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On the third floor of the Bryan Research Building, the caged birds do not sing for mating purposes alone. Richard Mooney, George Barth Geller professor of neurobiology at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, and his team of researchers explored the human learning process by observing how male zebra finches learn courtship songs. Prior to the study, published in the September issue of Nature Neuroscience, the conventional scientific viewpoint was that people use the sensory regions of their brains when learning to perform actions and use the motor regions of their brains when actually performing those actions. The two-and-a-half-year study found, however, that the motor regions of the brain are necessary during the initial stages of learning as well. “When someone is learning to shoot a free throw they might watch someone really good doing it and try and emulate that,” Mooney said. “But it’s possible, based on these findings, that regions of the brain that have more of a motor function are involved in learning about what to do before
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A police search for a suspect near the Nasher Museum of Art ended Wednesday night, with police, accompanied by search dogs, tracking the suspect off campus near Duke University Road. The Durham Police Department began the search for a suspect, believed to be unarmed, who had an outstanding warrant related to a minor theft charge. A Durham policewoman had detained the suspect earlier, but the suspect escaped, Sgt. Browne of DPD said. The search perimeter, which was located around the woods between the Nasher Museum and Oregon Street along Duke University Road, was dissolved at approximately 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. The suspect has not yet been found. The Duke University Police Department, with vehicles and officers present, was assisting in the search. “This is a Durham case,” Duke Police Chief John Dailey said. “It really has nothing to do with Duke other than them being here.” Julian Spector contributed reporting.
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Duke researchers are observing zebra finches as they acquire courtship songs to better understand human learning processes.
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Phisher impersonates Duke basketball helps Brodhead in email children fighting cancer by Kristie Kim THE CHRONICLE
An unknown perpetrator launched a phishing scam to gain access to Duke NetID accounts by impersonating the University president. Sent to approximately 125 members of the Duke community, the phishing attack came as a phony email from an external email account Saturday and Sunday, said Chief Information Security Officer Richard Biever. Phishing is a form of online fraud designed to convince recipients to reveal personal information, such as bank account information and Social Security numbers.
The phishing message requested recipients submit their Duke NetID credentials in a Google Document in order to obtain the latest University news and updates. The emails not only contained Duke letterhead but appeared to be sent by President Richard Brodhead. “I trust people as smart as Duke students saw through the ruse,” the real Brodhead wrote in an email Wednesday. Biever said the message was reported on Sunday and by Monday the fraudulent link was taken down by Google. Catching the SEE PHISHING ON PAGE 6
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Duke basketball never stops. Except sometimes it does for a worthy cause. During the summer senior Ryan Kelly, a public policy major and co-captain of the basketball team, interned at the Monday Life, a nonprofit that asks people to donate a dollar each Monday that goes toward enriching the lives of hospitalized children. While interning, he primarily worked on fundraising but also often visited Duke Children’s Hospital to see what SEE MONDAY LIFE ON PAGE 8
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Over the summer, Duke basketball player Ryan Kelly, a senior, worked with the Monday Life, a nonprofit that raises money for children with cancer.
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“I wish fighting cancer had just been a simple... physical battle. That would have made the obligations of survival simpler.” —Daniel Strunk in “Remembering lessons of cancer.” See column page 11
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The iPhone through generations M DSG pushes change iPhone 5 released Sept. 21st, 2012 to misconduct policy iPhone 2G (first generation) The original iPhone, released in 2007, had some classic features, such as Visual Voicemail, multi-touch gestures, email, web browsing, threaded text messaging and YouTube. But the phone didn’t yet come with MMS, apps and copy and pasting capabilities.
iPhone hone 3G The second iPhone, named for the adoption of 3G data, came out a year later in 2008. Additional features included a unified mailbox, homescreen folders, playlist creation and—importantly—the App Store. It also came with push email and turn-by-turn navigation.
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iPhone 4 The iPhone 4, which came out in 2010, came with the new FaceTime video calling program. It was hailed for its “Retina display” and easier use of media, email and web browsing. It also had a new design with a flattened back panel and a stainless steel frame.
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Duke Student Government has resolved to urge administrators to change the sexual misconduct policy. The senate unanimously passed a resolution to condemn the University’s policy and demand that the statute of limitations be removed at its meeting Wednesday. This follows the Jan. 2012 reduction in the statute of limitations for reporting incidents. The policy change reduced the amount of time students have to report incidents from two years to one. “We saw a lot of students were really angered by this change,” said junior Stefani Jones, vice president for equity and outreach. She added that no students were consulted in the decision to change the policy. Led by Jones, the Equity and Outreach Committee has investigated the misconduct policies at many of Duke’s peer institutions. Jones noted that multiple universities—including Harvard University, Brown University and Princeton University—have no statute of limitations with regard to reporting sexual misconduct. Additionally, North Carolina state law does not include a statute of limitations for reporting sexual assault or
misconduct. Administrators said the policy change was a response to federal regulations for universities released by the U.S. Department of Education, which required sexual harassment reporting procedures for students to match those for University employees. Although policies such as the mandatory reporting policy that Duke implemented in 2009, which requires employees to report any incidents of sexual violence of which they become aware, are aimed at assisting the victims of sexual assault, the Office of Student Conduct only followed through on six out of the 163 reported cases of gender violence in during the 20112012 academic year, Jones said, who noted that she received the information from Sheila Broderick, gender violence intervention services coordinator at the Women’s Center. A 2005 U.S. Department of Justice report found that one out of every five female students on a college campus will be a victim of rape, Jones noted. Most of the assaults go unreported. Under the current Duke policy, the victims of sexual assault have no means of pursuing disciplinary SEE DSG ON PAGE 12
The next iPhone, which was released in 2011, came with the Siri voice recognition system and a cloud storage service called iCloud. The iPhone 4S also has the ability to display different languages and scripts simultaneously, and maximum storage size increased to 64 GB.
iPhone 5 The new iPhone, released last week, has a larger, four-inch screen. It is also lighter and thinner than its predecessor, and it uses the Apple A6 processor. It is also the first iPhone to use 4G high-speed data processing. It has been critiqued for mistakes in the new map app.
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New scholars program Obama, Romney differ funds African students on US exceptionalism by Scott Wilson THE WASHINGTON POST
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Five freshmen are attending Duke with a scholarship from the MasterCard Foundation. The new scholars program brings students from sub-Saharan Africa to Duke. from Staff Reports THE CHRONICLE
Five freshmen from sub-Saharan Africa will study at the University without cost, thanks to a new program sponsored by The MasterCard Foundation. The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program grants scholarships to financially disadvantaged students who are academically strong and committed to supporting higher education in their home countries. The program is designed to not only help students succeed at Duke but also provide them with resources to help them succeed after college and give back to their communities. The Foundation has committed $13.5 million to the University over the next nine years, which will fund seven classes of five students. The current scholars at Duke are Olaotan Awoyomi from Nigeria, Allan Kiplagat from Kenya, Clive Mudanda from Zimbabwe and Sbusisiwe Sibeko and Tian Chan Dong from South Africa.
“Duke University is proud to have been selected by The MasterCard Foundation as a partner in this visionary program to educate Africa’s future leaders,” President Richard Brodhead said. “Our campus community welcomes the inaugural class of The MasterCard Foundation Program Scholars, and we look forward to seeing how their education at Duke will foster their intellectual and personal growth and lead them to become change agents for Africa and the world.” The students in the program will complete summer internships focused on civic engagement in sub-Saharan Africa. Faculty advisor Charles Piot, professor of cultural anthropology, African and African American studies and women’s studies, and the Office of Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows are working with the students to help them transition to American life.
President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney made clear this week that they share an overriding belief: American political and economic values should triumph in the world. Where the two differ most is in how a debt-burdened United States, weary after a more than a decade of war, should engage other nations to pursue that goal. Their differences emerged sharply during a pair of foreign policy speeches in New York, pushing the subject of U.S. international interests and power into the center of the presidential campaign with just six weeks to go.
A proponent of American exceptionalism, Romney has consistently outlined a far tougher approach to the world than Obama has practiced. He has emphasized the benefit of traditional allies such as Israel, punishing rather than cultivating difficult nations and embracing a possible military confrontation with Iran. Obama, whom Romney has accused of “apologizing for American values,” delivered his strongest defense yet of free speech and human rights at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. But he emphasized that diplomacy and partnerships, American assistance where wanted without heavy-handed demands from the top, are still his preferred approaches to pro-
moting those rights worldwide and in dealing with antagonists such as Iran. “It’s very clear in reading and hearing what the two candidates have to say that, at least rhetorically, there would be a significant change under President Romney,” said Karl F. Inderfurth, a former assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration and now a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Inderfurth, who is not consulting either campaign, said some of the “swagger” of the George W. Bush administration would return to U.S. foreign policy under Romney. “Obama has tried to tone that SEE EXCEPTION ON PAGE 6
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As debate rages this year over the increasing influence of corporations on politics, a new study finds that more companies are deciding to disclose their contributions to interest groups in the hope of avoiding controversy. The Center for Political Accountability found that nearly 60 percent of leading Fortune 500 companies either disclose their corporate political contributions or have adopted policies refraining from making such donations. The center, which urges corporations to disclose their political activities to shareholders and the public, said a growing number of major companies, such as the insurers Aflac and Chubb, have enacted policies aimed at disclosing contributions to political interest or trade groups. Of 88 top Fortune 500 companies contacted by the center, 45 had implemented such policies — up from 36 in a survey of the same firms a year before. The move toward voluntary disclosure comes amid a sharp public debate over the political influence of corporations, which under a 2010 Supreme Court ruling are now allowed to spend unlimited funds on federal elections. The decision has opened a floodgate of spending by super PACs and other political groups unbound by contribution limits, fueled in part by large donations from companies. Much of the activity is conducted in secret, however, because trade and other
nonprofit groups do not have to reveal their donors to the Federal Election Commission. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups, which spend primarily in support of Republicans, have opposed calls by Democrats to require such disclosure. “Despite the fierce attack on public disclosure policies over the past year, companies continue to adopt disclosure, and it’s going along at a very steady pace,” said Bruce Freed, president of the Center for Political Accountability. “Companies are viewing this not just as good business practice but as protection.” Dozens of companies have been swept up in public controversies in recent years over their political spending, including a boycott against the Target retail chain in 2010 after a corporate donation made its way to an anti-gay gubernatorial candidate. Over the past two years, shareholder groups have ratcheted up pressure on companies to disclose the money they spend on lobbying and political campaigns. Dozens of companies no longer back a conservative lobbying group, the American Legislative Exchange Council, because of its support of controversial gun legislation and other policies. Chick-fil-A, the privately held fast-food chain, was also the target of boycotts and rallies of support over the summer because of its conservative owner’s financial support for groups that oppose gay marriage.
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BEIRUT — Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite political and militant group, has ramped up its support for the Syrian government, sending in military advisers to aid in the bloody struggle against the opposition, U.S. and Lebanese government officials say.
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SONGBIRDS from page 1 commanding the motor system to do it.” Because the finches were unable to learn a mating song when the motor regions of their brains were inhibited, the findings indicate that there is a greater interplay between the sensory and motor regions of the brain when learning to perform an action. “It really boils down to the traditional view that there are sensory and motor regions in the brain and that they talk to each other, but that sensory experience affects sensory regions and very slowly guides the motor part of the brain,” he said. “What we found was the complete opposite in that the motor regions in the brain are necessary to sensory learning.” Mooney likened the way scientists traditionally viewed learning to Rene Descartes’ breakdown on sensory and motor interactions—a person steps on a flame, nerves travel up from the foot to the brain and the brain commands the foot to move. This is not how the mind actually learns to perform functions, though. Instead, the sensory and motor regions of the brain work together, rather than sequentially, to learn processes, the study found. Finches and the human brain Zebra finches were used in the study because they are one of the few well-documented examples of animals that exhibit similar learning patterns to humans. They observe or hear an action and then try to perform said action, Mooney said. The finches learn mating songs by listening to a tutor bird perform the song and then trying to perform it back. Finches were also good candidates because a region of their brain, known as the HVC, is similar to the Broca and Wernicke areas of the human brain, which are responsible for understanding and producing speech, said Todd Roberts, postdoctoral associate in neurobiology and lead author of the study. The scientists tested whether the birds could still learn a mating song when the HVC, the motor region of the finches’ brains, was disrupted.
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Prior to the study, it was thought that disrupting neural activity in a motor area of the brain would not affect birds’ ability to learn a song, Mooney said. Blocking neural activity in the HVC, however, prevented birds from learning the mating song, showing how motor areas of the brain play a role in the learning process. “This is the first experiment in any animal that we know of where we are using natural interactions to disrupt learning in order to figure out what parts of the brain are important for learning,” Roberts said. “People have been trying to dissect this for a while, but the problem has been, ‘How do we disrupt neural activity in a way where we don’t hinder the pupil in its natural setting?’” “New buzz word” In order to better understand the birds’ learning process, the researchers used a relatively new method, called optogenetics, to control the birds’ brain patterns. Implementing this technique, developed in 2005, the scientists used a JISOO YOON/ HE CHRONICLE non-pathogenic virus to insert a lightsensitive gene from another organism Neurobiology professor Richard Mooney studies how birds acquire songs so that into the birds’ brains, where the gene scientists can better understand human learning. The birds themselves could not be was expressed. In this case, the gene was photographed due to lab policies. taken from green algae in the Red Sea. It causes the algae to swim whenever they encounter Graduate student Malavika Murugan implemented light. the optogenetics in the experiment. Relatively new to “The new buzz word is optogenetics,” Mooney said. the field of neuroscience, optogenetics had been used “We used this novel method— which is probably going in rats before, but never in birds. Murugan had to test to generate a Nobel Prize for the people who produced ways to properly inject the light sensitive gene into the it within the next decade—to understand neural activ- bird, which required using a “gutted,” non-pathogenic ity.” virus as a carrier. Scientists introduced the light-sensitive gene into Because the HVC and Broca area are so similar, the the pupil bird’s HVC. Then, wires hooked up to the findings allow for greater understanding of the human HVC shone a light when the tutor bird was singing, in mind, Roberts said, adding that understanding how a order to disrupt the pupil bird’s neural activity during mind learns and processes information will help unthis critical learning period. derstand neural developmental disorders. “The idea is when the bird is listening to the tutor “It’s hard to understand what areas of the brain are we are superimposing that region of the brain and affected by these disorders, but this study allows us to scrambling the neural activity that the bird needs in see what areas of the brain might be partially impacted order to learn,” Roberts said. by neural developmental disorders,” he said.
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PHISHING from page 1 perpetrator, however, is more difficult. “Trying to track down each attacker is a bit like playing whack-a-mole,” Biever wrote in an email Wednesday. “In cases where the sending address is a random email address created by the attacker—like a Google account—we would have very little success in tracking back to an individual.” The situation is often further complicated by the attacker’s use of other people’s legitimate accounts to send spam or phishing messages. In such cases, since the attacker has control of the account, the actual sender of the message is unaware that he or she is participating in fraud. The Office of Information Technology is not sure how many Duke users submitted their personal information, Biever noted, adding that no one has yet reported a compromised NetID or email since the
message was sent. Phishing attacks can occur frequently, Biever added. Although the University mail system inhibits the majority of fraudulent messages sent to Duke accounts, some manage to get through because the attacker is able to customize the message in a way that bypasses the filtering mechanisms, Biever said. “In August we received 116,146,522 email messages, but only 15.3 percent were legitimate messages,” Biever said. “The remaining 84.6 percent were comprised of viruses, malware, phishing and spam messages.” To avoid the issue of phishing, people should be wary of emails from unknown senders. Biever added that if a link is provided in an email message, recipients should verify where it goes before entering in personal information. “Duke and other legitimate organizations will never, ever ask for your password over email,” he said.
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EXCEPTION from page 3 down and he has faced pushback for doing so,” he said. Until now, the campaign has been concerned mostly with the economy, and foreign policy has been viewed largely as a strength for the president, who was behind the killing of Osama bin Laden. But the recent unrest in the Muslim world — revealed in the attack in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans — has exposed Obama politically and been seized upon by Romney as the product of what he calls the president’s weak engagement of the world. The conflicting philosophies Obama and Romney outlined this week are consistent in large part with their life experiences. Those backgrounds have given each a different vantage on the world — a former chief executive’s broad-strokes view of how it should work and a former community organizer’s details-matter assessment — and different opinions about the best way to promote U.S. interests at a time of fiscal constraint at home and rapid change abroad. In addressing the Clinton Global Initiative on Tuesday, Romney, the former chief executive of Bain Capital, told the audience that “when I was in business, I traveled to many countries.” He summed up the perspective he developed by declaring that “free enterprise cannot only make us better off financially, it can make us better people.” “As the most prosperous nation in history, it is our duty to keep the engine of prosperity running — to open markets across the globe and to spread prosperity to all corners of the Earth,” Romney said. “We should do this because it’s the right moral course to help others.” Overall, given that he has never held federal office, Romney’s record on particular foreign policy issues is thin. He also has made several missteps during the campaign — most recently, jumping into the debate over the attacks in Libya and Egypt too soon. His overarching message, however, has been consistent. Romney has said that as president, he would speak more loudly for American interests in the world, embrace traditional allies and punish antagonists as the need arises. He favors Israeli interests in the Jewish state’s conflict with the Palestinians, and he has spoken more martially about how he would prevent Iran from achieving a nuclear weapon. He has pledged a firmer hand with China after years of conducting business there. He also has suggested that countries that do not share American values, including strategic nations such as Egypt, should perhaps no longer receive U.S. aid. But Romney, beyond policy, appears most concerned with the United States’ stature in the world, its market share in business terms. His steady critique of Obama’s foreign policy exposes their central difference: Romney believes the nation has a far greater ability than Obama does to get its way in the world. “We feel that we are at the mercy of events, rather than shaping events,” Romney said in a tacit criticism of Obama at the Global Initiative event.
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At less than half an inch thick, the Duke football team, as well as the men’s and women’s basketball teams, have the thinnest playbooks in the country with iPad 3s. And in this case, less is more. “[The iPads] raise your awareness and give you an edge,” sophomore quarterback Anthony Boone said. The Blue Devil football team was the first of the three to take the digital leap by trading in their traditional three-ring binder playbooks for tablets this summer. The team’s countless pages of formations, plays, schemes and scouting reports now reside in an application called Playbook stored on the device’s 64-GB capacity. The idea to digitalize Duke football began in May when Tom Long, the team’s video coordinator, was introduced to a company called Global Aptitude while attending a football technology conference in Indianapolis. Hearing about the upside of Global Aptitude’s Playbook application for iPads quickly prompted Long to contact Blue Devil head coach David Cutcliffe about the idea. Following his trip, Long set up a web-conference call with Cutcliffe, Tony Sales—the Director of Duke Football Operations—and representatives of Global Aptitude to discuss the capabilities of the application. “In 15 minutes, [Cutcliffe] was pretty much sold,” Long said. The men’s basketball team recently announced its adoption of the technology, illustrating the willingness of Duke basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski, at age 65, to overhaul the team’s preparation rituals. “[Krzyzewski] is for anything that can improve our players and our program,” said Duke associate head coach Steve Wojciechowski. “One of the things that makes him great is that he adjusts to the best ways to communicate, the most efficient ways to communicate and to learn.” The basketball team is one of the first college teams to provide iPads to its players, while the football squad is one of three FBS teams utilizing the devices, along with Syracuse and Ohio State, Long said. Twelve NFL franchises also employ the technology, and it seems as if every team at the collegiate and pro level will make the switch in the near future. Transitioning to a paperless operation has been smooth sailing for Duke football this season. The video coordinators simply upload game and practice footage to the Playbook database for players to view each day. Additionally, all players can easily access the team’s playbook, scouting reports, practice schedules and itineraries at their fingertips, rather than having to sift through hundreds of pages of paper. The product is conducive to learning plays and schemes more rapidly by allowing the players to watch more game film at their own convenience. “It’s the best thing not having to carry
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After a 49-37 victory against Army last week, the Demon Deacons are primed for a competitive conference game with Duke this weekend. As the Blue Devils travel to Groves Stadium to continue what has become a Wake Forest-dominated rivalry over the past decade, much of the pressure remains on the Demon Deacons and experienced head coach Jim Grobe to extend their 12-game winning streak against Duke. Throughout the past few years, the disparity between the two squads has narrowed, and last season, Wake Forest escaped with just a one-point victory. “We tell our players all the time that if what you did yesterday looks good to you, then you haven’t done anything today, so the things we’ve done in the past don’t matter this Saturday,” Grobe said in his weekly press conference. “We’ll have a chance, but a lot of our games with Duke and others have gone down to the wire.” After posting a 3-9 record in 2010, the Demon Deacons upset ACC powerhouse Florida State and went on to a six-win season in 2011, gaining greater recognition within the conference by earning five ACC wins. In 2012, Wake Forest has won three games against Liberty, North Carolina, and Army, suffering its only defeat to then-No. 5 Florida State.
The biggest question for the Demon Deacons this season, however, has been the quality of play in their offensive line. With only one returning starter—center Garrick Williams—Wake Forest placed much of the load on inexperienced linemen. “We’re better but we’ll find out week to week,” Grove said. “I thought against the Army defense, we did good things, but can we do that against Duke? It’s going to be a great challenge for us Saturday. I think if we can get people blocked, we’ve got a couple backs who can carry the football.” The Demon Deacon running game has been inconsistent so far this season. At Florida State, Wake Forest gained only 43 yards on the ground, but against Army, the rushing tandem of Deandre Martin and Josh Harris combined for 244 yards and four touchdowns. “We simplified things a little bit, so I thought our offensive staff did a good job by giving our kids stuff they could handle,” Grove said about the rushing attack. “Certainly, the running backs ran [well], but they needed some blocking up front. We really haven’t had that early in the season, so it was nice to have that come around.” Although the offensive line and rushing game has been unreliable, the Demons Deacons have one of the most effective quarterbacks in the FBS along
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With one month until the ACC Tournament, Duke has yet to find its momentum in the conference. The No. 5 Blue Devils (7-2-1, 1-1-1 in the ACC) will look to do just that when they Clemson square off against Clemson (5-3-2, 0-3) vs. at 7 p.m. at Koskinen No. 5 Stadium. Duke “They’re going to be a very defensiveThursday, 7 p.m. oriented team, so Koskinen Stadium we’re really going to have to break them down from an offensive standpoint,” head coach Robbie Church said. “[It] should be a very competitive game.” Last week’s 2-2 double-overtime tie to No. 10 Maryland saw the Blue Devils outshoot the Terrapins 22-8. “We scored two goals, but we left some out there that we should have scored,” Church said. “I thought we played really, really well for a majority of the game. We had a couple breakdowns that ended in the back of our net … I thought that we competed really hard, and I thought we played very well, but we just have to be able to finish the opportunities that are there.” Finishing and working the ball in the final third will be key this Thursday, Church ELYSIA SU/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO
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Senior Libby Jandl said she thinks the team took a “huge step forward” in the team’s 2-2 tie to Maryland.
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IPADS from page 7 around a big bulky binder with paper around campus,” Boone said. “You can watch [film] in your room, at the Loop, at the library, wherever you want. And [the iPad] is a cool thing to have.” Increased security is another benefit of hav having the team’s valuable intel on tablets. In the ks, past when players lost their binder playbooks, uld they were gone for good and anyone could access its materials. The two-level security syswn tem on Duke’s iPads gives each player his own ice, username and password to access the device, and the video coordinators have the powerr to ere terminate the iPads’ contents from anywhere at anytime, if it is ever stolen or lost. hasAt first glance, the upfront cost of purchasem ing 120 iPads for the football team may seem financially questionable, however, they will actually save the program money right away. Assistant coaches will not waste the time and paopying per that they previously did printing and copying thousands of plays, schedules and scouting reports, as well as burning dozens of DVDs for players each week. “I think in year one it’ll save [the football program] close to $30,000, and in year two it will save us close to
SCOUTING from page 7 interceptions so far this season. Price averages 7.4 yards per attempt, a career high mostly due to the talent at the wide receiver position. Price’s favorite target is veteran receiver Michael Campanaro, who has caught 36 passes for 421 yards. Campanaro and fellow wide receiver Brandon Terry have been the focal point of Wake Forest’s aerial game plan, combining for 70 percent of passing yardage. Campanaro has stood out and ranks fifth in the country with an average of nine receptions per game. “I think Camp got overshadowed a bit [last year],” Grove said. “He’s a good football player. I think it helped him last Saturday to have the running game go as good as it did. Camp can’t do it by himself. Hopefully, he’ll continue to have good games. I think if he does that means everyone else is doing pretty good.” On the defensive side of the ball, the Demon Deacons have been missing the interior presence of nose tackle Nikita Whitlock who suffered a high-ankle sprain earlier this season. Whitlock may play on Saturday against Duke, despite not practicing for the majority of the week.
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$60,0000,” Long said. Unlike what most people utilize the product for, the football team’s use of the device is strictly for football. “It’s not a toy,” Long said. “Coach Cutcliffe made that clear to them. The ability for them to play games, download apps and surf the Internet has been restricted, so these iPads are specifically for football.” The sam same may not hold true for Krzyzewski though. thou “I think [Krzyzewski] is very excited to dow download Angry Birds,” Wojciechowski jokingly said. IIn reality, the tablets will enhance the bask basketball team’s week-to-week game preparations rati by giving players an extensive library of game and practice footage, while also ma maximizing efficiency in organization and com communication. As the season gets underway in a few wee weeks, the basketball team will also be able to reap the benefits of the cutting-edge techno nology by having a leg up on its peers. “It’s important that we stay ahead of the curve and make the best use of it, so we can be at our best,” Wojciechowski said. “I don’t think we fully appreciate how this [technology] can help our program both individually and collectively.” Behind the defensive line, Wake Forest boasts a veteran linebacking core led by outside linebacker Justin Jackson, who recorded eleven tackles against Army, and a talented secondary. So far though, the Demon Deacons have encountered issues on the defensive side of the ball, allowing an average of 33.3 points per game. Despite the defensive inconsistency, Wake Forest will still be a stiff test for the Blue Devils. “You have to give credit to their playmakers for making critical plays late in the game,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “They take care of the football. They play the kicking game well. They do a lot of the little things right, and they’ve done that for quite some time, and that will win a lot of games for you. They’ve obviously done that better than we have to this point.” Despite their rivalry winning streak, the Demon Deacons also understand the importance of treading with caution this week as they face a Duke team that has won two games in a row. “I think this is the best Duke team we faced so far,” said Grobe. “Coach Cutcliffe has done a great job. They’re playing good on both sides of the ball—both defensively and offensively. This is a big challenge for us.”
MONDAY LIFE from page 1 improvements could be made or visit the children, boosting their moods. “Nobody really loves being in the hospital, but we want to make it as good as we can,” Kelly said. “One part of that is these kids are missing out on going to school and being with their friends, so if you can try and somewhat recreate that environment, it’s big to them.” By himself, Kelly raised $1,282 for Healing and Hope Through Science, a program through the N.C. Botanical Garden that brings hands-on natural science activities to hospitalized children, said Katie Stoudemire, the program’s coordinator. It currently exists at both North Carolina Children’s Hospital and Duke Children’s Hospital. “The idea is to help kids reconnect to the natural world, to make them excited about learning about science and to provide positive distraction,” Stoudemire said. “This is a really enriching experience and it helps support their education.” Kelly chose the program because of his passion for education. He said he is focusing his studies on the educational side of public policy and that both of his parents work in education. “Doctors use very difficult jargon, and when you’re a kid, that’s scary—you don’t really know what they’re talking about,” Kelly said. “[Healing and Hope Through Science tries] to explain what they’re talking about with their blood cells or whatever it was just to make them more aware and educated.” When Kelly presented the donation to the program, his teammates Mason Plumlee, Marshall Plumlee and Tyler Thorton accompanied him. The players helped kids make models of blood cells using different candies—Red Hots for red blood cells and Mentos for white blood cells. They also helped the kids use microscopes to look at fake blood. “The activity was designed to be fun and to empower the kids by helping them to understand their blood and how their bodies work and to use tools that scientists and doctors use, like syringes and microscopes,” Stoudemire said.
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Substituting iPads for traditional playbook binders has made studying for games more convenient, quarterback Anthony Boone said.
W. SOCCER from page 7 added. From a defensive standpoint, senior defender Libby Jandl highlighted the team’s energy against Maryland. “I think we took a huge step forward,” she said. “We played with more enthusiasm and more emotion than we’ve ever played with, and I think we’re going to carry that over to the Clemson game.” Jandl also acknowledged the returns of sophomore Kelly Cobb and junior Mollie Pathman. The duo has only played a couple games with the team after beginning the season in Japan at the U-20 World Cup, where the pair won gold for the United States. “We’re all ecstatic that [they’re] back and they’re only making us deeper and better,” Jandl said. Cobb, Kim DeCesare and Nicole Lipp have all been dealing with injuries, but their statuses are all improving. “We’re as healthy as we’ve been in a long time,” Church said. Clemson comes into Thursday’s game following a 1-0 loss to then-No. 5 Virginia and has not won a game since September 3. Working with the kids, Kelly added, has also helped bring him and his teammates together. “As a team we go through a lot of highs and lows but when you step into a hospital you really see that our worst isn’t necessarily the worst that is out there,” he said. “There are things that are more important than a game of basketball, and when [we] take a step back we can have a greater appreciation for what we have.” Chris Mangum, who works in social media at The Monday Life, noted that the kids love playing with the basketball players because “they are just like these big giants.” Although Kelly is no longer officially interning with The Monday Life, he said he is still trying to do anything and everything that he can. “Some internships can be something that you just have to do,” Kelly said. “But I was fortunate to find something that, [although] I didn’t really know it totally at first… I was really passionate about it and that has been the most rewarding experience. I’m passionate about making the Children’s Hospital a better place.” Kelly added that the Duke basketball program will soon begin creating a fundraising page to help The Monday Life, which was founded by former basketball manager Joey McMahon. The Monday Life currently exists at Duke and five other children’s hospitals in Colorado, Miami, Philadelphia, Seattle and Chapel Hill. “When I was in school I wanted to help but whenever I heard donation, I always thought it had to be $50 or $100, and I didn’t have that,” Mangum said. “I went to N.C.State and people up there weren’t writing checks all the time. We were just trying to make sure we had pizza for the night.” And as rewarding as the experience is for the children, the basketball players feel the same sense of fulfillment. “I’ve been fortunate to build some bonds with different children that are in the hospital, and I hope that I’ll leave a mark on them, but they certainly left a mark on me and that’s something I’ll never forget,” Kelly said. “Just this week I’m in the process of making a video for a kid who is in the hospital. He’s a big Duke basketball fan and I just wanted to make a video for him to show him I cared.”
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got to enjoy a nice change of pace last weekend, opened my eyes to a serious issue in Europe, the leaving Paris for the first time to visit Freiburg, United States and the world today. Germany. Freiburg is an awesome place. It’s The human race is presently experiencing a quaint and relaxed—and apparently nobody wor- tremendous amount of transnational, transconries about calorie counting. Everytinental and cross-cultural migraone around you is eating gelato all tion. Having spent just about a the time. Wherever you find yourmonth on the outskirts of Paris, I self in Freiburg you’re surrounded quickly learned that the stereotypiby picturesque green mountains cal image of a Parisian no longer that look like they came straight holds true. Just down the road from out of “The Sound of Music.” In my where I live there is a grocery shop mind, this was the epitome of a cute owned by a Syrian man, as well as German city. a sushi restaurant, a West African philip doerr What I hadn’t predicted before restaurant, a Chinese restaurant— small world my visit was the number of Turkyou name it. International cuisine ish doner kebab restaurants that aside, if you hop on the metro in I would see in Freiburg. For those of you who the morning you’ll see how truly diverse this city haven’t had the good fortune of eating a doner has really become. kebab sandwich, it’s basically a gyro. The sandThis meeting of peoples and clash of cultures wich is served with pita bread, lettuce, tomatoes is obviously not a simple process. In Europe, it and some heart attack-inducing mystery meat has manifested itself with a surge in xenophobia, whose origins you’d probably rather not know. right-wing anti-immigrant parties and a struggle Eating doner kebabs in Freiburg was not a to define national identities. The U.S. also finds completely new experience for me. You can find itself in the midst of a wave of anti-immigrant doner kebab shops all over France and especially sentiment and a heated debate over borders, in Paris. For me, doner kebab is just a delicious even as a country that promotes the values of opmeal that I wish I could eat more often if it didn’t portunity and freedom. mean having to deal with my lame Whole Foods Clearly, globalization presents a host of serious indoctrination. For others, namely the French issues that face society today. In terms of our econand more broadly all Europeans, the advance of omies, our politics and our identities, the people the doner kebab represents a more serious phe- of the world have a lot to deal with now that we’ve nomenon. never faced before. As an individual, I acknowlLast summer I participated in the Duke in Par- edge a feeling of helplessness and uncertainty is program that involved living in a homestay. I when it comes to these kinds of issues. I’m not tolived with an older French couple, both of whom tally sure what I think about immigration policies I found to be very French, very conservative and, or the global effects of Chinese fiscal policy. quite frankly, very xenophobic. It’s obvious that What I do know, however, is that I feel lucky not all French people are of the same mindset as to be living in such a time. Just within the conmy homestay family, but even so their opinions fines of this campus I’ve met people from Senare somewhat representative of a fair amount of egal, China, India, Vietnam, Mali, France and the French population. I came home one night more. Even at Duke, we have a student body with a bit of an upset stomach after having eaten with people from all over the world. You don’t too much steak tartare (raw beef) at a French have to go very far to find someone of a differrestaurant. I told my host dad about it and he ent race, religion or cultural background. Even responded by giving me an in-depth lecture on as the tide of anti-immigrant rhetoric continues the takeover of local French cafés by immigrants to grow in many places, it’s important to cherish whose products were always of poor quality and the more present realities of this global world. who had degraded French cuisine. “If you see Globalization is a process of people from all over that the owner of a café is not French, then do the world meeting each other. It takes place on not go. The foreign owners cut corners and an individual level, face to face. As people it’s an don’t follow standards of hygiene. They cannot opportunity to learn to live together and to recbe trusted,” he said. ognize our shared humanity, a phenomenon that I didn’t have the guts to question my host dad. will certainly make our lives more exciting. He was a pretty intimidating individual and, considering that it was the first week of my program, Philip Doerr is a Trinity junior and is currently I wanted to avoid getting off on the wrong foot. studying abroad in Paris, France. His column runs Nevertheless, my host dad’s xenophobic rant every other Thursday.
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re students s**t outta luck in trying to change that she/he can’t report through the school’s channels. back the statute of limitations (SOL) under The victim then goes to the press. What would it look Duke’s sexual misconduct policy? like for Duke’s administrators to have to say, “Well this Last year the Department of Education’s Office for is just our policy?” No one outside of the administraCivil Rights released what is known as the “Dear Col- tion cares about the intricacies of how the Office of Inleague” letter. It explained that the requirements of stitutional Equity would have to go about changing the Title IX relating to sexual harassment also cover sexual policy. It looks like we’re more concerned with protectviolence. These guidelines advised that ing perpetrators. there couldn’t be variance among a uniAnother issue for Moneta is that of versity’s policies for different forms of haopportunity costs. He emphasized the rassment. Not all universities interpreted work of the Gender Violence Task Force these recommendations in the same way. in providing bystander intervention In our particular case, Duke’s Office trainings through the Women Center’s of Institutional Equity reduced our sexual Prevent Act Challenge Teach (PACT) misconduct policy’s statute of limitations program. “If you ask me personally (the period during which complainants where I put my energy, the change from samantha are able to bring a case forward) from one year to two years could potentially two years to one year, to align with the have value. It’s a tiny amount of value lachman University-wide harassment policy. The the effort I’d want to put into what’s our age again? versus Office of Institutional Equity also lowered preventing [gender violence] in the first the evidentiary standard from “clear and place.... I have no objection to a change convincing” to “a preponderance of evidence.” This in the statute, but if I were going to mount all of my was a positive development, but it all may be a wash resources to do something, that’s not where I’m going if we’re discouraging victims from reporting with this to put the energy.” more restrictive window. None of these efforts are mutually exclusive. There Duke is somewhat unique for having a SOL in the is simply no merit in the argument that attempting to first place. Schools such as Columbia, Brown, George- change the SOL stymies other initiatives. town, Princeton, Harvard and Dartmouth have no SOL I asked what happens if the time period elapses. for incidents of sexual misconduct. DSG Vice Presi- “Even outside of the SOL for formal adjudication, dent of Equity and Outreach Stefani Jones, Trinity ’14, nothing prevents us from still taking some action.…We contacted a list of our peer institutions and found that would never say to a victim, ‘Sorry there’s nothing we we’re special—even Stanford and Yale have a two year can do.’ We may say, ‘That particular tool is not at our statute, rather than one. disposal now,’ but there are many other tools we can I interviewed Vice President for Student Affairs Lar- bring to bear,” Moneta responded. ry Moneta to get a clearer picture of what the rationale I can’t imagine how traumatizing it would be to see was for changing the policy in this manner. one’s perpetrator walking around campus and poten“The only unfortunate thing in this whole conversa- tially committing more assaults because of a technicalition is that [though] this issue of the statute is an im- ty that we could change. I would hope that we would all portant one, it’s not nearly as important as everything consider this a meaningful and urgent task if we could else we’ve done, because I think we’ve done an amaz- help even one student come forward. It remains uning amount of things to try to really address gender vio- clear what we’re worried about. If both the complainlence,” Moneta said. ant and the respondent are still here, the allegation is The terrifying thing is that we’re still only scratching troubling and the evidence is available, then why would the surface of the number of cases of sexual assault. it matter exactly how many months after the incident The oft-cited statistic is that at least one in five women is happens a complainant reports? a victim of gender violence in college. We know underSunhay You (Trinity ’13), a Women’s Center intern reporting is rampant: Only six reports were brought to and editor of Develle Dish, said, “Our efforts to change the Office of Student Conduct last year, according to the SOL won’t be wasted because in the process the stuthe Women’s Center. dent body will have to reckon with why it’s so difficult If we already know that we don’t have an environ- for students to report a case of sexual assault in the first ment conducive toward reporting, then why would a re- place, such as rape myths and victim-blaming that are strictive time period produce better results? Shouldn’t all part of the rape culture at Duke.” the administration think it’s in their interest to create an atmosphere that supports victims? Samantha Lachman is a Trinity senior. Her column runs Then there’s the issue of Duke’s public image. Imag- every other Thursday. You can follow her on Twitter @Samine a victim discovering 13 months after her/his assault Lachman.
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sentence has been on my mind lately. Most of the time I merely think it, but every once in a while I feel compelled to speak it. It’s straightforward, nothing that immediately conveys gravity or loftiness or wisdom. I don’t bow my head or pause before or after saying it. It’s really a quick mental remembrance before I carry on with my business. That sentence is, quite simply, “Look at where you are.” Six years ago, my body was being ravaged by chemodaniel strunk therapy treatment for Type defining B acute lymphoblastic leucircumstances kemia. Nausea, shots, vomiting, radiation, aches, sleepless nights, pills on top of pills—these are just some of the physical hallmarks of the period. But fighting cancer is not simply a matter of physical struggle. At its heart, fighting cancer involves a battle not only of the body but also of the soul. It is an emotional battle, one that tests your will and spirit. It plays itself out as much in your ability to maintain hope as it does in the 30 chemotherapy pills you might take in a day. In a way, I wish fighting cancer had just been a simple, yet certainly utterly gruesome, physical battle. That would make the obligations of survival simpler. I was physically sick, now praise God I am physically well. Time to move on. But since the battle was waged not only in my blood cells but also in my spirit, it had all the more significant lessons for me to learn. They are the stuff of cliché postcards: Live every day to the fullest. Cherish health because it is a gift you cannot overvalue. Don’t forget to live in the moment. A cancer survivor, however, doesn’t just read these lessons or hear them; he or she knows them down to his or her core because the core is how deep the fight goes. I have a confession to make, though, and it pains me to make it. I fail to embrace these lessons all the time. It’s hard not to. Duke is a busy and challenging place. People have goals here, and they constantly chase them. We’re all caught up in the exams and the internships, the academic achieving and the professional striving. Years ago when chemotherapy was coursing through my veins, I thought that I of all people would never forget to live every day to its fullest again. But it’s a lot harder than I ever could have realized. It’s hard for any of us to do in the daily throes of life. And though part of me is pained about this, the other part is happy. Indeed, I am also extremely proud. This is a mark that I have moved on. That I am living. That I have forgotten cancer. That I am pushing onward. Except for two Chronicle columns, I have hardly even broached the subject and its lessons. Maybe the very act of living life entails taking it for granted every once in a while. One cannot be forever ensconced with the burden of living in the moment, living life to the fullest. Such pressure would paradoxically defeat the very purpose of what you were seeking to do. But that does not take away from the ideal, nor does it mean I can forget the lessons learned. And this is not a burdensome obligation of remembrance, but rather one of the happiest I bear. It is with joy and humility and thankfulness that I must remind myself of the privilege of life and the gift that is health. It is with heartfelt gratitude that I seek to remember. By doing so I am not loading myself up with a grave and solemn burden. No, I am celebrating. Celebrating survivorship. Celebrating life. And so I return to the sentence I speak aloud every once in a while. A sentence I think maybe we can all say every so often. While rushing between classes, hastening between essays, chitchatting between a life filled with friends and joy and privilege, let’s take a moment, however scarce, to remind ourselves of lessons learned. “Look at where you are, Danny,” I say. Six years ago you were fighting for your life. Six years ago, in the depths of struggle and pain, you never imagined you’d be in such a place. But now look. Look at the health you have. Look at the friends you have. Look at the magnificent school you call your home. What a gift. What a privilege. Look at where you are. Don’t ever forget how lucky and blessed the present moment is. Don’t ever forget the lessons learned. Let’s all take a moment, let’s look at where we are. And let’s give thanks. Daniel Strunk is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Thursday. You can follow Daniel on Twitter @danielfstrunk.
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region’s most potent armies and now must contend as well with a disciplined and sophisticated militia. The U.S. government this month accused Hezbollah of providing aid to the Syrian government, an allegation the group has denied. Any acknowledgment that it is sending help to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad risks worsening tensions in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Lebanese Sunnis who support the mostly Sunni opposition in Syria. But Lebanese officials say the support is becoming harder to hide and has markedly increased since a July 18 bomb attack in Damascus that killed four senior security officials, including Assef Shawkat, Assad’s brother-in-law. Lebanese officials and analysts say Hezbollah militants are now fighting — and dying — in the conflict, although U.S. officials have not confirmed the group’s combat role. The Lebanese officials cite as evidence quiet burials in Hezbollah-dominated areas of Lebanon, with the families of the “martyrs” warned not to discuss the circumstances of their sons’ deaths.
DSG from page 2 action against their attacker if the incident occurred more than one year prior. “Even one victim that the Office of Student Conduct is turning away is enough for us to need to change this policy,” Jones said, adding that she received an anonymous report of a victim who was prevented from reporting an incident that had occurred one year and 24 days before. Jones noted that administrators in the Office of Student Conduct have been unable to provide rationale as to why the statute exists. “We regularly expel people for cheating at Duke, but no one has ever been expelled for rape,” Jones said. In other business: The senate also passed a motion to officially swear in at-large senators to DSG. “We have the biggest and the best senate ever, and we are going to have an exceptionally productive year,” said Executive Vice President Patrick Oathout, a junior. Oathout also introduced changes to the online “Fix My Campus” system, which allows students to submit complaints about campus life. Students will now be able to submit ideas and suggestions through texting, tweeting and a mobile application. The on-campus group “Who Needs Feminism?”— a campaign to raise awareness and understanding about feminist issues— requested to be officially recognized as a Duke club. SOFC Chair Kat Krieger, a junior, presented the proposal, and it passed by unanimous consent. Junior Neil Kondamuri, vice president for social culture, briefed the senate on plans for upcoming tailgates. Festivities for the Oct. 6 football game against the University of Virginia will begin earlier because the game begins at 3 p.m. Kondamuri noted that the social culture committee is working especially hard to promote the Oct. 20 game against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He noted that it will be a chance for the Duke community to rally against a “common enemy.”
AFRICA from page 3 The program, announced at a United Nations special session, is part of the Education First Initiative, which is being led by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Special Envoy for Education Gordon Brown. Duke was selected as one of the program’s initial partners due to its commitment to global education and engagement, the foundation said. Duke is one of nine universities currently involved in the program. The contribution will count toward the University’s capital campaign, Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, wrote in an email Wednesday.
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his coming December marks the ten-year anniversary of Reynolds Price’s Founder’s Day address. If you get nothing else from this editor’s note, I hope it prompts you to read Price’s speech. He speaks candidly about the status of Duke’s intellectual climate. He avoids the nebulous, hidebound responses that one might expect from a proud professor speaking about his alma mater. The address has had great meaning for me, more so as of late, now that I have more experience and a somewhat different perspective. I won’t try to imagine what Price would say about Duke today. In the past ten years, Duke has grown in size and risen in prestige. Conversations about Duke’s intellectual climate are not uncommon—and I’m sure I’m not the first to write an editor’s note on the topic—though these conversations are pursued with less enthusiasm now than they were a decade ago. (Take a look at The Chronicle’s news clippings from 1993 with the keywords ‘intellectual climate’ and you’ll see what I mean.) The discussions have shifted, over the past few years, to include new talking points: Tailgate, the purpose of academic scholarships, purported crackdowns by administration on West Campus section parties. But much of Price’s speech still resonates with today’s Duke. I’m not writing this note to disparage Duke’s intellectual community. I don’t think there’s need for that sort of essay, and
if even there is, I’m probably not the person to write it. Instead, I’m writing to share with underclassmen what I’ve learned in the past three-plus years about what Duke has to offer students who desperately want to learn outside the classroom. I can’t offer much, but I think I would have liked to have heard a senior advise me in this way when I was a freshman. If you think Duke is missing something, talk to professors and administrators. Faculty want to help grow the intellectual climate, but they often don’t know how. Administrators can’t exactly prod students to talk about films or scientific experiments or philosophy in their spare time. Adding more lecture series and formal dinner discussions, while nice, rarely accomplishes anything more than make Duke appear intellectual—i.e. it doesn’t change what students are talking about in their dorm rooms. What Duke can do is offer resources to make student-driven projects successful. If you want to run a poetry slam to showcase student poets, Duke can fund it and find space for it. If you want to have weekly dinners with student artists, Duke can provide the food. If you want to organize a field trip to Black Mountain College, somebody will help you. Professors will come to dinner with you if you ask them, and they’ll be wonderful company, but you have to be the person to ask first. It’s not that professors are aloof or uninterested. For the most part, I’ve found that professors really do want to talk informally with students but they either don’t think that students want to talk with them or they don’t know what we want to do with our lives how to go about making those Michaela Dwyer...................go on adventures, I think; not get stuck in one place discussions happen. Which is to Holly Hilliard.....................................................live on a secluded island, with cats say, if you’re enthusiastic and Katie Zaborsky...............................................................................read all the books creative, and almost every Duke Dan Fishman..............................................................................just keep swimming student is, there’s lots of lowhanging fruit. Ted Phillips............................................................................grow a sweeeeet beard Likewise, there are plenty of Sophia Durand............................................................................................eat Oreos students who want to have inforEmma Loewe...............................................................follow fugitives with cameras mal book clubs, who want to just sit down and play chess or Go, Andrew Karim..........................................................................................shirk duties who want to drink beer and talk
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about films, but who don’t know other people who want to do those sorts of activities with them. A week ago I sent out an email to a bunch of students who I thought might be interested in having a low-key arts appreciation night. I bought some wine, booked a room on campus and promised to read some poetry, play some music and show a short film. I figured we’d have ten or eleven people show up. But there were thirty people there and many more called me or ran into me the next day and said that they wanted to come but couldn’t. I think that many Duke students are craving an environment where they can discuss arts and culture without the restrictions of the classroom and the expected commitment of a club. But almost every person in that room felt like those opportunities happened too infrequently. I got the same response last year when The Archive ran a poetry reading in von der Heyden called Salon (~150 students came). I often feel like Duke is on the cusp of something, that it could have a thriving arts community with just a little more courage and initiative on the part of students. What Duke can’t offer, Durham often can. I don’t think this was as true in 1992 as it is today, but today’s Durham is filled with opportunities. Some of the most interesting and enthusiastic people that I’ve met, I’ve met outside of Duke’s campus. Talk to the guitarists who play on Ninth St. Meet the people at the new ADF studio. Strike up a conversation with the owners of Durham’s various used bookstores. And if you’re looking for events to go to, leaf through copies of Recess. Read the Independent. Hell, go to the gardens and people-watch. I often feel like I have to escape Duke in order to come back to it with fresh eyes, with enough passion to keep going, with enough perspective to recognize how wonderful this place is and how much of a privilege it is for me to be here. Anyone who takes Price’s speech seriously will recognize that there is a lot that Duke can improve upon. But if there’s something missing from Price’s address, it’s that students are often the ones who are in the best position to make that change happen. —Dan Fishman
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Few contemporary folk bands have the following of the Avett Brothers. Their banjo-filled, lyrically-intricate songs have put this North Carolinian quintet in the same realm as Mumford and Sons in terms of recent popularity. Their last album, I and Love and You, landed the Avett Brothers a gig at the Grammys performing with Bob Dylan and Mum-
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Yoko Ono the peace loving prose-poet, Kim Gordon the versatile avant-garde artist/designer/director and Thurston Moore the prolific punk front man of Sonic Youth get even weirder when they’re together. The appropriately-titled collaborative album YOKOKIMTHURSTON is what you might expect to happen when three really odd, experimental musicians mess around in a studio. Each artist is known for his or her unique personality, and, with this album, it’s as if the three are competing for the title of most idiosyncratic. As it turns out, this wasn’t really the best move for the technically still-married couple Thurston and Kim, nor was it a good move for Yoko who, for a while, seemed like she was becoming slightly normal. No surprise this collaboration is really weird. Yoko Ono varies from high-pitched squeals to moans over ambient guitar, and Thurston More randomly shouts out words that seem to have no connection to one another for the entire album. There is little variety to each track. The tracks are really difficult to discern from one another. It’s not that there’s a problem with cohesiveness and fluency, but there is a difference between fluency and uniformity. Yes, YOKOKIMTHURSTON is strange and unusual, but it’s also incredibly predictable. It employs a lot of the creative tactics that Lennon experimented with. The first
ford and Sons. Continuing with their rising stardom, their new album, The Carpenter, released on September 11, made its way to number four on the Billboard Top 200. The Avett Brothers’ older albums feature a rocky, raw edge especially with tracks like “I and Love and You” and “The Ballad of Love and Hate.” These tracks, even at their saddest and slowest, leave me energized. Whereas “I and Love and You” revs and excites, the new album’s tracks are more contemplative. Carpenter is a breakup album that starts from a place of shatteredness. With tracks like “Winter in My Mind” and “I Never Knew You,” Seth and Scott seem to be crippled by love. The Brothers switch between feeling anger (“Live and Die” and “Pretty Girl From Michigan) and longing (“The Once and Future Carpenter”). These first songs are marked by slow drumbeats, lightly-played tambourines and strummed guitar, which are reminiscent of raw, Appalachian folk. As the album progresses, though, the broken pieces are glued back together. “A Father’s First Spring” is the first hopeful track, the album’s seasonal thaw. With the recovery comes more touches of alt rock. “Down With the Shine” drowns its sorrow in alcohol. It’s the kind of song you’d sing at a bar with your buddies. “Paul Newman vs. The Demons” has soaring electric guitar bridges that transcend sorrow. By album’s end, with
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tracks like “Life,” the Avett Brothers appear ready to move on. They’ve even learned a few words of wisdom about how to overcome sorrow: “Keep it, use it, build it, move it. . . . You and I know well enough about the paradise and hell right here on earth.” The Avett Brothers’ lyrics have the same structure and style as past albums’. They love extended metaphors that end up in a different place than where they started. “And my life is but a coin, pulled from an empty pocket, dropped into a slot with dreams of sevens close behind,” they sing on “The Once and Future Carpenter.” The strategy allows for vivid images but also a kind of playfulness exhibited most often by wry novelists. The Carpenter is a journey to take on a rainy day. Each song doesn’t uplift like the Avett Brothers’ other works. It’s an album that soothes when you’re down in the dumps. Long-time Avett Brother fans may, at times, enjoy the new aesthetic, though others will lament the loss of the old sound. New listeners may not enjoy for the album’s slowness. But, with the right mood and some patience, you can be truly moved. —Kari Barclay
track is introduced by the shrieking cackle of Ono, alongside a kaleidoscope of mismatched snippets of sound. “I Never Told You Did I?”—perhaps the most lyrical song on the album—is a mix of heavy breathing and what one could kind of, maybe, define as spoken word. In both of these tracks and throughout the rest of the album, none of the defining characteristics of each artist shines through. Instead their weirdness blends into something inaccessible and unappealing. Imagine those bizarre backfill tracks your college radio station seems to always be playing. The beauty of avant-garde music typically comes with the artistic or political statement that is associated with it. But it’s completely indiscernible what YOKOKIMTHURSTON is trying to convey. If there’s some deeper meaning here, it went way above my head. And, if I know anything about how Thurston and Kim make records, this probably isn’t some grand, hyper-conscious concept album. I hate to be a slave to traditional structure, but I think if YOKOKIMTHURSTON lent itself to some melodies, they could have created something fantastic. Come on, Thurston, people are even digging the black metal scene you have gotten into, and Yoko, apparently people liked Between My Head and the Sky. Everyone was expecting something weird, but we also expected something interesting. —Adrienne Harreveld
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Recess film editor Ted Phillips interviewed Nathan Johnson, composer of the soundtrack for Looper, the new time-traveling sci-fi film due out tomorrow. Johnson also wrote the soundtracks for Brick (2005) and The Brothers Bloom (2008). Recess: How did you first get started playing and composing music? Nathan Johnson: My cousin Rian Johnson (writer and director of Looper, Brick and Brothers Bloom) and I grew up making movies and music together. Any time we would have a family vacation we would spend two weeks corralling all the younger cousins together and come up with a movie or original song. With all of those projects, I’m sure you could dig up some embarrassing footage. In high school, and after high school, I was in a number of different bands, including work with The Cinematic Underground on a conceptual narrative album called Annasthesia. Rian heard that record right around the time he was doing Brick (2005), so when it came time to do the music he called me and asked if I wanted to take a stab at it. I love the way that visuals and audio work together, so I totally jumped into it. I sort of jumped into the deep end—I had never done something like that before—but it was definitely a great first experience. R: I love that film, and it’s a great soundtrack. NJ: Thank you! R: How early on in the filmmaking process did Rian approach you about the score for Looper? NJ: Usually as a composer you get brought on right at the last minute. Everything’s done, there’s a rough cut, and you’re given a very short amount of time to jump into the world and make the music. But one of the great things about working Rian is that I come on much earlier. With Looper it was before they’d even cast it. We started by talking about what was in Rian’s head in terms of what he wanted the world to look and feel and sound like, and as production started, I really ramped up and started working on it in earnest. R: How did you first approach scoring Looper? NJ: Looper is a big action/sci-fi movie, but it’s smart and grounded. We wanted to
create a big-sounding action score without resorting to the big melodies of traditional action scores—we wanted the music to hit you slightly differently. Although it’s a science fiction time-travel movie, it’s not slick sci-fi. You don’t ever feel like it’s “The Future!”, you know what I mean? A lot of the film takes place on a farm in Kansas, so we wanted to find something that felt a bit home-grown. One of the things we talked about was the idea of recording found sounds. I moved down to New Orleans where they were shooting the film and spent a month with a field recorder and headphones collecting a library of sounds. I recorded everything I could find, from fans to treadmills to alarms to gunshots. I would look for interesting little snippets and then severely manipulate them by shifting the pitch or slowing them down or sending them through different effects. R: Were the instruments tonal so that you could play out melodies on a keyboard? NJ: Sometimes the instruments were tonal, but sometimes we would place them on pressure-sensitive pads so we could play them like a drum kit. R: Parts of the soundtrack were recorded with a live orchestra. How did you mesh the live recordings with the manipulated found-sounds? NJ: We started with the custom instrument world and first focused on the rhythmic elements, especially the pulsing action stuff. We approached the orchestral music as a supplement to work with our found-sound world. We spent three full days having everybody play the parts we’d written and also improvised elements I could take back to the studio and play around with further. It was awesome because we were looking for a group that could really get into the vibe of what we were doing and come at in a cool way, and the Magik*Magik SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE orchestra [the San Francisco-based group that worked with Johnson on the soundtrack] was able to do that. They’re such a nimble group of players. R: Well, I can’t wait to see Looper. NJ: It’s special, man. I’m super excited about it. Links to videos about the production of the Looper soundtrack can be found in the online version of this article.
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On Nas’s summer LP Life is Good, he appointed himself as hip-hop’s Don, a seasoned Escabano-puffing kingpin who presides over the industry from atop; on 2011’s Watch the Throne, Kanye and Jay-Z declared themselves as hip-hop’s unstoppable emperors, daring anyone to question their rule. In 2006, with so many artists claiming hip-hop as theirs, and so few writing music that represented its audience, it often felt like the genre needed to be rescued from the clutches of aristocracy. Lupe Fiasco emerged as its savior. His debut album Food and Liquor tackled the Iraq war, unearthed forgotten subcultures and transformed Chicago into a living, breathing body scarred by inner-city struggles. His new album, Food and Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Part 1 suggests a continuation of such craftsmanship, and while that’s sometimes true, the comparison is ultimately misleading. In between his debut and current release, Lupe released 2007’s The Cool (the album that’s probably more deserving of the title Food and Liquor II) and 2011’s Lasers, a commercial disaster that Lupe himself barely sanctioned. It’s the Lasers-esque remnants that particularly bog down the second half of the album, though these are probably the tracks that the Atlantic Records CEO plays in his corner office. “Battle Scars,” “Unforgivable Youth” and “How Dare You” all blur together with their shared mid-tempo beats and bloated hooks; they makes Lupe’s lyrics look boring by association, even when they aren’t. The most satisfying tracks arrive early on the album: “Strange Fruition” is a slow-burning stunner produced by longtime-collaborator Soundtrakk, the engineer behind earlier fan favorites like “Hip-Hop Saved My Life” and “Kick, Push.” But the undeniable winner on F&L II is the album’s first single, “Around My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free).” Lupe attracted controversy with the track when he sampled Pete Rock and CL Smooth’s classic 1982 hit “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)”, a move that Pete Rock criticized. Legal disputes aside, the argument raised an important question: who should be allowed to sample “T.R.O.Y.,” a soulful sax-powered track that dissects the dynamics of a single-parent household while paying tribute to a dear friend, if not Lu? He matches the song’s timeless-
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ness with his own enduring riddles such as, “If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla/then what’s the flavor of the Sunday preacher’s pedophilia?” Even if he lifts the instrumentals, it may be his most accomplished song to date. “Bitch Bad,” however, serves as a reminder that Lupe’s role as an artist has changed since F&L, and he’s painfully aware of that. The track is a long-winded examination of the word “bitch” and its decade-long implications among youth. Lines like “Couple of things are happening here/First he’s relating the word ‘bitch’ to his momma, comma” sound stilted at best and preachy at worst. His explicitness is not the problem—it’s his assumption that we, his listeners, couldn’t come to the same conclusions ourselves. Now that Lupe has accepted his role as hiphop’s messiah, he no longer relies on lyrical subtleties, but instead uses his pedantic bullhorn to call attention to society’s ills. The pervasive used of the word “bitch” is an issue that should undoubtedly be addressed— by rappers all the more—but the message gets lost. There’s a seeming contradiction in Lupe’s attitude toward his target listeners. He criticizes constructs in society that hold back young black Americans, yet, by preaching spoon-fed arguments, he implies a somewhat dismissive attitude toward his audience. When Lupe isn’t getting in his own way, he displays characteristic insight into problems that we should be aware of, issues that maybe make us feel a bit guilty because we’re less informed than we’d like. On “Lamborghini Angels,” he wants us to feel uncomfortable. He wields his graphic lyrics about violence and torture as his own form SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE of intellectual weaponry. While Lupe uses the album as a vehicle to discuss weighty topics like international politics and rampant hypocrisy (including his own), he still remains hopeful. Album-closer “Hood Now” celebrates and references key figures in the evolution of black culture from Cornel West to Kanye West. Excluding Lasers (because we should always exclude Lasers), Lupe hits his highs and lows on Food and Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Part 1, occasionally treading on solid middle ground that echoes a younger, less-burdened rapper. But the album doesn’t quite live up to the revolution its namesake inspired, which raises yet another question: was the original F&L indeed the great American rap album Lupe aspired to make? Hindsight is 20/20. —Katie Zaborsky
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CAM Raleigh showcases women artists by Madeleine Roberts THE CHRONICLE
On a surface level, the works in CAM Raleigh’s new exhibition, Girl Talk: Women and Text, are neither immediately “beautiful” nor overtly avant-garde—they seem almost too easy to understand. Their veiled simplicity captures the very nature of “girl talk”: an interaction between women that, from a distance, seems to consist of gossip or superficial topics, but is actually nuanced, heartfelt and cathartic. It’s only after leaving the museum that Girl Talk comes alive; its importance lies not within the viewer’s immediate perception of the artwork, but rather in the lingering afterthoughts it inspires. The work that most strongly conveys this emotional depth is “Elegy” by Monique Priesto. Consisting of ten square cotton cloths hanging on a blank wall, each piece is spray-painted with a unique phrase or word. To read the phrase completely I had to walk up to the wall and pull out the fabric. The phrase “the sea being rough sailed all night all night and most glorious and much more” seems childish without any context. But, as with so much of the exhibit, the piece holds layered meanings. The text is from the diary of Samuel Pepys, the first published diarist, and the maritime theme is reflected in the fabric pieces, which were hung like rigged sails. The work is meant for the viewer to walk up and personally read each sail. Just like a hushed, personal conversation between women, the piece is a one-on-one experience. The exhibit also features Marilyn Minter’s video I’m Not Much, But I’m All I Think About in the downstairs screening room. The 20-minute piece is a hires film that shows two letter “M”s falling into a metallic liquid. The second “M” is turned sideways, so that the two letters spell “me.” In the video, Minter explores—and mocks—the idea of the artist’s narcissism. I found myself sitting in the room by myself for two whole durations of the film, watching the letters splash in the medium (metallic paint suspended in vodka) with a hypnotic bass in the background.
Seven other women artists are featured in the exhibit, with pieces ranging from Lisa Anne Auerbach’s Everything I Touch Turns to Sold (six sweater-clad hanging mannequins) to Maya Schindler’s I Am Somebody, a ten-foot tall block plastered with spray-painted pink posters. Kate Shafer, the Gallery and Exhibitions Manager, says that the work is “political, personal, and sometimes both.” Some of the pieces clearly contain feminist undertones; for example, Auerbach’s sweaters display messages such as, “where there’s drink there’s always danger.” In contrast, some of the works seem to have neither a political nor emotional emphasis, such as Kim Rugg’s 30 New York Times newspapers with everything whited out except for individual letters. In a recent radio interview on The State Of Things, CAM Raleigh’s executive director Elysia Borowy Reeder explained that the title of the exhibition was meant to subvert audience expectations: “We posed some questions that challenged preconceived notions, you know, what is ‘girl talk’? What does it mean?” CAM Raleigh, then, was—and is—an ideal space to display provocative modern art. Centered in the heart of downtown, the Contemporary Art Museum was founded in 1983 and in 2006 merged with the NC State College of Design. It aims to “curate most contemporary works in art and design,” says Shafer. The museum usually finds its artists through a variety of methods, including both public calls and commissions of established artists. Girl Talk itself combines the works of both well-known and emerging female artists, a distinction blurred in the exhibition. “I enjoy looking at artwork and not figuring it out,” said Shafer. This mindset frees the viewer from overanalysis and allows us to place more trust in the SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE artist. That in itself is a liberating feeling akin to the honesty associated with “real” girl talk. Girl Talk: Women in Text will be on display at CAM Raleigh through January 14, 2013.
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the master
DIR. PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY
With The Master, writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson has created a film that is both emotionally weighty and captivating. The density and relentlessness with which the film is delivered left me reeling, and even as an audience member I felt myself getting sucked into the psychotic whirlpool occupied by the entire ensemble. The film follows Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) as he struggles to return to society after fighting in the South Pacific during World War II. He meets Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a false prophet of sorts with an intensely devoted following. The two are fast friends, so Quell joins in touting Dodd’s cultish spiritual techniques in which subjects attempt to communicate with their past selves. The Master is, much like Anderson’s last film There Will Be Blood, stunningly acted. This is Phoenix’s first role since his supposedly staged cringe-worthy hip-hop career and all-around meltdown, as recorded in the 2010 mockumentary I’m Still Here. Newly risen from the ashes, Phoenix has physically metamorphosed from his past self. In movies like Signs and Gladiator, he played muscular, robust characters (a minor-league slugger and a Roman emperor, respectively). But in The Master, he appears both physically and emotionally broken. He often adopts a stance—hands on hips, elbows out and shoulders forward—that makes him seem somehow askew, and he constantly furrows and clenches his face to make himself appear aged and distressed. Clever costuming adds to the image—his shirts seem to have been cut a bit too large to obscure his alreadyslight musculature, and his overly pleated, hiked-up slacks give him the aura of a frail octogenarian. His psyche is equally rickety, evidenced by his raging addictions to alcohol and sex and his paper-thin temper. Hoffman, too, gives a fantastic performance. His representation of Dodd captures a charisma and likeability that nearly had me buying into “The Cause,” his time-traveling pseudo-religion. While watching, I was never sure if Dodd was as screwy as his contrived techniques or a brilliant con man scamming the emotionally unstable into buying his books. Anderson makes the actors the centerpiece of his shots, especially in the most pivotal, emotional scenes. Throughout the film, we continually see intense close-ups with only the actors’ face in frame; this technique is extremely effective in drawing the audience into the happenings on screen. The penultimate scene—an intense meeting of the two protagonists—had me, a non-crying moviegoer, on the brink of tears. Here Anderson seems to borrow a few scenic elements from the iconic bowling alley confrontation in There Will Be Blood; the enormous office is filled more by Quell and Dodd’s personae than the sparse furnishings. The tactic paid off: when I saw the film, the audience was stunned in their seats, and no one got up to leave until well into the spartan credit reel. Throughout the entirety of the film, the soundtrack is pitch-perfect. When needed, it comes to the fore and gives necessary auditory interest to Anderson’s visually spectacular world. Just as important, it isn’t afraid to get out of the way when only background texture is needed. Only while staring at the credits did I notice Jonny Greenwood, lead guitarist for Radiohead, credited with the score. Greenwood also wrote the horror-filmish score for There Will Be Blood, and his second partnership with Anderson is again fruitful. One recurring musical theme is especially effective: a comfortable, swelling unison shifts into dissonant, improvised cluster chords in parallel with the psychological turmoil that Freddie embodies on screen. Much of the wonder in seeing The Master is the uncertainty that resonates long after the film. While it is never made clear what motivates Dodd in his odd crusade, as the audience we’re even more unsure of how we are meant to feel about the angry, obsessed Quell. Anderson is not afraid to buck the tradition of clear-cut villains and heroes. This, along with stellar sets and costumes, grounds an intrinsically kooky storyline in the real world. While The Master is not the easiest film to view or process, its nuanced performances and flawless craftsmanship will surely have us talking about it come Oscar season.
David Ayer, the director of Training Day, returns to the police-drama genre with his newest film End of Watch. The film chronicles the patrols of two LAPD officers, Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Mike Zavala (Michael Peña), who become entangled in the workings of drug cartels. The movie focuses primarily on Brian, an ex-Marine turned police officer. Brian is taking a pre-law class that requires him to make a video, so much of the film is viewed through his hand-held camera. Ayer sought to imitate YouTube videos in their shaky perspective. To capture this feeling, he switches between Brian’s personal minicam and other amateur-feeling cameras: the dashboard-mounted lens in the police cruiser, mini cameras pinned to officers’ uniforms and another handheld camera wielded by cartel members. Why the cartel chooses to document their own illegal activities is never clearly explained, so their use of the camera seems like nothing more than a crutch for the filmmakers. Despite this, the jerky camera work adds to the authenticity of the plot and improves the audience’s connection to the film. The main characters add a different dimension to the oft-used tale of cop duos. We often see films in which members of the police force are cast as either noble heroes or corrupt villains, but End of Watch creates a police unit of seemingly normal people. Both Brian and Mike are “good cops”—their intentions lie with upholding justice. We are also given a glimpse into the personal lives of the protagonists, which both further humanizes them while offsetting the generally serious tone of the movie. In fact, all of the officers shown in the film seem to be decent people with realistic flaws. While one policeman (David Harbour) is not the most likeable of characters, by the end of the film even he garners sympathy. The drug dealers, with such stereotypical monikers as “Big Evil” and “Lord of the South,” are not given the same courtesy. Their characters have no depth and are depicted as purely villainous; the cartel is only ever shown in the most grisly of situations. Thanks to the lessthan-ideal abilities of the hand-held cameras to capture low-light situations, much of the gore is implied rather than seen. This ensures that the violence does not become an overpowering distraction from the main plot of the film. The physical intensity escalates throughout the film, progressing from a simple drive-by between gangs to an attack on two police officers to the movie’s abrupt climatic ending. The film combines many of the elements traditionally associated with action films, like high speed chases and countless rounds of ammunition. But End of Watch provides more than just high-tempo action sequences: it creates authentic emotional connections. —Kelly Scurry
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trouble with the curve
DIR. ROBERT LORENZ WARNER BROS.
Trouble with the Curve plays like Moneyball in reverse. In an age when baseball is ruled by statistics, formulas and new-fangled computers, elderly baseball scout Gus Lobel (Clint Eastwood) eschews all forms of modern technology (aside from his precious flat-screen TV). He instead uses his gut to make decisions about which players have “got it.” Still, younger, brasher scouts with their noses glued to their laptop screens are trying to edge him out, though his cohorts tell us over and over again that Gus is amazing. His boss, Pete (John Goodman), assures us that “Gus could spot talent from an airplane.” Well, apparently not, considering he’s losing his sight and refuses to get medical attention because he’s too committed to finishing out the scouting season. The curmudgeon routine, with Eastwood fumbling around his home, knocking over and subsequently breaking tables, tires so quickly that by the time you learn that he’s desperately in need of Flomax you’re ready to scream, “We get it! He’s old!” He was obviously attempting to recreate his performance from Gran Torino, but his grumpy-oldman routine is absurdly over the top. Just when you think there’s no more to Gus than resentment, you find out he’s also carrying around a deep, dark secret about Mickey, his daughter (yes, she was named after center fielder Mickey Mantle). Gus’s secret is supposed to explain why he is such a grouch but instead adds another layer of trite drivel. Mickey (Amy Adams), now in her early thirties, is a highpowered attorney at an Atlanta law firm up for a promotion to partner. Adams plays Mickey with all the naivete she exhibited in Junebug, but without any of the steeliness she needs to portray a woman who has spent her life in a man’s world, between baseball and her law firm. Justin Timberlake is her love interest, a Gus-discovery-turned-scout for the Red Sox with the most horrendous Boston accent since Julianne Moore on 30 Rock. He serves no purpose other than an outlet for Mickey’s daddy issues (because it’s totally healthy to date someone who does the same job and frequents the same bars as your father). At least he isn’t a never-ending source of cheeseball one-liners—that role is reserved for Gus and his old-man posse. Mickey so desperately seeks the approval of her father that she follows him up the coast to scout a high school baseball prodigy. The player, Bo Gentry (Joe Massingill), is a huge jerk with no redeeming qualities, like all of the villains in Curve. He shouts at his teammates on the bus to shut up because he’s busy “visualizing” and rudely yells at a snack vendor to toss him some peanuts. Bo is shocked when his classmate lands the snack perfectly in his strike zone from about sixty feet away (which we are reminded is the distance from the pitcher’s mound to home plate). If it sounds like foreshadowing, that’s because it is. When it comes to leading the audience, Curve has neither tact nor grace. Some clues are given so early and resolved so late that you’ve completely forgotten about them, while others offer ridiculously instant payoff. Switching between family drama, romantic comedy, and sports flick, Curve is about as lost as Gus without his glasses. The film can’t decide what it wants to be, which makes the fact that it moves at a snail’s pace even more unbearable. Each and every plot device is painfully predictable, especially the parallel references to the title: Bo can’t hit curve balls, and Gus wrecks his car in (you guessed it!) a curve. Full of bad baseball puns, Trouble with the Curve beats us over the head with cliched messages about family, happiness, and relying on your instincts, but it never manages to get on base. —Megan Rise
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PlayMakers imagines Rothko in ‘Red’ by Thomas Kavanagh THE CHRONICLE
When the 1950s replica pendant lights darken on the abstract painter Mark Rothko, portrayed with virile and unnerving authority by Stephen Caffrey, there’s a real fear that Rothko’s nightmare will be realized, that “one day the black will swallow the red.” Such is the power with which Caffrey, and his counterpart Matt Gardner (as Rothko’s employee Ken), vivify John Logan’s Tony-award winning one-act, Red. Produced by PlayMakers’ Repertory Theater at UNC-Chapel Hill, the drama synchronizes all levels of theatrical technique to tease the passion out of Logan’s highly intellectual dialogue on artistic expression. The play imagines the interaction between Mark Rothko and his workshop assistant, Ken, as they spend an hour battling over the role of contemplation and honesty in art. Of course, there’s a risk of getting lost in references to Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy (Rothko’s self-cited muse) and the works of the artist’s various contemporaries. To overcome the heady nature of Red’s discourse, then, is no trifling feat. Yet the text, which imagines the Russian-immigrant Rothko just before his 1959 mural commission for the Four Seasons restaurant, never feels too talky under director Vivienne Benesch’s patient and sensitive blocking. With such a legendary personality as Rothko represented onstage, it’s hard not to be intimidated by the desire for historical accuracy. Yet scenic designer Jan Chambers took on the challenge of reproducing Rothko’s private atelier with confidence. She accurately dresses the Paul Green Theatre with an elegant frosted-window warehouse backdrop, a careful selection of period-sensitive furniture and workshop apertures and a tasteful spattering of stray paint across sepia-tone hardwood flooring. The technical merits go on. In a play primarily about color and the feelings produced thereby, proper stage illumination couldn’t be more crucial. Designer Charlie Morrison tackles the need for subtle yet symbolic lighting by attacking the space from every angle. Rows of precision spotlights accentuate key destinations for actor crosses, and a fully wired workshop allows Rothko and Ken to tamper with brightness mid-scene. The glow from below, a fringe of soft color lining the underside of the thrust stage, heightens the mood as the hue shifts with beats. If it appears that PlayMakers’ Red is disproportionately about technical finesse, then I need to make clear how effectively Caffrey and Gardner transformed their props from otherwise functional crutches into integral tools for the cultivation of emotion. The absence of any stagehands between scenes—Caffrey and Gardner keep in character while Rothko broods on his canvas and Ken reworks the space— make transitions through time appear seamless. Even without the aid of their technical team, Rothko and Ken are ideal complements. Caffrey nails Rothko’s biting cynicism for the mainstream with a grit and rasp that only endears his artistic ideals
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further to the audience. Gardner no doubt channeled the youthful enthusiasm of the surrounding Tar Heels into his performance; Ken’s equally convincing characterization makes it hard to pick a side in the intellectual art-clash. As an actor anxious to keep my own creative process honest, I found Gardner’s performance especially brought me to tears, proving that discourse about art can be both cerebral and moving. Now, don’t panic if you don’t know how the grand Athenian tragedy plays into 20th century expressionism, or even if the word “Dionysian” conjures nothing more than a blank stare. PlayMakers’ Red exudes a “blood-soaked-Ferrari-sunrise” passion that is well worth the Robertson bus. PlayMakers presents Red at the Paul Green Theatre in Chapel Hill through October 7.
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