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Duke adding Campus Drive arts building
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Soon, student arts groups at Duke will no longer have to scrounge for space to practice their craft. Duke will open a new student arts building on Campus Drive this Fall after efforts fueled by student groups, faculty and administrators. The new space, created from a renovated property near Smith Warehouse, will act as a muchneeded gathering point for student arts organizations on campus to hold meetings and rehearsals. “There’s so much going on both within and beyond the curriculum that dance, theater, music and visual arts are bursting at the seams,” Keval Khalsa, associate professor of the practice and director of the dance program, wrote in an email Wednesday. “This project will help relieve some of the rehearsal space pressure.” A 10,000 sq.-ft. renovated medical storage facility on Burch Avenue and Campus Drive, which the University Center Activities and Events office acquired last semester, will house the new space. The space is currently under construction and will be a common space for students to gather and work in the arts, said Vice Provost for the Arts Scott Lindroth. The warehouse will feature a dance studio, theater rehearsal space, a visual arts studio, meeting space and a central lounge area. The visual arts studio will have a large work sink—convenient for students working with paints—and the building will also have spaces to display student art work. Its opening comes at a particularly appropriate time with the recent decision to convert the Crowell Studio—a rehearsal space on East Campus—into classrooms and the student arts groups’ long-standing desire for more rehearsal space, Lindroth added. Rehearsal spaces are consistently overbooked. “We definitely need more space on campus..... The school does a much better job of supporting arts departments rather than student groups, which is unfortunate,” said senior Kim Solow, director of arts advancement for Duke Student Government and an instrumental player in planning the arts warehouse. “Many people in the arts enjoy it as a hobby and do not want to take a class, but that does not mean they should be punished for it by not having access to rehearsal spaces.” SEE BUILDING ON PAGE 6
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The Duke Symphony Orchestra performs “Abundant Anniversaries Redux” Wednesday night in Page Auditorium.
The three candidates for Duke Student Government president went head to head Wednesday night in a debate that highlighted next year’s house model, West Union Building renovations and the lack of student communication with both DSG and the administration. Juniors Chris Brown, external chief of staff; Alex Swain, vice president for Durham and regional affairs; and Strat Waldt, a senator for residential life and dining participated in the debate led by junior Cory Adkins, chair of The Chronicle’s independent editorial board. Sophomore Patrick Oathout, who is running unopposed for DSG executive vice president, also took part in the debate. Oathout currently serves as a senator for athletics, services and the environment. The election to select DSG’s president and executive vice president is today. Many of the questions and answers prodded at the student body’s relationship with Duke’s administration, mostly criticizing administrators for leaving students out of critical decisions. All three candidates pointed out the alterations to next year’s house model, the planning and execution of Football Gameday and the looming relocation of the Mary SEE DEBATE ON PAGE 12
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DSG discusses SOFC annual budget by Patton Callaway THE CHRONICLE
Duke Student Government debated Student Organization Finance Committee’s annual budget for next year at its meeting Wednesday. The Senate discussed the SOFC annual budget for the 2012-2013 academic year and expects to approve the budget next week when it can reach quorum. In total, SOFC allocated $479,535.97 in its annual budget, a $3,547.77 decrease from the 2011-2012 budget. The annual SOFC budget funds capital expenditures and major events that require early planning for chartered student groups. SOFC’s programming fund covers smaller-scale events during the year that are not accounted for in the annual budget. Most of the 50 groups that applied for funding were sufficiently satisfied
with their allocations in the proposed budget. SOFC only received two group appeals for additional funds, which were from the Black Student Alliance and United InnoWorks Academy, a studentrun science and engineering initiative for middle school students from disadvantaged backgrounds. “The fact that we only had two appeals shows that groups really received the funds that they most wanted,” said SOFC President Amy Li, a senior. BSA requested $10,000 to bring civil rights activist Cornel West for a speaker event next year along with other capital expenditures that totaled $16,385 after the appeal was approved. The total was a significant increase from the $1,320 allocated to the group last year. “It’s not unusual for budgets to go up SEE DSG ON PAGE 5
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama is intensifying his campaign for higher taxes on top U.S. earners by casting the issue against Republican opposition as one of fairness and support for the middle class. Obama is enlisting what the administration describes as a group of four millionaires and their assistants, all of whom support the so-called Buffett rule to set a minimum tax on people who earn at least $1 million annually. The president is meeting with Abigail Disney, president of the Daphne Foundation; Whitney Tilson, managing director of T2 Partners; Frank Jernigan, a retired software engineer from Google; and Lawrence Benenson, partner at Benenson Capital. The proposal, which faces an uphill test vote Monday in the Senate, is named after billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who says he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary, largely because of the preferential treatment given to capital gains and dividends.
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ith Mark Goodacre and Eric Meyers Q&A with In the week following Easter and Passover, a new controversial book and corresponding film about religious archeology is gathering media attention. Filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici and James Tabor, chair of the religious studies department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, believe they have found an ossuary containing the bones of Jesus Christ and his wife and child in the East Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem. But, two Duke professors are calling their bluff. Mark Goodacre, associate professor in the New Testament, and Eric Meyers, Bernice and Morton Lerner professor of religion and director of the Center for Jewish Studies, have spoken out against the ossuary’s connection to Jesus through blogs, television clips and classes. With “The Resurrection Tomb Mystery” airing on the Discovery Channel Thursday, The Chronicle’s Lauren Carroll spoke with the professors about the validity of Jacobovici and Tabor’s claims. The Chronicle: What is the Talpiot Tomb? Mark Goodacre: It begins in 2007, when Simcha Jacobovici makes the claim that this tomb contains this cluster of Mark Goodacre names that we all know from the New Testament. Names like Jesus, Mary and Joseph. He thinks the coincidences of the names occurring there together and the New Testament are too great, and so he makes the huge logical leap that these people are actually Jesus’ family, and therefore we’ve got Jesus’ bones, and Jesus and Mary Magdalene are married, and they have a son…. When the docuEric Meyers mentary and book came out in 2007, it was almost universally condemned by the scholars.... They take a couple of the images and inscriptions that they found there and give them a kind of Christian spin to try and link them into early Christianity. On one of these ossuaries is a picture that they think is a fish spitting out a man, facing downward, who has seaweed wrapped around his head. And they say this is a picture of “Jonah and the Fish”…. Because this story is used in some early
Christian texts as a way to symbolize Jesus’ resurrection, it may be on this tomb as a symbol of Jesus’ resurrection.… It’s pretty clear that it’s not a fish. It’s got handles on the left and the right. When is a fish not a fish? When it’s got handles. It’s a vase, and this is the kind of thing you get on Jewish ossuaries from this period…. There’s nothing explicit in these tombs that links them to Christianity. It’s a whole bunch of circumstantial evidence. Eric Meyers: It’s Talpiot Tomb B. The first one is the one in which the James Ossuary was discovered. Those are approximately 100 feet apart and the story about each of them is interconnected in this way. I don’t know any serious scholars who have followed [Jacobovici and Tabor] in this, but they believe that the previous Talpiot Tomb A where the James Ossuary was found provided the earliest evidence of the family of Jesus.... Moreover, they say they have found the powders of the bones that have Jesus’ DNA.... The two tombs constitute the historic burial of Jesus—not the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which 95 percent of all Christians and all serious architects agree is the burial place of Jesus…. It is a preposterous, unfounded view taking advantage of the gullibility of the public and its insatiable appetite for sensational stories.... It undermines the modern study of the New Testament and is an inappropriate misunderstanding of ancient Judaism as well. TC: Why are various media outlets jumping on this story when many scholars think the claims are unfounded? MG: They always want to run a religious-based story this time of year, preferably something about Jesus. And this year there’s fairly slim pickings, so this one got picked. And Jacobovici is a very good filmmaker…. There’s a genuine interest among the general population about religion and the origins of Christianity…. To a certain extent, they’re relevant to our current culture, so people are on the lookout for these sorts of stories. EM: Around Easter every year, [television channels] will often do a documentary on the historical Jesus and new evidence that has embellished, enhanced and facilitated a better understanding of his ministry. I’ve been
in about a dozen of them in the past few years, some of those are responsible… but somehow Jacobovici got Discovery to buy into this. National Geographic rejected the book and the film. TC: How have you been involved in this issue? MG: It’s usually me just sitting in front of my computer, and occasionally I can’t help myself from blogging about things that are of interest…. What we need to do as scholars is speak up, so the public knows that there are other voices…. Because other people have linked to the blog, then picked up things and discussed it, the media goes to look for people to refute these claims. They’re looking for academics who already have a public profile. EM: I was on the advisory panel of experts assessing the integrity of the claims, the appropriateness of the report and the panel decided that National Geographic should drop it like a hot potato, and they did…. I was the one who blew the whistle on the [James ossuary].... It was a looted artifact—we didn’t know where it came from. TC: Hypothetically, if this really was Jesus’ tomb, what would the implications be? MG: If we did find something from the first century with a picture of “Jonah and the Fish,” I’d say great. But I just don’t think we’ve got it. There’s always a bit of healthy skepticism you have to have when doing this kind of work. EM: An ossuary is a bone box… This implies that Jesus’ body was buried somewhere else for about a year, and his family, just outside Jerusalem, came and picked up his bones and had a new burial [in Talpiot]. It defies or contradicts any belief in the resurrection because there are bones in these boxes. If there was a resurrection, it could only be a theological resurrection.... [Christians] will be offended, as I am offended. TC: How do you mitigate issues such as this one that can cause people to question their faith? SEE Q&A ON PAGE 12
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Justice Department sues Zimmerman Apple over e-book prices charged in Martin shooting by Ylan Mui and Hayley Tsukayama THE WASHINGTON POST
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George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin in February, was charged with second-degree murder Wednesday, marking a turning point in a case that has provoked nationwide debate over racial profiling. Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey, who announced the charge in Jacksonville, said that “the search for justice has brought us to this moment.” She said Zimmerman had turned himself in and had the right to appear before a Seminole County magistrate Thursday. Criminal justice lawyers said Corey faces an uphill battle in persuading a jury to convict Zimmerman of second-degree murder. Zimmerman told police he was fighting for his life in an altercation with Martin, who was 17 and unarmed, before he shot in self-defense. Murder in the second degree, under Florida law, refers to a killing carried out without premeditation but with “a depraved mind regardless of human life.” If convicted, Zimmerman faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. His attorney, Mark O'Mara, said Wednesday that Zimmerman will plead not guilty. Martin's parents applauded Corey's decision to take Zimmerman into custody, calling it a first step toward justice. “We simply wanted an arrest,” said Sybrina Fulton, Martin's mother. “Thank you, Lord.” His father, Tracy Martin, said: “We got a long way to go, and we have faith... We will continue to hold hands on this journey—white, black and Latino.” Corey said she had personally informed Martin’s parents of the outcome of her investigation. SEE MARTIN ON PAGE 6
The Justice Department on Wednesday accused five of the nation’s largest publishing houses and Apple of fixing prices on e-books and forcing consumers to pay tens of millions of dollars more for their favorite titles. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in New York, the government painted a portrait of an industry desperately trying to turn a profit amid rapid changes in technology and aggressive competition from online retailers. In phone conversations, emails and dinners at exclusive New York restaurants, the companies’ top executives colluded to wrest control of the market from Amazon.com and raise prices on e-books, according to the complaint.
It was this coordinated effort that raised flags for federal investigators. “We allege that these executives knew full well what they were doing,” Acting Assistant Attorney General Sharis Pozen said. None of the firms have admitted wrongdoing, but three publishers—Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster—have agreed to settle the case. Apple is contesting the charges, embarking on its most prominent fight with Washington. Macmillan and Penguin Group have declined to settle as well. “It is also hard to settle a lawsuit when you know you have done no wrong,” Macmillan chief executive John Sargent said in a statement. SEE APPLE ON PAGE 5
Working late could lead to obesity by Nicole Ostrow BLOOMBERG NEWS
Lack of sleep or erratic slumber from working late-night shifts or travel may lead to diabetes and obesity, according to a Harvard study that is the first to tie abnormal sleep patterns to disease. In a trial of 21 men and women observed in a sleep laboratory, those allowed only 5.6 hours of sleep in a 24-hour period over three weeks had a slowdown in their metabolism and a reduction in insulin production. Those changes can lead to weight gain and increased blood sugar, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Sleeping, eating and being active at times that are at odds with the body's internal clock, called circadian disruption, may raise the risk of diabetes and obesity as metabolic changes occur, said Orfeu Buxton, the lead study author.
More research is needed to understand the results, he said. "We disrupted not just the timing of sleep but the timing of meals, so it seems that eating meals at an unusual time may also play a role," said Buxton, as assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and an associate neuroscientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, in an April 9 telephone interview. "If you're going to work at night, you might want your biological clock to join you on shift and have your biological daytime be during that night shift." About 15 percent of full-time wage and salary workers in the U.S. work an alternative shift, 4.7 percent work evenings, 3.2 percent work nights and 2.5 percent work rotating shifts, according to 2004 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the latest year for which data is available. Allowing workers to stay in the same shifts for longer periods rather than changing every few days may help them stave off health problems, Buxton said.
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The scope of the Justice Department's investigation, and the fact that several firms are not backing down, are testaments to the intensity of the battle for dominance in a billion-dollar market that is expected to triple by 2015. A recent survey from the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project found that one-fifth of all American adults have read an electronic version of a book in the past year. The problem for publishers, however, is that consumers expect e-books to be priced substantially lower than printed ones because they are cheaper to produce and distribute. But publishers were outraged when Amazon pushed prices even lower when they sold them for $9.99 as a way to encourage consumers to buy its Kindle e-reader. According to the Justice Department complaint, publishers worried that this would lead to lower wholesale prices for e-books and reduce the amount consumers would pay for any books. Ultimately, they feared that Amazon's dominance in distribution would allow it to bypass publishers altogether and sell content directly from authors. Even as it announced its settlement with the government on Wednesday, Hachette pointed to Amazon as the real industry predator. “Amazon effectively had a monopoly on the sale of e-books and e-readers, and was selling products below cost in an effort to exclude competitors,” the company said in a statement. “We believe the DOJ and the state [attorneys general] have a responsibility to consumers to ensure that the market for e-books remains diverse and competitive, and that we don't return to the days of monopoly.” But Justice said the publishers' response to Amazon's threat crossed the line. Starting around fall 2008, the suit said, they began meeting to discuss what was called “the $9.99 problem” and decided to act together to try to force Amazon to raise its prices. The opportunity presented itself in 2009 as Apple prepared to launch its iPad, according to the complaint. It wanted to create an e-book marketplace similar to iTunes but was concerned that margins were too thin. The suit alleges that Apple decided to work with publishers to establish a new model of doing business— instead of buying books from them at one price and selling them to readers at another, Apple would allow publishers to set the prices up to $16.99. In exchange, Apple received 30 percent of the proceeds. The suit said the company called this the “aikido move” that would cripple Amazon. “Yes, the customer pays a little more, but that's what you want anyway,” the late Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said, according to the complaint. All five publishers agreed to Apple's plan within two days in January 2010, Justice said. By April 2010, they had all increased the price of e-books. “We are sending a clear message that competitors, even in rapidly evolving technology industries, cannot conspire to raise prices,” said Pozen, the acting assistant attorney general. Sargent, Macmillan’s chief executive, disputed the government's characterization of the move. In a statement, he said that he made the decision to accept Apple’s terms while riding an exercise bike in his basement by himself. He said his company is making less money on e-books since it switched to Apple's model. “It remains the loneliest decision I have ever made, and I see no reason to go back on it now,” he said. Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr declined to comment Wednesday. Justice’s proposed settlement with Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster would end their agreements with Apple and allow retailers to set their own prices for e-books. Amazon welcomed the proposed deal as “a big win for Kindle owners.” Mark Cooper, director of research for the Consumer Federation of America, said consumers should look for savings soon. “The price went up immediately when they did their deal, so there's no reason not to expect the price will come down,” he said. “The cartel will unravel.” But litigation for Apple, Macmillan and Penguin could take years. In addition, attorneys general from Connecticut, Texas and 14 other states and territories are seeking action against publishers, although they have settled with Hachette and HarperCollins. The states want restitution for consumers who bought e-book titles at higher prices. Separately, Apple is facing a class-action lawsuit in New York from customers who accuse the company of overcharging for e-books and are demanding refunds.
and down from year to year,” Li said. “This year, [BSA’s] budget was more organized, and we found more things that we thought would be worth allocating for.” InnoWorks also appealed to SOFC after receiving its initial allocation funds. SOFC originally hesitated providing extensive funds for the group because they seemed selective with an application process, Li said. “But we found out afterwards that they had never declined anyone and that the only constraining factor was the amount of money they had for housing and materials,” Li said. Now with a total of $1,500, InnoWorks can provide the necessary housing and materials for campers without having to reject any applicants. In other business: DSG discussed Senate and executive bylaw amendments, which are also expected to be approved with
quorum next week. The amendments strike the president pro-tempore’s current responsibility to report to the executive vice president and require that he or she work with the executive vice president to enforce senators’ weekly attendance. The Senate also approved a statute proposed by President Pete Schork, a senior, that calls for a more deliberate and collaborative effort between DSG and The Chanticleer, Duke’s yearbook. Under the proposed SOFC budget for next year, The Chanticleer will receive $108,180. “It is the highest funded student organization, yet its last minute dialogue always proves to be inefficient,” Schork said.
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Khalsa noted that the space will also foster collaboration between various student artists. Costs of the renovations to the building will be in the vicinity of $40,000, Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta wrote in an email Wednesday. The Office of the Executive Vice President paid for a new pathway up to the building, and DSG and Lindroth’s office jointly paid for a dance floor, Solow wrote in an email Wednesday. UCAE will fund the operating costs. The arts warehouse will also act as a central meeting point for duArts, a recently created umbrella organization for student arts groups. Any individual student or arts group will be able to reserve rehearsal time in the warehouse through duArts coordinators, who will have an office at the site, Solow said. A committee of student representatives from the Duke Dance Council, duArts and other arts organi-
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zations has been planning the interior design of the warehouse for several months, said senior Anna Hevia, committee member and Dance Council co-president. “This has been in the works for a while,” Hevia said. “The administrators wanted to give students a place dedicated exclusively to us.” Large, open rehearsal spaces are expensive, but Duke seems to be making a more concentrated effort to invest in student arts facilities, Lindroth said. He noted the ongoing Baldwin Auditorium and upcoming Page Auditorium renovations as examples. The new arts space is also near to a residential neighborhood, which could allow for community involvement projects. “We can develop community outreach such as workshops in theater and dance for local kids,” Lindroth said. “It would be a wonderful gesture.”
“It was less than three weeks ago that we told those sweet parents that we would get answers to all of their questions no matter where our quest for the truth led us,” she said. Martin was fatally shot Feb. 26 while walking in the Retreat at Twin Lakes, a complex of about 260 almond-colored townhouses in Sanford, Fla. Martin was staying with his father and his father’s fiancee in her townhouse, and he had left briefly to walk to a nearby 7-Eleven to buy a bottle of iced tea and a bag of Skittles. Zimmerman, 28, who worked at a fraud-detection company, was driving to Target, according to his father. Zimmerman spotted Martin and called 911, saying that there had been a rash of burglaries in the area and that there was “a guy... walking around, looking about.” “This guy looks like... he’s on drugs or something,” Zimmerman said. Before the police arrived, Zimmerman and Martin encountered each other in a grassy area between the back yards of two rows of townhouses. Zimmerman says Martin punched him the face, knocked him down and slammed his head against the pavement. He has maintained that he was defending himself when he pulled a black Kel-Tec 9mm and shot Martin at close range in the chest after the teenager tried to take the gun. When officers arrived, they found Martin dead in a pool of blood in the grass and Zimmerman bleeding from his nose and the back of his head. Authorities in Sanford decided not to charge Zimmerman, citing Florida's “stand your ground” law, which allows a person to use deadly force in self-defense when there is a reasonable belief of a threat and which does not require people to retreat. Allowing Zimmerman to go free prompted a wave of protests across the country, led in part by Martin's parents. The case stirred racial tension in part because Zimmerman, who is Hispanic, described Martin in his call to police as looking suspicious and “up to no good.” For weeks, the Rev. Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders have invoked memories of Emmett Till and organized protest rallies. Images of Martin and Zimmerman have played continually on cable television. And President Barack Obama weighed in with a comment from the White House. “If I had a son," he said, "he'd look like Trayvon.”
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This is my last one of these. Next week, I’ll hand the keys—to this column and to Recess generally—over to our editor-elect Michaela Dwyer. Change is good, and Michaela is good, and she’ll do a good job here. Worry not for the future of Recess. I’ll get one more opportunity to use The Chronicle as my soapbox when senior columns start running, but my run of free form opining with little to no supervision in Recess ends here. In this space, I’ve made a habit of discussing things I don’t particularly care for—the LDOC lineup, the Grammys, Drake—at the expense of those I do. Among those with the freedom to regularly write about whatever they want, I’m not unique in that habit. But in this context, magnanimity is probably a more appropriate tone than the arch exasperation; no one wants to be remembered for sour grapes. My predecessor as Recess editor, Kevin Lincoln, had this exact idea almost exactly one year ago, and used his last column to dole out awards to his favorite media of his editorship. Short on both time and creativity, I will now recycle this idea. The categories may have changed, but the prize remains (basically) the same: in Kevin’s words, “winners can take comfort in knowing I probably talk about them far too much.” Best Album, Lily-Livered Indie Division: Hibernation, Youth Lagoon
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I have a tough time trying to explain the appeal of this album to people, and often usually end up word-vomiting something about how it’s like, dude, so epic. To wit: you can’t hear the words. Most songs are pretty similar, and none sound all that good. Certainly, Trevor Powers has a composer’s ear—Hibernation is a series of organ-and-reverb peaks and dead-space denouements that manage to seem more dramatic with each cycle. And while it sounds terrible, in a sense, the bedroom-studio recording quality fits with the ongoing Tumblr-ization of pop culture. Hibernation feels almost more like an artifact of a record than a record itself, imbued so fundamentally with the emotions and experiences of its creator that it’s almost too personal to evaluate on content alone. The sum is a document of small-town angst: massive and intimate, ecstatic and melancholy, the sound of a worldsized imagination just out of reach. (Runners-up: Bon Iver, Bon Iver, Bon Iver; Hello Sadness, Los Campesinos!) Best Album, hip-hop/rap division: LiveLoveA$AP, A$AP Rocky Surprise! Not Watch the Throne, although, rest assured, I did love me some Throne. For his part, Rocky has been the most buzzed-about rapper of the last 12 months by a mile, during which time he’s signed an unheard-of $3 million deal with Sony/RCA, graced the cover of Complex magazine and been recruited for studio sessions with Yeezy himself. And to his credit, LiveLoveA$AP is the rare album that justifies the hype. Curren$y is a good comparison, and not just because of the
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dollar signs that stylize each of their names. Rocky’s not nearly on the same level as Curren$y from a technical standpoint, but he brings a similar confidence: casual, never overbearing, delivering each bar like the punch line to a joke you’re both in on. And, unlike Curren$y—a prodigious talent who puts out more mixtapes than anyone this side of Lil B, with some detriment to quality—Rocky’s got a remarkably discerning ear. LiveLoveA$AP is riddled with positively entrancing beats: the Gregorian chant swag of Clams Casino’s “Palace,” the codeinepaced “Trilla” and the ephemeral, twinkling “Peso” stand out, but production-wise there’s hardly a misstep to be found. (Runners-up: Habits and Contradictions, Schoolboy Q; the aforementioned Throne; not Drake) Best Film: Drive, Nicholas Winding Refn I’m gonna put back on my curmudgeon stocking, just for a second: nine films were nominated for an Oscar this year, and Drive wasn’t one of them. Of those, I saw seven (Hugo and The Help excepted); of those seven, only a few compared to Drive. Winding Refn’s film is so stunningly and comprehensively executed that it doesn’t warrant explaining why it’s more worthy than well-done but ultimately forgettable flicks War Horse and Moneyball. Drive doesn’t compromise or cater: it’s a doggedly stylized homage to the ‘80s with only a bit more dialogue than the Tree of Life. But it’s honest, brutal, and perfectly paced: after an inauspicious opening, it hits top gear before you know it and puts the stoic Ryan Gosling and sinister Albert Brooks on collision course. Throw in the soundtrack, and I can even forgive the lackluster ending. (Runners-up: Melancholia, Lars von Trier; Rango, Gore Verbinski) Best TV: Game of Thrones I don’t bring a whole lot of expert opinion to bear on TV shows, but I know that a) Mad Men has shown exactly three episodes over the course of my editorship, which I’ve arbitrarily decided is not enough to qualify, and b) Game of Thrones is awesome. In Westeros, subtlety takes a back seat: there’s graphic sex and violence in equal parts, more than a couple totally abhorrent characters, and also dragons and zombies. And at the center is Tyrion Lannister, probably the best fantasy-epic character I’ve ever encountered. That’s all I’ve got. Thanks, a lot, for reading. —Ross Green
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I would never have expected Matthew Ward to be a fan of T.S. Eliot. M. Ward albums are often breezy. His songs rarely exceed four minutes. He dabbles in genres from folk to synth rock to Christmas pop. Eliot, on the other hand, likes brooding statements, long tales of anomie worlds apart from Ward’s peppy wanderlust. Eliot’s writing is dense and hyper-literate. Ward fingerpicks simply and pleasantly, sings of the working man. To call them uncommon bedfellows is to put it lightly. As a result, it is no surprise that the album title is a misnomer. Songs like “Pure Joy”—with its unmitigated gratitude and its cheery gospel choirs—have no place alongside Eliot’s masterpiece. The album is a companion only in the other sense, that of a friend offers SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE who
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a second rock guitar. “I Found You” follows perfectly as somewhat of an answer to “Hold On”; The song tells the story of Howard finding her long-awaited lover. Male background vocals intelligently make it into the chorus to compliment Howard’s passionate refrains. “Rise to the Sun” presents the album’s first sizeable move in a tougher rock direction. The cut’s animated verses drag into the hefty guitar solos and powerful drums, smoothing over the band’s trademark blues-rock binary. Howard ups her vocals once more to reveal another raspy layer of soulful control, adding to the song’s rough-around-theedges feel. I’m still unsure if Alabama Shakes deserve the hype they’ve accumulated, but does it even matter? No. This is a damn good album: it successfully fuses blues and rock and puts a new spin on the southern rock genre. —Andrew Karim kindness to someone else’s suffering. In “A Clean Slate,” depression is short-lived, nothing to get bogged down by. “The First Time I Ran Away” focuses on the beauty of the experience of running away; the pain is muted beneath warm, Fleet Foxes-style harmonies. The lighthearted nostalgia of “Wild Goose” might have been the work of a West Coast Robert Frost. With A Wasteland Companion, Ward is at his best when he does the least. The title track bathes in Ward’s hot bath of a voice, lets his crisp guitar plucks cleanse as if soapy foam. Like many of the album’s songs, it’s too short, a rest stop when we want a destination. Ward’s pop songs are much less successful. “Primitive Girl” has too much synth confetti and too much repetition. “Sweetheart” is oversweet—its lyrics recall Help!era Beatles. Ward’s love songs, especially “I Get Ideas,” come across as sincere but cliched. A Wasteland Companion was produced in eight different studios and includes cameo performances from 18 different musicians. That sort of collaboration should have resulted in something epic, something bigger than the sum of its parts. But each song feels like it takes place in a different environment, some unspoken distance away from the one previous. Ward adapts to the additional performers, to the new locations, instead of sticking to one over-arching theme. That’s a skill Ward could have learned from Eliot. -Dan Fishman
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Oasis’s Noel and Liam Gallagher should single-handedly discourage any brothers who want to start a band together. Fighting for the title of Most Unlikable Arse across the Pond, the British brothers have created such a notorious reputation of in-house rivalry and feuding that their public personas now overshadow their music. But on the other end of the spectrum, the Beach Boys—an example of how to capitalize on the unique bond of brotherhood and transform it into a successful artistic relationship. Jack Wagner, a Duke sophomore and one-half of the band Minor Soul, seems to be aware of this possibility. “When brothers [are in] a band together, it’s usually quite difficult. My brother and I don’t fight, and I think it’s because we’ve been so democratic on the songwriting and singing.” Jack and his younger brother Max, who is still finishing school in Hong Kong, began writing songs at a young age. After recording a 4-track demo in a Shanghai studio, the boys released the songs over the Internet and found an unexpected fan. Former Eurhythmics member and current music producer Dave Stewart discovered Minor Soul’s music and began working with them to produce a full-length album that was completed last summer. Tentatively titled Escape, the album features two songs that are co-written by Stewart, who has since been acting as a mentor and guide for the band in its attempt to sign with a record label and release the album to the public. For now, Minor Soul relies on YouTube traffic to build up its fan base, releasing two music videos titled “Beneath My Skin” and “Alice.” When watching the videos, Jack’s self-comparison to Simon and Garfunkel is somewhat evident in both physical appearance and musical styling. Jack’s flyaway curly hair conjures up the image of Art Garfunkel’s golden afro and, almost by default, his brother Max becomes the diminutive Paul Simon. And while Minor Soul does seem to be grounded in acoustic folk melodies and harmonizing choruses, their different vocal registers and incorporation of pop elements creates a more affective, uplifting sound. While Jack acknowledges that Minor Soul probably won’t achieve the same level of fame as fellow Duke musician-cum-douchebag Mike Posner, he hopes to reach the niche of Duke students who share his taste in acoustic and indie rock. As for current plans: Jack will be taking a leave of absence from Duke to focus on promoting the band and searching for management. “For now, our plan for next year is to really focus on becoming big in New York and going from there.” Before settling down in the United States, Minor Soul will perform at the Music Matters festival, the Southeast Asian equivalent of South by Southwest MuJACK WAGNER/SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE sic Festival.
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full frame 15th edition of Full Frame looks to cement festival’s sterling reputation by Chris Bassil THE CHRONICLE
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, a fourday long annual celebration of documentary filmmaking hosted here in Durham, North Carolina, is turning 15 this weekend. It’s safe to say, though, that its age hasn’t begun to show. The festival, which will be screening 57 competing films in different locations across Durham, has only increased in popularity since its inception in 1998. Films are either invited or are selected from a pool of over 1200 by committees of local artists, educators and curators over a period of about three months. The films to make it past the final stage of selection are included under the “New Docs” program, and are eligible to win the Full Frame Audience Award, among others. This year’s New Docs films span a wide swath of topical material. Films like Detropia (Dir. Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady) and Eating Alabama (Dir. Andrew Beck Grace) are driven by meditation on specific American locales, whereas others such as Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare (Dir. Matthew Heineman, Susan Froemke) engage more explicitly with large scale political issues. There are also entries like Duke professor Josh Gibson’s Light Plate that focus on the aesthetic aspects of film. In celebration of its 15th anniversary, the festival will be supplementing these regular selections with a new program known as Vault, in which a short film from each of the festival’s previous fourteen years has been selected for rescreening. The Vault selections are showing on multiple occasions over the course of the weekend, and will be screened outdoors, free of charge, in Durham Central Park. In addition to the films in competition, a number of other programs will be available at Full Frame this year. Influential documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee, for example, will be curating the 2012 Thematic Program, called “Family Affairs.” A collection of eight feature films and two short films, the “Family Affairs” films are special in that they all focus on the families of the filmmakers
themselves, a dynamic that adds considerable depth and complexity to the viewing—not to mention filming—experience. Similarly prominent filmmaker Stanley Nelson will also be honored with the festival’s annual tribute. As this year’s recipient, Nelson will take part in a moderated conversation with filmmaker Laurens Grant following the screening of this year’s opening night film—Grant’s Jesse Owens—and will be in attendance for screenings of four of his own films over the course of the weekend. Documentary filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz, who has been working in documentary film and non-fiction for the past ten years, expressed enthusiasm for the tribute program, citing the formative influence of filmmakers like McElwee and Nelson on his own work. “Sherman’s March is—probably for a lot of people, not just me—a watershed film. I saw that film when I was in my twenties, working already in production, and working in a very prescribed way on PBS shows,” Ruiz said. “When I saw that film, it really cracked everything open for me.” One of Ruiz’s own films, Reportero, will be in competition at the festival this weekend. The project began as a portrait of an overlooked region of the U.S.-Mexico border, Ruiz said, before a series of conversations with writer Sergio Haro began to take things in an unanticipated direction. Ruiz’s meetings with Haro centered increasingly on his work with Semanario ZETA, a Tijuana-based independent newsweekly determined to resist censorship and preserve free press in a region that has been plagued by drug traffickers, violent criminals and corrupt politicians. The final cut of the film finds Ruiz following Haro and his colleagues in their efforts to publish information that others try to suppress—the names and faces of known offenders are frequently printed by ZETA—and chronicling the death threats and assassinations that haunt the reporters. Reportero has been on a 12-city tour of Mexico in recent weeks, but makes its U.S. premiere at Full Frame this weekend. “I’m very excited about it, because it’s a small, very critical, special community of people. In some ways, it’s one
of the best places to screen the kind of work that I do... [at] some of the bigger festivals, documentary films are diluted by the presence of other things going on.” Sadie Tillery, now in her fourth year as the Director of Programming for Full Frame, said in an e-mail that there are elements of this festival that set it apart from other, similar events that are put on around the country. “I think filmmakers feel prioritized at this festival,” Tillery said. “We do our best to take really good care of our guests. Some festivals are about marketing and selling work; Full Frame is really about celebrating it.” The festival owes its unique atmosphere, at least in part, to the city of Durham itself, she added. Its location away from bigger cities actually enhances the experiences of those involved, since a more walkable city means easier accommodations, greater accessibility and fewer distractions for filmmakers and moviegoers alike. On top of that, Durham’s relatively small size means that the festival can take over and dominate the scene from Thursday to Sunday, creating a concentrated and immersive experience that would not be possible in a larger city. This is part of the power of Full Frame and, after fifteen years together, the festival and the city have become inseparable, working themselves into the fabric of one another. “Durham is a big part of Full Frame’s identity,” Tillery said. Tillery added that students and citizens from the area should feel encouraged to attend the festival, even if they have little background or experience with documentary film. And Ruiz, for one, insists that even the inexperienced will find great familiarity at the festival, as well as in documentary film in general. “At its core, it’s about storytelling and it’s about illuminating and heightening our awareness of reality,” he said, likening the documentary film fan to the skeptic who must see something to believe it. “It’s no different than sitting around a campfire and hearing a relative or friends tell you a really great story about their past, about American history, or about their lives.”
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Recess Interviews: Duke professor and Light Plate filmmaker Josh Gibson Duke has a long-standing relationship with Full Frame, and the festival officially merged with the Center for Documentary Studies in 2010. The relationship is not merely institutional: Josh Gibson, filmmaker and instructor at Duke’s Arts of the Moving Image program, will premiere his new documentary Light Plate at the festival this weekend. Recess’ Ted Phillips sat down with Gibson, who premiered his last film Kudzu Vine at Full Frame in 2011, to talk about the inspiration behind Light Plate, the tangibility of film as artistic medium, and the auspicious beginning of his career in film. Recess: How did you end up as a professor at Duke? Josh Gibson: I went to Duke many moons ago [Ed: Gibson graduated in 1995] as an undergraduate, and went on to graduate school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; I came back here as a teacher about 12 years ago. R: What originally drew you into filmmaking? JG: I first got interested in filmmaking when I was a student here at Duke. One summer, I went with a group of friends on a bicycle trip across the country. There was a TV crew from PBS making a documentary about our trip and I was interested in the behind-the-scenes process, so I started taking some [film] classes at Duke. I did a program in India studying Indian cinema, and after seven months of work on a project my camera was stolen by one of my subjects. I was telling a friend of mine how it happened at a party in Bombay, and a man standing near me said, “I couldn’t help overhearing your story. It’s the best possible thing that can happen to a young filmmaker; it’ll contribute to the unfolding of your disposition.” He turned out to be this Indian
filmmaker named Mani Kaul. Totally by chance, he came to teach at Duke about nine months later. I took classes with him and we became friends, and I stayed a year after I finished at Duke to be his teaching assistant. I think that’s when I really decided I wanted to be a filmmaker. I also met his daughter that year, and we got married about eleven years ago. R: That’s quite a story! The drama, the romance— it’s got everything! JG: Some day I’ll make a film about it! R: Light Plate is your latest film, and it premieres at Full Frame this weekend. Tell us a bit about it. JG: A few years ago, my wife made a film trying to find her birth origins. She was born on a film shoot in the Rann of Kutch, a salt desert in India. She tried to make a film that used the materiality of film itself to get closer to the origin, the birthplace. We went out there and shot some black and white film, and then handprocessed it in our bathroom in the desert. We put salt physically on the film and exposed it with our cell phones, all in the pursuit of getting closer to the original material. The next film that I made, Kudzu Vine, was also about the landscapes of my own birth. Light Plate is a continuation of that pursuit, I suppose. I’ve been taking students to Arrezo, Tuscany to study Italian cinema. Last summer, I decided to make a short little piece myself, and that’s what Light Plate is. It’s structured from dawn to night, and it’s a meditation on light and the things I love about Italy—the food, the landscapes. R: How was making Light Plate different from past projects you’ve done? JG: As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that it’s possible
to find stories right in front of your eyes. Most of it was shot in my back yard, through my window. I also experimented with time lapse, and some interesting things started happening. The light itself starts having a threedimensional quality because the exposure is happening over a duration instead of an instant. I was really happy for those accidents to happen. Also, I shot most of it in June and didn’t get to process it until September. Past films like Kudzu Vine moved in an organic way—I was able to shoot it and then process it immediately. With Light Plate, there’s a four-month gap between shooting it and seeing it in film. R: Any butterflies with Light Plate premiering this weekend? JG: There is a certain amount of nervousness because I have not seen the final print of it, since I only just finished and I don’t have a projector at my house that can show it. But for me, that’s one of the things I like about working in film: it has this preciousness to it. It’s not something that I’ve seen and tweaked a hundred times. I’ve seen it, I’ve physically cut the negative, but this will be the first and only print that is made. I can make digital copies, but in terms of being an object, this is the only one. I do like the tactility of film, but it’s getting harder and harder to rationalize as time goes on. But there are still people like me who will keep working on it. Light Plate will be shown back-to-back with Hannes Lang’s Peak on Saturday, Apr. 14 at 10:40 a.m. in Fletcher Hall at The Carolina Theater. Tickets are available for $10 at the Full Frame box office in the Durham Convention Center.
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Ragtime’s unprecedented scope translates to success by Duncan Dodson THE CHRONICLE
Before the lights go down, it’s evident that Ragtime is not a typical Duke musical. The sheer size of the production set, which is unveiled before the start of the show, is enough to inspire curiosity, if not skepticism, among the audience. If the crew spent so much time on this set, can the play live up to its lofty structure? The answer, unequivocally, is yes. For the first time in Duke history, a super-group of academic departments and student organizations, including Theater Studies, Music, Dance, Chamber Players and Hoof ‘n’ Horn, has come together to put on Ragtime, the Tony award-winning musical that explores themes of race, class and gender at the turn of the 20th century. “I wanted, and Hoof ‘n’ Horn needed, a musical that would be entertaining for us to perform and we would be able to get our peers to come see,” producer and senior Nate Hill said. “Ragtime is a wild ride; it’s got explosions and kidnapping and stripping and fire. People love it.” Hill has been working closely with various departmental staff for the past two years producing Ragtime, using this extended process, which included an associated Theater Studies course, as his senior thesis. With Ragtime, Hill will become the first student in Duke’s history to graduate with distinction in producing in Theater Studies. Technically speaking, the set immediately indicates how huge this production is. Occupying two levels and the entire stage, the structure uses both horizontal and vertical space on the stage to the casts’ advantage. “It’s hard to get forty people to look like they’re filling an entire stage,” said Torry Bend, the show’s set designer and an assistant professor of the practice of theater studies. “If you want to create a sense of density and population you can’t rely only on people.” The set definitely accomplishes this feat, portraying the illusion that the already sizable cast is at least twice as big as it looks. This effectively transports the audience to the bustling shipyards of New York City. Even scenes requiring
smaller locations, such as Victorian houses highlighting the racial hierarchies of the time period, demonstrate the versatility of the set. Visually, the set also has a dual function: it sometimes seems dense and overwhelming, while at other times it appears sparse and austere, highlighting the ostracism of characters in various scenes. The large size of the set echoes that of the cast. Once the prologue begins, a barrage of early-20th century period costumes—tweed suits, dresses covering the ankles (except for the hilarious bombshell Evelyn Nesbit) and bowler hats—parades onto the set. “At the end of the beginning number when you see forty people on stage in this huge surrounding you realize, ‘Oh, this is kind of a big deal,” said freshmen attendee Matthew Frost. The ensemble is distinctly divided by their race and class into three groups: the Harlem locals, the Jewish immigrants and the white upper class. Sophomore Martavius Parrish and junior Jordan Rodriguez share the role of Coalhouse, a self-made African-American musician, by switching on a nightly basis. Both command the stage with a deep, bluesy croon contrasted, at various points, by demanding and powerful vocals that convey Coalhouse’s conflicted motivations that often toe the line between humanity and volatility. Both actors sought out ways to connect Coalhouse’s personality with their own to deepen their involvement in the role. Rodriguez explained that Coalhouse is “very passionate, [which] leads him to be very prideful and short-sighted,” which Parrish admitted “is a combination of things I wish I were and things I’m glad I’m not.” These three stories start markedly segregated yet as the world changes with the turn of the 19th century, the characters’ lives begin to intertwine. Frequently these intersections result in explosive or powerful confrontations about race, class and gender. Senior Alessandra DiMona plays Mother, a woman ahead of her time who takes in an African-American mother and child in her husband’s absence. “Her journey throughout the show is one of liberation and self-discovery,” DiMona said.
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She portrays an independent-minded woman socially ostracized for her race-blind philosophy. The dynamism of Mother’s relationships underscores her relatability as a character. As audience members, we can track her journey from the tragic and isolating “What Kind of Woman” to the empowering number “Back to Before.” “It’s really easy for us to believe that those issues [of race, class and gender] don’t exist any longer,” junior Emily Mendenhall, who also attended the show, said. DiMona agreed that these stereotypes still endure today, though they may not be as fiercely expressed as in Ragtime. “This school is incredibly diverse but it is self-segregating,” DiMona said. “Sometimes we get very self-involved and we don’t really interact with as many people as we should.” Self-involvement can perpetuate the stereotypes that students think they have destroyed. Ragtime, a raw and relevant production, then begs the question: have we really come as far as we think? “No time is it more important and more evocative than it is now. And I think it’s something everyone on campus will be able to relate to,” Rodriguez said. Ragtime runs Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $5 for students and are available online and at the box office.
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This weekend, celebrated sitarist Anoushka Shankar brings her ensemble of Indian and flamenco musicians to Duke as part of the U.S. tour of her new album, Traveller. Sponsored by Duke Performances, the April 14 performance will explore the connections between classical Indian music and flamenco, featuring an ensemble of six musicians and singers from around the world. That is, for those who bought their tickets early— like several other Duke Performances this year, Shankar’s performance sold out about a month ago, said Aaron Greenwald, Director of Duke Performances. Daughter and disciple of the legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar, who catapulted to fame in the US when he taught George Harrison of The Beatles to play the sitar, Anoushka is at once part of the classical Indian tradition and a multi-ethnic global music scene. Her father studied sitar under Allauddin Khan, an exponent of the courtly tradition in which sitar has been passed down from teacher to pupil since the court of Akbar the Great in the sixteenth century, said Jonathan Kramer, Adjunct Professor of Ethnomusicology at Duke University. The only musician to be taught comprehensively by her father, Shankar made her performance debut at age 13 and has established a remarkably successful career in her own right. Her second album, Live at Carnegie Hall (2001), earned her a Grammy nomination for “Best World Music Album,” making her the youngest artist ever to receive the nomination. In 1998, the British Parliament presented her with a House of Commons Shield in recognition of her artistry and musicianship, and in 2004 she was selected as one of twenty “Asian Heroes” by the Asia edition of Time magazine. She is also the half-sister of Norah Jones and married to Joe Wright, director of Pride and Prejudice. “She’s royalty, you know?” Greenwald said. “It’s a remarkable family. I think she has this incredible entrée to the world of contemporary music, via her father, via her family.”
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In Traveller, Shankar explores the link between classical Indian music, a melodic and rhythmic art with enormous levels of complexity, and flamenco, a highly expressive dance form that was cultivated in Spain primarily by traveling gypsies, Kramer said. According to the latest theories, this classical tradition left India with a migrating ethnic group called the Roma, who were originally from Rajasthan and became known in Europe as gypsies. To create Traveller, Shankar worked with producer Javier Limón to fuse the rhythm and sounds of both traditions, sometimes by setting the melody of a raga to a flamenco rhythm, and by collaborating with singers, musicians, and dancers from around the world. One song, “Dancing in Madness,” contrasts the sound from flamenco dancer’s hard shoes and the soft bells of Bharata Natyam, resulting in a fusion that, like the rest of the album, brings out the subtleties of both musical traditions. “If you look at Indian classical music itself, what is pure?,”
Shankar said. “It’s an oral tradition that’s evolved over generations and millennia. It’s a living tradition, and I think that it needs to continue to evolve in order to grow and in order to remain relevant. I’m not saying that raga needs something like flamenco in order to survive, not that. As a tradition, I think that to dry it and box it and freeze it does the music injustice.” Shankar added that although she could spend her whole life trying to master the vast tradition of classical Indian, she explores lateral traditions to explore her own diverse upbringing in London, India, and California and the global perspective she has gained from traveling with her father. “It’s not that I find anything lacking within the tradition that I’ve been given,” Shankar said. “It’s more that I think in a very, very natural way, art tends to be a reflection of the artist. I grew up across three continents. From the age of eight I was learning Indian classical music from my father but also SEE SHANKAR ON PAGE 8
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Asian American students are reclaiming Perkins Library as a space for displaying diversity and subverting stereotypes. Beginning next Friday, the Perkins Student Art Gallery will feature Multitudes, an interactive photo project and exhibition. Sponsored by the Kenan Institute of Ethics, Multitudes hopes to inspire a conscious cultural awakening about the Asian student population and perceived stereotypes through a series of portraits. “We aim to represent how being Asian at Duke is complex. Another way to look at our thesis would be saying that we are trying to reclaim and re-appropriate the politics that have been imposed on the Asian student body at Duke,� said junior and project co-director Tong Xiang. “We aim to introduce the notion of multitudes and individual complexity into the Asian student body politic.� The exhibition will feature 40 portraits of Asian students, including but not limited to international East Asian students and Asian American students. Each person will be bare from the neck up and accompanied by a statement that completes the thought, “I am Asian and—.� “The effect of this is going to be, ‘Wow, there are so many Asians,’ and immediately because of the way that we have been programmed to see race, we’re going to think of a homogenous monolith of Asians,� sophomore and codirector Katherine Zhang said. “The interplay here is between the homogeneity, seeing a wall of forty Asians, and going up close and seeing the individual statement that speaks about each person.� The photo shoot, which was held this past Sunday, was open to anyone who self-identified as Asian, regardless of the student’s heritage. The goal was to be proactive rather than reactive in regards to these stereotypes, with the highest priority placed on representing the complexity and multitudes of Asian students’ experiences at Duke. Sophomore participant Andy Chu, who is one-fourth
that are related to my cultural identity, especially because a lot of the time [it] will be the first exposure to Chinese culture for my friends.� The project’s devotion to depicting the complexity and uniqueness of every Asian student is a continuation of the house course that both Xiang and Zhang teach, titled “Special Topics of Asian American Social Justice.� During the first half of the semester, the seminar was dedicated to discussing questions of Asian parenting, sexuality, affirmative action, activism and art. The latter half of the semester has been devoted to exploring answers to these questions through developing this project, which was also inspired in part by a course in Asian American theater taught by Sean Metzger, an assistant professor in English and theater studies. During Metzger’s time at Duke, there has never been an artistic outlet solely devoted to the Asian or Asian American student experience. Metzger, who acts as the Multitudes adviser, was hired by Duke in 2004 during a call for a more interdisciplinary curriculum, which included a push for Asian American studies. Although Metzger was and is essentially Duke’s only Asian Americanist, he will be leaving after this semester. “It’s a problem that Sean was hired eight years ago, and no one was added to his field,� Xiang said. ANTARES YEE/SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE “Through those actions, Duke perhaps unintentionChinese, shared his experience about not appearing Asian ally denies the claims to identity that Asian Americans have despite his name. at Duke.� “Whatever Chinese characteristics I do have, no one noOther peer institutions have developed programs deditices because I look white. I don’t have anything to define cated to ethnic studies, with Asian American studies in parmyself other than whiteness,� Chu said. “I really wish that ticular. there was some kind of way to change that. What I’m afraid “We have just as many Asians as these other schools. It’s of is that [my Asian identity] will just become a last name not like the Asians here don’t have as many stories to tell as for me.� the Asians there,� Zhang said. Unlike Chu, junior participant Justine Hong encounMultitudes invites students to participate in a dialogue tered a different cultural experience as an Asian American about both the personal stories each portrait conveys as student at Duke. well as the larger institutional implications surrounding “I come from the [San the Asian student body on campus. Francisco] Bay Area. If “It’s not just the sheer size of the demographic that anything, being Asian was matters, but it’s the outpouring of interest for this spethe majority of the minor- cific project,� Zhang said. “It just shows that not only are ities, I suppose. Coming there a lot of Asians, but a lot of Asians care about these here was different because issues.� now I have fewer Asian friends,� Hong said. “I Multitudes will be on display starting Friday, April 20 in the feel more aware of things Perkins Student Art Gallery.
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SHANKAR from page 7 obviously throughout my life I was listening to music everywhere I went. My influences were global; my friends were global. When I make art, it tends to be because of my experiences and my own desire to make sense of things in my world.� Unlike many American music icons, Shankar has not been limited by her fame. “To put it bluntly, I’m not a pop musician
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For nearly five hours on a windy afternoon, Duke and North Carolina were stuck in a back-and-forth battle for rivalry bragging rights. The No. 18 Tar Heels (12-5, 9-1 in the ACC) eventually beat out the No. 5 Blue Devils (18-4, 7-2) 4-3 in what was the final home match for Duke seniors Torsten Wieto4 UNC ska, David Holland and Luke 3 Duke Marchese. The three seniors have combined for 155 and 134 victories in singles and doubles, respectively, and have led the Blue Devils to a 76-31 overall record in the last four years. “They have all done a lot,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “And I thought that today, the two who played, played amazing. Holland, that was one of the better matches I have seen him play and Torsten stepped up and beat probably their best spot. Unfortunately, Luke has been a little hurt, so he was not able to go out there today. It was a tough way to end senior day, but I thought they played well.” North Carolina grabbed the quick lead in the match by winning two of the
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Today the Blue Devils will host a Tobacco Road matchup with more than just a rivalry at stake. Both No. 3 Duke (19-2, 8-0 in the ACC) and No. 5 North Carolina (18-4, 8-0) are the only two undefeated teams left in the conference, and they will meet at AmNo. 5 bler Tennis Stadium UNC at 3 p.m. vs. “They are a very No. 3 good team,” Blue Duke Devil head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “It THURSDAY, 3 p.m. is going to be a close Ambler Tennis Stadium match and they have the belief that they can win close matches. It should be a good match either way.” With just three games left on the ACC schedule for both teams, the winner of today’s match will likely secure the top seed in the conference tournament in addition to winning the regular season ACC championship. “I think everyone knows that it is a big match,” Ashworth said. “It is not something that we harp on. We will be prepared and we will fight and do everything that we can to win the match. We feel that we are the better team.” The Tar Heels, though, have yet to lose a doubles point in conference play, led by the No. 4 pair in the nation, Shinann Featherston and Lauren McHale.
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Duke scored seven unanswered goals to open the second half in order to clinch the victory in its final game before the ACC tournament. After falling behind early, the No. 8 Blue Devils (10-5) put together a 12-1 run to defeat High Point (8-3) Wednesday night at Koskinen Stadium, 16-7. The Panthers took advantage of their opportunities from the opening faceoff. After drawing a yellow card on Duke midfielder Molly 7 HP Quirke, High Point Duke 16 attacker Mackenzie Carroll scored a free-position shot just over two minutes into the game. Although Duke tied the match at one just twenty seconds later, the Panthers would get two more goals off Blue Devil fouls. “I felt like at the beginning of the game, we had a couple of tough calls that gave them easy goals,” Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel said. And on the other end, the Blue Devils struggled to find much offense of their own. Despite winning the first seven draw controls, they only managed to tally three goals over that period. In addition, Panther goalie Anna Wallingford made eight KEVIN SHAMIEH/THE CHRONICLE
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The Blue Devils lost the doubles point in their most recent match against Florida State, and Ashworth has stressed the need to work on the team’s mindset. “We have done a great job coming out with a high amount of energy in singles,” Ashworth said. “We have to do the same in doubles.” Duke has the edge in singles play, carrying a .909 winning percentage in ACC play compared to the Tar Heels’ .744. In the No. 1 matchup, Duke’s Beatrice Capra—ranked second in the nation—will likely take on McHale. Capra’s consistency has been key for Duke, as the freshman now holds a nine-match win streak. McHale, on the other hand, has lost two of her last five matches. This past weekend, both teams defeated Miami—the previous ACC frontrunner—with Duke winning 4-0, and the Tar Heels defeating the Hurricanes, 4-3. “They have been in some really close situations and have had really good results coming out of those,” Ashworth said. “I am sure that they have a lot of confidence.” The Blue Devils beat the Tar Heels in their last meeting, a 4-3 win April 6, 2011, but North Carolina won all three of the teams’ matchups in the previous two years. “It is going to be a match more of executing and controlling emotions,” Ashworth said. “We need to be the better team physically, emotionally and mentally.”
three doubles matches—only the second time Duke has lost the doubles point in its last 10 matches. After Holland and Fred Saba won their match against Tar Heels Esben Hess-Olesen and Oystein Steiro 8-3, Cale Hammond and Raphael Hemmeler fell 8-5 for their first loss in five matches. The deciding match came down to a meeting between the No. 28 doubles team of Duke’s Henrique Cunha and Chris Mengel and the No. 30 team of North Carolina’s Joey Burkhardt and Jose Hernandez. The Tar Heel pair quickly dismantled Duke 8-1. The Blue Devils came out fighting in singles play, though, claiming all six first sets. Hemmeler was the first to finish his match, notching a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Burkhardt. He is now 11-1 at the No. 5 singles position this season. Saba gave Duke a 2-1 lead by beating William Parker 6-1, 6-3, followed by Wietoska’s 7-5, 6-2 win against Hess-Olesen. Duke needed one more win to seal a victory, but it was not able to capitalize. After claiming the first set, Cunha, the country’s No. 4 ranked singles player, fell to No. 33 Hernandez 6-2, 1-6, 5-7. Jason Tahir, similar to Cunha, could not keep his momentum going after a firstset win and lost 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 3-6. Tied at 3-3, the No. 2 singles game of No. 28 Mengel and No. 103 Brennan Boyajian went to a third set after Mengel took the first, 6-4, and Boyajian took the next 7-6 (7-2). But, at the 3-2 changeover of the third set, Mengel called a medical timeout for a leg cramp.
first-half saves. “We had good opportunities,” Kimel said. “I felt as though we weren’t shooting particularly well, but give their goalie credit. She... saw a ton of shots.” High Point would not be able to hold onto its lead for long though. Behind two goals from midfielder Maddy Morrisey—including one with 14 seconds left in the half—Duke scored five of the next six goals to take a 7-5 lead at the break. “As we were able to sub towards the end of the first half and we were able “It was a phenomenal effort. I didn’t know if he was going to be able to get up off the changeover,” Smith said. “At 3-2, just to make it to the other side of the court, he actually had game points in the last two games once he got to four all—it was just all heart and I am really proud of him.” In severe pain, Mengel hobbled back onto the court to continue playing but had to stretch in between points and revert to an underhand serve for his first few points back on the court. He held on, pushing Boyajian to 4-4, before finally falling 6-4 in the final set. “There is a chance that we can play them again in the ACC tournament,” Smith said. “I just told the guys in the locker room that it is not the last match of the year, and it is not the most important match of the year. All our goals are moving forward.”
to pull people out and talk to them and be like, ‘Listen. We’ve got to look for A, B, and C,’ and we were able to get back in there and get those things done,” Kimel said. The Blue Devils lost no momentum when they retook the field, notching two goals in the first four minutes. Duke piled on five more scores before the 10-minute mark to extend its lead to 14-5 as midfielder Kim Wenger and attacker Kerrin Maurer each notched their third goals of the game. “At halftime, we just talked about throwing fakes and keeping the pressure on frontside after the draw and going hard,” Wenger said. “And we started finishing in the second half.” Despite the Panthers’ early offensive success, they did not even manage a shot attempt in the first 16 minutes of the second period. On top of that, High Point barely held any possession over that period as the Blue Devils held an overwhelming 19-6 advantage in draw controls, led by six from Wenger and five from attacker Emma Hamm. “They were known for being good on the ground, so we tried to get as many as we could in the air,” Hamm said. Duke executed in a number of other facets of the game as well, clearing successfully 15 of 17 times, winning the ground ball battle 22-16, and committing six fewer turnovers than the Panthers. “We locked on,” Kimel said. “I think we got a better idea of the things that they were looking for and we were able to just lock in as a unit and play more in-sync.”
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Nevertheless, in speaking with faculty about issues concerning culture, language or socioeconomic status, Latino students may feel like they do not have someone who understands their background. More enthusiastic recruitment of Latino faculty members will benefit the larger Duke community as well. Latino studies go hand-in-hand with the Latin American concentration in the international comparative studies department. They can also enhance international ventures, such as DukeEngage programs in Chile and Guatemala, and local ventures, like service-learning programs. Although Latinos are underrepresented among University faculty, there are numerous Latino employees. Latino narratives are interwoven
with the geography and history of Duke and Durham, and they must not be ignored. Duke should instigate a serious and thorough dialogue about its commitment to Latino issues. Brodhead’s failure to even once mention Latinos in his discussion of race relations suggests that the group does not factor largely into Duke’s perceived racial landscape. It should not take a controversy— on the scale of the GPA study or BSAI funding—to bring attention to racial issues. Despite sharing similar grievances with the black community, the desire of the Latino community often go unacknowledged. Therefore it is critical that concrete goals and actionable steps arise from the discussion. The administration should reopen El Concilio Latino, the
committee of Latino students, faculty and alumni formed in 2004 to discuss the issues facing the community. Furthermore, Latino students should strive to show the administration that there is a real demand for Latino academic leadership and programming. We suggest data collection through avenues similar to the Women’s Initiative or Campus Culture Initiative. Such studies help to collect data, identify concrete concerns and develop sustainable solutions. Latinos may have been excluded in conversations about diversity in the past, but that does not justify it happening again in the future. The Latino community is invaluable to Duke and deserving—at the bare minimum—of our genuine attention.
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azing is an interesting topic, mostly be- Dartmouth alums and reassured them he had no cause of how polarizing it is. So, in an intention of overhauling the fraternities.” effort to go out with a bang, let’s talk Fratbros: one. Guy who was recently nominatabout male-on-male discomfort. ed by the Obama administration to On March 28th, Rolling Stone head the World Bank: zero. magazine released an article entiThe article mentions some of tled “Confessions of an Ivy League the causes of the “problems” seen Frat Boy: Inside Dartmouth’s Hazin fraternity life. The big three are ing Abuses.” The article details money, power and privilege, with hazing endured and dealt out by money ensuring power, and power Andrew Lohse during his time as a ensuring privilege. How would a fraternity member at Dartmouth. college go about altering this hotravis smith After coming forth, “Lohse—the mogeneity (frats are so homo) it’s all in the game only student to come forward found at the top of the social voluntarily—may be the only scene? I recall the Fall semester student who is ultimately punished.” With the meeting I had in Page Auditorium before rushfraternity maintaining a policy of silence, and ing my freshman year. The events of the rush proDartmouth protecting its image, Lohse’s accu- cess that followed have limited my memory, but sations amount to unsubstantiated lies and self- I’ll try to summarize what was said. The presentincrimination. ing IFC executive member said that rushing and One thing in particular struck me when read- becoming a member of a fraternity was expening the article. In a move similar to sobering sive, but IFC scholarships were available. We were up by downing cups of coffee, James Wright, then told that these scholarships were so few and Dartmouth’s 16th president, planned “to end hard to obtain that it was essentially pointless to the Greek system ‘as we know it’ by requiring apply. Pushing this further, one could translate fraternities to substantially go coed.” Marches that statement to mean, “If you are poor then fraon Wright’s home and protest rallies ensued, ternity life will not overlap with your life. Please as would be expected when you mess with don’t soil the bid cards.” those who are literally already organized and I support pledging, fraternities and intoxiunited. After surveying “push back” from alum- cation. I don’t support ignorant policies that ni and fraternities alike, Wright substituted his could result in unknown unknowns. However proposal with only a minor set of reforms in you feel, understanding the many facets of the July 1999. Dartmouth demanded change and problems surrounding greek life is essential to fraternities said “nah.” When millionaires and being able to “fix” them. Where there is a bro even billionaires make up fraternity alumni, and a beer, there is a way. Fraternities are smart, you have to listen. independent institutions moving more quickly Making fraternities coed is an idea my cargo and more effectively than public and private shorts-wearing, GDI of a mother would propose universities’ administrations. Fraternities have before breaking out in laughter and hitting the agendas, goals and dreams, moving forward at last beer pong cup. Maybe I mixed metaphors, all times just as we all try to do. So when restricbut regardless, using women is no way to combat tions and regulations try and limit a few visible organizations that you believe are (among other symptoms, more will pop up, but maybe not so things) … using women. Moreover, fraternities are visibly. Punishing your kids time and time again not inherently evil syndicates that constantly throw may not effectively change their behavior, it parties filled with cheap booze and kiddie pools. may just change how open and honest they are As an outsider, Wright merely saw symptoms of a about their behavior. Being passed out on the social problem, symptoms that could cost a lot in main quad is a lot better than being passed out reputation and lawsuits. His gross misunderstand- in a gutter somewhere. At least we will all know ing of the people and power that make up Dart- where you are. mouth’s fraternities (which are not unlike Duke’s) led to such a miscalculated and embarrassing soTravis Smith is a Trinity junior. This is his final lution that his successor, Jim Yong Kim, “met with column of the semester.
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s a classics major, I sometimes walk drive for excellence somehow yield seemthrough life in strange ways. Take for ingly highly accomplished and productive instance the simple act of strolling individuals and simultaneously produce into Perkins late at night. an absurdly destructive and The ancient Greeks had a violent environment? concept of “miasma,” or polWe can’t talk about how lution that could affect an polluted Duke is without adindividual, a family or an endressing the predominance tire city due to disorderly acof sexual assault on campus. tions ranging from murder When the Office of Student to incest to various kinds of Conduct has reduced the sacrilege. Among the empstatute of limitations from ahmad jitan ty cups of coffee, laptops two years to one, when there opened to Facebook and indecent family man have been only 27 cases reside conversations, I sense ported to the OSC over the a particular Duke pollution that makes me past 10 years, one has to wonder what arwonder if there’s some administrator who chaic notions of purity are still at play in dehas made a stew of his brother’s children termining the administration’s response to and fed it to him. As finals approach, stu- sexual assault. It is important that we keep dents are physically and psychologically an appropriate statute of limitations for tired—they are anxious, depressed, sleep- sexual assault, but real change on this issue deprived and malnourished—and you can won’t happen until we radically re-evaluate feel it in the air. The pollution isn’t con- the environment we have on this campus. fined to the library, but seeps into every So that a rape joke isn’t even remotely funcorner of campus. Our dorm rooms. Our ny and we hold perpetrators accountable parties. Our very way thinking. Duke’s mias- rather than blame the victim. A student one ma emanates from our sense of entitlement would usually consider successful (high and manifests itself in destructive, violent GPA, top consulting job, good social standand selfish behaviors…. ing), could easily be guilty of committing a Alas, I can only imagine a world col- heinous and violent crime. We need a camored by Furies and ritual purity for so pus where ethical behavior is valued more long. Today, we talk about the ills of our than prestige and money. It’s not that every society in a slightly less magical language “successful” student is a rapist, but college of structures and subjectivity. Just because campuses, ours included, are environments the language has changed, however, that have created a space where sexual doesn’t mean the presence of harmful en- predators have a free pass. vironments has disappeared. Because we If we reorganized our world so that reimagine our worlds differently from the spect for our own humanity came before ancient Greeks, it will take a different ap- any other vision of what it means to be the proach to rid ourselves of what ails us. ideal student, we could begin to work to The oft-cited motto of “work hard, play make this campus a less polluted place. Rechard” can shed light on one of the funda- ognizing the problem is only the first step; mental ways that we tend to organize our the real work comes in actively reshaping own world. Whether we accept the motto the world around you. No deus ex machina or not, most of us go through our lives with is going to come to rid us of our pollution. the assumption that “working” and “play- We are each responsible for making the ing” are entirely distinct ways of being. Not world as we would like to see it. only are these realms distinct, but they also correlate to the two primary ways of how Ahmad Jitan is a Trinity junior. His colwe gauge our self worth: (1) our produc- umn runs every other Thursday. Follow Ahtivity, and (2) our entertainment. Our self- mad on Twitter @AhmadJitan worth is often tied to our GPA, job placement or the size of our workload. When we’re not in “work mode” we tend to value our existence by the media we consume, the bodies we use (and abuse) for pleasure I am writing with regard to the article and the substances we enjoy. entitled “Students perceive low risk for I’m not trying to say that succeeding HIV,” published on April 2, which deacademically or enjoying ourselves are inscribes the ongoing HIV testing program trinsically negative things. When we orgaon campus called Know Your Status. It has nize our world in this restrictive manner, been my pleasure to be involved with KYS however, we delude ourselves, limit our since 2008, and I am grateful to the hardpotential for living and end up causing a working program directors and multiple great deal of suffering. Aside from workvolunteer testers for their efforts every ing or playing, what time do we have for Monday in the Bryan Center as well as at ethical living, self-discovery, critical thinkDurham Technical Community College. ing, compassion toward ourselves and othAs I believe this is a very important public ers or even simply being? It’s not like we’ve health endeavor, I wanted to help clarify completely forgotten about these possiseveral points. bilities, but why aren’t any of these, rather In the article there is reference to an than productivity or entertainment, taking unpublished study looking at 1000 Duke precedence in the way that we inhabit our students which found that 55.4 percent world? And why aren’t we living in a manexhibited risky behaviors. It is very imporner that more holistically recognizes our tant to recognize how one defines “risky humanity in every moment? behavior” however. In this particular study, The purpose of this exercise isn’t simthe authors defined it as “students who reply to deconstruct a trite expression, but ported having unprotected sex or sharing to radically re-imagine our existence so needles, had two or more sexual partners we can start to address how polluted our in the past year or were men having sex campus really is. What does “work hard, with men.” More recently, we looked at play hard” have to do not only with psyrisk behaviors using an objectively derived chological distress from finals but things criteria which has been validated in emerlike destruction of our environment, subgency departments. Using the Denver stance abuse, mental illness, eating disorders and sexual assault? How does our
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dentify yourself as a feminist today and because of “how far we’ve come” since many people will immediately assume the 1970s. Many people (especially womyou are a man-hating, bra-burning, en) would like to think that equal opporwhiny liberal. Perhaps a tunities exist, and that any certain charming radio talk difference in what women allison beattie and men achieve can be show host will label you as a “Feminazi” or “slut.” Even michelle burrows explained by the choices among more moderate women make. However, kate gadsden crowds, feminism is still seen we must realize individual sarah kendrick “choices” are made within as too radical, too uncomfortable or simply unnecesa massively complicated guest column sary. Feminism is both missocial, cultural, economunderstood and denigrated ic and political context. regularly right here on Duke’s campus. Structural inequities and dominant genWe, the 16 women of Professor Rachel der norms restrict women from fulfilling Seidman’s course Women in the Public their potential, despite hard work and Sphere, have decided to fight back against high aspirations. So to Duke women who these popular misconceptions surround- work tirelessly to graduate from one of ing the feminist movement. Our class was the best universities in the country, we’d disturbed by what we perceive to be an like to make you aware that statistically, overwhelmingly widespread belief among you will have more difficulty getting a job students that today’s society no longer needs than a man of equal qualifications. feminism. In order to change this percepOther facts you may not be familiar with: tion on campus, we have launched a PR cam1. Women with a master’s degree earn paign for feminism. We aim to challenge ex- 72.7 percent of what men with equal eduisting stereotypes surrounding feminists and cation earn in the same position. assert the importance of feminism today. 2. In 2011, only 2.4 percent of Fortune Hanging all over Duke’s campus this 500 CEOs and 6.7 percent of Fortune 500 week are posters featuring students from top earners were women. a variety of backgrounds and group af3. In 2011, women made up only 19.5 filiations, each asserting why they need percent of partners in law firms. feminism. These posters feature both 4. Between 80 and 90 percent of wommale and female students, and include en have been harassed in public. Harassfootball players, ballet dancers, fraternity ment is a gateway crime that normalizes members and campus leaders. You will other forms of gender violence. be hard-pressed to define a “typical femi5. One in five women are victims of nist” in this group because “typical femi- sexual assault. nists” don’t exist. But atypical feminists 6. The U.S. ranks 70th in women in are everywhere at Duke. They are in your government. classes, on the bus, standing beside you in 7. About one in two people on Earth are line at Alpine. These are ordinary people women. Shouldn’t they have equality with of any age, gender or race, who simply the other half of the world’s population? believe that women and men are equal. Despite the backlash against feminists They recognize that this is not merely a in the media and popular culture, where woman’s movement, but a human move- would we be without it? Feminism helped ment. What makes these people different women get the vote, go to the same schools from those who say, “Oh yeah, I support as men, hold the same jobs men do, gain women’s rights, but I’m not a feminist or property rights, protection from domestic anything” is that supporting feminism is violence, get a divorce and gain reproducnot a scary thing to them. They are will- tive rights and access to birth control. ing to stand by their belief in gender But as these posters are up to remind us, equality even when doing so may make the goal of equality is not yet achieved. We other people uncomfortable. found people who told us why they need Demands for gender equality are of- feminism: “…Because I shouldn’t have to ten laughed aside or deemed irrelevant justify my ambitions,” “…Because intoxication shouldn’t mean ‘yes,’” “…Because I still hold gender bias and I don’t want to.” We need feminism because we love and respect our grandmothers, our mothers, our sisters, our friends and ourselves. We Risk Score, the percent of students exhibneed feminism because of the women who iting risky behaviors was found to be only fought for the opportunities we now enjoy, 15 percent. Unfortunately, 70 percent of and because we must continue striving for these students inaccurately assessed their equality. One of our poster participants own risk for HIV infection as being either said, “I need feminism because one person low or non-existent, indicating the need can’t fight gender bias alone.” It takes a lot for ongoing educational efforts. of people to change a stereotype. It starts Since 2006, we have tested almost when one person thinks about the women 2000 students at both Duke and Durham in their life and decides that it is unacceptTech. There has been only one true posiable for them to be treated as inferior. And tive case at Duke and two true positives at it starts when that person, and another, and Durham Tech (a third case was found to another, realize that maybe feminism isn’t be a false positive and the fourth was also crazy. Maybe it just makes sense. And ready known to have HIV). Interestingly, when all those people start to challenge rates on college campuses across the U.S. the status quo on campus and in the world, are low despite the growing numbers something can change. of new infections among young people To quote of one our posters, “Equality between the ages 13 and 29. As pointed doesn’t just happen.” out by Dr. Chuck Hicks, the higher rate We need feminism. at Durham Tech is most likely due to the Why do you? fact it is a commuter campus with older See more posters and “like” this on (more sexually experienced) students. Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/ Sincerely, WhoNeedsFeminism The students of Women in the Public Dr. Mehri McKellar, MD Sphere, Spring 2012, represented by: Division of Infectious Diseases Allison Beattie, Trinity ’14, Michelle Burrows, Trinity ’14, Kate Gadsden, Trinity ’13, Sarah Kendrick, Trinity ’13
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DEBATE from page 1 Lou Williams Center for Black Culture and the Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life as administrative actions that lacked student backing. Brown noted a need for further student input in future developments on the upcoming West Union renovations. He said students need to be incorporated in discussions with the West Union architect in order for the building to truly serve as the heart of Duke’s campus and a hub for students. The house model will also be important in shaping University culture for years to come, Brown noted. “We are founding the communities that Duke students are going to experience for three years and that generations to come are going to see,” he said. Swain said that DSG squandered an op-
portunity to take a larger role in campus discussions with administrators earlier this year. If elected DSG president, Swain said she would open up discussions to the wider Duke community and work harder to serve as an advocate for students. “If students are upset about something, it’s our job to advocate,” Swain said. “This year, we could have acted sooner on the Mary Lou, the LGBT Center and on the issue of Football Gameday. We were cut out of the conversation.” Waldt added that he hopes to help change this culture of disconnect and seek out student feedback for major University decisions, if elected DSG president. Waldt said he has an understanding of diverse student groups. “What I’ve seen since my freshman year is that the administration has chosen to enact policy without student opinion,” he said. As executive vice president, Oathout noted in his opening and closing remarks
that he will work to make DSG more transparent. Oathout criticized the presidential candidates’ approach to the debate, and added that they took cheapshots at the administration as opposed to proposing concrete policy solutions to Duke’s problems. In an interview following the debate, Oathout said running unopposed allowed him to tell the truth in his closing statement. “It’s interesting that [the candidates] are willing to attack the administration, but they won’t attack each other,” Oathout said. Current DSG President Pete Schork, a senior, said hearing the candidates’ ideas is important, but noted that he is more interested in outcomes. “I don’t think the administration rewards ideas,” Schork said in an interview. “They reward solutions, and the community rewards people who are able to balance the very complex needs of a diverse array of constituencies.”
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Q&A from page 3 MG: In this case, the filmmakers are being deliberately provocative. That’s exactly the kind of response they want. When Tabor says, “Look, we have the bones of Jesus and his wife and his son,” of course he’s being provocative…. You have to get the right balance of good, rigorous, critical study asking all the kinds of serious questions but balance that with a degree of sensitivity. Realize that when you’re talking about these issues, you’re often talking about them with people who do have faith and whose faith is in question EM: I’m Jewish, and I have become a defender of Christian beliefs in all of this, and I find these attacks to be inappropriate, unscientific and really off-the-wall. It defies my mind of all the hard work a lot of us do to present things in an objective way so that all people can appreciate and understand. This does not adhere to any of those standards. You do not make scientific announcements of this importance in sensational films and in a trade book that has unsubstantiated stuff in it. TC: Tabor, one of the project’s primary researchers, is a professor at UNCCharlotte. Do you feel any intercollegiate competition? MG: As far as I’m concerned, the fact that he’s at UNC has nothing to do with how I view his scholarship. I entirely respect him and his scholarship—it’s just I think he’s wrong about this. EM: I’ve known [Tabor] for years. When he heard I was not too keen on his interpretation, he drove up from Charlotte. We spent four hours together. He presented the data to me. I still rejected it, [and] I took him out to lunch. We have a cordial relationship, if you can believe it.
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