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Laughing up at the glass ceiling Students split on financial aid distinctions by

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Duke UniversityImprov has not had femalemembers in its group in five years. (From left to right) Freshmen Robert Zaleski, Hunter Douglas, and two females, Julianne Kolb and Jess Hendin, are the newly selected freshmen members of the comedy troupe this year.

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Audience members who came to watch Duke University Improv’s Secret Show under the Blackwell Arch two weeks ago got the usual dose of comedy they were expecting.

There were the characteristic punch lines, impersonations and witty banter between members followed by jeering and enthusiastic applause. But there were also new additions to this year’s act that the audience may not have been expecting.

Two new female members were added to DUFs cast

this year. Freshmen Jess Hendin and Julianne Kolb are the first women to join the previously all-male troupe in nearly five years.

“We took the four best people, and two of those happened to be girls,” said senior David Distenfeld, a veteran DUI member.

Fellow member Tom Blemaster, a senior, said the allmale trend is nothing more than a numbers game.

“It’s always really tough at auditions because usually we just have a lot more guys than girls,” he said. “This

The Socioeconomic Diversity Initiative will start holding focus groups this month to analyze the experiences of Duke students who receive financial aid.

The initiative hopes to identify elements of the student experience that need improvement due to challenges that stem from socioeconomic differences between students.

“I think it is important to know what students are struggling with, whether that is academic, financial or beyond,” said Alison Rahil, assistant vice provost and director of Financial Aid. “We want students to make the experience here the best it can be and make sure everyone is included despite income, language or culture.”

Students differed on the way they percieved the effects of money and class on campus.

“I don’t feel like there is any effect at all,” said junior Misha Lavrov. “People usually don’t talk about that sort of thing. I feel like the initiative could be beneficial or it could be a waste of time.”

Nearly half of students get some sort of financial aid—-43 percent receive need-based assistance and 3 percent get merit or athletic scholarships, Rabil said.

Some students feel that there is a social difference between those who are on financial aid and those who are not

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Prowling and purring, cats find a home at Duke by

Rachna Reddy THE CHRONICLE

White with a patch of orange on its ear, a cat sits on its haunches on an Allen Building step. It’s night, and the shorthair is the only illuminated figure on the

academic quad. So still that it might be ghost or statue, it is one of Duke’s resident feral felines.

Cats have a quiet presence all over West Campus—lone toms sunning on the patio of Armadillo Grill, a calico scampering across the Bryan Center walkway, tabbies mewing from the bushes of the Biological Sciences Building.

Duke is home to more than a dozen feral cat colonies.

Until summer 2008, a small, scraggly cat frequented the shrubbery of the Physics Building. The physics students called her Schrodinger, but she was also known as Ribbons and Patches.

“Truthfully, she was hideously ugly, spotted all over, brown, yellow and all sorts of colors thrown in. She wasn’t a pretty looking

cute,” said Arya Roy, a finalyear graduate student in math. “Of course, cats don’t really care what you call them.As long as you’re around, they purr.”

Roy, who came to Duke five years ago, said the cat had been a visitor at the Physics Building for 10 or 12 years before passing away. Roy took over cat-feeding duties from former physics professor George Rogosa, who returned to put food out for the cats even after his retirement.

Since Schrodinger’s death more than a year ago, however, Roy has stopped feeding strays.

“I didn’t want to make a habit of feeding lots of stray cats,” Roy said. “When I go away, who will feed them?”

Roy said unlike many strays, Schrodinger was affectionate and would sometimes rub up against his legs to be pet, but Roy didn’tallow her to do it often.

“I didn’t want to get her used to anything that wouldn’t be permanent,” he said. cat but she was

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Feral cats are a regular sight on campus, especially outsidethe Physics and Biological Sciences Buildings. Although some havefed and trained the felines over the years,othersbelieve they pose problems to the community.

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The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office calculated that the legislation, written by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont, would cost $829 billion by 2019. But because that tab would be offset by spending cuts elsewhere and by new revenues, the panel's health care bill would lower the deficit by $Bl billion over the next decade—and potentially even more in later years—the budget office concluded.

At the same time, the bill would expand the percentage of Americans with health insurance from 83 percent to 94 percent, according to the estimate.

WASHINGTON Congressional Republicans fired back Wednesday at the White House's PR campaign for healthcare reform, highlighting concerns voiced by two Democratic governors about a possible expansion of Medicaid.

The federal-state program for low-income children, pregnant mothers and disabled people is already driving states to the fiscal brink, and many governors—Republican and Democrat alike, including those who support the overallreform effort—are deeply concerned that Congress will add to the burden by expanding Medicaid to cover millions of poor, uninsured adults.

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The State Department says it needs to confer with Chinese officials who visited Pyongyang this week to gather more precise information about what North Korea is willing to do.

The Obama administration has repeatedly said it will talk with North Korea, but only if Pyongyang agrees to participate again in the six-party denuclearization talks, which began in 2003 and involve the two Koreas, the United States, China, Russia and Japan.

Those Beijing-based talks produced significant results through 2007 and 2008, as North Korea—in return for aid and diplomatic concessions—disabled a plutonium factory and demolished a cooling tower at its main nuclear power plant.

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DSG deliberates SOFCs function by

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The Student Organization Finance Committee came under scrutiny by Duke Student Government members at the DSG meeting Wednesday night.

Senators debated the role SOFC should have in determining which clubs exist on campus after SOFC Chair David Hu, a junior, made a special presentation on the SOFC selection process. The committee is trying to judge prospective clubs with a more critical eye this year by asking clubs more probing questions such as “Why do you want to be a group?” and “Do you have a newsletter, a Web site and an adviser who is willing and active?” Hu said.

A number ofDSG members said many clubs applying for charter or recognition are redundant—very similar clubs already exist and there is not enough space on campus for every dub.

“Issues that keep coming up are, ‘This group sounds like it should be like this group that already exists, but this one doesn’t do what we want it to,’” said Vice President for Academic Affairs Cynthia Chen, a senior.

She recommended that existing groups be approached and worked with to encorporate club subsections.

Other members said they feel strongly that students have the right to form any club they wish.

“It’s a very dicey territory when we get the business of rejecting groups,” said in Athletics and Campus Services Senator Ben Bergmann, a junior. “Space preservation is important at Duke, but it isn’t as dire as people make it out to be.”

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As SOFC Chair David Hu, a junior,proposes the chartering of the Duke Wealth and Management club, DSG debated on therole SOFC shouldplay in the group chartering process during its meetingWednesday.

When Bergmann asked Hu for an explanation of why the 12 SOFC members are qualified to reject clubs applying for a charter or recognition, Hu pointed out that SOFC can help prospective clubs revise their mission statement to make it more appealing to the committee.

Hu proposed passing a charter for the new Duke Wealth and Management Club, the only club he said SOFC found worthy of presenting to DSG out of six that appealed to SOFC. [The Duke Wealth and Management “

Club has] a wonderful professor, they have their own newsletter [and] they have active members and speakers lined up,” Hu said.

The club, boasting 110 active members, is focused on educating interested students about management. Although similar to the Duke Investment Club, the Wealth and Management Club wants to approach the same subject with the goal of “mentoring and teaching people,” Hu said. ,

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As students turn to Web sites like YouTube and Hulu to follow their favorite shows, Cable 13, Duke’s student-run television station, is trying to draw those viewers to its own online content.

Since its creation in 1976, Cable 13 has been a major venue for students to showcase their original broadcast work. Now, its production team is expanding programming to a Web-based platform.

“We are updating our Web site to make our programs more accessible and to allow students to upload their own content, sort of like YouTube,” said Cable 13 co-President Stephanie Shyu, a senior.

Students will soon be able to access Cable 13 in three ways—via Duke’s cable network, on a live stream on the Cable 13 Web site or on-demand through its video archives, said co-President Merideth Bajana, a senior.

With the new Web site, Cable 13 will be able to showcase different student events, such as the step show that took place during Homecoming and performances by local musicians. Content would also include student-produced shows and other works.

The site will also allow Cable 13 to expand its coverage. As one of their initiatives to broaden scope, Cable 13 members will attend sporting events to post live feeds on SEE CABLE

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Officials at odds over resources for Afghan mission By

Rajiv Chandrasekaran THE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON In early March, after weeks of debate across a conference table in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the participants in President Barack Obama’s strategic review of the war in Afghanistan figured that the most contentious part of their discussions was behind them. Everyone, save Vice President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, agreed that the United States needed to mount a comprehensive counterinsurgency mission to defeat the Taliban.

That conclusion, which was later endorsed by the president and members of his national security team, would become the first in a set of recommendations contained in an administration white paper outlining what Obama called “a comprehensive, new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.” Preventing al Qaeda’s return to Afghanistan, the document stated, would require “executing and resourcing an integrated civilian-military counterinsurgency

ing on hunting and killing insurgents, the troops would have to concentrate on protecting the good Afghans from the bad

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And to carry out such a counterinsurgency effort the way its doctrine prescribes, the military would almost certainly need more boots on the ground.

To some civilians who participated in the strategic review, that conclusion was much less clear. Some took it as inevitable that more troops would be needed, but others thought the thrust of the new approach was to send over scores more diplomats and reconstruction experts. They figured a counterinsurgency mission could be accomplished with the forces already in country, plus the 17,000 new troops Obama had authorized in February.

“It was easy to say, ‘Hey, I support COIN,’ because nobody had done the assessment of what it would really take, and nobody had thought through whether we want to do what it takes,” said one senior civilian administration official who participated in the review, using the shorthand for coun-

To senior military commanders, the senunambiguous: U.S. and NATO forces would have to change the way they operate in Afghanistan. Instead of focus-

terinsurgency.

The failure to reach a shared understanding of the resources required to execute the strategy has complicated the

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SOCIOECONOMIC from page 1 “Take the relationship between me and my roomyear,” said sophomore Gabriel Arce, who said he receives financial aid. “His dad is the [chief executive officer] of the Royal Bank of Canada, which is the top bank in Canada. He is a good guy, probably one of the most humble guys I’ve met at Duke, [but] we couldn’t fully connect or relate to each other. He would hang with all the other well-off frat guys and I would hang out with other people who were more like me. We got along very well but we just tended to interact with different groups of people.”

Money is also an issue for students in similar economic situations.

Sometimes there are uncomfortable moments when the subjects of financial aid packages and loans are brought up, several students said.

“I feel like it comes up in conversation—who’s oh fimate last

White House’s response to the grim assessreview’s main conclusion, asking whether ment of the war by the top U.S. and NATO the administration’s relatively narrow goal commander in Afghanistan, forcing the of preventing al Qaeda’s return to Afghani president to decide, in effect, what his adstan would best be achieved through a fullministration really meant when it endorsed on counterinsurgency mission or through a counterinsurgency plan for the country. a more limited counterterrorism operation Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s follow-up rethat would target any high-level terrorists quest for more forces, which presents a seeking to operate there again.

This time, the discussions about counrange of options but makes clear that the best chance of achieving the administraterinsurgency will not remain theoretical tion’s goals requires an additional 40,000 or involve back-of-the-envelope estimates U.S. troops on top of the 68,000 who are of troop levels. It is clear to all around the already there, has given senior members of table now that pursuing a full counterinObama’s national security team “a case of surgency, at least according to the model sticker shock,” the administration official developed in Iraq by Gen. David Petraeus said. and embraced by McChrystal, would enThe meetings now underway in Washtail tens of thousands of additional troops, ington are rooted in part in the gap in unlegions of civilian specialists and billions derstanding that became evident in March. more reconstruction dollars.

This account of how it opened up is based Senior military leaders, including Adm. on interviews with several senior civilian Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint members of the administration and miliChiefs of Staff, and Petraeus, who now heads the U.S. Central Command, have tary officers directly involved in Afghanistan issues. Nearly all spoke on the condiindicated their support for McChrystal’s tion of anonymity because they were not request in discussions with administration authorized to talk publicly about internal officials. Biden has taken the opposite view, policy discussions. renewing arguments he made earlier this As the president’s top defense and foryear for a narrower counterterrorism miseign policy officials debate the way forSEE AFGHANISTAN ON PAGE 5 ward, they have begun to revisit the March

nancial aid or taking out loans and who’s not,” said junior Tina Del Carpio. “I work as a [resident assistant], so I don’t have any student loans, and when that comes up, sometimes there’s tension with friends who do have to take out loans. Sometimes there are awkward moments, but I don’t feel like it hinders my experience. All things here at Duke are open to students despite any socioeconomic gap.”

Some students said financial aid helps minimize the socioeconomic gap and make opportunities—such as clubs, study abroad and internships—available, to all students.

“I feel that there are socioeconomic gaps and distinctions at Duke, some more obvious than others. In a purely monetary sense, however, a large portion of the gap is reduced by the aid many students receive or at least in my case, my financial aid places me at less of a disadvantage,” said sophomore Jonathan Lee. “I believe that in my case, the socioeconomic differences are a bit less distinct than they were in high school. I went to very diverse schools and everyone blended pretty well

together, so I expected much of the same when I came here. But it’s quite obvious that people self-segregate very easily here since they have much more control over who they live and associate with.”

The average financial aid grant last academic year was $30,000, bringing the amount of money used on financial aid that year to approximately $97 million, including money distributed by Duke and the federal government, Rahil said.

Incomes at Duke vary, but some students said a willingness to interact with people they normally would not associate with can help bridge divides.

“I think the reason why we had such a good roommate relationship was because we forced to live together and we were just naturally outgoing people,” Arce said. “People from different socioeconomic levels don’t tend to interact with each other. But just because they don’t doesn’t mean they’re incompatible, and Duke provides an environment for us to find where we are compatible.”

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sion instead of a comprehensive counterinsurgency campaign. Others, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates

and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have not staked out a firm position.

With the costs now clearer, some officials at the National Security Council and the State Department who voiced support for counterinsurgency in March have started to consider other options. There is increasing interest in Biden’s stance, as well as in a modified counterinsurgency effort that would involve sending more military trainers but not more combat forces.

“The skeptics are growing,” one senior official said Asked why Obama is questioning a key assumption of his Afghanistan strategy just six months after he stood before a bank of flags and endorsed the white paper, administration spokesmen have cited the potential impact on counterinsurgency efforts of. the country’s fraud-riddled presidential election in August. They have also noted that Obama said in March that he would review whether the United States was “using the right tools and tactics to make

progress.”

But senior officials involved in Afghanistan strategy discussions now and earlier this year said the lack of agreement in March about counterinsurgency will make these deliberations more protracted and disputatious.

“We’re going back to key assumptions,” one of the officials said.

Less than three weeks after Obama took office, the White House selected former CIA officer Bruce Riedel to review U.S. policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan. Riedel was told to consult broadly but act quickly: The president wanted his conclusions by mid-March, before a NATO summit in Europe early in April.

Working with national security adviser James Jones and his top aides, Riedel assembled a team that included representatives from the defense and state departments and the CIA. A senior official from the Joint Chiefs ofStaff was there. So, too, was Biden’s national security adviser, Antony Blinken, and Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, who was former President George Bush’s Iraq war czar but was kept on by Jones to help manage Afghanistan war policy for the NSC. Petraeus and Richard Holbrooke, the administration’s

point man at the State Department for Afghanistan and was a minority of one.”

Pakistan, often attended the group’s meetings.

Counterterrorism is “what the Bush administration did In a campaign speech in June 2008, Obama called the largely for seven years and it didn’t work,” Riedel said. fight against al Qaeda in Afghanistan and in the frontier “And it’s not likely to work in the future.” regions of Pakistan “a war that we must win.” He did not The review team had reached a consensus that more mention the Afghan Taliban, the insurgents battling U.S. troops were needed to pursue a counterinsurgency stratforces and the Afghan government. Although the Taliban egy. They engaged in rough estimates based on traditional welcomed Osama bin Laden when they ruled Afghanistan, counterinsurgency doctrine. But the numbers depended U.S. intelligence officials say they believe there are few, if on how much of the country required such an approach any, links between Taliban commanders in Afghanistan toparts of the north and west were deemed sufficiently and how many Afghan security forces could quiescent day and senior al Qaeda members.

Obama’s choice of words was not lost on members of be added to the mix. the review team. They, too, argued that the United States “I don’t think anyone had any illusions that this was going to be cheap and easy,” Riedel said.

In March, however, it was not clear to several of the parthink anyone had any ticipants that a significant addition of U.S. forces would be needed. Obama had only recently authorized the desions that this was to be ployment of 17,000 more troops. Most of them would be heading to Helmand and Kandahar provinces in the and south, where the insurgents were making gains. Later that Bruce Riedel, month, Obama agreed to send 4,000 more soldiers to help train the Afghan army. Several team members assumed CIA those forces would prove sufficient.

Encouraging the view that a massive influx was npt needed were statements from the overall U.S. and NATO should focus on al Qaeda. Their final document made the commander at the time, Gen. David McKiernan, who said point bluntly; “The core goal of the U.S. must be to dis- he had shifted his troops toward counterinsurgency operations. He was not asking for more forces beyond the 21,000 rupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda.”

But the question of how to achieve that end provoked Obama had agreed to, plus 10,000 more in 2010, which pointed debate. Most participants insisted that the only way the Pentagon told the White House it could address later to prevent al Qaeda from returning to Afghanistan would in the year. be to build up an Afghan government, with a large enough “Typically, you defer to the field for the resource needs,” police force and army to defend itself. That would require said one senior official involved in the review. “In March., continued U.S. assistance, in reconstruction and fighting we thought we had a handle on what McKiernan thought the Taliban. And that meant counterinsurgency. he needed.”

A military official familiar with McKiernan’s thinking Blinken, speaking for his boss, argued that trying to build an Afghan state strong enough to withstand the Talisaid his request for 30,000 troops last fall was tempered by ban would take more time and resources than the Ameria belief that the Bush White House would reject it outright can public would be willing to tolerate. If the goal is al- if he asked for more. As it was, Bush tabled the request, Qaida, he said, the United States should pursue a more leaving it to Obama.

Another wild card was the role civilians would play in focused strategy, targeting terrorists who seek to set up there. an expanded counterinsurgency mission. The review team operations One participant described the counterinsurgency vs. agreed with Holbrooke’s desire to dispatch hundreds counterterrorism debate as “very spirited.” But, the particimore development specialists and to overhaul U.S. reconto said, Blinken, “at the-end of the he struction programs. pant referring day,

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Academic Affairs Senator Kaveh Danesh, a sophomore, said the club is a nice alternative for those who do not get a leadership position in the investment club.

Other senators found fault with giving charter status to a club so similar to one already active on campus.

Cats cause concerns There are several theories for why Duke is home to so many feral felines. The campus is a sheltered environment with numerous food sources, and some suspect local pet owners abandon kittens on its grounds.

Although feral cats have won some hearts on campus, their presence is the cause for many concerns.

“They’re riot native to this area—they’re not native to North America,” said Jeff Pippen, an associate in research at the Nicholas School of the Environment. Pippen has worked at Duke for 20 years.

Cats were first domesticated in the sands of Ancient Egypt. Most North American wildlife have not evolved to cope with the predatory threat they pose, Pippen said.

“Cats, we all know, are effective predators and they love to prey and hunt,” Pippen said. “It’s been documented that they kill many small birds, small mammals and reptiles that are native to this area and belong in the forest.”

Helen Cook has worked at Duke as a clinical nurse for 25 years. In 1995, she saw a kitten warming itself on the lawn outside the Duke University Credit Union on Morreene Road. Since then, Cook has worked to care for and reduce the feral cat population on campus.

“I was not willing to justfeed them because that’s not going to help the situation,” she said. “With feeding came neutering, spaying and vaccinating. It was a two-pronged effort there.”

Cook is part of an ongoing movement to reduce the Durham feral population using the Trap, Neuter, Release method, working with an organization called

“It’s valuable for Duke students to learn that they can still be an effective member of a club without having a fancy title,” said junior Will Passo, vice president for Durham and regional affairs.

“It’s a very dicey territory when we get in the business of rejecting

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—junior Ben Bergmann, Athletics and Campus Services senator DSG members finally decided that the Wealth and Management Club does not need charter status. Organizations that apply for charter are allowed to apply for funding on a regular basis, and this new club does not need funding, members said.

Clubs can also apply for recognition, which gives them access to the programming fund. Passo moved to amend Hu’s proposition, granting the club recognition instead of a charter. The amendment was passed.

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Ben Getson, a junior, gave a status report on Courseßank, a Web site new to Duke that allows students to review courses before they register for them. The Web site’s goal is to allow students to “use [their] experiences to guide [other students’ course selections],” Getson said.

The site is almost ready for wide use and has 119__reviews, 544 ratings and 5.1 IT Courses as of Wednesday evening. After students register on the site, they can supply information regarding courses, such as ranking the class on a scale from one to five, a review and an overview of the class. Students also have the option of providing their grade in the course so that a rough grade distribution can be graphed.

Getson said one thing he would like to see included on the site is the option to review professors. Any student can register and write a review, but if inappropriate criticisms are included, the review could be removed, Getson said.

Getson is hoping to launch Courseßank later this Fall, in time for registration for Spring semester.

in a box that closes when a cat enters. Cook captures about 100 cats each month from the Durham area and takes them to to a clinic to be vaccinated, neutered and spayed with a voucher.

Neutered ferals are marked on the ear and released at the location where they were found.

Cook also rescues and domesticates kittens for adoption. This season, she found Jthree outside the Duke ChaJ3cl. Cook estimates she and those helping her have socialized a total of more than 100 kittens on Duke’s campus.

She has half a dozen “kitties” herself, most of which have been rescued from University grounds.

Duke’s chapter of Students for the Protection of Animals also has plans for a TNR project with campus cats, said chapter President Matthew Slayton, a senior.

Pippen, however, said re-releasing ferals into the campus environment is unwise.

“If you successfully capture a feral cat from the wild, under no circumstances should it be returned to the wild,” he said.

In 2008, the Animal Protection Society of Durham received 2,497 cats, said Simon Woodrup, director of community outreach forAPS. By county ordinance, all animals brought to the shelter

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“I used to call him brute-ass. He wasn’t going into.that cage, no way no how,” Cook said. “He was a big old honkin’ tom. He went from being an alpha tom to a rather mellow, neutered boy.”

Brutus would saunter out of the woods when she arrived with food, Cook recalled. Sometimes it was a nice gallop.

He would even rub up against Cook’s legs. But his “lady,” Rena, was more reserved. “[Rena] was sort of the matriarch and Brutus was the partriarch, and they were very cute,” Cook said. “I was glad that they hooked up.”

Cook said the Credit Union colony is shrinking—she has not seen kittens in the area since 1998, and has seen no signs of new ferals moving into the territory.

The building is not the only place on campus fewer cats call home. Cook recalled one warm summer 10 years ago when her group removed 30 kittens from the*area around

Page Auditorium.

“We were literally running a kitten nursery,” Cook said.

“There’s not nearly that number of cats anymore.”

Throughout the 15 years that she has cared for campus cats, Cook has assembled a community of helpers.

“We have physicians, we have researchers. We have students, graduate students,” Cook said. “This has given me a great opportunity to basically get to know Duke. It’s a diverse group of people.”

Jack Chance, a security officer for the Duke University Police Department, has fed campus cats before and after work for seven years.

“As long as I work and I can afford the food, I’ll keeping feeding them,” he said. “I’ve seen some [that are] real, real skinny from not having enough to eat.”

Chance has four cats of his own and names some on campus after their personalities. His favorite, Sisco, once hopped out of a bush with a bird in her mouth and presented it to Chance.

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“Right now, you’ve got so many generations of feral, if they’re not kittens, then there’s no socializing,” said Janet Patterson, shop coordinator for the Physics Instrument Shop. Patterson hasworked with Cook extensively.

Pippen said that in the interest of the campus ecosystem, sending the captured cats to a shelter is the best option.

“It may sound heartless, but my long-term goals are for the health of the environment and the health of the human population at Duke as well,” he said. "Ideally, all feral cats on campus are gone by whatever means are most humane.”

Roy, however, does not think that the cats pose much of a predatory threat.

“If Ribbons could hunt, I would love to see it,” he said.

“Growing up with cats, if you feed them... they are lazy bastards. Yeah, they probably kill a bird Or so.”

Pippen disagreed, noting that evidence does not show that feeding reduces hunting behavior, and predator instinct is deeply instilled in felines.

“I love cats,” Pippen said. “I’m a cat person. My cats are kept indoors. They can be completely fed but if a mouse gets into the house, or a cricket, or a spider, that cat has found a play toy. That’s its nature. Even if well-fed, cats are still out killing native wildlife.”

Many, however, believe that re-releasing infertile cats is the best way to reduce the population. Cook said eradicating all cats would create a vacuum that invites other felines to move into, the area.

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“The little gray one talks,” Lacey said. “If I go outside, she meows and meows and meows, but if you get too close to her, she walks away.”

Cook has not seen a feral at the Credit Union in months—zero cats from a population that was once more than 30. Rena died last June and about a year ago, Brutus finished the food Cook gave him and trotted into the woods. He didn’t appear for Cook’s next visit. / “It’s like Brutus was the last,” Cook said, though she still puts food out at the Credit Union. “I would love for me to be out of business in terms of taking care of feral colonies—l would love it. But I want that to happen through attrition.”

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Cable 13,shown filming a show, is revamping itsWeb site to increaseitsonline viewing audience.The new site will also allow students to submittheir own videos.

the site, said junior Maddie Burke, co-vice president and director of sports for Cable 13.

“This will help students get familiar with the broadcasting and editing process,” Burke said.

“Our mission is to give kids interested in multimedia the tools they need to take it to the next level.”

Shyu said Cable 13 has received interest from students planning to pursue television production as a career.

The crew is facing technical difficulties with the Web site, But Cable 13 members said they have greater hopes for a stronger production team this year because several people have expressed hopes to create their own shows.

Additionally, interest in production has increased, but Cable 13 members said television viewership has declined. They attribute this change to a decrease in the number of students who have televisions in their rooms and an increasing shift toward online viewing.

Shyu said that although Cable 13 continues to face difficulties in membership retention, it is expected to some degree.

Retention is not a new issue, said junior Wonnie Song, a former Cable 13 board member in charge of promotion, adding that last year it was difficult for the station to keep regular viewers.

“We had a good proportion of viewers that found our station while they were surfing channels,” Song said. “They just wouldn’t sit down to watch it.”

Bajana said she believes that the Web site’s launch will help Cable 13 serve students wishing to showcase their own work and to reach out to the larger Duke community.

“This is away for us to make sure that we are able to become important for students in the way that they need us to be,” Bajana said, “We are putting in foundations this year for what can happen in five or 10 years down the road.”

Currently, the Cable 13 Web site is under construction and is expected to be completed by the end of October, Bajana said.

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“Girls have to be careful to not be the sweet princess or the old hag in every scene,” she said. “It’s easy to get

year it was different, there was more of typecast.” an equal number of girls and guys that Junior Jenni Brandon too could attest tried out.” to the difficulty of being one of the only The two girls, along with freshmen funny women in a group of dominating Hunter Douglas and Robert Zaleski, male personalities. Brandon auditioned were welcomed to DUI a month ago for DUI two years ago and made it to the after a week-long audition process that top ten during callbacks before eventuturned away nearly a hundred wouldally being cut. be comedians.

“It was a fun experience and very inWith the arch packed to capacity, timidating—those boys are very talented,” the group quickly got into their usual she said. “It was also intimidating because improv antics. From the reactions of I was a girl.... Men being funny translates the audience, it was clear that the new better than women being funny.” members meshed well with the old.

Brandon said she thinks things may Kolb’s impression of a chain-smoking, have turned out differently her freshman husband-less grandmother got the year if another girl had been on the judgsame round of rousing laughs, hoots ing panel. and hoorahs, as did sophomore Kyle “I think with these girls they might Glackin’s impersonation of an illegal be able to get a few more in the future,” she said. “But DUI are great guys—suimmigrant—a crowd favorite.

“I feel comfortable with everyone alper nice. But it’s good, I think, to have the girls.” ready,” Hendin said.

Adjustment is nothing new to DUI. Regardless of the year-to-year changes Group members said the dynamic of the in group dynamic, current members of DUI and alums said the group remains at troupe changes every year with the addition of new members. its core the same.

“When you add anybody new, it chang“DUI is a group full of strong persones the jokes you’re able to make,” Distenalities competing for the spotlight as cofeld said. medians and that won’t change whether The last female member ofDUI, Carothere’s a girl or not,” Haubold said. line Haubold, Trinity ’O5, said her addiAudience members too said the chemtion to the group had a noticeable effect istry of the group was only improved by on the troupe’s act. the addition offemale members.

“I was the first girl any of the guys “I think [the girls] fit in nicely. It had improvised with when I joined,” added a new dynamic,” said freshman she said. “At certain points, it would be Ritza Calixte, who had seen one of DUl’s very fratty. A lot of the jokes were very performances prior to the addition of guyish—that got toned down when I the freshmen as well as the Secret Show was in the group.”

Thursday night. “It was refreshing. I Haubold added that being one of think they made a good choice with the few girls in DUI was not without its who they selected, even with the other two freshmen.” challenges.

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It always strikes abruptly, furtively and without warning. A girl waves to a male. Aboy takes note of a familiar car at the Belmont.

The circumstances vary. Everyone asks the same questions.

“How do you know that guy?”

“I didn’tknow you were friends with her.”

No one wants full disclosure, but everyone inquires.

“Is that really how you know him?

‘Yeah....Kind of.” Practice your poker face.

“Did you hook up with her?” Awkward silence. It has happened again.

You can’t change the past. In fact, it’s probably sitting just a few rows behind you in your 10:20 a.m. lecture. Given these unavoidable confrontations, one must learn to tread the line between implicit and explicit. “That’s not how my ex used to do it...,” is a mood poisoner, if not a relationship killer. Still, when two members of the opposite sex hold eye contact for a little too long or a T-shirt with mysterious Greek letters appears, questions emerge.

Generally, men employ denial. They try to believe that their girlfriends were blessed with natural sexual prowess. As Ludacris astutely noted, men want “a lady in the street but a freak in the bed.” I would qualify this statement as only applicable to the bed of said freak’s current partner all other beds should be kept out of sight and mind. When it comes to a girl’s sexual skeletons, most men would like the closet door closed.

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I left class with instructions to Google Anton Meiwes, the German cannibal (it was a relevant example, promise). This was an instruction from my professor, a man who proclaimed that he wears “cheap-a clothes” from Bangladesh to not just me but an entire class (and a great class, in the academic sense—not sucking up, it’s just the highlight ofmy average Monday/ Wednesday) (What up, MF). I never got around to Google-ing Meiwes beyond checking the spelling of his name for the purposes of this bit of writing, but, in true Carrie Bradshaw fashion, it got me thinking about that Dirty Projectors song “Cannibal Resource” (What up, AG).

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Art, music unite at MSR4 by

Sanette Tanaka THE CHRONICLE

Boasting a diverse and eclectic array of rising artists, organizations and downtown entrepreneurs, Carborro is already well known as a hub for underground art and music scenes. This Friday night, these two creative avenues will merge in the fourth annual Minus Sound Research opening.

Part rock concert and part gallery exhibition, MSR4 features the works of seven local musicians who use visual art to showanother side of their creative talents. The seven artists come from such music scene stalwarts as Bull City, Strange, the Sames, Shark Quest and Phon.

MSR has garnered immense popularity in a short timespan, much to the delight of showcase curators Maria Albani (of Organos) and John Harrison (of North Elementary). The two first conceived the idea of MSR while on tour with their respective bands.

“We were talking about our other musician friends who were creating visual art but not showing it, and that kind of bummed us out,” Albani said. “Since many musicians make their own CD art and posters, it’s not surprising that someone who makes music also makes art.”

Drawing from this inspiration, Albani and Harrison approached several musicians and asked to display their visual works in the first MSR As the show developed, musicians began submitting work of their own accord. The acceptance process is laid back and without stringent regulations, according to Harrison.

The requirements for the works are just as lax. Each artist created five to seven pieces using a variety of techniques, including sculptures, photography, mixedmedia paintings, pastel portraits and screen-printing. Often the

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Minus Sound Research will see its fourth iterationthis Friday. The Carrboro art exhibit highlights the art of many North Carolina musicians including John Harrison of North Elementary and Maria Albani of Organos as well as many others. musicians had no formal training in the arts but simply wished to express their creativity in different ways. Kurtz’s ceramics, for example, stemmed from his fascination with animals.

“I’ve been preoccupied with drawing and sculpting animal forms for a long time,” Kurtz wrote in an email. “There’s this weird element of animal life.

Some of the beasties in the world are just freakish and awesome. I try to create pieces that echo that affinity for me.”

The rest of MSR is bound to be equally eclectic with pieces focused on sound, advertising and fantasy creatures. There is no set structure to the showcase; Albani and Harrison will collect and spontaneously arrange all the pieces on Thursday night.

“While galleries are usually more streamlined, our actual show ends up being quite diverse,” Harrison said. “We don’t group like pieces together, and so a sculpture could be right next to a mixed media. We’re a little off-center.”

Thus, MSR breaks the norm

of traditional exhibitions. Albani said they acted as though they were setting up a concert, complete with posters, refreshments and, of course, live music. Despite praise from the media and public, she and Harrison intend to continue holding this spectacle once a year rather than creating a more permanent space.

“We’ve definitely talked about how nice it would be to have a permanent gallery, but to me, i 1 could be too time-consuming,' Albani said. “I think we enjoy it so much because we’re able to pu' 100 percent into it.”

With hundreds of people attending past shows, their efforts have certainly paid off. This Fri day will likely follow suit.

“I think the public will be delighted, dazzled at the show and the music, and the entire production,” Kurtz wrote. “I’m excited.”

Visitors to the Center for Documentary Studies may not even notice the exhibition We Cheat Each Other. Pictures and letters are unceremoniously tacked to the wall with push pins, creating an undemanding presence that undermines its hefty emotional punch.

The show is a visual chronicle of the decade-long relationship between Duke alumnus Eric Gottesman, Trinity ’9B, and Salamawit Alemu, an Ethiopian woman. Gottesman received a Hart Fellowship from Duke in 1999, sending him to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he met the then eight-year-old Alemu. Gottesman began to work with Alemu to document her life, eventually producing the letters, drawings and photographs that form the heart of the exhibition.

One ofthe show’s more appealing elements is its invocation of our voyeuristic tendencies. The somewhat random ephemera of Got-

is displayed with no frames and minimal textual interpretation, giving the impression that one is going through a box of personal artifacts. Reading Alemu’s letters furthers this feeling of emotional trespass. Readers are confronted with reflections on her mother’s death and her future dreams—all in a handwritten scrawl that quickly becomes familiar, perpetually evoking Alemu’s presence.

Part of the show’s interest comes from its fascinatingly fragmented subject. Alemu continually changes her first name and identity, evolving from young, orphaned Ruth into Meron, who works in a brothel. One gets the impression that Gottesman’s documentation of Alemu’s life both facilitates and captures her shifting subjectivity, making the exhibition a startingly intimate glimpse into the often private rapport between two people.

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HALLELUJAH! Father, son and gospel come together for two nights only by

Andrew Hibbard THE CHRONICLE

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Blade and his father, Pastor Brady Blade, Sr., have telling voices. The former speaks calmly and with a smooth tone, interjecting the occasional jazz musician’s “man.” The elder Blade’s voice reveals years in the ministry, and even treated me to a “Praise God!” in our conversation.

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“He grew up listening to my music and my singing, and it made a great impression on him,” the pastor said of the younger Blade.

On Saturday and Sunday, over two performances and one service, father and son will come together in Durham in a project commissioned by Duke Performances called The Hallelujah Train.

Conceived by Brian, the project celebrates his father’s nearly 50-year history as the pastor of the Zion Baptist Church in Shreveport, La. Brian took the drummer’s chair at the congregation when he was 13 (his older brother, Brady Blade, Jr.—also coming for the performance—had just left for college). He grew up surrounded by his father’s music and said some iteration of the project has always been on his mind.

But the younger Blade, now 39, went off and built a career as one of the most successful drummers in music, working with Bill Frisell, Joni Mitchell, producer Daniel Lanois (also playing this weekend) and his own Fellowship Band. It’s now coming back to the beginning. Blade said the project is all about his father, his ministry and his “God-given talent” to preach through song.

“My dad—when he gets going, it’s great and just inspiring to me to see someone with conviction, with the goods

“There's this essential thread through [the music] We’re going to try and have our version of our life experience come through in some of these old songs.”

celebrating.”

Indeed, The Hallelujah Train is the ultimate manifesta-

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ploring modernism through the African diaspora.

Greenwald said that his interest in the project stems from the connection between religion, gospel music especially, and jazz, a link that too often goes unnoticed and unexplored. It’s a thread that’s clear to the elder Blade. “[Music] calls for participation on the part of the people,” the pastor said. “When worship becomes a spectator thing, it loses its meaning and worth.

And this is an appreciation Brian has clearly inherited from his father.

It teaches you so many fundamental things without you necessarily even being conscious of it, Brian said.

“I think it just gave me the bedrock necessary to ground

spirit moves.”

Even more than this, The Hallelujah Train will serve as a testament to the importance of gospel music, an art that has never achieved much commercial acclaim.

Although a set list hasn’t been finalized, there will be some compositions from Lanois and Fellowship Band member John Cowherd. But The Hallelujah Train will primarily include classic gospel songs presented in a fresh context.

“There’s this essential thread through [the music] even if it’s new, it makes it seem like it’s always existed,” Brian said. “It’s just manifesting itself differently now.

We’re going to try and have our version of our life experience come through in some of these old songs.”

To boot, all of this will happen at the Hayti Heritage Center, a deconsecrated African Methodist Episocal Church.

“I just couldn’t imagine doing true gospel projects in Reynolds,” Greenwald said. “In a sense, having access to Hayti was a reason to do the project.”

Joining the pastor for his Sunday worship will be Shreveport’s choir. In addition, over 100 people are expected to come up from Blade’s congregation for the performance, a testament to how the community values its pastor.

At its core, The Hallelujah Train is about a father endowing his son with a sense of a deep musical tradition, one that is of great importance in America.

“You really have to go beneath the carpet and look deeper into the ground,” Blade said of gospel. “But once you find it you realize, boy, it’s the roots ofAmerican music.”

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The Hallelujah Train is more than a son admiring his father, though. Named after a show the pastor hosted in the late ’7os and early ’Bos in which choirs and bands from Ark-La-Tex would play, the two performances will be recorded for a live album.

“It brings back not what’s been lost in memory, but what’s been lost in terms of documents. It’s a bit of a revival of sorts,” Brian said. “I don’t want to have the regret that I didn’t do my part to try and document what I’ve been blessed with.”

Director of Duke Performances Aaron Greenwald added that it’s very unusual for universities or promoters to commission live albums.

“Generally, what folks at universities or big presenting institutions want to commission are marquee pieces,” he said. “But I felt like this was a unique opportunity that fit well with...the kind of music and culture we ought to be to

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This past Saturday, NEW YORK, N.Y. members of Duke’s film faculty showed their impressive work at the renowned New York Film Festival.

The festival selected films by Spring 2010 Visiting Filmmaker David Gatten and Production Teaching Fellow Shambhavi Kaul for the 13th Annual Views from the Avant-Garde series.

Gatten’s Journal and Remarks and Raufs Scene 32 screened in front of a packed audience in the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center this past Saturday.

The experimental series, which took place over the course of this past weekend, featured 60 works divided into 11 different programs.

Since it was added into the festival in 1997, the collection has become a premiere stage for avant-garde cinema, for which there is no real commercial market.

Program 2, the second of the 11-part series which showcased Gatten and Kaul’s films, featured ten non-narrative works from different filmmakers. The topics and their geographic locations ranged from Halloween in a small, South American town to a letter composed in Thailand to a Canterbury Tales- inspired journey through snowy Great Britain.

“The Views from the Avant-Garde section of the festival is not only international but also includes films that, because of their atypical nature, are otherwise impossible to see,” Kaul wrote in an e-mail.

Keeping with the international tone, Raufs three-minute Scene 32 takes place in the salt fields ofIndia’sKaatch desert, where Kaul was born on her filmmaker father’s film set.

“I have this kind of mythic relationship to the place,” she said after her film screened.

“I’ve always wanted to go back and see it over again...to create a new relationship with the place that expressed the longing, the sense of memory...that’s part of the fiction ofit.”

Rather than turn to personal history for inspiration, Gatten was influenced by the famous evolutionary work of Charles Darwin.

Journals and Remarks transports the audience to the birthplace of his theory: the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador.

“I was trying to compare Darwin’s words with my experience 180 years later and see what that would yield,” Gatten said about his work. “I’m retwo

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15-minuteJournal and Remarks represents 700 ally interested in different ways of representing of those 3000 shots. the world, and the relationship between the representation of the world through words and the This is the sixth time Gatten’s work has aprepresentation of the world through images.” peared in the festival, whereas Kaul was one Gatten’s film is part of a larger work called of twenty filmmakers showing work for the Continuous Quantities, the structure of which first time. Despite differing levels of experiis based on an entry in one ofLeonardo Da ence, the filmmakers can relate to each other Vinci’s notebooks. “One of the things [Da through their passion and creative vision.

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THE INVENTION OF LYING DIR. R. GERVAIS AND M. ROBINSON WARNER BROS

����� For the protagonist of Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson’s The Invention of Lying, nothing is going his way.

Overweight and unpopular, screenwriter Mark (Gervais) happens to live in a world where no one lies or even knows what a lie is. At his workplace, his boss tells him that his screenplays are stale, an arrogant colleague of his, Brad (Rob Lowe), admits, “I’ve always hated you,” and his secretary (Tina Fey) calls him a “fatty-fat-f—.”

His personal life is no different. His too-good-looking sort-of girlfriend Anna (Jennifer Garner) explains that although she enjoys spending time with him, she doesn’t want to have “chubby, snub-nosed kids.” When Mark finds himself unemployed and empty-pocketed, he fortuitously stumbles upon the ability to lie, and, realizing that there are rewards for dishonesty, creates the life he capitalism:

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����� It’s old hatfor reviews ofMichael Moore’s films to belabor the obvious: his films are divisive, controversial and play fast and loose with rhetoric and thedefinition of documentary film. However, it is Moore himself—be he Bamum or Riefenstahl—who is the objectof scrutiny. As the director, narrator and author ofhis films, Moore is the film. And in many ways, once you have seen one Moore film you have seen them all.

This is true of Capitalism: A Love Story.

All of the conventions established by his 1989 film Roger & Me are in evidenceeven footage from the film itself. Moore’s use of narration comes across as sardonic and bathetic, and his ironic, archival footage is used to denounce craven executives and torment both lobby security guards '

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Although the film’s first 20 minutes crackle with brash comedic dialogue, it becomes old and far-fetched. No one would ever be as abrasive as everyone in this parallel universe is: honesty does not equate to perpetual insults. Gervais attempts to assert himself as an every(English) man, but his limiting stand-up comedic presence isn’t able to elevate him from iconic television writer to silver-screen leading man. Although Garner is touchingly vulnerable as Mark’s untactful, often inappropriate love interest, their relationship has no on-screen merit, and even she is unable to establish any chemistry. The many A-list cameos are memorable, but their appearances are nothing more than respectful nods to Gervais.

A self-indulgent writer, Gervais soon may be likened to Woody Allen in that they write of beautiful women falling in love with unattractive and poor yet witty men. This sort of lie is only capable of happening in their respective imaginations.

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and corrupt politicians. His trademark “gotcha” interviews and heartrending footage round out his recipe for bluecollar agitprop.

In Capitalism, Moore takes a broader approach, using the modern banking crisis as a springboard for a larger skewering of free-market capitalism. As one would expect in a 120-plus-minute film tackling so vast a topic, the results are more than a little scattershot. Moore makes liberal use ofripped-from-the-headlines statistics and the lives of victimized Americans, but fails to make a cohesive argument, preferring to swing his rhetorical brickbat to devastating effect.

And in the end, Moore, the fulminator-provocateur par excellence, succeeds in what he set out to do: not to convert but rather to unleash a scathing indictment of what he sees as a fundamentally corrupt system.

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In a post-apocalyptic America, where a hamburger-transmitted virus turns most of humanity into zombies, the lanky, awkward Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) meets redneck Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) and embarks upon a half-witted journey to find Twinkies, casually slaying zombies along the way. After being robbed by sister con artists Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin), the two groups eventually join together on a trip to a supposedly zom-

bie-free Los Angeles amusement park The film detracts from the overcrowded zombie subgenre, utilizing masses of the undead as video game-type ploys to keep the action or humor moving. First-time director Ruben Fleischer fails to recognize the audience’s instinct to laugh at his unthreatening zombies, inadvertently making them more humorous than believable.

The convenient romance that blossoms between Columbus and Wichita is similarly implausible, leaving the film’s buddy movie aspect its only convincing dynamic. Near the film’s close, Columbus remarks that he’s found the family he never had. But even this elicits a chuckle instead of a tug on the heartstrings.

Zombieland was an enjoyable ride, but no mass of zombies can save the trite and tenuous plot. You’ll leave the theater with a few good laughs and an otherwise empty mind.

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THERE IS NO ENEMY

But there is still hope yet. “Aisle 13” and “Good Oh Boredom,” contrary to their titles, are probably the most upbeat songs on the album. After a perfectly strange intro, “Aisle 13” splashes in with a symphony of guitars, eventually settling on a catchy riff and strong, comfortable drumming. “Good Of Boredom” drives forward with a snare hitting on every beat—think Motown—and Martsch’s vocals, which sound shockingly like John Lennon.

The best track on the album is “Done,” a pleasant, dreamy tune toward the far end of Enemy's runtime. “Done”—almost seven minutes long—is the farthest departure from the band’s 2006 release You in Reverse, which had a more aggressive, tense sound.

The title fits the tune here, as listeners feel Martsch’s relief upon finally completing Enemy after three-and-a-half years of work.

After a listen or two, the product of this toil is evident, but it falls short of greatness.

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duces the Idaho-based band back onto the modern indie rock scene.

On the track, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist Doug Martsch orchestrates multiple layers of surf guitars under his constantly distorted vocals. This sets the template early for the rest of the album.

The single, “Hindsight,” is a laid-back alt-country tune, complete with twangy slide guitar. While past albums have drawn comparisons to the Strokes and Modest Mouse, this sounds more like the bland aspects of post-Yankee HotelFoxtrot Wi\co.

At its worst, Enemy sinks to a slow, dark melodrama, especially painful on “Oh Yeah” and “Things Fall Apart.” Here, Martsch’s whiny, affected voice turns into a

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Every detail—the wash of heavily reverbed guitars, the deftly conversational bass lines, the sparse percussion—is carefully employed toward creating sublimely understated pop music.

It’s difficult to say where xx came from.

The band is committed to a sound in away one wouldn’t expect on a debut.

Not only that, but it’s an eclectic sound, combining Cure-style guitars with R&B templates. The xx previously recorded a hushed, ethereal version of Aaliyah’s

“Hot Like Fire” that fits right in with xx and might be the best reference point for their inspiration. Their achievement is surprising, though, because there wasn’t a clumsier, less cohesive predecessor. Getting this album right the first time, given the disparate influences that characterize it, was no mean feat.

Vocalist Romy Madley Croft is perhaps the biggest revelation, a fantastic talent whose breathy delivery is xx’s most recognizable sound. But the chemistry between Croft and bassist and vocalist Oliver Sim lends a sense of sincere intimacy to lyrics that wouldn’t be nearly as powerful without it. The result is tracks like “Islands,” a pitch-perfect exhibit of vulnerability that never comes across as overwrought or feigned, and “Infinity,” a beautiful and subtle take on failed romance. The xx make some .mistakes, including the excessively ambient “Fantasy,” but most of xx is pretty and inventive enough to make you forgive almost all of them.

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Picasso and the Allure of Language was organized by the Yale University Art Gallery with the support of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.

Pablo Picasso, Dog and Cock, 1921. Oil on canvas, 61 x 30 1/8 inches. Yale University Art Gallery. Gift of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903. ©2009 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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BOOK REVIEW NOCKTURNES KAZUO ISHIGURO KNOPF

Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest book, is literature imbued with all the beauty of a Chopin composition.

The work contains some of Ishiguro’s most unique fiction yet. It explores many of the themes ofhis most renowned novels, The Remains of the Day and An Artist of the Floating World, but the multiple distinct pieces allow for a confrontation of these ideas from varied perspectives. As a collection of short stories, it connects its characters in a translucent web of hope and heartbreak. Though few of the stories share common protagonists, they all contain failed relationships, strained marriages and aspiring musicians. With each, Ishiguro demonstrates his unequaled gift for storytelling.

Nocturnes begins with “Crooner,” which tells the story of Tony Gardner: a has-been, and in his own words, “Just some crooner from a bygone era.” He is spending time in Venice with his “inimitable” wife, the energetic

Lindy Gardner. Tony is determined to make a comeback, even if that means letting Lindy go. After this first story, Ishiguro leaves his audience on a low note, one that reflects the mysterious melancholy of the Venetian night.

His next piece, “Come Rain or Come Shine,” departs from the tone of the first, a comic intermezzo in Ishiguro’s composition. A middle-aged man visits his old friend’s home only to realize thathis presence there is that of a counselor in their failing marriage. The feud between husband and wife builds into a startling crescendo: the wife walks in on the friend crouched down on all fours, chewing magazines to simulate the destructive effects of a rampant dog and stewing a shoe in the kitchen to create a canine smell. Ridiculous, yes, but with Ishiguro as conductor the scene is especially moving, its undertones dense in implication.

Nocturnes is inspired and inspiring. Every story and every line resonates with music—the music that only the likes ofKazuo Ishiguro could summon up.

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The Life of the World to Come, Durham resident John Darnielle’s 16th album under the Mountain Goats moniker, proves that prolificacy does not always sacrifice quality. Take that, Ryan Adams.

On an album of songs named after Bible verses, Darnielle’s astounding lyrical poignancy remains fresh. Fortunately, the influence of the Good Book enriches, rather than fully informs, the spirituality of the album. Darnielle is still reacting to the world around him, trying to discern the relevant from the superfluous, and the result is powerful songwriting flush with personal anecdotes.

On the pop-inflected “Genesis 3:23,” Darnielle visits his old house: “Living room to bedroom to kitchen/Familiar and warm/Hours we spent starving within these walls/ Sounds of a distant storm.” “Matthew 25:21” hauntingly portrays a visit to a dying friend and a premature eulogy: ‘You were a presence of light upon this earth/And I am a witness to your life and to its worth.” Darnielle’s lyrics, by exposing his own psyche, speak of universal experiences that demand the listener’s contemplation.

Musically, Life doesn’t stun as much as it shimmers.

The arrangements are simple; steady acoustic guitar and piano occasionally paired with orchestration by Final Fantasy’s Owen Pallett. On “Hebrews 11:40,” violins vibrate above a chugging rhythm to form the album’s most dynamic track. Primarily, though, the music is a vessel for the poetic lyrics, unspectacular but adequate.

This album gives the feeling that if John Darnielle hadn’t picked up a guitar one day, he would be a poet.

And if poetry were more popular, he would be a grizzled artist sitting in an armchair somewhere. But fantasy aside, 16 albums later, the Mountain Goats still make great music. For that, we can all sing praise.

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Senior Amanda Granson has to win one more match to earn a spot in the main draw of the Riviera/ITA AllAmerican Championship in Pacific Palisades, Calif.

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Reid Carleton and freshman Henrique iha advanced to the main draw of the ITA Allerican Championships in both singles and dou-5 play this week in Tulsa, Okla.

Carleton had by far the easier road of the two. :ause of his proven record of success and his y national ranking—Carleton is the No. 29 yer in the country—he was not required to go ough qualifying for singles play. Instead, he was ced directly into the main draw, which begins morning.

Fhe Brazilian Cunha, on the other hand, made it augh three rounds of qualifying. Playing in just third collegiate competition, Cunha was pushed din his first match, nicking a 7-5 win in the third to move on. Head coach Ramsey Smith, though, I that Cunha got better and better as the tourtient continued, culminating in a 6-1, 6-0 victory inst Tennessee’s Matt Brewer Wednesday to earn iotin the rest of the tournament.

1 can’t think of the last time we had a freshman t that well, especially at the level that he’s been ring,” Smith said.

Carleton and Cunha were also in Tulsa to com2in the doubles tournament, and they swept iugh qualifying comfortably to earn a spot in main bracket. ' duo did well in doubles Tuesday, winning two to advance to the final qualifier. One of those came against the pair of Clay Donato and

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Smith said Carleton and Cunha’s 8-5 victory against the Tar Heels, who have beaten the Blue Devils consistently in recent years, will be important when the team season begins in January.

“We’ve typically struggled against their No. 1 team, so that’ll give us a lot of confidence that they won pretty convincingly,” Smith said.

After that win, Cun ha and Carleton still had some work to do, and took care ofanother ACC duo in the final, this one comprising Virginia’s Milo Johnson and Santiago Villegas. The Duke pair won that match 8-4 to earn a main-draw seed.

Looking ahead to the rest of the tournament, which runs from this morning until Sunday’s finals, Smith spoke glowingly of Duke’s two participants. The lone Blue Devil not to qualify was senior Dylan Arnould, who was eliminated in the second round of qualifying.

“A lot will depend on the draw, but the way Cunha is playing, I don’t see anyone that either one of them can’t beat if they are playing well,” Smith said. “They are both playing well now, and everyone here is good so it will be fun to see how they match up.”

The ITA All-American Championships involve 64 singles players and 32 doubles squads, and ineludes most of the nation’s top players. Cunha is one of only two freshmen to have qualified for the singles tournament, and he is the only freshman to have made it through qualifying in both singles and doubles.

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sophomore Russell Wilson can cause problems for opponents through the air or on the ground.

N.C. State has already experienced the peaks and valleys typical of a full season in just five games.

The highs: a come-from-behind win over visiting Pittsburgh and the play of redshirt sophomore quarterback Russell Wilson.

The lows: two demoralizing defeats to nearby rivals, a four-point defeat on national television to South Carolina to start the season and a loss to Wake Forest last week to kick offACC play.

Duke’s season thus far has paralleled that of the Wolfpack to some degree. Senior quarterback Thaddeus Lewis has racked up the yardage through the air just as Wilson has, but the Blue Devils’ only wins have come against the likes of Army and N.C. Central, arguably the two weakest teams on their schedule. For N.C. State, back-to-back home dates with Murray State and GardnerWebb served the purpose of accumulating wins toward a possible bowl berth.

In recent years, though, Duke has served as bowl-win fodder for the Wolfpack just like Murray State or Gardner-Webb. N.C. State has beaten the Blue Devils 11 straight times, but Lewis hopes to break that streak this week.

“You hear some of the [N.C. State] guys saying, ‘Y’all aren’t a rival no more because we beat you so many years straight,’...but it’s a pretty big deal,” Lewis said.

For the Blue Devils to break their barren run against the Wolfpack, the Duke secondary

will have to keep Wilson under wraps—a that has proven too difficultfor many def in the redshirt sophomore’s brief career Wilson has already thrown for than 1,200 yards and 14 touchdowns year, and is also second on the team 156 total yards on the ground.

“Russell is a very talented athlete,” h coach David Cutcliffe said. “He moves makes plays. He creates. He does a trei dous Job of finding targets downfield the scramble. You have to mix it up. T is no one way to defend a Russell Wilson.

When the two teams met last year—a 27-1 Wolfpack victory at Wallace Wade Si Cutcliffe said N.C. State threw “jump ball jump ball” and was successful doing so, struggled with tall, physical receivers : Virginia Tech last week, and N.C. State some of those same attributes to the table The Wolfpack’s two top receivers fi the win against the Blue Devils last son, Jamelle Eugene and Jarvis Willi, are both back this year. Williams is seo on the team in receptions behind 6-h 5 tight end George Bryan, a matc : nightmare for Duke’s linebackers.

On the other side of the ball, the pack secondary has been susceptible t< strong passing game, much like Duke’s, N.C. State’s pass rush could prevent and Sean Renfree from being effective.

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Despite its strong pass rush, the Wolfe hasn’t always been able to keep oppos passers off the scoreboard this season. Aga| Wake Forest last week, the N.G State j four sacked senior quarterbackRiley Skin six times and the secondary intercepted] twice, but he still accumulated 361 yards; three touchdowns in a Demon Deacon wi But ifLewis and Renfree don’t getJ time they need on offense, another yard passing effort might not be enoij for Duke Saturday.

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emocratic leaders ponder help for economy, the jobless

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With joblessness continuing to rise of losing steam, President Bain recovery danger the nd ick Obama met Wednesday with top congressional Demo-ats to discuss new ways to boost the economy and create ibs.

But Obama and the Democrats are caught in a double bind: Having seriously underestimated the severity of the recession early this year—especially in terms of unemployment they face difficult policy decisions about how best to ease the financial pain of millions of idled workers and assure that the recovery continues.

At the same time, they are under relentless attack from Republicans and other conservatives who contend that the $787 billion stimulus package approved last winter has sent the deficit soaring while failing to bring down unem-

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Also under consideration are various ideas to spur job creation, including a proposal to offer tax credits to businesses that hire new workers or extend the hours ofexist-

ourselves in the foot,” said Heather Boushey, senior economist at the Center for American Progress, noting that failure to act would lead to more dire social and economic

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Most economists believe Obama’s stimulus package, which also included funds for highway projects and teetering local governments, has measurably helped the economy respond to the worst recession since the Great Depression. Some are beginning to call for new government action to sustain the budding recovery.

But the size of the political challenge for Obama.is reflected in the fact that the Senate, home to many moderate and conservative Democrats as well as the vocal GOP minority, has thus far been unable to act even on the relatively noncontroversial proposal to extend jobless benefits for three months.

Having passed the House more than two weeks ago, the extension bill has been bogged down in the Senate amid differences over how many states should get the extra benefits, among other issues. Meanwhile, more than 300,000 long-term jobless workers saw their benefits expire last month.

“It’s like they don’t care. Otherwise they would have done something by now,” said a woman in Chico, Calif, who asked that she be identified only by her first name, Diane. The one-time paralegal said she received her last unemployment benefit check Sept. 19.

“It’s sad,” she added. “What do they expect people to live on?”

Obama’s original stimulus package extended the normal 26-week unemployment benefits to 79 weeks, and also provided a 65 percent subsidy for employees who lose their jobs to maintain their COBRA medical coverage for another nine months. Both programs are set to expire at the end of this year. The home buyer’s tax credit of as much as $B,OO0—which has helped to stabilize the housing market—is slated to end Nov. 30.

In a statement after Wednesday’s meeting with Obama and Pelosi in the Oval Office, Reid said an extension of the home buyer tax credit is needed, as well as “creative, innovative ways to encourage businesses to create new jobs.”

White House officials said the president’s economic team has been considering dozens of job-spurring ideas.

One of them that appears to be getting a close study is a proposal to give a tax credit to businesses, that hire workers. The incentive was used in the 19705, but members of Congress have expressed concerns that it would amount to a subsidy for businesses and be subject to abuse.

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That leaves the administration with the sticky challenge of finding effective ways to buoy the economy without appearing to propose more “stimulus.” Reflecting the political sensitivity of the issue, White House and congressional aides insisted Wednesday that another “stimulus” plan was not in the works.

But administration policy-makers and some outside economists are beginning to worry that the still-embryonic recovery could falter in coming months if no new action is taken. Not only is unemployment expected to rise—and remain high—well into next year, but consumer spending—a major engine of economic growth —remains anemic, and most of the existing money from the Recovery Act will have been spent by the first halfof next year.

Although officials would not give specifics of Obama’s 45-minute meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, DGalif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., the White House has been looking at extending key elements of the original stimulus package, including expanded unemployment benefits, a subsidy for continuing health insurance for laid-off workers, and a tax credit for first-time home buyers.

These three programs are set to expire by the end of the year.

“The reality is that if we let people just flounder and not help them, we're shooting ourselves in the foot.”

Heather Boushey, senior economist at the Center for American Progress “The bottom line, is the economic case for more intervention is overwhelming,” said Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington.

Unemployment in September was reported at 9.8 percent Friday. Moreover, job losses accelerated last month from August, heightening concerns among analysts and intensifying pressure on the Obama administration, which has been focused on health care overhaul and troubles in Afghanistan and Iran, to do more to improve the domestic employment situation.

Since the recession began in December 2007, the economy has suffered a net loss of about 8 million jobs, based on revised figures reported Friday. Adding that figure to the number of new jobs needed just to keep up with the growing population, Shierholz estimated that the nation is in the hole about 10.7 million jobs.

The severity of the problem, some economists say, demands additional stimulus despite the unwanted addition to the government’s deficit. “The reality is that if we let people just flounder and not help them, we’re shooting

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ing areas goes too far, but its alternate plan to implement a non-smoking buffer zone around residential areas is more reasonable.

Smoking can be an invasive act when recommending that RLHS insmoke travels editorial stitute a smokinto individuing ban near residential areas als’ rooms or surrounds the of campus. entrances to dorms. For this This resolution specifically reason, regulating smokwould restrict smoking in the ing around residential areas residential areas of East and makes sense.

West Campuses to designated But the proposal currentareas, such as fire lanes and ly on the table addresses this parking lots. If this policy is concern with a hatchet when not implemented by RLHS, only a scalpel is needed, and Campus Council voted as an it too closely resembles the alternate plan to prohibit draconian smoking ban imsmoking within 25 feet of any plemented at the University living space and on parallel of North Carolina at Chapel walkways at least 50 feet from Hill two years ago that prethese buildings. vents smoking within a 100Campus Council’s plan foot radius of any campus to designate specific smokbuilding.

I applaud the changes implemented by new ChairDan Blue, and wish him the best in his leadership ofthe Duke BOX. —“Raven” commenting on the story “Board of Trustees briefed on cost-cutting measures.”

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and for logistical reasons, enforcement should not be particularly strict. Simply by its existence, though, the ban empowers residentsespecially those on the first floor who are most affected by outside smoking—to take —

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Smoking is bad If you do it too much, you will probably die younger than you wish to die. Smoking increases the risk of developing a wide variety of cancers, heart disease and/or a host of respiratory

problems. Smoking by pregnant women may result in fetal injury, premature birth and low birth rate. In short, don’t smoke. rice Campus Council real talk voted last Thursday to continue the of ghettoization Duke smokers. The council resolved in a 9-8 vote to support a smoking ban throughout residential areas of East and West campuses. Fortunately for smokers and the concept ofindividual liberty, Campus Council has no real authority, so its resolution must go to Duke administrators for approval.

There is a chance that the administration will not support the blanket residential smoking ban.

Thus, in order to ensure that they successfully get smokers’ butts out of their faces, Campus Council also passed a backup resolution 9-5 to do essentially the same thing as the first resolution (did the three dissenters from the first resolution leave for a smoking break?). This one bans smoking within 25 feet ofall dorms and on all walkways that are parallel to and within 50 feet of dorms. Very tricky.

Why did they pass these resolutions? Is it that they wanted to make Duke students stop smoking by playing doctor, mommy and daddy all at the same time?

No. As Campus Council President Stephen Temple explained to The Chronicle last week, “Campus Council is not trying to reduce smoking on campus.”

So if Campus Council’s objective is not to save smokers from themselves, we must ask again: Why have they passed these resolutions? According to Temple, the council simply wanted to represent popular student opinion on the issue. In that, it most likely succeeded.

Smoking, smoke and smokers are not popular at Duke and increasingly across the United States. In Chicago for instance, a city ordinance prohibits smoking in restaurants, bars and other indoor public places. Taken at face value, this ban seems reasonable. In

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And limiting the ban to areas within 25 feet of living spaces leaves many open spots on campus available for smoking, including the entire academic quad and the Plaza.

The plan would also give residents leverage when faced with smoke entering their rooms through open windows.

It recognizes the importance of smoke-free living conditions and offers residents a formalized mechanism to ensure these rights.

In the end, any ban on smoking constitutes a

action when they find their air quality affected.

Although banning smoking directly outside of residence halls is a welcome measure, any further restrictions are unnecessary and would place an undue burden on smokers. Making the choice to smoke in an open space that has no impact on residents is a personal one, and regulating smoking in these spaces would impose values and violate rights.

The University should noli be in the business of regulat-, ing morality or individual decision making, but it should make interven-j tions to preserve the right to clean air for students in residence halls.

To this end, a 25-foot nosmoking barrier around residential areas will do.

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From a practical perspective, most smoking near residential areas occurs on benches outside ofeach dorm ornear the door. To curb this, a 25-foot no-smoking buffer would suffice.

Moreover, sweeping restrictions on smoking—like designated smoking areas —fail to adequately balance the rights of students living on campus with the rights of smokers. Although their habit has negative consequences for public health in general, smokers still should be able to light up without being confined to a specific area.

A looser restriction would better uphold the rights of both smokersand non-smokers by instituting narrow measures that reinforce residents’ entidement to clean air but do not unnecessarily violate rights.

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practice, however, this law goes too far. For example, in 2008 the popular musical “Jersey Boys” was forced! to modify its Chicago production to comply with the: smoking ban. This meant a lack of cigarettes, regulai or herbal, and consequently a lack of fidelity to the script and the true story that inspired the musical, m bit unnecessary, I think you would agree.

Even overseas, smoking has become so unpopular that it is now illegal in what formerly were the| smokiest places on earth: pubs in Dublin and cafes in Paris. Samuel Beckett and Jean-Paul Sartre would be up in arms to hear of such developments. Thai is, they would be up in arms ifthey had not already died from smoking-related illnesses.

Because everyone hates smoke, Campus Counci thought it prudent to just band the moral majority together and drive smokers into the sea. Not so fast angry mob. Campus Council forgot to ask them selves truthfully if this smoking ban is necessan before they resolved to limit Duke smokers’ ability to engage in a legal activity—especially a legal activity that made James B. Duke rich, and subsequently helped build this University.

1s the Campus Council advocating a smoking ban in order to protect non-smokers from second-hand smoke? That is certainly a valid goal, but a blanket ban on-smoking outdoors in the vicinity of dorms on East and West is over the top. Ban smoking inside the dorm? Sure, that is an enclosed space. Ban smoking in archways? OK, I can understand that, the archway are semi-enclosed. Ban smoking in the open air: That is nothing more than tyranny of the majority.

Passing a smoker on a sidewalk for one or two sec onds is at its worst a minor annoyance, and a minoj annoyance is not enough to prevent people from do ing what they want, where they want. I learned that when I tried to ban Dragon Gatefrom my dorm bo cause of its noxious smell. If you find a person smok ing in the open air by the place you live to be a pet sonal affront to your general well-being, then, sort I’m not sorry, but justwalk around or walk faster.

Smokers already are outside, and that is when smoking bans should end. There is no rational put pose for casting them out of society. Hopefully, thi administration recognizes this and comes to the'de fense of an unpopular and unhealthy habit in the name of individual liberty.

Jordan Rice is a Trinity senior. His column runs m ery other Thursday.

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Will you make it out alive? week, during my daily perusal ofThe Buffington Post, I came across the story of Derrion Albert. The 16-year-old honors student was on his way back from school when he was beaten to death by fellow high school students in front of his local community center. This beating was particularly horrifying because it was taped on someone’s cell phone and subsequently posted throughout the web and on many prominent sites like YouTube After getting past my can’t we all get lock and anger at this inalong? dent, I started wondering is to happening hat exacdy merica’s public schools.

Chicago is no stranger to school violence. Before 2006 an rerage of 10 to 15 students in the city were shot annually. Just st school year, CBS News reported that there was a total of 1 deaths and 290 school shootings. School shootings have scome an alarmingly regular occurrence. Of the 58 school lootings that have happened around the world since 1996, 1 of them occurred right here in the United States—in 26 of le 50 states. What is even more disturbing is the age of the looters: 21 of the 44 shootings that happened in the U.S. ere committed by students 15 years old or younger. One iting thatis particularly haunting occurred in Mount Morris Township, Mich, in 2000 when a first-grade boy fatally shot his 6-year-old female classmate. No charges were filed against the boy and he was placed in the care of his aunt.

Now this is not an article about gun control or the need for more restrictive gun laws. (Although one wonders what is wrong with a nation when a 6-year-old has access to a gun.)

This article is about the need to acknowledge that there is a serious problem with the nation’s public schools. . Take Washington, D.C., for example, which has one of

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The Heritage Foundation conducted an assessment of the 70 schools that comprise the D.C. public school system and discovered that during the 2007-08 school year, 2,379 crimes were reported (about 2.7 crimes per 100 students). Violent crimes comprised 666 of the crimes reported, and even one homicide was reported.

American schools have deteriorated to an astonishingly violent level. It is now quite normal for a school to employ metal detectors and police officers to monitor their students.

Albert’s school did indeed have a police presence but obviously not enough of one, and since the shooting more police units have been sent to patrol the school and the community.

But police units and metal detectors are merely bandages for deeper wounds. Schools need to take a more proactive approach to the violent crimes that are becoming such an alarming addition to our public schools. One of the biggest causes of school violence is gang activity. Some believe that Albert was murdered because of his refusal to participate in his school’s gangs. Often violence occurs because of tension between different gangs, which manifests itself in fights and sometimes shootings both on and off school property.

But the fundamental reason why violence has become so rampant in public schools is because of the lack of adequate resources. It’s no coincidence that the majority of schools affected by violence are low-income schools. The struggle to deal with school budget deficits affects not only the quality of schools but also affects the number of teachers and staff members present. One of the most effective resources to counteract school gang violence are teachers and counselors.

They are best equipped to really understand the mindset of psychologically troubled students who are the ones most likely to attempt school shootings. A perfect example of these types of students are Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the shooters in the 1999 Columbine incident. yOf course, the solution to school violence is a multi-faceted problem that goes deeper than allocating more resources to America’s troubled school system (although this would definitely improve the situation). Nearly eight years after the No Quid Left Behind Act, many children are still being left beWe are all here at Duke because of our outstanding educational achievement. Students are told to strive for academic excellence so they can one day attend a top 10 university. But how can they focus all their energies on school work when re not even sure ifthey’ll make it out of school alive?

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lettertotheeditor Duke financial statement misrepresents private donations Wednesday’s coverage of the Board of Trustees (“Board of Trustees briefed on cost-cutting measures”) was a very good summary of the meeting and the challenges facing all of us at Duke, but may have left an incorrect impression about fundraising results in the last fiscal year. The article states, “In addition to an overall decrease in investments, the University has seen a 61 percent decrease in revenue from private donations—from a historic high of $351.6 million in the 2007-2008 fiscal year to $136.9 million in the 2008-2009 fiscal year...” As noted, the University’s financial statement follows generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), which distribute private support among multiple revenue categories, rather than counting them all under the header “Contributions.” In addition, the financial statement notes that pledges—promises of future support —are counted in the year in which they are made. As a result of these and other footnoted accounting procedures, the University’s financial statement is not the best source for information about private donations.

In fact, the commonly agreed-upon standard for measuring private support comes from the

Council for Aid to Education, which includes philanthropic cash receipts, not pledges, as well as non-governmental grants that represent philanthropic distributions. By this measure, in 2008-09 Duke received gifts totaling $301.6 million from nearly 101,000 donors. Although that is down from the 2007-08 record high of $385.7 million, principally as a result of several large, one-time, nonrecurring gifts from generous donors such as the Duke Endowment, last year’s total represents very robust private support from the full spectrum of alumni, parents, and friends of the University, and still places Duke among the leading fundraisers in higher education.

There is no doubt that the economic turmoil of the past year has affected philanthropy at all levels, from the most successful universities to small nonprofits. However, we are deeply encouraged by the eagerness of the Duke community to invest in our essential missions of education, discovery and service, and to do so consistently and generously.

Michael Schoenfeld Duke University Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations

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always been fascinated by the magic of cosmology the science of the universe, and our place in it. Introspection comes easy at four in the morning, walking back from wherever, with the moon and the stars drifting overhead.

Of the many theories that exist, none get me going more than the multiverse theory. The theory was the focus of a “Family Guy” episode two weeks ago. This is how Stewie Griffin put it: “The theory states that there are an infinite number of universes coexisting with ours on parallel lUOlllaS dimensional planes. gebremedhlll Now, in each of these alternate universes, the word-by-word reality is different than our own—sometimes only slightly, sometimes quite radically.... Every possible eventuality exists.” Basically, since time and space are presumably infinite, anything that can happen has happened, is happening and will happen again—maybe not here in our universe, but beyond.

The point is that somewhere else, right now, you could be a rock star or a lesbian, a murderer or a president. Many of the accomplishments you hang from your walls might never have come to fruition, but on the flip side of this, in other alternate worlds, “alternate you” was smart enough to not make the same mistakes. And this is where I start to get emotional.

The whole thing sounds so romantic. Let’s face it, as good as you might have it, there are always going to be things or memories you wish you could change.

Parts of yourself —things that you have done or that have been done unto you —that you wish to shed like a pair of wet socks, but that always manage to haunt you at your darkest hours. With multiverse, you are given a second (and a third, fourth, fifth, etc.) chance—a chance to make amends or to escape from the ghost of this or that.

So I turned it over to Duke students, and asked them to think about their regrets: what they hoped their alternate self was doing right now, things they might have gotten wrong, but that their brother/sister from —

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another dimension was doing right. I got all kinds of responses—Facebook messages, texts, anonymous emails—and have put just a few together below.

“Honestly, I hope they aren’t so scared to be exposed. I hope they stop looking at that girl from class, and just say something. That they aren’t really as scared to be upfront and open. Who knows where it could have gone.”—from Guts Don’t Fail Me Now “I think what I regret most is the fact that I have always allowed myself to be last. I truly believe that when you’re in love, the needs, wants and desires of the other individual come first but not at the cost of your own self-worth. I regret the fact that I’ve let people abuse me emotionally and physically in the name of ‘love’.”-—from Favor for Holly “A big regret I had since coming to Duke was this guy I was dating, who was closeted, and I feel like I didn’t give him a chance to work through it before I decided to break it off. I always wonder now if things would’ve been different if I’d been more patient, or understanding.” —from Wondering What If “I think that the alternate me is probably a lot happier with herself right now. She has always respected herself in her relationships, or rather in her lack of true relationships, and therefore has never felt used or ashamed, but rather empowered and proud.”—from Lucy in the Sky And that, my friends, is the magic I’m talking about. Imagine a world where things go right, where you are strong enough to do all the things you’ve dreamed, or at least have the courage to keep some of your nightmares at bay.

I know from personal experience that sometimes doing what you know you should do, or feeling how you know you should feel, is easier said than done. Although fanciful visions of a reality parallel to ours are all well and good, “it is important to remember that it is never too late to become what you might have been,” to say what you might have said or to do what you might have done. But some things are a matter of the past, and for those I say look upwards and have faith in knowing that maybe, just maybe, somewhere out there, you are getting it right.

Thomas Gebremedhin is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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