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THE KEY THREE
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BRACKET BUSTERS?
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How Duke’s three seniors can lead the team to a title
Columnist Chris Cusack breaks down this year’s bracket
HITTING THE GLASS Can Duke rebound well enough to win a title?
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THE LEHIGH LOSS
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QUINN-COGNITO
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What Duke learned from its early exit last season
Looking at Quinn Cook’s ups and downs this season
WEST REGION Will No. 1 seed Gonzaga be able to make it out?
MIDWEST REGION An up-close look at Duke’s journey to the Final Four
FUNKY STATS Some interesting statistical nuggets from Duke’s region
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BENCH BREAKDOWN Can Duke win while relying so heavily on its starters?
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THE KEY THREE by Brady Buck THE CHRONICLE
Duke has a new key three. A trio of seniors led Duke to its last national championship in 2010: Jon Scheyer, Lance Thomas and Brian Zoubek. Hoping that same blueprint works again, this year’s Blue Devil team has its own triumvirate of seasoned veterans in its first five—seniors Seth Curry, Ryan Kelly and Mason Plumlee—whose journey for a national championship, which would be the program’s fifth, begins this weekend. “It’s always important for a team to get on the page of its seniors, if its seniors want to win,� Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “If the seniors want the season to be over, you better get on someone else’s page. If the seniors really want to win— and I think our guys do—you better get on their page.� In a college basketball landscape littered with high roster turnover and inexperienced teams, it is rare for a highly seeded team in the tournament to feature three seniors in its starting lineup. Of the top-eight seeds in the field of 68, just three have three or more seniors in their starting lineup—Duke, Miami and Kansas. Other teams, like second-seeded Georgetown, start no seniors at all. Unlike the Hurricanes and Jayhawks, the Blue Devils’ trio leads the team in scoring, with Plumlee, Curry and Kelly netting 17.2, 17.0 and 14.3 points per contest, respectively. Having been a part of 10 NCAA Tournament games with an 8-2 record during the previous three seasons, this is not the
group’s first rodeo. “It’s a little bit of an advantage, if we make the most of it,� said Curry as the team opens the 2013 NCAA Tournament against 15th-seeded Albany on Friday. “We’ve been there a few times. We know how to prepare for it. And we have that sense of urgency that some guys might not have because they have other college seasons coming up.� The experience—and knowledge that these next three weeks will be their last times lacing up as Blue Devils—fuels a hunger to survive and advance in the tournament. Curry, Kelly and Plumlee watched as three seniors carried the 2010 team to the national championship. “From personal experience, I think it means a lot from the standpoint that you have been through so many situations before,� Scheyer said. “For us when you are seniors, you know you can lose that first game. You know you can lose at any point. I think there is something to be said for that. And just even more that last little bit of not wanting your career to end. Of course you feel that every year, but when you really have that feeling that this could be the last time putting on a Duke jersey, I think there’s a little significance to that as well.� Plumlee—a 6-foot-10 Warsaw, Ind. product—noted how important it is for the veterans to set a tone for the rest of the squad this time of year. CHRONICLE GRAPHIC BY ELYSIA SU
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LEARNING FROM LEHIGH by Tom Gieryn THE CHRONICLE
Traffic around the Greensboro Coliseum can back up for miles during big events like the ACC and NCAA Tournaments. But when the bus carrying the Duke basketball team pulled out late on the evening of March 16, 2012, it stopped for nothing. It’s not difficult to imagine the occupants’ anxiety to leave the Coliseum behind as the harsh lights of police cruisers escorted the bus around traffic and through red lights until it reached I-85. As the coach bus covered the 53-mile distance from Greensboro back to Cameron Indoor Stadium, no one said a word. “It was just quiet,” Quinn Cook remembered Tuesday afternoon. “We were shocked.” The shock came at the hands of the 15th-seeded Lehigh Mountain Hawks, who had sent Duke packing in the Round of 64 for just the third time out of head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s 28 March Madness appearances. And it was not a last-second miracle for Lehigh, either, as the Patriot League champions had led for most of the game before pulling ahead for good with more than eight minutes left in the game. Cook shot 1-for-5 from the field in the game. Seth Curry was 1-for-9. Andre Dawkins made just 2-of-9 shots. Outside of Mason Plumlee’s perfect 9-for-9 night, the team shot 30.6 percent, including 6-for-26 from long range. “That was probably the worst time in my playing career,” Curry said. “I wasn’t able to move past it for about two to three weeks after that.” Many of the players felt less for themselves than for the team’s lone senior, Miles Plumlee, whose Duke career had come to a sudden end. “I can just remember Miles,” Cook said. “Just Miles, being the last person on the bus. He had his head down. I think Miles didn’t get the credit that he deserved…. Just to have a great teammate like that go out on a note like that was very frustrating for me.” Curry could not even bring himself to watch any of the rest of the Tournament, but as with any sports team, grieving over last season could only last so long. “For the first few days, there wasn’t really much to say,”
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There was nothing to smile about on the Duke bench during last year’s upset loss to the 15th-seeded Mountain Hawks.
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Curry recalled. “We were out. Guys were kind of depressed and things like that. After that, Coach really brought the guys coming back together, just saying remember and move forward. This is a lesson that everybody has to learn.” This year, as the second-seeded Blue Devils once again look forward to a matchup with a No. 15 seed, the lessons of the past will serve as motivation for the tournament that lies ahead. Krzyzewski reached even further into his voluminous memory banks to provide an example of the way that teams can grow from the defeat of a previous season. At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, the long-
time coach told the story of Danny Meagher, a member of Krzyzewski’s first recruiting class and, in Krzyzewski’s words, “as tough a kid as has ever played” at Duke. When Meagher was a senior, a year ahead of then-juniors Mark Alarie, Jay Bilas, Johnny Dawkins and David Henderson, the No. 3-seed Blue Devils lost a surprise 74-73 upset to 11th-seeded Boston College in the second round of the tournament. “Everybody was down, but there was only one kid who was unbelievably emotional, and that was Danny,” Krzyzewski said. “And he basically was like someone—you see SEE LEHIGH ON PAGE 18
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This year’s field isn’t really that wide-open This was supposed to be the year of the field. This was supposed to be the Maddest March ever, an NCAA Tournament featuring more “potential deep run teams” than ever, as Mike Krzyzewski told USA Today sports last week. This was supposed to be the culmination of what was started in 2010, when Butler and VCU crashed the Final Four with a pair of unforgettable March runs. So after the bracket was announced Sunday night, it wasn’t supposed to feel like déjà vu all over again. Chris Despite the supposed wideopen field, just about everybody has Louisville cutting down the nets in Atlanta (except Vegas, which has them as just an 8-to-1 favorite). And if you manage to find someone not on the Cardinals’ bandwagon, chances are that person hasn’t reached too far down the bracket to find their winner. Of a list of 34 expert picks compiled by Ken Pomeroy, 27 took the ‘Ville, and the remaining seven were split between various other No. 1 and No. 2 seeds. The biggest omission from that list? Duke. It’s amazing the difference a week can make. I wish I knew what sent the Blue Devils tumbling from a potential No. 1 overall seed into a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament’s toughest region, but ESPN Caribbean was more interested in showing a BNP Paribas Open showdown between Juan Martin Del Potro and Andy Murray than the ACC Tournament quarterfinals. While I was busy on spring break doing a supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again, Duke was suffering through the most poorly timed off-shooting night of the college basketball season, a 4-of-25 performance from beyond the arc that apparently cost it all chances of being competitive this March. Meanwhile, Louisville rode a three-game winning streak in the Big East Tournament—only one of which came against a top-25 KenPom team—to jump in the seeding process about as far as Duke fell during the span of a week. The truth about each team, like always, probably lies somewhere in the middle. The Cardinals flew under the radar after three consecutive January losses, but they haven’t lost since a five-overtime defeat at Notre Dame Feb. 9. And those quick to anoint Duke as the nation’s top squad with Ryan Kelly back in the lineup were looking too closely at the team’s performance four months ago, just as those currently con-
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Despite it supposedly being a wide-open field, almost everybody is picking the favorite Louisville, columnist Chris Cusack writes. demning the Blue Devils for one poor shooting night could stand to calm down a little. The end-of-the-regular-season reshuffling atop the rankings reflects some of the parity that Krzyzewski and a number of other coaches have pointed out over the last few weeks. But the level playing field still doesn’t extend 30 or 40 teams deep, as Krzyzewski portends. Although there isn’t a transcendent team in college basketball this season, a la Kentucky in 201112, the group of 10-12 very good teams is as separated from the rest of the pack as ever—and one of those programs will win in Atlanta. March often tricks us into thinking talent is spread more evenly across the tournament field than it really is. Upsets are plentiful—and always will be—on opening weekend, but as the tournament continues, the expected programs rise to the top (with the notable exceptions in recent years of Butler and VCU). No
team seeded outside the top four in its region has won the tournament since 1988, and five out of the last six have been top seeds. So don’t be fooled: parity in the context of the 2012-13 college basketball season just means that we can’t be sure which No. 1 or No. 2 seed will win the tournament—not that all 68 teams have a shot. As always, a few of the top seeds will be knocked out early—lookin’ at you, Kansas, Ohio State and Marquette—but be careful trying to ride Pittsburgh, Belmont, or Bucknell deep into the second weekend, let alone into the third. Admittedly, it’s easy to point to Butler and VCU as exceptions to this rule, and the latter is especially likely to crash the party again this year. There is little evidence, though, that other mid-major programs are lining up to break through in similar fashion. Now that I’ve written all this, get ready for a Final Four solely comprising double-digit seeds.
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GOING QUINN-COGNITO goal came in that game as the result of a Cook pass. Six of the 14 assists resulted in 3-pointers. Others, such as his four dimes to Mason Plumlee, set up easy buckets close to the hoop. More impressive than Cook’s assist totals was his ability to take care of the ball. In Duke’s first eight conference games he turned the ball over just 1.9 times per game for a 3.9 assist-to-turnover ratio. In the last 11 games, that ratio is just 1.3. “When my assists were so high we had a lot of transition stuff,” Cook said. “It’s important for me to be at my best and push the tempo. I feel like we’re at our best when we’re in transition and all five guys on the floor are clicking.” Plumlee has been the beneficiary of many of Cook’s assists and Duke’s fastbreak opportunities this season. No play exemplifies the duo’s connection better than an alley-oop during the Blue Devils’ comeback against Ohio State, when Cook floated a ball from beyond the 3-point line and Plumlee threw it down with one hand, though it initially appeared to be out of his grasp. “He made me go get that one, that’s for sure,” Plumlee said. “We have some things set up for [alley-oops] because a lot of guys like to cheat screens and stuff like that. But we just have eye contact, and he knows to throw it up.” One of the keys for Cook getting into transition is collecting his own rebounds. Although he might be the smallest Blue Devil—referring to himself as “6-foot on a good day”—he is third on the team in rebounding with 3.9 boards per game. During the last 11 games, though, he’s pulling in 3.5 per game, a drop off from the 4.4 he was averaging through the first eight games of ACC play. “That’s basically when we’re at our best: when guards—myself, Rasheed [Sulaimon], Seth [Curry]—get rebounds because there’s no outlet, so it’s faster,” Cook said. “Mason gets a chance to run, Ryan [Kelly] gets to trail and get his threes there. Coach
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Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s praise for point guard Quinn Cook was effusive after an outbreak of “Quinn-sanity” in the Bahamas. “It’s when a team has confidence in its point guard that you can take off. This team has great confidence in Quinn [Cook], and he’s earned it.” The sophomore won the most outstanding player award in the Battle 4 Atlantis after leading the Blue Devils to wins against Minnesota, Virginia Commonwealth and then-No. 2 Louisville. Cook carried that strong play through the start of the ACC season, averaging 7.3 assists per game during Duke’s first eight conference games. But since then, the Quinn-sanity has died down. “He’s not playing as well as he has played,” Krzyzewski said. “He can play better than he has the past couple weeks, and we need him to do that.” In the 11 games since Cook’s hot start to conference play, he has dished out just 3.2 assists per game. On the season, he’s averaging 5.2, which ranks second in the ACC this year and the most for a Blue Devil since Chris Duhon’s 6.1 in the 2003-04 season. The dip in dishes, however, has come with an increase in scoring, with Cook recording 14.3 points per game in those 11 games—more than his season average of 12.4. “He’s so good at [passing] that I think he forgets that he can score the ball,” senior forward Mason Plumlee said. Cook’s two best passing performances of the year came with two of his lowest scoring outputs of the season. Against Cornell, he had 12 assists in 26 minutes with six points. In the Blue Devils’ first conference game of the season against Wake Forest, Cook went 0-for-11 from the field and did not record a point but posted a careerhigh 14 assists. Seven different players were the beneficiaries of Cook’s 14 assists against the Demon Deacons. Even redshirt freshman Marshall Plumlee’s only career field
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DUKE’S ‘OKAY’ REBOUNDING by Bobby Colton THE CHRONICLE
“No one is going to be perfect,� Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski told the media before Duke’s regular season finale against North Carolina. “You just try to play to your strengths.� Krzyzewski was referring to is the Blue Devils’ rebounding—a statistic in which Duke ranks 213th in the nation with 33.8 per game. “Overall we’ve been okay rebounding.... Otherwise we wouldn’t be [27-5],� Krzyzewski said. What’s unclear is whether or not the Blue Devils can get six more wins and cut down the nets on April 8 with just “okay� rebounding.
“Sometimes at the beginning of the season... we thought [Mason] could just get every rebound,� — Quinn Cook Just three of the last 20 Duke teams have averaged 34.0 rebounds or fewer per game—the 2005-06 squad lead by seniors J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams, which averaged only 33.4 per game. Much like this current iteration of Krzyzewski’s club, one dominant rebounder carried the team—Williams averaged 10.7 rebounds per game in 2005-06 and Plumlee is at 10.2 per game this season—while no other player on either squad averaged six or more.
In 2005-06, Redick and Williams guided the Blue Devils to the top spot in the AP poll for much of the season and a No. 1 seed in the Tournament. What the seniors could not do, however, was lead the Blue Devils past No. 4 seed LSU—a team that snatched 40.2 boards per game behind Tyrus Thomas, Tasmin Mitchell and center Glen Davis. Senior forward Mason Plumlee believes that this year’s Duke team has already found the key to avoiding a similar fate to the 2006 squad. “I think having [senior forward] Ryan [Kelly] on the boards will help us,� Plumlee said. “Those statistics are a little skewed with Ryan having been out.� There’s no doubt that the Blue Devils are a better rebounding team with Kelly on the floor. In the 13 games he missed, Duke averaged only 31.6 rebounds per game. When he played, the Blue Devils pulled down 34.9 per contest. But Plumlee overstates the impact of Kelly’s absence. Out of the 18 teams in the Midwest region, Duke ranks 15th in rebounds per game, just behind potential Round of 32 opponent Creighton. However, removing the 13 Kelly-less games still does not push Duke ahead of the Bluejays. Even if Kelly’s return does not completely solve Duke’s rebounding deficiencies, the backcourt may be able to help make up some ground. “Coach is really big on that—guard rebounding,� sophomore point guard Quinn Cook said. Cook has taken his coach’s emphasis to heart, checking in third on the team in rebounding with 3.9 per game, despite being the shortest player on Duke’s roster. “Those long tip-out rebounds, the loose rebounds, the guards have to go
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GONZAGA’S KELLY: Duke’s Ryan Kelly is often lauded for his ability to stretch the floor, but Gonzaga’s Kelly Olynyk (17.5 PPG, 7.2 RPG) is widely regarded as the top stretch four in the nation. With astounding versatility for a true 7-footer, Olynyk is an efficient scorer who can hurt opponents from anywhere on the floor. The junior’s stats become even more impressive when considering he averaged just 25.7 minutes per game, resting in Gonzaga’s blowouts.
REBEL GUNNER: Junior guard Marshall Henderson (20.1 PPG) has taken a long and winding road to Ole Miss, transferring three times and even playing a year at South Plains Junior College before finding his home in the SEC and becoming the conference’s leading scorer in his first season. A natural scorer, Henderson is fearless about pulling the trigger from deep and has gained notoriety for his on-court antics.
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BUCKEYE BRUISER: A strong and versatile forward, Ohio State’s Deshaun Thomas (19.5 PPG, 6.2 RPG) can wear teams down over the course of a game with his physicality. Standing at 6-foot-7, Thomas is no bigger than most of his opponents on the wing, but his ability to get to the rim or step back and shoot a jumpshot makes him immensely difficult to defend.
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LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: Doug McDermott (23.1 PPG, 7.5 RPG) gets more recognition for more than just being the son of his team’s head coach Greg McDermott—he is also one of the nation’s top talents. The junior forward can score from anywhere on the floor, shoots 49.7 percent from 3-point range and at 6-foot-8 is a defense’s worst nightmare with his insideoutside ability. McDermott was held to single digits in scoring just twice in the Bluejays’ 34 games this season.
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THRIFT SHOPPING? Kansas freshman Ben McLemore (16.4 PPG) leads the Jayhawks in scoring. The athletic swingman is the main reason Kansas has a good shot at reaching the national championship game for the second consecutive year. NATE THE GREAT: South Dakota State guard Nate Wolters (22.7 PPG) ranks fourth nationally in points per game and could help the Jackrabbits bust some brackets this March.
’BAZZ’S BUZZ: Freshman Shabazz Muhammad (17.8 PPG) spurned a scholarship offer from Duke to play for UCLA, where he has led the Bruins in scoring after an NCAA investigation into recruiting violations delayed his debut. The pressure on Muhammad has only risen now that fellow freshman Jordan Adams is out for the season with a broken foot.
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SOUTH GEORGETOWN’S GEM: Sophmore forward Otto Porter (16.3 PPG, 7.4 RPG) has taken Georgetown from unranked in the preseason to one of the favorites to cut down the nets this year. Porter has emerged as a National Player of the Year candidate and is the main offensive threat on a Hoya team known for its defense, holding teams to 55.7 PPG, the ninth-fewest in Division I.
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HOOSIER HERO: When Indiana entered the 2012-13 season as the No. 1 team in the land, it was forward Cody Zeller who received most of the attention, but that was before junior guard Victor Oladipo (13.6 PPG, 6.4 RPG) took the nation by storm. Standing at 6-foot-5, he possesses excellent length at the shooting guard position and is an incredibly efficient scorer, shooting 59.9 percent from the floor and ranking as the Hoosiers' second-leading scorer despite taking just 8.5 field goal attempts per game.
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THA CARTER-WILLIAMS: Standing 6-foot-6, Syracuse point guard Michael CarterWilliams (12.0 PPG, 7.7 APG, 2.7 SPG) poses a matchup problem on both ends of the floor. Beyond his ability to drive and distribute to his teammates, Carter-Williams is one of the nation’s top perimeter defenders. He helps key the Orange’s famed 2-3 zone that held opponents to 37.7 percent shooting from the floor this season—third-lowest among Tournament teams.
MAGIC MIKE: Senior center Mike Muscala (19.0 PPG, 11.2 RPG, 2.4 BPG) racks up numbers in every category, leading Bucknell in scoring, rebounding and blocked shots, and ranking just two assists behind the team leader in that column. He’s one of the best rebounders in the nation, and he’s also a game-changer on the defensive end. The Bisons don’t surround him with much talent, but Muscala is the type of talent that can beat many teams single-handedly when he’s on.
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BANKING ON BENNETT: Freshman forward Anthony Bennett (16.1 PPG, 8.1 RPG) came out of the gate looking like the top rookie in the nation, leading the Runnin’ Rebels to an 11-1 start. Bennett hit a wall during conference play and battled a shoulder injury, but recovered late in the season and had a strong showing in the Mountain West Tournament. UNLV’s Tournament hopes likely rest on the shoulders of its freshman big man.
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Is the Midwest Funky Midwest stats really the best? 4: The rapid reaction following Sunday’s NCAA Tournament bracket reveal: the Midwest region is the toughest. The Midwest features the bracket’s top overall team in No. 1 seed Louisville and second-seeded Duke, which was one of two teams that came up just short in its bid for a No. 1 seed. But the numbers say the South might be the best region, though it’s clear the South and Midwest are a cut above the rest. Using four common metrics to evaluate the top four teams in each region, the Midwest ranks as the best or second-best region by all four measures. According to the NCAA Selection Committee’s official rankings of all the teams in the tournament, the Midwest’s top four squads had an average of 8.3, second to the South’s 8.0. Although Louisville was the top overall seed and Duke was the second-best No. 2, Michigan State and St. Louis were the second-worst No. 3 and No. 4 seeds, respectively. Advanced statistics also favor the South in a close call against the Midwest. Statistician Ken Pomeroy ranks teams by a Pythagorean, or expected, winning percentage based on the team’s results and strength of schedule. The South gets a boost to the top by Pomeroy’s rankings, which rate third-seeded Florida as the nation’s best team. The top four teams in the South have an average Pythagorean rating of .942 according to Pomeroy, slightly better than the Midwest’s .938. The East and the West chime in at .921 and .919, respectively, as teams like Ohio State, New Mexico and Miami fare worse according to advanced statistics compared to conventional polls. Jeff Sagarin’s college basketball ratings, which are built on some of the same advanced metrics as Pomeroy’s rankings, put Louisville ahead of the pack by such a large margin that Duke’s Midwest region ekes out ahead at an average of 90.8 compared to the South’s 90.7 average rating. The West and the East sit comfortably behind at 89.1 and 89.0, respectively. The AP Poll refuses to settle the debate between Pomeroy and Sagarin for the toughest region, as the Midwest and the South tie with an average ranking of 7.5 in the latest poll released Monday. The South comes behind with an average ranking of 8.75, and the East brings up the rear at 10.0. —Andrew Beaton
Number of the top-10 teams in defensive efficiency that are in the Midwest region. Louisville ranks first in the nation and Michigan State, St. Louis and Oklahoma State also rank in the top 10. If you look further down the bracket, the region also boasts the teams ranked No. 15 and 16 in the country in Cincinnati and Oregon.
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Will Duke’s dearth of depth cause problems?
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Duke’s bench plays only 24 percent of its minutes this year, the fewest since the 2009-10 championship season. Duke’s substitution patterns have been in flux for much of the year, as head coach Mike Krzyzewski worked to cover for Ryan Kelly’s injury and Rasheed Sulaimon’s up-and-down freshman campaign. Despite all the changes, he was back to playing a six-man rotation in Duke’s ACC Tournament loss to Maryland, with the seventh and eighth players—Josh Hairston and Alex Murphy—seeing a combined 10 minutes of action. In fact, Duke ranks 311th out of 347 Division I teams in bench minutes even through all the lineup changes, with only 24 percent of the team’s minutes being soaked up by reserves. So can the Blue Devils make it through a grueling March schedule even without having the depth of its competition? Since the 2006-07 season, Duke’s bench has played between 28.8 percent and 31.8 percent of the team’s minutes, which rank them mid-pack in Division I. The two exceptions to this pattern present a contrasting set of outcomes for this year’s Blue Devils to worry about. The last time Duke relied so heavily on its starters was the 2010 National Champi-
onship season, when Jon Scheyer, Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith were the workhorses on a team that got just 23.4 percent of its minutes from the bench. Prior to that, in 2006-07, a talent-starved roster relied heavily on Josh McRoberts, Scheyer, Greg Paulus and DeMarcus Nelson en route to just 22.8 percent of minutes played by the bench. That Duke team lost in the NCAA Tournament’s first round. Among the past five national champions, one has followed Duke’s lead by counting on the starters—John Calipari’s Kentucky team last season, which ranked 323rd out of 347. North Carolina in 2009 and Florida in 2007 took a more moderate road, and the 2010 Connecticut and 2008 Kansas teams were very liberal with playing time, getting close to 30 percent of their minutes from the bench. If there’s a conclusion, it’s that talent can trump depth in some cases, but Duke will certainly have to overcome teams with more aggressive substitution patterns if they are to advance deep into this year’s Tournament. —Tom Gieryn
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Duke’s bench has spent most of its time cheering, not playing, this season.
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Can the Blue Devils up their stock? While the NCAA’s top talents duke it out on the court in March, scouts break down the action in anticipation of June’s NBA Draft, where the league will invite 60 college players to join the professional ranks. The Big Dance is often considered a training ground for the rigors of NBA basketball, and a strong showing in March can drive a player’s draft stock through the roof or destroy his chance of playing at the next level. Duke’s three seniors will have one last opportunity beginning Friday to make an impression and convince scouts they deserve top consideration to play at the next level. Mason Plumlee is the Blue Devils’ lone surefire NBA prospect. Widely regarded to be a potential late lottery pick in June’s draft, Plumlee is projected to be the No. 11 overall pick in the draft by the Oklahoma City Thunder according to the latest mock draft by guru Jonathan Givony of DraftExpress.com. ESPN’s Chad Ford wrote that most people anticipate Plumlee will go between picks 10 and 15, but Plumlee is ranked on most draft boards behind Indiana’s Cody Zeller, whose game is more refined on both ends of the floor, and Maryland’s Alex Len, who draft analysts believe has more long-term upside. Duke’s other two seniors appear to be fighting to just get onto most teams’ draft boards. Ryan Kelly is one of the college basketball’s most effective weapons because of his 6-foot-11 frame and ability to stretch the floor, but he is not a force in the post like many other forwards. But Kelly is an elite shooter, making 48.6 percent of his 3-pointers, so most mock drafts have him wavering between the last 10 picks and a highly-sought after undrafted free agent. Givony’s latest mock draft has Kelly going at
How have other former Blue Devils boosted their stock in the NCAA Tournament? >>1964: Jeff Mullins averaged 29.0 points per game in four NCAA Tournament games, including a single-game record 43 points that he still holds. He rode the performance to become the fifth overall pick in the 1964 draft by the St. Louis Hawks. >> 2006: Shelden Williams went into beast mode in three Tournament games his senior year, averaging 29.0 points, 15.0 rebounds, and five blocks per game en route to becoming the fifth overall pick of the Atlanta Hawks. Teammate J.J. Redick scored 20.0 points per game and was chosen 11th by the Orlando Magic.
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Ryan Kelly’s 3-point shooting ability makes him an intriguing draft prospect. No. 55 overall to the Phoenix Suns, though Ford wrote last week that he sees the Blue Devil forward as a late first- or early secondround pick. Seth Curry has taken his game to new heights this season, but of Duke’s three seniors he appears to be the least likely draft selection. Standing 6-foot-2, he lacks the size of most NBA shooting guards and is not a good enough ball handler or distributor to play point guard. Unlike his older brother Stephen, Seth is also not as quick
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or athletic as most guards his size. His athletic limitations notwithstanding, Curry has one of the purest shooting strokes in this year’s draft class, which is something no NBA team can ignore. Curry doesn’t appear on most mock draft boards, but Ford wrote that he still expects Curry to be a second-round selection. A deep tournament run by Duke sparked by Curry’s superior shooting could very easily elevate his draft stock. —Daniel Carp
>>2011: After missing all but eight regular-season games, Kyrie Irving returned for three NCAA Tournament games. He used the opening weekend to demonstrate that he was healthy in limited minutes, then put up a 28-point performance in the Sweet Sixteen loss to Arizona, and the Cleveland Cavaliers made him the first overall pick in the draft.
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THREE SENIORS from page 3 “Our example is more important than anything the coach is going to say,” said Plumlee, who spurned the NBA Draft last season as a junior to return to Durham for a chance to win his second title. “We are the most important thing about this team right now. Our example will be followed. Our sense of urgency has to be felt throughout— the staff included. We have to set a tone in practice and at the very start of the tournament. We have to get momentum going right away.” The seniors cannot do it alone, though. In 2010, role players played an integral part in propelling the squad to the Final Four. Then-freshman Andre Dawkins buried two critical 3-pointers in the team’s tightly contested Elite Eight game against Baylor to help advance the team to the Final Four. Similar performances by Quinn Cook, Rasheed Sulaimon and Tyler Thornton will be needed, especially with the opposition’s defensive emphasis being on the three veterans. “It needs to happen,” Scheyer said. “It’s not all on Rasheed’s shoulders but to have another guy outside of the three seniors—at some point you need a bucket. [During] the Baylor game Andre hit two huge threes. We probably don’t beat them without those threes. There’s a reason you have a full team.” The seniors’ energy, poise and ability to lead will largely dictate how well the younger players perform and respond when the going gets tough. But, at the end of the day, a trip to Atlanta rides heavily on the shoulders of Curry, Kelly and Plumlee in their final NCAA Tournament. “It is mainly about the seniors,” Krzyzewski said. “They need to lead us. They need to play well. They need to step up, and they will help set the stage for the younger guys on the team.”
COOK from page 6 is really big on that—guards rebounding, long rebounds, getting in there and scrapping for rebounds.” Although Cook has battled inconsistency this season, he has never given up his stranglehold on the point guard position, starting every game since taking over in the third game of the season. He is second on the team with 33.8 minutes per game. And Krzyzewski said he is confident that his sophomore will break out of his funk, and that the funks will become less common as he matures. “He’s had a really good few days of practice, and I think he’ll be ready to go,” Krzyzewski said. “The older you get, the better chance you have to be consistent.”
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Quinn Cook said he thinks he was playing his best basketball of the season during the Battle 4 Atlantis.
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Like the 2010 team, this year’s squad is led by three seniors: Ryan Kelly, Seth Curry and Mason Plumlee.
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get in there,â€? Cook said. “We have to try to go snag some ones ourselves in there with the trees.â€? Cook, freshman Rasheed Sulaimon and junior Tyler Thornton put in extra effort on the boards Friday in Duke’s ACC Tournament loss to Maryland, as each guard scrapped for four or more rebounds apiece. In that game, the 6-foot-11 Kelly managed just three boards. Not only does guard rebounding prevent second chances for the opponent on offense, it also kick-starts Duke’s own offense. “That’s basically when we’re at our best,â€? Cook said. “There’s no outlet, so we can be faster. Mason gets a chance to run and Ryan gets a chance to trail.â€? Regardless of the numbers, Cook thinks that the Blue Devils have improved their approach to rebounding as the season has progressed. “Sometimes at the beginning of the season‌ we thought [Mason] could just get every rebound,â€? Cook said. “Rebounding is about toughness, and we have to get tough on the boards.â€?
where people, when someone dies, they’re throwing themselves on the gravesite, they’re so emotional—that’s how Danny was. And Danny said, ‘You guys do not understand. You don’t understand.’ He kept repeating, ‘You don’t understand....’ ‘This is it for me. This is it. It’s no more.’ He’s crying his eyes out.� The significance of that raw moment was not lost on Alarie, Bilas and their teammates. “It’s one of the reasons we almost won the national championship the next year with that group, because those juniors then understood the sense of finality, that this could be over. And it’s the culture of our program that we try to let our guys know about the past, that these things have happened, and to remember.� But Krzyzewski emphasized that even as he utilizes Duke history to educate and motivate his players, it is equally critical not to let the past infringe upon the team’s experience of the moment at hand.
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Then-senior Miles Plumlee played his final game in a Duke uniform in the team’s Round of 64 loss to Lehigh. “You bring up that you didn’t play well last year in the first round, but you don’t belabor it‌. You talk about it, like we weren’t ready, or we weren’t as together, or whatever—whatever the heck happened,â€? he said. “We want to be in this moment, and not bring a lot of stuff from other moments, including championships, because that might make you soft.â€? Curry confirmed that he believes the pain the team endured last year has brought it “more togetherâ€? as it embarks on another title run with much of its 2011-12 roster still intact. And with three star seniors’ careers on the line in each of up to six more games for this year’s Blue Devils, the team is especially committed to ensuring that last year’s unceremonious exit does not repeat itself. “I don’t want the three seniors to go out like that,â€? Cook said.
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Sophomores come home to new majors Hamilton exits at time of change by Imani Moise THE CHRONICLE
Newly declared members of the sophomore class united on the Chapel Quadrangle Wednesday to kick off a new tradition. The inaugural Academic Homecoming was created to celebrate the sophomores’ declaration of majors, which occurred before spring break. Faculty and upperclassmen representatives from each major attended the event to mingle and field questions from the new members of their departments. The event represented an attempt to create a new academic annual tradition at the University. The event was meant to show that declaring a major is something to look forward to, said Baishakhi Taylor, assistant dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and one of the organizers. “This is a rite of passage,” she said. “It’s literally celebrating half your life at Duke.” Interacting with peers and professors in an informal setting was valuable, said sophomore Nick Yam. Assistant professor of public policy Jay Pearson said he enjoyed the conversations he had with students at the event. “I did not know what to expect, but I am impressed by the turnout and I am also impressed by the quality of questions the students have,” Pearson said. “The questions are very directed [and] very focused.” The Academic Advising Center, the SEE MAJOR ON PAGE 5
Choice to leave came during Sanford dean search by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE
An otherworldly landscape has appeared at the Nasher Museum of Art. Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey opens today, welcoming visitors into a lush landscape of multi-sensory experience. At the gallery entrance, a lifesized womanlike creature with nonhuman limbs stares down from the wall, cloth tree roots protruding below her. Inside the gallery, a field of hanging orbs seems at once like a hundred bouncing balls and like a new kind of ecological landscape. The latter piece, Suspended Play Time, references the soccer balls children in Kenya often make from trash bags, said Wendy Livingston, Manager of Marketing and Communications at the Nasher. Born in Kenya, Mutu now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, but she references her home country throughout her work.
Jay Hamilton is leaving Sanford for Stanford during a time of transition for Duke’s public policy school, leaving behind a legacy that he cultivated over two decades. Hamilton, director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, informed Sanford administrators Tuesday that he had accepted an offer to direct Stanford University’s journalism program starting this Fall. Hamilton has been considering the Stanford position since Jay Hamilton Spring 2012, and he received an official offer earlier this month. Hamilton, also the Charles S. Sydnor professor of public policy, leaves Sanford as the school prepares for the arrival of a new dean. “I was heartbroken,” said Joel Fleishman, professor of law and public policy and former Sanford director, about the moment he learned Hamilton was leaving Duke. “This is truly an extraordinary loss for Sanford and Duke.” Hamilton was under consideration for the position of Sanford dean, though he did not receive an offer. Since arriving in 1991, he has had a strong impact on public policy at Duke through scholarship and administrative leadership. Hamilton spearheaded significant changes to the public policy major curriculum and contributed to Sanford’s transition from an institute to a school. Fleishman noted that Hamilton took the DeWitt Wallace Center to “new heights” and became one of the most respected scholars in the field of journalism, economics and technology. The search for a new Sanford dean began Fall 2011, when current Dean Bruce Kuniholm announced he was planning to step down. In Spring 2012, Duke extended an offer to an external candidate, who did not accept the position. As a result, Sanford conducted a second search and eventually selected Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, this January. Hamilton was a candidate in the initial search, but he chose not to be included in
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This piece, titled “Yo Mama,” is part of a new exhibit at the Nasher Museum of Art—Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey. Duke is Kenya-born Mutu’s first stop in a touring exhibition.
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Duke Student Government urged the University to include sexual reassignment surgery in student and employee health care plans. The DSG Senate unanimously passed legislation calling for expansion of the current health care plan to better fit the medical needs of the transgender community. Currently, 36 universities cover sexual reassignment surgery, including Brown University, Stanford University, Harvard University, New York University, Emory University and the University of California system. “Sexual reassignment surgery is crucial for the health of the transgender people everywhere,” junior Jacob Tobia, senator for residential life, said. “We just want to make sure that Duke student and employee health benefits are in line with the recommendations of the medical community.” He added that the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Asso-
ciation and World Professional Association for Transgender Health have declared that comprehensive health care for transgender individuals must include mental health care, hormone therapy and sexual reassignment surgery. Under the current University student health plan, transgender students have access to mental health care, hormone therapy and breast augmentation and reduction surgery, Tobia said. But the policy does not include gender reassignment surgery. Tobia added that Duke employee health insurance plans do not provide adequate medical coverage for transgender employees. The terms of the student insurance plan and the employee insurance plans are renegotiated with the University’s insurance provider, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, every year before the beginning of the Fall semester. Including gender reassignment surgery SEE DSG ON PAGE 4
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The Graduate and Professional Student Council elected their new board for the 2013-2014 academic year Tuesday. The roles of president and vice president will be filled by Amol Yadav, a third-year doctoral candidate in biomedical engineering, and Shannon O’Connor, a fourth-year M.D./Ph.D. student at the School of Medicine, respectively. Although any full-time graduate or professional student at the University can apply for a position on the GPSC executive board, only General Assembly members can vote on board members. The GPSC serves as the umbrella student government for Duke’s nine graduate and professional schools and the primary liaison between individual schools’ own student government organizations. Yadav served as GPSC treasurer in the 2012-2013 academic year. He said this position focuses primarily on the financial aspects of the organization. As president, however, he will get the chance to explore the policymaking side, as well. “I [am] more interested in the…decisionmaking role, so that I [can] reach out to the administrators and the entire Duke community at large,” Yadav said. Yadav said he also hopes to increase the involvement of the graduate student community on campus and make sure they stay informed about everything GPSC is doing. “One of my goals is to increase student advocacy on campus,” Yadav said. “I feel like the graduate students don’t have a strong voice on campus.... I want to work on that this year.” Yadav noted the differences between the Duke Student Government presidential executive board elections and those for GPSC. Although graduate students are interested in GPSC events, he said, they do not take as much interest in who is running the organization and how that will affect their experience at Duke. Unlike DSG elections, GPSC presidential and vice presidential candidates
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Amol Yadav, a third-year doctoral candidate at Pratt, will be next year’s Graduate and Professional Student Council president. do not have to campaign for their position. O’Connor will serve as vice president for the second year in a row. She agreed with Yadav’s concerns about student involvement, noting the various events GPSC has had this year to change this sentiment. “The president and I went to a bunch of orientation meetings at the different schools to try to increase awareness about how to become representatives from your school, and we hope to continue to do more of those next year,” O’Connor said. O’Connor also mentioned that she hopes to increase community amongst GPSC general assembly members, noting the “Meet the Reps” segment she has introduced into meetings to accomplish this goal. This initiative had general assembly members introduce themselves to the SEE GSPC ON PAGE 6
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Feaver looks back on Iraq War 10 years later from now, and maybe 20 years from now, a third different assessment. That’s what happens as you look back at a War from greater distance than the closing times of it. The pros and cons of it take on different shape. For example, many of the problems that arose in Iraq were blamed on the administration who invaded Iraq. So administering action produced these bad outcomes in Iraq. But what we are seeing in Syria is the same set of bad outcomes produced by a rampant inaction. The Obama administration has been very careful to avoid intervening in Syria, and yet Syria’s situation is spiraling down and looks to be having worse outcomes, perhaps, than the Iraq War—worse for the Syrian people, that is. Of course, the U.S. plight won’t be as high, but the consequences for the region and the strategic challenges the U.S. will have to manage will be just as high.
The 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq was observed this week. In light of this, The Chronicle’s Georgia Parke spoke with Peter Feaver, professor of political science and public policy, who advised former President George W. Bush on the War as a member of the National Security Council. Feaver, director of both the Triangle Institute for Security Studies and the Program in American Grand Strategy, also served on the NSC under former President Bill Clinton. He is known for his expertise in civil-military relations, weapons of mass destruction and public opinion.
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The Chronicle: What was your role in the Bush administration? What amount of influence did you have on policy? Peter Feaver: I was the special adviser for strategic planning and institutional reform on the National Security Council staff from 2005 to 2007, so I joined well after the Iraq War decision was made. Invasion and much of the unraveling of the postWar period had already happened. However, since the War got much worse while I was there—2006, as you know, became a particularly difficult year for the War—I was part of a small group that reviewed the Iraq strategy and came up with options we presented to the president. TC: What are the repercussions of the Iraq War that can still be felt 10 years later? PF: The costs of the War have been terribly heavy— much higher than people thought or certainly much higher than the Bush administration expected. While Iraq is in a better position than it looked to be headed in 2006—the darkest days of the
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Political science professor Peter Feaver was a special adviser for the National Security Council during the Iraq War. War— it is not as good as the administration thought it would when they launched the War 10 years ago. It’s probably not as not as good as it could have been, but that’s due to decisions made over the last four to five years. There’s been a significant erosion of progress in the last couple of years due in part to decisions that the Obama administration has made and has unraveled some of the gains by which we made in 2007 and 2008. Whatever we think it is, the assessment made today is likely to be different 10 years
TC: What was the most significant thing you did while working for President Bush? What decisions were especially important? PF: When I got there in 2005, we thought—the administration thought— that the War had turned in our favor. The invasion went well, and things unraveled after that in 2003, 2004. By 2005, we thought that we finally had a strategy that was working, and we were making progress. But we were having difficulty communicating that to the American people. But we thought we had the right strategy. We had a communication problem, not a strategy problem. That’s what we thought in 2005. One of the earlier projects I got involved in was helping the administration
explain that Iraq has more effects to the American people and that led to a series of white papers, a series of speeches in 2005 while things were indeed improving. In 2006 the strategy unraveled—the situation in Iraq unraveled—and we discovered we had not a communications problem but a strategy problem. We had the wrong strategy. I shifted from working on the Iraq communications angle to the Iraqi strategy angle. The fall of 2006 had dramatic change to Iraq strategy. That was one of the more consequential decisions in the Iraq War. TC: How were universities and scholars involved Iraq War? PF: The War didn’t captivate campuses the way the Vietnam War did. Protestors in the Vietnam War really gripped university campuses, and that did not happen in the Iraq War. Public support gradually eroded, but it didn’t turn into protests the way it did in Vietnam. TC: Why wasn’t the Iraq War a significant issue at universities? What role have they played instead? PF: There wasn’t a draft. The average student didn’t feel like they were headed to Iraq. That’s the most obvious explanation. The role for universities should be a healthy wealth of social ideas. There are many, many myths about Iraq War that the average person or, in fact, the average student believes because during the War they only lift the one side of the news facts— in a way creating cartoon image of the War. The university is in the business of promoting a more healthy marketplace of ideas.
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Experts and students gathered in the Sanford School of Public Policy Wednesday for the event “Who Does Government Work For” to talk about political accountability and answer the question—who runs Washington. The discussion, organized by the Research Triangle chapter of the Scholar Strategy Network, began with comments from each of the five panelists who spoke on topics ranging from the influence of different groups in policymaking to possible future strategies for political parties. Although the
speakers did not reach a consensus on who controls government, they did allude to a particularly influential group. “The ability of affluent Americans to shape federal policy is overwhelmingly greater than that of people in less wealthy circumstances,” said Martin Gilens, professor of politics at Princeton University and author of “Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America.” “There is a very strong correlation between what the rich want and what government does.” SEE GOVERNMENT ON PAGE 12
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MAJOR from page 1 Sophomore Class Council and the academic affairs committee of Duke Student Government collaborated on the event, which was spearheaded by sophomore class president Bret Lesavoy and sophomore DSG senator Laurel Kaye. It is important to mark students’ transition from pre-major advising to advising by faculty within a department because strong relationships with those professors often correlates to a better Duke experience, said Alyssa Perz-Edwards, assistant dean of Trinity College. In addition to creating an opportunity for interaction between faculty and students, the event aimed to acquaint sophomores with their peers of the same major. “There’s a lot of potential that isn’t being tapped into,” Kaye said. She added that Duke students could apply their collective enthusiasm for sports toward creating greater intellectual community. “Most of our traditions revolve around tenting for basketball games or tailgate,” sophomore peer advisor Ben Wang said. “At Duke, people often affiliate themselves more with their living groups or their clubs. We are trying to foster an academic environment where students feel close to their majors.” The event organizers wanted to promote greater academic engage-
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ment, Yang said. Publicity for the event advertised T-shirts for each major as part of students’ induction into their new departments. At the homecoming, though, newly declared sophomores were given tickets to claim their T-shirts at a later date. One of the issues the students, deans and advisors organizing the event hoped to combat was the feeling among many students that declaring a major is anticlimactic, Yang added. “When you finally discover something and you declare your major, you just get a sheet of paper that says congratulations,” he said. “We want to recognize that this is something to celebrate.” In the past, some students have felt apathetic about declaring majors due to the impersonal process. Sophomore Shelby Leverett for example, did not physically deliver her long range plan, the final step of declaring a major. She heard the process was anticlimactic, so she sent her paper with a friend to turn in. Taylor said she has hopes academic homecoming will make declaring a major a more exciting and meaningful experience. “What makes Duke special in so many ways is that we’ve built a community,” she said. “It’s not just coming to class, going home and doing research–it is more that, it’s fostering intellectual relationships.”
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Crowds gather in a tent on the Chapel Quad Wednesday afternoon for Academic Homecoming, a social event for sophomores who recently declared their majors.
coverage in the healthcare plan will likely not increase the rates that students are charged because the procedure happens so infrequently, Tobia said. He added that there was no premium increase when Brown extended full transgender coverage to its students. “We are currently in conversations with the Office of Student Affairs and the administration about making the change, and we don’t expect there will be any problems,” he said. Tobia added that implementing this change will further Duke’s commitment to being an inclusive community for all of its students. “This is not just a minority issue, it is an issue that effects every student on campus,” he said. “It is
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In other business: Executive Vice President Patrick Oathout, a junior, and Senator for Services Lavanya Sunder, a freshman, introduced legislation to urge Duke Dining to increase student access to zabiha and halal food on campus. The terms refer to meat that is lawful and acquired through humane slaughter per Islamic beliefs and customs. Oathout said extending food options for practicing Muslims on campus is an important step for the University to reaffirm religious tolerance and diversity. Sunder added that the Fix My Campus service had received many student requests for increased halal options on campus. The legislation passed unanimously. Sophomore Ray Li, senator for
academic affairs, introduced legislation to add questions about curriculum coding to the new course evaluation forms. Current course evaluation forms does not contain questions regarding the appropriateness of modes of inquiry and areas of knowledge designations, he noted. Adding a space to comment on curriculum coding for each course will provide valuable feedback on how well the course addresses the credits that students would receive. “Some classes give an area of knowledge credit in what would seem to be the wrong area for what students are actually taking away from the course,” Li said. “Feedback would be important in making sure course codings are accurate.” The legislation passed by unanimous consent.
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the second search. Near the end of the initial search, he was invited to consider the position at Stanford’s journalism program, and he delivered a talk on the university’s campus that Spring. Although he was an initial candidate, Hamilton said he expected that Duke would eventually choose someone with significant policy experience and impact, like Brownell. “[Brownell is] consistent with what Duke is trying to do with global health and knowledge and service of society,” Hamilton said. “Ultimately, the dean search had a great outcome for the school.” Other universities have been courting Hamilton for years because of his significant academic achievements—which include authoring several books and receiving numerous awards—but he stayed faithful to Duke and turned the offers down, Fleishman said. He noted that Hamilton taught at Harvard University briefly, and Sanford faculty members were worried he would stay there permanently. “Sooner or later somebody would poach him from us,” Kuniholm said. “When we have really good people who get extraordinary offers—if it works for them, and it’s better for them—then they should take that opportunity.” Although he will serve in an administrative capacity at Stanford—overseeing their journalism master’s and the John S. Knight journalism fellowship programs—Hamilton will also have a unique opportunity to expand his
research in the field of computational journalism. By working with the Stanford communications department and nearby Silicon Valley tech companies, he can explore innovative and cost-effective ways for investigative reporters to use technology. “We will be able to draw on the resources and human capital of Silicon Valley and bring them into discussions on journalism’s future,” Hamilton said. He added that he will have access to more resources than are available at Duke, and he will have the opportunity to teach career-level journalists—his ideal job. Hamilton noted that the DeWitt Wallace Center faculty will continue their mission to use research and development to aid journalists in a changing media landscape, particularly as it pertains to investigative journalism and holding institutions accountable. Fleishman noted that Hamilton shaped the center when he took over as director in 2008 by changing the name from the Center for Communications and Journalism to the Center for Media and Democracy, better reflecting the center’s interests and goals. He added that Hamilton increased the center’s prominence by hosting conferences and seminars—both on and off campus—and recruiting star faculty members. Kuniholm and Brownell are working together to devise a strategy to find a new director for the center. Kuniholm said they will have a plan in place before the end of April. “We’re going to miss Jay, there’s no doubt about that,” he added. “You want to celebrate peoples’ transitions to new responsibilities.”
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A student decorates a “take back the tap” sign on the Bryan Center Plaza in a World Water Day event hosted by Sustainable Duke and the Environment Alliance Wednesday.
Oil + Nuclear = Life “Alternative” Energy = Death In this provocative panel discussion, energy philosopher Alex Epstein and nuclear engineer Thomas Eiden (both from the Center for Industrial Progress) give uncompromising moral and scientific arguments for the unfettered and unlimited development of the oil and nuclear power industries. They argue that so-called “alternative” energies are the path to darkness. Come see if they can convince you. Or if you can convince them that they’re wrong. There will be ample time for questions and (respectful) disagreements. Alex Epstein (Duke ’02) is President of the Center for Industrial Progress and an expert in energy and industrial policy. His writings on energy have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Investor’s Business Daily. He is leading freemarket energy debater, having debated Bill McKibben, Greenpeace, Occupy Wall Street, and other environmentalist groups. Thomas Eiden is a nuclear engineer and a Researcher at the Center for Industrial Progress. He has conducted research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Argonne National Laboratory. When not researching, Eiden is a passionate activist not only for nuclear power but also fossil fuels and all other forms of reliable, affordable energy.
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GPSC from page 2 GPSC at the beginning of the year in the hopes of fostering a more inclusive and familiar environment. Ultimately Yadav, an admirer of Mahatma Gandhi, said his mentor has taught him that effective communication can be achieved within any environment as long as it is done peacefully and honestly. “If you are honest and doing the right thing, it’s easy to communicate with people,” Yadav said. “If you give people all the information they need and you make it clear what they can do for the organization and how they can participate together, there isn’t a difficulty.” Other newly elected members of the executive board include Brad Hover, a doctoral candidate in the biochemistry department, as attorney general; Eden Ellis, a first-year master’s in public policy and MBA candidate, as treasurer; Betty Jiang, a thirdyear medical student, as executive secretary; Shanna Lehrman, a first-year law student, as university affairs coordinator; Yilin Liu, a
graduate student in the Medical Physics department, as academic officer, and Abigail LaBella, a graduate student in the Program in Genetics and Genomics, as student group liaison.
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Gambucci and Hartmann head to NCAAs by Jackie Klauberg THE CHRONICLE
As first-year head coach Glen Lanham works to rebuild Duke’s wrestling program, two key building blocks have qualified early in their careers to participate in the NCAA Championships Thursday and Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa. Sophomore Brandon Gambucci and redshirt freshman Conner Hartmann earned berths to represent Duke in the 133-pound and 197-pound divisions, respectively. Their appearance will represent the first time since 2009 that the Blue Devils have sent more than one wrestler to the Championships, and Gambucci will be the first Duke wrestler to qualify in the 133-pound division. The dynamics at the national championship are very different from ACC Championship competition in that not all 10 Duke wrestlers participate in the tournament. “In ACCs, you’re going with 10 wrestlers. Once ACCs are over, you don’t qualify as many as you want to. You leave guys behind,” Lanham said. “You start working more on your individuals than as a team. You wish you could get all 10 of them, but you’ve got to concentrate just on [Gambucci and Hartmann].” Gambucci and Hartmann will likely have their hands full as they compete CAROLINE RODRIGUEZ/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO
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Sophomore Brandon Gambucci and redshirt freshman Conner Hartmann will represent Duke at the NCAA Championships.
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Freshman James Marvel tossed seven shutout innings, allowing only five hits, to improve to 2-2 on the season.
Duke shut out the Charlotte 49ers with a 3-0 victory at Durham Bulls Athletic Park Wednesday night, putting the team a game above .500. The Blue Devils (11-10) opened up scoring in the bottom of the first, with second baseman Andy Perez’s second leadoff home run of the year. In the third inning, Duke tacked on two more runs on sacrifice flies from third baseman Jordan Betts and designated hitter Matt Berezo. The Blue Devil offense put a man on base in every inning with shortstop Kenny Koplove and outfielders Mark Lumpa and Grant McCabe each notching two hits on the night. A trio of Blue Devil right-handers combined to shut out Charlotte. After giving up two hits in the first inning, freshman James Marvel settled in to allow just three more hits and one walk over the next six frames. His one scare came in the fifth inning, but he worked out of the jam with 49ers on first and second. He ended Charlotte’s threat for good after battling with leadoff hitter Michael Green, who popped out on a 2-2 count. Marvel improved to 2-2 on the season with the victory. Relievers Michael Matuella and sophomore Andrew Istler built off Marvel’s dominance, each tossing a hitless inning. The save for Istler marked his fifth of the season, which leads the ACC.
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against the nation’s best. Gambucci, who won two of his three matches this season against ranked opponents, is set to wrestle against top-ranked Logan Stieber of Ohio State in his opening match. Stieber, who like Gambucci is an Ohio native, won the NCAA championship last season and has continued his success by winning all 22 of his matches this season. The redshirt sophomore boasts a pair of Big Ten titles on his resume as well. “Brandon feels confident,” Lanham said. “That’s what upsets are all about—anybody can beat anybody. Brandon is just as talented and has the wrestling pedigree as well…. It will just come down to who wants it more. I think it is a good draw for us. They are from the same state, they’ve got state bragging rights on the line.” Gambucci is 19-5 on the year and his runner-up finish at the ACC Championships garnered him one of five automatic bids to the national championship meet. Hartmann placed third at the ACC Championships, so he required at-large consideration to earn his first-round matchup with No. 7 seed James Schiedel of Binghamton. Both Gambucci and Hartmann are ranked in the top 30 in RPI in their respective weight classes, and Gambucci finished the season ranked No. 24 in the 133-pound division Coaches Poll. Despite having to leave eight Blue Devil wrestlers behind, Lanham is proud of his team’s performance this season and is adamant that the wrestlers on his team who did not make the cut this season will be more motivated than ever to qualify for the NCAA Championships when their chance comes next season. “I think we finished up on a positive note as far as our guys feeling confident about going to nationals next year,” Lanham said. “Our team is very young and very hungry.”
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Unacceptable contact Duke has a sexual assault Culture Initiative is right to problem. The Greek Culture give weight to a range of deepInitiative report confirmed an ly personal reactions. Only by ugly reality of the Duke social doing so can we account for scene: Unwanted sexual con- the flawed assumptions and tact continues to occur at an expectations that collectively unacceptable shape rape culrate. The key ture. editorial word here is The study “unwanted,” which denotes a found that overall, 31 percent clear communication gap that of women and 12 percent of has allowed for behavior that men have experienced unis at best disrespectful and at wanted sexual contact with worst traumatizing. another Duke student. The We support the report’s researchers found that the broad definition of sexual as- trend starts early on in stusault as “any unwanted physi- dents’ Duke experiences: By cal contact that is sexual in the sixth week of the Fall of nature” and affirm that such their freshman year, 16 percontact, even seemingly mi- cent of women and 8 percent nor instances, can be traumat- of men reported some form ic. Catcalling, grinding and of unwanted sexual contact ass-grabbing may elicit very by another Duke student. different responses from difThese figures should apferent people. But the Greek pall, but perhaps not sur-
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prise, students and administrators. We critiqued the study’s methods and statistical validity Wednesday. But these sexual misconduct statistics, which do not require longitudinal or comparative data to have profound implications, should be taken particularly seriously. If the discovery that approximately 200 freshmen are sexually assaulted in their first six weeks of school—a rate of about 5 students per day—is not enough to push us to action, then what will? Unwanted sexual advances create an unsafe environment for affected parties as they objectify and degrade the victim. Although we cannot make causal inference from this observational study, one can imagine a connection
between sexual assault and feeling less respected – which was identified to be a major concern for Duke women in relation to their male counterparts. The study found that sexual assault is not a strictly greek issue—perhaps defying the common conception of how sexual assault operates here. Participation in greek life is not a dramatically powerful predictor of a student’s experience of sexual assault for either males or females (38 percent of greek women versus 30 percent of independent women experience sexual assault). Risk of assault impacts the lives of all Duke women regardless of social affiliation. Granted, this finding identifies only the victims rather than the perpetrators
of sexual assault, but it is a step toward moving past preconceptions. For better or for worse, it seems to affect us all, regardless of affiliation. Hopefully, this can help us refocus our efforts: Perhaps PACT training should be required of the entire student body, rather than just greek students as the study recommends. These disturbing statistics should jolt students into a new definition of what is socially normal—one grounded in clear communication and asking consent. The social awkwardness that may accompany actually asking someone to dance rather than creeping up on them from behind is a subordinate consideration to ensuring that students feel safe and respected.
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braham Lincoln once said, “All that I am or work from the crack of dawn until dust, going from ever hope to be, I owe to my angel moth- one job to the next. Her strict maintenance of the er.” Such an observation is also evident household, as well as her values, proved to be a sigthroughout the life and success of nificant influence on Ben. Dr. Ben Carson. With the help of his mother and Ben Carson grew up in the penuschool teachers, Ben graduated with rious community of downtown Dehonors from his high school, attroit, was raised by a mother who was tended Yale University and earned a not educated beyond the third grade degree in psychology. After graduatand performed poorly throughout ing from Yale, Ben was accepted to his early school years. Regardless of the University of Michigan School of the countless restrictions that were mousa alshanteer Medicine, where he would study to imposed on him, Carson persebecome a neurosurgeon. Later on, you don’t say? vered throughout his life and has he would become a chief resident, become a renowned neurosurgeon; and subsequently, the Director of Pehowever, his success was by no means entirely his diatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. own doing, for his mother, Sonya, was the one who In the next few years, Ben would draw internainfluenced Ben to endure against all odds. tional attention for separation surgeries on conIn order to ensure that her children would have joined twins from Germany and South Africa. He the opportunity she had been denied, Sonya re- would go on to establish his own scholarship fund, quired that Ben read two books a week and write write a New York Times best seller, accept more reports on his readings. Despite her illiteracy, Sonya than 50 honorary doctorate degrees, become a would comment on, highlight and underline er- member of the Alpha Honor Medical Society and rors in these reports, thereby insisting that he learn the Horatio Alger Society of Distinguished Amerifrom his mistakes. While his friends played outside cans, serve on the executive boards of several busiand anticipated dropping out of school, Ben spent nesses and educational institutions, be recognized time reading books from the local public library and by the Library of Congress, CNN and Time magaimproving his grades in order to please his mother. zine, and be awarded the Ford’s Theater Lincoln Over time, he began to read out of his own enjoy- Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by ment, and not because the task was required. Be- former President George W. Bush. tween the covers of his books, he was able to realize It was evident that his mother had raised him his own potential to achieve the unachievable. well. The library, however, was not the only place Ben Through it all, Ben exemplified the ambition, became accustomed to. Since his family was one of potential and mindset necessary to overcome the many on medical assistance, Ben spent significant most burdensome obstacles. Though he was raised time in the local hospital, where he would observe in poverty, Ben realized that he had the ability to betphysicians saving lives and began to dream about ter his situation through education. The values that becoming a physician himself. Sonya must have no- his mother instilled in him enabled him to achieve ticed the ambition and aspiration in her son’s eyes, more than those who bullied him at a younger age. for she would constantly remind her son that he This story serves as an example of the work that had the ability to live his dreams. our mothers do. Throughout our lives, our mothThrough his hard work, Ben realized that he ers sacrifice and endure so that we can live by their could achieve what no one but his mother knew he example and become successful in our endeavors. could achieve. Within a few years, he began to sur- I sincerely hope that we can all take the time, toprise his instructors by rising to the top of his class, day, to reflect and to thank our mothers for such prompting one of his instructors to scold the more sacrifice, for it may very well be the reason we are privileged students for allowing Carson to surpass here today. them scholastically. In order to ensure that educational opportunities Mousa Alshanteer is a Trinity freshman. His column were always available for her children, Sonya worked runs every other Thursday. You can follow Mousa on two or three jobs at a time. On most days, she would Twitter @mousaalshanteer.
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ollege liberals love to hate on the role of understand what consequences this has in a country money in politics. The Koch Brothers and Art where our legislators spend more time fundraising Pope are perhaps more reviled even than the than they do governing. I’m not here to stake out any conservative candidates they bankroll. Worst of all, particular claims in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, purportedly, are the “low information voters,” the only to insist we consider the outsize voice one side mindless sheep who let their opinions be bought and of the story gets when the board members of their sold. But we, the college educated, newspaper-read- lobbying group are each able to write out $72,000 ing, cultivated liberals (and conservatives) are better checks to candidates. Duke Students for Justice in Palesthan that. We think for ourselves. tine-sponsored Israeli Apartheid Week When I was president of College just ended and an installation by Duke Democrats of North Carolina—my Friends of Israel entitled “My Israel Stoterm ended just a few months ago—I ry” just went up in Perkins library. One was amazed by how often people I met “My Israel Story” in Perkins is titled from College Democrats of America “Humanitarian Aid” but doesn’t speak (CDA) would complain about money of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Anin politics, despite describing how they other is titled “Democracy” but ignores went on trips overseas paid for by lobelena botella the fact that West Bank residents live byists just minutes later. The American Israel Public Affairs a rebirth of wonder under Israeli occupation but don’t have a vote in Israeli elections. Committee—which calls itself “America’s Pro-Israel Lobby”—systematically courts the When it comes to Israel and Palestine, Duke stupublic opinion of college students with a dogged en- dents, even politically-minded ones, express apathetic thusiasm that, in three out of four years, exceeds the agnosticism. Fearing controversy, they defer to an“It’s energy expended by the Democratic and Republican Complicated” relationship. And while, perhaps beParties put together. cause its the safest position, they’ll say they think both Leaders on college campuses—College Democrat sides have valid arguments, they’ll often also express and College Republican chapter presidents and stu- discomfort with the rhetoric or tactics employed by dent government representatives mostly—get all-ex- Duke Students for Justice in Palestine. DSJP tactics penses-paid trips to D.C. to attend conferences and are often times designed to make us uncomfortable; trainings, where they meet with congressmen, sena- as an example, when DSJP posts eviction notices on tors and sometimes even presidential candidates or our doors, that small disruption of our space calls to the president. Some will go on the Campus Allies Trip mind the much greater disruption of the Nakba. to Israel—in 2012, this included 40 percent of the ColJonathan Kessler, director of AIPAC’s Leadership lege Democrats of America Board, along with leaders Development Department said the following to an from the College Republican National Committee audience at the 2010 policy conference: “Every fuand Historically Black Colleges and Universities. ture senator will pass through an American campus. For some obvious reasons, the Palestinian people Every future House representative will pass through aren’t likely to have the resources to woo young col- an American campus. … AIPAC’s job is to identify, enlege students with all-expenses-paid trips to forge gage and educate those individuals that are already “unshakeable” bonds between Americans and Pales- self-defining, self-actualizing as campus political leadtinians anytime soon. ers.” Kessler went on to promise that AIPAC would The diaspora is largely poor: Over one million Pal- help “pro-Israel students take over the student governestinians worldwide live in refugee camps. Palestin- ment” at UC-Berkeley, which had recently attempted ians living within Israel are largely poor, underserved to pass a resolution urging divestment from Israel. by a government that purports to treat them fairly, When I realized through my involvement in Colwhile openly acknowledging to the United Nations lege Democrats of North Carolina the systematic inCommittee on the Rights of the Child that in past fluence exerted by AIPAC on college campuses, I sudyears they have spent only 60 percent on Arab pupils denly became much more understanding of why DSJP what they did on Jewish pupils. Palestinians living used such attention-grabbing techniques—although within the Gaza Strip are largely poor, their economy notably, they aren’t tipping over any other student weakened in part by a blockade from Israel banning group’s tables. DSJP might not represent the type of virtually all exports from Gaza. With exports from campus activism we’re comfortable with—but it is the Gaza in 2012 at just 5 percent of 2007 levels, accord- type of campus activism we need if the perspectives ing to the head of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, of the Palestinian people will be at all considered in we shouldn’t be surprised that the Gazan people are American foreign policy. Only when both sides have a dependent on foreign aid. true voice will we be able to move beyond “Pro-Israel” We all realize that oil and gas companies have a or “Pro-Palestine” posturing toward a philosophy that lot more to spend than environmental lobbyists, is pro-peace and pro-human-rights. and that wealthy have more resources with which to defend the carried interest tax break than the poor Elena Botella is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every have to defend the Earned Income Tax Credit; we Thursday. You can follow Elena on Twitter @elenabotella.
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Is this the right chapel?” a tourist asked me at the West Campus bus stop, standing in the shadow of the 210-foot-tall tower. It was one of those moments life just doesn’t prepare you for. The building’s dominance over Duke’s campus made me wonder about the way the University reconciles its “hisfedja pavlovic torical, formal, on-going and guest column symbolic ties with Methodism” with its status as a non-sectarian and independent institution. With a renowned divinity school enrolling some 550 students, it is hard to judge whether Duke’s religious affiliation is more historic than on-going. As a contemporary educational institution, Duke has yet to answer some conceptual questions about its academic profile. Does theology have a place in a 21st-century university? Is teaching theology in the Divinity School compatible with the premises of scholarly inquiry an academic institution’s work is based on? Should the University try to reassess the role of the Divinity School within its structure? Teaching theology as an academic discipline is incompatible with the goals of a modern university; furthermore, it is a legacy of the very thing a post-Enlightenment university is meant to abolish. It is not theology’s subject that disqualifies it from being an academic discipline. Indeed, there are many fields of natural and social sciences that study the nature of God and religious belief. It is the theological method or, rather, the assumptions on which its inquiry is based, which oppose the basic principle of rational inquiry: that is, constructing hypotheses from systematic observations using some kind of logical reasoning. We use this method outside scholarly work, in our daily lives—we notice things, analyze them critically and draw some kind of conclusion about them. Theology starts with a priori acceptance of religious doctrine found in the Scripture. These adopted presumptions are either unprovable (like the existence of a deity) or plainly false (like much of Genesis). Following this “leap of faith,” theology may construct elaborate arguments employing scientific methods and proper Aristotelian logic, but its whole theoretical body hinges on an initial, baselessly adopted premise. The “void of rationality” implicit in this leap of faith discredits any subsequent theological inquiry as unscientific and makes theology irreconcilable with the modern concept of an academic discipline. And Duke should not treat it like one. The Duke University Divinity School’s proclaimed mission is to teach theology through Scripture and to prepare students for Christian ministry. Historically, its “truly catholic, truly evangelical and truly reformed” educational policy seeks to cultivate the life of worship. For all its merits as a potentially beneficial out-of-classroom activity, worship has no academic value. Furthermore, it—by definition—excludes critical thought, a crucial feature of analytic thinking and education in general. If a modern university seeks to empower its students through education, how can its graduate school’s program include such an essentially uncritical and disempowering activity as worship? Central to the Divinity School’s curriculum (as stated in its bulletin) are its spiritual formation groups, whose members meet weekly to pray and discuss how to be faithful in one’s religious life. The spiritual formation retreats organized each semester involve prophetic worship and transformative prayers—and they are a graduation requirement for Masters of Divinity students. Another graduation requirement for prospective Masters of Divinity students is “field education,” a program where one of the goals is for students to “spend time discerning God’s call upon their life and future vocation.” The notion that worship, prayer and gospel should be requirements for obtaining a Master’s degree from Duke University is downright unacceptable and directly contradictory to any sort of academic standards a modern institution of higher learning may have. It shows that the Divinity School is fundamentally misplaced within a contemporary research university such as our own. Throughout its history, Duke has changed quite a bit. It has transformed its institutional structure, admission policies, campus architecture and student life. All of these changes took time—and we are presently witnessing how even implementing a new housing agenda can be a lengthy and difficult process. Reevaluating the role of the Divinity School will, understandably, be one of the most challenging endeavors for a university with such a rich religious history. In fact, it goes without saying that, given theology’s pivotal historical role in the creation of Western academia, any sort of debate on this matter would enlighten a tremendously complex issue. But if Duke plans to remain at the front lines of modern academia and free thought, perhaps this is a sort of debate we need to have. Fedja Pavlovic is a Trinity sophomore.
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GOVERNMENT from page 4 Gilens spoke about the differences in preferences between the rich and the poor over issues like market approaches to public policy, social policy and progressive tax structures and suggested that affluent Americans tend to have their way. The inequality in political influence, however, varies depending on political circumstances. Political campaigns reduce the representation gap between the rich and the poor as politicians try to emphasize equal attentiveness to the needs of all socioeconomic groups. Instead of talking about the perspectives of the rich, Meredith Sadin, senior analyst at the Analyst Institute, emphasized public perceptions about the rich, especially the rich who run for office. “Voters give upper class candidates more credit because they associate that success with hard work and competency,” she said. “But how they got there is important too. Working class origins are a lot more relatable to voters than those born wealthy.” The talk then shifted to the difficulty of addressing the wide distribution of misinformation and misleading claims in politics. “The first solution we think of is to educate people about politics,” said Brendan Nyhan, assistant professor of government at Dartmouth College. “But in fact, it’s the people with the most political knowledge that are most often supportive of misleading claims that align with their beliefs.” Earlier this year, Nyhan published a study finding evidence of this in people’s reactions when presented with evidence debunking the “death panel” myth that arose during debate on the Affordable Care Act. For states like North Carolina that have citizen legislatures, whose members often possess little political experience, misinfor-
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ecently, I awoke from a nap on a sun-warmed rock 3,970 feet above sea level with the unshakable feeling that everything in life is contrived. Like this editor’s note, for instance. Here, at the start of the last six weeks of my college career, I feel as if I can’t possibly write another genuine one of these. While writing my other notes, the process was easy. I always started by asking myself: What do I love in the arts? And then I would write about why I loved it. When I was in a particularly sour/ frustrated/jobless mood, I simply wrote a note complaining about why it sucks to try to make it in the arts, in the “real world.” Now, after spending my final spring break backpacking—the same way I’ve spent all of my spring breaks—I can neither get myself to write about something I love nor complain about something that frustrates me. It’s not that I have nothing to write about. I love Full Frame, for example, and it’s coming up in two weeks (!). Alternatively, as a soon-to-graduate non-investment-banking arts-lover, I have plenty of things I could rant about. And yet, my mind drifts back to the tall pines of Pisgah National Forest, where just last week I was climbing mountains, occasionally eating peanut butter off the ground and sharing Nalgenes with contagious freshmen while singing “Wagon Wheel” beneath the Big Dipper. It sounds slightly miserable, but somehow it was just the opposite. While I was in the woods, I met a young woman doing a
solo backpacking trip. My group of seven students ran into her after hiking all day during a relentless rainfall, just as the sky was darkening with the promise of freezing temperatures and hypothermia. The girl—I will never know her name—had set up her tent inside a small wooden shelter built by angels in the middle of the forest. My backpacking mates and I, in our rain-soaked misery, introduced ourselves and asked if we could enjoy a brief respite under her shelter. As the rain continued throughout the evening, the girl invited us to stay with her overnight, and we accepted without a second thought, offering in exchange the chance to eateth of our seven-pound block of cheese (which, as a vegan, she politely declined). The day could have ended in a horror story, each nightmarish possibility taking shape in my head as I curled up in my wet sleeping bag under the shelter. Instead, the night passed inconsequentially. The girl told us about her frequent camping trips and her job volunteering at an animal shelter. She was on spring break from UNC Asheville, and she wanted to do a solo hike in order to recharge and reconnect with nature. She went to sleep early, and we tried not to disturb her. In the morning, the girl bid us adieu and headed on her merry way as my group spread everything we owned on the ground like we were holding a garage sale, hoping to dry off our warm layers in the tenuous sunshine. The experience of sharing shelter with a stranger in the woods connected me to something I cannot easily articulate. When I think of connection, I things we’d kick-start think first of technology. But Michaela Dwyer......................................................................................employment living in nature and putting Holly Hilliard.........................................................................................employment all that aside makes me feel like I’m one part of this big, Dan Fishman..........................................................................................employment real, pulsing source of life and Katie Zaborsky........................................................................................employment energy. I can only describe Ted Phillips.............................................................................................the good life this as an awareness of living, a realization that life exists Sophia Durand...........................................................................................managing beyond the realm of graduaEmma Loewe............................................................sour gummy cherry bin candy tion and the “real world.” As Eliza Bray............................................................................................................recess Henry David Thoreau wrote
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in Walden, “We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.” In the woods, I don’t worry about trivial things—job applications, midterm grades, where I’m going to be next year. I only worry about if it will rain tomorrow, if one of my group members will have an allergic reaction to a bee sting or if a bear will eat all our food. I appreciate survival. Everyone I’ve ever met on the trail seems to be gripped with this same kind of awareness: we all just want to be alive. In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Nature,” he writes: “In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.” There’s something to this. Childlike appreciation of life, connection with self outside of contrived societal pressures—it’s something we lose with time as we become more and more focused on the things we “should” be doing in our adult lives. Or maybe I’m the only one who feels this way, clinging to my childhood as graduation draws near. The hardest part about returning to the “paved world” after spending time in the woods is figuring out how to make things seem alive. I think, for me, writing helps with that. Art helps with that. And yet art, or at least a career centered around it, exists in the realm of cities and collaboration and multimedia, not in isolation. If I want to pursue writing, I have to give up Pisgah and “perpetual youth.” This May, at the same time that I lose Duke, I fear that I will also lose nature and all the ways it has connected me to myself. Since I returned from the woods, I’ve tried to adjust one day at a time, slowly becoming part of the “real world” once again. I often wonder how I will take new steps in my adult life while maintaining a childlike appreciation of it. I think of the people who have figured it out—some of my peers, my mentors. I think of the girl under the shelter. And then I think of those of us who have nothing figured out at all, and I realize that at least we’re all here, in whatever “world” this is. We all just want to live and be alive. —Holly Hilliard
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If anyone has earned the right to indulge in perpetual existential crisis, it’s David Bowie. Simultaneously initiator and victim of pop culture trends of the last three decades, Bowie thrives in situations of ambiguous identity. Yet the irony of Bowie’s latest album The Next Day is that, for all the artist’s self-doubt, the record is most appealing for its references to the vast and varied Bowie legacy. TND’s relationship to Bowie’s eclectic discography manifests in the LP cover art. The cover artist whited out the face of the album art of Bowie’s ’80s masterpiece Heroes and substituted the album’s title in minimalist font. If we take the symbolism seriously, Bowie seems to be writing over the ideas he developed in Heroes—and the rest of his anthology—after ten years of introspection. For the most part, fans of Bowie’s classics can rest easy. Bowie has largely shed the pressure to overhaul his identity. Instead, the album relies on familiar Bowie sounds: rock backbeats from Diamond Dogs, funky saxophones riffs from Young Americans and the orchestrated ambience from the “Berlin Trilogy” all contribute to the album’s aesthetic. The characteristic squirming, highregister wail of Ziggy Stardust briefly appears in the chorus of “How Does the Grass Grow?”, and the R&B pep of “Fame” maintains a presence in the soulful backup vocals. Some time periods, however, Bowie avoids altogether. There are no synthy industrial beats. TND is perhaps the diametric opposite to the electronic Earthling of 1997. Neither is the album a total conceptual detour like 1. Outside, though the second bonus track “Plan” rings of his experimental collaboration with Brian Eno. The tone is considerably less upbeat than Bowie’s previous album, 2003’s Reality. The consistent creative team, however, provides a sense of continuity with his past works. Guitarist Earl Slick, singer Gail Ann Dorsey and producer Toni Visconti all return after an eight-year hiatus post-tour, along with other Bowie vets. Their long experience as both an on-stage and studio group shines through. The production of TND, thank goodness, is no Tin Machine hodge-
recess podge. The mood, most importantly, has changed. The Next Day betrays an undercurrent of self-conscious fear, though not quite the post-cocaine melancholy of Low. Maybe the heart attack scare of Bowie’s luckless “A Reality Tour” shocked him with a sense of his mortality, or perhaps the experienced rocker is simply waxing philosophical in his late period. What was once bitter anxiety has matured into a full-bodied lament. Like many great artists, Bowie broods about his legacy. Not that he’s run out of steam— TND doesn’t suggest creative exhaustion—but his high-energy, hyper-prolific ’70s and ’80s are certainly over. I’d even dare to suggest that there’s an embedded farewell to the public in the title track’s first stanza: “‘Look into my eyes,’ he tells her/ ‘I’m gonna say goodbye.” While Bowie is using a mouthpiece, more often than not Bowie’s third-person narratives give indirect clues to his personal life, and this continues to be true throughout TND. Other tracks hint that Bowie feels his age. “Where Are We Now,” an ethereal, minorkey dirge, speaks of uncertain futures for both Berliners and himself, contemplating life after the fall of the wall. The 2007 music video revisits Bowie’s apartment in Germany, revealing an artifact-ridden studio well befitting a “man lost in time.” The high-strung, elegiac “Love is Lost” mourns the loss of childhood bliss, when “It’s the darkest hour, you’re twenty two.” An error-message keyboard pulse and a strained, failing drumbeat communicate the angst of adulthood, when one must “wave goodbye to a life without pain.” Of course, Bowie waved goodbye to a life of pain long ago. Low told us that he’s at least once been on the edge of the cliff, that he’s “Always Been Crashing In the Same Car.” But has Bowie really said “goodbye to the thrills of
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life?” I pray not. The first bonus track “So She” is a sign that Bowie is still joyful. The lighthearted, aquatic, bluegrass ballad sticks out in an album marked by confusion, and it’s a refreshing romance after “Heat,” the record’s lonely finale. If for the past thirty years, Bowie has journeyed to and from the alternate universes of space rock, dancehall pop and ’90s industrial punk, The Next Day returns to earth.
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Bowie pauses briefly to orient himself, to contemplate where he’s been, to decide where he is now and wonder where he will stand in the future of rock and pop. He seems perfectly “content” if none of his questions are answered, as he tells us in the final bonus track “I’ll Take You There”: the question “What will I become in the USA?” is not as worrisome so long as he is “safe in this world” to “look up at the stars.” —Thomas Kavanagh
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Pet-Tich-Eye celebrates hometown music, collaborative creativity by Marie-Claire Bousquette And Lauren Feilich THE CHRONICLE
Home of prolific record labels such as Merge Records, dozens of small music venues and many nationally-touring bands, the Triangle’s abundant music scene is hard to fully comprehend. There are rarely moments when dozens of the Triangle’s musicians come together under one roof. And there has yet to be an album that showcases the diverse talent that calls the area home. That will change on April 20—National Record Store Day—with the release of Pet-Tich-Eye. More than thirty musicians, photographers and artists have converged to create an album that celebrates the thriving artistic community. Some of the scene’s biggest names have contributed to the project, including Bon Iver’s Matt McCaughan, Heather McEntire of Mount Moriah and Phil Cook of Megafaun. The album is composed of ten singles, each written by three or more musicians. Every track has inspired album art created by local artists, and the studio sessions have been photographed and filmed in order to visualize the unusual creative process through which the album was created. Ashlie White, a graduate student at UNC-Chapel Hill, started the project after she was inspired by high-profile collaborations that have gained national attention. In particular, Converse sponsored a recording that included James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, Andre 3000 and Gorillaz, which White notes as a model for the project’s inclusion of many different genres. “The coolest part is a fan of Lost in the Trees now gets exposed to The Love Language and Toddlers because they want to hear the song Ari [Picker] is part of and the links are all there,” White said. “We want cross-pollination— Stu McLamb said that—and [the album] encourages the musicians to push themselves.” Other constraints forced the artists to work in unconventional ways. Musicians were asked to partner with people with whom they had not previously worked, and each track was recorded in a day or less. Joe Hall of Hammer No More the Fingers and Blanko Basnet called the recording process “very organic.” For some artists, components of songs were exchanged by email to other band members, and many of the songs were only finalized on the day of studio recording. “We all got together as friends and threw some ideas out there and it all worked,” Hall said. “It’s like starting a whole new band.” The studio also presented opportunities for musicians to utilize advanced professional equipment. Christopher Hutcherson-Riddle of Motor Skills, who played at Hopscotch Music Festival last year, took full advantage of the studio’s resources. “[White] put us in a facility that was beyond the means of most involved with the project,” Hutcherson-Riddle said. “It was a pretty professional setting, and we were all nervous and excited about that.” In addition, on “No Hesitate,” Hutcherson-Riddle and his track-mates used a full drum kit that they never would have had it not been in the studio. Pet-Tich-Eye served as a catalyst for interactions that White said “wouldn’t exist if we didn’t put them [together] in a studio.” Mike Dillon, who is a part of Motor Skills as well as Gross Ghost, appreciates the vast scale of collaborative effort involved. “Ashlie believed in the talent,” Dillon said. “I was pleasantly surprised with what I heard because I didn’t know what to expect. The album took a lot of people to step out of what they know.” For Dillon
and others the project was impetus to experiment with different genres and new musical styles. On his trio’s track, “Don’t Start Believing,” Dillon noted that he wanted to stay true to the visions of his collaborators. “Matt [Park] and I both cared a lot about doing right by Autumn [Ehinger] and had to write outside of our safety zone. It was a fun challenge.” Chris Boerner, the co-founder of Sound Pure Studios, mixed eight out of the ten tracks, with the goal of threading together an album out of the ten singles. It was a challenge to reconcile the variety of artistic styles but, as Dillon confirms, it was meant to be an album rather than a compilation. Though no single band’s aesthetic dominates, Dillon said that he was able to keep it “different enough but not too different that it didn’t work.” When considering a title for the developing project, Ashlie White chose a name that stayed close to the project’s Durham roots. “Pet-Tich-Eye” was the nickname of a 19th-century Durham innkeeper’s son that White first heard about in Jim Wise’s Durham, A Bull City Story. “I love the name and [its] three parts,” White said. “It was obscure, but if anyone Google searched it, they’d find only results for our project and the history of the Triangle.” White launched a Kickstarter campaign to help cover the costs of the project and benefit the non-profits chosen by the artists involved in Pet-TichEye. Though the record is complete and will certainly be released, the Kickstarter campaign has until March 31 to raise the entire goal of $14,000, or else the project will receive none of the funding pledged thus far. As of 9 p.m. on March 20, the Kickstarter still had nearly $9000 to go. The perks that contributors receive are dependent on the amount they pledge. Perks range from a spot on the release show guest list, to private guitar lessons with some of the musicians, to an exclusive listening session with the artists and engineers at Sound Pure Studios. Especially dedicated contributors have the opportunity to fund a second vinyl pressing for $5000. Though some have questioned the need for a Kickstarter campaign, Dillon believes that it was the right move for White. Though the project is already paid for, “Kickstarter gives her a foundation,” Dillon said. “If [donors] could help, it’ll be a much smoother process.” White and others hope that the process will sustain beyond this initial venture. Hip-hop and spoken word artist Kane Smego, who collaborated with Jenks Miller and Phil Cook on “Somewhere In Between (Breathe),” looks forward to future opportunities made possible as a result of the precedent set by Pet-Tich-Eye. “The long-term project goal is to have [the] website be a way for artists to come together in the future,” Smego said. “[We want] to make [the website] something that can be used any time by artists who want to collaborate.” But above all, the project serves as another opportunity to promote and recognize the Triangle’s successful music scene. As White said, “we [Triangle music fans] know about the folk bands and indie bands and the punk and hardcore bands. We know names even if we don’t go to the shows because it’s all in our community. This was a way to let the national scene know.” The Pet-Tich-Eye album will be released on National Record Store Day, April 20. The release will coincide with a concert at Motorco Music Hall at 8 p.m. that evening.
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Triangle artists respond to new musical project by Minshu Deng THE CHRONICLE
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Back when people bought real CDs, half the thrill was looking through the paper album sleeves, staring at the background art and going blind memorizing the lyrics in size-two font. While those days are long gone, album art can still be just as potent as the music itself. Each song on the Pet-Tich-Eye record is accompanied by original album art from a visual artist in the Triangle area. All ten artists exhibit a distinctive vision that is apparent in the varied styles of the pieces, from the color-saturated photograph of “White Sunrise” and the carefully crafted sketch of “No Hesitate” to more minimalist images such as the whitewashed cover for “East Coast/West Coast Time.” It’s difficult to fully interpret the artwork as it relates to the music and other aspects of the project with so many pieces still unavailable for firsthand listening and viewing. As Nicole Welch, Curator of Education at CAM Raleigh and the creator of the “East Coast/West Coast Time” cover, wrote in an e-mail, “Everyone interprets art and music through their own personal lens.” That being said, online images of the artwork along with short samples of their corresponding songs still invite listeners to make connections between the visual and the aural. The track “Holland,” with contributions from members of Hammer No More the Fingers, Bon Iver and Bowerbirds, features Steve Oliva’s dichromatic mixed media print with a windmill in the bottom right, a nod to the song’s title. Kelsey Melville, the artist for “Don’t Start Believing,” wrote in an e-mail how her interpretation of the song and subsequent cover art reflect “the moment in which one looses naivete, whether it be from
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a relationship or from growing older in general.” David Eichenberg’s explanation of his sketch for “No Hesitate” reveals how the many layers of the songs translate into their respective album art. “The dark lyrics that Ginger [Wagg, of Indean Ocean] created gave me a feeling of some sort of forbidden meeting or [as if] you were being lured somewhere,” said Eichenberg. “The instrumental parts of the song also gave me this wintry feeling from the first moment I heard it, so I wanted to make sure that was represented in there somehow. I also wanted to be very vague about the imagery so the viewer could come up with there own story.” Each song was composed by a trio of musicians who then picked a local visual artist to create the cover art for their song, building upon existing bonds between local artists while also allowing for new collaborations in the Triangle community. Welch is friends with Ivan Howard of the Rosebuds and is married to Jon Yu, two of the musicians in the group for whom she created album art. For her, the artwork draws from personal memories and visuals as she listens to the song. In addition to the musical inspiration that went into these pieces, there is also simply the keen visual intuition of the artists. For “Katantix” Lincoln Hancock created a precise yet whimsical grid of cat faces sourced from a coffee table book called Champion Cats of the World that he found at a thrift store. “I wasn’t certain how anyone else was handling the art for any other song on the album, but this felt like a good solution. Fortunately, the band was all about it,” wrote Hancock in an email.
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Recess Interviews: Barbara Klinger Barbara Klinger is a Professor of Film and Media Studies at Indiana University at Bloomington as well as the President-Elect of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Her areas of expertise include new media, audience studies and gender in cinema. She will be giving a lecture entitled “Beyond Cheap Thrills: Space & Style in Contemporary 3D Cinema” tomorrow from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in White Lecture Hall. Her talk, along with a free 3D screening of Pina next Friday, is being put on by the the FHI/AMI Thinking Cinematics Working Group to explore 3D aesthetics. Recess film editor Ted Phillips spoke with Klinger about 3D cinema’s past, present and future. Recess: I’m really excited for your talk tomorrow. What should we look forward to? BK: There are a lot of complaints in the public sphere about 3D being useless or being annoying and kind of a cash cow that I try to address in the [talk] by thinking about what 3D actually does do in terms of cinema’s aesthetics of style and space. R: 3D is somewhat polarizing these days. What do you think needs to happen for 3D to become decisively popular, for it to step into the norm and become less of a divisive issue? BK: I think that the move will be, and the move has already been, to use the in-screen depth part of 3D’s illusionism. Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is a horror film and a science fiction film, two genres that have, in the past, used a lot of out-of-screen depth illusionism, things that come out and grab you. He refrains strongly from using the grab-you kind of effects and used screen depth more. One of the trends, and it’s also visible in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, [is] for prestige directors like Scott and Scorsese to avoid the out-of-screen effects and go more towards the in-screen. That partially might make 3D more acceptable—that and improving technology enough so that you don’t have to wear glasses. Maybe they don’t charge you an arm and a leg for your 3D experience; that would help, too. R: I saw Hugo in 3D and I have to agree, I think it’s the best 3D film I’ve seen in terms of the quality of the 3D image and the tastefulness of its use. BK: Basically everything you can use in 3D he does. He doesn’t have the things that come out and sit on your lap, but otherwise he does use a really broad range of techniques in 3D very well. R: How does shooting in 3D affect the cinematography and directorial decisions in a film? BK: If you’re shooting in 3D, one of the hardest things to do is to shoot an interior space with character dialogue where you go to a medium shot or a close-up. [It’s hard] not [to] make it feel like it has what’s called the diorama effect where the characters stand out arti-
ficially in the space. Visually one of the problems with shooting in 3D or converting to 3D in post-production is having a convincing rendition of space when you’re not looking at vast, epic amounts of space. I think there are control issues in shooting in terms of lighting, the maintenance of depth perspective from shot to shot and other kinds of continuity things that, once it’s up there on the screen in front of the audience, you can really see. You can see the cardboard-cutout figures when the 3D hasn’t been done very well or it’s been done in post-production. Whatever a ‘natural viewing’ experience is, it can easily go off the rails through these various problems. R: Speaking of post-production 3D, they’ve been releasing a lot of old films—I know they’ve been doing it with Star Wars and Titanic. What are your thoughts there? BK: I saw Beauty and the Beast in 3D and it was, in my opinion, a total waste of the four million or however many dollars they put into that. Same thing with films that are converted in post-production that aren’t these rereleases: a lot of them don’t do really much at all with depth. The exception, of course, is Titanic. I think the usual price for conversion used to be around four million dollars, and [James Cameron] spent maybe more than 11 million dollars on that conversion. The word immersion is kind of a cliché, but I think it does have the effect of immersing you more in the action. And I’m not a huge fan of that film, but I admire what he did in the conversion process. It’s the best-converted film out there yet. R: Where do you see 3D today and where do you think it will go or needs to go? BK: There are the directors of restraint who we’ve talked about, who are worried about being associated with the “comin’-at-ya,” out-of-the-screen effects, so they are using 3D in different ways. Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Wim Wenders’ Pina are other films of restraint in terms of 3D. On the other hand, genre-films still use the out-of-screen effects to help mark their genre. Fright Night [does this]. So does Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and so does Harold and Kumar’s Very 3D Christmas. Films that are considered lower-brow, horror comedy, thrillers—you know, Jaws in 3D, that sort of thing—I think those films will continue using the out-of-screen effects. Right now, 3D is dividing up, and I don’t embrace this point of view, in terms of what are considered higher-brow and lowerbrow movies. I think the future is that we will see as many 3D films
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as we have now, and studios will continue producing them not only for domestic audiences but for international audiences. Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby [will be in 3D], so on the more artistic side of things a lot of directors are interested in experimenting with 3D. It’s an experimental media. R: An analogy is that 3D is the next color film. Color film happened back in the ’20s and ’30s, and at first only a few people were experimenting with it and finally it sort of took everything over. Do you think that will happen with 3D, that it will become the norm? BK: It’s one of the most interesting questions out there. It’s the question that’s called diffusion. When a new technology is introduced, will it experience diffusion? All of a sudden it’s taken up and it’s everywhere and everyone has one. The reason 3D is so interesting, and maybe even more interesting than the color example, is that it’s been around since the 1900s. We’ve had several pushes towards 3D cinema in the 20th century, in the ’50s, in the ’80s, and now again, so in a way 3D keeps coming back. When is it going to experience diffusion? I don’t think anybody knows the answer to that right away, so we have to leave that as a question, but a good one.
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MUTU from News page 1 A Fantastic Journey gathers pieces that have never before been shown together, both from private collections and major museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Art. The exhibit features large-scale mixed-media collages, sitespecific sculptures and three films. The collages are eerily beautiful, each one a window into an ethereal world of jellyfish horizons and mini-mushroom patches. Distinctly female figures—perhaps not quite human—gaze out from behind tall grass, ant-sized motorcycle creatures and kittens underfoot. Within the figures’ faces hide lizards and amputated body parts culled from fashion magazines and pornography. The female body and eroticism is a clear theme in Mutu’s work. The figures arch and crouch in a manner reminiscent of pornographic poses. Plump lips are exaggerated and long legs are emphasized—yet the figures exude strength and sadness rather than sexual desire. The overarching feeling of the exhibit is not an erotic one—though Mutu uses eroticism as a critique, the feeling is one of a textural, otherworldly landscape.
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The Nasher does not frequently have solo exhibitions, making A Fantastic Journey exceptional in this regard. Trevor Schoonmaker, the Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher, has been friends with the artist for over a decade, which helped bring the exhibit to fruition. Schoonmaker contrasts A Fantastic Journey with the exhibit Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool from 2008, which was a retrospective, whereas A Fantastic Journey is a mid-career review. The show will serve both as an opportunity for fans to see her work collected and as a chance for new viewers to be introduced to Mutu’s vision. “It takes a lot of trust for a solo show,” said Livingston. And the show benefits from that trust, as evidenced by the pages on display from Mutu’s sketchbooks—shown for the first time ever. “She feels these are very personal,” explained Schoonmaker. “It took some effort to make her comfortable enough to share.” The drawings grant a rare glimpse into the artist’s practice. Primarily line drawings, the sketches show the evolution of form manipulation in Mutu’s process that ends with the complex fantastical collages. Also on display is a new acquisition by the Nasher. Family Tree is a series of mixed-media collages depicting
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the family line of the creation of the world. The collages demonstrate the passing on of visual elements, as if the familial genes were being inherited. The mythological portraits are more abstract than the other work in the exhibit, incorporating surprising collage pieces, like lizards hidden in a face. Mutu’s work is extremely complex in terms of craftsmanship, composition and content. In addition to exploring sexualization of the female figure, Mutu’s work examines issues of race and power. This is exemplified by figures holding up other figures, Schoonmaker explained. In particular, Misguided Little Unforgivable Hierarchies depicts a figure crouching in the grass, head tipped back and mouth open as a smaller figure stands on her back and arches to meet the first figure. On top is a small half-woman, furry monkey-like creature. Protruding from around the crouching figure’s leg is the dark silhouette of phallic shapes, referencing the banana skirt of ’20sera African-American erotic dancer Josephine Baker, explained Schoonmaker. The piece is layered in meaning, shrouded in controversial imagery on multiple levels. It connects to the history of oppression and marginalization experienced by the exploitation of the African continent and the diaspora of its people, but also references the related issue of globalism through the use of contemporary sexualized media images. The show also serves as the premiere of Mutu’s first animated video, a collaboration with musician Santigold, which was commissioned by the Nasher Museum. “They have a lot in common,” said Schoonmaker. “[Santigold’s work is like] collage with sound.” The piece is like Mutu’s collages coming to life: a woman morphs into the figurehead on the prow of a glowing shivering ship, complete with wheels turning and steam spewing. Amputated arms poke out, perhaps the lost souls of the slave trade or those crushed by the relentless progress of industrialization, waving as the whole mass heaves to a unique soundscape. The video is emblematic of Mutu’s work, which provides compelling examinations of historical issues that continue to plague us today. The Nasher Museum of Art is the first venue for Wangechi Mutu’s touring exhibition. Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey will be on view through July 21.
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The act of war conjures up brutal imagery of death and violence—the focal point of most war films. Emperor, while undeniably a war film, chooses to move away from the battlefield. It provides insight into the end of World War II and examines the resulting devastation and the duties of the still-occupying armies. Set after the Japanese surrender, Emperor follows the story of General Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox) and his investigation of Emperor Hirohito (Takatarô Kataoka) as a war criminal. By accompanying Fellers as he struggles for post-war peace, Emperor personalizes war. The audience is presented with a face and a name for every Japanese figure under investigation, and alongside General Fellers, we learn about Japanese culture. No one is vilified and every character’s point of view is clearly explained. Interlaced with flashbacks, Fellers’ story includes his past love affair with a Japanese woman, the remnants of which still affect him deeply. His commanding officer, General Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones), allows larger political aspirations to taint military decisions. Even Fellers’ Japanese driver has a backstory and a presence that changes the on-screen dynamic. War feels larger than
life, but the film shows us its effects on numerous individual scales. Emperor is an original take on the most popular war in Hollywood. It has lots of potential to be creative, but its leading man fails to incorporate new ideas as well the rest of the film does. General Fellers is now the man responsible for preventing Japan’s unrest from turning into an uprising. He is also tormented by the fate of a past love. Sounds like the making for a great tragic hero, but the most fitting description for Fellers is that he’s a good guy. He’s not particularly complex. He says what he means and he means what he says. He does not undergo a particularly significant transformation and his emotions throughout the film are best described as happy, sad and eventually resolute. The nature and style of the film are a little slowmoving; without a captivating protagonist, the film is borderline-boring. There is only one other negative: no effort was made to make Fellers appear youthful during his flashbacks to college. He has the same touch of gray as he had many years later. While seemingly insignificant, these inconsistencies take the viewer out of the moment. However, the topic discussed and the dilemmas faced in Emperor are complicated and thought-provoking. Unfortunately, all the pieces of the film are not so stimulating, and it therefore falls short of what it could accomplish. —Jamie Kessler
Full Frame named Oscar-qualifying festival by Megan Rise THE CHRONICLE
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival was recently named an Oscar-qualifying festival for the Documentary Short Subject category. The short film honored with Full Frame’s Jury Award for Best Short will automatically qualify for an Academy Award nomination. For documentary films that don’t play at a qualifying festival, it must be screened in either New York or Los Angeles and be reviewed by a major publication. This can be a challenge, especially for documentary shorts, classified as under 40 minutes. Full Frame Programming Director Sadie Tillery said, “There’s a lot of
wonderful work being made in short film and there aren’t a lot of theatrical outlets for it.” Getting a short film screened at a festival is a challenging process, but not nearly as difficult or expensive as having it shown in New York or Los Angeles. Once a short film gets to Full Frame, a three-person Grand Jury, typically veteran filmmakers or people in the industry, select a winner from the eligible films. According to Ryan Helsel, Full Frame’s Marketing Director, “approximately 20 of the films at the festival this year meet the criteria for [the] short [category].” Selection as a qualifying festival reaffirms Full Frame’s status as a nationally and internationally renowned showcase of documentary film.
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