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BC offices relocate amid construction DUHS limits its visitors What’s going where while the renovations are taking place? Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life —> 2022 Campus Drive

Flu season spurs effort to protect patients

Center for Multicultural Affairs —> various offices across campus UCAE Conference and Event Services —> 042 Bryan Center

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Duke Student Government —> 107 West Union

students come back in the Fall,” said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education. Although the renovations will be going on throughout the majority of the Spring semester, the Office of Student Affairs is working to ensure that the

Duke University Health System has restricted visitation to immediate family members and those over 18 who are healthy in response to rising cases of the flu. A recent spike in the number of patients afflicted by the flu prompted Duke to take measures to stop the spread of the virus. The limitations were catalyzed by the high rates of infection and abnormally early start to the flu. Although such restrictions have been instituted in past years, this season’s flu activity is the worst the state has seen in the past decade, according to a North Carolina Department of Health press release published Dec. 21. So far, 14 North Carolina residents have died from the flu—a “very unusual” occurrence, according to the department. “We would [institute limitations] in any season where we really want to minimize transmission in the hospital,” said Dr. Cameron Wolfe, clinical associate in the

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Graduate and Professional Student Council —> 306 Alexander Mailboxes —> Old computer store Computer store and postal operations —> Bookstore lower level Vending machines and ATMs —> Old pool table room CHRIS DALL/THE CHRONICLE

Students return from winter break to see the lower levels of the Bryan Center in the midst of renovations. The renovations, which are expected to be completed by the Fall, have displaced several offices—some temporarily and others permanently. by Imani Moise THE CHRONICLE

The partially demolished lower levels of the Bryan Center have caused offices to relocate to different areas of the campus. The major renovation of the middle level began in December as part of an effort to make the Bryan Center a more

attractive space that encourages student collaboration. As a result of the remodeling, many student life resources, such as ATMs, vending machines and mailboxes, have been relocated, causing some initial confusion to students returning from winter break. “The goal is to have all [the renovations] done by the summer for when

Bonobos show preference for Duke fills more sharing food with strangers spots with early decision applicants by Gloria Lloyd THE CHRONICLE

A Duke study on great apes shows that humans are not alone when it comes to “paying it forward.” Bonobos will choose to share food with strangers over bonobos that they already know, evolutionary anthropology graduate student Jingzhi Tan found in a series of experiments. Bonobos and chimpanzees are the closest relatives to humans, but the research, published in PLOS ONE Jan. 2, shows how bonobos differ from chimpanzees, who are typically distrustful of strangers to the point where they even kill chimpanzees from different tribes.

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A recent Duke study found that bonobos share food with strangers, showing possible signs of altruism in one of humans’ closest relatives.

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Kelly out indefinitely with foot injury, Page 5

The University accepted 106 more early decision applicants for the Class of 2017 than it did for the previous class. The 753 admittees to the binding early decision program will account for 44 percent of the incoming freshman class, as compared to the 38 percent of the current freshman class that was accepted early. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag attributed the increase to a particularly impressive early decision applicant pool. “What we discovered as we

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were reading the applications... is that there were just more compelling candidates, and we thought if the interest was there and the appealing qualities were there, why not offer these students who clearly had Duke as their first choice a place in the class?” Guttentag said. Duke received 29,201 regular decision applications, which combined with early decision for a total of 31,741 applications, an increase of 0.4 percent from last year. The admittance rate for the roughly 950 spots remaining for SEE DECISION ON PAGE 10

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Police release Fix My Campus will allow profile of suspect students to voice concerns in UNC murder DUKE STUDENT GOVERNMENT

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For the first time since the murder of UNC student Faith Hedgepeth in September, the Chapel Hill Police Department has released details about the investigation. New information included in a Tuesday press release notes that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill junior was last known to be alive at her Durham County apartment at 3 a.m. Friday, Sept. 7, after going to a local night club—the Thrill—with her roommate. The roomFaith Hedgepeth mate found Hedgepeth dead 11 a.m. that day at their apartment at 5639 Old Chapel Hill Rd. Investigators have identified DNA evidence left by a male suspect and have worked to compile a list of the suspect’s possible behavioral traits. With consultation from the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, the police believe the offender may know Hedgepeth and may have lived near her. The suspects’ whereabouts were unknown during the early morning hours on Sept. 7 when Hedgepeth was killed. He may have talked about Hedgepeth to others, and his behavior after the murder may have been altered. There might be a change in his school and work

performance, and he might have an “unusual interest in the case.” Now that the public has more knowledge about the suspect, Hedgepeth’s father, Roland, believes someone will come forward with information that will help the police catch the killer in the near future. “Certainly this [killer] has made statements to someone that probably will be a red flag or done some of the things that were pointed out in the profile bullets,” he said. “I hope it would refresh someone’s memory or make them think twice about something that has happened.” The Hedgepeth family has been in touch with Chapel Hill police weekly and learned of the new developments shortly before the information was released to the public. Roland Hedgepeth declined to comment on any speculation of who the suspect could be, noting that he does not have any more information about the investigation than the general public does. After determining that the death was a homicide and not a random act of violence in September, a Durham County judge sealed much of the case to the public in order to identify suspects who might have information only known to investigators. This is the most information about a possible suspect the police have released SEE HEDGEPETH ON PAGE 4

Duke students will have a new outlet for voicing concerns and suggesting improvements for campus, said Duke Student Government senator Lavanya Sunder, a freshman. Sunder introduced final plans for Fix My Campus at the DSG Senate meeting Wednesday night. The new program will allow students to submit suggestions for campus improvement in a variety of areas. The motion passed by unanimous consent. “The purpose of Fix My Campus is to connect student ideas with people to put them in motion,” Sunder said. Students who notice issues on campus or have ideas for improvements or possible events will be able to text the service. The newly created Fix My Campus DSG committee—the members of which have not been selected yet—will receive the submissions and respond to the ideas. Sunder said the committee will use a Facebook page to gauge student interest for the submissions before the committee decides how to proceed with each suggestion. The committee will include members of Duke University Union and Duke Partnership for Service. Any projects that are not within the domain of DSG will be deferred to other student leadership groups. “This is a student-led and student-managed organization,” Sunder said. “We are not going to lobby the administration for

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DSG senator Lavanya Sunder, a freshman, presents plans for a new campus-improvement program called Fix My Campus at the group’s first meeting of the Spring. everything we need. We want to work with student-led action groups.” She added that the committee will ask the Senate to lobby the administration to act on submissions when necessary. This is not the first time that DSG has tried to implement Fix My Campus. Last year junior Patrick Oathout, current executive vice president, launched the program website, but there were many “bugs” that prevented the program from operating

correctly, Oathout said. There is also a similar program in place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sunder noted, but she hopes Duke students will use the program to its full potential. Most of the submissions at UNC are requests for maintenance in student facilities, Sunder said. “This is Fix My Campus, not SEE DSG ON PAGE 3

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Supreme Court considers blood tests for drunk drivers by Robert Barnes THE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed unlikely to allow police to routinely force suspected drunk drivers to give a blood sample without the officers at least trying to obtain a warrant from a judge. Justices across the ideological spectrum seemed to recoil during oral arguments from what Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. described as the “pretty scary image of somebody restrained and, you know, a representative of the state approaching them with a needle.” There seemed to be little, if any, support for the proposition that the usual constitutional protections that require a warrant for searches do not apply in drunkdriving arrests. Missouri, backed by the Obama administration, argued that a suspect’s dissipating blood-alcohol content meant that, in effect, evidence was being lost and thus drawing blood should not require consent or a judge’s order. That argument drew fire almost immediately. “How can it be reasonable to forego the Fourth Amendment in a procedure as intrusive as a needle going into someone’s body?” asked Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a diabetic who has given herself daily shots of

insulin since childhood. Justice Antonin Scalia immediately signaled that he considers a blood test different from other procedures the government may require. “Why don’t you force him to take the breathalyzer test, instead of forcing him to have a needle shoved... in his arm?” Scalia asked John Koester Jr., the Missouri prosecutor presenting the case for his state. Koester replied that a breathalyzer requires the suspect’s participation. For most of the hour-long argument, the justices seemed to be debating among themselves what emergency circumstances—an inability to contact a magistrate late at night, for instance—might allow taking blood from an uncooperative suspect. The case comes from rural Cape Girardeau County, where in the early-morning hours of Oct. 3, 2010, Missouri State Highway Patrol Corp. Mark Winder pulled over Tyler McNeely. McNeely, with slurred speech and alcohol on his breath, failed a field sobriety test and twice refused to take a breathalyzer test. Winder arrested him and, on the way to jail, stopped by a hospital. After McNeely refused to submit to a blood test, Winder ordered a phlebotomist to draw

blood anyway. Winder did not attempt to obtain a warrant because he said he thought Missouri law did not require it because of recent changes. The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously disagreed and said the blood test could not be used. Courts nationwide are divided about whether a 1966 Supreme Court ruling created an emergency exception to the warrant requirement for taking blood or whether “special facts” must be present to make a warrant unnecessary. Koester and Assistant Solicitor General Nicole Saharsky argued that the rapid dissipation of alcohol was enough to relieve law enforcement from the warrant requirement. “The police are facing a destruction of critical blood-alcohol evidence,” Saharsky told the court. “Every minute counts, and it’s reasonable for the officers to proceed.” But Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that it is relatively easy and quick for police to get a warrant—a phone call is often enough—and that police could attempt to secure one in the time it takes to drive a suspect to a hospital for the procedure. If 30 minutes passes without an answer, perhaps the officer could proceed, she suggested.

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DSG from page 2 ‘fix my sink,” she said. But if a student submits a maintenance problem or concern, they will receive the contact information of the proper administrative department to contact. Sunder added that this program will be more successful than its Tar Heel counterpart because it will incorporate two-way “conversations with students” and will involve many different student groups on campus. “For this idea to really be successful, we need many people on the Facebook page and [many people] submitting ideas and suggestions,” Sunder said. “UNC didn’t do enough to advertise their service, so we need to really get the message out there.” As an incentive for students to get involved with Fix My Campus, DSG will be offering iPad minis as a random

giveaway for members of the Facebook page and those who submit good ideas. In other business: Junior Neil Kondamuri, DSG vice president for social culture, said he is actively working on bringing bookbag Sundays to campus. Bookbag Sundays would provide students with a casual environment to talk with professors and other students while planning their schedule for the next semester. “There is still a lot of work to do with that,” Kondamuri said. Sophomore Nikolai Doytchinov, vice president for academic affairs, said he is working with administrators to build an environment of “research team learning.” He added that last semester’s reading period was too short, noting that and he aims to work with the administration to lengthen the period for future semesters.

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BRYAN from page 1 construction does not obstruct student access to the Bryan Center’s facilities. The ATMs have been moved to the area previously occupied by the pool tables, and the vending machines have been temporarily relocated but will be moved to the same location within two weeks time, said Chris Roby, director of University Center Activities and Events. He added that the mailboxes have been moved to the computer store’s former site on the lower level of the Bryan Center. Other changes include the relocation of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Graduate and Professional Student Council, which will both be moved to Central Campus. Staff at the Center for Multicultural Affairs will relocate to several offices around campus, according to a memo produced by the Office of Student Affairs. All relocations are temporary, with the exception of the mailboxes, ATM’s and GPSC. The construction, begun over break, has caused some confusion among stu-

HEDGEPETH from page 2 throughout the course of the investigation, and they have yet to release a cause of death. “Investigators are confident this DNA will identify the offender and help us to exclude individuals not involved in this crime,” the release states.

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dents returning to campus. “I feel like I still don’t know what is going on. When I got back to school I didn’t know where my mailbox was and had to ask for help,” said junior Brandee Branche. Senior Kelly Heo said she found the noise was disturbing to people eating and working in the area. The Duke Student Government office has temporarily relocated to the space in the West Union Building formerly occupied by the Office of Student Conduct, DSG President Alex Swain, a senior, confirmed. After the renovation DSG will return to its office on the middle floor of the Bryan Center. DSG has worked with the architect to make the space better suit the needs of the organization, Swain added. The move in offices has not been disruptive the DSG, said senior George Carotenuto, DSG vice president for facilities and the environment. “I know that we will have a much better space once the renovations are completed and our office is still easily accessible to students,” he said. Chapel Hill police representatives could not be reached for comment. Hedgepeth, who was from Warrenton, N.C., was a biology major and Gates Millennium Scholar at UNC. She also became actively involved in the UNC American Indian Center during her freshman year. She worked at Red Robin restaurant in Durham, and friends say she wanted to become a pediatrician.

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BONOBO from page 1 Tan collaborated with evolutionary anthropology associate professor Brian Hare, who runs the Duke Canine Cognition Center and conducts comparative studies on the cognitive development of humans, chimpanzees and bonobos. By studying humans’ closest living relatives, researchers can learn how altruism evolved in humans, and what makes us different, Tan said. “We’re trying to understand human nature,” Tan said. “You have to be truly altruistic to be nice to strangers. All over the world, people help strangers. That leads to a hypothesis that we are special because we do that. Are we able to find some other animals that can do it?” In the study, researchers left food for a bonobo in a room, giving them the option of eating everything by themselves, sharing with a friend or sharing with a stranger. To share with a friend or stranger, the bonobos had to open one of two doors where the apes waited. In all cases, the bonobos opened a door to share, however Tan said the surprising finding from the study was that bonobos preferred to share food with strangers over friends. Tan suspected bonobos would be altruistic because they are typically peaceful in their interactions with other bonobos—unlike chimpanzees and humans, bonobos do not kill each other. “We would expect that they would be nice to strangers,” Tan said. “But the shocking thing to us is that they are nicer to strangers than acquaintances.” Lasana Harris, an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience, focuses on the human side of cognition as

part of his research collaboration with Hare’s laboratory. Studying chimpanzees and bonobos can offer a glimpse into the evolutionary past of humanity, he said. “The way we like to think about it is that in chimpanzees and bonobos you have two very closely related species, both closely related to humans, but you get two different kinds of behavior,” he said. Bonobos are peaceful and “pro-social,” interacting well with neighboring bonobos, Harris said, adding that, in contrast, chimpanzees can be aggressive and anti-social. “In those two species, you get both the good and bad side of humanity,” he added. “It’s not a perfect separation, but it’s an interesting way for us to think about it.” Bonobos are so inclined to share with strangers that after the bonobo stranger entered the room, it would then go and open the other door to further split the food with the original bonobo’s friend. This meant the bonobo stranger got to meet yet another stranger. Harris is running a human version of the bonobo study right now and is in the early stages of collecting data. Unlike other primates, however, humans can perceive strangers as familiar, even if they have never meet, if the stranger is a member of the same social group or shares certain characteristics or affiliations. Another future project could look at what the role strangers play in bonobos minds. “Do they treat strangers as if they’re close friends?” Tan asked. “Or do they treat strangers just as they would a normal friend?

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Kelly out indefinitely with Four incoming aggravated right foot injury Blue Devils enroll early by Staff Reports THE CHRONICLE

Senior forward Ryan Kelly is sidelined indefinitely after aggravating an injury to his right foot, according to a press release from the team. Kelly suffered the injury in the first half of Tuesday’s 6840 victory against Clemson, though he played through the end of the period. After scoring 12 points in the first half, he did not play in the second half. “We feel very badly for Ryan,” Duke basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski said in the press release. “He is playing the best basketball of his career and this is a tough setback for him. We’re hoping for a good recovery and we are optimistic about his return.” The 6-foot-11 big man first injured his right foot at the end of last season, forcing him to miss the ACC and NCAA Tournaments. The Blue Devils lost to Florida State in the semifinals of the conference tournament and then lost in their opening game of the NCAA Tournament to Lehigh. Kelly reinjured the foot in December and Tuesday further aggravated it. The senior is averaging a career-high 13.4 points per game, also adding 5.4 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game. He has excelled as an outside shooter, making 52.1 percent of his 3-pointers. In the past two weeks, Kelly took his game to new heights for the Blue Devils. He had averaged 16.0 points per game in the four games prior to his injury against Clemson. He hit 70.6 percent of his 3-pointers in that span, highlighted by a 5-for-7 performance en route to 22 points against Wake Forest. The No. 1 Blue Devils return to action Saturday against No. 20 N.C. State.

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Just two weeks after a heartbreaking loss to Cincinnati in the Belk Bowl, Duke got a jump on its preparations for the 2013 campaign when four members of its incoming recruiting class enrolled a semester early. Cornerbacks Evrett Edwards and Quay Mann, linebacker Dominic McDonald and quarterback Parker Boehme began their academic careers at Duke Wednesday and are set to join the Blue Devils for spring practice, easing their transition into training camp this summer. Duke currently has verbal commitments from a total of 18 recruits in the class of 2013. “It gives us a jump on learning the playbook and getting more familiar with the speed of the game,” Edwards said. “It’s going to be a tremendous advantage, to be familiar with the terminology and have chemistry with the veterans that are returning.” In recent years, it has become commonplace for top recruits to matriculate a semester early at many of college football’s powerhouse programs. During his tenure as the Blue Devils’ head coach, David Cutcliffe—the reigning ACC Coach of the Year—has sought to bring more players onto campus early in an effort to prepare them for the rigor and pace of college football. Once a rare practice at Duke, 13 football players have now enrolled early in the past five seasons. Those players have included Brandon

Ryan Kelly is sidelined indefinitely with an injury to his right foot that he aggravated in Duke’s 68-40 victory against Clemson Tuesday.

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Undefeated Duke not overlooking Clemson by Karl Kingma THE CHRONICLE

It’s been more than a decade since No. 3 Duke lost to Clemson, but don’t think head coach Joanne P. McCallie and the Blue Devils are taking tonight’s 7 p.m. game at Cameron Indoor Stadium lightly. “That would only show great immaturity,” McCallie said. “We respect every opponent. We prepare for CLEM people’s very best, vs. and we want to play No. 3 our very best.” Duke Sophomore guard Nikki Dixon helps THURSDAY, 7 p.m. Cameron Indoor Stadium earn that respect for the Tiger (4-10, 0-3 in the ACC) offense. The Georgia native is a potent scorer averaging 14.5 points per game along with 4.6 rebounds and 2.7 steals. Look for the Blue Devils (13-0, 3-0) to maintain tight coverage tonight on No. 21. “[Dixon is] a tough, aggressive guard— very quick and athletic—and we’ve got to limit her touches,” McCallie said. “We have to really defend her with a great stance, because she can penetrate so well. And she can shoot the 3-ball when she’s open, so she’s a complete player. It’s a team effort—it’s not just one person because matchups change according to transition but she’s very good.” Although Dixon is Clemson’s only player averaging double figures, Quinyotta Pettaway

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Chelsea Gray and the Duke backcourt will have a tough matchup against Clemson guard Nikki Dixon. also has the potential to be an impact player for the Tigers, particularly on the boards. Pettaway, a 6-foot-3 junior, is a legitimate doubledouble threat on any night. The forward will enter tonight’s game averaging 9.8 points on the season and a league-best 14.3 rebounds

per game in ACC play. Clemson will need big time performances from both Dixon and Pettaway if they are to have a chance in tonight’s contest. Duke’s offense, by contrast, has been remarkably multi-dimensional. In conference

play, four Blue Devils have averaged 10 or more points per game. As a team, Duke is averaging 17.7 assists per game and shooting 49.7 percent from the field against ACC opponents. Haley Peters and Elizabeth Williams are superb complements in the frontcourt, sharpshooter Tricia Liston helps spread the floor, but no one has been more impressive than Chelsea Gray. The dynamic point guard from California is averaging 17.0 points per game in Duke’s three conference tilts, but McCallie and her teammates know she is more than just a scorer. “[Chelsea is] one of the best rebounding guards in the country,” McCallie said. “She’s got the ability to play the complete game.” Gray demonstrated that ability last Sunday against Boston College, where she posted her second career triple-double with 18 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists. Off the stat line, Gray also drew three charges for the Blue Devils. Clemson will have a hard time matching up on either side of the floor tonight. Nevertheless, the matchup will provide a great opportunity for the Blue Devils to polish their rebounding and defensive intensity. While there is always room for improvement, McCallie acknowledged excitement with the team’s performance to date. “We’re excited. We’re growing. We’re getting better,” McCalle said. “We’re kind of a work in progress, but we’re definitely heading in the right direction.”

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Brandon Connette, who excelled in a utility role this year, enrolled in the Spring of 2010.

Josh Snead also enrolled in the Spring of 2010 and rushed for 221 yards in his freshman season.

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Mann in spring practice could have a large impact on the future of the Duke secondary. Not only could they potentially take on significant roles in the defensive backfield next season, but, by playing and living together as roommates, Edwards and Mann will be able to develop chemistry both on and off the field. Following their decision to enroll for the Spring semester, Edwards and Mann both said they were welcomed by their new teammates with open arms in anticipation of their arrival. Edwards expects to be mentored by first-team All-ACC selection and team captain Ross Cockrell, who was Edwards’ host on his official visit. “Just being able to follow someone’s

Connette, Josh Snead, Sydney Sarmiento and Thomas Sirk. Mann said that this trend indicates the growth of the program. The Rocky Mount, N.C. native was on hand in Charlotte, N.C. last month to watch the Blue Devils play their first bowl game in 18 years. “It speaks a lot about the program. The program’s recruiting has stepped up a lot in recent years,” Mann said. “Duke has worked harder to get higher-rated prospects and bring them on campus early because the coaching staff believes they can play.” McDonald, a native of Longwood, Fla.,

was a first-team All-State selection following his senior season at Lake Brantley High School. Boehme, also a Florida native, threw 40 touchdowns and earned All-State recognition during his junior year before his senior season was cut short due to injury. A native of Woodbridge, Va., Edwards is one of the more highly-touted prospects in Duke’s incoming recruiting class. In an interview with The Chronicle last November, Edwards said Nick Saban, head coach of back-to-back national champion Alabama, called him “the best high school corner he has seen this year.” With the Blue Devils losing two of their top cornerbacks from last season to graduation, the experience of Edwards and

lead who was an all-conference player, to step into a new situation and have someone that talented to guide me, I think that’s just tremendous. You can’t ask for anything better,” Edwards said. Meanwhile, Duke’s newest football players will have time to adjust before spring practice begins. This means not only becoming academically acclimated but also getting used to life at Duke, which Edwards said may mean a few trips to Cameron Indoor Stadium. “I’m glad that I get to get on campus while it’s still basketball season,” Edwards said. “It’s such a big part of life at Duke. I can’t think of any better way to get to know Duke than to get to know Duke basketball.”

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Making the grade The humiliation at the ministrative oversight and bias University of North Carolina toward the status quo. Fortuat Chapel Hill continues. Last nately, Duke has not experimonth, a comprehensive in- enced a widespread scandal vestigation at UNC revealed related to academic improprithat many athletes had been ety among its athletes. But it is receiving credit not immune to for no-show misconduct. In editorial classes and un1995, Duke basauthorized grade changes ketball center Greg Newton within the African and Afro- was found cheating on a comAmerican studies depart- puter science program and, afment since 1997, more than ter a two-semester suspension, fifteen years ago. The deeply returned to Duke and continentrenched fraud—which ex- ued playing on the team. In tended to 216 courses, some 1997, Duke guard Ricky Price composed of more than 40 was caught plagiarizing and percent athletes—has been a also later returned to the unidevastating embarrassment to versity and the team. the university. With teams generating The athletics scandal at large revenues as well as an inUNC should be a grave warn- ternational and high-powered ing to Duke about the poten- fanbase, Duke is in some sense tially dangerous combination the perfect storm for an athof high profile sports, weak ad- letically motivated academics

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scandal. The pressures on our student athletes is enormous. Their teammates, coaches and fans have extraordinarily high expectations of them. It is thus easy to imagine professors experiencing implicit pressure to not obstruct a high-stakes sports season. Consider the community reaction if a star basketball player were benched for a crucial playoff game due to academic underperformance. Professors can have other reasons for cutting corners. Although there was no clear motive for the counterfeit courses at UNC, the report suggested that the African and Afro-American department— whose courses were especially popular among athletes—may have wanted to increase enrollment and gain more faculty positions.

It is hard to imagine the partial or complete falsification of 216 courses happening at Duke, but surely the UNC community could not have fathomed such a terrible thing—until it happened. If Duke is to learn anything from our rival’s misfortunes, it is to be hyper-vigilant or else risk a similarly ruinous catastrophe. After its scandal, UNC has enacted strict vetting of independent study courses and stronger departmental oversight. The Athletic Council—a presidential committee within the Academic Council— should monitor UNC’s policy revisions closely and evaluate Duke’s own mechanisms of maintaining academic integrity on both sides of the classroom, from both the student and the teacher perspective.

To be clear, we have no reason to believe that any Duke student-athletes, faculty or administrators are acting improperly. But as with any big sports school, the danger is there. Recent incidents of child abuse at Penn State, improper booster benefits at University of Miami and inappropriate staff hires at University of Arkansas all point to the misconduct that can occur when no one is looking. Now, UNC is reeling from the astonishing truth about its academic corruption, which hurts the vast majority of student athletes who have diligently and honorably earned their degrees. Fortunately, Duke has not yet experienced a similar disaster, and it should take every precaution to ensure it never does.

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Cerebral venous thrombosis,” explained the will forever stay etched in my memory—these neurologist as I gasped for air and rubbed were nights that have compelled me to truly apthe streaming tears from my eyes. My father preciate my blessings, reexamine my perspecwrapped his arm around me while the doctor tive on life and reclaim my faith. During these explained that my best friend, nights, it was my job to remind Basam Cheema, wouldn’t be able Basam of the people in his life, to remember anything prior to of everything he had experienced the day he was admitted to intenand of the lessons he had learned sive care. Basam’s mother told me in the past. I would see the despair that the family had been trying to and confusion in Basam’s eyes reach me since the night of the inwhen he realized that he had lost cident and that I was among the so much of his memory. I stopped first few who had been contacted. mousa alshanteer saying “do you remember when?” After I began to weep yet again, my after I realized that it was just too you don’t say? father pulled me back, handed me hard to see in him the discomfort a tissue and began talking to Mrs. and pain of not understanding Cheema. My brother told me that everything anything he witnessed in the past. Teary-eyed was going to be okay and that all I needed to do and emotionally debilitated, I looked up at the at the time was pray. I sat on the cold wooden ceiling of the room and prayed for a miracle. floor, covered my wet face with my hands and Soon enough, the fatigue and distress caused by began praying. I was angered, depressed and the events of the night induced me to lie down confused, all the while continuing to ask my- and fall asleep. self, “Why would God completely ruin the life of The next day, Basam told me that he couldn’t someone who was so respected, so intelligent, so sleep because he had been up all night trying to faithful and loved by so many?” figure out what had happened. Then he looked The neurologist walked up to where I was at me, smiled, and said, “I have faith that everysitting, kneeled next to me, and explained that thing is going to be alright.” It was clear that Basam had suffered a stroke as a result of a Basam was back to normal regardless of the blood clot in his brain. “He’s blessed,” he said. amnesia that persisted. His headache had dis“He’s blessed that his memory has been taken appeared; he smiled for the first time in days away rather than his life.” He then patted me and proceeded to beat me in a game of Scrabble on the back, lent me his arm and pulled me with a score of 181-92. Throughout the next few up and off the floor. I walked into the room days, he regained his argumentative skills and in complete disregard of the surrounding fam- completely conquered our debates on political ily members and stared into my friend’s empty, philosophy. He embarrassed me in a few vidclueless eyes. He slowly stuck out his arm so that eogames, recovered his quick wit and sarcasm he could shake my hand and reintroduce him- and resumed his dietary habit of consuming unself. I slowly reached for his hand and stuttered healthy amounts of junk food on a daily basis. as I claimed, “It’s me, Mousa, your best friend.” Throughout all of this, I was amazed not by the With a blank look on his face, Basam respond- fact that my prayers seemed to have been aned, “Hi, Mousa.” I began trembling as a wave of swered, but by Basam’s strength, perseverance emotion overwhelmed me and collapsed onto and will to have a positive outlook on everything the floor as the surrounding cries and moans that was going on around him. became increasingly louder. The doctors recently indicated that the blood My best friend had forgotten about me and clot in Basam’s brain had completely dissolved. there was nothing I could do about it. Though the amnesia still persists, the neuroloI decided to stay overnight at the hospital gist proclaimed that Basam’s recovery was “a for the next few days not only because I was miracle.” I’m not sure whether or not my prayers obligated to support Basam and his family, but came through, but the fact that my friend realso because I would have a chance to rebuild mained strong through it all and inexplicably our memories together from scratch. After his recovered in the end should not be taken for family left, Basam and I would stay up and dis- granted. It was, in fact, a miracle. cuss everything that had happened prior to the A miracle, indeed. stroke—our rides to and from lunch, our teachers and classmates, our summer workout plan Mousa Alshanteer is a Trinity freshman. His colthat resulted in my temporary six-pack, and any- umn runs every other Thursday. You can follow Mouthing and everything in between. These nights sa on Twitter @mousaalshanteer.

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rior to the repeal of the 21st Amendment, al- even when they are banned, given that they recohol consumption per person was about two quire little capital equipment, expertise or space thirds of its pre-prohibition level. to produce. If private gun ownership were banned, “Prohibition of alcohol was a failure,” they say— it’d be a different story. and many use this premise to conNeither guns nor ivory have thrivclude that attempts to implement naing unregulated markets in other tionwide bans on other substances or nations. artifacts will also fail. In the wake of In many U.S. states, individuals can the Newtown tragedy, there have been legally purchase an unlimited number renewed calls to ban or curtail ownerof firearms at one time. It shouldn’t ship of certain classes of weapons and surprise us that over two-thirds of ammunition. Of the proposals on the guns seized by authorities, guns that table, the most likely to pass is a reare fueling the brutal armed conflict elena botella incarnation of the Assault Weapons in Mexico, come from gun dealers in Ban. Some have gone further, calling a rebirth of wonder United States. The black market in for a repeal of the Second AmendMexico feeds off our legal and loosely ment and the implementation of a Great-Britain- regulated market. The prohibition of alcohol tells style set of laws surrounding gun ownership. us that, where there is no legal market for a good, Arguments against gun control sometimes run a black market will flourish. But for many goods, along the lines of “laws restricting gun ownership especially those that require technical expertise to only stop law-abiding citizens from owning guns, produce, the existence of a black market is parasitic they don’t stop bad guys,” or “prohibition doesn’t off a legal market. Put simply, if private sales of guns work—killers will always find a way,” and generally were banned in the United States, where would ending up with some variant of the conclusion that the black market guns come from? Guns, relative strict gun control laws would actually increase gun to illicit drugs, would be comparatively difficult to violence. If we were to trust the NRA, perhaps the smuggle into the United States, in large part beonly way to bring down the already tiny rate of gun cause there are few nations where guns are easy to violence in Poland or South Korea would be to acquire en masse. The nation’s existing capital stock make all firearms there legal, and give guns to all of guns would last for a long time—but though guns Polish and Korean teachers. are durable goods, bullets are not; in fact, former But alcohol and guns, and for that matter mari- Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of Illinois famously juana and guns, are very different objects—and estimated that the United States only has a threelessons learned from the prohibition of intoxicat- year supply of bullets. ing substances may not be the best guide for unNancy Lanza was a “law-abiding citizen,” and derstanding firearms. Guns are more like ivory; evi- Adam Lanza was a “law-abiding citizen” until dence suggests that the 1989 global ban on the ivory the day he killed 27, including himself, at Sandy trade was indeed successful at decreasing poaching Hook. In a nation where gun massacres happen of endangered elephants, and that the quantity of with tragic regularity, it seems to me that we have ivory demanded in the United States plummeted. a lot to fear from “law-abiding citizens” with fireInstead of looking to the failure of alcohol prohi- arms. One expert on crime gun patterns with the bition in assessing the effectiveness of restrictions Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) on gun ownership, we should ask ourselves what reports that one of the most common sources of we could learn from the success of the ivory ban. guns used in crimes is the illegal resale of a leHere’s what guns and ivory have in common: gally purchased gun. We also know that many gun Neither guns nor ivory can be easily manufac- deaths, whether suicide, homicide or accidental, tured using cheap materials in one’s basement or result from individuals firing guns that they or backyard. their family members purchased legally, as in the All you need to make moonshine is corn meal, case of Sandy Hook. There may be ideological reasugar, copper pipe, water and a few pots and pans. sons for protecting the Second Amendment, but it I can’t say with certainty what raw materials and is clear to me that adopting laws like those found light machinery you would need to manufacture in the world’s other wealthy democracies—like a semi-automatic rifle, but I can say with certainty forbidding bulk sales, sharply limiting individual that even if I asked every resident of my apartment, ownership and banning the most deadly assault we couldn’t rustle together all the stuff we’d need weapons—would dramatically curtail our nation’s in an afternoon. A pretty crafty amateur can make epidemic of gun violence. a potato cannon, but your average Joe would not have been able to assemble Adam Lanza’s AR-15, Elena Botella is a Trinity senior. Her column runs capable of firing 45 rounds a minute. It shouldn’t every Thursday. 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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety,” Benjamin Franklin once wrote. In light of the horrific Newtown massacre, as well as other recent, high profile incidents of firearms violence, many in Congress and across the nation have called for increased restrictions on firearms. First, it must be acknowledged that everyone contributing to the national dialogue has one interest in mind: to protect people from violent crimes. The chief point of dissension is the means by which we achieve reduced firearms violence. Although admirable and well intentioned, the current fervor to enact new legislation is both dangerously misguided and an affront to the natural liberties of man. The first folly of the firearms restriction movement is the lack of foresight for the actual effects of their intended legislation. If the goal is to reduce firearms violence, restricting the private ownership of firearms achieves the opposite effect. In 1764, Thomas Jefferson made a statement, which still rings true today. “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those jonathan zhao who are neither inclined nor deterfree markets, mined to commit crimes. … Such free people laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” Legislation promoting arms restrictions only enables criminals at the expense of the common man. This phenomenon has been documented quite extensively. For example, since England’s 1997 ban on all handguns, the rate of both violent crime and handgun crime has more than doubled, according to Joyce Malcom’s research published by Harvard University Press. Indeed, places with tight restrictions like Chicago and Mexico have high instances of violent crime per capita. Conversely, a nation like Switzerland, where every male is issued a military rifle, has one of the lowest crime rates in the world. So, the oft-repeated mantra, “more guns, more crime,” is just simply wrong. On constitutional grounds, new firearms regulations will likely be struck down by the Supreme Court. The Second Amendment reads, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” In the landmark 2008 case, District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court affirmed that the second clause of the amendment was the operative clause, with the first being a clarifying clause. As such, the private ownership of firearms without undue government intrusion was upheld as a codification of the natural right to self-defense. Thus, any new legislation that intends to limit the private ownership of firearms would have to persuasively and unequivocally show an argument for limiting the rights of the citizenry to self-defense. With that high bar, it’s unlikely that new legislation would endure a constitutional challenge. Finally, on philosophical grounds, the unhindered right to bear arms should be recognized as a normative principle. Self-defense is a natural liberty, and thus inalienable, unable to either be taken or given away. With that said, there are obviously several limitations to legitimate arms ownership. First, the owner must be both in a rational state of mind and fully informed of the consequences of firearms ownership. This would prohibit minors and mentally deranged individuals from ownership. Secondly, those that have a record of using firearms for malicious reasons should not have access to firearms. This covers felons and other past offenders. Lastly, on the continuum of potential harm to others, those weapons that have a clear capacity for large-scale destruction; the extreme case of atomic bombs, for example, must be regulated. Other than those exceptions, citizens should have the right to own a firearm free of interference from the state. Private firearm ownership deters individuals from committing crimes, as seen in numerous incidents where mass shootings were stopped by an armed private citizen. But more importantly, private firearms ownership prevents tyrannical governance against free peoples. In the course of human history, the worst atrocities against humanity have been committed on peoples stripped of arms. Just in the last century alone, the countries that have banned private firearms such as Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia and Mao’s China, played witness to some of the worst crimes in history. Even Gandhi, the archetypical pacifist wrote, “Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.” Thus firearms don’t solely protect the individual, but also the free society. Tragedies are tragic, but the loss of freedom is more so. Jonathan Zhao is a Trinity freshman. His column runs every other Thursday.

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infectious disease department of Duke Medicine. “It’s a step you don’t take lightly but it’s certainly something we do at times when the community is sick as a whole.” Not only has this year’s flu season been more severe, it also struck earlier. “Typically the flu really only kicks off about now and peaks in the first week or two of February,” Wolfe said. “[This year] we started seeing a big rise in early December, and even by late last week, we saw rates [of flu infections] that are higher than the past four or five years.” Across the nation, 43 of the 50 states are reported to have “widespread” influenza activity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Despite the severity of the flu, it is not a new strain like the pandemic H1N1 virus, commonly known as the swine flu, that prompted concerns in 2009, Wolfe said. Still, concern is especially high for the flu to spread in the tightly packed Duke residential halls. “The best incubation for any virus is the student dormitories,” he said. “Since the flu is a respiratory virus, the only way it enters your system is through an airway or your eyes, often when we rub them with our hands.” He noted several steps Duke students can take to ensure they stay healthy this winter. For one, washing hands can limit

regular decision applicants will likely be between 10 and 11 percent, Guttentag said. This would keep the regular decision acceptance rate constant with last year’s rate. Several of Duke’s peer institutions filled large proportions of their classes with early decision admittees. The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern University’s student newspaper, reported that 43 percent of Northwestern’s Class of 2017 will be filled by early decision students. Similarly, the University of Pennsylvania’s student newspaper The Daily Pennsylvanian reports that “just under half” of the Class of 2017 will be comprised of early decision applicants. “I’m not an expert, but UPenn made a conscious decision to increase its ED acceptance,” said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education. “And they did that as I understand specifically because it was good for yield and because it was yielding students who really wanted to be at UPenn.” It took UPenn several years to be able to fully ramp up its early decision acceptance rate, Nowicki said, to allow time for the applicant pool’s quality to increase. He noted that Duke was able to increase the number of early decision acceptances quickly because the applicant

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Covering sneezes and coughs is important in preventing the flu from spreading. The Duke University Health System has recently restricted visitation due to the virus. the spread of the flu by destroying the virus that can otherwise live on hands for several hours. Students can also avoid sharing utensils with dorm-mates and covering their coughs. Although the Triangle is already well into the throes of flu season, a vaccine can still be beneficial and provide protection in the coming weeks sincethe immunity it contains is effective against this year’s disease. “We were able to see it [in Eu-

rope and other countries], predict that it would be here, and therefore we were able to put it into the vaccine,” Wolfe explained. He urged any student who has not yet been vaccinated to get the free shot through the Student Health Center on West Campus. Kevin Sowers, president of Duke Hospital, and Doug Stokke, assistant vice president for communications at Duke Medicine, could not be reached in time for comment.

pool was already strong. “It’s a statement about the perceived quality of Duke,” Nowicki said. “When [students] apply ED at Duke the students we let in are letting go opportunities to get into Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, and they could get in there. That’s saying something really good about Duke.” Jacob Vigdor, a professor of public policy and economics with research expertise in college admissions policies, noted that it is in universities’ interest to admit more early decision applicants, as it increases the yield rate, making the university look more desirable and often increasing its rank in lists such as the U.S. News and World Report. Vigdor advised, however, against assuming the University’s motives based on one year of data. Different universities are “trendy” in different years, Vigdor said, noting that applicant pools can vary from year to year, and Duke should not be concerned unless it sees a steady decline in applications or yield rate over the course of several years. “There’s a whole cottage industry of people who try to read a lot of information into very small amounts of data, to look into little blippy things from one year to the next and say, ‘Oh my God, the sky is falling,’ or, ‘This university is the greatest thing since sliced bread,’” Vigdor said, noting that these postulations seldom hold weight.

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ing appalling types of sexist behavior and attitudes that I would never tolerate in real life. This isn’t even mentioning the blatant homophobia or excess materialism that pervades the culture as well. But I’m not condemning hip-hop culture for breeding this attitude—the issues that contribute to it are too historical and nuanced to place blame, especially coming from someone outside of that particular lifestyle. I can only speak as a consumer of the art that it produces and defend my choices. And as unnatural as it might sound to group both A$AP Rocky and Stravinsky in the same category, they are nonetheless both music artists. It’s just a lot easier to defend liking Stravinsky than a guy who raps, “I be that pretty motherf**ker.” Defending hip-hop begins by accepting an Aristotelian view of art, which sees art as another representation of truth as opposed to leading us further from the truth (the Platonic view). These descriptions are ineloquent distillations, but they get to the heart of how Aristotle, and most of us today, view art—influenced by and reflective of life. Songs calling women “hos” and “bitches” expose a different perspective that doesn’t necessarily resemble ours. Just because I don’t find these views valid in my life doesn’t mean their usage invalidates the rest of hip-hop music. Such dissonance speaks to the purpose of art—to entertain, soothe, heal, shock, enlighten, etc. I turn to hip-hop for all of these things, not for a message on how to live my life. My beliefs about treating women respectfully were formed what we’re looking forward to in 3013 outside of any kind of art. Michaela Dwyer....................................................................................reincarnation They are uncompromising and will always be more reHolly Hilliard................................................................meeting the Jonas Brothers flective of who I am as a perTed Phillips......................................................................ruling the post-apocalypse son than hip-hop music will. Dan Fishman...........................................................................................world peace Yet I can see the merits in art created from of a misogynisKatie Zaborsky.........................................................................................feminist cats tic culture because I know Sophia Durand.......................................................Wednesday night Shooters VIII what I would do in real life

y favorite lyrics in hip-hop come from the song “Brown Skin Lady” off the 1998 album Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star: “Damn she fine, I think I add the R-E in front of that/And she is she D to get with a cat like me.” What I like about it so much is that Talib doesn’t stigmatize a woman’s sexuality nor does he co-opt it for his own benefit. He recognizes her qualities beyond the physical, calling her both fine and refined, a clever way of showing how to compliment a woman beyond the superficial. The whole song is actually a powerful tribute to women, praising both beauty and poise. It’s characteristic of the type of hip-hop I listen to. But so is “There He Go,” a song from ScHoolboy Q that contains the lines, “Ass fat, throw it back, I can’t believe you wifing that/ Deepthroat, seven or eleven, she’s a double gulp.” This is the type of hip-hop I turn down when I roll up in the Whole Foods parking lot—not because I’m white, but because I’m a woman. For a long time, I’ve struggled to reconcile my position as a feminist with my love of hip-hop, and the contradiction is even more glaring when I look back at articles I’ve written for Recess. My last Editor’s Note was a denunciation of the word “crazy” as a gendered adjective, and my most recent music review was Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d. city, an album I readily gave five stars despite it being propelled by the desire to f**k some girl named Sherane. Listening to these albums could be seen as sanction-

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if I heard someone call a woman a bitch. In my mind, listening to a rapper degrade women is not comparable to degrading women myself, nor does it necessarily increase the likelihood that I will do so in the future. That said, I don’t feel the need to defend every aspect of hip-hop music. The lack of female emcees (and the ones who manage to achieve fame in the current music climate) is an Editor’s Note unto itself. I’ll stick with the example of shock rap, a subgenre that in my opinion is far less nuanced and defensible than any other type of rap. Examples of shock rap are songs like Tyler, the Creator’s “Tron Cat” and Eminem’s “Kim,” where the perceived measure of success is defined by an initial reaction of horror. Then what? Both rappers I mentioned are undoubtedly talented, but I just can’t defend a lyric like, “Rape a pregnant bitch and tell my friends I had a threesome.” It’s too appalling a reality to find merit in, and my bodily reaction to reject it will always be stronger than rationalizing its contributions to hip-hop. That is my line in the sand, and it forces me to examine a moral hierarchy I’ve created for myself. Good art does that. And everyone has a different line in the sand when it comes to hip-hop. Do you listen to hip-hop because it reinforces your dormant mentality of misogyny and viewing women as sexual accessories? Do you listen to it for entertainment and overlook the more troublesome lyrics in an otherwise creative and intelligent piece of music? Or do you not listen to hiphop at all because the culture contributes to a society where gender inequality is the norm? All of these positions are valid if you can find a way to defend them in a personal yet critical way. I’ve struggled with this idea of being a feminist and a hip-hop lover for a long time because it’s never felt like a comfortable position. But at least I’m scrutinizing it to better understand how I can like what I like. It’s a lot more productive than just turning on the radio and saying, “That Kanye song is dope.” —Katie Zaborsky

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January 10, 2013

django unchained

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DIR. QUENTIN TARANTINO THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY

LADY FROM SHANGHAI FIRE

With remakes and reboots taking over Hollywood, Django Unchained felt refreshing. In reality, of course, the modernized spaghetti western tips its hat to a few inspiring predecessors, including Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 Django from which Tarantino drew his title. But even having seen that 1966 film, today’s Django was something all its own. Tarantino tells the story of Django (Jamie Foxx), a freed slave turned bounty hunter who, alongside his German man-hunting mentor (Christoph Waltz), sets out to free his wife from a vicious plantation owner (Leonardo DiCaprio). As evidenced by the preceding sentence, this film has a star-studded and talented cast, also including Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson, that elevates an already great script into a superlative movie. Scenes become multi-dimensional as the actors sell the dramedy from every emotional angle. Django is exciting, innovative and—as all Tarantino movies are—bloody. But it also looks at racial relations in a unique way. Set just before the Civil War, it would’ve been easy for Tarantino to divide good and evil by skin color, or to make the audience uninhibitedly root for Django in his quest. But that more predictable story is not this film. There are multi-racial teams on both sides of the fence, and Django’s goal is never focused on ending slavery but always centered on saving his wife. Django puts his own interests above the greater good and marks himself prominently as an anti-hero, a character archetype inspired by the 1966 original. It’s a love story that drives the plot, not a war. That being said, there’s enough gore to go around. Guts fly into the air. Knives meet genitalia. I’m the audience member who sometimes has to look away, but for the most part, the fighting was so over-the-top that I could watch it all (almost). And that made these long bouts of action comical, keeping Tarantino’s unique tone consistent through the entire two hours and fortyfive minutes. But the length is the one issue I found with Django. It was a great movie, but one that could have been told in two hours flat. This movie is a four-part saga that should’ve been three, because the last forty minutes felt like a redo of the previous forty minutes. Clearly Tarantino likes Scarface style shoot-outs, and they can be fun, but it went on too long and happened too many times. Plus, between each part of the saga, there was a little hitch in the giddyup of this western. It slowed, and if I’m going to sit there that long then I want to anticipate each minute, not hope for the end. But the ending repetition doesn’t hurt the overall originality. The impressive cast and Tarantino’s direction make Django Unchained a film to be reckoned with. —Jamie Kessler

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les miserables

DIR. TOM HOOPER WORKING TITLE FILMS

Les Miserables is a faithful adaptation of both Victor Hugo’s novel and Claude-Michel Schonberg’s musical, but also a film of missed opportunities. The story concerns the plight of the convict-turned-Christian Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) who is hunted by the persistent Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe). The story progresses through seventeen years, climaxing with the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris. Director Tom Hooper’s adaptation of Les Miserables is certain to appease the legions of musical theater fans who will be happy to see veteran Broadway heartthrobs Aaron Tveit and Samantha Barks. Hooper’s adaptation will also satisfy movie-goers who crave sentimentality— after all, it is impossible to leave the theater without teary eyes and a few sniffles. However, Hooper’s film will not leave a lasting impression in the film community. It attempts to reconcile three different mediums of telling the same story: novel, musical theater and now film. However, it caters too heavily to its roots and fails to successfully create its own space on screen. Hooper misses an opportunity to provide spectacular and cohesive visuals. In addition, the actors tip-toe along the fourth wall, sometimes acting within the world of Les Miserables and other times orienting themselves around the camera to give piercing looks into the audience. Hooper’s film was simply an adaptation of the stage musical and manifested no new meaning or craft from the familiar story. Just because Les Miserables is not the best film, though, does not mean it is a bad film adaptation. Hooper is wise to use the makeup department to his advantage, creating a highly dramatic, yet genuine, metamorphosis of Jean Valjean over the seventeen years shown in the film. In addition, while the setting as a whole is underwhelming, certain scenes shine with an epic glory that only film can hold, especially the initial images depicting a crew of prisoners hauling in a ship. These moments of grandeur are fleeting, but clearly the work of a seasoned director. In the fashion of many audiences before me, it is impossible to go without applauding Anne Hathaway’s performance as Fantine. Hathaway emerges as a contemporary Audrey Hepburn, simultaneously embodying both beauty and power in the framework of a fragile character. Crowe provides a wholly-convincing performance of Javert’s steadfastness to the law amidst inner turmoil, even if his singing isn’t up to par. However, he lacks chemistry with Jackman, whose performance is deserving of, at best, an “A” for effort. The Thenardiers (Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter) bring humorous interludes to the sob-fest, but the humor is owed more to the lyrics rather than their acting. The best character of all is the ensemble, which, if it were utilized better, could have provided much-needed breaks between a seemingly unending string of deaths. Hooper’s Les Miserables is worth seeing for the shining performances and momentary glimpses of filmic potential, but the audience should not expect to glean more meaning or experience than they would from viewing the stage production. However, given that Les Miserables is a fantastic musical in and of itself, the movie is a gem in a season full mostly of 3D re-releases and bad Billy Crystal comedies.

Cleveland-based band Pere Ubu formed in 1975 and after the release of their first album was immediately categorized as experimental rock. In the mid-late 70s, the Sex Pistols and Talking Heads were the edgy bands, but Pere Ubu’s music was decades ahead. Ubu’s first album, The Modern Dance, sounds similar to things that John Cale has released today, and compared to the Pistols and Talking Heads, Ubu’s music sounds so much stranger. Avant rock has eventually caught up—partially as a result of longstanding Ubu-member David Thomas’ work producing other experimental albums—but their sound has never been assimilated to the mainstream in the manner of the comparably experimental 70s bands. Lady from Shanghai, even for its strangeness, is strange in ways that have become common. Today weirdness— especially unapproachable weirdness—isn’t enough to make an album worth listening to. That’s been done for a while now, and the best avant-garde music today, in order to move forward, maintains the well-trodden experimental approach but brings those sounds and ideas into contact with melody and accessible emotion. Of all of the then-famous 70s and 80s cutting-edge artists still around today, Swans has produced some of the most emotionally accessible albums without sacrificing their uniqueness. Their latest album, The Seer, even for its difficulty, has a clear and coherent progression. Scott Walker, on the other hand, has mastered the ability to shock his listeners, but he’s been less successful connecting with them. His sound-experiments are tied together by a similar tone, but the sum is never greater than its parts. Pere Ubu falls in between the approaches of Swans and Walker. With Lady from Shanghai, Ubu takes their old sound and brings to it more modern and expected methods of production including heavy layering of different sounds and some non-synth instrumentation (e.g. clarinets). One particularly successful track is “Thanks,” which, on first listen, sounds puzzlingly familiar even though the only comprehensible lyrics are “You can go to hell.” As it turns out, the track is familiar: it’s an experimental interpretation and parody of Anita Ward’s classic “You Can Ring My Bell.” The parody and re-interpretation of the classic dance tune helps to found Ubu’s argument for possible new directions of dance music, a style that Ubu calls in the liner notes “an album of dance music fixed.” It’s a good move for Ubu, tying his music to something with an obvious purpose, even if it’s unclear just exactly what type of hoppin’ dance party would choose to play this album. Avant-garde art doesn’t necessarily require creating ex nihilo, and Lady from Shanghai succeeds in part because Ubu has learned the virtues of re-interpretation. Most of the tracks can be tied to and are inspired by real-life phenomena, and, even when these are difficult to discern at first glance, Ubu explains many of these sources in the album’s accompanying book (e.g. one track’s production is based on the game Chinese Whispers, or as it is known in the United States, “telephone”). I’m much more willing to listen to the album because of its groundedness in elements that I can latch onto. There are moments of emotional bliss followed by long periods of feeling on edge, but there’s enough melody to make the moments of tension feel worthwhile. —Adrienne Harreveld

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MUSIC

MOUNT MORIAH, MIRACLE TEMPLE

- FEB. 26

“Mount Moriah” is the name of a road that separates, or joins, Chapel Hill and Durham. Mount Moriah is also a local band that released their self-titled debut back in 2011 and quickly garnered (very good) reviews calling their sound representative of the “New South.” Lately I’m convinced of this: All that separates also joins. Despite its nebulousness (and increasing pervasiveness), the “New South” couples the historical and contemporary, just as Mount Moriah’s music links classic Southern rock and 2000sera indie folk and traditional lyrical structure with narratives exploring—and affirming—nontraditional sexuality. Everything on Mount Moriah demonstrates the band’s intentionality in carving out their own space. But with Miracle Temple, I predict they’ll not only carve but also stake it more confidently. I’d be lying if I said I haven’t given the album a fair listen already, thanks to an advance press copy via Merge Records, but I’ll restrict my tone here to (mostly) anticipatory glee. I cannot wait for you to hear what Merge’s website calls “bigger arrangements, louder guitars, bolder vocals and more soulful rhythms than their acclaimed self-titled debut.” I cannot wait for you to hear the smoldering slide guitar and slow, rolling builds that mirror the physical feel of a long drive through the North Carolina Piedmont; Heather McEntire’s unique ability to project, simultaneously, quiver and strength in her vocals, especially in the opening of “Union Street Bridge”; lines like “Get out of my heart/ step into the light.” On Friday, April 12, Mount Moriah is throwing a record release party at Cat’s Cradle, and I cannot wait to see you there. —Michaela Dwyer

ARCADE FIRE, UNNAMED ALBUM Arcade Fire’s last full-length album was one of the most widely acclaimed albums of the last five years. The Suburbs won a Grammy, the Polaris Music Prize, a BRIT and was at or very near the top of most “Best of 2010” lists. Saying they have a lot to live up to would be putting it mildly. But there are plenty of reasons to anticipate a worthy followup from the Montreal septet. Most notably, LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy is contributing to the album, although his role is currently unannounced. The as-yet unnamed album, released sometime in late 2013, will also feature contributions from Owen Pallett (aka Final Fantasy), co-writer of the string and orchestral arrangements on Arcade Fire’s previous work. These inputs, plus rumors of a dancier sound at their recent “secret concert” in Montreal, promise, if nothing else, an intriguing fourth studio album. —Ted Phillips

January 10, 2013

THE KNIFE, SHAKING THE HABITUAL

- APR. 9

It’s been almost seven years since The Knife released Silent Shout. Since then the Swedish brother-sister duo have released solo records and collaborated with fellow European electronic musicians but they’ve released nothing comparable in caliber or scope to their 2006 classic. Shrouded by a sense of mystery abetted by both The Knife’s iconoclastic taste and their longstanding distrust of music media, this April’s full-length LP Shaking the Habitual conjures wild expectations on the part of both critics and fans (myself included). In all likelihood, with all of the hype, it’s bound to be at least somewhat underwhelming. But, years later, no other band has been able to match the dark and throbbing dance-world of “Like A Pen” and “We Share Our Mother’s Health,” and I’m giddy thinking about even poor replicas of their splendor. —Dan Fishman SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE

TELEVISION ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, SEASON

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Like many fans of Arrested Development, I only started watching the show after it was already canceled by Fox in 2006. Unlike many fans, I wasn’t exactly hoping for a revival. Yes, Arrested Development quickly joined cult favorites like Firefly and Freaks and Geeks as another critical darling unappreciated by a mass audience. But there’s a reason these brilliant shows are so beloved in hindsight and eulogized so fervently: they were short-lived and perfect in their brevity, and that’s precisely why we like them. Throughout its three brief seasons, Arrested Development maintained the same quality of off-kilter gags and layered skits without compromising artistic integrity. AD was truly an original, one-of-a-kind sitcom, all while redefining what a “sitcom” could be. That’s why disrupting the canon makes me both excited and nervous. Premiering on Netflix on May 4th, the fourth season will consist of 14 episodes each revolving around a member of the Bluth family and their life since the tidy season three finale. In addition to the Bluths, fan favorites like Lucille 2, Carl Weathers and Ann Veal (her?) are expected to make cameos. There’s also talks of an Arrested Development movie, but mentioning that in print probably just set the project back another two years. —Katie Zaborsky

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FILM

THE GREAT GATSBY, DIR. BAZ LUHRMANN

- MAY 10

It can be a dangerous game, remaking a novel as famous as The Great Gatsby. But writer/director Baz Luhrmann might be the right person for the job, having crafted an imaginative and colorful adaptation in his 1996 Romeo + Juliet, which, like Gatsby, starred Leonardo DiCaprio. One of Luhrmann’s strong suits is crafting over-wrought, gilded visions of the past that seem to lack dinge or ugliness (as evidenced in Moulin Rouge), so his West Egg should sparkle and the party scenes will be opulent. The Great Gatsby features Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Carey Mulligan as Daisy. Jay Gatsby will be portrayed by DiCaprio, albeit a much paunchier Leo than Luhrmann’s Romeo. With his performance in Django Unchained still fresh in our memory and a Scorcese-helmed The Wolf of Wall Street around the corner, 2013 could turn out to be the Year of the Lion. —Ted Phillips

56 UP, DIR. MICHAEL APTED, THE UP SERIES Several summers ago, when I was not a girl/not yet a woman, I trudged every weekend to a large auditorium at Salem College while attending a summer enrichment program. There, I got my first taste of Godard, Kurosawa, Hitchcock and Apted. “Apted?” you’re probably wondering, “who is that and is his stuff packaged by the Criterion Collection?” It’s not—yet. But I’d happily call Michael Apted’s The Up Series—a series of films that has documented 14 British children in seven-year installments since 1964—cinematically groundbreaking, even, and especially, after several years’ steeping in those Criterion fellows. The series began when Apted, fresh out of college and working for a British TV program(me), gathered ten boys and four girls (he now regrets the gender imbalance) from varying socioeconomic backgrounds under the Jesuit maxim “Give me a child until he is seven, and I will show you the man.” What began as a documentary experiment slotted for one episode has now produced 56 Up, the latest installment that revisits 13 of the 14 who now—and sometimes in a far cry from their adolescent proclamations—drive cabs, front folk-rock bands, raise families, practice law and cry and laugh and experience life and death quite similarly to the rest of us. Apted revolutionized documentary work by creating a container for human life—life that, at 56, is still very much in progress. Progress and process are what this series honors, complicating that conglomerating phrase—“growing up”—until it embodies its appropriate nuance. —Michaela Dwyer

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EDITORS’ PICKS BOOKS UNTITLED, DIVERGENT SERIES, VERONICA ROTH

I know everyone will be shocked to hear me say this, but the book I’m most excited to read this year happens to be Young Adult. Though I’m looking forward to reading some Fiction-with-a-capital-F— namely Amity Gaige’s Schroder and Karen Russell’s Vampires in the Lemon Grove—I definitely won’t be staying up until midnight on their release dates just to download them on my e-reader. I will be doing this, however, with the yet-to-be-named final installment of Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy, which is expected to hit the shelves this fall. If you haven’t read Divergent or its sequel, Insurgent, now is the time: the series already seems to have garnered a devoted fan base, and with the film adaptation in the works for 2014, I’d be willing to bet that these books are the next Hunger Games. Like Collins’s bestselling series, Divergent is a dystopian fight-for-survival narrative featuring a strong female protagonist with a weird name. And the book’s mandatory romance has so far proven to be more readable than the painful Peeta-Katniss-Gale saga (there are no tracker jackers, at least). The thing I appreciate about the trilogy, though, is that Roth’s world is so seamless, so realistic despite its imagined elements. The plot, too, is intricate and detailed, keeping up the momentum through the second book when many similar series (read: Matched, Delirium) fail to do so. Regardless of your literary preferences, Roth’s latest is sure to be a page-turner. —Holly Hilliard

COLLECTED POEMS OF PHILIP LAMANTIA, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Philip Lamantia, though by trades involved with the Beat and French Surrealist movements, hasn’t become a household name in the manner many of his peers have. Maybe as a result, there’s been no published volume of his collected works, even now, seven years since his death. That’s a pity, especially given the kind of praise Lamantia has received from fellow, morefrequently recognized poets. (André Breton, one of the founding fathers of Surrealism, called Lamantia “a voice that rises once in a hundred years.”) Recently editors Andrew Joron, Garrett Caples and Nancy Joyce Peters have been putting together his collected poems, which is expected to be published within the year by the University of California Press. The collection will track Lamantia’s various styles from his early Miro- and Dali-inspired poems published as a wunderkind 16-year-old in New York City to his later mystical and erotic poems. Many of the forthcoming poems are either out-of-print or have never been published, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s introduction to the collection and the editors’ biography should lend some insight to Lamantia’s relationship to the San Francisco poetry scene (e.g. Lamantia was on the bill for the famous Six Gallery reading where Ginsberg first read “Howl” and went on the road with Kerouac). Long overdue, the book promises the proper recognition and historical documentation that Lamantia deserves. —Dan Fishman

LET’S EXPLORE DIABETES WITH OWLS, DAVID SEDARIS - APR. 23

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I like to think of David Sedaris as the Little Miss Sunshine of the literary community: he is hilarious, endearing and beloved by his colleagues in the industry. By the same token, his collections of humorous essays also don’t receive the same artistic consideration as his more serious counterparts. Not that Sedaris would mind losing the Oscar for Best Picture to The Departed (or whatever the book world equivalent may be). In fact, he thrives on being the underdog, a role he will continue to inhabit despite his increased popularity. Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, Sedaris’s newest book, due out April 23, promises to be another collection full of bizarre anecdotes, each guided by his detached commentary and merciless wit. The book’s essays follow him around the world, from his quest to find a Valentine’s Day present in an English taxidermy shop to encountering a kookaburra in Australia. Sedaris’s observational humor is always disarming and straightforward, rendering a particular charm every bit as skillful as the literary greats. For proof, consider this line from “Laugh, Kookaburra,” a story from the upcoming collection: “When seen full on, the feathers atop his head looked like brush-cut hair, and that gave him a brutish, almost conservative look. If owls were the professors of the avian kingdom, then kookaburras, I thought, might well be the gym teachers.” —Katie Zaborsky

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January 10, 2013

Full Frame Winter Series returns for fifth year by Kathy Zhou THE CHRONICLE

This January, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is conducting its fifth Winter Series. With three Thursday screenings to start off the new year, the 2013 Winter Series will present Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Searching for Sugar Man and How to Survive a Plague. Full Frame has long aimed to bring documentary to the public—particularly targeting those that could not attend the four-day annual international festival in April—by providing as many screenings as possible throughout the year. The Festival, programmed by the Center for Documentary Studies and sponsored in part by Duke, showcases contemporary non-fiction cinema and aims to stimulate conversation between audience and artist. The Winter Series was created specifically for the Durham community as another step to further Full Frame’s mission statement. Last year, Full Frame provided more than fifteen free screenings in the Durham area. “This is also an opportunity for us to reconnect with our community before we become so busy with the April festival,” said Executive Director Deirdre Haj. The Festival, once held in Bay 7 at the American Tobacco Campus, moved two years ago under the new leadership of Bob Nocek to the Carolina Theatre, where it would have a better screening experience. The Carolina Theatre is now viewed as Full Frame’s “home away from home,” explained Haj. The films for the Winter Series are chosen at the discretion of Full Frame Director of Programming Sadie Tillery. The works are chosen because they were popular at Full Frame (Ai Weiwei and How to Survive a

Plague played at last year’s festival) or because they were unavailable at the time of the Festival. Furthermore, the screenings, spaced throughout the month of January, are held just prior to the nomination announcements for the Oscars, which offers a chance for viewers to look closely at films that might be up for awards. All three titles have been short-listed for Best Documentary Feature for this year’s Academy Awards. Although there is no overarching theme among this year’s titles, all films in this series focus on individuals and their remarkable impact on the world.

Directed by Alison Klayman, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry starts off the series on Thursday, January 10. The film covers the compelling and visionary artist in the context of China’s current state while also attesting to the capacity of art to carry political messages and cultural implications. Amid strict censorship, Ai’s continued expression through various art forms and social media has made him China’s most internationally renowned artist and critic. On Thursday, January 17, Malik Bendjelloul’s Searching for Sugar Man tells the true story of Rodriguez, a 1970s musician whose debut album was a commercial failure in America but went platinum in South Africa. His anti-establishment music resonated with a young and disillusioned generation living under apartheid. Rodriguez himself was shrouded in mystery, believed by many to have committed suicide onstage. The film follows two South African fans who set out to find the fate of the man behind the music that fueled a movement. How to Survive a Plague concludes the Winter Series on Thursday, January 24. Directed by David France, the film follows the story of the men and women who successfully reversed a possible AIDS epidemic in America. With no training, the activists infiltrated government agencies and pharmaceutical industries to identify promising treatments, save lives—including their own—and inspire empowerment and activism. All screenings for the Full Frame Winter Series take place in Fletcher Hall at the Carolina Theatre. Screenings begin at 7:30 p.m. and are free and open to the public.

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