhotographyEditor KEVIN HWANG, News Photography Editor NAUREEN KHAN, City & State Editor GABRIELLE MCGLYNN, City & StateEditor & JOECLARK, Health Science Editor REBECCA WU, Health & Science Editor VARUN LELLA, Recess Editor LAURA BETH DOUGLAS, Sports Photography Editor RACHEL RODRIGUEZ, Online Design Editor KATHERINE MACILWAINE, Features Editor LISA MA, Editorial Page Managing Editor RYAN MCCARTNEY, Editorial Page Managing Editor LYSA CHEN, Wire Editor EUGENE WANG, WireEditor Editor WARR, ALEX Recess Managing IREM MERTOL, Recess PhotographyEditor SARAH BALL, Towerview Editor MICHAEL MOORE, TowerviewEditor PETE KIEHART, TowerviewPhotography Editor PAIKLINSAWAT, TowerviewManaging Photography Editor Editor EAGLIN, ADAM Senior MINGYANG LIU, SeniorEditor MOLLY MCGARRETT, Senior Editor ANDREW YAFFE, SeniorEditor GREGORYBEATON, Sports Senior Editor MARY WEAVER, Operations Manager CHRISSYBECK, Advertising/Marketing Director BARBARA STARBUCK, Production Manager NALINIAKOLEKAR, University Ad Sales Manager YU-HSIEN HUANG, Supplements Coordinator MONICA FRANKLIN, Durham Ad Sales Manager STEPHANIE RISBON, Administrative Coordinator The Chronicle is published by the Duke Student Publishing Company, Inc, a non-profit corporation independent of Duke University. The opinions expressed in this newspaper are not necessarily those of Duke University, its students, faculty, staff, administration or trustees. Unsigned editorials represent the majority view

of the editorial board.Columns, letters and cartoons represent the views of the authors.

To reach the Editorial Office at 301 Flowers Building, call 684-2663 or fax684-4696.T0 reach the Business Office at 103 West Union Building, call 684-3811.T0 reach the Advertising Office at 101 West Union Building call 684-3811 or fax 684-8295. Visit The Chronicle Online at http://www.dukechronicle.com.

2008 The Chronicle, Box 90858, Durham, N.C. 27708. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the prior, written permission of the Business Office. Each individual is entitled to one free copy. ©

struction and pave the way for long-term donations.

Similarly, areas like Central Campus that are not a part of the final integrated campus should not be abandoned in the interim. Though administrators have expressed a desire to demolish Central as soon as possible, in the scope of a decades-long project that becomes a significant period of time. Central living is not beyond redemption, and if thousands ofstudents are expected to live there, it needs basic improvements to redeem it. there Moving forward, shouldnot be a conflict between present and future but rather a nuanced plan for forging a healthy balance between them.

Future students will have their cake and eat it too—but current studentsdeserve a piece.

The great escape

ontherecord

department for information regarding guest columns.

The Chronicle will not publish anonymous or form letters or letters that are promotional in nature. The

with this project will be less able to enjoy the new campus as undergraduates.

With this tmth in mind, planning groups must continue to formulate a detailed long-range plan but should implement it so that every graduating class has some value added to their experience.

For example, this year’s graduating class saw the Nasher Museum of Art, Bostock Library, von der Heyden Pavilion, Perkins Library renovation and West Campus Plaza emerge as tangible improvements that they were able to use within their time at Duke. Segmenting the construction into four-year plans or the like would be beneficial on a number of levels, if only as a strategy to market new con-

I

have an addictive personality. By that I do not mean everyone I have ever met incessantly follows me around begging for more time in my presence.

Only one person does that, and I am currently looking into a restraining order.Rather, if personalities were addictive like that, I would probably be the one shooting them up my arm.

Unlike many aspects of myself, which all you are bored probably with by now, I uphold that having little obsessions—hobbies, lysa chen if you will—are hi, society actually normal this world of In exams and 20-page papers, where you are constantly working toward the next stage of your life under the scrutiny of your teachers, families and friends, a little bit of escapism can keep you sane.

Of course, a bit ofemotional balance and proper time-management skills could serve the same function, but let’s be reasonable.

My addictiveness was nurtured at a young age when I, like many of my peers, was swept up in wave after wave of childhood fads. POGs. Crazy Bones. Tamagotchis. Beanie Babies. Pokemon.

Neopets. I fell victim to them all.

One of the happiest days ofmy early childhood was when, as a first grader, I was recognized as student of the weekand allowed to choose a prize from a giant, glass cabinet in the front hall of the school.

Among some of the coveted and practical prizes in the cabinet were a large art set with markers, paints and pastels and times-tablesflash cards.

I went home with 200 POGs. That’s 200 small cardboard discs, the perfect size to get lost in and under the couch and the perfect number to scatter between all the rooms in die house. My parents were thrilled.

To understand the extent ofmy happiness, you have to know that my household discouraged any interest in these fads, and any interest other than schoolwork in general. (You also have to know that I am Asian.)

Though I earnestly watched my friends play on their Game Boys or sift through their albums of Pokemon cards at school, video games and similar nonsense were banned at home. Indulging myself in these crazes was a special treat, and when al-

lowed, I might have gone a bit overboard.

When my fourth-grade self refused to be separated from my Nano Baby at a piano lesson (again, Asian), my mother dealt with the situation on the car ride home. Worried that neglecting my pixel pet would cause him to run away? Easy solution, she said. And then, still driving, she threw him out the car window.

It was traumatizing.

So with the stress and freedom of college combined, I am now more than ever turning to “a little bit of escapism” and now. more than ever going a bit overboard.

I do not just like things. I love them. I do not watch one episode ofa favorite television show to end the night. I watch an entire season, get three hours of sleep and then wake up early to watch the next.

And most recently, I do not accept leveling once or twice when restarting my favorite online RPG. It is only after passing 25 levels over the weekend that I reluctantly climb into bed with eyelids drooping over reddened eyeballs early Monday morning.

And this is where little obsessions, like any type of addiction, become unhealthy.

“Psychologically, it’s a disease only if it troubles you,” says a student, who (no joke) is discussing addiction with her friends at a table near mine as I type this column. “If it doesn’t trouble you, it’s not a disease.”

My obsessions don’t trouble me. I enjoy them, but I can also recognize when these addictions are working their way into the rest of my life and restraint is in order. Whether you are obsessed with a certain television show or game or even the Duke basketball team, after a certain point you need to reassess. Once Duke’s basketball performance dictates your emotional state of being, you need to back off. Once your gaming starts to affect your eyesight, maybe it’s time to take a break. Otherwise, your obsession is a disease, troubling or not.

As much as I hate to admit it (a decade later and still bitter about the Nano Baby incident), my mother was right.

How to actually strike a healthy balance is more difficult, and given that my column word count is dwindling, I would say that is a problem for another day. For now though, there is a certain level-25 rogue who needs my complete attention....

Lysa Chen is a Trinity sophomore and wire editor of The Chronicle. Her column runs every other Thursday.

THURSDAY, APRIL 3,2008

commentaries

letterstotheeditor Memorial barbeque for Chris Sanders Today we pause to remember what we lost a year ago in the tragic death of our dear friend and brother Chris “Stewie” Sanders. We lost a great athlete and a fierce competitor, whose heart was poured not only into every Duke swim meet but also into every intramural game. We lost a champion “FIFA” player. We lost unlimited access to every funny clip from “South Park” and “Family Guy,” and, in truth, from the internet at large. Most of all, we lost the single most perfect smile, always large, always genuine, always infectious. We lost a tremendous amount a year ago, and we cannot help but miss him and mourn the passing of one of the greatest brothers this fraternity has ever known.

And yet, it is not enough to remember what we lost In fact, when we think of Stewie, our hearts are overwhelmed by what we gained. For, in truth, Chris Sanders’ legacy must simplybe that he gave.Stewie filled our lives withjoy and fun and taught us the power of a smile. He gave much needed guidance to incoming freshmen, serving as a member of the FAC Board. He provided us with an example of what it means to be a brother, consistendy and without the slightest resentment He gave everything he had for us, bodi to each of us individually and for the fraternity at large. He gave us an understanding that fraternities provide us with brothers and lifelong friends but should not discourage us from seeking others; the love shown for Chris a year ago transcended greek life, transcended sporting teams, transcended everything. Anyone who had contact with him loved him, because for him to know someone meant to give them love and anything else they needed.

Certainly, today all of us will come together in solidarity to mourn what we lost in Stewie’s passing. But to truly respect him, to love him and to honor his memory, we must remember how much he gave us, how much we loved him for it and how fortunate we are to have known such a remarkably special human being.

Tomorrow, we invite all those who knew and loved Stewie to Kilgo Quad at 5 p.m. for a barbeque in his honor. Chris’ family will be in attendance, stories will be shared and a bench will be dedicated in his honor.

The Brothers

of Sigma Nu fraternity

Racial stereotypes not fodder for jokes While we as Duke students understand that April 1 is a time for jokes, the “China Invades Duke, SAT Scores Rise” article turned an opportunity to utilize creative and smart humor into a crass, low-brow exercise. The article is based on oversimplified, overarching stereotypes about Chinese students at Duke, and while one may argue that the myth of the so-called “smart Asian” is a positive one, even “positive” stereotypes harm by masking the reality of the continuing discrimination against Asians and Asian Americans today.

This is not the first time that The Chronicle has printed stereotypes about Asians (i.e. remember the “Monday, Monday” column on undateable engineers?) Why is it that jokes about Asians are deemed appropriate fodder for laughter? Had the article been targeted at any other minority group, the reaction would surely have been different.

Instead of utilizing creativity and originality, the staff blew the opportunity to print a genuinely entertaining April Fools’ edition and instead reverted back to the age-old, cheap shot ofracial stereotypes.

At the expense of a cheap laugh, The Chronicle has proven itself to be a laughingstock.

Kathy Choi Trinity ’O9 Co-president, Centerfor Race Relations Amanda Tong Pratt ’O9

These colors don't run

There

are a few well-known graduation requirements that kids at Duke are always gossiping about. We have all heard of climbing Baldwin, having sex in the stacks, visiting the tunnels under East, eating mushrooms in the gardens and driving the wrong way around the West Campus circle.

Although this iscertainly a solid list of goals Duke students should aim to achieve before they graduate, I believe one more thing needs to be added hahar uaii ucitci to this list: attend one of the annual NASCAR races WaW.j.d. in Martinsville, Va. I know what you are thinking—“What the eff is this kid talking about?”

Well, as hard as it is for a person of non-Southern or Midwestern descent to comprehend, NASCAR is now the most attended “sporting” league in the country, and the second most watched on television (at least according to the NASCAR Web site and Wikipedia). Granted, this somewhat perplexing revelation is skewed by the sheer dominance the racing circuit has in the South, but it is all the more reason that during our stint going to school in the South we should experience a day at NASCAR. Or so I convinced myself as I forked over 60 bones for a ticket for what I soon learned would be a great American cultural anthropological adventure.

We left East Campus by bus around 10 a.m., armed with roughly a case per head and a decidedly “Northern” group ofDuke students. No, Brandon, being from NoVa does not qualify you as “Southern.”

As we crossed into Virginia, the country began to show signs of life—although I swear I could hear the theme song from “Deliverance” ringing in the distance. And by signs of life, I mean giant “We sell NASCAR gear” posters and banners.

I can’t emphasize this enough. We were in the middle of friggin’ nowhere. Our entire drive consisted of twolane highways flanked by cows on both sides with churches forming the only semblance of organized society.

Needless to say' those of us who had come ill-equipped with redneck attire did our best to stock up on tacky sunglasses, racing shirts, soft coolers and Marlboro beer .......

.

v

koozies the second we pulled up to a smelly run-down gas station. I practiced my best Southern drawl with the gas station attendant, although she was an Indian immigrant who barely spoke English herself.

At around noon we rolled into the “parking lot,” which was nothing more than large sets of clearings within the trees. After spending some time ensuring that we were all in the proper state of mind for witnessing cars speed around an oval track 1,000 times at 180 mph —a process that involved substantial amounts of Natty Light—we packed our cooler (did I mention all NASCAR races are 8.Y.0.8. events?) and headed for the speedway.

As I entered the stadium with my friend BJ, who was visiting from San Diego (you may remember him from “It’s the Cheese” column fame), we felt like we had been transported to another planet where teeth and traditional grooming habits did not exist. Despite all of our best efforts to dress for the occasion, I am pretty convinced we stuck out like a group ofblack kids accidentally stumbling on a KKK rally —which is fairly appropriate given the sea of Confederate flags we were walking into ourselves.

It was amazing to see just how happy these people were to catch a glimpse of the race cars. This while being rendered completely deaf by the thunderous noise coming from the track—not to mention getting high as balls off of the all-consuming carbon monoxide cloud that sat comfortably in the speedway. Maybe that’s why they like the sport so damn much, although it certainly didn’t do it for me.

The highlights of the day included a member of our crew making out with what he believes was the ugliest woman there. I contest this presumption on the grounds that she was sporting a full set of chompers —a feat not achieved by the average audience member. There were also the four corn dogs I sucked down, with some fried bologna mixed in. Yeah, I’m still not regular.

All in all, it was one of those experiences that I am glad I had, but I would never do again. I honestly think most of the appeal for NASCAR comes from the redneck, Southern, up-yours-Yankee image that it projects.

It’s a rare chance for hicks from within a 200-mile radius to congregate and celebrate their heritage.

For us, it’s a chance to contemplate why we didn’tjust let the South secede, and to learn a little bit about more about “what it is to be an American.”

Dan Beker is a Trinity senior. His column runs every Thursday.

|

THE CHRONICLE

15

A dream deferred Today,

bells ring, students rumble into their rooms and classes begin. Chalkboards are covered with math problems, teachers’ desks are strewn with finishedessays. By the time the last bell rings, 6,000 students will drop out.

This exodusfrom education occurs every single day thatclass is in session. Sixty percent of these kids come from low-income families, and they will remain in the low-income bracket.

But many of these dropouts will end up not needing to keep a job—6B percent of state prison inmates did not complete high school. Ironically, we spend more than twice the amount of money elad gross on these people once they smile enter prison than we do while they are in school.

Dropouts are more likely than not to be poor. Thus they are more likely to require government funding in the form of food stamps, housing assistance and medical aid. Each class of 18-year-olds that does not ascend the stage to receive diplomas costs this nation $192 billion in income and tax revenue. And it’s a vicious, self-perpetuating cycle that feeds on the child from the moment of birth into poverty.

We grow up learning about the American dream and how everyone can succeed in this country. If you .go to a good school, you may be exposed to the narratives ofBenjamin Franklin, Olaudah Equiano and Frederick Douglass.

If you go to a very good school, you may be asked to write an essay about what the American dream is.

But in order to learn from these compelling stories, students have to be able to read. Out of all fourth graders in the United States, 32 percent have proficient reading skills.

By the eighth grade, this number drops to 29 percent.

Only 15 percent of low-income students attain reading proficiency. Blacks and Hispanics do even worse. Franklin, Equiano and Douglass overcame impossible odds in their day. Now, in the 21st century, not only do being poor and having a darker skin color still impede educational opportunity, but so does being American.

In an international science test, American students ranked 25th of 30 nations. According to the U.S. Department ofEducation, 32 percent of eighth graders are proficient in math, but only 17 percent oflow-income students are. A poverty and race gap exists in this country, but even in a room of 50 white students, 29 are not very good at math by American testing standards. American mathematics education standards are about two years behind our competition. Even those students who do well in the United States are being hurt by weaker standards and expectations. We have set up our children to fail.

The United States has been on top of the world for a long time. Fueled by a passion for science, an understanding of the importance ofmathematics and an intense competition with the Soviet Union, we used to have one of the best education systems in the world. But we have grown complacent.

It’s OK if the kid can’t divide very well, it’s all right if the child struggles with words of more than three syllables, it’s acceptable if the student can’t write effectively. Just push them through the system and maybe some other teacher or parent or employer will teach them. Some students can’t handle the pressure or the futility and, in the end, 1.2 million students drop out of this failing system every year.

In developing countries, people are willing to work menial jobs for lower wages than those in America. The college degree is becoming increasingly important in finding a job in this country. Two thirds of new jobs require a college education or some form ofadvanced training. It only makes sense that 44 percent of college dropouts under the age of 24 are unemployed. And as the economies ofother nations improve, the U.S. education system will have to train its students better as the types of jobs able to be done abroad for cheaper will increase in number.

In terms of international standing, the United States could be in much worse shape. But if we don’t do anything for the 71 percent of eighth graders who cannot read well and the 68 percent of eighth graders who do not quite get algebra, we will be in serious trouble. The most glaring gap in our nation’s security is not airport screening,or Arab-American relations, or weapons of mass destruction.

It is our failing education system. An entire generation of children is not learning. We are leaking money and brains every second school is in session. At some point our complacency turned into negligence.

We cannotallow our negligence turn into failure. That’s not the American way.

Elad Gross is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Thursday.

16 | THURSDAY, APRIL

3,200&

THE CHRONICLE