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An observant bird flying over Duke Forest today would notice several white rings tree tops—but perhaps not for much longer.

Unbeknownst to the bird, the suspicious rings are towers that have been emitting carbon dioxide into the canopy for more than a decade in order to simulate the effects of global warming.

The experiment seeks to produce data that will improve models that predict the effects ofclimate change and how forests might ward off the negative consequences, said Ram Oren, professor of ecology at the Nicholas School of the Environment and the principle investigator of the experiment at Duke.

But theU.S. Department ofEnergy, the sole sponsor of the multi-million dollar Free Air CO2 Enrichment Project, recendy requested that scientists cut to the harvesting phase by chopping down the trees and digging holes to analyze the carbon dioxide levels.

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Dr. Oliver Sacks, a renowned neurologist and prolific author, gives a talktitled"Music, Healing and theBrain" in Page Auditorium Wednesday. Sacks is known for using patients anecdotes in his books.

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The Arts and Sciences Council will consider at its meeting today a new underloading policy that would allow undergraduates to enroll in three classes for at most two semesters beginning Fall 2009.

The policy would require students to have passed at least 16 courses before underloading, which would generally allow only juniors and seniors to lower their class load. Additionally, students must be in good academic standing with at least a 3.0 grade point average and a declared major.

“The purpose of this is to empower students to plan ahead and view their four years as something of a portfolio,” said Peter Feaver, chair of the Academic Standards Committee, a subcommittee of the Arts and Sciences Council. “The purpose of it is not to make Duke easier for a student.”

Feaver, Alexander F. Hehmeyer professor of political science, will present the policy at the council meeting today, and inembers will vote on the proposal at their next meeting Dec. 4. If passed, the policy would be evaluated after three years.

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Duke professor Michael Munger (right) debates Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory Oct. 8 on the campaign trail for N.C. governor.

When Michael Munger began campaigning for governor ofNorth Carolina, he knew he would face challenges getting recognition as the Libertarian candidate.

But Munger, the chair of the political science department, could not have anticipated the final obstacle of his campaign—diving into the Atlantic Ocean in early November, fully clothed, in a bid to attract media attention.

“It was cold,” Munger said, adding that the dip came at the end of a three-day campaign tour across North Carolina byway ofU.S. Route 64. The spectacle was the culmination of his nearly three-year-long campaign.

The cold, though, was not as bad as the rocks that found their way into Munger’s brown loafers as he made his way out of the surf, he added.

Luckily both Munger’s shoes and his polyester blazer survived the bath—in fact, as he spoke, Munger noted that he was wearing the same shoes he wore on that 65degree day in Manteo, N.C. A video ofMunger’s dive filmed by campaign manager Barbara Howe has been viewed about 800 times on You-

Tube. Although Munger said he has attempted to differentiate himself from his opponents by relying on policy arguments during his campaign, he felt the video was an appropriate way to end his race.

“Why is it that voters tolerate a media that does not cover substance, that covers stunts?” he said. “And that was the intended irony. That’s why I wasn’t wearing a bathing suit. I was wearing a suit.”

Lacking publicity and hampered by his third party status, Munger did not begin the race thinking he would win. By the end though, he found himself wanting to be governor.

His goal, however, was simply to earn enough votes to keep his party on the ballot through 2012.

North Carolina’s ballot access law required Munger to collect at least 70,000 signatures to run, all of which must be validated by the N.C. State Board of Elections. Because he won more than 2 percent of the votes cast in North Carolina, with nearly 3 percent, Libertarian candidates will not have to collect signatures in order to appear on SEE MUNGER ON PAGE 4

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BERLIN An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said Wednesday.

While researchers—and the doctors themselves—caution that the case might be no more than a fluke others said it may inspire a greater interest in gene therapy to fight the disease.

Dr.Gero Huetter said his 42-year-old patient, an American living in Berlin who was not identified, had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than a decade. But 20 months after undergoing a transplant of genetically selected bone marrow, he no longer shows signs of carrying the virus. j*.

Iraqi soldier kills two, wounds six

BAGHDAD An Iraqi soldier Wednesday sprayed automatic weapons fire at U.S. soldiers at an Iraqi military base in Mosul,killing two and wounding six before he died in a hail of bullets, an American general said, In Baghdad, bombers struck the capital for a third straight day, killing 2B people and wounding scores in a string of attacks in mostly Shiite areas.The U.S. military said dozens were injured but it couldn't confirm any fatalities.

In the first nine days of November, there were at least 19 bombings in Baghdad, compared with 28 for all of October and 22 in September.

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Fidel Castro writes new book Cuba on Wednesday presented a HAVANA new book by Fidel Castro, who has not appeared in public since undergoing emergency intestinal surgery in July 2006 but who authorities claim spent more than 400 hours working on the manuscript.

"La Paz en Colombia," or"Peace in Colombia," explores Cuba's role in attempts to end Colombia's civil war, which has raged for more than four decades.

The 265-page book was presented during a Havana ceremony that Castro did not attend, though one of his sons was there, as was Ricardo Alarcon, head of the country's rubber-stamp parliament.

Several rounds of peace talks between the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army were held in Havana but did not lead to any major agreements.

The 82-year-old former president is the author of numerous books.

Same-sex marriages legalized WEST HARTFORD, Conn.

Same-sex couples walked joyfully down the aisle Wednesday for the first time in Connecticut, while gay activists planned to march in protests across the country over the vote that took away their right to marry in California.

Carrying red roses and a marriage license, Jody Mock and Elizabeth Kerrigan, who led the lawsuit that that overturned Connecticut's law, emerged from West Hartford's town hall to the cheers of about 150 people.

"We feel very fortunate to live in the state of Connecticut, where marriage equality is valued, and hopefully other states will also do what is fair," Kerrigan said.

The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled 4-3 on Oct. 10 that same-sex couples have the right to wed rather than accept a 2005 civil union law designed to give them the same rights as married couples. A lower-court judge entered a final order permitting same-sex marriage Wednesday morning.

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Sam Juniper says his health benefits weren't supposed to change after he retired in 2000 from M&G Polymers.

But he received a $4O bill in 2002 after the company's new provider, Aetna Insurance, refused to cover the cost of some blood work.

He challenged that in Mason County court in 2003 and won every decision all the way to the 4th U.S.Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va.The appeals court ruled in his favor Oct. 10.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., hope for quick passage of the auto bailout during a postelection session that begins Monday.

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A room full of exotic sex toys, free samples and a two-hour long talk about the typically taboo topic of sex—perhaps a college student’s dream come true.

Wednesday night, the Healthy Devils Peer Educators hosted “Sex Talk with DELISH,” or Duke Educational Leaders in Sexual Health, an opportunity in which multiple fantasies were brought to life. More than 75 students, both male and female over 18, filled the room in McClendon Tower in anticipation of the discussion and demonstration.

“Sex is a taboo subject. The program was a good thing so people who aren’t experienced have people to talk with or purchase things they want,” said Healthy Devil Zipporah Johnson, ajunior.

The night began with a meditation-like breathing exercise in which the students imagined themselves fulfilling their deepest fantasies. This pleasurable introduction opened the floor for a surprisingly comfortable discussion.

Laura Poole, Trinity ’95, previewed a menagerie of sex toys, vividly explaining and demonstrating the various uses of each. She then proceeded to pass eachof the complex devices around the room, allowing students to get a feel for the foreign apparatuses.

Poole is paid by Temptations Parties, a sex toy company, to speak about the toys at these so-called “sex parties.” She began her endeavor into the sex toy business when her book club expressed an interest in hosting a “sex party.” She has also been to Duke before, but some previous parties were limited to women over 18.

“It makes more money and is more interesting than selling candles,” Poole said.

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Speaker Laura Poole, Trinity '95, presents a sex toy at a workshop in McClendon Tower Wednesday. The Healthy Devils-sponsored event was designed to encourage an open dialogue about a taboo subject.

She added, however, that the company does offer sensual candles among the many other intriguing products in their catalogue, which was distributed to all attendees.

In between Poole’s displays of various toys and tools and the inevitable giggling of students, the Healthy Devils delivered meaningful information on the topics of sexual consent and communication between partners.

Johnson described the group’s intentions as creating an “open dialogue about the taboo subject of sex on campus.” She, along with the other Healthy Devils, said they were very pleased with the “really big turnout.”

The student attendees, too, were quite satisfied with the program, displaying overwhelming excitement when Poole re-

vealed what she called the “gorgeous” toys of “beautiful design.”

Although viewing and purchasing sex toys was a major selling point of the presentation, some students came for other reasons. Sophomore Isaac Mizrahi came “to meet girls that were informed,” whereas sophomore Kyle Dopfel was simply looking to keep herself busy.

“I had nothing else to do and thought it would be a productive and educational way to spend the evening,” she said.

The night was full of education, fun and the acquisition of new souvenirs, students said. Many left with their pockets overflowing with exotic goodies and eager to use them—in away compatible with the ideals promoted by the Healthy Devils, of course.

rizons come Spring 2009.

Duke Student Government approved a resolution at its meeting Wednesday night that will allow 10 percent of the freshman class to use their missed breakfast credits at the Great Hall on West Campus.

“Normally, when freshmen miss breakfast, they get a $6 credit toward lunch that they can use in the Marketplace,” said freshman Pete Schork, an athletics and campus services senator. “The problem though, is that a lot of [freshmen] have classes on West during lunch time and can’t make it back to East [Campus] to use their credits.”

Students will be selected at random to take part in this pilot program and will be given both entrance and exit surveys to gauge how their campus dining experiences are affected. The program’s success will be judged based on survey results and any increased revenue the Great Hall receives during the Spring semester.

“The hope is that the Class of 2013 will be given the option to eat lunch at the Marketplace or in the Great Hall,” said DSG Executive Vice President Sunny Kantha, a senior.

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The original proposal did not limit the number of semesters a student could underload, or what academic year the applicant was, as long as they met continuation requirements to remain enrolled at Duke.

Initially, academic deans were primarily concerned that a

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Currently, only seniors entering their last semester at Duke may underload. Students can withdraw from a class and lower their semester load at the discretion of their academic deans.

An original, looser proposal was submitted to Steve "The purpose of [the proposal] is not Nowicki, vice provost and dean Of undergraduate educato make Duke easier for a student.” tion, and other administrators November 2007 by senior David Graham, editor of The Chronicle from 2007-2008, Peter Feaver, who has been the Duke Student Publishing Company’s liaison on the matter. Duke Student Government Presichair the Academic Standards Committee dent Paul Slattery, Trinity ’OB, other members also sent a memo to administrators last year calling for a more acpolicy allowing for looser underloading would make the Duke commodating policy.

“Like the Trinity deans, we agree that the overriding purdegree seem less valuable, said Norman Keul, an associate education,” said dean of Trinity College and a member of the 12-person Acaof at Duke is a pose being getting topflight Graham, who is currently the editor of Recess. “But we also demic Standards Committee. He noted, however, that most recognize that there are a lot. of experiences that students deans, including the three on the committee, support the current proposal as. an effective compromise. have at Duke that are extremely mleieclwaiy and educa“It's not that we [deans] as a group were ‘a priori’ unhaptionally enriching that don’t take place in the classroom and considering it, but we were anxious that if a change the with py don’t take place in lab either.”

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was made that it didn’t undermine Duke’s reputation as a serious school, and that students wouldn’t have to worry if they underloaded that this might adversely affect their ability to get into medical schools and law schools,” Keul said.

Junior Chelsea Goldstein, DSG’s vice president for academic affairs and the DSG representative on theAcademic Standards Committee, said the proposal will receive a favorable response from faculty members, noting that Suzanne Shanahan, chair of the Arts and Sciences Council, is very optimistic that it will pass. Shanahan could not be reached for comment.

Nowicki and Donna Lisker, associate dean of undergraduate education, submitted an initial compromise taking into account deans’ “first and foremost” request to limit the number of semesters a student could underload, Goldstein said. The original proposal allowed undergraduates to underload two semesters, not counting other semesters in which they withdraw from a class. The Academic Standards Committee then modified the policy to include a withdrawal during a semester to count as an underload.

Feaver said the committee thought it was unlikely that a looser policy would lessen the quality of a Duke degree, particularly because several peer institutions like Harvard University and Princeton University have fewerrestrictions than Duke on underloading. He added that ultimately, the committee was looking to best support studentswho have the desire and drive to undertake time-consuming extracurricular activities.

“This is about a student who is entrepreneurial and has the initiative to get ahead to allocate their burden across their eight semesters,” he said.

Nowicki said he, too, believes the proposed policy is the best compromise between the greater allowance studentleaders were asking for and administrator concerns. Graham said he fully supports the policy and hopes it will pass, although his primary contention with the compromise is that it limits student eligibility.

The Chronicle Leadership Assistance Program, which is in its 41st year and allows editors to underload and maintain full-time student status by taking summer classes, will end this year. Leaders of DSG, the Duke University Union and other student organizations benefited from a similar policy, the Student Affairs Leadership Assistance Program, until it was ended prior to Fall 2006.

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ballots through 2012.

“Now we can concentrate on organization at the county level, working very hard at the grassroots level, getting people elected to office, rather than jumping through hoops of gathering the signatures to participate,” said Howe, who is also chair of the North Carolina Libertarian Party.

But in a season of historic races for North Carolina, Munger said his run was anything but. Although he was the first Libertarian candidate to participate in a televised debate in the state and won a higher percentage of votes than any Libertarian has won in the N.C. gubernatorial race since Scott McLaughlin received 4 percent in 1992, he said little has changed in the political landscape.

“This was business as usual,” Munger said. “The result of the election was that [Governor-elect] Bev Perdue, the leader of the corrupt regime, was installed as queen, so nothing is going to change. Same direction, same corruption.”

Despite his electoral loss, Munger said his ideas may gain traction in the incoming government. Shifting from his experience as failed gubernatorial candidate to political science professor, Munger explained that research in his field has shown that third-party candidates can influence policy by introducing new ideas to the public, even if the candidates flop at the ballot box. Perdue has already adopted some ofhis ideas on transportation, Munger said.

In Munger’s case, appearing in three televised debates with other gubernatorial candidates allowed him to spread his views to a wide range of people, he said.

Munger may build on this exposure by running for governor again in 2012 and he has also considered running for a N.C. Senate seat in 2010, he said. Since election day, he has continued holding events, including a Nov. 11 stop at the James Joyce Irish Pub restaurant and the Federal restaurant in Durham to meet with “20 enthusiastic Libertarians,” he said.

Munger has not officially declared his candidacy for a 2010 race in order to pursue a different line of work.

Munger will soon be featured on the Bill LuMaye show on Raleigh’s WPTF-AM 680 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursdays, he said. Listeners will hear Munger sandwiched between the shows of two nationally known conservative commentators—Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

Munger also plans to pen a book based on his experience, titled ‘You’re Not Going to Win are You?” Munger said the title comes from what his wife said when he first announced his plans to run for governor.

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DSG from page 3 “We are running this trial so that we can present a strong argument for this to happen.”

At the meeting, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta spoke about several projects the Office of Student Affairs has in the works.

One such project is improving recreation options, especially on Central Campus.

“We are working on a recreation space on Central sooner rather than later,” he said.

“We are getting close to a point where I can commit to you that come Fall, we will have better fields [in place of the tennis courts].”

Moneta also announced an environmental citizenship program in conjunction with the Nicholas School of the Environment that will help advance environmental awareness and literacy among students.

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DSG VP for Academic Affairs Chelsea Goldstein evaluates the online syllabus archive's success at the body's weekly meetingWednesday. The Senate also discussed possible modifications to the freshman dining plan.

RESEARCH from page 1 results, Nicholas School Dean Bill Chameides said. Investigators at two other sites—the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and the Harshaw Experimental Forest in Wisconsin —also have voiced their discontent with the government’s decision.

“Now we are at the point where we are just starting to see the change in carbon content in the soil,” Chameides said.

Oren pointed to the Oak Ridge site as an example of why the current phase of the project should continue for a few more years. He said the trees there showed greater productivity from the increased carbon dioxide levels up until two years ago, when they returned to normal growth rates.

“In order for things like that to show up, we have to allow time for the long-term processes,” Oren said.

The Department of Energy’s reasons for the decision include wanting to publish the findings promptly and reallocating the funding to more advanced FACE projects, said Michael Kuperberg, a Department of Energy program manager in the climate and environmental sciences division.

“I think it’s reasonable to move on,” Chameides said.

“But not before we finish this one. There’s been a tremendous investment. Let’s see it through.”

In other business: DSG praised the success ofits revamped online syllabus archive.

“Right now we have just over 400 syllabi in the archive,” said sophomore Ben Getson, an academic affairs senator. “There is a pretty broad range of syllabi in the archive, and all we want is more people to

contribute.”

The Web site has seen a surge in traffic over the last week.

“After blasting [the Web site] and the Chronicle article, we have had about 1,000 hits each day,” said Vice President for Academic Affairs Chelsea Goldstein, a junior.

DSC also announced the launch of Duke Deals—a new program that will offer weekly sales at Duke University Stores.

“There is a pretty broad range of syllabi in the archive, and all we want is more people to contribute.”

Ben Getson, DSG academic affairs senator Freshman Lauren Pfeiffer, an athletics and campus services senator, has worked over the past few months with store managers to work out a schedule of sales that will correspond to events on campus.

“Hopefully around exam time, Red Bull and coffee will go on sale,” she said.

As a fellow scientist, Kuperberg said he understands the researchers’ eagerness to continue the current projects.

“There is always one more question. We want one more season, one more experiment,” he said. “The very nature of science means there is another question around the corner.”

Results taken from the current system will prove helpful for climate change models because there are no similar experiments being conducted, Oren said. But the information cannot predict future environmental consequences as accurately as more long-term projects.

Kuperberg said the Department of Energy’s recommendation came from an advisory board of seven experts who are not affiliated with the government or the active projects.

He rejected the perception that the department is trying to terminate funding for FACE, explaining that the funding would go toward studying the next generation of FACE systems, which will incorporate other environmental factors in addition to carbon dioxide content. These more complex systems—which include precipitation and temperature fluctuation—would more accurately predict the effects of climate change.

The current economic crisis has not influencedthese funding MAX MASNICK/THE CHRONICLE decisions, Kuperberg added. The more complex FACE systems probably will not be studied in Duke Forest, but Duke research- The U.S. Department of Energy has asked researchers to end a project analyzing CO2 in the Duke Forest, against the hopes of thoseinvolved. ers are strong candidates to head the new projects, he said.

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I don’t know how long I was there, but I sure didn’t last long. I think it was when all the vibrating commenced that I made my exit.

The scene was a room full of people—maybe 60 or 70—each one eliciting muffled laughter. It seemed like sixth grade health, but no. It was the Healthy Devils’ annual sex toys workshop.

The Tupperware party for the postSex and the City crowd, the sex toys workshop attracted a racially mixed group of females and males, though a statistically significant proportion of the males were sporting pierced left ears. All of them 18 and up, of course.

We began with a guided imager)' exercise. Our Healthy Devil guide asked us to relax, feel our breathing, imagine ourselves in the ideal sexual fantasy.

And then she asked, “What’s going on in your body?”

Heartburn. Sitar-induced heartburn, thank you very much.

And then came the oils and toys.

Laura “the Lube Lady," who guided the product portion of the event, informed us that she was “Ask Laura” of the e-newsletter Forbidden Fruit, provided by online sex toy retailer Adam 8c Eve. Her heterocenlric presentation enlightened her audience of such genius products as Diva Dust, a pheromone-laced body glitter, and Happy Penis’ Massage Cream. Some of the other products promised to deliver

“a scorching blow job” or came in flavors like pear blossom and vanilla fields.

Frighteningly, Laura told us that most of the products were not intended to be used with a condom. In fact, they would destroy the condom’s protective potential.

If it takes this much thought to knock boots, why bother? Isn’t sex supposed to be thoughtless? And maybe the highlight of her presentation was an animated presentation —dildo included—that explained how the penis can be broken.

But when the dildo presentation came, it was all over. She just picked up these rubbery mock phalluses that sort of flailed around in the air. It flopped and jiggled, and my stomach turned.

I don’t care how many pheromone-induced lubes and lotions anyone slathered on that, it was the most unholy thing I have ever seen and it did not belong anywhere near my own nor anyone else’s body. And the vibrating element? Too much. I will slick to ray G.I. Joe’s, thank you very much. .And I apologize if for any reason this Sandbox did not tickle your funny bone (bone!).

It wasjust a little too personally difficult to find much humor in this experience. But give me one more chance to elicit laughter.

Penis.

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It goes without saying—and without Dean of Admissions Christoph Guttentag’s corny speech at Convocation ever year—that Duke students do some pretty impressive things, in and out of the classroom.

But you expect a certain level of overachievement out of students at a university like this one. There are, however, some other accomplishments that I still find awe-inspiring, because they require students to put in vast amounts of time and creativity on top of other duties, work with others and do something that won’t earn the coveted resume line. Aiuaaz is perhaps the best example.

Our longstanding editorial policy at The Chronicle has been to run a photograp°h of the performance, but because it’s a consistent annual event, we typically don’t go much farther; it’s hard to find a new angle each year. That policy makes a lot of sense from the standpoint ofrunning a newspaper, but that doesn’t mean that the hundreds of students who take part every year don’t deserve recognition.

I find Awaaz impressive for three reasons.

First, the sheer organization required to put together a show ofits size, for two nights, in-

eluding sound, video, dozens upon dozens of performers and hundreds of audience members is stunning.

Second, the committment of so many members of Duke’s South Asian community to represent and foster an appreciation for their heritage is admirable. Humorous Facebook groups about FOBs and ABCDs aside, members of Diya and performing groups like Dhamaka, Raas and Lasya do not hesitate to celebrate their roots with high-quality, highenergy routines at Duke, using forms that they have learned through hours of practice at home and at the University.

Finally, Awaaz brings together a huge and diverse cross-section of the student body for two nights each year. The only event that comes close is National Panhellenic Council’s Spring step show. It isn’t easy to translate this kind of large event into a broader campus culture trend, but hand-wringers can look to Awaaz as a model for positive social interaction on campus.

Diya and all those who contributed to Awaaz are to be congratulated on a job well done—yet again.

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The third season of Robot Chicken, now out on DVD, offers more of the same off-the-wall, fast-paced humor on which the show has made its name.

Chicken serves up silly humor With the release of the third season of Robot Chicken on DVD, Seth Green and Matthew Senreich’s 15-minute homages to ADHD, television and irreverent humor are now available for all those who are obsessed or easily amused.

The animated, sketch-comedy television series debuted in February 2005 as part of the Adult Swim program on Cartoon Network and has accrued a cult following. Relying heavily on claymation and action figures that Seth Green has collected throughout his life—think pretty ponies and Power Ranger toys—the stop-motion format of the show provides the derisive duo with the ability to be as flippant as their hearts desire.

Any given episode seems to have come directly from Green and Senreich sitting around a bachelor pad with a six-pack, musing on all of the ironic, suggestive and faulty storylines of past iconic shows. Nothing goes untouched, and nothing is sacred. From setting up the Mythßusters team to tackle a handful of masturbation myths—no pun

intended—to exploring the predictability and inanity of Oceans Thirty-Eight, Robot Chicken is home to glib one-liners and witty social commentary alike.

In its third season, the Emmy Award-winning show has stayed sharp and quick. The two-disc DVD set features 20 episodes, eight deleted scenes, a gag reel, video blogs capturing the production process of the show and even deleted animatics. Better yet, the package artwork has a touch of the retro and psychedelic, a mix that is more than fitting for such a spastic show.

Though Green and Senreich continue to skirt around political hot-button issues, they don’t seem to be losing any steam in their satire of pop culture. With the fourth season set to start sometime mid-next year, watching the third season Clockwork Orange- style may be the best thing to tide fans over until the next slew of crude, sacrilegious and hilarious episodes hits the air.

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Anderson now has two mixtapes under his belt, and his first IP, Finally Famous, is slated for a release in the spring.The record will feature West, Pharell and the Dream, among others.

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KAL uses residency to carve out space in election history steps of some of Kallaugher’s more noteworthy cartoons. He said that afCartoons are funny. Sculptures ter each presidential election—this is are permanent. the seventh he has draw for—he alEcommist cartoonist Kevin “KAL” ways draws a cartoon that encapsulates the election. For the 2008 campaign, Kallaugher began a week-long resihe wanted to do this in sculpture. dency at the Sanford Insdtule of Public Policy Monday, during which he will “I set out to make something a that would last the test of time," Kalcomplete sculpture commemorating laugher said. “That’s the one thing the 2008 presidential campaign.

Commissioned with a grant about sculpture, they tend to be from the provost’s Council for the things that are permanent. They disArts, the sculpture is entitled “Race till down to the simplest element the 2008," a pun connoting both the key components of what you’re tryelection season and President-elect ing to say. That’s why we don’t have Barack Obama’s background. The John McCain [in the sculpture], besculpture depicts Obama breaking cause I think he will be forgotten.”

The idea for Kallaugher to come to through a wall and running toward the future, most ofhis body over the the University was hatched in spring.

He visited Duke last April to perform edge of the sculpture’s base.

“I wanted to create a character with Chicago-based improv troupe that had energy,” Kallaugher said. Second City; and a career retrospective “I wanted a character ofObama that is on display in Rubenstein Hall now was dashing forward. 1 also wanted Karen Kemp, director of communicato have him hurling himself off the tions at Sanford, said Kallaugher’s curplinth in order to give it a sense of rent visit is part of Duke’s mission to tension that is something you can further include arts into academic life.

‘There are a lot of different ways only do with sculpture.”

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one way,” Kemp said. “We thought it was a valuable way to enrich our conversation about the election.”

But Kallaugher’s connection to Duke goes back to his undergraduate days at Harvard University, where he became friends with Associate Professor Frederick Mayer, director of graduate studies in public policy studies.

Mayer said Kallaugher, who also works in 3D animadon, has an artistic talent that is rare among cartoonists.

“The artistic element he brings to [cartooning] is really refined,” Mayer said. “He brings to his satire and his art an artistic sophistication and a depth of knowledge. There’s a lot of funny cartoonists out there who might not be as deep.”

When Kallaugher completes the sculpture Friday, he will take it with him, but Duke will keep a cast of it, and will possibly display it at Sanford or at an upcoming exhibit on satire at the Nasher Museum ofArt.

Mightier than the Sword: The Satirical Pen ofKAL, is on display in Rubenstein Hall through Friday, Nov. 14.

CartoonistKal Kailaugher works ona statue ofPresident-elect Barack Obama.

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Bush looms over Wasserstein play Nothing entertains like skillfully executed political satire, and Third is no exception. Written by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, the play illustrates the clash between an ultraliberal distinguished professor and a conservative jock at a top 10 university.

Professor Laurie Jameson (Kerry Shear), a feminist and gay rights enthusiast, balances her life as teacher, mother, wife and daughter until she encounters athlete Woodson Bull 111, who prefers to Im; called Third (Jake Bowden). Though he does nothing to provoke her ire, his presence challenges her preconceived notions toward conservatives.

Following their meeting, Jameson’s treatment of I bird steadily deteriorates in predictable fashion until finally she accuses thewrestler of plagiarizing a paper on King Lear. Despite his protests, she insists on bringing Third before a judicial committee.

While this subject theme dominates the play, Wasserslein defdy weaves other motifs around the central narrative to create a complete portrait of a woman who reaches her breaking point. While warring with Third, Jameson simultaneously deals with an endless stream of personal and family issues: her father’s severe Alzheimer, her menopausal hot flashes, the impending death of her best friend, her husband’s extreme inattentiveness and her

daughter’s rebellion.

Performed at Deep Dish Theater, the play fe tures surprisingly adept and emotive acting, esp dally on Shear’s part. Bowden is likewise capabl but at times lacks the depth of feeling his cou terpart exhibits. Jameson’s aged father, played Bob Barr, appears to be a veteran of the stage, ai Jocelyn Roux and Linda Belans turn in fine pi formances as Jameson’s daughter and colleagt respectively.

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The collection brings together paintings, sculptures, photographs and performances to portray elements of time-warped womanhood.

The most compelling of the pieces is a pair of large acrylic paintings.

Complex, colliding forms create pictures within pictures—the curves of legs double as the frame for faces to produce a visually busy but intriguing web of iconographic images.

More straight-forward, a handful of smaller canvases with blocktype catch phrases echo Mondrian designs. Vernacular expressions, such as “Are you for real” and “And then and then,” are set against a palette of muted colors. Though the colloquialisms present witty commentary on modern feminine speak, the aesthetics of the paintings themselves are lackluster.

On the reverse of the same wall, a series of eight photographs depicting scenes of 19505’ domesticity is more successful in eliciting emotions. Strung together by reoccurring images of masks and high heels, the grainy images of bedrooms and soft-core porn suggest a trapped sensation on the part of the women in the pictures. ambiguous element nation is Cook’s perlece, “Circle Triangle id seven silver-unitarde to Michael Jackson’s Their mimed convulh

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Though he may not be Harry Potter, Edward Cullen sure doesn’t suck.

The blood-thirsty main character from Stephenie Meyer’s book series, Twilight, is riding on the heels of the Potter chronicles to become the tween scene’s newest cultural phenomenon, and Duke a capella group Lady Blue is riding along with him at G-Loft Friday night.

The popular book series is hitting the silver screen with anticipated adaptation in theaters a week from highly a

Friday. The movie soundtrack, however, is already popular, debuting at the top spot on Billboard album sales charts this week. Lady Blue is seizing the opportunity to host a Twilight original soundtrack listening party in conjunction with the release of their own CD, Off the Record.

Sophomore Jessie Mark, the group’s assistant music director, planned the event using connections she made with Atlantic Records this summer while working in the company’s the artist development division.

Her boss proposed the idea of throwing a Twilight music promotion party, she said, but Mark felt it would be more successful as a combined event with her a cappella group, making it a change from the usual Friday night out at Shooters.

“Duke has a great music scene, but I wouldn’t say there are a lot of artsy things like listening parties,” Mark said.

“The most important thing is that [the event is] not an alternative to the Duke party scene, but it’s an alternative to the themes that people have every week.”

The event, co-hosted with Atlantic is a twist on the typi-

cal functions held at G-Loft. In addition to a full listening of the soundtrack, which features unreleased songs from Paramore and Mute Math, Stella by Starlight’s Nate Fowler, Trinity ’OB, will DJ for the rest of the evening.

Attendees can expect less mainstream artists and a departure from what Fowler calls “sh—y Top 40 music.”

He is excited to host the event because it gives him an opportunity to play good music many attendees will not have heard, Fowler said.

Though Twilight is popular among teenagers, students on campus may be less familiar with the series. Senior Andrew Hsiao heard about the party through friends in Lady Blue, but said he doesn’tknow much about the emerging trend.

“I’m mostly going for Lady Blue,” Hsiao said. “I’m expecting to get interested in the book series or movie depending on how well they publicize it at the event to spark some interest.”

Atlantic is providing free movie paraphernalia, including posters, stickers and character trading cards, and copies of the soundtrack will be raffled off. Small Town Records and Lady Blue will also table and sell merchandise.

Whether it’s the books or the babes, the Twilight event is hoping to draw an eclectic crowd, Mark said.

“This is something fresh,” she said. “Plus, it’s fun because we’re in Durham [and] something big like Twilight wants to give me stuff to give out.”

Lady Blue and Atlantic Records Present: Twilight Original Soundtrack begins at 10 p.m. Friday at G-Lofl, 131 Ninth St. in Durham. Cover is $5.

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Last Saturday, it became official: Durham hipsters have a new Mecca. Playing host to two nights of the Troika Music Festival, the Pinhook opened its arms to eager concertgoers, introducing many to its exposed red brick walls, mix-matched furniture, aged wooden floors and comfortable atmosphere.

I knew I was in the right place when I spotted two PBRs on a nearby table in the cozy seating area by the front window.

Durham band the Travesties were sound-checking as I took in the scene. Honestly, I couldn’t distinguish between the performers and the audience. Everyone looked like they could have been in a band. Some played the free Pac Man arcade game, some waited at the bar, others watched

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the stage. An iPod behind the bar played Arcade Fire. All were drinking PBR. “It’s really packed tonight,” said James Booker, singer and lead guitarist of I Was Totally Destroying It, a Chapel Hill-based band. Booker, along with bandmates James Hepler and Rachel Hirsh, was obviously thrilled to have a fresh stage in the area.

“Durham could definitely absorb more places like this,” Hepler said. ‘You go to the American Tobacco Campus and spend $5O in one night. And that’s great if you have that to spend, but we need more places like this, where you

only drop $15.”

I have to agree that $l5 (which would include cover and three tallboys) was a great price for an evening that begged comparison to the much-hyped Brooklyn indie bar culture. As the Travesties frontman, known simply as “Viva,” scaled a table during the band’s set, I was confident the Pinhook would be well-known for its live music. Welcome to the Williamsburg of the South.

Brooklyn wasn’t the only scene drawing comparisons.

“I lived in Manchester, England for 2 years,” said Durham resident Gretchen Laming. “There’s a great music scene there. You can easily walk from venue to venue.

This reminds me of that.”

There was definitely an excitement in the air Saturday. Musicians and fans alike sensed Pinhook’s potential.

Indeed, Booker expressed the only fear of the night: “I just hope it stays open.”

The Pinhook is at 117 W. Main St. in Durham.

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RAFTER Rafter Roberts should be adept at making catchy music After all, the man is co-founder of Singing Serpent, a company that writes commercial jingles for the likes of Sprint, Toshiba and Target. The business has allowed Rafter to continue to produce his own brand of off-beat dance albums. Before bringing his own brand of electronica to the Duke Coffeehouse, Rafter traded e-mails with recess' Baishi Wu. How do you think your music has changed since your time with Emily Joyce when you were a part of Bunky?

I played a supporting role in Bunky—just trying to frame her talents and voice as best as I could. This music is more exploratory and free. It’s more about my voice and eclectic tastes.

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With the contest ending Nov. 15th, how successful do you think the second contest has been?

They’re just fun to do. The first one we did for MFTC (Music for Total Chickens) was really fun and worked out great. I am actually NOT watching any till it’s over! Don’t wanna get an early fave!!! but I’m SUPER honored that people engage with it and have fun with it... so great!

First an appearance on Alter Eco, next.... Entourage ?

Is a cameo out of the question? Kanye West did it....

I was born for a bit part on Entourage. I’m ready for the call.

You were famous early for not only the bands that you were a part of (the Black Heart Procession, the Album Leaf, etc..*.) but also for the fact that you had a day job of sorts writing jingles which led to you co-founding Singing Serpent. What do you think of the success of the company? How has writing jingles influenced you as a musician?

I think it keeps me focused on hooks, short attention spans, ear candy. I have a dangerously short attention span and I write for people with the same...

I’ve worked with tons of glacially paced bands, but I really like hyper stuff.

Have you really played in bands since the age of two? Which musicians that you’ve collaborated with have been your favorites?

I first got into music at 15 or so. I’ve really enjoyed most of my collaborations— Fiery Furnaces was a blast, Castanets I always like a lot. I just like to have fun. I have been involved in SO many albums over the years, hundreds I think, I always love whatever I’m working on and then let it go.

Being from San Diego myself, how do you think the San Diego music scene has changed since Bunky was named “Best New Artist” in “San Diego’s Best of 2003?”What would you write/sing about San Diego if you and Sufjan Stevens ever collaborated on his California project?

Well, not too much has changed. There was a great scene then and there still is, creative people doing what they like! I like that a lot. I think if we work on a California project together, I will leave the writing to him. I’ll just make noises and sing backup.

In your biography on the Asthmatic Kitty Website, it says about you, “His fearlessness has led him to do just about everything he sets his mind to, which of course includes free-for-all rowdy sweatiness, hanky panky and rolling on the stage yelping.” What can we look forward to at the Duke Coffeehouse?

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The band’s sophomore album, A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night, doesn’t stray far from this mold, with 11 new tracks that blow by in a mere 32 minutes. Inbuing relentless energy, lead singer Josephine Olausson’s frenetic vocal stylings impressively keep up with the momentum of the album’s frantic pace.

The lead track is titled “New Beginnings,” but Just the opposite may be true; Love is All is picking up exactly where they left off. Thankfully, their formula is fresh enough to avoid banality, musically speaking. The end result is jubilant music that sounds effortless and fun.

Though A Hundred Things lacks a single with the infectious charm of “Make Out, Fall Out, Make Up,” it gains ground with superb production, replete with the intimate sounds of warm, popping vinyl. “When Giants Fall” manages to sound epic and immediate at once, reminiscent of both the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Jesus and Mary Chain.

Lyrically, the band continues to match upbeat instrumentation with dour lyrics.

“A More Uncertain Future” plays as a fight between two fraught lovers, as Olausson laments, “I’ve had enough of fanlasy/We don’t need each other anymore.” The rest of the album deals similarly with themes of angst and impatience.

Fortunately, the adult songwriting does little to dampen the album's spirit. Yes, several Love is All members have gotten married and had kids since Nine Times, but A Hundred Things reveals they haven’t grown up too much, and that their attention spans are still delightfully short.

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On “Karaoke,” T-Pain teams with the perpetually indignant Dj Khaled and actually raps with his own raw voice. Pain lashes out at all those who criticize his style and doubt his staying power, spending four anger-filled minutes putting these “swagger jackers” in line. The track is dually impressive and terrifying.

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However, when Pain hits, he hits. The bulk of the songs pale in comparison to the hands-down (hands-off?) highlight, “Long Lap Dance.” T-Pain describes an all-too-familiar situation: it’s been two hours at your favorite strip club, you finally get a lap dance and it ends too quickly. Trying to fix this problem, TPain sings, “That’s so wrong/So I made a long lap-dance song.” The song sounds a bit drawn out; but then again, it should.

“Long Lap Dance” is either the most audacious track in years or the end of civilization as we know it. Either way, it’s noteworthy.

Songs like this prove T-Pain and his Auto-Tune adept at making the occasional chart-topper, but a consistently engaging album continues to elude the hitmaker in the top-hat.

—Jordan Axt

Originality has never been one of Vanilla Ice’s strengths. Even in a time when sampling was acceptable, he managed to land a lawsuit for the unauthorized usage of David Bowie and Queen’s “Under Pressure” in his 1990 hit “Ice Ice Baby.” Even worse, he later admitted to having not written the lyrics to popular culture’s gateway drug to hip-hop.

So, of course, Vanilla Ice’s latest release, Vanilla Ice is Back!, is a covers compilation.

Ice chooses to pay tribute to both the veterans of hip-hop and other iconic musical acts. His rendition of Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” is embarrassing and is an insult to both' the sound and the message of the original. “Jump Around” is a futile effort to turn the pub classic into hard rock, replacing funky beats with crunchy guitar.

Admittedly, Vanilla Ice does do a pretty good Marley imitation on “Buffalo Soldier,” but that only begs the question as to why he chose to cover a song without reinventing it in some interesting or new way.

The height of irony comes in the Special Ed cover “I Got it Made,” where Ice brags, “I make fresh rhymes daily.” The rest of the songs barely deserve mention but would not be out of place at a karaoke bar.

Sadly, the release shows how Vanilla Ice is still living in the shadow of his 23-yearold one-hit wonder self, as is made clear by his egregious inclusion offour separate versions of “Ice Ice Baby” on the 13-track album. Aside from the original, there is the “Rock Hero Mix,” the “Club Crasher Mix” and the enticingly titled “New Romantic Mix.” The most interesting part ofall three is found in their titles, so don’t waste your time. Indeed, Vanilla Ice is back, bringing with him all the crap we though we left in the early ’9os.

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As depressing at it seems, Charlie Kaufman may have never penned a truer line of dialogue than this one from his new film, Synecdoche, New York.

In this vein, the more you get to know Kaufman, the more disillusioned you will become. With the scripts for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation and Being John Malkovich under his belt, Kaufman may be the most acclaimed and unique screenwriter of the past 15 years. His films have explored subconscious human emotions and the surreal intermingling of the real and imagined. Unfortunately, in Synecdoche, his first directorial effort, his vision may be too broad, or perhaps too bleak. The longer his newest endeavor drags on, the deeper inside his mind the script delves, and the more one clamors for the movie’s end.

The story revolves around ambitious and neurotic theater director Caden Cotard (Phillip Seymour Hoffman)

as he progresses miserably through life. After winning a MacArthur genius grant, he undertakes a massive theater piece intended to model life in its dull and depressing entirety. Soon thereafter, the distinction between reality and

reproduction disappears.

The film, which begins with a singular study ofCaden’s neuroses, expands to raise thousands of questions that seem to be exploding from Kaufman’s mind. The overarching themes are that life leads to death and that everything is ultimately disappointing. For such a talented filmmaker, these broad themes are a letdown, especially as the film is overwhelmed by dozens more of motifs and layers that are never addressed.

The film certainly has tempting moments of beauty.

The script is occasionally powerfully evocative, especially when Kaufman’s characters are given life by phenomenal actors. Unfortunately, these islands of grace are lost in a sea of disjointedly disheartening ideas.

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Quantum ofSolace, the 22nd entry in the Bond franchise, finds Bond emotionally exposed for the first time, picking up immediately at the end ofits predecessor, Casino Royale.

Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and new-to-the-Bond-series director Marc Forster (Finding Neverland) channel the same tone from the previous film, making a fluent transition.

M (Judi Dench) thinks Bond is “blinded by inconsolable rage” and cannot get over Vesper’s death. Her concern is well placed, as for the greater part of the movie, our hero, in his quest to learn about Vesper’s past, shifts between composed-in-a-tux Bond and reckless-tossing-enemies-offbuildings Bond. M freezes Bond’s cards and passports and even sends Agent Strawberry Fields (Gemma Arterton) after him. But all attempts to stop him end in futility (or, in Fields’ case, an oil-soaked homage to Goldfinger). The only solace Bond finds in his desperate and destructive quest is in the mysterious and beautiful Camille (Olya Kurylenko), who is also hell-bent on revenge.

Though he dispenses with most of his leads, Bond somehow manages to collect enough information to get on the trail of the wormy, evil villain Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric).

Greene is part of a secret, corrupt organization whose current third-world, resource-heavy country ofinterest is Bolivia. Bond, with the help of friend Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini) and CIA Agent Felix (Jeffrey Wright) —both familiar from Royale —follows Greene from Italy to Austria to South America.

The action scenes prove top-notch, and though a few of them dip into unrealistic waters, the absence ofabsurd Pierce Brosnan-era, high-tech gadgets helps to keep the film grounded in a gritty reality. Craig shows what an excellent Bond he is, successfully showing emotion in a uniquely MI6 manner.

Though the film hits high notes across the Bond board, one can’t help but feel a bit let down at the end credits. Perhaps in the end, the interconnection of Royale and Quantum works against Quantum, leaving it without a properly fleshed out third act.

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first mention of his injury-prone knees, Dave McClure stands and walks over to the wood table in the middle of the room.

After all, his knees —more so than his game—have stolen the spotlight of his college basketball career for the last four years. The fifth-year senior, then, understandably was not about to take any chances.

He took the three short steps to the table for a quick knock on wood—for good luck, and for

good measure.

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“I try not to think about it, because everything happens for a reason,” McClure said of his past injuries. “If you think back on ‘what if,’ you can live in the past.

I’m trying to live in the present.”

Sound familiar? It’s the same philosophy head coach Mike Krzyzewski has espoused since he returned from leading Team USA to an Olympic gold medal in August.

McClure has naturally adopted Krzyzewski’s unofficial team motto, mostly because he seems to embody it perfectly.

He was forced to redshirt the 2005-2006 season, and he missed two games at the start of the 2007-2008 season because he was still directly recovering from his knee surgeries. While he has not been 100 percent physically over the last several years, McClure’s intensity and hustle have never waned. The forward has batded through his injuries in the past to play in 88 career games—18 of which were starts—and put up 2.4 points and 2.9 rebounds per game, with a 47 percent fieldgoal clip for his career.

Last summer, however, McClure was able to leave the past behind and solely focus on training for the upcoming season without SEE MCCLURE ON PAGE 12

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Virginia scores three straight to move on in ACC tourney by

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down the fifth-seeded Blue Devils 4-2 at WakeMed Soccer Park.

In a frenetic 90 minutes of play, Duke (10-7-2) could not overcome two tallies from Virginia penaltytaker MattPoole and two late goals from forward Brian Ownby.

“Both teams were very intent,” Duke head coach John Kerr said.

“I thought we played well tonight. I thought our aggression and application on both sides of the ball—defensively and offensively—were very good. We made a couple of crucial errors at the end when we were chasing the game trying to get back into it.”

The Cavaliers (10-7-1) converted their first penalty kick 18 minutes into the game after Poole drew a foul in the box. The second penalty was awarded in the second half after the referees whisded senior defender Darrins Barnes for a questionable foul in the box.

“It is what it is,” Barnes said.

“It’s a game. Calls go your way, calls don’t go your way.”

The Blue Devils responded gallantly after dropping the first goal. Off of a set piece and a beautiful Grella cross in the SEE M. SOCCER ON PAGE 12

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For the first time since 1998, the Bowden Bowl was absent from the ACC schedule this year.

Clemson still squared off against Florida State, and 79-year old Bobby Bowden still patrolled the sidelines for the Seminoles. It was his son, Tommy, who was absent—after 10 seasons leading the Tigers, he parted ways with the university Oct. 14.

“There wasn’t a gun to his head,” Clemson athletic director Terry Don Phillips said at the time of Bowden’s resignation.

“He put it on the table for the sake of the program. I agreed,” No one could have imagined a season like this for the Tigers. The squad started the year as the No. 9 team in the country

and the consensus pick to win the ACC. Now, with three games left in the season, Clemson has been mathematically eliminated from the crowded ACC tide picture and needs to win its last three games just to become bowl eligible.

“I kind of laugh at it, because it is kind of funny,” senior running back James Davis told the (S.C.) Daily Journal. “You can’t believeyou are in this situation. You really have nothing else to do, but try to keep playing and try to find the positive in this situation.

“It hasbeen real tough, but you still have to keep fighting. Probably the only good part left is to try and have a winning season.

That’s what we have to look forward to.”

The season has been far from a comedy for SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE

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Duke, North Carolina and Clemson are tied for first place in the ACC, but that can change Thursday night.

The top three teams in the ACC—Duke, Clemson and North Carolina—all have the same 11-4 conference record.

This week, the Blue Devils have the opportunity to wipe out the Tar Heels and secure the No. 1 spot in the league.

Duke (20-7,114 in the ACC) takes on the Tar Heels (17-9, 114) Thursday at 7 p.m. in Chapel Hill. Because of renovations, ThursUUKe been day’s game moved from Carmichad Auditorium to the Dean E. Smith UNO the wellCenter, known venue ofNorth THURSDAY, 7 p.m.

Carolina’s men’s basDean E. Smith Center ketball team.

“We need all the Duke fans to be there,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “That environment does not exactly welcome Duke with open arms—we are going to have to focus and get beyond that.”

The Blue Devils’ performance last week seems to warrant Nagel’s call for increased support —they beat both first-place Clemson and second-place Georgia Tech.

Now, North Carolina, which is tied with Duke and Clemson for first place in the ACC, is arguably the Blue Devils’ toughest competition for the rest of ACC play. Duke has had success against its rival in the past —the Blue Devils topped North Carolina 3-1 in Cameron Indoor Stadium Oct. 3—but the Tar Heels are on a six-game winning streak, and that momentum could easily turn the tide.

“This game is critical,” Nagel said. “When

we played UNC in October, we managed to win, but it was a very close match. Carolina is doing very, very well right now. We’re going to have to execute and be aggressive in order to control the ball and be successful.”

Despite the fact that the October match was close, the Blue Devils do not necessarily view the Tar Heels’ recent success as a threat—it has simply served as an impetus to improve their own game.

Nagel said that the team’s tireless work ethic in preparing for each opponent has impressed her, and added that the team has continued to improve late in the season, especially in its serving and overall attitude.

“They want to do well, and you can see that in theirwork ethic everyday,” Nagel said. “They take a sincere interest in understanding the opponent and understanding each other.”

[Carolina’s winning streak] has just been extra motivation for us in practice,” senior Sue Carls said. “No matter what the stakes are, it is always exciting to play [at UNC], but I think we’re more motivated now than we were at the beginning of the season.”

While both Nagel and Carls stressed that the Blue Devils are taking the end of their regular season one game at a time, it’s clear that the team’s focus is on North Carolina, because that is, indeed, the next game. And the Tobacco Road rivalry' comes when Duke can potentially separate itself from the rest of the ACC at the top of the standings.

“At this point, we can’t get ahead of ourselves,” Carls said. “Every game is really important, because the top teams are so close in the rankings. Everything is coming together so nicely at the end of the season, though we’re peaking at the perfect time.” “

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a dean’s approval.

In essence, everyone would benefit from this policy. It is an unmitigated positive to allow driven students to throw themselves into their passions without taking a year off from school, jeopardizing their health due to overwork or entering into the academic limbo known as “part-time status.”

Former leaders of The Chronicle and Duke Student Government designed the new polio' in response to the disr appearance of two programs that, for about the last forty years, allowed student leaders to focus on their positions and take as few as two classes per semester so long as they eventually completed all graduation

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requirements.

The Chronicle Leadership Assistance Program has been

phased but gradually —all top editors except the editor-inchief now take three classes rather than two—and is slated to end next year.

By contrast, the Student Affairs Leadership Assistance Program was abruptly eliminated prior to the 2006-2007 academic year.' Then-DSG President Elliott Wolf, Trinity ’OB, was the first post-SALAP student government head.

(He eventually dropped a class and complained of sleep deprivation and developed a case of shingles.)

This new underloading proposal will relieve some of the strain on people with major extracurricular commitments, allowing them to live at least somewhat balanced lives and, frankly, do better work.

We all have an interest in a hard-hitting newspaper, an effective student advocacy body

The result of the election was that [Governor-elect] Bev Perdue, the leader of the corrupt regime, was installed as queen, so nothing is going to change. Same direction, same corruption.

Political Science Department Chair Michael Munger, who was the Libertarian candidate for governor. See story page 1.

students’ comments in school Nov. 5 ranged from “Barack Obaaamaaa!” to “My whole life, people have been telling me that I could do anything I wanted, and today I can finally believe it.” Though the election ofBarack Obama may have been an incredibly empowering moment for many Vg^gßg Americans (myself included), I still find myself doubting the existence of equality our country. live in a primarily white in

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Because taking advantage of this new policy would require the approval of a dean, there is also little risk thatany but the most qualified students would be permitted to underload.

Finally, not a few students get around the normal underloading requirement by gaming the registration process.

For example, some take two half-credit physical education courses to bring their credit count up to four. How does Duke’s intellectual community benefit if a student spends five disengaged hours a week taking Bowling land Fly Fishing, rather than devoting that time to important interests that they love and do well?

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Moreover, student government types and ink-stained wrenches won’t be the only beneficiaries of an improved and expanded underloading policy. Any student with a passion—whether it be a charity, an NGO, a campaign or an entrepreneurial scheme—will have a better chance to indulge his or her passion without losing full-time student status.

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neighborhood i be tweakin with a Whole Foods, sushi restaurants and boutiques. I work five miles away at a school with an all-black student body, situated in a neighborhood with a McDonald’s, convenience shops and liquor stores.

Two weeks ago, I took one of my former students, T, to the Art Institute in downtown Chicago. We went to get some lunch, where she had her first cup of soup in her life. Though she lives only a couple of miles from downtown Chicago, she had never been to the Art Institute or the neighboring Millennium Park—two attractions that draw people from all over the world to visit Chicago.

T is a straight-A student, and currently ranked first in her class. She is extremely motivated, and took extra classes all summer. When I talked to her about colleges, she said she would love to go to a school like Duke. We then discussed what she would have to do in the next two years to get in to a school like Duke, and she agreed that she would work with me on her ACT score for the rest of the school year.

When I think about T, however, I wonder if she did get into Duke, if she would make it all the way to graduation. I wonder how difficult it would be for her to fit into mainstream Duke culture-r—a culture where eating breakfast at Alpine is like watching a fashion show, where it is

OK to pay $6 for a smoothie because it’s food points and where some students fly all over the country at a moment’s notice.

I wonder how she would feel when everyone in her dorm went home for Thanksgiving, but she would have to stay at Duke because her mom works two jobs to make just enough money to support her four siblings.

I imagine her working in computer labs on all her assignments, having to plan her schedule far in advance so she could finish her work in case the labs were full.

I see her feeling like a failure because no matter how hard she works, the work she produces does not compare to that of her peers’— not because of her abilities but because the education she had did not grant her the same opportunities.

Despite these fears I have for T, if she were to go to Duke or a similar school, I also know how important it is for me to believe in her. T told me that her mom and older sister think she should apply to a local community college because that would better fit her abilities. Why is it that a student who will most likely graduate as the valedictorian will only have the abilities to attend a community college?

Though opportunity is not a privilege that T was granted, she was granted with something even more powerful—resilience. T has struggled through a family plagued with drug problems, violence and incarceration, and she is still able to focus on her education and her dreams to be a surgeon. She has a strong head on her shoulders and a practical view of success. She is willing to make sacrifices now because she knows the promise her future holds.

I hope that one day T not only gets into a school like Duke, but flourishes there. Because upon graduating, she will truly have opportunities and I will finally believe in the existence of equality.

Angela Jiang, Trinity ’O7, is a second-year teacher with Teach for America in Chicago, Her column runs every other Thursday.

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Post-racial dream

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been thinking a lot lately about what exactly the “post-racial” means. Is it a society free of racial discrimination? Or is it one where we ignore that racism exists and we put on a happy face? To be honest, I’m still not entirely sure what it means, but, in an attempt to try and figure this out, I’ve started questioning how I define term

myself.

I’m an American of South Asian descent who follows the Islamic faith.

These identities are all ordered by my preference. I U jHppr. mn mUIIIUccII consider myself an American first and I hold my frankie says relax South Asian roots dear.

But I don’t immediately classify myself as a Muslim and, in fact, I’ve found that often in the past I’ve taken great pains to hide it.

Why? Why did I joke around with friends in high school about “towelheads” or actively seek out my first beer at Duke? I think it’s because of an often underrated effect of Sept. 11—personal alienation. Of course, it didn’t help that on Sept. 12, 2001, I got into my first fight in high school because I was an “effing Palestinian terrorist.” Nor were matters eased when I read a poll in my high school newspaper where 30 percent of students admitted to taking part in anti-Islamic activities in the wake of the attacks.

No one ever stopped to think that this is my country too —that those were my people who died in the towers and those were my heroes who prevented United Flight 93 from colliding into its horrifying destination. I felt

like an outsider and the only the way I could be an insider was to ignore who I was.

After the attacks, I became a loner freshman year of high school for many reasons but the most telling of which was that I just felt alienated. Sept. 11 and the isolation I felt afterwards tortured my dreams.

Sophomore and junior year of high school, I reentered the world, but I avoided all affiliation with Islam and I focused on cultivating a group of friends who were “insiders.” By freshman year of college I shifted directions and got myself elected as a representative to Diya, letting me fully engage in the deep connection that I have with my South Asian roots, while still carefully sidestepping my Muslim heritage. Yet I took it too far, engaging only in one community and, relatively, shunning all others. I was like a yo-yo going from one extreme to another and I still had not found any sort of happy medium.

It was my summer after sophomore year when I went to work in Montana that I can say I started finding the balance that I had been looking for. There was a local celebration in the town I lived in (Population: 900, three hours outside of the nearest “city”) where I met a forest ranger who was having a conversation with a coworker of mine. They were discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (why, to this day, I still don’t know) and things were getting heated. She thought he was a nut job and he thought she was a liberal wiener.

After she stormed off, he turned his sights on me, and, not knowing what to do, I decided to talk to him.

Two hours later we came to a consensus on the issue and had become friends. We talked about family, faith and, finally, politics. The discussion was civil until I made a snarkyjoke about me being out of place in Mon-

fromthenet: making a good second impression

Don’t wait up The following is an excerpt of a blogpost by Chronicle blogger facob Wolff, published Nov. 12 on his blog, Making a Good Second Impression. is it that makes all of us Dukies “Dukies?”

What is the one thing that everyone can look back on and say; “Yep, that happened to me.”

There are many potential answers, but I can refute lacoh Wolff most: some people have making a good never gone to a game at Cameron Indoor, some second impression people have never had the experience of waiting in line for 20 minutes to get an omelette during brunch at the Marketplace, some people haven’t even gone to Bostock to study the day before a final, only to fall asleep for 10 straight hours in one of those comfy lounge chairs by the windows.

If there is one universal experience everyone at Duke has gone through, I say that it’s running to catch a C-l only to have the bus driver slam the door in your face and drive off while cackling. I think I can safely say that almost everyone at Duke has had a bus pull away from them right as they were sprinting across the quad to catch it. (This can be very funny for observers. The best part is being on a bus and watching it all happen. You see the person sprinting, and you just know they aren’t going to make it. The look on their face as they knock on the door as it pulls away: priceless!)

Some people get upset at the bus drivers. Some students think it’s how the drivers get back as students for how we treat them. Now, I don't know if that’s the case.

I assume their regulations say that they should leave at a certain time, and not wait for the dashing students. This makes sense, the bus has to leave sometime, it can’t wait for every student sprinting to the bus stop. But many swear the bus drivers derive some pleasure from making

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us run, only to pull off at the last second...

Though officially I’ll go on record saying there is no malicious intent, the cynical part of me has seen the drivers smirk as they pull away, and knows that a few might not just be “following regulations” by leaving quickly. Or I suppose they could be following regulations and just so happen to take some pleasure in the results: rules and pleasure aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive.

Could you really blame a bus driver for doing it though? I’m not saying every (or any) driver does this on purpose, but I sure as heck know I would. I don’t want to seem preachy, but we really don’t treat the bus drivers very well. I can’t imagine how many drunken people throw up on the buses each weekend, only to leave the mess for the driver to clean up. Even if nobody throws up, the drivers still have to deal with loud intoxicated kids who view the bus more as a right than a privilege. Yes, we pay for it with our tuition; but that doesn’t mean we should treat the drivers as terribly as many do. I do have to say, I myself am guilty of not being the best bus rider. I’ve been very loud, very obnoxious on the bus. I even think a friend and I once had a pull-up contest using those bars above the seat on the bus once (which I won, with three-fourths of a pull up!). I’m sure bus drivers hate me just as much as the next kid.

I’ve presented this as a universal Blue Devil experience: I lied. It has never happened to me at Duke (yet), and I take great pride in it. Though not a city boy, I am very adept at knowing when to run for a bus (and when not to), when to plead with a bus driver with my puppy dog eyes to open a door (and when it would only lead to exhaust in my face). It’s probably the one skill I am most proud of at Duke.

tana. He shook me, looked me in the eye, and snarled, “Don’t give me that bull.” He told me that in this country, nobody was out of place and that it was a shame that anyone ever felt so —America was built on a concept of equality that would never die.

Immediately thereafter, a part of my unease died (along with a lot of my liberal condescension). I can’t quite describe how much that moment meant to me, but when he offered me the opportunity to have dinner with his wife and kids, it hit me that maybe the reason I felt so alone was because I myself had not so accepted myself. My sense of alienation was a mixture of my own insecurity with who I was and the fact that I just didn’t have enough faith in others too, both bolstered by the fear of being seen as different.

Ever since then, I haven’t tried to fit into a crowd, nor have I tried to be part of a group that defines me.

I define me. I am who I am and that consists of numerous parts and bits that come together in a glorious whole. Maybe this is what a post-racial society is—being truly judged for the “content of your character.”

It’s presumptuous to say that I represent that society, and I hope you don’t feel that I’m saying that, but I have experienced it. It’s a beautiful thing where you are allowed to be an individual for your own sake, and no one else’s. Could it ever exist en masse? In a world where we know there is still bigotry? I don’t know. In all likelihood, it’s an impossible dream. But, I can tell you this, it’s a much better dream than the ones that I had freshmen year of high school. And it’s one that’s worth working toward.

Tariq Mohideen is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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letterstotheeditor No Awaaz coverage?

I was disappointed to see that this week’s issues of The Chronicle did not cover Awaaz. Not only is this event the largest student-run show on campus, but also it is one of the biggest student-run shows in North America.

Also, what deepens my chagrin is the fact that there were other Chronicle articles this week that did not deal with more pressing issues (i.e. the article about the ladybug infestation). It is rather disheartening to see that The Chronicle failed to report on one of the most culturally unique and enlightening experiences offered at Duke.

Though I cannot speak for the executive members of DIYA and those who ran, set up and performed in the show, I can say that I was shocked that no one covered this event NihaalKamik Trinity 7 1 Waitlists frustrate premeds

Why does Duke have to make it incredibly difficult to be a premed? Demanding academic excellence is reasonable at a univer-

sity of this caliber; class registration, however, should not be as impossible as it is. The waitlists in premed biology courses are absurd.

General Microbiology (810 103L) has a waidist of 48 people, while the Human Body (EVANTH 133L) has a waidist of 15people.

Given the amount of interest in these courses, the University should create more sections and at least accommodate most of the students interested in taking the course.

With all the facilities and resources at our disposal, this should not be a problem.

Farah Dadabhoy Trinity ’ll

Jacob Wolff is a Trinity sophomore. His blog can be accessed at secondimpression. chronicleblogs. com.

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MCCLURE from page 7 the looming shadow of injury for the first time.

Instead of working out with physical therapists or staying in Durham for at least part of the summer, he hit the court at the IMG Academy in Brandenton, Fla. with several of his collegiate peers—including Xavier’s CJ. Anderson and RJ. Raymond, who he will face Dec. 20, and recent West Virginia graduate Danis Nichols.

“It’s very different,” McClure said. “For three to five days a week this summer, I was able to push my body as far as I could, just to see that I could make it through the season.”

And while the focus this summer was about improvement and the future, the camp was not without good-natured trash talking and school rivalries —especially since Nichols was captain of the West Virginia squad that ended Duke’s NCAA Tournament hopes in the second round last year.

“He’s kind of a quiet guy, so I didn’t have to hear it that much, but it definitely gets brought up,” McClure said.

The practice McClure gained tins summer has only added to the already-present plethora of game and injury experience he has under his bell. As die oldest member of the team, McClure knows the ropes, and will be one of several guys responsible for helping Duke’s diree freshmen adapt to college play.

‘The biggest transition for a high school kid is knowing that every day is a day to get better—the minute you pace yourself you’ll lie exposed,” McClure said. “A majority of our guys are older, so it’s up to us to bring them along. The guys who know the offense and defense really know it, so it’s up to them to make sure [the freshmen] really know it, too. Once diey come along, it’ll be really lx* exciting."

That is, forget the past.

For McClure and the Blue Devils, the present and future seem as healthy as his bracefree knees—knock on wood.

After enduring surgeries in 2005 and 2007,fifth-year senior Dave McClure enters hisfinal season without an injury and ready to provide intangibles for Duke.

M. SOCCER from page 7

FOOTBALL from page 7

31st minute, Barnes found the ball amidst the scramble and headed the ball past the keeper into the net.

Six minutes later, Grella lit up the scoreboard himself. Taking the ball from midfielder Cole Grossman, Grella sprinted ahead, passing two defenders and drilling the ball past the goalkeeper into the right corner for his 14lh goal of the season.

Grella, who was named ACC Offensive Player of the Year Tuesday, seemed to put on his own personal clinic ofbrilliant passes and circus shots.

“Grella played outstanding,” Barnes said. “That was one of the best games I’ve ever seen him play. He was holding the ball for us, he was running at people, putting pressure on their back line. He was unlucky to not get a couple of the goals.”

Despite Grella’s inspired play, Duke’s feverish offensive attack would not yield any goals after halftime.

“When we were 2-1 up, we didn’t get that elusive third goal to really punish them,” Kerr said.

The Cavaliers succeeded where the Blue Devils could not.

After convening the penalty kick, Virginia had a couple good serves overhead to Ownby, who twice maneuvered ahead of Barnes and senior Pavelid Castaneda in almost identical fashion to shoot the ball past goalie Brendan Fitzgerald.

And although the game resulted in a loss, Kerr insisted that this loss was different from Duke’s other losses.

“We showed up,” Kerr said. “We were here. We played well, and, you know, just a couple of mistakes in form, and we got punished... but the effort and the attitude were spot on tonight. I have no problems with the way we played tonight.”

Clemson fans. The Tigers limped out of the gate and were upset by then-No. 24 Alabama en route to losing three of their first four conference games. It all led to Bowden’s departure after a 12-7 loss at Wake Forest Oct 9.

Not even all of his own players were sad to see him go. Senior quarterback Cullen Harper, who was temporarily benched after the game against the Demon Deacons in favor of highly touted sophomore Willy Korn, had strong words for his former coach.

“It’s what he deserved,” Harper told ESPN. He later qualified that statement. “[Bowden] tried to motivate us, but guys were off the bandwagon,” he said. “There were things I disagreed with and that my teammates disagreed with. I didn’t appreciate it when he would say some off-the-wall things about me to the media. I guess one thing I can say is he gave me an opportunity to come to Clemson and play.”

Interim head coach Dabo Swinney has not fared much better. Since taking over, Clemson has gone 1-2. Offensive coordinator Rob Spence was let go with Bowden, and Swinney has been calling plays for the disappointing offense. Davis, who is just 311 yards short of the school’s rushing record, has had a down year with the rest of the running backs, who have struggled behind a young offensive line. Harper, too, has thrown 12 interceptions to just nine touchdowns.

Now, the Tigers enter their matchup with Duke with the same record —which, to Clemson, is reason to laugh.

“It is crazy to tell you the truth when you look af our record and their record being the same,” Clemson wide receiver Aaron Kelly told the Daily Journal. “I never would have expected that. It has been a crazy year as far as how things have gone and how they have shaped up around here.”

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No. 5 Duke took a 2-1 lead into halftime, but No. 4 Virginia scored three straight in its 4-2 win Thursday.

The Blue Devils’ loss was also spotted with injuries. Already down senior defender Graham Dugoni and rookie Kyle Bethel for the season and defender lan Kalis for the game, die Blue Devils saw injuries to Matt Thomas and Joseph Pak, dialing otu more adversity to a team has had more than its fair share of setbacks this season.

But now, Duke has a longer opportunity to rest and recuperate before the

season’s final stretch begins, “We’ll have time for guys who are sick and injured to get some rest, get some rehab and get back on the field to play,” Barnes said. “It’s always bitter to lose a game like this. You always want to win championships, but the next tournament we’re in is the biggest one of them all, so hopefully we can get everybody back... stay sharp and healthy, and make some noise in the NCAA tournament.”